Grover Underwood
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| Grover Underwood | |
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| Percy Jackson & the Olympians character | |
| First appearance | The Lightning Thief |
| Portrayed by | Brandon T. Jackson |
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| Gender | Male |
| Species | Satyr |
| Abilities | Plant manipulation Woodland magic Animal telepathy |
| Weapon(s) | Panpipe |
Grover Underwood is a fictional character in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. He is a satyr, a mythological Greek being that is half goat and half human. He has the upper body of a human and the legs and horns of a goat. He wears jeans and false feet with sneakers when he wants to look like a human. His horns are usually hidden by his curly brown hair, although they eventually grow too tall for him to hide and he must wear a rasta cap to hide them. Despite being 32 years of age, Grover looks and acts like a teenager. This is because satyrs mature half as fast as humans.
Grover is portrayed by Brandon T. Jackson in the movie Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, a film adaptation of the first book in the series, The Lightning Thief.
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[edit] Background
Grover is the best friend of Percy Jackson with whom he has an empathy link, allowing them to share emotions; however, if one of the two dies, the other will probably die too, or be left in a permanent vegetative state.[1]
Grover is frightened fairly easily. When this happens, his eyes turn to slits like a goat's and he starts eating furniture.[2] He is also loyal. He can cope with dangerous situations fairly well, such as when he was kidnapped by Polyphemus.[1] He likes cheese enchiladas, as mentioned several times throughout the series. It is also revealed in The Last Olympian that he is afraid of rabbits.[3]
Being a satyr, Grover loves nature and hates pollution. In the third book, it is revealed that he has a crush on Artemis. He also likes to be near the Hunters of Artemis, who are a group of teenaged girls who serve as Artemis' handmaidens.[4] Grover's girlfriend is a nymph named Juniper. They are first shown together in The Battle of the Labyrinth.[5] Grover often helps out animals, and he can talk to them. Grover's ambition is to find Pan, who is missing. Grover is afraid of cyclopes, which makes it hard for him to interact with Tyson, Percy's half-brother.
[edit] Physical Description
Grover is a curly brown-haired satyr with brown eyes, white skin, brown chin beard and hairy brown goat legs. His height is 4'5, but later in the Last Olympian, it is noted that he is the same height as Percy, which is 5'10.[3] In the movie: curly brown hair, brown eyes, hairy brown goat legs and brown skin.
[edit] Diet
Grover is known to eat tin cans, furniture (preferably Louis XVl), bottle caps, banana peels, mushrooms, hair, apples, rocks, magic dust, markers, potato chips, napkins, any kind of paper, and enchiladas along with a whole host of other things, but does not eat meat as he is a protector of the wild.
[edit] In the books
[edit] Percy Jackson & the Olympians
[edit] The Lightning Thief
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Grover, a satyr, goes undercover at a boarding school as a disabled student in order to discover if there are any half-bloods who attend it because most half-bloods have ADHD and dyslexia and can do special things. There he discovers Percy Jackson, a half-blood, and alerts Mr. Brunner the Latin teacher, who really is Chiron, Camp Half-Blood's activities director. Grover reveals his satyr form to Percy when the Jacksons go to a beach house in Montauk, New York before they are attacked by a minotaur. He accompanies Percy along with Annabeth Chase, Athena's daughter, on a quest to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's stolen Master Lightning Bolt,and Sally Jackson. At the end of the book Grover gets his searchers license to go look for Pan, the god of the Wild. (In the film adaptation, Grover stays in the underworld instead of Sally Jackson.)[2]
[edit] The Sea of Monsters
In The Sea of Monsters, Grover is searching for the lost god Pan, god of the Wild, when he is captured by Polyphemus the Cyclops. Grover is trapped in a bridal boutique, mistaken for a female Cyclops and is taken to Polyphemus's lair in the Sea of Monsters, where he creates the empathy link between him and Percy. In his dreams, Percy sees how Grover is trapped by Polyphemus, the cyclops that once held Odysseus captive, and is about to meet the same gruesome ending as all satyrs before him who went searching for Pan and got trapped there. Along with Annabeth and Percy's half brother Tyson, Percy journeys on an unapproved quest to find Grover. At the end they get Grover and the Golden Fleece (a powerful healing item) from the cyclopses island. And the Golden Fleece releases Thalia's spirit from the pine tree that kept it.[1]
[edit] The Titan's Curse
Grover is undercover once again, this time at a military school, where he discovers two children, Nico and Bianca Di Angelo, that he suspects are half-bloods. Grover then asks Percy, Annabeth, and Thalia to come and help him safely bring the half-bloods to camp half-blood. In the process of trying to get to the di Angelos, Dr.Thorn (who is a manticore) attempts to kidnap Percy, Bianca, and Nico. As they battle Dr. Thorn, the Hunters of Artemis step in and rid of the monster by making him trip off a cliff, which led to the loss of Annabeth, her being on Thorn's back. Artemis leaves her Hunters to be escorted to Camp Half-Blood by Percy, Grover, and Thalia. Artemis is then kidnapped, which means that a quest must be launched to save her. That quest consists of Grover, Bianca (who is a new Hunter of Artemis), Zoe Nightshade (The chief Hunter of Artemis), Thalia, and Percy, who journey across the country to Mt. Tampalais. On the way, Grover is involved in several situations where Pan, god of the Wild, speaks to him. The first was in Cloudcroft, New Mexico, where the presence of Pan made the birds on Grover's coffee cup and a rubber rat come to life, also bringing a giant wild boar to help Percy, Thalia, him, Bianca and Zoe escape the skeletal army. The second incident happened when Grover was alone. Pan spoke to him, saying, "I await you." Both times, Grover was drinking coffee, so he and the other satyrs believe, that this had something to do with Pan's appearance.[4]
[edit] The Battle of the Labyrinth
It is in this book that we meet Juniper, Grover's wood-nymph girlfriend, who is sobbing hysterically as The Council of Cloven Elders' decide that Grover has been searching far too long for the god Pan so they give him a week to find Pan, and if he doesn't, his searcher's license will be revoked. He, Percy, Annabeth and Tyson head into the Labyrinth this time to find its creator, Daedalus, and his workshop. Sometime in the book, Grover senses Pan's presence, so he and Tyson split up from Percy and Annabeth. However, Grover meets a monster. Later, Grover finds Pan and learns the truth about his disappearance and that he, the God of Wild Things, must fade away and leave the job of making the earth green again to Grover, Annabeth, Percy, Tyson and everyone else on the planet. Later, when Kronos's army tries to invade Camp Half-Blood, Grover unleashes the cry of Panic, greatly disrupting the Battle, and scaring Kronos's monster army back into the Labyrinth. Afterword, the three satyrs on Council of Cloven Elders try to vote Grover into exile, but Chiron and Dionysus(who says that a god's vote counts for two) stop them. [5]
[edit] The Last Olympian
Grover has been missing for two months; Percy and Nico decide to go to the underworld (to visit the river styx) but need him so they look for him on their way. Percy locates Grover through his empathy link in Central Park and finds him under a giant elm tree, whereupon Percy wakes him up by yelling, (via empathy link) "FOOD, PANCAKES!" Grover tells them he just took a nap and they figure out that Morpheus, the god of dreams, put Grover to sleep. In that way, Grover gives Percy and Nico information that some minor gods are on Kronos's side. He helps Nico and Percy get into the Underworld by playing his reed pipes to open up an entrance in Central Park. He open the Door of Orpheus, which needs to be opened with music.
At the end of the book, his exile comes to an end and he is given a position in the Council of Cloven Elders. Grover is then appointed as the Lord of the Wild, causing him to collapse with joy on the spot.[3]
[edit] The Heroes of Olympus
[edit] The Lost Hero
Grover doesn't appear in the book but is mentioned by Annabeth to be looking for Percy.[6]
[edit] The Son of Neptune
Grover is seen a dream by Percy. Grover mentions that he is looking for Percy and that Tyson is the closest. Percy says that he doesn't have any money, a reference to when Don the Faun asked Percy for money. Grover is a Greek satyr while Don is a Roman faun.
[edit] Weapons/Magical Items
- Nature-powered reed pipes, on which he can play many songs that sound terrible but improve as the books go on.
- Cursed magic flying tennis shoes (given to him by Luke) in The Lightning Thief[2]
- Panic- can summon the cry of Pan, acquired in Battle of the Labyrinth[5]
- Like many satyrs, Grover can ingest inorganic matter without any ill effects
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Riordan, Rick (3 May 2006). The Sea of Monsters. Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Miramax Books. pp. 279. ISBN 0786856866. OCLC 64664383.
- ^ a b c Riordan, Rick (28 June 2005). The Lightning Thief. Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Hyperion Books. pp. 384. ISBN 0786856297. OCLC 60786141.
- ^ a b c Riordan, Rick (5 May 2009). The Last Olympian. Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Disney Hyperion. pp. 381. ISBN 1423101472. OCLC 299578184.
- ^ a b Riordan, Rick (1 April 2007). The Titan's Curse. Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Hyperion Books for Children. pp. 312. ISBN 9781423101451. OCLC 76863948.
- ^ a b c Riordan, Rick (8 May 2008). The Battle of the Labyrinth. Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Hyperion Books for Children. pp. 361. ISBN 9781423101468. OCLC 180753884.
- ^ Riordan, Rick (October 12, 2010). The Lost Hero. Disney Hyperion. ISBN 9781423113393. OCLC 526057827.
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