Banjo-Kazooie/Characters

Banjo the Bear


The hero of the games, Banjo is a gullible, lazy being who, unless forced to go on an adventure, is usually just laying around Spiral Mountain, sleeping, eating, or playing video games.


 * Adventure Duo: With Kazooie, obviously.
 * Awesome Backpack: His trademark blue backpack, used to carry Kazooie.
 * Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other: Despite their griping, when he and Kazooie are separated in Tooie and go in radically different directions, the left-behind character will tell the other to come back for them. Also, in Grunty's Revenge, when Kazooie picks up the Distress Ball, and Banjo reunites with her, the two are happy to see each other again!
 * Beary Funny
 * Blue Eyes
 * Dumb Is Good
 * Early-Bird Cameo: Banjo's first appearance was actually in Diddy Kong Racing (although Kazooie does not appear in game, she is mentioned in the manual).
 * Everything's Worse with Bears: Averted, unless you're on Gruntilda's side.
 * Funetik Aksent: Has an exaggerated southern voice, judging from his sole line of dialogue in Diddy Kong Racing. His normal in-game grunts are more falsetto-esque.
 * Genius Ditz: Possibly. He manages to win at Gruntilda's trivia games in both Kazooie and Tooie.
 * Nice Guy
 * Only Sane Bear

Kazooie the Breegull


Banjo's snarky, mean-spirited sidekick. Most of the time, she resides in Banjo's backpack, although Tooie finally allows her to trek outside of it.


 * Abnormal Ammo: Eggs, which she can fire out of her rear, or...her mouth... Toon Physics?
 * Adventure Duo: With Banjo, of course.
 * Anti-Hero: Type II.
 * Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other: See Banjo
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Distress Ball: Picks this up at the beginning of Grunty's Revenge. Justified due to the fact that Gruntilda was using time travel.
 * Fourth Wall Observer
 * Green Eyes
 * Green Eyed Red Head
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * Non Action Girl: She usually spends her time inside Banjo's backpack unless her abilities are called upon.
 * Action Girl: Banjo can only do four things without Kazooie's help: punch, jump, run and roll. In Tooie the punch is replaced by Kazooie's beak attacks and she even helps with the rolling. She also runs faster than Banjo and extends his jumps.
 * Tsundere: Speaking to a lost baby alien in Tooie reveals her soft side.
 * Not really... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKD9p3MNxGM
 * Actually, Kazooie is an interesting THIRD type of Tsundere: she manages to be both caustic and sentimental at the same time, always.

Mumbo Jumbo the Shaman


The former mentor of Gruntilda the Witch until he turned his back on her, prompting her to magically trap Mumbo's face inside of a wooden mask. In the first game, he helps out Banjo and Kazooie by providing transformation spells in exchange for Mumbo Tokens. In Tooie, he takes a more active role, allowing you to play as him and use spells in certain locations. In Nuts and Bolts, he's taken up a job as a garage mechanic.


 * Body Horror: Grunty's spell on his face, which apparently never wore off after she was beaten. In Nuts and Bolts, it's gotten to the point where it's even become his actual face—and he can even pull out his eyes and juggle them!
 * Blue Eyes
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Heel Face Turn: Was a mentor to Grunty until she turned his face into a skull.
 * You No Take Candle: Talks like this.

Bottles the Short-Sighted Mole


The mentor of Banjo and Kazooie in the first game. Throughout the game, he pops up via molehills, providing new abilities to help them beat Gruntilda. In the opening of the second game, he is killed by Gruntilda when she destroys Banjo's house, prompting Banjo to get revenge on Grunty—although he is revived in the end of the game. He has a minor role in Nuts and Bolts.


 * Adorkable
 * Back From the Dead
 * Butt Monkey
 * Dude in Distress: Part of the main objective of Banjo-Tooie is to bring him back to life.
 * Dropped a Bridge on Him: In the opening of Tooie.
 * Expy: His brother, Jamjars, fills in for him after his death in Tooie.
 * Killed Off for Real: At the beginning of Banjo-Tooie. Played for Laughs. He comes back at the end of the game.
 * Mr. Exposition
 * Nerd Glasses

Humba Wumba



 * Ambiguously Human
 * Art Evolution: Is much shorter and slimmer in "Nuts and Bolts".
 * Distaff Counterpart: To Mumbo Jumbo.
 * Magical Native American
 * Ms. Fanservice
 * Race Lift
 * Sitcom Arch Nemesis: Mumbo's.
 * You No Take Candle: Talks like this.

Gruntilda Winkybunion


The villain of the series.


 * Ambiguously Human
 * Badass Boast: Grunty manages to make ones that rhyme!
 * Big Bad
 * Dem Bones: In Tooie.
 * Efficient Displacement: She leaves a Gruntilda-shaped impact after falling from the sky, moments before a falling boulder lands on her to seal her in.
 * Evil Laugh: And a very impressive cackle it is.
 * Expy: Of The Wicked Witch of the West.
 * Although most likely coincidental, it should be noted that her new form in Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts bears several similarities to Dr. Weil from the Mega Man Zero series.
 * Hot Witch: On the first game's "Game Over" sequence. Even Mumbo thinks so.
 * Large and In Charge
 * Nice Hat
 * OrcusonHerThrone: Played straight in Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie, but averted in Grunty's Revenge and Nuts & Bolts.
 * Rhymes on a Dime: In the first game, all of her dialogue consists of rhymes. Her sisters force her to stop it in "Tooie", although she goes right back to it in "Nuts and Bolts".
 * Robot Me: Posseses one in the midquel Grunty's Revenge to escape where she was trapped. When it's destroyed she goes back below the rock to wait until her sisters can get her out.
 * Scarf of Asskicking
 * Spanner in the Works: Implied in the Stinger for Banjo Kazooie Nuts And Bolts, where she mentioned that being sent to work at the video game factory due to losing the deed for Spiral Mountain was a big mistake, as now she has the resources to create her own game.
 * Vain Sorceress
 * We Will Meet Again: "I'll be back in Banjo-[Sequel Name]!"
 * Wicked Witch

Tooty


Banjo's younger sibling, who was kidnapped by Gruntilda the Witch in the first game due to her being "the fairest in the land", so that Grunty could swap her ugliness for Tooty's beauty. Aside from a milk carton cameo in Tooie, she has not made any appearances outside of the first game.


 * Came Back Wrong: In the alternate ending of the first game, where she is turned into a large, hideous monster after having her beauty sucked out and Grunty's ugliness put into her.
 * Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Enough to even get a lampshade from Rare, explaining that her reason for not appearing in "Nuts and Bolts" was because she was hauled off by the "Rubbish Video Game Characters Police".
 * Her absence was also lampshaded in Tooie where her face is seen on a milk carton.
 * Damsel in Distress
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Satellite Character: Really dosen't have much personality—she's really just there to give Banjo a reason to go on his adventure.

Klungo


The Egor-esque right hand monster of Grunty in the first game. He had a minor role in the first game, but was presented as a loyal, competent sidekick to Grunty. This gets thrown right out the window in Tooie, making him a minor boss character who gets physically worse and worse as you meet him in the game, due to his beatings from Grunty. Afterwards, he left to become a video game designer.


 * Ascended Extra
 * Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: When he uses his growth potion.
 * Heel Face Turn: After getting one beating too many from Grunty, getting beaten one last time by Banjo, as well as by suggestion of the latter, Klungo finally leaves Grunty's side.
 * Genius Ditz
 * Iron Butt Monkey: To Gruntilda in the second game.
 * Mad Scientist
 * Recurring Boss
 * Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After his final battle with Banjo.
 * Snake Talk: A non-snake example.
 * Stylistic Suck: The So Bad It's Good mini-game staring him, Hero Klungo Saves teh World!
 * Super Serum: Used in his boss encounters.

L.O.G. (Lord Of Games)


The driving force of "Nuts and Bolts", but is neither a villain nor a good guy.


 * Reality Warper: controls everything, but only in video games. Thankfully, he's in a video game the entire time.
 * Shout-Out: His "face" consists of a game of Pong.