Greebo

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Characters from *Terry Pratchett's Discworld* series**

Character details
Full name:	Greebo
Description:	A ball of pure fury in cat shape
Associations:	Nanny Ogg
Location:	Lancre
Story appearances
First seen:	Wyrd Sisters
Also in:	Witches Abroad Lords and Ladies Maskerade Carpe Jugulum
Other details
Notes:	Seen by Nanny Ogg (only) as a sweet, harmless kitten

This article refers to the Discworld character. For the UK subculture term the character is named after, see Grebo

Greebo is a character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld books. He is a foul-tempered one-eyed tomcat whose owner, Nanny Ogg, insists against all the evidence that he is a sweet, harmless kitten. In the course of the books, he has killed two vampires, eating at least one of them. In Lords and Ladies, Greebo's overall attitude is best described in a reference to Schrödinger's cat:

Greebo had spent an irritating two minutes in that box. Technically, a cat locked in a box may be alive or it may be dead. You never know until you look. In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.

Shawn dived sideways as Greebo went off like a Claymore mine.

"Don't worry about him," said Magrat dreamily, as the elf flailed at the maddened cat. "He's just a big softy."

In Witches Abroad he was transformed, for reasons that seemed to be a good idea at the time, into a human. He was confused by the differences between human and cat morphology and social relationships, but picked some aspects up quickly. In this incarnation, the character is reminiscent of Red Dwarf's Cat.

In human form, Greebo looks like a 'beautiful, brainless bully' who has raided a leather goods store for the discerning pirate, and appears ready to unbuckle any amount of swash, radiating an aura of raw sex that can be felt several rooms away. He is typically covered in scars, has retractable nails (or more accurately, claws) and maintains a slitted left eye.

The incident left him with an unstable phenotype, that is, a tendency to temporarily switch forms when completely cornered, which causes some excitement. In Maskerade he once more took longer-term human shape, attending the Ankh-Morpork Opera in the guise of the Count Gribeau.

In Terry Pratchett's Johnny Maxwell series, Mrs. Tachyon owns a cat named Guilty who has many Greebo-like qualities.

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