Changes: Grodd

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Grodd was a renegade scientist from Gorilla City. Generally, he's referred to as just "Grodd", although Flash mentions him as "Gorilla Grodd" in the Justice League episode "Comfort and Joy".

His great intellect and his even greater ambition led him to hatch a number of schemes for conquest and domination. Sophisticated mind-control technology was a hallmark of Grodd's M.O.

Grodd is a fugitive from the secretive Gorilla City, a spurned would-be tyrant who vowed vengeance on his fellow primates. Maintaining an e-mail relationship with Central City scientist Dr. Sarah Corwin, he comes to Central City to cloak the metropolis in a similar shield as Gorilla City's. This provided him a hidden base from which to launch a nuclear assault against Gorilla City, while he controlled the populace of Central City with his mind-control helmet. While the League hurried to stop the bombs, Flash, Green Lantern, and Solovar (a Gorilla City officer) rushed to defeat Grodd himself. Grodd became incapacitated once he tried to use the mind-control helmet on Flash, not knowing that Flash had switched around various wires.

No longer focused on Gorilla City, Grodd has vowed himself as an opponent to the League as a whole. With his loyal follower Giganta, he recruited Killer Frost, Parasite, Shade, Sinestro, and Clayface to make a sort of anti-League dubbed "the Secret Society". Also learned in this episode is that Grodd's accident with his mind-control helmet has granted him mental powers, which he utilized in this story as a subtle type of tampering with the League's emotions. Having watched the League via secret cameras for weeks, Grodd starts manipulating their feelings until the Leaguers start lashing out at each other and end up walking away from the team. Having separated them, Grodd tries to capture each Leaguer and invades a football halftime show to do away with the heroes publicly, only to be foiled by J'onn J'onzz, who frees his teammates. The Society is battled one last time, and fails to beat the League.

Finally, Grodd turns up as the leader of the Legion of Doom. As he describes it, the Legion is a sort of co-op for supervillains, banded together to help each other's villainy in the face of the expanded League.

After having the Legion seek out various valuable artifacts, Grodd revealed his master plan: to turn every human on the planet into apes. The plan, however, was thwarted by the Justice League. Subsequently, an unimpressed Lex Luthor shoots Grodd and usurps his position as the new leader of the Legion. Being obsessed with reclaiming the godlike power he briefly tasted when merged with the now-destroyed Brainiac, Luthor kept Grodd prisoner in the Legion's headquarters in the hopes that he reveal how to reconstitute the living supercomputer from the last remaining fragment. With the discovery that Brainiac had a base in deep space that was subsequently destroyed (see "Twilight of the Gods") Luthor has the Legion refit the headquarters for space travel, promising them a place of leadership in the new order with himself as absolute ruler.

Given Luthor's heavy-handed leadership and romantic disinterest, the spurned Tala eventually releases Grodd, who then arranges a mutiny with many other villains. Luthor uses his intellect and resourcefulness to counter his adversaries' powers; Grodd's mind-control ability is used against him, forcing him to step into an airlock, from which he is released into the void.

Of note is that Grodd's romantic preferences become clear: he has a taste for human females, like Corwin or the artificially-made-human Giganta.

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 Finally, Grodd turns up as the leader of the [[Legion of Doom]]. As he describes it, the Legion is a sort of co-op for supervillains, banded together to help each other's villainy in the face of the expanded League.
+After having the Legion seek out various valuable artifacts, Grodd revealed his master plan: to turn every human on the planet into apes. The plan, however, was thwarted by the Justice League. Subsequently, an unimpressed [[Lex Luthor]] shoots Grodd and usurps his position as the new leader of the Legion. Being obsessed with reclaiming the godlike power he briefly tasted when merged with the now-destroyed [[Brainiac]], Luthor kept Grodd prisoner in the Legion's headquarters in the hopes that he reveal how to reconstitute the living supercomputer from the last remaining fragment. With the discovery that Brainiac had a base in deep space that was subsequently destroyed (see "[[Twilight of the Gods]]") Luthor has the Legion refit the headquarters for space travel, promising them a place of leadership in the new order with himself as absolute ruler.
-Of note is that Grodd's romantic preferences become clear: he has a taste for human females, like Corwin or the artificially-made-human Giganta.
+Given Luthor's heavy-handed leadership and romantic disinterest, the spurned [[Tala]] eventually releases Grodd, who then arranges a mutiny with many other villains. Luthor uses his intellect and resourcefulness to counter his adversaries' powers; Grodd's mind-control ability is used against him, forcing him to step into an airlock, from which he is released into the void.
+Of note is that Grodd's romantic preferences become clear: he has a taste for human females, like Corwin or the artificially-made-human Giganta.
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