Grimlock

**Grimlock** (グリムロック, *Gurimurokku*), is a fictional character and protagonists of the *DC* series. He is a wild card among the Autobots. Huge and powerful, he's also ego-maniacal, headstrong, impatient, willful and reckless. He views Optimus Prime as a weak leader, too afraid to make the tough calls and act on instinct. As such Grimlock is more than ready to disobey orders if he thinks the ends will justify the means. He transforms into a *Tyrannosaurus rex*, a powerful form that's essentially a wrecking ball on two legs. His one obvious redeeming feature is his attachment to his team. It’s not the subtlest alternate mode around, but Grimlock isn't one for subtlety. As leader of the Lightning Strike Coalition Force, he has gathered together a group of similar minded individuals he would do anything for. Together they handle the jobs the Autobots don't have the stomach for.

Grimlock's what you might call a 'bot of action; he has little patience for complicated strategies and prefers to think of plans on the fly. Unfortunately this was at the cost of his intelligence. Of course, his usual solution to any given problem is simply to pummel it into oblivion. He’s not a particularly *skilled* fighter, eschewing guns and blasters in favour of melee weaponry or simply his own fists, but when you’re a heavy-hitting Dinobot, sheer force is really all you need to get the job done. Grimlock’s fights involve a lot of collateral damage, which has sometimes created more problems than it solves. Even so, his Autobot teammates recognize that the myriad advantages of having a robotic dinosaur on their side outweigh the downsides.

During the fight with Megatron on Animatron, Grimlock became the core, and has gained the ability to combine with his fellow Dinobots to form the gestalt form known as Volcanicus, who has the more monstrous might than his sum up parts.

"*No one controls **GRIMLOCK!***"

—Grimlock.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice Actor*: Gregg Berger (English), Takurō Kitagawa (Japanese), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Korean), Gernot Duda (German), Jacques Ferrière (French), Not Known (Finnish), Jorge García (Spanish), Not Known (Spain-Spanish), Not Known (Latin American), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Edgar Fruitier (Canadian French), Not Known (American Spanish), Not Known (Latin American Spanish)
*Voice actor (Beast Mode sound effect)*: Frank Welker (English), Not Known (Japanese), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (German), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Spain-Spanish), Not Known (Latin American), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (American Spanish), Not Known (Latin American Spanish)
### Biography

Grimlock is known for not following orders or trusting in Optimus Prime's ability to be an effective leader. As the leader of the Lightning Strike Coalition Force, Grimlock enjoys smashing things first and asking questions later. Due to Shockwave's experiments, Grimlock has been left with a malfunctioning voice processor and an alt-mode inspired by a distant primitive world.

### Appearance

#### Alternate Mode

Once he had a veichle mode of a Cybertronian tank, but after being experimented by Shockwave, Grimlock was reformatted with a beast mode of Cybertronian Tyrannosaurus Rex (T-Rex).

* Hair Color: N/A
* Skin Color: N/A
* Body Color: Not Known
* Eye Color: Red
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: Not Known
* Weight: Not Known

## Relationships

### Enemies

* Decepticons
	+ Megatron
	+ Shockwave
	+ Lugnut
	+ Soundwave
	+ Lockdown
	+ Starscream

## History

### Past

At a time when their group was the Lightning Strike Coalition Force, Grimlock picked up unusual energy emissions from the Sea of Rust and Grimlock had to go investigate. It turned out Shockwave and his Insecticons had discovered an ancient Cybertronian Space Bridge. He battled the Insecticons but was captured. When word got out that Grimlock went missing, all members of the team split into two groups to find him: Swoop and Sludge searched fruitlessly for him on the planet Junk, and Slug and Snarl tracked Grimlock to the Sea of Rust. The squad were reunited as prisoners in Shockwave's laboratory, where the Decepticon scientist decided to use them as guinea pigs in one of his performing experiments, using the DNA of creatures discovered on an energy-rich planet to reformat the LSCF into massively powerful dinosaur forms. Shockwave rerouted a large amount of the energy for his cerebral circuitry in order to boost his already impressive physical strength. Once the change was complete, the Lightning Strike Coalition Force was more powerful and durable than almost any other Cybertronian, transforming them into the monstrous Dinobots. This backfired on the Decepticon scientist, however, their spirits as Autobots remained unbroken.

One day, the Dinobots used their newfound power to rise up against Shockwave, trash his lab, and escaped back to a remote island on Earth. Six months before reuniting with Optimus Prime and the other Autobots, the Dinobots stole a Power Core Generator — a piece of technology the Decepticons need to power and control their warp gate technology.

## External links

* Grimlock *Wikipedia*
* Grimlock *Transformers Database*
* Grimlock *TFWiki*