Who was the most grim character in Grim Fandango?
Well, As much as I would love to say Manny is the Grimiest of the grim. Due to his character development and how he has a different view on death itself as well as a lot of things in the game. So it can’t be him. I would have to say Membrillo is the Grim of Grim Fandango. A close second would go to Bowlsley.
Membrillo is a Forensic Botanist. He studies the murdered bodies of the souls who have been sprouted in the Land of the Dead. Becoming sprouted is death for the dead. Once sprouted there is no coming back, your soul lost forever.
This man’s job was to dig through the flower beds that where once souls that lived in the Land of the Dead. Even if the soul is covered in flowers, it’s never from a natural cause. Sprouted souls are murdered souls. And it was Membrillo’s job, not to find out who had murdered the souls that where laying in front of him. No, it was to identify the body. He would have to search through the flowerbed with horrible equipment and his bare hands. This is basically he’s digging his hands inside someones corpse. His twisted sense of humor was possibly the only thing that kept this guy from going mad. A message he gave to Manny, that had stuck to me as a weeeee child was this one.
"We may have years, we may have hours, but sooner or later, we push up flowers."
The least I could say is that this guy made the child me thing about a lot of things.