Grace Grey

Unnamed Mother

Hayley Grey (older sister)

Sydney Staffordshire (step-mother)

Carl Mitchell (boyfriend)

*"I like it when you say that!"* - Boo's Big Date

**Grace Grey** is a high-school student and a major character in *Carl*. She lives in Toad Town with her father Felix Grey and attends Toad Town High with her friends Roxanne Smith, Kylie Allenby and Talia Richards, though the last one was pulled out of the school by her father during the fifth season of the series. She acted as the Love Interest of Carl Mitchell during the first two seasons of the series, with both having feelings for each other but neither being able to confess, and eventually started a relationship with him in the third season. Grace is a friendly, polite, innocent and energetic teenage girl, though she also tends to act ditzy and a bit childish sometimes. In spite of this, Grace is also shown to be more than capable of protecting herself if harassed.

## History

### Backstory

Grace was born on July of 2003 to Felix Grey and his wife, being their second child. Grace mentions that her mother abandoned their family to join a feminist cult when she was a child, so she was raised by her father Felix. It's also mentioned that Grace has never been fond of the women her father dates, accusing them of only being with him for his money and worried that they might try to emotionally hurt him, though Felix's dialogue in "Parents Evening" suggests that this may not have always been the case with all of his dates and that Grace might have been a bit clingy towards him growing up. Grace also owns a pet Blitty named Cheese, which she has had since she was eight years old.

Grace mentions having been friends with Talia for a long time, and in the remastered version of "The First Date", Roxanne mentions that she met her and Kylie at Roxanne's thirteenth birthday party, with Kylie mentioning that Grace broke her foot on the party's bouncy castle while trying to do a trick.

### Season 1

Grace first started attending Toad Town High on April 9th, 2017, as shown in the episode "The First Day". In the original 2017 episode, she first met Carl when he was being harassed by Gooper and his gang of bullies and steps in to defend him, and later on backs him up in class so he avoids getting detention from Ms. Bishop for being late for class. In the remastered 2022 episode however, Carl meets Grace while trying to retrieve his bookbag from Gooper, and she sympathizes with him instead of laughing at him as he had expected. Additionally, this time Grace is the one who shows up late for class as a result of being unable to find the classroom on time. By the end of the episode, Carl and his friends befriend Grace and her friends, though only Talia shows up as Grace's friend in the Classic episode, as Roxanne wouldn't be introduced until the following episode and Kylie was just a background character, which is all fixed in the Remastered 2022 episode.

The rest of Season 1 shows Carl trying to get to know Grace better, and doing things such as offering to take care of her pet in the third episode of the season (originally a Pidgey named Steve in the classic episode, *Pidgey Problems*, which was phased out in favor of a Blitty named Cheese in the remastered episode, *Pet Peeves*), joining a go-kart race in "The Great Race" to impress her, rescuing her from a bully in "The Halloween Party", or getting her a new Hotplay album in "A Christmas Carl", but failing to do so and ending up in Hospital in the process. Grace hears about Carl's efforts from Boo however and appreciates his gesture anyway.

### Season 2

Season 2 of Carl continues to show Carl and Grace deepening their bond with one another. The first episode of the season "Carl's New Car", has Carl offering to pick up Grace from piano lessons. Carl however ends up taking a bit long to pick her up, but Grace does not want to stand him up. She however is forced to leave by her father's current girlfriend (erroneously referred to as "Mrs. Grey" in the Classic 2018 episode), to which she is seen visibly upset about. In "Carl's New Rival", Grace meets Sebastian Harrington, who shows an interest in her and constantly gets in Carl's way of getting to know Grace better, as well as trying to steal away his friends from him. With the help of Roxanne however, Carl exposes Sebastian as a fraud and liar, causing Grace to be disappointed and angry at him

"The School Dance" duology is a major turning-point for Grace and Carl's relationship. The two of them are paired up for a Science project and enjoy their time together. Carl wants to take on the opportunity to ask Grace out to the titular School Dance, but gets scared and calls it off at the last minute. Bob and Liam also mock Carl for even thinking about asking Grace out, saying that she is interested in Gooper instead, sending Carl into depression. The next episode however has Grace complaining to her friends that she was eager for Carl to ask her out to the dance, but that he never did. Her friends ask her why she cares about it so much and Grace quickly goes quiet, leaving them to figure out that she has a crush on Carl, and they tell her that she could have simply just asked him out to the dance instead of waiting for him to make a move. The afternoon before the dance, Grace is on her way to Carl's house to ask him to be her date, but is kidnapped by Gooper, who forces her to be his date for the dance. While on the dance, Grace does her best to escape Gooper, which includes trying to embarrass him in front of others. Gooper however doesn't take kindly to this and takes Grace to an empty classroom, where he threatens her and is apparently ready to hit her. At that moment however, Carl, having being convinced by his step-brother Logan to leave his room and told by Kylie that Grace likes him and not Gooper and that Liam and Bob lied to him, shows up and fights Gooper. Gooper briefly knocks out Carl, but Grace distracts him by kicking him in the crotch, which gives Carl the opportunity to lunge at Gooper and knock him out for good. Grace thanks Carl for saving her and kisses him on the cheek, after which they proceed to share their first kiss, officially becoming a couple.

### Season 3

By the start of Season 3, Carl and Grace have been together all summer and are very close to one another. In "The New Principal", they start attending school as a couple for the first time, but the new Principal, Sydney Staffordshire, doesn't allow them to hold hands or make contact while on school grounds, in addition of imputing more strict rules that ruin the High-school experience of them and many other more students. Staffordshire eventually eases up on them after a leaking pipe is discovered by Blooper and Roxanne, though not without Grace, Carl, Boo and Dry Bones almost being expelled by Staffordshire thanks to a slip of the tongue from Grace. "Mr. Mitchell vs. Mr. Grey" has Grace and Carl introducing their fathers to one another, though Calvin is quick to lose his patience with Felix, which upsets Grace. Calvin later apologizes to Felix, making Grace feel better. "Carl's House Party" has Carl (at the suggestion of Dry Bones) throw a party at his house to impress Grace while his parents and sisters are away, but Grace invites most of the school to the party. Grace learns from Blooper that Carl didn't want to throw the party, but that he didn't want to disappoint her, which Grace finds sweet of him. The following morning, Grace helps Carl, Dry Bones, Boo, Blooper, Logan and Kylie clean up the house before Carl's parents and sisters get back from vacation. Finally in "The Election", Grace supports Carl when he tries to run for president of Staffordshire's new Scholar's Choice program.

In "Summer of '19", Grace and Carl, alongside their friends, go on Summer vacation to Huckit Hotel in Ocean Side. Here, they meet Leonard "Leon" Slater, who takes an interest in Grace. Grace tells Carl that he has nothing to worry about, but when Leon tells Carl that he intends to hook up with Grace and steal her away from him, Carl hits him with a barstool in anger, causing Grace to be disappointed in Carl. In Part 2, Leon continues to flirt with Grace and tries to convince her to come to his hotel room so he can seduce her into dumping Carl for him. Leon grows more and more frustrated as Grace repeatedly refuses to come to his hotel room, so he ends up losing his patience and tries to make her come by force in front of her friends, which in turn causes Grace to kick him in the face in self-defense. Carl later apologizes to Grace for being clingy, whereas Grace tells him that she forgives him.

### Season 4

Starting with the fourth season of *Carl,* Grace and Carl are still together and are shown to be even closer. This season in particular has Grace and Carl help out other characters while still remaining crucial to the plots of most episodes. In "Grounded" Carl and his siblings get grounded by Calvin, causing Carl to be unable to attend Tucker's party and Carl didn't want to tell Grace out of fear that she would think less of him. When Grace finds out however, she tells Carl that she didn't care about him being grounded and was more upset about the fact that he felt the need to lie about it. In "2020", Grace and her friends go to various bars and await the arrival of the new decade. Grace then runs into Gooper physically assaulting Carl at The Royal Dragon, so she hits him in the head from behind with a barstool and saves Carl, and later they alongside their friends enjoy the arrival of the 2020s.

The episode "Parents Evening" is an important event in Grace's life. At the beginning, Grace is worried about what Staffordshire may tell her father, but when she takes a peek into Staffordshire's office, she discovers her father kissing the principal, which shifts her concern from her grades to her father's well-being as well as Staffordshire potentially being her step-mother. Grace, with the help of Carl, later comes to realize that Staffordshire genuinely appreciates Felix and that they are happy together. In addition, Felix, says that Staffordshire is actually rather proud of Grace for her grades and good behaviour.

Other episodes such as "The New Girl" or "Civil War" explore Grace's relationship with other characters and show her and Carl's dynamic as a couple, with the former showing her and Carl giving Boo advice to impress Emily and the latter has her expressing concern for Talia's decision to leave Toad Town with Chad Brolin.

### Season 5

In Season 5 of *Carl*, Grace and Carl are still together in a relationship, and similar to Season 4, the two of them help many of the other supporting characters, mainly Roxanne and Blooper. The first episode of the season "The Thanksgiving Dinner", Grace invites Talia over to the Mitchell's Thanksgiving Dinner, which she was scheduled to attend alongside her father and Staffordshire, after learning of Talia's parents' divorce, believing that it might be affecting Talia. When Talia arrives at The Thanksgiving Dinner, she tells Grace that she and Dry Bones have secretly been going out again. While Grace was at first initially concerned, she becomes more accepting of their relationship and agrees to keep their secret relationship a secret. She later shows concern that Linda might be overworking herself due to the unexpected increase in the amount of guests. In "Logan's New Place", Grace is invited to a party at Logan and Kenny's new apartment. She shows concern for Logan when Gooper and his gang vandalize the place and intimidate the other guests, and even more so when Liam punches Carl for defending Blooper. "Toad Town Puckers" has Grace and her friends, alongside Emily, watch the Ice Hockey Tournament hosted by the school, in which Carl and the boys participate in, showing her support for Carl. She and her friends also express concern for Roxanne when they notice her sitting next to Gooper for the final match.

Following the previous' episode's events, "Boo's Big Date" has Grace express concern for Roxanne yet again when she learns Roxanne has broken up with Tucker and gone back to Gooper, even going as far as to tell Roxanne to not hesitate to call for her help if Gooper does anything to her. In the same episode, Grace shows her anger at Emily for thinking she is annoying, evening going as far as to tell Kylie to break up with her before she calmed down and took back what she said. Later on, she agrees to accompany Carl to Boo's date with Mary-Lynn to make sure that Mary-Lynn doesn't do anything to Boo. By the end of the episode, Grace and Carl are happy that Boo stood up to Mary-Lynn and didn't let himself be bossed around by her. The next episode, "Looking Back" has Grace take a minor role while Linda tells her about her experiences in high-school in the year 1991, just as Calvin was doing with Carl. Grace enjoyed listening to Linda's story and asks her what happened to the guy she kissed, and Linda responds with her telling Grace that she doesn't know, not knowing that it was a younger Calvin who she kissed.

In "Revenge of the Simp", Leon moves to Toad Town High, Grace and Carl are shown to be wary of him at first, but start letting down her guard after being convinced that he had turned over a new leaf. However, this was soon revealed to be a facade, as Leon was still determined to seduce Grace into breaking up with Carl for him and forcefully kissed her, but Grace was grossed out by this. After being exposed as a liar and a simp in front of everyone, as well as been told by Grace that she would choose Carl over him any day, Leon goes ballistic and tries to kill Carl with a replica sword, but soon meets his end and dies in a freak accident, being beheaded by one of his own surfboards, much to the shock of Grace and others. In the same episode, Grace is shown feeling sad after Talia is pulled out of Toad Town High by her father after he caught her drinking wine in his house's basement with Dry Bones.

"The Christmas Captive" has Grace worried about Roxanne, as she is being missing for a month. Thanks to Logan, she and the other boys and girls later learn that she was kidnapped by The Gutts, and so Carl and the boys, with the help of Gooper, Liam and Flaig, decide to rescue her while the girls cover their absence from the school's Christmas party. By the end of the episode, Roxanne is rescued, much to Grace's relief. The following episode, "The Valentine's Bowl", has Grace and Carl host a Bowling night for couples in the Bowling Alley, with the pairs being Dry Bones and Kylie following the latter having had a break-up with Emily before in the day, Roxanne and Gooper, Blooper and a girl named Shelby, and Boo and his mother. Throughout the game, Shelby and Gooper both leave, leaving Roxanne and Blooper to become a pair of their own.

The two part-episode, "Bad Roxanne" Grace is very worried about Roxanne's sudden change in appearance and personality, a concern that only increases when Roxanne begins disrespecting faculty members and earning multiple detentions for it, even going as far as to try to damage Staffordshire's car with a baseball bat, and blowing her and the other girls' plans off in favour of Mary-Lynn's sisters, Amy-Lynn and Sherri-Lynn. Grace is ultimately left broken-hearted when she tries to ask Roxanne about her drastic change, but gets insulted by Gooper and his gang, who tell her that Roxanne doesn't want to be her friend while Roxanne finds herself unable to stand up for Grace, which leads to a fight with Kylie at the end of part 1. Part 2 starts with the boys talking about the events of last episode with Grace and Kylie, with the latter and Roxanne having gotten a two-week suspension following their fight. Grace says she feels guilty over the girls' suspension, though Carl tries to assure her she did nothing wrong. Later on, following Carl's advice and in an attempt to prevent Gooper from brutally beating up Blooper, Roxanne confesses to her secret in front of the whole school and apologizes to everyone for her actions. In particular, she tells Grace that she is one of the sweetest girls she has ever met and that she should never have turned her back on her for Mary-Lynn's sisters. Some time after, Grace forgives Roxanne for everything that has happened and gives her a hug, undoing all the damage caused by Gooper.

## Appearance

Grace is a thin, female Koopa, with long, dark brown hair, and yellow skin. She has green eyes, and wears a pink headband around her head, as well as pink lipstick, a pink, scaled shell and small, pink high heels. She's seen as an attractive girl by most characters, most notably by Carl.

## Personality

Grace is shown to be a very positive, kind-hearted and well mannered girl. She is almost always kind and friendly towards people, and has an innocent nature to herself, rarely groaning or showing disinterest in things while others, including her friends do. She however, is shown to always make the best of a bad situation, best shown in *The Motorhome Trip*, where she got everybody to swim in the lake after Dry Bones had lied about going to the beach. She often tries to stand up to Gooper and his gang, as she hates bullies and people who go out of their way to make others miserable. She however, doesn’t get into fights very often and dislikes to get into violence, but she occasionally does a few times such as in *Carl’s Rival,* she puts Sebastian Harrington into his shell then kicks him and crashes. She also gives Leon a injury as she kicked his tooth of then throws him across the whole bar in *Summer (2/2),* hitting Gooper Jordans with a barstool in *2020,* and get a school fight with Mary-Lynn Hatchins in *Civil War (2/2),* after she accidentally knocks her during lunch.

Despite her loyalty towards her friends, Grace is shown to let them down or holding them up various times as she wasn’t good at keeping secrets for them as shown in *Summer (1/2),* she told Gooper’s gang that she is no goody two shoes by saying she caught Roxanne smoking and didn’t tell her parents, but she didn’t recognize Roxanne’s brother Liam was standing right in front of her. Or in *The Thanksgiving Dinner,* Talia once mentioned to her that she blurted out in front of her father, that she had a tattoo on her.

## Relationship with other Characters

Grace is very well liked among the characters due to her positive attitude and kindness. She seems to be somewhat popular at school, and looks to be friends with everyone.

### Carl

In Seasons 1 and 2, Grace was Carl's love interest and a classmate of his in homeroom, and while Grace seemed to be unaware of Carl's crush on her, she still saw him as a great friend to her. The two often got along and have friendly conversations with each other. As of The School Dance, after Carl rescued Grace from Gooper, who was coming on too strong, Carl and Grace have been in a relationship. Their relationship is mostly very positive, and the two often help each other overcome their issues, such as Carl helping Grace get over Felix dating Staffordshire in *Parents Evening*. The only issue is Carl becomes insecure when Grace hangs out with other guys, such as in *Summer of 19*, where Carl became jealous of Leon. In later episodes, Grace often makes Carl watch movies and shows she is interested in with her. Carl, however, is not, and Grace is sometimes upset if he expresses his disinterest or sleeps through the whole thing.

### Blooper, Dry Bones and Boo

Grace is on good terms with Blooper, Dry Bones and Boo. She called out Blooper in *Too Much Water* when Blooper had a bitter attitude towards Roxanne, and stated in *The Great Race* that she finds Dry Bones to be a show-off, but aside from those incidents she gets on well with the group.

### Talia

Talia is Grace's best friend and was the first of Grace's friends to appear in the series. She and Grace are shown to hang out together the most and the two seem to like and trust each other. Grace often sticks up for Talia, and her positive attitude seems to help with Talia's insecurities and her worried nature.

### Roxanne

Roxanne is another of Grace's close friends, and two seem to also be very close. They commonly hang out with each other and Grace sticks up for Roxanne when she feels she needs to, such as in the previously mentioned *Too Much Water*.

### Kylie

Kylie is another of Grace's close friends, and the two seem to be close, as like Roxanne and Talia they commonly hang out and talk with each other. Grace does however often shut Kylie up when she feels Kylie is being rude or impolite to people.

### Mrs. Mitchell

Mrs. Mitchell and Grace have been shown to get along relatively well. Mrs. Mitchell was shown to see Grace as a nice girl since *Pidgey Problems*, but their friendship was mainly formed in *Carl's New Teacher*, where she serves as somewhat of a mother figure to Grace and her friends.

### Mr. Grey

Felix Grey is Grace's father, raising her by himself after Grace's mother left to join a feminist cult, as mentioned in *Carl's New Teacher*. Felix is shown to care deeply for Grace, and the two get on very well, as both seem to share an oblivious, care-free nature.

## Trivia

* In *Carl's New Car*, a character named "Mrs. Grey" briefly appeared. This was initially assumed to be Grace's mother, however due to Grace revealing her mother left in *Carl's New Teacher* as mentioned earlier, meaning either this was not kept in mind in the later episode, or that this character was not in fact her mother, but someone else, potentially a stepmother.

## Gallery

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