Groovin' Grover

* Groovin' Grover
* Devourer's Version

**Groovin' Grover** is a character in *Turtle Man and DaPhantom*, a robot that was originally created by The Devourer to destroy The City of Nexus. However, his initial version was destroyed by Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. and Turtle Man remade him into a disco robot.

## Appearance

The Devourer’s version of Groovin' Grover had a dark green colour palette with many even darker smudges all over him, and instead of legs he has a dark-purple and lilac wheel. On his head there is a dark-green satellite that is capable of capturing and releasing signals, and also lilac tubes that wrap around his centre. His mouth forms a frown with pink lines running through it and he also has black eyes which shapes respectively form a pink triangle and tilted orange square. The most frequent weapons that it used were a laser rifle and also a powerful saw, both of which could cut through almost anything.

The Groovin' Grover that Turtle Man made looks mostly similar to the Devourer’s version, but it is a bit smaller and has a white and black colour palette instead of lilac and green, with black gloves instead of any weapons and a vibrant disco ball on his head instead of the satellite. His mouth forms a smile with dark green, purple, blue and red lights in it and the eyes are not angry, with the shapes instead being a blue square and pink circle.

## Background

Groovin' Grover was just one of many of the Devourer's creations aimed at helping him take over the world and defeat his greatest enemies: Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. He ended up incredibly impressed with his own design of a destroyer bot and presented it to one of his Sentinels: the Storm. Though he also ended up being rather ambitious as to what the bot was to end up doing after the Devourer sent it to Nexus, both of them were disappointed by the bot's rather slow speed, taking almost 3 whole days to reach the city from the Devourer's lair. However when it did arrive there the effort put into building it paid off; it started using it's many weapons to completely destroy entire buildings of the city which impressed Storm and Veiled a lot, and the bot engaged in combat with the three heroes. Though it initially looked as if the robot was to defeat them after beating up Officer M. and trapping DaPhantom in a ghost catcher, after Mort was called to assist them in combat and Turtle Man unleashed the Evil King’s ghost the tide quickly turned and, even with Storm and Veiled being sent out to help fight against the heroes, the evil bot ended up being destroyed. Turtle Man saw the scraps of the bot that they had destroyed and was curious as to what else they could possibly make of it, so at his cove he took the parts together, painted them and made some other modifications to it to turn it into a partying, entertainer bot, which he named Groovin' Grover and it started "party hour" which Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. had danced to.

Groovin' Grover had later befriended another party animal named Partymaster, who even installed a feature in him where whoever was operating Grover could call him in case they wanted a great party. The party robot continued to make occasional subsequent appearances starting some parties, occasionally with Partymaster, but Grover was upset after Partymaster ended up being vaporised by the Riftspace that the Devourer also created a little later on. He had hosted a funeral for Partymaster that was only attended by Turtle Man, DaPhantom, Officer M. and some random hobo but after the former three found out that Partymaster actually was still alive Groovin' Grover became happy and willing to bring about parties once again. Later on though, Partymaster was actually killed for real by the Pumpkin Punk when he attacked Nexus, however later on Groovin' Grover returned to bring about more parties because in his mind, Partymaster would want him to keep on throwing wild parties even without him - Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. are glad that the robot has returned to his happy usual self. Ever since this though, Groovin' Grover has began rather worn down causing him to not be able to start Party Hour anymore and he has become pretty slow and rusty in appearance, additionally accidentally coughing out smoke. Officer M. once tried to fix him by changing up some of the wires, but accidentally caused him to launch a volatile bomb into his house which obliterated it once again. Groovin' Grover continued to be in this broken state for quite a while, until Turtle Man finally decided to fix him up whilst crying through about 500 tissues. He did successfully do it though, bringing Grover back to his party-loving form and Turtle Man wanted to use him to start a party in order to avoid having to talk about his past but Officer M. stopped him.

Grover made his next appearance at Doctor M. and Katie’s wedding where he played the piano and later accidentally destroyed the church it occurred at by starting partyhour and firing out dozens of lasers which burnt it all, yet everyone continued to dance outside. Turtle Man later added some new features to him like a feature for weddings and a revamp of the Partyhour, which they used to throw a party at Officer M’s house and later another after repairing their weapons and the Amulet of Souls. Turtle Man used him as a weapon during the Soul War, and he was at the Halloween party playing some spooky songs in the Halloween Special.

## Personality and Relationships

Even though the Devourer's original vision of Groovin' Grover was for it to be a merciless killing and destruction machine, Turtle Man since reformed him into a cheerful and happy robot who enjoys partying more then nothing else. He is programmed to occasionally start "Party Hour" in which he causes flashing lights and even dispensing balloons, party snacks and other treats. It is generally very hard to upset or even anger Grover whatsoever, the only thing that seemingly ever tugged his heart wires was the death of Partymaster, upsetting him so much that at first he no longer wanted to throw any parties but later got over it. He's also very persistent with his ways, and will never be willing to stop a party when it has been started. Groovin' Grover considers Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. to be his best friends (maybe just because Turtle Man created and coded him), so as a result he comes to them with his parties and events more often then anybody else.

## Abilities

The Devourer’s iteration of Groovin' Grover was envisioned to be a machine of absolute destruction that is almost completely indestructible, and he fulfilled this well by building it with powerful, intergalactic metal that is very difficult for most attacks to even scathe at all. In return, the bot was decked out with an entire arsenal of dangerous weapons that it could freely swap between, including a laser rifle, saw, grenade launcher, flamethrower and likely some others that were never seen. Furthermore, the bot also contained a ghost trapper device made of fresh Ectoplasmite which allowed capturing of ghostly beings, which was used to trap DaPhantom in the battle against him. As a result of carrying all of this though, the bot ended up being extremely slow as it took 3 days to get from the Devourer’s cave where it was made to Nexus.

Currently, Groovin' Grover doesn’t possess any of those sort of weapons and is made of a simple iron alloy, mostly because Turtle Man did not design him for combat which makes him way weaker then his original design. However, built-into him is some unique functions such as the ability to dispense party foods and engage party systems causing flashing lights and balloons to be released out; he has also had proper emotions built into him as well, mostly happiness for party hour.

## Appearances

* S6E2 - Groovin' Grover
* S6E6 - DaPhantoplasm
* S6E10 - Endless Fog
* S6E11 - Mending a Void
* Turtle Man and DaPhantom: Guardians of Nexus
* S7E2 - Who Pulled The Fire Alarms?
* S7E4 - Phone Lost
* S7E10 - Return to Sparkville
* S7E12 - Restaurant War
* Turtle Man and DaPhantom: The Lost Origins
* S8E8 - Doctor M's Wedding
* S8E10 - The Blacksmith
* S8E15 - Soul War
* Halloween Special
* Christmas Special (non-speaking cameo)

He has a minor appearance in Turtle Man and DaPhantom: Fighters as well.

## Trivia

* The idea for Groovin' Grover was based on a person that the creators know in real life called Elijah, who is known well for doing wacky dances. Some of Grover’s dance moves were even based on a few of his moves.
* His voice is provided by an AI Chat System.
* He shards his name of Grover with Grover the Superdog.

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