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The American animated television series Grim & Evil was created by Maxwell Atoms for Cartoon Network. It consists of two segments which were eventually spun off into their own series: The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Evil Con Carne.[1][2]
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy follows two children: a dimwitted yet well-meaning boy named Billy (voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz) and a brilliant yet sinister girl named Mandy (voiced by Grey DeLisle). After winning a limbo game to save Billy's pet hamster, the two gain The Grim Reaper (voiced by Greg Eagles) as their best friend for eternity and come across many supernatural or otherworldly characters and locations throughout the series.
Its sister show, Evil Con Carne, follows the brain of a playboy who wants to rule the world with his general, Skarr, and his lover, Major Doctor Ghastly. Since Hector Con Carne is attached to a bear named Boskov, Hector wants to find the rest of his body parts and take over the world.
Billy | |
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First appearance | "Meet the Reaper" |
Last appearance | Underfist: Halloween Bash |
Voiced by | Richard Steven Horvitz |
In-universe information | |
Full name | William |
Nickname | Billy |
Gender | Male |
Occupation | Student at Endsville Elementary School |
Family | Gladys (mother), Harold (father), Aunt Sis (aunt), Nergal (uncle), Nergal Jr. (cousin), Jeff the Spider (adopted son), Mandy (future wife) |
Nationality | American |
William "Billy" is a 9-year-old human boy who strangely has a low IQ of -5, a sign of intellectual disability, having been outperformed by a shovel and two candy bracelets on an IQ test, though he acts like a smart-aleck. He has a big, pink nose and beady, black eyes inherited from his father, Harold, and red hair inherited from his mother, Gladys. His main affiliations are Grim and Mandy. Mandy is Billy's best friend, though she treats him more like a servant than a friend. It has been hinted several times that Billy may have underlying feelings for Mandy that even he (in his stupidity) may not fully realize. Billy is far kinder to Grim than Mandy is, and while he almost always goes against the Saton's advice and uses him as a plaything, he appears to genuinely like him and often tells Grim that he's his "best friend".
Due to Billy's foolish desires, which he orders Grim to bring about, he is often the cause of Grim and Mandy's mishaps. Although good-natured and well-behaved, he has occasional fits of stubbornness and rage, which shows insanity that even Mandy seems to fear. Billy is the most innocent character of the three, yet he ends up causing the most problems due to his irrational and often impulsive choice of actions. He has a wide curiosity which gets him into situations he often can't get himself out of without Grim and Mandy coming to his rescue. Billy is also scared of spiders, which is quite unfortunate because a huge Spider named Jeff believes that Billy is his "father". His greatest fears were combined by Horror's Hand into a monstrous clown-spider-mailman hybrid in the Big Boogey Adventure movie.
In Underfist, the origin of his fear of spiders is shown through in a flashback. A yellow marshmallow bunny named Bun-Bun used to sneak into Billy's room when he was a baby and tormented him with real spiders. This is explained by Bun-Bun during the flashback so as to torment Jeffery about his problems with his dad.
Billy's family is Harold (his father), Gladys (his mother), Nergal (his uncle), Aunt Sis (his aunt), Nergal Jr. (his cousin), and his grandmother, who lives in the Netherworld (for reasons unknown). He is also good friends with Lana and, occasionally, with Jollien, however his best friends are Mandy and Irwin. During the end credits of Billy & Mandy Save Christmas, Billy mentions that his family celebrates Hanukkah ("that way we gets more presents"). However, from the way Billy says it implies that they celebrate it as an excuse to get more presents suggesting that they may not actually be Jewish.
After the intro, Billy is shown in front of a black screen, usually speaking to the viewers in a funny way.
In 2021, Maxwell Atoms, who has Asperger syndrome himself, confirmed that Billy is autistic and likened him to "the fun and joyous inner-world where [Atoms likes] to spend [his] time" in contrast to Mandy.[3]
Mandy | |
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First appearance | "Meet the Reaper" |
Last appearance | Underfist: Halloween Bash |
Voiced by | Grey DeLisle |
In-universe information | |
Full name | Amanda |
Nickname | Mandy |
Gender | Female |
Occupation | Student at Endsville Elementary President of the United States |
Relatives | Phil (father), Claire (mother), Billy (future husband), Gladys (future mother-in-law), Harold (future father-in-law), Aunt Sis (future aunt-in-law), Nergal (future uncle-in-law), Nergal Jr. (future cousin-in-law), Jeff the Spider (future adopted son) |
Nationality | American |
Amanda "Mandy" is a 9-year-old human girl with a sinister, manipulative nature despite her appearance. She lives with her father, Phil, and mother, Claire. Mandy is thoroughly emotionless; however, has sometimes been touched in a few scenarios, such as at one point when Billy was thought to be dead and Mandy's reaction appeared quite nervous and partially mournful. She also possesses a strong lust for power as revealed in an episode providing insight to the future of the town of Endsville, in which Mandy has enslaved all of its citizens and evolved herself into a large, anthropomorphic being resembling a giant caterpillar (a reference to the Dune series), and Grim's abilities have helped her gain access to satisfaction of her desires. Oddly though, she keeps Billy as her companion and makes clones of him whenever he is killed accidentally due to his stupidity. Mandy has been known to domineer everybody around her without fear, and the few things that she likes include junk food, television, and all things dark and melancholy. She also does not appear to have a visible nose, which has been pointed out a few times throughout the series.
Throughout the series, Mandy rarely smiles, and her facial expression remains perpetually disgruntled. Mandy smiling is shown to be the end of the world; in the episode "My Fair Mandy", after entering a local beauty contest against the queen bee of her classroom, it was revealed that all of reality would be humorously, psychedelically distorted, resulting in the series swapping premises with that of The Powerpuff Girls, another Cartoon Network animated series. Despite this, Mandy is seen to crack an evil sneer at the end of a few episodes, such as when she becomes the only person left on Earth, and after winning the contest which gave her a servant in Grim. Mandy mostly never smiles, because Maxwell Atoms' parents used to call him "the Little Russian Boy who Never Smiles", which only encouraged him to smile even less. Despite this, Mandy has smiled in some episodes, such as "Meet the Reaper", "Opposite Day", "Look Alive!", "A Dumb Wish", "Something Stupid This Way Comes", "Tickle Me Mandy" (via title card), "Crushed", "Mandy the Merciless", "Five-O-Clock Shadows" (though it was only her shadow self), "My Peeps", "Test of Time", "Scythe for Sale", (almost), "Billy & Mandy Begins", "My Fair Mandy", "Billy & Mandy Save Christmas", "Heartburn", and the TV movie Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure, where she (even barely) does crack a smile.
Mandy also despises Billy's best friend Irwin, who is strongly infatuated with her, and it was revealed in the Big Boogey Adventure that one of her worst nightmares would be to grow into an obese, kind woman marrying a handsome version of Irwin. Her other deepest fear was shown in the episode Heartburn where she feared losing her true heart after hearing Irwin's sad story about how he was originally born to be a really bad boy, but then experienced a change of heart after his father showed him how to love and respect other people. This caused her to seriously doubt if she could withstand a change of heart and at the thought of just losing it, caused her to scream really loudly out loud. She is also scared of an extremely angry Billy and will run from him when need be. Billy says that she never smiles in her life, which is false. In Underfist: Halloween Bash, after the Underworld invades Earth, Mandy seizes power as the new President of the United States, with Grim and Billy serving as her weapons experts, the trio rewarding Underfist for saving the world.
In 2021, Maxwell Atoms, who has Asperger syndrome himself, confirmed that Mandy is autistic and likened her to "the cold, rational way [he] learned to view the world in order to survive" in contrast to Billy.[3]
The Grim Reaper | |
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First appearance | "Meet the Reaper" |
Last appearance | Underfist: Halloween Bash |
Voiced by | Greg Eagles |
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Full name | Evergrimskull Death |
Nickname | Grim, Grimey, Grimuel, Mr. Grim, Mr. Reaper, Bonehead, Loser, Bag of Bones, G-Man, Grimmy (when younger) |
Species | Skeleton, psychopomp |
Gender | Male |
Title | The Grim Reaper The Master of Life and Death |
Occupation | The Reaper of Souls |
Relatives | Miriam (mother), Earl (father), Kali (great aunt), Granny Grim (grandmother) |
Nationality | Jamaican |
Evergrimskull "Grim" Death a.k.a. The Grim Reaper is the personification of death appearing as a skeleton wearing a black, hooded cloak and armed with a scythe, who serves as a psychopomp between the realms of the living and the deceased. Grim was born around 137,000 years ago at the time of the Stone Age and speaks with a Jamaican accent. The continuity of how Grim gained his status and immense supernatural powers comes up quite a few times, and it is unconfirmed which origin story is true (for example, in The Wrath of the Spider Queen movie, he was elected to his position as the Grim Reaper back while he was in middle school; however, in A Grim Prophecy, it is shown that he was the Grim Reaper since his childhood with his parents forcing him to be the Reaper, which is further contradicted in a later episode where he is seen stumbling over his scythe to become the Grim Reaper). His long scythe is the source of nearly all his supernatural abilities, and possesses many magical capabilities and qualities; although he is still capable of using some incredibly powerful magic spells without it, these instances are quite rare.
By losing a limbo contest to Billy and Mandy after they cheated, Grim is fated to be their "best friend" forever. Unfortunately for the Reaper, the contract legally binds him to them, such that (as revealed in the episode "Hurter Monkey") if he were to ever break his friendship with them prematurely, he would be forced to spend eternity in Underworld Jail (something he doesn't relish the idea of, as he doesn't know what kind of inmates lurk there) as a result of violating his contract. Despite this however, he has often tried various ways to get out of this servitude (in the Big Boogey Adventure, Boogey notes this as "invalidating a legal and binding contract"). Though Billy is friendly towards him, Mandy treats him dominantly, and this angers and irritates him to the point where he constantly fantasizes about killing both of them. However, there have been instances that show that he does indeed care for them. He is often forced to do their chores and create supernatural fun for them. Grim is slowly adapting to modern life and is usually seen in his free time watching television (mainly horror movies or soap operas). His adaptation to daily life also leads him to neglect his duties as a Master of the Underworld and, eventually, not even care about who uses his enormously powerful scythe, seeing as how it is constantly stolen. He also has a bottomless trunk, where all types of dark magical and mystical objects are found; Billy usually abuses them, creating extensive damage, chaos, ruin, death, and destruction.
His love-and-hate relationship with Billy and Mandy seems to vary from each other. He seems to be more annoyed with Billy than Mandy, due to his idiocy and stupidity. Although Billy abuses Grim's magical and supernatural powers as much as Mandy, Billy treats Grim with much more fairness, generosity, and kindness, resulting in Grim actually caring and liking Billy. In Mandy's case, although they both share the same cold-hearted cynical and misanthropic view of humanity and apathy for the welfare of Billy and other characters, Grim tends to dislike her more than Billy due to her abusive, cruel and disrespectful actions towards him. Like most other characters, Grim greatly is afraid of Mandy, but is able to openly rebel against her when she becomes too obnoxious and abusive.
Grim owns the giant three-headed dog Cerberus but has no control over it whatsoever and is terrified of it. Mandy seems to be the only person capable of taming and commanding it effectively. He is immune to the effects of Horror's Hand as he already lives his greatest fear everyday living with Billy and Mandy, but he stated he turned it off upon obtaining it, so there may be something he fears more.
While it is shown that Grim does care for his scythe, he often makes the mistake of letting Billy (and in rare instances Mandy and Irwin) use it, or loses it in other ways. In "Billy and Mandy's Jacked-Up Halloween", Grim let Billy use his scythe as an accessory for his costume, only to have it stolen by Jack O'Lantern, who as it turns out is an old enemy of Grim's. Another element to the show is how characters from Grim's past often show up and often take revenge on him for what he had done to them over the centuries or millennia.
In 2021, Maxwell Atoms, who has Asperger syndrome himself, confirmed that Grim is autistic and likened him to "the moral mediator" between the aspects of Atoms represented by Billy and Mandy.[3]
Irwin Dracula | |
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First appearance | "Get Out of My Head!" |
Last appearance | Underfist: Halloween Bash |
Voiced by | Vanessa Marshall |
In-universe information | |
Species | Dhampir-Mummy (Human-Vampire-Mummy hybrid) |
Gender | Male |
Occupation | Student at Endsville Elementary |
Relatives |
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Nationality | American |
Irwin, later Irwin Dracula, is a pudgy, nerdy, African-American boy and a close friend of Billy's. He says the word "yo" regularly. Unlike Mandy and Billy, who show no signs of fear for the frightening, supernatural and magical beings and settings around them when using Grim's magic to venture into the underworld (Mandy because of her fearless yet sinister personality and Billy because of his ignorance and stupidity), Irwin has displayed more signs of cowardice in such situations and seems to be more easily terrified than his friends when he accompanies them on such trips (such as in Big Boogey Adventure and Keeper of the Reaper). In one episode, it was revealed that Irwin's mother is a mummy (as is his maternal grandfather) and that his paternal grandfather is the bloodthirsty Dracula, who is married to Irwin's saucy paternal grandmother Tanya.
Because of being related to such peculiar monsters, Irwin has been shown to possess superpowers which he displayed basically just in a single episode. In Underfist, when using his newly discovered powers Bun-Bun and Mindy remark in a very impressed way that Irwin's supernatural abilities and dark powers are truly amazing. He is also famous for his deep romantic infatuation with Mandy, in spite of her hatred of him. His deepest fear is shown in Big Boogey Adventure: telling jokes to wild bears.
In rare instances Irwin is shown to have an evil, darker and power-hungry side to his personality. In the episode called Halls of Time, it is mentioned by Irwin that he has an older brother named Melvin who picks on him so much that when they get a hold of Melvin's hourglass, Irwin destroys it while laughing in an evil manner. In another episode after Irwin's mummy grandpa shows up to commission a pyramid for his grandson, Irwin first agrees to it because of impressing Mandy, but later gives in to it after developing a very strong taste for power. He then shows his more sinister side when enslaving all of the people of Endsville and zombifying them. In another episode, Irwin uses Grim's scythe to make Mandy into his love-slave and he even mentions that he knows that is wrong, but he quickly disregards this fact. He then really enjoys his power over Mandy's mind and when Grim and Billy try to take back the scythe, Irwin doesn't give up without a good fight. This very rare darker side of his personality was finally explained in the series' last episode called Heartburn. In it, Mandy discovers everyone's true heart through the use of Grim's special camera, but is greatly shocked when she discovers that one side of Irwin's heart looks like hers in a very creepy way. Irwin explains that he was born evil, but had a change of heart when his father showed him the meaning of respect, friendship, and love.
General Skarr | |
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First appearance | "Evil Con Carne" |
Last appearance | Underfist: Halloween Bash |
Voiced by | Armin Shimerman |
In-universe information | |
Full name | Reginald Peter Skarr |
Gender | Male |
Title | General Skarr Emperor Skarr |
Occupation | General of Evil Con Carne General of Underfist |
Nationality | British |
General Reginald Peter Skarr, or simply General Skarr, first appeared in the show Evil Con Carne, where he was Hector Con Carne's paramilitary commander. He heavily despised Hector's rule and wants to become ruler himself in many attempts. One such attempt was seen in the segment Day of the Dreadbot where he takes control of Hector's robotic army and makes a robot version of himself to follow him at all costs. However, Skarrbot betrayed him to Skarr's joy. His design is based on Fearless Leader.
After "Evil Con Carne" was canceled, Skarr became a recurring character in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy as a neighbor who wants to go his own ways. He is usually a cold-hearted, hateful, and harsh man, with big interests in power and world domination. He speaks in a British accent, and is blind in his left eye, and has a scar beneath it, giving Billy the assumption that he is a pirate. Retired from villainy, due to Evil Con Carne being bought out by a big entertainment corporation (who didn't want any competition for their attempts at world domination), he moves into Billy and Mandy's neighborhood and is constantly struggling with the temptation to return to his evil ways, his debut episodes serving as a parody of Apt Pupil. He attempts to distract himself and channel his hunger for power, usually by gardening. Whilst he is no longer a member of Evil Con Carne, Skarr has many weapons and mementos from his past which he stores in his private study. Among these are his military outfit and a large picture of himself with Hector and Ghastly. In Underfist: Halloween Bash, he has grown facial hair.
Hoss Delgado (voiced by Diedrich Bader) is a 33-year-old spectral exterminator; a hunter of paranormal creatures. He possesses one real hand and a mechanical one, the latter of which can seemingly produce any tool he desires, most commonly a metal fist or a chainsaw-launching crossbow. He is the take-no-prisoner figure from the show, though in most episodes he acts in a clumsy and/or goofy manner. For a while he dated Eris, and their relationship was very dysfunctional. Hoss is known to make incredibly odd and usually completely irrelevant metaphors, often when talking to someone who is either cowardly or stupid. Similarly, he uses exclamatory phrases which are different, but recognizable from their original form. In his first appearances he distrusts Grim, but this dissipates as the series progresses. He resembles Kurt Russell's character Snake Plissken from Escape from New York and his chainsaw hand is inspired by Ash Williams from the Evil Dead series. His name is a parody of Jose Delgado, also known as Gangbuster in the DC Comics continuity. He is madly head-over-heels in love with Eris.
Lord Pain (voiced by Henry Gibson) is the ruler of a realm known as the Plane of Eternal Suffering. His head is covered by a spiked helmet, obscuring his eyes; and he wields a large mace and shield. He swears eternal and single-minded loyalty to his chosen master, tattooing their image on his body along with anything else he feels particularly passionate about. He first appears in "House of Pain", declaring himself to be Grim's servant, and attempts to kill the kids to free Grim, but ends up taking Mandy as his new master instead. In "Everything Breaks", he brings Billy with him to the Plane of Eternal Suffering on Mandy's orders to help cure him of his destructive habits. According to Wrath of the Spider Queen, he formerly attended Junior High alongside many of the other characters.
Cerberus is Grim's pet demon dog from the Underworld (Voiced by Jess Harnell, Greg Eagles and Danny Mann), with two heads of a doberman and one of a poodle. He however has no control of him whatsoever, which often terrifies him. But as Billy and Mandy love their pets, Grim loves him.
Mr. Snuggles is Billy's elderly pet hamster (voiced by Richard Horvitz) who is seven years old ("like a jillion in hamster years", Billy claims). He is the exact reason why Grim became Billy and Mandy's friend. He appeared in the pilot, "Meet the Reaper". In one episode of the series, Mr. Snuggles saved Milkshakes, but Milkshakes eats him anyway. Near the end of that same episode, Mr. Snuggles escapes by breaking Milkshakes' teeth, followed immediately by a fourth wall break courtesy of Billy saying, "What? You didn't think we'd let Mr. Snuggles get eaten, did you?" Mr. Snuggles has brown fur and black spots on his back.
Jack O'Lantern (voiced by Wayne Knight in the series; Maurice LaMarche in the video game) is the main antagonist of "Billy & Mandy's Jacked Up Halloween". A prankster from the medieval era, the people of Endsville grew tired of his pranks and framed him for a crime, for which he was executed. When Grim came to reap his soul, he managed to steal Grim's scythe, demanding immortality in exchange for it. Grim was forced to agree, but decapitated Jack in retribution as he hated being tricked, forcing him to replace it with a pumpkin and leading to his ostracization by society, only being able to come out during Halloween night where he can blend in perfectly. Since then, Jack and Grim held a powerful grudge towards each other. In the present, Jack tricks Billy into giving him Grim's scythe, which he uses to bring pumpkins to life in an attempt to take over Endsville and get revenge on Grim. He is ultimately defeated by accident by Irwin before Grim banishes him to the Underworld.
Thromnambular is a talking skull who is imprisoned on Earth and must grant nine wishes in order to be free, hence the number nine on his forehead; however, his wishes come with terrible consequences. He debuts in "Wishbones" where Billy and Mandy find him in Grim's robe due to him forgetting that he was inside while it was in the washing machine. After Billy makes his wish, Thromnambular is found by various people that he grants wishes for until Grim uses his last wish that results in Billy and Mandy never finding Thromnambular in the first place, erasing the events of the episode from existence and crushing Thromnambular's chance of freedom. Grim later tries to use him to free them both, but this ends up having them switch places instead.
Wiggly Jiggly Jed is a humanoid dog that Grim created for Billy. Although they are best friends, their relationship breaks when Billy wouldn't let Jed sleep in his bed and tells him to sleep outside in a doghouse. Craving for a bed, Jed uses the powers of Grim's trunk to build a giant machine to capture the beds of all people, also planning to make a fortune with them. To stop him, Billy throws Jed a dish of primordial ooze that he got from Grim, dissolving his body and leaving behind his cap, which Billy takes.
Trykie is a tricycle possessed by a malevolent force that appears in "Tricycle of Terror." Billy got it from a mysterious boy from a supernatural porta-potty, who warns him to always love it. It is capable of repairing damages to itself. The haunted bike attacks Irwin, Pud'n, and Sperg after they antagonize it and Billy. Once Mandy and Grim learned of Trykie's evil nature, they knew it had to be destroyed, but Billy finds this hard to believe until seeing it attack Grim. Realizing that Trykie is indeed evil, Billy reluctantly allows Mandy to destroy it, who does so by repeatedly slamming the garage door on it to the point where it is unable to repair itself.
Hector Con Carne was a billionaire Mexican playboy who wanted to dominate the world. One day, he decided to hire a mad scientist. He hired a nurse who is actually a bomb made by Cod Commando to blow up his mansion and body. Only his brain and stomach lived. Hector was surprised that he was reduced to two organs. He stayed as a brain for seven years since the explosion. Hector is very irritable towards his failed attempts to rule the world.[5] In "The Smell of Vengeance", Hector is afraid of germs since they can kill him as a brain. Hector lives inside a jar filled with antiseptic.[6]
Major Dr. Ghastly | |
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First appearance | "Evil Con Carne" |
Last appearance | "Company Halt" |
Voiced by | Grey DeLisle |
In-universe information | |
Alias | Major Doctor |
Gender | Female |
Occupation | Mad scientist |
Relatives | Destructicus Con Carne (future son) |
Nationality | American |
Major Doctor Andedonia J. Ghastly is the lover and mad scientist of Evil Con Carne. She used to be the second assistant to Professor Death Ray Eyes and decided to apply for Hector Con Carne. She instantly fell in love with Hector for seven years. Ghastly is the most optimistic of the crew since she would rather let her love towards Hector bloom instead of helping Hector achieve his goal of world domination.
Boskov | |
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First appearance | "Evil Con Carne" |
Last appearance | "Beware of the Undertoad" |
Voiced by | Jesse Corti (2000) Frank Welker (2001–04, 2007) |
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Alias | Good-For-Nothing Waste Of Fat |
Species | Bear |
Gender | Male |
Occupation | Circus bear |
Boskov is a Russian circus bear who was owned by Vlad, the ringmaster of a Russian circus. He was picked by Major Doctor Ghastly to carry both Hector Con Carne's brain and stomach. Even though Hector's brain controls most of Boskov, he wants to eat honey and resist Hector's commands. Boskov usually gets picked on by Hector. Boskov's design is inspired by Yogi Bear in the first three seasons, and by season four, had a Stimpy-esque redesign.
Stomach | |
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First appearance | "Evil Con Carne" |
Last appearance | "Beware of the Undertoad" |
Voiced by | Armin Shimerman |
In-universe information | |
Alias | Hector's Stomach, Tummy |
Gender | Male |
Nationality | Mexican |
Stomach is the stomach of Hector Con Carne. He is very gassy and only talks when food is discussed. In the segment "Gutless", Stomach was sick and Hector left him behind so he can invade Buckingham Palace. The invasion did not work since Hector decided to help Stomach instead.[7]
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