YMMV / The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy

YMMV tropes with their own pages:

• Hilarious in Hindsight
• Nausea Fuel

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• Accidental Aesop: Don’t be overconfident and don’t gamble (especially with your own freedom). Grim learns this the hard way in the pilot and spends the rest of the series suffering for that one mistake.
• Adaptation Displacement: Many people forget that this show and Evil Con Carne originated together as Grim & Evil.
• Alternative Joke Interpretation: In "Pandora's Lunch Box", Grim loses focus as he is about to lose his favorite show on TV, which according to Billy, is about a girl's adventures in the jungle with a polyglot monkey. It could be a Shout-Out to Dora the Explorer (as Pandora's is based on her), or The Wild Thornberrys.
• Adorkable:
  • Billy is a goofy and oblivious Cheerful Child who, by his own admission, loves everything (except clowns and bugs). It's sometimes offset by his many Gross Up Close Ups, nevertheless, he's especially lovable when eagerly getting along with Mandy and Grim.
  • Irwin is a nerdy boy who desperately tries to look cool and he also comes off as sympathetic due to his relentless suffering.
  • Despite being a Creepy Child, Nergal Jr. comes off as a fairly sweet, awkward, lonely kid when not violently attacking others.
  • Even Grim has his moments. Yes, he's Death personified, but he’s a genuinely nice guy when he’s off the clock, especially the rare occasions where he shows that he actually does care about Billy and Mandy to a degree. Not to mention that he’s not afraid to goof off and have fun once in a while.
• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Is Harold oblivious to the supernatural, or just apathetic about it?
    • Are both Harold and Gladys really so dumb that they didn't realize their son had been turned into an alien werewolf, or are they so desensitized to the utter weirdness of their world as a result of all the events in the series that now it's akin to Billy's eyes turning from brown to blue?
  • Lionel Van Helsing's decision not to kill Dracula in at the end of "Dracula Must Die!". Did he do it because he forgave Dracula and/or felt sorry for him after hearing what happened between him and Tanya? Or did he do it as an act of revenge because he recognized that Dracula viewed being with his newfound family of nerds as a Fate Worse than Death.
  • In Trepanation of the Skull and You, the early short film Maxwell Atoms made before making Billy and Mandy, is Mandy really just an oblivious Cloudcuckoolander who didn't realize drilling a hole into Billy's head would harm him, or is she as malicious as her show counterpart and did it For the Evulz?
• Anvilicious: In "My Fair Mandy", Grim questions why anyone would participate in beauty pageants (Mandy's only doing it to show up Mindy). Cue several moms encouraging their daughters to win for the sake of their love.
• Badass Decay:
  • Underfist reimagines Hoss Delgado as washed up and still hung up on his breakup with Eris, now sporting a beer gut and living with his mom. He gets his ass handed to him countless times throughout the movie. While he was always a humorous character in the series (in terms of being ridiculously over-the-top and loopy), he was nowhere near as much of a Butt-Monkey.
  • Grim himself. While he usually ended up played for a chump by Billy and Mandy he had some genuinely sinister moments in the first few episodes, but later on Grim is utterly pathetic. He gets the crap kicked out of him by Billy's mom and pretty much every other character in the cast at some point, is constantly forced to do demeaning things by Billy and Mandy, and completely fails to reap anyone on screen. The ever-growing list of people (and inanimate objects) who've stolen his scythe in Big Boogie Adventure shows just how much he's failed to uphold his title
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • Fred Fredburger started out as an Ensemble Dark Horse, but soon became a polarizing character after being extremely overused in CN's promos along with the excessive overuse of his nachos and poopoo jokes.
  • Mandy has a sizable fanbase for being very competent in dealing with the show's antagonists, but she also has a considerable number of detractors for being needlessly abusive, bossy, and cruel to the other main characters.
  • Billy, between fans who find him hilarious for his idiocy and fans who find him annoying and one-note.
  • Whether Irwin is seen as an Adorkable nerd or a creep tends to vary depending on the viewer.
• Bizarro Episode: While the show is essentially a bizzaro series, a few stand out from the pack:
  • "My Fair Mandy" which ends with Mandy's smile destroying reality and the main trio become The Powerpuff Girls with Irwin as Mojo Jojo.
  • "Complete and Utter Chaos" starts with the title card reading "Billy Gets Dumber" before Eris tears it down and puts in the real title card while whistling the title card theme tune. It escalates from there.
• Cargo Ship:
  • Grim and his Scythe. He calls it "Jodie".
  • General Skarr and his garden. Heaven help you if you mess with it. His old boss Hector learned that the hard way.
• Character Perception Evolution: When Fred Fredburger first appeared, he was widely popular for his Cloudcuckoolander attitude and funny lines, and he was even briefly a Breakout Character. After he started to appear in more episodes and Cartoon Network promos, fans became more divided on him and were annoyed by his poop jokes, though many people still find him hilarious. For what it’s worth, Fred doesn’t end up dominating the show and only appears in two episodes, both in Season 5, his second appearance being merely months later and too quick to be chalked up to be trying to cash in on his popularity at the time; he later appears in the spin-off movies, but only in the latter does he have a more substantial role, meaning his detractors at least don’t have to put up with him that much.
• Common Knowledge: The misconception that Grim & Evil was only 2 seasons and everything onwards was made for Billy and Mandy and Evil Con Carne respectively. While it is justified since only the first two aired as Grim & Evil proper, an unaired third season for 2003 was produced and only aired as part of the individual shows when the decision to split them for broadcast was made (and only surfaced on VOD services in 2017). Everything from 2004 onwards is original to the individual series.
• Crosses the Line Twice: A lot of the humor can dip into this, mostly due to Black Comedy, like in "Billy and Mandy Save Christmas". Features such things as a mall being burned to the ground as the Mall Santa is mercilessly beaten (with The Grim Reaper implying that this happens all the time and Billy blaming it on the sad state of the economy), evil vampire Santa, Santa's evil vampire wife, and the local bully being eaten by a pack of flying vampire elves. Quite subversive compared to the average Christmas episodes, and even fellow childrens' cartoons that try to subvert the usual sweetness of a Christmas special don't take it that far.
• Crossover Ship:
  • There's Mandy and Dib from Invader Zim. It's actually pretty popular.
  • Jack O' Lantern has been shipped with fellow Ensemble Dark Horse, Demongo.
  • Grim has been shipped with Pearl. There's even a group dedicated to it on deviantART!
  • Hoss and Ghastly are shown frequently on fan art.
  • Bloo from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and Mandy according to this Summer Image bumper, where they are seen having a spaghetti dinner together.
  • One AMV paired Mandy with Trevor Troublemeyer due to both being the Token Evil Teammates of their respective series. The video also used Eris and Mr. Troublemeyer/Master XOX to represent them as adults.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Jack O'Lantern has gained himself a sizeable fanbase, despite only having appeared in a Halloween Special. This is possibly the reason he was included in the video game.
  • Dracula and Judge Roy Spleen for being great examples of Phil LaMarr's range. Dracula completely eclipsed the other elderly monsters in popularity and became a recurring character, and got his own series of shorts and a stint as the host of Cartoon Network’s Halloween 2006 promo material. Judge Roy Spleen didn’t become quite as popular, but his humorous The Comically Serious reactions to Fred Fredburger ensured he stayed on as a recurring cast member as well.
  • Skarr was popular enough to become the only character from Evil Con Carne to return as a recurring antagonist.
  • Hoss Delgado. He was popular enough that he nearly starred in the spinoff-series-turned-TV-Movie, Underfist and got him a playable appearance in the Updated Re Release of Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion.
  • Mrs. Doolin has quite a few fans despite only appearing in one episode. The fact that she's voiced by Betty White certainly helps.
  • Nergal Junior is pretty well liked thanks to being a Creepy Child yet an Adorkable Woobie at the same time.
  • Irwin’s Grandmama Tanya has a lot of fans for her sassy personality and Phil LaMarr’s hilarious performance.
  • Sir Raven doesn’t appear much, but he’s beloved by the fanbase for his Suddenly Shouting speaking and often considered to have some of the best lines in the show.
• Fan Nickname: The show is often referred to as "Billy & Mandy" for short.
• Fandom Rivalry: With Evil Con Carne. Although both shows started as parts of Grim and Evil, and both became full-fledged shows around the same time, Maxwell Atoms ended Carne of his own accord, not because it was getting bad reviews or low ratings, but because he felt that working on two shows at the same time was too stressful, and he opted to continue working on Billy and Mandy instead. The rivalry stems from whether or not he made the correct choice of which show to end.
• Fanon: The Billy and Mandy wiki claims that Fred Fredburger is a Baku (a Japanese trunked demon that devours nightmares), despite there being nothing to support this in canon.^note Especially since Fred eats nachos and frozen yogurt, not nightmares.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Billy and Mandy is very popular in Mexico, to the point where Billy and his friends visited that country in the "El Dia De Los Muertos" episode.
  • The show got a ton of love in India down to having an epic new theme song.
  • The show also has a sizeable Japanese fanbase due to its dub. Many Japanese fans also like Mandy, deeming her cute despite her melancholic and cold personality. Additionally, the Japanese dub portrays Mandy as more of a deadpanned Action Girl, rather than just evil.
• Genius Bonus:
  • The episode "Here Thar Be Dwarves" has a scene where Billy escapes from Yogi and Boo Boo by hiding in a cave. Brown bears really are afraid of caves. Ironic as Yogi and Boo Boo live in a cave in their source material.
  • Mandy quotes Aleister Crowley in one of her typical (very) cold openings: "To do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law".
  • From the episode Ecto Cooler it's likely that many people didn't know Lord Byron actually had a club foot!) before seeing that episode. Quite a few kids probably heard his name for the first time here.
  • One of Lord Byron's quotes in the same episode is lifted word-for-word from letters sent by the real life Lord Byron based on his experiences abroad.
    Lord Byron: (Seething) Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes! (swoons) Placed in the most romantic region in the world!
  • Jack O'Lantern's backstory, being a mortal who played cruel pranks on everyone and manages to trick a supernatural entity into not taking his soul only for that to bite them due to how that turns out, is very similar to Stingy Jack, the mythological character whose story likely inspired Jack O'Lanterns to begin with.
  • Dracula more than once insists he doesn't suck blood, he "scrapes and licks." "Scrape and lick" is a pretty accurate description of how vampire bats feed.
• Growing the Beard: Generally agreed to be around the time this show split off from Grim & Evil. The show itself became the much more popular and well-known series while Evil Con Carne only lasted for two seasons (and with only fourteen episodes at that).
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The season 1 episode "Get Out of My Head", specifically the scene where Billy [in Mandy's body] tries to go in the male then female bathroom, but feels out of place in both of them, while played for laughs back in 2001, can be uncomfortable to watch now in light of cultural controversies regarding transgender people and their bathroom of choice.
  • Similarly in “Wishbones”, Sperg wishes to become a woman so he can get into the girls’ bathroom, but gets mocked by the girls there for his appearance can be uncomfortable due to the parallels of that and transphobia.
  • In "Billy and Mandy Save Christmas", Billy blames the economy for the Endsville Mall burning down on Christmas Eve. A year after the special's broadcast saw the start of the Great Recession in the US; which not only left money tight during the holidays, but also left numerous malls across the country either bankrupt or struggling to keep even half of its stores open.
  • The name of Sperg, the school bully, later became derogatory internet slang for people with autism or Asperger's. This is especially a case of this trope now that Maxwell Atoms is known to have Asperger's himself.

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• Jerkass Woobie:
  • Grim has his moments, especially in the earlier seasons, in which almost every single episode ends with you wanting to give the poor guy a hug.
  • Mandy may act in an evil manner, but she has her reasons. She has to deal with Billy every day, Mindy is on her neck all the time, her own parents are afraid of her, she's not allowed to smile or else the world will either end or get seriously messed up...
• Launcher of a Thousand Ships:
  • Mandy, if you can believe it. She's been shipped with Billy, Grim, Irwin, Nergal Jr., Mindy... Hell, even characters from other franchises like Dib!
  • Grim himself seems to be becoming this, too. Not only has he been shipped with Mandy, but also Eris, Malaria, Velma Green, Boogey, Nergal, Jack O' Lantern, General Skarr, and most recently, Pearl.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Am I the only one who understands the complexities of this ambitious cinematic masterpiece?! This movie isn't stupid! YOU'RE stupid! ^ExplanationBilly's angry retort to Grim after the latter criticizes a videotape he is watching has been repeatedly quoted by fans to defend any movie with a polarizing critical reception.
  • "Nobody is born cool. Except of course..." cue the picture Hoss Delgado is looking at being replaced with the subject of the post. An example here.
  • "YOU FOOLS! YOU'VE MESSED WITH THE NATURAL ORDEEEEEEEEEER!"^ExplanationSir Raven's reaction after Mandy smiles and causes reality to collapse. Said whenever a drastic change to the status quo of something happens, like Ash finally winning a Pokémon League in Pokémon: The Series.
  • DESTROY US ALL! DESTROY US ALL! (I'll take the chicken) ^ExplanationBilly's fear of clowns leading up to his paranoid rant about them being an evil race that wants to Take Over the World has become a popular meme even for those afraid of clowns.
  • Agenda! (Dun dun dun)^ExplinationThe Secret Snake Club discussing their sinister plans with ominous music in the background being used as a Running Gag in their debut episode
  • Buenos dias, Mandy!^ExplanationA line from the opening page of a Billy & Mandy Rule 34 comic, in which Billy says this while smacking Mandy's ass as a joke, to which she responds by punching him into the street, where his hands get run over by a car. The page immediately garnered attention for the contrast between its skeevy, poorly-drawn artwork (which makes both characters look outlandishly supermodel-like) and the fact that its writing is surprisingly in-step with the show's Black Comedy. Consequently, it became a widespread subject of parody, inserting characters from other works in place of Billy and Mandy.
  • Grim looking at porn^ExplanationA scene from "The Secret Snake Club" where Grim accidentally ends up on a porn site due to him mis-typing the URL for the titular club's website. Grim's shocked expression went on to become a popular reaction image online in reference to NSFW or otherwise suggestive artwork, usually to express one's enjoyment of it.
  • The GIF image of Grim and his ex girlfriend Malaria dancing has become popular and used as a meme over the years.
• Misaimed Fandom:
  • Pretty much anyone who thinks Mandy is cute, since her evilness is supposed to make her the opposite.
  • Mandy also seems like a feminist, given her You Go, Girl! moments. As such, other real world feminists look up to her. Mandy really shouldn't be holding the feminist flag, though, because she's sociopathic, misanthropic, and borderline narcissistic. It doesn't matter if she holds good feminist values or not because it's offset by her horrible actions and character.
    • On top of that, all of her You Go, Girl! moments were for her benefit, with just a little sexism added in to give her a reason to be mad at someone; she doesn't really care much for anyone, even other women. So really, that's not quite feminism, it's just a means of giving her justification (which doesn't do much good for her characterization).
  • More like "Misaimed Hatedom", but it goes hand in hand with Mandy's Misaimed Fandom: there are few people who hate Irwin because of his crush on Mandy, and see him as creepy or even borderline villainous because of it. A lot of these people are also fans of Mandy and take issue more with the facts Irwin has a crush on Mandy specifically. In short, they like Mandy and think she's amazing, and they hate Irwin and think he's weird. They must either have Skewed Priorities or they Failed a Spot Check, because the list of horrible things Mandy's done would be way longer than Irwin's, because (again) Mandy is evil.
  • Some villains on the show getting the Draco in Leather Pants treatment is kind of to be expected, because they are a bit sympathetic. Then there's Bun-Bun, who has no redeeming qualities and did plenty of pointlessly terrible things to the protagonists of Underfist for no reason. Yet somehow, for whatever reason, a small handful of fans like Bun-Bun and find him adorable.
• Moe:
  • Billy can be really cute so long as there's no Gross Up Close-Ups.
  • Nergal Jr. is considered this by most of his Fangirls. It's probably the quiet voice and dorkiness.
  • Irwin. He's Adorkable, usually one of the nicer characters, a Non-Action Guy most of the time, and is later revealed to be a Cute Monster Boy. Vanessa Marshall's performance pretty much seals the deal.
  • Mandy, when she gets her nerve taken by Billy and becomes a Shrinking Violet. At least, until she learns she doesn't need it.
• More Popular Spin Off: Of Grim & Evil, MUCH more popular than Evil Con Carne.
• Most Wonderful Sound: Grim's Evil Laugh. Greg Eagles doesn't hold back at all.

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• Never Live It Down: Mandy's smile only tore the fabric of reality apart once. She smiled (or at least smirked) in earlier episodes and nothing happened there. Yet fans treat it like it could happen if she ever smiled again. The video game is also guilty of enforcing this.
• No Problem with Licensed Games: The video game based on the series is a surprisingly fun beat-em-up style fighter with plenty of characters from the show, all voiced by their actual voice actors^note With the exception of Jack O'Lantern, who is voiced by Maurice LaMarche instead of Wayne Knight, though he does do a decent imitation, with "Weird Al" Yankovic as the announcer!
• One-Scene Wonder: The psychotic, Yandere bunny with a demonic voice that Pud'n wishes up in "Wishbones" is probably the most memorable part of the whole episode.
• Parody Displacement:
  • Dracula's voice is an impression of Fred Sanford from Sanford and Son, complete with a penchant for calling people "dummy". He is also drawn to look like an older version of Blacula, complete with early 70's sideburns and mustache.
  • Its parody of the H. P. Lovecraft mythos, "Prank Call of Cthulhu", must go over the heads of most young viewers as well.
• Questionable Casting: Gilbert Gottfried as Santa Claus. Then again, that was probably intentional, given the standards of the series.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • The episode “Mortal Dilemma” was written by Amy Keating Rogers, who, while a writer on The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, would later become far more recognized as one of the writers for My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
  • C.H. Greenblatt was a writer and storyboarder on this show, and provided the voice of recurring character Fred Fredburger. He would later go on to become a well-known creator himself, with the shows Chowder and Harvey Beaks under his belt.
  • One of Robin Atkin Downes' earliest voice roles was a Chocolate Sailor. He would later go on to voice the Medic in Team Fortress 2.
• Seasonal Rot: The final season is considered the weakest season, though Underfist is well-regarded.
• Self-Fanservice: Mandy gets a lot of fanart that depicts her as incredibly attractive despite her having no nose and characters in-Universe reacting to her as if she's hideous (she was once mistaken for "an angry tree stump"). The fandom is near-unanimous in its belief that she'll grow up to be an Hourglass Hottie, and often a goth chick as well.
  • Fans tend to depict Billy as more attractive than he canonically is, such as shrinking down his Gag Nose into something more normal looking.
• Signature Scene:
  • Pretty much all of "Little Rock of Horrors", a Musical Episode devoted to Voltaire singing "Brains". It's the best-known scene of original music in the series, and was popular enough to be adapted as the Final Boss fight of the video game.
  • Billy's "cinematic masterpiece" rant in "Aren't You Chupacabra To See Me?" gained attention due to being subjected to Memetic Mutation.
  • Mandy smiling and destroying all of reality in "My Fair Mandy". It was the climax of an episode released at the peak of the show’s popularity in 2005 and was such a shocking ending that it permanently entered the consciousness of the show’s perception (as evidenced by its Never Live It Down entry).
  • Fred Fredburger's Establishing Character Moment in "Keeper of the Reaper" turned him into an overnight Breakout Character and led to him becoming the mascot of Cartoon Network himself.
• They Changed It, So It Sucks: A relatively minor example. The creepy ending with the flames got changed to The Tag. Fans wished that it was always the first ending, however the tag scenes are generally well-regarded as well.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Alongside his Ensemble Dark Horse status, fair amount of fans think Jack O'Lantern should have gotten more appearances than just one in the Halloween Episode, usually with the belief that he had a lot of potential as a character and should've become a semi-occuring villain at the very least.
  • We also never get an inkling as to who's actually in charge of the Underworld, Satan or otherwise; the closest to that is Judge Roy Spleen. It would've been at least funny to see Grim being sent before his boss to explain why Billy and Mandy have so much power over their employee.
• Toy Ship: The work's title itself led some fans to ship Billy and Mandy, despite the fact the two have an incredibly twisted friendship.
• Unintentional Period Piece:
  • There were four episodes entirely devoted to parodying the Harry Potter movies, dating the show to at least the early 2000s.
  • While most of the cartoon has aged gracefully, it was very much a product of the mid-2000s, and that is reflected in a number of things:
    • The humor and tone are like Invader Zim taken up to eleven, with plenty of gore, Toilet Humor, and the absurd brand of comedy popular in that era, and that's not to mention some of the one-off episode gags. Eris was a '90s Valley Girl for her debut, for instance.
    • Wrath of the Spider Queen used the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movie font as a selling point.
    • One episode has Grim dealing with a Windows 98 pastiche computer, complete with dial-up internet.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic:
  • Jack O' Lantern. Yeah, he tried to ruin Halloween and chop Grim's head off, but can you blame him? The townsfolk framed him by sending a prank gift to the Queen and got him executed for pulling petty pranks, Grim cut his head off in retaliation for tricking him by tickling him with a feather, and now he can't live in a normal society without being seen as a pumpkin-headed freak.
  • Irwin is probably the biggest case. Is he a Stalker with a Crush? Yes. Is he a bit too clingy and needy? Yes. But his misfortune isn't just a case of bad karma; it's pretty much his purpose in the series to be relentlessly beaten, even when there's no call for it. Because of this, he goes from being just The Chew Toy to being The Woobie. Heck, Maxwell Atoms said that his role in the show was to be "needlessly punished" and that Underfist needed an "underdog" for its hero, hence why Irwin is the main protagonist (aside from him being a mummy-vampire, that is).
  • Trykie. While it did subject the other kids (and Grim) to pain and torment (including outright threatening Pud'n that it'll be back to finish the job), it was fairly harmless if still ominous when not provoked.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: Sperg's Mom. Though she is not the most egregious example of this, her comparatively more realistic look does clash with the more stylized look of the rest of the cast.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic:
  • How unintentional is up for debate, but Irwin, Pud'n, and Sperg in "Tricycle of Terror" could fall into this trope. While it could be argued that Billy was indeed too old to be riding a tricycle, this doesn't excuse the fact that all three of them sadistically mock him for it, with Sperg taking it a step further by giving Billy a brutal wedgie and then throwing "Trykie" off a cliff while Billy can only watch and beg helplessly. All three of them gloat about how good it felt after doing so (Pud'n even calls it "awesome"). When the haunted tricycle violently retaliates, they all have the nerve to expect sympathy from both Billy and the audience, with Pud'n obnoxiously calling Trykie a "mean old tricycle", conveniently ignoring the fact that they are all Asshole Victims who went out of their way to deserve their fate. It also doesn't help that Trikey, unlike Christine, didn't attack people for simply being close to Billy and only attacked Grim out of self-defense.
  • Mandy, most of the time. She has a few moments/episodes here and there where she's put in a position where she should be The Woobie. She's the Enfant Terrible Token Evil Teammate, though, and her actions towards others seem like a major case of Disproportionate Retribution, so it's almost impossible to feel something for her. In fact, some of her "Woobie" moments seem more like punishment for her actions.
• Values Dissonance: A mild example but "Billy and Mandy Save Christmas" uses the word "Eskimo," which is now considered derogatory toward Inuit people.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: Like nearly all of Cartoon Network's in-house programming (specifically those from the "Cartoon-Cartoon" era of shows), this show is a kids' cartoon on the outside, and on the inside, is packed with a lot of things that most normal channels wouldn't allow to touch children's animated shows. In the case of this show, it's Black Comedy, some mild sex and Toilet Humor, and disturbing imagery that makes Invader Zim look like G3 My Little Pony.
• The Woobie:
  • Billy, at times. While he can drive people up the wall, the fact people, especially Mandy, can be cruel to him on a regular basis, no one shows any concern for him when he is danger or needs help, and has two mentally unstable parents who can be at times neglectful to him, the guy deserves some sympathy.
  • Nergal Jr. is a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds. He just wants friends and love, but it almost never works out and he's the constant victim of bullying and bad luck. And seeing as he's an Eldritch Abomination, things can get ugly when he's hit his Rage Breaking Point.
  • Irwin's life is kinda sad, actually (crush on Mandy aside). He wants to be cool (but fails miserably), and some of the horrible things that happen to him happen for seemingly no reason. Add in the fact that he's usually not as much of a jerk as the other characters, is Adorkable in his own right, and that his crush on Mandy is probably Billy's fault (remember "Get Outta My Head!"?), and you've got a pretty solid candidate.
  • Gregory from "Grim or Gregory?" is hard not to feel sorry for. When Billy first mistakes him for Grim and calls him his buddy, he cries Tears of Joy, which implies he doesn't have friends of his own. It was also definitely a low point for Mandy to take all his Halloween candy and admit not to care about making him cry after she gave up on trying to prove to Billy that Gregory isn't Grim.

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