Grimlock (Cyberverse)
| The name or term "Grimlock" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Grimlock (disambiguation). |
- Grimlock is an Autobot from the Cyberverse continuity family.
On or off the battlefield, there's no other Autobot quite like Grimlock: whether he's pounding Decepticons with his prodigious strength or recounting one of his many adventures to a crowd of listeners, this boisterous 'bot remains as eloquent as he is jovial, ever ready to throw in a sophisticated quip or wry observation as he charges into battle—even though he sometimes underestimates his own strength when giving high-fives.
Since coming to Earth and adopting a dinosaur alternate mode, however, Grimlock's personal modifications to his dinosaur mode's circuitry by diverting his higher functions in order to boost his physical strength have brought out a new side of his personality. In his dinosaur mode, Grimlock is a reckless, driven warrior, more concerned with his physical prowess than any kind of tactical acumen, and eager to show off his strength in battle. Even so, whether he's a charismatic intellectual or an impulsive force of destruction, if you've got Grimlock on your side then you've earned yourself a valuable friend and a loyal ally.
Fiction
Cyberverse cartoon
- Voice actor: Ryan Andes (English), Tetsu Inada (Japanese), Marco Kröger (German), Marco Balbi (Italian), Sergio Romanò (Italian, from "Shadowstriker" onwards), Pierre Bodson (French)
In the years before the Great War, Grimlock was a frequent patron at Maccadam's, spinning tall tales for the amusement of his friends. On the night of the Iacon City-Polyhex Cube match, he told a story of an adventure in the Acid Wastes with energy leeches to a crowd of listeners, though Bumblebee was skeptical of the tale's veracity. Maccadam's
When the war broke out, Grimlock joined the Autobots and soon became a high-ranking member, serving as Bumblebee's commander on a mission to rescue the captured Optimus Prime from Shadow Striker and her Seeker subordinates. While the trio were taunting an incapacitated Optimus, Bumblebee, who was watching on from above, contacted Grimlock and informed him that he had located Optimus before trying to singlehandedly rescue the Autobot commander. Some time thereafter, Grimlock supervised Bumblebee as the yellow Autobot attempted to escape from a crashing Energon tanker. Bumblebee opted to ignore his orders and steered the vessel clear of Iacon, but was intercepted by Shadow Striker; Grimlock and a group of Autobot soldiers showed up to rescue Bumblebee, and although Grimlock fired a warning shot at Shadow Striker the scout told them to let the Decepticon go. Shadowstriker
At some point in the war, Bumblebee was transporting the Allspark to a storage superstructure drop point. When Bumblebee told him that the Allspark had spoken to him, the Dinobot remarked that if the package was talking to him, he hoped that it had told Bee to deliver it quickly.During a subsequent battle to launch the Allspark off Cybertron and beyond Decepticon hands, Grimlock took part and helped hold off a group of Seekers from attacking Bumblebee. Although he was defeated, Bumblebee and Optimus Prime were able to send the Allspark though the space bridge. Allspark Eventually, Optimus came to realize his mistake in sending the Allspark away from Cybertron, and assembled the Ark to retrieve it in the hopes that it could restore Cybertron to life, Matrix of Leadership and Grimlock was one of the Autobots selected to join Prime on this mission. On the day the Ark left Cybertron, Grimlock called Bumblebee and Windblade, who were enjoying one last drink with Maccadam, and ordered them to report to Autobot headquarters. Maccadam's As Bumblebee reached the Ark, Grimlock urged him to hurry up, lest the ship take off without him. Memory
After leaving Cybertron behind, the Ark travelled through space in search of the Allspark until its dwindling energon supplies became a major concern for the Autobots aboard the vessel. During the final phase of their voyage, Teletraan-1 located an uncharted planet with a natural Energon supply, and Grimlock joined Prime and Bumblebee to investigate the readings. Partnered with Bumblebee, Grimlock found himself assaulted by the Cave monsters who inhabited the barren world, dragged into their underground lair. Grimlock was able to hold them off long enough for his fellow Autobots to track his energy signature, but during the brief battle against the aliens Optimus discovered that the creatures consumed energon and ordered a retreat, opting to respect their natural food supply. Back aboard the ship, Grimlock and the other crew members were forced to enter stasis to conserve power, leaving the ship's autonomous systems to alert them should the Ark cross paths with the AllSpark... unaware that the vessel had already detected the artifact close by. The Journey
The Ark's autonomous systems pursued the AllSpark to Earth, but the ship was dragged into the planet's atmosphere on a dangerous trajectory. Amidst the chaos, Grimlock was the only Cybertronian reactivated by the ship's haywire systems, and did his best to rescue Bumblebee's stasis pod after a gash on the ship's side threatened to suck several Autobots out of the ship—but proved unable to rescue Bumblebee or himself from tumbling out of the Ark and falling to Earth. King of the Dinosaurs
Grimlock spent thousands of stellar cycles searching for the Ark, even carving a map to aid him in this search, Awaken Sleeping Giants but eventually turned his attention to befriending the native dinosaurs. To better survive on prehistoric Earth, he adopted a Tyrannosaurus rex mode and modified his own circuitry by rerouting his mental processes to augment his dinosaur-mode strength and power. Grimlock even domesticated several dinosaurs and used them to help build a base for himself in a cave, turning it into a copy of the Ark's old bridge and keeping a video log of his adventures with his new friends. Among his other inventions was a crown-like tracking device that would allow him to find his base of operations. King of the Dinosaurs Eventually, however, sensors in Grimlock's new base detected the impending arrival of the dinosaur-killing asteroid. The Extinction Event Undaunted, Grimlock recorded one last message with his dinosaur friends to announce their defiance in the face of certain doom—but despite this bravado, the dinosaurs soon died out and Grimlock's power supplies ran low until he finally entered stasis lock, buried deep underground beneath layers of rock. King of the Dinosaurs
While searching through memories of Maccadam and his establishment, Bumblebee received a cryptic message from the strange bartender informing him that he needed to find the "king of the dinosaurs". Maccadam's While searching through Bumblebee's memories for information on dinosaurs, the Decepticon Shockwave trapped Bumblebee in a false memory designed to convince him he was a Decepticon. In this illusion, Grimlock served as Wheeljack's defense attorney after "Bumblebee" threw him out the Ark's airlock. Sabotage Around this time, Slipstream's group of Decepticons learned of Grimlock's location and marked it for future reference. Siloed
After escaping from Decepticon custody and stealing some of their information, Windblade and Bumblebee used this data to track down Grimlock, who had been buried beneath a human construction site. Teletraan-X explained that Grimlock had become a dinosaur, prompting Bumblebee to realize that Grimlock had been the "king of the dinosuars" they had been searching for all along. Although the pair easily brought him back online by tapping into the local power grid, Grimlock rebooted in his brutish beast mode, and ran amok through the city before Teletraan-X was able to calm him down. When Bumblebee reunited him with his homing beacon, Grimlock excitedly tracked down his old base in the hopes of reuniting with his dinosaur friends but discovered that the dinosaurs had died off long ago. Upon discovering his old video logs, Grimlock's robot mode was able to reassert himself and he welcomed his friends to his old base. King of the Dinosaurs
After showing his friends around while explaining his history on Earth, Grimlock's base detected Shockwave bringing two magnetic disruptors to Earth, intending to use them to deactivate Earth's geomagnetic field. Though Grimlock was willing to attack the ship at the South Pole, Teletraan-X revealed they needed only to stop one ship to save the Earth and headed for the North Pole aboard a commandeered cargo plane. Upon arrival, Grimlock left Bumblebee and Windblade to distract the Decepticons while he and Teletraan boarded the ship. Though the two defeated all opposition aboard, the disruptor had already gone off; undeterred, Grimlock simply smashed the ship's bridge into scrap metal, which halted the disruptor and saved the Earth. The Extinction Event
Back at his base, Grimlock revealed a map of Pangaea explained his theory that the Ark had been buried in swamplands—a theory that Teletraan-X quickly disproved using its own geological data. The little drone tracked the Ark to Mount St. Hilary, and the three Autobots set off on their plane to find the ship and reawaken their comrades. As they neared the mountain, however, the Seekers struck and downed their craft. Grimlock launched a Fastball Special with Teletraan and Bumblebee, dropping both Thundercracker Nova Storm, taking both out of the fight. Now in a race against the full might of the oncoming Decepticon fleet, the quarter ventured into the volcano's lava tubes, and an accidental encounter with some lava resulted in Grimlock using his newfound fire-breath to melt through a wall and reveal the Ark. Awaken Sleeping Giants
Unfortunately, the Decepticons caught up with them again and Grimlock once again squared off against the Seekers before he engaged Shadow Striker until Shockwave used the remaining disruptor to ignite Mount St. Hilary and have the eruption destroy the Ark. When Teletraan-X assumed control of the Ark, he used its weapon implants to scare away the Decepticons, prompting Grimlock and Windblade to enter the ship. Fortunately, Teletraan managed to raise the shields before the volcano erupted with Grimlock happily greeting his old crew until Teletraan detected that the Decepticon fleet had arrived with the Ark as their first target. Eruption
Alternate universe
Toys
Cyberverse
Scout Class
- Cyberverse Scout Class Grimlock transforms from a robot to
an awkwardly proportioned dinosaura "transformational" mode and features a "Chomp Jaw" spring gimmick.
- The CGI stock photos depicted Grimlock with silver paint details on his shoulders and lower legs that were omitted from the final product, and the maskless mouthpiece was replaced with a masked head. Grimlock was re-released under the Power of the Spark and Battle for Cybertron monikers.
Ultra Class
- Grimlock (Ultra Class, 2018)
- Action Attack: "Rocket Roar"
- Japanese Name: Burning Flame Grimlock
- Japanese Release Date: ???, 2019
- Japanese ID Number: TCV-10
- Cyberverse Ultra Class Grimlock is a roughly Voyager-sized toy that transforms from robot to impishly smiling T. rex and back. Unlike the other Ultra Class toys in his wave, he has articulation in his legs in addition to elbow joints. His "Rocket Roar" Action Attack deploys a solid yellow plastic 'fire blast' effect with red painted detailing from his dinosaur mode jaw. The effect is joined by flames from his upper back. His head is based off the battle mask and visor used in the very end of "Eruption".
- This toy was one of the items released as part of Hasbro's Transformers 35th Anniversary promotional mailer box.[1]
Ultimate Class
- Grimlock (Ultimate Class, 2019)
- Action Attack: Seismic Stomp
- Cyberverse Ultimate Class Grimlock is a roughly Leader-sized mold that converts from a fully poseable robot into a T. rex. He also features the " Seismic Stomp" Action Attack gimmick consisting of flip-out impact effect pieces on his pair of lower legs. The Action Attack also works on his T. rex form, and due to the placement of the effect pieces, the gimmick ends up looking like an energy-powered scissors attack.
- His head is once again the battle mask used in "Eruption".
Tiny Turbo Changers
- Grimlock (Tiny Turbo Changer, 2019)
- Series: 1, 2
- Bag code: C
- Part of the first Series of Cyberverse Tiny Turbo Changers, Grimlock is a soft-plastic robot who transforms into a tiny dino. His transformation is incredibly similar to the movie-series Grimlock Tiny Turbo Changer, because why not use a good scheme?
- Grimlock was released without changes in the second Series as well.
Spark Armor
- Grimlock (Elite Class, 2019)
- Spark Armor: Trash Crash
- Japanese Name: Dump Dino Grimlock
- Japanese Release Date: November 9, 2019
- Japanese ID Number: TCV-22
- Cyberverse Elite Class Grimlock is a smaller, Warrior-sized, less Action Attack-laden new mold that transforms from robot to a T. rex. He also comes with a "Trash Crash" Spark Armor accessory that is modeled after a garbage truck, which can form his battle armor in robot mode. Like all Elite Class toys, the accessory also comes with a unique built-in helmet. Unlike the rest of the Elite Class, the armor does not lock into place or clip onto the chest of the robot, meaning that it is prone to popping back into garbage truck mode.
- In November 2019, Grimlock was released as one of TakaraTomy Mall's Cyberverse "Christmas Set" offers along with Megatron.
Deluxe Class
- Grimlock (Deluxe Class, 2020)
- Build-a-Figure part: Maccadam's right forearm
- Accessories: Crown, Effect part
- Action Attack: "Chomp Jaw"
- Released as part of the Cyberverse Deluxe Class lineup, this Grimlock is a show-accurate mold that is more poseable than most of his previous releases. He comes with a fire-breath effect and the crown he wore in King of the Dinosaurs. This Grimlock also holds the distinction of using his in-show head sculpt.
Merchandise
McDonalds
- Grimlock (Happy Meal Toy, 2018)
- Grimlock is a stubby, super deformed little dino with fire coming out of his mouth. He has a light-up gimmick where pressing the Autobot insignia on his back lights up his eyes and the fire effect.
- Grimlock (Happy Meal Toy, 2019)
- As a second Happy Meal promotion for Cyberverse, Grimlock is a 4-inch-tall non-transforming robot figure with articulation at the neck, hips and arms. As an Action Masters-esque play feature, he includes a small dump truck (reminiscent of his Spark Armor toy) that can be separated into two parts and reattached into various pins around his body as weapons or pieces of armor.
Notes
- As with the rest of the Cyberverse cast, Grimlock's design is based on the evergreen design also used for his Generation 1 counterpart, with some minor stylistic tweaks, such as swapping the visor and faceplate for more traditional eyes and mouth.
- His promotional artwork (top of the article) uses a different face design than the one used on the in-show model. Both of these differ when compared to the toys, which feature the visor and faceplate seen in the evergreen design. Grimlock occasionally deploys these as a sort of "battle mode" in the show, first appearing in the episode "Eruption".
- Ryan Andes's performance as Grimlock leans towards Tom Wyner's portrayal of 2001 Robots in Disguise Grimlock.
- Grimlock originally used a blaster resembling his G1 counterpart's original handgun, but changed to a more generic variation in the final season.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Grimlock (グリムロック Gurimurokku)
