Mandy (Billy and Mandy)

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Mandy
First appearance	Meet the Reaper
Information
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Title	Master (only by Lord Pain) Lord Mandy (also by Lord Pain)
Family	Phil (dad), Claire (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 has blond hair with a black head band, wears a pink dress with daisy pictured and wears black Mary Janes without socks. She is voiced by Grey DeLisle.

[edit] Personality

Mandy is Billy's closest friend, although a completely contrasting character: a blonde 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; 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").

Mandy's personality is similar to that of Raven from the Teen Titans animated series. Cartoon Network has poked fun at 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 Dark Side with Mandy," Raven sent a letter saying the show wouldn't last another week, which Mandy replied to 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." Her personality could be a small similarity to that of Stewie Griffin from Family Guy. Both were evil from the time they were born and both secretly plot world domination.

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, but an obvious sign of Mandy's slight affection towards Billy is seen in the Billy and Mandy movie Billy and Mandy's Big Boogie Adventure in which after Billy does not resurface from the Kraken's body she begins to worry about him even to the point that her eyes shaked with slight emotional fear, but he soon returned and she dismissed the event completely. 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. Grim and Mandy also share an almost mutual understanding perhaps because they have equally dark sides (even though Mandy's could be debated as darker) and often seem to enjoy each others company more when Billy's not around.

Mandy's personality is also quite a mystery. Billy inherited his stupidity from his father but where Mandy got her dark evil-like character is uncertain since her parents appear rather normal. It couldn't be environmental since Billy said that Mandy has been what she is since birth featured in My Fair Mandy. Due to her personality (most likely) wolves tried raise her as their own, as her father Phil tells the court in Keeper of the Reaper.

Since Mandy spends most of her time at Billy's place we don't get to see much about her family and their life together. But from what we've seen so far Mandy has an iron grip on her parents and more or less controls them with the power of her "evil". It's also unsure whether Phil or Claire loves her, as in Keeper of the Reaper Phil says that it's not that they don't love Mandy, but they're scared of her. But then in Scary Poppins when Claire is supposed to tell Phil she loves him, she spots Mandy outside the house (after being kicked out of Billy's) and screams "And I love... Mandy!!" upon Phil replies, shocked, "You love Mandy!?" "No...!". They most likely keep up appearances as loving parents when they're not alone together.

Though she comes off as having a hard and fearless attitude, she has also shown some wekaness and fear. 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 is all" - might hint at her awakening interest in the political sphere^{[citation needed]}. In Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure, it is revealed that her greatest fear is seeing her future self as a cheerful fat woman married to Irwin.

Mandy has a static dream of taking over and dominating the whole world. It is revealed in the series that she is waiting until the time is right, and then she will take over the world and dominate everyone. According to the movie, Mandy would take over the world in two weeks if given Grim's scythe. In the episode Scary Poppins, Mandy orders, not only her parents, but the whole of Endsville to do her bidding and destory the Nanny. This suggests that Mandy already controls the population of Endsville.

[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. Also, according to Principal Goodvibes, the smile is apparently so beautiful that (despite the collapse of the Universe) his eyes fly out of his eye sockets with tiny little wings.
• 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.

• In the episode 5 O'Clock Shadow, Mandy's shadow-self smiles about until half-way through the episode until Real Mandy made Shadow Mandy angry and tough.

• In The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy: The Video Game, Mandy's Mojo Meltdown is her smiling, and therefore destroys her opponents.

[edit] Trivia

• Mandy appeared in an episode of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, The Big Picture, returning an imaginary friend because it was "too happy."
• Mandy's smiles are almost always due to sarcastic remarks.
• Before each half-hour show, Mandy often appears before the viewer and speaks to them, breaking the fourth wall. Her attitude toward the viewer is the same as it is toward the characters in the show (one example of her opening statements is "I missed you, but my aim is improving.").
• In several episodes, characters that are not familiar with Mandy often mistake her for a boy and incredible ugly.
• In the episode Dream Mutt it is revealed that Mandy collects napkins.