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| |image=[[File:Gruntilda Spirit.png|250px]]<br>Gruntilda's spirit from ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'' | | |image=Grunty2.png |
| |full_name=Gruntilda Winkybunion | | |size = 240px |
| |species=[[:Category:Witches|Witch]]
| | |game=[[Banjo-Kazooie]]<br>[[Banjo-Tooie]]<br>[[Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge]]<br>[[Banjo-Pilot]]<br>[[Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts]] |
| |game=''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]<br>[[Banjo-Tooie]]<br>[[Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge]]<br>[[Banjo-Pilot]]<br>[[Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts]]<br>[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'' | | |world=[[Spiral Mountain]]<br>[[Gruntilda's Lair]]<br>[[Cauldron Keep]]<br>[[Showdown Town]]<br>[[Nutty Acres]]<br>[[LOGBOX 720]]<br>[[Banjoland]]<br>[[Jiggoseum]]<br>[[Terrarium of Terror]] |
| |world='''''Banjo-Kazooie''''':<br>[[Gruntilda's Lair]]<br>'''''Banjo-Tooie''''':<br>[[Cauldron Keep]]<br>'''''Grunty's Revenge''''':<br>[[Spiral Mountain]]<br>'''''Nuts & Bolts'''''<br>[[Showdown Town]]<br>[[Nutty Acres]]<br>[[LOGBOX 720]]<br>[[Banjoland]]<br>[[Jiggoseum]]<br>[[Terrarium of Terror]]<br>[[Spiral Mountain]]
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| |icon='''''Nintendo 64 games''''':<br>[[File:BK Gruntilda icon.png|Banjo-Kazooie N64]] [[File:BK Gruntilda beauty icon.png|Pretty (Banjo-Kazooie N64)]] [[File:BT Gruntilda icon.png|Banjo-Tooie N64]]<br>'''Xbox Live Arcade:'''<br>[[File:BK XBLA Gruntilda icon.png|Banjo-Kazooie XBLA]] [[File:BK XBLA Gruntilda beauty icon.png|Pretty (Banjo-Kazooie XBLA)]] [[File:BT XBLA Gruntilda icon.png|Banjo-Tooie XBLA]] | | }} |
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| {{quote|What do [[Dingpot|you]] mean, this cannot be, there's no one prettier than me!|Gruntilda|[[Banjo-Kazooie]]}}
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| '''Gruntilda Winkybunion''', often nicknamed '''Grunty''', is the main antagonist of the [[Banjo-Kazooie (series)|''Banjo-Kazooie'' series]].
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| ==Physical traits==
| | '''Gruntilda Winkybunion''', also known as '''Grunty''', is an evil witch and the main antagonist of the [[Banjo-Kazooie series]]. She has appeared in every game in the series yet. |
| [[File:Gruntilda art B-K.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Gruntilda, as she appears in ''Banjo-Kazooie''.]]
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| Gruntilda's general appearance looks like many other depictions of witches in fiction, having green skin (the specific shade being "Swampwater Stink," which she claims to be a witchly tradition<ref name="Facebook Q&A">[https://www.reddit.com/r/BanjoKazooie/comments/5s2fna/banjokazooie_facebook_qas/ Archive on Reddit of the Banjo-Kazooie Facebook Q&A] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20220912123225/https://www.reddit.com/r/BanjoKazooie/comments/5s2fna/banjokazooie_facebook_qas/ archive.org])</ref>), green eyes, black hair, a long chin, and a long nose (with some warts). She wears a black robe with a dark red interior, a purple striped scarf, Mary Janes shoes with stockings that match her scarf, and a witch hat. Gruntilda has asymmetric eyes, with her right eye being fairly normal while her left eye is in a perpetual squint. Gruntilda is obese, and in one of her lair taunts in the first game, Grunty implied that it was caused from overeating.
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| In the Game Over sequence for ''Banjo-Kazooie'', Gruntilda's appearance after using the Beauty Transfer Machine shows her as significantly slimmed down, being given a petite yet busty appearance, with her dress shrinking to a great extent. She wears matching dress shoes with no socks. Her nose and chin are significantly smaller. Her eye color was changed to red and are rendered symmetrical.
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| In ''Banjo-Tooie'', Gruntilda's appearance was changed, largely to reflect how she was trapped under a boulder for two years. Aside from being a skeleton, Gruntilda retains most of her normal appearance. Her robes are tattered and were changed to blue with purple interior. Gruntilda's witch hat is slightly bent. Grunty retains her obese shape, and her rib cage suggests that she is "big-boned." | | In the [[Banjo-Kazooie|first game]], Gruntilda played the the role of "evil witch" quite nicely. She spoke only in rhyme, and was known for her extreme vanity; strange, considering how ugly she appears. She is also very selfish, as she doesn't care about what will happen to Tooty when she uses her machine. Like most witches, she uses a broomstick for transportation. When [[Dingpot]] revealed that [[Tooty]], the sister of [[Banjo]], was the "fairest in the land", Gruntilda became incensed and kidnapped the child. She plotted to use a "Beauty Transfer Machine" to drain Tooty's youth and beauty and transfer it to herself. Banjo and his pal [[Kazooie]] chased the witch through her [[Gruntilda's Lair|massive lair]], where she had created various worlds filled with her minions and challenges. As the pair progressed, Gruntilda shouted rhyming taunts and various insults to keep the pair away. With help from various sources-including her sister [[Brentilda]], who told Banjo and Kazooie answers to some of the questions on her gameshow, the bird and bear duo were able to make through the worlds and reach the last challenge before rescuing Tooty, a twisted gameshow created by Gruntilda called [[Grunty's Furnace Fun]]. After the duo cleared the game, Gruntilda runs away and leaves them to rescue Tooty. Later, the two journeyed to the roof and battled Grunty, with aid from the [[Jinjo]]s that she had imprisoned throughout the worlds. She was defeated by the Jinjonator and trapped beneath an enormous rock, which her minion [[Klungo]] spent two years attempting to remove. Oddly enough, she remained alive, and vowed revenge upon the pair. |
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| In ''Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts'', L.O.G. gave a new body to Grunty. It is based on her general appearance, with the largest difference being a glass tank on top that contains her skull. A witch hat is the lid of the glass tank. There is a small, yellow-striped tube on the back of the glass tank that connects to the main body. Grunty's shoes look different, and her robe has some purple stitches and a slight silk frill near the lower part.
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| | Despite her comical nature and stupidity, Gruntilda proved herself to be Banjo and Kazooie's strongest enemy when first faced. She spends most of the fight riding her broomstick. During the first phase, she flies down fast and tries to impale Banjo and Kazooie with the teeth on her broom. Her broom starts to slow down after a few passes, leaving her vulnerable to jump attacks. |
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| Gruntilda is similar to witches in other works of fiction. She resembles the {{wp|Wicked Witch of the West}} from ''{{wp|The Wonderful Wizard of Oz}}''. Gruntilda's use of a cauldron and her two wicked sisters, Mingella and Blobbelda, resemble the wicked witches from {{wp|William Shakespeare}}'s ''{{wp|Macbeth}}''. Aside from witches, Grunty shares traits with the {{wp|Evil Queen}} in ''{{wp|Snow White and the Seven Dwarves}}'', namely her main motive to steal Tooty's beauty. Grunty's first line parodies Evil Queen famous line, "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?." In the ending for ''Banjo-Kazooie'', Grunty has the same fate as the Evil Queen in the Disney adaptation of ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarves'', as both of them fall to their doom and get crushed by a boulder. | |
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| Like the rest of the characters in the ''Banjo-Kazooie'' series, Gruntilda has a very comical personality and often breaks the fourth wall. Gruntilda is intelligent and has a sarcastic wit but is overconfident, believing that Banjo and Kazooie cannot overcome her challenges. Grunty mostly speaks in rhymes, except for most of ''Banjo-Tooie'' (because her sisters get annoyed at her for rhyming) and in ''Banjo-Pilot''.
| | After taking enough damage, she starts to hover in place and throw fireballs. In a rare moment, she displays some intelligence when doing this, because if the player tries to run away from the fireballs before she fires, Gruntilda will throw them into the player's path. After throwing two, she will use a homing energy attack that is impossible to dodge and has to be blocked with the [[Wonder Wing]]. When she finishes her attacks, the player has the opportunity to shoot eggs at her. |
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| Gruntilda has poor hygiene, most of which is revealed by Brentilda gossiping about her in ''Banjo-Kazooie''. In the opening cutscene, it is shown that Gruntilda has a habit of picking her nose. Despite her poor hygiene, Grunty has some distaste for Banjo going through [[Loggo]] in [[Mad Monster Mansion]], demanding that he wash his hands immediately
| | After the repeating the process, Gruntilda starts to fly high into the air to avoid being shot at, but [[Bottles]] fortunately creates a flight pad to use. When Banjo and Kazooie are flying, Gruntilda will only try and attack with fireballs, and is vulnerable to beak bomber when she isn't moving. |
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| In ''Banjo-Tooie'', Grunty's selfish nature is the most evident, like when she used B.O.B. to drain the life force from characters such as King Jingaling, to try and restore her general appearance. Throughout the game, Grunty is considerably more evil, as she is responsible for the death of others such as her sisters during the Tower of Tragedy event, or by carelessly riding the Hag 1 through [[Jinjo Village]] and crashing into the gray Jinjo house, killing every gray [[Jinjo]] inside.
| | After taking enough damage Gruntilda will create a force field around that Banjo and Kazooie can't break through. At this point the [[Jinjo]]s realize the two of the them need their help and intervene by creating four statues around the area. After a number of eggs are shot into the statues, a Jinjo will fly away like a missile and hit Gruntilda. The witch, however, doesn't remain idle during this and will continue to attack with fireballs and homing shots. While Banjo and Kazooie can't move the statues, Gruntilda's attacks will unfortunately pass through them, so they don't provide any cover. |
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| In the first two games, Grunty is shown to be abusive to her minions, causing them to side with Banjo and Kazooie. In ''Banjo-Kazooie'', Grunty's cauldron Dingpot and her spellbook Cheato assist Banjo and Kazooie along their adventure. In ''Banjo-Tooie'', she is shown to frequently beat her loyal servant, Klungo, to the point where he also decides to take Banjo and Kazooie's side. In ''Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge'', Grunty's plots are more comparable to ''Banjo-Tooie'' than the first game, as she kidnaps Kazooie and travels back in time, trying to change history so that Banjo and Kazooie would never meet and to give her control over Spiral Mountain.
| | After all four Jinjo missiles fire, Gruntilda's broomstick will break and she will fall to the edge of the tower. She is still standing however, and her force field still renders her immune to any of Banjo and Kazooie's attacks. At this point a larger statue containing the Jinjonator appears. This statue has four holes that the player must shoot eggs into. Like the smaller Jinjo statues, the statue unfortunately provides no cover and Gruntilda's attacks will still pass through it. She is quite possibly at her most dangerous in this phase because she will attack with several consecutive fireballs, followed by a homing shot. After the Jinjonator is activated, he will defeat Gruntilda and knock her off the tower, trapping her under a boulder. |
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| Grunty has a love for quiz shows, and she hosts one in the first two games and ''Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge''. In the final boss battle of ''Banjo-Tooie'', Grunty is shown to have some degree of honor, because if Banjo and Kazooie answer her quiz questions correctly, she uses a slow-moving spell. Grunty still gets mad if Banjo and Kazooie correctly answer a question but feels bound to her word to go easy on them if they do.
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| In ''Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts'', unlike the first two games, Gruntilda does not value upgrading her personal appearance and appears to be fond her new mechanical body. She is shown to be smart enough to use potential setbacks and turn them into victories on her part, such as in the ending, where despite her being forced to work at L.O.G.'s Videogame Factory, she claimed to have access to the resources to make her own game despite being forced to work at LOG's factory when she lost to Banjo and Kazooie.
| | After [[Banjo-Tooie|two years had passed]], Gruntilda was suddenly freed from her prison by the sudden appearance of her sisters, [[Mingella]] and [[Blobbelda]]. Their evil spells levitated the rock that trapped Grunty, and they discovered that she had been degenerated into a skeleton. Furious at her new bony body, Gruntilda asked her sisters for help in restoring her. "Mingy" and "Blobby" had already planned for such an event, and the three prepared to leave [[Spiral Mountain]]. Before they did, when [[Mumbo]] had wandered out of the Banjo's house to find the source of the ruckus caused when Mingella and Bloddelda entered with [[Hag 1]], Grunty chased him and tried to kill him. Seeing him enter Banjo's house, she prepared a bigger spell to destroy it, and while Banjo, Kazooie, and Mumbo escaped, [[Bottles]] stayed behind assuming Mumbo was lying and trying to win at their poker game, resulting him being killed by the blast, which also ruined Banjo's house. The trio of witches then used the [[Hag 1]] digging machine to reach [[Cauldron Keep]] on [[Isle o' Hags]], where Mingella and Blobbedla revealed their [[B.O.B.]] machine. It was designed to suck the life out of anything captured in its beam; Gruntilda practiced this on [[King Jingaling]], reducing him to a zombie. It is also interesting to note that Gruntilda stopped speaking in rhyme at this point (her sisters found it "annoying"). Gruntilda then wanted to use B.O.B. on the whole island, but is informed that it will take time for it to charge up before that can happen. For the rest of the game she stays in Cauldron Keep, but will usually talk to Banjo and Kazooie whenever they enter a minigame. They eventually meet her again in Cauldron Keep, where she makes an attempt to make with another gameshow, this competing against her two sisters, called [[Tower of Tragedy]], in which the loser would have a 1-ton weight dropped on them. Her plan failed, and she ended up killing her two sisters, but because of her temper declares Banjo and Kazooie's win "invalid due to the faulty scoring equipment". Not sure of what to do next, Gruntilda takes Kazooie's advice to "escape a cowardly fashion like in Banjo-Kazooie", and she tells the duo she'll be at the top of the tower, though she of course boasts she will win this time. Sure enough, Banjo and Kazooie found Gruntilda in the Hag 1 waiting for them at the top of Cauldron Keep. Although she had more success than the last time she attacked Banjo and Kazooie (she killed two of his allies), Gruntilda's revenge plans failed and was defeated yet again, and reduced to nothing more than a talking skull. She swore that she would get her revenge in [[Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts|Banjo-Threeie]]. |
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| ==Abilities== | | ==[[Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge]]== |
| {{quote|You'll never beat me for good at this game, I'll still come back as an eyeball or brain!|Gruntilda|[[Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts]]}} | | {{Infobox enemy |
| In the final boss battle of ''Banjo-Kazooie'', Grunty is shown to have various magical powers, such as the ability to cast fireballs, homing spells, and generate a powerful force field. In ''Banjo-Tooie'', her spells are lethal enough to kill others upon contact. In ''Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge'', aside from using Mecha Grunty, Grunty could split her soul into three to confuse her opponents. In ''Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts'', L.O.G. removed Grunty's ability to use magical powers as a stipulation for participating in his contest.
| | |name = Mecha-Grunty |
| | |image = Mecha_Grunty.png |
| | |game = [[Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge]] |
| | |world = [[Breegull Beach]]<br>[[Spiller's Harbor]] |
| | |hp = 6,9,12 |
| | |wp = Gruntilda's Spirit |
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| | |icon = Mechagrunty_icon.png |
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| | '''Mecha-Grunty''' is the main antagonist from [[Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge]] on Game Boy Advance. Two months after being crushed under a rock in the ending of Banjo-Kazooie, Grunty's spirit was able to escape, and she was able to live once more, using a mechanical version of herself as a body. Klungo built the robot, then Grunty's soul left the rock and got into the machine. You fight with Grunty many times through the game, and there is nothing "new" in the final battle related to the others battles in the game. After being defeated, Grunty returns to the hole her original body lay in, and tells [[Klungo]] to fetch her sisters, thus setting up the events of [[Banjo-Tooie]]. |
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| Grunty is capable of producing technology. It was implied that the Beauty Transfer Machine from ''Banjo-Kazooie'' was developed by her. In ''Banjo-Tooie'', Grunty was shown to be piloting the Hag 1 (although it was implied that she frequently consulted a manual in that case), and had modified her podium in the Tower of Tragedy as a means to escape, in the event that Banjo wins. In ''Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts'', her inability to use magic is compensated by her designing mechanical robots, such as [[Gruntbot]]s, and various vehicles to compete against Banjo and Kazooie.
| | Many say that the game is based on a parallel universe many saying that this is what [[Banjo-Tooie]] would've looked like if [[Grunty]]s sisters never came for her. |
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| In ''Banjo-Kazooie'', Gruntilda has the ability to delete the save file. This only occurs if Banjo and Kazooie use too many [[cheat code]]s in the [[Sandcastle]].
| | ==[[Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts]]== |
| | Grunty continues her role as an antagonist in this game as well. She makes her way back to Spiral Mountain, even though she is still a head. Banjo and Kazooie challenge her to another showdown, but the [[Lord of Games]] pauses the battle and states they shall fight in true [[Banjo-Kazooie]] style, by collecting random useless objects. A fat [[Banjo]] and Grunty start to collect the thousands of badges L.O.G. put in front of them, but soon grows impatient of a head and a fat bear running around. He restores Banjo and Kazooie to fighting fit shape and gives Grunty a robotic form of her original body with a jar for her head and a cat named [[Piddles]]. The two go to Showdown Town, where she waits as Banjo and Kazooie earn Jiggies to return to [[Spiral Mountain]] and fight her once more. She appears in all levels of the game. In Nuts and Bolts her voice has changed. |
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| ==Biography== | | ===[[Nutty Acres]]=== |
| Gruntilda is a wicked witch who frequently causes trouble for [[Banjo]] and [[Kazooie]]. Grunty frequently speaks in rhymes, and she has the ability to use powerful, magical spells. Gruntilda has a good sister, [[Brentilda]], and two sisters, [[Blobbelda]] and [[Mingella]], who are evil like her. Gruntilda has a different appearance in nearly every game of the ''Banjo-Kazooie'' series. In the first two games, Gruntilda had a loyal assistant named [[Klungo]]. A few of Gruntilda's minions are living objects, including her magic cauldron [[Dingpot]], her [[broomstick]], and her spellbook [[Cheato]].
| | She appears in Act 3 and she is trying to steal the island's Loco Coco. She carries it away and Banjo must knock it out of her vehicle. This is not a difficult challenge as the coconut is not secured. Beating the challenge earns the bear and bird high grip wheels for the trolley in Showdown Town. |
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| ===''Banjo-Kazooie''=== | | ===[[LOGBOX 720]]=== |
| [[File:Grunty B-K group art.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Artwork for ''Banjo-Kazooie'' of Grunty unsuccessfully firing a spell at Banjo and Kazooie.]]
| | Grunty attempts to send Piddles to contaminate the glubber tank but first offers a race in Act 3. When Banjo wins, Grunty must stop her plan. Grunty races in the water and Banjo on land and the race is several laps long. The prize for this victory is the floaters. |
| In ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'', her debut appearance, Gruntilda acts like a stereotypical witch. In the opening cutscene, Grunty is asking Dingpot who the "nicest looking wench" is. Dingpot tells her that it is [[Tooty]]. Gruntilda gets outraged, hops on her broomstick and flies off to [[Spiral Mountain]], where Grunty kidnaps Tooty and takes her into her lair.
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| The game manual elaborates on the backstory further than in-game. It says that Gruntilda already planned to kidnap a denizen from Spiral Mountain and transfer their beauty to her. Grunty was already jealous of her sister, Brentilda, for "inheriting" the good looks. Deep down, Grunty was glad that Tooty was prettier, as it give her an excuse to use Tooty as the first subject for her "[[Beauty Steal Machine]]." | | ===[[Banjoland]]=== |
| | The witch tries to cause a ruckus in the museum with her new bouncing vehicle in Act 4. Banjo must destroy it before she gets away. Freezing her is a good strategy because she is hard to hit. The part earned here is the spring so the trolly can jump. |
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| Nearly all of Banjo and Kazooie's adventure takes place in [[Gruntilda's Lair]] and its connected worlds. In the lair, Grunty tries to hinder the duo with her minions and challenges. She also kidnapped several [[Jinjo]]s and put five of them throughout each level. As the pair progressed, Gruntilda shouted rhyming taunts and various insults in an attempt to keep the pair away. With help from various sources, such as Brentilda who told Banjo and Kazooie secrets about Gruntilda, the bear and bird duo were able to complete the nine worlds before reaching Grunty's quiz show, [[Grunty's Furnace Fun]].
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| | Grunty appears in two acts in this world. In Act 4, she flooded the stadium and Banjo must beat her challenge of knocking beach balls into the goal. Then he gets the scuba seat in Showdown Town. In Act 5, she tries to destroy the billiard balls with a laser, so Banjo must keep them safe. He gets a laser for his trolley if he wins. |
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| After Banjo and Kazooie win the game show and rescue Tooty, Gruntilda flees to the [[Winkybunion Tower|tower]]. With the help of Dingpot, the duo follow Grunty to the top, and they engage in a final battle. At the end of the battle, [[The Mighty Jinjonator]] is activated, and he attacks Gruntilda and knocks her off the tower. After a long fall, Gruntilda crashes into the ground, and then a large boulder falls on the same spot, trapping her below. Grunty manages to survive the fall, as she commands [[Klungo]] to move the boulder. Klungo struggles to move the boulder as Grunty vows revenge on Banjo and Kazooie.
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| | Grunty attempts to destory the foliage in Act 5 with her invisible flying vehicle. Banjo destroys the UFO and earns a horn. If the invisblity device is destroyed first, the challenge is easier. |
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| If Banjo and Kazooie get a [[Game Over]], a short sequence is shown where the Beauty Transfer Machine switches looks between Grunty and Tooty. After the machine runs, Gruntilda comes out with a slim physique, while Tooty becomes an ugly green monster. [[Mumbo Jumbo]] falls in love with Grunty, offers her a flower and asks her to visit [[Mumbo's Skull]].
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| | Grunty unleashes her five strongest vehicles in her final challenge. The first is a monster truck that is very fast. Then she drives a boat in the lake. After that, she pilots another invisible vehicle, fortunately however, it cannot fly. Then she uses an immobile impenetrable fortress to attack. Finally, she pilots a very fast airborne broomstick. After this is defeated, Grunty tries to assault the heroes, but L.O.G. intervenes again and tells her she lost the challenge, Spiral Mountain and her freedom. As such, the witch is sent to work in the videogame factory, she is shown busily working in the factory while [[Piddles]] bosses her around, however, right before the game cuts to credits, she cackles and states it was a mistake to bring her here, plotting to create her own video game. |
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| ===''Grunty's Revenge''=== | | ==Personality== |
| {{Quote|Although you've smashed my [[Mecha-Grunty|mecha-suit]], don't think you've given me the boot. Now I've trapped you on my tower, I'll crush you with my ghostly power!|Gruntilda|[[Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge]]}}
| | Like the rest of the characters in the series, Gruntilda has a very comical personality, and often breaks the [[4th wall]]. She isn't very smart. In Banjo-Kazooie, after kidnapping Tooty, she won't activate her machine unless the player gets a gameover for no explained reason. She also lets Banjo and Kazooie actually have a chance in her Grunty Furnace Fun game as opposed to just immediately activating a trap in the game that will kill them. However, even though she's extremely comical, she is none the less very evil. Aside from the plan she had to take Tooty's beauty away in the first game, her evil nature is also shown with how she abuses her minions throughout the game, and everyone else. In the first game Gruntilda has a fairly typical witch personality with her goal of being the best looking and trying to kill Banjo and Kazooie when they try to stop her. |
| In ''[[Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge]]'', two months after Grunty fell under a boulder, [[Klungo]] builds her a mechanical body, aptly called [[Mecha-Grunty]], for her ghost to inhabit. In her new body, Mecha-Grunty kidnaps Kazooie and travels back in time, to try and prevent them from ever meeting. After Banjo defeats Mecha-Grunty in their first battle at [[Breegull Beach]], Kazooie was freed.
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| Their next battle took place above the lighthouse, and it involved Banjo and Kazooie taking out her individual mechanical parts. After being defeated again, Mecha-Grunty requested Klungo to upgrade her suit. She awaited a third and final battle with the duo in her lair.
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| In the third and final battle, Mecha-Grunty's attacks consist of charging at them, firing electric balls, ground pounding, and dropping airborne mines. Banjo and Kazooie manage to destroy Mecha-Grunty, although Grunty continues to battle them in ghost form. Banjo and Kazooie manage to defeat her entirely, which causes her spirit to return to her body in the present. | |
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| [[File:Gruntilda B-T artwork.jpg|thumb|250px|Gruntilda, as she appears in ''Banjo-Tooie''.]]
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| In ''[[Banjo-Tooie]]'', which takes place two years after Gruntilda's first defeat, Klungo is still trying to move the large boulder that Grunty is stuck under. Grunty's two sisters, Blobbelda and Mingella, arrive in their giant digging machine, the [[Hag 1]]. They use a magic spell to levitate the rock, which then explodes. Gruntilda emerges from her grave, and was reduced to having a skeletal body as a result from being stuck under the rock for so long. Grunty tells her sisters that she needs a new body, so the three prepare to leave. At the start of the game, when Klungo slaps Gruntilda on the back, she briefly loses an eye.
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| Mumbo Jumbo secretly witnessed the events while hiding behind a cliff, but the three witches catch him spying on them. Gruntilda chases after him and fires energy blasts, but Mumbo Jumbo manages to safely escape into [[Banjo's House]]. Gruntilda starts charging a powerful spell as Mumbo urges Banjo, Kazooie, and [[Bottles]] to evacuate. They were playing poker, so Bottles thought they were trying to trick him. As a result, Bottles is killed by the spell, and Banjo's House is destroyed. The three witches leave Spiral Mountain and leave behind some [[Minion]]s and [[Gruntydactyl]]s to do more damage to the place.
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| After destroying Banjo's House, the trio of witches go into the Hag 1 and to [[Cauldron Keep]]. When they arrive, Grunty's sisters show the [[B.O.B.]] machine, which was designed to suck the life out of anything captured in its beam. It was designed to restore Gruntilda's appearance with the life it sucked out of other characters. Grunty first uses B.O.B. on [[King Jingaling]], because he gave a [[Jiggy]] to Banjo and Kazooie. Grunty then wants to use B.O.B. on the entire [[Isle O' Hags]], but her sisters inform her that it will take a while for B.O.B. to charge up enough energy to do so. Grunty is confident that Banjo and Kazooie cannot reach her, with King Jingaling and Bottles dead. From this point onward in the game, Gruntilda stops rhyming because her sisters find it annoying. For the rest of Banjo and Kazooie's adventure, Grunty stays in Cauldron Keep, but she usually talks to them whenever they enter a mini-game.
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| The duo eventually reach Cauldron Keep before B.O.B. recharges. They encounter Grunty, who tries to destroy them with another game show, the [[Tower of Tragedy Quiz]]. Her two sisters participated in the contest, and the conditions for losing meant that the losing contestants would have a 1-ton weight dropped on them. Grunty's plan failed, as Banjo and Kazooie ended up being the winners, and her two sisters, Mingella and Blobbelda, ended up being killed by 1-ton weights. Out of spite, Gruntilda considers Banjo and Kazooie's win to be "invalid due to the faulty scoring equipment."
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| Unsure of what to do, Gruntilda takes Kazooie's advice to "escape in a cowardly fashion like in ''Banjo-Kazooie''." Gruntilda retreats to the top of Cauldron Keep, where she awaits a final battle with the duo. When Banjo and Kazooie reach the top, they find Grunty in the Hag 1. In the machine, Grunty tries many attack, including releasing poisonous gas into the air and summoning enemies. Kazooie eventually destroys the Hag 1 by shooting a [[Clockwork Kazooie Egg]] into the machine's main engine chamber. Gruntilda's skeleton blows up and scatters in several directions. Gruntilda is only left with her head, which Banjo, Kazooie, [[Humba Wumba]], and [[Jamjars]] use as a ball in their "Kick Around" game. During this, one of Grunty's eyes pop out, and she vows revenge in the next game, ''[[Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts|Banjo-Threeie]]''.
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| Gruntilda is playable in three multiplayer games, [[Targitzan's Temple Shootout]], [[Ordnance Storage Shootout]] and [[Clinker's Cavern Shootout]]. In these games, Gruntilda is the tank character, with a high health at 16 [[Honeycomb]]s; this enables her to endure up to four [[Grenade Egg]]s. To compensate, Grunty is the slowest-moving character in multiplayer.
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| In ''[[Banjo-Pilot]]'', Gruntilda is a playable character, retaining her exact same appearance from ''Banjo-Kazooie'' (although not speaking in rhymes, like she does in the majority of ''Banjo-Tooie''). She is unlocked by completing [[Grunty GP]] and giving 150 [[Cheato Page]]s to [[Cheato]]. She has very low handling and acceleration but max top speed. Gruntilda is the boss of [[Broomstick Cup]], being fought at the end in the match "Grunty Gallop." During the battle, when Gruntilda is flying in front, she shoots behind [[Shrapnel]]s that work like [[Ice Egg|Single Blue Ice Egg]]s.
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| She has her own Grand Prix mode, [[Grunty GP]]. It features unique cups with modified versions of the regular courses.
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| ===''Nuts & Bolts''===
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| [[File:Coco Carrier.jpg|thumb|250px|Gruntilda, sitting on her vehicle, in ''Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts''.]]
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| In ''[[Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts]]'', Gruntilda returns as the main antagonist. She talks in rhymes again like the first game. | |
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| Eight years after the events of ''Banjo-Tooie'', Grunty manages to return to [[Spiral Mountain]], still in the form of a skull. Banjo and Kazooie become overweight over time from eating junk food and playing video games. They challenge her to another showdown, but the [[Lord of Games]] pauses the battle and arranges an event where they collect random objects placed around the map. Seconds after L.O.G. starts the event, he gets impatient and decides on a different event. He restores Banjo and Kazooie's physique and gives the [[Magic Wrench]] to them. L.O.G. then gives Grunty an artificial body, with a jar to contain her head, and a sidekick who is a cat named [[Piddles]]. The three characters go to Showdown Town, where Gruntilda tries to stop Banjo and Kazooie from earning Jiggies and returning to Spiral Mountain to fight her again. Gruntilda appears in at least one act of every level in the game. In Showdown Town, Gruntilda takes her time off as a break from fighting Banjo and Kazooie. One of Grunty's idle animations shows her putting on sunglasses.
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| For [[Nutty Acres]], Grunty appears in Act 3, where she is trying to steal the island's Loco Coco. She carries it away and Banjo must knock it out of her vehicle. This is not a difficult challenge as the coconut is not secured. Beating the challenge earns the bear and bird high grip wheels for the trolley in Showdown Town.
| | During the second game, Gruntilda is overall more evil, though she is still just as comical. She is forced to stop rhyming (because her sisters won't help her get her body back if she doesn't stop), and she actually tries to kill someone. Her aim is also more fiendish, in that she wanted to use B.O.B. to suck the life from all of Isle O' Hags to restore her body. Finally, she didn't have any problem with crushing her sisters (this could also be partially because rhyming is Gruntilda's thing), Mingella and Blobbelda, when they lost at her Tower of Tragedy game. Because of Banjo and Kazooie foiling her plans and burying her under a rock, she holds a strong grudge against them. Despite that, she takes them just as lightly as she did in the first game. Her lack of intelligence is also seen in her Tower of Tragedy game where she doesn't think of dropping the weight over Banjo and Kazooie when the game doesn't go the way she expected (Though, considering the fact that their weight fell down just as they were about to leave, narrowly missing them, as well as the fact that the podium she escaped in also controls the weights, she most likely was trying to crush them.). It is shown she is rather sensitive about her last name. |
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| In [[LOGBOX 720]], Grunty tries to send Piddles to contaminate the glubber tank (forcing Bottles to shut down the console) but first offers a race in Act 3. When Banjo wins, Grunty must stop her plan. Grunty races in the water and Banjo on land and the race is several laps long. The prize for this victory are the floaters and a small propeller. After she is defeated, go down the pink pool to find two passages, one containing notes and the other nothing.
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| In [[Banjoland]], Grunty tries to cause a ruckus in the museum with her new bouncing vehicle in Act 4. Banjo must destroy it before she gets away. Freezing her is a good strategy because she is hard to hit. The spring is earned here so that the trolley can jump.
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| | ==See also== |
| | ===Other sisters=== |
| | *[[Mingella]] |
| | *[[Blobbelda]] |
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| In [[Jiggoseum]], Grunty appears in two acts in this world. In Act 4, she flooded the stadium and Banjo must beat her challenge of knocking beach balls into the goal. Then he gets the scuba seat in Showdown Town. In Act 5, she tries to destroy the billiard balls with a laser, so Banjo must keep them safe. He gets a laser for his trolley if he wins.
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| In [[Terrarium of Terror]], Grunty attempts to destroy the foliage in Act 5 with her invisible flying vehicle.
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| Lastly, Grunty's plan for [[Spiral Mountain]] is revealed—she plans to industrialize Spiral Mountain and convert it into Grunty Acres. Grunty unleashes her five strongest vehicles in her final challenge. The first is a fast-moving monster truck. The second is her driving a boat in the lake. After that, she pilots another invisible vehicle. Then she uses an immobile impenetrable fortress to attack. Finally, she pilots a very fast airborne broomstick. After this is defeated, Grunty tries to attack Banjo and Kazooie, but L.O.G. intervenes again and tells her she lost the challenge, Spiral Mountain and her freedom. As such, Grunty is sent to work in the video game factory. She is shown busily working in the factory while [[Piddles]] bosses her around. Right before the end credits, Grunty cackles and says it was a mistake to bring her here, as she plans to create her own video game.
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| ==Other appearances==
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| In ''[[mariowiki:Mario Artist: Paint Studio|Mario Artist: Paint Studio]]'', artwork for Gruntilda riding her broomstick is a premade image that can be generated and edited.
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| In ''[[rarewiki:Grabbed by the Ghoulies|Grabbed by the Ghoulies]]'', boxes of "Grunty's Talcum Powder," "Grunty's Grow Fast Compost" and "Grunty's Tinned Carrots" can be found throughout certain rooms of [[rarewiki:Ghoulhaven Hall|Ghoulhaven Hall]].
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| In ''[[rarewiki:Viva Piñata|Viva Piñata]]'', Piñatas can wear an accessory named "Grunty Hat" which appears as part of the ''Banjo-Kazooie''-themed Accessory Pack 6. The accessory returns in ''[[rarewiki:Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise|Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise]]''. Gruntilda is also referenced in the description of the "Bird and Bear Statue" in both games, which is said to keep witches at bay.
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| In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'', Gruntilda makes a cameo appearance on the [[Spiral Mountain]] DLC stage. She swoops in on her broomstick when the camera rests with her lair in the background. Her appearance is based on her original design from ''Banjo-Kazooie''.
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| ===''Banjo-Kazooie''===
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| *'''Manual profile:''' "''She's selfish, spiteful and nasty, and now she's on a mission to make herself attractive by stealing the beauty of other people. Unfortunately Gruntilda doesn't seem to realize that she'll always be ugly on the inside—or if she does, she really couldn't care less…''"
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| *'''Manual profile:''' "''A small matter of being dead and buried isn't enough to finish Grunty, and now, thanks to her grave-robbing sisters, Banjo’s arch enemy is back and almost as good as before! Her subterranean stay might have reduced her to a skeleton, but she's wasted no time in blasting poor Bottles into oblivion and devising an evil plan to restore her bloated carcass to its former glory...''"
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| ===''Banjo-Pilot''===
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| *'''Top Speed:''' 5/5
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| *'''Handling:''' 1/5
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| *'''Manual profile:''' "''She's everything a witch should be: ugly, smelly and downright unpleasant. And she wants some of those trophies!''"
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| *'''Grunty Hat description:''' "''Grunty is a witch that has a thing against [[rarewiki:Fizzlybear|Fizzlybear]] types. This hatred has only ever led to her own downfall... so far.''"
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| *'''Manual profile:''' "''She's back to cause havoc, wreak havoc, and cause reek. Grunty holds a serious grudge, and she will stop at nothing to defeat Banjo.''"
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| !'''Gruntilda'''
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| |''[[Banjo-Kazooie (series)|Banjo-Kazooie]]'' Series
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| |Poison Power ↑
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| |•Battle via DLC Spirit Board<br>•Purchase from the Vault Shop for 15,000G (since v5.0.0)
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| |•Giant [[wikirby:King Dedede|King Dedede]] (250 HP)<br>•Giant [[mariowiki:Dr. Mario|Dr. Mario]] (40 HP) (45 HP) (50 HP)
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| |•Defeat the main fighter to win<br>•The floor is poisonous<br>•Stamina battle<br>•The enemy starts the battle with a [[wikirby:Star Rod|Star Rod]]<br>•Reinforcements will appear during the battle
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| ==Quotes==
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| {{Main|Gruntilda/quotes}}
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| B-K Gruntilda and Broomstick.jpg|''Banjo-Kazooie'' artwork
| | Image:Grunty.jpg|Gruntilda's original appearance. |
| Grunty NnB art.png|''Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts'' artwork | | Image:Grunty3.jpg|Another image of Gruntilda. |
| BP Gruntilda sprite.png|''Banjo-Pilot'' sprite
| | Image:GruntyPretty.jpg|Grunty after taking Tooty's youth. |
| | Image:Grunty2.jpg|Grunty, as a skeleton, after the events of ''Banjo-Kazooie''. |
| | Image:Grunty4.jpg|Klungo's Mecha Grunty from [[Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge]]. |
| | Image:Grunty2.png| Gruntilda from [[Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts]]. |
| | Image:beauty grunty icon.png|Grunty's beauty icon. |
| | Image:Skeleton Grunty icon.png|Grunty's skeleton icon. |
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| |Spa=Gruñona (''B-K'')<br>Juanetes (''B-T'')<br>Guiñajuanetes (''Grunty's Revenge'')<br>Winkybunion (''Nuts & Bolts'')
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| *Gruntilda's last name is Winkybunion, which she inadvertently admitted in ''Banjo-Tooie''. She dislikes her last name and threatens to sue Banjo and Kazooie if they told anyone. | | *All of Gruntilda's sisters have only appeared in one game so far: [[Brentilda]] has so far only appeared in [[Banjo-Kazooie]], and [[Mingella]] and [[Blobbelda]] have only appeared in [[Banjo-Tooie]]. |
| *According to [[Gregg Mayles]], Gruntilda is based on Grotbags from the British television show ''{{wp|Emu's World}}''.<ref>[https://twitter.com/Ghoulyboy/status/882857539678896128 Gregg Mayles on Twitter: "Sad news, the inspiration for #banjo-kazooie's Gruntilda has passed on to the great cauldron in the sky"] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20220222211420/https://twitter.com/Ghoulyboy/status/882857539678896128 archive.org])</ref>
| | *Gruntilda's personality and actions resemble those of fictional witches and other evil characters. Her reason for kidnapping Tooty for her beauty is similar to the Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. She resembles the Wicked Witch of the West from L. Frank Baum's ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' and its adaptations. Also, considering her cauldron and her two sisters, the Winkybunion sisters (excluding Brentilda) resemble the witches from William Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'' (those witches and Grunty tend to rhyme as well). |
| *Gruntilda's last spell before being knocked over by the Mighty Jinjonator in ''Banjo-Kazooie'' was originally supposed to hit Banjo and Kazooie and turn them into a frog, resulting in Tooty trying to restore them to normal. It was cut out of the final version due to time constraints.
| | *Gruntilda does not rhyme in [[Banjo-Tooie]] as a condition to enlisting her sister's help. Even after she kills them in the [[Tower of Tragedy]]. |
| *In the Japanese versions of the first game, instead of showing her to be rhyming in her dialogue, she is instead given a stereotypical (and exaggerated) old woman's drone. | | *Gruntilda seems very fond of game shows, as she hosts two of them at the end of [[Banjo-Kazooie]] and [[Banjo-Tooie]]. L.O.G. replaced her as the quiz host in [[Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts]]. |
| *When asked about her favorite show, Gruntilda states it is ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_(franchise) Big Brother]'' because its stars are all as unpleasant as her<ref name="Facebook Q&A"/>. | | * A common joke in [[Banjo-Tooie]] is that one of Grunty's eyes comes out on occasions. |
| | | * Her appearance in Nuts and Bolts bears some similarity to Dr. Weil from the Mega Man Zero Series |
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