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{{quote|[[Dingpot]], Dingpot by the bench, who is the nicest looking wench?|Gruntilda|[[Banjo-Kazooie]]}} | {{quote|[[Dingpot]], Dingpot by the bench, who is the nicest looking wench?|Gruntilda|[[Banjo-Kazooie]]}} | ||
'''Gruntilda Winkybunion''', often named '''Grunty''' or '''Gruntilda''' for short, is the main antagonist of the ''[[Banjo Kazooie (series)|Banjo-Kazooie]]'' series. | '''Gruntilda Winkybunion''', often named '''Grunty''' or '''Gruntilda''' for short, is a wicked witch and the main antagonist of the ''[[Banjo Kazooie (series)|Banjo-Kazooie]]'' series, starting with the titular ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]''. In the games, Gruntilda often 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 ''Banjo-Kazooie'' game. | ||
==Game appearances== | |||
===''Banjo-Kazooie''=== | |||
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[[File:Gruntilda art B-K.jpg|thumb|200px|Artwork of Grunty from the first game.]] | [[File:Gruntilda art B-K.jpg|thumb|200px|Artwork of Grunty from the first game.]] | ||
In | In ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'', Gruntilda played the role of the stereotypical "evil witch". She spoke only in rhymes and was known for being extremely vain, which is odd considering how ugly she appears. She has a bad habit of picking her nose, as seen in the ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'' intro cutscene. Like most witches, she uses a [[Gruntilda's Broomstick|broomstick]] for transportation. | ||
When [[Dingpot]] revealed that [[Tooty]], [[Banjo]]'s sister, was the "''prettiest and fairest in the land''", Gruntilda became infuriated and kidnapped Tooty (however, the manual implies that Gruntilda was already planning on snatching a denizen from Spiral Mountain to steal their beauty to one-up her sister, Brentilda. According to the manual, she was actually deep-down glad that Tooty was prettier than her as it gave her an excuse to subject her as her first test specimen). She | When [[Dingpot]] revealed that [[Tooty]], [[Banjo]]'s sister, was the "''prettiest and fairest in the land''", Gruntilda became infuriated and kidnapped Tooty (however, the manual implies that Gruntilda was already planning on snatching a denizen from Spiral Mountain to steal their beauty to one-up her sister, Brentilda. According to the manual, she was actually deep-down glad that Tooty was prettier than her as it gave her an excuse to subject her as her first test specimen). She plotted to use a "[[Beauty Transfer Machine]]" to drain Tooty's youth and beauty and transfer it to herself, which would result in Grunty becoming pretty and thin and Tooty becoming ugly, fat and green. Banjo and [[Kazooie]] chased the witch through her [[Gruntilda's 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 [[Facts about Gruntilda|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. | 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 [[Facts about Gruntilda|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. | ||
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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 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. | ||
=='' | ===''Banjo-Tooie''=== | ||
In ''[[Banjo-Tooie]]'', Gruntilda was freed from her prison by the sudden appearance of her sisters [[Mingella]] and [[Blobbelda]]. Their evil spells levitate and destroy the rock that trapped Grunty and they discover 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 Banjo's house to find the source of the ruckus caused when Mingella and Bloddelda entered with the [[Hag 1]] digging machine, Grunty chased him and tried to kill him with magic spells. Seeing him enter Banjo's house, she prepares 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 in him being killed by the blast, which also ruined Banjo's house. | |||
[[ | After destroying Banjo's house, the trio of witches used the [[Hag 1]] 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]] for giving Banjo and Kazooie a Jiggy, 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 and Kazooie with another game show called [[Tower of Tragedy]], this time competing against her two sisters 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". | |||
Unsure of what to do next, Gruntilda takes Kazooie's advice to "escape in 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 the last time she attacked Banjo and Kazooie (she killed two of her allies, but were brought back by reversing the B.O.B.), Gruntilda's revenge plans failed and was defeated yet again, reduced to nothing more than a talking skull. Later, Banjo, Kazooie, Humba Wumba and Jamjars use her head as a ball in a game of "Kick Around" and she loses one of her eyes (again) in the process. 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 with her health at a whopping 16 honeycombs, enabling her to endure four [[Grenade Eggs]]; however, it comes at the cost of being the largest target and moving the slowest. | |||
===''Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge''=== | |||
{{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!|Mecha-Grunty|[[Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge]]}} | |||
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. Rather than fighting the duo as the main antagonist in a body of her own, she operates Mecha-Grunty and causes chaos by going twenty years back in time and kidnapping [[Kazooie]]. However, after Banjo's first battle with the robotic witch, Kazooie was freed and Mecha-Grunty fleed. | |||
Their next battle involved fighting her up above the lighthouse and taking out her mechanical parts one at a time. After her second defeat, Grunty had enough and wanted Klungo to upgrade her up to supreme strength and battle the duo in her lair when it was under construction. | |||
Facing them at the top of her lair, Mecha-Grunty charged at them, fired electric balls, ground pounded, and dropped airborne mines. Even with her body destroyed, she was not ready to give as she used her ghostly power to defeat the duo, which failed. She is beaten once more and returns to her body in the present. | |||
===''Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts''=== | |||
In ''[[Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts]]'', Gruntilda returns as the main antagonist. She talks in rhymes again like the first game. | |||
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 them a [[Magical Wrench]]. 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 treats her time off as a break from fighting Banjo and Kazooie. One of Grunty's idle animations shows her putting on sunglasses. | |||
Grunty | |||
===[[Nutty Acres]]=== | ===[[Nutty Acres]]=== | ||
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. | 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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==Physical appearance== | ==Physical appearance== | ||
Gruntilda's overall appearance resembled a stereotypical witch, with green-colored skin, gold-colored eyes, and dark-colored hair as well as dark witch robes with lighter interiors, and a purple scarf with differing-shaded zebra patterns and matching stockings, and mary janes, as well as a witch's hat. She also was shown to be significantly obese, and had an immensely long chin and a similarly long nose (the latter also featuring prominent warts on them). Probably her most notable characteristic, however, is her asymmetric eyes, where her right eye is fairly normal, while her left eye is left in a perpetual squint. The exact reasons for her seeming obesity have conflicting accounts: Although she implies in one of her taunts in her lair that she became obese from overeating, her appearance in ''Banjo Tooie'', where she was depicted as a liche, depicted her with largely the same overall shape and even prominently featured her | Gruntilda's overall appearance resembled a stereotypical witch, with green-colored skin, gold-colored eyes, and dark-colored hair as well as dark witch robes with lighter interiors, and a purple scarf with differing-shaded zebra patterns and matching stockings, and mary janes, as well as a witch's hat. She also was shown to be significantly obese, and had an immensely long chin and a similarly long nose (the latter also featuring prominent warts on them). Probably her most notable characteristic, however, is her asymmetric eyes, where her right eye is fairly normal, while her left eye is left in a perpetual squint. The exact reasons for her seeming obesity have conflicting accounts: Although she implies in one of her taunts in her lair that she became obese from overeating, her appearance in ''Banjo Tooie'', where she was depicted as a liche, depicted her with largely the same overall shape and even prominently featured her rib cage on the outside, implying that she was actually "big-boned." | ||
Her appearance in ''Banjo Tooie'' was largely similar, although with some differences. Aside from the most obvious difference where she is reduced to a skeleton, her robes are now blue and purple, instead of black and red, and overall appearing tattered (with her witch hat even being slightly bent). | Her appearance in ''Banjo Tooie'' was largely similar, although with some differences. Aside from the most obvious difference where she is reduced to a skeleton, her robes are now blue and purple, instead of black and red, and overall appearing tattered (with her witch hat even being slightly bent). | ||
In ''Nuts & Bolts'', | In ''Nuts & Bolts'', the Lord of Games gives her a new "body" for the competition. It is composed of a glass tank containing her skull as well as a hose that presumably fed nutrients to the skull, a mechanical witch's hat up top, and her body from the shoulders down largely resembled her original appearance, only with the addition of a slight silk frill near the lower part, as well as her mary janes being replaced with elf shoes. The clothes also have some stitches attached to them. | ||
In the game over sequence for the original game, Gruntilda's appearance after swapping around her and Tootie's respective physical appearances has her being significantly slimmed down, being given a petite yet busty appearance, with her dress shrinking to a great extent, as well as her possessing dress shoes with no socks. Her face also has her nose shrink down significantly, and her eyes are changed from yellow to red, with her eyes also being rendered symmetrical. | In the game over sequence for the original game, Gruntilda's appearance after swapping around her and Tootie's respective physical appearances has her being significantly slimmed down, being given a petite yet busty appearance, with her dress shrinking to a great extent, as well as her possessing dress shoes with no socks. Her face also has her nose shrink down significantly, and her eyes are changed from yellow to red, with her eyes also being rendered symmetrical. | ||
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==Powers and abilities== | ==Powers and abilities== | ||
Being a witch, Gruntilda possesses a large amount of magical powers. She was shown casting fireballs, homing spells, and generating a | Being a witch, Gruntilda possesses a large amount of magical powers. She was shown casting fireballs, homing spells, and generating a force field that was invulnerable to all but the [[Jinjonator]], the last of whom still needed some effort to knock her over. She also attempted to curse Banjo and Kazooie in the ending, although this failed at the last moment. In Grunty's Revenge, aside from using Mecha Grunty, she also was able to split her soul into three to confuse her opponents. In Banjo Tooie, her spells were also lethal enough to kill people upon contact. However, she was unable to practice magic in Nuts and Bolts as a stipulation for participating in Lord of Games' contest, similar to how Banjo and Kazooie were forbidden to use their abilities from the prior games, due to his insistence on making things "fair." | ||
Besides her magical abilities, she also has a technological genius, as it was implied that the Beauty Transfer machine was developed by her, and in addition, she was shown 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 in the event that Banjo somehow won the game show as a means to escape. In addition, during ''Nuts & Bolts'', because of the stipulation regarding their participating in Lord of Games' contest forcing her to not use her magic, she compensated for this by building various mechanical robots made in her image as well as various vehicles to fight Banjo and Kazooie with. | Besides her magical abilities, she also has a technological genius, as it was implied that the Beauty Transfer machine was developed by her, and in addition, she was shown 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 in the event that Banjo somehow won the game show as a means to escape. In addition, during ''Nuts & Bolts'', because of the stipulation regarding their participating in Lord of Games' contest forcing her to not use her magic, she compensated for this by building various mechanical robots made in her image as well as various vehicles to fight Banjo and Kazooie with. | ||
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She also has some ability to tamper with the save file as displayed if the player uses the sand castle too much where she will delete the entire save file. | She also has some ability to tamper with the save file as displayed if the player uses the sand castle too much where she will delete the entire save file. | ||
==Quotes | ==Quotes== | ||
{{Main|Gruntilda/quotes}} | |||
==Design and inspiration== | |||
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]]'', and her first lines in the game were even a parody of the Queen's famous "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?". Ironically, in the Walt Disney adaptation, the Witch falls to her doom and gets crushed by a boulder as does Gruntilda at the climax of the final battle from the first game (though unlike Gruntilda, the Queen does die). 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]] ''[[Wikipedia:The Wonderful Wizard of Oz|The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'' and its adaptations. Finally, her use of [[Dingpot|a cauldron]] and her two wicked sisters, [[Mingella]] and [[Blobbelda]], resemble the wicked witches from [[Wikipedia:William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare's]] ''[[Wikipedia:Macbeth|Macbeth]]''. | |||
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 Tweet from Ghoulyboy (Gregg Mayles)]</ref> | |||
== | ==Gallery== | ||
{{Main|Gruntilda/gallery}} | |||
==Names in other languages== | |||
{{Foreign names | |||
|Spa=Gruñona (''B-K'')<br>Juanetes (''B-T'')<br>Guiñajuanetes (''Grunty's Revenge'')<br>Winkybunion (''Nuts & Bolts'') | |||
|SpaM=Grumpy<br>Bunions<br>Winkbunions<br>- | |||
|Jap=グランチルダ | |||
== | |JapM=Guranchiruda}} | ||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
* | *Gruntilda has been nicknamed "Winky" and "Wart Brain" by Kazooie. | ||
*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. She starts the game rhyming until the point where the three witches start to steal King Jingaling's life-force. | *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. She starts the game rhyming until the point where the three witches start to steal King Jingaling's life-force. | ||
*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]]''. However, [[L.O.G.]] replaces her as the game show host in ''[[Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts]]''. | *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]]''. However, [[L.O.G.]] replaces her as the game show host in ''[[Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts]]''. | ||
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*Gruntilda has been relying more and more on technology and less and less on magic as time went by, as proven in Banjo-Tooie where she needed B.O.B. to suck the life force out of the island and where she used the Hag-1 for most of her battle with Banjo and Kazooie. This is also proven in Nuts and Bolts where she claims to have created the Gruntbot minions on her own and uses vehicles like Banjo and Kazooie to fight them in her challenges. Though she has a robot body, this was provided by L.O.G. so she had a fighting change against Banjo and Kazooie. She also uses a life transfer machine in Banjo-Kazooie and, although built by Klungo, she needs a Mecha-Grunty suit in Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge. | *Gruntilda has been relying more and more on technology and less and less on magic as time went by, as proven in Banjo-Tooie where she needed B.O.B. to suck the life force out of the island and where she used the Hag-1 for most of her battle with Banjo and Kazooie. This is also proven in Nuts and Bolts where she claims to have created the Gruntbot minions on her own and uses vehicles like Banjo and Kazooie to fight them in her challenges. Though she has a robot body, this was provided by L.O.G. so she had a fighting change against Banjo and Kazooie. She also uses a life transfer machine in Banjo-Kazooie and, although built by Klungo, she needs a Mecha-Grunty suit in Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge. | ||
*Gruntilda's last spell before being knocked over by the Jinjonator was originally supposed to hit Banjo and Kazooie and turn them into a frog, resulting in Mumbo Jumbo trying to restore them to normal. It was cut out of the final version due to time constraints. | *Gruntilda's last spell before being knocked over by the Jinjonator was originally supposed to hit Banjo and Kazooie and turn them into a frog, resulting in Mumbo Jumbo trying to restore them to normal. It was cut out of the final version due to time constraints. | ||
*She shares a similarity to the Evil Queen in ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,'' as they share very similar defeats. Both fall off a mountain and are crushed by a boulder. | |||
*She shares a similarity to the Evil Queen in ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,'' as they share very similar defeats. | |||
*During one of her taunts throughout her lair in the first game, she says "When I'm nice and slim once more, burgers, fries, and chips galore!". In actuality, under british terms, fries and chips are actually the same thing (Chips being the british equivalent of fries), with potato chips in Britain actually being Potato Crisps, so her line should be "When I'm nice and slim once more, burgers, chips, and crisps galore!", as [[Rare]] is a British company. | *During one of her taunts throughout her lair in the first game, she says "When I'm nice and slim once more, burgers, fries, and chips galore!". In actuality, under british terms, fries and chips are actually the same thing (Chips being the british equivalent of fries), with potato chips in Britain actually being Potato Crisps, so her line should be "When I'm nice and slim once more, burgers, chips, and crisps galore!", as [[Rare]] is a British company. | ||
*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. | *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. | ||
*In Grunty's Furnace Fun, her favourite smell would be one of the following: Putrid Parrot Puke, Smelly Gorrilla Feet or Freshly Burst Boils. But in Banjo-Tooie during final battle when Grunty relases the toxic gas, she says "MMMM, cyanide and mustard gas flavor. My favourite!", which makes a little controversy about her favourite smell. Although the latter could just be meaning her favorite type of poison gas. | *In Grunty's Furnace Fun, her favourite smell would be one of the following: Putrid Parrot Puke, Smelly Gorrilla Feet or Freshly Burst Boils. But in Banjo-Tooie during final battle when Grunty relases the toxic gas, she says "MMMM, cyanide and mustard gas flavor. My favourite!", which makes a little controversy about her favourite smell. Although the latter could just be meaning her favorite type of poison gas. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||