Grey Rhino King

**Grey Rhino King**(グレイサイキング *Gureisaikingu*) is the first Dark Robot from Episode 1 of Android Kikaider. He is one of the original 13 Dark Robots of DARK’s Destruction Corps created by Professor Gill.

He is voiced by **Yasuo Tanaka**.

## Personality

Grey Rhino King is a brutal Dark Robot who takes pride in his own incredible strength. Being created by DARK, he shows loyalty to his creators and will kill or injure anyone who either knows about the secret organization or refuses to reveal an info useful to DARK. He’ll show hatred for anyone who manage to beat him and will show joy when trying to kill them.

## Appearance

As his name suggest, Grey Rhino King has an entirely grey body with a red horn and red eyes while wearing silver-colored knee pads, shoulder pads covered with black thorns, and a belt. He has a humanoid body with his abs and pecs shown on his chest, exposed hinges on his elbows, and has a rhinoceros-shaped head.

## Biography

One night, when a truck driver was driving on the road, he sees two red lights coming up in front of him. As soon as he got closer, the headlights revealed that the two red lights were the eyes of a rhinoceros robot called Grey Rhino King. The driver is shocked of the appearance as Grey Rhino King charges toward his truck and flips it over, causing to explode and kill the driver. Later, during the day, Grey Rhino King attacks a power-generating dam where he kills off most of the workers. The two remaining workers try to call the police after discovering the bodies, but Grey Rhino King appears before them from out of the ground. Revealing himself as DARK’s most evil creation, Grey Rhino King demands to be taken to the center of the dam before killing one of the last two workers by charging at him. The other worker tries to escape but is caught by DARK’s Android Men. Grey Rhino King approaches him and prepares to crush his arm in order to get the whereabouts of the dam’s control center. Then all of a sudden, Grey Rhino King and the Android Men hear guitar music and they find a man named Jiro standing on top of the dam, playing with his guitar. When Jiro reveals that he’s here to stop DARK, Grey Rhino King gets the Android Man to fight off Jiro while he runs off with the worker. Jiro notices them running off, so he jumps all the way from the dam to save the worker. Jiro manages to help the worker get away while he confronts Grey Rhino King at a nearby rock quarry. In order to prove his strength, Grey Rhino King charges at a wall of the rock quarry, causing it to shake and create a small avalanche of rocks, presumably to bury Jiro. However, once the dust from the rocks clears away, Jiro has changed into Kikaider. Grey Rhino King and the Android Men fight Kikaider, but he manages to fight them all of and throws Grey Rhino King down the hill before getting away in his Side Machine. Not willing to let him get away, Grey Rhino King chases after Kikaider all the way to DARK’s home base. There, Jiro’s creator, Dr. Komyoji, gets caught working against the leader of DARK, Professor Gill, so he gets Jiro to escape along with his daughter, Mitsuko. Once the two left DARK’s home base, Professor Gill gets his 13 Dark Robots of DARK’s Destruction Corps, including Grey Rhino King, to find Jiro and destroy him. In order to lure in Jiro, Grey Rhino King arrives at Dr. Komyoji’s house while disguised as him to kidnap his son, Masaru. Masaru at first is fooled by the disguise, but upon hugging the disguised Dark Robot, he realizes that he’s not his father. After being founded out, Grey Rhino King reveals himself and takes Masaru hostage. When Mitsuko and Jiro arrive at the house too late, they hear Grey Rhino King’s voice whom says that if they want Masaru back alive, they have to come to a place called Death Valley. Later, Jiro arrives at a bridge at Death Valley with Masaru hanging underneath. Jiro is about to save him, but Grey Rhino King gets the bridge blown up by placed explosives. Fortunately, Masaru and Jiro survive the explosion and instead are blown up in the sky. Jiro transforms into Kikaider and saves Masaru while Grey Rhino King believes he accomplished his mission. Kikaider then reveals himself to still be in one piece, much to Grey Rhino Kong’s dismay. Grey Rhino King orders the Android Men to fight off Kikaider but he manages to defeat each one of them, leaving only Grey Rhino King as the only opponent left. Grey Rhino King reveals a drill in place for his horn and keeps on charging at Kikaider. By the last charge, Kikaider manages to push Grey Rhino King down a hill and jumps down to perform Double Chop. Kikaider then uses Giant Swing Throw to weaken Grey Rhino King and finally uses Denji End to send the Dark Robot flying into air, blowing him up in the sky and leaving behind scrap metal.

## Powers/Abilities

**Super Strength**: Grey Rhino King has enough strength to flip a truck over, to crush a human being’s arm until it changes color, and to cause a rock quarry hill to shake.

**Burrowing**: Grey Rhino King is able to burrow through the ground and rise up to the surface.

**Supersonic Charging**: Grey Rhino King’s main attacking move. Grey Rhino King can charge horn first at his targets at a speed of 900 km per hour. This is strong enough to make human beings literally shatter to pieces.

**Human Disguise**: Grey Rhino King is able to disguise himself as Dr. Komyoji.

**Drill Horn**: Grey Rhino King can replace his rhino horn with a spinning red drill.

## Quotes

* *Don’t waste your time.*- Grey Rhino King’s first line.

* *DARK’s most evil creation...Grey Rhino King.*

* *I possess enormous power. You wouldn’t want me to crush this arm, would you?*

* *A human can not defeat me!*

* *I’ll show you my true strength!*

* *I won’t let you get away. I can move at speeds of 900 km per hour!*

* *You’re no special android!*

## Gallery

Grey Rhino Kong’s SilhouetteGrey Rhino King’s Human Disguise
## Trivia

* **Error**: When Grey Rhino King first rises out of the ground, his horn nearly gets torn off by the debris.

* Grey Rhino King is one of the 13 original Dark Robots of the DARK Destruction Corps. Other members include:
	+ Green Mantis
	+ Orange Ant
	+ Blue Buffalo
	+ Yellow Jaguar
	+ Black Horse
	+ Golden Bat
	+ Carmine Spider
	+ Scorpion White(?)
	+ Red Snake(?)
	+ Scarlet Dog(?)
	+ Silver Cat
	+ Pink Tiger