Girlfriend (Friday Night Funkin') (2024)

'Girlfriend, alternatively referred to as the Girlfriend and also shortened to as GF, is the deuteragonist of Friday Night Funkin. She is Boyfriend's partner and the daughter of Daddy Dearest and Mommy Mearest. She is frequently seen sitting on top of speakers, bopping her head to the tempo of the music, cheering Boyfriend on and keeping track of combos. While not considered an antagonist, she is the first opponent faced by Boyfriend, teaching the player how to play the game with her only track, Tutorial.

Appearance[]

Girlfriend is a young, chibi-styled light-skinned woman with long, thick auburn hair. Two short locks of hair stick out from her head, one much thinner and smaller than the other, and the shine on her hair resembles a skull. She wears a sleeveless red mini-dress and matching high heels. Her fingernails are painted red, as shown in her singing animations, where she points with both hands in the direction of the arrow note being hit. She is normally on a set of three speakers, sitting on the large middle one with her legs crossed.

During Week 4, her hair gets blown as a result of being on top of a moving car.

During Week 5, she wears a similar sleeveless red mini-dress with a fluffy white collar, red gloves with white cuffs, white thigh-high stockings with small red bows, and yellow bell earrings. The speakers she sits on are wrapped in festive Christmas lights.

During Week 6, her regular appearance is rendered in a pixel art style.

During Ugh and Guns, she has her hands up as she is held at gunpoint by two Tankmen crouching on the two smaller speakers that lay beside the large speaker she sits on. During Stress, she is held up from her waist by Boyfriend.

In the Ludum Dare prototype, she sits on a dark blue-magenta winners' podium resembling stairs.

Personality[]

Girlfriend is portrayed as a young, mysterious woman. With a love for cherry soda and her boyfriend, she appears to be tranquil in almost any situation, even in the face of death. Being a demon, she possesses a great deal of power but chooses to hide it. She is always seen with Boyfriend at her side, courtesy of true love as she genuinely loves him very much.

Like Boyfriend, Girlfriend has been confirmed to not be the sharpest tool in the shed, to the point where her faith in her Boyfriend is practically blind faith. Her lack of intelligence can result in her getting into difficult situations, such as getting her hand stuck in peanut butter jugs and having to wait for hours for someone to help get it out, although she can use her magic to free herself. However, she is still capable of making smart decisions and knows what to do when dealing with taxes and facing death. Girlfriend has been described as being mean "in her own special way."

Girlfriend also likes to do immoral things, appearing to not care about the consequences of her actions as long as she gets what she wants. Thanks to her mother's limousine, she can hold up McDonald's drive-through slots as she and her Boyfriend hold the store hostage to get whatever food they want.

Relationships[]

Daddy Dearest[]

Daddy Dearest, the father of Girlfriend, likely has good intentions with his daughter, but he is highly overprotective of her. He will not let her date whom she wants and even tries to kill her boyfriend after he beats the father in a singing battle, which occurs after he stops the couple from having sex. He does not seem to care about how killing Boyfriend will affect his daughter, in those terms, Girlfriend thinks that her father is a rude overprotective bitch and doesn't want to be around him a lot. He will go into long lectures.

Mommy Mearest[]

Mommy Mearest is Girlfriend's mother. Like with Daddy Dearest, she is presumably well-intentioned with Girlfriend, but she also won't let her and her Boyfriend date and is very overprotective. Mommy Mearest seems to be just as willing to try to kill Boyfriend as her husband is, not caring about the consequences that murdering him will have on Girlfriend. However, she does hand down clothes and iPhones to her daughter, showing that she cares about giving Girlfriend nice things. Girlfriend is willing to steal from her mother, as she and Boyfriend engage in the theft of Mommy Mearest's limousine in order to hold up the entire drive-through slot at McDonald's.

Boyfriend[]

Boyfriend is Girlfriend's partner. The two love each other very much and are never apart. Boyfriend is determined to do whatever he can to stay with Girlfriend and protect her, including by singing off against her parents and others. Their closeness is shown when Boyfriend happily catches Girlfriend and receives a hug from her during the cut scene for Stress thanks to true love.

Pico[]

Not much is known about how well Pico and Girlfriend are acquainted with each other. It is possible that Pico does not like or care about Girlfriend very much, as he readily kicks her off her speakers in unused frames of the animation where Pico leaps in from the sky in the cut scene for Stress. It is implied that Pico is jealous that Girlfriend is dating his ex-boyfriend, Boyfriend.

Henchmen[]

In artwork found in the art booklet that comes with the CD of Friday Night Funkin' - The Official Soundtrack Vol. 1, Henchmen can be seen purchasing alcohol and snacks for Girlfriend.

Skid and Pump[]

Skid and Pump are tricked into believing that Girlfriend is made of candy by Monster, who tasks the children with getting Girlfriend for him so that he can eat her. The spooky kids challenge Boyfriend to a rap battle for her, but they just want to play and don't really follow through with the task given to them. Girlfriend doesn't seem concerned as Skid and Pump sing with Boyfriend, happily spectating the battle.

Monster[]

Monster wants to eat Girlfriend, and he sings in gruesome detail about how he plans to do this. However, even with Monster's constant threats, Girlfriend does not seem to be afraid of him during his songs.

Senpai[]

Senpai quickly falls in love with Girlfriend after meeting her, believing her to be a "new fair maiden" who came "in search of true love." This makes sense as Senpai aims to win the player's heart, and the dating sim is Girlfriend's. He challenges Boyfriend to a singing battle to determine who can be with her. When he loses, he gets angry but is still determined to win Girlfriend over, threatening to castrate Boyfriend after getting freaky with Girlfriend.

Spirit[]

Spirit knew Girlfriend when she was a young child, as he has been trapped in her dating sim game for 14 years and recognizes her after escaping Senpai's body. He doesn't seem to be happy to see her, likely due at least in part to her being the daughter of the person who trapped him in the game. Because of his apparent distorted sense of justice, Spirit believes that it is fair to take Boyfriend and Girlfriend's bodies for himself in order to escape the game. He fails to do this, however, with Girlfriend and Boyfriend simply leaving Spirit behind in the game after her man beats the specter.

Tankman[]

When Girlfriend and Boyfriend end up in the Restricted Military Zone, Tankman has his soldiers hold Girlfriend at gunpoint. However, Tankman and his men are bored, so they do not immediately kill her. Tankman is very rude to Girlfriend, insulting her on her appearance and being vulgar toward her and Boyfriend. When he orders his men to kill the couple after he loses twice, Girlfriend happily reveals her demon powers, showing her preparedness to fight back if necessary and that she isn't afraid of the Tankmen.

Trivia[]

• Girlfriend is the first character to not have a "danger" icon, the others being Daddy Dearest, Boyfriend in Week 6, Senpai and Spirit.
  • However, the reason why she doesn't have one is most likely because she's not really in danger of losing during Tutorial since she's only teaching the player how to play the game.
• Girlfriend is the first opponent to not use a microphone, the second being Monster and the third being Spirit.
• Girlfriend is the first opponent to lack any tuned vocals, the second being Pico.
• Girlfriend is tied with Boyfriend and Spirit for having the least tracks out of any character in Friday Night Funkin', having one each.
• If Boyfriend fails to hit a note during a +5-note combo, an animation of Girlfriend crying will briefly play. However, this won't occur in Week 4 and Week 6 as there are no versions of this animation for those weeks.
• Girlfriend is afraid of thunder and lightning, as she will briefly react fearfully whenever they occur along with Boyfriend in an animation in Week 2.
• Girlfriend has several unused voice clips that were going to be used for dialogue purposes but have been scrapped alongside the dialogue.
• An unused animation of Girlfriend resembling her sprite from the Game Over screen for Stress is present in the Flash file for her being held by Boyfriend in Week 7. Titled "girlfriend inards," the sprite's exact purpose is unknown, although it may have been intended for the unfinished beginning cut scene for Week 6.
• Whenever Newgrounds is down for maintenance, an image of Girlfriend pouring beer on the Newgrounds servers appears between the "Newgrounds Is Down / Please Stand By" message. The art for Girlfriend was made by Arzonaut.
• In early stages of development, Girlfriend was meant to cross and swap her legs during her idle animation. During the one frame when both legs were separated, there would've been darkness and sparkles in her dress. This idea was scrapped in favor of her just bopping her head to the music, which was easier to animate. Time constraints were another issue.
• In the Week 7 update, Girlfriend's unused cheering animation was added to the Tutorial.
• On the 22^nd of May, 2022, JohnnyUtah uploaded a piece of artwork depicting a much more muscular and seemingly older Boyfriend next to a surprised Girlfriend. PhantomArcade has confirmed that he will find a way to officially implement it into Friday Night Funkin'.
  • Comments made when the image was uploaded to Twitter revealed that the muscular Boyfriend is from an alternate timeline where he was forced to kill Girlfriend for unknown reasons, and that the Girlfriend in the image is a blow-up doll dressed to look like her that he's kept as a companion since the incident.
• In December 2020, ninjamuffin99 stated that his favorite Friday Night Funkin' character was Girlfriend. However, in August 2022, he would instead state that his favorite character is Senpai.