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A powerhouse fighter and always a rogue element, Grimlock is the leader of the Dynobots, a team of Autobots committed to doing their own thing their own way! Surly and disobedient, Grimlock is always at odds with authority... an attitude that changed everything when he disregarded orders to lead the Dynobots on a mission to destroy Shockwave on prehistoric Earth. Being buried for thousands of years, having his comrades turned against him, imprisonment in Garrus-9, and an unlikely alliance with a squad of Decepticons were only some of the adventures that Grimlock faced as a result of that fateful mission!
- First appearance: Spotlight: Shockwave
| “ | Will he be pleased to see us? | ” |
| “ | Hell no. He's never pleased to see anyone. | ” |
| —Guzzle & Kup, Last Stand of the Wreckers #4 | ||
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Fiction
Joining the Autobots
Grimlock of Iacon was a forged heavy-weight class Point One Percenter. The Divided Self Arm the Lonely He has been a warrior for millennia, although not always an obedient one. He was languishing in a military brig after angering a field commander when he met a fellow detainee named Slag, and started swapping stories. Slag had shot a vice-admiral in the back to con him into a frontal assault, so Slag won the conversation. Grimlock thought this Slag guy sounded like a good bloke, and the two of them discussed the formation of their own rule-breaking strike team, the Dynobots. Maximum Dinobots #2 Grimlock and the Dynobots would go on to serve under the Primal Vanguard Rage as a covert strike force, carrying out over 200 missions under the command of Nominus Prime and receiving numerous commendations. Underworld Grimlock profile
Everything changed, however, when the team was sent to investigate a tunnel network below the Toraxxis Plains. Set upon by powerful cyber-morphic predators, the Dynobots were forced to use technology developed by their medic, Skar, to scan the creatures and match their power. These new alternate modes gave the team the edge needed to defeat their assailants, Underworld but Grimlock, unable to control the rage induced by his monstrous form, inadvertently killed Skar. Massacre On returning to base, the Dynobots were placed in quarantine for the study of their altered bodies, but overwhelmed with grief and a feeling of betrayal, they staged an escape and went on the run. Underworld
Having fallen from grace, the Dynobots began fighting in the gladiatorial pits. Rage There, the likes of Scorponok regarded Grimlock as one of the greatest gladiators the pits had ever produced, having personally fought him one-on-one. Soundwaves At the start of Megatron's rise to power, the Dynobots turned out to an open casting call for Megatron's underground gladiatorial games, and got a good deal more respect from the Predacons than the other attendees. It turned out to be a recruitment drive for the Decepticon army. What they thought of that is unknown, as Autobot security forces raided the party soon after. Megatron Origin #3 While Megatron would mark Grimlock as a potential Decepticon of great potential, he was also acutely aware that for all his strength, Grimlock possessed a "flaw": compassion. Rage
"And that's the way we LIKE it!"
Later, Grimlock and the Dynobots were in Ironfall, at the Ring of Trials, when they heard Optimus Prime's call to arms against the new Decepticon insurrectionist government. The Dynobots responded on the side of the Autobots, and joined in the march on Megatron's citadel. Broadcast During the battle, Grimlock and his Dynobots took out a lot of tanks, sneering at the Decepticons' definition of "armored". Endgame
Not long after Megatron's defeat, the Dynobots once again disappeared from the radar and took to robbing energon reserves supplies, receiving intel from Swindle. After a raid proved less successful then had been hoped, Grimlock throttled an explanation from Swindle, who admitted that intelligence had suffered in the now Scorponok-dominated Decepticons. Releasing the Decepticon, Grimlock fretted over the idea that the longer the Dynobots remained on Cybertron, the greater the risk their unstable alternate modes posed to the populace. Derelicts Tempers in the Dynobot ranks soon flared as Slag accused Grimlock of dragging them from small-time raid to small-time raid because he enjoyed their life on the run. The pair began to lose their tempers, but were talked down by Swoop, who feared what would happen if they transformed. Their next raid was at the Toraxxis mega-refinery. While they broke in, they were hindered by remote sentries until Grimlock killed their controller. Once they had captured the refinery, Grimlock ordered they wait for Snarl to bring a truck to drain the energon. Wreckage
Tempers continued to flare until a furious Slag seemingly abandoned his comrades, but returned at sunrise just as Scorponok's Decepticons arrived in their own bid to raid the refinery. However, Grimlock had triggered the refinery's alarm during the fight and summoned back-up in the form of the Autobots. Faces of Darkness
Using the arrival of the Autobots as a distraction, the Dynobots made their escape, followed by Scorponok, Blitzwing, Dai Atlas and Orion. Scorponok and Blitzwing managed to get ahead, and as Scorponok ordered Blitzwing to attack, Grimlock mocked him for hiding behind artillery. The two former gladiators clashed, the fight driving Grimlock into a rage. After stabbing Scorponok, Grimlock began to lose control, battering the Decepticon to the ground. As he advanced on his prey, Grimlock began to change into his bestial form, with his eyes changing from yellow to red and bladed ridges bursting through his exoskeleton. The Dynobots tried to restrain him, but he seemed to have lost control completely, crying out he'd kill them all. He was brought back to his senses by a shot from Orion. Grimlock begged Optimus to let him leave, but when the Autobot leader refused, Grimlock threatened to blow the refinery up, killing everyone there. By appealing to his better nature, Optimus managed to talk Grimlock down, but this only allowed Scorponok to attempt the very same thing. Rage Grimlock survived the subsequent explosion, but was left wandering the ashen blast crater alone. Fallout
Eventually, Grimlock was found by both Kup and his teammates, who, with some difficulty, managed to convince him that Optimus Prime could be able to help the "cursed" Dynobots. Prey They met up with the Prime at Starsreach Spaceport, where a mass exodus of neutral Cybertronians was occurring, but the entire group was caught in a Decepticon aerial bombardment ordered by Scorponok. Enraged, Grimlock fully transformed into his beast mode and attacked the Decepticon ground forces, Massacre with such vigor that they effected a full retreat. Still in a fury, it took Optimus to subdue and calm Grimlock sufficiently for him to revert to robot mode. Despite Prime's efforts to convince them otherwise, the Dynobots proceeded with their plan to get themselves away from Cybertron, leaving the spaceport in a shuttle. Unleashed
However, an ancient monster appeared on the surface not long afterwards, accompanied by the same predators that the Dynobots had fought beneath Toraxxis. Unwilling to leave the Autobots to their fate, Grimlock turned the ship around and air-dropped with his team to the surface, where they were able to fight off the smaller beasts. When Megatron approached a wounded Optimus Prime, Grimlock leapt to the rescue. Engrossed in combat, neither the Dynobot or Decepticon noticed Trypticon lean down towards them, and the creature swallowed them whole. Annihilation
Trapped inside the monster, the two enemies were attacked by more of the dragon-beasts, revealing to Grimlock that they were generated from inside Trypticon. Agreeing to a temporary alliance to escape alive, Megatron and Grimlock fought their way to the beast's plasma-core, where they found vast containers of an aggression and power-boosting energon substance. With Megatron covering him, Grimlock went to destroy the reservoirs, but was halted when proximity to the volatile fuel began increasing his rage. Fighting through the impulses, the Dynobot cleaved open the tanks, felling Trypticon. Emerging just after Megatron, Grimlock found Prime close to death, and decided to let his battle with Megatron wait until another day so the wounded Autobots could be taken to safety. As they retreated, leaving the inert Trypticon in Decepticon hands, Grimlock asked Jetfire for his help in curing the Dynobots. Belly of the Beast
Though Grimlock was worst off among the Dynobots, Autobot scientists were eventually able to purify his corrupted energon and re-engineer his original altmode, curing him. He was sent to check up on Trypticon's body together with Hot Rod, but the optimism of the young recruit got on his nerves and an argument broke out between the two when he accused Hot Rod of not understanding pain and guilt. They quickly shut up upon noticing that Trypticon had disappeared. Primacy #1 The beast soon reappeared from the depths of space on a collision course with Iacon, prompting an emergency security meeting which Grimlock attended. Primacy #2 Once this turned out to be the first step of a Decepticon invasion plan, he took to the battlefield, fighting Junkions and Sharkticons before being confronted by Blackwall, an old rival from his gladiator days. Primacy #3 Though outpowered in hand-to-hand combat, Grimlock prevailed by stabbing Blackwall in the head with his sword, proclaiming he was better at fighting dirty. He then gathered his Dynobots and led them into battle against the Predacons, saving Hot Rod from the beasts and personally breaking Razorclaw's jaws off. Primacy #4
At some point during the war, Grimlock's natural distrust for authority led him to briefly defect to the Decepticons. Animals Grimlock profile For one reason or another, he eventually went back to the Autobots; Megatron was so furious at losing the powerful warrior that he ordered the dreaded Decepticon Justice Division to bump the Dynobot commander up their infamous List. The Ties That Bind Who's Afraid of the DJD?
Returning to the Autobots, Grimlock tussled with the DJD several times; in one encounter, he was responsible for mangling the face of their leader, Tarn. The Ties That Bind
On Earth
In no small part due to Grimlock's influence, the Dynobots remained a group of close knit hunters and guardsmen who preferred to work outside the Autobot rulebook, though still on the same side. Grimlock was among the Autobots fighting atop the Decepticon warship Hell's Point during a particularly brutal fight. The Gloaming After the war spread off-world, the Dynobots fought a campaign on Varas Centralus, where their brutality horrified even the Wreckers. The Killing Jar A campaign on another alien world ended with its native population reduced to a mere handful of survivors. When Optimus Prime arrived in the aftermath, Grimlock had to prevent a bitter Slag from attacking the Autobot leader, even though he agreed with Slag's take that Prime was becoming too detached from the cost of war. Post After Shockwave destroyed a cache of energon the Dynobots had been hoarding, causing them severe energon burns and equally severe humiliation, they swore revenge. So, against orders from Optimus Prime, they followed Shockwave when he left Cybertron to stabilize "Ultra-Energon" deposits he had sent to other worlds as a precaution against the depletion of Cybertron's own energon reserves.
When Shockwave reached his first destination—Earth, at the end of the last Ice Age—the Dynobots destroyed his ship, but Slag revealed that the high energon levels of the planet would put them in stasis lock, since they hadn't come prepared like Shockwave. Slag then came up with the idea that they should scan the local life forms and create alt modes based on those animals, but with synthetic flesh coatings to protect against the high levels of energon radiation. Grimlock was completely against the idea, but since Slag couldn't come up with something better, he relented. However, he refused to take on the form of the weak mammalians that dominated the planet, demanding "something with some... bite." Scanning fossil deposits, Slag found the remains of some extinct reptilian animals and brought up a holographic representation of one to see if Grimlock approved. What popped up was a Tyrannosaurus rex, which Grimlock seemed to fall in love with the moment he saw it. The choice made, Grimlock took the Tyrannosaur as his altmode and had Slag find more dinosaurs as templates for the rest of the Dynobots.
On teleporting down to the planet's surface to confront Shockwave, they gained an initial advantage, as Shockwave's logic was unable to comprehend the effort and risks they had taken for their revenge. However, when Shockwave recognized this weakness, he shut down his logic processors and executed a "rage" program to enable him to operate on pure instinct. He shrugged off the Dynobots' attacks and beat them severely, ending the assault by burning off their organic coatings. Unable to accept another defeat, Grimlock transformed to robot mode and fought against his imminent stasis lock to no avail.
However, before leaving the Dynobots' ship, he had enabled a "dead man's switch" designed to take Shockwave with them if they were defeated. When he entered stasis lock, this failsafe activated, firing on a nearby dormant volcano and causing an eruption which buried Shockwave and the Dynobots under ash and lava. Thousands of years later, their entombed bodies were discovered by a human archaeological team. Spotlight: Shockwave
In 2007, the human organization Skywatch took over jurisdiction of the dig site and excavated Shockwave and the Dynobots. Escalation #5 When the Reapers attacked the Decepticons, Skywatch decided to awaken the most advanced of their "Eureka Six", which turned out to be Grimlock. Devastation #5 Devastation #6
Daylight come and me Grimlock wanna go home.
Grimlock's reactivation was sabotaged by an agent of the Machination and when he awoke, they had no control over him. He escaped the facility, confused and angry. His escape was engineered by the head of the Machination, Scorponok, who wanted Grimlock to join him in the Machination plot to dominate the Earth by running interference and delaying Megatron's plans long enough for the Machination to put their plans into action.
Grimlock considered for a second, but refused the offer for two reasons: he could turn Scorponok in to Ultra Magnus for redemption, and as revenge for Scorponok once robbing an installation the Dynobots were guarding. The two fought and Scorponok quickly gained the upper hand, mostly due to his Headmaster upgrade. Grimlock was able to activate his transporter chip, which beamed him back to his ship, the Skyfire, which was buried deep in ice somewhere. Grimlock hoped he could use the ship to find the other Dynobots. Spotlight: Grimlock
Finding himself trapped, both on a useless ship and in a less than inconspicuous form, Grimlock was forced to try and contact some of his less reputable acquaintances in an attempt to get the Skyfire into some sort of working order. Meanwhile, the Machination had tracked him down and had sent their Tsunami Unit to apprehend him. Grimlock's early warning system detected them, and he circled round as they began to attack, bursting from the ice and transforming. The battle very quickly turned in his favor with four of the clones falling in the opening moments. The surviving Headmasters were rather shaken, but managed to fulfill their mission: attach a device which would orbital bounce him to Nevada, near Skywatch's base. Grimlock materialized in the middle of a busy street in Fallon. As a car crashed into his toe, he realized things had just gone from bad to worse. Maximum Dinobots #1
Grimlock knew Scorponok was trying to deliberately set him up as a rampaging monster, but didn't expect his fellow Dynobots to be sent to take him down! He was able to fight them all off but unable to break their reprogramming by appealing to their team ethos...and when they did regain sentience and memory, it was because Scorponok let them so they could get pissed off at the knowledge Grimlock had set up a "dead man's switch" without informing them. Grimlock's defence was that such a sneaky, amoral and rule-breaking act was what the Dynobots were all about, which surprisingly worked. While saying this, he grudgingly and with much moaning saved a human from burning to death. Maximum Dinobots #2
Convinced he'd brought his team round, Grimlock began issuing orders, only to be met by an icy silence. Swoop spoke for the group, saying his trust was hard earned and Grimlock tossed it away. Disgusted, he abandoned the team, prompting the others to follow. Grimlock tried pleading with them, then turned in a huff, stating he'd be better off on his own. He was interrupted by the arrival of the Sunstreaker clones, who blasted him in the chest. Enraged, he vented his frustrations on the clones until their laser blasts began to wear him down. He was saved by the arrival of the other Dynobots, who felt that whatever had happened, they were still a team. However, they were overwhelmed by the sheer number of clones, until the arrival of the "help" Grimlock had requested earlier: the Monsterbots. Seeing the newcomers take the fight to the enemy, Grimlock ordered his unit to show the Monsterbots how it's really done. Decimated and demoralized, the surviving Machination clones escaped with their lives. Maximum Dinobots #3
Aboard the Monsterbots' ship, the Dynobots wondered why Grimlock would side with the outcasts. They gave Grimlock a stern look when he exited the cockpit. The Dynobots didn't see the point of fighting Scorponok, but Grimlock said that Scorponok made it their fight when he turned the Dynobots against him. Snarl disagreed, saying that it had always been Grimlock's fight, that he and the other Dynobots went along with him, and that it was now Grimlock's wounded pride at stake. After the Monsterbots blasted away the defenses, Grimlock exited the ship, saying that there was no way he could let this go, and that with or without the Dynobots, there would be a reckoning for Scorponok. The Dynobots decided that arguing was pointless and followed Grimlock. When Hunter O'Nion pulled the cords from Sunstreaker's head, shutting him down, the clones ceased to function. Sludge cried out in victory, but the moment was short-lived as Scorponok blasted Sludge into stasis. Maximum Dinobots #4
Grimlock stared down at Sludge's dead body, brooding about how it was his fault Sludge was dead... while a battle between Scorponok and Shockwave (for rights of revenge upon Grimlock) raged on around him. Eventually Snarl, Slag, and Swoop decide to get to the Monsterbots' ship while the getting was good, but Grimlock stayed behind with Sludge. Grimlock tried infusing some of his spark energy into Sludge to revive him, but it seemed to have no effect. Shockwave got the upper hand and let Scorponok escape, and in frustration, Grimlock attacked Shockwave. Grimlock and Shockwave were too busy fighting to notice the return of Slag, Snarl, and Swoop, who reasoned that, while helping Grimlock might not be much of a cause, it still beat being no better than the Monsterbots. They were noticed by Sludge, who seemed to have recovered due to Grimlock's treatment after all. The four of them dove into the fray proper, but Grimlock ordered them to go after Scorponok instead. When Hot Rod was about to get squished by Scorponok, the remaining Dynobots showed up in just the nick of time. At Hot Rod's urgings, Swoop severed the connections keeping Scorponok's head conscious. In the meantime, Grimlock had found out Shockwave was using their battle to stall for time so that Soundwave could free him from Skywatch's control. The Decepticon attempted to abandon the fight, but Grimlock stubbornly refused to let him walk away, and rolled out a grenade, which incapacitated them both.
By this time Ultra Magnus had arrived and taken Scorponok into custody. Grimlock and Shockwave were both arrested and taken off-world. Ultra Magnus later told Grimlock that having Scorponok and Shockwave in custody could help offset Grimlock's own sentence. Grimlock wasn't interested, asking only that the blame was put squarely on him and that the other Dynobots' warrants were cancelled. Magnus agreed, and Grimlock was left to muse on the fact that Sludge and his team were alive and well, thanks to him. Maximum Dinobots #5
Grimlock was taken to Garrus-9, Last Stand of the Wreckers #4 an offworld detention facility that, unbeknownst to the Autobot rank and file, was also the secret storage location for the artifact known as the Magnificence. When Grimlock arrived, it was decided that the Autobots would store the Magnificence in the one place harder to get into than a fortified prison world: Grimlock himself. As such, Grimlock's chest was modified to include a secure, tamperproof brace designed to house the artifact. The Ties That Bind
Grimlock spent a few months in a private cell, Kill All 'Cons until the Decepticon Surge. As the Autobot war machine collapsed, Garrus-9 was assaulted and overrun by the rogue Decepticon Overlord and his Predators, who seized control of the detention facility. Overlord turned the prison into his own personal playground, forcing prisoners and guards, Autobots and Decepticons alike, to fight for his amusement... except for Grimlock, who Overlord kept alive, forcing him to watch footage of the pit fights. Last Stand of the Wreckers #4
Shortly after their initial escape from Garrus-9, Scorponok and Flame came into the employ of the enigmatic Grand Architect, who required the Magnificence to advance his own agenda. Kill All 'Cons The two of them used the interspacial portal network known as the Warren to teleport Grimlock out of his cell and onto their Worldsweeper-class starship; unable to pry the Magnificence free from Grimlock's chest, the two of them tortured Grimlock mentally and physically until the Dynobot lost control of his body and involuntarily relinquished the artifact. The Ties That Bind
Though Grimlock was still alive, he had suffered acute mental and physical trauma as a result of his recent experiences: in his case, it manifested as severe aphasia stemming from his recently incurred brain damage. Kill All 'Cons In this primitive state, Grimlock was no longer needed: he was imprisoned inside a stasis tube and remained there for several years. Rules of Disengagement When the Grand Architect's research facility on the planet Corritan was decommissioned, the Worldsweeper-class vessel Grimlock was imprisoned aboard was selected to transport the nascent experiments to a nearby facility. Chasing the Infinite However, organic matter bled into its fuel supply and the ship crashed on the planet Clemency. Rules of Disengagement
By the time that the Wreckers arrived to rescue the inhabitants of Garrus-9, they discovered that Grimlock had disappeared. Snare confirmed that Grimlock was "long gone," and wondered if his torture at the hands of Overlord had driven him mad. Last Stand of the Wreckers #4
After the war
"No, this is how you play God".
Shortly after the end of the Great War in 2012, a mismatched group of Decepticons known as the "Scavengers" stumbled across Grimlock's tube on Clemency. Rules of Disengagement These Decepticons had made themselves targets for the Decepticon Justice Division and quickly decided to use Grimlock to their advantage, awakening him with a dose of circuit speeders that drove him into a ferocious rage and pointing him in the direction of their hunters. Unfortunately, after a brief burst of violence and success against Tarn and Kaon, Grimlock all but stopped fighting following a blow from Tesarus, and would have been destroyed by the weaponized speech of Tarn if the battle had not prematurely ended when their opponents picked up the trail of bigger game and departed. In the aftermath, when the speeders had worn off, the Scavengers found that Grimlock had been rendered incoherent by his brain-damage. Believing that the Autobots had won the war, they set off for Cybertron, believing they could use him as a bargaining chip. Who's Afraid of the DJD?
Later, aboard the Weak Anthropic Principle on the planet Constancy, Grimlock was playing a game similar to Jenga whilst completely oblivious to the effects of Tyrest's universal killswitch on his shipmates. Arm the Lonely
After learning what had transpired on Cybertron in their absence, however, the Scavengers abandoned their plans to return home and continued wandering the galaxy aboard the Weak Anthropic Principle. Over the next few years, the Scavenger Misfire took a particular liking to Grimlock; in between various madcap adventures, he attempted to rehabilitate the Dinobot by trying to teach him how to speak, read, and write. Though Grimlock's body quickly healed, he remained incapable of speech and was prone to lashing out at anything around him without warning—fits that only grew more destructive as he recovered his strength.
When the Scavengers made a stopover on Tebris VII, Grimlock was in the middle of another unsuccessful spelling lesson when he abruptly began attacking Misfire. Grimlock rampaged through the ship before the other Scavengers blasted him into submission; an argument about whether or not they could safely keep the increasingly destructive Dinobot around was interrupted by a transmission from Krok's contact Demus.
Leaving Grimlock behind on the crashed W.A.P., they went to meet Demus; Some Of My Best Friends Are Autobots unbeknownst to the Scavengers, he was an affiliate of the Grand Architect, Animals and sought to take Grimlock "off their hands" by tempting them with a vast sum of Shanix. The vote turned in favor of selling the Dinobot, but the matter quickly became moot when Fortress Maximus blew Demus's head up. Some Of My Best Friends Are Autobots
To protect himself, Crankcase made Grimlock's signal visible to Fort Max, who decided it was better to go after the former G-9 inmate. When the duly appointed enforcer of the Tyrest Accords arrived at the W.A.P., Grimlock was in the middle of writing something. He soon attacked Fort Max, who believed Grimlock had turned 'con again. Their battle was cut short when the Scavengers appeared and talked Max out of fighting by explaining their story with Grimlock. Maximus proposed bringing the Dinobot to Luna 1 to Misfire's agreement, but he was met with objection from Spinister, who noted that they should ask Grimlock his opinion; to which he managed to sputter out Misfire's name. After bluffing Maximus into leaving the planet with the Roboids, the Scavengers returned to space in the Weak Anthropic Principle. Misfire, having lost a game of "Shoot Shoot Bang Bang", escorted Grimlock to his quarters and was left stunned when the Dinobot replied to him, but the Decepticon failed to notice what he'd drawn before Max had shown up: a gear-shaped symbol and writing the message "PREPARE - CONFRONT - REPEL". Animals
Grimlock would later watch the disturbing last will and testament of several of the Lost Light crew. How Bright Their Frail Deeds Unknown to him, shortly after they recorded those, Drift had had a vision of himself, Grimlock, and Rodimus standing against an apocalyptic threat, with "PREPARE - CONFRONT - REPEL" inscribed before them in Ancient Cybertronian. Some Other Cybertron
When the Scavengers paid a brief visit to Earth, specifically the Texas region, Grimlock recognised this as the place he'd last seen the other Dinobots. Unable to articulate his reasons, he escaped the ship and inadvertently smashed up several human towns (injuring dozens of people) in an attempt to get to Dallas. Misfire found him digging up his old sword, the names of his comrades inscribed, before he sadly handed it to the Decepticon. After consoling him, Misfire told Grimlock that he was thrilled to see he'd recovered a memory, something he'd assumed was impossible. Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again!
Grimlock and the Scavengers were scrounging for ununtrium on Frayus when they stumbled into a battle between the Galactic Council, Black Block Consortia, and Deathsaurus's Decepticons. Not wanting to get involved, the Scavengers were drawn into a mysterious portal when their orbital link back to the W.A.P. failed. Journey's End
They found themselves on Troja Major with the Curator, a former Decepticon named Agonizer. The Curator had recently discovered his rival, Mengel, had been in possession of the Magnificence before it was recovered from her by Flame. He wanted to hire the Scavengers to retrieve the Magnificence for him. Unaware of the past link between Grimlock and the Magnificence, Misfire believed he could use it to fully restore Grimlock's mind. For that, and a tidy sum of money, the Scavengers agreed. They were joined by Nickel, a Decepticon doctor from Deathsaurus's crew who accidentally tumbled through the portal after them.
On Confluence, however, the Scavengers quickly realized they were out of their depth. They discovered the connection between Flame, Scorponok, and the Worldsweeper they found Grimlock inside. Scorponok himself appeared and put Grimlock to sleep with a wave of his hand. He contained the Scavengers and the unconscious Grimlock in a cell on board his Worldsweeper. When the Scavengers opened up Grimlock's chest cavity looking for whatever device allowed Scorponok to knock him out, they discovered the Magnificence cradle and Scorponok filled them in on the rest. Then he woke Grimlock up. Confused, enraged, and feeling utterly vulnerable to find his chest open and surrounded by Decepticons, Grimlock started to tear through everyone in sight. The Ties That Bind
Nickel had been paying attention, however, and she noticed Grimlock was more coherent and reasonable in dino mode. She forcibly triggered his transformation, allowing Misfire to talk Grimlock down. Nickel explained her theory that Grimlock suffered from non-fluent aphasia, and in dino mode his brain module was repositioned to have less pressure placed upon it. With Spinister's help, she coordinated a treatment to manipulate that pressure and restore Grimlock's faculties fully in either mode. The Scavengers then decided to "play dead", making it appear as if Grimlock destroyed them all before asking for an audience with Scorponok. Once Grimlock was out of the cell and distracting Scorponok, the Scavengers reassembled themselves and made a surprise appearance.
A mad scientist to his core, Scorponok explained his plan to extract Decepticon sparks and place them in organic bodies to take advantage of their one upside: procreation. Once his sparked organics had suitably repopulated the Decepticon movement, he would transfer the new generation into pre-fabricated bodies to restore the might of the Decepticon army. Indeed, he had already created the prototype of his experiment, an infant Firstborn contained in his chest cavity. Not one for volunteers, Scorponok had discovered the means to remotely access Decepticon sparks through the spark casing elements in their badges, affecting them as he did to Grimlock. Scorponok tried to incapacitate all the Scavengers this way, but Nickel disabled him with a voice message from Tarn.
Grimlock and the Scavengers retrieved the Firstborn and prepared to leave the Worldsweeper via transmat portal. They intended to travel to Garrus-9 and use spark extraction technology to place the Firstborn's spark back in a mechanical body. Unfortunately, it seemed the transmat effect was hazardous to organics, meaning the baby would not survive. Grimlock volunteered to stay behind, protecting the baby in his chest brace while destroying the portal controls so Scorponok could not follow. He forcibly pushed Misfire and the others through the portal before preparing to fight. Kill All 'Cons
After fighting his way through the Worldsweeper, Grimlock escaped into the vacuum of space. He sent out an A.S.O.S. and was picked up by Riptide, Thunderclash, and First Aid, recently of the Lost Light. Learning of the mutiny they suffered, Grimlock agreed to help chase down Getaway after they dropped off the Firstborn on Troja Major with Agonizer. Following a tracking device, they found the Lost Light over Mederi and Grimlock engaged a group of Sparkeaters unleashed on Rodimus and the other survivors of the Light's original command crew. Unfortunately, these Sparkeaters were the other members of the crew, twisted against their will by a virus used by Scorponok.
Grimlock joined Crankcase, Ultra Magnus, and others on a strike team that penetrated the Lost Light while Misfire and the others remained behind to deal with the Sparkeaters. A Dance Before Dying They were assaulted by Red Scraplets Getaway had been keeping in the oil reservoir, but Whirl was able to tame them. Lūstrāre The Lost Light was recovered and the Sparkeaters safely disabled. The united group then found themselves facing off against the schemes of the Grand Architect, the force behind Scorponok and Getaway. Farsickness The Grand Architect's actions were only in response to an even greater threat: the Cybertron of another universe, transformed into a secondary robot mode patterned after Primus, intent on destroying all other life in two universes. Grimlock's plan (naturally) was to blow it up. However, Megatron (having recently spent time in that universe) warned that Cybertron was still populated with innocents. The Return of the King
After rescuing Rodimus and the others, who had just discovered Rung's true nature as Primus as well as the creator of the Matrix of Leadership, the crew hit on a plan to create twelve Matrixes to use to surge Vector Sigma with energy and destroy the Functionist Council. The Unremembering Once the Functionist Cybertron had been forcibly converted back into planet mode, Grimlock and Misfire accompanied Swerve to Warrior's Gate. While Grimlock held off the Functionaries, Swerve and Misfire successfully opened their Matrix after an uplifting speech from Rodimus, sending its energies through the hot spot into Vector Sigma and destroying the Functionist Council. A Spark Among Embers
After partaking in one last celebration on the Lost Light where they made peace with Fortress Maximus, Grimlock and the Scavengers departed for Troja Major to meet up with CONS4EVA. In another universe, the Scavengers were quantum duplicated and went on more adventures aboard the Lost Light. How To Say Goodbye And Mean It: Part 2
Notes
- Grimlock was retroactively identified as a Forged Point One Percenter in the trade version of More than Meets the Eye #19. Minimus Ambus listed Impactor instead of Grimlock in the original published issue, but that was at odds with Impactor being a defendant at the Aequitas trials, and therefore Constructed Cold.
- According to Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook #2, Grimlock is 38 feet tall and weights 24 tons.[1]
- Both Scorponok and Grimlock were originally intended to be large players in Last Stand of the Wreckers. Scorponok would have acted as Overlord's go to guy for crazy science and would develop Nucleon as a steroid analogue. The nucleon would power fighters up but damage their mental state. Scorponok would have solved the problem of not having a head by stealing Fortress Maximus's. Grimlock would have been dosed up on nucleon, trapping him in his dinosaur form, and rendering him a psychotic beast. Overlord was to have gone on to use him as the final opponent for anyone who progressed far enough in the arena. It was then intended that Overlord's defeat would come from the Wreckers knocking him into the arena with the enraged Grimlock. Although Grimlock did indeed have a minor part in the series, it was decided to deliberately minimalise any 'big name' characters at Garrus-9 so as not to overshadow the Wreckers.[2][3]
References
- ↑ For reference, this equals 11.6 metres and 21.8 metric tonnes.
- ↑ Auto Assembly 2010 Last Stand of the Wreckers Panel
- ↑ Moonbase 2's AA2010 interview, 30:06 - 31:03
