Gorilla Grodd is a comic book character in DC Comics , a supervillain . It is an anthropomorphic gorilla with superhigh intelligence and telepathy. It is one of the main enemies of Flash . First appeared in the comic book Flash v.1 # 106 (April-May 1959), was created by artist John Brum and writer Carmine Infantino [1] .
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| Publication History | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Debut | The Flash # 106 (May 1959) |
| The authors | John Broome (artist), Carmine Infantino (writer) |
| Character Characteristics | |
| Position | Evil |
| Full name | Grodd |
| Aliases | Drew Drauden, William Dawson |
| View | Gorilla |
| Growth | 198 cm |
| Weight | 273 kg |
| Family status | married to bokeh |
| Occupation | Dictator |
| Teams and Organizations | |
| Anti-Justice League, Secret Supervillain Society, Injustice League, Tartarus, Doom Legion | |
| Allies | |
| Professor Zoom | |
| Enemies | |
| Flash , Solovar, Superman , Batman | |
| Special powers | |
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Content
Biography
Versions of Grodd's biography vary depending on the author. His story was first set out in 1977 in DC Superstars No. 14: according to her, he came from a race of intellectual primates from the planet Calor, who decided to hypnotize the Green Lantern in order to escape from his dangerous planet to Earth, and in flight declared himself ruler of the gorillas, wanting to overthrow the rightful ruler of Solovar, what he could not do.
Grodd’s first meeting with the Flash occurred when Solovar, in the 1959 comic strip, was not yet a king, but a scientist, left rational gorillas to look at the life of mankind, but was caught by people, as a result of which he pretended to be an ordinary gorilla. Grodd went in search of him, but not with the goal of liberating, but with the goal of finding out the secret of controlling the minds of other creatures, with which he was going to seize power over intelligent gorillas and the whole Earth. However, Solovar, who escaped from people, turned to the superhero Flash for help and defeated Grodd with him, after which the latter became one of Flash's main enemies.
After the “ Crisis on Infinite Lands ”, Grodd’s story was changed: he, like his fellow tribesmen, was an ordinary gorilla living in the jungle of Africa until an alien ship crashed there, the pilot of which endowed the gorilla with a mind that is much superior to human, and two gorillas, Grodd and Solovar, also telepathic abilities. With the help of an alien, smart monkeys built a high-tech city called Gorilla City, and using a special force field they hid it from the eyes of people. However, Grodd thirsted for power and first killed the alien, and then tried to seize power first over Gorilla City, and later over the whole world.
Later, some of the details of this story changed depending on the author of the plot - first of all, regarding the time of the appearance of the City of Gorillas: sometimes it was attributed to the 19th century or even many thousands of years ago; accordingly, in this case, Grodd did not kill the founding alien, but was simply a citizen of a long-existing city-state, a mad scientist who wanted power.
Grodd often came into confrontation not only with Flash, but also with various other heroes of the DC universe, and was repeatedly a member or leader of super-villainous criminal groups. Often his goal was not just power over the world, but the transformation of all people on Earth into a gorilla.
Abilities
Gorilla Grodd has a huge level of intelligence, is able to read the thoughts of other people and subordinate their mind to his will; in some authors, in addition to this, it has telekinesis. In addition, his physical strength and dexterity significantly exceed these indicators in ordinary gorillas and, naturally, incomparably higher than human ones.
Beyond Comics
Television
- Gorilla Grodd appears in the animated series Batman: The Brave and the Bold in Season 1 in Episode 2 entitled Dinosaur Island Horror
- Gorilla Grodd appears in the animated series Justice League where he first wants to destroy the city of Gorillas, and after the Justice League prevented him, he began to lead the supervillain groups to destroy the League.
- Gorilla Grodd appears in the 2014 Flash TV series, where he was created using computer graphics. The first reference to him is shown in the first series, where his cell is visible, from which he got out after the explosion of the particle accelerator. Later it turns out that experiments were conducted on it in the STAR Labs laboratory. Grodd finally appears in the final of the twelfth series, where he eats up two electricians. Judging by the details shown, he still does not have high intelligence and telepathy, although he already knows how to write and pronounce his name passably. He then appears at the end of episode 14 when he abducts General Wade Ailing in the sewers where Reverse Flash (Eobard Towne) brought him. Will appear in 21 episodes of Flash under the name "Grodd Lives" (Grodd Lives): there he already has telepathy.
- Grodd appears in one of the episodes of the Fight Club Superheroes mini-series.
Games
- Gorilla Grodd appears as a villain in LEGO's constructor. That's not all Gorilla Grodd did for Lego, he also appeared in the LEGO Batman 2 game and in the LEGO Batman 3 game where it can be downloaded as a DLC character.
- Gorilla Grodd is present in the game Injustice 2 as a game character.
Criticism and reviews
- The IGN website placed Grodd in 35th place on the IGN's list of 100 greatest comic book villains [2] .
- In Richard Clow's book The Apes of Wrath, Grodd is seen as a fundamentally new type of monkey character in popular culture [3] .