My Favourite Characters - Bill Cipher

I don't talk enough about villains on this series and that's usually because when I think of my favourite characters, they're normally the ones that inspire me, make me think in different ways or make me a better person, so i don't normally think of villains in that way, so I think it's time to change that and talk about some villains. Bill Cipher is an omniscient figure in the Gravity Falls series, he can be anywhere at anytime he wants and is also a bit of a psychopath...actually he's a really big psychopath who enjoys torture, suffering and the misery of others to a masochistic level. Now you may be thinking How can a cartoon character from a kids show be like that? Well it's very simple Gravity Falls is kind of a fucked up show, but in all the right ways, it has graphic imagery, dark themes and scary characters, Bill being the embodiment of all of them "here, have a decapitated head that never stops screaming".

Even though Bill has what seems to be unlimited power and can manipulate all of existent, or as he puts it "reality is an illusion, the universe is a hologram" he uses it for very little. He's screw with your mind, distort reality just to annoy you and from a first glance, is just an annoying character. But knowing that it's all a facade and should you annoy him then he could destroy everything around you and send you into eternal suffering, it's what he's capable of but chooses not to that makes him terrifying, especially when the smallest of things can set him off and he can kill you whenever he wants. Also his voice is highly unsettling, it just sounds like someone talking in this voice that is equally hyper as it is aggressive.

The best kind of villains for me are the ones that are insane but also have a large amount of power, yet choose not to use it because it's more fun to watch people suffer, but knowing that they're crazy means they can change their mind at the drop of a hat and kill you in the worst way possible. I am not exaggerating when I say I haven't seen a villain this insane and equally scary since the Joker from Batman.

And the thing is, we know very little about his powers or his motives, right now he's just spreading chaos but he says himself that he has big plans in store for the Pine family, and considering all the clues and symbols we've seen connected to him. We've only seen a fragment of what he's capable of and even less about what his big plan is, but we know it's something big, something diabolical and something insane and I cannot wait to find out!

-Danny