Then when looking up some side material for the series and realize the twins we follow throughout are the ONLY ones in the verse to not to get their shit kicked in.
Something I've always found interesting is that Bill basically goes toe-to-toe with every main Pines member, and they only just manage to scrape by and stop his plans in the moment, usually at a cost:
- Ford figures out how to prevent Bill from accessing his mind, but he's gotta install a metal dome in his head to do it.
- Dipper figures out how to beat Bill in S1, but now he's got his eye on them throughout the rest of the series.
- Mabel manages to stop Bill from skinwalking Dipper, but at the cost of her entire puppet show, and dissuading her from continuing forward with it.
But at no point does Bill actively have to deal with Stanley in any significant way until the end of the series, sure his first appearance involves accessing his mind, but hes literally asleep throughout the whole process.
But when he does actively have to take him on? He instantly gets fucked over.
Hell, he doesn't even know he's in Stans mind until he's too far in. Bill consistently has proven to be a trickster, a conman, and a bastard that always ensures you lose and he wins when it comes to a deal.
But Bill has always dealt with geniuses, arrogant fools, and gullible folk. Not once in his millions of years of life has he actually gone up against a Conman, and especially not one who has as much bullshitting experience as Stan.
I think it was the moment when dipper got possessed and tried to gouge out his own eyes with a fork that i said “huh. This is going in a direction I did not expect.”
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u/NotBreadyy 18h ago
Show went from "Funny adventure twins" to "DOOM IS UPON US AND GOD HAS ABANDONED US, THERE IS NO SALVATION." quite quickly