Star Wars character
General Grievous
Portrayed by	Richard McGonagle (voice in Star Wars: Clone Wars) Matthew Wood (voice in Revenge of the Sith and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa)
Position	Supreme Commander of the Droid Armies
Homeworld	Kalee
Species	Kaleesh (cyborg)
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Confederacy of Independent Systems

General Grievous (aka Brad Stogner) is a fictional character from the Star Wars universe and was the primary antagonist in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, aside from Vader and Palpatine. He was voiced by Matthew Wood. 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: the heavy breathing, the cyborg body, and his seduction into a malevolent faction. This article is about the series. ... Image File history File links Gre. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Star Wars: Clone Wars (November 7, 2003 - present) is an animated Star Wars television series that chronicles the Clone Wars between the Republic under Chancellor Palpatine and the Confederacy of Independent Systems under Count Dooku. ... For the English cricketers named Matthew Wood, see Matthew Wood (Yorkshire cricketer) and Matthew Wood (Somerset cricketer). ... Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is the third episode of the Star Wars film series (but the sixth film to be produced), to be released on Thursday, May 19, 2005. ... // Kalakar VI was a volcanic moon of Dromund Kalakar in the Outer Rim. ... Information in this article or section has not been verified against sources and may not be reliable. ... For other uses, see Cyborg (disambiguation). ... This article is about the Male sex. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article is about the series. ... A fictional universe is an imaginary world that serves as the setting or backdrop for one or (more commonly) multiple works of fiction or translatable non-fiction. ... Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is the third episode of the Star Wars film series (but the sixth film to be produced), to be released on Thursday, May 19, 2005. ... For the English cricketers named Matthew Wood, see Matthew Wood (Yorkshire cricketer) and Matthew Wood (Somerset cricketer). ... For information on this characters appearance in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, see Anakin Skywalker. ...

Appearances

Films

Revenge of the Sith

The opening crawl of Revenge of the Sith explains that Grievous and Count Dooku have kidnapped Chancellor Palpatine, and are holding him hostage. Grievous soon has Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker captured onboard his vessel, the Invisible Hand. Skywalker and Kenobi are taken prisoner, but escape and confront Grievous on the bridge. Grievous grabs a fallen guard's electrostaff and smashes it through the viewport, sending himself into space. He uses a grappling hook to pull himself to the ship's exterior. He then uses his mechanical feet to magnetize to the outside of his fallen flagship to regain entry into the vessel, and flees in an escape pod. An example of the famous Star Wars roll-up. ... Count Dooku, also known as Darth Tyranus, is a fictional character from the Star Wars universe and Palpatines apprentice. ... Palpatine is a fictional character in George Lucas science fiction saga Star Wars. ... Obi-Wan Kenobi is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe. ... Anakin Skywalker is the central character in the Star Wars franchise. ... T.F.C. The Invisible Hand Engines of The Invisible Hand See also Adam Smiths concept of the Invisible hand. The Trade Federation Cruiser is a fictional spaceship which first appeared in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. ...

Grievous directs his escape pod to the nearest Trade Federation 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 in the earlier battle. Sidious orders him to move the Separatist leaders to the volcanic planet Mustafar. The Trade Federation is a fictional organization that exists in the Star Wars universe at the time of the Galactic Republic. ... Utapau is a city in southern Thailand. ... Mustafar is a volcanic planet in the Star Wars universe. ...

Kenobi arrives shortly after the Separatists leave, and corners Grievous. Grievous takes out his lightsabers and engages Kenobi in combat. Kenobi seems to gain the upper hand, fending off Grievous' lightsabers and slicing off his two lower hands at the wrists; Grievous, however, escapes as the Republic assault force known as the 212th attack battalion begins their attack on the droid armies. Kenobi chases after Grievous throughout most of the battlefield. He eventually upends the General's 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 opens Grievous's chest-plates, revealing his internal organs. Grievous throws him around violently before hurling him over the landing platform and seizing an electrostaff before charging. Kenobi, who had managed to grab onto the edge of the platform, uses the Force to retrieve Grievous' blaster, lying on the ground nearby. He fires five shots into Grievous' torso, igniting his flammable organic components. All of Grievous' organs ignite, and he starts to burn from the inside. Flames erupt from his eye sockets before he finally falls to the ground.

Expanded Universe

Clone Wars series

General Grievous attacks Ki-Adi-Mundi.

Grievous makes his 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. He begins the swift conquest of almost all of the Outer Rim planets, striking 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. He harbors an intense hatred of the Jedi, and takes great satisfaction in collecting their lightsabers as trophies after killing them. Download high resolution version (1024x576, 68 KB)General Grievous attacks Ki-Adi-Mundi. ... Download high resolution version (1024x576, 68 KB)General Grievous attacks Ki-Adi-Mundi. ... In the fictional Star Wars series, the Outer Rim Territories is the outermost part of the Star Wars galaxy. ... For other uses, see Star Wars Galaxy. ...

As portrayed in the Clone Wars 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 also Sith Lord and Separatist leader Darth Sidious). 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 to 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, severely weakening him and leaving him with the asthmatic cough heard in Revenge of the Sith. A slightly different path of events occurs in Labyrinth of Evil, where Grievous is never shown patrolling through Coruscant's Subway in a prolonged chase after the Chancellor, but instead duels and nearly defeats Mace Windu atop one of the myriad fighters in the battle over the city. Windu unbalances and topples the General from the fighter, and uses the Force to crush his chest plates, thus explaining Grievous' wheezing cough in Revenge of the Sith. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Palpatine is a fictional character in George Lucas science fiction saga Star Wars. ... Shaak Ti is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe. ... Windu redirects here. ... Yoda is a fictional character from the Star Wars universe, who appears in all of the franchises films except for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. ... May The Force Be With You redirects here. ... For other uses, see Asthma (disambiguation). ...

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Comic Books

Grievous also appears in the Star Wars: Republic comic book series, in which he massacres Republic and Jedi forces on orders from Count Dooku.

Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous, which appeared in Star Wars Insider 86, provides Grievous' partial backstory. General Grievous is originally a warlord named Qymaen jai Sheelal on his native planet Kalee. Grievous is among the most effective generals for the Kalee against their enemy, the Huk. In narratology, a back-story (also back story or backstory) is the history behind the situation extant at the start of the main story. ... A warlord is a person with power who has de facto military control of a subnational area due to armed forces loyal to the warlord and not to a central authority. ... I Like to eat muff. ...

Novels

The rest of his backstory is supplied in James Luceno's novel Labyrinth of Evil. During the war with the rival Huk, the Republic is called in to settle the dispute. Because the Huk is rich in natural resources compared to the barren Kalee world, the Republic sides with Huk and sends several Jedi Knights to intervene on their behalf. Grievous and his armies are made to appear as the aggressors and their homeworld is left in ruins. James Luceno (born in 1947) is the New York Times bestselling author of three Star Wars: The New Jedi Order novels, Agents of Chaos: Heros Trial, Agents of Chaos: Jedi Eclipse and The Unifying Force. ... Labyrinth of Evil is a novel by James Luceno set in the fictional Star Wars galaxy. ...

Grievous becomes a security chief for the Intergalactic Banking Clan. San Hill, leader of the clan, notices Grievous' strategic genius, fearlessness, and skills. He is mentioned to the Confederacy of Independent Systems leader, Count Dooku. 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. In the fictional Star Wars universe, San Hill was the chairman of the Intergalactic Banking Clan. ... A genius is a person of great intelligence. ... Count Dooku, also known as Darth Tyranus, is a fictional character from the Star Wars universe and Palpatines apprentice. ... Darth Sidious, Dark Lord of the Sith, who often contacts his minions via hologram. ...

During an attack by the Republic's armies on the clan's base, Grievous' shuttle, with a bomb already attached, explodes and crashes. Grievous is mortally wounded in the crash, kept alive by technology, a transfusion of blood from the deceased Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas, 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. Grievous initially resists — he would much rather die a warrior's death than watch his body sustained by technology — but Hill eventually persuades him by appealing to his desire for revenge. In actuality, this was Hill's plan all along, as the Separatists had booby trapped Grievous' shuttle themselves, meaning to leave the General with no other choice than to accept. 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 then completed leaving Grievous one of the most fearsome warriors of the Seperatists' army. The subject of this article may not satisfy the notability guideline for Fiction. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Geonosis is a planet from Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. ... Luke Skywalker in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope along side astromech droid R2-D2, and protocol droid C-3PO. This is the concept of the droid in science fiction. ... Lightsaber combat describes the fictional fighting styles employed by Jedi and Sith characters in the Star Wars multi-media franchise. ... A Pieris rapae larva An older Pieris rapae larva A Pieris rapae pupa A Pieris rapae adult Metamorphosis is a process in biology by which an individual physically develops after birth or hatching, and involves significant change in form as well as growth and differentiation. ...

Video Games

Matthew Wood reprised his role as General Grievous for the games Star Wars: Battlefront II and the Revenge of the Sith video game.

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] General Grievous also made a very brief appearance in Star Wars: Republic Commando, when Delta Squad almost caught him boarding his starship to an "unknown" planet. Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided (SWG) is a Star Wars themed MMORPG for the PC, developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts Entertainment. ... Galactic empires are a fairly common theme in science fiction. ... Clone troopers are soldiers in the fictional Star Wars universe. ... Kashyyyk (IPA: ), also known as Wookiee Planet C, is a fictional planet in the Star Wars universe. ... For other uses, see Admiral (disambiguation). ... Grand Admiral Thrawn (full name: Mitthrawnuruodo) is a fictional character from the Star Wars galaxy. ...

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 Grievous' look. George Walton Lucas, Jr. ...

The initial design for General Grievous was created 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. (ILM later broke their own record in this for the many alien Cybertronians designed for 2007's Transformers, some characters with over 10,000 moving parts. The Autobot Ironhide is purported to have over 30,000 individual CGI parts.) 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. Industrial Light & Magic original logo, designed by Drew Struzan Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is a motion picture special visual effects company, founded in May 1975 by George Lucas and owned by Lucasfilm Ltd. ... For the 1986 animated film, see The Transformers: The Movie. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Ironhide is the name of several different fictional characters in the Transformers universes. ... Computer-generated imagery[1] (also known as CGI) is the application of the field of computer graphics or, more specifically, 3D computer graphics to special effects in films, television programs, commercials, simulators and simulation generally, and printed media. ... The bluescreen setup. ...

A deleted scene of Revenge of the Sith (included in the DVD release) in which Grievous kills Jedi Master Shaak Ti was later deemed non-canon and Shaak Ti's survival confirmed. She was (then) meant to die later in another scene involving the raid of the Jedi Temple, which was also deleted (and not included in the DVD). DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc - see Etymology) is a popular optical disc storage media format. ... Shaak Ti is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe. ... The Star Wars canon consists of the six Star Wars feature films, along with all officially licensed, non-contradicting spin-off works to the six films. ... The Jedi Temple is a building in the fictional Star Wars universe. ...

Movie notes

• Gary Oldman is a friend of producer Rick McCallum, and agreed to submit a voice audition, but his involvement never went beyond that. Lucas never officially offered him the role.^{[citation needed]}
• 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]
• 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 Clone Wars before many of his personality traits had been finalized. To reconcile the differences between the two presentations, Mace Windu uses the Force to crush Grievous's chest panel towards the end of the show's third season (volume two) as the General makes off with Palpatine. This "explains" why General Grievous' voice is lighter in the Clone Wars series and then deepens dramatically 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 Lucas himself, who had bronchitis during principal photography.^[3]

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Action figure

Many action figures of General Grievous were released after the movie by Hasbro. There was also a large figure of Grievous made by Lego in 2008, aside from the regular Grievous Minifigure. ^[4] Hasbro (NYSE: HAS) is an American toy and game company. ... For other uses, see Lego (disambiguation). ... Space, Castle, and Town minifigures Minifigures are small, plastic figural toys produced by Danish toy manufacturer Lego, which are usually sold with Lego sets, as characters intended to populate modular Lego environments. ...

References

1. ^ Star Wars: Galaxies
2. ^ John Rhys-Davies in Star Wars Episode III: A Grievous Media Hoax
3. ^ Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith DVD commentary featuring George Lucas, Rick McCallum, Rob Coleman, John Knoll and Roger Guyett, [2005]
4. ^ http://shop.lego.com/product/?p=10186&LangId=2057&ShipTo=US

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