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'''Gruntilda Winkybunion''', more commonly known as '''Grunty''', is an evil witch and the | '''Gruntilda Winkybunion''', more commonly known as '''Grunty''', is an evil witch and the primary antagonist of the [[Banjo-Kazooie (series)|Banjo-Kazooie series]]. She has appeared in every game in the series yet, causing trouble for her arch-enemies, [[Banjo]] and [[Kazooie]]. She is one of four sisters; her other sisters are [[Brentilda]], [[Mingella]], and [[Blobbelda]]. | ||
She is one of four sisters; her other sisters are [[Brentilda]], [[Mingella]], and [[Blobbelda]]. | |||
==Games== | ==Games== | ||
=== | ===[[Banjo-Kazooie]]=== | ||
In the [[Banjo-Kazooie|first game]], Gruntilda played the the role of "''evil witch''" | In the [[Banjo-Kazooie|first game]], Gruntilda played the the role of the stereotypical "''evil witch''". She spoke only in rhymes and was known for her extreme vanity, which is odd considering how ugly she appears. She had a bad habit of picking her nose, as seen in the ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'' intro cutscene. Like most witches, she used a [[Gruntilda's Broomstick|broomstick]] for transportation. When [[Dingpot]] revealed that [[Tooty]], [[Banjo|Banjo's]] sister, was the "''prettiest and fairest in the land''", Gruntilda became infuriated and kidnapped Tooty. She selfishly plotted to use a "[[Beauty Transfer Machine]]" to drain Tooty's youth and beauty and transfer it to her own ugly self. Banjo and his pal [[Kazooie]] chased the witch through her [[Gruntilda's Lair|massive lair]], where she had created several worlds filled with her minions and various challenges to stop the duo. As the pair progressed, Gruntilda shouted rhyming taunts and various insults in an attempt to keep the pair away. But with the help from various sources, including her nicer sister [[Brentilda]] who told Banjo and Kazooie interesting secrets regarding Gruntilda, the bear and bird duo were able to complete the worlds and reach Grunty's last challenge before rescuing Tooty: a twisted game show called [[Grunty's Furnace Fun]]. After the duo won the game show, Gruntilda ran away and Banjo and Kazooie rescued Tooty. Later, the bear and bird journeyed to the roof of Gruntilda's Lair and faced off in a battle with Grunty. | ||
===Battle=== | ====Battle==== | ||
Despite her comical nature and stupidity, Gruntilda proved herself to be Banjo and Kazooie's strongest enemy when first | Despite her comical nature and stupidity, Gruntilda proved herself to be Banjo and Kazooie's strongest enemy when first battled. 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. However, her broom starts to slow down after a few passes, leaving her vulnerable to the [[Rat-a-Tat Rap]]. After every successful attack from the player, Gruntilda will attack with an easily dodged fireball. | ||
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 four, she will take a short | 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 four fireballs, she will take a short pause, leaving her vulnerable to [[Eggs]]. | ||
After repeating | After repeating this process four times, Gruntilda flies high into the air to avoid being shot at, but fortunately [[Bottles]] comes to the duo's aid and creates a [[Flight Pad]] for them to use. Banjo and Kazooie can hit Gruntilda at any time with the [[Beak Bomb]], but it's best to attack her when she's not moving. Try not to attack her from above, otherwise you risk falling off the tower to your doom... | ||
After taking another four hits, Gruntilda will create a force field around that Banjo and Kazooie | After taking another four hits, Gruntilda will create a force field around that Banjo and Kazooie cannot 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 into the air like a missile and break through Gruntilda's barrier. The witch, however, doesn't remain idle during this time and will continue to attack the pair with fireballs. Unfortunately, Banjo and Kazooie cannot take cover behind the Jinjo statues as Gruntilda's attacks fly through them. | ||
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 | 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 Mighty Jinjonator]] appears. This statue has four holes that the player must shoot eggs into. Like the smaller Jinjo statues, the statue provides no cover and Gruntilda's attacks will still pass through it. She is quite possibly at her most dangerous in this phase, partly because she will attack with several consecutive fireballs followed by a homing shot. After each homing shot, she will take a short breather, allowing Banjo and Kazooie to shoot eggs into the holes. Once the Mighty Jinjonator is activated, he will attack Gruntilda and knock her off the tower. | ||
Gruntilda falls off the tower and crashes into the ground. Seconds later, a large falling rock traps her beneath, sealing her first defeat. Banjo, Kazooie, and Tooty take a vacation to celebrate, during which Gruntilda's minion [[Klungo]] spends two years attempting to remove the enormous boulder and save Gruntilda. Unfortunately, she remained alive and vowed her revenge upon the pair one day. | |||
Gruntilda | ===[[Banjo-Tooie]]=== | ||
After [[Banjo-Kazooie|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 Blobbelda 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 mini-game. They eventually meet her again in Cauldron Keep, where she makes an attempt to destroy Banjo-Kazooie with another game show, 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]]''. | |||
=== | Gruntilda is also a playable character in the multiplayer games ''Targitzan's Temple Shootout'', ''Ordnance Storage Shootout'', and ''Clinker's Cavern Shootout''. In these games, Gruntilda is the tank character, her health at a whopping 16 honeycombs, enabling her to endure four [[Grenade Eggs]], but at the cost of being the largest target and moving the slowest. | ||
===[[Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge]]=== | |||
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'''Mecha-Grunty''' is the main antagonist from [[Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge]] | '''[[Mecha-Grunty]]''' is the main antagonist from ''[[Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge]]'' for the [[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, allowing Grunty's soul to leave the rock and get into the machine. You fight with Grunty many times through the game, and there is nothing "new" in the final battle related to the other 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]]''. | ||
=== | ===[[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 skull. 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 skull and a fat bear running around. He restores Banjo and Kazooie to fighting fit shape and gives them a Magical Wrench | 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 skull. 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 skull and a fat bear running around. He restores Banjo and Kazooie to fighting fit shape and gives them a Magical Wrench, while giving Grunty a robotic form of her original body with a jar for her head and 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]] and fight her once more. She appears in all the levels of the game. | ||
====[[Nutty Acres]]==== | ====[[Nutty Acres]]==== | ||
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====[[Terrarium of Terror]]==== | ====[[Terrarium of Terror]]==== | ||
Grunty attempts to destroy the foliage in Act 5 with her invisible flying vehicle. Banjo destroys the UFO and earns a horn. If the invisibility device is destroyed first, the challenge is easier.The device is a chameleon. It is easy to defeat her if you purchase the | Grunty attempts to destroy the foliage in Act 5 with her invisible flying vehicle. Banjo destroys the UFO and earns a horn. If the invisibility device is destroyed first, the challenge is easier.The device is a chameleon. It is easy to defeat her if you purchase the Clockwork Kazooie part from Humba's Shop | ||
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==Personality== | ==Personality== | ||
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 game over for no explained reason. She also lets Banjo and Kazooie actually have a chance in her [[Grunty's 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. | 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 game over for no explained reason. She also lets Banjo and Kazooie actually have a chance in her [[Grunty's 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 | |||
In the first game, Gruntilda had a fairly typical witch personality with her goal of being the best looking and trying to stop Banjo and Kazooie from interfering with her evil plans. | |||
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. | 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. | ||
In Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & | In ''[[Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts]]'', she displays some form of intelligence because she built the Gruntbots and the vehicles she built. | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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*[[Brentilda]] | *[[Brentilda]] | ||
== Gallery == | ==Trivia== | ||
*All of Gruntilda's sisters have only appeared in one game so far: [[Brentilda]] has only appeared in ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'', while [[Mingella]] and [[Blobbelda]] have only appeared in ''[[Banjo-Tooie]]''. | |||
*Gruntilda's personality and actions resemble those of evil witches and other characters in fictional works. Her reason for kidnapping [[Tooty]] for her beauty is similar to the [[wikipedia:Evil Queen|Evil Queen's]] motives in the tale of [[wikipedia:Snow White and the Seven Dwarves|Snow White and the Seven Dwarves]]. She also bears resemblance to the [[wikipedia:Wicked Witch of the West|Wicked Witch of the West]] from [[wikipedia:L.Frank Baum|L. Frank Baum's]] ''[[wikpeida:The Wonderful Wizard of Oz|The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'' and its adaptations. Also, her use of [[Dingpot|a cauldron]] and her two wicked sisters, [[Mingella]] and [[Blobbelda]], resemble the wicked witches from [[wikpedia:William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare's]] ''[[wikipedia:Macbeth|Macbeth]]''. | |||
*Gruntilda does not rhyme in ''[[Banjo-Tooie]]'' as a condition to enlisting her sisters' help, even after she kills them in her [[Tower of Tragedy]] quiz. | |||
*Gruntilda seems very fond of game shows, as she hosts three of them at the end of ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'', ''[[Banjo-Tooie]]'', and ''[[Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge]]''. L.O.G. replaces her as the game show host in ''[[Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts]]''. | |||
*A running gag in ''[[Banjo-Tooie]]'' is that one of Grunty's eyes pops out on occasions. | |||
*In ''[[Project Dream]]'', Gruntilda was intended to be a giant instead of an evil witch. | |||
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Image:Grunty.jpg|Gruntilda's original appearance. | Image:Grunty.jpg|Gruntilda's original appearance. | ||
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Image:Grunty doll.jpg|A Gruntilda doll, now missing an eye | Image:Grunty doll.jpg|A Gruntilda doll, now missing an eye | ||
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