Theodore Grant

Theodore Grant is a human from the live-action film continuity.

A well respected academic in geological circles, Theodore Grant attracted particular attention for the time he spent in Antarctica studying the intricacies of ice. But he's not just all about the fancy book-learnin'—he can be a rough-and-tumble sort when the situation demands, despite not being a young man any more, and he'll never be satisfied with breaking even. Whether it's in the lab or on the battlefield, Theodore Grant plays to win!

Grant is a member of the First Seven, the group who founded the covert government organization Sector Seven.

Fiction

IDW Publishing comics

Grant was recruited by United States Secret Service agent Billy North to join him, Walter Simmons, Theodore Joseph Wells, Reginald Danco, Jack Arden and Philippe Bowen on an expedition to the Arctic, to verify the claims made by Captain Archibald Witwicky that he had found a giant metal man frozen in an ice cave. The claims proved true, and Grant quickly deduced where Bowen would need to plant charges to free the behemoth from the ice, but metallurgist Arden's inability to deduce what kind of metal the creature was made of meant that they couldn't follow through with their plan, since they couldn't ensure it would float once freed. Grant's skills found an unexpected use when the group was suddenly attacked by another of the metal man's kind; at Danco's instruction, he directed Bowen to plant his charges in the key spots to collapse the ice sheet out from under the robot, sending it to a watery grave. Unfortunately, Agent North did not survive the altercation, but Grant willingly chose to stay with the group to learn more about the robots and protect the Earth against them. As Grant saw it, the robot had taken out one of theirs, and they had taken out a robot in return—and he wouldn't settle for a tie! Original

Notes

• Sector 7 author John Barber designed the First Seven to represent disparate parts of the era their story takes place in. Grant is cast in the mold of fictional colonialist hero [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Allan Quatermain|{{#if:||Allan Quatermain}}]].