Summary
Bill Cipher is the main villain of Gravity Falls, and is a triangular dream demon who exists in the Mind/Dreamscape, secretly being responsible for many of the most important events of and leading up to the show. Years ago, he found Stanford Pines while travelling across realities, and while initially he acted as a friend for him, later it was revealed that he was just tricking him into making his portal device in a connection between Standord's universe and the Nightmare Realm, the Bill Cipher's home dimension, allowing the latter to invade the universe along with his friends. Ford permanentely shut down the portal to prevent that from happening, however, Bill Cipher could later return after that Gideon Gleeful summoned him. After getting defeated at the beginning from Dipper Pines and his friends, in the latest episodes Bill Cipher managed to return, gaining also a physical form, starting to spread chaos and destruction across the city of Gravity Falls, eventually destroying everything else in existence.
Powers and Stats
Dimensionality: 2D, 3D via Possession || 3D
Threat Level: Unknown, Varies via Possession || Varies physically with Size Manipulation from Dragon+, possibly Quasar+, to at least Quasar+. Mobius+ via Weirdmageddon
Powers and Abilities:
Non-Corporeal (While in his Mindscape form, exists as a non-corporeal mind made out of pure energy), Non-Physical Interaction, Immortality (Types 1 and 6), Self-Sustenance (Types 1, 2 and possibly 3), Quantum Manipulation (By technicalities, Bill is made up by mathematical probability from existing in a state of quantum uncertainty based on the amount of information found about him, since he is implied to contain numbers inside his body & geometrically-shaped as well mathematics form. Because of this, Bill should not have the requirements a living being has to sustain itself, including probably also the stamina), Dream Manipulation (Can enter in other people's dreams and manipulate them), Precognition (Can accurately predict future events and a "kaleidoscope of temporal probability with fluctuating range"), Clairvoyance (Can see into events occurring in different dimensions, including the actions of his infinite variants), Sound Manipulation (Can alter his own voice), Social Influencing (Was able to trick Dipper in a deal from using his past, and manipulated as he wanted Stanford for years), Flight (Type 2), Sleep Inducement (Put Mable to sleep from just snapping his fingers), Teleportation (Shown here), Body Control, Shapeshifting, (Can shape-shift himself into other people in order to trick someone and stated that "Trasforming in whatever form people fear most" is one of the things it finds funny to do), Size Manipulation (Can change its own size and shape as it likes; "Bending its own fingers" is one of the things Bill finds funny to do), Acausality (Type 4: Could live in the Nightmare Realm, a lawless place where even the laws of physics don't apply, for 1 trillion years), Time Manipulation (Stopped time upon first appearing), Telekinesis, Light Manipulation, Darkness Manipulation (Stalked Dipper as a shadow), Life Manipulation, Creation (Can create things from nothing like a screaming head), Duplication (Shown here), Mind Manipulation, Telepathy and Limited Possession (Can enter other people's minds, read their thoughts and exist within minds, other than being heavily implied that it can manipulate minds in this way, like when it possessed Ford and messed up with his memories and stated that "Eating childhood memories" is one of the most funny things to do), Gravity Manipulation (Can turn things upside down. Can attract a deer's teeth to itself, and give them back), Retrocognition (Shown to Dipper past events), Time Travel (Appeared in the dreams of Blendin, who is from the future. Was able to possess him off-screen), Dimensional Travel, Portal Creation, Technology Manipulation, Data Manipulation, Fire Manipulation, Resistance to Madness Manipulation (One peek into the Nightmare Realm drove Fiddleford briefly insane and made him poetically describe a future event; Bill lived there for 1 trillion years), Pain Manipulation (Claimed that pain is a fun thing when he was testing Dipper's body, implying that it was new for him), Quantum Manipulation (Exists in a state of quantum uncertainty, making alterations on a quantum scale against it ineffective) and Invisibility (Could see Dipper's soul despite the latter can't be seen nor heard from regular humans)
His real powers plus Regeneration (High-Mid. Could regenerate from his eye and arms after that his body has been completely shattered. Regenerated a hole through his body), Immortality (Types 2 and 3), Energy Projection, Energy Manipulation, Fire Manipulation, Absorption, Power Nullification, Biological Manipulation (Distorted Mabel's face)
Immortality (Types 4 and 8) and Self-Resurrection (By speaking a special incantation, can return to life after being erased from the Axatotl after unknown periods of time and methods). If Bill tricks his target into making a deal with him he gains access to: Soul Removal and Possession
As before, minus his powers inside a mind, but including Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Regeneration (Low-Godly for his body: Lacked a physical form and easily created one for himself from his 2D mind. Would have been able to form himself in other ways if he wanted to. Repeatedly regenerates damage done to his body), Immortality (Types 2 and 3), Fourth Wall Awareness (Is aware of the real world and can "see" us, warped the show's intro into featuring him), Enhanced Size Manipulation (As before, but can also reach the size of planets of even a galaxy if he wants to), Enhanced Senses (Implied to have more than just 5 senses unlike human beings), Magic, Reality Warping, Enhanced Time Manipulation (When starting Weirdmageddon stated that time was dead while showing a clock and birds slowing down until stopping, it's unknown how others could deal with this, later Blendin described the place as "time dodge". Killing Time Baby gave him improved control over time. Listed "Making time stop forever" as fun), Pocket Reality Manipulation and BFR (Created Mabelland and trapped Mabel there), Technology Manipulation, Duplication (Briefly demonstrated in his battle against Shacktron), Higher Dimensional Manipulation, Law Manipulation and Causality Manipulation (Wanted to use the Weirdmageddon to free the reality from any kind of law and causality system), Madness Manipulation (Can create bubbles that can sometimes induce madness into whatever it touches, his true name can cause ecstasy and frenzy to mortals, and they would disintegrate into vapor), Petrification (Turned multiple people into statues. Turned Stanford into gold, twice), Biological Manipulation (Shuffled "the functions of every hole in" Preston's face), Spatial Manipulation (Controls space), Status Effect Inducement (Massively limited Ford's movements, making him also unable to leave his current position even if mid air. Can also burn the beings he affected in this way if he wants to) Possible Statistics Amplification (Likely amps its own statistics with its Berserk Form when angry), Life Manipulation, Summoning, Astral Projection, Forcefield (Demonstrated here), Intangibility (Type 3 as shown here), Explosion Manipulation (Shown here), Matter Manipulation (Type 2: Controls matter. Threatened to disassemble Dipper and Mabel's molecules. Transformed a person into a chair. Transformed a tree into a tentacle and a utility pole into disembodied leg. Transformed six people into banners with a snap of his fingers), Energy Projection, Energy Manipulation, Weather Manipulation (Created a storm), Electricity Manipulation, Power Bestowal (Bill Cipher displayed this when doing this to his minions and can bestow infinite power and grant wishes by Deals), Animal Manipulation (Mabeland inhabitants were made of cockroaches), Resistance to Time Manipulation (Implied to be unaffected from time itself), Extreme Cold and Cosmic Radiations
Physical Strength: Unknown, Varies via Possession || Varies physically with Size Manipulation from Country Level Striking Strenght with Class D Lifting Strenght (Immensely superior to Time Baby, who can sustain his weight of 9 trillion tons) to Galaxy Level Striking Strenght with Galactic Lifting Strenght
Attack Potency: Unknown (Stated to be a 2nd-dimensional being who can't have a physical form unless it possesses someone or something, thought it should be noted that 2nd-dimensional beings could harm Stanford, making 2D beings still weaker than 3D ones, but not on an infinite extent. Destroyed the entirely of the 2nd dimension), Varies via Possession || Varies physically with Size Manipulation from Country, possibly Galaxy (Vaporized Time Baby with a single energy beam. Likely implied to Stanley to being able to create his galaxy for him if he accepted his deal) to at least Galaxy (Should be able to become bigger than a whole galaxy, as shown from Stanford growing larger than a galaxy with Bill's powers if he accepted his deal). High Multiverse+ via Weirdmageddon (Stanford claimed that Bill was a threat to all the multiverse, which is made of infinite universes. Time Baby stated that if Bill didn't stop the Weirdmageddon, all the existence would have been destroyed, with Bill wanting to use the Weirdmageddon to free everything from all the restrictions, laws and causality systems, making the multiverse lawless as the Nightmare Realm, the space between universes)
Durability: Unknown, Varies via Possession || Varies physically with Size Manipulation from Country, possibly Galaxy (Can fight against Shacktron, who could directly tank Bill's energy beams) to at least Galaxy
Speed: Unknown (Despite being able to move in the 3rd dimension, it never had a speed feat), Varies via Possession || Varies with Size Manipulation from Superhuman (Immensely above the likes of Multi-Bear, who should be as fast if not faster than regular bears, who can reach speeds of 35 mph or 15.65 m/s) to MFTL+ (Being bigger than a galaxy should at least grant this speed)
Intelligence: Super Genius (Is said to know "lots of things", such as the truth of many well-known conspiracies as well as future events, like the destruction of Gideon-bot and that Gideon Gleeful would go to prison. Has at least 1 trillion years of experience. Immensely more intelligent than Stanford, a genius who could create a machine who uses space-time. Bill is also able to look through the eye of anything that is made in his image, allowing him to know what occurs even when he isn't around. Tricked and terrorized great minds in history "since time began")
Stamina: Possibly Limitless (Didn't recognize being tired when in Dipper's body, implying it was something new to him), Varies via Possession || Possibly Limitless (As before. Claimed to have infinite power)
Range: Unknown. High Multiversal+ with Clairvoyance, Dimensional Travel and Time Travel (Can travel across and tamper with realities, other than being one of the most feared beings in the multiverse, which is infinite. Can also see the actions of all his infinite variations at the same time), Varies via Possession || Up to High Multiversal+ (His abilities can extend up to the entirety of existence)
Weakness: Will do irrational things at times and he is extremely cocky and arrogant. Bound inside of Gravity Falls due to it being an incredibly powerful magnet for weirdness. His regeneration seems to take a bit of time as he complained about how long it took him to regenerate his eye back. While he is in someone's mind, memory erasure can be used to erase him. However, as hinted by clues such as a hidden incantation Bill spoke in reverse, he can eventually return from being erased.
Keys: Mindscape || Physical Form
Arsenal
Standard equipment: None notable
Quotes
— Bill's usual quote |
— Bill Cipher to Gideon before leaving his dimension |
— Bill Cipher being mad to Mable after failing a deal with Gideon |
— Bill Cipher introducing himself to humans after getting his Physical Form |
— Bill when starting the Weirdmageddon |
— Bill's reversed message, foreshadowing his return |
Gallery
Notable Matches
Asriel Dreemurr (UNDERTALE) Asriel's Profile (Fight happened at Gravity Falls during the Weirdmageggon, speed was equalized, Bill started at his standard size, Photoshop Flowey and Physical Form Bill were used)
Notes
- Note 1: Bill's Possession can be used only if the target gets tricked by Bill and agrees with it to sign a contract with shaking its hand, however Bill showed to posses inanimated objects like a sock without this restriction.
- Note 2: Do not try to upgrade Bill's physical statistics to High Multiverse+, as he lacks physical feats which make him on par with the Weirdmageddon, other than needing to destroy the interdimensional rift in order to activate it, making the Weirdmageddon just the result of spilling the Nightmare Realm in the universes.
- Note 3: Do not try to upgrade the Gravity Falls verse cosmology to Hyper Dimensional+ based on 11-Dimensional aliens. These beings, due to them existing in 7 to 11 dimensions at once, had a "horrible sense of direction", which lead their ship to crash on Earth, dying as result, and thus confirming that said dimensions aren't superior to the lower ones.