Mandy (Billy and Mandy)
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| First appearance | Meet the Reaper |
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| Gender | Girl |
| Age | 12 |
| Family | Phil (dad), Clara (mom) |
| Portrayed by | Grey DeLisle |
| Created by | Maxwell Atoms |
Mandy is a title character from the television series The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. She is voiced by Grey DeLisle.
[edit] Personality
Mandy is Billy's closest friend, although a completely contrasting character: a blonde, noseless girl with an acerbic, never-smiling attitude (yet has a devious smile on the inside), evil personality (she believes in the abuse and exploitation of the stupid), and often surprising intellect and knowledge of the supernatural. She is rude to practically everybody, even her parents. Originally just somewhat of a downer, she has since become completely sadistic and dark, a personification of pure evil; her role with Billy has also changed from a good friend to ruling over Billy, constantly bossing and abusing him. She is a fearless fighter who will stand up to schoolyard bullies (Billy and the Bully) and monsters from the underworld (Irwin Gets a Clue) without flinching (a fawning Irwin has described her as a "tiny Valkyrie").
Her relationship with Billy can be characterized as brother-sisterly: They argue, fight and insult each other, but they stick together. Their relationship is platonic, but it is suggested that there is some kind of romantic attachment between them, as they spend a lot of time together although they are completely contrasting characters. Mandy's relationship with Grim ranges from domineering to grudgingly respectful, although she frequently appoints him to perform humiliating chores and never lets him forget that she "owns" him.
[edit] Mandy's Evil Power
She seems to possess some sort of evil power, as evidenced by her encounter with General Skarr in the episode Skarred for Life and when searching for a replacement Billy in the episode Whatever Happened to Billy Whatshisname?. In both scenarios she reduces Skarr and Sperg to snivelling messes simply by the force of her presence. In the episode Scary Poppins, Mandy managed to mind control her parents (In a demonic voice) even after Grim or the nanny made her parents feel confident and in control, and then the whole town. Her character only rarely falters from her dark norm. In the episode The Nerve, Mandy became downright meek when Billy stole her "Nerve", although Mandy later learned that the Nerve is not what makes her "dark, foreboding, and charmingly cynical" - it is Mandy herself.
On several occasions she has shown interest in world domination. In the episode Mandy the Merciless (a Dune parody), Grim's crystal ball reveals that, in the future, Mandy conquered the world, and turned herself into an immortal sandworm. In the episode Happy Huggy Stuffy Bears, when Eris offers to conquer the world with her, she comments "It's never too early to start with a career". But she eventually refused when she heard that she will be "The second most powerful in the world". In Chicken Ball Z (a parody of Dragon Ball Z), she entered a junior karate tournament because she wanted the 50,000 dollars winner's prize - she needed that money to buy Hector Con Carne's bunny island and continue with his business.
[edit] Emotions
Although she has shown disrespect to almost everyone she meets, she isn't always this cold and heartless. It is suggested that she cares at least a little bit, as she is usually the first to recommend rescue missions and solutions to supernatural problems (although she once said that the only reason why she rescues Billy is because "The Grim Adventures of Mandy" doesn't sound as good as "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy"). She also seems to like her dog, Saliva. In the episode Pandora's Lunch Box, Mandy makes friends with the new student called Dora and later comments, "Dora, you're the best friend I never wanted."
In the episode My Fair Mandy, Mandy showed an honest and human concern over whether or not she is pretty. When told by her instructor she will never win without smiling and has no chance at winning the "Little Miss Scurvy" pageant, Mandy was sincerely sad, complete with a saddened expression (as rare from her as a smile). At the end of the episode, Mandy did finally smile (although the viewers didn't see it on screen). This causes a catastrophic reaction, utterly warping reality into a dimension reminiscent of the Powerpuff Girls world. There seems to be some potential discontinuitiy with Mandy smiling however, as Mandy smiles quite evily at the camera at the end of the episode Dumb Wish, without any repercussions. It may be because it was more of an evil smile compared to the fairly happy one in My Fair Mandy.
In the episode Crushed, she was shown suffering from the effects of love at first sight, including sweating palms, knocking knees, heart-filled fantasy sequences and even smiling.
[edit] Mandy's smile
Mandy almost never smiles, aside from the occasional evil smirk. The only exceptions thus far have been in:
- Meet the Reaper - at the end of episode just after Grim says 'I Loathe You'.
- Opposite Day - shortly after Mandy calls Grim to the lawn, Mandy gives a quick, sarcastic smile.
- Look Alive - Mandy smiles while giving Grim a makeover. She also gives two other sarcastic brief smiles in the episode.
- Dumb Wish - after realizing what she had done after wishing that all people of the world would disappear.
- Get Out of My Head - when Billy jumps into her head and possesses her, causing her to behave with Billy's blissful, cheerful stupidity.
- Dream a Little Dream- A split second before Mandy closes the fridge door, thus ending the episode, an evil smile is visible.
- Crushed - During a fantasy sequence in which shows her falling in love with Billy's friend Piff.
- Test of Time - In the end of the episode, when the entire world is Billified.
- My Peeps - Smiled in a Billy's fantasy, in which he was seeing everything as a colorful toddler show
- My Fair Mandy - when she is performing as Dorothy Gale (complete with braided pigtails and blue gingham dress), singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow for the talent portion of the school's "Little Miss Scurvy" pageant. This smile is so anomalous that it destroys the universe, transporting her, Billy and Grim to a ' Powerpuff Girls-like universe, in which the three of them are recast as Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup (in the end credits coda, we also see Irwin recast as Mojo Jojo, struggling to breathe in the villain's tightly-cinched costume). Like in the most episodes, this reality-shifting change didn't effect the continuity.
- Billy and Mandy Save Christmas - After singing a Christmas song to get Santa Claus to have Christmas cheer again, Baron Von Ghoulish and Grim take two candy canes and pull her mouth into a wide grin.
- Billy and Mandy Begins - When Mandy first appears in Billy's story, a real-life picture of Grey DeLisle's smiling lips replace her animated mouth. Mandy in the supposed real-world (outside of Billy's story) notes that she looks ridiculous.
[edit] Trivia
- According to the subtitles in the episode Dream Mutt, Mandy is "Billy's friend, napkin collector."
- Mandy's personality is similar to Raven from the Teen Titans animated series, and Cartoon Network has joked around with this by putting the two together in Cartoon Network Shorts. In one short, Raven and Mandy sit on a subway, and as Mandy exits the train, she says, "Nice chatting with you," to which Raven responds, "Whatever". On Mandy's own fictional TV Show called, "The Darkside with Mandy", Raven sent a letter saying the show wouldn't last another week, in which Mandy replied with "Get a life, parakeet". Mandy also once said to Raven, in a commercial short, that " she should wither away because no one is going to carry her weight around for her" and to "deal with her problems in a professional manner and then shut up."
- In the episode Attack of the Clowns, Billy notes that she has an irrational fear of professional figure skaters, although her fear was never manifested. The excuse she gave - "I just don't trust the way they spin" - might hint at her awakening interest in the political sphere.
- Mandy appeared in an episode of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, The Big Picture, returning an imaginary friend because it was "too happy".
- Some of her interests, hobbies, and relationships are similar to Wednesday from The Adams Family movie and Gaz from Invader Zim. She is also similar to Shadow the Hedgehog as they are both cruel, merciless people when it comes to fight and both treat all people in general with callousness. She is also similar to Gaara form Naruto, due to the fact that pratically everyone afraid of them.
