![]() ![]() ![]() Grodd fakes his death by transferring his mind into a man in Central City, but is caught and arrested. The Flash arrests Grodd and takes him back to Gorilla City. After easily stopping the Flash, Grodd experiences a side effect that removes his new powers. ![]() Assuming human form, he creates a drug to strengthen his abilities. Grodd is again imprisoned, but uses a burrowing machine he built earlier to escape. The Flash finds out from Solovar where Grodd has escaped to and destroys the machine. When his power returns, he escapes and builds a machine to strip his fellow gorillas of their intelligence. The Flash defeats Grodd and temporarily removes his telepathy. Solovar breaks out of the cage and tells the Flash. Grodd probed Solovar's mind to find the secret of mind control so he could control Gorilla City, using its inhabitants to take over the world. In his first Pre- Crisis appearance, he met the Flash while searching for Solovar (who had been imprisoned) during a trip to the human world. The villain manages to return again and again to plague the Flash and the hero's allies. Solovar telepathically contacted Barry Allen to warn of the evil gorilla's plans, and Grodd was defeated. Grodd forced one of the explorers to kill the alien and took over Gorilla City, planning to conquer the world next. The gorillas lived in peace until their home was discovered by explorers. Led by the alien, the gorillas constructed the super-advanced Gorilla City. Grodd and fellow gorilla Solovar also developed telepathic and telekinetic powers. Grodd and his tribe of gorillas were imbued with super-intelligence by the ship's pilot. He was an average ape until an alien spacecraft ( retconned from a radioactive meteor which also empowered Hector Hammond) crashed in Grodd's African home. Gorilla Grodd is a hyper-intelligent telepathic gorilla able to control the minds of others. Grodd has appeared in several forms of DC-related media, such as the Super Friends franchise (voiced by Stanley Ralph Ross), television series set in the DC Animated Universe (voiced by Powers Boothe), and the 2014 television series The Flash set in the Arrowverse (voiced by David Sobolov). He is an evil, super-intelligent gorilla who gained mental powers after being exposed to a strange meteorite's radiation. The character was created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino, and first appeared in The Flash #106 (May 1959). Gorilla Grodd is a supervillain character appearing in American comic books and other media published by DC Comics, primarily as an enemy of The Flash ( Barry Allen). Superhuman strength, stamina, durability, speed, agility, reflexes, and senses.Collect all additional McFarlane Toys DC Page Punchers.Included is a collectible comic featuring what the figure is based on, as well as a collectible art card with figure artwork on the front, and character biography on the back. Gorilla Grodd is based on the exclusive included comic designed by McFarlane Toys.Designed with Ultra Articulation with up to 22 moving parts for full range of posing and play.Megafigs are large figures to match their 7" scale figure counterparts based off the DC Multiverse.With his genius-level intellect combined with his innate animal savagery and his vast mental abilities, Gorilla Grodd is, ironically, not an enemy to ever be monkeyed with. Grodd also plagued the Justice League by joining forces with the likes of the Secret Society of Super-Villains, the Legion of Doom and other organizations of super criminals bent on world domination. First coming into conflict with the Barry Allen version of the Flash, Grodd was a thorn in not only his side for many years, but also his successor Wally West's. But while the rest of his people chose to live apart from the world peacefully, Grodd only sought to conquer humanity so he could rule it. The product of a chance encounter with an alien race, Grodd and his people evolved past the common gorillas who lived in his portion of the African jungle and developed super intelligence, along with a wide array of other mental powers. Although many of the Flash's most dangerous Rogues are criminals with gimmicks or evil speedsters, there is one enemy of the Fastest Man Alive who stands apart—the hyper intelligent ape known as Gorilla Grodd. A hyper-intelligent telepathic ape, Gorilla Grodd has sought to rule both the simian and human worlds, though the Flash has frequently thwarted his plans. ![]()
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