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 that allows 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 a can.[2] He is also loyal. He can cope with dangerous situations fairly well, such as when he was kidnapped by the cyclops 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]
Since satyrs are associated with Pan, the God of the Wild, Grover loves nature and hates pollution. In the third book, it is revealed that he has a crush on Artemis, the Goddess of the Hunt. 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 tree 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 cyclops half-brother (through Poseidon).
[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, he has curly brown hair, brown eyes, hairy brown goat legs and brown skin.
[edit] Diet
Grover is known to eat tin cans, bottle caps, banana peels, mushrooms, apples, magic dust, potato chips, any kind of paper, and enchiladas, but does not eat meat. Since he is a protector of the wild, and thus, animals.
[edit] In the books
[edit] Percy Jackson & the Olympians
[edit] The Lightning Thief
Grover goes undercover at a boarding school as a disabled student in order to discover if there are any half-bloods (offspring of humans and greek gods or goddesses) who attend it. There, he discovers Percy Jackson, a half-blood, and alerts Chiron, activities director of Camp Half-Blood, a camp for half-bloods. Grover reveals his satyr form to Percy when the Jacksons go to a beach house before they are attacked by a minotaur. He accompanies Percy and Annabeth Chase, Athena's daughter, on a quest to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's stolen master lightning bolt and Sally Jackson, Percy's mother who had been abducted by Hades. At the end of the book, Grover receives his searcher's license to go look for Pan, the god of the Wild.[2] In the film adaptation, Grover stays in the Underworld to allow Sally Jackson to leave.
[edit] The Sea of Monsters
In The Sea of Monsters, Grover searches 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 mythological Sea of Monsters, now located in the Bermuda Triangle. Grover creates an "empathy link" between him and Percy, allowing him to call for help telepathically. In his dreams, Percy sees that Grover is trapped by Polyphemus and is about to be eaten like all satyrs before him who went searching for Pan. Along with Annabeth and Percy's half brother Tyson the Cyclops, Percy journeys to find Grover. At the end they rescue Grover from the cyclops's island.[1]
[edit] The Titan's Curse
Grover is undercover, 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, a daughter of Zeus, to help him safely bring the half-bloods to Camp Half-Blood. In the process of trying to reach the Di Angelos, Dr. Thorn, a manticore disguised as school staff, attempts to kidnap Percy, Bianca, and Nico. The Hunters of Artemis step in and get rid of the monster by making him trip off a cliff; however Annabeth is on Thorn's back and is lost. Artemis has the Hunters escorted to Camp Half-Blood by Percy, Grover, and Thalia. Artemis is then kidnapped, and a quest is launched to save her. That questers, Grover, Bianca (who becomes a new Hunter of Artemis), Zoe Nightshade (the chief Hunter of Artemis), Thalia, and Percy, journey across the country to Mt. Tampalais in California. On the way, Grover is involved in several situations where Pan, the God of the Wild, speaks to him. The first is in Cloudcroft, New Mexico, where the presence of Pan makes a rubber rat and the birds on Grover's coffee cup come to life, and brings a giant wild boar to help Percy, Thalia, Grover, Bianca and Zoe escape a skeletal army. The second incident happens when Grover is alone. Pan speaks to him, saying, "I await you". Both times, Grover is drinking coffee, so he and the other satyrs believe that this has something to do with Pan's appearance.[4]
[edit] The Battle of the Labyrinth
Juniper, Grover's wood-nymph girlfriend, is first introduced in The Battle of the Labyrinth. She is sobbing hysterically as the Council of Cloven Elders, a council of stayrs, decides that Grover has been searching far too long for the god Pan. They give him a week to find Pan, and if he does not succeed, his searcher's license will be revoked. Grover, Percy, Annabeth and Tyson head into the Labyrinth 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 Pan's disappearance and that 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' army tries to invade Camp Half-Blood, Grover unleashes Pan's cry of Panic, greatly disrupting the battle and scaring Kronos's monster army back into the Labyrinth. Afterward, the three satyrs on the Council of Cloven Elders try to vote Grover into exile, but Chiron and Dionysus, who runs the camp and says that a god's vote counts for two, stop them. [5]
[edit] The Last Olympian
Grover is missing for two months. Percy and Nico decide to go to the Underworld (to visit the River Styx) but need him to open the Door of Orpheus with music, so they look for him on their way. Percy locates Grover, using 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 takes a nap and they figure out that Morpheus, the God of Dreams, puts Grover to sleep. In that way, Grover gives Percy and Nico information that some minor gods are on Kronos' side of the conflict between the Titans and Olympians. He helps Nico and Percy get into the Underworld by playing his reed pipes to open up an entrance in Central Park.
At the end of the book, his exile comes to an end and he is given a position on 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 does not appear in the book but is mentioned by Annabeth to be looking for Percy, who has gone missing.[6]
[edit] The Son of Neptune
Grover is seen in a dream by Percy. Grover mentions that he is looking for Percy. Percy says that he does not have any money, a reference to when Don the faun asks Percy for money. Grover is a Greek satyr while Don is a Roman faun.
[edit] Weapons and 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 Castellan) 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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