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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.

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.


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.

Humba Wumba

 


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.

L.O.G. (Lord Of Games)

 

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

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