Billy(The first Cartoon Boy in Toxica's Bonus Stage)
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Billy is one of the title characters from the television series The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. He is voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz.
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[edit] Biography
Billy is an astonishingly incompetent red-headed child with an oversized nose and an I.Q. of -2.5, which is almost impossibly hard to get down to, and far below the upper limit of being mentally retarded. Like his father, he has a number of unpleasant habits, including nose-picking, flatulence, male chauvinism and unapologetic idiocy. Prone to surprising (if nonsensical) fits of rage, he is extremely hyperactive, with a knack for causing all kinds of disasters and ending up in various parallel dimensions, usually by experimenting with Grim's various supernatural items.
The most obvious fact about Billy is his stupidity. Billy is so incredibly dull that a brain-eating meteorite couldn't find anything to eat (Little Rock of Horror) and so sent him off as its servant to gather "those with brains in their heads"; he attempts to eat himself when he is turned into chocolate (Chocolate Sailor) despite multiple warnings not to do so; and he totally ignores a massive battle between a titanic, gargoyle-like Mrs. Claus and Mandy while walking through to deliver an antidote to Santa (Billy and Mandy Save Christmas). Billy has a tendency to forget what he is doing, and he almost never knows what is going on around him. For example, he will often ignore bolts of magical energy flying around his head simply because he found something shiny, slimy, or weird to play with; he has an extreme fear of trivial things like clowns and bugs, but he can be calm when he is being kidnapped by CIA or giant evil meteroite is trying to suck his brain. Billy sees world around him in a very different way - only thing that is safe to say is that his behaviour is completly unpredictable.
His stupidity frequently leeds to all kinds of disasters, but he often confirms that "ignorance is bliss" - Billy's blindess is surprisingly helpful to him, as it allowes him to ignore punishment (both physical and mental) that would be quite fatal to anyone else. Because of it, Billy is surprisingly good in a fight, as he is durable and can do many strange things to survive the violent and dangerous situations. It also gives him surprising insight into the nature of various things, and he can often suggest "dumbed-down" solutions that both Grim and Mandy would have ignored. His greatest contribution may be his ability to distract others; the sheer strangeness of Billy's actions (which includes pie-chasing, dog-running, and other bizarre pursuits) can often distract villains long enough for Mandy or Grim to enact whatever plan they are concocting.
Billy has many odd, meaningless, and often dangerous antics. He has a fondness for video games (as seen in My Peeps and Beasts and Barbarians), a tendency to eat gut-busting junk food (as seen in Billy's Growth Spurt), and an incredible talent for absorbing thing that he see on television and video-games, and he often confuses them with the reality. For example, in the episode Super Zero, after watching his favourite superhero's show, he imagines that he has superpowers and acts out finishing scene of the show (including the commercials for a strawberry yogurt). He can watch a turned-off TV, laundry washing machine or even a paint drying like he is watching a television show. Billy has a remarkable ability for getting into trouble and ending up in places as far away as the alternate universe in Mighty Moe's beard to the far depths of outer space (where he was a yogurt-shooting superhero). He has a propensity for digging into Grim's trunk, and his cat Milkshakes's "secret hut", aka litter box.
[edit] "Angry Billy"
Billy had an irrational fear of clowns, which he overcame after a conversation with his "Inner Frat Boy" in the episode Attack of the Clowns, leading him to attack anything even half-clownlike (including Grim and Mandy, who were wearing clown suits at the time) with extreme violence. In fact, violence is part of the core of Billy; his rages, surprising and bizarre as they are, seem to have a massive positive effect on his I.Q. and give him the ability to perform super-human feats. These rages, which can spark because he is afraid or for seemingly no reason at all, give Billy incredible endurance and a shift away from "happy" Billy (his normally idiotic self) to "angry" Billy (his voice even changes in the shifts, becoming lower and more guttural). "Angry" Billy may be Billy's way of keeping up with his two friends; Grim is Death and Mandy is, well, Mandy. To keep up with these two superhumanly-powered beings, Billy may well have decided to go nuts. When Billy gets seriously angry, we can sometimes see his nostrils flaring when most of the time they are not visible at all, and sometimes he emmites a clicking noise from his teeth when aggitated.
[edit] Pets
Billy has or had many pets, and they all illustrate his incompetence. In Keeper of the Reaper, Mandy referenced to many Billy's pets from the past, and brought them to testify how Billy treated them. Li'L Porkchop said that he was Billy's pet for only 11 minutes (the length of the episode), and that he still has nightmares from them. She also referenced to Wiggy Jiggy Jed form the episode Dream Mutt, but Billy said that it doesn't count - "I had a good reason! He bored me!" (even though he actually destroyed him because he made a doomsday machine to steal all the beds in the world).
- He has a cute small pink cat called Milkshakes which is often a target for supernatural occurrences - it was possessed by Grim (Get Out of My Head), made intelligent by a bookworm (Smarten Up), blown up by an alived action figure (Toys Will Be Toys), eaten by a clown-monster (Attack of the Clowns), and many other strange things.
- In Aren't You Chupacabra To See Me?, he had a Chupacabra, named Daisy.
- In Li'l Porkchop, he got a patheticly small fish Li'l Porkchop, which was hardly breathing. Grim turned Li'l Porkchop into a giant-mutant fish with his powers that acted and shared the same accent with Arnold schwarzenegger.
- In Tween Wolf, he adopted a werewolf, thinking that it is a puppy. The werewolf was actually his friend Irwin.
- In Dream Mutt he had a dog, which was Grim created by combining four dogs. He was named Wiggy Jiggy Jed, but his real name is Sir William Wexell Wingding Whizzlebang the Third. He was destroyed because he tried to steal every bed on Earth.
- In Billy and Mandy vs. the Martians, he got a calot (martian dog), named "Admiral Wolverine Lightning Bolt" because "those are the coolest words in the universe!". Admiral Wolverine Lightning Bolt helped them to fight off Martian zombies.
- He had, and still has a sick old hamster Mr. Snuggles. In Meet the Reaper, the first episode, He and Mandy had a bet with the Grim Reaper over hamster's soul. They won, and the Grim Reaper is now their best friend forever. Since then, the hamster has been seen several times.
[edit] Jeff the Spider
Billy is also a father; his "son" is a giant spider Jeff, who thinks that Billy is his father as Billy hatched his egg, thinking that he will get a giant duck (The Crawling Niceness). This is rather ironic, seeing how Billy suffers from extreme arachnophobia. Jeff is quite calm and soft-spoken, and nobody wonders why Jeff ended up so nice as the major role model in his life has been Billy. In the episode Jeffy's Web, He Was Marryed to Billie (Fantoon No. 1408) born hundreds of baby spiders, despite having a very masculine voice. Jeff's love for Billy is fanatic, and he can't realize or doesn't want to realize that Billy hates him to the point of madness. Mandy refers to Billy as "your dorko-dad" when around Jeff. In the episode Keeper of the Reaper, Mandy brought Jeff as a witness in the Underworld court to testify about his relationship with Billy, which illustrates Billy's incompetentce.
[edit] Trivia
- Billy has a knack for cooking, and does it extremely well, like he's a natural. He has made cake, brownies, chili, and chocolate dipped pickles.
- Billy is a short for William, as revealed in the episode Smarten Up.
- Billy has been the Grim Reaper on three occasions. In Grim for a day, he and Grim replaced places. Billy was a Grim Reaper while Grim was a kid. In Billy and Mandy's Jacked Up Halloween Billy was wearing a Grim Reaper costume. In Love that Dare not Speak it's Name he wanted to became a Grim Reaper when grow up, so Grim tutored him.
- Billy's Mom wants Billy to be a chiropractor like his father, but Billy would rather juggle chickens. Billy's dad actually works at a fast food joint, The Freckle Burger.
- Billy said that he and his family celebrate Hanukkah, implying that he is Jewish.
- Billy's nose often shows strange abilities. His nose has the unique ability to grow back (Christmas special) and deploy as a sort of airbag (Here Thar Be Dwarves)
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