Count Groxia is a minor character in Smiling Friends. He makes his first and only appearance in the episode "Gwimbly: Definitive Remastered Enhanced Extended Edition DX 4K (Anniversary Director’s Cut)."
Background[]
Count Groxia was once the main villain of the popular Gwimbly video game series during the 3D platformer craze. In the current day, he's retired from that position and now lives a quiet life with his family, free of adventure.
Personality[]
During his time as a game villain, he likely assumed a generic evil personality much like Bowser, King K. Rool, or Gruntilda. Nowadays, his "real" persona can be described as that of an honest, hardworking family man who prefers to avoid trouble, work an office job, and spend time with his family. Despite Gwimbly being his nemesis, he doesn't hold any hatred for him and seemed to like the idea of starring in another game with him. However, due to his work and family commitments, he doesn't have time to help him out. Also, he may have been lying about thinking the idea was cool, as he later seemed apprehensive about letting Gwimbly crash at his house, and he quickly dismissed Gwimbly, Pim and Allan after his wife expressed concern. Although he could’ve simply didn’t want or couldn’t handle the ordeal of Gwimbly staying at his place.
Appearance[]
Groxia during his time as a Gwimbly boss
Groxia is an overweight 3D character with a filter on him like Gwimbly. He has purple skin, two big tusks on his lower mouth and big red eyes with black vertical pupils. He also seems to be particularly tall, with him being a few heads taller than Allan.
During his time as an game character Groxia didn't seem to wear any clothes whatsoever apart from a cape, though nowadays he usually wears a work uniform consisting of a white shirt, a green/yellow striped tie, and brown khaki pants, as well as a pair of round glasses.
Trivia[]
- Like the other 3D characters in the episode, he was designed and motion captured by the YouTuber Hoolopee.
- Groxia's appearance could be based on Barney the Dinosaur, due to the similar purple and green color scheme. Though this is unconfirmed.