User:ICorrectThings/sandbox

Stanford Pines

Ford Pines
Gravity Falls character
First appearance	"Not What He Seems" (2016)
Last appearance	"Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls" (2016)
Created by	Alex Hirsch
Voiced by	J.K. Simmons
In-universe information
Alias	Stanford Pines, Grunkle Ford, Great Uncle Ford.
Gender	Male
Occupation	Older twin brother of Grunkle Stan, Researcher of Gravity falls, the author of the 3 journals.
Relatives	Grunkle Stan Dipper Pines (great-nephew) Mabel Pines (great-niece) Sherman Pines (nephew) Filbrick Pines (father) Ma Pines (mother) Marilyn Rosenstien (ex-wife)
Nationality	American

Stanford Filbrick "Ford" Pines, Ph. D a.k.a. The Author a.k.a Grunkle Ford (As of the episode "The Last Mabelcorn".) (voiced by J. K. Simmons as an adult and by Christian Mardini as a child), is one of the characters of the Disney animated series Gravity Falls, created by Alex Hirsch.

Ford is a character in the series Gravity Falls. He was first introduced in the episode Not What He Seems. Ford is the older twin brother of Grunkle Stan. Ford is the smarter brother of the two. He was going to go to a special college on the west coast but Grunkle Stan accidentally destroyed his project, thus his application is denied, and Ford and Stan didn't get along for a while. Ford was accidentally trapped in an otherworldly dimension by Grunkle Stan for 30 years until Grunkle Stan re-activated the portal from the dimension. Once everyone defeats Bill Cipher, Ford and Stan leave "The Mystery Shack" to Soos and go on an adventure in the Antarctic.

Role in series

Great Uncle "Grunkle" Ford was raised in Glass Shard Beach, New Jersey along with his brother. Ford had six-fingers, and was the smarter brother, always being more successful than his brother. Ford had an intense love of the science fiction genre while Stan liked to goof off occasionally. Ford was a straight-A student and a favorite of his teachers Ford got lots of golden trophies and awards for his science projects. Ford was going to go to a special college on the west coast but Stan sabotaged his project, leaving Ford mad at Stan and having to go to a public college.

Ford decided he was going to study anomalies after being teased for his anomalous sixth finger and after careful research, he concluded that the place with the most anomalies was a small lumberjack town in Oregon called Gravity Falls. He used his grant money to build a shack there and decided to record his findings in three journals with gold, six-fingered hands on their cover with their numbers written on them. He scoured the forests and climbed the mountains, recording the anomalies he found, such as eye-bats, unnaturally shifting mountain paths, and talking gnomes. When searching for the source of the weirdness, he came across a cave with an incantation inscribed on the wall. Despite warnings not to, he recited the inscribed incantation. That night as he slept, he met a supernatural being called Bill Cipher, who seemed to be very friendly and told him that the source of the anomalies was another dimension of weirdness. Ford wanted to build a portal to access that dimension and Bill gave him the schematics and so, Ford contacted McGucket, who had gone into the personal computer business in Palo Alto, California.

The two built the machine that would allow them access to the weirdness dimension in a secret lab underneath the Shack. The strange lights emitted from the machine aroused curiosity among the locals. When they tested the machine, Fiddleford got sucked by a gravity anomaly in the machine but Ford rescued him. When he was pulled out, he recited, "When Gravity Falls and Earth becomes sky, fear the beast with just one eye." Fearful of the machine, Fiddleford tells Ford to destroy it, but when Ford refuses, claiming it is his life's work, Fiddleford quits the project, constructing a machine that would erase specified memories in order to forget what he saw and founding a society called the Society of the Blind Eye to wipe the memories of the residents of Gravity Falls who came across such anomalies. Ford contacted Bill in the Spirit World, demanding to know where the machine really leads to. Bill reveals his true colors and Ford realizes that he should never have built that portal. He decided to contact someone he could trust, his twin brother Stan.

When he explained everything to him, showing him his secret lab and the shutdown machine, he explained that he had hidden two of the journals which explained how to operate it and was entrusting the final journal, the first one, to Stan. Stanley, upset that Ford did not call him there to reconcile, starts throwing a fit and in his anger, decides to burn the journal. The two get into a fight and in the fight, Stan gets burned on the shoulder. In a fit of rage, Stan throws Ford into the accidentally activated portal which he gets sucked into. The portal then runs out of fuel and deactivates. Stan tries to turn it back on but fails, as he needs the other two journals to activate the portal. Stan would go to the lab at night and try to get the machine back on to rescue his long-lost brother, a goal he finally accomplishes in the episode Not What He Seems.

In the last few episodes, Weirdmageddon begins, Stanford is captured by Bill Cipher, the dream demon introduced in "Dreamscaperers", and Stanley takes refuge in the Shack, enchanted by Stanford's unicorn spell. Eventually, Fiddleford McGucket finds him and leads some magical forest creatures with him. These creatures include the gnomes, Larry King's disembodied head, the members of Sev'eral Timez, the Multi-Bear, and many more. This upsets Stan greatly, but he proclaims himself king and plans on eating canned meat and all the Gnomes until they run out. When Dipper, Mabel, Wendy and Soos return and the twins make plans to save Ford, Stan is jealous of their wanting to save him even though he started the apocalypse in the first place. They rescue Ford and destroy Bill Cipher. Stan's memory gets erased in the process, but later Stan fully recovers.

Meanwhile, Weirdmageddon reverses itself, and the town returns to normal. Stanley and Stanford make plans to sail around the world like they dreamed about when they were kids, but this time to find more anomalies.