Death Battle Analysis: Grim

Hey everybody it’s FINALLY time for me to do a Cartoon Network character, even I am astonished that this is my 11th character blog and the first time that is happening. But to make up for it i chose a really, Really great character to start with, that being Grim from the Billy & Mandy series, without giving too much away, let’s just say he’s the most powerful character I’ve done yet!

Background

Grimuel “Grim” C. Reaper (yes that is his real name) was born a Skeleton at least 80 million years ago in the underworld. He didn’t exactly have an easy childhood, his father was a Country-Rock music obsessed prick who never appreciated him.

(Remind me why I wear underwear again)

At school, Grim was heavily bullied by the Boogeyman

and constantly followed by a gross worm creature named Lubber who had a huge crush on him leading to constant embarrassment. His only real friend was an alien spider creature princess named Velma.

Velma was loving, protective and kind to Grim, his absolute best friend. One day a brand new underworld position was announced, human souls were about to come into existence and they needed a Reaper to harvest their deceased to the afterlife. To fill this position a Scare Election was held where the candidates were to show how scary they were to their peers and they’d vote for the scariest to win the Reaper title.

(that’s the prototype Scythe the Reaper used in the B.C. times)

After the presentations Velma was certain to win, that is until the Boogeyman decided to cheat.

After about half the votes had been cast, Boogey snuck down and magically changed all the votes to him so the only way someone could beat him is if every single remaining person voted for them. Grim caught Boogey and managed to chase him off and changed the votes.

Grim was caught changing the votes by Velma who feeling betrayed ran off never wanting to speak to him again, unknown to her, he changed all the votes to say her name. Enraged at Boogey for causing this to happen, Grim ran up, grabbed the prototype scythe and used it to banish Boogey to the netherrealm in front of everyone.

Grim was so angry and terrifying doing this, that everyone who hadn’t yet voted immediately changed their vote to Grim, allowing him to win the election (him and Velma eventually did makeup).

After a brief transition period of working as the boatman on the River Styx, human souls finally came into fruition and Grim began his duty of harvesting the souls of the Dead as the Grim Reaper, and it was a pretty sweet gig which he loved very much.

1.4 million years later, Grim was tasked with reaping the soul of a 100 year old hamster named Mr. Snuggles, owned by a kid named Billy, the world's biggest idiot. Seemed easy enough, but it wasn’t accounted for that Billy’s best friend Mandy would be there.

Mandy is cunning, competent and pure uncorrupted evil and would not allow Grim to take Mr. Snuggles.

Amused by this child, Grim offered her a deal, he would play the two kids in a game of limbo,

the one game a skeleton can’t lose, if he wins he gets the hamster, but if they win they keep him and Grim has to be their best friend forever, including moving in with and obeying them. Mandy made him sign a legally binding underworld contract agreeing to this, which Grim signed thinking little of.

Seriously underestimating what Mandy was capable of, Grim was outsmarted and lost the game and thus, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy had begun.

It was at first a pretty miserable time for Grim, each kid had their benefits and horrors. Billy was nice and caring to Grim but was also very annoying and gross with his stupidity. Mandy was calm and intelligent but also very cold and mean. Each one had equal custody of Grim, the series plays a lot with balance in that way, it is equally bad to have ultimate power in the hands of an evil mastermind than it is to have it in the hands of a good natured idiot, both would end up destroying the world alone, but together it balances out.

Grim, Billy and Mandy have been on tons of adventures together and despite Grim not wanting to admit it even to himself, the kids have legitimately become his best friends and he cares for them very much. They have all saved each other numerous times, and if they leave for awhile, Grim misses them terribly, proving even immortal demonic embodiments of nature can have a heart.

“You've come back to save the children?”

-- Nergal

“Umm... well... I'm just taking them with me so I can eat them later.”

-- Grim

Personality

Grim is a cantankerous, sarcastic, and cynical skeleton, he has a weakness for evil things and laughs at things like the suffering of others. But he is also loyal, honorable, never goes back on his word and is actually quite sensitive.

Grim is often a very conflicted character, he totally despises Billy & Mandy for many reasons yet simultaneously deeply cares for them and often has to get his priorities in order. He’s pretty gullible sometimes and even has several moments of a childlike innocence, which probably stem from not having a very good childhood in the first place. Grim enjoys gardening, puppies, coffee, ice cream, chocolate, newspapers particularly the obituaries, TV particularly old horror films, holidays especially "El Día de los Muertos" as it honors him, but more than anything Grim loves his job. Grim doesn’t like the community, chores, new neighbors, health freaks, false alarms, and Billy and Mandy going through his stuff or interfering with his job.

Intelligence

Grim despite having moments of gullibility, is actually very intelligent and wise. He has mastered and memorized entire spellbooks, when Mandy was ruling the world and Grim started helping the resistance, he was so careful that the only way she could have known is by having knowledge this would happen 1000 years ahead of time with a crystal ball (which she did cause she’s Mandy but still) and when Grim took Billy and Mandy to the prestigious Toadblatt’s school of sorcery, he was so advanced he was made a wizard instructor on the first day.

Also another great thing to note here is the fact Grim was the Vice President of Cartoon Network City for the whole Jim Staples era of the station.

Biology

Grim is a walking talking Skeleton, specifically inspired by the ones in Voodoo culture, which is why he always has a thick Jamaican accent. He is infact fully capable to seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling and tasting, despite lacking most of those organs and a brain. Yes most, Grim does have several organs like a tongue, an unbeating heart and a functioning digestive system where he can eat food even without a head and only needs to use the bathroom once a year. How the heck is any of that possible you ask? This is because, all of Grim’s bones are both coated in and produce Ectoplasm, a physical manifestation of the spirit realm, it is responsible for all his bodily functions and capabilities that set him apart from a normal Skeleton, like speaking, thinking, moving and everything else.

All his bones can be taken off and reattached without negative repercussions, and he can move, control and feel all of them while they are separated. Grim also has a minor possession ability with this if you place Grim’s head on an object, he can take control of said object as if it’s his new body, this also works if you place something on his headless body. The ectoplasm also causes nightmares to escape his mind into the real world in the event he has a pleasant dream. Grim also possesses no soul of his own and has Immortality

he literally lived after time itself ceased to be.

Powers

As the Grim Reaper, even without the use of his scythe grim has been blessed with a large assortment of powers.

• Portal Creation:

Can create portals to other dimensions, including Earth, The Underworld, Limbo, MiddleEarth, Shadow Dimension, Halls of Time, Hell, Asgard, Elysium, Shanti, Lower Heck, Nirvana, The Internet, The Dark Realm, Plain of Elemental Fire, Enchanted Forest, Plain of Eternal Suffering, The Netherworld, and the Detention Dimension.

• Pyrokinesis:

Can summon and blast magical fires out of nowhere.

• Possession:

Grim can jump into people and animal's heads and possess their bodies, even works on foes with high level psychic resistance.

• Teleportation:

Grim can instantly teleport anywhere in the current dimension.

• Flight:

Grim can levitate and fly without limitation.

• Death Touch:

The ability to instantly cause anything to die through physical contact with his hands, even works on technology. This is something he needs to activate himself, and is not constantly running like other versions of the Reaper.

• Shadow Traversion:

Can travel as a shadow on the ground.

• Dimensional Rifts:

Can create rifts, sucking the immediate area into an alternate plain of existence.

• Necromancy:

Can resurrect armies of the undead and make them do his bidding, even it they are nothing more than fossils.

• Animacy Granting:

Can grant inanimate objects such as toys, masks, coat hangers etc sentient life able to move and speak and think, he has done this on several different occasions.

• Low Level Reality Warping:

Somehow instantly changed what summer camp Billy and Mandy were arranged to attend.

• Simulation Summoning:

It is the power to turn a representation of something into the actual thing. Grim used this over 1000 times with no effort to create real card game monsters with exact appearance, personality and powers.

• Energy Blasts:

Can fire supernatural energy beams from his hands.

• Geokinesis:

Can raise large rocks and lava.

• Matter creation:

Made a crew and studio audience from scratch.

• Telekinesis:

Can move things with his mind any pull himself back together.

• Regeneration:

Can regenerate bones that have been smashed to dust or reduced to ash.

• Hydrokinesis:

Can control and contort water at will.

• 4th Wall Awareness:

Grim has knowledge of the fact he’s a character in a kids cartoon.

• Summons:

Can summon giant skeleton hands from the earth to restrain foes like Shinnok (also has a variant for zombies).

• Immortality Curse:

Can grant mortals Immortality, meaning cannot age, starve, dehydrate, suffocate, grow ill or die of any physical injury short of disintegration.

• Hypnosis:

Can hypnotise people in a similar way to a Jedi mind trick.

• High Senses:

Can Sense the location and condition of his scythe.

Scythe

Now for the coup de grâce of this analysis and the most iconic weapon Grim is packing, his magical Scythe, which he cutely named Jody. This 7’ foot long beauty with a Double-edged blade was created by F,

The underworlds head scientist of Reaping Gadgets over 2000 years ago, but just because she’s an oldie doesn't mean she ain't a goodie. Jody contains an unfathomable amount of supernatural energies which allow it to warp reality on to such an extreme level it “can destroy the universe and end time as we know it” (- Both Grim and Billy).

Now that may sound like hyperbole to you and I might agree had this not been proven multiple times. Grim once used his scythe to warp reality and change billy’s test paper but it went too far and caused everyone and everything in the entire universe to act in the opposite manner, proving it can warp reality on a universal scale.

In another instance Jody pumped so much supernatural energy into Mandy she grew “infinitely at an infinite rate”, eventually destroying the entire universe due to out growing it and becoming trapped in the multiverse with the other infinitely expanding beings, this establishes that the scythe can casually output universal levels of energy at a time to any of its attacks. Therefore old Jody is a badass blade that through sheer DC (destructive capability) alone is the most powerful weapon in Cartoon Network history!

But don’t think impressive DC is all Jody’s got going for her, this baby also has an enormous supply of powers and hax.

The first and most iconic feature of the Scythe is the curse put on it making it so Any Head Cut Off By The Scythe, Stays Off...Forever! This curse has prevented heads of Grims victims from being reattached, growing back and rematerializing. It basically is a permanent decapitation that no hax can get around short of having reality warping higher than the scythe itself. The Scythe also has a mind of its own, and will disobey Grim in rare instances where he's about to use it to do something that will get him killed, hurt or imprisoned. Jody’s other abilities include:

• Self Regeneration:

The Scythe can fix itself after being damaged even past the molecular level.

• Transformation:

The Scythe can change it’s shape and size even to the point of becoming other objects entirely, such as limbo sticks, pencils, straws etc.

• Time Travel:

Grim can also use the scythe to open rifts to travel to any point in the past or future, including the beginning and end of time.

• Teleportation:

Grim can summon his Scythe to his hands at will.

• Spatial Hax:

One of Grim’s Scythe’s most well known abilities is the power to cut holes between dimensions, this means the Scythe can cut through literally anything it hits regardless of it’s durability by increasing space between it.

• Brainwashing:

The Scythe can mind control people into doing and believing whatever Grim wants them to, this even works effortlessly on Mandy. Mandy has mental powers so potent she can mind control entire planets and overpower brain absorbing asteroids in mental battles, and the Scythe is still just plain above this.

• Force Field:

It can create an all encompassing force field powerful enough to stop a large volcanic eruption.

• Summoning Monsters:

Grim can also use it to summon a large variety of creatures to do his bidding, ranging from Cyclops, swarms of bats, an entire castle complete with Dragon and even Zombie Drag Racers.

• Energy Fields:

The staff of the Scythe can surround itself with energy to become effectively a lightsaber.

• Deflection:

The Scythe’s blade can deflect lasers, plasma, electricity, supernatural energies, radiation, and mustard.

• Size Manipulation:

The Scythe can shrink and grow itself and others to be smaller than golf balls to larger than the universe itself.

• Tractor Beam:

The Scythe has a powerful tractor beam, according to Jack-O-Lantern this beam can literally prevent the sun from rising.

• Flight:

Grim can use the Scythe as a ‘flying broomstick’ to increase his flight speed.

• Demonic Rifts:

Upon striking the ground the Scythe creates a rift leading straight to hell before closing up permanently.

• X-Ray:

Can be used to find things and scan for weaknesses.

• Mind Reading:

It literally can makes thought bubbles visible.

• Polarity manipulation:

The Scythe can make anything magnetically attracted or repelling to any other thing.

• Amnesia:

Can temporarily or permanently erase someone's memories.

• Generates Light:

Scythe’s blade can be used as a flashlight

• Lasers:

It can fire several beams of supernatural energies at varying degrees of power.

• Mending Beam:

Can heal and corrects ailments such illness, broken bones and blindness.

• Stat Boosts:

Gave Billy superpowers. As the Green Squeaker, Billy flew to different galaxies in minutes and could destroy planets, this easily should scale to Grim Directly cause he also gets his powers from the Scythe and thereby can make his stats just as high.

• Future vision:

Allows short term visions of the future, specifically showing the fate of individuals in the area, good for minor precognition.

• Transmutation:

Can turn people and animals into monsters, animals, objects and food, it can also reverse this.

• Fusion:

Can fuse up to four creatures into one combo being.

• Sleeping Spells:

Cause foes to instantly fall asleep.

• Conjuring: 

Can conjure entire armies of evil spirits from the underworld to do his bidding. They can possess plants for bodies and are at least building level in capability.

• Morse Code function:

The blade of the Scythe can be used as a dial to contact allies via Morse Code.

• Electrokinesis:

Can fire lightning and electricity.

• Weather Control:

Can make large storms and tornados.

• Age Manipulation:

Finally, The Scythe can reverse or accelerate someone's aging process. This Scythe has got to be the scariest thing ever to be called Jody.

Trunk

Thought the Scythe was the only weapon Grim is bringing to the table? Well think again, Grim also has a large plethora of other powerful mystical objects which he keeps inside his magical cursed trunk.

The inside of the trunk is actually a separate dimension allowing for potentially infinite storage, additionally the Trunk levitates off the ground and can be teleported to Grim at will, making it easy to use mid battle.

The Trunk contains millions of evil dark objects, notable ones include:

• Genie’s Lamp:

Contains Grim’s mother, grants one wish per user, and Grim didn't use his. The wishes this lamp has are capable of stopping time and erasing every being in the Billy and Mandy verse from existence so watch out.

• Voodoo Dolls:

Quite simply anything you do to a voodoo doll will be physically felt by the person it imitates. All you need to make one work is something owned by the victim.

• Evil Powder:

A spice that produces an evil sent which resurrects all deceased matter on earth who will stop at nothing until they consume whatever it’s applied to.

• Crystal Ball:

This little number lets the user see into the long term future, easily thousands of years.

• Gypsy Hat:

Like a typical magician’s hat cept instead of rabbits, it produces Werewolves!

• Werefleas:

A magic insect that cures Werewolves it bites.

• Mojo Balls:

Balls of dark energy that cause anyone exposed to them to temporarily enter the “supernatural rage” and violently attack anyone in site.

• Hades Dog Whistle:

Summons Grim’s dog Cerberus, A giant 3-headed monster dog that launches down in an enormous comet.

This beast can easily destroy large buildings with its strength and breaths, spits and pisses fire!

• Underworld Fairy Tale book:

Traps the listeners in a fairy tale dimension where they can’t exit until they complete the story.

• Rubber Demon Duck:

Bath toy that gets bigger and scarier with every squeeze.

• Gauntlets of Torture:

Gloves that use Spacial Hax to remove a foes arms, make them float, and beat the hell out of the rest of the body.

• Mask of the Beast:

A cursed mask that slowly transmutates the wearer into a donkey-like monster from the underworld and cannot be removed unless the wearer acts Nice, Polite, Friendly and Happy.

In other words Imp would be fine but Show is screwed.

• Universal Remote:

Remote control that can pause, rewind, fast forward and otherwise mess with time without any real limitation, it works on universal scale.

• Dark Zipper:

A zipper which can be attached to objects, and uses spacial manipulation to zip anything apart and attach anything together. It can’t however be used to kill as somehow any living matter it divides continues living. It was able to attach Milkshakes’ head to Billy’s arm and Billy’s arm to Milkshakes’ body and all for things were still alive and moving.

• Hourglasses:

Grim has access to the hour glasses of every being in his verse that control everyone's life force. The way they work is each grain of sand represents a moment in a being's life, when it runs out they die no exceptions, even when manipulated to run out early. Also if you flip it upside down, it reverses their aging process till they disappear.

• Cthulhu's Phone:

Traps foe in the dark dimension and summons the universe busting monster, Cthulhu, who turns people into insane squid creatures with his appearance and voice.

• Psychic Megaphone:

Creates building busting sonic blasts.

• Medusa’s Head:

True to legend, transmutates any creature that gazes on it to stone.

• Pandora’s Box:

A Cursed box that upon being opened unleashes plagues on all of humanity, it evidently was what caused the Pompeii volcano to erupt.

• Skeleton Key:

A skeleton key is a key that can open any lock it’s applied to.

• Other Various Items:
• Sinister Dolls
  Monkey’s Paw
  Ritual Dagger
  Grave Dust
  Ouija Board
  Eye of Echidna 
  Devil’s Triangle
  Dark Crystal

• Bone Of Barnacles:

This sorta gross bone turns Grim into a 70 foot tall skeleton samurai kaiju!

This thing ain't just for show either, it was able to to battle and even defeat The Delightful Reaper

The Delightful Reaper is a star buster from defeating several characters on that level from across Cartoon Network, Including The Powerpuff Girls, Ed Edd n Eddy and Dexter.

• Horror’s Hand:

And Here we have the most powerful artifact in Grim’s trunk, Horror’s hand! Billions of years ago an immensely powerful being called Horror The Ancient siphoned all of his fears into his left hand and cut it off so he would always be brave and fearless. The backlash is that it turned said hand into the the living embodiment of fear itself. The hands primary power is to read one's mind and literally turn your greatest fear to reality. The horrors it shows are apparently so scary it can cause your brain to literally make you body explode from sheer terror! How messy. The hand possesses a mind of its own, and can apply transmutation teleportation, spatial manipulation and intangibility to itself, outside object and nightmares it generates to insure fears can't be defeated, only overcame.

Skills

Height: 6’6”

Weight: 77 lbs

Age: At Least 80 Million

Grim has been around for quite a long time, even longer when you consider that time he lived “10 Gazillion and 7” years while everything else was frozen in time, and through this he has developed a varied and numerous skillset.

Grim has had proficient military training, is a fantastic musician and is an expert level sword fighter. However despite his swordsmanship skills he still prefers Scythe’s in close quarters as he is simply more deadly and efficient using one, even non-magical scythes. Grim has also consistently shown himself proficient in Kung-Fu, during Mandy’s presidency he served as her designated mad scientist inventing weapons for the special ops squad, Underfist. Grim is also an expert spellcaster and a trained and licensed druid.

Feats

Speed:

• Hoss Delgato fired electricity from his taser through air at Grim and Grim managed to react and deflect it with his Scythe blade before it reached him. Electrical waves from machines move at the speed of electromagnetic waves or 285,000,000 meters/second. This means Grim can move and attack at Mach 274,869.22, or ⅓ the speed of light.

• Grim also speed scales to Nergal from fighting and landing hits on him. Nergal’s tentacles moved the distance of earth’s radius in 5 seconds. Earth's Radius is 6,371,000 meters. In 5 Seconds it's Mach 3,744.

• Last and most impressively Grim hijacked Mighty Moe’s Truck and flew it all the way to the sun, after bailing out of the truck at the last possible instant before they crashed, Grim flew from the sun to the earth in less than one second to see it crash from Endsville, a speed of over 499 time the speed of light

Durability:

• Grim has survived full on bloodlusted attacks from Nergal, who was powerful enough to blast a truck sized hole connecting the center of the earth to its surface, in just about 10 seconds.

Average Earth density is 5.51 grams per centimeter cubed, or 5,510 Kilograms per meter cubed, the volume is 20,000,000 and the velocity is 637,100, to make for a total of 2.23649e22 Joules, or about 5 Teratons of TNT, enough to blow up a country as big as Mexico. And this isn’t even counting the fact that later in the show Nergal legit throws a baseball so hard it destroys the sun, which also should scale to Grim considering Nergal is not implied to ever get more powerful, but I’m gonna leave it out for the sake of lowballing.

• Survived being erased from existence, twice
• Immune to Lava
• Can Survive in Space

• Tanked Town level explosion point blank
• Survived City busting explosion
• Tanked a country sized explosion
• Tanked Mountain Busting Blast

• Survived being Burned to Ash by a sea monsters ironic firebreath
• Can survive Toxic Waste and the heat of the magma at the center of the earth

Magic:

• Pulled the Moon down to Earth and used it to bowl over a city, comparing it to the Earth it is a properly sized Moon.
• Parted the Pacific Ocean like Moses did the Red Sea

Destructive Capability:

• Can fight evenly with Hoss Delgato, the guy in the above pic who levels entire city blocks with his punches
• Damaged tons of powerful characters like Nergal and Hoss with physical strikes
• Lifted a car
• Hit a Golf ball across the Atlantic Ocean
• Knocked Out Mindy in one hit (Thank God)

• Physically Nuked an entire town by getting too into playing a guitar solo, considering the whole town was vibrating several feet in the air before burning down, this is easily city level

Miscellaneous:

• Is the sole being to overcome a nightmare from Horror’s Hand, as he lives his greatest fear every day, being in the service of obnoxious kids
• Defeated the Abominable Snowman
• Indured being kept awake for a full week
• Defeated an Army of country-level alien werewolves

• First Underworld being to survive, let alone complete the Cannibal run boat course and he did it in a lifeboat without having any of his powers
• Nearly transformed the whole world to the underworld with evil kids meal toys

Advantages

• Skilled Fighter
• Excellent Spellcaster
• FTL (MFTL with stat Buff)
• Country - Star Level Durability - (Universe Level with force fields)
• City Level Strength - Planet Level (with stat Buff)
• Universal DC
• Universe Level Reality Warping
• Mid - High Regeneration
• Millions of years of experience
• Immune from being erased from existence
• Can control and move his separated body parts
• Immune to Soul manipulation
• Immune to aging
• Portal Creation
• Can manipulate all four elements plus lightning and the weather itself
• Possession
• Teleportation
• Flight
• Death Hax
• Fear Hax
• Can raise armies of monsters, ghosts and the undead
• Can animate objects and ideas
• Can Create Matter
• Fire Lasers
• Telekinesis
• Meta-Fictional Manipulation
• Planet Level Mind Hax
• Can nullify Regeneration
• Jody has a mind of its own
• Time Travel
• Time Stop
• Spatial Hax
• Polarity
• Fusion
• Transmutation
• Precognition
• Like tons more powers
• Best VP ever

Disadvantages

• The Scythe needs to be charged with supernatural energy every night, if it runs out even its basic functions don't work, while Grim isn’t helpless without it, if a foe could hold his own against Grim with the scythe so long it lost its power, Grim without the scythe is doomed.
• He is Gullible
• His Scythe has been Stolen over 30 times
• While he can take a lot of punishment if you can keep his bones separated he is BFR

Recommended Opponents:

Skulduggery Pleasant:

These two are at a glancing look on par in terms of stats and abilities and they do have a lot of stuff in common with both appearing hardcore but being light hearted on the inside not to mention they are both magic talking skeletons. They also do have more than enough differences to make it interesting, I believe he is Grims best potential opponent.

Next Time:

OH Yeah, IT’S ON!