Gorilla Grodd

**Grodd**, also known as **Gorilla Grodd**, is a silverback gorilla that was exposed to a radioactive meteorite. After being exposed to the energy from the meteorite, Grodd developed great strength and intelligence as well as powerful psychic abilities, becoming a near-unstoppable enemy of the Flash after being brought up under the influence of Solovar. After being stopped by Flash, he later sent Grodd back to Gorilla City.

## Biography

20 years ago, a meteorite crash landed in the heart of Africa which affected a bunch of gorillas, including Grodd, and gave them all telepathic and psionic abilities.

After leaving Gorilla City, Grodd managed to go to Central City and lived in the sewers. Afterwards, he started to attack people to get revenge on humans for being careless with life.

After The Flash and Grodd fought, he tossed The Flash through a brick wall into a subway tunnel, the hero lost his headband, allowing Grodd to mentally attack him again, crippling him as an oncoming train approached. However, with help from Wally West's motivation, Barry obtained the willpower to overcome Grodd's attack and evade the train. Grodd leaped at Barry, who dodged the attack, and the gorilla was hit by a second train. However, Grodd survived and made his way to the surface, climbing and jumping off a building, furious. Barry later sent Grodd back to Gorilla City.

## Personality

Not much of Grodd's personality is shown due to his developing psychic powers, though he has demonstrated a high level of intelligence. Grodd's intelligence seems to be increasing with time as his ability to form full sentences and communicate increases with each appearance he makes. Originally, Grodd would speak in the third person and often only use sentences consisting of only two or three words. He also has some contempt towards humans, shown when he battles Barry a second time while psychically attacking him, stating "human weak". This indicates that he views humans are inferior to him.

Grodd's contempt for humans may be what drives his sadism towards them, as shown when he forced Joe to point a gun at his own head while leaving the man total awareness of what was happening to him.

## Powers and abilities

#### Powers

* **Meta-gorilla physiology:** After Grodd was struck by the energy of the meteorite, this altered his DNA and supercharged his cells, augmenting his physiology into well-beyond normal gorilla condition.
	+ **Super strength:** Due to his unusually large size and modifications, Grodd has a considerably high strength, far more than any other gorilla. With a single hand, he is able to easily lift a full-grown adult human male. As Barry attempted to perform a supersonic punch on Grodd, Grodd caught Barry's fist with relative ease and hurled him aside. His strikes can send people flying at great distances through the air, with enough force to make an impact with another surface fatal.
	+ **Super durability:** Grodd is durable enough to survive getting hit by a train as well as take several super speed enhanced physical attacks from Barry unfazed. However, with enough velocity behind his strikes, Barry can inflict some damage on him.
	+ **Telepathy:** With the power to send neurological signals beyond himself and into others, Grodd gained mental-manipulation powers. Grodd most commonly uses this as a means to talk to others, but can also use it to control them. This can also allow him to sense when people are near, quickly alerting him of the Flash running at him at Mach 1 speed. He can also control humans that are near him like puppets and maintain the control for prolonged periods of time. For offensive purposes, Grodd can overwhelm the minds of his enemies with his own negative memories and severely disorient and cripple them. Such attacks also can be projected via those under mind-control. Likewise, he is able to link his mind with the puppet's, allowing him to see and hear what they do. It would appear that his range of influence is only on what he can physically perceive through his senses.
		- **Mental detection:** Being a telepath, Grodd can feel and detect the mind of others, as well as their intentions, emotions and mental states.
		- **Psychic translation:** As a telepath, Grodd can psychically translate other languages; for example, he can translate human English and ape language.

### Abilities

* **Genius-level intellect/Expert tactician/Manipulator/Leader:** Grodd's most noticeable and dangerous trait is his high intellect, making him a threat even to humanity and other meta-humans, like the Flash. Said intellect include changing the direction of Barry's sonic punch. Very calculating and methodical in every action he takes.
* **Multilingual:** Via Grodd's telepathy, he is capable of fluently speaking English and animal languages.

### Weaknesses

* **Consciousness:** If Grodd is rendered unconscious, he is unable to use his powers,

## Equipment

* Telepathic crown: When Grodd arrived to Central City, he stole the crown somewhere. Grodd uses it expand his mind controlling powers.

## Appearances

### *The Flash*

#### Season 2

* Attack from Gorilla City
* Enter Cobalt (Flashback)

## Behind the scenes

* In the DC comics, Gorilla Grodd is one of The Flash's greatest enemies, the two having faced each other on numerous occasions ever since Grodd's debut in 1959. However, he obtained his heightened intellect, telepathy and telekinesis after being exposed to the radiation of a meteorite which also enhanced an entire troupe of gorillas which went off to create Gorilla City, with Grodd being a rebel among them.
* Grodd is unusually large and tall, even for a silverback. In real life, the normal height for male gorillas is actually close to that of humans, being around 5 feet tall or so. Grodd's height (as well as other super-intelligent gorillas shown in the Arrowverse, like Solovar) clearly exceeds that.