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| 13 | * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Once in a blue moon, they do express that they genuinely care for each other's wellbeing. Yes, even Mandy. |
| 14 | * ComicTrio: Mandy (leader), Billy (follower), Grim (complainer). |
| 15 | * HangingUpOnTheGrimReaper: The premise of the show is that Grim came for the soul of a pet hamster, and is accidentally stopped by precocious kids Billy and Mandy. Billy is so dumb and Mandy is so dark that they can't be intimidated by the Reaper, and they win Grim's service after beating him at limbo over the hamster. |
| 16 | * NiceMeanAndInbetween: Good-natured, happy-go-lucky Billy (nice), cynical, sadistic Mandy (mean), and surly, sane Grim (in-between). Later seasons often have Grim and Billy trade off their respective roles, as Grim tends to be laid-back and reasonable while Billy is oftentimes thoughtless and reckless when the situation calls for it. |
| 17 | * OnlyOneName: Much like most of the other characters in the show, their surnames are never revealed. Some episodes get close to it, but never outright reveal it. The exception is ''maybe'' Grim. |
| 18 | * OutOfFocus: In the GrandFinale ''WesternAnimation/{{Underfist}}'', they don't have a particularly big role. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as it was meant to be the pilot of a SpinOff series, but ultimately never became the case as Maxwell Atoms' contract had expired. |
| 19 | * PalsWithJesus: Billy and Mandy are two ordinary children who roped the Grim Reaper into becoming their best friend by beating him at a limbo contest. |
| 20 | * SmartJerkAndNiceMoron: Mandy and Billy, well Billy was a KindheartedSimpleton before [[TookALevelInJerkass taking a level]] of being the InsufferableImbecile. |
| 21 | * TerribleTrio: See [[VillainProtagonist Villain Protagonist]] below. |
| 22 | * VillainProtagonist: Grim is, well, TheGrimReaper, and Mandy is an overly opportunistic being bent on ruling the world. Billy [[TookALevelInJerkass turned into this as the series went on]], becoming a [[InsufferableImbecile selfish, destructive]], AxCrazy maniac by the series' end. |
| 23 | * VitriolicBestBuds: They're only best friends under obligation, and they're all prone to abusing each other at the drop of a hat (especially [[SmartJerkAndNiceMoron Mandy towards Billy]]), but they still hang with each other more than anyone else and will usually have the others' backs when necessary. Some episodes hint Billy and Mandy [[BelligerentSexualTension may be more than just this.]] |
| 24 | * WithFriendsLikeThese: They're all pretty terrible friends to each other. The premise of the show is already Billy and Mandy toying around with Grim, but Grim and Mandy are often verbally abusive towards Billy and can be completely indifferent to some of the plights he goes through, while Grim and Billy have a few moments of being cruel to Mandy when she isn't being cruel herself. |
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| 37 | ->''"What did I do to deserve this?"'' |
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| 39 | ->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/GregEagles (series), Creator/NeilKaplan (VideoGame/CartoonNetworkPunchTimeExplosion)[[labelnote:'''Other Languages''']]Sylvain Lemarié (French), Roger Storm (Swedish)[[/labelnote]] |
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| 41 | The GrimReaper, who is fated to be Billy and Mandy's "best friend" forever after losing a limbo contest to them. |
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| 43 | * AbusiveParents: DependingOnTheWriter; his mom always complains about his lack of enthusiasm for his job and his dad would never talk to him and always listened to country music. |
| 44 | * AcquaintedWithEmergencyServices: He has this relationship with the nursing staffs at the retirement homes when he comes for the elderly residents, as shown in Season 5 "Home of the Ancients". |
| 45 | -->'''Gloria''': Hi, Grim.\ |
| 46 | '''Grim''': S'up, Gloria?\ |
| 47 | '''Gloria''': Aw. Are you here for Mr. Silverman?\ |
| 48 | '''Grim''': No. That's next week. |
| 49 | * AffablyEvil: Is remarkably polite when he isn't putting his scythe to work or getting bossed around by the title characters. |
| 50 | * AffectionateNickname: In the Latin American dub where his name is changed to "Puro Hueso" (pure bone), Billy calls him "Huesitos" (little bones). |
| 51 | * TheAgeless: Looks no different from how he looked centuries ago due to being a living skeleton with no skin. |
| 52 | * AndIMustScream: Eternally a prisoner to Billy and Mandy. Can't violate his contract with them or else he'd ''then'' spend an eternity in the Underworld Prison. |
| 53 | * AntiHero: He's an anti-hero only when a greater evil threatens the world or Billy and Mandy. |
| 54 | * AntiVillain: He's not TheGrimReaper by choice, but because he was forced by his parents to be (though this does flip-flop around. One special revealed being a Reaper was being voted by your fellow students in ''high school''). He's also constantly getting his weight thrown around by Billy and Mandy. In fact, if he didn't suffer these two circumstances, he almost wouldn't be villainous at all. That's proven, as he's a fairly nice guy, whenever he's not on his job to take someone's life. |
| 55 | * BadassBoast: |
| 56 | ** "You don't know who you're messing with, man! I am TheGrimReaper!" |
| 57 | ** He had another good one in "Grim vs. Mom". |
| 58 | --->'''Grim:''' Foolish mortal! I don't think you know who I am. Let me give you a hint! (''Magics up his scythe'') |
| 59 | ** He has one in the middle of his NoRespectGuy rant in "Attack of the Clowns". |
| 60 | --->'''Grim:''' I'm the Grim Reaper, for goodness' sake! I used to have a chariot of 400 burning horses! My arrival on the scene would be a raging thunderclap of fear! |
| 61 | * BadassLongcoat: As expected of the Grim Reaper. |
| 62 | * BadlyBatteredBabysitter: His general function in the show is to suffer from having to look after Billy and Mandy. |
| 63 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: He's pretty nice when not reaping, though it has been made clear on several occasions that despite his attitude and butt monkey status to Billy and Mandy, he is not one to be trifled with when his patience is at an end. Just ask Jack O' Lantern. |
| 64 | * BizarreAlienBiology: While Grim is indeed a walking talking skeleton, some of the ways his body seems to function point to him not being a "normal" skeleton. For one, he has parents and was apparently "born" in some fashion, and is shown to have grown since he was at one point as small as a child. He can also eat - though RuleOfFunny determines whether it actually stays inside him or not - has organs, and can suffer from being stung by venomous creatures. There's also the question of whether he can be killed since there are times in the show when he takes threats to his life seriously, but on the other hand he at one point contracts "impending doom syndrome" which is thought to kill whomever catches it, but in Grim's case it actually ''brings him to life'' instead. In short, how Grim works is most likely DependingOnTheWriter at any given time. |
| 65 | * ButtMonkey: He's the biggest one of the trio. Just about everybody on the show treats him badly. This is mostly played in the first season, where most episodes were focused on making his life as miserable as possible, such as ''Opposite Day''. Later ones tend to downplay it in favor of other characters like Irwin, with him getting along better with Billy and his dad or even Mandy. It still comes in full force in some late seasons episodes, though, such as ''Be A-Fred, Be Very A-Fred'', where he is literally fired by executives. |
| 66 | * CantStandThemCantLiveWithoutThem: On several occasions when he is given the opportunity to be free of Billy and Mandy, he finds being without them even worse than being stuck with them. |
| 67 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: In the pilot, Grim was played up for spooks and light horror value until his defeat, and even in following episodes he expressed a desire to escape his eternal captivity and even tried [[WouldHurtAChild to get Billy & Mandy killed.]] Before you've even reached the halfway point of the series, he's become such a tremendous ButtMonkey that the narrative rarely takes him seriously until it's time to pull out his powers (if they even work), and he's shifted into a much more comical character that doesn't even take his job seriously anymore. [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Just don't push him too far.]] |
| 68 | * ConditionedToAcceptHorror: In ''Big Boogey Adventure'', he's able to get Horror's Hand, which requires someone to face their worst fears, because his worst fear is [[WithFriendsLikeThese having to spend time with Billy and Mandy]], which he has to do every day anyway. |
| 69 | * CreateYourOwnVillain: While it was Jack's own fault for his predicament, Grim giving enteral life at the cost of cutting his head off did indirectly caused Jack to play much worse pranks on Halloween night. Not only that, but Jack would later get a hold of Grim's scythe and causes destruction on Endsville. |
| 70 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: While being pushed around by Billy and Mandy, he still knows how to get the job done as the reaper and kick a mean can of ass. He can be legitimately frightening when he wants to be. |
| 71 | * DarkIsNotEvil: Zig-zagged. He may be a skeleton in a black cloak who collects people's souls when they die and occasionally helps speed up the procedure, but at the very least he's nowhere as evil as [[VillainProtagonist Mandy]]. |
| 72 | * DeadpanSnarker: He makes a lot of death jokes and underworld puns. He's also prone to making cutting remarks about Billy's idiocy. |
| 73 | * DeathIsALoser: He's portrayed as an unpopular sissy even before he becomes the kids' servant. In his past, it is shown he didn't even ''want'' to be the Grim Reaper, it was just something his parents forced him to do. He took up his role in full swing in order to terrify and get revenge on those who bullied him at school. |
| 74 | * DemBones: Grim is a living skeleton under his robes. More than once, the other two protagonists have been known to take him apart in order to carry him in a backpack or other small container. |
| 75 | * DependingOnTheWriter: In some episodes, he's shown to secretly care about Billy and Mandy and often protects them from harm. Other episodes, he legitimately wants them dead to be free of his contract. |
| 76 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: He said that if he lost the limbo contest against Billy and Mandy, he'd be their best friend forever. He never thought they would actually win. |
| 77 | * DimensionalCutter: He can open up portals to the underworld or other dimensions by simply ripping thin air with his scythe. |
| 78 | * DontFearTheReaper: Downplayed; he's an AffablyEvil PunchClockVillain who can be scary when he's ''reaping'' somebody but is otherwise a nice guy. |
| 79 | * TheDragon: Has to obey Mandy, who is evil and intent on world domination. |
| 80 | * DubNameChange: |
| 81 | ** In the Latin American version, from Grim Reaper to "Puro Hueso" (Pure Bone), mostly referred as Huesos (Bones) by the cast. He is also nicknamed "Huesitos" (Little Bones) affectionately by Billy. |
| 82 | ** In the Brazilian Portuguese version, his name is "Puro Osso", which means exactly the same thing, though unlike the Latin American version, everyone calls him just that, without nicknames. |
| 83 | ** He is known simply as "Calavera" (Skull) in the European Spanish dub, similarly without any nickname. |
| 84 | ** His name is "Haddi" (Bone) in [[DuelingDubs both]] Hindi dubs. |
| 85 | ** In the Romanian dubs, he is known as "Negri" which means "Black" in English. |
| 86 | * EmbarrassingMiddleName: The episode "Scary Poppins" reveals his is ''literally "Careful"''. |
| 87 | -->'''Billy''': Be careful, Grim.\ |
| 88 | '''Grim''': [[MetaphorIsMyMiddleName "Careful" is my middle name.]] [[NotHyperbole Oh, I never forgave Mom for that one…]] |
| 89 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Though he is easily described as [[AffablyEvil Affably Evil]] rather than [[LikableVillain a redeemed evil person]], he is indeed more normal and good-natured than both Mandy and Billy (though he is not as evil as Grim himself), especially because he was manipulated by Mandy into being her supposed slave. |
| 90 | * EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Even Mandy is sometimes taken aback by the macabre horror Grim finds delightful. |
| 91 | * EvilLaugh: Ah Ha, AH HA HA. AAAH HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAA |
| 92 | * EvilSoundsDeep: He speaks in a baritone Jamaican accent. |
| 93 | * FatalFlaw: His overconfidence in the pilot was what ended up causing him to serve Billy and Mandy. |
| 94 | * FateWorseThanDeath: Mentioned by Mandy in the form of a [[ToThePain To The Pain speech]], given to Grim himself, in "Pandora's Lunch Box": |
| 95 | -->'''Mandy''': ''(angrily grabbing Grim by the neck of his cloak)'' You're gonna tell it! Or so help me, ([[VoiceOfTheLegion amplified with rage]]) I will pull your stupid cloak ''through your eyes'' and use it as reins to ride your ''bony butt'' back to the darkest pits of the Underworld '''''from whence you came!''''' |
| 96 | -->'''Grim''': Okay, okay! ''(quietly)'' You little psychopath. |
| 97 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Melancholic. He's overly critical of Billy, gets angry when the two kids don't listen to him, and is often emotionally insecure. |
| 98 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: The flashback in “Wrath of the Spider Queen” depicts him as this. Back in middle school, he was a wimpy nerd who didn’t have a scary bone in his body and was constantly belittled by just about everyone, especially [[TheBully Boogey]]. But that changed when Boogey finally [[RageBreakingPoint pushed him over the edge]] by indirectly destroying his friendship with [[OnlyFriend Velma]] during the Reaper Election. |
| 99 | * GhostlyGlide: When his cloak is on, he'll usually move by gliding across the ground. When he's in a hurry, he'll occasionally split the lower half of his cloak into two separate legs and run normally. |
| 100 | * GlowingEyesOfDoom: Several times when he gets absolutely enraged, his eyes glow. |
| 101 | * TheGrimReaper: Obviously, he's the personification of death. |
| 102 | * HeroicComedicSociopath: Death amuses him, like when he laughs during a show when a patient flatlines, something that even Mandy looked sad to see. |
| 103 | * HeelFaceTurn: Subverted. After making the deal with Billy & Mandy, he's more of a follower than his own skeleton, but he was never very actively evil anyway and is still just as friendly and likely to hurt others as before. |
| 104 | * HiddenHeartOfGold: When he decides to save the kids during Nergal's first appearance, he insists it's not because he likes or misses them; he says he's just saving them now so he can eat them later. He often claims he hates his friends but it's made very clear he does care about them and in the end would not let them get hurt. He really is a pretty decent guy. |
| 105 | * HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: His childhood was…not bright. But it's PlayedForLaughs. |
| 106 | * HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: It is implied on several occasions that his given name actually is Grim and that his last name is Reaper. |
| 107 | * HotBlooded: Pretty often, he's shown to be quite emotional. |
| 108 | * HumanityEnsues: In "Night of the Living Grim", he becomes a mortal human after succumbing to Encroaching Doom Syndrome. [[StatusQuoIsGod The episode ends with him becoming a skeleton again]]. |
| 109 | * HypercompetentSidekick: The reason why Mandy wants to keep him and ditch Billy is that he's more intelligent and reasonable. |
| 110 | * HypocriticalHeartwarming: Quite a few times when it comes to Billy and Mandy, he saves them from someone trying to do something to them that he only finds okay when he's doing it to them. One of the best examples was in "Scythe 2.0": |
| 111 | -->'''Grim:''' You keep away from those kids! If ''anyone'' is going to have their heads, it's going to be ''me''! |
| 112 | * HypocriticalHumor: He often bluntly points out how stupid Billy is. And yet, it tended to hurt his feelings when Billy called him stupid for criticizing his favorite show. |
| 113 | * IAmBigBoned: A variation in the comics. Grim isn't thin. He's "delicately boned". |
| 114 | * ICallItVera: In "The Taking Tree", we learn that he calls his scythe "Jodie". |
| 115 | * TheKirk: More or less trying to survive being stuck with two insufferable children. |
| 116 | * KissedKeepsake: After Eris is tricked into kissing Grim, he says he never washed his face before and won't start doing it now. |
| 117 | * LargeHam: His Jamaican accent just emphasizes this trope, along with Greg Eagles' incredibly deep voice, making him one of the hammiest characters on the show. |
| 118 | * {{Lean and Mean}}: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]; he isn't REALLY lean[[note]]Actually, especially when he's human, he appears to be a [[FatBastard fat]] one[[/note]], but he can definitely be mean at times, though he's also more tall than [[TheNapoleon Mandy]]. |
| 119 | * {{Leitmotif}}: The tune that plays when he first arrives? It ''was'' a part of his underscore. Though it was played with less frequency as the first season progressed, before ultimately disappearing by the second. |
| 120 | * LostHimInACardGame: |
| 121 | ** He unwisely bet his own freedom when he challenged Billy and Mandy in a game of limbo for Billy’s dying hamster, Mr. Snuggles. |
| 122 | ** In “Who Killed Who?” we learn that [[spoiler:he lost his pet dog Lucky to Mrs. Doolan in a poker game.]] |
| 123 | * MistakenForPedophile: Heavily implied in "Duck!", where he gets arrested for removing his cloak in front of children while shouting "Look at my body!" in an attempt to explain to the children that he is incapable of passing gas. |
| 124 | * MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: He's always scheming to do this on Billy and Mandy so he can escape his enslaved position under them. [[spoiler: He succeeded in "Halls of Time" by allowing their sand clocks to stay upside down, but then he forgot to flip his own back up]]. |
| 125 | * MultipleChoicePast: His many flashbacks to his past seem pretty unreliable. Possibly parodied at one point as well--two of his proposed backstories ''directly contradict each other'' in such a way that would be impossible to HandWave, {{Retcon}} or even ignore outright[[note]]in one, he wanted to be a singer but his dad wanted him to be the Grim Reaper, while in the other his dad wanted him to sing while he wanted to become the Grim Reaper[[/note]]. |
| 126 | * MundaneUtility: In the online game "Zap to It!", the kids use magic from Grim's spellbook to clean up Billy's house after it becomes a mess. |
| 127 | * NeverMyFault: A subtle case, but still there. He resents Billy and Mandy for forcing him to be their friend, even though he wagered his freedom in their bet without any kind of prompting out of overconfidence. |
| 128 | * NiceGuy: When he's off the clock Grim is a pretty decent fellow. Heck, even while on the job he's [[AffablyEvil still a pretty laid back guy.]] |
| 129 | * NoRespectGuy: Even in the underworld, he gets no respect for his many duties as Reaper. And of course he's a slave to two children. |
| 130 | -->'''Grim:''' ''(talking about being stored in Mandy's backpack)'' Okay, we need to talk about this backpack thing. It's very demeaning. I'm the Grim Reaper, for goodness' sake! I used to have a chariot of 400 burning horses! My arrival on the scene would be a raging thunderclap of fear! Now it's "Hey, have you seen Grim?" "Yeah, I think he's wedged between a history textbook and a tuna fish sandwich!" And I'm pretty sure the guys are in the Underworld accounting been laughing at me behind my back. Those guys are turbo nerds! I bet none of 'em even had a date since the 1800's. Hear that, you dateless turbo nerds!?! I'm on to you! |
| 131 | * NoSell: Pepper spray doesn't affect him because he doesn't have any eyes. |
| 132 | * NotSoAboveItAll: He tends to get swept up in Billy and Mandy's antics pretty regularly. |
| 133 | * OddFriendship: |
| 134 | ** He actually manages to bond with Billy quite a bit. |
| 135 | ** He and Mandy share a dark and macabre sense of humor, helping them to get along at times. |
| 136 | * OnlySaneMan: Despite being an all-powerful supernatural being hanging around a suburban neighborhood, he is much more grounded and stable than every other character. |
| 137 | * ParentalSubstitute: For Billy. Both of his parents are alive, but his dad is an idiot and his mom is not the most mentally sound, so Billy respects and admires Grim much more than either of them. He cooks and cleans for him and is quite fussy about him doing his homework, but also provides an actually respectful adult male figure in his life. Billy even says in one episode that Grim is his idol, and Grim in turn occasionally displays outright fatherly affection for him. |
| 138 | * PhraseCatcher: "Bonehead." |
| 139 | * PhysicalGod: He's the Grim Reaper, after all, so of course he would possess immortality and great powers. |
| 140 | * PunchClockVillain: As he himself once stated, he's just doing his job. He's also very friendly when not doing so. After all he rarely reaps people's souls before it is their time anyway. |
| 141 | * RageBreakingPoint: Normally subservient and kind even when being bossed around, he ''does'' have limits though; when he's finally had enough and loses it, even Mandy herself often won't mess with him. |
| 142 | ** The ultimate example of this is his revenge against Boogey in "Wrath of the Spider Queen". After Boogey indirectly ruins his only friendship, he is so overcome by rage that his revenge terrifies everyone at his school, which ends up winning him the Reaper Election. |
| 143 | --->'''Grim:''' BOOGEY! This is ''all your fault!'' |
| 144 | * RandomEffectSpell: Blasts from Grim's scythe can have all sorts of weird effects. In "Goodbling and the Hip-Hop-Opotamus", a stray scythe blast hits Principal Goodvibes and turns him into a gold-toothed, bling-wearing, TotallyRadical rapper. |
| 145 | * RealityWarper: With his scythe, he can cause all sorts of things to happen. |
| 146 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: He was a little kid during the Stone Age. |
| 147 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: His BlackCloak is red on the inside. |
| 148 | * ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Depends on the episode, but he'll quite often scream in a high-pitched and feminine voice when he's scared. |
| 149 | * SeveredHeadSports: Has been subjected to this by Mandy a time or two. |
| 150 | * ShipperOnDeck: He teasingly ships Billy and Mandy occasionally. In "The Bubble with Billy", he even tries to get Mandy to flirt with Billy to get him to cough up the supernatural gum he swallowed. |
| 151 | * SinisterScythe: His scythe can do just about anything...except whack the weeds in Skarr's garden. |
| 152 | * SociopathicHero: He doesn't like conversing with humans, much less saving them. |
| 153 | * SupportPartyMember: In the online game ''VideoGame/TheFrightBeforeChristmas'', Grim's role is to use various vacuum cleaning devices to suck up the parts of destroyed evil toys, which can be traded in for stronger weapons between levels. |
| 154 | * TragicVillain: PlayedForLaughs. He didn't become TheGrimReaper by choice, but because his parents wanted him to... [[MultipleChoicePast sometimes]]. Afterwards, he became a PersonOfMassDestruction. He also softens after the deal with Billy and Mandy. |
| 155 | * TallDarkAndSnarky: He is really tall, wears a black cloak, and isn't above making snide remarks toward Billy and Mandy. |
| 156 | * TooDumbToLive: If he never wagered his own freedom, he wouldn't have to put up with Billy and Mandy. The only thing he would've lost would've been an opportunity to collect a hamster's soul. |
| 157 | * UnexplainedAccent: Grim's Jamaican accent. His grandmother also has one and has a Jamaican look to her to boot. |
| 158 | ** As mentioned under VocalEvolution, Greg Eagles attempted a Swedish accent as a reference to ''Film/TheSeventhSeal''. What it ended up sounding like was some odd combination of Swedish and something vaguely Jamaican. However, everyone thought that was actually pretty funny, and rolled with Grim having an unexplained accent. |
| 159 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: |
| 160 | ** He was indirectly responsible for Trick-or-Treating as he gave Jack eternal life at the price of his head being cut off. This would later bite back as Billy indirectly gave the scythe to Jack to cause mayhem on Endsville and almost cost Grim his own head off. |
| 161 | ** It was also him losing to Billy and Mandy in the first episode that Jack was able to get his hands onto the scythe as Grim let Billy take it for Halloween. |
| 162 | * VillainProtagonist: A surprisingly downplayed example, since he shows his evil side sporadically and often (but not always) after being provoked. |
| 163 | * VillainsOutShopping: Whenever he isn't ordered to kill someone, he lives a perfectly normal life. |
| 164 | * VocalEvolution: In the pilot, his accent is less Jamaican and more Swedish with a hint of Transylvanian (likely a reference to ''Film/TheSeventhSeal''). It becomes consistently Jamaican in the series proper. |
| 165 | * WellDoneSonGuy: While his backstory is a bit fluid, "Dad Day Afternoon" presents him as this, desperate to earn the approval of a father who loved country rock music more than him. |
| 166 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Horror's Hand is useless against him because he already experiences his worst fear every single day: being with Billy and Mandy. |
| 167 | * WillfullyWeak: Deliberately avoids abusing his powers to prevent causing problems. Unfortunately for him, that's exactly what Billy and Mandy end up doing. |
| 168 | * WouldHurtAChild: He's been shown planning ways of escaping his deal with Billy and Mandy, typically by killing them in unusual ways. |
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| 179 | ->''"You don't always have to solve your problems by fighting. They can be solved by talking things out. Or by buying expensive gifts."'' |
| 180 | |
| 181 | ->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/RichardStevenHorvitz (series), Creator/QuintonFlynn (VideoGame/CartoonNetworkPunchTimeExplosion)[[labelnote:'''Other Languages''']]Michel Mella (French), Anders Öjebo (Swedish)[[/labelnote]] |
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| 183 | A [[TheDitz dim-witted]] boy who [[LethallyStupid frequently causes problems]] due to [[TooDumbToLive his idiocy.]] Nonetheless, he's usually [[KindheartedSimpleton the most innocent and happy-go-lucky of the trio.]] |
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| 185 | * AbsurdPhobia: In "Billy and Mandy's Big Boogie Adventure", Billy is shown to be not only afraid of spiders and clowns, but ''the mailman'' as well. |
| 186 | * AbusiveParents: To his "son", the giant spider, Jeff. (Semi-justified in that Billy is extremely stupid and has an irrational fear of spiders.) Billy tries his best to squish Jeff including sending an exterminator to crush him beneath a huge cowboy boot, throwing furniture onto him, and cutting the brake cables in his car. |
| 187 | --> '''Jeff:''' ''(as Billy is jabbing him in the eyes with a broomstick)'' Why won't you love me, Dad?! I'll be anything you want me to be!\ |
| 188 | '''Billy:''' I ''WANT YOU'' TO BE ''DEAD!'' |
| 189 | * AcquaintedWithEmergencyServices: In Season 2 "Educating Grim", when Billy tries to race Grim and Mandy to school, he immediately runs into the school's front sign. Cue Nurse Penbroke walking outside holding first-aid kits looking annoyed. After Billy and Mandy leave school, Billy is already covered in bandages and walking with a crutch. When Nurse Penbroke [[StepfordSmiler happily]] waits outside for Billy, he tells her he's done for today and then she releases an exhausted sigh. |
| 190 | -->'''Nurse Penbroke''': Oh, Billy.\ |
| 191 | '''Billy''': ''(cheerfully)'' Hi, Nurse Penbroke. I can't feel my legs. |
| 192 | * ActionSurvivor: He’s an adolescent boy with no real powers, but often escapes problems with his life. Usually. This is much more prominent earlier on in the show than later. |
| 193 | * AllLovingHero: Unless you're a spider or a clown or a mailman, in which case he'll try to murder you, Billy is surprisingly adept at befriending pretty much everybody, and has succeeded in ending conflicts nonviolently several times. |
| 194 | * AmbiguouslyBi: He has feelings for girls, but he also doesn't seem to mind the idea of having Grim be more than his "friend". |
| 195 | * AmbiguouslyJewish: His family apparently celebrates Hanukkah in addition to Christmas, though the way he says it makes it sound like an excuse to get more presents. |
| 196 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Billy's three greatest fears are spiders, clowns, and the mailman, with the greatest fear of them all being a [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs spider/clown/mailman hybrid]]. |
| 197 | * AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: In ''A Kick in the Asgard'', he was such a good fighter that even the likes of Thor and Odin feared him, and is revealed to have become the ruler of Asgard in TheStinger of the episode. |
| 198 | * AxCrazy: Almost always. It's usually at its worst when he's dealing with something like clowns or Jeff. |
| 199 | * BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: It’s much more prominent following Billy’s {{Flanderization}}. Everyone notes he’s a horrible caretaker for animals, as Jeff, Porkchop, Jed, and even Milkshakes can prove. |
| 200 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: Billy is often the dumbest character on the show and is the [[{{Pun}} silly-billy]], but he has been shown to have bouts of psychotic rage that manage to scare even Mandy. [[spoiler: Just ask Grim when a shapeshifter makes Billy jealous. And by jealous, we mean so overcome with envious rage that he goes absolutely ape and pummels Grim within an inch of his immortal life. Twice.]] |
| 201 | * BigEater: He loves stuffing his face with chocolate, tacos, sandwiches, burgers, pizza, cookies, and more. He apparently inherited this trait from his dad. He probably avoids getting fat like his dad by burning it off with his hyperactive running. |
| 202 | * BizarreTasteInFood: Hot buttered sweat socks are a favorite. |
| 203 | * BlackBeadEyes: One of the few characters on the show who has eyes represented as black beads. |
| 204 | * BodyHorror: He did this in more than one episode. |
| 205 | * BrattyHalfPint: He can sometimes become an obnoxious pest. |
| 206 | * BreakTheCutie: Depending on the day, he’ll fall into this. Best exemplified in ''My Peeps'' and ''Attack of the Clowns''. |
| 207 | * BumblingSidekick: While he has moments of surprising insight or competence, he generally functions as a dim-witted lackey to either Grim or Mandy. |
| 208 | * ButNotTooForeign: {{Implied}}. His paternal grandfather spoke in a vague Irish/Scottish accent. He also seems to have some traces of Japanese ancestry as shown in ''Billy Gets An A''. |
| 209 | * ButtMonkey: He gets a lot of physical abuse. |
| 210 | * ChaoticStupid: Billy has been called as the ''true'' lord of chaos and destruction as he has no logical thought process, no restraints, and no stability whatsoever. More than any other character he can alternate between almost every single role (that his idiocy and insanity allow him) depending on his whims because he has no internal consistency. He can be a HeroicWannabe, a bully wannabe, a peace bringer, a warmonger, an AxCrazy maniac, a literal pet, a gum machine, a conniving lawyer, and a yogurt creator all in a day's work. That is why he is the protagonist most fitting to [[CrapsackWorld the show's]] [[WorldOfWeirdness setting]]. He is just as random as the surreal world that he is inhabiting. |
| 211 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: At the beginning of the series, Billy's a bit dopey, but manages to hold his own in some dangerous situations and comes off more as just a well-meaning kid lacking common sense and looking for fun things to do. By the end of the series, he colossally TookALevelInDumbass to the point of being so stupid that the laws of reality itself occasionally give up when he's around, and DependingOnTheWriter can even out-{{Jerkass}} ''Mandy''. |
| 212 | * CheerfulChild: He rarely has outbursts of rage, but when he does, his happy attitude goes away really fast. |
| 213 | * ChildhoodFriends: He's known Mandy since they were toddlers. |
| 214 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He will spout stuff that makes no sense except to him and maybe Irwin. |
| 215 | * ComicallyMissingthePoint: Billy was once asked a question by Milkshakes about a train leaving Chicago, but he kept changing the subject about things unrelated to the question, like the kind of train, and the train being full of clowns, driving Milkshakes crazy. |
| 216 | * CordonBleughChef: In an early episode he dreamed that he made cookie dough out of assorted junk food, then ate it raw because [[NoodleIncident he wasn't allowed to use the oven anymore]]. He also apparently eats his cereal with chili and makes his waffles with pickles. One episode has him simply put a ''live turtle'' between two pieces of bread and proudly proclaim "Now that's-a what I call a sandwich!". |
| 217 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Billy may be an idiot, but he can come up with a surprisingly effective plan once in a while. |
| 218 | ** He is shown to dance well, defeat multiple enemies in combat - sometimes without even touching them - and is prone to simple-minded wisdom that actually make a whole lot of sense. |
| 219 | ** He was able to take on an entire alien fleet by himself, and even [[PhysicalGod Grim]] and [[TinyTyrannicalGirl Mandy]] run from him in fear when he's angry. He's a moron, but he's also a very competent badass when he wants to be. |
| 220 | ** In "Secret Snake Club", he actually becomes a CIA agent, tracking down a fugitive and exposing [[spoiler: Irwin's plans with the macrame club]]. |
| 221 | ** He singlehandedly defeated all of Asgard, Odin, and the rest of the pantheon included, and he did it with a smile on his face the entire time. |
| 222 | ** He came up with a scheme to pass the President's fitness test by having Junior turn into a shapeshifting pair of pants he can wear. Even Mandy acknowledges that it was a good idea. |
| 223 | ** He also tried to help Hoss Delgado fight a group of zombies with nothing but a stick. Keyword, ''tried'', but he survived unscathed. |
| 224 | ** His scheme to steal Mandy's raw nerve was remarkably clever for him: he got Grim's cooperation by pointing out that a cowardly Mandy would be unable to bully him and got the nerve to allow him to swallow it by bribing it with an egg roll that happened to be a combo of its two favorite flavors. |
| 225 | ** When he gets sent to military school at the end of ''Guess What's Coming to Dinner?'', as some pointed out from the design of his helmet, before he [[DownerEnding gets executed by firing squad for attempted desertion]], he reaches the rank of corporal. |
| 226 | ** In "Keeper of the Reaper," he successfully builds a court case against Mandy when they have a custody battle over who gets to keep Grim and gets half the jurors to side with him. Granted, coming across as more likable than [[HatesEveryoneEqually Mandy]] isn't very hard. |
| 227 | * CuddleBug: At times, he will want to give out a hug. |
| 228 | * DependingOnTheWriter: Whether he's an honest-to-goodness NiceGuy who is simply so stupid that he's often InnocentlyInsensitive or a bratty JerkWithAHeartOfGold varies from episode to episode. |
| 229 | * TheDitz: His IQ is [[ExaggeratedTrope -5]], being outperformed in the test by a shovel and two candy bracelets (they got a positive 17). |
| 230 | * DumbassHasAPoint: Very commonly chimes in to point out the flawed logic in Mandy or Grim's thinking, only to be dismissed as an idiot. |
| 231 | * DumbIsGood: Played with. While his idiocy gives him a childish innocence that allows him to befriend even the most horrible monsters and act unambiguously heroic much more frequently than the other two, [[ChaoticStupid his complete lack of self-control and extremely destructive tendencies]] led him to be arguably the ''most'' dangerous of the three. |
| 232 | * DysfunctionalFamily: He doesn’t have a grand home life. His father is just as much of a moron and will regularly sell him out and leave him for all kinds of trouble while his mother is insane and goes frantic for the littlest of reasons. And if Billy Idiot is anything to go by, Harold himself had a terrible childhood. |
| 233 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: In the original short, ''Billy and Mandy in: Trepanation of the Skull and You'', Billy is taller and has a more proportional design, with his cap being bigger and his nose being smaller. |
| 234 | * EveryoneHasStandards: Even he thinks Fred Fredburger is annoying, at least in his first appearance. Everything after that features Billy getting amazed by his antics. |
| 235 | * EvilerThanThou: Or, at least, Meaner Than Thou. Whereas Mandy is still pretty nasty and unpleasant to everyone around her, she is still scared of this boy whatsoever. |
| 236 | * ExtremeOmnivore: He enjoys eating boogers, toenail clippings, and (it's heavily implied) cat and dog poo, the last of which he actually uses as steak sauce. |
| 237 | * {{Flanderization}}: Went from being a KindheartedSimpleton from seasons 1 to 4 and now into an InsufferableImbecile who is a selfish, AxCrazy maniac in seasons 5 to 6. |
| 238 | * FieryRedhead: He has red hair and can get pretty frightening when he's angry. |
| 239 | * FluffyTamer: His specialty is befriending supernatural horrors that help the trio out in a pinch. |
| 240 | * ForcefulKiss: Gives Mandy one of these in ''Ecto Cooler''. Noticeably, she doesn’t try to beat him for it, suggesting there may be more about the two than what’s let on. |
| 241 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Sanguine. He's often overly optimistic, good-natured, and will frequently help people that he knows are having problems. |
| 242 | * FreudianExcuse: ''Underfist'' reveals that his fear of spiders was due to Bun-Bun repeatedly dangling spiders in his crib. |
| 243 | ** Also, considering how his father is just as much of an idiot as he is and his mother is often mentally unstable, it's safe to declare that Billy most certainly isn't the way he is without reason. |
| 244 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: Both Grim and Mandy are dismissive of him because of his stupidity, and Irwin is an unreliable friend who almost seems to hang out with him just because he likes Mandy. Since Billy usually likes everyone, while Grim and Mandy tend to dislike most people (including their friends), Billy is on the receiving end of this trope the most. |
| 245 | * FriendToAllLivingThings: Although in the case of spiders, he doesn't love them back. |
| 246 | * FutureBadass: In ''Big Boogey Adventure''. Most notably, in the five minutes of screentime he gets, he almost never says or does a single dumb thing. In fact, he somehow managed to time travel back in time without the use of a nearby inoperable Time Gate. And this is [[TheDitz Billy]] we're talking about. It makes one wonder what did Mandy do to make Billy become this way... Not a dumb thing apart from his last words. |
| 247 | -->[[spoiler:'''Billy''': I should have known it was you all along]]. |
| 248 | * TheGadfly: Oh, yes. Best exemplified in Skarr’s debut episode in the show, where he goads him into returning to the life of crime. It works until Mandy steps in. |
| 249 | * GagNose: Has a bulbous pink nose that is often bruised or even knocked off his face. His dad and paternal grandfather also have this. One episode even gave it focus. |
| 250 | * {{Gasshole}}: Lampshaded by his mom, his first words were in fact gas attacks. |
| 251 | * GleefulAndGrumpyPairing: The continuously happy, cheerful, and naïve Gleeful to Mandy's Grumpy. |
| 252 | * HeManWomanHater: He insists that Mandy and other girls not be allowed on his baseball team... despite them soundly being better at it than he is. Even having Mindy outperform his team didn't change Billy's mind, leading to Mandy and Grim discussing whether they should hang a lampshade or not. They decide [[TheDitz Billy]] is not worth that trouble. |
| 253 | * HeroicBastard: In the episode "Billy and Mandy Begins", Billy mentions that he was born shortly before his parents got married. However, at times, he falls into the [[BastardBastard opposite trope.]] |
| 254 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: He is shown to be close friends with Irwin. |
| 255 | * HiddenDepths: |
| 256 | ** He's occasionally surprisingly persuasive for an idiot. |
| 257 | ** Despite his immense stupidity, he's got an excellent vocabulary. |
| 258 | ** In "The Bubble with Billy", he claims that he's complex and multi-layered and somehow managed to have his own autobiography published. |
| 259 | * {{Hypocrite}}: In "The Bad News Ghouls", he repeatedly refuses to let Mandy join his baseball team against Mindy, stating that girls can't play baseball, even though Mindy is also a girl. |
| 260 | * IdiotHero: Far more traditionally heroic than [[TokenEvilTeammate Mandy]] and [[AffablyEvil Grim]], but also much more idiotic and twice as destructive. |
| 261 | * IdiotHoudini: If he causes trouble, he’ll rarely get punished for it. |
| 262 | * IHaveNoSon: Ignores Jeff’s existence and generally treats him with full hatred. It turns out the reason behind this came from a dangling spider that Bun-Bun put in his crib when Billy was a baby. |
| 263 | * ImprobablyLowIQ: -5. Again, a shovel and two candy bracelets are smarter than he is. |
| 264 | * InformedJudaism: The Christmas episode states he's Jewish, but it's never brought up again. |
| 265 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: Whenever he insults Grim, it's mostly when he's acting as Mandy's parrot. On his own, he usually speaks highly of Grim, but also acts like a spoiled and bratty kid. |
| 266 | * InsufferableImbecile: Starts off as a KindheartedSimpleton, but becomes more selfish and AxCrazy as the series goes on, due to combining insanity with stupidity, and in [[DependingOnTheWriter some]] of his worst JerkassBall moments, he can even rival Mandy. |
| 267 | * IronButtmonkey: Suffers a lot of horrific injuries he somehow recovers from to the point that he could be considered TheChewToy of the show. |
| 268 | * JerkassBall: As with Mandy, Billy has his moments of being insensitive and rude, too. |
| 269 | * JerkassHasAPoint: In "Wrath of the Spider Queen", Billy delivers a massive KickTheDog [[BreakTheCutie soul-crushing rant]] to Jeff where he tries to convey just how much he hates the spider. It was incredibly excessive compared to what triggered it but Billy did raise the point that somehow Jeff ''still'' hadn't figured out the depths of just how much Billy hates spiders. |
| 270 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's somewhat insensitive and unempathetic but his heart is definitely in the right place. |
| 271 | * {{Keet}}: He's always excited. |
| 272 | * KickTheDog: Played VERY MUCH for laughs regarding his interactions with Skarr in the latter's debut in ''Skarred for Life'', as the latter genuinely wants to ''try'' and live a normal life, only for Billy to shame him for doing so to the point where he starts crying and then successfully tempt him into returning to his old ways by convincing him to steal Grim's scythe, and if it isn't clear before, this is all done on purpose by him. |
| 273 | * KindheartedSimpleton: Downplayed, while he causes a lot of trouble, it's more often out of his stupidity rather than malice. He generally comes off as well-intentioned. |
| 274 | * LackOfEmpathy: Especially apparent when interacting with his "son", Jeff, not noticing or caring that Jeff loves him and only wants his love to be reciprocated. Somewhat justified, as Jeff is a giant spider, and Billy is terrified of spiders, but Billy's fear tends to manifest more as physical aggression and loathing than cowering away, making Billy less sympathetic in light of Jeff's unconditional love for his "father". |
| 275 | * LargeHam: Practically a given since he’s voiced by Creator/RichardHorvitz. So much, he’d be a staple of the man’s career. |
| 276 | * LesserOfTwoEvils: If Grim had a choice, he would rather not be stuck with either of the children, but he seems to slightly prefer Billy, who is nicer to him than Mandy, even if he's a complete idiot who causes mayhem and destruction everywhere he goes. |
| 277 | * LethalChef: He's a horrible cook who can make sandwiches thick enough to fracture Grim's skull and teeth and makes chili that can erase your nose and mouth. |
| 278 | * LethallyStupid: ''Everything'' Billy does within the show will inevitably result in mass destruction and chaos, especially when magical artifacts like Grim's scythe are involved. You’d think Mandy and Grim would’ve caught on in later episodes and keep him close to them. |
| 279 | * LikeParentLikeChild: He's both stupid (like his father) and mentally unstable (like his mother). |
| 280 | * MadeOfIron: He has suffered many injuries throughout the show's run (several of which result in his skin being torn open) and absolutely none of them were permanent. A few of his injuries involve ''having his entire face being blown or torn off''! |
| 281 | * MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Most of the amusing injuries he sustains, he makes little to no reaction to any of them, which isn't really much of a surprise since he's probably too stupid to realize he got injured. |
| 282 | * MeaningfulName: His name means "desire". |
| 283 | * TheMentallyDisturbed: He does the unusual combo of being both moronic and completely insane. |
| 284 | * MoralityPet: |
| 285 | ** For [[AntiHero Mandy]]. When she's not bullying him or helping him for her own personal gain, she treats him as a scolding mother would treat her son. |
| 286 | ** He's also one to [[SociopathicHero Grim]], who seems almost affectionate towards him at times. |
| 287 | ** He's one to [[spoiler: [[AntiVillain Mrs. Claus]] in the ChristmasEpisode, after apparently being the only person in centuries to offer her any help with her multiple duties at the North Pole (without messing up). In fact, Billy's the one who stops her from taking over the world by appealing to her humanity, and by turning Santa back to normal and getting him to apologize for dumping all the work on her.]] |
| 288 | * MotorMouth: Of the Turbocharged V-12 variety. [[Creator/RichardStevenHorvitz RSH]] really shows off his speed-talking skills when Billy ''really'' gets going. |
| 289 | * TheMcCoy: Stupid and impulsive. |
| 290 | * NakedPeopleAreFunny: Billy is a fairly common victim of this trope. The episode "That's My Mummy" is an episode that does this thrice. |
| 291 | * NeverMyFault: In "Billy and Mandy's Jacked-Up Halloween", he indirectly causes all the conflict because he borrowed Grim's scythe, but blatantly shirks responsibility after Jack O'Lantern is defeated and Grim gets his scythe back. He is just too stupid to understand that what he says makes him guilty as well. |
| 292 | -->'''Billy''': You know, Grim, none of this would have happened if you didn't loan me the scythe in the first place. |
| 293 | * NoodleIncident: What caused his fear of clowns and the mailman? We discover why he’s so afraid of spiders in the GrandFinale, but never the other two. |
| 294 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: When Billy takes Mandy's raw nerve, he gleefully abuses Grim, implying that a lack of courage was the only thing that stopped him from doing so before (though it's also possible that the nerve also influenced his overall disposition since it was ''Mandy's''). He also has an "inner frat boy" that advises him to beat the crap out of anything he doesn't understand. |
| 295 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: Some episodes hint that Billy’s much smarter than he lets on. |
| 296 | * ObliviouslyEvil: Sure he "abuses" his "son" Jeff despite the latter's attempts to flatter him, but that's only because Billy has irrational and psychotic arachnophobia. ''Underfist'' reveals that this was the result of [[spoiler: the true antagonist dangling spiders in front of Billy when he was a baby ForTheEvulz]]. |
| 297 | * OddFriendship: He's a complete moron whose two closest friends are an obscenely dark and nihilistic girl and the humanoid personification of death. |
| 298 | * OffingTheOffspring: He repeatedly tries to murder a giant spider named Jeff who considers Billy his father. |
| 299 | -->'''Jeff:''' ''(as Billy is jabbing him in the eyes with a stick)'' Why won't you love me, Dad? I can be anything you want me to be! |
| 300 | -->'''Billy:''' I want you to be ''dead!'' |
| 301 | * OneManArmy: He's occasionally shown to be almost disturbingly powerful when angry, to the point where even Mandy is terrified of him. |
| 302 | * OnlyFriend: He appears to be the only person Mandy actively hangs out with. |
| 303 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His actual name is William, but everyone just calls him Billy. |
| 304 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: If he ''ever'' drops his happy-go-lucky attitude and endearing dimwittedness, there is only one thing you can do: '''''RUN.''''' |
| 305 | * PinkGirlBlueBoy: The blue boy to Mandy's pink girl. He wears blue jeans and a shirt with a blue stripe on it, while Mandy wears a pink dress. |
| 306 | * PlatonicLifePartners: With Mandy. They have been best friends, [[WithFriendsLikeThese if you can call them friends]], since they were infants. |
| 307 | * ThePollyanna: The episode "The Crass Unicorn" has Billy chronicle his daily experience. It's surprisingly depressing. Not that he notices. His life is honestly pretty horrible, but he remains a blissfully oblivious idiot regardless. Somewhat deconstructed in that in the same episode it is shown that Billy is fully aware of how horrible his life is and it bothers him greatly to the point of acting out in an insane fashion or trying to force others to be happy just so they cannot ruin his happiness anymore. |
| 308 | * RapidFireYes: He would often respond with "yeahyeahyeahyeah..." when he's excited. |
| 309 | * RedHeadedHero: He has a shock of red hair underneath his baseball cap. |
| 310 | * RedOniBlueOni: He's the red oni to Mandy's blue oni. He is impulsive and emotional while Mandy's responsible and stoic. Also an inverted case of SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl. |
| 311 | * {{Scotireland}}: It’s only hinted in ''Billy Idiot'', but his grandfather spoke with a vaguely Irish/Scottish accent. |
| 312 | * ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: His screams sound girly. |
| 313 | * ShesNotMyGirlfriend: Says this word by word when Grim assumed such about him and Mandy in the second episode. |
| 314 | * SimpleMindedWisdom: He makes intelligent observations this more often than he should, making you second guess his stupidity. |
| 315 | * SimpletonVoice: Not only is Billy extremely stupid, but his voice sounds so too. |
| 316 | * SmarterThanYouLook: Make no mistake, Billy is genuinely as stupid as he comes across but he's typically more tuned in to things than he appears. |
| 317 | * SmartJerkAndNiceMoron: The Nice Moron to Mandy’s Smart Jerk. He’s a dim-witted but ultimately nice kid who only seems to have hard feelings towards the bully Sperg and his “son” Jeff (who is a spider, [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes which he is terrified of]]). |
| 318 | * StrawLoser: Both Grim and Mandy often comment about how dumb Billy is, and how he makes them more intelligent in comparison. |
| 319 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: He looks a lot like a miniature version of his father and grandfather. |
| 320 | * SupportPartyMember: In the online game ''VideoGame/TheFrightBeforeChristmas'', Billy's role is to use items that stop or slow down the hordes of evil toys, making them easier for Mandy to slaughter. He can throw popsicles that freeze toys for a few seconds, flaming chestnuts that incinerate ground-bound toys, or magnets that force toys to stick to each other and make them easier to hit. |
| 321 | * TearOffYourFace: Regularly a victim of this. In fact, he’s the ImageSource. |
| 322 | * TheyKilledKennyAgain: Out of the main trio, he’s usually the one who gets killed and by next episode, he comes back like nothing happened. |
| 323 | * TokenGoodTeammate: The only truly nice member of the main trio. It’s much more prominent earlier on than later. |
| 324 | * TooDumbToLive: At his stupidest, he has absolutely no sense of self-preservation. One standout example was when he got turned into chocolate and kept [[{{autocannibalism}} eating himself]]. |
| 325 | * TookALevelInDumbass: By the end of the show, Billy's become an Epic-Level dumbass. [[DopeSlap Must be from all those blows to the head from Mandy]]. |
| 326 | * TookALevelInJerkass: In addition to becoming incredibly stupid, he’s become a lot more aggressive in later episodes. |
| 327 | * TooSpicyForYogSothoth: The one and only time Eris attempts to use him as an agent of spreading chaos ends with her having a nervous breakdown. To put it simply: Billy is too ChaoticStupid for the ''Goddess of Chaos'' to handle. |
| 328 | * UncannyFamilyResemblance: His father, paternal aunt, grandfather, and grandmother all have a GagNose like him (though in Aunt Sis's case it's not pink). In an episode where he gets stuck in prehistoric times and falls in love with a cavegirl, it's shown in the present that ''everyone'' has his nose as a result of being his descendant. |
| 329 | * UnexplainedAccent: In the Traditional Chinese dub, he has a Taiwanese accent but most other main characters (including and especially Grim) speak Putonghua without any strong accents. |
| 330 | * UnintentionallyKarmic: His unintentional torment of Grim may not be completely deserved, but when it comes to his new next-door neighbor, retired villainous general Skarr, the destruction and meltdowns he brings are indeed karmic. |
| 331 | * UnstoppableRage: When he's in this mode, even ''Mandy'' is scared of him. He more or less becomes the most powerful character on the show when in this state, as he always curbstomps his opponent. |
| 332 | * UnwittingPawn: At times, he helps the MonsterOfTheWeek unknowingly despite it being apparent that they’re not good people. |
| 333 | * VillainProtagonist: The mildest example of the three, though it must be said that he can be as horrible as Mandy towards Grim and the whole world though most often in a mindless way. He usually gets a pass due to being mentally stunted and can be harmless when he isn't actively AxCrazy. He's also the only one of the three who ever has heroic motivations, though he tends to do more harm than good when acting on them. |
| 334 | * VocalEvolution: His voice became much more nasal later on. |
| 335 | * WhoEvenNeedsABrain: The meteor monster in "Little Rock of Horrors" finds that it can't eat his brain since he doesn't seem to have one. |
| 336 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: |
| 337 | ** Hates bugs and spiders with a passion, which creates some rift between him and Jeff, a spider who sees Billy as his father due to hatching his egg. |
| 338 | ** ''Billy & Mandy's Big Boogie Adventures'' combines his three greatest fears (spiders, clowns, and the mailman) into one horrifying monstrosity. |
| 339 | * WithFriendsLikeThese: Billy's not that great of a friend to Irwin; he once stopped Sperg from giving Irwin a wedgie... So that ''Billy'' could do it for him and become a bully which he decided would make him cool. |
| 340 | * WouldHitAGirl: If he’s mad, no one is immune to his rage, as Mandy can attest. |
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| 350 | |
| 351 | ->''"I don't need some pompous polyp to make me dark, foreboding, and charmingly cynical!"'' |
| 352 | |
| 353 | ->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/GreyDeLisle[[labelnote:'''Other Languages''']]Creator/DorotheePousseo (French), Lizette Pålsson (Swedish)[[/labelnote]] |
| 354 | |
| 355 | Billy's best friend and his polar opposite; a merciless, [[TheCynic cynical]] and [[ManipulativeBitch manipulative little girl]] who frequently abuses Grim's power to get what she wants. She [[PerpetualFrowner almost never smiles]] and terrifies almost everyone around her, her parents included. Unlike Billy, she's stable, sane, and [[InsufferableGenius intelligent.]] |
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| 357 | * AbsurdPhobia: According to Billy and Grim, she's afraid of ''figure skaters'', of all things. Mandy denies this, but is visibly flustered by the topic and [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial mentions that she doesn't trust the way they spin]]. |
| 358 | * AbusiveOffspring: She's just as rude and demanding to her parents as she is to everyone else; they readily bow down to her, do whatever she wants without question, and openly admit in "Keeper of the Reaper" that they're terrified of her. In a twist on this though, she's genuinely shocked at this revelation, [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes strongly implying that she never intended to frighten them like that.]] |
| 359 | %%* AcademicAlphaBitch: Intelligent and haughty. |
| 360 | * TheAce: She's hypercompetent at pretty much everything and has almost the entire universe groveling at her feet. It makes her plans for world domination all the more terrifying due to how ''plausible'' they are. |
| 361 | * ActionGirl: She's the most consistently competent in a fight out of the three of them. |
| 362 | * ActorAllusion: According to Grey [=DeLisle=], her superhero persona is in fact a parody of ComicBook/WonderWoman, who's also played by De Lisle, mostly in the present days. |
| 363 | * AllGirlsWantBadBoys: |
| 364 | ** She falls in LoveAtFirstSight with a goth artist boy who Billy befriends in "Crushed". Her reaction is surprisingly adorable. The revelation that he's a poser makes her immediately lose interest in him. |
| 365 | ** Her discovery that Irwin was [[EnfantTerrible born evil]] in "Heartburn" causes her to respect him for having started life with a heart as cruel and twisted as hers. This revelation prompts a twisting of her own heart into becoming as loving and caring as he has made himself, to the point that she actually [[TheBigDamnKiss kisses him]]... which Irwin [[MomentKiller immediately ruins]] by burping into her mouth at that very moment. Her disgust at this causes her to revert to her sadistic personality, but he reveals that he did it intentionally, as her evilness is one of the traits he loves about her. |
| 366 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: There are many cases that imply that Mandy is more than just a young girl. For one, [[WhenSheSmiles when she smiled]] once, ''she caused reality to break apart''. Other examples are that she seems to have rather inhuman strength and her high intelligence and skill of manipulation for a girl her age. The fact that [[TheNoseless she lacks a nose]] (which is acknowledged in-universe multiple times) is just the icing on the cake. |
| 367 | * AmoralAttorney: Her Halloween costume in "Grim or Gregory?" was a lawyer with monster hands for "rending human flesh". |
| 368 | * AnimeHair: Her hair sticks up at the back and curls a little, resembling devil horns. |
| 369 | * AntiHero: She is this at her best moments and straight-up VillainProtagonist at her worst. Despite technically being one of the good guys, she's self-centered and often mean, with many of her more noble or magnanimous moments being at least partly motivated by pragmatism. |
| 370 | * AntiRoleModel: Aside from intelligence, Mandy is not someone girls should look up to. |
| 371 | * ArbitrarySkepticism: Despite living in a world where supernatural elements are commonplace, and being friends with the Grim Reaper himself, Mandy adamantly refuses to believe in such things as SantaClaus and the Tooth Fairy. She also completely dismisses Billy's claims of Irwin's mom being a mummy as him being stupid as usual and mistaking two words for each other, despite him being surprisingly articulate about it. |
| 372 | * ArtEvolution: A minor example. For most of the series she had bright yellow hair, but starting in season six it became more of a pale, bleached blonde. |
| 373 | * AssholeVictim: "Big Boogey Adventure" has her go through two HumiliationConga moments. The first one is where she gets trapped in a nightmare realm, due to Boogey’s mind rape drug and the second one is where she is forced to witness her worst nightmare (becoming a sweet, chubby old woman and being married to Irwin) and then getting beaten senseless by grizzly bears. However considering what she is described by most of the bad/evil tropes on her page here, this is more of a well-deserved punishment on Mandy for being a really horrible person towards everyone around her including her supposed friends. |
| 374 | * AxCrazy: Just like [[BewareTheSillyOnes Billy]], she is quite fiery and pretty cruel. |
| 375 | * BadassBoast: In "The Nerve", when Billy steals her Nerve, she goes inside his head to get it back. When she confronts her Nerve, it [[YoureNothingWithoutYourPhlebotinum tells her that she’s nothing without it]]. As she’s about to walk away, the Nerve insults her more, making her think back on how far she was able to get without it, and the DeathGlare we all know and love(?) [[HesBack appears on her face]], and she gives this to the Nerve. |
| 376 | -->'''Mandy:''' Now you listen up, pal. You’re ''not'' what makes me Mandy! I don’t need some pompous polyp to make me dark, foreboding, and charmingly cynical. I ''am'' what makes me Mandy! You got that? |
| 377 | * BadassNormal: She's capable of scaring the crap out of others just by ''looking'' at them. That's definitely not something an ordinary little girl without any psychical powers can do. However, later episodes frequently put this trope to question. |
| 378 | * BerserkButton: If the permanent scowl didn't give it away, she already isn't a very easygoing person. The one thing above all, though, that has consistently brought out her worst is being subjected to manipulation. |
| 379 | * BewareTheQuietOnes: A stoic and taciturn kid who is very sadistic. |
| 380 | * BigDamnHeroes: Despite her goal of world domination, she saved the world multiple times. Only because she wants to conquer the world on her own terms. |
| 381 | * BigBad: She's the main antagonist in ''The Grim Adventures Of The Kids Next Door''. |
| 382 | * BigGood: Downplayed, but played seriously in ''Nursery Crimes''. |
| 383 | * BigNo: The reaction at being unluckily transformed into a Wonder Woman parody in the moon episode. |
| 384 | * BigOlEyebrows: Has two large eyebrows. |
| 385 | * BigShutUp: Done in ''"Grim For A Day"'', as an attempt to stop Billy and Grim's incessant, almost quite vitriolic bickering. |
| 386 | * BloodKnight: {{Exaggerated|Trope}}, by overlapping this with [[LittleMissBadass Little Miss Badass]]; she was really born evil, the reason why she is supposed to be the main antagonist of the franchise. |
| 387 | * BodyHorror: She is herself fond of this trope since she took over a giant sentient brain-like alien in one episode. |
| 388 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: Taken to a serious extreme in "Chickenball Z", being tricked by Eris[[note]]In the guise of a Chinese man named Quan Ti.[[/note]] into ruining an entire karate tournament, as a plan to reveal the fact she is really evil enough to accompany her in spreading all the chaos in the world, by dominating the world itself. |
| 389 | * BrattyHalfPint: A short-statured, rude, and bossy kid who is a {{Jerkass}} to everyone. |
| 390 | * BreakTheCutie: She does this to her own [[AlternateSelf alternate]] [[LivingShadow shadow-self]] when Grim brings hers and Billy's to life. Originally the exact opposite of her stoic and sociopathic personality, Mandy's slow destruction of her favorite toy [[ForcedToWatch in front of her]] causes Shadow Mandy to snap and become as callous and evil as her original. |
| 391 | * BrightIsNotGood: She may be the inverted version of a PerkyGoth. She wears brightly-colored clothes and has a Gothic and morose personality. |
| 392 | * BullyingADragon: Numerous characters have tried to get a rise out of her and most of them don't get out alive. |
| 393 | * CantLiveWithThemCantLiveWithoutThem: She gets annoyed by Billy’s stupidity, but she doesn’t want him dead or out of her life permanently. |
| 394 | * CaptainObvious: She is often treated as a genius for pointing out the obvious because more than half of the time she is surrounded by blundering fools. An example is her reminding Grim to use his scythe to get them out of a tight spot and him enthusiastically calling it a great idea. |
| 395 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: In the early series, Mandy was just a bratty, commanding, and yet calculatingly efficient girl, and even had occasional cases of being NotSoStoic. By the second season, her much more malevolent characterization settled in soon enough and became what even her own family considers to be the living incarnation of evil itself. Best highlighted by WhenSheSmiles; she gets a couple cases early in the series which aren't particularly shocking despite it being a rare event, but later on, smiling is somehow such a physical impossibility that all of reality tears itself asunder in the process. |
| 396 | * ClassicVillain: Wrath, with a streak of Pride and a little bit of Envy. |
| 397 | * ColdHam: Mandy usually speaks in a reserved, emotionless voice. Her angry moments are usually [[TranquilFury usually subdued without losing her cool]], and she only raises her voice if you ''really'' piss her off. |
| 398 | * TheComicallySerious: She's always overly serious, but is so, in a slapstick and humorous manner. |
| 399 | * CreepyChild: She tricked The Grim Reaper into eternal servitude, using him as her maid and his powers for personal gain, and faces down everything from the Boogeyman to Cthulhu with nothing more than a wry comment. She also never smiles, ever, because doing so would cause the universe to implode. She was also able to take over a large evil brain/alien when it ate her brain. Even when she isn't evil, she's pretty scary. |
| 400 | * CreepyMonotone: Her main form of speech. Even exemplified in ''Scythe For Sale'': |
| 401 | --> It's cruel and unusual. |
| 402 | * DarkActionGirl: Post-{{Flanderization}}. When she fights, she will and no one will stand in her way no matter what. |
| 403 | * DeadpanSnarker: She quite often makes snide remarks about everyone else. |
| 404 | * DeathGlare: She has a constant glare that intimidates anyone. |
| 405 | * DependingOnTheWriter: Her relationship with Hoss Delgado changes almost every time he appears; in some episodes, she's on a first-name basis and generally amicable terms with him, while in others he can't even remember her name and she looks down on him as she does everyone else. In ''Brown Evil'', she actually seems to be a ''fan'' of his, and even owns a copy of his tie-in video game. |
| 406 | * DepravedDwarf: [[GenderBender Gender-flipped]]. Mandy is a short, psychopathic {{Jerkass}} who intimidates everyone around her. |
| 407 | * DevilishHairHorns: Her hairdo is shaped like a pair of horns, making her look fittingly demonic given her demonic personality. |
| 408 | * DidYouJustScamCthulhu: This is the entire premise of the show. She made the Grim Reaper her personal servant for all eternity by beating him at a limbo contest. |
| 409 | * TheDreaded: Almost ''everyone'' get scared of her just by using words, and she has already taken over the world because everyone fears her. This goes even to the point where ''Grim'' of all people has nightmares of her. |
| 410 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: |
| 411 | ** In the original short, ''Billy and Mandy in: Trepanation of the Skull and You'', Mandy has a completely different design. She wears a black dress with a white collar, and is much taller with GirlishPigtails and BlackBeadEyes. |
| 412 | ** In the series proper, the yellow shade of her hair becomes much lighter starting in the sixth season, to the point of almost looking [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white]]. |
| 413 | * EmotionlessGirl: She seems to have only three major emotions: indifference, disgust, and anger. This trope was exaggerated over time thanks to Flanderization. In season 1, she spoke with more emotion in her voice and was far more prone to looking surprised or worried at the strange things she came across. She also ''smiled'' at the end of the first episode and the universe didn't fall apart. |
| 414 | * EnfantTerrible: Young enough and psychopathic enough to qualify. |
| 415 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: |
| 416 | ** For all her malicious behavior, she does legitimately care about Grim and Billy, such that life without the latter just isn't the same, and once fell in love with a Gothic guy (though she wasn't proud of it). |
| 417 | ** She loves her parents and have a somewhat normal relationship with them (even straining herself to tell her dad she loves him for Father's Day while also gifting him Grim's services for the day). In "Keeper of the Reaper", she's genuinely ''dumbstruck'' that her parents are actually scared of her. While she does push them around and can be cold and disrespectful, her legitimate surprise implies she doesn't actually mean to intimidate or scare her parents. |
| 418 | ** Her dog, Saliva is the only thing she actually isn’t afraid to show any love, emotions, and affection to. |
| 419 | ** She has a decent relationship with Billy’s parents. They’re amongst the least prone to her wrath. |
| 420 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: |
| 421 | ** She wants to rule the world and [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans turn it into a dystopia]], but she is not okay with cheating. |
| 422 | ** Quite a few of the disturbing and grotesque things that happen to Billy leave her as speechless and horrified as anyone would be. Like him developing a sentient growth in "Billy's Growth Spurt", turning into chocolate and eating himself alive in "Chocolate Sailor", and breaking and twisting his own neck in "Order of the Peanuts". |
| 423 | ** She's actually given a bit of pause when Grim recounts what he did to Jack O'Lantern for outsmarting and pranking him. Though part of that might also be her realizing that Grim could very easily have done the same thing to her and Billy if he hadn't phrased his side of the wager the way he did. |
| 424 | ** Although she initially wanted to watch, she's a little shocked by the horrible things Nergal Junior does to Sperg in revenge for the bullying. |
| 425 | ** Mandy is willing to cause pain and suffering to anyone who bothers her, especially those who cross her. But when Billy begs her to kill Jeff the Spider, Jeff proves to be so peaceful that they end up having a pleasant conversation, after which Mandy leaves with a new sweater Jeff knitted for her and refuses to hurt him. |
| 426 | ** As annoying as she thinks Fred is, she admitted to Mandroid that he didn’t deserve to get hurt. |
| 427 | ** Despite her hatred for humanity and essentially all other forms of life, she won't let it end that easily, at least if it's not on her terms. [[spoiler:She refuses to let Pandora's box release the plague that will end humanity, as she resents the fact that her new classmate Pandora tricked her into opening the box. After sealing Pandora into her box, Mandy vows that she will one day unleash her own plague against humanity.]] |
| 428 | * EvilGenius: She's able to manipulate almost every sentient villain and monster for her own gain, and God help you if you dare try to cross her. |
| 429 | * EvilHero: PlayedStraight. She's one of the main characters and fights against evil, but she herself is far from being a straight hero. |
| 430 | * EvilLaugh: In the ''Grim & Evil'' episode "Dream A Little Dream", as Grim's dream ends. |
| 431 | * EvilIsPetty: Despite her much loftier ambitions, Mandy is prone to some rather petty and childish actions. Best displayed in "The Greatest Love Story Ever Told Ever"; when Irwin and Nergal Jr. fight over her and end up ruining the Valentine's Day dance, Mandy reveals she knew this would happen and wanted it to, stating that if she can't enjoy Valentine's Day, then nobody should. |
| 432 | * EvilSoundsDeep: A rare female example happens in "Pandora's Lunch Box", as she began to threaten Grim. |
| 433 | * EvilVersusEvil: While she's far from heroic herself, she'll willingly take on malevolent threats. |
| 434 | * FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: ''Do not underestimate her with her cute appearance. She will [[DisproportionateRetribution snap you into pieces]] if you do it.'' |
| 435 | * FauxAffablyEvil: She’s either this or AffablyEvil depending on the episode. This one usually comes into play, especially later on. |
| 436 | * {{Flanderization}}: |
| 437 | ** From simply an apathetic, snarky kid with a HairTriggerTemper and a bossy streak to an [[EmotionlessGirl emotionless]], evil, and totally sadistic psychopathic HateSink trying to take over the world. |
| 438 | ** Her competence was wildly amplified; she went from a smart little girl who could think quick in a pinch to an EvilGenius who not only can pretty much fix or undo anything by just appearing on the scene, but has a very real chance at taking over the world. |
| 439 | * FlatEarthAtheist: She is rendered immune to the Tooth Fairy's powers by revealing, to his face, that she doesn't believe in him. |
| 440 | * FluffyTheTerrible: She's a tiny little girl in black Mary Jane's who almost always has blonde hair shaped like devil horns and wears pink outfits with flowers on them. She's also the scariest being in the universe. |
| 441 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Choleric. She's task-focused, harsh, and ill-tempered. |
| 442 | * GaggingOnYourWords: As revealed in "Sickly Sweet," Mandy is such a {{jerkass}} that even something as simple as saying "please" is nearly impossible for her. However, in the Father's Day episode, she is able to strain herself to tell her dad that she loves him. |
| 443 | * {{Gasshole}}: In the season 1 story [[Recap/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandyS1E7 "Tastes Like Chicken"]], she is repeatedly shown belching with such force that people and objects shiver and tremble as if caught in an earthquake, and displays no shame about burping. |
| 444 | * GeniusBruiser: She is a strong LittleMissBadass who is able to battle monsters with ease, and also has notably superior intelligence to most humans, being able to understand complex theories fairly easily and using her wits and manipulation skills to get her way. |
| 445 | * GleefulAndGrumpyPairing: The sullen, devious and perpetually frowning Grumpy to Billy's Gleeful, and ironically wears rather a cutesy wardrobe. |
| 446 | * {{Goth}}: General consensus is that she's pretty much an example of the "lone psycho" stereotype of goths, albeit one that dresses in an ironic fashion. |
| 447 | * GothGirlsKnowMagic: PlayedWith. In contrast to her appearance, she has a cynical and dark personality befitting a {{Goth}} and does not have any inherent skill at magic, but sporadically gains temporary supernatural and magical powers in episodes. |
| 448 | * GreaterScopeVillain: She's never the main villain barring the KND crossover, but she is responsible for enslaving Grim, leading to pretty much all of the supernatural occurrences in Endsville. And while she always stops them, it is explicitly because she plans on conquering the world herself, which she is shown to have done in the BadFuture. |
| 449 | * GuileHeroine: She can take down foes both mortal and immortal in seconds. |
| 450 | * HairTriggerTemper: Gets pissed very easily. [[DependingOnTheWriter Though in some episodes]], she's chillingly stoic instead. |
| 451 | * HatedByAll: She is disliked by nearly everybody in the show for her [[{{Sadist}} cruel]], [[{{Jerkass}} mean]], and [[KickTheDog bossy]] attitude; even Grim and Billy, her best friends, don't really like her either. In "Keeper of the Reaper," Billy calls up numerous side characters in the show to voice their negative thoughts about her, and it turns out that even Mandy's ''own parents'' don't particularly care for her. This is a given since she herself HatesEveryoneEqually. |
| 452 | * HatesBeingTouched: Do not touch her unless you wish to be bitten or punched. |
| 453 | * HatesEveryoneEqually: It goes without saying. While she doesn't hold any prejudices, she's still dismissive and condescending at best to anyone who isn't her. She even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it in “Pandora’s Lunch Box”. [[HatedByAll The feeling is mutually returned from everybody.]] |
| 454 | * HateSink: She becomes this in the episodes that require her to be the main antagonist and to not have any PetTheDog moments, especially in the last season. Some of the worst examples include "Scary Poppins", "The Greatest Love Story Ever Told", "The Incredible Shrinking Mandy" and "The Grim Adventures of the Kids Next Door." |
| 455 | %%* HeroicComedicSociopath: She ''loves'' to be this, and is definitely proud of it. |
| 456 | * HeroicWillpower: Though in her case it's more like Villainous Willpower, Mandy was able to overwrite the mind of the brain-eating alien when it ate hers, and she was immune to Eris' mind-controlling teddy bears since they "don't work on people who think". However, it seems even her resistance has limits, as Irwin was able to use Grim's scythe to make her fall in love with him. |
| 457 | * HiddenDepths: |
| 458 | ** The prospect of living a life of quiet desperation is ''the only thing'' that can shake Mandy to her core. This may explain why she is so determined to TakeOverTheWorld and take down anyone in her way, |
| 459 | ** She seems to actually care for Grim and Billy, as seen in "Big Boogey Adventure" when she was upset when it seemed that Billy may actually have been killed by the Kraken and her worst nightmare reveals how meaningful the two really are to her. |
| 460 | ** The VerySpecialEpisode "My Fair Mandy" reveals that she cares about what people think of her and is insecure about how she looks when Mindy keeps calling her ugly. The whole reason she entered the pageant in the first place was to prove to everyone that she’s beautiful. |
| 461 | * HijackingCthulhu: |
| 462 | ** In "Little Rock of Horror", a [[BrainFood brain-eating]] [[EldritchAbomination alien monster]] with a [[Music/{{Voltaire}} familiar singing voice]] has been spending the whole episode being fed by Billy. When Mandy confronts it, it sucks out her brain... but it painfully dies off and its aura immediately changes to resemble Mandy. Her only explanation is that her brain and mind were [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth too "spicy"]]. |
| 463 | ** Likewise she does this to the "Delightful Reaper" in the KND crossover when she realizes it was too powerful for Kids Next Door's weaponry and ''willingly'' let it assimilate her. Like in the above example, her will takes over the countless others that made up the Delightful Reaper and it takes on her appearance. |
| 464 | * HorrifyingTheHorror: Despite seemingly being an ordinary human child, she manages to scare quite a few supernatural menaces. On the other hand, she's sometimes on the ''receiving'' end of this trope; if something actually manages to [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness scare her]], you know things have just gone pear-shaped. |
| 465 | * ImAHumanitarian: Invoked in the first season episode [[Recap/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandyS1E7 "Tastes Like Chicken"]], where a combination of Billy's friends and family being mysteriously absent, Mandy repeatedly burping loudly, and Mandy telling Billy she's having him for dinner makes Billy assume that Mandy is a cannibal who has eaten everybody else he knows. Then it turns out that Billy was just being his usual dimwit self and everybody was just preparing for a surprise birthday party for Billy at Mandy's house. But right before the episode ends, Billy wonders where Irwin is... cue a massive belch from Mandy, who then spits out Irwin's glasses and, looking right at Billy, [[TheEndOrIsIt wonders how those got in her mouth]]... |
| 466 | * HumiliationConga: The episode "Zip Your Fly!" is a big instant of suffering a series of undignified predicaments for Mandy. After she uses Grim's magical zipper to take her head off, a fly gets in the way when she zips it back. She switches heads with it, having to move with a comically small body. She then gets stuck in fly paper and Harold attempts to flush her down the toilet. She lost half the zipper in garbage and ended up eating an entire junkyard to find it. |
| 467 | * HypocriticalHeartwarming: She gets angry whenever somebody abuses Billy... somebody other than her, that is. |
| 468 | * ICanRuleAlone: In "Happy Huggy Stuffy Bears," Eris tries to convince Mandy to join forces with her when she takes over the world. Mandy briefly considers it, but ultimately declines when she finds out she'd only be the ''[[SecondPlaceIsForLosers second]]'' [[SecondPlaceIsForLosers most powerful person on Earth]]. |
| 469 | -->'''Mandy''': Sorry, Eris. But I don't share. |
| 470 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: In the Creator/CartoonNetwork game "The Fight Before Christmas", she uses a toy hammer, a toy plane, a doll[[note]]which she hurls like a throwing star[[/note]], a fistful of marbles and a pan of popcorn as weapons against the evil toys overrunning Santa's workshop. |
| 471 | * InformedDeformity: In ''My Fair Mandy,'' a skilled make-over artist was shocked by her appearance, at first mistaking her for an angry tree stump. While she is a bit odd-looking due to her hairstyle and lack of a nose, few would call her ugly. |
| 472 | * InkSuitActor: [[InvertedTrope Hilariously Inverted]]; she, in fact, looks a lot like a younger version of [[Creator/GreyDeLisle her voice actress]], except the fact her hair is dyed blonde, as her nose doesn't REALLY exist. |
| 473 | * InsufferableGenius: {{Exaggerated|Trope}}; she's full of herself to the point of believing she deserves to rule the world. Also, she is [[EvilGenius quite diabolical]]. |
| 474 | * IronicName: Her name means "adorable" or "lovable", despite her bitter and cynical attitude. |
| 475 | * IronLady: Her ultimate goal in life is "[....] [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife to do something]] [[YoungConqueror important]]!" She eventually is elected President of the United States, and in the distant future, will rule the world. Her cold, no-nonsense personality and determination to get her way no matter what definitely peg her as this kind of leader. |
| 476 | * JediMindTrick: It appears that even if her natural terrifying aura isn't enough to control a person through fear alone (such as when Grim magically increased her parents' courage against her), she can directly influence people into doing what she wants. Whether this power is supernatural or she's just so finely honed her ability to scare others that she can force them into blind obedience if she focuses on them [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane is up to speculation]]. |
| 477 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: [[DependingOnTheWriter Sometimes]], she'll be shown to genuinely care about the people around her or do nice things that don't benefit her in any way. Granted, she's still a snarky jerk even when she's written like this. |
| 478 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[DependingOnTheWriter Probably her most frequent characterization]]. While she does do heroic actions like saving Billy from himself or whatever MonsterOfTheWeek they're up against, as well as saving the whole planet and beyond, Mandy will usually have a selfish motive in mind such as [[EvilVersusOblivion not wanting the world she intends to rule be destroyed]]. |
| 479 | * KarmaHoudini: RuleOfFunny usually dictates that she gets off scot-free -- [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty but there are a few occasions where she's outwitted and beaten]]. |
| 480 | * KarmicTransformation: In "Sickly Sweet", she's tricked into wearing a mask that will progressively turn her into an ugly beast the more she acts like a {{jerkass}}. It even makes her sound like a ''literal'' ass (the animal). |
| 481 | * KickTheDog: She can be incredibly cruel, especially to Grim, Billy, and Irwin. |
| 482 | ** As if taking Gregory's Halloween candy in "Grim or Gregory?" wasn't enough, she also admits to not caring that she made the kid cry when Billy admonishes her for it. |
| 483 | ** Another rather cruel moment from Mandy occurs in "The Greatest Love Story Ever Told Ever", where she reveals to Irwin and Nergal Jr. that [[TheChessmaster she knew they would fight over her and ruin the Valentine's Day school dance and that this was exactly what she wanted to happen]], rationalizing that [[EvilIsPetty if she can't enjoy Valentine's Day, no one else should]]. |
| 484 | ** Stealing the Golden Nose of Chipotle for her own ends and leaving Grim, Billy, and Harold behind in Mexico in "El Dia de Los Muertos Estupidos". |
| 485 | * KnightOfCerebus: {{Exactly What It Says On The Tin}}; she is irredeemably dark and cruel, even moreso than [[CreepyChild Nergal Jr.]]. |
| 486 | * LackOfEmpathy: Whatever empathy she has is locked away in the cold dark recesses of her soul. |
| 487 | * LaughablyEvil: {{Downplayed|Trope}}; while she's not an overly comedic character, she still has her moments of [[TheComicallySerious rather cartoonish maturity]], and mostly provides comic relief through [[DeadpanSnarker snide commentary]]. |
| 488 | * LittleMissBadass: Wears pink, is blonde, snarks almost constantly, and makes the Grim Reaper her personal bitch in the first episode. |
| 489 | * LittleMissSnarker: This line pretty much exemplifies it: |
| 490 | -->''"Power tools in the dark? Darwin should be paying you two goons royalties."'' |
| 491 | * MaddenIntoMisanthropy: It's implied that two things helped complete Mandy's metamorphosis into the cynical tyrant we all know and tolerate: Mindy's inane, meaningless prattle, and having to deal with the perpetually moronic Billy every single day of her life. |
| 492 | * ManipulativeBitch: She's manipulated the Grim Reaper, Eris, Hoss, and sometimes even Irwin to do her bidding. |
| 493 | * TheNapoleon: She's the same height as Billy, enormously ambitious, and so sociopathic that even Grim is afraid of her. |
| 494 | * NobleDemon: She's TheDreaded, brooding, anti-social, and occasionally evil but she's also loyal and stays close to her friends, always keeps her word, and never cheats. |
| 495 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: According to the WordOfGod, her appearance is basically just a caricature of [[Creator/KariWahlgren Kari Wahlgren]] [[note]]Who also happens to be a friend of [[Creator/GreyDeLisle Mandy's voice actress]][[/note]]. |
| 496 | * NominalHero: Anytime she does something good, it's usually for her own benefit. |
| 497 | * TheNoseless: She has no nose, but she does have nostrils. |
| 498 | * NotSoStoic: Some things ''can'' get under her skin, if rarely. Even she wasn't immune to being called ugly or unattractive, and the beginning of the series even had her spooked out by Grim (briefly) or the occasional weirdness much more readily compared to later. |
| 499 | * ObviouslyEvil: She is so evil, that her most intended role is to be the series' overarching antagonist. Cause you know, she is [[{{Satan}} the king/queen of the demons]]. |
| 500 | * OddFriendship: She willingly hangs out with Billy, despite the two of them being polar opposites. |
| 501 | * OneWingedAngel: Her future self from the episode "Mandy the Merciless", where she has become a giant worm. |
| 502 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: Offering cash is a, somewhat, reliable way to convince her to act. |
| 503 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Her actual name is Amanda, but everyone calls her Mandy. |
| 504 | * TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: She saves Billy from numerous threats simply because she wants to be the only one to torment and abuse him. |
| 505 | * OnlySaneByComparison: She is a cruel and manipulative TinyTyrannicalGirl, but she's also the most intelligent and mature character on the show, as well as the most competent. It helps that she has a very serious personality and most of the time she's SurroundedByIdiots, especially her stupid best friend Billy, her ridiculous AbhorrentAdmirer Irwin, and her silly and obnoxious rival Mindy. Even [[TheGrimReaper Grim]] has his dumb moments and comes off as a [[DeathIsALoser loser]] compared to Mandy. |
| 506 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: If she's ever genuinely shocked, scared, or even sad about something, you know things have gone off the rails. |
| 507 | * OutOfFocus: As the show shifts into a DenserAndWackier direction starting in season 3, Mandy receives far less screen time--she has fewer episodes highlighting her evil schemes and she more often becomes a tagalong for Billy's adventures. |
| 508 | * PerkyGoth: Completely {{Inverted}}; she dresses like a standard little girl, but embodies the Lone Psycho Goth stereotype. |
| 509 | * PerpetualFrowner: It's mentioned on more than one occasion that she ''never'' smiles; in fact, it's revealed in "My Fair Mandy" that if she ''does'' smile, it will cause a RealityBreakingParadox. |
| 510 | * PetTheDog: |
| 511 | ** She will occasionally meditate on the possibility that she actually cares about Grim and Billy...[[IgnoredEpiphany but ultimately dismiss the errant thought]]. |
| 512 | ** In "Halls of Time", she seems legitimately horrified at the idea of Irwin being erased from existence. |
| 513 | ** Accepting Saliva (in her own way). |
| 514 | ** In an early comic, she thanked Billy's parents for driving her, Billy, and Grim to the bowling alley. |
| 515 | ** Her treatment of Jeff, of all people is this, as she's surprisingly tolerant and patient with him, was unable to bring herself to squish him in his debut episode and even helps him stand up for himself in Spider's Little Daddy, admittedly with less than stellar results, but not because she wasn't trying. |
| 516 | * PinkGirlBlueBoy: The pink girl to Billy's blue boy. She wears a pink dress, while Billy wears blue jeans and a shirt with a blue stripe. |
| 517 | * PinkMeansFeminine: Averted. Mandy usually wears a pink dress, but she isn't that feminine. |
| 518 | * PintSizedPowerhouse: She is about the same size as Billy, and she's a competent fighter, [[DependingOnTheWriter sometimes]] to the extent of being apparently superhuman. |
| 519 | * PlatonicLifePartners: With Billy. They have been best friends, [[WithFriendsLikeThese if you can call them friends]], since they were infants. |
| 520 | * PragmaticVillainy: Oh, she'll help save the world alright, but only because she needs it in pristine condition for when ''she'' conquers it herself. In the same vein, she'll always help defeat the MonsterOfTheWeek, but only because the world is ''hers'' and she won't let anyone else take it from her. |
| 521 | * PsychoPink: Mandy usually wears a pink dress, but she's a sociopathic misanthrope. |
| 522 | * PsychoticSmirk: By way of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, but before it became a major defining trait of hers that she never smiles, she had a couple evil grins in response to Grim's suffering in "Meet the Reaper" and "Look Alive!". |
| 523 | * RaisedByWolves: Played for laughs. Her parents claim that wolves ''came'' to raise her as her own when she was born. |
| 524 | * RedOniBlueOni: She's the blue oni to Billy's red oni. She is stoic and responsible while Billy is impulsive and emotional. Also an inverted case of SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl. |
| 525 | %%* TheRival: With Mindy. |
| 526 | * SatanicArchetype: There's actually a popular fan theory claiming that she's actually a spawn of Satan and/or even a reincarnation of Satan's only child, '''The Antichrist''', given the fact that her hairstyle looks like a pair of horns, befitting her demonic personality, drawn by being more cruel and sociopathic than Grim himself. |
| 527 | * ShorterMeansSmarter: PlayedStraight. She is a [[PintSizedKid pint-sized kid]], but she is also indeed smarter than everyone from this show who isn't smart enough. |
| 528 | * SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: In this scale, she is ''far'' at the cynical end. |
| 529 | * SmartJerkAndNiceMoron: The Smart Jerk to Billy’s Nice Moron. She’s a straight-A (or rather, "A+++++++") student, who [[MisanthropeSupreme hates just about everyone else]], and finds the idea of having a crush on someone to be repulsive. |
| 530 | * SmugSnake: In early episodes, she had some smarmy tendencies, though she was usually able to back up her ego even back then. While she was still prideful later on, she came off as less smug and more ambitious. |
| 531 | %%* TheSociopath |
| 532 | * SociopathicHero: She enjoys people's pain and is one of the main protagonists. |
| 533 | * TheSpock: Intelligent and deadpan. |
| 534 | * SpoiledBrat: To an extent. Her mother showers her with money, clothes, gifts, and jewelry in order to avoid her wrath. |
| 535 | * TheStoic: She never smiles fully at all. Because if she did, reality itself would be torn asunder. |
| 536 | * SugarAndIcePersonality: She is actually shown to be somewhat caring and even passionate in some episodes despite usually coming off as cold and uncaring. |
| 537 | * SurroundedByIdiots: As seen in CaptainObvious above, she seems the only person with a brain most of the time. |
| 538 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: She does ''not'' have a fear of professional figure skaters. She just doesn't trust the way they spin, is all. |
| 539 | * TakeOverTheWorld: Her long-term goal is to be supreme ruler of the Earth. |
| 540 | * TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: |
| 541 | ** Gives one to the titular animal of the episode "Duck!": |
| 542 | --->'''Mandy:''' You think you've won? That you've broken me? Humiliated me? Driven me ''crazy''? When every day of my life I've had to deal with... (''cut to a montage of Billy doing random stupidities''). Compared to ''that'', you're just an insignificant pimple on the butt of the world's smallest amoeba! You have no power over me.\ |
| 543 | ''The duck's VillainousBSOD is so great that it erases itself from existence. With an actual fart no less.'' |
| 544 | ** Another epic one occurred in "Detention X", after being unwillingly punished by Grim by being sent to the Detention Dimension: |
| 545 | --->'''Mandy:''' You set me up. You took this stupid job just so you could finally get rid of me and Billy. |
| 546 | --->'''Grim:''' I know! Pretty smart eh? |
| 547 | --->'''Mandy:''' [[BigNo No!]] ''(She grabs Grim, and gives him a [[DeathGlare Death Glare]])'' '''''That's the dumbest mistake you'll ever make. Because now, I hate you in a way I never knew was seemingly possible. Take a good long look at me, Grim, you won't see me again until the day I take your world away from you.''''' ''(Mandy gets sent to the Detention Dimension, leaving Grim, clotheless, but his underpants. and Grim screams.)'' |
| 548 | * TinyTyrannicalGirl: She's a little girl who doesn't take guff from anyone. In fact, almost everyone in the show is afraid of her. |
| 549 | * TokenEvilTeammate: The only hero who's more evil than a demon from the underworld. |
| 550 | * TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: For someone so decidedly unfeminine, she has a tendency towards pink and girly things. While there's an underlying hint of irony to it, she seems to legitimately like them. She's also occasionally shown wearing face masks or forcing Grim to give her manicures, suggesting that she has some amount of interest in beauty treatment. |
| 551 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Tomboy to Mindy's Girly Girl. Mandy is a LittleMissBadass with a dark and unfeminine personality, Mindy is an AlphaBitch who mostly cares about appearance and popularity. |
| 552 | * TookALevelInBadass: At the beginning of the series, Mandy's methods of overcoming obstacles usually came from either outsmarting a foe or just simply CuttingTheKnot (like kicking Nergal in the shin), but she was as exposed to threats as Billy and Grim were and didn't seem like anything more than an unusually intelligent child in that regard. Then she became so terrifying that she could ''intimidate'' supernatural creatures and interdimensional beings into doing her bidding and genuinely took a few notches in badass even if she usually doesn't try to pick a fight herself. |
| 553 | * TookALevelInJerkass: She develops more and more into a disrespectful, heartless and unsympathetic jerk season after season. By "Sickly Sweet", she's become such an unpleasant person that even ''trying'' to do something nice is nearly impossible for her, to the point where she has physical difficulty just attempting to say "please". |
| 554 | * ToThePain: A rather horrifying example happened in "Pandora’s Lunch Box”: |
| 555 | -->'''Mandy''': Grim, you're gonna tell me how to stop her, and you're gonna do it now. |
| 556 | -->'''Grim''': And why should I do that? |
| 557 | -->'''Mandy''': ''(angrily grabbing Grim by the neck of his cloak)'' You're gonna tell it! Or so help me, ([[VoiceOfTheLegion amplified with rage]]) I will pull your stupid cloak ''through your eyes'' and use it as reins to ride your ''bony butt'' back to the darkest pits of the Underworld '''''from whence you came!''''' |
| 558 | -->'''Grim''': Okay, okay! ''(quietly)'' You little psychopath. |
| 559 | * UncannyValleyGirl: Rather it was intentional or not, Mandy in the original short film. She's a GenkiGirl that comes across as creepy to most viewers. She also seems to be a bit too happy trying to convince Billy to drill a hole in his skull. |
| 560 | * UngratefulBitch: "Thanks" isn’t a word in Mandy's vocabulary. |
| 561 | * UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: She [[DependingOnTheWriter generally]] has no positive qualities beyond being intelligent and competent, both of which she uses to make the world a bad place. Speaking of this, she's so [[{{Jerkass}} sociopathic]], that Grim of all people is so afraid of her, enough to make him look like a [[NiceGuy nice guy]] (or at least a [[AffablyEvil friendly]] PunchClockVillain) in comparison. |
| 562 | * VileVillainSaccharineShow: The show, despite being [[DarkerAndEdgier about everything dark and cynical]], is still fairly bittersweet; but Mandy is pretty terrifying, especially in contrast to other antagonists. |
| 563 | * VillainsOutShopping: Whenever she isn't scheming, she's just spending time with Grim and Billy at their house. |
| 564 | * VillainProtagonist: She's one of the main characters and is so evil that she makes the personification of death look like a nice guy in comparison. |
| 565 | * VillainousBreakdown: Whenever her BerserkButton is pushed. Best displayed in "Detention X", where she starts yelling at Grim for manipulating her into being sent to the Detention Dimension. |
| 566 | * VocalEvolution: Mandy becomes much more deadpan in tone in later episodes. |
| 567 | * WhenSheSmiles: ...she tears the very fabric of time, space, and reality apart. For the sake of humanity, it's better that she ''doesn't'' smile. Although in some earlier episodes, this trope is played straight, most likely because none of those instances force her to do so. |
| 568 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: |
| 569 | ** In "Attack of the Clowns", both Billy and Grim claim that she's afraid of ''professional figure skaters,'' though she suspiciously denies this, only saying she merely distrusts how they skate. |
| 570 | ** Her true worst fear is living a quiet, unremarkable life and being married to Irwin. |
| 571 | * WiseBeyondHerYears: She may be a real bitch but she's EASILY the smartest character on the show. |
| 572 | * YouGoGirl: |
| 573 | ** Billy wouldn't allow Mandy on his baseball team despite her athleticism because she was a girl. Trying to teach him a lesson, she disguised herself as a boy named "[[SobriquetSexSwitch Manfred]]" by donning a baseball cap. |
| 574 | ** Billy and Irwin made a racing team and wouldn't allow Mandy in because she's a girl so she started her own team with Grim, who was rejected from Billy and Irwin's for being a skeleton. [[SubvertedTrope Pud'n won]]. |
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