'Granny' Ruth is a reoccurring character in The Sam & Max Franchise. Ruth is the grandmother of Sam.
Description
Ruth was first mentioned in the comics, solely via Sam's recollections of her favorite sayings, which he tended to preface with "As my grandmother use to say...". Her first appearance in person was in the animated series episode Christmas Bloody Christmas, where she brings Sam and Max to Blood Island for a holiday adventure, where they stopped a jailbreak orchestrated by Herzog and his goons, and also met Santa Claus.
On the outside, Ruth resembles a stereotypical grandmother. For the most part she does have a warm and caring personality, but she also has a world of law enforcement and combat experience. She served as a highly respected prison warden on Blood Island's penitentiary, earning herself the name "The Iron Maiden". Though she was loved by most of the prisoners, she did have a few enemies: Herzog and his gang. It is suspected that her husband (and Sam's grandfather) is Leo, who was mentioned in The Final Episode.
Ruth also served in the Marines during the Cold War and was stationed somewhere in Korea.
Original Maxims and Sayings
- "Crime is an invitation to the crypt."
- "A letter is a gift you give to your mailbox."
- "A glutton for punishment always gets his fill."
- "A leopard doesn't change its shorts." (A modification of the well-known saying "A leopard cannot change its spots".)
- "Idle hands get caught in busy machinery." (A modification of the saying "An Idle Mind is The Devil's Playground/Playhouse.")
- "The idle mind is the devil's monkey bars." (A modification of the saying "An Idle Mind is The Devil's Playground/Playhouse.")
Trivia
- It's speculated that she's the daughter of Sam's great-grandfather, Sameth.
- Sam apparently holds her in high regard, because he speaks of her more often than the rest of his family.
- According to the segment 'Die? Hardly' in The Final Episode, she gave Sam a bazooka as a gift which he treasures. Considering that a lot of these segments are pre-series timeline events, it is possibly the origin of Sam & Max's Bazookas in The Thing that Wouldn't Stop It.
- It is unknown how Max got his hands on a 2nd bazooka.
- She has a penchant of creating sayings depending on the situation, in a similar to Sam, and sharing her knowledge. Sam seems to have received these traits from her.
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