Drew grew up in Lebanon, Indiana outside of Indianapolis and was singing and acting throughout his formative years. When Henry made the workers feed the body to the crocodiles, Grundy snapped, killed Henry, and everyone else in the slaughterhouse, then committed suicide while reciting the "Solomon Grundy" nursery rhyme he would often sing to his infant son. The lyrics were first recorded in 1842 by nursery rhyme and fairy-tale collector James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps. Though Solomon Grundy never appears in Batman: Arkham Knight's prequel comic, seven clones of him appear where they all have been created by Calendar Man and named after the days of the week. However, Hawkman strikes Grundy with his mace, and Doctor Mid-Nite is able to revive the Lantern. Christened on Tuesday, Solomon Grundy? He is apparently destroyed yet again when Batman tricks the creature into a blast furnace, where it is apparently consumed by the flames.[22]. Having absorbed magic from Doctor Fate and Green Lantern, Grundy is easily able to defeat the combined might of Superman, Jay Garrick, Hawkman, Hawkman, and Green Lantern, until he is defeated by both Green Lanterns and sealed in Slaughter Swamp. Alan Scott serves as his reluctant guide, as the story continues in the Solomon Grundy miniseries. Ragdoll's scarred face relates to Grundy, and Grundy goes on to turn against the Secret Society. [46] While he has occasionally been destroyed, he has always returned to life sooner or later, though often with different personalities and powers. [11], At this point, Grundy is freed and enlisted along with several other supervillains by the time-traveling criminal Per Degaton in his second appearance, who has traveled to 1941 to capture the Justice Society of America on the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor, hoping to change history and take over the world. Solomon Grundy had a counterpart on the Crime Syndicate of America's Earth called Sir Solomon Grundy who was a member of Quizmaster's Justice Underground. [50], In the alternate timeline of the Flashpoint event, Solomon Grundy was invited by Lt. Matthew Shrieve to be the new member of the Creature Commandos, but Solomon Grundy then betrays him, killing his family. [8], A criminal scientist calling himself the Baron of York kills his brother and takes over his gang stating to them that he knows where to find the body of Solomon Grundy. In this incarnation, he gains intelligence which he subsequently loses when Green Lantern defeats and buries Grundy in 1947. - This Takes place after the ending of Arkham Asylum. In the first issue of Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers of Victory, Issue #0 of the same name, one of the Seven Unknown Men of Slaughter Swamp recounts the death of the miserly pedophile, Cyrus Gold, killed at the hands of an enraged mob, but also mentions that Gold could just as easily have been the innocent victim of a misunderstanding, as Slaughter Swamp is a point in space where time means nothing. Green Lantern and Doiby use a special radio-like device Alan Scott had developed that is attuned to the mental wavelengths of Grundy himself; Green Lantern calculates the path of Grundy and announces over the radio in JSA HQ where Grundy will strike. Unfortunately, he and the rest of the villains don't do much in the trailer. Voiced by actor Jimmy Weldon, Grundy distinguished himself from his peers due to his Appalachian-inspired accent. Batman ended the fight by knocking Grundy into the door, which caused it to b… ", is found in Green Arrow (vol. After Infinity, Inc. disbands, Solomon Grundy loses his loyalty towards Jade. As Grundy will regenerate, Superman takes his body and head to Lex Luthor to find a way to make Grundy an asset to the Regime. He took a hiatus from his acting to pursue other interests. 17th–18th century. The scene now shifts back to the moment at JSA HQ where Green Lantern had opened the door. When in the alley, Nygma and Solomon Grundy were having some food they found when the same men showed up to get even with Solomon Grundy. Solomon Grundy is a fictional character, usually depicted as a supervillain in DC Comics and an antihero in the DC Animated Universe. Ragdoll II encounters Grundy in a doorway. In keeping with his educated personality, Sir Solomon dresses himself as a 19th-century Englishman would, and speaks accordingly. Block Follow. Grundy proves to be a difficult opponent, unkillable (since he is already dead) and with an inherent resistance to Scott's powers (which cannot affect wood, a substance of which Grundy's reassembled body is now largely composed). As Superman and some of the Justice League fight with Batman over removing the inhabitants of Arkham Asylum, Harley Quinn releases the villains to fight them, including Grundy, who attacks Damian Wayne. Being very easy to memorize, Solomon Grundy is used as a tool to teach kids the days of the week. One of the men at the camp mentions the nursery rhyme character Solomon Grundy (who was born on a Monday), and Gold adopts the moniker. Labs which causes the Grundys to become inert, in effect killing the seemingly unkillable man-thing. Once Grundy found out that Marcie had duped him, he savagely beat her within an inch of her life. As the heroes return they find Green Lantern had placed Grundy and Blockbuster together to occupy them, and the two have knocked the hate out of each other. Alan Scott and the Phantom Stranger were given as his guides throughout the week, while Etrigan was trying to take him to Hell. He is an amalgamation of Solomon Grundy and Hulk. [21], This version repeatedly plagues Superman for years until, during an encounter wherein multiple Grundys are spawned, Superman and the Swamp Thing both encounter the clones. In the late 19th century, a wealthy merchant named Cyrus Gold is murdered and his body is disposed of in Slaughter Swamp, near Gotham City. When Green Lantern and Grundy meet, Grundy rips a tree out by its roots and smashes it into the Lantern. [35], He later appears in the Salvation Run mini-series as one of the villains exiled to another planet. Solomon Grundy is a poem and traditional nursery rhymes dating back to the 19th century England.. Grundy attacks both of them, but Batman drives him off by blinding him with a shot of mace. After Solomon Grundy is rescued from a glacier by Alan Scott's daughter, Jade, Grundy becomes loyal to her and, for a while, is an ally of Infinity, Inc. During a clash with Superman, it is determined that his might is too much for the Man of Steel, so Superman flies the monster to an alien world inhospitable to all save the hardiest life as the zombie propels himself through the air mimicking his one-time adversary. [41], Solomon Grundy is pursued by Batman in Gotham City before the former incapacitates him. Married on Wednesday, Solomon Grundy made his small-screen debut in 1978 on the Hanna-Barbera animated series Challenge of the Super Friends. Solomon Grundy is a villain in the DC Super Hero Girls web series. Grundy encounters Green Lantern, the Flash, and Wonder Woman in Echo Park, whom Grundy knows from 1947. Cyrus became loyal to Marsha and she told him to wait outside. Eventually it is revealed that Gold committed suicide, meaning he forced the curse of Solomon Grundy on himself. Grundy recites the Solomon Grundy nursery rhyme while being pursued before Batman finished it for him when he defeats Grundy. A vaguely legible giant figure can also be seen looming in the background of the Injustice Society, and it's possible that this is Solomon Grundy. As the Acolyte, Cyrus supported Father Trigon in all of the Church of Blood's activities as his second-in-command. [9], A freak weather occurrence releases Solomon Grundy from his prison. However, when the villains exit, Grundy's hand trembles, accompanied with a groaning sound. Solomon Grundy has superhuman strength and stamina. Solomon Grundy appears in DC Super Hero Girls, voiced again by Fred Tatasciore. Sir Solomon appears to be identical in physical appearance to the mainstream Solomon Grundy with the exception of a trimmed mustache and a small goatee. Bruce Banner was a scientist working with gamma rays. Buried on Sunday. After regenerating, he was approached by an army of creatures, mindless zombies that resembled the heroes from the other dimension. Grundy and a newly disfigured Harvey Dent strike up an odd friendship after Dent escapes the slaughterhouse to plot his revenge on Carmine Falcone. The Solomon Grundy poem is telling the story of Solomon Grundy, a man who, metaphorically, lives and dies his entire life in one single week. Minutes later, Grundy arrives at JSA HQ, and, not finding the Lantern there, he smashes the place up, then leaves. Lik… In Batman '66, Solomon Grundy appears as a wealthy Olympic wrestler who Marsha, Queen of Diamonds seduced with one of her Aunt Hilda's potions. Solomon Grundy is seen fighting against the Blood Pack in the Battle of Metropolis, until he is vaporized by Superboy-Prime's heat vision, which apparently kills the Blood Pack and destroys Grundy's current incarnation. Once the body is found, the Baron of York injects Grundy with concentrated chlorophyll upon knowing his background. To his surprise, Doiby Dickles walks in, and informs him that Grundy has freed himself and is on the loose. In the prequel comic to the video game Injustice: Gods Among Us, Grundy first appears in Year One. She convinces him to press the unconscious Mister Bones' bare hand against Skyman; since Bones's skin constantly exudes a cyanide-based compound, this quickly leads to Skyman's death. He is shown being defeated by Thor. “Solomon Grundy” is a poem and traditional nursery rhyme dating back to the 19th century England. Solomon Grundy also appears in the 1979 live action TV specials, Legends of the Superheroes, played by actor Mickey Morton. [54], During the Emperor Joker storyline where the Joker warped reality, Solomon Grundy was the warden of Arkham Asylum. Grundy hides out for a time in the Arrowcave, the long abandoned former headquarters of the Emerald Archer, Green Arrow. He is based on the 19th century nursery rhyme "Solomon Grundy."[1]. Flash, Hawkgirl, and Green Lantern fight him, but Atom brings him down temporarily by jumping onto him at giant size. He has long been one of the key members of the Injustice Society, a villain group that opposes the Justice Society of America.. [6] Fifty years later, the corpse is reanimated as a huge shambling figure (composed partly of the swamp matter that has accumulated around the body over the decades) with almost no memory of its past life. His psychotic tendencies made him a natural businessman, whose legacy and wealth preceded him, but he accumulated many enemies, even those within his immediate family. Grundy grabs Green Lantern by the throat and begins to squeeze the life out of him, holding his head underwater. No information given. [28] In the final issue, the same Unknown Man punishes another of his group – the Eighth Man, Zor – by dressing him in Cyrus Gold's clothing and leaving him for the mob to find, implying that Zor – an extremely vain character, notable for attempting several times to overthrow the Universe and for having defeated The Spectre – would later become the first Solomon Grundy. For a show that glories in tweaking comic characters' origin stories, Gotham played Solomon Grundy's origin pretty straight in "The Blade's Path." Swamp Thing attempts to cry out for Superman to stop, as he believes Grundy to meet the definition of life, but Swamp Thing is unable to express this, due to physical difficulty in speaking. Green Lantern leaves immediately, hoping to find Grundy before any of the JSA members are hurt going after him. This battle has all been arranged by Superman’s old enemy the Parasite, who is using his Power-Prism to increase Grundy’s strength, a reversal of his usual M.O. Solomon Grundy, This version of Grundy returns one final time, without explanation, leading a gang in the Earth-One Gotham City. He is offered nanotechnology stolen from GNX's Supercop program by Lex Luthor's daughter, Lucinda Luthor.[53]. He was originally depicted as a murder victim brought back to life as a corporeal revenant or zombie, though subsequent versions of the character have occasionally depicted a different origin. Grundy first appeared in the premier episode entitled \"Wanted: The Super Friends\", where he joined twelve other infamous villains as part of the Legion of Doom. The Skulk is a hero of the Amalgam Universe. Gold murders two escaped criminals who are hiding out in the marsh and steals their clothes. He returns to Gotham City, but is shot by police after attacking a charity worker. The original Grundy, for example, had prominent front teeth). 1 Appearance 2 Superpowers 3 Depiction in the web series 3.1 Season two 3.2 Season three 3.3 Season four 4 Depiction in comics 4.1 Finals Crisis 4.2 Summer Olympus 4.3 Past Times at Super Hero High 5 References Solomon Grundy is a large, grey skinned zombie man with white, untidy hair and grey eyes. Grew worse on Friday, However, the process was missing one vital piece: fire, as a Plant Elemental cannot be fully created unless it died in flames. 1. The side effect turned Solomon Grundy green. Later as a somewhat humorous twist, Batman provides Solomon Grundy with a Thanksgiving dinner.[24]. Eventually, his cruelty caught up with him and Cyrus Gold was murdered. A clash with Alan Scott and Jade in the pages of Green Lantern Corps Quarterly ends with Grundy turning into a statue of petrified wood. Solomon Grundy also appeared in CGI form in the first season of the television series Stargirl for DC Universe and The CW network. He was originally depicted as a murder victim brought back to life as a corporeal revenant or zombie, though subsequent versions of the character have occasionally de He finds himself in front of his own grave, where the Phantom Stranger tells him he has seven days to undo his curse, as "There is an unholy night coming, as black as the dead's blood. The actor who went on to play a young "Hoss Cartwright" started out as a real life Hoss setting a record at the Indiana hospital weighing in at more than 11 lbs. 3) #18. Currently Offline. Grundy was a slaughterhouse worker in 1898, his wife Pinney Grundy was raped by his callous foreman Henry Pittance and she killed herself on the job. First appearing in Earth 2 #3, Grundy personifies "The Grey" life-destroying forces and opposes "The Green" forces that choose Alan Scott as their champion. Cyrus is a large man, who appears albino and zombie-like. 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Born on Monday, each day of the week he is growing older facing a different stage of his life, and his life ends on Saturday. At the end of the series' run we see Grundy reanimated as a Black Lantern, and Cyrus Gold in hell. He apparently kills Green Lantern, who gives off a green flash. Solomon Grundy was briefly seen fighting Arkillo of the Sinestro Corps and Saint Walker of the Blue Lantern Corps. In DC Comics lore, Solomon Grundy … Liking this flash, Grundy commits murders hoping to see the flash again. At this point, he has temporary mastery over all wooden objects. He is virtually indestructible and immortal thanks to the elemental energy that imbues his form with pseudo-life. The Post-Crisis version of Solomon Grundy debuts during the "Batman: The Long Halloween" storyline. Grundy escaped, ran toward Batman, and forced the Dark Knight to slow him down by activating nearby fuse boxes with his Explosive Gel Launcher. Under the guise of Brother Blood, Sebastian injected Cyrus with the Mirakuru serum in an at… His strength has varied greatly through the years; for instance, in the Long Halloween story arc, Batman beat Grundy, while at various points his strength is roughly on par with Superman's. The character, renamed Butch Gilzean and portrayed as a professional mob enforcer, appeared in 2014 on Fox's television series Gotham, where he was portrayed by Drew Powell. Grundy is then taken back to his Earth by the Justice Society. It has also been established that the Spawn of Frankenstein is partly animated by the immortal blood of Melmoth, making him a Grundyman. Questions Answers Followed questions Following users Followers. [12][13], After many years, Grundy is knocked loose from his planet prison and returns to Earth to battle Green Lantern, Hourman, and Doctor Fate. Neville Archambault, Actor: Slumlord. Solomon Grundy became a character of urban legends and comics. Under Blackgate Prison, Batman found a locked door with Solomon Grundy behind it. See, The first Psycho-Pirate was debuted by Gardner Fox and Joe Gallagher. Grundy possesses a healing factor. It is not known if Grundy is still using this building. That was the end, Grundy is once more an unintelligent monster, repeating the opening line of the nursery rhyme. The song was translated in different languages including French, German or … In the present, Solomon Grundy somehow returned to Earth, went on a decaying rampage, and fought members of the World Army where he was briefly dissolved. [29], Grundy is manipulated by Gorilla Grodd via mind control into attacking Batman and Superman for President Luthor for the bounty of one billion dollars in Superman/Batman. 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