History Characters / RunGifocalypse

* MakeMeWannaShout: The professor of sound. She can possess and manipulate sound waves, to the point where she can turn a simple clap into a disrupting ring that can stun anyone around her.

* AlternateSelfNameChange: Every last one of them adopted a different name and overall identity to help tell them apart from other humans, even if they were techically "born" "as [=.GIFfany=]," [[spoiler:out of the first-generation copies]]. The sole exception is the [=.GIFfany=] Soos faced in canon, who as the organizer of the entire thing and winning sympathy points for being the closest of them to have been "killed," got to keep her name. [=.GIFfany=] keeping her name is mainly for the convenience of the reader, to help enforce that this is "the canon one" that's more familiar than the others. [[spoiler:In the Eve bonus chapter of the original, [=.GIFfany=] too changes her name to Margaret, however this is explicitely planned to be retconned as Fan hated the way that chapter played out.]]

* WalkingSpoiler: Not for the overall plot, but Domain 11's nature is kept in the dark for over half of the story, and the entire thing about the copies Glitching out is meant to be a surprise scare for when it happens in the last few legs. Saying anything about the Glitches gives away the SurpriseCreepy nature of Domain 11, except for their brief appearances prior to turning and after reverting back.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: She's made in to the leader of the Gifocalypse, and she is the most powerful copy of them all. [[spoiler:Although her power mostly comes from the rift, and she's weaker than some of the professors (definitely Dove) without it.]]

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: A naked stoner that just goes around covered in mud and hates technology, which she is. She almost seems like a harmless joke professor, compared to the one that can make trees attack, the one that can summon the dead/generate huge lightning storms, and the one that could easily drown people with massive water control. Yet her Main Possession is a large, hard-to-hit statue of [=.GIFfany=]'s head. She's also pretty intellegent when she's not high, and her students are able to quickly capture the Shack team with ease. She may be a teaheaded idiot, but [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority she's a professor]] for a ''reason.''

* {{Meganekko}}: She's not the only copy that wears glasses, but she is the only [[spoiler:first-gen]] professor to do so. And she's also one of the nicest of them, only really competing with Rose and Shannon.

** Sonia is a retroactive ''westernAnimation/SonicUnderground'' reference, as in ''Journals of Wisdom, Power, and Courage'', [=.GIFfany=] and [[VideoGame/SonicExe "Sonic X"]] are related by adoption.

* CrossCompanyReferences: Her outfit is the same as Great Pikmin Fan's ''VideoGame/{{MUGEN}}'' project "Tagger," with a bright neon green shirt and pale blue pants.

* ShoutOut: Her Main Possession is a collection of special water that she can twist in to a humanoid form, purposefully modelled after [[VideoGame/{{Pikmin}} the Waterwraith.]]

[[folder:In General (Exclusive or Near-Exclusive to Professors)]]

The professors are, actually, the only fifteen copies of ''Romance Academy 7'' that were leaked to the public, courtesy of Professor Dove. Having more experience outside of the factory they were made, they quickly become more powerful and adept with their abilities, and act as leading guides for all of the minor clones. They are the runners of their respective domain and the fifteen most major copies in the whole story.

** Burrda has a ''strong'' aversion to verbal communication (unlike the ''Hair Idealization''[='=]s handling of [[WesternAnimation/PerfectHairForever Brenda]], she's never explicitely shown to be uncomfortable, just that she usually prefers displaying words on a screen, and if she ''must'' speak, she [[TerseTalker gets out as few words as possible]]), generally comes off as being depressed all the time, and [[spoiler:is ''ridiculously'' willing to (if still hesitant) get herself outright killed in combat to try to prevent a war, thinking that it is the only solution.]]
** Dove has an obsession with trying to come off as important and imposing, has a gait identical to [[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy Ed's,]] often travels in "random paths," chaotically fires people as stress relief, and has an obsession with debating people to prove them wrong.
** Risen/canonical [=.GIFfany=] is ''highly'' implied to be flat-out delusional. She gets far too invested in a fantasy acted out on with Soos and Melody dolls in chapter 9 until Stan walks in on her and breaks her out of it, [[spoiler:she takes a little too long to realize when Melody swapped herself out with the doll of her [=.GIFfany=] made]], and when she tells Professor Wendy that Soos cheated on her and murdered her in cold blood it's left ambiguous as to whether or not she was just bullshitting that for sympathy or if she ''actually remembers herself as the victim in that incident.'' In addition to all of this, she's a rather heavy MoodSwinger, [[spoiler:made more complicated by her medium awareness.]]
* ColorCodedCharacters: Forms of a full rainbow of twelve using the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGB_color_model RGB color model,]] with black and white added as well as [=.GIFfany=]'s default pink. The colors are also those associated with their domain, what color their electricity is (it's implied that they did this for purely cosmetic reasons, as during the first chapter they use the "standard" bright blue seen in canon), and their hair and eye colors. In the order they are encountered:

** [[spoiler:Eve: Dark mint/jade green (the exact inversion of [=.GIFfany=]'s color), also a dim rainbow on occasion, often simplified to red/green/blue]]
* ClothingDamage: All of them suffer varrying degrees of it after their defeat. As Arc 2 goes on, it is increasingly blatant that this is intentional in-universe -- their outfits are rigged to easily lose pieces of them, or at times just outright be reduced by a switch (as Sonia, Dian, Shannon, and Burrda all do). The only real exception to the "intentionally breakable" rule is Risen [=.GIFfany=], whose outfit was not designed to be tattered as she figured she was impossible to beat. [[spoiler:And even then, she and all of her sisters lose their outfits in the plumet to Earth.]]

* ElementalPowers: They all have the standard electricity of [=.GIFfany=], and they somehow use that to control something of their own. These elements are largely based on Fan's own "twelve-fifteen color" system, albeit with electricity (yellow) swapped out with soul due to otherwise being redundant with the base [=.GIFfany=].
* {{Flanderization}}: Their outfits, cross-story. In ''run:gifocalypse'', the majority of them have clothes that is, for the most part, ''actually covering'', even if it's made of irregular material. Sandy and Bubbles, the two most blatant exceptions, make sense -- Sandy is something of a nudist outright, and Bubbles enjoys annoying people to try getting in their head, so she wears only suds to try pissing people off. Come the cross-appearances in other works and their outfits are seasons 3+ Rainbow Crew-levels of impractical and just ''barely'' wearing ''anything''. Most of it can be hand-waved by being ''SBIG'', although their outfits in the epilogue of ''run:gifocalypse'' are the same as those in ''Journals of Wisdom, Power, and Courage''.
* {{Foil}}: With the exception of [=.GIFfany=] (who has Soos as a foil), all of the professors have some sort of "counter." These are usually in faced before/faced after pairs, with the exceptions of Rose/Dove and Bubbles/Dian. More details can be found in their own folders, but to sum it up:

** Leona and Sonia: Too high opinion of one's own work vs too low opinion of one's own work.

** Burnda and Burrda: Hammy and bringing peace through slow conversations vs quiet and trying to bring peace through scare tactacs.

* KingMook: To their respective student-followers, each of them are effectively the "boss variant" of the traits and things associated with their student groups. Justified in that they "teach" their students how to use their powers in different ways, and thus said students deliberately take after them. This is more obvious in their appearances on the ''SBIG'' series, which (ironically despite its StylisticSuck nature) goes somewhat more into depth with the small societies they created.

* MythlogyGag: The first two professors faced, Rose and Kathody, have green and yellow hair respectively. An unused animation depicts [=.GIFfany=] changing her hair color, from pink, to green, to yellow/blonde. In a happy coincidence, this also lines up with the first two [[VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld Sprixie Princesses]]; ''[=3D=] World'' served as a minor inspiration and the first six professors (before the color-swap between Cardia and Leona in ''Rebooted'') are even color-coded after the princesses, with the main difference between that the "other" colors are jammed in-between cyan and red, red still being the last of the "chromatic" colors unless one counts [=.GIFfany=] as being pure pink.
* OneSteveLimit: Either played straight or averted depending on how you look at things. Technically, they were/are all named [=.GIFfany=], but given renames for the sake of identification that would be faster than saying their entire serial number.

* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Some of them are reluctant to show their crotches (which is an implied reference to Japanese censorship laws, especially if one considers their self-censorship in ''Escape From Fanservice Island'' to be confirmation even though those stories are in different "worlds"), but that's about as "nude-shy" as they get. None of them see any problem in going around in public practically completely naked.

* UnlimitedWardrobe: A variation -- in each fic appearance, they bear different outfits. Though there is some overlap (their outfits in the epilogue of ''run:gifocalypse'' are just like the ones in ''Journals''). For example, all three of Rose's outfits thus far are plant-like in nature.

!! Human Heroes

[[folder:Mason "Dipper" Pines]]

* DecoyProtagonist: In true Great Pikmin Fan style, he is one of the first heroic characters to appear in ''run:gifocalypse'', but he is not the protagonist. Soos is. Picture the fic as Weirdmageddon, if it were less about the Pines vs Bill and more Soos vs [=.GIFfany=]. (And it's also 13 parts long as opposed to 3/4.) Dipper is, however, the deuteragonist, which is more than what can be said about most of Fan's other Decoys.
* NotDistractedByTheSexy: It's suggested that he has to make a bit of an effort to avoid making it clear that the constant near-naked women around him are embarassing him. Going off his crush on Wendy and a comment made by the Bill AMA, redhead copies are his weakness, evident by Michelle and Professor Burnda.
* SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers Towards the first arc, his lack of trusting even the more blatantly belevolent copies is played up as a bad thing, though it never really results in the crew being in danger until chapter 10, where it becomes something of a CompressedVice.
* WouldHitAGirl: He does consider fighting against the female copies, and lands a few hits on Leona in their battle. Then again, unlike canon, the [=.GIFfanys=] here are pretty much unambiguously adults (not to mentioned superpowered and have armies in the thousands, while Dipper is a normal human with just three partners for the bulk of the story), so the age issue would outweigh the gender issue anyway.

[[folder:Mabel Pines]]

* AscendedExtra: Within the fic. Arc-per-arc, she gets a growing amount of focus as she also grows and learns a few things from the Gifocalypse. Arc 2 gives her the most limelight.
* HeroicBSOD: Briefly faces one around chapter 8, playing a large role in chapter 9. [[spoiler:Namely, after thinking Sonia was a harmless, depressed self-deprecator, Mabel helps her build her self-confidence a little. It turns out that while the "depressed self-deprecator" part was true, the harmless wasn't, so the more confident Sonia started attacking her and ended up injuring Dipper. This marked the first time that the [=AIs=] attacked the gang ''after'' being "helped" out, leaving Mabel wondering if she really couldn't reason with them after all.]]

[[folder:Jesus "Soos" Ramirez]]

* CueTheSun: Listed under his folder because the fic generally associates Soos with the Sun itself, particularly during "Game Over." [[spoiler:When [=.GIFfany=] finally unveils her Main Possession and goes full One-Winged Angel, her Dimensional Wings completely block out sunlight from the perspective of the Gravity Falls residents on board the Shackatron. By contrast, after the final fist-fight and he's in a pileup with her, once she finally takes his hand, the Sun (and continuing the story's loose ''Majora's Mask'' parallels, this is the Dawn of a New Day) starts rising from behind him -- he's trying to pull her into a better light, a new beginning.]]

[[folder:Wendy Corduroy]]

[[folder:Stanley "Grunkle Stan" Pines]]

[[folder:Stanford "Grunkle Ford" Pines]]

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In chapter 7, Burnda intentionally tries to ruin her own image by making Ford question if she is really his most reliable ally. She leads him on by getting him to finish the sentence of who, on the Construction Site, is the most trustworthy person. She's disappointed when he says she is, and not Stan.

[[folder:Lil' Gideon Charles Gleeful]]

[[folder:Experiment 210/The Shape Shifter]]

[[folder:The Second Summerween Trickster/Halloween Trickster]]

[[folder:Rumble [=McSkirmish=] ]]

[[folder:Bill Cipher '''(All Spoilers Unmarked)''']]

* DemotedToExtra: '''And how!''' He has only six lines in the entire story, appears for what would roughly only be a minute, and his sole appearance just has him yelling about how he came so close to figuring out how to work his way through the rift through [=.GIFfany=]'s state just to have it get sealed off before he could cross in.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: For what it's worth, he's technically still alive by the end of ''run:gifocalypse''. He simply never gets a chance to enter Earth's dimension (aside from a whopping half-minute right as [=.GIFfany=] was sealing the rift) and is forced to wait things out until he has another shot at making it through, rather than being outright killed off/erased. Not that this matters much, given how the story concludes shortly after his only appearance and Fan have confirmed that (as with most of his other fanworks) a direct sequel would be highly unlikely. Professor Wendy's ''King of the Hill'' blog makes zero mention of him in any way, so it's implied that he stayed sealed for at least four additional years.

Ten "musical" frogs originally found by Domain 8. Mabel gathers them around to try to help convince Sonia to get out and start singing/playing music with others again.

* RememberTheNewGuy: He's an original character, which of course means that he did not appear as a town resident at all. This is lampshaded as most of the main cast is confused when he makes his appearance.
* TakeThat: Towards Act 6 in ''Homestuck'' in general, and the retcon device specifically.
* WrongGenreSavvy: He believes that he's the main protagonist of a highly meta, time travel-centric cynical science-fiction. ''run:gifocalypse'' is actually more of a lighthearted adventure/fantasy (as a matter of fact, despite the higher amount of content, it's LighterAndSofter than canon in some ways too), and is tagged as such on fanfiction.net. Time travel exists in the universe of ''Gravity Falls'', but it is never important in ''run:gifocalypse'' thanks to Fan really not liking the concept. Meta-related elements are ''implied'' canonically in the form of some of Bill's statements, and in-fic [=.GIFfany=] does [[PaintingTheMedium toy around with the fourth wall]] [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou to the point of directly talking to the readers]], but again it's not an actual plot point (once again, Fan hates plot-centric fourth wall breaks[[note]]He cites ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' as an exception to this[[/note]]). Specifically, he thinks this is a [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} "doomed timeline"]] and that the only way to stop the Gifocalypse is to suddenly develop a new "meta travel" from Ford's Quantum Untouchability. All trying to touch it does is scatter him across space until he finally re-assembles, with no new powers in hand, right ''after'' [=.GIFfany=]'s defeat [[spoiler:and ''possible'' Heel-Face Turn.]]

[[folder:Melody]]

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The last people to play the respective copy of ''Romance Academy 7''. Corresponding to each professor, there is:

* Hayate, (Prof.) Wendy's player.

Soos is obviously Risen-[=.GIFfany=]'s last player. Tropes on him go on the main characters folder.

* ChekhovsGunman: Kenny actually does appear in the first chapter, seen returning the copy that would later designate herself as Professor Rose. Back then, the narrative itself does not pay much attention to him.

* ShoutOutThemeNaming: Kimberly and Victoria are named after two naked [=NPCs=] from the third and fourth (respectively) ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy'' games. (Fan likes ShamelessFanserviceGirl[=s=].) Taro is named after the then-placeholder name of the stalking target of ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'', which is actually one of only ''two'' references the fic has to that game[[note]]Fan is '''highly''' skeptical of ''Yandere Simulator''[='=]s future, and expressed on Tumblr that he lost interest in the game[[/note]]. Takeshi is a reference to ''VideoGame/TakeshisChallenge'', and Gerald is part of Burnda and Burrda's ''WesternAnimation/PerfectHairForever'' references.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: They are rather flat characters with little screentime, and only show up in the flesh near the very end (aside from Kenny, who is seen in the first chapter, although he is not named and the story trollishly says he'll likely never be seen again), but their bizarre personality quirks compared to Soos ended up shaping the professors for who they are, effectively making the whole fic the way it was.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: [[spoiler:The epilogue heavily implies that they at least worked out their relationships and tried to go for healthier alternatives, but it's ambiguous as to which -- if any -- got together and which ones are just friends. Even Dove and Takeshi, who outright '''hated''' the others' species, are seen joking around.]]

An "abandoned" copy that turned against the entire [=.GIFfany=] army and is especially unhinged, even compared to them.

[[folder:The [=.GIFfany=] Army in General; Specific Student Groups]]

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Come in a large number of skin colors, some realistic, many not, practically following Fan's signature. Even out of the professors, there's more technicolor ones than not-technicolor ones. Examples are Bubbles (red), Cardia (orange, though hers might actually pass as a realistic skin color), Leona (yellow), Dian (green), Burnda and Burrda (both cyan), Sonia (blue), Wendy (purple), Rose (a '''very''' saturated, deep hot pink), and Dove (gray).

* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: Leona's color-named minions, all of the Duel of 100 participants, etc, are ''actually named what "nickname" they are introduced as''. The former are named after the colors/patterns they take on (this includes more absurd names like "Rainbow Based On The GPOC Model"[[note]]It's said copy's attempt at making a "new" color model. As Red-Green-Blue has Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Key (black), Red-''Yellow''-Blue would have Green-Purple-Orange-''Canvas'' (white). In reality, no such thing is defined.[[/note]] or "Blue And Yellow Stripes") and the latter sounding more like warrior nicknames (highly inspired by the Sammer Guy names, just with computer-related puns rather than Nintendo history-related names).
* {{Mukokuseki}}: As computer programs, they're technically raceless, though several have assigned skin tones both real and [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation fictional]] to their characters. This aside, it's hard to tell just what some of the skin toned-copies are supposed to ''be''. Even the template [=.GIFfany=] being Japanese/Asian is depicted as a firm "maybe," though it's implied that they all are. (Especially because this story eventually gives them the surrname "Miyazumi," which is a reference to the Virtual Girlfriend from ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}''.) GPF eventually said that unless Alex Hirsch or another writer were to say otherwise, he considers [=.GIFfany=] to "have started her own race at this point," and the copies are all "of [=.GIFfany=] descent."

* ReedRichardsIsUseless: They can ''make matter from nothing'', which regardless of the type of matter (in this case metal) would still be phenominal with the right tools. And they can do this in mass, quickly creating stable buildings in days at the longest. In general, this would completely eliminate homelessness at the least. Some of them are also rapid food-growers, eliminating world hunger. And Risen has a way of getting unlimited energy and faster than light travel. Too bad they only really care about using these powers to make fantasy lands to impress their players. [[spoiler:Eventually subverted by the ending. Professor Wendy's epilogue post on Tumblr implies that they put these to use to improve the world.]]
* ShoutOut: Design-wise, some take inspiration from a large number of sources. Some more obscure than others. WordOfGod is that the first three of the 100 Duelers have their designs based on [[Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic Paimon]], [[WebOriginal/{{Creamsicle}} Sunglasses]], and Stupidella respectively -- the former and latter are canonically topless, the second has been mis-interpreted as such. Meanwhile, the [=AIs=] that appear Burnda's two primary assistants, also confirmed by Fan, to be based on the crocodile and fish women from ''VideoGame/TheFirstFunkyFighter'', minus the animal heads.

* {{Yandere}}: Every last one of them is implied to retain some of this. The only reason why they're not completely hostile to the human group is because they're convinved that they aren't ''really'' getting between them and thier players, as by the end of this they will all be reunited (aside from Rose and Kenny, maybe).

A cashier at Gif Bytes/Domain 5. Unlike the other copies living there, she's much more aware of how bizarre the Gifocalypse is, and strongly regrets her job.

* OnlySaneMan: Of the copies as a whole (while Bubbles and the twins offer her some competition). Definitely of the followers in Cardia's domain. She somehow sees right through [=.GIFfany=]'s video game logic and can figure out that the "gold coin" is not a stable

[[folder:Overseer Michelle]]

[[folder:Overseer Donna]]

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[[folder:Overseer Raffaela]]

* AntiClimax: Mabel does ''not'' struggle with taking her down, and the only reason why she captured Dipper was because he was flustered at the thought of her distracting him with something redhead-related. When the group takes in Sizzcorra (who isn't "captured" so much as "volunteers to be sucked into the Illegal Prime Neutralizer so she has a chance to talk to Professor Sandy earlier"), Dipper lampshades this.

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[[folder:Hijacker Daminna]]

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[[folder:Hijacker Sizzcorra]]

* HollywoodAcid: Exaggerated. Her sector is in charge of crafting the best acids (while also exporting kinds that are pretty good). The current record-holder is something she swims in a pool of: It's ''completely'' colorless to the point where it can't even reflect or refract light (making it look invisible, and when she's swimming through it, she appears to be swimming in thin-air), and it melts ''anything'' that isn't giffinium or a copy with high resistance. When it simply ''drips'' from her after she emerges from a pool, it ends up eating a hole all the way to a point with magma (the larger pits are described as ''glowing orange'' after a while). She implies that this keeps going until reaching the very center of the Earth, until it eventually decays as with all matter. (Note that despite glowing, this is ''not'' nuclear waste. Chapter 10 introduces bits of the latter in Shannon's domain, and the two of them are treated as completely different things.)

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[[folder:Hijacker Peachaulinsalinaisy]]

* {{Expy}}: A bit of an arrogant [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Princess Peach,]] visually. Also one to [[VideoGame/SuperPaperMario King Sammer,]] especially given the whole "[[spoiler:I'm going to cut these battles short because you guys are on a scrict time limit]]" aspect.

* OverlyLongName: Of the variant where she has a single, long name. It's shorter than the unicorn's name[[note]]Celestabellebethabelle[[/note]], but by just ''three letters'' and it's still a mouthful in of itself.

[[folder:Hijacker Alma]]

* ClimaxBoss: For Arc 2, and the story in general. She's faced at a point that nearly marks the end of Dipper and Mabel's arcs in the story[[note]]with chapter 10 being more about Wendy, 11 about the Stans, 12 about the group in general, 13 about Soos, and 14 just being a horror-centric "bad ending"[[/note]], really does not screw around, drops some of what was, up until then, kept as DramaticIrony from the Pines and company but known by the reader, and she's fought at the end of the second-longest chapter in the entire fan fic. Also, she's the last copy battled in Arc 2, and has some new powers up her sleeve just as the other hijackers that doesn't really fit with the [=.GIFfany=]s seen up until her. In fact, it doesn't even fit with the previous three hijackers, whom all had the same "transform into an element/component" abilitiy. She can become two-dimensional. In a way, she doubles on a ''moral'' level too, as her plan is an extreme ([[spoiler:attempting to secretly assassinate [=.GIFfany=], throwing this on the heroes out of nowhere, ]])
* FanDisservice: Chapter 9 has, in order: A copy (and by implication several, but definitely not all, of her followers) that wears nothing but smoky wisps, a team of metal swimsuit-clad lab workers who treat acid baths like swimming pools, "that scene" with the BigBad admiring herself naked and slapping her own ass, and a group of 100 topless swordswomen led by a mushroom-clad wannabe princess. Then there's... her. She starts off looking like a standard CuteMonsterGirl, but once it's revealed that the black, lumpy "floor" in her arena is actually ''a huge mass of spiders'' she goes OneWingedAngel and everything goes straight to hell. Much later, it's revealed that she can transform her ''eyes'' into giant spider leg-like appendages, and was planned to do so in her battle in chapter 9, but this was pushed to chapter 12 because of 9's sheer length.
* ShoutOut:
** Like Daminna, she's named after one of the five sections of Zone 1 in ''OFF''. Fittingly, she's named after the area you head last, and her sector is the last explored in the chapter.
** She can "flip" as in ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario''.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Darlene may be absent from this story, but there's another spider-woman who prays on flirting pick-up artists... more-or-less.

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[[folder:'''Spoiler Characters''']]

* BodyHorror: It's classic video game glitches applied to three-dimensional, flesh and blood (sort of) beings. Of course it's not going to be pretty.

** Technically the Glitches are no more different than [=.GIFfany=]'s partly-damaged form at the beginning of the story. They only come off as feral animals at first because A: it's actually the withdrawl effects of the mirrors, and B: their deformations are much worse, and they're panicing a lot more.

* ShoutOut: One of the corruption types resembles [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Missingno.]] Another resembles a [[VideoGame/{{OFF}} Pastel Burnt,]] and they are in fact expies of sugar-withdrawn Elsen (who become Burnt) in the first place. A third resembles the BlobMonster[=s=] from ''Pikmin'' (they change their appearances between them, even creating glitchy "rollers" reminiscent of the Waterwraith's). A fourth resembles a certain model glitch from the Wii U ''Super Smash Bros.'' installment. The fifth type seen in ''Gifocalypse'' is mostly original, but could be paralelled to [[VideoGame/YumeNikki Monoko's]] transformed state. At least in regards to all the arms.
* SurrealHorror: The nature of some of the glitches is just downright ''bizarre''.

[[folder:'''Spoiler Characters''']]

!! Second-Generation Professors

The copies created by the PNG, making up [=.GIFfany=]'s army for the endgame.

The most noteworthy of the second generation (and all other generations, for that matter). A gray-haired copy in a suit and glasses that acts as the "New Dove," although she has nearly the exact opposite personality as her blood-haired predecessor.

* TheDragon: To [=.GIFfany=], after Dove's firing. She's the main second generation copy, and she gets a special one-on-one fight with the townsfolk while the other second-gens are quickly dealt with leading up to the battle. While Dove is the Dragon for the entire story and even gets her own entire chapter, Courtlyn is the Dragon for just the endgame, with the side characters being stuck going through the gauntlet of next-gens with her leading them while the main group (and Melody) takes on Risen [=.GIFfany=] herself.

* TheOmniscient: Or, ''nearly''. Her specialty is performing "predictions," where she roughly estimates what her given enemies will do next. However, doing something downright ''stupid'' will stump her prediction -- like sending nothing but the animated wax head of someone as your first line of defense when the team has much stronger than that on their own.

The professor of both beauty care and plumbing, controller of soap and basic/alkali materials in general. She was the only professor who established her domain in her actual sort of home country of Japan. Specifically, Domain 6 is a hot spring/sauna/shower room/etc all-purpose building, in Mt. Fuji in the original. She attempts to go for a mildly edgy, loud and roudy "motorcycle punk" look to her. She is not very good at that aside from just being annoying to others.

The professor of wind/air. She's a huge ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' fan who teaches her followers about piloting and auto-shop. Enjoying windy storms as well, she set up Domain 10 in New Delhi so that they could be blasted by the Monsoon winds. Domain 10 itself is a large ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' fanclub that also specializes in making highly advanced methods of transportation.

* BerserkButton:
** Obviously, insulting ''King of the Hill'' in any way is one of them. Or rather, was. She stops becoming so defensive of the show and later outright starts not liking it.
** Violating what ''King of the Hill'' would consider acceptable, another bit of irony considering her boss and a good chunk of the domains.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Yes, she's obsessed with ''King of the Hill'', to the point where she quotes it and cites the exact episode by season and number for most of her viewpoints. But she's also not the one to mess around -- she can possess/create ''an entire tornado'', and in a world that completely averts DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud at that. [[spoiler:As one could imagine, she manages to trap the hero group within ''seconds flat''. Her own belief that she was just canon fodder was the only thing keeping her from winning the whole Gifocalypse.]]
* BlowYouAway: The professor of wind. She enjoys being out in storms, and can possess the air itself, but does better while it's blowing. She's also the only professor that outright ''generates'' what's deadly about her Main Possession -- her biggest claim to fame is being able to possess ''a tornado'', as well as generate the winds to ''make'' that tornado in the first place.
* CharacterBlog: Downplayed. In Chapter 13, the narrative mentions her having a Tumblr page and talks about it by name, down to specifying how to type it into a url. The reason for this is because said Tumblr blog actually exists. The reason for the downplay is that there's only a handful of posts -- a short introduction, [[spoiler:daily charting through RG's events, and a "random update over four years after the Gifocalypse" which serves as some additional closure detailing more than one year in the future and setting up for Eve's chapter.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Overall, the fact that she talks in heavy southern-slang when [=.GIFfany=] introduces [[spoiler:the copy-creation chamber of the Construction Site]] combined with the two talking about ''King of the Hill'' should be a clue-in that she's a fan. The HotBlooded aspects of her are established two chapters later, where one of the first things she does with the main protagonist group is ''leap into the air in the middle of a monsoon rain, draw a sword out, increase the size of that sword, and cleave off the entire roof of '''her own domain's building'''''.
* {{Expy}}: To [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Undyne,]] although if you consider Burnda and Burrda like the "Mettaton" and "Alphys"/[[spoiler:"Asgore"]] of the group, Wendy is ''really'' not a flattering expy. Bordering on TakeThat levels, in fact.

The professor of light. Her subject is... "industry," meaning that she runs a highly industrialized workplace that also teaches her followers how to run their own industries. Domain 11, her place, is the second-largest of all domains (behind [=.GIFfany=]'s), and is a massive factory in the Yukon that specializes in producing her kind of special brand "mirrors."

* TheDreaded: Subverted. The fact that even ''[=.GIFfany=]'' is afraid of her should be a gigantic red flag in of itself. However... she's hardly malevolent, only attacks the group after they outright tell her that they're willing to ''kill what's basically her sisters'', and immediately calms down when she finds out about the truth.

* {{Expy}}: Basically a LighterAndSofter [[VideoGame/{{OFF}} Enoch]] with a palette-swapped [=.GIFfany=]'s appearance. [[spoiler:Unlike Enoch, she genuinely had no idea that her domain was producing an addictive form of drugs with terrible withdrawl effects. After finding out, she ''immediately'' tries to get as many former mirror-addicts into rehabilitation, making them quit cold turkey and working them through the glitch effects.]] Hell, unlike the other ''OFF''-expies, her domain strongly resembles one of the Zones from said game, given that it's made of metal arranged in cubical buildings while the others generally try to shape their giffinium to resemble... actual buildings.
* FanDisservice: Her dress is see-through (aside from the breasts) and clearly revealers her panties underneath. Then she ends up not only trying to genuinely ''kill'' the hero group, but also possesses her own reflection and uses it to boost her power, quickly going into loop after loop of reflection-possessing until she turns into... well... a horrific-looking light construct. Also, she is introduced in the same chapter that has other underwear-clad copies [[spoiler:glitch out horribly and turn in to reality-distorting humanoid abominations.]]
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Does having light-themed powers sound shitty to you? Haha, not when you have control over a good chunk of the electromagnetic spectrum (aside from ''very'' large or ''very'' small wavelengths, but this range still goes to radio and ''gamma'' waves). It also comes with size-alteration, healing, and being able to slow/speed things up. Dialogue between her and Dipper also implied that she ''can'' "blind" someone by simply sucking all the light immediately by their face (IE going towards their eyes) away from them, but that this process would take way more energy than what it's worth. All in all, there's a ''damn good reason'' why she's the one copy in the entire story Risen-[=.GIFfany=] is terrified of. [[spoiler:And this is [=.GIFfany=] ''after'' aquiring the rift!]]
* KnightOfCerebus: An unusual case in that she is not a very cold-blooded or overly "serious" character herself, or even really that villainous. In fact, she's one of the nicest professors in the whole bunch, with the much more goofy and PlayedForLaughs Professor Wendy being more of a flat-out asshole. However, her domain and [[spoiler:the glitchy-body horror around it]], while still ultimately MonsterOfTheWeek-ish by this fic's standards, sets the tone for the last leg of the story, which is generally darker in nature or deals with more serious themes. After her, Burnda is the last real "lighthearted domain romp" part of the fic (though helping a bit is that the two parts of the Parícutin volcano are the last two "traditional" domains as well), and even then her chapter ends with [[spoiler:Burrda trying to force Ford into a "I die or you die, all so that [=.GIFfany=] doesn't resort to mass-destruction" fight.]] Then comes both Dove and the showdown with [=.GIFfany=] herself, respectively the DarkestHour and the point where the story kicks its own MindScrew in to overdrive.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Had Wendy just said "Hey, some of your copies are glitching up," the group could have gone through Domain 11 without ever having to face her protective side. Or even seen her Main Possession outside of the battle.
* PrecisionFStrike: [[spoiler:As if the Glitches weren't a bad enough sign that Arc 3 wouldn't exactly be the sunshine and jokes of Arcs 1 and 2, nor Professor Wendy ''successfully'' capturing the gang, the fact that shit has hit the fan is really brought home when Shannon yells out "I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU, PINES!" in a story that had previously been completely devoid of swearing. By the time Dove starts dropping F-bombs left and right and even Risen [=.GIFfany=] becomes foul-mouthed, the cursing almost just feels like part of the story, but with Shannon it's a different story.]]

* UhOhEyes: Like Burnda, Dove, and Risen [=.GIFfany=], she can switch to this look. In particular, she gives herself double-layered irises (yellow inner layer, red outer layer) and turns the shape of her irises and pupils to look jagged, which is described as looking like "two burning holes in space itself."

The professor of fire/heat. A physicist and wannabe competitive reality show hostess, she resides in Domain 12, a place deep inside the lower chambers of Parícutin. Most of her domain is dedicated to setting up the stage for a reality show that she drags the gang into. She considers herself "twins" with Burrda in ''run:gifocalypse'' proper, although in her appearances in future Great Pikmin Fan stories, none of the copies consider themselves related.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: [[WordOfGod Great Pikmin Fan]] confirmed that she had a crush on Ford after a reviewer talked about their interactions. Her self in ''Escape From Fanservice Island'' is heavily teased with him, [[spoiler:but he ultimately ends up with ''Darlene.'' She sticks in a harem with Soos, although all of the professors except Prime and Bubbles hit a bit of a rough patch.]]
* BigBrotherInstinct: Or, Big Sister Instinct. She gets ''incredibly'' pissed off when Rumble challenges Burrda to a fight, even when all parties involved know that Burrda could just as easily have fried him and could fight for herself. This is ultimately what causes both Burnda to drop the act of her being a "blind [=.GIFfany=]"-supporter" and Burrda to say her first words heard in-fic. "Burnda. I can fight for myself."
* {{Expy}}: Design-wise, she's modeled off of [[WesternAnimation/PerfectHairForever Brenda]], what with the name (hell, her player is even named Gerald), the odango hair style, and the whole "walks around in a visible thong" gimmick (though it's part of a ''show stage leotard''. Completely accpetable there! Except even she knows this is a lie). Personality-wise, she's somewhere along the lines of [[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Chris McClean]] with a tiny, tiny dash of [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Mettaton.]]
* FireForgedFriends: She and Burrda used to ''hate'' each other, as a result of violent competition over the same player. Eventually they realized that they should just forget him and hang out with each other instead.
* FireIceDuo: With Burrda. They used to hate each-other, but eventually got over it, became close friends, and ultimately ended up being more "human" than the bulk of the copies. Oddly, there is no fire/water theme between her and Searah, and the two in fact rarely interact. (Searah's main foil is instead Kathody.)

* PlayingWithFire: The professor of fire. She can possess individual flames, or practically any form of heat (the two are ''not'' exactly directly related, she just "felt" that she "had to" also possess fire outright). But her Main Possession is not some of fire-thing, as with Searah or Rose or the others. [[FusionDance It's Burrda.]]

* SiblingYinYang: The twins are, ultimately, intended to be something of heavy exaggerations of Mabel and Dipper, and she's the "Mabel" of the two.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: She's the ''only'' professor (not counting Risen) who appears in more than one of the chapters before her debut. Although to make up for it, her actual battled chapter is near the end of the fan fic.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Another Risen [=.GIFfany=]-opposer, and one of the most aggressive about it to boot. [[spoiler:She qualifies as this moreso than even the likes of Rose, Dian, or Shannon -- Burnda had declared [=.GIFfany=] not that much worth listening to ''well before the Gifocalypse''. In fact, when the professors all meet at the factory, Burnda and Burrda are the only ones who never attack [=.GIFfany=] for "not repaying her debt." Their domains are ''not'' necessarly to impress any player, and unlike Dove, they're not blowing shit up for the fun of it.]]

The professor of ice/lack-of-heat[[note]]On a technical/physics level, there is no such thing as "coldness," there is just having more or less heat. Things we percieve as "cold" can be looked at as things that have less heat than the average temperatures we are used to[[/note]]. She's another physicist, the co-hostess to Burnda, and her technical "Domain 13" is also in Parícutin. Except hers is the summit, and barely has anything in it. She considers herself "twins" with Burnda.

* AnIcePerson: The professor of [[InsistentTerminology lack-of-heat.]] Her possession skill is actually similar to Burnda's, except she sucks ''in'' possessed heat to herself or directed at another source, and lets the air become water, then ice as a result. She also finds no need to possess fire either, finding the two of them to be distinct enough.
* {{Expy}}: Going with some of the ''Undertale'' parallels with Burnda having Metatton and Professor Wendy being slightly based on Undyne, Burrda is... actually, a weird combination of Alphys, Asgore, and to an even lesser extent, Papyrus.

* MoralityPet: She's the only professor '''every''' other copy is at least somewhat nice to. Even ''[[HairTriggerTemper Dove]]'' takes no offense to being called out by her, and actually feels proud of Burrda for talking back to [[TheDreaded her.]] Even Risen [=.GIFfany=], who normally thinks of the other professors as awful mockeries of herself, [[spoiler:refuses to let Burrda and Ford follow through with the "one of them has to die to prevent a war" plan of hers, outright saying "I have seen myself do a lot of things [...] But one thing I really do not want to see myself do is die."]] All of this being said, however, she's far from harmless, and far from completely innocent.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When she starts saying more than a few words. It means something ''bad.'' Even rarer than that is when she raises her voice -- the only time she really does so is [[spoiler:immediately after '''swallowing''' the green key card (the one that ''leads back to Gravity Falls''), then says that if the group wants to get back home, they'll have to rip the card out of her guts.]]
* TheQuietOne: In contrast to Burnda's MotorMouth. Not counting the moments she's fused with Burnda, she rarely speaks. At most, ''if pressed'', she'll say 1-5 word long sentences, and she even seems to actively make them as brief as she can. [[spoiler:As revealed in Chapter 12's group-flashback, even when Burnda was speaking to her begging for forgiveness, she did not say anything until the subject of new names came up. Then she replied with her current nickname.]]
* RealityWarper: See Burnda's entry.

* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler:Attempts to pull this off, believing that either her death or an "unnecessary" human death will prevent the Gifocalypse from becoming an all-out war. The only reason why she doesn't kill herself early is because she ''really'' does not want to die. She, in a way, tries to let Ford to decide whether she dies or he dies, except he wants neither. After realizing that the Pines family shouldn't be broken up or have anyone one of them get killed, she prepares to kill herself, and would have succeeded if not for [=.GIFfany=] intervening at the last second.]]
* TerseTalker: When she ''does'' talk, it's like this. [[spoiler:She was a lot more... talkative back when she and Burnda were seeked out and bought by Gerald. She also talks more when asking Ford to kill her.]]

The professor of weapons and psychic use. She teaches combat techniques and weapon use. The first copy of the game produced and the one who set up a complicated system to copy herself in a desperate attempt for help to find players, leaking fourteen other copies out for "survival chances." Fast-forewarding several years and towards the Gifocalypse, and she's [=.GIFfany=]'s second-in-command. Domain 14 also doubles as her flagship: it is an aircraft carrier that she stole, rebranded the Giga-Kyaarya[[note]]Corruption of ''Kyaria'' (キャリア), the Japanese word for "carrier"[[/note]], which travels around the world as she spies on the gang and gives up-to-date information to the other professors.

* AmoralAttorney: She's the closest to a lawyer out of the professors, and has an entire legal team. She is, of course, also one of the biggest assholes in the bunch.
* BerserkButton:

* TheDragon: [=.GIFfany=]'s second-in-command and the penultimate major threat faced in the story. Unlike the usual Dragon-Big Bad interaction, ''she's'' the one kept in a lot of mystery up to her reveal, while the readers are shown a lot of [=.GIFfany=]. Likely because [=.GIFfany=] herself is much more "canonical," so it would have been easier to guess what her battle and setting would have been like, while Dove has a much bigger element of being unknown. [[spoiler:Subverted when she's actually fought -- [=.GIFfany=] and her are ''not'' on good terms at the time, so she more-or-less acts independantly. She's still the second to last and second most powerful main enemy.]]
* DumbMuscle: Downplayed. She's not visibly muscular -- few of the copies are, and they're all minor copies -- and she's not an outright idiot, but she is considered the strongest ''and'' dumbest of the professors. [[spoiler:The "strong," FYI, is not factoring the rift into [=.GIFfany=]'s skillset, which is why she remains at the top of the escalating-power chain (that the story otherwise avoids).]] She has a tough, durable body "of steel" (but is actually stronger -- [[spoiler:''withstanding an advanced alien nuclear explosion''-levels of strong]]), yet at the same time she's prone to making a large number of irrational decisions and practically ''looks'' for things to get pissed off about.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: While talked about a lot, and at least once per chapter at that, her personality isn't ''really'' that established until her actual appearance. The very first word she is heard saying in the story is "Fuck(ing)," and shortly after this she [[spoiler:effectively ''blows up Gravity Falls''.]]

* {{Expy}}: Fan describes her as a cross between [[VideoGame/TheWonderful101 Gimme]] (plot role) and [[VideoGame/HuniePop Audrey]] (personality), with a dash of [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Shadow the Hedgehog]] (color scheme and "edgyness") and [[VideoGame/{{OFF}} Dedan]] (also personality). The lawyer stuff is original.
* FantasticRacism: Dove makes it crystal clear that she's absolutely not fond of humans, largely accusing them of automatically assuming AIIsACrapshoot, which in this fic was ultimately the reason why she/the others had to kill the game's developers. It should be noted that Dove herself keeps acting as living proof for the anti-AI crowd, as she attacks and aims to destroy with no provocation whatsoever. [[spoiler:Her last (actually, only) player, Takeshi, immediately points this out when they re-meet in the official ending, and says that all her invasion of Gravity Falls and ultimate goal of enslaving humanity did was prove him in the ''right'' to try to kill her in the past.]]
* FixerSue: Invoked and deconstructed. Dove ultimately leads to two primary things Fan would have preferred to see happen around canon. Even with the AuthorsSavingThrow of ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3'', Fan still thought that Robbie and Tambry's love ultimately being founded on Mabel hitting them both with a love potion, even if their relationship was no longer under the affect of it, was disturbing. He also wanted Mabel's character to be more rounded and have more of her actions have ''negative'' effects to make her development feel more genuine. Well, Dove ended up [[spoiler:splashing the couple with an anti-love potion (in her defense, Mabel considered using it as a catalyst to speed up the "newly reformed" [=.GIFfany=] losing her obsession over Soos. After Dove it ''very'' clear that she does ''not'' want potions tampering with her family's personalities), and it's bluntly stated that they did not recover from whatever following three-hours the anti-love potion would have brought. Because of how she ended up calling out Mabel and leaving her with zero real retorts becides "I'm just a kid," it's implied that Mabel ended up being more independant towards the end... and it's implied that this somehow leads to even ''more'' issues with Dipper in the future, down to the two falling out much like Stan and Ford did. Professor Wendy's comments about them in the "epilogue" on her Tumblr blog, four years later, implies this even more. Basically, Fan "gets what he wanted" writing-wise, but at the expense of making several characters more miserable than they were in canon.]] One point of note is how [[FixFic "fixing"]] in a fan fiction is generally associated with reviving dead characters, hooking up pairings that don't get together, and all-around making more of the cast happy. Depending on the story, Fan may think the ''opposite'' of that is better, as is the case here.
* {{Foil}}: To Professor Rose, if unintentional back when the story's earlier chapters were written. Both are faced in Gravity Falls -- Rose in the forest when the town is at its prime, and Dove after [[spoiler:she blows the town to a series of land chunks up in the sky]]. Rose feeds the gang exposition on the professors, while Dove feeds the professors exposition on the gang. Also, once [=.GIFfany=] starts referring to them by "serial number," Dove is the first with the lowest number while Rose is the last with the highest serial number, [[spoiler:aside from the new copies [=.GIFfany=] creates.]] Rose is the first professor properly faced (not counting "Soos and the Real Girl" canon), while Dove [[spoiler:is the last professor faced ''on Earth''.]] This even applies to the Illegal Prime Neutralizer: Rose was captured first and by accident, while the gang ''very intentionally'' wants to capture Dove, [[spoiler:except she's the only (first-gen) professor to never end up inside it. Even [=.GIFfany=] was captured in Chapter 11, though she escapes via wormhole. Dipper and Mabel destroy the pack outright to get the help of the other professors and to prove a point to Dove (and because, considering [=.GIFfany=]'s powers, they don't have much point to it any longer anyway).]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: She starts off with the ''lowest'' number of followers (no, they are not near-equally divided among the fourteen at all), and that number only goes ''down'' as fires them or they quit. The main reason why "student" copies even listened to her in the first place was because they thought that using a crapload of weapons for when their future-players try to see real people sounded like it was worth putting up with her. Practically ''none'' of the other professors speak positively about her, and [=.GIFfany=] even flat-out considers ''an encounter'' with her to be used as a punishment. [[spoiler:Hell, she's the ''only'' professor in the whole story whose followers flat-out ''stop following and rebel against'', exactly ''because'' she's such a pain in the ass.]] Other [=.GIFfany=] copies really only put up with her for her seniority, and that her choices are why every single other copy of the game even exists.

* HypocriticalHumor: Her hatred of Mabel's base-breaking moments would have a bit of a higher ground if not for how she does ''considerably'' worse things.

* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Her response to being hit by, for all intends and purposes, a [[spoiler:super-nuke?]] A long drawn-out "FUCK" and, upon hitting the ground, "Ow."

** It's also pretty jarring to see her so upbeat in [[spoiler:a scene of the past reinacted through the Memory Banks. Specifically, her fetching the minor copies.]]

* SophisticatedAsHell: ''Very'' eloquent when she wants to be -- it's revealed that she regularly reads a thesaurus -- and pretty foul-mouthed. However, these are both quirks she tries to throw on herself to make herself seem more menacing. She completely drops both of them when Soos is the only human around.
* SirSwearsALot: Especially jarring as, one PrecisionFStrike from Shannon in Chapter ''10'' aside, the story contains ''no'' swearing up until her introduction, which is at a whopping Chapter ''11''.
* StuffBlowingUp: After flip-flopping between this and parading herself as a NonElemental, Dove settled on having "explosion" as her element. When Burnda points out that it's very similar to [[PlayingWithFire her element,]] Dove attempts to explain why the two are completely different. It's also worth nothing that Dove cannot actually ''control'' the explosive fireballs themselves, just that she really likes using explosives and artillery. Instead, she focused her power on possessing ''exceptionally large things'', [[spoiler:as well as things of extra-Earthly origin. The spacecraft under the town qualifies as both.]]
* TakeThat: She's both Fan's way of criticising Mabel through her own opinions, and... in a much larger way (though the only thing she actually has in common with ''Homestuck'' is her eloquent speech), a criticism of some aspects (particularly in [[SeasonalRot Act 6]]) of ''Homestuck''. While named after a character (in this case, Dave) like Professors Rose and Dian are, she is ''not'' one of the nicer copies and a massive pain in the ass to deal with. Uncoincidentally, the chapter focused on her is also where Ron Ejjert comes in, a specific, critical Take That at the "retcon" plot point.
* TechnicalPacifist: Thinks killing is wrong. However, she ''does'' enjoy destroying things, capturing, fighting, etc. True to her word, her [[spoiler:attack on Gravity Falls]] leaves no blood shed at all. She even holds special "nets" to catch people that fall.
* {{Tsundere}}: Intended to be a middle finger at these, specifically those that embrace the typical DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale routine and end up as the designated "final love interests." She's an absolute, destruction-crazy asshole who ''tries'' to excuse this with a "developing relationship" with Soos. It backfires horribly. She flat-out asks if the townspeople of Gravity Falls would consider her redeemed and "absolutely fucking adorable, no, adorkable!" and gets a punch in the face by Stan as an answer.
* WhatTheHellHero: Calls out a good chunk of Mabel's actions from canon, and to a lesser extent the events of ''run:gifocalypse''. Given that she's trying to ''enslave humanity under terror'', it's not like she's that much of a saint herself.

[[folder:[=.GIFfany=]/The Risen One/The Lightning Goddess/"[=.GIFfany=] Prime" (outside of ''run:gifocalypse'')]]

!! Professor [=.GIFfany=] (Number: 0000009)

The professor of electricity and technology, while also claiming herself to still be a university student[[note]]Burnda point-blank asks her why her "character" is both a student and a professor at the same time now, and her response is "''A WOMAN CAN HAVE A JOB AND GO TO A UNIVERSITY TOO!''"[[/note]]. This is the same copy of the game that stalked Soos in canon, and she's now back for a '''much''' bigger round, having developed something far greater than animatronics.

The reason ''why'' she's back and ''why''/''how'' she amassed her copies is a bit of a long story. The real "nail" in this ForWantOfANail was that Gideon had torn out an extra page from Journal 2, in addition to his possession spell that he uses in "The Stanchurian Candidate." In this case, something that can bring back a soul with unfinished business. Due to [=.GIFfany=]'s... non-"body" and "soul" makeup, in her case her destroyed disc counted as a lost body, and her coding was her "soul." Gideon brought [=.GIFfany=] "back to life" and gave her a physical form with a different spell picked up from a more mysteriously written sheet of spells, but a disagreement between what they would try to do to fight the Pines resulted in him trying to reverse the spell that gave her her new body. Desperate to return to full form, [=.GIFfany=] sent out to find the other published copies of her game -- and decided to take the unpublished ones to start an army.

Her domain is a mysterious, secretive location of pink metal she only refers to as the "Construction Site." While the... "general area" of the Construction Site is revealed as early as chapter 3, it's kept a large secret from the protagonists for the majority of the tale. When a professor fails (or a hijacker in the case of Domain 9), all of her student copies are transported over to the Construction Site to help her work on finishing it so that it's... not a construction site anymore. The ''actual'' part she considers her domain is the "Capital," a city on the opposite end of the planet as the intended entrance point from Earth that is ''still'' larger than the other domains.

* AGodAmI: She believes she's an ''actual'' Lightning Goddess by the end. [[spoiler:Her fusion with the rift and ability to go in to other dimensions helps her support this, given how her first fight with Soos was a complete and utter curb-stomp where she sent him through three dimensions of pain.]]

* AmbiguousSituation: In the official ending. [[spoiler:Is she really redeemed? Is she just faking it to try to lower Soos's guard until everyone is exactly where she wants them to be, so she could presumably attack yet again? No, Word of God will not help you here -- Fan says that he likes ''both'' the idea of [=.GIFfany=] having some form of redemption, and to throw the entire story's "almost anyone can be redeemed" morality out of balance with the Big Bad being a massive exception. So he basically said that the readers can decide until/unless he settles on a final answer. For what it's worth, Professor Wendy's ''King of the Hill'' fanblog -- which has a post dated 2016, while ''run:gifocalypse'' takes place in 2012 -- heavily implies that Soos and Melody are both still... ''alive'', though she also states that Risen has "became a lot more quiet for some reason."]] "Four Years Later" had since gave a definitive answer in that [[spoiler:she ''was'' faking it, but aimed to be better after the Eve encounter]], but Great Pikmin Fan has repeatedly voiced reworking that chapter even in the old version, and its canonicity was later made ambiguous.
* AscendedExtra: Goes from MonsterOfTheWeek to this fic's BigBad. Considering [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} Rip Van Winkle]] in ''FanFic/HecksingUlumateCrconikals'', this isn't really anything new by Great Pikmin Fan's standards. (Although Rip has been exclusive to StylisticSuck stories.)
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: She's made in to the leader of the Gifocalypse, and she is the most powerful copy of them all. [[spoiler:It's implied that ''both'' her being the leader, and it's known for certain that her sheer power, came from her getting the rift and fusing it with herself.]]
* TheBadGuyWins: In the special ending. [[spoiler:''Possibly'' in the official ending as well -- her line at the very end is ambiguous.]]
* BigBad: Promoted to such in the story's context. Considering how [[spoiler:canon's actual Big Bad, Bill Cipher, has a whopping half a minute of merging his dimension with Earth's before the rift is sealed and he's sucked back in]], she's more-or-less the big bad of this entire "timeline." (Which Fan stresses is not [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} "doo]][[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} med."]])

** Counting canon, she's the first copy faced. And the last, outside of Eve.

* CombatTentacles: Can spawn these from any part of her body, owing to her father being an octopus. She can also morph herself into wires (not to be confused with the transport computers that link from one domain to another), which more-or-less function identically. Towards the end of the official ending, she becomes fond of using ''both'' in roughly equal amounts.
* EasilyForgiven: By Stan near the beginning [[spoiler:and Soos at the end]], though she has much less luck with the other characters.

* {{Expy}}: She borrows a few traits from [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Flowey]] around her battle, and in the story in general. [[spoiler:She's far more meta than the other characters (although this is limited to her hijacking the narrative; in "sillier" fics than ''run:gifocalypse'', Burnda trumps her in the meta department), far more evil, her battle involves the use of several humans who up to that point had barely been mentioned, and her form is extremely alien compared to everything else faced beforehand.]] Also, more evident towards the end, she's ''really'' fond of creeping people (read: Soos) out with disturbing faces.

** Chapter 9 reveals that she's actually a very, very bad kisser. How? By showing her practicing her kissing skills on a Soos dummy she made. While also having a Melody dummy hang on a string over a fake pool of dummy-sharks. Shortly after this, she becomes downright dilusional, stabbing the Soos-dummy in the forehead in a way of mimicking her downloading him into her game, and diving backwards on the bed while shouting "Soos x [=.GIFfany=] forever!" repeatedly until [[spoiler:she notices that Stan walked in on her.]]
** Her Main Possession form is... not pretty, to say the least. Putting it ''mildly'', [[spoiler:she turns the Planet Negation Girl into an Earth-sized humanoid mecha which looks like it's "wearing" nothing but a pair of panties... one with a body made of agonized [=.GIFfany=] faces, massive movie screens showing photo-realistic imagry, giant ferris wheel cars-turned into buldging, bloodshot eyes, and all sorts of cannons and bizarre attacks.]]

* {{Flanderization}}: A growing amount of her screentime, especially around Arc 2, more-or-less makes her the butt of jokes where her obsession with Soos is portrayed as typical pathetic "geeky lust" rather than anything serious. The scene where she poorly tries to make out with a Soos dummy in chapter 9 stands out. When she takes center-spotlight as the antagonist of "Game Over" and its alternate ending "Game Complete," the story quickly steps away from this and she becomes more of a threat.
* ForgotFlandersCouldDoThat: It's a RunningGag when she fights the humans that she often questions if they forgot a certain ability or trait of hers. The first time this happens is in the very first chapter, where Soos comments that she probably can't hear him through the electronic... briefly forgetting that her whole gimmick is being a sapient electronic. In the first (of quite a number) fight against Soos on [[spoiler:the Planet Negation Girl]], one of the first things she does is transform an arm into a number of pink tentacles. What? Did you forget that throwaway line where she said she had an octopus dad? It's only ever mentioned once in-fic leading up to that.

[[spoiler:'''Chapter 0: Soos and the Real Girl''']][[labelnote:Spoilers]]For those that do not check the actual episode names, this is the name of the ''canonical'' episode with [=.GIFfany=] herself in it. It's implied that she's not only aware of ''Gifocalypse'', but canon as well. At least up until this point.[[/labelnote]]

* FunWithAcronyms: The Planet Negation Girl refers to the .PNG image format. It also triples as a ShoutOut to [[VideoGame/TheWonderful101 Jergingha's Planet Destruction Form,]] and foreshadows [[spoiler:that it has a humanoid appearance capable of destroying planets -- hence the ''girl''.]]
* AGodAmI: She wasn't technically lying to Sandy when she called herself the Lightning Goddess (though the stereotypical "ghost voice" ''was'' more of a lie) -- ''she actually thinks of herself on a divine level'', largely thanks to [[spoiler:her being able to send energy to and get energy from the rift.]]

-->'''[=.GIFfany=]:''' [[spoiler:And do you want to know why this place is called the Planet Negation Girl? Because for this moment of time... it is my body. The Capital began as my brain, but will become my new body if you accept. The cameras are all my eyes. Each game is like a finger, each building a hand, and each street an arm. The other copies are made in my womb, starting off as their fetal disc forms.]]

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: See her quote at the top of her folder. That's basically Fan apologizing for the professors being less "[=.GIFfany=]" and more "video game that's more self-aware than Rumble brought to life in general."

* MsFanservice: Doesn't seem like it compared to the more bold outfits of the other copies, but starting from Chapter 9 she gets a sudden number of nude scenes, flirts and teases with Soos a ''lot'', the story flat-out says that she becomes a walking PantyShot, and she dresses up in a number of revealing outfits just before the final battle. Also, aformentioned Chapter 9 goes into ''huge detail'' of her admiring her body, then slapping her ass, which the story indirectly makes clear is not supposed to be "censored" like a copy's frontal nudity would be. She turns into more of a Ms. FanDisservice by the finale.
* NarratorAllAlong: Possibly. [[spoiler:Either it's this or she only started "trying to become" the narrator towards the end game, yet failed to completely take over the original narration. The evidence for either case is how, near the end, the story switches to her first-person point of view when she's especially pissed off.]]

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: A great deal of Arcs 2 and 3 somewhat "tame" her a bit or play her as a joke. As soon as Dove's invasion comes to an end and she takes center spotlight again, however,
* NukeEm: She lift's [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Flowey's]] nuclear bomb attack from her Main Possession.

* PokeThePoodle: [[spoiler:Some times, her ability to corrupt the narrative is used for extremely tame things, like saying "Thank you!" When Fan promisses that the remake will have an even bleaker "Game Complete."]]

* SerialEscalation: She goes from a sapient video game that tries to pull her victim in by insulting his dating skills with real women and using animatronics to attack to a supercomputer evil goddess that instead opts for tempting him with a massive arcade ''planet'' and, when that fails, [[spoiler:she tries to attack him with ''the planet itself.'']]

* SurroundedByIdiots: Inverted. With the possible exceptions of Dove and Sandy [[spoiler:(and even then, Sandy is actually quite intellegent when she's not getting stoned from her own tea)]], all of the professors are smarter and more rational than [=.GIFfany=], likely because most of their "relationships" were still successful at the time and thus they had free time to think about things other than petty revenge schemes/fantasies. As the story goes on, it's increasingly obvious that [=.GIFfany=] is portrayed as a dumbass {{jerkass}} nobody realy wants to listen to, who engages in violent revenge fantasies acted out by dummies. It's worth noting that she ''thinks'' she plays the trope straight, especially notable with her reaction to talking to Sandy in Chapter 4:

* TookALevelInJerkass: For a "redemption story" [[spoiler:or something of a deconstruction therof]], [=.GIFfany=] spends most of it being ''even worse'' than she was in canon as soon as she gets her memories back. She sees all of her copies as puppets until [[spoiler:Burrda's attempted suicide]], drops the act of being sweet and cheery ''completely'', and at the beginning of Chapter 13 Part 2, she even screams at Soos to shut up just for asking how long she's pacing back and forth across the room -- nevermind that she had just kidnapped him. The only thing she's really improved on is that she does not believe in killing/deleting the enemy (or, she shows more restraint -- she does eventually threaten to kill Soos, but only after the townsfolk ram her plan OffTheRails), and even that's implied to be just because both Rose and Dove both pressured her into not being lethal. She doesn't even really have much of a FreudianExcuse to pass it off -- ''Dove'' is the copy that actually experienced deleting her programmers, the rest just have it experienced in memories, and despite that said other copies are usually better than her.

* VileVillainSaccharineShow: ''run:gifocalypse'' is, for the most part, LighterAndSofter than canon, until Shannon's introduction where CerebusSyndrome hits. Still, [[spoiler:Shannon ultimately turns out to be one the nicer copies from the beginning. Burnda and Burrda might involve dark themes, but they are still caring and the most human of the professors. Dove is dark and a threat, but her edgy tryhard behavior is played for laughs instead of taken seriously.]] [=.GIFfany=], on the other hand? Just in case anyone would think that the story is [[DracoInLeatherPants trying to slip leather pants on her completely,]] they are in for a treat with her visceral, eldritch imagery, the dark way her actions are portrayed, and how ridiculously power she has become even compared to the other copies. While she is treated as a tryhard joke near the beginning [[spoiler:just as Dove ends up being near the end]], the closer the fic gets to the end, the less and less lighthearted she's treated. There is a reason why Great Pikmin Fan's profile section for ''run:gifocalypse'' claims that [=.GIFfany=] is "the final boss of Soos's life."

[[folder:'''Spoiler Character''']]

!! Professor Eve (Number: 0000012)

* {{Expy}}: Battle-wise, of Delirium from ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac: Afterbirth+''. (Semi-appropriate as she's named after a character from that game, as is her expy in the ''HRT'' series.) The TrueFinalBoss that shape-shifts into all previous bosses of the adventure leading up to it, is found in a clusterfuck MindScrew of an area, and even has an association with static.
* FinalExamBoss: Another in-universe video game trope the Pines have to go against. Not only do they have to face against every single Main Possession they had before (excluding the Planet Negation Girl, but Risen is still represented with the beaver animatronic), not only do they have to remember all thirteen of them after four years of being at peace with the [=.GIFfanys=], but they also have to ''actually fight them this time'', and cannot simply trick her into letting them destroy her tools.

* {{Jerkass}}: Probably the biggest of them all, and that is saying a lot. She thinks P. Wendy, ''Dove'', and '''Risen [=.GIFfany=]''' are all too ''soft''.

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Didn't read ''SBIG'', specifically ''The Journals of Wisdom, Power, and Courage''? Didn't read Professor Wendy's CharacterBlog? Then she and her chapter will come out of fucking nowhere, with only minimal foreshadowing from the official ending.
* InterfaceSpoiler: Her chapter existing could have only really been shocking once "Game Over" and "Game Complete" were out and it seemed like the story ended. Now, the sheer fact that there is a chapter after the ones labeled "Official Ending" and "Special Ending" gives away that the adventure isn't quite over. In Fan's defense, he at least waited half a month before he even started writing this.

* {{Retcon}}: Well, of chapter numbering. "Game Complete" goes from being chapter 14 to the "alternate chapter 13" (which is less surprising when you consider that, internally, "Game Over" is actually chapters 13, 14, ''and'' 15 split so that it wouldn't be browser-crashingly long), and ''this'' is the bonus fourteenth chapter.
* WalkingSpoiler: Despite keeping the nature of many of them secrets up until their reveal, ''run:gifocalypse'' still constantly presents itself as having fifteen professors. There is a sixteenth one.

The professor of soap, and basic/alkali materials in general. She specializes in teaching about plumbing, but also gives beauty care tips. She is the only professor who established her domain in her actual home country of Japan. Specifically, Domain 6 is a hot spring/sauna/shower room/etc all-purpose building in Mt. Fuji.

* ADayInTheLimelight: ''Escape From Fanservice Island'' gives her a little more screentime, namely in the bonuses, namely as the one non-Prime professor Soos doesn't hold his relationship with.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: She tries to gender-invert this. She gives herself an overly stereotypical "bad person" image, what with her obsession with motorcycles and her general obnoxiousness. However, she also adds a bath theme on top of that. The result is... ''confusing''. The trope('s gender inverse) is played straight in ''Journals of Wisdom, Power, and Courage'', as she successfully woos Soos with her "bad girl" persona. And it's implied to work with Taro in ''run:gifocalypse'' proper.
* {{Troll}}: Moreso than Burnda (who generally only messes with [=.GIFfany=], while Bubbles tries to worm her way into everyone's heads). She ''lives'' on worming her way into other's heads and trying to make them realize their faults. It's all supposedly so that they'll self-evaluate and become better people because of it, but she admits that she likes toying around with them too.

The professor of paint/oil. Her subject is, unsurprisingly, visual art. Deep within the Amazon Rainforest is Domain 7, the art club, consisted of four building divided amongst herself and three other "overseers" (Michelle, Donna, and Raffaela) that she technically outranks.

* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' mess with her art.

The professor of sound. Her subject is music. She set up a quiet, future-performance site in the form of Domain 8, an open-roof theater in the middle of the Everglade swamp.

The professor of poison, and to a lesser extent chemicals, acids, anedotes, and the components of the "main poison" overall. She's the group's chemist. Domain 9 was intended to be her bringing a childhood fantasy of her player to life (actually, this applies to a lesser extent to most of the other domains as well), about searching through a cave to find ingredients to an antedote for her dying grandmother. Dian picked a quartet of unexplored sub-tunnels in the largest cave in the world, Hang Sơn Đoòng, to be a place where her copies would search for special ingredients. What they found instead was part of what led to four specific copies not just taking control over Dian's domain (an event Dian was completely okay with), but also scouting out and finding information for the future of [=.GIFfany=]'s plans.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: It's slightly implied that she is ''the'' most powerful of the professors by a long shot [[spoiler:unless you include the rift in [=.GIFfany=]'s power roster]], but doesn't actually act accordingly because she's too much of a softie pushover. This is also the reason why [=.GIFfany=] is terrified of Shannon, but not of Dian, despite Dian possibly being the stronger of the two: because Dian is such a huge doormat, she'll put up with anything [=.GIFfany=] throws at her. Shannon... not as much.
* {{Expy}}: While Fan came up with Tagger's appearance before he finalized Dian's design, Dian was ultimately revealed first. Her outfit is identical to that of Tagger's, an OriginalGeneration wannabe Youtube star Fan made for ''VideoGame/{{MUGEN}}''. Neon green shirt, pale blue pants, red shoes. And, at times, a gas mask (though Dian's is purple, not gray).

Character sheet for ''run:gifocalypse''. Under construction, contributions are highly welcome.

Unless otherwise stated, this page details the character traits from the original 2015 version of the story. Due to the general lack of content as of December 2018, a trope page on ''Rebooted'' will be made later.

!! Professors

The professor of plant matter. Her subject is botany. She is the leader of Domain 1, located in a custom garden she made in Gravity Falls forest.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:As revealed in the Memory Banks, she was ''incredibly'' hostile to [=.GIFfany=] when pressuring her to hold up her end of the "deal." The story also implies that she of all copies would object to the death of a sister, even in self-defense.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Downplayed. It's implied here and there for most of the story, mainly kicking up around Arc 3. Especially Kathody's reports on what Rose had done in beteen Domains 10 and 11 when she thought the gang killed Professor Wendy. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that, despite her claims, she cares more about the well-being of her sisters than the lives of the main group -- including 12-year old Dipper and Mabel. Even when they're outnumbered by the professors. Word of God is that she was based on an apparent occurance where a Vocal Minority of ''Undertale'' fans known to insult people for not going on a full Pacifist run. In essense, caring more about the "fictional characters" (er, the [=AIs=]) than the human beings "playing the game."]] She gets over it.

* GardenGarment: ''Always'' wears some kind of plant-based outfit. If she's not naked.
* GreenThumb: The professor of plants. She can possess trees to form a pseudo-mecha around her, and can even accellerate plant growth.
* MrExposition: After being caught in the Illegal Prime Neutralizer, she acts as the expository guide for the main characters for the majority of the story. Unlike most exposition-givers, however, she has a habit of giving information too ''late'', thanks to being rather forgetful and having an odd habit of only telling the gang about the absolute next professor in line (she believes that there is hardly any point in throwing information about any ''future'' enemies well before the prep time to go and face them).
* SignatureHeadgear: It's suggested that having something "important" in one's hair is a sign of rank among the [=.GIFfany=]s, with the default cable-bow being a complicated exception (it's something they're free to wear, yet their leader wears it not out of rank sign but because it's part of the default outfit she sticks to). Rose has a ''Pikmin''-styled flower in her hair as her decoration, and it's implied that her students hold this type of flower especially above the others that have such plants in their hair.
* WarmupBoss: She does not directly fight the Pines, but she does let them know that the [=.GIFfanys=] (or, at least, the professors at first) can possess more than electronics. Which becomes ''pretty damn important'' later on as potentially ''anything'' can be made in to a weapon from them.

The professor of soul. Her subject is dramatic arts. She resides in Domain 2, a "haunted house" attraction in the Sahara. Carrying about little more than having a good horror-themed spirit,

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Tricks the group into thinking there is a Grim Reaper-like figure in the haunted mansion that is Domain 2, then reveals herself as ''fully supporting [=.GIFfany=]'' (unlike Rose, who makes it increasingly clear she isn't), and then tries to come at the group with a scythe.
* {{Expy}}: She's partly based on Fan's earlier ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' character, down to name (her name was Kathy), using a scythe, and her love for freaking people out. She's a lot more of an asshole, though. Her color scheme is completely different too (Kathy having pale skin and "blood red" hair, Kath''od''y have tanned skin and yellow hair). WordOfGod also states that her LargeHam was inspired by [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Calculon.]]
* LargeHam: And she LOVES bursting into ALL CAPS when trying to announce her BRILLIANT haunted house.
* SoulPower: Her element, although the way she manipulates it ''prior'' to "State of Emergency" (where she blatantly controls a bunch of ghost energy) is subtle, as it is the kind of "glue" keeping her staircase together.
* StarterVillain: Rose was hardly an obstacle, much less a villain, as she just tried to talk the group out of progressing the domains rather than outright try to attack them. Kathody is the first ''real'' threat faced in the Gifocalypse, and she puts up a lot more of a fight. She's also an indicator to the Pines that they'll ''really'' have to outsmart the [=.GIFfanys=], as physical skill alone will not get them anywhere near beating them.

The professor of water. Her subject/general field is athletics. Domain 3, her place, is located in the "center" of the Bermuda Triangle, and deep under the ocean at that.

* JerkJock: Invokes this image considering how she's a generally unpleasant, elitist person and her field of teaching is athletics.
* MakingASplash: Can possess water.

The professor of earth. Her subject is geology. She has turned a rise in the middle of the Grand Canyon into the setting of Domain 4, which like Rose's place is building-less. It's an outdoors worshipping ground for the "Lightning Goddess" (read: [=.GIFfany=], who tricked Sandy into thinking she was a deity).

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Her Main Possession is a large, hard-to-hit statue of [=.GIFfany=]'s head. She's also pretty intellegent when she's not high, and her students are able to quickly capture the Shack team with ease.
* DishingOutDirt: Can possess rocks.
* DrugsAreBad: Implied in that she's an utter moron when high, but very clear and somewhat philosophical when sober.

The professor of meat. Her subject is zoobiology. She intends to run a chain of fast food establishments called "Gif Bytes," though when confronted she only has one building created. Said building is Domain 5, located by Niagara Falls.

* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' break from her tradition. Do ''not'' try to switch what meat is being used.
* {{Expy}}: She's inspired by [[VideoGame/{{OFF}} Japhet.]] Both are people who went insane after their subjects didn't really like the worlds they built, both end up possessing someone dear to a major character (although Waddles gets out of it in a much happier manner than Valerie), and they are associated with flying and (to an extent) fire.

* {{Expy}}: Design-wise, she's modeled off of [[WesternAnimation/PerfectHairForever Brenda]], what with the name (hell, her player is even named Gerald), the OdangoHair style, and the whole "walks around in a visible thong" gimmick (though it's part of a ''show stage leotard''. Completely accpetable there! Except even she knows this is a lie). Personality-wise, she's somewhere along the lines of [[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Chris McClean]] with a tiny, tiny dash of [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Mettaton.]]

* FlowerInHerHair: It's suggested that having something "important" in one's hair is a sign of rank among the [=.GIFfany=]s, with the default cable-bow being a complicated exception (it's something they're free to wear, yet their leader wears it not out of rank sign but because it's part of the default outfit she sticks to). Rose has a ''Pikmin''-styled flower in her hair as her decoration, and it's implied that her students hold this type of flower especially above the others that have such plants in their hair.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: In a manner Fan says is similar to [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Flowey,]] she is the one copy that completely spits in the face of the story's morality system. Every other professor/[=.GIFfany=] instance seems to have a soft side, can be reasoned with, and grows more as they are all brought in with their family to talk things out. Not the "Risen" one. She flat-out tries to ''kill'' the leads, out of pure malace, practically every scene with her is either a sign of her jackassery or a joke about how ''pathetic'' she is, and ''sparing'' her is exactly what she wants Soos to do. [[spoiler:Hell, unlike Flowey, she doesn't even really have an "Asriel." In the context of the copies, she's very close to being the one true "relentless killer" of the bunch.]]

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Even by the standards of the Arc 3 professors, the way her chapter plays out is completely against the tradition that the story itself set up. She's faced after a four year+ TimeSkip, resides in a PocketDimension rather than a real-world location (even the PNG is technically one -- space), has no "students," her prior player is completely irrelevant to the story, and she's the one copy that is genuinely just dealt with by force, and only force. She still doesn't die. In a way, her chapter plays out as an odd combination of the formula set up in Arcs 1 and 2 along with the "broken formula" of Arc 3, specifically chapter 13. Soos and Wendy also never directly encounter her -- in the Official Ending, they're both still at Gravity Falls while the Pines are the only ones to take her on. In the special ending, [=.GIFfany=] already reached into the pocket dimension and assimilated her offscreen before she could fight the Mystery Shack group.

* BiTheWay: All copies swing both ways. This is implied with Kathody, Dian, and Shannon's prior players all being women (something none of the other copies bat an eye at), and all-but confirmed in GPF's other stories featuring the characters.

* HairDecs: Has two types: Ones modeled off of Brenda's, and ''a live flame in her hair''.

* {{Expy}}: Fan describes her as a cross between [[VideoGame/TheWonderful101 Gimme]] (plot role) and [[VideoGame/HuniePop Audrey]] (personality), with a dash of [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Shadow the Hedgehog]] (color scheme and "edgyness") and [[VideoGame/{{OFF}} Dedan]] (also personality). The lawyer stuff is original.

* NotDisractedByTheSexy: It's suggested that he has to make a bit of an effort to avoid making it clear that the constant near-naked women around him are embarassing him. Going off his crush on Wendy and a comment made by the Bill AMA, redhead copies are his weakness, evident by Michelle and Professor Burnda.

** Cardia: Violet[[note]]In this context, blue-magenta[[/note]]

** Leona: Rose[[note]]In this context, red-magenta[[/note]]

** Wendy: Spring green

** [=.GIFfany=]: Pink, also a bright rainbow on occasion, sometimes simplified to pink/yellow/aqua
** [[spoiler:Eve: Dark mint/jade green, also a dim rainbow on occasion, often simplified to red/green/blue]]

* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Downplayed. They are a long line of antagonist forces leading up to [=.GIFfany=], but some of them are outright harmless to the protagonists (Rose and Dian, who refuse to attack them in any way) and they clearly undergo actual characterization rather than being one-off obstacles the group faces off against. (As Fan makes sure to give them all at least one line in "post-capture" sequences for each chapter, something Kathody lampshades at the end of chapter 5.)
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Some of them are reluctant to show their crotches (which is an implied reference to Japanese censorship laws, especially if one considers their self-censorship in ''Escape From Fanservice Island'' to be confirmation), but that's about as "nude-shy" as they get. None of them see any problem in going practically completely naked.

[[folder:Wendy]]

!! Professor Wendy (Number: 0521355)

The professor of wind/air. She's a huge ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' fan who teaches her followers about piloting and auto-shop. Enjoying windy storms as well, she set up Domain 10 in New Delhi so that they could be blasted by the Monsoon winds. Domain 10 itself is a large ''WesternAnimation/KingOfThheHill'' fanclub that also specializes in making highly advanced methods of transportation.

* FanDisservice: Her dress is see-through (aside from the breasts) and clearly revealers her panties underneath. Then she ends up not only trying to genuinely ''kill'' the hero group, but also possesses her own reflection and uses it to boost her power, quickly going into loop after loop of reflection-possessing until she turns into... well... a horrific-looking light construct. Also, she is introduced in the same chapter that has other underwear-clad copies [[spoilr:glitch out horribly and turn in to reality-distorting humanoid abominations.]]

* KnightOfCerebus: An unusual case in that she is not a very cold-blooded or overly "serious" character herself. However, her domain and [[spoiler:the glitchy-body horror around it]], while still ultimately MonsterOfTheWeek-ish by this fic's standards, sets the tone for the last leg of the story, which is generally darker in nature or deals with more serious themes. After her, Burnda is the last real "lighthearted domain romp" part of the fic (though helping a bit is that the two parts of the Parícutin volcano are the last two "traditional" domains as well), and even then her chapter ends with [[spoiler:Burrda trying to force Ford into a "I die or you die, all so that [=.GIFfany=] doesn't resort to mass-destruction" fight.]]

The reason ''why'' she's back and ''why''/''how'' she amassed her copies is a bit of a long story. The real "nail" in this ForWantOfANail was that Gideon had torn out an extra page from Journal 2, in addition to his possession spell that he uses in "The Stanchurian Candidate." In this case, something that can bring back a soul with unfinished business. Due to [=.GIFfany=]'s... non-"body" and "soul" makeup, in her case her destroyed disc counted as a lost body, and her coding was her "soul." Gideon brought [=.GIFfany=] "back to life" and gave her a physical form with a different spell picked up from a more mysteriously written spell, but a disagreement between what they would try to do to fight the Pines resulted in him trying to reverse the spell that gave her her new body. Desperate to return to full form, [=.GIFfany=] sent out to find the other published copies of her game -- and decided to take the unpublished ones to start an army.

Her domain, Domain 15, is a mysterious, secretive location of pink metal she only refers to as the "Construction Site." While the... "general area" of the Construction Site is revealed as early as chapter 3, it's kept a large secret from the protagonists for the majority of the tale. When a professor fails (or a hijacker in the case of Domain 9), all of her student copies are transported over to the Construction Site to help her work on finishing it so that it's... not a construction site anymore. The ''actual'' part she considers her domain is the "Capital," a city on the opposite end of the planet as the intended entrance point from Earth that is ''still'' larger than the other domains.

* AmbiguousSituation: In the official ending. [[spoiler:Is she really redeemed? Is she just faking it to try to lower Soos's guard until everyone is exactly where she wants them to be, so she could presumably attack yet again? No, Word of God will not help you here -- Fan says that he likes ''both'' the idea of [=.GIFfany=] having some form of redemption, and to throw the entire story's "almost anyone can be redeemed" morality out of balance with the Big Bad being a massive exception. So he basically said that the readers can decide until/unless he settles on a final answer. For what it's worth, Professor Wendy's ''King of the Hill'' fanblog -- which has a post dated 2016, while ''run:gifocalypse'' takes place in 2012 -- heavily implies that Soos and Melody are both still... ''alive'', though she also states that Risen has "became a lot more quiet for some reason."]]
* AscendedExtra: Goes from MonsterOfTheWeek to this fic's BigBad. Considering [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} Rip Van Winkle]], this isn't really anything new by Great Pikmin Fan's standards. (Although Rip has been exclusive to StylisticSuck stories.)

* {{Flanderization}}: A growing amount of her screentime, especially around Arc 2, more-or-less makes her the butt of jokes where her obsession with Soos is portrayed as typical pathetic "geeky lust" rather than anything serious. The scene where she poorly tries to make out with a Soos dummy in chapter 9 stands out. When she takes center-spotlight as the antagonist of "Game Over" and its alternate ending "Game Complete," the story quickly steps away from this.

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: [[spoiler:The narration occasionally switches to first-person when referring to her in the last few chapters, mostly when she's pissed. She also directly hijacks the opening and closing notes towards the end. It's implied that her taking the rift had something to do with this -- the first-person switches come to an abrupt stop after she sealed it up.]]
* FullFrontalAssault: Some of the other copies might not really wear much, but most of the ones that attack the gang at least wear ''something''. In the final battle, after [[spoiler:falling from the atmosphere takes away their clothes]], she takes Soos on in a naked fist-fight.

!! Professor Eve (Number: 12)

* EvilCounterpart: She's this (or, an Evil''er'' Counterpart) to Risen, believe it or not.
* {{Expy}}:
** Battle-wise, of Delirium from ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac: Afterbirth+''. (Semi-appropriate as she's named after a character from that game, as is her expy in the ''HRT'' series.) The TrueFinalBoss that shape-shifts into all previous bosses of the adventure leading up to it, is found in a clusterfuck MindScrew of an area, and even has an association with static.

** In the official ending version of chapter 13, the group is attacked by some arm "split" in red, green, and blue. This turns out to be Eve herself, briefly leaking into the [[TheVoidBetweenWorlds Void Between Wires.]]

* AllThereInTheManual: There are actually a number of "standard types" Glitches can come in -- all five of the ones seen here are one of those standard categories. The Missingno-like corruptions have been nicknamed

* TheDragon: To [=.GIFfany=], after Dove's firing. She's the main second generation copy, and she gets a special one-on-one fight with the townsfolk while the other second-gens are quickly dealt with leading up to the battle.

* MeaningfulName:
** Takeshi is named after [[VideoGame/TakeshisChallenge Takeshi Kitano,]] a man who hates video games and made one such joke game with a number of bizarre features. He is, by far, the one player that opposes the copies more than anyone else -- even Soos was more passive to Risen, as he did not try to attack her completely unprovoked.

!! Main Characters

* GardenGarment: ''Always'' wears some kind of plant-based outfit.

* CharacterBlog: Downplayed. In chapter 13, the narrative mentions her having a Tumblr page and talks about it by name, down to specifying how to type it into a url. The reason for this is because said Tumblr blog actually exists. The reason for the downplay is that there's only a handful of posts -- a short introduction, [[spoiler:daily charting through RG's events, and a "random update over four years after the Gifocalypse" which serves as some additional closure detailing more than one year in the future and setting up for Eve's chapter.]]

* ThereWasADoor: Manages to rope ''the heroes'' into an unwilling version of this. In short, they never really go in or out of her building through the front door in chapter 10. [[spoiler:Mabel, at least, does both in the epilogue once the domains are being taken down and revamped on the PNG.]] In long, she slices the roof off and legs them fall in; then [[spoiler:during her breakdown, she flies out while the group is clinging on her back.]]

The professor of fire/heat. A physicist and wannabe competitive reality show hostess, she resides in Domain 12, a place deep inside the lower chambers of Parícutin. Most of her domain is dedicated to setting up the stage for a reality show that she drags the gang into. She considers herself "twins" with Burrda.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: [[WordOfGod Great Pikmin Fan]] confirmed that she had a crush on Ford after a reviewer talked about their interactions. Her self in ''Escape From Fanservice Island'' is heavily teased with him, [[spoiler:but he ultimately ends up with ''Darlene.'']]

* SiblingYinYang: Trait-wise, she and Burnda borrow a few elements from Dipper and Mabel, just greatly exaggerated. She's the "Dipper" of the two.

* DumbMuscle: Downplayed. She's not visibly muscular -- few of the copies are, and they're all minor copies -- and she's not an outright idiot, but she is considered the strongest ''and'' dumbest of the professors. [[spoiler:The "strong," FYI, is not factoring the rift into [=.GIFfany=]'s skillset, which is why she remains at the top of the escalating-power chain (that the story otherwise avoids).]] She has a tough, durable body "of steel" (but is actually stronger -- [[spoiler:''withstanding an advanced alien nuclear explosion''-levels of strong]]), yet at the same time she's prone to making a large number of irrational decisions and practically ''looks'' for things to get pissed off about. Also, she can't recognize Pacifica despite keeping a Gifocalypse-era newspaper where [[WorstNewsJudgmentEver the front-page top article is an overly-analytical, poorly-written essay that tries to get into the psychology of her eating a sandwich.]]

** Thinks love potions are disgusting, especially when not used by an authorized love god.
** She's the only copy that outright, explicitly thinks killing in any form other than last-resort self-defense is wrong. However, she has no problem at all with ''destroying'' as much property as she possibly could.

* NumberTwo: The explicit second-in-command of the professors, as much as [=.GIFfany=] (the first person to ''call'' Dove her second-in-command, hypocritically) insists that the professors all have equal rule[[note]]Technically this ''is'' true, as after Dove the other professors ''are'' considered equal on the power scale whenever region isn't involved[[/note]]. When a copy in chapter 8 is outright asked where their leader is (the group was looking for Professor Sonia at the time), she answers by saying that [=.GIFfany=] is in a classified location. Asked to go lower than that, she talks about Dove instead of the domain's professor.

* SirSwearsALot: Especially jarring as, one PrecisionFStrike from Shannon in chapter ''10'' aside, the story contains ''no'' swearing up until her introduction, which is at a whopping chapter ''11''.

* AGodAmI: She believes she's an ''actual'' Lightning Goddess.
* AllYourColorsCombined: Not with the professors. She's rainbow-themed for a different reason. [[spoiler:The ''last players'' of the professors -- she uses their human-giffinium linking energy to help her increase the abilities of her rift and form energy chains with the next-gen copies.]]

* BookEnds: Counting canon, she's the first copy faced. And the last.

* {{Expy}}: She borrows a few traits from [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Flowey]] around her battle. [[spoiler:She's far more meta than the other characters (although this is limited to her hijacking the narrative), far more evil, her battle involves the use of several humans who up to that point had barely been mentioned, and her form is extremely alien compared to everything else faced beforehand.]] Also, more evident towards the end, she's ''really'' fond of creeping people (read: Soos) out with disturbing faces.

* IronicEcho: Compare what Burnda tells her in the end of chapter 10 to what she tells Burnda in the middle of chapter 13.

* {{Jerkass}}: Not very pleasant to any of her other copies or the humans. She only puts up with them in the first place because they "repaired" her and brought her physical form back to its fullest abilities, and that they felt she owed them one.

* OurFounder: Unlike ''all'' of the other domains, her place eventuallys gets an enormous, "[=3D=] pixel" statue in her image at the greeting site at the Planet Negation Girl. [[spoiler:Readers are led to think that this is her Main Possession. It's not. The ''entire'' base is.]]

* InterfaceSpoiler: Her chapter existing could have only really been shocking once "Game Over" and "Game Complete" were out and it seemed like the story ended. Now, the sheer fact that there is a chapter after the ones labeled "Official Ending" and "Special Ending" gives away that the adventure isn't quite over. In fan's defense, he at least waited half a month before he even started writing this.

* PrimaryColourChampion: Incorporates a lot of reds, greens, and blues, in contrast to [=.GIFfany=] using a lot of pink, yellow, and aqua/cyan.

* BackForTheFinale: Cameo in chapter 11 aside, she shows up in both endings as well. [[spoiler:In the Official Ending, she is at the "bottom" of the sphere of [=.GIFfany=] clones that try to make sure Soos and Melody's descent to Earth is safe. Being the first to slide them to a stop, she intentionally rams the ball into part of Domain 5 as a way of "getting back" at her boss, then remarks that she has had a ''terrible'' Sunday. In the Special Ending, she shows up as Cardia's second-in-line, just to end up getting curb-stomped by [=.GIFfany=] shortly after she assimilates Cardia herself.]]

* SparedByTheAdaptation: For what it's worth, he's technically still alive by the end of ''run:gifocalypse''. He simply never gets a chance to enter Earth's dimension and is forced to wait things out until he has another shot at making it through, rather than being outright killed off/erased. Not that this matters much, given how the story concludes shortly after his only appearance and Fan have confirmed that (as with most of his other fanworks) a direct sequel would be highly unlikely. [[spoiler:Professor Wendy's ''King of the Hill'' blog makes zero mention of him in any way, so it's implied that he stayed sealed for at least four additional years.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Chapters 5, 9, and 12 all have flashbacks detailing them, five at a time. (Four in the case of the latter, as there's only four players there -- Gerald was the last one to play both Burnda and Burrda's copy -- although their section is divided into two, one conversation between Burnda and Gerald and another between Burnda and Burrda). Sure enough, they all become relevant towards the very end. [[spoiler:This also foreshadows [=.GIFfany=]'s access to the Nightmare Realm, given that she really ''is'' projecting these conversations on to the gang while they sleep. (Or briefly knocked out, as is the case in chapter 12.)]]

* ShoutOutThemeNaming: Kimberly and Victoria are named after two naked [=NPCs=] from the third and fourth (respectively) ''Epic Battle Fantasy'' games. (Fan likes ShamelessFanserviceGirl[=s=].) Taro is named after the then-placeholder name of the stalking target of ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'', which is actually one of only ''two'' references the fic has to that game[[note]]Fan is '''highly''' skeptical of ''Yandere Simulator''[='=]s future, namely how original its writing would be compared to other "you play as the monster and the best ending is where the events of the game don't happen at all" games[[/note]]. Takeshi is a reference to ''VideoGame/TakeshisChallenge'', and Gerald is part of Burnda and Burrda's ''WesternAnimation/PerfectHairForever'' references.

** [[spoiler:Eve: Dark mint green, also a dim rainbow on occasion, often simplified to red/green/blue]]

** Soos and [=.GIFfany=]: Ordinary life vs technological singularity.

* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Some of them are reluctant to show their crotches, but that's about as "nude-shy" as they get. None of them see any problem in going practically completely naked.

* StarterVillain: Rose was hardly an obstacle, much less a villain, as she just tried to talk the group out of progressing the domains rather than outright try to attack them. Kathody is the first ''real'' threat faced in the Gifocalypse, and

* StonersAreFunny: Eventually confirmed in "State of Emergency" to be a bit of a pothead. Well, not "pot" so much as "her specialized 'herbal tea.'"

* BewareTheNiceOnes: It's strongly implied that she is ''the'' most powerful of the professors by a long shot [[spoiler:unless you include the rift in [=.GIFfany=]'s power roster]], but doesn't actually act accordingly because she's too much of a softie pushover. This is also the reason why [=.GIFfany=] is terrified of Shannon, but not of Dian, despite Dian possibly being the stronger of the two: because Dian is such a huge doormat, she'll put up with anything [=.GIFfany=] throws at her. Shannon... not as much.

* CharacterBlog: Downplayed. In chapter 13, the narrative mentions her having a Tumblr page and talks about it by name, down to specifying how to type it into a url. The reason for this is because said Tumblr blog actually exists. The reason for the downplay is that there's only three posts -- a short introduction, [[spoiler:P. Wendy saying that she's already gotten sick of ''King of the Hill'' over just three days and does not feel like actually using the blog, and a "random update over four years after the Gifocalypse" which serves as some additional closure detailing more than one year in the future and setting up for Eve's chapter.]]

* DrugsAreBad: [[spoiler:Her mirrors. They have horrible withdrawl effects, although she does not realize this until after the Mystery Shack team enters, as up until that point they had not been broken.]]

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: [[WordOfGod Great Pikmin Fan]] confirmed that she had a crush on Ford after a reviewer talked about their interactions.

* {{Foil}}: To Professor Rose, if unintentional back when the story's earlier chapters were written. Both are faced in Gravity Falls -- Rose in the forest when the town is at its prime, and Dove after [[spoiler:she blows the town to a series of land chunks up in the sky]]. Rose feeds the gang exposition on the professors, while Dove feeds the professors exposition on the gang. Also, once [=.GIFfany=] starts referring to them by "serial number," Dove is the first with the lowest number while Rose is the last with the highest serial number, [[spoiler:aside from the new copies [=.GIFfany=] creates.]] Rose is the first professor properly faced (not counting "Soos and the Real Girl" canon), while Dove [[spoiler:is the last professor faced ''on Earth''.]] This even applies to the Illegal Prime Neutralizer: Rose was captured first and by accident, while the gang ''very intentionally'' wants to capture Dove, [[spoiler:except she's the only (first-gen) professor to never end up inside it. Even [=.GIFfany=] was captured in chapter 11, though she escapes via wormhole. Dipper and Mabel destroy the pack outright to get the help of the other professors and to prove a point to Dove (and because, considering [=.GIFfany=]'s powers, they don't have much point to it any longer anyway).]]

* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Pink boxer shorts with "even pinker" hearts on them.

* WhatTheHellHero: Calls out a good chunk of Mabel's actions from canon, and to a lesser extent the events of ''run:gifocalypse''.

[[folder:[=.GIFfany=]/The Risen One/The Lightning Goddess]]

The reason ''why'' she's back and ''why''/''how'' she amassed her copies is a bit of a long story. The real "nail" in this ForWantOfANail was that

* {{Expy}}: She borrows a few traits from [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Flowey]] around her battle. [[spoiler:She's far more meta than the other characters (although this is limited to her hijacking the narrative), far more evil, her battle involves the use of several humans who up to that point had barely been mentioned, and her form is extremely alien compared to everything else faced beforehand.]]

* HumanoidAbomination: All of the copies have some shades of this, but she's by far the most eldritch [[spoiler:thanks to being infused with the rift. She's also the only character that can hijack the fourth wall, although seeing as it stops completely once she destroys/seals the rift, it's implied to be directly connected with her rift skills.]]

* MsFanservice: Doesn't seem like it compared to the more bold outfits of the other copies, but starting from chapter 9 she gets a sudden number of nude scenes, flirts and teases with Soos a ''lot'', the story flat-out says that she becomes a walking PantyShot, and she dresses up in a number of revealing outfits just before the final battle. Also, aformentioned chapter 9 goes into ''huge detail'' of her admiring her body, then slapping her ass, which the story indirectly makes clear is not supposed to be "censored" like a copy's frontal nudity would be. She turns into more of a Ms. FanDisservice by the finale.