Grodd was easily exposed and defeated, and brought back in chains in Gorilla City. Unfortunately, Flash was a scientist as well, and had discovered that solar flare radiation countered and nullified Grodd’s machine perfectly: he had his body vibrate at the same frequency as the intended radiation, and canceled the effects of the gorilla’s mind control. The radiation made every human, The Flash included, adore him, and Grodd was given the keys of the city upon his arrival: learning about humans’ laws, Grodd decided to run to become Governor, planning to become President after that. He had finally conquered Gorilla City, but he wanted more: remembering the human that had humiliated him, he moved war to the outside world, and marched on Central City. Solovar was imprisoned following Grodd’s orders, while the villainous gorilla was appointed the new king, and married Boka instead of his rival. Grodd arrived just in time for the marriage of Solovar with Boka, and he was ready and willing to ruin the ceremony: during his time in prison, Grodd had developed a machine that amplified his powers and that made him emanate neo- magnetic radiation, that made everybody around him like him… Boka included. Grodd escaped his imprisonment soon after, thanks to his newfound powers, and came back to Gorilla City. The Flash freed Solovar and returned him to Gorilla City, while Gorilla Grodd was captured and imprisoned. When he was about to kill his rival, however, he was confronted by The Flash, the city’s superhero: the two clashed, and Grodd was defeated, thus having his plan of leading his people to the conquer of the world foiled. Solovar had been brought to a zoo in Central City, and Grodd found him in a cage: he tricked him to reveal the secret of his powers, and gained them as well. Grodd offered himself for a “rescue” mission, but in fact he wanted to kill Solovar and to exert from him the secret of his telepathic powers. Solovar, however, got out of the city and let himself being captured by the humans, thus protecting the city. Grodd planned to overthrow Solovar, and tried to guide some human explorers to the city, thus exposing the king’s incapability of protecting them. Under Solovar’s guidance, the apes founded Gorilla City, an utopia hidden by the mountains and by the king’s mind powers in which every gorilla lived in peace and harmony… everyone but Grodd, who was extremely intelligent and ambitious, and wanted to take Solovar’s place and fiancée, Boka. One of them, in particular, was capable of mind-controlling others: it was Solovar, a wise and peaceful ape that would have become the leader of the new community. In the jungle he lived in, however, a meteor crashed (in other versions, it was an alien spaceship, whose occupier decided to experiment on the local fauna forcing its evolution): the rock emitted powerful radiations that modified the gorillas at a genetical level, making them skip some evolutional states and transforming them into super-apes the gorillas were now extremely intelligent, and some of them disposed of psychic powers. Grodd started out as a normal gorilla, living somewhere in the central part of Africa. Grodd is actually one of the cruelest villains ever in DC Comics, and it’s positive we’ll see more of him during the series… unfortunately for poor Barry Allen. The gorilla is Grodd, and we know from the first episode that he escaped from his cage during the explosion of the particle accelerator, leaving behind just destroyed iron bars. The guinea pig in question happens to be a huge gorilla, who’s saved by Wells’ intervention… unfortunately the good doctor declares he has some “other plan” in mind for him, with a nasty smile on his face. Harrison Wellsrecalls his previous collaboration with General Wade Eiling, we see him quarreling with the military over useless cruelties over some guinea pig. In The Flash episode Plastique we got a sweet Easter egg at the very end: when the mysterious Dr.
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