The Rogues would go on to become one of DC's most dangerous villainous groups. Formed the supervillain team The Rogues as a distraction for the Flash.Beat Congorilla to death, bypassing his regeneration factor.Founded Gorillas and Apes Seizing Power (G.A.S.P.) with Monsieur Mallah in Batman: The Brave and the Bold.Survived being hit by a speeding train.Able to think a few steps ahead of the Flash.Affiliations: Legion of Doom formerly Gorilla City, Secret Society of Super-Villains.Affiliations: Injustice League, Secret Society of Super-Villains formerly Gorilla City, Tartarus, Anti-Justice League.He has been a member of the Anti-Justice League, the Secret Society of Super-Villains, the Injustice League, the Simian Scarlet, and Tartarus.ĭeath Battle Info Pre-Crisis & Post-Crisis Born in Gorilla City, he gained his powers through exposure to a meteorite that also affected the heroic King Solovar. because honestly, one of the best things about comics is when it gives us lunacy like this.Gorilla Grodd is an evil super-intelligent gorilla with incredible strength and agility. This is also the catalyst for our version of the confession of love between these two characters. (would it be a human prison? some sort of Zoo? what do you think?) before he's broken out when the Brian is revealed to be alive and restarting the Brotherhood. and that means that Mallah is actually going to spend a chunk of time in prison. Of course, we're building a big chunk of time into our timeline where the Brotherhood breaks up after the Brain fakes his own death. Otherwise, the fun of using Mallah and the Brain is that they're both completely inseparable, and we get to use him as the loyal assistant in all of the Brain's scemes. This means he's now actually very old for a Gorilla, almost 50, but at this point we can just imagine that the Brain has slowed his aging a little. We went with 10, as that's ALMOST maturity for a male Gorilla, which the internet says happens at around 12. According to the internet, Gorilla's average lifespan is 35-40 years, but we really want Mallah to be a mature, adult Gorilla by the time he becomes the Brain's assistant. One of the hardest parts of making a timeline for Mallah is the actual lifespan of real-life Gorillas. Their romance was now an integral part of their characters, and they've managed to become one of the great partnerships in DC's lexicon. Of course, the characters didn't STAY dead, because again, comics. It's deliberately outrageous and absurd, but also undeniably sweet and touching. It's one of those comics that you hear about forever before you finally get a chance to read it for yourself, and it absolutely doesn't disappoint. That is until issue #57, where Mallah helps the Brain take over Robotman's body, and in the process these two extremely weird villains finally profess their love for each other.
#GORILLA GRODD VS MONSIEUR MALLAH SERIES#
For some reason.Įven as the second Doom Patrol series of the late 80's and early 90's began, and Grant Morrison took over the book at issue #19 and revolutionized the property, you still didn't see much of Mallah and the Brotherhood. It was almost like comics in the eighties didn't really want to reconcile with goofy Silver Age concepts like gun-toting Gorilla henchmen. Once the original Doom Patrol series was over you didn't see a ton of Mallah, just the occasional quick guest starring appearance when other members of the Brotherhood of Evil served as villains in other books like the Teen Titans. all meant to give him a little pizzazz, but at his core he was just a very fun, very comic book example of one of DC's favorite tropes. Later appearances also started to play loosely with his appearance, adding clever details like headbands or ammo belts. It was only as years passed and the Brotherhood made more appearances that we learned that he was actually the one who had performed the procedures, following the Brain's instruction, to put his leader's brain in a jar. Yes, his intellect had been increased by his mad scientist leader, but only to a degree where he was able to participate in the evil schemes as an active participant rather than a pet. Honestly, There's a lot of purity to the concept of Mallah as he originally appeared. This issue introduced the Brotherhood of Evil, whose strangeness was most exemplified by being led by a brain in a jar, but which was further driven home by the presence of its enforcer a gorilla carrying a machine gun. Mallah appeared for the first time in Doom Patrol #86, the first issue of the comic My Greatest Adventure after it was renamed after its new star superhero team, who had only debuted six issues earlier.
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