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into Solomon Grundy. Grundy is once more an unintelligent monster, repeating the opening line of the nursery rhyme. A week later, having retreated to the sewers, he has a fight with Killer Croc. At the end of the fight, exhausted, he reverts to Cyrus Gold again. He finds himself in front of his own grave, where the Phantom Stranger tells him he has seven days to undo his curse, as "There is an unholy night coming, as black as the dead's blood. And it's best if Solomon Grundy was not around for it." (A reference to the upcoming "" storyline.) Alan Scott serves as his reluctant guide, as the story continues in the "Solomon Grundy" miniseries.
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given one week to discover the truth of who murdered him, so he could repent for all of his sins and gain absolution. Alan Scott and the Phantom Stranger were given as his guides throughout the week, while Etrigan was trying to take him to Hell. Gold had a habit of getting killed. No matter how much damage was done to his body, he resurrected as a complete Solomon Grundy, driven to kill. Eventually it is revealed that Gold committed suicide, meaning he forced the curse of Solomon Grundy on himself. At the end of the series' run we see Grundy reanimated as a Black Lantern, and Cyrus Gold in hell. Grundy then tracks down and attacks Bizarro, using a past friendship they had to stir up the creature's | 26,701 |
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emotions. Bizarro eventually manages to defeat Grundy by flying him into the sun, which completely incinerates him, and the black ring.
## The New 52.
In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. In this new timeline, Grundy is once again a villain for Alan Scott. First appearing in "Earth 2" #3, Grundy personifies "The Grey" life-destroying forces and opposes "The Green" forces that choose Alan Scott as their champion. He attacks Washington DC to get Alan's attention. Flash, Hawkgirl, and Green Lantern fight him, but Atom brings him down temporarily by jumping onto him at giant size. The battle continues until Scott once again exiles Grundy to the moon where neither he nor the | 26,702 |
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"Grey" can do any damage.
Eventually Grundy's origin was revealed: a slaughterhouse worker in 1898, his wife was raped by his callous foreman, and she killed herself on the job. When the foreman made the workers feed the body to the crocodiles, Grundy snapped, killed his foreman and everyone else in the slaughterhouse, then committed suicide, but apparently something happened immediately afterwards.
## DC Rebirth.
The Prime-Earth Solomon Grundy is introduced in "DC Rebirth". His appearance resembles that of his pre-Flashpoint depictions. Solomon Grundy is pursued by Batman in Gotham City before the former incapacitates him. Grundy recites the Solomon Grundy nursery rhyme while being pursued | 26,703 |
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before Batman finished it for him when he defeats Grundy.
During "The War of Jokes and Riddles" arc, Solomon Grundy is among the villains on Joker's side in his war against Riddler.
# Powers and abilities.
Solomon Grundy has superhuman strength and stamina. His strength has varied greatly through the years; for instance, in the Long Halloween story arc, Batman beat Grundy, while at various points his strength is roughly on par with Superman's. He is virtually indestructible and immortal thanks to the elemental energy that imbues his form with pseudo-life. He is nearly invulnerable to physical, magical, and energy attacks and he is not affected by fire or low temperatures. He has proven highly | 26,704 |
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resistant to the effects of the original Green Lantern's power ring (which is attributed to his part-plant essence; originally because he had absorbed plant matter from the swamp, and later because he was a partial "plant elemental" like Swamp Thing).
Grundy possesses a healing factor. While he has occasionally been destroyed, he has always returned to life sooner or later, though often with different personalities and powers.
When it came to "The New 52", the Earth-2 Solomon Grundy also possesses powers associated with The Grey.
# Other versions.
## Anti-Matter Earth Post-Crisis version.
Solomon Grundy had a counterpart on the Crime Syndicate of America's Earth called Sir Solomon Grundy | 26,705 |
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who was a member of Quizmaster's Justice Underground. Sir Solomon Grundy is a distinguished, poised mountain of a man. During an aerial bombardment of Dover, he is blasted to life out of the rock from the white cliffs. Sir Solomon appears to be identical in physical appearance to the mainstream Solomon Grundy with the exception of a trimmed mustache and a small goatee. In keeping with his educated personality, Sir Solomon dresses himself as a 19th-century Englishman would, and speaks accordingly. His super strength and invulnerability made him a formidable hero, until Ultraman renders him inert on a Saturday.
## Amalgam Comics.
The Skulk is a hero of the Amalgam Universe. He is an amalgamation | 26,706 |
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of Solomon Grundy and the Hulk.
Bruce Banner was a scientist working with gamma rays. He was testing his gamma bomb out in the desert, but a tall figure walked out into the testing area. When Banner went out see who it was, the man turned out to be Solomon Grundy. The bomb went off fusing Grundy and Banner together. When Banner gets angry, he becomes Grundy. The creature chose a new name calling itself Skulk.
## The Grundymen.
In Grant Morrison's "Seven Soldiers" series, the Witch-People of Limbotown (who are descended from the immortal Melmoth) bury their dead, and later dig them up, at which point they become animate and are used as slave labor. These zombies are called "Grundies" or "Grundymen", | 26,707 |
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and resemble Solomon Grundy. It has also been established that the Spawn of Frankenstein is partly animated by the immortal blood of Melmoth, making him a Grundyman.
In Cullen Bunn's "Sorcerer Kings" storyline in Superman/Batman, The Creeper leads an army of Grundymen in a battle with Batman, Superman, and vampire Nina Skorzeny.
## "JLA/Avengers".
In the "JLA/Avengers" crossover, Grundy is among the villains enthralled by Krona to defend his stronghold. He is shown being defeated by Thor.
## "Justice Riders".
In the "Justice Riders" reality, Solomon Grundy is featured as a normal human. His entire gang was put down by Kid Baltimore with a single bullet each except for Grundy who took two.
## | 26,708 |
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"Flashpoint".
In the alternate timeline of the "Flashpoint" event, Solomon Grundy was invited by Lt. Matthew Shrieve to be the new member of the Creature Commandos, but Solomon Grundy then betrays him, killing his family. It is revealed that Solomon Grundy had been working by General Sam Lane who is responsible for the deaths of Miranda's family.
## "Superman Beyond".
In the "Superman Beyond" reality, Grundy resurfaces in the future Metropolis as a powerful crime boss known as Mr. Stone operating out of a nightclub called Vanity. He is offered nanotechnology stolen from GNX's Supercop program by Lex Luthor's daughter, Lucinda Luthor.
### Gods Among Us".
In the prequel comic to the video | 26,709 |
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game "", Grundy first appears in Year One. As Superman and some of the Justice League fight with Batman over removing the inhabitants of Arkham Asylum, Harley Quinn releases the villains to fight them, including Grundy, who attacks Damian Wayne. He is eventually defeated by Batman and Superman, the former blasting his hands off and the latter ramming himself straight through Grundy's chest since he will reanimate. Grundy reappears in Year Five where he is revealed to be cargo the Regime soldiers are investigating. He brutally beats Hawkgirl until Superman appears, though the situation is rendered confusing as his imperfect clone Bizarro shows up as well. The two combat Grundy and each other | 26,710 |
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until Bizarro leaves and Superman rips Grundy's head off when the zombie prevents him from going after Bizarro. As Grundy will regenerate, Superman takes his body and head to Lex Luthor to find a way to make Grundy an asset to the Regime.
### Arkham Knight".
Though Solomon Grundy never appears in ""'s prequel comic, seven clones of him appear where they all have been created by Calendar Man and named after the days of the week. Calendar Man used them to help to kill the Batman, which took a whole week for him to defeat all the clones.
## "Batman '66".
In "Batman '66", Solomon Grundy appears as a wealthy Olympic wrestler who Marsha, Queen of Diamonds seduced with one of her Aunt Hilda's | 26,711 |
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potions. Cyrus became loyal to Marsha and she told him to wait outside. She forgot about Cyrus enough where he froze to death during the winter. He is reanimated by Marsha's Aunt Hilda and goes on a rampage in Gotham Cemetery until Batman and Robin stun him with an electric shock to hold him until the police arrive.
## Emperor Joker.
During the "Emperor Joker" storyline where the Joker warped reality, Solomon Grundy was the warden of Arkham Asylum.
# In other media.
## Television.
### Live-action.
- Solomon Grundy also appears in the 1979 live action TV special "Legends of the Superheroes", portrayed by actor Mickey Morton.
- Solomon Grundy makes a cameo appearance in the tenth and final | 26,712 |
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season of "Smallville" portrayed by John DeSantis. A member of Toyman's Marionette Ventures, he appears in the episode "Prophecy" where Toyman assigns him to target Black Canary.
- Cyrus Gold appears in the second season of The CW's "Arrow", portrayed by Graham Shiels. In the show, he is a member of Sebastian Blood's Church of Blood. A tie-in novel reveals that Gold was a preacher in the orphanage where Blood was raised with the two later joining the Church under its founder Roger Trigon. Becoming Blood's henchman, Gold gains super strength and endurance when Blood injects him with the Mirakuru serum in an attempt to replicate the process that gave Slade Wilson his powers. After Gold breaks | 26,713 |
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into Queen Consolidated's Applied Sciences division under Blood's orders, the Arrow starts tracking him. The two eventually meet in a fight with the Arrow killing Gold. Though Gold is never referred to as Solomon Grundy, the nursery rhyme is found in his apartment in the episode "Three Ghosts".
- Solomon Grundy appears on Fox's "Gotham", portrayed by Drew Powell. He is introduced under the name Butch Gilzean, a mob enforcer working for Fish Mooney. Throughout the first three seasons, Gilzean works for various villains, including Oswald Cobblepot / Penguin, Tabitha Galavan / Tigress, and Barbara Kean. In the third season finale, he is shot in the head by Kean after attempting to betray her. | 26,714 |
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The doctors examining Gilzean's body reveal that Butch Gilzean was an alias, and that his birth name is Cyrus Gold. Gold becomes Solomon Grundy in the fourth season episode "The Blade's Path", in which the administrators of the hospital dump him in Slaughter Swamp, where chemical waste from the Indian Hill facility transform him into a pale, zombie-like creature with regenerative abilities and superhuman strength. Suffering amnesia from his head wound, Gold adopts the name "Solomon Grundy", based on the nursery rhyme, when he hears the name on a record played by people living on the street. He is discovered by Edward Nygma, who recruits him as muscle. After Tabitha Galavan manages to jog his | 26,715 |
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memory, Solomon Grundy remembers who he is and briefly visits Tabitha. Grundy later forms an alliance with Oswald, who promises to help find a way to reverse his condition and return to him as Butch. Oswald gets Hugo Strange to return Butch to normal, and he reunites with Tabitha; however, Oswald shoots Butch dead in order to emotionally cripple Tabitha, in revenge for her killing his mother years prior.
### Animated.
- Solomon Grundy appears in "Challenge of the Super Friends" voiced by Jimmy Weldon in a southern accent. He is a member of Lex Luthor's Legion of Doom. In this cartoon series, Grundy speaks broken English. This incarnation of Grundy is arguably one of the more "intelligent" | 26,716 |
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versions of the character as he is able to carry on a conversation and devise plans of his own. In "Monolith of Evil", Grundy reveals he was brought back to life in the swamp by energy from a monolith which is a source of enormous power.
- Solomon Grundy appears in the "Super Friends" animated series, voiced again by Jimmy Weldon. In the episode "Revenge of Doom", he and the rest of the Legion of Doom get back together after salvaging the Legion of Doom headquarters from the swamp.
- Solomon Grundy appeared in the DCAU.
- Solomon Grundy appears in the "Justice League" animated series, voiced by Mark Hamill. This version's origin was that of a mobster (also named Cyrus Gold) who eventually | 26,717 |
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crossed the wrong people. He was killed, cursed, then dumped in a mystical swamp, rising again 25 years later as a soulless monster, forever seeking his lost soul without being aware of it. He is often paired with Copperhead to comedic timing in various episodes and a member of the Injustice Gang led by either Lex Luthor in "Injustice for All" and Arseia in "Fury". In the episode "The Terror Beyond", Grundy became a more sympathetic figure, even a hero of sorts, by helping Doctor Fate save the world from a monstrous, bloodthirsty, Thanagarian deity named Ichthultu (based on the H. P. Lovecraftian Cthulhu) that he calls "Snake-Face". He befriends Hawkgirl, calling her "Bird-Nose". Fate's team | 26,718 |
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in the episode is a pastiche of Marvel's Defenders, with Grundy standing in for the Incredible Hulk, Aquaman standing in for Namor, Doctor Fate standing in for Doctor Strange, and Hawkgirl standing in for both Valkyrie and Nighthawk. "Bird-Nose" was Hulk's nickname for Nighthawk, and other heroes have referred to him as such. Grundy often says "Grundy Crush!", a nod to the Hulk's popular catchphrase "Hulk Smash!" (to which Hawkgirl herself alludes with her own "Hawkgirl Smash"). Grundy attacks Ichthultu on his own, under the impression that the soul-devouring monster is in possession of his lost soul. He is poisoned in the attempt, but his efforts allow Hawkgirl to kill the monster. Even the | 26,719 |
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normally staunch Hawkgirl weeps for him, and comforts him in his last moments, assuring him that his soul is waiting for him when he dies. His epitaph simply reads "Solomon Grundy — Born on a Monday", a reference to the poem after which he was named.
- Solomon would later return in the episode of "Justice League Unlimited" series, "Wake the Dead" with his vocal effects provided by Bruce Timm. He is resurrected by a dark spell cast by a group of young amateurs. The chaos magic used inadvertently infused him with the spirit of an unnamed powerful demon lord when the magic circle used to bind the demon in place was accidentally broken, allowing the demon to escape and possess Grundy's remains, | 26,720 |
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with his memory of his past incarnation severely addled and lacking the ability to speak. Mindless and uncontrollable, he goes on a destructive rampage, his power augmented to levels far beyond his original self by the magic animating him. After a lengthy battle with the Justice League, he regains a small fraction of his memory when he beholds Shayera Hol, whom he has accepted as a friend, and he submits to Shayera who sorrowfully kills him offscreen to put him out of his misery.
- Solomon Grundy appeared in "The Batman" animated series, voiced by Kevin Grevioux. This version is a zombie created by the working class citizens of 19th century Gotham City to wreak havoc on the rich landowners | 26,721 |
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that polluted the local lake with industrial waste that converted it into Gotham Swamp, and is slimmer and more ghoulish than his "Justice League" counterpart — it bears a closer resemblance to an actually rotted, desiccated corpse — and he is more of a villain tied to Batman due to being 'born' in Gotham. As seen in the episode "Grundy's Night", the local legend had it that Grundy would again arise on a Halloween night when there was a total lunar eclipse in order to take revenge on the descendants of the rich landowners. Gotham City residents therefore referred to this Halloween as 'Grundy's Night', however, it was actually Clayface in disguise. Though at the end of the episode, something | 26,722 |
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begins to rise out of the swamp as a moan is heard.
- Solomon Grundy appears in "", voiced by Diedrich Bader. This version is a still a zombie, but also a crime lord (a combination of the intelligent and incompetent versions) who commands a group of thugs, but speaks in grunts and growls due to his mouth being stitched together. He is also shown to have a right-hand man named Weasel that understands his orders. He fights against Batman and Black Canary in the teaser of "Night of the Huntress" where he tries to steal a scientist's brain. Black Canary defeats him by fooling him into falling through a glass roof atop a building. He reappears in "The Color of Revenge" robbing a bank in Bludhaven. | 26,723 |
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Robin stops Grundy and the police take him away. He is also one of the villains summoned very briefly by Bat-Mite to test Batman's mettle in "Legends of the Dark Mite". He also appears in "Chill of the Night!" as one of the Batman Villains to bid on a weapon auctioned by Joe Chill. Solomon is later seen in "The Knights of Tomorrow" being defeated by both Batman and Robin from the past and the future. He also appears in "Night of the Batmen" where he, Bane, Blockbuster, and Killer Croc try to steal a statue, but all four were stopped by Captain Marvel dressed as Batman. He was also seen in "Powerless" where he is one of the villains in a training simulator to help the depowered Captain Atom fight | 26,724 |
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crime without powers were taken away by Major Force. Unfortunately, unable to defeat the simulation of Grundy. Solomon is also seen in the opening of "Crisis: 22,300 Miles Above Earth", as one of the villains at the Joker's celebrity roast, where they were literally roasting Batman. He tried to make a joke about Batman, but was cut off by Joker due to his inability to speak clearly.
- Solomon Grundy appears in the fifth "Super Best Friends Forever" short, voiced by Keith Ferguson. When he begins rampaging the city, Supergirl, Batgirl, and Wonder Girl show up to stop him. He is reluctant to fight them because he says he does not fight girls, but when they defeat him, Grundy starts to reconsider | 26,725 |
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fighting girls.
- Solomon Grundy appears in "Justice League Action", voiced by Fred Tatasciore. In the episode "Zombie King", he has obtained a gem that would enable him to summon zombies that would obey his every command. In addition, the zombies Solomon Grundy summons would turn anyone exposed to their gases into zombies as well. This plot was stumbled upon by Swamp-Thing who fights Solomon Grundy and his zombies in a New Orleans graveyard. In need of backup against Solomon Grundy and the zombies, Swamp-Thing calls Batman for help. As Swamp Thing and Batman fight Solomon Grundy's zombies as he places the gem into an altar in order to raise more zombies throughout the world, they soon are | 26,726 |
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aided by Zatanna while John Constantine is busy fighting Brother Night. Even though Batman and Zatanna get converted into zombies, Swamp-Thing managed to break the altar and the gem enough for the zombified people to be returned to normal and the zombies to go inert. Then Swamp-Thing manages to defeat Solomon Grundy.
## Film.
- Solomon Grundy appears in the animated movie "", voiced by Corey Burton (albeit uncredited). He appears as one of the villains hired to make a bounty to hunt down Superman and Batman. Gorilla Grodd controls Solomon's mind to kill Batman. Batman defeats Grundy after he fails to drown Batman. He is considerably more intelligent due to Grodd's mind control, and Batman | 26,727 |
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comments that "Grundy sounds like William F. Buckley".
- Solomon Grundy appears in the Target exclusive direct-to-video animated film "", voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson. He appears as a member of the Legion of Doom.
- Solomon Grundy appears in "", voiced by Fred Tatasciore. He is one of three "scary" supervillains freed by the Joker, with the intent of conquering Gotham City. When the Joker successfully takes over the helpless city, Grundy is put in charge of the police department, and uses the police to play games such as hide-and-seek. He is eventually thwarted by Commissioner Gordon, and arrested.
- Solomon Grundy appears in "Justice League vs. Teen Titans", voiced by Rick D. Wasserman | 26,728 |
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(albeit uncredited). He is a member of the Legion of Doom where he partakes in the attack on the Hall of Justice. Grundy is defeated by Batman.
- Cyrus Gold appears in the animated movie "", voiced by David Forseth. He is a prisoner of Blackgate and appears as his pre-Solomon Grundy persona.
- Solomon Grundy appears in "", as well Fred Tatasciore reprising the role.
## Web series.
Solomon Grundy appears in "DC Super Hero Girls".
## Video games.
- Solomon Grundy appears in "DC Universe Online", voiced by David Jennison. Enthralled by Poison Ivy, he wanders in the Gotham Botanical Garden she took over and is a bounty mission for hero players.
- Solomon Grundy appeared as a playable character | 26,729 |
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in the multiplayer online battle arena game "Infinite Crisis.
### "Lego".
- Solomon Grundy appears as a playable character in "" voiced again by Fred Tatasciore. He is one of the main story characters.
- Solomon Grundy appears as a playable character in "Lego DC Super-Villains", voiced again by Fred Tatasciore.
#### Arkham".
- Solomon Grundy appears in "" voiced by Fred Tatasciore. He is a boss battle and appears in the basement of the new Iceberg Lounge (which is located in the Cyrus Pinkney National History Institute) as the Penguin's "pet" who Cobblepot uses to kill his disloyal grunts. His origin story is related through several Arkham Stories: Solomon Grundy was once a merchant who | 26,730 |
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was murdered and his body dumped in a mystic swamp. That night he was resurrected by combination of the swamp's mystic properties and a strange thunderstorm which turned him into the creature known as Solomon Grundy. He was found by a traveling circus and became part of the show before being found by Ra's al Ghul, who realized that Grundy had actually been dumped in a Lazarus Pit. Ra's sought to understand the properties of the Lazarus Pit and its powers, and did so by repeatedly murdering Grundy, only for him to rise again and again. After Wonder City was shut down the Gotham forces sent to retrieve found Grundy, still in the building Ra's kept him in, waiting for Ra's to kill him again. Batman | 26,731 |
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later confronts Grundy when Penguin blows up the floor under his feet. Awakened by being shocked with electricity, Grundy was revitalized and proceeded to attack. However, Batman destroys his internal organs, leaving Grundy to spend a long time to heal. His fate afterwards remains unknown as the ceiling of his lair was rebuilt.
- Solomon Grundy appears in "" (the mobile version of the game). He appears as a boss in the Gotham City sewers, but is defeated by Batman.
- Solomon Grundy appears in "" voiced again by Fred Tatasciore. He is encountered by Batman in the sewers beneath Blackgate Penitentiary; Batman seemed to have met Grundy at some point before, since he knew his name. Batman defeats | 26,732 |
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Solomon Grundy by tricking him into the electrical wires and then beating him up; after traversing the nearby area for a while, the unconscious Grundy will vanish, implying he retreated back to where he came from.
- Although he does not appear in "", one of the alleys has a room with Solomon Grundy's circus poster as well as a gold gramophone reproducing the "Solomon Grundy, Born on a Monday" nursery rhyme, which is performed by a childish voice. There is also a movie called "Solomon Grundy" which stars Burt Weston.
### "Injustice".
- Solomon Grundy appears as a playable character in "", with Fred Tatasciore reprising his role from "Batman: Arkham City". He is seen fighting the Justice League | 26,733 |
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at the beginning of the game. In the alternate reality, Solomon Grundy is a member of Superman's Regime after having been brainwashed to serve him via the Phantom Zone and fights Green Arrow at Wayne Manor alongside Killer Frost. After the alternate Superman kills the alternate Shazam, Yellow Lantern/Hal Jordan has Solomon Grundy bury him. Solomon Grundy does that and then attacks Flash (who had defeated Yellow Lantern) and is defeated. Solomon Grundy later takes part in the attack upon the Insurgents' base and was seen fighting Cyborg in the background. Solomon Grundy takes part in the attack on Gotham City and fights Flash again and later attacks Cyborg after Killer Frost froze his arm. In | 26,734 |
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Solomon Grundy's ending, it is revealed that he evaded capture and fled back to the swamps to heal where he discovered that he was able to tap into The Red and the dormant Gray. He is later shown sitting on a throne after using the Grey force to turn Earth into his own version of paradise: a ruined, desolate world that is devoid of life.
- Solomon Grundy has a cameo in "Injustice 2", appearing in the Arkham Asylum stage. He is seen in the background in a hanging cage behind Two-Face's cage.
## Music.
- The Canadian music group Crash Test Dummies mentioned the character in "Superman's Song" from their 1991 album "The Ghosts That Haunt Me": ""Superman never made any money / For saving the world | 26,735 |
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from Solomon Grundy"". Solomon Grundy was used in the song because lead singer Brad Roberts could not think of any other super-villains that rhymed with "money."
- An underground rap album, "", featured a temporary redux of rapper Blaze Ya Dead Homie's identity to that of Colton Grundy. The album describes the story of a casket-maker by the name of Solomon who could not die and thus jumped into a freezing river and awakening in the 1990s, transformed into Blaze, and eventually into Colton Grundy.
- A music act named after the super villain Solomon Grundy was formed in the late 1980s as a side project of Pacific Northwest grunge-era group Screaming Trees. Van Conner was featured as singer on | 26,736 |
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their self-titled New Alliance Records release.
- Brownsville rapper Sean Price has a track titled "Solomon Grundy" on his 2012 release Mic Tyson on Duck Down.
## Miscellaneous.
- The real Solomon Grundy appears in issue 19 of "The Batman Strikes!" (which is based on "The Batman").
- The Joker uses a hard light hologram of Solomon Grundy to battle Superman and Batman in the direct-to-video original animation "DC Super Friends: The Joker's Playhouse" (2010).
- The tie-in novel to "Arrow" called "Arrow: Vengeance" explored more about Cyrus backstory. From Sebastian's view, he and Cyrus knew each other at an orphanage where Sebastian was raised. He considered him as an older brother and even | 26,737 |
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as a father figure as a preacher, but this story was revealed as partially fake; Cyrus was still a teenager when Sebastian came to the church and was under the tutelage of a preacher named Roger Trigon. When Sebastian's father came at him with a gun, Cyrus and Trigon broke into the house in their alter-egos as the Acolyte and the Devil and beat him. Trigon gave Sebastian a gun to slay his father and after he did so, Sebastian was escorted by them to an abandoned factory in the Glades and joined into Trigon's cult, Church of Blood. Cyrus followed his orders as his second-in-command in Trigon's activities of that cult. When Trigon died, Cyrus took his position as a preacher and the head of Zandia | 26,738 |
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Orphanage, while Sebastian took a leadership of this cult and as a mayor of the town as Brother Blood.
## Parodies.
- The animated series "Minoriteam" features a parody of Solomon Grundy and Frankenstein's monster called Racist Frankenstein who is a member of the White Shadow, a villainous racist organization that opposes Minoriteam.
- Solomon Grundy appears as a member of the Legion of Doom in "Robot Chicken DC Comics Special". In the sketch entitled "Solomon Grundy" it is revealed he was actually born on a Tuesday and his real name is Solomon Gruesday. At the "Aquaman Appreciation Party" segment he is seen saying: "See you next Gruesday!"
- In the "Family Guy" episode "It Takes a Village | 26,739 |
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Idiot, and I Married One", Solomon Grundy is seen with the other members of the Legion of Doom in a cutaway gag. After their most recent plan has been discovered, Lex Luthor asks how this is possible, causing Grundy to stand and awkwardly admit that he "kinda dropped the ball on that one".
- In the "South Park" episode "Krazy Kripples", Grundy makes a cameo appearance as a member of a parody of the Legion of Doom, led by Christopher Reeve.
- In the "StarKid Productions" show "Holy Musical B@man!", Grundy is mentioned to be the target of a battle that Superman attempts, and fails, to coordinate with Batman, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman.
# See also.
- List of Batman Family adversaries
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akes a cameo appearance as a member of a parody of the Legion of Doom, led by Christopher Reeve.
- In the "StarKid Productions" show "Holy Musical B@man!", Grundy is mentioned to be the target of a battle that Superman attempts, and fails, to coordinate with Batman, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman.
# See also.
- List of Batman Family adversaries
- List of Superman enemies
- List of Green Lantern enemies
# References.
Cyrus Gold/Solomon Grundy, Arrow, 2013, season 2/episode 9: "Three Ghosts"
# External links.
- Solomon Grundy at The Watchtower, a "Justice League" fan site
- Solomon Grundy another Grundy bio
- A look at Grundy's debut six decades ago in the DCU, complete with images | 26,741 |
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Paul Walsh
Paul Anthony Walsh (born 1 October 1962) is a former England international footballer who now works as a television pundit.
A pacey and skilful forward, he scored a total of 127 goals in 521 league games in a 17-year career in the English Football League and Premier League; he also won five senior caps for England in an eleven-month international career beginning in June 1983. He began his career at Charlton Athletic, making his first team debut aged 16 in September 1979. He helped Charlton to win promotion out of the Third Division in 1980–81, and then won a place on the PFA Team of the Year in 1981–82. He moved from the Second Division into the First Division when Luton Town paid | 26,742 |
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£400,000 to acquire his services in July 1982. He continued to impress, and was named as PFA Young Player of the Year in 1984. He moved to Liverpool for a £700,000 fee in May 1984, and was named in the PFA Team of the Year in his debut season for the club as Liverpool won the league title and the Football League Super Cup. He went on to struggle with injury at Anfield, though still managed to appear in losing finals of the 1984 FA Charity Shield, 1984 European Super Cup, 1985 European Cup, and 1987 Football League Cup, as well as help Liverpool to the league title and FA Cup double in 1985–86, and to finish as runners-up in the league in 1984–85 and 1986–87.
He was sold on to Tottenham Hotspur | 26,743 |
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for a £500,000 fee in February 1988 and played for Spurs in their 1991 FA Cup Final victory over Nottingham Forest. However, he was frozen out of the first team after punching a coach at the club, and after a brief loan spell at Queens Park Rangers was moved on to Portsmouth for a £400,000 fee in June 1992. A popular player at Fratton Park, supporters voted him Player of the Season in 1992–93 and he was named on the PFA Team of the Year in 1993–94. He returned to the top-flight with Manchester City after being signed for £750,000 in March 1994. He returned to Portsmouth for a £600,000 fee in September 1995, but was forced to retire due to cruciate ligament damage in February 1996. After retiring | 26,744 |
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as a player he became a football pundit, and became a regular face on Sky Sports' "Soccer Saturday". His son, Mason, plays for Bognor Regis Town F.C..
# Club career.
Paul Walsh was born to Don and June Walsh in Plumstead on 1 October 1962; his father was an electrician and his mother worked at Tate & Lyle. He grew up supporting Arsenal, though his father was a season-ticket holder at West Ham United. Despite his natural skill, his small stature meant he was frequently overlooked at junior football. He was spotted playing for local youth side Londinium by Charlton Athletic scout Jim Fibbins, and signed schoolboy forms aged 14. In a 1986 interview with "Shoot" magazine Walsh cited Londinium | 26,745 |
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manager John O' Connor as the biggest influence on his career. After leaving school he also began working part-time at a meat factory and later a fruit packing factory before he joined Charlton on a full-time basis.
## Charlton Athletic.
Walsh made his debut for the Reserves in September 1978, playing right midfield against Portsmouth at Fratton Park. He made his first team debut in the English Football League at 16 years old, coming on as a half-time substitute for Dick Tydeman in a Second Division fixture with Shrewsbury Town on 22 September 1979; he provided the assist for Martin Robinson's winning goal. Manager Andy Nelson handed him his first professional contract on his 17th birthday, | 26,746 |
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a two-year contract paying £100 a week. However Nelson was sacked the following March and the "Addicks" were relegated into the Third Division at the end of the 1979–80 season.
Following the sale of Mike Flanagan to Crystal Palace, new manager Mike Bailey played Walsh in a strike partnership with Derek Hales in the 1980–81 campaign. Due to a League Cup draw the season opened with three matches against Brentford, and Walsh scored his first senior goal at Griffin Park in a 3–1 defeat before scoring a hat-trick in the return fixture at The Valley, a 5–0 victory; this made him the youngest player to score a hat-trick in the club's history. He ended the campaign with 18 goals in all competitions, | 26,747 |
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whilst Hales was named in the division's PFA Team of the Year. Charlton were top of the table for most of the season but a loss of form from February cost them the title, though promotion was still secured with a third-place finish.
Bailey left Charlton to replace Alan Mullery as Brighton & Hove Albion manager, and the Charlton board ironically decided to name Mullery as Bailey's successor. Charlton finished the 1981–82 season in 13th place, and Walsh scored 15 goals in total. He performed well against divisional champions Luton Town, giving captain Mal Donaghy a difficult afternoon, which was enough to win him a move to his next club.
## Luton Town.
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David Pleat for £400,000 plus Steve White in July 1982. Pleat had an attacking philosophy which gave Walsh the freedom to express himself and score goals. In only his second game for Luton at Kenilworth Road he scored a hat-trick in a 5–3 win over Notts County, the second goal of which was voted Goal of the Season as he beat numerous defenders before chipping the goalkeeper. On the final day of the 1982–83 season Luton needed to beat Manchester City at Maine Road to remain in the First Division, and a late Radomir Antić volley secured the "Hatters" a 1–0 win and a place in the top-flight. After the game Pleat celebrated by running down the touchline in a scene that became an iconic moment of | 26,749 |
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1980s football in England.
Luton enjoyed an excellent start to the 1983–84 season, and were in third place on Boxing day. On 10 December, Walsh scored a hat-trick in a 4–2 win over Stoke City at the Victoria Ground. However a run of just three wins in 24 games saw Luton go from title contenders to relegation candidates, as well as exit the FA Cup in a 4–3 defeat to rivals Watford at Vicarage Road. Luton ended the campaign in 16th place, and Walsh was voted as PFA Young Player of the Year, ahead of candidates such as Ian Rush, Nigel Callaghan and John Barnes.
## Liverpool.
Liverpool manager Joe Fagan bought Walsh for a £700,000 fee in May 1984. Walsh turned down an approach from Italian Serie | 26,750 |
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A side Calcio Como to join Liverpool. He joined Liverpool in time to travel with the players to Rome to see them win the 1984 European Cup Final. He made his debut as a substitute on 18 August 1984 in the 1–0 Charity Shield defeat to derby rivals Everton. With Ian Rush injured at the start of the 1984–85 season, Walsh partnered Kenny Dalglish up front, and he scored just 14 minutes into his Anfield debut on 27 August in a 3–0 win over West Ham United. However, he picked up a knee injury in October which caused him to miss six weeks and allowed Rush to re-establish himself as Dalglish's preferred strike partner. He scored 13 goals in 39 appearances in all competitions throughout the 1984–85 campaign, | 26,751 |
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the most significant goal being the equaliser in the last minute of extra-time against rivals Manchester United in the FA Cup semi-finals at Goodison Park. However Liverpool would lose the replay, and also finished as runners-up in the league and European Cup. Walsh started the 1985 European Cup Final against Juventus at Heysell Stadium, but had to come off early in the second half after aggravating a stomach injury; Liverpool lost the game 1–0, though the day would be remembered for the disaster which cost 39 lives.
Fagan's retirement in May 1985 and Dalglish's subsequent promotion to player-manager meant that instead of gradually succeeding Dalglish as Liverpool's main striker Walsh instead | 26,752 |
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had to contend with a rival for his position as the club's manager. He missed 1985–86 pre-season after undergoing a hernia operation. He returned to fitness against Oxford United on 14 September, but had a bitter argument with Dalglish at half-time which initially seemed to spell the end to his Liverpool career as he was placed on the transfer list. He returned to the first team though and was taken off the transfer list by his own request and soon entered a scoring streak, though his form was ended after he ruptured his ankle ligaments in a collision with Manchester United's Kevin Moran on 9 February. He returned to action six weeks later but continued to suffer with ankle trouble and was ruled | 26,753 |
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out for the rest of the season, ending the campaign with 18 goals in 32 appearances in all competitions throughout the campaign. His injury caused him to miss the 1986 FA Cup Final, though he secured a First Division winners medal as Liverpool won the league by a two-point margin over Everton. His contribution to the club's success was not forgotten as he was named in the First Division's PFA Team of the Year, alongside teammate Mark Lawrenson.
Writing in his 2015 autobiography, Walsh was highly critical of Liverpool's Boot Room culture, particularly then-medical staff Ronnie Moran and Roy Evans:
He again missed pre-season in summer 1986, as he underwent an operation to correct his ankle injury. | 26,754 |
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He recovered to earn a place on the bench for the second leg of the Super Cup final victory over Everton on 30 September, but though he only entered the game as a late substitute he broke his hand after falling awkwardly. The day after the match he had to drive himself to the hospital for an x-ray and to receive treatment. Having recovered from this injury, he went on to score a hat-trick in a 6–2 home win over Norwich City. He then went 12 games without a goal, and John Aldridge was signed to add competition to the forward roles. Walsh started at Wembley in the 2–1 League Cup final defeat to Arsenal, before being taken off for Dalglish after 73 minutes. Liverpool finished second in the league, | 26,755 |
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nine points behind Everton, and Walsh scored only six goals in 32 appearances throughout the campaign.
The arrival of new signing of Peter Beardsley left Walsh restricted to only sporadic appearances in the 1987–88 campaign, and he played just nine games without scoring a goal, though maintained fitness by playing games for the reserves. He began drinking heavily, later admitting "the only thing I was interested in by that point was getting pissed and enjoying myself".
## Tottenham Hotspur.
Walsh was signed by Tottenham Hotspur for £500,000 in February 1988. He continued to drink heavily, and admitted to being a "ring leader" of a drinking culture alongside Neil Ruddock, Terry Fenwick and | 26,756 |
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David Howells which was to the detriment of the club's on-field progress. He ended the 1987–88 season with one goal in 11 games for Spurs. He later said he was "running at 70% capacity".
Walsh was partnered with new-signing Paul Stewart for the 1988–89 season, whilst fellow new arrival Paul Gascoigne boosted both the club's attacking potential and drinking culture. Spurs had a poor start to the season and were in a relegation battle by December, and only Gascoigne and Chris Waddle were creating and scoring goals. Walsh felt that manager Terry Venables was too easy on the players, and particularly too easy on Walsh himself who "needed someone on my case a bit more". He later described the season | 26,757 |
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as "just a blur" as Spurs turned their campaign around to finish in sixth place despite Walsh scoring just six goals from 32 starts and five substitute appearances.
Venables brought Gary Lineker back from Barcelona, and Stewart was selected to be Lineker's striker partner for the 1989–90 season, leaving Walsh on the bench. An injury to Stewart gave Walsh the chance to win back his first team place, and he marked his return to the first team with the winning goal in a 2–1 victory over rivals Arsenal, though failed to capitalise on this performance and again was dropped. Later in the season he had to be taken off at half-time against Wimbledon as he had a long night of drinking with George Best | 26,758 |
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the previous night. He ended the campaign with three goals from 13 starts and 18 substitute appearances.
He was on the bench for the first nine games of the 1990–91 campaign, but in his first start scored a hat-trick in a 4–0 win over Sheffield United. However Venables dropped him to the bench for the following game, and Walsh became "cynical and pissed off" as he felt nothing he could do could displace either Stewart and Lineker, though he ended the season with 20 starts and 19 substitute appearances. He did though make an appearance at Wembley in the 1991 FA Cup Final, coming on for Vinny Samways 82 minutes into a 2–1 victory over Nottingham Forest.
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pre-season with a groin injury, and on his first game back for the reserves at White Hart Lane punched reserve team manager Ray Clemence in the face after Clemence substituted him off after an hour. Walsh was suspended for two weeks and upon his return was loaned out to Queens Park Rangers for a month. QPR manager Gerry Francis wanted to make the signing a permanent one, but the club were unable to afford the £800,000 fee Spurs had asked for. After returning to Spurs he again punched someone in the face, this time a supporter who had shouted abuse to Walsh on the pitch after a game against Norwich City. He ended the campaign with three goals in 22 starts and 15 substitute appearances.
## Portsmouth.
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was signed by First Division (second tier) club Portsmouth for a £400,000 fee in June 1992. In order to tempt him out of the top-flight "Pompey" manager Jim Smith offered him a four-year contract on a higher wage than he had been on at Spurs, whilst the club also bought his London home off him in order to facilitate his move to the south coast. In his autobiography he admitted that he was not keen on joining Portsmouth, but stated that he decided to take a much more professional approach to his career in terms of training and eating healthier food so as to start the 1992–93 pre-season in good physical condition; he credited his new approach to the birth of his first child. Ironically though | 26,761 |
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a virus picked up on a family holiday to Saint Lucia caused him to miss a month early in the season and drained him of fitness. He recovered to build a strike partnership with Guy Whittingham, whilst midfielders Alan McLoughlin and Mark Chamberlain made an effective four-pronged attack, and with two games to go Portsmouth were top of the table and needed only to beat relegation threatened Sunderland to secure an automatic promotion place. However they lost the match 4–1 and Walsh was sent off; he wrecked the Roker Park dressing rooms in retaliation. He was suspended for the play-off games, and Portsmouth lost at the semi-final stage to Leicester City. Despite Whittingham scoring 47 league and | 26,762 |
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cup goals, it was Walsh who the fans voted as their Player of the Year.
With Whittingham sold, Walsh failed to build an effective partnership with new signing Gerry Creaney and Portsmouth failed to put together a promotion push for the 1993–94 season. However Walsh scored both goals in a 2–2 draw with Manchester United at Old Trafford in the League Cup, putting himself back on the radar for top-flight clubs in need of strikers.
## Manchester City.
Manchester City manager Brian Horton, his former captain at Luton, paid Portsmouth £750,000 for Walsh's services in March 1994. With star striker Niall Quinn out injured, City were fourth from bottom with eleven Premier League games left to play | 26,763 |
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and Walsh's strike partner Uwe Rösler was also a new signing – and had yet to learn English. The pair soon built an understanding however, and the arrival of wingers Peter Beagrie and Nicky Summerbee gave City the attacking firepower to steer clear of the relegation zone as Walsh and Rösler scored nine goals between them in the final ten games.
Horton tried to accommodate Quinn, Rösler and Walsh in the first team for the 1994–95 season, and as a result had a very strong attacking team. The "Sky Blues" were in sixth place by December, but then ten games without a win and three months without a goal for Walsh saw City fall down the table. They ended the campaign in 17th place and Horton was sacked. | 26,764 |
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New manager Alan Ball tried to build a team around new signing Georgi Kinkladze for the 1995–96 campaign, and Walsh felt that the time had come to leave Maine Road.
## Return to Portsmouth.
Former Spurs teammate Terry Fenwick, now manager at Portsmouth, took Walsh back to Fratton Park in exchange for Gerry Creaney (valued at £600,000) in September 1995; Walsh signed a three-year contract with the club. He scored five goals in 21 league games in the 1995–96 season before suffering a micro-fracture of the fibula in a seemingly innocuous incident during a 1–1 draw with Millwall at The Den on 27 January. He played against Leicester City on 10 February, but his knee collapsed and the resulting | 26,765 |
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cruciate ligament damage ended his career. He became assistant first-team coach at the club upon his retirement. He had a testimonial game at Fratton Park in May 1998. He was a popular figure at the club, and in February 2005 he came second in the "Football Focus" poll to find the club's "cult hero", behind teammate Alan Knight.
# International career.
Walsh was selected for the England youth team's summer trip to the Adria Cup at Yugoslavia in 1979. He was selected for the 1980 UEFA European Under-18 Championship in East Germany, which England won, though he made only two substitute appearances during the tournament. Soon after signing for Luton Town in 1982, he became a regular in the England | 26,766 |
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under-21 side during the 1984 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. He played both legs against Greece, and scored the winning goal against Hungary to take England into the knock-out stages.
Walsh won his first senior England cap under Bobby Robson on 12 June 1983, in a 0–0 friendly draw with Australia at Sydney Cricket Ground during a two-week tour of the continent. Three days later he scored the only goal of the game against Australia in the second match of the tour at Brisbane's Lang Park. He then went on to secure his third cap within the space of seven days in a 1–1 draw with Australia at the Olympic Park Stadium. He earned a fourth cap playing alongside club-mate Brian Stein in a 2–0 defeat | 26,767 |
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to France at Parc des Princes on 29 February 1984. The last of his five senior appearances for England came on 2 May 1984 in a 1–0 British Home Championship defeat to Wales at Wrexham's Racecourse Ground.
# Style of play.
In 1986 Bob Paisley described Walsh as an "individualist" best suited for a lone striker role due to his selfish play, tremendous pace and dribbling ability. He was able to shoot powerfully with both feet. He had an aggressive temperament, which led to occasional bookings and red cards for ill discipline.
# Post-retirement.
Walsh became a football agent for a short time, and represented Lee Bradbury during his move to Manchester City. He also invested in property and other | 26,768 |
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businesses, though lost money by investing in Australian fraudster Peter Foster. Walsh began working in the media after retiring as a player, and first began working as a pundit on Sky Sports in 2001, and since that time has appeared regularly on "Soccer Saturday" and "Football First". He has also worked as an after dinner speaker. In December 2007, he led a campaign against speeding fines in Hampshire.
# Personal life.
He married Bev in 1990, and the couple had their first child, Jordan, on 12 January 1991. They had another son, Mason, on 22 November 1995, who turned professional at A.F.C. Bournemouth in April 2014. Walsh published his autobiography, "Wouldn't It Be Good", in 2015.
# Career | 26,769 |
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statistics.
## Club statistics.
Source:
# Honours.
- Individual
- PFA Team of the Year (Second Division): 1981–82
- PFA Young Player of the Year: 1984
- PFA Team of the Year (First Division): 1985–86, 1993–94
- Portsmouth F.C. Player of the Season: 1993
- England U18
- UEFA European Under-18 Championship winner: 1980
- Charlton Athletic
- Football League Third Division third-place promotion: 1980–81
- Liverpool
- Football League First Division champion: 1985–86
- Football League Super Cup winner: 1986
- Charity Shield runner-up: 1984
- European Super Cup runner-up: 1984
- Football League First Division runner-up: 1984–85, 1986–87
- European Cup runner-up: 1985
- League Cup | 26,770 |
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cond Division): 1981–82
- PFA Young Player of the Year: 1984
- PFA Team of the Year (First Division): 1985–86, 1993–94
- Portsmouth F.C. Player of the Season: 1993
- England U18
- UEFA European Under-18 Championship winner: 1980
- Charlton Athletic
- Football League Third Division third-place promotion: 1980–81
- Liverpool
- Football League First Division champion: 1985–86
- Football League Super Cup winner: 1986
- Charity Shield runner-up: 1984
- European Super Cup runner-up: 1984
- Football League First Division runner-up: 1984–85, 1986–87
- European Cup runner-up: 1985
- League Cup runner-up: 1987
- Tottenham Hotspur
- FA Cup winner: 1991
# References.
Specific
General | 26,771 |
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Babcock (crater)
Babcock is a lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon. It was named after American astronomer Harold D. Babcock. It lies on the northeastern edge of Mare Smythii, to the southeast of Mare Marginis. To the south of Babcock is the crater Purkynĕ, and to the east-northeast lies Erro. Babcock is located in a region of the Moon's surface that is occasionally brought into view during favorable librations, although it is seen from the edge and so little detail can be discerned from an observer on the Earth.
The rim of Babcock has been eroded, notched and modified by subsequent impacts, leaving a somewhat irregular and uneven outer rim. The interior has been | 26,772 |
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t irregular and uneven outer rim. The interior has been resurfaced by lava flows, and is relatively flat. In place of a central peak, a small crater lies very close to the crater midpoint. This crater has been designated Zasyadko. A smaller crater lies on the interior near the northern edge.
The area about Babcock has been subject to past inundations by basaltic lava flows, leaving the surface relatively flat and the remnants of ghost craters visible as curved ridges in the ground.
# Satellite craters.
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Babcock.
# External links.
- Babcock at The Moon Wiki | 26,773 |
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Gandy dancer
Gandy dancer is a slang term used for early railroad workers in the United States, more formally referred to as "section hands", who laid and maintained railroad tracks in the years before the work was done by machines.
The British equivalents of the term gandy dancer are "navvy" (from "navigator"), originally builders of canals or "inland navigations", for builders of railway lines, and "platelayer" for workers employed to inspect and maintain the track. In the Southwestern United States and Mexico, Mexican and Mexican-American track workers were colloquially "traqueros".
In the United States, early section crews were often made up of recent immigrants and ethnic minorities who | 26,774 |
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vied for steady work despite poor wages and working conditions, and hard physical labor. The Chinese, Mexican Americans, and Native Americans in the Western United States, the Irish in the Midwestern United States, and East Europeans and Italians in the Northeastern United States all worked as gandy dancers. Though all gandy dancers sang railroad songs, it may be that African American gandy dancers from the Southern United States, with a long tradition of using song to coordinate work, were unique in their use of task-related work chants.
There are various theories about the derivation of the term, but most refer to the "dancing" movements of the workers using a specially manufactured "lining" | 26,775 |
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bar, which came to be called a "gandy", as a lever to keep the tracks in alignment.
# Etymology.
The term has an uncertain origin. A majority of early northern railway workers were Irish, so an Irish or Gaelic derivation for the English term seems possible.
Others have suggested that the term gandy dancer was coined to describe the movements of the workers themselves, i.e., the constant "dancing" motion of the track workers as they lunged against their tools in unison to nudge the rails, often timed by a chant; as they carried rails; or, speculatively, as they waddled like ganders while running on the railroad ties.
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"Gandy Manufacturing Company" or "Gandy Tool Company" reputed to have existed in Chicago as the source of the tools from which gandy dancers took their name. Some sources even list the goods manufactured by the company, i.e., "tamping bars, claw bars, picks, and shovels." But others have cast doubt on the existence of such a company. The Chicago Historical Society has been asked for information on the company so many times that they have said, "It's like a legend, " but they have never been able to find a Gandy company in their old records.
# History.
Though rail tracks were held in place by wooden ties ("sleepers" outside the U.S. and Canada) and the mass of the crushed rock ("ballast") beneath | 26,777 |
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them, each pass of a train around a curve would, through centripetal force and vibration, produce a tiny shift in the tracks, requiring that work crews periodically realign the track. If allowed to accumulate, such shifts could eventually cause a derailment.
For each stroke, a worker would lift his lining bar (gandy) and force it into the ballast to create a fulcrum, then throw himself forward using the bar to check his full weight (making the "huh" sound recorded in the lyrics below) so the bar would push the rail toward the inside of the curve.
The process is explained at the "Encyclopedia Alabama" folklore section:
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The thicker bottom end was square-shafted (to fit against the rail) and shaped to a chisel point (to dig down into the gravel underneath the rail); the lighter top end was rounded (for better gripping). When lining track, each man would face one of the rails and work the chisel end of his lining bar down at an angle into the ballast under it. Then all would take a step toward their rail and pull up and forward on their pry bars to lever the track—rails, crossties and all—over and through the ballast."
As maintenance of way workers, besides lining bars gandy dancers also used special sledge hammers called spike mauls to drive spikes, shovels or ballast forks to move track ballast, large clamps | 26,779 |
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called "rail dogs" to carry rails, and ballast tamper bars or picks to adjust the ballast. The same ground crews also performed the other aspects of track maintenance, such as removing weeds, unloading ties and rails, and replacing worn rails and rotten ties. The work was extremely difficult and the pay was low, but it was one of the only jobs available for southern black men and newly arriving immigrants at that time. Black men working on the railroad were held in high esteem among their peers. There’s a blues song that says "when you marry, marry a railroad man, every day Sunday, a dollar in your hand."
## Early economic circumstance of maintenance of way employees.
In 1918, in an article | 26,780 |
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for "Harper's Magazine" about the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Robert W. Bruere explained the economic circumstances that sometimes drove gandy dancers and other itinerant workers to join that organization:
The division superintendent of a great Western railroad recently explained to me his reluctant part in the creation of the socially disintegrating conditions out of which the migratory workers and the rebellious propaganda of the I. W. W. have sprung. "The men down East," he said, "the men who have invested their money in our road, measure our administrative efficiency by money return—by net earnings and dividends. Many of our shareholders have never seen the country our road was | 26,781 |
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built to serve; they get their impression of it and of its people, not from living contact with men, but from the impersonal ticker. They judge us by quotations and the balance-sheet. The upshot is that we have to keep expenses cut close as a jailbird's hair. Take such a detail as the maintenance of ways, for example—the upkeep of tracks and road-beds. This work should be going on during the greater part of the year. But to keep costs down, we have crowded it into four months. It is impossible to get the number and quality of men we need by the offer of a four months' job. So we publish advertisements broadcast that read something like this:
"We know when we put our money into these advertisements | 26,782 |
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that they are— well, part of a pernicious system of sabotage. We know that we are not going to give permanent employment. But we lure men with false promises, and they come. At the end of four months we lay them off, strangers in a strange country, many of them thousands of miles from their old homes. We wash our hands of them. They come with golden dreams, expecting in many cases to build homes, rear families, become substantial American citizens. After a few weeks, their savings gone, the single men grow restless and start moving; a few weeks more and the married men bid their families good-by. They take to the road hunting for jobs, planning to send for their families when they find steady | 26,783 |
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work. Some of them swing onto the freight-trains and beat their way to the nearest town, are broke when they get there, find the labor market oversupplied, and, as likely as not, are thrown into jail as vagrants. Some of them hit the trail for the woods, the ranches, and the mines. Many of them never find a stable anchorage again; they become hobos, vagabonds, wayfarers—migratory and intermittent workers, outcasts from society and the industrial machine, ripe for the denationalized fellowship of the I. W. W."Bruere concluded, "[t]his is a small but characteristic example of a vast system of human exploitation that has been developed by the powerful suction of our headlong industrial expansion..."
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historian and journalist Thomas Fleming began his career as a bellhop and then spent five years as a cook for the Southern Pacific Railroad. In a weekly series of articles he wrote of his memories of the Mexican section hands in the 1920s and 30s. He recalled that the Southern Pacific gave them a place to sleep: old boxcars converted into two-room cabins. The company would take old boxcars, remove the wheels, and lay them alongside the tracks. He remembers that the workers had a lot of children who attended the public schools, but the ones he met during his childhood were "kind of meek, and took a lot of abuse from the other kids". Fleming says that "you found them right outside of all towns | 26,785 |
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in California; that was part of the landscape." He suggests that they may have been the only ones who were willing to do the job because they got the lowest pay of any railroad workers, only about $40 a month.
During the early 1940s when the U.S. was involved in the fighting of World War II, the days of Rosie the Riveter, a few women worked as gandy dancers. During the war years so many of the men were away that the U.S. developed a severe labor shortage and women stepped in to do what, to that time, had been done exclusively by men. A 1988 article in "The Valley Gazette" carried the story of several local women who had worked on the Reading Railroad in Tamaqua, Pennsylvania as gandy dancers. | 26,786 |
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In an interview one of the women, Mary Gbur, said that it was the money, about $55 a week, that had attracted her to the job: “Money was short and I wanted to help my children continue their education after high school. And the railroad beat the $18 a week the dime store paid.” Gbur called the work "gruesome and boring" and apparently it was seen by the townspeople as degrading for a woman to be doing manual labor, leaving the women feeling embarrassed about the work they were doing. However, she said, "One day attitudes changed when a voice boomed out, 'I am sure proud of you ladies!'" The voice was that of the village priest.
## Early use of term.
Michael Quinion identified the first known | 26,787 |
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(printed) use of the term gandy dancer as 1918, but with so little understanding of the origin of the term it is impossible to know when it came into being. An article in the May 1918 edition of the weekly publication The Outlook (New York) asks the question, "What is a "gandy dancer"?" Using the exact words from the publication:
A story published in the August 1931 edition of Boys' Life, a monthly magazine published by the Boy Scouts of America for boys 6 to 18, mentions the term "gandy". In the story, "Eddie Parker", about 17 or 18 years old and characterized as the all-American type, takes on a job as a worker in a railway section crew. His new co-workers are all Italian immigrants, or, | 26,788 |
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as referred to in the story, "snipes". The "snipes" are characterized as lazy, stupid, and lovers of garlic, olive oil, and Italian music. "Eddie" figures a way to get the Italians to work at pumping the hand car – used to get to and from the section the crew would be working on that day – by using their love of music. He explains that he "hooked a grind organ onto the under frame and attached the handle to the axle crank..,[and] whenever the axel turns the handle has to follow it". Throughout the story, the workers are referred to as section crew workers, but the hand-car is referred to as a "gandy".
In the 1960s Maintenance of Way laborers were still being called "gandy dancers" by the track | 26,789 |
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foremen in Oregon, and the tamping rod was called a "gandy pole" by most workers or simply a "gandy".
# Songs and chants.
While most southern railroad maintenance workers were African American, gandy dancers were not strictly southern or African American. Section crews were often made up of recent immigrants and ethnic minorities who vied for steady work despite poor wages and working conditions, and hard physical labor. The Chinese, Mexican Americans, and Native Americans in the West, the Irish in the Midwest, and East Europeans and Italians in the Northeast laid and maintained track as well. Though all gandy dancers sang railroad songs, it may be that black gandy dancers, with a long tradition | 26,790 |
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of using song to coordinate work, were unique in their use of task-related work chants.
Rhythm was necessary both to synchronize the manual labor, and to maintain the morale of workers. Work songs and hollers sung in a call-and-response format were used to coordinate the various aspects of all rail maintenance; slower speech-like "dogging" calls to direct the picking up and manipulating of the steel rails and unloading, hauling and stacking of the ties, and more rhythmic songs for spiking and lining (aligning) the rails and tamping the bed of ballast beneath them.
In 1939 John Lomax recorded a number of railroad songs which contain an example of an "unloading steel rails" call, and it is available | 26,791 |
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at the American Memory site. The Lead Belly song "Take This Hammer" (available on YouTube) may be based on railroad chants.
Anne Kimzey of the Alabama Center For Traditional Culture writes: "All-black gandy dancer crews used songs and chants as tools to help accomplish specific tasks and to send coded messages to each other so as not to be understood by the foreman and others. The lead singer, or caller, would chant to his crew, for example, to realign a rail to a certain position. His purpose was to uplift his crew, both physically and emotionally, while seeing to the coordination of the work at hand. It took a skilled, sensitive caller to raise the right chant to fit the task at hand and | 26,792 |
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the mood of the men. Using tonal boundaries and melodic style typical of the blues, each caller had his own signature. The effectiveness of a caller to move his men has been likened to how a preacher can move a congregation." Typical songs featured a two-line, four-beat couplet to which members of the gang would tap their lining bars against the rails until the men were in perfect time and then the caller would call for a hard pull on the third beat of a four-beat chant. Veteran section gangs lining track, especially with an audience, often embellished their work with a one-handed flourish and with one foot stepping out and back on beats four, one, and two, between the two-armed pulls on the | 26,793 |
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lining bars on beat three. Here is a vintage gandy dancer video which demonstrates the singing, the dancing-like rhythm, the lining tool, and a very large crew (note that the ballast has been removed, perhaps allowing a much greater movement of the track than most sources mention):
## Documentary.
In 1994, folklorist Maggie Holtzberg, working as a folklore fieldworker to document traditional folk music in Alabama, produced a documentary film "Gandy Dancers". Holtzberg relates,
It had been many years since modern machinery had replaced section crews, so Holtzberg spoke with older or retired roadmasters who might remember the callers, or know where they might be living. She managed to locate | 26,794 |
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a number of callers and interviewed them in their homes. However, the men found it difficult to call track in their living room as opposed to being out on the track with the sound of rapping lining bars to call against. They met at a nearby railroad club that was rebuilding a depot museum. In this familiar environment the men quickly began to remember the old calls, and especially so when a train passed by blowing its whistle. Holtzberg recalls the words of John Cole, at 82 the oldest of the men:
The film was completed in 1994 and is available at the Folkstreams website. The trailer for the film is available at YouTube.
## Typical call lyrics.
The caller simultaneously motivated and entertained | 26,795 |
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the men and set the timing through work songs that derived distantly from call and response traditions brought from Africa and sea shanties, and more recently from cotton-chopping songs, blues, and African-American church music. A good caller could go on all day without ever repeating a call. The caller needed to know the best calls to suit a particular crew or occasion. Sometimes calls with a religious theme were used and other times calls that would evoke sexual imagery were in order. An example:
In these calls the men begin to tap their gandy against the rail during the first two lines to get in rhythm and unison. Then with each "huh" grunt the men throw their weight forward on their gandy | 26,796 |
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to slowly bring the rail back into alignment.
Retired gandy dancer John Cole explained spike driving songs in the documentary "Gandy Dancers".
In 1996 two former callers, John Henry Mealing and Cornelius Wright, received National Heritage Fellowship awards as "Master Folk and Traditional Artists" for their demonstrations of this form of African-American folk art.
## Military cadence calls.
In the armed services, a military cadence call, also known as a Jody call, is a traditional call-and-response work song sung by military personnel while running or marching. As a sort of work song, military cadences take their rhythms from the work being done. Many cadences have a call and response structure | 26,797 |
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of which one soldier initiates a line, and the remaining soldiers complete it, thus instilling teamwork and camaraderie for completion. Like lining calls, the calls also serve to mock one's superiors, vent anger and frustration, relieve boredom and as a way to boost spirits by poking fun or boasting.
It is believed that Private Willie Lee Duckworth Sr., who was stationed at Fort Slocum, New York as one of eight “Colored Infantrymen” in 1944, made up “Sound Off,” also known as the “Duckworth Chant,” which is used to this day in the U.S.Army and other branches of the military. Media researcher Barry Dornfeld, who co-authored the documentary "Gandy Dancer," believes that
Duckworth's military | 26,798 |
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cadence calls were influenced by his familiarity with track lining calls. Dornfeld writes, "I recently uncovered a connection between the southern African American tradition of call-and-response works songs and military cadence calls used in drill training, popularly known as “Jody calls.” Dornfeld writes:
Duckworth, who was born in 1924 in Washington County, Georgia, would have been familiar with the use of work chants sung for all kinds of agricultural work. He was also the same generation of the gandy dancers who used chants to line track. At the time he was drafted to serve in WW II, Duckworth was working in a sawmill. He was sent to a provisional training center in Fort Slocum, N.Y., in | 26,799 |
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