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Billy & Mandy Destroy Us All (A Cosmic Horror Musical).
Billy & Mandy Destroy Us All (A Cosmic Horror Musical)[1] was the planned third and last movie based in the Grim & Evil franchise.
Story[]
After his departure from Cartoon Network in 2008, Maxwell Atoms always assumed he had said all it has to be said with Billy & Mandy and wanted to move onto new things, but also that those characters were always pieces of his life, and have been present to him through the decade.
In June 2021, Atoms mentioned in an interview that he was working on a possible Billy & Mandy finale movie. He later clarified on Tumblr that this was a personal project and not a Cartoon Network commission, so he warned people to not get too excited. Still, the following August he confirmed that he had presented the project to the network.
Sadly, Atoms confirmed in the following September that Cartoon Network rejected the project, summarizing the network's decision as "kids do not know who Billy & Mandy are because CN doesn’t rerun the show". This embittered many fans. After that, he mentioned the possibility of sharing in the future some of the songs that he wrote for the film. Since then, there have been petitions to convince Cartoon Network to change their minds.
Billy & Mandy Destroy Us All (A Cosmic Horror Musical) would tell a story that Atoms referred as "very important to him". While he didn't go into details, he mentioned that it would be a horror musical about "inter-dimensional horrors, Asperger’s Syndrome, acceptance, and Exploding Penguins." He also mentioned that he would answer certain questions that he has received from fans throughout the decade, tie up loose ends that were left at the end of the show, and several other shocking surprises. He also mentioned the appearance of a secondary guest character that he "never got the chance to use in a big special."
In a concept art, he shared through Tumblr after revealing Cartoon Network's refusal, he showed the main trio with certain redesigns, the most notable being the fact that Mandy is shown as an adult.
Trivia[]
- The movie's title makes reference to the recurrent Billy's catchphrase «Destroy us all!» from Attack of the Clowns
- The movie would have been the first televised story of the franchise since the 2008 movie Underfist: Halloween Bash, and the first story overall since the 2009 comic Time Waits for No Mandy (not counting appearances in other media like crossovers).
- In the revealed picture, Mandy is shown as an adult, but without glasses. In almost every future version of her, Mandy has always been shown wearing glasses with the only exceptions being the Mandy the Merciless episode and the Future Tense comic, though she suffered modifications on her body in both stories.
- This is the third movie in the Grim & Evil franchise to be cancelled after Underfist versus the Dinosaurs and Underfist Against the Astrovampires.