Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27738735-20151013142838/@comment-26536319-20151015023944

Gravity Falls is ostensibly a TV Y-7 cartoon on the Disney Channel. They wouldn't even allow a gay couple in the Love God episode, so I really doubt they'd kill off a 12 year old child protagonist on one of their shows. They would NOT want to deal with the resulting controversy.

So, no, Mabel's certainly not dead.

I'd say, if anything, Bill's keeping her like that as a way to taunt the rest of the Pines family. He's totally the sort that would do that.

...Actually, come to think of it, Mabel COULD be dead. In one timeline, that is. Since Blendin Blandin is in the present day and I presume he still has his tape measure time machine, he could pretty easily use it to either stop Mabel from giving Bill the rift, or to stop the rift from ever being created. (That would probably involve destroying the portal, though, or at least preventing Ford from ever getting out of it.)