
To that end, Grodd mentally controlled Eiling into attacking a gold reserve. Ībout three months later, after "Wells" was exposed as Thawne/Reverse-Flash, he sent out Grodd to distract Barry Allen's team. Grodd displayed telepathic powers, as Eiling could "hear" a voice talking in his head, and Grodd then seized Eiling from behind and dragged him away. Later, Thawne as the Reverse-Flash abducted Wade Eiling and brought him to Grodd, revealing his identity as "Harrison Wells". He was encountered by maintenance workers, who attempted to run but were attacked (and seemingly killed) by Grodd. In 2015, Grodd took up residence in a sewer and began carving his own name into a wall repeatedly. Living in the sewers and working with Thawne In the aftermath of the explosion, Thawne showed Barry Allen the ruins of Grodd's enclosure when he was taking him around S.T.A.R. The gorilla then destroyed his cage and escaped. When the particle accelerator exploded, the dark matter it released reacted with the drugs and medicines Eiling and his men had administered to Grodd, awakening psychic powers and boosting his intelligence. On the night of the particle accelerator's launch, a future Barry Allen and Nora West-Allen passed by Grodd's cage, and Barry warned Nora not to interact with the gorilla. Along with "Wells", Caitlin Snow also grew fond of Grodd and often visited him in his cage. However, once "Wells" discovered Eiling's inhumane methods, he shut down the program but decided on other plans for Grodd himself. Harrison Wells (who was really Eobard Thawne) and General Wade Eiling, the latter of whom wanted to explore the possibilities of psychic abilities, such as mind control, and tortured Grodd in a similar manner to that in which he tortured Martin Stein. He was scheduled to be part of enhanced gene therapy experiments conducted by Dr. 1.1.3 Living in the sewers and working with Thawneīiography Original multiverse Test subject įour years before the particle accelerator accident, Grodd was an ordinary silverback gorilla that was kept as a test subject in S.T.A.R.When Barry asked Grodd for his help in defeating Red Death, he refused at first, but caved in once Barry appealed to his lighter side. Grodd was devistated by this, which allowed Red Death to easily manipulate him and convince him to help her.

When Grodd attempted to rebuild his society, all the gorillas had lost their telepathic powers and their sentience. Due to his powers Grodd appears to remember his original life before the crisis. allowed Grodd to return to Gorilla City peacefully under supervision. Together, they broke out of the coma and A.R.G.U.S. custody, this time in a medically-induced coma to keep him from using his rapidly increasing mental power.Ī year later on Earth-Prime, Grodd's mind connected with Barry's and he claimed to have changed after everything that had happened. He was defeated by King Shark and Team Flash and placed back in A.R.G.U.S. About a year later, he resurfaced and tried to steal King Shark's telepathic crown so that he will be able to amplify his powers to the point that he will be able to control the minds of everyone in Central City. by the Time Bureau, from where he secretly orchestrated a breakout on the night of the Enlightenment. Upon their defeat, Grodd was sent back to A.R.G.U.S. After this failed, he was locked up by A.R.G.U.S.ĭue to a rupture of time caused by the Legends, Grodd ended up as an anachronism in 1967 Vietnam, starting his own cult and fighting the Legends, before being found and recruited as a follower of Mallus by Damien Darhk. But Grodd wanted power, plotting to dethrone Solovar and to take over Central City on with a gorilla army. Having previously cared for Grodd, Caitlin Snow was sympathetic to his condition as the only meta-gorilla, so eventually she and Team Flash sent him to where he could be with more of his kind in Gorilla City. After being exposed to the energy from the particle accelerator, Grodd escaped his cage and developed great physical prowess and intelligence, as well as powerful psychic powers, becoming a near-unstoppable enemy of the Flash after being brought up under the influence of the Reverse-Flash.

Grodd, also known as Gorilla Grodd, is a silverback gorilla that was experimented on by S.T.A.R. Soon, you will only know my will-the will of Grodd!" -Grodd

Tom Cavanagh (via Harry Wells and Eobard Thawne)ĭaniel Cudmore (stand-in, DC's Legends of Tomorrow uncredited)
