Many fans of DC’s The FLASH have expressed their utter love of the super villain Gorilla Grodd.  For those who are not familiar Grodd is a hyper intelligent, telepathic gorilla that often employs mind control over his hapless victims, a power he got from an alien space pilot.

Now, on the face of it, that description just sounds silly, I know. But it’s not the concept of an ESP toting Gorilla that makes Grodd such a popular villain. Grodd is a HUGE gorilla who is smarter than your basic human and also MUCH stronger. So it’s really just a plain old good time watching Grodd toss authorities around both mentally and physically.

A little backstory on Grodd: Just a regular ape in Africa when a spaceship hit his home and the pilot imbued him and his troupe with powers. Along with these powers came the kind of awareness that humans are running the planet and animals like Grodd were getting the short stick (so-to-speak).

Grodd and his group of super apes built an advanced gorilla city from which Grodd planned to launch a take-over of the rest of the planet. Grodd is not a good guy nor is Grodd a particularly identifiable character. Well, not unless you have entertained some supreme-race like plans of your own. He’s a bad guy and DC makes no real bones about him having a lack of empathy for the humans or their  human interests. In fact, Grodd murders the alien who gave him powers and actually tries to murder the Flash pretty much as soon as he meets him. Why?  Because Grodd hates humans.