Genral Grievious

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General Grievous ________________________________________ Position	Kaleesh general, Supreme Commander of the Confederacy's Droid armies, Replacement Head of State Homeworld	Kalee

Species	Kaleesh (cyborg)

Gender	Male

Affiliation	Confederacy of Independent Systems

Portrayed by	John Di Maggio, Richard McGonagle (voice in Star Wars: Clone Wars) Matthew Wood (voice in Revenge of the Sith)

General Grievous is a fictional character from the Star Wars universe. He first appeared in the Expanded Universe, although he soon appeared in a film as well. Although he was voiced by John DiMaggio in Chapter 20 of Cartoon Network's animated series Star Wars: Clone Wars, Richard McGonagle took over the voicing of Grievous for the rest of the micro series, and Matthew Wood voiced Grievous in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Dark Horse Comics began publishing a four-part comic book about General Grievous in March 2005. Contents [show] •

[edit] Biography [edit] Character overview General Grievous is one of the most highly skilled warriors in the history of the galaxy. In both the Clone Wars series and Revenge of the Sith, he is portrayed as a ruthlessly effective hunter of the Jedi, able to destroy several of that Order's most accomplished warriors with relative ease. He is introduced in Star Wars: Clone Wars as the commanding general of the Confederacy of Independent Systems' army and navy and an enemy of the Galactic Republic. Though technically a member of the Kaleesh species, his physical body is a fusion of a powerful robotic structure and an organic brain, nervous system and sensory organs. He also appears to be a polygamist since in the Revenge of the Sith novel he was described as having multiple wives watch over him during his physical transformation into his robotic structure. [edit] Transformation into a cyborg As explained in James Luceno's novel Labyrinth of Evil, General Grievous is originally a warlord named Qymaen jai Sheelal on his native planet Kalee. During those days, he is a highly respected leader, and a loving husband and father. Grievous is among the most effective generals for the Kalee against their enemy, the Huks, a neighboring species. He weathers countless close calls as he unleashes destruction on Kalee's enemies. [1] During the war with the rival Huk worlds, the Republic is called in to settle the dispute. Because the Huk are rich in natural resources compared to the barren Kalee world, the Republic sides with the Huk and sends several Jedi Knights to attack the Kaleesh. Grievous and his armies are defeated and his homeworld is left in ruins, to suffer in poverty and shame of defeat. Grievous loses everything he holds dear, including his family. Grievous becomes a security chief for the Intergalactic Banking Clan. San Hill, leader of the clan, notices that Grievous' strategic genius and fearlessness in battle, and mentions him to the Confederacy of Independent Systems leader, Count Dooku (secretly the Sith Lord Darth Tyranus). Led by Darth Sidious, the Sith Lords conspire to draw Grievous into the Separatist army. Despite Hill's generous offers, however, Grievous refuses to lead the Separatist army. During an attack by the army of the Republic on the clan's base, Grievous' shuttle is hit by three missiles from a Republic gunship and crashed. It is implied that Sidious is involved in this incident. Grievous is mortally wounded in the crash, kept alive by technology, a transfusion of blood from the deceased Sifo-Dyas (which was intended to give Greivous force powers), and Dooku's mastery of the Dark Side; his shattered body is taken to the planet Geonosis, where most of it is replaced with a droid body that complements his natural reflexes. Hill approaches him and offers him the chance to live again in a cybernetic body and lead the Separatist army. This happens before Grievous's actual augmentation. Grievous initially resists — he would much rather die than to watch his body sustained by technology— but Hill eventually persuades him by appealing to his desire for revenge. Grievous made the request to keep his original eyes, and he is augmented. Dooku then trains him in lightsaber combat until he is one of the best duelists in the galaxy, and whips his resentment of the Jedi into a frenzy. The metamorphosis is complete: Grievous is now the Separatists' most fearsome weapon. As a cyborg, his armorplast plates are strong enough to stop a bolt from even a starfighter's laser cannon. Each human-sized hand has four fingers and two opposable thumbs (three digits to each half-arm when they split to produce four arms.) His hands and feet are capable of magnetizing when needed, allowing him to grip on to surfaces with incredible strength, even in zero gravity. His feet also work perfectly well as hands; in the Clone Wars series, he is seen to have killed/incapacitated a Jedi by grabbing the Jedi's head with his foot and smashing it into the ground. His body can move in an unlimited number of unnatural ways. His internal organs are enclosed in a layer of pressurized, artificial skin, with an organic fluid to prevent the organs from being damaged by bacteria and viruses, and also to maintain a suitable temperature to keep them alive and functional. His organs are nourished by artificial arteries keeping them alive with blood transfused from Jedi Master Sifo Dyas, allowing him to survive in a vacuum. He displays this advantage when he escapes from Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker in Revenge of the Sith. Additionally, sophisticated computers attached to Grievous' organic brain assist the cyborg in perceiving patterns within his opponents' attacks. They would then suggest that Grievous alter his stance and posture, along with the angle of his parries, ripostes, and thrusts accordingly. In Clone Wars During the Clone Wars, Grievous makes it a personal goal to hunt down and kill every single Jedi and collect their lightsabers as his personal prize. Although Dooku personally finds Grievous disgusting, he makes the general his right hand man. As such, Grievous not only learns Dooku's secret identity, but becomes second only to the Sith (Darth Tyranus and Darth Sidious) in the chain of command of the Separatist forces. He becomes the Supreme Commander of the Droid Army only after Count Dooku pits him against Dark Jedi Asajj Ventress and Durge. Grievous easily defeats the two others. General Grievous attacks Ki-Adi-Mundi. Note that Ki-Adi's lightsaber was blue. In this shot, he is using one of Grievous' stolen sabers. He is inside the catacombs of Geonosis during the the opening battle of the Clone Wars. There, he kills his first Jedi. His rear-guard actions in the catacombs against the clone troopers and Jedi allow Nute Gunray and the rest of the Separatist leadership to escape with their lives. Grievous makes first chronological appearance in the Star Wars universe in episode 20 of the Clone Wars series. He single-handedly attacks and dispatches seven Jedi in an aggressive display of lightsaber mastery during the Battle of Hypori. He begins the swift conquest of almost all of the Outer Rim planets. Grievous soon strikes fear into the very heart of the Republic. Grievous leads the assault into the inner systems, along the Corellian Trade Spine, conquering world after world. Throughout the series, Grievous defeats many other Jedi Knights and Masters with his incredible swordsmanship. Jedi Master Mace Windu battles him on the planet Thule, a match that ends in stalemate. Windu discerns a single weakness in his opponent: "a lack of appreciation for simplicity". Battle of Coruscant In the series' final episode, Grievous leads the Separatists in the Battle of Coruscant, using the first wave of his attack as a distraction to kidnap Chancellor Palpatine (who, unbeknownst to Grievous, is Sidious' civilian alter ego). In the process, he pursues Palpatine all the way from his office through the Skyline of Coruscant (on the back of a nearby transport) through the Coruscant Subway System, and finally into Palpatine's private bunker. Grievous finally sneaks into Palpatine's bunker and kills the Chancellor's Jedi guards, Roron Corobb and Foul Moudama, after distracting guard leader Shaak Ti and wrapping her in an electric cord. Mace Windu comes to the rescue after he and Yoda sense the attack on the city is a distraction. As Grievous escapes with his prize, Windu uses the Force to crush the general's chest plates. This is why Grievous was wheezing and coughing in Revenge of the Sith. In Revenge of the Sith In the opening scenes of Revenge of the Sith, Grievous battles Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker onboard his vessel, the Invisible Hand. Skywalker and Kenobi are taken prisoner, but escape and confront Grievous. Grievous grabs one of his fallen Magna-guard's electrostaffs and flings it at the viewport, causing the atmosphere to vent into space. Grievous is sucked into space and uses a hook to fling himself to the hull. He then uses his mechanical feet to magnetize to the outside of his fallen flagship to regain entry into the vessel. He flees in an escape pod. Grievous directs his escape pod to the nearest droid control ship, where he orders his armies to retreat. He then travels to the planet Utapau, where the Separatist Council reside. Grievous is now the supreme leader of the Confederacy, Dooku having died at Skywalker's hand. Sidious orders him to move the Separatist leaders to the fiery planet of Mustafar, and to prepare for Obi-Wan Kenobi's imminent arrival. Moments before Kenobi's arrival, Grievous dismisses the Separatist Council. Kenobi ambushes Grievous. Grievous takes out his lightsabers and engages the Jedi in combat. Kenobi seems to have the upper hand in the first part of the battle, fending off Grievous' lightsabers and slicing off his two lower hands at the wrists, but Grievous escapes as the Republic assault force begins their attack on the Separatist armies. Kenobi chases after Grievous throughout most of the battlefield. He eventually upends Grievous' vehicle, forcing him to engage Kenobi in combat once again. Grievous tries to escape to his fighter by dueling Kenobi through the control room, the top of a tower, and a cave, finally ending up at his landing platform. Kenobi uses the Force to get Grievous' blaster on the ground nearby. He fires five shots into Grievous' torso, igniting his flammable organic components. All of Grievous' organic parts ignite, and he burns from the inside out; only his mechanical body remains, motionless without its master. Kenobi later uses Grievous's escape ship to flee from his clones, who turned on him after Order 66. A partial rebirth Am I more in fact than just a droid? Am I alive, and perhaps… even the reincarnation of Grievous? —N-K Necrosis's thoughts Grievous next appears in the video game Star Wars: Galaxies. Following the establishment of the Galactic Empire, clone troopers recover Grievous' body, transporting it and his captured starfighter to one of Palpatine's secret storehouses on Utapau. There it remains for years, until the cyberneticist Nycolai Kinesworthy uses the body of the Confederacy's greatest general for the N-K Project, to create the highly advanced droid N-K Necrosis. This war droid has a brief life in the Myyydril Caverns on Kashyyyk before being destroyed by an anonymous group of spacers. The combatants loot the droid's remains, taking its weaponry and anything else of value. The facemask ends up on the Invisible Market where it is purchased for its artistic properties by a high-ranking Imperial admiral — purported to be none other than Grand Admiral Thrawn.[1] Afterwards, the scavenged remains of the 'droid go missing, leaving an empty cabinet marked with the name of General Grievous. It is implied that Palpatine revives him in a brand new body with his brain left as the only organic part. More information Fighting technique Grievous could dislocate his shoulders and split his arms to give himself four arms, and could use his feet as one would use hands. His unorthodox moves mainly involved misdirection with his many limbs, something only the most experienced and talented of Jedi could withstand. Much of this misdirection involved releasing a lightsaber from one limb and catching it with another, sometimes even while two other limbs are performing the same trick. The opponent, focused on limbs which are no longer dangerous, was then struck. In addition, his hands and torso are able to spin in a 360 degree motion. A Jedi master of offensive lightsaber training could only last so long against the General's unpredictable style of combat. The Clone Wars animated series also clearly displayed the anxiety Grievous creates for the Jedi both with his stealth tactics and relentless, unforgiving technique with a lightsaber. As shown in Revenge of the Sith, Grievous is a dangerous adversary in unarmed combat as well, putting a dent in his own Belbullab-22 starfighter with his fist. His brilliant mind also gave him the ability to plan his battles out in a very calculating fashion; because of this, he often only fought those who were worth his time. Jedi kills and trophies Jedi	Sex/Species	Place of Death	Source Soon Baytes Male Human Boz Pity Obsession

Waldan Bridger Male	Togoria "Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous"

Roron Corobb Male Ithorian Coruscant Labyrinth of Evil, Clone Wars

T'chooka D'oon Male Human	Vandos General Grievous

Ur-Sema Du	Female Human	Geonosis	"Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous" Firkrann	Male Shard	Xagobah	"Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous" Adi Gallia Female Human	Boz Pity	Obsession Sha'a Gi Male Human	Hypori	Clone Wars Jmmaar	Male Viraanntesse	Vandos	Revenge of the Sith Flynn Kybo	Male Human	Belsus	General Grievous Roth-Del Masona	Male Human	Coruscant Labyrinth of Evil Foul Moudama	Male Talz	Coruscant Labyrinth of Evil, Clone Wars Nystammall	Male Vuvrian	Tovarskl	Revenge of the Sith Pablo-Jill	Male Ongree	Invisible Hand	Labyrinth of Evil Puroth	Female Eirrauc	Tovarskl	Revenge of the Sith Quarmall	Male Abyssin	unknown	General Grievous L'lacielo Sageon	Male Lorrdian	Invisible Hand	Labyrinth of Evil Sannen	Male	Parein II 4	"The Story of General Grievous: Lord of War" Tarr Seirr	Male Cerean Hypori Clone Wars Flint Torul	Male Human	Belderone	"Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous" Zephata'ru'tor	Male Duinuogwuin	Nadiem	General Grievous Aside from these individuals, Grievous's collection was known to include lightsabers belonging to at least three beings he did not personally kill: K'Kruhk, Sifo-Dyas, and Darth Zannah. A deleted scene of Revenge of the Sith in which Grievous kills Shaak Ti was later deemed non-canon and Shaak Ti's survival confirmed. She later dies in another scene which is also deleted. Behind the scenes General Grievous was developed for Episode III as a powerful new villain on the side of the Confederacy. The initial instructions that director George Lucas gave the Art Department were very open-ended: "a droid general." From that vague direction, the artists developed a lot of explorations, some purely mechanical, some not, for General Grievous' look. The initial design for General Grievous was done by Warren Fu. That initial sketch was refined and made into a foot-tall maquette sculpture. That was further refined when it was made in to a realistic computer-generated model by Industrial Light and Magic. This was one of the most complicated models ever created by ILM, with many parts of differing physical qualities. General Grievous is completely computer-generated imagery in the movie. On set, Duncan Young read the lines off-screen, while Kyle Rowling wore a bluescreen or a greenscreen suit to act out the fights with Obi-Wan Kenobi. Movie notes •	Gary Oldman originally agreed to provide the voice for Grievous in the film. He later pulled out because the film featured actors who were not part of the Screen Actors Guild, of which Oldman is a member. This report is disputed by Matthew Wood, who provided the final voice. He claims that Oldman is a friend of producer Rick McCallum, and agreed to submit a voice audition, but that his involvement never went beyond that. Lucas never officially offered him the role. •	General Grievous' breathing problems in Revenge of the Sith were intended to emphasize his organic nature as well as the flaws of cyborg prosthetics. Grievous had previously appeared in Star Wars: Clone Wars before many of his personality traits had been finalized. To reconcile the differences between the two presentations, Mace Windu "force-crushes" Grievous towards the end of the show's third season (volume two) as the General was making off with Palpatine, crushing the cyborg's chest panel. This "explains" why General Grievous' voice is lighter in the Clone Wars series and then deepens dramitically in the movie, although the actual explanation is that the two were portrayed by different voices. The audio effects for the coughing were taken from director George Lucas, who had bronchitis during principal photography.[2] Trivia. •	When introduced to the public in Chapter 20 of the Clone Wars animated series, Grievous has 10 fingers, while in Revenge of the Sith, he has 12 (four are opposable thumbs so that he may hold four lightsabers when he separates his arms). This happened because Lucas used the cartoon to introduce Grievous sometime before his actions in Revenge of the Sith were fully worked out, and so he did not know what Grievous would be doing or that he would have four arms. In the second season of the cartoon he still has 10 fingers (with four thumbs) when using two arms but has 12 when they split into four. •	For several months following Oldman's reported (but never confirmed) refusal, actor John Rhys-Davies was widely reported to be the voice of Grievous. This was eventually revealed to be a prank by a humor website, which planted the misinformation to see how far it would spread. [2] •	Matthew Wood reprised his role as General Grievous for the October 2005 Halloween audiocast from the official Star Wars website (available only to members) and again for the games Star Wars: Battlefront II and the Revenge of the Sith video game. •	One of the concept ideas for Grievous was that he was to be a child, with 4 IG-88 droids for bodyguards. This idea was rejected because Lucas felt that such an interpretation wouldn't be taken seriously.[citation needed] •	In The "Revenge of the Sith" DVD, Lucas instructs his creative team to create an enemy that foreshadows Anakin Skywalker's transformation into Darth Vader. For example: the heavy breathing, the droid like body, and his seduction into a malevolent faction. •	In the multiplayer duel mode in the Ep. III game, you can play General Grevious with Jedi lightsabers versus himself with Sith lightsabers.