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Solomon Grundy. Born on a Monday. Christened on a Tuesday. Married on a Wednesday. Took ill on a Thursday. Got worse on a Friday. Died on a Saturday. Buried on a Sunday. This is the end of Solomon Grundy.
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~ The nursery rhyme Solomon Grundy is based on.
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God?! I don't want God.
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~ Solomon Grundy
Cyrus Gold, better known as Solomon Grundy, is a major antagonist in the DC Universe, specifically serving as a major antagonist in the Swamp Thing franchise.
He is a murder victim reborn as a monstrous, immortal zombie, although subsequent incarnations have depicted him as having a different origin. Across all incarnations, he possesses immense strength and a feeble intellect, making him an incredibly dangerous foe; although he has occasionally been swayed to the side of good, becoming more of an anti-heroic figure.
He debuted as a foe of Alan Scott/Green Lantern, serving as one of his two archenemies (alongside Vandal Savage), but has since gone on to be an enemy of various other heroes in the DC Universe, including Batman, Superman, the Justice Society and the Justice League.
Yes. I see now. Your name was Cyrus Gold... an evil man who performed many evil deeds... until the day you aroused an evil as great as your own. They ended your life, cursed you with a powerful grigri... and dumped your remains in a swamp redolent with mystical properties of its own. These magicks did not sit well together. And so it was that decades later... the swamp gave birth to a walking dead man, soulless and empty, always seeking, never knowing why.
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~ Doctor Fate
Cyrus Gold lived on the outskirts of Gotham during the middle of the nineteenth century. There, he was robbed and mortally injured, then his body was tossed in Slaughter Swamp (accounts vary on whether Gold had committed crimes himself and been killed by his cohorts or an angry mob).
Before he died, he swore vengeance. For over 50 years his body remained in the swamp. Years later, Gold rose again as a zombie. With little memory of who he really was or how he died, Gold wandered throughout the swamp.
He eventually encountered two escaped criminals, murdered them, and took their clothes. Shortly thereafter, he met a group of men in a hobo camp. When he was asked his name, he simply muttered that he had been born on Monday. This reminded him of the English nursery rhyme about a man who was born on Monday, so he decided to call himself "Solomon Grundy", and became a criminal in Gotham City.
His main enemy for many decades was the first Earth hero to call himself Green Lantern, Alan Scott. By extension, Grundy also became a regular foe of Earth's first team of superheroes, The Justice Society of America, to which Scott belonged.
Grundy proved to be a difficult opponent, unkillable (since he is already dead) and with an inherent resistancedue to Scott's powers (whichof cannot affect wood, and substancethus of which Grundy's reassembled body is now largely composed).
He apparently kills Green Lantern, who gives off a green flash. Liking this flash, Grundy commits murders hoping to see the flash again. However, the first fight ends when, engaging in fisticuffs with the monster because of the ineffectiveness of his ring, Green Lantern hurls Grundy under a train.
His ability to endlessly regenerate has meant a long and varied career, facing many foes in the DC Universe, including Superman, the later Oan-powered Green Lanterns of Earth, and Swamp Thing, an Earth elemental of the type of Grundy could have been, but his origin lacked a few of the needed conditions to achieve this. Needless to say, having his origin in Gotham City, it was all but inevitable that he would one day clash with Gotham's main vigilante, the Batman. Some accounts of Batman's career have him facing Grundy almost from the beginning.
DC Rebirth[]
Grundy fought on the Joker's side during the momentous "War of Jokes and Riddles", a battle that pitted him against Killer Croc. He would later fight fledgling heroes Gotham and Gotham Girl, nearly destroying Gotham City's Statue of Justice in the process. When incarcerated in Arkham Asylum, Grundy still found time for violence, battling not just Batman, but also Bane, Catwoman, and even Deathstroke.
Solomon Grundy's brain has rotted even further in recent months, and he was recruited as muscle for the Injustice League Dark, following the commands of Klarion the Witch Boy. However, their team fell to the Justice League Dark, leaving Grundy to wander the world aimlessly yet again.
Dawn of DC[]
During "The New Golden Age" as seen in 1941, Doctor Fate and Salem the Witch Girl come across Mister Miracle fighting Solomon Grundy while his Justice Society Dark teammates Zatara and Diamond Jack are having a spat. After Solomon Grundy is chained up, Mister Miracle suggests to Doctor Fate and Salem the Witch Girl that they should go apprehend Bride of Grundy.
When Huntress and Power Girl talk about expanding the Justice Society, Huntress mentions that her erased timeline had redeemed villains in it. If they end up going down that path, Huntress suggests that they should start with trying to get Solomon Grundy to join the Justice Society.
Green Lantern, Huntress, Stargirl, Doctor Fate, Batman, and Salem the Witch Girl confront Solomon Grundy. After Doctor Fate tried to reason with Solomon Grundy, Salem the Witch Girl tried to use a Limbo Town spell to regress Solomon Grundy back to Cyrus Gold only for her Limbo Town curse to reduce him to a skeleton.
Following Doctor Fate's attempt to get Salem the Witch Girl into Limbo Town which resulted in her fleeing, Doctor Fate receives a vision of Solomon Grundy quoting "Save Grundy". Grundy later joined the new Injustice Society led by Scandal Savage.
In a possible future seen in "The New Golden Age", Solomon Grundy was seen as a member of Huntress' makeshift Justice Society of America lineup 15 years from the present. When Per Degaton attacks, he rots Solomon Grundy. After Per Degaton was defeated in the present, this version of Solomon Grundy and the associated timeline were erased.
Other Versions[]
Earth 2[]
In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. In this new timeline, Solomon Grundy is once again a villain for Alan Scott. 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. He attacks Washington DC to get Alan's attention. Flash, Hawkgirl, and Green Lantern fight him, but Atom brings him down temporarily by jumping onto him at giant size. The battle continues until Scott once again exiles Grundy to the moon where neither he nor the "Grey" can do any damage.
Eventually, Grundy's origin was revealed in a flashback. 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. 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. Apparently, something happened immediately afterwards. 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. He then reformed his body and continued to go after Alan Scott.
When it came to his next encounter with Solomon Grundy, Alan was reunited with Sam Zhao who has become an avatar for the White. Following their brief fight with Solomon Grundy, the Parliaments ended their feud where they instructed Alan, Sam, Grundy, the Clear's avatar Azathoth, and the Red's Yolanda Montez to work together to combat the invasion from Apokolips.
When Apokolips starts to approach Earth 2, the Parliaments advise their representatives to join forces and fight this threat. While in Earth's orbit, Solomon Grundy, Azathoth, and Sam Zhao sacrifice their lives so that Alan Scott can receive their combined Parliament abilities to stop Apokolips from destroying Earth 2.
Powers and Abilities[]
Solomon Grundy is one of the heaviest hitters regardless of evil or good intentions. He is also incredibly invulnerable, able to take massive amounts of damage with little injury. When injuries do occur, his body rapidly heals up the wounds, sometimes enabling him to re-attach severed limbs right after they are hacked off. He can also continue fighting for days on end, making him incredibly resilient in addition to his huge strength.
Because he is artificially animated, Solomon Grundy is unaffected by disease and ailments that would affect standard humans. He does not need to eat, breath, sleep or drink, although he has occasionally fallen asleep in the sewers and attempted to feed on intruding humans to the swamps he calls home.
Solomon Grundy has superhuman strength and stamina. 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 was roughly on par with Superman's. He is virtually indestructible and immortal thanks to the elemental energy that imbues his form with pseudo-life.
He is nearly invulnerable to physical, magical, and energy attacks and is not affected by fire or low temperatures. He's proven highly resistant to the effects of the original Green Lantern's power ring. Solomon Grundy, despite being undead, can and has died multitudes of times.
However, with each death, he re-animates soon after, acquiring even more strength than before and sometimes a personality with average to high intelligence (although this is incredibly rare). Grundy for a time was able to control plant and wood energy due to the amounts of tree product that had formed inside his decayed body. This proved useful in defeating Alan Scott, the Green Lantern, several times before eventually losing this ability.
Solomon Grundy appears in the 1979 live action TV special Legends of the Superheroes, portrayed by Mickey Morton. He is a member of the Legion of Doom. This version of Grundy later appears in Batman '66 #23. He was originally a wealthy Olympic wrestler who was seduced by Marsha, Queen of Diamonds into becoming one of her servants. Cyrus became loyal to Marsha and she told him to wait outside. She forgot about Cyrus enough where he froze to death during the winter. He is reanimated by Marsha's Aunt Hilda and goes on a rampage in Gotham Cemetery until Batman and Robin stun him with an electric shock to hold him until the police arrive.
Solomon Grundy in Smallville.
Solomon Grundy makes a cameo appearance in the tenth and final season of Smallville episode "Prophecy", portrayed by John DeSantis. This version is a member of Toyman's Marionette Ventures. Sitting around the table at the Marionette Ventures meeting, he attended with all the super villains and was assigned to kill Black Canary. Upon seeing the picture of Canary, he wads the picture up in his hands and tears it apart.
In the Doom Patrol episode "Undead Patrol", Willoughby Kipling calls the team Solomon Grundy after they were turned into zombies.
The season 3 finale of the FOX television show Gotham reveals the birth name of Butch Gilzean as Cyrus Gold, making him the show's incarnation of the character. Butch appeared as a seemingly original character since the first episode of the series until that point. During the fourth season he became Solomon Grundy.
His comatose body was dumped into Slaughter Swamp where chemical waste from the Indian Hill facility transforms him into a pale, zombie-like creature with regenerative abilities and superhuman strength. Suffering amnesia from his head wound, Gold adopts the name "Solomon Grundy", based on the nursery rhyme, when he heard the name on a record played by a group of homeless men.
Solomon Grundy appears as a recurring character in the CW network television series Stargirl. He is a member of the Injustice Society of America (ISA), acting as the muscle of the group. Ten years prior to the series, Grundy took part in the attack on the Justice Society of America (JSA) and is responsible for the death of JSA member Rex Tyler/Hourman and his wife. He is killed by Eclipso, and later comes back to life in the series finale.
Solomon Grundy appears in Challenge of the Super Friends, voiced by Jimmy Weldon. In this version, Grundy speaks broken English in a southern. In "Monolith of Evil", Grundy reveals he was brought back to life in the swamp by energy from a monolith which is a source of enormous power. In the present, he joined Lex Luthor's Legion of Doom. This incarnation of Grundy is arguably one of the more "intelligent" versions of the character, as he is able to carry on a conversation and devise plans of his own.
Solomon Grundy later appears in Super Friends, voiced again by Jimmy Weldon. In the episode "Revenge of Doom", he and the rest of the Legion of Doom get back together after salvaging the Legion of Doom headquarters from the swamp.
A version of Solomon Grundy appears in The Batman animated series. On Halloween night when there was a full moon, Solomon Grundy rose from his grave and attacked Gotham City. Batman encounters Grundy and tried to stop him. Batman eventually found out Solomon Grundy was just a disguise and was really Clayface (Ethan Bennett) in disguise. He took this form because it was Halloween and used the old folktale to steal some money from rich folks. Clayface was eventually defeated and was put into Arkham. At the end, the real Solomon Grundy appears to rise out of the swamp.
Solomon Grundy appears in the fifth segment of DC Nation Shorts; "Super Best Friends Forever", voiced by Keith Ferguson. When he begins rampaging the city, Supergirl, Batgirl, and Wonder Girl show up to stop him. He is initially reluctant to fight them because he says he does not fight girls, but when they defeat him, Grundy starts to reconsider fighting girls.
Solomon Grundy makes non-speaking cameo appearances in Harley Quinn and its spin-off Kite Man: Hell Yeah!. He appears in "L.O.D.R.S.V.P." as a member of the Legion of Doom and "The Runaway Bridesmaid", attending Poison Ivy and Kite-Man's wedding.
A talking monster truck named Grundy (similar to Solomon Grundy) appears in Batwheels, voiced by Fred Tatasciore.
DC Animated Universe[]
Solomon Grundy appears in the DC Animated Universe series Justice League, as a recurring member of the villainous group known as the Injustice Gang.
Justice League Action[]
Solomon Grundy appears in Justice League Action, voiced by Fred Tatasciore. In "Zombie King", he has obtained a gem that would enable him to summon zombies that would obey his every command.
In addition, the zombies Grundy summons would turn anyone exposed to their gases into zombies as well. This plot was stumbled upon by Swamp Thing who fights Grundy and his zombies in a New Orleans graveyard. In need of backup against Grundy and the zombies, Swamp Thing calls Batman for help. As Swamp Thing and Batman fight Grundy's zombies as he places the gem into an altar in order to raise more zombies throughout the world, they soon are aided by Zatanna while John Constantine is busy fighting Brother Night. Even though Batman and Zatanna get converted into zombies, Swamp Thing breaks the altar and the gem enough for the zombified people to be returned to normal and the zombies to go inert. Then Swamp Thing manages to defeat Solomon Grundy.
In "E. Nigma, Consulting Detective", the Riddler enters Grundy's cell to search for a clue left by the Joker. Though Grundy is initially hostile, Riddler is able to appease Grundy by offering him something to alleviate his boredom: a Chinese finger trap. In "Party Animal", Solomon Grundy is defeated by Green Arrow and Plastic Man while on a rampage during Christmas. Since S.T.A.R. Labs was holding a Christmas party, Plastic Man takes Grundy to the League's Christmas party until he can be put in a holding cell. When Grundy sees the little girl he frightened during his rampage on the news, he breaks out and fights the Justice League until he finds the little girl, and gives her a teddy bear as a gift and apologizes for scaring her.
Film[]
Solomon Grundy in Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Solomon Grundy in Catwoman: Hunted
Solomon Grundy appears in the animated movie Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, voiced by Corey Burton (albeit uncredited). He appears as one of the villains hired to make a bounty to hunt down Superman and Batman. Gorilla Grodd controls Grundy's mind to kill Batman. Batman defeats Grundy after he fails to drown Batman. He is considerably more intelligent due to Grodd's mind control, and Batman comments that "Grundy sounds like William F. Buckley.
Solomon Grundy appears in the Target exclusive direct-to-video animated film JLA Adventures: Trapped in Time, voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson.
Solomon Grundy appears in Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem, voiced by Fred Tatasciore. Along with Scarecrow and Silver Banshee, he is one of three "scary" supervillains freed by the Joker, with the intent of conquering Gotham City. When the Joker takes over the helpless city, Grundy is put in charge of the police department, and uses the police to play games such as hide-and-seek. He is eventually thwarted by Commissioner Gordon, and arrested.
Solomon Grundy appears in Justice League vs. Teen Titans, voiced by an uncredited Rick D. Wasserman. He attacks the Hall of Justice along with the other members of the Legion of Doom, until he is defeated by Batman using electric shock.
An alternate reality version of Cyrus Gold appears in the animated movie Batman: Gotham by Gaslight, voiced by David Forseth. He is a prisoner of Blackgate and appears as his pre-Solomon Grundy persona.
Solomon Grundy appears in the 2022 animated film Catwoman: Hunted, voiced by Steve Blum. He is used as a weapon by Cheetah in Leviathan's attempt to assassinate Catwoman after the latter and Batwoman had foiled her scheme to unite some of the world's mightiest gangster bosses under her rule. As he fights Catwoman, this version of Grundy continually recites the nursery rhyme which inspired his name.
Solomon Grundy appears in the two-part animated film Batman: The Long Halloween, voiced again by Fred Tatasciore. His depiction is greatly similar to that of the comic, although with several differences like only speaking in his nursery rhyme.
Solomon Grundy made an appearance as an antagonist in Batman Arkham City. He's a giant monster that the Penguin uses to kill disloyal henchmen rival gangsters. Penguin has Grundy attached with electrified chains beneath the the Iceberg Lounge.
Penguin lured Batman to the Iceberg Lounge by using the kidnapped special forces as hostages.
After Batman disables the freezing gun that Penguin stole from Mr. Freeze, Penguin blew up the floor of The Iceberg Lounge, causing Batman to drop in the basement, where Solomon Grundy is being held. Grundy fights using electrified chains attached to his wrists.
His health depletes by itself, but it's constantly regenerated by the electricity. Batman destroyed the source where the electricity is flowing, crippling Grundy. Batman then proceeds to leap on the wounded monster and breaks away his decaying rib cage before ripping out his heart finally killing Grundy.
Despite his repeated death, in background information in Arkham Knight, it was noted that he had reawakened once again, and had been aimlessly wandering underground tunnels, sometimes attacking someone if they crossed his path.
Injustice: Gods Among Us[]
Solomon Grundy appears in Injustice: Gods Among Us, voiced again by Fred Tatasciore. He is brainwashed into becoming a member of High Councilor Superman's Regime. In his non-canonical arcade mode ending, Grundy evaded capture following the Regime's fall and fled to the swamps, where he discovered he could tap into primordial forces called the Red and Gray, gaining control over animals and fungi respectively. Using the Gray, he turned Earth into a desolate wasteland devoid of life.
In the prequel comic, Grundy appears as an inmate of Arkham Asylum before Harley Quinn frees him and the other inmates. He attempts to attack Damian Wayne, but is eventually defeated by Batman and Superman. Years later, Superman and his Regime attempt to transport Grundy, who battles an arriving Bizarro until the latter leaves. Grundy attempts to pursue him, but Superman decapitates him for ignoring his orders. While Grundy regenerates, Superman takes him to Lex Luthor to make him serve the Regime.
Solomon Grundy appears as a supporting antagonist in the video game Lego Batman 3. Solomon Grundy first appears in the sewer where he, Joker, Firefly, and Cheetah are approached by Killer Croc with the sewer maps. They soon later plan to infiltrate the Justice League Watchtower in space, ambushing Hawkman along the way, and eventually attacking Martian Manhunter there as well.
Luckily, he called the Justice League prior to their attack, and they arrived soon after and stopped them. Unexpectedly, Brainiac soon interrupted and announced he was planed to take over the world and take the Earth as part of his collection of planets. The villains soon team up with the heroes to stop Brainiac. Grundy also appeared in Lego DC-Super Villains as a playable character.
Quotes[]
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Grundy will kill you dead.
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~ Solomon Grundy clash in Injustice.
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Grundy must hurt the Bat.
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~ Solomon Grundy game over in Batman Arkham City.
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Solomon Grundy want pants too.
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~ Solomon Grundy in a Challenge of the Superfriends ad
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Grundy told stupid soldiers to stay away but soldiers still come. Now Grundy crush.
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~ Solomon Grundy in Justice League
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My Creator's sense of humor is twisted... Usually I come back a mindless monster, my personality and intelligence always slightly shifting. Last time, I came back dumb...the time before that, I was softened...docile. Still, with each death, I'm forced to start again -- ignoring the splinters that stab my fingernails...belching the bitter swamp water that lingers on my tongue until I dry out...and then clawing my way back...to yet another miserable existence.
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~ Solomon Grundy.
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I was a thief. A murderer. The swamp was my ally. But the swamp frightened me. And the old man wouldn't let me go. I was tormented by my sins. I reneged on the bargain. I would not be murdered -- like some commoner. Like those I had killed and dumped here. They would not get me. So-- I-- I shook the devil's hand. I killed myself.
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~ Solomon Grundy.
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Do you think Grundy's soul is waiting for him? (Hawkgirl: Grundy, I don't believe... [Grundy smiles and Hawkgirl happily tears up] Yes. It's waiting for you.) Then Grundy gets his reward.
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~ Solomon Grundy's last words to Hawkgirl in the Justice League episode, "The Terror Beyond".
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Green Arrow: Hey, Grundy. Say "Fire bad".
Grundy: ...? Fire IS bad.
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~ Solomon to Green Arrow.
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Trivia[]
He was created by Alfred Bester and Paul Reinman, and first appeared in All-American Comics #61 in October of 1944.
There have been several individuals who claimed kinship to Solomon Grundy's alter ego, but none of them are confirmed to be related to it.
Solomon means "Hope" in Hebrew, which is ironic considering his origin.
He spoke more word without nurse rhythm during Floronic Man attack make it rarest.
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