Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-27818776-20151012224016/@comment-27818776-20151015170615

To kind of steer away the topic for now, your icon reminds me about a question I was going to ask. It was pretty much on whether or not Bill could be considered an Antichrist figure. Pretty much, many people believe that the Antichrist would bring ruin to the Earth during his seven year reign of terror, while in Gravity Falls, we know that Bill's main goal is to bring the Mindscape into reality which would effecively cause the end of the world so that he could rule over it.

A second piece of evidence that I have with me is that the next episode in season 2 will be called "Warmaggedon," which could as well be a reference to Armageddon, the mythical final battle between good and evil. It was also believed  that the Antichrist would be worshipped as a god, and if you remember the episode "Northwest Mansion Mystery," there was a painting of what was clearly Bill being worshipped by people while fire was in the background. It was also speculated that the Northwest were in cahoots with Bill. Maybe they were followers, or maybe one of their ancestors made a deal with Bill, I'm not so sure.

My final piece of evidence has to do with the statement that Old Man McGucket said in "A Tale of Two Stans," in which he was rambling about "a beast with one eye" after he had accidentally caught a glimpse of an alternate universe. It's obvious that the "one eye beast" refers to Bill, but I believe that it could also possibly reference the Beast from the Book of Revelation. The book explains that a beast emerged from the abyss of the sea, and that he was given power and authority by the dragon. The Mindscape could even be seen as a methaphor for the abyss, though it does mention a second beast that convinced the people of the Earth to worship the beast that came out from the sea, so I don't know who the second beast could refer to.

Overall, Bill could be seen as an Antichrist figure, though it's really just character speculation at best.