42 Facts About Gorilla Grodd

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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.

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Gorilla Grodd is an evil, super-intelligent gorilla who gained mental powers after being exposed to a strange meteorite's radiation.

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Gorilla Grodd is a hyper-intelligent telepathic gorilla able to control the minds of others.

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Gorilla Grodd was an average ape until an alien spacecraft crashed in Grodd's African home.

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Gorilla Grodd is again imprisoned, but uses a burrowing machine he built earlier to escape.

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Gorilla Grodd is recruited along with several other villains as one of the original members of the Secret Society of Super Villains.

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Gorilla Grodd's plans are defeated by the Flash, assisted by the Pied Piper, Vixen and Rex the Wonder Dog.

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Savage approaches Gorilla Grodd, offering him membership in this new anti-Titans group known as Tartarus and promises of power and immortality.

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Gorilla Grodd has made no fewer than eighteen attempts to eliminate all traces of humanity from the face of the Earth.

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10.

Gorilla Grodd's plans are shattered by the sudden appearance of Titano and Ambush Bug waking from a nightmare.

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Whether or not Gorilla Grodd's plan is a failure is disputable.

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However, Supergirl was eventually able to fight off Gorilla Grodd's influence, allowing her to oppose Gorilla Grodd until the sun was restored.

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Gorilla Grodd has since recovered, and a failed attempt to set up a base in Florida leads to his capture and incarceration in Iron Heights.

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14.

Gorilla Grodd had been trapped inside the human body of an overweight street bum.

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Gorilla Grodd found another space rock, identical to the one that had given him his powers, and contacted Hector Hammond, a human who had gained similar powers.

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Gorilla Grodd is responsible for Hunter Zolomon's crippling, resulting in the man's transformation into the villainous Zoom after trying to change the event to never have happened.

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Hunter would often think about how Gorilla Grodd used him as a plaything in that fight while talking this over with the Flash.

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18.

In Birds of Prey, Gorilla Grodd makes a deal with Grimm to get Blockbuster an ape heart.

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19.

Gorilla Grodd has most of the citizens they are protecting killed.

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20.

Gorilla Grodd kills Monsieur Mallah and the Brain, and was knocked off a cliff by the Joker.

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21.

Gorilla Grodd is seen alive and attempting to deliver payback to the Joker.

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In Justice League of America, Gorilla Grodd is shown among the members of Libra's new Secret Society and placed in the Inner Circle.

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Gorilla Grodd is sent to apprehend Snapper Carr and Cheetah, but fails.

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Flash is hailed as a messenger spoken of in gorilla prophecy by all but Grodd who sees the interloper as a threat to his ascension and designs for world conquest.

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25.

When told of the treachery planned by the Ape Elders from his most trusted general, Gorilla Grodd led a personal execution detail in an attempt to kill Barry and assume the mantle of the Light Bringer.

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26.

Gorilla Grodd found that he still had some followers among the ape army and would eventually slaughter most of the elders, saving one needed for his invasion plans.

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Gorilla Grodd, brandishing several new powers courtesy of The Light, proceeds to take control of Central City as its king and renames it Grodd City.

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Gorilla Grodd is the one who founded the terrorist organization called the Black Hole and he is using technology that could contain the power of the Speed Force.

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Gorilla Grodd has vast telekinetic abilities ranging from force beams, telekinetic transmutation of matter and lifting thousands of tons mentally.

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Gorilla Grodd possesses great superhuman strength far exceeding that of an ordinary gorilla.

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Gorilla Grodd is a scientific genius who has mastered Gorilla City's advanced technology and who has created many incredible inventions of his own.

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Gorilla Grodd's thought process still operates at a relatively human speed; the Flashes have shown some degree of immunity to his telepathic illusions by moving so fast that their thoughts process Grodd's illusions in slow motion.

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Gorilla Grodd has sharp enough reflexes to keep up with even the most nimble meta-humans with relative ease as he was able to grasp at Flash more than once while he was running, having intercepted many of his high-speed attacks more than once.

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Thanks to his time trapped within the force dimension Gorilla Grodd gained an even greater acceleration of his development; not only retaining his previous abilities of bolstered strength and super speed, but accelerating his developmental process, granting him telepathy much like what his species' elders grow into with age, as well as telekinesis which is unique to him.

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Gorilla Grodd has a counterpart on the post-Crisis antimatter universe's Earth called General Grodd who is a member of the Justice Underground.

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Gorilla Grodd is a freedom fighter from a militaristic ape nation.

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Gorilla Grodd soon begins to feel bored by his accomplishments since they prove far too easy for him and often lets his enemies live, hoping for them to become greater challenges in the future.

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Gorilla Grodd decides to begin a campaign to control Europe, knowing perfectly well that this action will make him a target for the Atlanteans and Amazons.

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Gorilla Grodd makes a brief appearance in Injustice: Gods Among Uss prequel comic, in which during the Justice League's manhunt for Mirror Master, Grodd is one of the villains interrogated by Shazam.

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Gorilla Grodd is a playable character in the game's sequel, Injustice 2.

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Gorilla Grodd appears in series set in the DC Animated Universe, voiced by Powers Boothe.

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Gorilla Grodd was ranked 35th in IGN's list of 100 Greatest Comic Book Villains.

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