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General Grievous

General Grievous is a major character in the Star Wars franchise, making his first appearance in the 2004 animated series, Star Wars: Clone Wars, and debuting in the films with Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005). Originally a Kaleesh warrior named Qymaen jai Sheelal from the planet Kalee, General Grievous is a ruthless and feared Cyborg who leads the Separatist Droid Army during The Clone Wars against the Republic and its Jedi protectors.

Prior to his transformation, Grievous was a fierce and skilled warrior, leading his people against various enemies. However, after several unfortunate events and a near-fatal accident orchestrated by Count Dooku, Grievous was left on the brink of death. To save his life and bolster his fighting abilities, Count Dooku and his allies in the Confederacy of Independent Systems (CIS) rebuilt Grievous as a Cyborg with cybernetic enhancements. As part of his transformation, Grievous was implanted with the brain of a notorious Jedi hunter, intensifying his hatred for the Jedi and his desire for their destruction.

As the commander of the Separatist forces, Grievous quickly gained a fearsome reputation for his brutality and skill, taking down many Jedi opponents and collecting their lightsabers as trophies. Utilizing his mechanical body and multiple limbs, Grievous was able to wield up to four lightsabers simultaneously, making him an intimidating adversary even for experienced Jedi. His prowess in combat was matched only by his strategic acumen, as he successfully led the droid army in various campaigns throughout the galaxy.

General Grievous' tactical knowledge and fighting skills made him one of the primary targets for the Republic during the war. The Republic's numerous attempts to capture or kill Grievous often led to his narrow escape, further cementing his status as a formidable enemy. However, Grievous was not infallible, and he managed to find himself on the losing end of several encounters with Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi and other prominent figures during The Clone Wars.

Grievous met his end during a climactic battle with Obi-Wan Kenobi in Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. After a fierce duel, Kenobi managed to pry open Grievous' chestplate and expose his vulnerable, organic internal organs. Grievous was killed when Obi-Wan fired a blaster into his now-exposed heart, causing the Cyborg general to ignite and collapse.

In addition to his appearances in the films and animated series, General Grievous has been featured in various comic books, novels, video games, and other Star Wars media, further exploring his origins and character growth. In these stories, Grievous becomes a symbol of the larger themes present in the Star Wars saga, embodying the dehumanizing effect of war and the corruption of power.

General Grievous stands as one of the most menacing and formidable villains in the Star Wars universe. His tragic backstory and relentless pursuit of the Jedi showcase the struggle between good and evil that lies at the heart of the series, while his unique abilities and striking design guarantee his lasting appeal among fans as a memorable and iconic character.

Mentions on Podcast Episodes:

"seen something with this, and I think it's actually episode three, but Grievous's"

16. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S2E16 'Cat & Mouse' & S1E16 'The Hidden Enemy'
"just the, maybe it's the bridge that reminds me of Grievous some, at some"

16. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S2E16 'Cat & Mouse' & S1E16 'The Hidden Enemy'
"And we discover and destroy Grievous' devastating new weapon, male violence."

19. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E1-S1E4 'Ambush / Malevolence Trilogy'
"That's not cool. That's brutal. It is brutal. It is so savage. It really is, because Grievous does not want anyone to know what this powerful weapon that they have is, the Malevolence."

19. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E1-S1E4 'Ambush / Malevolence Trilogy'
"I don't understand Grievous, Grievous, Grievous."

19. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E1-S1E4 'Ambush / Malevolence Trilogy'
"I don't know the backstory of General Grievous."

19. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E1-S1E4 'Ambush / Malevolence Trilogy'
"I, I, I, I, I don't know the backstory of General Grievous."

19. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E1-S1E4 'Ambush / Malevolence Trilogy'
"And but Grievous is there's very little of him left."

19. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E1-S1E4 'Ambush / Malevolence Trilogy'
"We're all good. I can't do a Grievous impression."

19. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E1-S1E4 'Ambush / Malevolence Trilogy'
"I would so love to do a Grievous impression right now."

19. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E1-S1E4 'Ambush / Malevolence Trilogy'
"I'm going to I'm going to take out Grievous."

19. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E1-S1E4 'Ambush / Malevolence Trilogy'
"disarray. Their warp drives are down. Grievous is hunting, you"

19. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E1-S1E4 'Ambush / Malevolence Trilogy'
"so blatant to me basically sets her up Grievous pulls her in"

19. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E1-S1E4 'Ambush / Malevolence Trilogy'
"takes her hostage, you know, Grievous may not know how"

19. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E1-S1E4 'Ambush / Malevolence Trilogy'
"But I also appreciated that they had kind of a good reason for Grievous to leave the ship."

19. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E1-S1E4 'Ambush / Malevolence Trilogy'
"I also love that Grievous, I think when he jumped on the train at one point,"

19. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E1-S1E4 'Ambush / Malevolence Trilogy'
"And I also loved that in that fight, Grievous only had two lightsabers"

19. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E1-S1E4 'Ambush / Malevolence Trilogy'
"To give a little bit more background, basically there's this signal that comes from this certain rebel base that's on a moon that if the signal ever dies, the Republic will know that Grievous and them are attacking a certain place. I forget what the name of the place was. I think it was Kamino."

20. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E5-S1E7 ‘Downfall & Duel of the Droids‘
"And they take it over pretty much, but they keep the signal alive or they do something to hack the signal so that it stays so that the rest of the clone, the rest of the clone in the Republic Army doesn't know that Grievous is going in for the kill in Kamino."

20. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E5-S1E7 ‘Downfall & Duel of the Droids‘
"But I enjoy the aspect that Heavy gives himself at the end to make sure that Grievous can't kill all his brothers and sisters on Kamino. He's kind of the rebel at the beginning of it."

20. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E5-S1E7 ‘Downfall & Duel of the Droids‘
"They should totally focus on taking down Kamino. That should be priority one. If they want to win. And I'm still not really clear on all of that, by the way. I think Grievous wants to win, but like nobody else does, right?"

20. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E5-S1E7 ‘Downfall & Duel of the Droids‘
"Yeah, so I think that it's more along the lines of creating and sowing chaos. But I think Grievous looks at it as a reward. Definitely. And Insidious, to a point, I think still wants to kind of win a little bit."

20. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E5-S1E7 ‘Downfall & Duel of the Droids‘
"I want to make sure we look like we're at least in the game. Whereas I think Grievous is all in. He doesn't know anything about what you know, that Insidious is pulling the strings here."

20. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E5-S1E7 ‘Downfall & Duel of the Droids‘
"It ends up being this salvage operator that actually is working for Grievous or has a deal with him"

20. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E5-S1E7 ‘Downfall & Duel of the Droids‘
"But the R3 kind of added a little bit of an element of like, wow, Grievous is really on top of things."

20. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E5-S1E7 ‘Downfall & Duel of the Droids‘
"He actually did not realize that it was a Grievous plan."

20. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E5-S1E7 ‘Downfall & Duel of the Droids‘
"I thought that was a really well-written kind of thing in there whenever he, whenever you find out that Grievous is the one who kind of set it all up."

20. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E5-S1E7 ‘Downfall & Duel of the Droids‘
"The guy that picked up R2 and was going to sell him over to Grievous."

20. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E5-S1E7 ‘Downfall & Duel of the Droids‘
"But then we also have the age of Republic General Grievous comic."

20. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E5-S1E7 ‘Downfall & Duel of the Droids‘
"Hondo. The Jedi pull a Sicilian swap and Grievous goes goodies in a Jedi temple."

22. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E11 / General Grevious - Age of Resitance Comic
"Today we discuss Clone Wars episode 111 and General Grievous in this edition of"

22. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E11 / General Grevious - Age of Resitance Comic
"Doku Captured. And also a comic book we're gonna be doing General Grievous's"

22. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E11 / General Grevious - Age of Resitance Comic
"Yes I agree with that yeah because I was fantastic yeah it was because I was sitting there thinking about it and I was like where do we leave off because the last episode before this we talked about was Grievous's lair which Doku I guess technically was in the previous episode before that where we actually see him flying off in the solar sailor and then I think he gets shot in that episode and he crash lands or he it shows him crash landing in this yeah I thought that the using the Anakin thing for Bay and then Obi-Wan coming in was pretty good when they all three kind of crashed on the same planet."

22. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E11 / General Grevious - Age of Resitance Comic
"And but the bad guys don't necessarily all have to be on the same bad side. So Age of Republic General Grievous."

22. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E11 / General Grevious - Age of Resitance Comic
"Yeah, you're not getting a whole lot. I loved the idea of seeing because I have such little information about Grievous. I want to know more."

22. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E11 / General Grevious - Age of Resitance Comic
"I had to pull them up one, two, three panels where you can see Grievous,"

22. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E11 / General Grevious - Age of Resitance Comic
"it wasn't anything new to me. Yeah. We saw in the layer of Grievous,"

22. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E11 / General Grevious - Age of Resitance Comic
"His mission is not to recover. His mission is to destroy, which is what Grievous does here."

22. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E11 / General Grevious - Age of Resitance Comic
"That's where I was getting at with Hauser and the artist. I don't know how you convey that. Who does the writer say that specifically or does the artist be like, hey I'm interpreting this from Grievous' point of view, I'm going to make these artistic changes because I feel like that's what we should."

22. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E11 / General Grevious - Age of Resitance Comic
"I mean you count like Grievous is like a robot like you kind of seen that before on the other side."

31. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 4 / Ep 5 / Visions 6
"I mean, let's let's let's contrast it to Episode nine with the Grievous entry,"

33. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Episodes 8 and 9
"which is really weird that we kind of jumped back to the Grievous storyline."

33. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Episodes 8 and 9
"But I enjoyed the I enjoyed Grievous in this episode of knowing that they were going to come back for him and kind of knowing their plan already."

33. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Episodes 8 and 9
"I like that part of Grievous. Like I like almost like like you know,"

33. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Episodes 8 and 9
"But I like that part of Grievous. Like I like almost like like because he's talked about as a tactician and and you see that very,"

33. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Episodes 8 and 9
"But you kind of get the drift like the next episode or at least the next couple of episodes are going to be Anakin and Obi-Wan going after Grievous again."

33. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Episodes 8 and 9
"I enjoy Grievous. I kind of looking for some new some new baddies, but I don't know. It wasn't a bad episode."

33. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Episodes 8 and 9
"Yeah. And the fight scenes were pretty good for both those people facing Grievous."

33. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Episodes 8 and 9
"Well, you led right into that. So I'm going to have to point out if I haven't pointed this out before, that Grievous having four lightsabers should be the end of any fight."

33. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Episodes 8 and 9
"Again, I'm not saying I enjoy Grievous as a character. I'm just kind of getting to the point where I want some other baddie to show up."

33. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Episodes 8 and 9
"Grievous to me is like, I think we're going to be chasing Grievous for the next three seasons."

33. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Episodes 8 and 9
"So Grievous Intrigue."

33. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Episodes 8 and 9
"So but no, in in another sense, it's a total spinning in place because, you know, Grievous"

34. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Episodes 10, 11 and 12
"would have to think it's something like that and I wonder if Grievous I'm sorry"

34. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Episodes 10, 11 and 12
"because they think that, or they know that Doku is going to get Grievous to land the troops on there."

35. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Eps 13 and 14, Tales of the Jedi Ep 1
"And then, plus I have in my notes, you get Kenobi versus Grievous, Asajj versus Anakin,"

38. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 3 Ep 7 and 2 and Tales of the Jedi Ep 3
"and then you get Spider-Crawl Grievous."

38. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 3 Ep 7 and 2 and Tales of the Jedi Ep 3
"Yeah, when you get Spider-Crawl Grievous, that's like an A plus in my book."

38. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 3 Ep 7 and 2 and Tales of the Jedi Ep 3

General Grievous

"seen something with this, and I think it's actually episode three, but Grievous's"

"just the, maybe it's the bridge that reminds me of Grievous some, at some"

"And we discover and destroy Grievous' devastating new weapon, male violence."

"That's not cool. That's brutal. It is brutal. It is so savage. It really is, because Grievous does not want anyone to know what this powerful weapon that they have is, the Malevolence."

"I don't understand Grievous, Grievous, Grievous."

"I don't know the backstory of General Grievous."

"I, I, I, I, I don't know the backstory of General Grievous."

"And but Grievous is there's very little of him left."

"We're all good. I can't do a Grievous impression."

"I would so love to do a Grievous impression right now."

"I'm going to I'm going to take out Grievous."

"disarray. Their warp drives are down. Grievous is hunting, you"

"so blatant to me basically sets her up Grievous pulls her in"

"takes her hostage, you know, Grievous may not know how"

"But I also appreciated that they had kind of a good reason for Grievous to leave the ship."

"I also love that Grievous, I think when he jumped on the train at one point,"

"And I also loved that in that fight, Grievous only had two lightsabers"

"To give a little bit more background, basically there's this signal that comes from this certain rebel base that's on a moon that if the signal ever dies, the Republic will know that Grievous and them are attacking a certain place. I forget what the name of the place was. I think it was Kamino."

"And they take it over pretty much, but they keep the signal alive or they do something to hack the signal so that it stays so that the rest of the clone, the rest of the clone in the Republic Army doesn't know that Grievous is going in for the kill in Kamino."

"But I enjoy the aspect that Heavy gives himself at the end to make sure that Grievous can't kill all his brothers and sisters on Kamino. He's kind of the rebel at the beginning of it."

"They should totally focus on taking down Kamino. That should be priority one. If they want to win. And I'm still not really clear on all of that, by the way. I think Grievous wants to win, but like nobody else does, right?"

"Yeah, so I think that it's more along the lines of creating and sowing chaos. But I think Grievous looks at it as a reward. Definitely. And Insidious, to a point, I think still wants to kind of win a little bit."

"I want to make sure we look like we're at least in the game. Whereas I think Grievous is all in. He doesn't know anything about what you know, that Insidious is pulling the strings here."

"It ends up being this salvage operator that actually is working for Grievous or has a deal with him"

"But the R3 kind of added a little bit of an element of like, wow, Grievous is really on top of things."

"He actually did not realize that it was a Grievous plan."

"I thought that was a really well-written kind of thing in there whenever he, whenever you find out that Grievous is the one who kind of set it all up."

"The guy that picked up R2 and was going to sell him over to Grievous."

"But then we also have the age of Republic General Grievous comic."

"Hondo. The Jedi pull a Sicilian swap and Grievous goes goodies in a Jedi temple."

"Today we discuss Clone Wars episode 111 and General Grievous in this edition of"

"Doku Captured. And also a comic book we're gonna be doing General Grievous's"

"And but the bad guys don't necessarily all have to be on the same bad side. So Age of Republic General Grievous."

"Yeah, you're not getting a whole lot. I loved the idea of seeing because I have such little information about Grievous. I want to know more."

"I had to pull them up one, two, three panels where you can see Grievous,"

"it wasn't anything new to me. Yeah. We saw in the layer of Grievous,"

"His mission is not to recover. His mission is to destroy, which is what Grievous does here."

"I mean you count like Grievous is like a robot like you kind of seen that before on the other side."

"I mean, let's let's let's contrast it to Episode nine with the Grievous entry,"

"which is really weird that we kind of jumped back to the Grievous storyline."

"But I enjoyed the I enjoyed Grievous in this episode of knowing that they were going to come back for him and kind of knowing their plan already."

"I like that part of Grievous. Like I like almost like like you know,"

"But I like that part of Grievous. Like I like almost like like because he's talked about as a tactician and and you see that very,"

"But you kind of get the drift like the next episode or at least the next couple of episodes are going to be Anakin and Obi-Wan going after Grievous again."

"I enjoy Grievous. I kind of looking for some new some new baddies, but I don't know. It wasn't a bad episode."

"Yeah. And the fight scenes were pretty good for both those people facing Grievous."

"Well, you led right into that. So I'm going to have to point out if I haven't pointed this out before, that Grievous having four lightsabers should be the end of any fight."

"Again, I'm not saying I enjoy Grievous as a character. I'm just kind of getting to the point where I want some other baddie to show up."

"Grievous to me is like, I think we're going to be chasing Grievous for the next three seasons."

"So Grievous Intrigue."

"So but no, in in another sense, it's a total spinning in place because, you know, Grievous"

"would have to think it's something like that and I wonder if Grievous I'm sorry"

"because they think that, or they know that Doku is going to get Grievous to land the troops on there."

"And then, plus I have in my notes, you get Kenobi versus Grievous, Asajj versus Anakin,"

"and then you get Spider-Crawl Grievous."

"Yeah, when you get Spider-Crawl Grievous, that's like an A plus in my book."