this experience will forever scar tad
strange
welcome to watch mojo and today we're
counting down our picks for the top 10
gravity falls theories that were wrong
who wrote the journals stan gideon
mcgucket these guys and robes differ
from the future
mabel oh yes you can keep chewing on my
sweater
huh
for this list we'll be looking at
theories that gained a fair deal of
attention while this animated series was
airing but didn't pan out did you have
any gravity falls theories that were
wrong
let us know in the comments number 10
gideon is a vampire to say that gideon
is precocious would be an understatement
despite his young age he's one of the
most manipulative and articulate
citizens in gravity falls
one tumbler user believed that this
might be because lil gideon is an
immortal vampire
the theory points to several potential
clues most notably the titular character
from the widless vampire who shares a
certain resemblance to gideon the
widdlest
vampires in another episode where gideon
tries to steal the deed to the mystery
shack the gang watches a movie called
grandpa the kid
seemingly hinting that gideon is an old
man trapped in a youngster's body
he put the old in old west they call him
grandpa the kid dipper even says in the
pilot that maybe mabel's next boyfriend
will be a vampire
gideon however is just a highly advanced
highly diabolical child
how about soulmate
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well you can't say no to that
number nine gompers is bill gompers the
goat can often be found around the
mystery shack
chewing on grass mabel's sweaters and
pretty much anything that'll fit in his
mouth
hey friend oh yes you can keep chewing
on my sweater while gomper's insatiable
hunger makes for one of the show's best
running gags the goat wasn't the most
integral character
or was he one theory suggested that
gompers was the villainous bill cipher
in disguise
as silly as it sounds gomper's yellow
eyes and horizontal irises
do call bill to mind so strong love's so
big plus if bill was going to spy on the
pines family without raising attention
nobody would ever suspect gompers
despite never being canonized it still
makes more sense than the theory that
spongebob died
went to hell and was reincarnated as
bill cipher
maybe if disney buys nickelodeon next
oh boy number eight zeus isn't what he
seems
soos is a dedicated employee and loyal
friend but it's established early on
that he's not the brightest guy
for a period however fans suspected that
soos knew more than he was letting on
this theory largely stemmed from the
online game rumble's revenge
one of the cryptograms in the game
indicates that the handyman knows more
than you think
the handyman in question is apparently
seuss but what does he know
some assumed that zeus could be working
for bill cipher others argued that maybe
soos knew grunkle stan's secret
seeing how he wasn't phased by his
boss's vending machine's secret passage
if only people knew the truth that
hidden behind this vending machine
i secretly had boring it was even
theorized that zeus was playing dumb
this whole time but there were
ultimately
few skeletons in this handyman's toolbox
am i a man
am i a baby these are legitimate
questions number seven
buy gold this is definitely one of the
more out there theories
in season one's penultimate episode
gideon summons bill
who agrees to invade stan's mind oh oh
gravity falls it is good to be back bill
exits with these cryptic words remember
reality is an illusion the universe is a
hologram buy gold bye
as random as it all sounds some thought
that there might be a deeper meaning to
bill's by
gold line a couple of reddit users
suspected that bill could enter anyone's
mind as long as they were wearing gold
pointing to stan's gold chain another
theory suggested that bill was warning
gideon to buy gold for the impending
apocalypse
people also connected bill's words to
something grunkle stan
said two episodes prior look if it makes
you feel any better the apocalypse is
coming soon
bury your gold honestly this theory
seems to be grasping at straws
we're glad we didn't bet any gold on it
number six
tad strange is bill cipher's brother
since the bond between siblings has
always been one of this show's
fundamental themes
the idea of bill having a brother isn't
that far-fetched
before the character tad strange made
his official debut
actor cecil baldwin listed the role on
his resume
in a reddit ama creator alex hirsch as
bill cipher
commented that tad's a real square hi
guys tad's the name and being normal's
my game
loving you tad and i love bread this led
some to
believe that tad would be a literal
square just as bill
is a triangle when tad strange finally
appeared though
he turned out to be the most normal
person in gravity falls
this experience will forever scar tad
strange in the series finale however
bill supposedly references an aztec
deity known as the god of twins
so even if tad wasn't his brother bill
may have a twin out there
what's happening to me
number five the author is future dipper
the identity of the author was one of
the show's biggest question marks for
much of its run
some successfully predicted that stan's
twin brother wrote the journals
of course there were plenty of other
theories like that bill cipher was the
author
one of the more intriguing theories
suggested that dipper was the very
author that he was trying to track down
but wait how would that work well the
pines children have been to the future
in the past
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see
this theory implies that future dipper
having spent his life studying the
mysterious town
wrote the journals then through time
travel the journal is wound
up in present day gravity falls the
author of the journals
my brother it's pretty contrived but a
gravity falls promo
actually referenced this theory who
wrote the journals
stan gideon mcgucket these guys and
robes
dipper from the future number four
robbie's true nature
wendy's jerky ex-boyfriend was one of
the show's most straightforward
characters but some
theorized that there was more to robbie
than he let on a popular theory
argued that robbie was a zombie noting
his pale complexion
bleeding heart hoodie and the fact that
his parents run a funeral home
what's more it's mentioned in the pilot
that zombies are often mistaken for
teenagers
known for their pale skin and bad
attitudes these creatures are often
mistaken for
teenagers beware gravity falls is
nefarious
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another theory claimed that robbie has a
clone because of his odd reflection in
one episode
although we're pretty sure that was just
an animation error plus since when is
there a parallel between clones and
reflection
now that the series has wrapped it's
safe to say that robbie is just your
average
arrogant teenager well average by
gravity fall standards
what's up just uh hanging out in this
grave you know
regular regular day for me number three
the illuminati is pulling all the
strings
the illuminati certainly wouldn't feel
out of place in a show like gravity
falls
the main antagonist is modeled after the
eye of providence after all
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it is unseen
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the idea of the illuminati being behind
everything almost makes
too much sense and again that might be
why the creators didn't go in this
direction
although the illuminati never appears in
the show we can imagine how it might
have inspired the blind eye society
in season two it's revealed that the
secret society has been erasing memories
in order to keep residents blissfully
unaware of gravity falls strange
happenings
lazy susan what do you know of little
bearded men
my mind is clear thanks to the society
of the blind eye so while the illuminati
theory may have been on to something it
wasn't exactly what some people were
anticipating
and we are the society of the blind eye
number two mabel's doppelganger in the
episode the deep end mabel received
several bottled messages
from mermando one of which is seemingly
addressed to labeum
huh
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obviously this is just mabel spelled
backward but it's been theorized that
labem is either mabel's doppelganger or
her evil twin
wouldn't that technically make the pines
twins the pines triplets
the theory argued that the llama symbol
on bill cipher's zodiac wheel
represented labum people made this
assumption based on the llama sweater
and mabel's wardrobe
of course it ultimately turned out that
the llama symbol was linked to pacifica
ew i'm not touching that do it sweetie
do the one thing no one in our family
has ever done
touch the hillbilly while intriguing the
evidence backing this theory was always
pretty weak
so it shouldn't come as a shock that
labeum was never made canon
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number one bill cipher and dipper are
one in the same
in many stories the villain is a
reflection of the hero
with that in mind we can see why so many
fans speculated that there may be a
deeper connection between dipper and
bill
there was a theory that dipper remained
possessed by bill following the events
of sock opera
sorry kid but you're my puppet now
later in the season as the portal was
opened dipper's pupils suddenly become
elongated
much like when bill was controlling his
body
another theory suggests that bill was
dipper from the future
either of these theories would have
taken the series in an incredibly dark
direction
even for gravity falls at the end of the
day we're happy that there's only one
dipper
well as long as he doesn't make any more
copies of himself
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