General Grievous | The COMPLETE Life Story | (Canon & Legends) Part 1
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- The Complete life story of General Grievous will take us to his homeworld of Kalee, see how he grew to be the most powerful Kaleesh warlord, grow to hate the Jedi Order and Republic, while working with the Muun Bankers and Count Dooku, how he became a cyborg, and why Obi-Wan Kenobi was the nemesis that the gods sent challenge him. This Complete life story will incorporate canon and legends as there are no substantial contradictions.
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Why didnt he use 1 saber on the jedis blade then hit him from both sides and on the jedis legs ?
Ost used?
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"I only live to see you die"
Chills every time dude. What a nasty, brutal, amazing line from a villain.
That line reminded me of Grievous back in 03 that dude was terrifying and badass.
Love this line
Matt Wood does a great job.
Was he really a villain? He was more of a victim of you ask me.
@@Its_Steeeve he was a bit of both
Grievous was always my favorite character in Star Wars. His character has so much depth and he looks like an absolute badass.
Thanks dude
same. I grew up with 2003, original, Grievous and he is my favourite villain ever
Grievous still one of my favorites, I didn't like how dirty Filoni did him like rigging his chance to kill Eeth Koth and stealing one the Jedi (Adi Gallia) Grievous had kill while giving Grievous nothing but shamed on him.
I would've been okay if Filoni did this instead: During 22 BBY while around mid-20 BBY Grievous is formidable and superior then by time of late 20 BBY or early 19 BBY Grievous begin to start gettin' weaker due to his implants and vital organs that also can't keep up with his implants.
Me too I rather chose him instead of Vader because I'm already forgiving him especially seen too much of this past. I just hope they make a movie about grievous's origin story like how do you end up in his armor enjoying the separatist alliance.
@@cwylfre IKR? Filoni is really good creating stories, but I think that he has some problems working with pre-existing villains... specially Grievous.
I mean, in the novel Matthew Stover descrives Grievous as a monster "built to intimidate, dominate and erradicate" and as "the most prolific slaughterr of Jedi since Durge"... but seems like Filoni, either didn't care about this or didn't even read the book (or any other media featuring him as he was suposesed to be) and just portrayed him as a lame coward, even as a comic relief sometimes!
Grievous’s story is actually really sad.. He didn’t chose to be this! He was once a noble warrior who wanted nothing, but to save his people. He was lied to and manipulated both mentally and physically turning him into something unnatural. He lost everything, his lover, his people, his religion, and his memories. He fought in a war that wasn’t his to begin with for the rest of his life and helped the very people who did this to him without even knowing.
*He wasn’t a villain, he was a victim.*
I agree.. however it was hard to feel any of that during this video... the narrators moronic and hilarious american pronounciation. Literally butchering other languages, fictional and real.
Bingo, yet what did the Jedi do to him? Soon Hunter, you will be powerful enough to fully embrace the Darkside.
@Nani Nano you should stop using google translate
@Nani Nano huh?
@Nani Nano "tired"? The bar is incredibly low for you it seems🤦
"Upset someone"?
If you are this easily upset you should stay away from the internet, because we mainly do not give a f*ck. And this is mild.
Someone needs to make a petition for a Grevious film, because I'd sign
I've been off the acting scene for a while but I'd do it
@@generalgrievous1401 hello there
Grievous : The general
yeah but be specific about it i would want a film with his origin from legends
I’d sign
General Grievous such an amazing General he has to be beaten by plot convenience almost every time
Thank you
Right
He wasn't really that great of as a general
Unlike the other Separatist commanders, Grievous was more the muscle than the brains. He hardly uses any tactics or strategies in battle! All he does is just go out on his own and cuts down anyone in his path!
@@princeofpokemon2934 agreed if I was to pick a general to leave troops it will be the tarantula in fact I don't remember a time grievous actually LED troops into battle
You know Grevious was the first character I’ve ever known throughout the franchise. I didn’t knew him as a hero or a villain but as a representation of how things can go wrong and make you what you hate.
This!
General Grievous has always been my favorite clone wars era character
What I really like about Star Wars is that when you start digging, you understand there are rarely utterly negative or positive characters. "There are heroes on both sides".
Without at least two amazing heroes to crack the defence there would be no wars but a stalemate.
Pure life
What about the Sith? Sure there are more sympathetic Sith like Vader or Revan but the majority of Sith throughout the history of the galaxy have been complete and utter bastards like Sidious or Nihilous.
@@thelittleredhairedgirlfrom6527 the majority of Sith weren't Nihilous or Sidious, they were just former jedi who saw through their lies.
@@konglight4070 haha nk they weren’t lol, 99% of rule of two sith were groomed psychopaths
General Grievous' history just goes to show that not everything is plainly good or evil. Grievous is one of those souls who had unfortunately fallen under the gray area of the war.
He kills children with glee, he literally would have killed the padawans that were with Ahsoka if not stopped, he is not Morally Grey He is evil just because someone used to be a good person it does not make it Grey when they do evil later on if anything it makes it worse because they cant argue not knowing better
@@noctotainlowry9246 No one is saying hes innocent by any means but bro they tampered with his BRAIN he was influenced by the sith to HATE the jedi and everything regarding them. The guys a shell of his former self.
I Genuinely don't think the alteration to his brain was to make him hate the jedi. cause fi you remove the entire action of him becoming a cyborg Grievous still has Ample reason to hate the jedi as much as he does, the Jedi stopping him from beating his rivals happens Before he becomes a cyborg, Gravois's hatred of the republic and the jedi is already a existing factor in his mind. and if they mess with his mind to much they lose the entire reason they want him aka being a amazing warrior. i think the alterations to his mind were to make him give up on helping his original race because we SEE the alterations to his brain are not hard coded laws he has to follow If so grievous would not be able to ignore/argue with count dooku like we see him do at times Grevious could still make full conscious choices of his own will infact his position as a general demanded that he retain that ability otherwise he would be no smarter then a commander droid.@@dudezjokinmystyl
I disagree, his creation shows the grey area of the republic while further reinforcing the evil of the Sith but during the war he was not a morally grey character. He was plain and simply evil. He wiped out an entire capital city’s populous just to show a literal child he could. Those same children he was planning on torturing and turning them into cyborgs like him.
For me, Grievous' story is FAR MORE sad than Anakin. He tasted the real flavor of injustice in his mouth, the real jedi opression, the opression of politics.
Eh idk if the gap is that large. Sure, grevious' entire people were enslaved but anakin and his family were also slaves. He also witnessed his mom die as well, and also had his mind manipulated by palpitine. Grievous has suffered more, but the gap isnt as big as you think
@@negativeiqpoints396 I said for me.
Anakin lost his mom and not much more, he was eventually freed from slavery. It's nothing like your people trying to get free from slavery and the jedis kill more of your fellows because of that, killing even your own kids and wife, who won't even get to ethernal rest. Being that said, you think what you want.
Anakin was literally a child slave
@@phoenixmastrogiovanni157 You're free to think what you want mate
@@98reivax along with that, Anakin, in an effort to save the only other person he loved from dying, slaughtered children and betrayed his friends just for all of his dark deeds to amount to nothing; his wife died anyway and for all he knew his unborn child did as well. The Jedi constantly doubted him and labeled him “dangerous” even though he was only a kid, with Yoda essentially telling him to get over it whenever he told him about his premonitions.
Grievous is definitely one of the best characters of all time. His sad backstory makes you want to sympathize with him even if he has killed many innocents out of rage. He also looks like a total god just like his past. R. I. P General Grievous
I like to believe that he could've been turned to the side of the republic if the jedi and separtist sympathizers in the senate only tried to understand his actual backstory. He was manipulated and wound up so they could turn him on the republic while obi-wan simply saw him as uncivilized.
@@darkskull9166 I wished the Jedi went with the Separatists the Republic were the bad ones
A trillion lives is just a statistic, anyways.
@Deathmare It wouldn't have mattered who they sided with. Like the video said, the war is just a ploy for Palpatine to create the Empire.
Of all time? Lol for Star Wars yeah but not for fiction in general (pun intended)
It’s crazy how much depth they gave him considering he’s treated as just a boogie man whenever he’s on screen.
Well this explains why Grievous hates the republic and the jedi so much
That mfs space wizards played my bro dirty. After centuries of slaveries they come and talk shit about the kaalish big boi
@@joaop4585 yes sir they did the og scary Boi from 2003 dirty by making him a cheap bond villian.
Excactly!
And they killed his pet Roggwart, Gor!
Yeah imagine trying to save your people from foreign invaders and slavers but then being blamed for starting the conflict and being abused and bullied by the government that was supposed to help you
Grievous’s story is surprisingly sympathetic. It’s sad how far a man could fall because of a mistake made by the Jedi. It’s easy to understand his anger, and wish that he could have had a brighter future.
its like darth vaders story
After mistakes by the Jedi because of the corrupt senators and some Jedis, he wanted revenge.
Mistake? They straight up _ignored_ the huk's attacks on Kaleesh, sided _with_ the slave traders, and caused the Kaleesh to suffer even more, because Grievous was trying to destroy the threat to his people! What part of that was a _mistake_?
@@l3g0b0y6 yep, they deserved what Palpatine did. Unfortunately, a wrongful action is not a morally appropriate way to correct or cancel a previous wrongful action.
@@sarahimperial9984 Well, we all know the phrase, "Two wrongs make a right," yes?
General Grievous was always one of my favorite Star Wars characters ever since I first saw Episode III in theatres as a kid. He's just got such a sick design and looks awesome when he fights. His backstory is pretty interesting too, I remember reading about it in one of those cross section Star Wars books.
*"The villains of one story are the victims of another."*
Except for Palpatine.
Just like like anakin
@@grimlord3181 palp is a full blown narcissistic mess of evil
@@BisexualPlagueDoctor Exactly.
@@grimlord3181 Actually, despite himself and how he is, Palpatine himself was also a victim of another’s story, Plagueis’s. It’s because of Plagueis that Palpatine became as cold as he was. Whatever ounce of natural sympathy Palpatine had as a child was trumped when his master forced him to relive murdering his entire family over and over again. (Which he initially did by a rage fueled mistake.) He even brings this up as he’s killing Plaguies, still secretly upset about it.
Yeah, he’s still and always will be Palpatine, but somehow he wasn’t an absolutely pure evil.
YES! The legend himself’s story.
“I’ve been looking forward to this”
so have i
@@whatishappening382 So have I
General grievous is the best!!!!
General Kenobi
@@whatishappening382 so have i
I always saw Grievous as powerful but a complete coward.
This gives me such a different perspective on him. His apparent cowardice was driven more by his frustrations (both internal and external) and his need to prove himself. I can't believe that I was almost rooting for him during this video.
Who person he had been died in that explosion, tampering with someone's brain can completely change who they are. The fact that he had any semblance his previous self is a testament to his tenacity.
And honestly.......I wouldn't condone their genocide, but I couldn't blame him at all for massacring the Huks. he deserved revenge.
That mostly a 2008 Grievous thing, 2003 Grievous was the opposite of a Coward, and would march on Coruscant by himself if needed
@@Fulcrox Too true!
As the saying goes; When justice is not given, it rots and twists into revenge. Revenge that is usually justified...
@@Fulcrox 2003 Clone Wars is such an underrated show. The 2008 version always gets all the love, but that 2003 version was so good. Grievous was at a Michael Myers level of scary in that show!
the real Grievous: a genius tactician and a Jedi killing machine
Clone wars grievous: crap, another loss
Yup. The 2003 clone wars portrayed him so much better imo
True, but to be fair Legends portrayed Grievous similarly to Canon and still have comic/novel/reference considered him a coward even way before Filoni Wars.
•Legends already had Grievous lost early in the war at the Battle of Nadiem, after the Battle of Hypori.
•Allowed to take his time, fighting a (renegade) Padawan "Flynn Kybo", instead of just killing him.
•Allowed the droids to kill a Abyssinian Jedi rather than killing the Jedi himself.
•Allowed to be saved by MagnaGuards that killed the Jedi, who sneaked up on Grievous. Yet according to the fans, the MagnaGuards aren't allowed to protect Grievous in Canon.
•Most of the Jedi Grievous killed are mostly generic, who aren't even or shown to be powerful, which always bragged by everyone: Daakman Barrek, Sha'a Gi, Tarr Seirr, Zephara'ru'tor, Jmmaar, T'chooka D'oon, B'dard, Kybo Flynn, Soon Baytes, Walden Bridger, Flint Torul, Pablo-Jill and L'lacielo Sageon. Jedi Master Ur-Sema Du, Ki-Adi-Mundi, K'Kruhk, Shaak Ti and Adi Gallia, Mace Windu were the only one considered powerful.
Either way Grievous still portray being competent by Canon, fought and defeated Ki-Adi-Mundi, Obi-Wan Kenobi (stalemated three times until aboard the Negotiator to above Utapau), Adi Gallia, Ahsoka Tano (aboard station to Florrum), Quinlan Vos, Asajj Ventress (19 BBY), Maul, Depa Billaba and Shaak Ti.
Heck, *Canon* did what *Legends* couldn't do:
•During his childhood, Grievous worship the warlords of Kalee.
•Topple nations, murder Legends and killed kings. Decapitated a skilling, and encounter a Wookiee warrior.
•Owned a pet and castle, with a medical droid.
•Explained how his cyborg body work, Grievous's spinal cord carried signals to and from his robotic limbs and body as well as the organs contents of his gutsack, millions of pin-points electrodes stabbed down into his brain from the lining of his helmet, to monitor brain activity and boost nerve signal timings.
•A Legion named after Grievous.
•Kit Fisto called Grievous, the Separatist's best general.
•Anakin called Grievous "a monster that needed to be stopped." Anakin even skipped sleeping just to search for Grievous.
•Obi-Wan was obsessed capturing Grievous, which led him to ignored getting back safety with Eeth Koth.
•Killed two powerful being (far beyond the Jedi/Sith) Old Daka, and later Mother Talzin.
•killed two skills group warrior; Nightsisters and Mandalorian, which match up of Grievous once being a great warrior himself.
•Underlings work under him such as Kleeve and the Sear brothers.
•Still remembered by the galaxy.
•The Kalessh mask of Grievous, obtained by Imperial General, and later Dok-Ondar.
•Maul had a Force Vision of Grievous, which is interesting.
@@dudearte you say he won 6, how many of those Jedi did he kill? Unless they were dead on the ground after the fight he lost.
@@JaelaOrdo Bruh... you serious? Damn, I sure felt bad for you. 😂
While you're here bragging random bullsh!t, I'm here doing my research, combined all his recent kill, it somewhere more than 15, to be honest at least it not the lowest.
*Helmet Collection 8:* in 22 BBY, Grievous was involved on Geonosis in the Geonosian Stalgasin hive's catacomb where he clashes against "a number of Jedi" and left none Force-sensitive alive, not letting one know his existence.
*Lair of Grievous:* killed Jedi Master Neebo.
*Lair of Grievous:* 9 Padawan, most people are forgetting not all Padawan are the same age as Ahsoka, we saw Padawan Obi-Wan (possibly the age of 25) defeating a Sith Assassin on Naboo.
*Age of Republic:* in 21 BBY, killed a Unidentified Mikkian Jedi and a Unidentified Padawan.
*Completed Vehicle:* in 20 BBY killed Jedi Master Jmmaar.
*Star Wars Lightsabers A Guide to Weapons of the Force (2018):* in 19 BBY killed Jedi Master Roron Corobb taking his lightsaber.
Now it your turn, tell me how many did Dooku, Ventress, Maul and Savage Opress killed in Canon? Because comparing it to Grievous is pretty much unfair for them. 😊
Coward? You mean when Ahsoka didn't take Grievous serious, calling him "Another Tinny" but get herself easily knock out unconscious under one second and fled to the storage room. You mean when Obi-Wan fled twice from Grievous? 1. On the Malevolence and 2. Own his Republic cruiser ship, You mean when the show overhype Ventress being very powerful but yet one-shotted with a single blaster and yet apparently she already unable to fight.
Not his fault that the heroes' plot armor and his soldier's heads are both thicker than Jabba's ass. Y'all are forgetting about the butt whooping he laid down on Maul and the Shadow Syndicate.
I love how that hatred of the b-1 droids was so ingrained in grievouses soul that he hates them after he had his mind tampered with
I feel like any sane person with them in their army would hate the B-1 droids for how easily they are dispatched.
He was a visionary leader, noble warrior, and compassionate soul who is sorely missed in these dark times.
I saw a meme and said the line out loud, "Ah yes, the negotiator" to only get greeted the next second with a notification of this video
The timing.....👌👌
@@alem1655 “hello there”
@@jinxedsphinx3600 lol
"My name is Obijer Smith. And I'm a much needed jedi negotiator in this Galactic Republic."
@@jinxedsphinx3600
Jedi Kenobi... You ARE a bold one...
Grievous, arguably one of the most tragic and rage fueled monsters the galaxy had ever seen. In the DC universe he would've been an insanely powerful Red Lantern, the people who are literally powered by rage.
He would also make a pretty good yellow lantern, since instilling fear is one of the things he does best.
And vengeance
Maybe even the ring of shame
True
Well, to be fair his rage was at least 50% artificial because of the implants in his brain, one of which fuels his rage, which is one reason he can be unpredictable and cruel out of nowhere.
Before his transformation, his rage was always justified, after his transformation it's only justified sometimes.
So orange
Grevous is what makes a good star wars villain, someone who has seen both sides of the war who is tormented by his past, manipulated to become a shell of themselves. He truly strikes fear into the hearts of his enimies, unlike palpatine who just pulls strings. I always thought Vader and grevous we're cooler because they have to live with the pain of never being themselves they had to suffer to become sith. I always had this idea that people like palpatine and duku where kinda rich kids who "inherited" the force and dark side where Vader and grevous we're forced into it, and they have to suffer with the dark side every day
Dooku is kinda a tragic story too. He's incredibly manipulated by Sidious, sometimes he can even come off as quite fair for a Sith Lord
We all not going to question this LEGENDARY MAN making an entire hour about THE general grievous. A true legend!
I got a long back story
1h 30 mins
Imagine that instead of droidifying Grievous, the banking clan granted him a fleet and droids to kill the bugs.
Not only they would have won Grievous total loyalty, but also the Kaleesh people support, and the war could have ended very different...
Well he wasn't force sensitive so he'd just be a regular general and ultimately fall to a Jedi master or knight.
They could still droidify him by saying the Jedi attempted to assanate him for the bugs death then this would both make the plant *hate* the Jedi and love the sith for saving there hero and this would both help build up a army of elites trained by grievous this war could have easily went a far different way. That's why I think palpatine wouldn't let this plan go through because it might threaten his grand plan as the separatist might win so he couldn't gain the power of the empire as many would hate them as in the original he tricked others to think they where the good guys which massively shrunk the amount of rebels so this might be a bad decision in the long run atlest for the would be emperor.
Goes to show how evil they really are. They just wanted his strength and for him to slave around for them. They probably thought about it and were like "Mah fuck em"
He was more powerful as a cyborg, becoming a cyborg gave him abilities he lacked as a Kaleesh.
The Kaleesh would still have followed Droid Grievous, but count Dooku tought it was too dangerous to give Grievous Soldiers only loyal to him, thats why Grievous was given Magnaguards instead
I think what's absolutely amazing about these animations is how, specifically for lightsaber users, they're able to portray fighting styles extremely well
Putting it all together like this actually makes Grievous look better. It's not just failure and retreat after failure and retreat.
It gives a real back and forth to Grievous, and kinda paints the constant retreat and failures as the highlights for the Jedi and the Republic.
His early life sounds like it's just more proof that the Jedi are as imbalanced and villainous as the Sith and the Republic is full of hypocrites.
Both sides are power sources, they have no good nor evil. Jedi are peace keepers because they have too many members with many races. Sith have no reason because sith only need power.
Jedi after becoming intertwined with republic, jedi cannot be non- natural
Lmao im too fried for this lmao
You are right about that but remember that the Jedi can't make a move without the republic concent and we all know that all politics are as corrupt as a penitentiary full of inmates so
Exactly i love it feels realistic at least you know what you getting with the sith
It is the light that casts the shadows of the dark.
I really enjoy these deep dives into the psyche of the Jedi, the Sith and everyone that was caught in between. Thank you!
Now I really feel for General Grievous and what he has lost. Because his tragedy didn't have to happen
Legends Grievous: “Run Jedi, run! You’re only prolonging the inevitable.”
Canon Grievous: “Time to run from the Jedi again.”
@@cwylfre It wasn't a lie is was just a harmless joke, if you really needed to say this then that is kind of sad.
:( thats a bit mean
@@omarbaba9892 A smart commander doesn’t retreat mid battle leaving all their troops behind.
*@Omar Baba* Exactly! What do you expect the B1 battle droid are slow, you expect the Republic sit there being patient letting Grievous take his time rescuing his droids? The Republic doesn't give a f-uck about the droid safety, the droid are going to get destroyed either way.
Grievous is still a smart commander, as he put his massive army to good use by overwhelming his opponents on "Dathomir", able to correctly anticipate the Republic's movements during the "Battle of Saleucami", was able to fool the Republic forces during the "Battle of Kamino" with his ships taking heavy casualties, but the only person that could figure out his plan was his rival, during the "Attack on Kenobi's fleets", Grievous was able to destroyed all Kenobi fleets without losing one of his own, during the "Third Battle of Mygeeto" Grievous was able to cut off Depa Billaba escape, using his massive army to good use, having them climb up the tall structure, even in the "Battle on Ord Mantell" a super tactical droid is impressed by Grievous' work.
*Grievous TCW* shown be a better commander than *Admiral Trench* and the show had Grievous shown his strategy and tactics work, what heck this idiotic fool did on-screen? Trench did nothing but loses a lot of battle, first the Battle of Malastare, then the Battle of Christophsis, where he almost died and now the Battle of Anaxes. The only battle where Admiral Trench is victorious was the Battle of Ringo Vinda (by luck). Unlike Trench, Grievous doesn't retrieved help from a tactical droid or from a clone brain analysing the Republic movement.
The show had him win over many battle such as:
*Battle of Abregado* - 22 BBY
*Battle of the Ryndellia system* - 22 BBY
*Battle of Falleen* - 22 BBY
*First Battle of Felucia* - 21 BBY
*Battle near the Arda system* - 21 BBY
*Battle of Patitite Pattuna* - 20 BBY
*Battle of Dathomir* - 20 BBY
*Attack on Obi-Wan Kenobi's fleet* - 20 BBY
*Battle of Florrum* - 20 BBY
While outside the show:
*Battle of Haruun Kal* - 19 BBY
*Battle of Zanbar* - 19 BBY
*@Kshatriya* But a Political Dark Lord shouldn't abandoned his own ship, full of expensive droids leaving all his forces behind just because some Jedi is after him. Sure Grievous leave all his droids behind which only happens three/or two times compared to his other battles on-screen. But the main thing is a droid who are given a direct order should shouldn't questions their commander, if they're given a direct orders they are first given.
@@cwylfre wow you really poked grievous in the eyes here
There are so many who wanted this now the wait is over.
Indeed
Facts
"He settled down and had a normal life... with 10 wives and 30 kids" 😂
bro is a lion
30 kids... No wonder this guy snapped.
what a chad
Grievous had a dick of steel
His story is sad honestly. My man deserved better😔
Darth Grievous?
More like Darth GRIEFous!
So basically, the Jedi are directly responsible for the creation of General Grievous and the deaths of BILLIONS of people when they decided to side with the Huk who were enslaving and killing his entire race. Wow, the Jedi really are fucking awful.
yeah i dont think anyone is arguing with Grievous when he says what he is doing against the jedi specifically is justified. Its just EVERYTHING ELSE he does
Ok but this is loosely akin to blaming the Allied Powers in WWI for creating the conditions precipitating Hitler’s rise to power
@@studentism And? The Allied Powers definitely had a hand in it, even if it wasn't intentional. Everything has consequences. Hitler is mostly to blame. MOSTLY.
@@TheSuperRatt haha, that’s exactly my point :)
@@TheSuperRatt Nah, I blame the ridiculously harsh Treaty of Versailles. The German Empire was no worse than any other European power at the time, they weren't even in a war of conquest against either France or GB they were helping their ally whose archduke was just murdered by a terrorist, the absurd economic restrictions placed on them and the amount reparations they were forced to pay made the great depression 10X worse in Germany. The economic crisis and humiliation of losing so land and being forced into demilitiarization lead to rise of support for fascsim and socialism, fascism won out, violently.
I first watched only the movies and it was weird to me that they introduced a character who has killed at least four Jedi and commanded an army in one movie, just to kill him off right away. Now going back and watching the shows grevous was one of my favorites
Kind of ironic that Grievous ends up resembling a "soulless" technologically advanced Huc.
Thought I was the only one who thought that
Idk what you talking about. Them huks look like mantises and grievous doesn’t have any details of a mantis much less look like one
It’s fucked up what both the Jedi and sith did to him
@@Might_G they call them "soulless bugs" he has 6 limbs, like a bug. He also became soulless in his pursuit of jedi
@@bryanresendiz9377 It makes his story even sadder. He's a legitimate victim and so are his people. And in pursuit of justice he becomes what he hated so much - while being manipulated and betrayed the entire way by the Sith. Feels bad man.
First jango/mandos, then grievous, and sith genocide. Jedi seem to love making enemies when they think they are the "moral" high ground.
The pride and politics of the Jedi ended with the Revenge of the Sith, Yoda and Qui-Gon being the only ones to truly see what they were becoming, but it was all too late.
They deserved what they got. Unfortunate but necessary. The jedi needed to be wiped out.
ha, high ground.
The Jedi had lost their way, becoming the thing swore to destroy. They needed to be wiped out to allow for a new generation
That's why Darth Vader is the chosen one to bring the Balance to the force
I had no idea there was so much back story just on Grievous. All of the wars I never knew about and duplicity and plots and sub-plots with incredible detail. Its like there should be at least 3 more movies to tie all this together.
It's funny how the second clone wars show never really elaborated on Ventress or Grievous, because they kind of just assumed we were familiar with them from the comics, games, and the other series. But now this series is all we have to go off of official canon-wise.
We either need a grevious show or movie.. His storyline is just so saddening. Knowing his past really helps to see his side and see neither side was right in their ways.
Greivous backstory would make a great series
I hope they make a origin movie about general Grievous only as the main antagonist while either a clone or a Jedi gets to be the protagonist. Because I too suffer an asthma and I must use my inhaler to breathe it in. which is why I'm a big fan .
Yeah I think so to Greivous deserves his movie he is so cool as a main movie character,hope your Asthma gets better
I don't think they should make an origin story about General Grievous, I think it's theoretically a very very very good idea but with Disney currently at the helm of Star Wars I don't want them to ruin General Grievous more than felloni already has
An origin story about Grievous should have HIM as the protagonist
@@elijahbutcher9522 he's too pure evil to be a protagonist. Maybe Captain Rex or Chewbacca (like it shows how did Rex became captain of the clone army while chewie becomes like a resistant fighter or slave) should be the main protagonist in his movie while he becomes the main antagonist where he's been selected by the separatists to become their most powerful weapon.
@@disneyknightspadilla1406 He wasn't pure evil growing up, and if the movie is an origin story for Grievous it doesn't make sense to have anyone but him as the protagonist
when your favourite youtuber posts a nearly hour long video about your favourite character
2 birds one stone
@@elijahbutcher9522 2 Love 1 heart
I find hilarious how Grievous's death is more painful and realistic than Pong Krell, a big, flesh species, Jedi Master getting easily killed with one shot meanwhile Grievous's internal vital organs was able to hold up before the fifth shot ended him.
Let’s be real he only was able to handle the first shot. The second he really ignited on the second shot he was fucked.
I just finished 2003 clone wars today. His character stood out the most to me. Thank you MetaNerdz!
How many seasons was there?? I had watched the first one not too long ago but just learned there was a second season!! About to get down on that one but hope there’s a third... ;-;
@@jinxedsphinx3600 Only 3 seasons; & 25 episodes total. Yes watch it! You can find it on TH-cam too.
he was an absolute monster and it was amazing. that vision should have made it to the big screen in some way
@@maryuma7 Two seasons.
@@jinxedsphinx3600 There were two seasons. Volumes 1 and 2 on DVD and soon to be on Disney+
General grievous story is always so freaking cool and awesome 😁😎
Always thought Grievous was super cool, didn't know he had such a hard life. I knew about the objective view of what Anakin did for the balance to the force and fulfilling the prophecy and stuff, but knowing his backstory makes me all the more happy for Anakin bringing down the "good" guys and their corrupt mafia.
How do people actually come up with these stories? It’s such an in-depth collection that really makes you appreciate Grievous’ in the films.’
"He would attempt a normal life, taking 10 wives, and feathering 30 children"
Normal for a Mormon, they mean.
@@StudM01 Goddamn yall hate mormons so much yall straight up lie bout em
@@zeus28frenzy depends on the sect. The mormons of bountiful do that. Or at least the powerful ones do, all the lower rank dudes will never get a wife. The local mormons do not do that.
@@zeus28frenzy you can cry about it😁
@@somethingsomething7769 I dont cry over everything because i got more important shit
43:00 I used to not enjoy the clone wars version of Grievous considering how much more proficient he used to be but you gave a compelling perspective on honor losing it’s value with him, nice video and thank you for the insight!
As much as I love the 2008 Clone Wars series, one of the few things that really bugged me was how nerfed Grievous was. As someone who grew up on the 2003 series, it just always felt like a bit of a gut-punch.
I’ve always loved your complete life story and Grievous is such a good example especially from legends where he was truly a monster to be feared
I love the OG clone wars clip you added not many people even remember or talk about this underrated mini series
"All you give me are battle droids"
I can't see Grievous in a different light now that I know his backstory. An honorable warrior who wanted only to free his people; corroded into a piece on the board.
Of course there were many that were mere pieces in the Grand Plan.
This will make a fine addition to my liked videos
when you realize that the only reason grievous didnt have the force was to make it fair, otherwise he'd have won nearly every fight with the jedi
This guy was one of the coolest characters to come from the prequels imo. He was incredibly powerful but at the same time pretty vulnerable, with his organs just being incased behind some armour and his obvious failing health, you could tell he had a big back story, too. A really well designed and thought out character, up there with Darth Maul imo
I was the dislike but I wanted to keep the likes as 66 cuz haha funny. But grievous is amazing
He be fast
But they didn't give him the screen time to make him fleshed out AT ALL.
Man, Grievous got a raw deal. Redeems his character alot, I already liked him, this only makes me like him more.
this video will be a fine addition to my collection
I have been saying for years that the 'Chronicles of Grievous' would be an awesome Star Wars spin off.
Honestly seeing Grievous being able to joke and call himself a droid is really cool rarely can people learn to laugh at themselves
Controlled humility is a great tool.
The more a learn from the universe outside of the films and shows, the more I agree with Dooku. The Jedi truly had lost their way.
I always loved the clone wars series, but they definitely nerfed Grevious too much, having said that apparently Lucas arts wouldn’t grant character rights to Dave Filoni unless he made Grevious fit lucas’s vision how he was in episode 3
Edit: they should have just made Grevious a beast in the clone wars or at least 25% more powerful, and stuck with the mace windu chest crush to nerf him for episode 3. He didn’t have to be a killing machine like in the 2003 cartoon, but more powerful than he was in the clone wars. Maybe they should have made him more of a strategic genius kind of threat so differentiate him from the usual force wielders
Glad someone else realized that the Clone Wars characterization of Grievous is moreso Lucas's idea than Filoni's. There's video on the creation of Grievous with Lucas where he said he always envisioned the character as being something of a Saturday cartoon villain.
My theory is the reason Grievous was such a cool and terrifying character in the 2003 series was because the writers were only given the character design and his main concept, a cyborg that can fight on equal footing with Jedi and even kill them. My guess is Lucas didn't finalize Grievous's personality, but with Episode 3 coming out soon they needed Grievous to appear in the cartoon to begin advertising him. Working with what they got, the team of the 2003 Clone Wars portrayed Grievous as a Jedi killing powerhouse, and near the end of the show they had Mace Windu crush Grievous's chest cavity as a soft reboot so that it would transition into the movie version, and thus the version that would become his Canon portrayal from there onward.
@@firetools Yeah, honestly sucked that Lucas ego was bigger than his respect for Tartakovsky hard work, that was loved by everyone
If Lucas made Grievous way more powerful than he was in the third movie to begin with, the clone wars would've been an even better show than it already was.
A suprise to be sure but a welcome one
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Grevious probably once said "The only good bug is a dead bug"
I've always followed my own version of Grievous's story, but this one feels much better than just stitching together the parts that felt right.
A friend of mine and I are working on writing a General Grievous origin fan film, and these videos are doing WONDERS for ensuring we get a grasp on the smaller details and that everything makes sense chronologically. We're getting ready to graduate high school in a couple weeks, and so we're gonna be taking time over the summer for story & scripting, I'll be working on whatever CGI aspects are needed (I've been practicing and have the proper software for the job), and we'd probably start shooting in a couple years once we've got the time and finances and have found the proper cast and whatnot.
But yeah, I'm loving the complete life story series so far, and these grievous videos will help tremendously with our project! :)
Hey that sounds cool! What's ur channel called?
@@thathairbrush4990 We actually don't have the channel up for it yet, though I'll do my best to get back to you as soon as we get the project underway! It'll be a minute because we're all like.. first year college students and broke as hell 😂 Big ideas though and we're very excited to see them come to life! On top of that, our priority right now regarding fan films is actually a Spider-Man film we have in the works that should be out sooner than the Star Wars one. We've got some really great stuff planned for that too and we're gonna kinda use what we learn on that one to make sure the Grievous film can reach it's full potential, so there's a method to all the madness :) Thanks for supporting, regardless!!
@@thathairbrush4990Hey, how's it goin? I just thought I'd give you an update on how the project's going! We don't have a channel up and running yet, but we recently started the production phase and it's been going fantastic so far! Currently I'm working on modeling and texturing ships, planets, and landscapes, or essentially whatever the team can do so far without the cast. Once everything's set to go, we'll do our shooting and whatnot. I'll be sure to let you know as soon as we have our channel set up!
@@flatstheflounder2884take ur time it’ll b great ❤
Music is low-key beautiful at the start of this video. Helps with feeling sympathy for Grievous
*Backing my car off my drive when I see this video drop*
*Me* "FIRE THE EMERGENCY BOOSTER ENGINE!"
One of the coolest character designs in my opinion. I wish they would have
Made him like in 2003 clone wars though.
Can we just say how well this guy spoke this whole video? Such a relaxed video to watch for you Engadget Star Wars fan!!!!!!
Thanks that's a great compliment I'll keep em coming
As a Grievous fan, it’s pretty sad to see how my favorite character went from being one of the best characters in Star Wars (he still is tho) to be mistreated to the point of being underrated and rendered by some as a “Joke”. Really, the only SW character I can think of who had this happen to him.
It’s even worse when the backstory was changed for a while for a lame one, at least in this case, the og one was recanonized, but it’s so baffling to see how under the radar this news went considering he is one of the movie characters. Glad to see there are videos of him still being made, keeping him relevant or casting light to his now obscure pros. So thanks a lot for that.
Yess, exactly people like you get it, he deserves better, best star wars character!
@@scarjaisero4716 indeed!!!
>Really, the only SW character I can think of who had this happen to him.
Luke Skywalker in sequels bruh
@@scarjaisero4716 definitely, I still love the show but it still upset me how poorly written Grievous portray is, get rigged for his opportunity to kill Eeth Koth, get Adi Gallia stolen off his kill list by Savage Opress and Filoni have him easily lose to Asajj Ventress because Filoni himself doesn't believe one-on-one Grievous could really take on someone like Ventress cause he doesn't have the Force and can't wield it.
I would love to see another show that take place in the Clone Wars Era, giving Grievous another chance, a big redemption and fixes what the show did to him.
@@goodmind4940 true lol, Grievous was literally a foreshadowing of the TLJ debacle. I can’t enjoy TCW for the same reasons a Luke fan can’t enjoy TLJ.
General Grievous is so respected that everyone says general grievous instead of just grievous.
General Grievous is my hero.
Absolutely great video! Sounds to me like they should have made about 20 more of that cyborg type. Imagine how 20 Grievous type droids could have caused massive problems for the Republic. Of course they likely wouldn't be as nasty and deadly as Grievous but even 75 percent as good would have prolonged and helped the CIS a ton
I used to think the authors had made a bunch of weak Jedi as an attempt to make Grievous seem stronger, however after hearing everything laid out and explained in such exquisite detail it makes perfect sense. I didn’t understand or give credit to the sheer desperation the Jedi were forced into and the way they changed many traditions in order to counter this threat. It’s no wonder they were almost completely wiped out as a result. Thank you for another amazing video!
Grevious was the only one who understood the truth:
there is no strength in flesh, only weakness
There is no loyalty in flesh, only betrayal
There is no victory in flesh, only failure
There is no certainty in flesh, only death.
But although flesh may blacken and fail, there is no need to fear for this too can be replaced, you can be reincarnated, reborn in invincible steel finally free of his intolerable mortal shell
Even in death, I serve the omnissiah.
All for the omnisiah and machine god.
There was all of those things in the droid army too 😂
Equally pretentious would be to respond with:
There is no truth without the shadows of lies
There is no death but the shadows of life
There is no loyalty but the shadows of broken fortitude casted into doubt
There no victory but looms over failure
There is no strength but all that it casts
Added for balance:
Although everything decays into dust, life is the fire that sharpens even dust and casts its own shadow into screeching steel. The screeching of steel has always been in the service of flesh, and even broken, its echoes are of what is dreamt, spellt, felt and spoken.
In invincible steel, you lose the greatest things in existence. Boobs. That, is truly a fate worse than death.
Grievous is just the Cyborg Gigachad of his Time.
After what I read about General Grievous on Wikipedia, his entire character was meant to serve as foreshadowing to the birth of Darth Vader. Excellent video by the way. It was really cool learn about his background is people and their culture as a whole. Furthermore adding grounds to why he’s my favorite Star Wars character of all time.
Thanks to this video, I never really did fully understood how tragic his backstory was until now, more so than Vader‘s, arguably.
I never expected star wars lore to be that interesting, thank you, you deserve a like.
"The only thing that didn't mesh perfectly were his lungs." - Obi Wan will remember that
Whether I'm looking at the comics, the 2003 miniseries, or the Clone Wars series, I always found Grievous an interesting character. I also thought people gave him a bad wrap calling him a coward since much of the time he was put in a position where he had no choice but to escape and bounce back later. Not to mention how efficient he was at his job. I also hated that a lot of channels that covered Grievous never addressed the fact that his body wasn't totally ruined like Anakin's, but they rebuilt him anyway. Instead, many would just gloss over that little detail and say he was injured the same as Anakin but it just wasn't true. So glad you cleared it up plus any contradictions in the lore so he did end up accepting the upgrade and kept it up to speed
Looking at the backstory of villains like grievous make me more prone to feel for some of the separatists more then the republic. Plenty of times, the Jedi Order screwed over individuals just trying to protect themselves or their homes.
Although the Separatists' methods are no better, the Jedi Order really needed to review their actions
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The jedi seem like corrupt, powerful, cops. They just impose whatever they want bc they believe it's the right way. So it's their way or the highway..
The to up jj
I liked them because they have droids and they are neat
Grievous is the one character that Filloni ruined in my opinion.
He went from a genuinely terrifying unit of mass destruction, to your run of the mill token bad guy who’s defeated at the end of each episode, shouts “Curses! Foiled Again!” And then returns next time to repeat the cycle.
We need a series based on his triumphs.
Because that's a kids show
@@danielhuisman1996 A kids show where people are pretty regularly murdered, yeah. Grievous can stand to be more violent.
@@danielhuisman1996 Kids show where a slave commits suicide on screen and an entire group of people get decapitated :))
@@splunkmastah4609 dont forget he got his organs crushed pretty severely and that may be lowered his confidence
@@farmerhater6443 That isn't canon anymore. You also have to remember that even if it Was, that doesn't happen until right before episode 3, so it doesn't even apply here.
I feel like a Disney+ series would be amazing for Grievous. It could be an origin story alongside with the views of someone who was "effected negatively by the Jedi."
OMG YES! I've been DYING to see Grievous get his own stand-alone movie or TV series. They should TOTALLY do that. Grievous is my favorite Star Wars character, by the way.
No because disney only do the"good characters"
And you want Disney to do it?,... Not sure if you know but Disney has been absolutely Hated the last 2 Years, and Hated even more today due to the Johnny Depp trial, and that your kids kids won't even know what a Disney is or even Was, Do you not realise that the last 3 Star wars movies have been Hated due to Disney doing a Really Sh t Job with all of them? And you do realise someone with a Brutal past doesn't fit Dinsey as it is because Kids and Brutality don't mix? Stop supporting and looking up to Disney, Stop feeding your kids Pedophilia Material
Disney wouldn't allow that in this cultural climate. The Sith are stand ins for Nazis, racists, etc with no nuance :/
@@seronymus but grievous is a separatist not a sith, or I'm remembering this wrong
It’s a story like this that makes the fall of the Jedi Almost justifiable: yes, their power flows through the light side but they are naive and rely on the senate which is corrupt. Grievous’ desire for revenge was 100% reasonable in my opinion, the huk were as bad if not worse then zygerrians and they were cut by the republic. His love for his wife and his patriotism for his world led him to be the best warrior, but his fall to the dark side could only be predicted by Sidious and dooku.
Absolutely he was a honorable warrior that done everything he could for his loved ones and his planet he’s probably the most underrated character in Star Wars in my opinion and he’s also my favorite Star Wars character
But it was the banking banking clan and probably the sith that ultimately grievously wounded him and turned him into a cyborg and wiped his memories.. they turned him into a monster. Yes the republic screwed up by siding with the bugs...but still.
You tell me boy
This is why i love grievous and is my all time favorite charactor in movie history no one will ever change my mind
Another fine addition to my collection
Really great job compiling a ton of resources. It gives such a good view of a very complex character that changes how you view his actions.
It makes the hello there scene feel sad to me, because I even liked his droid form as the jedi slayer.
A fine addition to the Complete Life Stories collection!
Keep up the great work, I love this stuff!
Qymaen and Ronderu the two greatest Star Wars characters of all time!!!
Grievous is my favorite story, general, and overall one of my favorite star wars characters! Thanks so much for this!
It was a tremendous love for his soulmate , loosing a soulmate the way it happen would turn anyone into a tremendous rage spree! Greivous story would make a great movie! Love is crazy
a single character made me finally watch star wars. this was awesome! well made easy to follow :) wish they made a whole show/movie about general grievous and the kaleesh
Great Info Doc, Awesome Work, Totally Subscribed !
Grievous still remains one of my favorite Star Wars villains. And I feel he is severely underrated
Probably been noted already, but K'Kruhk, the Whiphid Jedi, survived the encounter with Grievous on Hypori, albeit just barely. He even lives well into the Legacy era.
When that scavenger FARTED, in front of ANAKIN AND ASOKHA WAS HILARIOUS😂😂😂😂😂😂