Friday, April 22, 2005

Solomon Grundy!!!



Anyone remember this much-maligned member of the Legion of Doom? I hadn't thought of him in years until my friend Darin mentioned him recently, and I jogged my memory by doing a Google search for him tonight. I found this phenomenal writeup of him at Seanbaby's Super Friends Page. If you don't remember this less-than-stellar supervillain, I've excerpted a portion of the writeup on Grundy below:

Solomon Grundy was the only Legion of Doom member that wasn't expected to build little robodevices. While Bizarro, Luthor, and Grodd were busy pulling out boxes of laser props and showing off their latest flying killer toys, Solomon Grundy's albino ass was trying to piece Legos together to make a ramp for his hot wheels. "Solomon Grundy build device too! Zooom!"
He was a zombie, so I'm assuming he ate brains. Did you ever wonder why the Legion of Doom was so stupid? It might be because Solomon Grundy was sneaking around their Darth-Vader-Head base at night with a spoon and snacking on their heads. It's probably why they're all insane, too. You wake up in the middle of the night with a giant zombie sticking a spoon in your ear, and see how coherent you are in the morning. Grundy was a selective eater, though. He left everyone enough brain to walk around and talk, but he ate the part that helped remind them to wear pants. In Grodd's case, he ate the part that helped him remember to wear a shirt, too. One of these nights, he's going to get out of control and eat that part of the brain that keeps you from doing somersaults all day. You're going to see a ball of villains flying down the street screaming, "Can't. Resist. Somersault! What have you done to us, Grundy?!!!"
His biggest problem besides sunburns was not being able to use first person pronouns. He'd never say, "I'm heading to the park for a hotdog. Can I get anyone anything?" He'd put his foot through something and scream "Solomon Grundy eat dog! Solomon Grundy bring back some for you?" It's why even on a team of career morons like the Legion of Doom, he still got called "the dumb one." That's a pretty notable super ability already.

2 Comments:

At 9:20 PM, Blogger KMJ said...

Scott, this is mind-trippin' coincidence. Eric and I were talking about ol' Solomon Grundy just yesterday as we were driving to Central Oregon.

Eric was telling me of the back story of Solomon Grundy from the original comics and what is going on in recent comics with what is assumed to be S.G.'s grandson Klarion the Witch Boy. (Yeah, yeah, yeah... we're nerds. And we LIKE IT that way. HA!)

Anyway, to see you mention this uber-evil-dope and to have had a conversation about the same character, though quite different from cartoon to comic is just a bit (bizarro?). lol.

 
At 8:24 PM, Blogger KMJ said...

P.S. You've been tagged. Check out my site to see the rules... :)

 

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