Gorilla Grodd

**Gorilla Grodd** is a hyper-intelligent gorilla and supervillain, working alongside the Secret Society of Super-Villains. He is among the many enemies of The Flash.

## **Origins**

Grodd was born in the wilds of Africa, particularly the Congo and was nothing more than a gorilla of average intelligence. This all changed however, when an alien spacecraft crash landed in the Congo Basin, leading to many of the nearby gorillas, including Grodd himself, to be imbued with intelligence by the pilot of the vessel. Grodd, along with Solovar, another fellow gorilla, were both also imbued with telepathic and telekinetic abilities. They would then take the alien as their leader and construct Gorilla City, which was isolated from the outside world via advanced cloaking technology. The gorillas lived in peace, at least until a group of explorers found their city, where Grodd forced one to kill their alien leader, allowing him to seize power. Now ruling Gorilla City, Grodd's thirst for power was not satiated and his next plot was to dominate the entire world next.

Grodd's first encounter with the Flash was when he was looking for Solovar, who was imprisoned while visiting the human world. Grodd probed his comrade's mind in order to seek the way for him to control all of Gorilla City via the secret of mind control. This was where Grodd put his plans to dominate the world into motion by using the inhabitants of the city, however Solovar was able to escape his captivity and warned the Flash of the mad gorilla's plans. Flash managed to beat Grodd, apparently, had lost the ability of mind control, however it wasn't lost forever, as he was able to flee from custody and took to the underground, where he took command of a winged race of beings. His next plan was to rob the other apes of their intelligence with the use of a machine. Flash learns from Solovar of Grodd's escape and not only locates him, but destroys his machine, leading to the liberation of the winged beings and Grodd returning back into custody.

Grodd was then under the security of 4 guards, but managed to escape via burrowing machine and was able to turn himself human in order to create a pill that will enhance his mental powers further. He was able to easily stop the Flash, but he then reverted back into a gorilla, leading his powers to fail due to the less developed aspects of a gorilla's brain. Grodd would soon find his body dying, leading to him attempting to transfer his consciousness into the body of a man, only to be arrested. Despite this, Grodd would then amass all of Flash's enemies, busting them out of jail to distract the speedster so Grodd could transfer Flash's consciousness into that of a gorilla in the zoo, but was again foiled by the gorilla's mate, returning their bodies to normal.

Grodd would later have several more run-ins with varying heroes, as well as taking on heroes infused with exobytes.

## **Characteristics**

### Physical Appearance

Grodd is a gorilla with black hair, standing at 6' 6" tall and weighing in at 600 lb and has gray eyes. He wears minimal clothing, but he does wear purple bottoms, with a golden belt, golden collar with a purple cape and golden shin guard armor with a gold ring around one of his arms.

### Personality & Traits

Grodd is as power hungry, as he is vicious. He believes all intelligent gorillas are indeed superior, with all life being below him, especially humans. Despite this, he is willing to work with people he deems inferior in order to achieve his goals.

## **Powers & Abilities**

### Powers

* **Gorilla Physiology:** Despite being hyper-intelligent, Grodd is nothing more than a gorilla, particularly one from the Congo. Despite this however, Grodd is not without certain abilities afforded him by his natural physiology.
	+ **Superhuman Strength:** Grodd is naturally stronger than any human being and is easily able of tearing a human apart if he so desired. He would, however, likely have a problem with beings with strength superior to his own, like Superman.
	+ **Superhuman Durability:** Grodd's body enables him to take far more punishment than normal humans.