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Bill Cipher and Mabel Pines Similarities

Both are Agents of Chaos that can cause chaos without much issue and quite easily(Bill leaning into Chaotic Evil while Mabel leans into Chaotic Good/Neutral)
Both LOVE to party and more often than not are the souls of the party.
Both are creative and have a weird, wild imagination.
Both have a sense of style (Bill's tophat and bowtie and Mabel with her sweaters and with her headpieces and hair accesories) with them having what's possible the most extensive wardrobe among the show's cast-Mabel changes sweaters in all episodes and Bill uses different hats across the book as well as changing his clothes to match what the pages show. Both of them starting to be stylish from a very young age.

Both seem really fond of tophats or hats and formal attires in general- Mabel dresses Waddles with a top-hat in Carpet Diem, does have a pen with a top-hat wearing dog, likes the idea of double hats in her guide to fashion and when Dipper comes with the game DD&MD she suggests he found dogs with hats and she's delighted at the idea of making dresses with her glue gun for the Northwest's party where Bill shows great pride on his tophat and affirms he looks great in formal wear.

Both have guides to everything where they talk about similar topics (love and fashion) even if these contain wrong info due to their POVs like with facts about the human body and the origins of stickers and color.

Both aren't disturbed by weird stuff but actually seem rather attracted to it, with both being fond of or fans of supernatural creatures as seen with Bill´s page about cryptids and Mabel being delighted at the possibility that her boyfriend in Tourist Trapped turns out to be a vampire.
Both like to use make-up and do makeovers, both in physical appearence and interior design (Mabel constantly playing it with her friends and she remodels the Hand witch's cave and Bill does mention makeovers are needed so your partner doesn't find about your blood soaked past, comments on his new 3D look to Ford and designed the Fearamid-getting upset over the door being destroyed)
Both are artists but specialize better in other areas of design (Both do have bit of a sketchy/scribbly style when it comes to certain stuff like Bill drawing himself or the Catticatures but Bill has shown to have a knack for graphic design as seen in his book or with the Fearamid and Mabel can knit and sculpt-one that was so real that Stan almost thinks it's Ford-and also has an eye for room decoration as seen with her part of the room she shares with Dipper or the Hand Witch's Cave)

Both are loners who can attract people to them thanks to their charm and personality (Bill with his love of chaos became friends with the henchmaniacs whereas Mabel instantly clicked with Candy and Greta by being weirdos not as popular as Pacifica and her friends)

Both hold themselves in high regard-Mabel's confident in her own habilities, charm and traits vs Bill's ego-but deep down are insecure about how others perceive them.
They sometimes choose violence
Both have a laugh that can result annoying to some
Both dont seemingly have a nice indoor voice; with Bill thinking in capital letters and Mabel is known for being rather loud.
Both rarely take off their characteristic pieces of clothing like the sweater or his hat and bowtie and if they do it's only for brief periods of time (Mabel takes her sweater off after she's humilated by Pacifica and doesn't put it back on for a few hours in Pioneer Day and she use that much on Deep Dive due to the massive heat or her being in a swimsuit and Bill takes his hat to wipe it clean after his first fight with the gang or just to tip Dipper in his dream in Sock Opera and to show Ford the last atoms of Euclydia)

Both see themselves as underappreciated in their time (Bill in his home dimension and Mabel claims to be underappreciated in ep 4)
Both have been chastized/mocked for being themselves (Bill by talking about the stars or the 3rd dimension and Mabel by her goofiness)
Both dislike certain types of music (Country in Mabel's case synthethised music in Bill's case)

Both taught/showed stuff to women they shouldn't have (Mabel showed the pioneers how to high five, told her they would vote much later on, showed her glowing shoes and Bill by showing them witchcraft when disguised as a goat)

Both have eaten stuff they shouldn't or isn't normal to consume (Illegal punch, alcoholic dream beverages, spiders and his exoskeleton in Bill's case whereas Mabel constantly eats raw sugar, drank her conccoction Mabel juice, munched on a leaf and took too much smile dip as well as getting one trip to the hospital for eating scratch and sniff stickers)

Both got intoxicated once-Mabel with the smile dip to the point she could see magic dogs and Bill with alcohol at a bar.
Both turn to drinks when upset over things not going their way or something of theirs is ruined.

Both think messing with Dipper is fun and both saw his search history.
Both like to tease Dipper about his crush on Wendy-Mabel throughout season 1 whereas Bill does point it out to his clones in the deleted Dreamscaperers dream sequence with Dipper and Bill and Bill makes nods to that in his book like when talking about Wendy's dreams or when he brings up his search history which include stuff like her social media and pictures of lumberjack redheads.
Both have written stuff in Journal 3 and or used it for personal use-Bill writing codes and secret messages and later using the pages and personal notes of Ford to plaster them in his own book and Mabel used it for her play to impress Gabe and wrote in it after the events of Sock Opera and The last Mabelcorn.
Both like karaoke and had a karaoke night with a Stan Twin.

Both can be selfish when putting their wants and needs over other's (at least Mabel recognizes her mistakes, apologizes for them and learn from them)
Both have messed with animals (Mabel was pretending to be a ventriloque with a seagull, played matchmaker with an owl, got banned from a petting zoo by recreating an unicorn with a horse, a traffic cone and duct tape and punched an unicorn in the face while Bill messes with a deer's teeth and in the deleted storyboards for Weirdmageddon he forced a passing deer to kiss Ford's golden statue)
Both tried to trick gnomes to do their job-Mabel's attempt in Gideon Rises at least worked for a while whereas Bill couldn't as they were, according to Bill, too dumb to manipulate.
Both had people younger than them interested in them (Gideon,a ten year old in Mabel's case and Bill is waaaaaaaay older than Ford in human terms)
Both dont like homework.

Both refer to Ford as Fordsy.
Both are among the only people Ford feels comfortable showing his hands.
Both like rolling on grass.

Both seem to have similar tastes in books-Bill wrote erotica with The Love Triangle and Grenda brought her mom's age inappropiate love novels to a sleepover so they could all read them and we have a page where it shows what seem to be not only movies but books that parody sagas like twilight
Both have created sock pupets of someone (Bill of Ford and Mabel out of herself and Dipper among other people in Gravity Falls)

Both recognize McGucket's mind is badly messed up-This being among the few things that shook Bill.
Both view Toby Determinated as a very strange person to the point Bill himself says he tracks with other Cryptids even if he cant prove he's actually one.

Both have a pet (Mabel has Waddles while Bill thinks of Teeth as one)
Both had possesion of people they saw as their pets they didnt wanna get rid of for a while, becoming angry and agressive at the possibility of them being taken away or leaving them behind cause both seek affection they found in them (The Several Times band and Ford Pines) but at least Mabel learned to let them go.
Both like to showcase their teeth in pictures

Both like running things in their own ways and were the respective bosses of certain places for some time-The Mystery Shack and Nightmare realm.
Both seem to like cinema, especially animation (Bill makes references to movies such as Chicago with the "We both reached for the gun" as well as dorothy and her pet from the wizard of oz in the deleted page where we´re shown his autonomy, referenced Chernabog from Disney´s Fantasia or other horror movies in his book and refers to rubberhose animation as a riot or the "dark arts" in a fond tone and Mabel has seen an anime movie parody of Spirited Away a great number of times-82-,grew up on High School musical like movies, constantly watches the movies that featured Ryler and Crash)
Both have what could be considered "odd" fears-Mabel fears Stop Motion and Bill cant stand 3D glasses among blinds and TV static.
Both like to add smiley faces to things.

The have figurines of members of the Pines Family and/or the town.

Both use white out, crayons to scratch things they dont like out of books like how Bill covers the section of the Great Gatsby, the section of his exes, the Euclydian massacre part, the Oracle as part of the Henchmaniacs and the Guide to cannibalism in his book when Ford confronts him about his origins and Mabel in how she covers the dialog of the comic's characters in Lost Legends or some things in her writing journal 3.

Both dont like the idea of time moving foward-with Bill saying it in Journal 3 and considering the idea of stopping time moving as something fun
Both became gods of destruction twice, first time accidental and second time with full intention (Mabel by giving away the Rift and later destroying MabelLand while Bill by accidently setting his home dimension ablaze and later on with Weirdmageddon)
Both in a way created their own paradise; MabelLand and Weirdmageddon, with both of them saying the party will never end

Both have places with their name on it-MabelLand and Billvile
Both, in the realms they reign over, can make something happen by doing hand gestures like clasping hands or snapping their fingers; Mabel can manifest whatever she wants by clapping her hands in MabelLand (also we have the Mabel's guide to stickers where she removes Dipper with a snap, yelling edit, and adds stuff she likes instead) and Bill can twist reality as he sees fit in the mindscape and Weirdmageddon and can manipulate neurons as he likes to give people pleasure or pain and rearrange them so the victim can forget memories or have them constantly hearing an ever increasing tune or have their optic nerves rearranged so their sight is upside down.
Although their paradise is meant to be lawless there are unspoken rules people must follow to stay there like obeying Bill and not bringing up reality.
Their residence in said paradise is at the top of towers built to their liking.

Both of them have artworks that depict them with crowns in the places they rule.

Both regret what they did even if it was 100% accidental-Weirdmageddon and the Euclydian Massacre
They were indirectly responsible for the creations of holes and cracks on the Earth-Bill with the Bottomless pit and Mabel with a crater dubbed Mabel's fault by Dipper in Lost Legends.

Both seem rather good at golf.
Both got injured with paint in their eyes (Mabel accidently doing it to herself and Bill thanks to Mabel)
Both have a couple of exes, with at least one of them being human (despite Bill saying he doesn't have any, he's implied to have had relationships with different people like Bloody Mary or the Void and we have the situationship he had with Ford)
When it comes to flirting they propose the idea of marriage

Both have wrong views or are misguided when it comes to love (Bill has the twisted idea that the love cage is the way to go if you want to be loved, thinking fear and love are the same and that loving means possesion while Mabel has been spoon fed and grew up in teen romance movies with romanticed versions of love and relationships all her life, her love tests are kinda unvalid or serve as a true guide for romance and she even states if you and your partner dont match you must force it to be ideal for eachother which can be taken the wrong way and she´s untrained in the subject regardless if her attempts at matchmaking have worked/are at least somewhat stable and she's still a child learning about life)
Both dressed in similar ways when it comes to playing cupid

Both had an archnemesis/rivalry with someone who's supposed to be the opposite of them but that also share some similarities with-Pacifica and Ford.
Both were in jail for a few hours-County jail for falsifying money and for wrecking a restaurant and harming the bystanders before the Henchmaniacs got him out.
Both have a criminal record (Mabel-falsifying money and Bill-manslaugther, physical assault, fraud and/or extorsion, theft, stalking, destruction of property and disturbance of the peace)
Both cant deal with Mabel's brain for too long; Mabel grew tired of other alternative versions of herself and Bill almost blows his cover when angry after everything he had to do in her brain and learning little to nothing he could exploit for his own plans.
Both dont like dealing with/talking of alternative versions of them that are their opposites-Anti-Mabel and Anti-Bill Cipher
They leave an "I was here" sign with their names

Both are seen as goth by Alex Hirsch (A non canon grown up version of Mabel drawn by Hirsch shows her being goth while Bill was described as a goth girl by Alex)

Golden statues

When the possiblity of death is near them; they say similar phrases:

Both are implied to be queer or at least bisexual (Mabel is implied to be bi thanks to several heart stickers linking her to to the bisexual flag as well as being included in the Chibi Tiny Tales Pride Video and some of Bill´s implied exes are female like Bloody Mary or the Black Hole, Bill´s has an article which says "Lock up your wives and husbands, folks!" showing he´s also interested in men, during his time as Silas Birchtree he attempted to get as many wives as possible in his cult and whatever Ford and Bill had was certainly not heteronormative in any way)
Both think highly of Quentin Trembley

Both were denied positions of power by the goverment-Mabel isnt recognized as a congress woman as they dont value Trembley's opinion and the founding fathers refused to make deals with Bill
Both use variations of their names such as William Lucipher and Mableangelo and Lady Mabelton or use different allieses Mr. Upsidedowningtonand and Vinegar Pete
Both of them do covers/their own version of real life songs such as We'll Meet Again and Call Me Maybe
Both keep collections or souvenirs of the adventures the Pines family go through

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Both cheat at chess by letting their adversary win or stealing the horses

Both seem to like bugs (Both get covered by them at one point and Bill not only has his card ina centipede but considers stuff like centipedes and worms as the better life forms)

Both throw someone off in a fight in similar ways, pretending like they´re playing golf

Both like play to play interviews with themselves

They set someone on fire-Bill inderectly and Mabel by chunking the head of Wax William Shakespire into the fire as well as finishing the wax figures alongside Dipper with candles
Both seem to like playing doctor-Mabel dresses Waddles up like a doctor and Bill dresses up like one in a deleted page of the book

Their plans for parties almost get ruined

Both like to modify people's appearence-Bill wanted Ford to tattoo himself with a text that said "IF LOST RETURN TO BILL" and he shifted the position of Preston's face holes whereas Mabel likes to dress Waddles up and in her make-up guide her main victims are Dipper, Soos and Stan and she helps her friends have dresses for the Preston's party
Both have tricked a Stan Twin at least once