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| “ | I'm just a pretty. Little. Girl. | „ |
| ~ Mandy. |
| “ | It is not enough to succeed - others must fail. | „ |
| ~ Mandy's most famous quote. |
| “ | Well, stop making crud up. This stuff never happened. | „ |
| ~ Mandy suddenly came and confronts the narrator, revealing the entire episode was false. |
Mandy is one of the three titular main protagonists of Cartoon Network's The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy franchise.
While Mandy is more often than not portrayed as being a villainous character, there are a few instances where she can be somewhat heroic, albeit for her goal of ruling the world herself. There are also a few instances in the show where she shows genuine concern for Billy.
Unlike Billy, Mandy is intelligent, sensible, and sane, but she appears to treat everyone around her with contempt, especially her friends, Grim and Billy. However, she does see Billy as a friend. She still has respect for some people, such as Nergal Jr., Hoss Delgado, Jeff the Spider, Pandora before being betrayed by her, the Unicorn, and sometimes Grim.
She was voiced by Grey DeLisle, who voices Daphne Blake in the Scooby-Doo franchise, Frankie Foster in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Sam Manson in Danny Phantom, Jackie Lynn Thomas in Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Ms. Chalice in The Cuphead Show, Lizzie Devine in Codename: Kids Next Door, Lana Loud, Lola Loud, and Lily Loud in The Loud House, Betsy in Curious George, Kitty Katswell in T.U.F.F Puppy, Brianna Buttowski in Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil,and Catwoman in the Arkham and Injustice series.
Personality
In stark contrast to Billy, who is loud, happy-go-lucky, chaotic, and dimwitted, Mandy is usually quiet, stoic, orderly, and intelligent. How she is depicted overall depends on the plot of the episode, but she is anti-heroic at best, but outright ruthless at worst, with little to no redeeming qualities whatsoever. She views herself as being superior to all other characters in the show, including her own parents, who are constantly in fear of her due to her dreadful personality and behavior.
Mandy is cold-hearted, brutish, cranky, bitter, and behaves in a far more superior manner compared to most of the characters on the show. When Mandy was a baby, she was shown to have never smiled; she was even visibly unhappy when in her mother’s womb. She aspires to dominate the planet with an iron fist and to stay as far away from Irwin as possible.
Mandy’s antagonistic behavior has left her parents fearing her, staying far from Mandy sometimes. Her mother showers her with money. While Billy usually gets the trio into trouble, she is usually the one to get them out of it, along with Grim who - without her force - would not even bother trying to help.
Billy claims she has an irrational fear of figure skaters, but she denies this by saying she "doesn't trust the way they spin is all". Mandy also has a high level of intelligence, and a strength not to be reckoned with. She has an almost superhuman force as she is able to battle monsters with ease as well as being able to understand complex theories of the world when referring to her intelligence, despite being a child.
She also never misses a chance to exploit the stupid, which initially justifies her attachment to Billy, though she does grow to genuinely care for him over the years they know each other. Mandy struggles immensely to deliver human emotions other than anger and cynicism, and sometimes seems genuinely disheartened that she doesn’t meet the expectations of a normal girl of her age.
As a result of the Grim Reaper attempting to obtain the soul of Billy's hamster, they compete with him in a game of limbo to prevent this. As a result of losing, Mandy, through a bet, started owning the Reaper himself, now bidding to the whims of both Billy and Mandy.
She is shown to be a pretty vile individual who rarely smiles (in fact when Mandy smiles it has cataclysmic effects). She treats everyone around her with contempt, especially Grim and Billy, though she does seem to see Billy as a friend of sorts.
Physical appearance
Even though Mandy is controlling, manipulative, wrathful, even devilish at times, she seems like an average little girl wearing a pink dress with a yellow flower in the center, black Mary Jane shoes, white socks (although they are barely visible at times) pale skin, and blonde hair accessorized with a black headband. Although she has black eyebrows that are thick and they are almost always furrowed and a frown to match which gives her a scowling expression most of the time, and her hair is curved into a style resembling devil horns.
In the show's regular art style, she has no visible nose, but small nostrils. She has black pupils, but on some occasions, she is shown to have blue eyes, suggesting that her eye color is blue. Such as in My Peeps, after zapping Billy with his scythe, she and Grim are both seen in anime form revealing Mandy to have blue eyes and a small angular nose. In Underfist, Mandy's eyebrows are thinner, her eyes are bigger and her head is wider.
Powers and abilities
- Intelligence: Despite her lack of supernatural powers, Mandy primarily relies on using her intelligence and intimidating demeanor to get her way and resolve difficult challenges. She is capable of using her wits and boldness to exploit the mental and emotional weaknesses of certain individuals and then uses her intimidating appearance and personality to weaken their resolve and thus allow her to gain the upper hand over them or even seemingly control their minds due to the emotional scars she may cause them, however this usually does not work on individuals of equal intelligence to her or those who have a strong will.
- Intimidation: Being that she is still human, there are still several occasions in which Mandy is outwitted, imprisoned or about to be destroyed, at which point she relies on either her wits to think of a way out or on Grim and Billy to help her out or by manipulating them or someone else nearby. Considering that most of the other characters in the series tend to lack common sense, Mandy is able to figure out simple solutions that others were usually oblivious to.
- Martial arts: Mandy also has superior physical strength and martial arts skills which she can use to best most ordinary humans and even some large monsters, but her most notable ability is her intimidation and manipulation skills.
- Natural order: It appears that Mandy's behavior has some sort of relation to the natural order of the universe, as shown in the episode, "My Fair Mandy" where it is shown that if she smiles against her own will, the very fabric of the universe will unravel and warp itself into a completely new reality.
- Magical means: Like a few characters in the series, Mandy usually gains temporary powers via supernatural, technological or magical means, such as via Grim's Scythe, ancient artifacts or some sort of vehicle, weapon or robot. Her most notable power boosts were those she gained through artifacts such as the Chicken Ball and the Left Hand of Horror (in an alternate future in which she became The Lord of Horror), or when she fused with the Brain Eating Meteor and the Delightful Reaper. In an alternate future, she even found a way to make herself immortal by combining her body with worm DNA, after which she proceeded to conquer the planet.
- Vortex:When she tries to force a smile, it has the power to rip the dimension she is in demonstrated in the beauty pageant in the episode "My Fair Mandy" making a vortex to transition the cartoon into the Powerpuff Girls' world. This is due to the disruption of balance in the world that she does not smile ever. However, in the first season, Mandy was seen smiling.
Biography
As a Baby
Her father stated in the episode "Keeper of the Reaper" that wolves tried to take Mandy and raise them as one of their own when she was born.
Meeting Billy
In "The Problem With Billy", she first met her best friend Billy when they were toddlers. Billy had rung her doorbell several times until she was annoyed enough to answer, then Billy stole her baby bottle and swallowed it. Then, he felt her face with his hand - irritating her further - and pointed out that she had no nose. She then asked him “Are you some kinda idiot?” before he shoved an ice cream cone into her face, giving her a 'nose'. She punched him, called him a creep, and slammed the door in his face. He simply giggled in response to this, saying “she digs me”, thinking that she liked him.
Meeting Grim
She and Billy had met Grim on the day of the tenth birthday of Billy’s pet hamster Mr. Snuggles in the first episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, "Meet the Reaper". Grim had appeared to reap the soul of the hamster as it was time for the hamster “to kick the bucket” as Mandy had said earlier in the episode, but neither the hamster nor the duo would give in. So, they made a bet. If Grim was able to beat them in a game of limbo, he would reap Mr. Snuggles' soul. However, if Mandy and Billy won, they would keep Mr. Snuggles as their pet and Grim would be their best friend “forever”. Billy and Mandy had won - though not in a completely fair way - and Grim has been stuck with them since.
Her First Crush
In "Crushed", there is a dance happening at the school soon, and Irwin very nervously asks Mandy to go with him, which she rejects. Suddenly, Billy walks over to Mandy and Irwin as he shouts to everyone in the hallway that he has a new friend; he is walking with a boy they haven't seen before, who wears sunglasses and does not talk. Billy says he still doesn't know his name yet, and so calls him 'Piff'.
After examining him, Mandy realizes that she likes him, but he does not like her - or anyone for that matter, due to how rude he is by ignoring everyone. Mandy goes to the school nurse, but she just concludes that she is 'in love'. Billy later takes him home to meet Grim, and Grim politely asks what the boy's name is, but gets spat in the face in response. Billy then takes Piff to the kitchen for snacks, when Mandy approaches Grim and asks him to cut her heart out of her so she can't feel emotions anymore.
However, Grim proposes instead to give her a makeover, which Mandy agrees to. Several minutes later, Mandy - now wearing heavy make-up, more revealing clothes, and a more stylish hairdo - goes to the kitchen and confronts Piff, who is immediately attracted to her. Like Irwin from earlier, Piff nervously asks Mandy to go to the dance with him, but she rejects him, before whacking him in the face, satisfying Grim and impressing Billy.
Her Smile
When she smiles in "My Fair Mandy" while she sings for the competition, it throws off the natural order of the universe due to her overwhelming cuteness, though this does not apply in some earlier episodes, since she smiles only to her friends Billy and Grim. But she had to smile in front of everybody in the school auditorium.
Crossover
Mandy is the main antagonist of the crossover episode "The Grim Adventures of the KND", as she took over the Kids Next Door’s Moonbase and use organization's technology tried to conquer the world. Later she merged with the Delightful Reaper to control the criature and tried to assimilate the multiverse until she was defeated by Nigel Uno and Grim. She finally escapes swearing revenge.
Successful Tyranny
In history between Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy and Underfist, due to the lack of president in the United States, elections are held to elect a new president. Mandy is presented and manages to win. After that, she sends transfer the Dome of the White House to her own house in Endsville, turning this home into the New White House. She also changes the design of the Flag of the United States for a style more to her, with pink and yellow stripes and replacing the 50 stars on a blue silhouette of her face and name to Billy and Grim as her mad scientists, building a laboratory under her home. As is shown in the episode "Mandy Merciles," it is known what would happen after.
In said episode, Billy, Mandy, Grim, and Irwin decide to look into the future for fun because they are hot and bored. Soon, Billy, Grim, and Irwin will regret having done so because in the future Mandy rules the world in the dark form of an immortal hybrid half human half worm demon, leads an army of current Mandy-resembling robots and creates mutants for combat resistance. Grim is still her "best friend" but also her right-hand and she has created a complex line of Billy clones. Mandy tells one of the "Billies" that, in the past, she discovered in their research that combining her DNA with a worm she would be immortal. Mandy's source of power is cinnamon and she has enslaved humanity to extract it for her from mines. She lies to Billy about cinnamon's only weakness saying it is the frogs. Grim leads Billy into the team of resistance against Mandy, and Billy tells them about the frogs, leading them to attack her with them and getting arrested by Mandy. Mandy sentences Grim to the worst of his systems torture for treason and winks devilishly knowing that current Mandy is seeing her.
Although it seems that Mandy accomplishes all her goals and plans in the future, the ending of the episode "Modern Primitives", set millions of years into the future, depict the Earth to be abandoned, with no trace of any human, with only Billy and Fred Flintstone remaining frozen underground until some aliens discover them. This could be, as such, an indication that perhaps sometime in the future, Mandy may have been overthrown and/or died, but this is up for debate.
Video games
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
Mandy appears as a playable character, she has her profession "Master", she uses her own martial arts called “Mandy Kwon Do”. Though Mandy’s reach is small, she hits with devastating power.
Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion
After Aku is defeated, the heroes travel to Endsville and encounter the Grim Reaper. After fighting their way through, rescuing a corrupted Billy and Mandy, and battling an army of zombies, the group goes to the Underworld. There, they find and defeat Mojo Jojo and Father. They then escape the dimension as it, to, is destroyed. They then take the capsule to Samurai Jack's dimension. After defeating the corrupted warrior, Jack joins up with the heroes, but are attacked by Vilgax. After Vilgax's defeat, the now rather large group travels through Jack's world and defeats an army of Basket Robots.
FusionFall
Mandy appears as a NPC in Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall and its fan revivals. She is a human from Endsville, and the friend of Grim (aka the Grim Reaper) and Billy. While she may look like a normal girl, Mandy is a cunning and merciless individual who has managed to trick Grim into being at her and Billy's mercy as her best friend forever.
When Planet Fusion's invasion of Earth began, Mandy scoffed at Lord Fuse's supposed simpleton antics and instead, inspired by Mojo Jojo's plans to create an army of Monkey Minions, sought to create an army of her own. While she would come close though, the efforts of the Avatar and other heroes have ensured that Mandy's nefarious instincts have not led her astray in the war.
She can be found at Devil's Bluff plotting to raise her own troops after hearing about Mojo Jojo and his plans for creating an alien army. She also hands out guide missions for those following Mojo Jojo, foiling some of Mojo's plans for the hero, while aiding herself with others. She is very grumpy and angry most of the time.
When Billy steals the player's power to activate the totems to protect the planet from Fuse's clutches, Mandy was the key that helped the player recover those powers. She gave the player the Pillow of Common Sense and told the player to smack Billy with it. Strangely, it worked and it absorbed the player's powers back from Billy. Mandy would have kept the pillow and the powers, but decided she already had enough common sense and gave the player back the powers and also helped the player locate a nearby totem.
Fusion Mandy
Fusion Mandy has a glowing flower with pointy petals on her dress, that also have roots surrounding it.
Relationships
Billy
Billy has been Mandy's best friend since they were infants. Sadly, she considers Billy her idiotic henchman to do her every bidding as she never misses the chance to benefit from his astonishingly low IQ of -5. He usually complies and does everything she demands of him, seeming to either not mind and at times possibly even enjoy it. He rarely ever snaps at her for this, however, he did shout at her as a result of her treatment of him when she had told him "Thank you". The other time was when he grew tired of her controlling behavior when she and her parents are forced to stay at Billy's house while their own home was being fumigated. Billy may be responsible for Irwin's crush on Mandy, since he flirted with her (in Mandy's body) in the episode Get Out of My Head!.
Mandy tends to be that of a tsundere towards Billy. Despite her negative, cruel behavior towards him, Mandy has been shown to care for Billy, and the feeling is mutual. Her feelings could be completely platonic since she mostly treats him nothing more than a servant. But Billy is the only person who Mandy allows to have physical contact with her, embracing her on numerous occasions, even kissing her on the lips a few times. Mandy has also been known to read Billy bedtime stories in the middle of the night when he couldn't sleep whether it be from eating nineteen boxes of cupcakes or other reasons. He has also suggested wanting to marry her at least three times. She also always helps Billy when he gets into trouble, that is until she becomes too bothered to continue and just stops or leaves the scene.
In Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure, when Billy is supposedly eaten by a giant sea creature, she is in denial of his death saying, "Billy's always fine." But when he's been missing for six hours and Irwin's becoming restless; she starts to get worried herself as she gazes into the water and tears up, believing him to actually be dead. Moments later, Billy appears out of the water riding the Kraken, laughing and screaming "I'm fine!" Mandy gasps, pleased and surprised to see him again, but quickly denies ever being worried in the first place since of course, Billy is always fine. Near the end the main characters must face and conquer their worst fears. Mandy's worst fears are revealed to be her becoming fat, unattractive, jolly, and happily married to Irwin. It was in this movie that she realized that she can love another person besides herself, and it isn't necessarily a bad thing, and she faces her feelings toward either Billy or Irwin.
The Grim Reaper
Grim initially loathed both Billy and Mandy. Mandy does not seem to care about his hatred and simply uses him for her own purposes. Despite this, the two can come to an understanding on certain things, such as exploiting Billy's stupidity. Grim, like Billy, is more of a servant to Mandy. Unlike Billy, however, Grim regularly stands up to Mandy. The reaper is shown to regularly fantasize about the duo's ultimate deaths, but overtime, he grew to genuinely care about them, an example being in Fiend is Like Friend Without the "R" when Nergal kidnapped Billy and Mandy for himself and Grim came to their rescue.
Mindy
Mandy's sworn enemy, Mindy is an obnoxious, self-absorbed, stereotypical popular girl. She and Mandy always seem to be rivaling each other in almost every episode Mindy is actually in. It is revealed that Mindy once wanted to be Mandy's friend, but sore from rejection, she has grown to hate Mandy and sought revenge. Ever since then, the two have been arch rivals. Despite being just as mean and spoiled as Mandy, Mindy is actually a cowardly airhead, as opposed to Mandy, who is a fearless genius. In Wrath of the Spider Queen, Mindy is shown to be able to form a temporary alliance with Mandy if it means survival, when she fights spiders alongside her nemesis.
Irwin
Irwin has tried to make Mandy his girlfriend on a few occasions, but she always refuses in disgust and usually ends up beating him up. Repulsed by his pursuits to win her affections, Mandy chooses to be as far away from Irwin as possible. He makes it somewhat difficult as he appears in every other episode and is close friends with Billy. Irwin had first fallen for Mandy while she was possessed by Billy in Get Out of My Head! when Billy (while possessing Mandy) had called him a "cutie" and flirted with him.
In Scythe For Sale, Irwin uses Grim's scythe to cast a spell on Mandy that made her fall in love with him. She almost becomes his wife in a forced wedding ceremony, but Billy manages to break the spell over Mandy, restoring her to normal.
In the first movie, Mandy's worst nightmare is shown to be becoming fat, unattractive, kind, and married to Irwin. She fears that she'll someday be in love, and she actually faces and overcomes this fear, but it is unclear whether she's accepting her feelings for Irwin or Billy.
In the final episode, Mandy actually starts to fall for Irwin when she learns that he was born evil (possibly due to his monster heritage), but quickly goes back to normal after she kisses him. However, in The Cartoon Network Minecraft Show, they turned out to be good friends.
Saliva
Saliva is Mandy's dog. Mandy cares deeply for her dog and loves him very much. Saliva is the only living creature that Mandy shows any love, emotion or affection to. She often makes Grim play with him, like letting Saliva bury his bones in the yard.
Jeff the Spider
Mandy seems to like Jeff and always helps him with his problems regarding his father, but in a straight-forward, tough love sort of way. Unlike Billy, Mandy is a lot kinder to Jeff than Billy is, and does not jab Jeff with a stick like Billy does. Rather, she encourages him to stand up for himself and be tougher than he is.
Trivia
- She claims to have a secret mutant army.
- Mandy wears glasses as an adult. This was shown on two occasions.
- She is playable in the end credits of the 2006 video game where she can beat up Billy.
- Grey DeLisle enjoyed voicing Mandy because she was known for voicing bubbly characters.
- Grey DeLisle’s favorite episode that involves Mandy is “My Fair Mandy”.
- On the Indian version of the show (Haddi Mera Buddy), her name is Preeti.
- Grey DeLisle recorded Mandy’s lines for the video game in 2 hours.
- Mandy is mentioned by Uncle Grandpa in the Steven Universe episode "Say Uncle".
- Mandy appeared in the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode "The Big Picture".
- Mandy likes playing a Hoss Delgado video game President Evil (a parody of Capcom's Resident Evil).
- Other than being the deuteragonist most of the series, Mandy is also the antagonist in some episodes.
- The episode "Anger Mismanagement" reveals that Mandy and Grim have gone to anger management classes.
- Mandy is the only character to officially not have a designated nose, though visible nostrils are present in close-ups.
- Mandy has many striking similarities to The Brain from Animaniacs; they both speak in a dark and sinister monotone, they don't smile, and they aspire towards world conquest.
- Mandy has never been seen or heard laughing except for the episodes "Dream a Little Dream" (during Grim's nightmare) and "Test of Time" (where Billy became involved in human evolution).
- Mandy may be younger than Billy, since his birthday party was celebrated in the episode "Tastes Like Chicken", and her party was celebrated in "A Grim Surprise" (episode 9), even though her actual birthdate was not for another "five months".
- Mandy has a couple of similarities to Gaz from Invader Zim, though she‘s much more heroic than Gaz. Also, Gaz is more neutral to the world around her than outright aggressive all the time. In addition, Gaz has a minimal, if fleeting, interest in Zim (also voiced by Richard Horvitz).
- During the first few seasons, some fans mistakenly thought that Billy and Mandy were siblings. This was mocked in a later episode, when Harold and Gladys thought Mandy was their daughter. The show's Netflix description also accidentally referred to Billy and Mandy as siblings a few times.
- Mandy is often interpreted as a "goth" by fans, though it has never been confirmed and the connection is based purely on goths being overtly cynical, merciless, ill-tempered and angry. However, she does read goth magazines. Additionally, in the episode "Scary Poppins", Mandy demands from her parents that they frame her "goth metal posters", indicating that while she may not exactly be a "goth kid", she has a taste for goth music.
- Her favorite food is mac and cheese.
- Earlier episodes, comic stories, and some Cartoon Network bumpers depict Mandy grinning mischievously after getting her way, despite Billy saying she never smiles.
- This has lead people to speculate why Mandy managed to throw the universe off balance in "My Fair Mandy" when she smiled; many presume that this was because this wasn't a natural smile.
- Her three worst nightmares and fears are as follows: an extremely angry Billy (she will run from him when need be), growing up into a kind and obese woman marrying a handsome version of Irwin (revealed in Big Boogey Adventure), and having a change of heart.
- The episode "Heartburn" shows a deep fear of hers to be losing her true heart after hearing Irwin's sad story about how he was originally born really bad, but then experienced a change of heart after his father showed him how to love and respect other people. This caused her to seriously doubt if she could withstand a change of heart; the thought of just losing it caused her to scream really loud.
- Mandy is easily considered, alongside Aku, Black Hat, Vilgax, HIM, Rob, and Grandfather, one of the most dangerous Cartoon Network villains given what her goals are, her cruelty and her ability to get away with her crimes most of the time.
- In the earlier seasons of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Mandy wasn't as evil as she then appeared in later seasons of the show. In those episodes, Mandy was generally depicted as a mean, and sometimes cruel, girl who was occasionally shunned by her friends for being female (like when they didn't let her play with them a CLUE-like game nor baseball due her gender). However, as the show continued its airing, Mandy evolved from a grumpy and vile little girl into a sadistic control freak who desired power at all costs even if that meant enslave the whole planet.
- Even so, Mandy is not irredeemably evil like most characters see her, as she has sometimes shown that she cares for others, especially Billy, whom she not only protects but regards as a true friend to the point of cloning him so he can accompany her in the future. Furthermore, Mandy is also capable of feeling love, as shown when she develops a temporary crush on Piff.
- In an interview with show creator Maxwell Atoms by the podcast Mostly Horror, he confirms the fan theory that when Mandy dipped her finger into Grim's portal twice which was made of "pure evil" and put it into her mouth both times, it slowly corrupted her soul until it turned her into the monster she is by the end of the series, saying "It's canon now, if it wasn't before".
- Coincidentally, Mandy winning the 2008 United States of America presidential elections as seen in Underfist: Halloween Bash were depicted around the same time Barack Obama won the real-life presidential elections that year, which could suggest that in the Grim & Evil universe, Obama didn't win such elections (and by extension never became president, as Mandy's presidency is seemingly later depicted to have developed into a dictatorship as seen in "Mandy the Merciless"). However, in real-life, it would be impossible for a kid like Mandy to win the elections as underage are not allowed to postulate.
External Links
- Mandy on the Villains Wiki
- Mandy on the Inconsistently Heinous Wiki
- Mandy on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki
- Mandy on the The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy Wiki
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