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{{Quote|[[Dingpot]], Dingpot by the bench, who is the nicest looking wench?|Gruntilda|[[Banjo-Kazooie]]}}
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'''Gruntilda Winkybunion''', often named '''Grunty''' or '''Gruntilda''' for short, is the main antagonist of the ''[[Banjo Kazooie (series)|Banjo-Kazooie]]'' series. She is a wicked witch with magical spells that are capable of doing anything, even going as far as death. She also enjoys rhyming, which really annoys Grunty's three sisters, also they really dislike her rhymes.  
{{quote|What do [[Dingpot|you]] mean, this cannot be, there's no one prettier than me!|Gruntilda|[[Banjo-Kazooie]]}}
'''Gruntilda Winkybunion''', often nicknamed '''Grunty''', is the main antagonist of the [[Banjo-Kazooie (series)|''Banjo-Kazooie'' series]].


In [[Banjo-Kazooie]], Grunty kidnaps Banjo's sister [[Tooty]] and plans to steal her beauty so she can be the most beautiful woman in all of [[Spiral Mountain]].
==Physical traits==
[[File:Gruntilda art B-K.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Gruntilda, as she appears in ''Banjo-Kazooie''.]]
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.


Two months later in [[Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge|Grunty's Revenge]] she inhabits a robotic form of herself called [[Mecha-Grunty]], and plots to prevent Banjo and Kazooie from ever meeting.
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.


Two years later, in [[Banjo-Tooie]] her sisters [[Mingella]] and [[Blobbelda]] join her in an attempt to restore Grunty to her former body.
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."


==''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]''==
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.
[[File:Gruntilda art B-K.jpg|thumb|200px|Artwork of Grunty from the first game.]]
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In the [[Banjo-Kazooie|first game]], 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.
==Personality==
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.


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 selfishly plotted to use a "[[Beauty Transfer Machine]]" to drain Tooty's youth and beauty and transfer it to her own ugly self, which would result in Grunty becoming pretty and thin and Tooty becoming ugly, fat and green. Banjo and his good friend [[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.
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''.


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.
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


===The Final Battle===
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.
[[File:Grunty B-K group art.jpg|thumb|200px|Group artwork of Grunty attacking Banjo and Kazooie.]]
Despite her comical nature, Gruntilda proved herself to be Banjo and Kazooie's strongest enemy. 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 (two the first and second time around, three the third time around, and four the fourth time around), leaving her vulnerable to the [[Rat-a-tat Rap]]. After every successful attack from the player, Gruntilda will attack with an easily dodge-able fireball.


After taking enough damage, she uses a homing spell. Kazooie can protect Banjo from this by using the Golden Feathers. After, 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 (the pause shortens every time she moves from one part of the tower to the next), leaving her vulnerable to three [[Eggs]].
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 repeating this process four times, she uses another homing spell which once again will be destroyed if Kazooie uses a Golden Feather. Then, 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 (again, the time she's not moving will shorten every time she's hit). Try not to attack her from above, otherwise you risk falling off the tower to your doom. Every time she's hit, she'll throw fireballs at you (one after the first hit, two after the second, three after the third, and four after the fourth).
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.


After taking another four hits, Gruntilda will create a force field around her that Banjo and Kazooie cannot break through. At this point the [[Jinjo]]s realize the two of them are in need of their help and intervene by creating four statues around the area. After three 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.
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 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 four eggs into each side. 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.
==Abilities==
{{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]]}}
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.


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.
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.


==''[[Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge]]''==
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]].
{{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]]}}


Two months have passed since Grunty was knocked off her tower in ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'' and she has been perfecting her plan for revenge ever since.
==Biography==
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]].


[[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.
===''Banjo-Kazooie''===
[[File:Grunty B-K group art.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Artwork for ''Banjo-Kazooie'' of Grunty unsuccessfully firing a spell at Banjo and Kazooie.]]
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.


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.
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]]."


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, setting the events of ''[[Banjo-Tooie]]'' in motion.
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]].


==''[[Banjo-Tooie]]''==
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.
Two years later, Gruntilda was suddenly 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.
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]].


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.
===''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!|Gruntilda|[[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. 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.


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".
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.


Not sure 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]]''.
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.


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-Tooie''===
[[File:Gruntilda B-T artwork.jpg|thumb|250px|Gruntilda, as she appears in ''Banjo-Tooie''.]]
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.


==''[[Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts]]''==
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.
Grunty continues her role as an antagonist in this game as well, and has taken up her annoying rhyming once more. She makes her way back to [[Spiral Mountain]], even though she is still a skull (probably why it took her eight years to get there). A now fattened 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 bodiless 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 with a fat bird in his backpack 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. In Showdown Town, she treats the time off she has from attempting to beat the heroes as a vacation.


===[[Nutty Acres]]===
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.
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. Use the fulgore fist!


===[[LOGBOX 720]]===
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."
Grunty attempts to send Piddles to contaminate the glubber tank (forcing Bottles to shut down the LOGBOX 720) 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. 


===[[Banjoland]]===
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]]''.
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 trolley can jump.Most of the <u>''trapdoor towers ''</u>can be reached!


===[[Jiggoseum]]===
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.
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.


===[[Terrarium of Terror]]===
===''Banjo-Pilot''===
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
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.


===[[Spiral Mountain]]===
She has her own Grand Prix mode, [[Grunty GP]]. It features unique cups with modified versions of the regular courses.
Grunty's plan for Spiral Mountain is revealed. She plans to industrialize Spiral Mountain, turning it into Grunty Acres. 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 (implying that she intended to lose in order to gain access to LOG's factory, or perhaps realised after her loss that she could use this to her advantage).


==Physical appearance==
===''Nuts & Bolts''===
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 ribcage on the outside, implying that she was actually "big-boned."
[[File:Coco Carrier.jpg|thumb|250px|Gruntilda, sitting on her vehicle, in ''Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts''.]]
In ''[[Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts]]'', Gruntilda returns as the main antagonist. She talks in rhymes again like the first game.


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).
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.


In ''Nuts & Bolts'', thanks largely to the stipulation behind the Lord of Games' having them compete with each other, her "body" 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.
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.


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 [[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. 


==Personality==
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.
Like the rest of the characters in the series, Gruntilda has a very comical personality and often breaks the [[4th wall]]. While possessing high intelligence and a sarcastic wit, Gruntilda is very arrogant and overconfident, never expecting Banjo and Kazooie to overcome all the trials and challenges placed before them. However, even though she's comical, she is nonetheless very evil and has never shown any form of kindness or concern for anybody or anything, even her own sisters.


She is shown to be very power hungry and sadistic, hurting others for simply having a carefree and kind nature and longing to rule over the Isle' of Hags. Aside from the plan she had to take Tooty's beauty away in the first game, her evil nature is also shown in her abuse of her minions throughout the game as well as her abductions of the Jinjos. 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. She is also shown to be responsible for the numerous misfortunes of the countless lands she seized control of and has spread much chaos and suffering with her army of monsters. During her taunting of Banjo and Kazooie as they make their way through her lair, she says "When I'm nice and slim once more, burgers, fries, and chips galore!", implying that she is a glutton.
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.


During the second game, Gruntilda is overall much more evil and sadistic, 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 actually murders several characters, including an entire family of ten Jinjos, and her own two sisters in cold blood after they failed to stop Banjo and Kazooie. Klungo himself would be viciously beaten and tortured by Gruntilda throughout the entirety of the game despite being her most loyal follower and planned to have him killed, but due to Klungo switching sides and deserting his sadistic boss, he avoids this grim fate. 
In [[Terrarium of Terror]], Grunty attempts to destroy the foliage in Act 5 with her invisible flying vehicle.


Her aim is also considerably 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, which would of left countless living creatures as undead entities devoid of any life or energy. Due to Banjo and Kazooie foiling her plans and burying her under a rock, she holds a strong grudge against them and has a hunger and appetitie for vengeance against them, which she greatly relishes in the final battle against the pair. Despite this, she takes them just as lightly as she did in the first game, presumably due to her having so much more technology and numbers on her side, leading to yet another defeat. She does ultimately have some degree of honor, however, as during her final battle in ''Tooie'', she states that when giving them quiz questions during the various phases of attack right before the Hag 1 was permanently shut down, she'll go easy on Banjo and Kazooie if they answer her questions correctly, and kept her word when they did, using slow-moving spells. However, her angered reaction when learning that they answered a question correctly implies that she felt bound to honor her word whether she liked it or not. On a related note, she also seems to have some distaste for cheat codes, as inputting them too many times will have Gruntilda proceed to erase the save pak for the game while expressing disgust for Banjo doing such. In addition, despite her less than stellar hygene practices (notably picking her nose in the beginning of the original game), she ironically has some distaste for Banjo going through filth, as after Banjo went through [[Loggo]] the toilet in Mad Monster Mansion, she demanded that he wash his hands immediately, while expressing disbelief that Banjo actually went down there. Based on her attempt at denying that her last name was Winkybunion after she inadvertently admitted it was her last name and her demanding, despite planning to kill Banjo and Kazooie anyway, that they not tell anyone that was her last name or else she'll sue them, she did not like her last name at all.
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.


In ''[[Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge]]'', her rise to power prior to ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'' is explained while the villian herself is shown to display a considerably more evil and intelligent demeanor. Her plans include abducting Kazooie and going back in time to alter history to erase her defeat and regain control of the island and resume her original plans. The game shows that prior to ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'', Gruntilda abducted the Jinjos, seized control of their home to construct her lair, enslaved others, and stole the Jiggies from Master Jiggywiggy to exert her control over the lands she took over.
==Other appearances==
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.


It is additionally shown that the witch built up her army into huge numbers by heavily recruiting other monsters and beasts from the island. Her main objective is to round up all bears and birds and eradicate them entirely to ensure Banjo and Kazooie never exist, thus changing history to where Gruntilda would've never been defeated and her rise to power remaining unopposed. Gruntilda's plans in this game took a much more strategic approach as her operations were laid out more carefully and she craved to have pure power and control. In addition, she also wanted to continue her original plans of obtaining beauty once Banjo and Kazooie were taken care of.
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]].


In ''[[Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts]]'', she displays a high level of intelligence, as she built the Gruntbots who assist her and the vehicles she uses. Unlike previous games, Gruntilda does not value upgrading her personal appearance, as she seems quite fond of her new mechanical body, but to solely have Spiral Mountain once again in her grasp and become its ruler. She was also shown to at least be smart enough to use potential setbacks and turn them into victories on her part, as implied by her claiming she now has access to the resources to make her own game despite being forced to work at LOG's factory upon losing to Banjo and Kazooie.
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.


==Powers and abilities==
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''.
Being a witch, Gruntilda possesses a large amount of magical powers. She was shown casting fireballs, homing spells, and generating a forcefield 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.
==Statistics and flavor text==
===''Banjo-Kazooie''===
*'''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…''"
===''Banjo-Tooie''===
*'''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...''"
===''Banjo-Pilot''===
*'''Top Speed:''' 5/5
*'''Acceleration:''' 1/5
*'''Handling:''' 1/5
*'''Manual profile:''' "''She's everything a witch should be: ugly, smelly and downright unpleasant. And she wants some of those trophies!''"
===''Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise''===
*'''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.''"


She was also shown to have a knack for surviving situations that would have killed an ordinary person, including falling from a great height and being crushed by a boulder (which she not only survived, but she even attempted to lift the rock off her), her flesh being eaten away for two years, and even having virtually her entire body save for her head completely obliterated.
===''Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts''===
*'''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.''"
===''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate''===
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!'''Gruntilda'''
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|''[[Banjo-Kazooie (series)|Banjo-Kazooie]]'' Series
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|Legend
|Poison Power ↑
|•Battle via DLC Spirit Board<br>•Purchase from the Vault Shop for 15,000G (since v5.0.0)
|•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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|[[smashwiki:Find Mii|Find Mii]] ([[smashwiki:Ω form|Ω form]])
|Vs. Klungo
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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.
==Quotes==
{{Main|Gruntilda/quotes}}


==Quotes from Tower of Tragedy==
==Gallery==
:Thank you, thank you... I'm Grunty, your host, and may I welcome you to my Tower of Tragedy quiz! Let me run the rules for you all. There are three rounds of general knowledge questions, and the person with the lowest score at the end of each round will be eliminated! Correct answers score 2 points, with 1 point being awarded if it was a second guess following the incorrect answer from another contestant. Get one wrong and I'll take 2 points off you! Press B to buzz in and then A to answer if you can. Now let's meet tonight's victims, err...I mean contestants, shall we?
{{Main-gallery}}
:Introducing on the left...It's my gorgeous, slim sister, [[Mingella]]!
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:On the right we have...my lovely, err...shapely sister, [[Blobbelda]]!
B-K Gruntilda and Broomstick.jpg|''Banjo-Kazooie'' artwork
:And in the middle...just some [[Banjo|loser bear called Banjo.]]
Grunty NnB art.png|''Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts'' artwork
 
BP Gruntilda sprite.png|''Banjo-Pilot'' sprite
*Welcome. it's my [[Tower of Tragedy]] "Just for Fun" quiz round 1. Do you need the rules?
</gallery>
*Fair enough.
*Not bad.
*You know-it-all.
*A lucky guess.
*Hmm...okay.
*I'll accept that.
*Well, it was 50/50...
*I'll give you 1 point.
*1 point, I suppose...
*Only 1 point though.
*About time too.
*Scavenger!
*[if you fail to answer] What about the rest of you?
*[if you fail to answer] Any other takers?
*[if you fail to answer] I'll have to offer it...
*Missed your chance...
*Buzzer broken, huh?
*You fool! Anyone else?
*Dunce! Anyone else?
*You half-wit! Anyone else?
*Thicko! Anyone else?
*Numbskull! Anyone else?
*You plank! Anyone else?
*No, no, no, you idiot.
*That was easy...
*Yippee! Wrong again!
*No, no, no, you idiots!
*I'm surrounded by morons...
 
===Endings of the rounds===
*That's the end of round 1. Looks like my sister Blobbelda is as thick as her waist, and her score of (any low score number) is as low as her IQ. Here's your consolation prize, Blobby...
*That's the end of round 1. It seems that my sister Mingella has set a new standard of dumbness, with a hopeless score of (any low score number). Time to say goodbye, Mingy...
*That's the end of round 2. It seems that my sister Mingella has also been beaten by that useless bear. Time to say goodbye, Mingy...
*That's the end of round 2. Looks like my sister Blobbelda has also failed to beat that dumb bear. Here's your consolation prize, Blobby...
*[in the event of a tie in Round 1] Oh goody. Round 1's ended in a draw. So I'll just unfairly select a loser at random. I choose... [random name]!
*[in the event of a tie in Round 2] Excellent. It's a draw after Round 2, so I'll just unfairly select a loser at random. I choose... [random name]!   
*[If Banjo loses in Round 1] That's the end of round 1. As expected, it's the dunce bear who's last, with a loser's score of (any low score number).
*[If Banjo loses in Round 2] That's the end of round 2. Your luck's run out, furface. I'm pleased to say you lost.
*[If Banjo fails Round 3] That's the end of the final round. Look at the bear's score, everyone. Isn't it pathetic? I declare me the winner!
 
==Grunty's Nicknames==
Kazooie (and to a lesser extent Banjo) has also called Gruntilda by several nicknames:
*Wart Brain
*Winky
*Grunty
 
Additionally, [[Brentilda]] indicates her nickname in Witch School was one of the following:
*Cauldron Butt
*Jelly Belly
*Hog Breath
 
==Similarities to other witches==
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]]''.
 
==Trivia==
*All of Gruntilda's sisters have appeared in only one game so far: [[Brentilda]] has appeared in only ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'' while [[Mingella]] and [[Blobbelda]] have appeared in only ''[[Banjo-Tooie]]''.
*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]]''.
*In ''[[Project Dream]]'', Gruntilda was intended to be a giant instead of an evil witch. (This may be referenced on the box art of Banjo-Kazooie as her size has been increased dramatically from the game itself).
*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.
*She would put on sunglasses in [[Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts]].
*Gruntilda is based off Grotbags from the British television show Emu's World.<ref>[https://twitter.com/Ghoulyboy/status/882857539678896128 Tweet from Ghoulyboy (Gregg Mayles)]</ref>
*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.
*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.
*Oddly enough, when fighting Banjo and Kazooie in [[Banjo-Tooie]], she still speaks normally despite the fact that her sisters' death no longer had her obligated to stop speaking in rhyme. She does, however, return to her trademark rhyming dialogue in ''Nuts and Bolts''.
*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.


==Names in other languages==
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==See also==
==Trivia==
*[[Gruntilda's Broomstick]]
*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.
*[[Gruntilda Quotes]]
*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>
*[[Grunty's Code Vengeance]]
*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 Doll]]
*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.
*[[Grunty's Furnace Fun]]
*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"/>.
*[[Gruntilda's Lair]]
*[[Tower of Tragedy]]
*[[Facts about Gruntilda]]
 
==Gallery==
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“What do you mean, this cannot be, there's no one prettier than me!”
Gruntilda, Banjo-Kazooie

Gruntilda Winkybunion, often nicknamed Grunty, is the main antagonist of the Banjo-Kazooie series.

Physical traits[edit]

Gruntilda, as she appears in Banjo-Kazooie.

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[1]), 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.

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.

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 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.

Personality[edit]

Gruntilda is similar to witches in other works of fiction. She resembles the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Gruntilda's use of a cauldron and her two wicked sisters, Mingella and Blobbelda, resemble the wicked witches from William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Aside from witches, Grunty shares traits with the Evil Queen in 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Abilities[edit]

“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

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.

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 Gruntbots, and various vehicles to compete against Banjo and Kazooie.

In Banjo-Kazooie, Gruntilda has the ability to delete the save file. This only occurs if Banjo and Kazooie use too many cheat codes in the Sandcastle.

Biography[edit]

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.

Banjo-Kazooie[edit]

Artwork for Banjo-Kazooie of Grunty unsuccessfully firing a spell at Banjo and Kazooie.

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.

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."

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 Jinjos 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.

After Banjo and Kazooie win the game show and rescue Tooty, Gruntilda flees to the 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.

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.

Grunty's Revenge[edit]

“Although you've smashed my 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

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.

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.

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.

Banjo-Tooie[edit]

Gruntilda, as she appears in Banjo-Tooie.

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.

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 Minions and Gruntydactyls to do more damage to the place.

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.

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."

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-Threeie.

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 Honeycombs; this enables her to endure up to four Grenade Eggs. To compensate, Grunty is the slowest-moving character in multiplayer.

Banjo-Pilot[edit]

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 Pages 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 Shrapnels that work like Single Blue Ice Eggs.

She has her own Grand Prix mode, Grunty GP. It features unique cups with modified versions of the regular courses.

Nuts & Bolts[edit]

Gruntilda, sitting on her vehicle, in 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 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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

In Terrarium of Terror, Grunty attempts to destroy the foliage in Act 5 with her invisible flying vehicle.

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.

Other appearances[edit]

In Mario Artist: Paint Studio, artwork for Gruntilda riding her broomstick is a premade image that can be generated and edited.

In 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 Ghoulhaven Hall.

In 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 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.

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.

Statistics and flavor text[edit]

Banjo-Kazooie[edit]

  • 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…"

Banjo-Tooie[edit]

  • 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..."

Banjo-Pilot[edit]

  • Top Speed: 5/5
  • Acceleration: 1/5
  • Handling: 1/5
  • Manual profile: "She's everything a witch should be: ugly, smelly and downright unpleasant. And she wants some of those trophies!"

Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise[edit]

  • Grunty Hat description: "Grunty is a witch that has a thing against Fizzlybear types. This hatred has only ever led to her own downfall... so far."

Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts[edit]

  • 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."

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[edit]

Name Image Series / game Type Class Ability How to obtain Spirit battle
Opponent(s) Battle conditions Stage Song
Gruntilda Gruntilda Spirit.png Banjo-Kazooie Series Support Legend Poison Power ↑ •Battle via DLC Spirit Board
•Purchase from the Vault Shop for 15,000G (since v5.0.0)
•Giant King Dedede (250 HP)
•Giant Dr. Mario (40 HP) (45 HP) (50 HP)
•Defeat the main fighter to win
•The floor is poisonous
•Stamina battle
•The enemy starts the battle with a Star Rod
•Reinforcements will appear during the battle
Find Mii (Ω form) Vs. Klungo

Quotes[edit]

Main article: Gruntilda/quotes

Gallery[edit]

For this subject's image gallery, see Gallery:Gruntilda.

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning
Japanese グランチルダ
Guranchiruda
Gruntilda
Spanish Gruñona (B-K)
Juanetes (B-T)
Guiñajuanetes (Grunty's Revenge)
Winkybunion (Nuts & Bolts)
Grumpy
Bunions
Winkbunions
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Trivia[edit]

  • 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.
  • According to Gregg Mayles, Gruntilda is based on Grotbags from the British television show Emu's World.[2]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • When asked about her favorite show, Gruntilda states it is Big Brother because its stars are all as unpleasant as her[1].

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