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Alright, so I just watched Gravity Falls. It's a really good show. But also, due to having seen it, I now know there is a critical problem with our Bill Cipher profile.
Our profile claims that Bill Cipher has dimensional travel, and that him having this is the reason the "Threat to the Multiverse" statement isn't 2-A. But, there is one major issue with this.
It is literally plot critical that Bill Cipher does not have dimensional travel.
He tricks Stanford to build a portal for him to get into his universe because he literally lacks the ability to travel across dimensions without it.
He tricks Mabel into giving him the interdimensional rift so he can destroy the seal, so he can enter Dimension 46'\, because that rift being unsealed is literally the only way he can leave his own dimension.
The only reason Bill Cipher does what he does for 99% of the series is because he very specifically lacks the ability to travel to different universes on his own.
Hell, even in his physical form, if he really had dimensional travel, he could just travel to another universe instead of needing to torture Stanford to learn how to get past Gravity Falls' law of weirdness magnetism.
As such, Dimensional Travel and Portal Creation should be removed from Bill's profile, and his AP should be returned to 2-A, or at the very least the reasoning for him not being 2-A needs to be changed drastically.
And before anyone brings up the Shacktron fight:
Our profile claims that Bill Cipher has dimensional travel, and that him having this is the reason the "Threat to the Multiverse" statement isn't 2-A. But, there is one major issue with this.
It is literally plot critical that Bill Cipher does not have dimensional travel.
He tricks Stanford to build a portal for him to get into his universe because he literally lacks the ability to travel across dimensions without it.
He tricks Mabel into giving him the interdimensional rift so he can destroy the seal, so he can enter Dimension 46'\, because that rift being unsealed is literally the only way he can leave his own dimension.
The only reason Bill Cipher does what he does for 99% of the series is because he very specifically lacks the ability to travel to different universes on his own.
Hell, even in his physical form, if he really had dimensional travel, he could just travel to another universe instead of needing to torture Stanford to learn how to get past Gravity Falls' law of weirdness magnetism.
As such, Dimensional Travel and Portal Creation should be removed from Bill's profile, and his AP should be returned to 2-A, or at the very least the reasoning for him not being 2-A needs to be changed drastically.
And before anyone brings up the Shacktron fight:
- Bill's durability may not be necessarily comparable to his AP
- Bill may be shown having lower durability than he should realistically have due to his ability to regenerate, which is a very common issue in fiction (See beings like Majin Buu)
- Frankly, Bill being damaged by the Shacktron at Small Town level isn't significantly weirder than Bill being damaged by the Shacktron at Multiverse level+, considering the hand that damaged him was just using a Wall Level T-Rex.
- The Shacktron's barrier is specifically against weirdness like Bill, and required very specific spells to put up. Saying Bill isn't Multiversal just because he couldn't break that barrier is like saying that Dio doesn't have regeneration because Hamon can kill him. It's exploiting a specific weakness of Bill's, it's hardly an anti-feat. Bill effortlessly defeated the Shacktron once he managed to find a part of it not protected by the barrier.
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