Solomon Grundy

## Cyrus Gold

Solomon Grundy was a zombie who lived in the sewers of Gotham City and later became an enemy of the vigilante known as Batman.

## Biography

### Born on a Monday

Sometime in the past, a Human named Cyrus Gold was killed and through unknown causes turned revived and turned into a zombie. After being brought back, he was unable to speak anything else than the first two lines of an old childrens poem: "Solomon Grundy, born on a Monday", whose first two words would henceforth be his new name. At some point after the vigilante known as the Batman started to work in Gotham City, he found Grundy in the sewers system and while not directly befriending him, made some sort of agreement that he would keep others from entering the sewers and disturbing Grundy and Solomon would not leave them and endanger innocent people.

### The Long Halloween

During the year in which a serial killer only known as Holiday started to target the members of the Falcone Crime Family, Mickey Chen, who had previously been hired by the Roman to kill Two-Face|Harvey Dent, which he failed to do, was hunted down by Batman and while his accomplices distracted him, Chen tried to escape into the sewers. He was quickly found by Grundy, who planned to kill him but Batman was able to talk the zombie out of it and Chen was released. Solomon then walked back deeper into the sewer system while saying the only phrase he was capable of. Later, on Thanksgiving evening, Batman took the time to bring Grundy a meal, made up of some of his Thanksgiving Dinner. Later, on Christmas Eve, the mob boss Salvatore Maroni was being interrogated by Batman about the escaped Arkham inmate theJoker, and among others such as Killer Moth and Croc, he mentioned how before things like Grundy only really came out of the shadow once he did, implying that he may have met Grundy once. Several months later, former district attorney Harvey Dent found himself scarred by Maroni and after a confrontation with some of Falcones henchmen, looked for shelter in the sewers, where he met Grundy. The two quickly became friends and Solomon even brought Dent some dead mice to eat. As they talked, Harvey interpreted Grundy's "born on a Monday" as him being brought back to life and, inspired by this, decided to embrace his new "look" and removed the bandages covering his face and repeated Grundy's phrase. On Labour day, they attacked the prison transport of Maroni and while Grundy distracted a guard who later revealed himself to be Batman, sent Maroni right to Two-Face, as Dent called himself now. Though, Batman defeated Grundy and incapacitated him, neither he nor the present police captain James Gordon were able to prevent Maroni being shot and murdered by Holiday. Dent, now having realized who Holiday was, knocked both Gordon and Batman out and escaped with Grundy. Then, on October 31st, the broke several super criminals out of Arkham Asylum in order to attack Falcone in his tower. With the help of the Joker, Penguin, Scarecrow, Mad Hatter and Poison Ivy, they attacked the mafia boss, removing any form of resistance in their way. Grundy, along with Joker, Two-Face and Penguin, entered through the main elevator and Grundy acted as a bulletproof shield for the others as soon as they arrived and were shot at. He took out all of the goons in the room and shielded the others from Sofia Falcone's machine gun fire, before Penguin took her out of the equation. As they then captured Falcone, Grundy and the others waited for Two-Face to end his life so they could have the city for themselves but Batman and Catwoman entered and systematically took out each and every one of them. Grundy tried to attack Batman, but was sent asleep by the Fear gas inside Scarecrow's Glove which Batman had placed in his mouth, rendering him unconscious and inactive for the rest of the fight.

## Physical Appearance

Grundy, being a Zombie, was an undead and therefore technically deceased male, formerly Human. He had pale, nearly white skin, black eyes and white short hair. He mostly wore old raggedy clothing's such as a coat, some pants and a shirt, all in grey. For an unknown reason, he had a gallows around his neck.

## Personality

Grundy seems to be a relatively peaceful and reasonable creature, at least when not provoked. When he someone uninvited enters his home though, he meets them with aggressive behavior and attacks. He has also shows to be quite loyal, especially to Two-Face, whom he blindly followed and did his bidding even though he got nothing in return for it. In general, Solomon Grundy is quite simple minded and has a low, anima-like intellect, but is seemingly less of a threat than the other villains in Gotham City, partially because he only wants to be left alone in peace.

## Powers

* **Zombie physiology**
	+ **Superhuman strength**
	+ **Superhuman durability**
	+ **Regeneration**
		- **Resurrection**
			* **Immortality**

## Trivia

* Solomon Grundy was created by Alfred Bester and Paul Reinman and first appeared in DC comics in All-American Comics #61 in August 1944.
* While not named by his real name directly in the movies, it is safe to assume that this version too was a man named Cyrus Gold before becoming a zombie.
* The character of Solomon Grundy is based on an old nursery rhyme from America that explains the seven stadiums of life. While there are many versions of it, the simplest is: "Solomon Grundy, born on a Monday, christened on a Tuesday, married on Wednesday, turned ill on Thursday, grew worse on Friday, died on Saturday, buried on Sunday, that was the end of Solomon Grundy."