Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Character Bio! Solomon Grundy




First off a little DC history for you. Some time in the 19th century, a man named Cyrus Gold was killed and left in Slaughter Swamp (somewhere close to Gotham). Half a century later his body returned to life, kinda. Cyrus Gold returned as a zombie.

        Shortly after, there happened to be two criminals who took to Slaughter Swamp as there hideout (big mistake). Awakened after fifty some years in a swamp, Grundy was a little pissed off, found the intruders to his beautiful swamp and quickly put them out of there misery.

         He then left the swamp. Some hobo had the balls to ask what his name was, he answered he was "born on a Monday". Another random hobo mentioned the nursery rhyme "Solomon Grundy" were Grundy was born on a Monday. From then on Cyrus Gold became Solomon Grundy.

        So why is this seemingly useless villain getting his own bio? you ask. Well ill fill you in, all though depending on who is writing the story, Grundy has super human strength (at one time on par with Superman).
He is a zombie, so killing him is out of the question, damage and pain doesn't seem to bother him. In rare cases were he has seemingly died, his body is somehow returned to Slaughter Swamp and he is born again.

       All though he doesn't seem to eat human flesh, Grundy is probable the most bad-ass zombie ever. He has beat and been beaten by the original Green Lantern, Superman and a whole roster of other super-heroes, and still live to tell the tale.





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