Gruntilda Winkybunion

During the battle, Gruntilda Winkybunion mounts her broomstick for most of the fight, swooping down during the first phase to hit the player. However, Gruntilda’s broom slows down after a few passes, leaving her open to Kazooie’s Rat-a-tat Rap or being hit with Eggs. Four consecutive hits are required to advance to the next stage, which can be accomplished by quickly attacking with Eggs. After each successful attack, Gruntilda responds with a fireball that is easily avoidable. As the fight progresses, she casts a homing spell, but players can evade it by performing Kazooie’s Wonderwing or a well-timed Beak Buster. After taking enough damage, she hovers in place and throws fireballs. If players attempt to evade them, she displays her intelligence by throwing them into the player’s path. Gruntilda takes a short pause after throwing four fireballs, which shortens each time she moves from one part of the tower to the next, leaving her vulnerable to three Blue Eggs. This process is repeated four times, after which the wicked witch employs another homing spell that players can dodge by using Kazooie’s Wonderwing. To avoid her high-altitude evasion tactics, Bottles provides a Flight Pad for players to use. Throughout the final phase, she attacks Banjo and Kazooie with fireballs after every hit. When Gruntilda creates a barrier that makes her completely invulnerable, the Jinjos intervene by creating four statues around the area. Shooting three eggs into the statues releases Jinjos that can break through Gruntilda’s barrier. During this time, Gruntilda continues to assault the players with fireballs that pass through the statues. After all Jinjos have been launched, her broomstick shatters, leaving her vulnerable. She then erects a barrier, which is breached by firing five Blue Eggs into each side of the giant Jinjo Statue located in the center of the tower, summoning the Mighty Jinjonator. In the last phase Gruntilda’s ferocity is most evident as she attacks with consecutive fireballs followed by a homing ability. The Mighty Jinjonator is summoned once all holes are filled with Blue Eggs, allowing it to knock the witch off the tower. Before succumbing, she makes a final attempt to harm the player, but the spell of the wicked witch misses. She falls off the tower and is trapped beneath a huge falling rock, marking her first defeat in the franchise. At the end, Banjo and his friends celebrate with a vacation, while Klungo spends the next two years attempting to free her from beneath the heavy boulder.

In Banjo-Tooie, the game’s storyline takes place two years after Gruntilda Winkybunion’s defeat and Klungo, her former henchman, is still struggling to move the enormous rock that Gruntilda is trapped under. The wicked witch’s two sisters, Mingella and Blobbelda, come to his aid with their giant digging machine, the Hag One. Using a magic spell, the sisters levitate the rock, causing it to vanish and Gruntilda to emerge from the rubble with a skeletal body due to being trapped for so long. Gruntilda Winkybunion then requests another body from her two sisters, and they set off to fulfill her request. However, the group’s reunion is cut short as Mumbo Jumbo, a shaman who witnessed the events, is caught spying on them. Gruntilda chases after Mumbo Jumbo until she arrives at Banjo’s House, where she stops to charge up a powerful spell. The pink shaman warns Banjo, Kazooie, and Bottles to evacuate. However, Bottles assumes that they are playing a trick on him and stays, resulting in his death and the destruction of Banjo’s House. The witches leave Spiral Mountain, leaving behind some minions to continue their destruction. The trio then heads to Cauldron Keep, where Gruntilda’s sisters present the B.O.B. machine, designed to suck the life out of anything in its beam. The machine’s energy is intended to restore Gruntilda Winkybunion’s physical appearance. Grunty gives it a try and tests the machine on King Jingaling, a character who had previously given a Jiggy to Banjo and Kazooie, and then plans to use it on the entire Isle O’ Hags. However, her sisters inform her that the machine needs more energy to perform such a task. Gruntilda Winkybunion is confident that the protagonists can not reach her because King Jingaling and Bottles are dead. From this point onwards, she stops rhyming as her sisters find it annoying, and she stays in Cauldron Keep, talking to Banjo and Kazooie, whenever they enter a mini-game. Banjo and Kazooie eventually reach Cauldron Keep before B.O.B. recharges, so she tries to stop them through various means and traps, such as the Tower of Tragedy, a game show where the losers have a 1-ton weight dropped on them. However, the protagonists outsmart her winning the game and causing her sisters to be crushed by the weight. Gruntilda, still unwilling to accept defeat considers their victory as invalid due to faulty scoring equipment. Undeterred, she takes Kazooie’s advice and makes a hasty retreat to the top of Cauldron Keep, where she awaits a final showdown with the protagonists. Gruntilda Winkybunion unleashes several attacks from the Hag One, including poisonous gas, huge missiles, and lasers. However, Kazooie manages to destroy it by shooting one of her Clockwork Eggs into the machine’s engine chamber, causing it to stop working. After that, Grunty charges up a powerful spell that she accidentally drops after getting hit by Kazooie’s Egg. As a result, the wicked witch explodes along with her Hag One, and is left with only her head, which Banjo, Kazooie, Humba Wumba, and Jamjars use as a football in their Kick Around game, whereupon Gruntilda promises revenge on them in the sequel game.