Grindor (Movie)

Grindor is a Decepticon from Revenge of the Fallen portion of live-action movie continuity family.



Grindor transforms into a CH-53E Super Stallion heavy-lift helicopter which resembles another Decepticon, though he is a lighter grey, and the forward fuselage has a different refueling probe and sensors. Grindor's primary weapon is a gattling gun, secondary weapon is an energon wave cannon. He is a cold and calculating warrior, making note of every possible outcome before he makes his move.

Revenge of the Fallen film
voice actor: Frank Welker

Grindor kidnaps Sam, Mikaela, and Leo, and brings them to Megatron.

After Optimus and Bumblebee arrive, he joins Starscream and Megatron in fighting Optimus Prime in a nearby forest. He puts Optimus in a headlock but he elbows Grindor in the face. So, Grindor tries to saw him in half with his rotor weapon, but Optimus wriggles free of Grindor's grip. When Optimus shouts, "I'LL TAKE YOU ALL ON!", he slices a couple off Grindor's helicopter blades in half and then cuts off his right arm which flies into Megatron's hand causing him to miss his aim and shoot a tree. Then, Optimus slashes at Grindor's chest who is then hit by Starscream's gattling gun, so he tries to shoot Optimus with his own gattling gun but Optimus throws one of his blades at him, impaling him in the leg. So, Grindor goes out of the battle for a bit. When Optimus slices off Starscream's arm, Grindor comes back into the battle & pulls the sword out of his leg, but Optimus runs up to him with his hooks. He then stabs one hook into Grindor's eye then pulls himself up on top of him. Optimus then stabs his other hook in his mouth then Optimus completely rips his head in two while Grindor roars in pain. Optimus then pushes Grindor's headless, dead body to the ground.

Video Game

 * He is a playable character in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen the video game.


 * His primary weapon is a machine gun. His secondary weapon is a ground-shockwave. His vehicle mode weapon is a three-at-a-time lock on missle. His vehicle mode is a Super Stallion. His special ability will launch a machine gun turret that fires on enemies.

Toys

 * Grindor (Legend, 2009)
 * The same Blackout legends figure, but lighter in color, has Cybertronian "tattoos" here and there, and his face is a different color.


 * Grindor (Voyager, 2009)
 * Grindor is a redeco of Blackout and comes with a Stalker Scorponok mini-figure.


 * Grindor (Fast Action Battler, 2009)

Trivia

 * In the Revenge of the Fallen game, Grindor is a source of sly humor, sometimes saying "Look! Robots in disguise!" He also often chastises Starscream's tactics before Megatron's resurrection. In the gameplay, the Super Stallion copter turbo gave Grindor a hover ability similar to Breakaway's.


 * His name is not mentioned in the film.


 * Revenge of the Fallen film never explicitly establishes Grindor as a separate character from Blackout. Screenwriter Roberto Orci, when asked, was not sure whether they were supposed to be the same character or not. Despite Orci's statement, Hasbro has confirmed that it is Grindor featured in the film instead of Blackout.


 * Just before Optimus kills him, he yells "NOOOOOOO!!''. Anyway, Prime didn't have mercy to listen his last words.


 * However, during the fight in the forest between Optimus and Megatron, just as Grindor has just finished attacking Optimus, Blackout's Pave Low Bulb is seen next to Grindor's head and in the left corner on the armor.


 * When Grindor is carrying Sam, Mikaela and Leo, he doesn't seem to care that Sam is hanging on to the car and could fall. Megatron needs Sam so he can extract the information he needs.


 * There is some similarity between the fates of Grindor and Lurtz, the Uruk'Hai Commander in The Fellowship of the Ring film. Both are something to do with the capture of at least two major characters (Grindor captures Sam and Mikaela, and supporting main character, Leo; Lurtz kills Boromir, allowing his force to capture Merry and Pippin). Both are then stabbed in the right leg by a main hero (Optimus Prime (Energon sword) and Aragorn (curved knife) respectively) before pulling the weapons out of their legs, both survive a stab through the chest, both lose their right arm (which had a weapon in/on in both cases) and both were killed by some means of decapitation (Grindor's head was ripped apart; Lurtz's head was cut off).