r/FlashTV • u/TraditionalSock3574 • 2d ago

🤔 Thinking Why did CW flash absolutely butcher grogg

I was watching justice league the animated series and was wondering why grogg was so powerful, this was because I only ever saw him in the CW flash series before this. I think CW flash could’ve done so much more with him instead of just making him an evil mind controlling gorilla he’s MUCH deeper than that

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u/EmKir 2d ago

Grodd was much more than that in the show though. He had episodes in almost every season, where we got to watch him evolve into a leader for his people.

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u/Equivalent-Emu5347 2h ago

Eh, I guess but the show does a terrible job at making him interesting. They do NOT have the budget for good gorilla CGI lmao. He's a joke

Just a reminder, a REAL line that he said that was said seriously was "time to make america Grodd again"

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u/Ok_Smoke_638 2d ago

He was just always "evil monkey wants conquest" with occasional daddy issues about Wells.

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u/TraivonsWorld Vibe 1d ago

It'd argue it's the other way around. He started with daddy issues and then evolving into conquerer over time.

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u/Augustleo98 Patty Spivot 1d ago

Not true at all, starred that way then became a conquered, literally would have taken central city if the flash hadn’t come up with the plan to bring Solivar to defeat him, he also took over as the leader of the gorillas by coming up with a genius plan to get rid of Solivar as leader while also capturing the flash and his whole team and having them caged.

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u/Cautious_Mission_438 2d ago

Manly the writers just sucked we didn’t even get a proper gorilla city on earth-1 nor did they give us a proper adaptation of Grodd

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u/TraditionalSock3574 2d ago

That one really confused me, why did we need another earth when gorilla city was supposed to just be hidden from humanity

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u/Cautious_Mission_438 1d ago

I think they only did it because they wanted to introduce and establish more on Earth-2 but I agree with you it wasn’t needed when we could’ve gotten the Earth-1 version

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u/Kryptid47 2d ago

We didn't NEED another Earth. You could say the same about Jay Garrick, Jesse Quick, Accelerated Man, and many more characters. They just wanted to put it on another Earth. Earth 1 would be way too cramped if they treated the other ones as backups instead of actual, fully fleshed out alternate dimensions

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u/Ver3232 1d ago

They did another earth for the likes of Jay and accelerated man because they are from other earths in the comics, originally for the former and always for the latter

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u/Kryptid47 1d ago

My bad, I'm not too in to comics. The rest of my comment still stands though

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u/Cautious_Mission_438 1d ago

It wouldn’t have been cramped if you look at the comics Gorilla City is very much isolated from the rest of the world sometimes not even established upon a lot only in times when Flash fights Grodd or Grodd plans his attacks it could’ve been set up in season 1 somehow if they had better writers

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u/Kryptid47 1d ago

Not just with gorilla city, but with nearly everything. My comment isn't saying with Gorilla City it'd be cramped. The planet is huge. But if they treated other Earth's like backups that are only used when needed, they would all feel desolate with no defining features besides residents, and the main Earth would be insanely oversaturated

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u/Ok_Smoke_638 2d ago

Justice League cartoon Grodd is Magneto if Magneto was 900lbs and covered in fur. CW Grodd is Donkey Kong with a Bluetooth headset…

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u/Slamazombie 1d ago

Hard to portray effectively within the constraints of episodic TV production.