Mandy (Seasons 5-6)

Amanda Clarisse "Mandy" Le Rue is a titular major protagonist of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. She is best friends with Billy and Grim. She is a devious girl from Endsville. In stark contrast to her cheerful, talkative, uniquely stupid best friend Billy, she is shown to be intelligent, quiet, bitter and utterly ruthless with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. During the first four seasons, she was a cynical, yet charming character. But during the last two seasons, a more malicious side of her personality is shown.

Biography
When Mandy was a baby, she was shown to have never smiled; she was even visibly unhappy in her mother’s womb. When she does smile, it throws off the natural order of the universe as seen in one episode, My Fair Mandy. However, this did not apply in some earlier episodes, where she smiled only to her friends Billy and Grim. However, she had to smile in front of everybody in the school auditorium when she sang Over the Rainbow as part of a pageant.

In the episode The Problem with Billy, it was shown that she first met her best friend Billy at an early age, when Billy had repeatedly rung her doorbell until she was annoyed enough to answer. Later, Billy stole her feeding bottle, put it in his mouth and began flushing it like a toilet. When she did, he immediately pointed out that she had no nose and shoved an ice cream cone into her face after she had asked him if he was "some kinda idiot?". She punched him, called him a creep, and slammed the door in his face. He simply giggled in response to this, telling "she digs me", thinking that she liked him.

Years later, she and Billy had met Grim on the day of the tenth birthday of Billy’s pet hamster, Mr. Snuggles. 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 beat them in a game of limbo, he could have Mr. Snuggles and Billy, but if the kids won Grim had to be their best friend forever. However, the kids won after Mandy cheated in the limbo contest and Grim has been stuck with them since. In the episode Sickly Sweet, Mandy turns into a monster with the combination of Hippopotamus, Alligator, Bear, and Iguana by "The Mask of Beast" for her cynical attitude with Billy and Grim.

Personality
Mandy is shown to be an anti-hero at best, and an antagonist at worst. An irredeemably cruel, intelligent, serious, cold-hearted, grouchy, abusive, bitter, callous, cynical, heartless, merciless, vain, rude, spoiled, self-centered, stubborn, mean, arrogant, unforgiving, unsympathetic and slothful little girl, she regards herself as being superior to many of the characters on the show, even her parents. She aspires to dominate the planet with an iron fist and to stay as far away from Irwin as possible. Mandy’s dreadful behavior has left her parents, Phillip and Claire, fear and they are often shown avoiding her. Her mother spoils her rotten and showers her with money, compliments, and expensive gifts, despite her fears, and her father is stuck cooking and cleaning for her. However, it is shown that Mandy truly loves her family, as she was genuinely shocked when they revealed they were afraid of her. As much of a psychopath as she is, Mandy doesn’t like cheating and would rather accomplish things for herself. It is said by many fans that Mandy gets scarier and meaner every season.

Mandy also has superior intelligence and 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 superior intelligence, despite being a child, so she might be a prodigy. She also never misses a chance to exploit the stupid, which more or less justifies her attachment to Billy.

While Billy gets himself/the trio into trouble, she is usually the one to get him/them out of it, along with Grim who, without her force, would not even bother trying to help. According to Billy and Grim, Mandy apparently has a fear of professional figure skaters--but she denies this, claiming that she simply "doesn't trust the way they spin," although, in Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure, her true worst fear is depicted as growing-up into a kind, chubby, unattractive old woman and settling-down with Irwin. It is also shown in the movie that Grim and Billy are actually very meaningful to her and she feels truly alone and lost without them.

Mandy was the main antagonist of the crossover episode The Grim Adventures of the Kids Next Door, as she took over the Kids Next Door’s Moonbase and nearly dominated the entire Cartoon Network multiverse. This is probably Mandy's most villainous role ever.

Although Mandy rarely smiles, she is shown to smirk in times when she wins or if she is concocting a very sinister plan. When she did try to force a smile in a beauty pageant, it caused a rip in the dimension that forced her, Grim, Billy and Irwin to transition into the Powerpuff Girls world, due to the sheer awe of it being extraordinary.

Appearance
Even though Mandy is controlling, manipulative, wrathful, even devilish at times, she seems like your average little girl wearing a pink dress with a yellow flower in the center, black Mary Jane shoes, white socks, 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.

Why She Sucks Now

 * 1) Her attitude has gone from being passable to intolerable.
 * 2) Unlike her personality from the first four seasons, she is much more meaner and has done several evil acts than she once did. She was much more laidback and calm, but here, her temper is much shorter and she beats up Grim, Billy, and Irwin just for fun. Even her own parents start dreading her.
 * 3) She along with Billy are huge bullies towards Grim.
 * 4) She doesn’t seem to care about Grim and Billy anymore.
 * 5) She usually betrays her friends.
 * 6) She also seems to do stuff that's just as dumb as Billy would do.
 * 7) She was at her worst in the episode "Scary Poppins", where she brainwashes everyone in Endsville (except Grim) to follow her orders instead of becoming a much better person.
 * 8) In the episode "The Greatest Love Story Ever Told Ever", it is revealed that she only agreed to go on a date with Nergal Junior just so she can watch him and Irwin fight over her and ruin Valentine's Day for everyone.
 * 9) She has hit rock bottom in the crossover special “The Grim Adventures of the KND” where she confronts and holds Numbuh 1 hostage just so she can rule the entire KND organization for world domination.
 * 10) She along with Billy barely get punished for their actions.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) She was much better and more tolerable in the first four seasons.
 * 2) There were still a few moments where she cares about Grim and Billy, especially in the first film Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure where she showed sympathy towards Billy when she thought that the sea monster ate him.
 * 3) Grey DeLisle did a good job voicing her.

Trivia

 * Mandy is the only character to officially not have a designated nose, (although Jack does not have a nose after his original head is cut off) though nostrils are present when in close-ups.
 * Other than being the deuteragonist most of the series, Mandy is also the antagonist in some episodes.
 * During the first few seasons of the show, some fans mistakenly thought that Billy and Mandy were brother and sister. This was made fun of in a later episode when Harold told Gladys that he thought Mandy was their daughter.
 * If Billy and Mandy were siblings, Mandy's full name would be "Amanda Uglio".
 * The show's description on Netflix has accidentally referred to Billy and Mandy as siblings a few times.
 * According to her father, a pack of wolves tried to raise her as one of their own when she was born.
 * Her voice used to be more scratchy and high in Grim & Evil, but then her voice became more deep and melancholy.
 * Mandy likes playing a Hoss Delgado video game, President Evil which is a parody of Capcom's Resident Evil (1996).
 * Mandy is often interpreted as a "Goth" by fans, although it has never been confirmed and the connection is based purely on the stereotype of 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 mother and father 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.
 * Although it has been stated that Mandy never smiles, earlier episodes, comic stories, and some Cartoon Network bumpers depict her grinning mischievously after getting her way.
 * 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.
 * 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 might be wearing glasses when she becomes an adult, this was shown in two occasions.
 * In the Cartoon Network India version of the show titled 'Haddi Mera Buddy', her name is Preeti.
 * Mandy has a couple of similarities to Gaz from the Nickelodeon series Invader Zim.
 * Unlike Gaz, she‘s much more heroic than her. Also, Gaz is more neutral to the world around her than outright aggressive all the time.
 * Mandy has many striking similarities to The Brain from Animaniacs. Specifically, they both speak in a dark sinister monotone, they don't smile, and they each have aspirations towards world conquest.
 * Mandy may be younger than Billy since his birthday party was celebrated in the episode "Tastes Like Chicken"; and her party was celebrated in episode 9, "A Grim Surprise", even though her actual birthdate was not for another "five months."
 * Mandy appeared in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode, "The Big Picture".
 * Mandy is mentioned by Uncle Grandpa in the Steven Universe episode "Say Uncle".
 * In the episode Anger Mismanagement, it is revealed that Mandy as well as Grim have gone to anger management classes.
 * She states that she a secret mutant army.
 * Her voice actor Grey DeLisle also plays the role as Frankie Foster from "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends" and Yumi Yoshimura from "Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi".