Grievous was a killing machine and a military tactician designed to serve the whims of the Sith Lords pulling his strings from above. To this end, they did what most Sith do - promise a lot, and deliver very little. Had the Separatists won the war, General Grievous would have continued to act as a pawn for those higher on the chain of command, and thrown a few table scraps in order to appeal to his violent nature. General Grievous was not exactly a fan of droids, but when it came to cybernetic implants, he was all for it.
In fact, Grievous himself chose several major upgrades designed to enhance his combat prowess and ferocity. This, combined with the alterations done to his physiology and brain made him far more lethal than his days as a warlord on his home planet. By the time his near-fatal injuries forced him to become a cyborg, he had embraced it wholesale. General Grievous was content to augment himself for the sole purpose of waging a war on the Republic, and engaging his favorite prey - the Jedi - in a battle to the death.
Before Disney acquired Star Wars from George Lucas and subsequently retconned much of the Expanded Universe material , General Grievous' condition was said to have been the result of a shuttle crash accident. Since that time, the actual definitive explanation for why he became a cyborg has been left in mystery.
The Clone Wars animated series confirmed that Grievous chose to upgrade himself, but this could have been the result of the crash, or simply a desire to become a better killer. It's still assumed that the shuttle crash explanation is correct since no disputes have arisen to contradict it.
Grievous' extensive skill at killing Jedi should have led to her demise, yet she was able to hold her own in the battle and emerge with her life intact. This was a clear indicator that Ahsoka was no mere Jedi padawan, but had the potential to be something else. In a sense, it almost foreshadowed her future greatness, and the unorthodox path she took towards mastery of the Force, and lightsaber combat as a whole.
General Grievous killed a lot of Jedi by the time he'd met his end at the hands of Obi-Wan Kenobi, but one death occurred offscreen due to a cut during production.
The scene was supposed to introduce General Grievous to Anakin and Obi-Wan before the main bridge scene that made it into the final film.
After he killed Shaak Ti, the two Jedi quickly cut a hole through the floor in order to escape Grievous and his massive contingent of battle droids. Contrary to many claims going around the internet, it is not, in fact, clear that Grand Admiral Thrawn acquired the mask of General Grievous, following his demise. In the documentary Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed , George Lucas said that he wanted the cough to represent the imperfection of cybernetic technology at the time rather than having it be from an injury sustained in combat.
The story of what actually happened is quite tragic. General Grievous chose to become a cyborg after being offered the enhancements by the Sith, who had been conducting research into cybernetically enhanced individuals.
These enhancements were done over time, and Grievous chose to receive extreme cybernetic upgrades to increase his combat skill. After a near fatal shuttle resulted in very little of his body remaining intact, Count Dooku offered him the life-saving surgery. Dooku was actually responsible for the crash, but told Grievous that it was the Jedi who had sabotaged the shuttle. This in turn fueled his hatred of the Jedi. Grievous then dueled both Masters Mundi and Ti at once. He managed to counter their attacks and eventually kicked Mundi against a nearby pile of rubble.
Unfazed, the cyborg general advanced at Ti. Shaak Ti desperately tried to defend herself but was unable to escape his onslaught. Grievous quickly overwhelmed her, knocking her lightsaber out of her hand and kicked her hard against a pile of debris. A recovered Mundi attempted to retrieve his lightsaber with the Force, only to have Grievous trap the weapon beneath one of his clawed feet and pick it up himself.
With Grievous in possession of three lightsabers one in each hand and the third he wielded using his left foot , Mundi stole one of the lightsabers secured at his waist, and Grievous jumped at Mundi, lightsabers blazing.
While several clones followed the life signs of the surviving Jedi, Fordo led other troopers to rescue Mundi just as Grievous was preparing to kill the disarmed Jedi Master. The ARC troopers opened fire on Grievous, who evaded the blasts, running across the roof of the compound. Grievous then landed on the ground, cutting through several troopers. While Mundi and the ARC troopers escaped with Secura and Ti under treatment to recover from the devastating battle, Grievous stole the fallen K'Kruhk's lightsaber and added it to his collection of trophies around his waist.
Grievous watched as the Republic gunship fled from Hypori, taunting the Jedi and stating that they had "only prolonged the inevitable. His armies were able to secure a strong foothold on the world before a Republic detachment, led by Luminara Unduli and Saesee Tiin , arrived to stop his advance. Grievous ordered the movements of the Separatist army from a base far from the front, and though Tiin and a Republic fleet defeated his air support, Grievous made significant gains.
Grievous sent his forward armies through a strategic canyon to attack the Republic's main army, where they were ambushed by clone troopers and Barriss Offee , Unduli's Padawan. Though the droids appeared to have defeated the clones, they were only pretending to be dead, and attacked the army from behind when it engaged Unduli's forces at the other end of the canyon. The Jedi Master B'dard Tone and his apprentice attempted to stop Grievous, but Tone was wounded and his apprentice was killed.
Not long after this, Count Dooku tested 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, Grievous snuck 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 Grievous, he instead snuck up on her and knocked her off her perch with the blunt end of his staff. Although Durge caught the falling Ventress, 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 Grievous from behind as he removed the flail, slashing at the cyborg with her paired lightsabers , and Durge contributed to the fight, punching Grievous and slamming him through a statue of Count Dooku. As Durge and Ventress advanced, Grievous activated two of his lightsabers, cutting into Durge and beheading the bounty hunter. Grievous saber locked 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.
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, Grievous had successfully humiliated both Separatist commanders, showing Dooku his worthiness of holding the position of Supreme Commander of the Droid Armies. Count Dooku dispatched Grievous to the icy world of Ando Prime to investigate the disappearance of a battle droid army, which had vanished alongside the th Legion , the Republic unit that it had been battling.
The cyborg general and his droid squad of twelve were initially unable to locate the unit and reported back to the Separatist Head of State, who ordered Grievous to continue searching, as a loss of this magnitude was unaffordable for the Separatists. As the general continued to search for the vanished droid army, he and his squad were ambushed by the Republic unit Excelsior Company , which was also there to investigate the disappearance of the Republic forces.
Led by Clone Commander Vargus , the clone trooper detachment eliminated Grievous's droids and forced the cyborg to flee. As the war continued, Grievous took the Subjugator -class heavy cruiser Malevolence as his flagship. The warship possessed two ion cannons that were capable of disabling entire fleets, leaving them vulnerable to the Malevolence ' s turbolaser fire. Under the general's command, the Malevolence began executing attacks on Republic fleets that left no survivors.
Jedi Master Plo Koon led a task force to find and destroy the Separatist superweapon , and arrived in the system to engage the warship. Before the Jedi could get in firing range, Grievous ordered the Malevolence ' s battle droid crew to fire an ion blast at the Republic fleet. After the Star Destroyers' deflector shields were disabled, the Malevolence opened fire and eradicated the fleet, scattering a debris field in the system from the wreckage of the Republic cruisers.
While Grievous deemed the destruction of the Republic fleet a successful test, Dooku dispatched a Droch -class craft —nicknamed a "pod hunter" for its purposes—with rocket battle droids aboard to locate and eliminate the Republic's escape pods. During the craft's hunt for life pods, however, the Malevolence lost contact with the pod hunter, and Grievous mused that perhaps some survivors were putting up a fight. As the Malevolence activated its scanners, the battle droid crew picked up a signal from a non-Separatist droid, and Grievous immediately ordered his warship to assume attack position.
The battle droids then picked up the freighter Twilight —carrying Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano, who had rescued Plo Koon and the survivors of the battle—attempting to escape from the debris field. Dooku reminded his general that he did not want any witnesses, and Grievous ordered the ion cannon to be charged and fired.
However, the Twilight evaded the ion blast by jumping to hyperspace, taking the knowledge of the warship's weapons to the Republic. Considering the battle a defeat because of this, Dooku's trust in Grievous was shaken, and the Sith Lord left to discuss plans with his master, Darth Sidious.
With Count Dooku watching his progress via hologram , Grievous intercepted and eradicated a Republic medical convoy in the Ryndellia system.
Dooku had recently met with Darth Sidious and had learned of the Kaliida Shoals Medical Center , the Republic's secret medical facility in the Outer Rim Territories that was treating over 60, wounded clones. Dooku assigned the medical center as the Malevolence ' s new target, seeking to exploit the weakness that the Jedi displayed in their care for their clone troopers. This assignment boosted Grievous's confidence, as it showed that the Count had not completely lost his faith in him since his recent failure at Abregado.
As the remaining Republic frigate deployed several escape pods, Grievous ordered the pods to be targeted, stating that he had "a reputation to uphold. Grievous was frustrated with the setback, as he wanted to maximize his casualties and did not want too many wounded clones to be given the chance to evacuate the station before his arrival. En route to Kaliida Shoals, Grievous received word from Count Dooku that the Republic had launched a small strike force under the command of Anakin Skywalker to intercept the warship.
The Sith Lord advised his general not to underestimate the Jedi, but Grievous maintained that it would be Skywalker who would underestimate the Separatist ship. Skywalker's starfighter squadron took a shortcut through the nebula , and Grievous arrived shortly thereafter.
As the Jedi and his fighters approached, Grievous launched Vulture droids from the Malevolence to attack the Republic squadron while the warship itself targeted the medical transports attempting to escape from the medical center. The superweapon made haste with disabling the frigates before tearing them apart with laser fire.
Grievous ordered the ion cannon to be charged and targeted at the Republic squadron, despite the fact that his own Vulture droid starfighters would be caught in the blast. The battle droids complied, decimating Skywalker's fighters.
As the Jedi closed in on the warship with his remaining forces, Grievous targeted the Kaliida Shoals Medcenter, seeking to destroy the medical facility before attending to Skywalker.
However, the Republic squadron attacked the ion cannon, and once the Malevolence attempted to fire its deadly weapon at the medcenter, the cannon exploded, triggering a chain reaction that rocked and greatly damaged the ship. With the Malevolence ' s primary weapons disabled, Grievous ordered a full retreat to Separatist space.
General Obi-Wan Kenobi then arrived in the system with a fleet of three Venator -class Star Destroyers and began to attack Grievous's ravaged flagship. At first, the general believed that such a tactic was unnecessary, but eventually complied with the Sith Lord's plan. Amidala's ship arrived out of hyperspace just off the Malevolence ' s bow, and Grievous ordered the yacht to be captured with the warship's tractor beam. After Senator Amidala had been pulled into the Malevolence ' s main hangar via the tractor beam, the Republic Star Destroyers ceased their fire.
Grievous ordered a repair crew to be brought up to the warship's bridge and proceeded to the landing bay to apprehend his hostage. However, Amidala had overloaded her ship's engines before hiding elsewhere in the hangar. After taking his warship's rail jet to the hangar, Grievous entered Amidala's ship with two B1 battle droids and discovered her exploit. Pushing the battle droids out of the way, Grievous headed for the exit, but the ship exploded before he could run for safety.
The general survived the explosion and cleared himself out of the rubble. Leading the battle droids' search for the stowaway Senator through the warship's hallways, Grievous soon received word from his ship's droid crew that the hyperdrive would require less time than originally believed to repair. Ordering his troops to continue the search for the Senator, the general left to inform Count Dooku of this new development. On the bridge, Grievous learned that there had been an unauthorized communication inside the ship, but was angered when he discovered that the battle droids had not caught it in time to intercept it.
The general ordered his crew to monitor all internal communications to locate the Senator. Taking the Twilight to the warship, Skywalker and Kenobi arrived aboard the Malevolence and rendezvoused with Amidala at the rail jet junction.
Kenobi planned to sabotage the warship's hyperdrive, while Skywalker and Amidala would meet him back at the Twilight. However, Grievous intercepted their comlink transmission, and took a squad of battle droids with him to ambush Kenobi.
After Kenobi arrived in the hyperdrive room, Grievous's deployed battle droids surrounded the Jedi Master, and the cyborg himself jumped down from a higher level to confront him. Grievous ordered the droids to kill Kenobi, but the Jedi defeated the majority of the droids before using a remaining droideka's deflector shield as protection from Grievous's oncoming blaster rifle fire.
Kenobi then Force-pushed the droid toward Grievous. As the Separatist general picked up the droideka and hurtled it aside, Kenobi escaped. Grievous took his frustration out on a battle droid who commented on Kenobi's abilities, ordering his troops to guard the hyperdrive before departing to deal with Kenobi himself. Grievous found Kenobi aboard a rail jet car and saberlocked with him, pursing Kenobi after he broke the bladelock.
The cyborg knocked Kenobi on his back, but as Grievous prepared to kill the Jedi, Kenobi jumped onto another railjet, saluting the general as he left. Grievous boarded the Soulless One and took a squadron of Vulture droids to attack the fleeing Jedi and Senator, who were returning to the Republic fleet in the Twilight. During the dogfight , a B1 battle droid contacted Grievous and informed him that the Malevolence ' s hyperdrive was almost completely repaired.
The general ordered the Malevolence to retreat to hyperspace, arranging to meet his warship at a Separatist base in Sector Four. However, Skywalker had sabotaged the warship's navicomputer before escaping.
As the Malevolence headed toward the nearby Dead Moon of Antar , Grievous ordered the warship's crew to reset the navicomputer. Dooku contacted Grievous, stating that the general and his warship were being awaited at the rendezvous point.
Manually cutting off the transmission, Grievous engaged his fighter's hyperdrive and retreated shortly before the Malevolence crashed into the moon. The General also had his battle droid forces on Ord Mantell raze an entire civilian township to divert Republic troops and allow himself to escape.
Grievous eventually captured crucial hyperlane routes running to Bespin , Kessel , and Mon Calamari , totaling six Separatist victories that month. The capture of the lanes jeopardized the supplies of tibanna gas and Kessel spice , leading to civilian suffering, and also prevented the Mon Calamari from engaging in an "ages-old ritual.
Grievous then planned to capture Bothawui , the strategical world of the Bothans that was critical to Republic Intelligence. When the Jedi Council learned of the general's plan, Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan learner, Ahsoka Tano , were dispatched with a newly-christened fleet of Venator -class Star Destroyers to stop the cyborg. Grievous cut the Jedi out of their hyperlanes and engaged the Jedi three times in open space before Skywalker and his fleet escaped and took a direct course to Bothawui.
Grievous halted his pursuit of Skywalker's fleet to coordinate attacks on Republic forces on separate fronts. Picking up two more Munificent -class star frigates , Grievous then overwhelmed a Republic battle group stationed at the planet Falleen.
Grievous's fleet of six Munificent -class frigates arrived out of hyperspace in front of Bothawui Prime's asteroid belt , and at the general's order, the ships of the fleet directed all power to their forward shields and proceeded through the asteroids. As soon as it emerged from the asteroid belt , Grievous's fleet attacked Skywalker's three Star Destroyers.
However, a squad of Republic AT-TE walkers had been deployed to the asteroids and opened fire on the fleet from behind, giving Grievous a nasty surprise. Frustrated with the failed attack, Grievous left an OOM battle droid in command of the fleet and fled in Soulless One.
His starfighter was pursued by Skywalker himself in his Delta-7B fighter , but thanks in part to flying debris that damaged Skywalker's fighter, Grievous was able to jump to hyperspace and retreat.
Following the defeat at Bothawui, the Trandoshan scavenger Gha Nachkt contacted Grievous, informing the general that he had salvaged R2-D2 , Skywalker's astromech droid , from the Bothawui asteroid belt. Grievous agreed to "buy" the droid from the scavenger, but threatened Nachkt when he attempted to raise the arranged price for the droid.
Grievous's spy droid, R3-S6 —who had been assigned to Skywalker as his replacement astromech—soon activated the homing beacon of the Jedi's fighter during a mission to scout ahead for enemy activity. Grievous arrived with two frigates to ambush the Jedi, and Vulture droids were launched from the Separatist fleet to attack Skywalker.
However, Tano arrived with Skywalker's personal ship, the Twilight , to rescue her Master, causing Grievous to smack a nearby B1-Series battle droid out of frustration. Once the scavenger had arrived with R2-D2 at the space station , Grievous ordered Nachkt to take the droid apart and access his memory banks. The preceding investigation revealed that R2-D2's mission memory had never been erased, and when Nachkt demanded a higher pay, Grievous replied by impaling the Trandoshan in the back with his lightsaber.
Shortly before revealing himself to Tano and a squad of clone troopers, Grievous ordered the astromech droid to be taken to Soulless One. Confronting Tano and her clone squad, Grievous batted the Padawan aside before attacking and killing all but two of the troopers. As the general prepared to kill Clone Captain CT , Tano regained consciousness and blocked his lightsaber blow. Grievous was doubtful that Tano would provide a challenge for him, but engaged the Padawan in combat before following her and R3-S6 into a storage room.
The two engaged in a game of cat and mouse as Grievous chased and engaged Tano, and with the general occupied, CT and the other clone were able to plant explosives in the station's reactor room. When R3-S6 received word that Skywalker had arrived to retrieve his R2 unit and was planning to rendezvous with the rest of his men in the landing bay, the general ordered his spy droid to prevent the Jedi and clones from escaping. Hanging from the ceiling, Grievous found Tano and clamped a metal hand around the Padawan's throat, examining her fallen lightsaber with his free hand.
However, Tano's beliefs proved true when the Republic squad detonated the explosives in the reactor room, crippling the listening post's repulsorlift systems.
As the station shook from the impact, Tano managed to use her lightsaber to sever the hand clamped around her throat. Although Grievous attempted to slash her with one of his lightsabers, Tano retrieved her weapon and escaped through an air duct. While Skytop Station plummeted from the sky, Grievous escaped in Soulless One empty-handed, lacking the Republic droid or another stolen Jedi lightsaber to add to his collection.
At some point during the war, Darth Sidious gave Grievous a set of Republic code keys, giving the Confederate Navy the opportunity to take control of the planet JanFathal in the Fath system. The Republic sent a fleet to confront Grievous, and was able to drive him away. Later in the war, Grievous targeted the Republic's cloning facilities on Kamino , intending to stop the production of clone troopers for good.
To prevent the Republic from learning of the impending invasion, Grievous sent droid squads to seize all Republic outposts in the sector and hot-wire the stations' "all-clear" signals. A BX-series droid commando squad overran a Republic outpost on the moon of Rishi , and after the droids reported their success to Grievous, Ventress contacted the general with the news that all the preparations on Kamino were in order.
As the Separatist fleet approached the Kamino system , Grievous learned that the droid commandos on the moon had stopped responding.
Seeking to ensure that the base did not alert the Jedi of his approaching fleet, the general ordered reinforcements to be sent to the station.
However, a squad of clone troopers put up a fight and destroyed the base, alerting the Republic to Grievous's presence in the system. The Republic fleet arrived over the moon and opened fire at the Separatist cruisers, and with his fleet outgunned, Grievous and his ships fled the system. During the war, Grievous held a castle on the third moon of the planet Vassek , [35] where he housed his pet roggwart , Gor [36] —a fearsome creature whom Grievous "doted on" [37] —in addition to spare parts and trophies from the Jedi he had murdered.
EV-A4-D , his repair droid, also resided in the general's lair. The general was soon confronted by the Jedi Kit Fisto and Nahdar Vebb with a squad of clone troopers. Drawing two of his lightsabers, Grievous engaged the two Jedi in lightsaber combat before splitting his arms and activating two more of his stolen Jedi weapons. The clones fired grappling hooks at the cyborg's legs, and Fisto severed the general's limbs below the cables.
The general jumped up to hold a beam on the roof, but the clones quickly pulled him back down to the ground. Attempting to crawl away, Grievous was confronted by Vebb, and the general's lightsaber spun out of his hand. Grievous again jumped up to hang from the roof, but this time succeeded in severing the cables attached to his legs.
Batting a dead clone against Fisto, the general then threw the trooper onto Vebb before sustaining a blaster shot to his face and fleeing. The Jedi and clones gave pursuit, but Grievous attacked two troopers and entered the sanctuary of his hidden command center.
Splitting his arms again, the cyborg opened the door to the center by touching its panels in a certain sequence. Learning from EV-A4-D that his droid bodyguards had been remotely deactivated for recharge, Grievous activated his MagnaGuards and ordered them to lock down the perimeter.
Watching the Jedi and remaining clones retreat via a droid holocam , Grievous sealed off all the exits from his castle and trapped the squad inside his lair. The general conferred with the Jedi via holotransmission before severing the connection and opening up a molten incinerator pit, dropping one of the clones into its depths.
As Grievous continued to watch the Jedi's progress, Fisto drove his lightsaber into the holocam. Undaunted, the general told Gor it was "time to entertain their guests" and released him to confront the Jedi before EV-A4-D began repairs on the cyborg. After his repairs had been completed, Grievous was temporarily confined to his chair to allow his new legs to set in.
Angered with the loss of his roggwart [36] and finding it another "wrong that the Jedi Order would pay dearly for," [37] Grievous soon discovered from Dooku that it was the Sith Lord himself who had deactivated his MagnaGuards and let the Jedi into his lair in order to reassess the cyborg general in light of his recent failures at the Jedi's hands. Cutting off the transmission, Grievous stated that he would "play the Count's little game," and resolved to hunt down the Jedi for sport.
Although EV-A4-D stated that he required rest in light of his recent repairs, Grievous was determined to find and kill the Jedi. The general left his command center with several MagnaGuards, but was soon alerted by EV-A4-D that the Jedi were about to enter the hidden room. Grievous immediately turned around to confront the Jedi, and while Fisto escaped into the command center, Vebb was determined to fight Grievous and remained outside as EV-A4-D shut the door.
Vebb cut his way through Grievous's bodyguards and entered into lightsaber combat with the cyborg. As the two opponents blade-locked, Grievous took out a blaster with one of his free arms and shot the Jedi, taking the fallen Vebb's lightsaber for his own collection.
Knowing that Fisto was watching from inside the control room, Grievous stated that he was his next target, and pursued the Jedi out to the castle's outer platform. Climbing onto the platform from below, Grievous appeared to Fisto and engaged the Jedi Master in combat. Fisto used the fog to his advantage and deactivated his lightsaber to sneak up on the cyborg. Spinning his four lightsabers in defense, Grievous found himself confronted by Fisto from behind, and the two duelists continued their fight.
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