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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: How the caretaker from Stan's funeral speaks.
->'''Caretaker:''' Dearly... gathered. We are... gathered for the joint gathering of Stanley Pines, who has left this town before his time was mostly up, and we wish to remember him before he left before his time was mostly up."

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* AscendedFanon: Some minor stuff EZB predicted came true eventually, namely concept ideas for certain episodes.



* AuthorExistenceFailure: Played-with A LOT! EZB has a tendency to off himself at the end of his author's notes, but he always comes back to do it again next time. However, there have been occasions where the story was left un-updated with no warning for extended periods of time, causing a number of his readers to "joke" that EZB was really dead this time.



* DarkFic: Not always, but it definitely has it's moments, especially once FridgeHorror sets in.



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* HolyShitQuotient: The last episode or two of each set of ten causes this to raise drastically. The season two finale takes the cake.



* IKnewIt: The cryptograms can cause this among fans.



* {{Jossed}}: Reading through the reviews will show a lot of theories that eventually are revealed to not be true. Really, the only thing fans have been able to guess correctly has been the identity of some of the people represented on the zodiac.






* OfficialFanSubmittedContent: The first two stories of the Halloween Special were requests by fans.



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* ScheduleSlip: For the first two seasons, EZB was a ScheduleFanatic- updates every Sunday, with several warnings if there would be a major delay. Around ''The Weary Path'' is where things went south. He gave an update a week after part one saying he would be back in a week or two, but that turned into a month. After that, things went well until the end of that set of ten, which ended June 19, 2016. After that, EZB disappeared for three months. When he returned, he gave four chapters before disappearing right before Halloween. He stayed gone for 18 months, finishing ''Soos-Less'' on April 23, 2018. He posted one more chapter around May 5, with the intent of having part two up by the end of the month, but that hasn’t happened yet. Time will tell if anything else will need to be added to this.



* SeriesHiatus: See ScheduleSlip above.



* SignatureScene: The scene towards the end of the season two finale in which everything changes.



* SpoilAtYourOwnRisk: In ''Duskhope,'' EZB reveals that there are a handful of people who know what’s up, and warns them that they will be smited with all the fury he could muster if they were caught spoiling anything.
* SpoiledByTheFormat: In the author’s note for the first chapter, EZB said that season one would have ten episodes, so anyone who read that piece of information knew the twins would not really leave at the end of the first episode.



* UnfinishedEpisode: ''The Devil’s Dude.''



* YourMindMakesItReal: The tulpa from the season two premiere turned into a ghost because a show was being produced about a ghost haunting the Manor.

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* YourMindMakesItReal: The tulpa from the season two premiere turned into a ghost because a show was being produced about a ghost haunting the Manor.Manor.
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* HeroBall: Dipper comes into possession of this in ''Fires of Hate'' when he tries to get even with the Warlock. It doesn’t end well.



* LivingADoubleLife: Zander- without spoiling anything, his rock-star persona is part of a witness protection program he got involved in. Except, this is likely a lie to help keep his ''other'' identities a secret.

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* LivingADoubleLife: Zander- without spoiling anything, his rock-star persona is part of a witness protection program he got involved in. Except, this is likely a lie to help keep his ''other'' identities a secret.Zander.



* UsingYouAllAlong: Bill was using Omir from the beginning.

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* UsingYouAllAlong: Bill was using Omir from the beginning.beginning.
* VagueAge: Zander.
* VampireEpisode: ''Daybreak.''
* VillainExitStageLeft: The Warlock is defeated in ''The Warlock Returns'' and is sent to jail, but escapes at the end of ''Summerween Returns.''
* VillainsNeverLie: After Bill’s first appearance in the story, Dipper comments that while he technically doesn’t lie, he does leave out parts of the truth.
* WakeUpFighting: Mabel can and does do this on occasion.
* WakingNonSequitur: A lot of people wake up with these, especially once the twins and co. go on the road.
* WakingUpAtTheMorgue: This happens to Wendy and Stan.
* WeakenedByTheLight: Doppelganger’s are prone to this.
* WeatherManipulation: The Warlock’s Master generated the storm that made the phoenix crash in ''Ashes in the Sky.''
* WeirderThanUsual: The twins’ reaction to the truck-sized spider in ''Bragging Rights.'' They say that they’ve only ever seen human-sized spiders before.
* WeirdWeather: The twins admit that Gravity Falls has a peculiar tendency to have storms pop up out of nowhere. Often, while weird, these occur naturally, except for once.
* WeWillMeetAgain: The second cryptogram from Bill’s first episode is Bill saying that he will be back.
* WhamLine: “There will always be a new day,” Zander Maximillion said, [[spoiler: lowering the mask in his hands.]]
* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: After taking the Starkissed inside the Shack, Mabel says this. At first it seems like the twins avoided the curse for once in their lives, but they used up their luck when Dipper went into town without issue earlier in the day.
* WhatYearIsThis: After the craziness that is the almost-end of season two, Dipper and Wendy, and later [[spoiler: Ford]] ask a local park ranger what the date is.
* WhenItAllBegan: Without getting ''too'' into the history of Gravity Falls and its weird properties, the story begins with Montana Jefferys wanting to use the town as a way of restarting his career and hitting Stan with a tranquilizer in an attempt to get the Mystery Shack from him. The tranq made everyone think Stan was dead, which is the reason the twins went back to Gravity Falls in the first place.
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: The first story of the Halloween special, and ''Summerween: The Beginning'' are this.
* WhyWontYouDie: The twins and the Warlock feel this way about one another.
* WinWinEnding: This happens occasionally, but for every episode where this happens, another episode and then some ends with everything going to all kinds of hell.
* WitnessProtection: Part of Zander’s cover story.
* WorldOfWeirdness: What the entire planet is becoming following the events of the season two finale.
* WorthIt: Despite it making her very sick, Mabel still thinks eating a ton of candy after Summerween was worth it.
* WreathedInFlames: Arline can do this, although she generally keeps it to just her arms.
* WritersCannotDoMath: Played straight with the end of season two. Everything from ''After the Shadows'' to the end is pretty much back-to-back action. ''After the Shadows'' takes place on July 27th, and the next two episodes take place on the 28th. ''Cleansing Rain'' is set the night of the 28th, and the final two episodes of the season are on the 29th. Yet when Dipper and Wendy ask the park ranger what the date is, he says it is the 31st.
* YouCantKillWhatsAlreadyDead: Wendy is immune to practically everything she has faced so far.
* YouHaveFailedMe: The Warlock says this whenever someone he uses to hurt the twins doesn’t do so.
* YouKnowWhatTheySayAboutX: In this case, X is painting. Soos tries to come up with something, but it doesn’t work out that well.
* YourMindMakesItReal: The tulpa from the season two premiere turned into a ghost because a show was being produced about a ghost haunting the Manor.
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The story began September 2014. As EZB noted, the show was still very active and many mysteries had yet to be solved. Because of that, he had to imagine what the rest of the summer would look like. Initial vagueness about the events he made up was common early on, but he tried to make it as close to canon as possible, even going back after Not What He Seems aired to change all the 'Stanford's' to 'Stanley's.' That being said, he has stuck to some of his biggest changes. A general rule of thumb is that everything of the summer up until Not What He Seems is canon to the story, but the events leading up to Ford's getting stuck in the portal and the events following Ford's return are EZB's theories.

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The story began September 2014. 2014, just a month after the second season premiere. As EZB noted, himself notes, this means the show was still very active and many mysteries had yet to be solved. Because of that, solved; as such, he had to imagine what the rest of the summer would look like. Initial vagueness about the events he made up was common early on, but he tried to make it as close to canon as possible, even going back after "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E11NotWhatHeSeems Not What He Seems Seems]]" aired to change all the 'Stanford's' to 'Stanley's.' That being said, he has stuck to some of his biggest changes. A The general rule of thumb is that everything of the summer up until Not "Not What He Seems Seems" is canon to the story, but the events leading up to Ford's getting stuck in the portal and the events following Ford's return are EZB's theories.
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* TheMuse: Bill poses as this again in order to trick Omir Steindorf.

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* TheMuse: Bill poses as this again in order to trick Omir Steindorf.Steindorf.
* TheNicknamer: Bill Cipher- Dipper, Mabel and Wendy all kept their nicknames from the show, [[note]] Pine Tree, Shooting Star and Red, respectively [[/note]] and Soos is called Biggy or Big Guy, or some variation thereof. OC’s Omir and Arline are called Snappy [[note]] because of how he dresses [[/note]] and Bells [[note]] because Bill is Bill [[/note]] respectively.
* ThePaladin: Soos’ character when they play Strongholds and Serpents.
* ThePeepingTom: Mabel intended to do this to Jace, but Jess caught her.
* ThePhoenix: Actually ''THE'' Phoenix- the one that shows up is the last known phoenix in existence.
* ThePowerOfLove: How Dipper defeats the ghosts in ''Spectral Revelations.''
* ThePromise: Dipper promising to find a way to bring Wendy back to life causes a lot of his insomnia in the second half or season two, and it is always hanging over his head.
* TheQuietOne: The Guardsman in his first appearance. In the first part of his debut episode, he says a grand total of three words, and spends the rest of the time silently observing from the shadows and freaking people out. He will talk for extended periods when being asked questions, but he tries to avoid speaking when he can.
* TheReveal: Too many to count.
* TheRockStar: Zander Maximillion.
* TheScrooge: Grunkle Stan, at least until he gets called out on it.
* TheStinger: The first episode of season three takes place in a town called Spoons. Several puns are made, but the last line of the episode is, “At least it wasn’t a town named Forks.” EZB even says ZINGER in his author’s note.
* TheTeaser: Once season three came around and the twins went on the road, these were put in to introduce the problem the twins would be trying to solve. Not all chapters have them, but most do.
* TheUndead: Wendy.
* TheUnderworld: The group goes here in ''Strongholds and Serpents.''
* TheUnReveal: A lot of fans were suspicious of Omir from the beginning, so him being revealed to be the Warlock’s master came as no great surprise.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: The twins’ reaction when the Guardsman shows up in ''Fires of Hate.''
* ThisIsNotADrill: The message to evacuate in ''Operation Search and Destroy'' says this.
* ThreeShorts: The Halloween special contains three stories.
* ThunderEqualsDownpour: Usually averted- on the occasions a storm does blow through, it behaves like a normal storm. The one time this trope is played straight is when the storm was generated by the Sorcerer in ''Ashes in the Sky.''
* TimeSkip: The first chapter starts with the twins’ first day of school after their first summer, then fast forwards three years to the 15-year-old twins’ last day of school.
* TitleDropChapter: ''Strongholds and Serpents, Totally Real Paranormal Mystery Show, Duskhope'' and ''Operation Search and Destroy.''
* ToBeContinued: Never stated outright, but a number of the cryptograms imply this. The closest has been one from the season two finale that said Season three would begin shortly.
* ToHellAndBack: The group goes here/does this when they play Strongholds and Serpents.
* TokenAdult: Grunkle Stan in the beginning. More grown-ups join eventually.
* ToneShift: The story gradually gets darker and darker as time goes on in the first two seasons. It gets lighter in season three, but it is still much darker than it was at the beginning, and things are only going to get worse- if the story gets finished.
* TonightSomeoneDies: The cryptogram for chapter 53 reads “Next episode, someone dies,” and it is repeated in the author’s note the chapter before the death occurs.
* TopTenList: Don’t know for sure about the ‘ten’ part, but Mabel made several lists of things she wanted to do when older to ‘get the full experience.’ Number one was a Renaissance Fair, which was done in ''Ye Olde Fair-Wells.''
* TownWithADarkSecret: You thought the show was bad? You don’t know the half of it.
* TrackingSpell: The Warlock attempts one of these in his first appearance, but it doesn’t work.
* TrainingFromHell: Once the Warlock escapes police custody, the twins’ Paths training becomes this.
* TranquilFury: Everyone, Stan in particular, goes into this when they find out about Yuki and the Warlock.
* TransparentCloset: Jace doesn’t know he’s gay until his little sister points it out to him after Mabel kisses him. He then kisses Dipper to confirm it.
* TreasureHunter: Montana Jeffreys.
* TrickArrow: Wendy has these in ''Strongholds and Serpents'' when Dipper puts spells on them.
* {{Tsundere}}: Jess where Dipper is concerned.
* {{Tuckerization}}: Arline’s full name is Arline ''Hirsch.''
* {{Tulpa}}: The ‘ghost’ in the first episode of season two is actually one of these.
* TwinBanter: So. Many. Times.
* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: The character(s) will not be named, but just know that they are present.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: Mabel and Wendy.
* TwoOutOfThreeAintBad: Practically said verbatim by Dipper in ''Strongholds and Serpents'' when he asked if everyone read the rules. Mabel didn’t.
* UnblockableAttack: The Warlock’s blackfire, usually. Mabel has been able to divert it.
* UnderNewManagement: The Warlock takes over Omir Steindorf’s company in season three.
* UnfinishedEpisode: ''The Devil’s Dude.''
* UnknownCharacter: Haddiya.
* UnnamedParent: The twins’ parents were not given official names until season three. They are then revealed to be Delilah and Jenson.
* UnusualPetsForUnusualPeople: Pacifica gets a dragon. It’s allergic to latex. Don’t ask.
* UnwittingPawn: Omir Steindorf is this to Bill Cipher.
* UpToEleven: EZB even says that the season two finale is an 11 out of ten on the crazy scale.
* UsingYouAllAlong: Bill was using Omir from the beginning.
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* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: The end of season two causes this.



* SniffSniffNom: In the first episode, the twins and Soos smell the string they found, and after discovering that it smells sweet, Soos and Mabel taste part of it, realizing it is a piece of candy floss.



* SuspiciousSpending: Stan is suspicious of Arline for being willing to pay increasingly ridiculous amounts of money to stay in one of his motel rooms.

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* SuspiciousSpending: Stan is suspicious of Arline for being willing to pay increasingly ridiculous amounts of money to stay in one of his motel rooms.rooms.
* TakeCareOfTheKids: [[spoiler: Stan’s]] last order to [[spoiler: Soos]] in the season two finale.
* TakeThat: An alternate title for ''Daybreak'' was ''Still Better Than Twilight.''
* TalentShow: Is the focus of the episode ''Bragging Rights,'' replacing Pioneer Day following the Nathaniel Northwest scandal.
* TalkingAnimal: The dogs in the first episode.
* TalkingInYourSleep: Soos begins doing this once he meets Kelly.
* TeamPet: Waddles.
* TemporaryBlindness: Played-with. When Mabel swallows a pixie, blinking once makes her be able to see through someone else’s eyes. Blinking twice returns her vision to her own. But before her sight is fixed, a point comes where she cannot see out of her own eyes at all, but is still able to look through the eyes of others.
* ThankingTheViewer: Always at the end of a season, and sometimes in the middle of them.
* TheApprentice: Mabel is this to Arline.
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Omir Steindorf. The only important thing he did in his first few appearances was punch-out the Warlock and say he would lead the investigation into his motives. Then he ‘dies’ just before things start going crazy, and in the middle of the craziness, he turns out to be alive and the Warlock’s Master.
** That being said, a number of people were able to figure it out before TheReveal, so take that for what you will.
* TheDragon: The Warlock (and the monsters he makes) are this to the Sorcerer, who is this for Bill Cipher in turn.
* TheDreaded: Bill is this as a result of the first summer, and the Warlock becomes this as time goes on.
* TheFaceless: Both The Guardsman and Arline’s Master are this until the end of season two.
* TheGameComeToLife: Strongholds and Serpents.
* TheGhost: Haddiya is this.
* TheHeavy: The Warlock.
* TheHermit: Multi-Bear is this, although he will come down from his mountain if the situation calls for it.
* TheIlluminati: Bill Cipher and Kelly Yore.
* TheInsomniac: Dipper, especially in the second half of season two.
* TheJerseyDevil: The MonsterOfTheWeek in ''The Devil’s Dude.''
* TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: A lot of Wendy’s dialogue hint at her being a wraith. This is generally played straight, and anything that may not have been resolved could be- if the story ever gets finished, that is.
* TheLoad: Soos starts to feel like he is this in season three, which gives Kelly power.
* TheMagicGoesAway / TheMagicComesBack: When the Starkissed Stone was created over 500 years before the story began, it absorbed 80 percent of the magic in the world. [[spoiler: Now that the stone is gone]] 75 percent of magic will have returned by the end of August.
* TheManBehindTheMan: The Sorcerer is the man behind most of The Warlock’s actions. In turn, Bill Cipher is behind most of the actions of the Sorcerer.
* TheMedic: Wendy is this. Not only can she not be hurt, she practiced things like stitching up a wound on herself, and has gotten rather good at it as a result.
* TheMuse: Bill poses as this again in order to trick Omir Steindorf.
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* CaptainErsatz: The StarterVillain of the story is a treasure hunter specialized in tomb raiding and catacomb exploring called Montana Jeffrey. [[Franchise/IndianaJones Sounds familiar...]]

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* HarpingOnAboutHarpies: Jace and Jess, except their nice, and one of them is a boy.

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* HarpingOnAboutHarpies: Jace and Jess, except their they're nice, and one of them is a boy.



** 12-year-old Jess has a crush on Dipper, who is now 15 and says she is too young for him.

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** 12-year-old 13-year-old Jess has a crush on Dipper, who is now 15 and says she is too young for him.



* SmittenTeenageGirl: Mabel towards Zander.

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* SmittenTeenageGirl: Mabel towards Zander.Zander, and Jess towards Dipper.



* StringTheory: Zander has one of these set up in a hidden room of his house.

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* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: The Guardsman and the Sorcerer both have the power to create a staff out of darkness and light, respectively.
* SquashedFlat: EZB’s deaths.
* StaringContest: Wendy gets into one with a rock golem in ''Classic Rock.''
* StarterVillain: Montana Jeffreys and his dogs.
* StartingANewLife: Zander’s cover story.
* StringTheory: Zander has one of these set up in a hidden room of his house.house.
* StrongerThanTheyLook: Yuki.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: [[spoiler: Ford]] figures out Dipper is related to him because of similar physical aspects.
* StrongGirlSmartGuy: Mabel and Dipper thanks to Mabel’s training.
* StrugglingSingleMother: Played-with. The twins’ parents, Delilah and Jenson, are both well-off enough, but Dipper knows that college isn’t cheap and that neither parent will be able to help him, or Mabel, that much financially, which is why he was so anxious about going home to take the job he had lined up in the first season.
* StudentAndMasterTeam: Mabel and Arline.
* StunnedSilence: When the Master of the Paths reveals that he can fly, his students are left behind staring at the spot where he was for a full minute before any of them do anything.
* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: Stan and Ford had the same relationship they had in the show as far as success goes, at least until EZB’s theories start to take over. At that point, Ford is still a success, but Stan is now more of one, even if no one acknowledges it, and the inferior feelings seem to have disappeared.
* SuddenlyFluentInGibberish: Mabel being zapped by the glowing blue cylinders makes her able to speak Urlin, Yuki’s alien language, which sounds like a bunch of chirps and whistles to Dipper.
* SuddenlyShouting: Mabel shouts her Strongholds and Serpents character’s name when Dipper complains about it including her real name.
* SuperDetailedFightNarration: Some occasions are better than others, but they are all high in quality. EZB even has a link to a YouTube video in his profile that shows two people sword fighting, which he claims is why he is so good at writing fights.
* SupernaturalAngst: Wendy has this.
* SupernaturalMartialArts: Students of the Paths.
* SuperSenses: Played-with. Wendy is beginning to lose her 'standard' senses – taste and smell – because of being a wraith. But because she is a wraith, her sixth sense of intuition has become superpowered to the point where she was able to tell that a fake Dipper was a fake the second she looked at him.
* SuperStrength: Yuki.
* SuperToughness: Wendy.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Happens whenever the twins ''et al.'' are keeping secrets from one another.
* SuspiciousSpending: Stan is suspicious of Arline for being willing to pay increasingly ridiculous amounts of money to stay in one of his motel rooms.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In ''Identity-exe Not Found,'' upon Tambry’s robotic nature being revealed, the gang has the following conversation:
->'''Dipper:''' What happens if she wakes up?
->'''Soos:''' What if someone comes looking for her?
->'''Stan:''' What if she has to erase the evidence?
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* SlumberParty: Mabel has one with Candy and Grenda in the third episode.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Haddiya. Never seen the name before? Yeah. She’s never actually appeared in the story, but she is important to the Sorcerer. Important enough that he made a deal with Bill Cipher to get her back.
* SmallTowns: On more than one occasion, Gravity Falls is stated to have 'over two thousand people.'
* SmiteMeOMightySmiter: Mabel in ''A Mabel of Perspective.''
* SmittenTeenageGirl: Mabel towards Zander.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: When faced with two Mabel’s, the real Mabel yells POOF and throws sparkles everywhere. The fake Mabel is confused, which gives Dipper the chance he needs to incapacitate the fake Mabel.
* SpaceEpisode: ''The Town That Time Forgot.''
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Upon discovering a Mastodon in ''Mammoth Problems,'' Mabel informs her brother and Soos that she can communicate with pigs, llamas, alpacas, sheep and goats, and that she is 'okay' at speaking elephant.
* SpecialThanks: In the season two finale, the authors note is even longer than the scene after it because EZB thanks his readers/reviewers for letting him know that there were people who enjoyed the story he was writing.
* SpellBlade: The Warlock does this to throwing knifes when he returns.
* SpellBook: The Warlock has a few of these, and occasionally they will come to be possessed by Dipper and/or another character.
** Played-with with the Journal(s), which have spells in them, along with other paranormal info.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: For the longest time, the Warlock and the Guardsman were this because their real names were not known. Eventually the Warlock’s real name was revealed to be Graupner Kinley, and the Guardsman’s real name was revealed to be something that is a very big spoiler and therefore will not be said. Since their respective reveals, the Guardsman is usually referred to by his real name, unless he is being spoken of by someone who does not know it, while the Warlock is more commonly being referred to as Graupner in-story, although it’s a toss up as to what fans call him.
* SpoilAtYourOwnRisk: In ''Duskhope,'' EZB reveals that there are a handful of people who know what’s up, and warns them that they will be smited with all the fury he could muster if they were caught spoiling anything.
* SpoiledByTheFormat: In the author’s note for the first chapter, EZB said that season one would have ten episodes, so anyone who read that piece of information knew the twins would not really leave at the end of the first episode.
* SpoilerTitle: ''The Warlock Returns.''

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* AmicableExes: After some initial animosity, [[spoiler: Dipper and Pacifica]] fall into this.

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* AmicableExes: After some initial animosity, [[spoiler: Dipper and Pacifica]] Pacifica fall into this.



* BirdPeople: [[spoiler: Jace and Jess.]]

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* BirdPeople: [[spoiler: Jace and Jess.]]



* BornAgainImmortality: [[spoiler: Wendy]] is essentially this.

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* BornAgainImmortality: [[spoiler: Wendy]] Wendy is essentially this.



* BrickJoke: In a early episode of season one, the kids make a bet about how long it would take Stan to notice a werewolf Mabel painted on the wall of the Shack. [[spoiler: He discovers it in the last episode of the season.]]

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* BrickJoke: In a early episode of season one, the kids make a bet about how long it would take Stan to notice a werewolf Mabel painted on the wall of the Shack. [[spoiler: He discovers it in the last episode of the season.]]



* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: [[spoiler: Zander.]]

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* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: [[spoiler: Zander.]]



* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: Wendy]], although 'dead' isn't the best word.

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* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: Wendy]], Wendy, although 'dead' isn't the best word.



* DeathByDisfigurement: [[spoiler: Yuki]] because of the black flame burns.

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* DeathByDisfigurement: [[spoiler: Yuki]] Yuki because of the black flame burns.



* DoubleAgent: [[spoiler: Yuki]] in the second half of season two.

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* DoubleAgent: [[spoiler: Yuki]] Yuki in the second half of season two.



* DrivingQuestion: For season one, what's the story with the glowing blue cylinders? The first half of season two, what is [[spoiler: Wendy]] hiding? For the second half, what is the Warlock/his master planning? Season three (so far at least), how to reverse the effects of the season two finale?

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** Season 1: What's
the story with the glowing blue cylinders? The first half of season two, what cylinders?
** Season 2A: What
is [[spoiler: Wendy]] hiding? For the second half, what Wendy hiding?
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** Season 3:[[note]]as a whole[[/note]] How do we
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* EndangeredSpecies: Phoenixes- there is only one left when it first shows up. [[spoiler: They are extinct by half-way through season two.]]

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* EndangeredSpecies: Phoenixes- there is only one left when it first shows up. [[spoiler: They up, and they are extinct by half-way through season two.]]



* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Yuki- fighting the monster on the spaceship. Arline- fighting the spider and winning the Talent Show. Zander- his entrance during the concert, followed by his handling of Dipper's fight with [[spoiler: Robbie]].

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Yuki- fighting The scene at the monster on end of the spaceship. first episode. Arline- fighting Lighting the spider and winning the Talent Show. match using meditation/her fire powers. Zander- his entrance during the concert, followed by his handling of Dipper's fight with [[spoiler: Robbie]].concert.



* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler: Omir Steindorf.]]

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* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler: Omir Steindorf.]]



* FearlessUndead: [[spoiler: Wendy.]]

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* FearlessUndead: [[spoiler: Wendy.]]



* GreaterScopeVillain: As of now, it is looking like Bill is this for the Warlock and [[spoiler: Omir.]]

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* GreaterScopeVillain: As of now, it is looking like Bill is this for the Warlock and [[spoiler: Omir.]]



* ItMakesSenseInContext: A lot of the stuff on this page will make '''A LOT''' more sense if you actually read the story.[[note]] Sorry for the vagueness- it was either this or a lot of spoiler marks that wouldn't prevent spoilers in any way what so ever.[[/note]]

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* ItMakesSenseInContext: A lot of the stuff on this page will make '''A LOT''' more sense if you actually read the story.[[note]] Sorry for the vagueness- it was either this or a lot of spoiler marks that wouldn't prevent spoilers in any way what so ever.[[/note]]



* ItWasHisSled: No attempts have been made on this page to hide the fact that Yuki is an alien. Other stuff... if you read the story, prepare to have your mind blown.



* LivingLieDetector: Wendy has become this. Well, [[spoiler: except for the 'living' part.]]

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* LivingLieDetector: Wendy has become this. Well, [[spoiler: except for the 'living' part.]]



* MagicalAccessory: The belt in the Halloween special. [[spoiler: Zander's scarf]], maybe. Yet to be confirmed, but definitely hinted at.

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* MagicalAccessory: The belt in the Halloween special. [[spoiler: Zander's scarf]], maybe. Yet to be confirmed, but definitely hinted at.



* MidSeasonTwist: For season one- the blue cylinders revealing Tambry is a robot. The first half of season two- Rubbie knows Wendy is hiding something, the fact that Wendy actually '''is''' hiding something (this was hinted at, but got confirmed here), and the Warlock having a master. The second half of season two- the traitor the gang discovers. For season two itself- the reveal of Wendy's secret and when the twins find out [[spoiler: the Warlock]] escaped custody. The first part of season three- the reveal/introduction of Kelly.

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* MidSeasonTwist: For season one- the MidSeasonTwist:
** Season 1: The
blue cylinders revealing Tambry is a robot. The first half of season two- Rubbie robot.
** Season 2A: Robbie
knows Wendy is hiding something, the fact that Wendy actually '''is''' hiding something (this was hinted at, but got confirmed here), and the Warlock having a master. master.
** Season 2B:
The second half of season two- the traitor the gang discovers. For season two itself- the discovers.
** Season 2:[[note]] as a whole[[/note]] The
reveal of Wendy's secret and when the twins find out [[spoiler: the Warlock]] Warlock escaped custody. custody.
** Season 3A:
The first part of season three- the reveal/introduction of Kelly.



* NeverTrustATitle: The episode ''Mammoth Problems'' has nothing to do with a mammoth. [[spoiler: It's a mastodon.]]

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* OnlyMostlyDead: [[spoiler: Yuki]] following ''Fires of Hate.''

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* OnlyMostlyDead: [[spoiler: Yuki]] Yuki following ''Fires of Hate.''



* RegretfulTraitor: [[spoiler: Yuki]] once he is found out, and even more so when the Warlock fails to meet his end of the bargain.

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* RegretfulTraitor: [[spoiler: Yuki]] Yuki once he is found out, and even more so when the Warlock fails to meet his end of the bargain.



* SiblingYinYang: Dipper and Mabel, as well as Jace and Jess. [[spoiler: And Bill and Kelly.]]

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* SiblingYinYang: Dipper and Mabel, as well as Jace and Jess. [[spoiler: And Bill and Kelly.]]



* SixthRangerTraitor: [[spoiler: Yuki.]]

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* SixthRangerTraitor: [[spoiler: Yuki.]]



* StringTheory: [[spoiler: Zander]] has one of these set up in a hidden room of his house.

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* BrotherSisterTeam: Dipper and Mabel once Dipper starts training.


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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: During a rushed phone call with the Guardsman, he says that ‘trying to keep the world in one piece’ is an average Wednesday.


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* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: The old man from Baron Num Num’s Beans.
* ShapeshifterModeLock: The Goblins give Dipper a necklace that, when being worn by the Shapeshifter, freezes him in whatever form he was in at the time.
* ShipperOnDeck: Practically every non-villain character is supportive of Yuki/Pacifica, but Mabel is the most vocal about it.
* ShroudedInMyth: The Guardsman.
** For the longest time, the events of the twins’ first summer were this.
* SiblingRivalry: Not quite a ‘rivalry,’ but the twins have not lost their competitive nature in the three years they have been apart, and this will occasionally cause problems.
* SiblingYinYang: Dipper and Mabel, as well as Jace and Jess. [[spoiler: And Bill and Kelly.]]
* SicEm: Said by Montana Jeffreys to his dogs after the twins escape his cage.
* SickEpisode: In ''I Dream of Deals,'' Yuki comes down with a cold, which, combined with his BizarreAlienBiology and being his first exposure to an Earth-based disease, makes for some interesting symptoms until he gets a cure-all from a traveling djinn.
* SideBet: In the third episode, Mabel paints a were-woman on the side of the building, with her, Dipper and Soos betting on how long it would take Stan to notice. Soos wins, not that they were playing for anything.
* SignatureLine: “There will always be a new day.” -Zander Maximillion [[note]] From Globus’ ''The Promise'' [[/note]]
* SignatureScene: The scene towards the end of the season two finale in which everything changes.
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Wendy.
* SilentCredits: ''Fires of Hate: Part 2'' is the only chapter that doesn’t have an author’s note from EZB at/towards the end of it.
* SimultaneousArcs: Often when the twins and/or their friends have to split up, the perspectives will alternate to show everything that is occurring.
* SimultaneousWarningAndAction: In ''After the Shadows,'' Dipper find a note from the Warlock that begins with something like ‘I want to say goodbye.’ Not three seconds later, things blow up. Literally.
* SingleEpisodeHandicap: In ''A Mabel of Perspective,'' after Mabel swallows a pixie, her sight switches between her vision and someone else’s in the first half of the episode. In the second half, she can no longer see out of her eyes at all, and she eventually looses control of her smelling and hearing as well. All senses return once the pixie gets out of her.
** Dipper loses function of his hands in ''Fires of Hate,'' but they are fixed by the end of the next episode.
* SixthRanger: The first season team of the twins, Soos, Wendy and Stan eventually expands to (regularly) include Yuki, Arline, Zander, Candy and Grenda, and Pacifica.
* SixthRangerTraitor: [[spoiler: Yuki.]]
* SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon: If the story is ever finished, this could be the result. 60 ‘episodes’ are planned, plus a prologue for each of the three seasons, the Halloween special, and ''Summerween: The Beginning'' would equal 65, assuming that, A) EZB doesn’t add any other specials, and B) EZB actually finishes the story!
* SkewedPriorities: The twins each think the other has these, and this causes more than its fair share of trouble throughout.
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* RoadsideSurgery: How Wendy gets the bullets out of her body after a shoot-out.
* RoadTripPlot: Season three becomes this, in a way. They don’t really ‘’want’’ to go on a road trip, but they kind of need to.
* {{Robot}}: Practically '''EVERYONE''' in the first season.
* RoboticReveal: Happens when someone is zapped by the blue cylinders. Actually, that just makes them shut down. TheReveal doesn’t happen until someone says, “Plan.”
* RockMonster: The lead golem in ''Classic Rock'' is one of these.
* {{Roofhopping}}: Mabel does this on occasion to try and catch the MonsterOfTheWeek because they are doing it too.
* RookieMaleExperiencedFemale: Dipper and Mabel when it comes to fighting/the Paths.
* RPGEpisode: ''Strongholds and Serpents.'' It gets taken ''way'' to far.
* RuleNumberOne: Arline says that rule number one of engaging in any kind of fighting is, “Don’t.” Rule number to is, “Play it smart.”
* RunningOnAllFours: Mabel does this when she turns into a werewolf.
* SarcasmBlind: Yuki.
* SaveTheWorldClimax: We haven’t gotten that far yet, but this appears to be the ending the story is going towards. Granted, the twins are only trying to save Gravity Falls, but the world will probably be saved too.
* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: Mabel does this occasionally.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: Zander wears/uses one.
* ScheduleSlip: For the first two seasons, EZB was a ScheduleFanatic- updates every Sunday, with several warnings if there would be a major delay. Around ''The Weary Path'' is where things went south. He gave an update a week after part one saying he would be back in a week or two, but that turned into a month. After that, things went well until the end of that set of ten, which ended June 19, 2016. After that, EZB disappeared for three months. When he returned, he gave four chapters before disappearing right before Halloween. He stayed gone for 18 months, finishing ''Soos-Less'' on April 23, 2018. He posted one more chapter around May 5, with the intent of having part two up by the end of the month, but that hasn’t happened yet. Time will tell if anything else will need to be added to this.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Dipper. In an early episode, Mabel is show to have made a list about predicted changes in Dipper since the last time they saw each other. She is happy this is still on that list.
* ScreechingStop: Happend to Dipper when he is trailing The Warlock.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Zander towards the end of Season Two.
* SecretIdentities: Several characters have several of these.
* SecretKeeper: A lot of characters, mostly in season two.


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* CerebusSyndrome: Season two causes this with the Warlock actually intending to hurt the twins, as opposed to his first appearance which was a combination of bad timing, bad luck, and Dipper feeling like he needed to prove himself.



* RecurringCharacters: The Paranormal investigators from the sixth episode, Jace and Jess,[[note]]and their phoenix[[/note]] Candy and Grenda, Pacifica, Jackson Fulbrow, Omir, Kelly, and various creatures of the forest.

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* RecurringCharacters: RecurringCharacter: The Paranormal investigators from the sixth episode, Jace and Jess,[[note]]and their phoenix[[/note]] Candy and Grenda, Pacifica, Jackson Fulbrow, Omir, Kelly, and various creatures of the forest.


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* RegretfulTraitor: [[spoiler: Yuki]] once he is found out, and even more so when the Warlock fails to meet his end of the bargain.
* {{Retool}}: Because of events in the season two finale, season three no longer takes place in Gravity Falls. The twins and company are traveling cross-country to find what is needed to reverse the effects of season two.
* ReverseCerebusSyndrome: Season three is occasionally this to season two, although it has its fair share of dark moments.
* RewatchBonus: Following TheReveal of Wendy's secret in the middle of season two, re-reading the story up until that point will make you realize just how many hints have been dropped.


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* RisingConflict: The dynamic between the twins and the Warlock goes from the latter being and admittedly dangerous but most-likely[[note]]One of the cryptograms said he would return[[/note]] one-off villain to going out of his way to hurt the twins, with his idea of a warning being exploding a cave and nearly killing the twins and company.
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* RaidersOfTheLostParody: The first cryptogram of the first episode decodes to ''Raiders of the Stans Lost Underpants.''
* ReadingsAreOffTheScale: [[spoiler: The Portal]] in the season two finale is described by Stan as, "...at a level of power so high it can't be recorded."
* RealityBreakingParadox: This happens when [[spoiler: the starkissed stone]] comes into contact with [[spoiler: the Portal]] in the season two finale, causing the latter to, "have a tantrum," as Mabel put it.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: It is hinted at/implied that the Guardsman and The Sorcerer are this.
* RecurringCharacters: The Paranormal investigators from the sixth episode, Jace and Jess,[[note]]and their phoenix[[/note]] Candy and Grenda, Pacifica, Jackson Fulbrow, Omir, Kelly, and various creatures of the forest.
** PromotedToOpeningTitles: Yuki, Arline, Zander and Warlock.

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* PoliceAreUseless: Very much so.

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* PersonOfMassDestruction: The Warlock.
* PhoneaholicTeenager: Tambry.
* PhoneCallFromTheDead: Wendy's old friends get one of these from her telling them to get out of town when things start heating up at the end of season two.
* PinnedToTheWall: The Warlock does this to Dipper in the third episode.
* PlayingWithFire: Mabel and Arline, and Arline's Master.
* PointOfDivergence: The story follows canon up until about three years before Ford gets sucked in the portal. There it vary's slightly, but once Ford gets trapped, the story follows canon until Ford returns, at which point EZB's theories take over. [[note]]EZB says it's really a lot more complicated that that, and that his events could somehow be canon, but this has yet to be explained.[[/note]]
* PoliceAreUseless: Very much so.so- they spend bail money on a second bouncy castle.
* PreciousPhoto: The picture Mabel takes in ''After The Shadows'' becomes this for [[spoiler: Ford.]]
* PreExplosionGlow: Played-with- the explosion is a glowing white light.
* PrettyBoy: Zander.
* PurpleEyes: Yuki has these.
* QuirkyHousehold: Even more so than in the show- In addition to the twins, Soos, Wendy and Stan, we have an Alien, a fire-master, a newly-retired rock-star, Candy and Grenda, Pacifica, and Waddles.
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* LightGirlDarkBoy: Pacifica and Yuki.



* OpenSeasme: Mabel tries this in the first episode- it doesn't work.

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* OpenSeasme: OpenSesame: Mabel tries this in the first episode- it doesn't work.



* OverarchingVillian: It looks like the Warlock is this until the season two finale where it is revealed that most, if not all, of the Warlock's actions until then have been a result of his master working with Bill.

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* OverarchingVillian: OverarchingVillain: It looks like the Warlock is this until the season two finale where it is revealed that most, if not all, of the Warlock's actions until then have been a result of his master working with Bill.Bill.
* {{Pacifist}}: Yuki for the most part. This doesn't stop him from using his strength to punch-out a werewolf that has caused more than it's fair share of trouble for the twins.
* PaleFemalesDarkMales: Jess and Jace- she has brown feathers while Jace's are more colorful.
* {{Panacea}}: The djinn in ''I Dream of Deals'' offers these in exchange for a special possession. They are called panacea-cillin and are shaped like a blue-and-gold pill.
* ParodyEpisode: Several episodes have elements that parody other works. So far there have been parody's of Jumanji, A Christmas Carol, Twilight, and It's a Wonderful Life.
* ParodyNames: ''I Dream of Deals'' has a djinn named William Cardinal who has gold arm braces and who used to be a slave before being freed.[[note]]Robin Williams/his character from Aladdin.[[/note]]
* PayPhone: How Jackson Fulbrow communicates with the Warlock in ''Monster Politics.''
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* LivingADoubleLife: Zander- without spoiling anything, his rock-star persona is part of a witness protection program he got involved in. Except, this is likely a lie to help keep his ''other'' identities a secret.


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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Dipper, Yuki and the Warlock.[[note]]The latter two's real names are known if rarely ever used (Uki-Dohth and Graupner, respectively), and while fans now know Dipper's real name, it has never come up in the story.[[/note]]
* OnlyMostlyDead: [[spoiler: Yuki]] following ''Fires of Hate.''
* OpenSeasme: Mabel tries this in the first episode- it doesn't work.
* OpposingCombatPhilosophies: Students of the Paths have these- someone on the path of water would fight differently than someone on the path of fire.
* OriginalCharacter: Several- the most important ones are Yuki, Arline, Zander, Omir, Kelly, and The Warlock. Alvis could become more important later on, if the story ever gets finished. There are also Jace and Jess, as well as a team of paranormal investigators, who all showed up in three episodes each (so far), and a number of paranormal creatures who are important.
* OutdoorsyGal: Wendy, even more so than in the show.
* OverarchingVillian: It looks like the Warlock is this until the season two finale where it is revealed that most, if not all, of the Warlock's actions until then have been a result of his master working with Bill.
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* ObliviousToHints: Yuki on occasion.
* OddFriendship: The twins' relationship with the forest creatures (and others) are this.
* OfficialFanSubmittedContent: The first two stories of the Halloween Special were requests by fans.
* OffTheChart: How Stan describes [[spoiler: the Portal]] at the end of season two.
* OhAndXDies: At the end of the first part of ''After the Shadows,'' there is a coded PS message that reads, "Next ''episode,'' someone dies." The death occurs in the second part of the next episode, ''Fires of Hate,'' but it's not who, how or what you expect. Or it is, I don't know what you expect. But like all death-related events in the story, it's a lot more complicated than the message makes it appear to be.
* OhCrap: Too many occasions to list.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Yuki, among others.
* OldFlame: Dipper's feelings for Wendy return about half-way through the first season.

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In his author's notes, EZB will often kill himself in random and hilarious ways, often being crushed by something falling on him. Each episode also ends with cryptograms.[[note]] not originally involved, but were added to previous chapters [[/note]] Like the show, most of these are pointless jokes, but some do give clues to some of the bigger mysteries.

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In his author's notes, EZB will often kill himself in random and hilarious ways, often being crushed by something falling on him. Each episode also ends with cryptograms.[[note]] not Not originally involved, part of the story, but were added to previous chapters around ''Mammoth Problems'' [[/note]] Like the show, most of these are pointless jokes, but some do give clues to some of the bigger mysteries.


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* NegatedMomentOfAwesome: Some of EZB's exits/deaths.
* NeverTrustATitle: The episode ''Mammoth Problems'' has nothing to do with a mammoth. [[spoiler: It's a mastodon.]]
* NextSundayAD: The story was this when it first started- began September 2014, set May/June 2015. Real-life time caught up to story time around the middle of season two.
* NobodyCanDie: The story follows the [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Laconic/NobodyCanDie laconic description]] of this trope to a T.
* NonActionGuy: Dipper at the beginning- Mabel (and Arline) start training him and he grows out of it.
* NoodleIncident: Some of the twins' adventures from their first summer are this to other characters (mostly Wendy).
* NoOffButton: [[spoiler: The Portal]] at the end of season two.
* NoShirtLongJacket: Zander during the Duskhope concert.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: The Warlock at first seems weak- stuttering and running away when the twins confront him. But over the course of his appearances, he becomes a NameToRunAwayFromReallyFast.

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The story has a unique set up for the chapters. Every two chapters is equal to one 'episode,' so looking at the chapter list will give you a lot of 'Episode Title: Part 1' and 'Episode Title: Part 2.' EZB also broke the story down into 'seasons,' with the first season being made up of ten episodes, or twenty chapters (21 if you count the first chapter, or the prologue). The second season was twice the length of the first, and the third, current and last season is three times that of the first. Each season has it's own over-arching plotlines, and each set of ten episodes focus on a specific mystery the twins are trying to solve.

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The story has a unique set up for the chapters. Every two chapters is equal to one 'episode,' so looking at the chapter list will give you a lot of 'Episode Title: Part 1' and 'Episode Title: Part 2.' See MultiPartEpisode below for details. EZB also broke the story down into 'seasons,' with the first season being made up of ten episodes, or twenty chapters (21 if you count the first chapter, or the prologue). The second season was twice the length of the first, and the third, current and last season is three times that of the first. Each season has it's own over-arching plotlines, and each set of ten episodes focus on a specific mystery the twins are trying to solve.


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* MinorMajorCharacter: The Guardsman becomes this.
* MolotovCocktail: The gang uses these in ''Operation Search and Destroy.''
* MonsterAllies: The forest creatures are this to the twins.
* MultiPartEpisode: Played-with. It follows the '''Episode Title: Part 1''' and '''Episode Title: Part 2.''' But EZB said that each episode title ''is'' one episode, so it's hard to say whether this really counts. It does actually occur towards the end of each set of ten- ''New Circuit'' and ''Town that Time Forgot'' are this, as well as... really everything from ''After the Shadows'' until the end of season two, and ''Haunted Mansion'' and ''Spectral Revelations.''
* MusicSoothesTheSavageBeast: How the gang deals with the ghost in the first episode of season two.
* MysteriousEmployer: The Warlock's Master.
* MysteriousProtector: The Guardsman.
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* MayflyDecemberRomance: Justified with Yuki and Pacifica's relationship.
* MeaningfulEcho: When the line "There will always be a new day" is first said, it seems like stereotypical, meaningless encouragement. No one even mentions it afterwards. But the second time it is said... holy lord.
* MeditationPowerup: Paths students can get these.
* MidSeasonTwist: For season one- the blue cylinders revealing Tambry is a robot. The first half of season two- Rubbie knows Wendy is hiding something, the fact that Wendy actually '''is''' hiding something (this was hinted at, but got confirmed here), and the Warlock having a master. The second half of season two- the traitor the gang discovers. For season two itself- the reveal of Wendy's secret and when the twins find out [[spoiler: the Warlock]] escaped custody. The first part of season three- the reveal/introduction of Kelly.

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* AddictiveMagic: Why The Guardsman doesn't want the twins to use spells like the Warlock does.

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* AddictiveMagic: Why The Guardsman Arline's Master doesn't want the twins to use spells like the Warlock does.



* DoesNotLikeMagic: The Guardsman.

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* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Mabel in ''Classic Rock'' after she returns from communicating with fire.
* MartialArtsUniform: Mabel's training clothes. She has a brown belt, and the lining is gray instead of white like most uniforms.
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* ActionGirl: All the main female characters become this either in the story or before hand. Already-action girl Wendy takes it UpToEleven, Mabel and her Paths master are essentially Avatar with fire-powers instead of air-powers, and Pacifica becomes this when she gets her dragon.

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* ActionGirl: All the main female characters become this either in the story or before hand. Already-action girl Wendy takes it UpToEleven, Mabel and her Paths master are essentially Avatar with fire-powers instead of air-powers, fire-powered Avatars, and Pacifica becomes this when she gets her dragon.



* AlternateUniverseFic: Semi-alternate. It stays close to canon, but with significant differences following Ford's return to this dimension, and events leading up to his disappearance. However, it's possible EZB's theories could become canon. It's complicated.

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* AlternateUniverseFic: Semi-alternate. It stays close to canon, but with significant differences following Ford's return to this dimension, and Yes- EZB has his own version of events leading up to his disappearance. before Ford disappeared and after he returned. However, it's possible some of EZB's theories version could become fit into the show's canon. It's complicated.



* BackStory: The first story in the Halloween special, a lot of chapter 84, and chapter 86, among other moments.
* BadassGrandpa: Stan and Omir Steindorf, both older, but both can hold their own.

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* BackStory: The first story in the Halloween special, a lot part of chapter 84, and chapter 86, among other moments.
* BadassGrandpa: Stan and Omir Steindorf, Steindorf are both older, but both can hold their own.



* BittersweetEnding: The season two finale, which is barely sweet enough for this to apply.

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* BlandNameProduct: Strongholds and Serpents=Dungeons and Dragons,[[note]] episode was written before Dungeons Dungeons and more Dungeons aired.[[/note]] among others.

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* BlandNameProduct: Strongholds and Serpents=Dungeons and Dragons,[[note]] The episode was written before Dungeons Dungeons and more Dungeons aired.[[/note]] among others.



* BrickJoke:In a early episode of season one, the kids make a bet about how long it would take Stan to notice a werewolf Mabel painted on the wall of the Shack. [[spoiler: He discovers it in the last episode of the season.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Mabel literally becomes this in the episode ''Bighair vs Bigfoot,''

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* BrickJoke:In BrickJoke: In a early episode of season one, the kids make a bet about how long it would take Stan to notice a werewolf Mabel painted on the wall of the Shack. [[spoiler: He discovers it in the last episode of the season.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Mabel literally becomes this became one in the episode ''Bighair vs Bigfoot,''Bigfoot.''



* CanNotTellALie: Yuki. It's not that he can't, he just doesn't want to. [[spoiler: This belief comes back to bite the twins in the butt in the second half of season two.]]

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* CanNotTellALie: Yuki. It's not that he can't, he just doesn't want to. [[spoiler: This belief comes back to bite the twins in the butt in the second half of season two.]]



* CharacterDeath: A lot of people, but nobody is really dead. [[spoiler: They never existed in the first place.]]

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* CharacterDeath: A lot of people, but nobody is really dead. [[spoiler: They never existed in the first place.]]Or something.



* ClothingDamage: Wendy suffers from this the most on account of her rushing headlong into danger before everyone [[spoiler: because she's immortal.]]

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* ClothingDamage: Wendy suffers from this the most on account of her rushing headlong into danger before everyone [[spoiler: because she's immortal.]]else.



* CrossOver: Chapters 80/81 imply that the story could eventually be revealed to have crossovered with [[spoiler: Coraline]]

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* CrossOver: Chapters 80/81 imply that the story could eventually be revealed to have crossovered with [[spoiler: Coraline]]Coraline]].



* DetectEvil: One of Wendy's abilities, showcase in the second episode of the story.

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* DetectEvil: One of Wendy's abilities, showcase showcased in the second episode of the story.



* EveryEpisodeEnding: Almost all chapter end with EZB killing himself, and each episode end with cryptograms. Occasionally Ezb won't kill himself, or there will be a cryptogram after part one, and sometimes there will be a scene after EZB's author's note, but this is reserved for when things have gone from hell-in-a-handbasket to the handbasket has blown up.

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* EveryEpisodeEnding: Almost all chapter chapters end with EZB killing himself, and each episode end ends with cryptograms. Occasionally Ezb EZB won't kill himself, or there will be a cryptogram after part one, and sometimes there will be a scene after EZB's author's note, but this is reserved for when things have gone from hell-in-a-handbasket to the handbasket has blown up.



* HairTriggerTemper: The Warlock with anything that make him even the slightest bit annoyed. Also the Sorcerer in regards to him apprentice.

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* HairTriggerTemper: The Warlock with anything that make him even the slightest bit annoyed. Also the Sorcerer in regards to him his apprentice.



* HiddenDepths: A lot of people is season two are revealed to have these, for better or for worse for the twins.

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* HiddenDepths: A lot of people is in season two are revealed to have these, for better or for worse for the twins.



* JawDrop: The reaction a lot of fans have when mysteries are solved.

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* MadeOfMagic: The Starkissed Stone.
* MagicalAccessory: The belt in the Halloween special. [[spoiler: Zander's scarf]], maybe. Yet to be confirmed, but definitely hinted at.
* MagicalFlutist: Pacifica becomes this in ''Bragging Rights.''
* MagicalGuardian: The Guardsman, guardian of the Starkissed stone.
* MagicalLand: The woods/forest around the Manor/the town.
* MagicEater: The Starkissed Stone- apparently, in its lifetime, it absorbed 80 percent of the world's magic.
* MagicIsEvil: The Guardsman's philosophy.
* MagicKnight: The knight in ''Ye Olde Fair-Wells.''
* MagicStaff: The Guardsman and the Sorcerer each have one of these.
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* LovableAlphaBitch: Pacifica- she even tones down the AlphaBitch part by the end.
* LovableTraitor: Even after discovering a mole and kicking him out, the twins and everyone who is left still love the mole and are depressed about what happened.
* LowerDeckEpisode: ''Draconic Tendencies'' focuses on Mabel, Pacifica, Candy and Grenda. Dipper has one scene early, then he is gone for practically the rest of the episode.
* LoyalAnimalCompanion: Waddles.
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* LikesOlderMen: Subverted with Yuki/Pacifica. Because the former is an alien, he can live for 700-800 years. He is about eighty, but looks the same age as the twins, and as far as his species is concerned, he's still very young.
** 12-year-old Jess has a crush on Dipper, who is now 15 and says she is too young for him.
** Mabel has a CelebrityCrush on Zander, whose age is... complicated, but he's definitely older than her.
* LikesOlderWomen: Dipper likes Wendy again, although this may not count since they are maybe, sort-of-ish the same age now. Not that he knew that at the time his feelings for her returned.
* {{Lilliputians}}: The Lili-'''PUTT'''-ians from the show make a reappearance in an episode or two.
* LimitedSocialCircle: This is true for the twins, Soos, Wendy and Stan. Although the circle does expand considerably by the end of season two, the season two finale reverts back to the first four and The Guardsman. A fifth member is added in the second part of season three, but because EZB has disappeared a lot lately, we haven't seen much of the new member.
* LiteralAssKicking: Stan does this to the traitor in ''After the Shadows'' to get the traitor out of the Manor.
* LiteralCliffhanger: The two chapters of ''Fight or Flight'' end/start with this.
* LittlePeople: The gnomes and the Lili-putt-ians from the show, as well as an OC race of Goblins.
* LivingLieDetector: Wendy has become this. Well, [[spoiler: except for the 'living' part.]]
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: There are A LOT of OC's in addition to practically everyone from the show. Granted, a lot of these characters only appear for an episode or two. There are five/six OC's who are greatly involved in the story, and many others who could become just as important if the story ever gets finished.
* LocalHangout: The Mystery Manor. Justified in that practically everyone either lives/works there. The woods around the Manor and the town are this as well, although it's less of a 'hangout' and more of a place the twins et al. go into to solve mysteries.
* {{Lockdown}}: The ghost in the first episode of season two does this to the Mystery Manor.
* LonelyFuneral: Stan's funeral in the first episode is attended by just the twins, Soos and Wendy.
* LongHairedPrettyboy: Zander has shoulder-length blonde hair.
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* LaughablyEvil: The Warlock- he's dangerous when he uses spells and stuff, but when it comes to hand-to-hand combat, he can't even manage to hit an incapacitated Dipper with a two-by-four.
* LaughingAtYourOwnJokes: Warlock, Bill, and others on occasion.
* LaymansTerms: Dipper will often have to do this for the benefit of Mabel and others.
* LayoutOfASeason: Going under the 10-episodes-per-season layout, the first episode introduces the mystery of the set, the 5/6th has big secrets pertaining to the mystery, and episodes 9/10 (or maybe even before nine) is the end of the arc.
* LethalChef: Zander says he is this.
* LighterAndSofter: Following big reveal episodes or episodes with a lot of drama, EZB will often give a calm, almost meaningless episode. Unfortunately for the characters, it never lasts long.
* LightIsNotGood: The Sorcerer's powers are white, and he is the Warlock's Master.
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* LargeHam: Mabel and Bill, just like the show. OC Zander is this when he wants to be.
* LargeHamTitle: When the gang plays Strongholds and Serpents, Mabel names her character Magnanimously Magnificent Masterfully Malleably Mendable Mabel the fourth, Esquire. There's really no way to respond to that.
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: The last episode of season two introduces [[spoiler: Ford]].
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* KangarooCourt: The intent of the trial in ''Bighair vs. Bigfoot.'' Unfortunately for [[spoiler: Gideon]], the end of season two screwed him over.
* KeepAway: Mabel does this to Dipper with the blue cylinders.
* {{Keet}}: Mabel, even if she's not-so-little anymore.
* KilledOffForReal: Avoided '''EVERY TIME!!!''' Seriously, literally nobody dies permanently in this story. Well, there are at least two, but they become wraiths, so it doesn't count. This is either really good for the twins, or ''very'' bad.
* KillTheCutie: The Warlock does this to a character in ''Fires of Hate.''
* KnightOfCerebus: The Warlock- EZB even says that things are going to get scary in the second half of the Warlock's premiere episode.
** Bill is this as well. He shows up in episode 8, episodes 9 and 10 solve the blue cylinder mystery, and things just get more serious from there.
* KungFuKid: Mabel becomes this as the story goes on.
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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: When the twins discover a mole in ''After the Shadows,'' Dipper and Stan do this.
* JawDrop: The reaction a lot of fans have when mysteries are solved.
* {{Jerkass}}: The Warlock and any of his cronies.
* {{Jossed}}: Reading through the reviews will show a lot of theories that eventually are revealed to not be true. Really, the only thing fans have been able to guess correctly has been the identity of some of the people represented on the zodiac.

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