General Grievous [Villain] (Legends)

"I am Grievous, warlord of the Kaleesh and Supreme Commander of the armies of the Confederacy. And I am not a droid!"

―Legends Grievous.

The General Grievous in Star Wars Legends, also known as Legends Grievous or 2005 General Grievous, was the monster cyborg General of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. He was trained under Count Dooku and soon killed various Jedi for no known reason. He was genocidal and murderous across the galaxy and became the greatest villains.

Personality

Early War General Grievous — The evil Legends Grievous

The Legends Grievous was nothing like The Clone Wars heroic version. He was completely evil as he had no qualms of committing genocides on innocents just like the Jedi he hates as the Jedi commit genocides on innocents. Legends Grievous is known to be a cold, ruthless being, and showed no mercy to his enemies. It is said that he had no mercy or compassion for even his allies. Originally, he felt ashamed about being resurrected as a cyborg, as he wanted to die as a warrior and felt cheated out of death, but he later came to accept it, since he could survive many wounds that he couldn't have survived in his normal body. On the battlefield, he was a very calculating and ingenious tactician, and was a force to be reckoned with to both clones and Jedi.

Another characteristic of Legends Grievous was that he has a complete, utter hatred of all Jedi due to them aiding the Huk and believing they had set him up with his shuttle crash when it was really the CIS. Legends Grievous also hate the Republic, due to them suppressing his people economically on Kalee. When the Geonosians reconstructed him, they tampered with his brain and enhanced his hatred and anger towards the Jedi, to the point that Legends Grievous' whole purpose for continuing the Clone Wars was to destroy all Jedi. Legends Grievous also hated the CIS and only tolerated them because he was submitted to changing to be a cybernetic. This made the warlord Legends Grievous not care about the heroic Separatist New Order unlike his heroic The Clone Wars TV Show counterpart Grievous who did care about the Separatist cause, and Legends Grievous did whatever he felt like doing such as enslaving planets and unleashing viruses making his name feared and giving the CIS a bad reputation.

2005 General Grievous was a brilliant Separatist military strategist and a feared Jedi hunter, known for his ruthlessness and hacking cough. A twisted melding of flesh and metal, his body itself was a weapon, allowing him lightning quick strikes and devastating blows. He was also quick to retreat from a disadvantageous tactical position in battle, a tactic that worked until one final meeting with Obi-Wan Kenobi. He was also a brilliant military strategist who can't be bothered with compassion or mercy for his enemies. His lightning strikes and effective battle planning made him infamous in the eyes of the Republic, Legends Grievous' living matter was encased within his precision-engineered artificial body; inside the hardened shell beat the heart of a remorseless Jedi killer. A pressurized gut-sack held his vital organs, while his skull-like mask contained his living eyes and brain. Each of his six-fingered arms could split in two, resulting in an array of four limbs, each armed with a lightsaber that he would take as a grim trophy of his foes. Legends Grievous could spin these arms in a whirling storm of deadly light. Despite his imposing image, it seemed Legends Grievous was a coward at heart, only entering into combat with opponents he believes he can defeat. This was due to invasive and manipulative brain surgery performed on him in secret by separatist scientists, and originally, Legends Grievous was known to willingly take on seemingly impossible foes. His ruthlessness and thirst for victory at any cost made him Enemy Number One in the eyes of the Jedi Council.

History

Tragic Villain

Before becoming a cyborg, Legends Grievous was named Qymaen jai Sheelal and was a fearless Kaleesh warrior, beloved by his people for his efforts in the Huk War. When the Kaleesh called for help from the invading Huks, the Jedi aided them but the Huks lied to the Jedi and told them that the Kaleesh started the war and the Jedi helped the Huks instead of the Kaleesh. Sheelal and his people fought against the Jedi/Huk onslaught and was later enslaved by the Jedi and Huk on Chancellor Valorrum's orders. Sheelal and his best friend (and possibly girlfriend), Ronderu Iij Kummar, fought alongside each other but after a battle, Kummar was separated from Sheelal and killed by Huks.

Pre-Grievous — Sheelal during the Huk War.

After more fierce fighting with the Huk, Kalee was in debt and InterGalactic Banking Clan member San Hill asked Legends Grievous to help him with secret service in return for Kalee being free from debt. Legends Grievous didn't question the Muun and accepted - but the Muun couldn't be trusted. San Hill instead harassed Kalee with Munificent-class ships and when Legends Grievous came back, he was furious and quit the IGBC to save his people. San Hill was furious and secretly sabotaged his shuttle with Count Dooku and Geonosian Poggle the Lesser. They betrayed him yet again, replacing the parts of his brain responsible for mercy and compassion with circuitry.

Legends Grievous was placed as commander of a massive droid army and Legends Grievous dislikes droids, and thought of it as a huge insult when he was called a "droid" because of his robotic exoskeleton, becoming furious. He later had customized melee droids made for him. With the new guards being built for the new Confederacy, Legends Grievous borrowed Sifo-Dyas's lightsaber and trained with Dooku and trained the MagnaGuards to fight in Kaleesh fighting skills. After that, he was soon ready for battle and on top of that, Dooku lied to Legends Grievous, saying that the Jedi destroyed his shuttle, to make him hate the Jedi even more.

Also, the Jedi with Huks slaughtered Legend General Grievous's people and one of the Masters of the Jedi was named "The Executioner of Kalee." When the Jedi arrived on Geonosis, Grievous stayed behind to protect Poggle the Lesser’s lieutenant. A female Jedi, arrived and attacked Grievous first thinking he was a droid. Legends Grievous killed the female Jedi. After feeling no remorse he then realized the Jedi didn’t even care about what they had let happen. Legends Grievous then took the lightsaber of her and starting collecting them so he could fight against the Jedi, making him the villain he would become.

Clone Wars Begun

Main article: 2003 General Grievous

Grievous Cartoon — Grievous in *Clone Wars*.

Legends Grievous's first public appearance is when he attacked several Jedi on Hypori. After killing Daakman Barrek, Legends Grievous surrounded Tarr Seirr, Sha'a Gi, Aayla Secura, K'Kruhk, Ki-Adi-Mundi and Shaak Ti. After stating he would grant the Jedi a "warrior's death", Legends Grievous killed Gi, and Seirr then injured Secura, Ti, and K'kruhk. He managed to possess three lightsabers (one in each hand and the third using his left foot) to fight Mundi. As they fought lightsabers blazing, clone troopers arrived to save the surviving Jedi from Legends Grievous, though they left K'kruhk thinking he was dead.

Keeping his position

Six months after the Battle of Geonosis, Count Dooku tested Legends 2003 Grievous by pitting him against fellow Separatist commanders Asajj Ventress and Durge aboard the Count's Trenchant space station. After Durge and Ventress had been lured onto the station, Legends 2003 Grievous sneaked up on Durge, shocking him from behind with an electrostaff and throwing him across the room through the various trophies there.

When Ventress jumped onto a dragon hanging from the ceiling and attempted to find 2003 Grievous, he instead sneaked up on her and knocked her off her perch with the blunt end of his staff. Although Durge caught the falling Ventress, 2003 Grievous soon confronted the pair face-to-face. The general threw Ventress into a glass case and was caught around the neck by one of Durge's flails. Ventress then attacked 2003 Grievous from behind as he removed the flail, slashing at the cyborg with her paired lightsabers, and Durge contributed to the fight, punching 2003 Grievous and slamming him through a statue of Count Dooku. As Durge and Ventress advanced, 2003 Grievous activated two of his lightsabers, cutting into Durge and beheading the bounty hunter. Evil 2003 Grievous saberlocked with Ventress and was slammed into a containment case by the Dark Acolyte. Despite his injuries, Grievous grabbed Ventress in a choke, responding to her probes about his identity by stating that he was "the future." With that, 2003 Grievous choked Ventress unconscious. The cyborg general brought Ventress's inert body to a meeting with Count Dooku, questioning if he could jettison both bodies. Dooku refused the request and ordered them to be put in bacta tanks, stating that they had proven themselves and citing their loyalty. However, Legends Grievous had successfully humiliated both Separatist commanders, showing Dooku his worthiness of holding the position of Supreme Commander of the Droid Armies. The General's skill at fighting Jedi prompted Republic News services to nickname him "The Knight Slayer." As Supreme Commander, Legends Grievous normally traveled with a cadre of IG-100 MagnaGuards, who wielded dangerous electrostaffs made from lightsaber-resistant phrik alloy. Legends Grievous quickly became the face of the Confederacy, and was feared by countless citizens loyal to the Republic.

Atrocities he committed like the Jedi he hates

As part of Operation Durge's Lance, the Legends Grievous oversaw numerous atrocities from the bridge of the Invisible Hand, such as the deployment of the Brainrot Plague in the Weemell sector. As the new flagship of the Legends General Grievous, slaughterer of billions, its name was so feared that Republic agents made a concerted effort to track the ship, but the Legends Grievous frequently swapped to a pair of "decoys", Lucid Voice and Colicoid Swarm, for Mid Rim patrols to confuse the enemy and further terrorize unsuspecting Republic worlds.

During the Battle of Loedorvia, the evil Legends Grievous released the Loedorvian Brain Plague into the Weemell sector, which destroyed Republic armies and nearly all Humans on the planet. Due to these acts of wanton destruction, Legends Grievous soon became an avatar of terror in the eyes of the citizens of the Republic, as he won battle after battle.

2005 Grievous crazy — Legends Grievous committing atrocities.

Legends Grievous at one point enslaved the Ugnaught population and captured a group of Jedi Younglings. The evil Younglings refused to believe Legends Grievous had power but the villainous Legends Grievous showed he had power and killed the innocent Ugnaught population. CIS Officer Vulpus was sent to Belsus to observe Legends Gen. Grievous's experiments on the captured Jedi padawans. However, Jedi arrived and ruined Legends Grievous's evil plans and the villain escaped yet again.

Coruscant

After learning that the Jedi were onto him, thanks in part to the recordings discovered from the mechno-chair, Darth Sidious informed Legends Grievous that he had a special mission—to invade Coruscant and kidnap the Chancellor. Legends Grievous was on the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk, leading the Separatists in the opening stages of the battle there, but left for Coruscant. Legends Grievous led the Confederacy starfleet in an all-out attack on the Republic capital, using secret hyperspace routes given to him by Sidious. During the battle, the evil Legends Grievous ordered diversionary tactics, such as sending suicide squadrons of Vulture droids to cause chaos in the city and to terrorize the citizens. While a massive battle raged between Confederate and Republic forces, 2005 Grievous led an assault on 500 Republica with intelligence provided by Darth Sidious.

The evil Jedi, commanded by Shaak Ti, took Palpatine to a secret bunker aboard a maglev train; however, 2003 Legends Grievous and his MagnaGuards caught up with them and dueled the Jedi on top of the train. The duel ended with Legends Grievous being pushed off the train, although he was saved by a hijacked republic gunship, unknown to the Jedi. Legends Grievous reached the hardened bunker with six of his MagnaGuards in tow, and accessed it using codes provided by Darth Sidious. Cutting a bloody path of destruction through the bunker, he made his way to Palpatine. He quickly killed four of Palpatine's sinister Jedi protectors: Roron Corobb, Foul Moudama, Roth-Del Masona, and B'ink Utrila, as well as a number of clone troopers before kidnapping the Chancellor. He then dueled Shaak Ti and spared her to inform the Jedi that the Chancellor was gone. As he fled, malicious Jedi Master Mace Windu Force crushed the plates covering cruel Legends Grievous's internal organ sac, injuring his lungs and aggravating the General's already irritating wheezing and coughing problems; a result of his organic form not taking well to his cyborg implants. This crippling blow injured Legends Grievous for the rest of his life—which would not be long.

Endgame

Evil Jedi Generals Skywalker and Kenobi, fresh from a victory on Tythe, got wind of what had happened and set off to rescue Palpatine. After fighting their way through the massive battle, the Jedi boarded the Invisible Hand, killed Dooku, and escaped with the Supreme Chancellor, but they had walked into an elaborate trap. The two Jedi were soon entrapped in a ray shield and surrounded by droids who brought them before the evil Legends Grievous on the Invisible Hand's bridge. Legends Grievous first met the sinister Kenobi as he was "the negotiator" and met Anakin Skywalker who we thought was older. As Legends Grievous gloated, the Jedi managed to un-cuff themselves while R2-D2 provided a distraction. Skywalker and Kenobi then swiftly defeated Legends Grievous's IG-100 MagnaGuards IG-101 & IG-102. In an attempt to escape the deteriorating ship and leave the Jedi to die, Legends Grievous shattered the front window of the cruiser. Kenobi, Skywalker, and the Chancellor managed to stay in the ship, but Legends Grievous was sucked into space. Protected from exposure to vacuum, the general survived and used a grappling hook installed in his arm to latch onto the hull of the ship.

Legends Grievous fled in one of his flagship's escape pods, which was later picked up by a Lucrehulk-class battleship Profusion. Realizing that his objective had failed, the evil general and his fleet retreated. Legends Grievous boarded his Sheathipede-class transport shuttle and headed for the secured planet of Utapau in the Outer Rim Territories, where the Separatist Council was hiding. He had previously used Utapau as a base as early as 21 BBY, but unbeknownst to him, he was being monitored there by Clone Intelligence units. Now that Legends Grievous was there again, the Clone Intelligence units reported this in, and Legends Grievous's presence on Utapau became known by the Republic.

With Count Dooku's death, Legends Grievous was now the Separatist Head of State. Under the direct order of Dooku's Master, Darth Sidious, Legends Grievous relocated the Council to the planet Mustafar while he stayed on Utapau, waiting for the arrival of Kenobi, of which he had been warned by Sidious. Though Nute Gunray and the other Council members doubted Legends Grievous's ability to lead, they followed his orders, leaving just moments before Kenobi's arrival.

Death

After the Republic received word that Legends Grievous was hiding on Utapau, evil Jedi General Kenobi was sent to kill him. Still weak and injured from his encounter with Windu, he immediately revealed his four arms and attacked the Jedi. During the duel, Legends Grievous's craven reflexes kicked in, and his inability to penetrate Kenobi's Form III defense made his offense grow sloppy. Kenobi took advantage of this and altered the angle of his parries to cut Legends Grievous's wrists. The evil Legends Grievous lost two of his hands to Kenobi before Commander Cody and his troops arrived, ambushing the droid army. Fighting broke out all over Pau City between droid and clone forces.

2005 Grievous remastered — The evil Legends Grievous

Legends Grievous fled on his wheel bike, surprised and angered by Kenobi's ability to fight and gain an advantage in a one on one battle. Pursued by Kenobi on a varactyl named Boga, after a prolonged chase and running duel, the two crashed onto Grievous' private landing dock where the Soulless One waited. As they fought hand-to-hand, Legends Grievous made use of his mechanical body and superior strength, although Kenobi managed to rip open Grievous' previously damaged chest plates, revealing the synth-skin gut-sack containing his remaining organs. Angered, Legends Grievous tossed Kenobi off the platform, but the Jedi managed to catch hold of the edge.

Legends Grievous, deprived of most of his arsenal, picked up a electrostaff and charged at Kenobi, raising the staff to finish him off. But before he could deliver the killing blow, Kenobi used the Force to summon Legends Grievous's personal blaster Grievance Striker to his outstretched hand. He fired five shots through the gap in Legends Grievous's chest plate into the general's gut-sack. The oils preserving Legends Grievous' organs burst into flames, incinerating his remaining biological components and killing the infamous villain.

A partial rebirth

Following the Declaration of a New Order, clone troopers recovered Legends Grievous's body, transporting it and his captured starfighter to one of Emperor Palpatine's secret storehouses on Utapau. There, it would remain to collect dust for years, until the cyberneticist Nycolai Kinesworthy used the body of the general for the N-K Project, to create the highly advanced droid N-K Necrosis.

This war droid enjoyed a brief life in the Myyydril Caverns on Kashyyyk, before being destroyed by an anonymous group of spacers. The combatants looted the droid's remains, taking its weaponry and anything else they deemed valuable.

Legacy

Shortly after Legends Grievous' death, Darth Sidious used his alter ego Supreme Chancellor Palpatine to execute Order 66 and nearly all of the Jedi were eliminated. Sidious then ordered his newly recruited apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, now known as Darth Vader, to eliminate Nute Gunray and the rest of the Separatist Council gathering on Mustafar, effectively bringing the Clone Wars to an end. After his own clone troopers turned against him, Obi-Wan fled from Utapau aboard Legends Grievous's starfighter, the Soulless One, and boarded the Sundered Heart to meet with Yoda and Bail Organa. After Darth Vader was defeated on Mustafar, Vader was transport to Coruscant where he underwent a reconstructive surgery from various droids, including FX-6, the same droid that worked on Legends Grievous. The starfighter Obi-Wan had taken from Legends Grievous remained aboard Sundered Heart's docking bay, and used it to transport Luke to a spaceport on Nar Shaddaa, a moon in a Hutt-controlled space sector. The starfighter was sold to a shop owner, Zegundis, on Nar Shaddaa, but before he could sell it, Obi-Wan met a Kaleesh technician, who reminded him of his old adversary. Eventually, the starfighter was reported to Imperial authorities by an old enemy, a cyborg acquaintance of Kenobi.

In 18 BBY, when Vader held the young Padawan Drake Lo'gaan captive, he deceived Lo'gaan that the Jedi were conspiring to overthrow Supreme Chancellor Palpatine and that Shaak Ti and Mace Windu had killed Roron Corobb, not Legends Grievous. The cyborg's face mask ended up on the Invisible Market after N-K Necrosis's demise, where it was rumored to have been purchased for its artistic properties by a high-ranking Imperial admiral—purported to be none other than Grand Admiral Thrawn. Additionally, two Imperial cyborg models named the Terror Trooper and the Terror Biodroids appeared to be based on Grievous. These soldiers would be deployed by the Empire around 1 BBY.

Around 0 ABY, a smuggler named Falsta carried a heavily modified DT-57 heavy blaster pistol, which he claimed had once belonged to Legends Grievous. Kenobi compared the late Legends Grievous to his former apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, now known as Darth Vader, saying that he was mostly machine now, a vicious contraption of pistons and gears, plastoid and wires, his mortal remains fed by the dark side. By 25 ABY, at the start of the Yuuzhan Vong War, Legends Grievous had entered into his species' religious pantheon and was worshiped as a deity on Kalee, with a temple built in his honor. He was remembered by the citizens of the wider galaxy as General Grievous, a brilliant commander and a merciless enemy.

Over a century after his death, the Legends General Grievous was depicted in the painting Utapau Surrenders, which depicted the Confederacy's takeover of the planet during the war.

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Trivia

He is all evil and is confused with his heroic counterpart in Star Wars Canon.
The fact that there's a difference between a heroic Grievous who's fighting for the Galaxy and his people vs a villain Grievous just made to be a machine and kill Jedi is interesting.
Fools like to use Canon Grievous Hero images on Legends Grievous to make him the "same" Grievous when they're not.
While some idiots think Legends Grievous is "heroic", that is not the case. Legends Grievous is cruel and malicious like the Jedi he hates and while it's good he kills Jedi (Because they're evil in Canon & Legends), it' not good he killed innocents and committed atrocities. The Canon Grievous however, never did this making him a hero instead of a villain.
Some idiotic fans of the Confederacy of Independent Systems think Canon TCW Grievous is a "villain" who didn't care about the Separatist New Order and made them look "villainous" when in reality, TCW Grievous Hero DID care about the CIS cause and fought for it with the Galaxy as he only did heroic actions. In fact, Legends Grievous is the one who DIDN'T care about the CIS cause because he was forced to work for them and did numerous atrocities making him the villain who didn't care about the CIS cause.