Bongus

One of the few confirmed appearances of the Bongus.

**The Bongus** is a powerful and mysterious entity that has appeared in several Scrimmy Bingus games, acting as a counterpart to the Bingus.

While the true nature of the Bongus is unclear, its appearance has been described as that of an infant, typically with iconography or symbols relating to money or the respective game's equivalent. It is an entity of great power, showing the capacity of endowing its followers with powerful knowledge and being immune to the effects of time or other mortal concerns. However, the Bongus cannot (or chooses not to) act directly on the world, and thus must recruit individuals to carry out its will; the followers of the Bongus are called Bongi.

The Bongus acts as a canonical rival to the Bingus, with both sending their followers (mostly children) on quests. While the two entities have co-operated for the plots of certain games and the Brongi and Bongi generally share no ill-will against one-another (with many Brongi also being Bongi at different points in the series), the two groups have occasionally been forced into conflict by the clashing views of their deific patrons. These encounters have rarely been serious, often involving petty acts against the opposing party (stealing napkins, replacing salt in saltshakers with sugar and vice-versa, putting gum in people's hair); however, combat between Brongi and Bongi has occurred, such as in the climax of Scrimmy Bingus: The Price of a Soul. More often, the two groups co-operate in order to defeat greater evils and/or retrieve parts of the Bingus.

The Bongus' quests generally involve either carrying out charitable acts (managing small-town finances, revitalizing soup kitchens and food pantries) or stop entities/events that threaten the livelihoods of civilians, which has gone as far as freezing a hurricanenadicon in Scrimmy Bingus: Twists of Fate and killing an earthquake god in another game.*[Which game?]*

Unlike the Bingus, the Bongus has a well-defined personality as a wise-cracking yet soft-hearted stockbroker, who speaks of "managing futures" and often makes oblique references to banking in their dialogue. The Bongus also claims to love fast-food, and special endings to several titles can be obtained by retrieving Fried Twinkelies for it.

## Trivia

* The exact weight of the Bongus was given in the game manual to the Scrimmy Bingus title *All Bongi Go to Heaven.*
	+ This was a tie in game for the film *All Dogs go to Heaven,* despite releasing a decade and a half after the film's release and never being officially acknowledged by MGM studios or Don Bluth in any capacity.
	+ It is stated in the manual that the bongus is "worth its weight in 1-dollar bills," potentially implying that it is somehow made of them.
* Some have speculated that the Bongus' actions and desire to generate capital for those in need, along with the infrequent references to the Bongus' love for fried food (and fryers, homonym for Friars) could relate the Bongus to Catholic patron Saint Francis of Assisi. This is an unpopular position in the fan-base, and has led to frequent infighting amongst theorists in the community.
	+ ~~whoever actually beleves that is a total crackhead bornagain can we deleete this~~ lmao someones mad
* The Bingus has only ever directly commented about the Bongus once, saying that they have "No respect for those that wear - or pretend to wear - starched diapers." The Bongus has also taken several comedic jabs at the Bingus throughout the series.