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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. | 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 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. | 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. She also kidnapped several [[Jinjo]]s and placed 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. 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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===''Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge''=== | ===''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]]}} | {{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. | 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's first battle with Mecha-Grunty at Breegull Beach, Kazooie was freed. | ||
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. | 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. | ||
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==General information== | ==General information== | ||
===Physical appearance=== | ===Physical appearance=== | ||
Gruntilda's | Gruntilda's general appearance is not that different from witches in general—she has green skin, 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 '' | 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 | In ''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=== | ===Personality=== | ||
Gruntilda is similar to witches in other works of fiction. She resembles the {{w|Wicked Witch of the West}} from ''{{w|The Wonderful Wizard of Oz}}''. Gruntilda's use of [[Dingpot|a cauldron]] and her two wicked sisters, [[Mingella]] and [[Blobbelda]], resemble the wicked witches from {{w|William Shakespeare}}'s ''{{w|Macbeth}}''. Aside from witches, Grunty shares traits with the {{w|Evil Queen}} in ''{{w|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''. | |||
Despite her poor hygiene, Gruntilda has some distaste for Banjo going through [[Loggo]] in [[Mad Monster Mansion]], demanding 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. | |||
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]]s inside. Grunty also constantly beats her loyal servant [[Klungo]], to the point where he decided switch sides with Banjo and Kazooie. In ''Grunty's Revenge'', Grunty's plots are more comparable to ''Banjo-Tooie'' than the first game—she kidnaps Kazooie and travels back in time, trying to change history so that Banjo and Kazooie would not meet and to have control over Spiral Mountain. | |||
Grunty has a love for quiz shows, and she hosts one in the first two games and ''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. | |||
In ''[[Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts]]'', | |||
===Powers and abilities=== | ===Powers and abilities=== | ||
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 ''Grunty's Revenge'', aside from using Mecha Grunty, Grunty could split her soul into three to confuse her opponents. In ''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 ''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. | |||
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]]. | |||
==Quotes== | ==Quotes== | ||
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==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
{{Main|Gruntilda/gallery}} | {{Main|Gruntilda/gallery}} | ||
<gallery> | |||
B-K Gruntilda Running.png|''Banjo-Kazooie'' artwork | |||
Gruntilda B-T artwork.jpg|''Banjo-Tooie'' artwork | |||
BP Gruntilda sprite.png|''Banjo-Pilot'' sprite | |||
</gallery> | |||
==Names in other languages== | ==Names in other languages== | ||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*According to [[Gregg Mayles]], Gruntilda is based on Grotbags from the British television show ''{{w|Emu's World}}''.<ref>[https://twitter.com/Ghoulyboy/status/882857539678896128 Tweet from Ghoulyboy (Gregg Mayles)]</ref> | |||
*Gruntilda has been nicknamed "Winky" and "Wart Brain" by Kazooie. | *Gruntilda has been nicknamed "Winky" and "Wart Brain" by Kazooie. | ||
*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. |
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