#Grim And Evil

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Here's some cutie patootie sketches for your patience

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Orco y Malteada

Orco y Malteada :]

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Some extra Billy and Mandy backgrounds.

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February’s 27 day

I think in their fake BnM episode they’d steal the scythe for Hector Con Carne and end up using it for themselves

They’ll never win though

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Random thought. Feel free to agree or disagree:

If Danny Phantom met Mandy (Grim and Evil/Billy and Mandy) especially if this was Full Ghost Danny who has long since fully died.

If she found out about the Ghost King thing Mandy would OBVIOUSLY want the crown/to rule. (Think the Fear Glove from the movie)

Would Danny trust Mandy with the Crown? Heck no, he'd sense what she's about RIGHT AWAY. Would he respect that she ASKS/is open about her intention of fighting him for the Crown? Yes. Because by this point poor Danny likely has MANY ghosts attacking him for the chance to rule. Mandy's at least polite enough to ASK/STATE HER PLAN FIRST.

"Fair warning, I'm not allowed to hold back when fighting with a challenger for the Crown," Danny politely warned.

"Good, I don't plan to either," Mandy responded.

"Trust me, mon, you'll need all your strength and IQ to fight HER," Grim gave a warning of his own. (Hopefully I got his accent right. 😅) ".... Oh, giving you the warning I wish I had gotten? She cheats."

"I know types like that," Danny smiled. "Thank you, Grim."

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Why "My Fair Mandy" is the most controversial episode of "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy"

Let's get the Fred Fredburger out of the room right now. This episode has the unfortunate implication of Mandy being the only cartoon character in history who can never smile ever. (Even though she smiled at the end of the fucking pilot!)

If we were to apply the logic of the episode of "My Fair Mandy" to "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy" from the very beginning, the show as we know it wouldn't even exist. (Or at least the three characters will be Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup knock-offs.)

Nobody brings up the ending of the episode "The Halls of Time", even though it was more impactful and dark than the ending of "My Fair Mandy". (Seriously, the characters reverse-aging out of existence might just be the most messed up ending the show ever put out.)

Had this happened to a one-shot cartoon character in an episode of a television series, where they destroyed the fabric of reality by smiling, it would've been perfectly fine, since said character would most likely never appear in another episode ever again. But it just had to happen to a main character. That character being Mandy. In other words, the concept of a character destroying the universe by smiling is brilliant, but it shouldn't happen at the expense of a main character doing it.

Yes, Mandy almost never smiled in "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy". The only times she felt like smiling were the times where she fell in love and became lovesick. Mandy developed a crush on a boy named Piff in the appropriately named episode "Crushed!" Irwin also used the magic from Grim's scythe in "Scythe for Sale" to force Mandy to fall in love with him. The first time she got hypnotized by his magic, she sported a broken smile.

Can someone show happiness without smiling? Yes. But it's generally frowned upon. Pun intended. Most people want other people to smile and act happy. They also want to draw smiling cartoon characters to sell their products. Mandy would not be a good poster child for selling merchandise. That's why Grim or Billy would be used instead because they can smile and appeal to kids, unlike Mandy.

I found it really funny that the unsmiling Mandy said, "Smile, tomorrow will be worse" in one of the opening couch gags. Oh, the irony.

Main characters in animated television shows that never or very rarely smile are an anomaly for sure. The only other cartoon characters that even come close to rivalling Mandy for smiling so little are Huey Freeman from "The Boondocks" and Mai from "Avatar: The Last Airbender". Runner ups would be Gaz from "Invader Zim" and Raven from "Teen Titans" (2003).

TV Tropes puts them all under the Perpetual Frowner category for Western Animation. However, plenty of other cartoon characters who smile all the time are put under the category such as Squidward Tentacles from "SpongeBob SquarePants", Lucy Loud from "The Loud House", Moe Szyslak from "The Simpsons", Edward the platypus from "Camp Lazlo", and Buttercup from "The Powerpuff Girls".

The rule for being an actual Perpetual Frowner, according to my logic, would be that the character will only smile once or less in all of the screentime they get in an episode featuring them. Squidward, Lucy Loud, Moe Szyslak, Edward the platypus, and Buttercup all immediately break this rule. Therefore, they are NOT Perpetual Frowners.

Buttercup makes the least sense out of all the characters listed because plenty of her official artwork features her smiling. Smiling or a neutral attitude are her default expressions. Sure she's got a ruff and gruff attitude, but she's still an overall happy person.

Hell, I'm more of a Perpetual Frowner than Buttercup. I've been told to smile several times by my father because of how little I smiled at times. Sometimes, I would try to smile, only for my dad to tell me I'm forcing one.

When I'm around a group of laughing people sometimes, I almost never laugh. The happiest I tend to get is a slight smile and that's it.

The bottom line is, if a cartoon is episodic and not continuity-driven, who cares if the characters act one way in one episode, but completely different in another? Mandy, believe or not, once upon a time had a less stoic and more emotional demeanor, even though she almost never smiled. In the first half of "Grim & Evil", which aired in 2001, she smiled about eight or nine times throughout the six episodes. (Some of the smiles are super quick and brief that you have to pause the episode to see them though.) The image below of Mandy smiling while saying "agony" is a blink-and-you-miss-it moment. Whether this looks like Mandy is smiling or not is up for you to determine.

So, in conclusion... Who cares? Maybe one day, there will be a Billy & Mandy reboot where Mandy has a character arc where she opens up and becomes more jovial as the series progresses. Maybe it'll be live-action and not animated. Maybe, it'll still be animated, but Mandy's appearance will look completely different from her previous incarnations. Who knows?

There are plenty of artists, cartoonists, and animators out there who never watch an animated television series and only look at the artwork for the characters. Let's not forget this funny gem of a Cartoon Network Christmas poster that someone drew.

All-in-all, how you decide to draw Mandy from "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy" is completely up to you. (Even if it's wildly out-of-character.)

P.S.: The episode of "My Fair Mandy" will officially be turning 20 this year in July, and I'm going to draw Mandy smiling and flipping the bird on that particular day, signifying that I don't give a fuck.

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Garabatos rápidos de Puro Huesos :3

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Disney Adventures, October 2001

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Development Background Artwork for a Disney Television Animation Pilot created by Maxwell Atoms (Cartoon Network Studios "Grim & Evil", "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy", "Evil Con Carne") -- Circa 2012.

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Doodled something with @mra1f ‘s au

27 is a fun character for me. They’re cautious, conniving and competent but truthfully born to lose ⚡️

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