List of Grim & Evil characters

This is a list of characters from the American animated television series The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, which was created by Maxwell Atoms, and which originally aired on Cartoon Network from August 24, 2001 to November 11, 2007.

Main characters

The Grim Reaper

Voiced by: Greg Eagles

Grim is over 137,000 years old (as his early childhood took place during the Stone Age) and speaks with a Jamaican accent. He was elected to his position as the Grim Reaper while he was in middle school; however in A Grim Prophecy it is shown that he was the Grim Reaper since his childhood with his parents forcing him to be the Reaper. His scythe is the source of his powers and possesses many magical qualities; although he is still capable of using magic without it, these instances are quite rare.

By losing a limbo contest to Billy and Mandy, Grim is fated to be their "best friend" forever. Though Billy is friendly towards him, Mandy treats him like a slave, and this angers and irritates him to the point where he constantly fantasizes about killing both of them; however, there have been instances that show that he does indeed care for them. He is often forced to do their chores and create supernatural fun for them. Grim is slowly adapting to modern life, and is usually seen, in his free time, watching television, mainly horror movies or soap operas. He also has a bottomless trunk where all types of dark objects are found; Billy usually abuses them, creating chaos and destruction.

His love-and-hate relationship with Billy and Mandy seems to vary from each-other. He seems to be more annoyed with Billy than Mandy, due to his stupidity. Although Billy abuses Grim's powers as much as Mandy, Billy treats Grim with much more fairness and kindness, resulting in Grim caring and liking Billy. In Mandy's case, although they both share the same cynical and misantropical view of humanity, Grim tends to dislike her more than Billy. Due to her abuse, cruel and disrespectual actions and orders to Grim. While Grim fears Mandy (like all the others characters) he has the power to openly rebel against her when she becomes too obnoxious and abusive.

Billy

Voiced by: Richard Horvitz

Personality

Billy is an extremely happy-go-lucky child with an IQ of -5. He has an extremely large, pink nose, wears a blue and white striped shirt, and covers his red-orange hair with a red hat. Billy can be best described as the embodiment of both adages: "Glutton for Punishment" and "Ignorance is Bliss". He is often the cause of Mandy and Grim's mishaps since he orders Grim to do rather foolish acts with his scythe. Although generally good-natured, he has occasional fits of stubbornness, violence, and rage. It is suggested that while Billy is the most innocent character of the three, he ends up causing the most problems due to his irrational and often impulsive choice of actions. For example, in the episode "Little Rock of Horrors" the redhead ends up feeding the brains of everyone in Endsville to a giant green meteor because he thought he was doing so in order to be a good friend. Billy is terrified of clowns to the point of having recurring nightmares about them, although eventually, due to an encounter with his inner fratboy, his fear is transformed into a psychotic loathing and hate for them. He is also scared of the mailman and spiders which is quite unfortunate due to the fact that he has a "son" spider named Jeff.

Relationships

Billy's affiliations are Grim and Mandy. Billy's family is Harold (his father), Gladys (his mother), Nergal (his uncle). Aunt Sis (his aunt), Nergal Jr. (his cousin), Jeff the Spider (his "son"), and De Uglio (his brother).

Mandy

He is the best friend of Mandy who treats him more like a servant than a friend, never being one to pass over the opportunity to influence the stupid. Billy either seem's to not notice this which or enjoys it considering the only time he ever shouted at Mandy about her treatment of him was when she said 'Thank you'. According to Mandy, "Billy is an idiot, and will only understand the most extreme of punishments". It has been hinted several times that Billy may have underlying feelings for Mandy that even he (in his stupidity) may not fully realize; for example, he kisses her in 'Ecto Cooler' and has asked and almost has married her 3 times. In 'The Really Odd Couple' he suggests that they "get married". In 'Keeper Of The Reaper' the judge mistakes it for a wedding and Billy immediately says "I DO!!" Lastly he asks Mandy to marry him in 'Spider-Mandy'.

Grim

Billy is definitely kinder to Grim than Mandy is, and while he may go against the Reaper's advice and use him as a plaything, appears to genuinely like him. Of the two children Billy is the one who most often tells Grim that he's his 'best friend',

Mandy

Voiced by: Grey DeLisle

Personality:

Mandy is a heartless, evil, cruel girl and Billy's best "friend." She enjoys using her supernatural friend for tasks that a mortal alone cannot fill out. Mandy doesn't have a nose (she says it's because she thinks they're disgusting) and almost never smiles, except for in the earliest seasons where she often bore evil grins. In the later seasons, it was discovered that if Mandy ever managed to smile, the delicate balance of the universe would be upset and reality would collapse. Mandy is pretty much fearless. In fact, most people actually fear her. Still, Mandy's worst nightmare is growing up to become a fat, optimistic woman who is married (and in love with) a brawny adult version of Irwin. Also, Mandy seems to possess a slight "fear" of figure skaters because she doesn't trust the way they spin. In one episode her parents said that when she was born wolves came to try and raise her as one of their own, and they were still wondering that was it right to fight them off. Her cruelty and selfishness is shown to the extreme in one episode, where she is shown to have incredible difficulty simply saying "please."

Relationships

Billy

Mandy is Billy's 'best friend', although the true nature of their relationship is somewhat enigmatic. At first glance, Mandy appears to have a relationship with Billy much akin to a master and slave. She constantly berates and embarrasses him for his stupid ways and at times can seem to want nothing more than to be left alone, and while she will often go entirely out of her way to save him whenever he is in danger, she will always have an excuse for it. However, in other episodes, she has been shown to care about him and his well-being for no particular reason that benefits herself. For example, in the episode "Which Came First?" Mandy insists that they rescue Billy from a chicken that dragged him into an old mine shaft, much to Grim's chagrin. When she continues to tell him that they cannot leave the boy, Grim responds with "Awww...I knew you two were sweethearts." She has also allowed Billy to engage in physical contact with her on numerous occasions without reprimendation; for example, he has licked her many times ("Sister Grim") hugged her ("Dumb Luck", "Druid, Where's My Car?", "Keeper of the Reaper") and he even kissed her. ("Ecto Cooler"). While often cold and acerbic, she also showed a possible soft spot for Billy during the TV movie "Billy and Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure". About 2/3 of the way into the movie, after the Kraken had supposedly eaten and killed Billy, Mandy looked into the water with a sad look on her face. An image of Billy laughing appeared in her memory, and she seemed very disturbed by the possibility that he was gone, and tried to rebuke this by constantly saying "Billy's always fine." She and Billy met when they were very young, and Billy stuck an ice cream cone on her face—which she then punched him for. ("The Problem With Billy.")

Grim

Mandy uses and exploits Grim as her own personal supernatural slave. Often she abuses his powers for her own selfish purposes, such as using his scythe to unclog the toilets. (Supernatural clogs, of course). While she is distant and not on what could be considered friendly terms with the Reaper, it can be inferenced that they share a cold connection to one another. Often they agree with each other when it comes to more morbid topics, and seem to somewhat enjoy each others' company. Mandy originally became Grim's friend and master through a game of limbo, wherein she proposed that of he won, he would get Billy's pet hamster Mr. Snuggles and Billy; but if she won, he would be their best friend forever. ("Meet the Reaper.")

Recurring characters

Irwin

Voiced by: Vanessa Marshall

Irwin is Billy's nerdy friend who desperately aspires to be popular and frequently ends sentences with the word "yo". He has an unhealthy crush on Mandy and longs to gain her affection, often stalking her but is usually turned down or threatened by her as a response to his actions. He later admits that he likes who she is due to him having a dark side much like Mandy's, but was taught otherwise by his father and eventually grew out of his bad behavior. He first developed an interest in her when Billy possessed her and told him he was neat. He is also half vampire, with his paternal grandfather being Dracula and his mother being a mummy, though he is referred to as half vampire. In the Halloween special "Underfist" it was revealed that Irwin could, under certain circumstances, transform into a vampire-mummy hybrid and use the powers of his new self to his benefits.

Tanya

Voiced by: Phil LaMarr

Tanya (Granmama) is Irwin's grandmother and Dick's mother. She usually ends sentences with "baby", as Irwin does with "yo", and his father with "dude", suggesting a family trait. She is also the wife of Dracula. Despite her angry demeanor, she seems to care for Irwin, but will sometimes embarrass him. She doesn't like to be challenged or insulted, and has a hatred of hip hop music. She seems to have grown up in the dozens as she has a mastery of yo-mama jokes to the point where she defeated the school's supernaturally altered principal in a face off.

Dick

Voiced by: Phil LaMarr

Dick is Irwin's father who is a normal middle-aged man who ends a lot of his sentences with the word "dude". He married a mummy named Judy (who is Irwin's mother), who lives in a sarcophagus in the basement of Irwin's house. While it is never explained why, the basement looks like an Egyptian tomb. Irwin's father insists that their unusual pairing leaves "a lot of questions that don't need to be answered." He is also a dhampir, his father being Dracula, though he is never referred to as or called one.

Harold

Voiced by: Richard Horvitz

Harold, who is Billy's father and Gladys' husband, is an overweight man with a large, bulbous nose and a lofty black pompadour (which is in one episode discovered to house his brain). Harold resembles his son in appearance and personality, sometimes displaying even more stupidity than Billy himself. Harold's employment is unknown and varies from episode to episode (he reveals in Big Boogey Adventure that he gets fired all the time, for even the smallest of dumb acts). Despite his low IQ, Harold was accepted to Harvard, and was a former Navy Seal. Harold's alter-ego is Mogar, which draws inspiration from the rock band KISS, as seen in "Battle of the Bands."

Gladys

Voiced by: Jennifer Hale

Billy's mother Gladys is a loving, tolerant, and patient, yet mentally unstable woman brought on by having to deal with her husband, son, and the presence of the Grim Reaper as her eternal house-guest. Gladys has red hair (which is the only similar trait to Billy she has) and is usually seen wearing a floor-length, lavender dress. She considers Grim a constant threat to her son's safety. In multiple instances, Gladys is seen attacking Grim to protect her son. She has a severe facial tic which usually appears when Billy is misbehaving, when her authority is challenged, or whenever Grim is present, most likely developed as a result of her nervous breakdown. She wants Billy to grow up to be a chiropracter. She is prone to small fits of insanity and obsessive-compulsive episodes.

Mindy

Voiced by: Rachael MacFarlane

Mindy is a gagging obnoxious girl obsessed with proving her worth to Mandy, who doesn't care for the spoiled girl (when Mindy first moved into Endsville, she wanted to become friends with Mandy but was rejected, starting her hatred for her). She considers herself superior to her classmates. Her father buys her outrageous gifts, and it's implied that her mom doesn't love her or is estranged. Mindy is red-haired and freckled and she describes herself as "much prettier" than Mandy. She frequently calls her classmates "losers." Despite her supposed hatred for Mandy, she envies her wit and adventures with her friends Grim and Billy. She's always seen in her school clothes, even when out of school.

Sperg

Voiced by: Greg Eagles

Sperg is the local bully, who constantly bullies Billy, Irwin, Pud'n, and other kids to no end. He is a husky boy whose preferred method of terrorizing other kids is by administering his 'lethal' wedgies. Despite his physical strength, he is frightened of Mandy because she is tougher than him. On his shoulder, he has a heart tattoo that says "Mom". It has been revealed that his mom is actually very attractive. Sperg loves Butter Cup Candies and is very sensitive inside.

General Skarr

Voiced by: Armin Shimerman

General Skarr first appeared in the show Evil Con Carne, where he was Hector Con Carne's paramilitary commander. He is usually a cold-hearted, hateful, and harsh man, with big interests in power and world domination, yet when alone, he behaves more calmly, tending to his garden. He is missing an eye and has a scar on his face making Billy think he is a pirate. Retired from villainy, he moves into Billy and Mandy's neighborhood and is constantly struggling with the temptation to return to his evil ways. He attempts to distract himself from his hunger for power, usually by gardening. Whilst he is no longer a member of Evil Con Carne, Skarr has many weapons and mementos from his past which he stores in his private study. Among these are his military outfit and a large picture of himself with Hector and Ghastly. In Underfist: Halloween Bash, which takes place a year later after the series ended, he has grown facial hair.

Pud'n

Voiced by: Jane Carr

A weak and easily frightened classmate of Billy, Mandy, and Irwin, Pud'n is often the victim and/or instigator of some trauma. He is a red-headed, freckled boy with buck teeth, and wears a hoodie. He has no parents, but was raised by wolves. Despite this, Pud'n loves dolls, bunnies, and flowers. At times, Pud'n can also be a terrifying force and show a dark side to his personality. He has also been known to have an allergy to pies, which cause his face to swell up. Though he was raised by wolves it is shown in one episode that he lives in a house.

Eleanor Butterbean

Voiced by: Renee Raudman

Ms. Eleanor Butterbean is the uncaring teacher of Billy and Mandy's school. She often takes naps in class on her desk and detests her job as a teacher. She speaks in a slightly lazy tone of voice, which shows she is bored by her occupation. Once, Billy brought her a rancid apple as a gift, which nearly killed her and made Grim take over her profession while she recovered.

Principal Goodvibes

Voiced by: Chris Cox

Principal Goodvibes is the Paul Lynde-esqe principal of Billy and Mandy's school. His name was legally changed to Goodvibes, and he makes sure that his students feel good to the point of absurdity. It is later revealed in one episode that he sleeps in his car.

Hoss Delgado

Voiced by: Diedrich Bader

Hoss is a spectral exterminator; a hunter of paranormal creatures. He possesses one real hand and one mechanical one, the latter of which can seemingly produce any tool he desires, most commonly a metal fist or a chainsaw-launching crossbow. He also claims to have a chip in his brain which heats up when he talks to an idiot, and when he talked to Billy he claimed that it was 'burning a hole through [his] forehead′. Hoss is the take-no-prisoner figure in Grim Adventures, though in most episodes he acts in a clumsy and/or goofy manner. For a while he dated Eris, goddess of Chaos, and their relationship was very dysfunctional. Hoss is known to make incredibly odd and usually completely irrelevant metaphors, often when talking to someone who is either cowardly or stupid. Similarly, he uses exclamatory phrases which are different, but recognizable from their original form. In his first appearances he distrusts Grim, but this dissipates as the series progresses. He resembles Kurt Russell's character Snake Plissken from Escape from New York, and is an obvious parody of Ash Williams from the Evil Dead Trilogy. His name is a parody of Jose Delgado, also known as Gangbuster is the DC Comics continuity. In Underfist, his leg was replaced with a chainsaw.

Jeff the Spider

Voiced by: Maxwell Atoms

Jeff is a giant spider who thinks Billy is his father. When Billy opens Grim's magical trunk one day, he finds an egg, which he incubates himself and raises. When it hatches, Jeff appears and believes Billy is his father. Unfailingly friendly, Jeff wants more than anything to gain Billy's love despite Billy's arachnophobia-based hate for him. Billy frequently beats him with blunt objects. Jeff blames himself for Billy's hatred toward him and constantly tries to win his love. With Mandy's help, he finally manages to scare Billy into loving him. At one point, Jeff rejects Billy when he refuses to love his "son", but it just turns out the spider was possessed by a cow-spider demon.Jeff was engaged to the Spider Queen in Wrath of the Spider Queen.

Dracula

Voiced by: Phil LaMarr

Dracula is Grim's childhood idol and Irwin's grandfather. The once famous vampire lives in the Home of the Ancients, a retirement home for old movie monsters. Dracula talks fast and likes to dance. He does not remember names well, and often calls Grim "Skeleton Man" or even "Dummy". He is argumentative, senile, stubborn, and easily distracted and often refers to himself in the third person. When he is asked about drinking blood, he is very adamant that he does not suck, but scrapes and licks the skin instead like a vampire bat.

His relation to Irwin is that he married Tanya and was thus the father of Dick and grandfather of Irwin, a fact that neither of them were aware of. Tanya had thought he left them; ironically, he was chased out by her after assuming his bat form.

In the fall of 2006, Dracula became the network's Halloweenhorror host in puppet form, along with Courage the Cowardly Dog. Dracula was yet again a host for the movie Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure. He also made a cameo in the movie itself, during the musical number. Dracula is a direct reference to the cult blaxploitation film character, Blacula and is a combination of Redd Foxx and James Brown in personality.

Minor characters

Nergal

Voiced by: David Warner (Seasons 1-2), Martin Jarvis (Season 2 +)

Nergal is a mutant creature who lives in the center of the Earth. He is an all-black supernatural being with green eyes and wears a business suit. With the ability to shapeshift he can create several tentacles from his back that can electrocute his victims or turn them into beings looking like himself. What Nergal desires most is having friends, once stating that it is quite lonely in the center of the world. He is generally considered something of a loser and he often becomes histrionic over his failings. In his first appearances, Nergal was one of the main enemies of Billy, Mandy, and Grim, but now as a member of Billy's family because he married Billy's Aunt Sis, he is a friend of them and Billy's uncle, by marriage.

Cerberus

Cerberus is Grim's pet dog from the Underworld and is first seen in the episode "Mandy Bites Dog". In this episode, after seeing Mandy's dog Saliva act pathetically, Grim boasts about how Cerberus was supposedly the "best dog ever" and how he "did everything [Grim] told him". Mandy then blows the dog whistle, which she won off Billy in a board game, to call Cerberus so she can have a look at him. Grim then panics and reveals that Cerberus is a nasty dog who didn't just eat his homework, but also ate his dad. Cerberus has three heads, two of which appear to be modelled after German Shepherds and the other one a Poodle. After Cerberus crashes to Earth (in the form of a comet, complete with tail), Grim commands him to sit, which he ignores and barks instead. At that point Grim runs, screaming for the dogcatcher, but Cerberus pounces on him and (literally) takes him apart, chewing on his bones and his skull. Mandy thwhacks Cerberus on the nose with a stick and commands him to spit Grim out, which the dog immediately obeys, presumably out of fear.

Aunt Sis

Voiced by: Grey DeLisle

Aunt Sis is Billy's aunt, Nergal's wife, and Nergal Jr.'s mother. She is a sullen-looking woman with glasses, a large nose, and a hairstyle similar to Gladys. She is a spinster who had experienced four-and-a-half-minutes of love in her "pathetic, lonely life" before finally finding her match in the equally-lonely demon Nergal.

Nergal, Jr.

Voiced by: Debi Derryberry

Nergal Junior is the son of Nergal and Billy's aunt Sis. He is also Billy's first cousin. He looks more like his father than his mother. Like his father, he has the power to shapeshift and most of the time he appears in the form of a kid who rejected his offer of friendship when he first came to the surface. When he takes another's shape, he keeps his lime eyes, glasses, green tongue, and sharp, yellow teeth. It is revealed in the episode "Son of Nergal" that his true form resembled a hideous black octopus, which is rather blobbish in shape. Like his father, he is lonely and can't find friends, and because of his desperation, he developed evil tendencies and terrorizes everyone who stands in his way, except for Billy and Mandy.

Eris

Voiced by: Rachael MacFarlane

Eris is the Goddess of Chaos, here portrayed as a curvaceous and beautiful, but vindictive, blonde woman with a gap in her teeth. She delights in causing all kinds of chaos, and does a multitude of destructive things. She possesses the powerful Apple of Discord, a golden apple which can transform into any shape to perpetuate chaos (Billy calls it a magic banana). Her accent and behavior are prone to sudden shifts, from a stereotypical valley girl to a refined British woman, parodying Madonna's change in image over the years. Eris appears in "Wrath of the Spider Queen", attending the same school as Grim, Velma, Nergal, Lord Pain, and Boogey. Grim is also revealed to have a crush on her during earlier episodes, but later changes his mind, claiming her to be a "psychopath."

Boogey Man

Voiced by: Fred Willard

An old arch-enemy of Grim's since junior high school, and a former school bully, Boogey played pranks on Grim throughout his school career. Boogey is, in fact, the Boogeyman himself, and can shapeshift in order to scare people. Boogey is Grim's rival in scaring people, but usually fails in doing so. He is constantly frustrated by his inability to scare modern-day children (he blames cartoons, video games, and the tuba for this). Boogey visits Grim in the episode Bully Boogie. Mandy suggests a challenge of a scaring contest, which Boogey promptly loses, and is banished to another dimension. Ironically, it is the same dimension to which he sent Billy, one filled with spiny plants and a creature similar to the plants.

The Boogey Man is prominently featured as the main villain in the television movie Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure where he testified against Grim in front of the Underworld Court. After getting his old nemesis fired from his position as reaper, he volunteers to take Grim and his accomplices out for a sail with his pirate crew in order to dispose of the former reaper. In the end, he discovers that he is not scary at all and becomes afraid of everything himself.

The Boogey Man later appears in the flashbacks of "Wrath of the Spider Queen." He attempts to cheat in the Grim Reaper election by stuffing the ballot box, but Grim catches him and tries to undo what he's done. Velma then finds Grim with the ballot box, assumes that he is trying to cheat and runs away in tears. Angry at Boogey, Grim grabs the scythe and attacks him in a horrifying display. This prompts everyone else in the school that hadn't already voted to support Grim, meaning that Boogey was inadvertently responsible for him becoming the Grim Reaper.

Fred Fredburger

Voiced by: C. H. Greenblatt

Fred is an idiotic, green elephant-like creature with small horns and a love of nachos and frozen yogurt. He lives in the Underworld and first appeared in the episode "Keeper of the Reaper". His dialogue consists mainly of saying his name constantly, spelling it, and saying "yes" at random times, usually the end or near the beginning of a sentence. Most of the time he is an annoyance to the other characters, especially Grim. He speaks in simple English, and likes to spell his own name, usually having trouble when he gets to the "G". He was also one of the characters in the Cartoon Network Yes! campaign with part of the name of it being derived from one of his most common phrases, "Yes". He can be seen in the episodes, "Keeper of the Reaper" and "Be a-Fred, be very a-Fred!", the movie, "Billy & Mandy's big Boogey adventure" and in the Billy & Mandy spin-off special, "Underfist".

Judge Roy Spleen

Voiced by: Phil LaMarr

Judge Roy Spleen is the judge of the Underworld Court. He and the whole Underworld Court first appeared briefly in the episode Home of the Ancients, but had a greater role in the episode Keeper of the Reaper. He is also seen in Billy & Mandy: Wrath of the Spider Queen as Grim's school teacher and officiated Jeff's wedding in the same film. He hates Fred Fredburger, who pestered him constantly during "Keeper of the Reaper". He also was the court judge in Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure. He, in "Keeper", paternally allowed both Billy and Mandy have Grim on the condition that Billy doesn't leave his house for one week.

Nigel Planter

Voiced by: Jake Thomas

A spoof of Harry Potter, Nigel Planter is a boy with glasses and an "L"-shaped scar on his forehead (it was later revealed to be nothing more than a pen mark). He's a young whiny wizard from Weaselthorpe House at Toadblatt's School of Sorcery. He is often overconfident and holds a deluded self image, often taking credit for things he did not do. Later in the series, it is implied that he holds mild romantic affections for Mandy. In the episode Order of the Peanuts, it was stated that Nigel was the last heir to the Planters Peanuts Company, giving an explanation to his terrible track record as a wizard.

Dean Toadblatt

Voiced by: John Vernon & Billy West (for Order of the Peanuts)

Dean Toadblatt is the headmaster of Toadblatt's School of Sorcery. Toadblatt is a large, humanoid toad wearing a purple wizard's robe. He hates Nigel Planter with a passion. After John Vernon's passing, Toadblatt's voice and entire character design was entirely changed for the next cartoon. Only one character noticed the change, and was dragged away to an unknown end. This was a parody of the fact that two actors portrayed Albus Dumbledore in the Potter films (when Richard Harris died, the role went to Michael Gambon).

Lord Moldybutt

Voiced by: John Kassir

A spoof of Harry Potter villain, Lord Voldemort. He gave Nigel a L-shaped pen mark (which he thought to be a scar) when he was young, referring to Harry Potter's lightning scar. Whenever his name is said, or just the words Moldybutt, great misfortunes happen such as the objects within the proximity becoming completely destroyed. In consequence, people call him "he-who-should-never-ever-be-named". He actually is just a real-estate agent who has been trying to inform Nigel Planter to his heirship to the Planters Peanut Company.

See also

• Voice cast in the show