Gravity Falls/Ships

= Bad End Trio = 

Bad End Trio is the friendship between Finn Mertens, Dipper Pines (Bill Cipher) and Wirt (The Beast) from the Adventure Time, Gravity Falls and Over the Garden Wall fandoms.

Canon
Finn, Dipper and Wirt are all the protagonists of their respective shows. All of them have been in supernatural environments and have had contact with demonic forces. Finn's world has the Ice King's crown that gives the bearer ice powers and immortality at the cost of their identity and sanity. Dipper regularly battled the dream demon, Bill Cipher. Wirt and his half-brother were stalked by the Beast during their time in the Unknown.

In the "Farmworld" timeline, Finn found the Ice King's crown and became his timelines version of the Ice King. Dipper made a deal with Bill in "Sock Opera" and the demon stole his body for the episode. At the end of Over the Garden Wall, Wirt almost made a deal with the Beast to become his new lantern bearer to save his brother.

Fanon
The "Bad End Friends" was a popular crossover back in the show's heyday. The idea was exploring what would've happened if the worst possible ending actually came true for these characters and how they would interact with each other afterwards.

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= Dibper =  Dibper is the slash ship between Dib Membrane and Dipper Pines from the Invader Zim and Gravity Falls fandoms.

Canon
Dib Membrane and Dipper Pines are from separate series and have never met. However, they have some similarities: both are socially awkward, intelligent, passionate about the paranormal and have names that start with "Di." They both want to impress father figures and are sometimes a little selfish. They both have sisters they are sometimes resentful of but are sometimes compassionate to. In spite of their dorkiness, they can be brave in the face of adversity.

Despite their similarities, they have different strengths and personality traits. Dipper is anxious, self-conscious, and sometimes mean, but mostly an affable character, as opposed to Dib's antagonism and perceived self-confidence (though in reality Dib can be self loathing and could even be read as suicidal). While Dib and Dipper are both not particularly social, Dipper is significantly better at making friends. Dipper also tends to have a more positive relationship with his father figures than Dib.

Fanon
Dibper is a relatively popular crossover idea within their respective fandoms. Common headcanons for both Dipper and Dib are they are transgender, nonbinary, bisexual, etc. They have many traits showing they could be autistic, or otherwise neurodivergent. They are also perceived by fans to have a "cryptidcore" aesthetic.

A dynamic seen in fanon works of Dibper is the idea that Dipper can balance out Dib's "feralness" and Dib helps Dipper with his anxiety, in addition to Dipper and Dib resenting each other when they first meet but then becoming good friends and eventually lovers. The crossover nature of this ship means that it tends to be mostly fun and goofy.

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Trivia

 * Dib and Dipper are both 12 years old in their respective shows.

=Mystery Kids= 

Mystery Kids is the friendship between Dipper and Mabel Pines, Coraline Jones, Norman Babcock, Raz Aquato and Lili Zanotto from the Gravity Falls, Coraline, ParaNorman and Psychonauts fandom.

Canon
Due to Gravity Falls being owned by Disney, Coraline and ParaNorman being owned by Laika and Pyschonauts being an independent project helmed by Double Fine Productions, a crossover between all of these properties is rendered incredibly unlikely.

Many of these stories do have strange encounters with the supernatural in common: Dipper and Mabel encounter and fight strange creatures during their summer vacation almost on a daily basis, Coraline found a pocket dimension controlled by some kind of button-eyed fae and almost got trapped inside, Norman was left the only capable of fighting a century-old curse with his natural power to speak to the dead and Raz and Lili are professional "Psychonauts" (psychics who are tasked with entering a person's mind in order to help them).

Their works also share similar tones and aesthetics.

Fanon
Mystery Kids had its start during the height of tumblr and DeviantArt, with it becoming trendy to mix completely different fandoms based on similarities in medium. It became popular due to a 45-minute long animatic being released in 2013, which was unheard of at the time. Some believe that the crossover was inspired by Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons.

Episode 1
Said animatic had a group of eight, two "members" for each fandom with Wybie Lovat from Coraline and Neil Downe from ParaNorman being the additional members.

The animatic features the eight kids forming their group to take down Dr. Loboto, a major villain from Psychonauts. In the animatic, Coraline and Raz agree to be the group's leaders, but most fanworks put Dipper in that role instead.

Further Episodes
Plans for a direct sequel were announced, but were then dropped. Instead, the crew who made the first episode decided to work on Mystery Kids and the Magic Mirror, with villains from the other fandoms having received casting announcements.

Further mutation
Some pieces of recursive fanwork exclude Wybie and Neil, or keep Wybie but replace Neil with Agatha from the same movie to restore the gender balance. Others only feature Dipper, Mabel, Coraline and Norman, due to Psychonauts being fairly obscure in comparison. Some fanworks feature both Neil and Agatha as members, some include a third character for the other fandoms to balance it out.

"Unofficial" members include Zim and/or Dib from Invader Zim, Danny from Danny Phantom, Billy and Mandy from The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy and Courage the Cowardly Dog as the group's pet. Some post-2013 crossovers also feature Steven Universe and Wirt (with or without Greg) from Over the Garden Wall.

Most of the shipping within the Mystery Kids crossover supports the only official couple of Raz/Lili. Parapines and Corapines are popular side-ships. If Wybie is included, Corwybie is substituted and Mabel is paired off with whoever is left.

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