Pyronica is an interdimensional criminal from an unknown dimension[4] who appears during the events of Weirdmageddon.
History
Background
Eons before the events of the series, Pyronica indulged in criminal activities before being recruited by Bill Cipher, along with 8 Ball, Amorphous Shape, Hectorgon, Keyhole, Kryptos, Paci-Fire, Teeth, Creature with 88 different faces, and Zanthar.[4]
Season 2
In "The Last Mabelcorn," the arrival of Pyronica and the rest of Bill's comrades into Gravity Falls' dimension is foreshadowed in Ford's flashback of a conversation with Bill. When Bill mockingly tells Ford that he has betrayed him, Pyronica's laughing silhouette is seen among others in the representation of another dimension projected in the Mindscape.
In "Weirdmageddon Part 1," during the cold open, Bill introduces Pyronica and the rest of his friends to the residents of Gravity Falls. Afterwards, on Main Street, Pyronica and the others watch Bill turn Ford into a golden statue and taunt Dipper before burning the journals. Later in the episode, Pyronica is seen playing "Spin the Person" at the "V.I.P." party Bill is having at the Fearamid. When the calcified statue of Lazy Susan points in Hectorgon's direction, Pyronica happily swallows the demon whole. Later when the Time Baby and the Time Police arrive in order to stop the party and she seems scared, and later, when Bill presumably kills the Time Baby, Pyronica is initially shocked, but later, she and the rest of the Henchmaniacs rejoices over Time Baby's apparent death and continues partying.
In "Weirdmageddon 2: Escape From Reality," Pyronica, is first seeing partying along the rest of the Henchmaniacs, later she listens to Bill's plan to spread Weirdmageddon global and she and the rest of Bill's friends attempt to leave Gravity Falls to spread their chaos across the world, only to collide with an invisible barrier, she seems injured after crashing, and attempts to stand up only to fall again, right before Bill, tell her and the rest to "walk it off". Later, she's seen injured, she has her jaw broken and has a bandage on her right horn, meaning, it broke during the collision, almost inmeadiately, she and the rest are subjected to Bill's fury over their inability to leave the town and starts attacking them, with lightning bolts. Pyronica, runs scared, along the rest of the Henchmaniacs.
In "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls," Pyronica, first is seen in an imagination from Bill, in which he tries to convince Ford in making a deal with him, she is seen destroying a planet, riding over it, like a horse or a bouncing ball. Later, she's seen in a drawing that McGucket made, while indicating a plan to the ressistance to go and save Ford. Later Pyronica, in flesh and bone, witnesses Bill torturing Ford and laughs at him, when Bill asks if he should use other 500 volts on Ford, she starts to tremble as the Shacktron, punches a hole through the same wall Time Baby, destroyed earlier, Pyronica is taken back at the sight that people survived the Weirdmageddon and Bill forces her and the rest to participate in the fight. She changes to a "darker form" and jumps from the Fearamid in order to fight. Before, the fight, she along Paci-Fire and Keyhole are accidentally hurt by the feedback of the microphone caused by Soos, later, after being fed up, with Soos delaying the fight, she initiates the attack on her command and participates in the battle, aganist the Shacktron, along her comrades, during the fight, she first charges at the Shacktron, along her comrades, but later when Mabel dispatches the cannon, she flees. Later, when Dipper and Mabel run from Bill and create a hole, through the fearamid, they attempt to reunite the townsfolk, the monsters and the ressistance to fight once more againist Bill, only to find, that Bill's minions did that before, Pyronica, has recovered from the fight and she helps Paci-Fire, Teeth and Hectorgon in capturing them and laugh evilly to them. Following Bill's defeat at the hands of Stan, she is sucked back to the dimensional rift in the sky along with her fellow demons. She was the 2nd Henchmaniac sucked by the rift, but she was also, the one who ressisted the most, againist being sucked.
Appearance
Pyronica is a pink glowing being with short pink hair, bangs parted across her face, and several small horns across her skull in between her two other big curved horns. Pyronica has only one eye, just above her wide mouth and thick lips, that hide her buck teeth and fangs. Pyronica has a slim humanoid body, and her limbs are made of white flames. Pyronica wears a long pink cape and pink stiletto pumps.
Sightings
Season 2
- 215. "The Last Mabelcorn" (flashback, no lines)
- 218. "Weirdmageddon 1: Xpcveaoqfoxso"
- 219. "Weirdmageddon 2: Escape From Reality" (no lines)
- 220-221. "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls"
Quotes
"Spin the person! Spin the person!" |
"ATTACK!" |
Trivia
- Pyronica is the personification of Bill's blue flames.[1]
- Early concept art of Pyronica shows that she was initially going to have snake-like hairs with mouths on the edges, a longer cap, very long hair, bigger and sharper horns, and limbs made of red fire.[5]
- In a closer final revision of Pyronica, her limbs were to be made of blue flames instead of white.[6]
- Pyronica's name is a portmanteau of Pyro, the Greek word for fire, and the name Verónica.
- She, along Teeth, are the only minions of Bill, that have eaten another being alive: Pyronica ate Hectorgon in Weirdmageddon Part 1, while Teeth has eaten Shmebulock in Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls.
- Coincidentally, both are pink.
- Pyronica seems to be quite short tempered, as she screamed "ATTACK!" to begin the battle, after getting fed up with Soos speaking.
- Pyronica's flames had been animated different in every episode she appears.
- Pyronica seems to be very elastic, as how her body stretched when she swallowed Hectorgon.
- In her "dark form", Pyronica's horns glow in a bright pink light.
- For what it seems, Pyronica is the Henchmaniac that fought the most to resist being sucked by the rift, because after three scenes, she still is not inside the rift.
- Out of all of Bill's minions, Pyronica has the most human-like form.
- Like Paci-Fire, Pyronica's appearance resembles the traditional despiction of demons.
- Coincidentally Bill presents them at the same time.
- In many of the scenes they appear, they commonly appear together.
- Their names are a word game, always involving a word that means "Fire".
- They were the first Henchmaniacs in being sucked by the rift. Paci-Fire is sucked first and Pyronica is sucked after him.
- If you pay attention, the only cloth that Pyronica wears are: her gloves, her knee socks, her cape and her stilletos, making her to look naked.
- She, along Teeth, Zanthar and Lava lamp shaped creature, make a brief cameo in Gravity Falls: Journal 3, in which they, along other three unknown Nightmare Realm creatures, go after Ford.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cory, Robertryan (October 26, 2015). Tumblr post ID number 132010974428 (Tumblr blog). Archived from the original on November 7, 2015. Retrieved on October 26, 2015. “Pyronica was my idea of what Bill's blue flame would personify.”
- ↑ "Weirdmageddon 2: Escape From Reality." Jeff Rowe & Alex Hirsch (writers) & Matt Braly (director). Gravity Falls. Disney XD. November 26, 2015. No. 19, season 2.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Weirdmageddon Part 1." Josh Weinstein, Alex Hirsch (writers) & Sunil Hall (director). Gravity Falls. Disney XD. October 26, 2015. No. 18, season 2.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Disney Insider (October 27, 2015). Exclusive: Gravity Falls Creator Alex Hirsch on Weirdmageddon, Part 1 (HTML). Archived from the original on November 12, 2015. Retrieved on October 27, 2015. “... Bill has spent eons amassing criminals and lunatics from different [italic added] dimensions...”
- ↑ Pyronica's early concept art
- ↑ Pyronica's final revision art