Mr. Grimm (TM: Black Character)

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Mr. Grimm
Blackfield AsylumPatient Profile
Vehicle	Armored Motorcycle
Demeanor	VERY DANGEROUS
Disorder	Posttraumatic stress disorder, cannibalistic tendencies.
Treatment	Psychotropic meds, *vegetarian diet*. Avoid eye contact with patient.
Age	51
Gender	Male
Eye Color	Brown
Hair Color	Brown
Born	1950
Voice Actor(s)	Jeffrey Grellman
Wish	To find the man who destroyed his mind.

Mr. Grimm's incarnation from Twisted Metal: Black. For the first time ever, he's a human instead of the grim reaper.

Bio (Manual)

Mr. Grimm and his best friend Benny were drafted into the war when they were only 18 years old. Straight out of high school, neither one was prepared for the terror of the Vietnamese jungles. Their army was outnumbered, outclassed and unprepared. Platoon after platoon fought the enemy bravely, but quickly fell. The horrors of each battle tortured the survivors. The screams from nightmares could be heard in the trenches each night.

Mr. Grimm and Benny saw their comrades fall ten at a time... they knew that their time would come too. They swore to always watch each other's back...

Story

In 1971, Mr. Grimm and his best friend Benny fought in the Vietnam war. During one night-time battle, Benny was shot and gravely wounded. Grimm attempted to treat him, but a Vietnamese soldier gets the drop on him, knocks him out, and captures the two. Grimm and Benny were placed in a 25-feet deep hole. For several days, Benny remained wounded with Grimm constantly asking for help that wouldn't come. One day, a military adviser to the Vietnamese came to see them, who was notorious for his own way of torture: starvation. He threw down a knife, telling Grimm if he wanted food he had to make due with what he can find in the hole, implying that Grimm should kill Benny for food. Grimm knew what he wanted him to do, but he couldn't let him have the satisfaction. Nevertheless, Benny succumbed to his injuries two days later and died. Grimm, though hesitant, was forced to cannibalize his corpse, believing "Benny would've understood." Grimm then sewed Benny's skull into a helmet, which he has been wearing since. Two weeks later, a U.S. platoon of G.Is came to free Grimm, but when they tried to remove the helmet, Grimm killed four of the soldiers before he was brought down. He then was shipped back to the states and placed in Blackfield Asylum, where he has been stuck for 30 years, suffering from nightmares from that horrific event, waiting for the day he would get revenge. One day, a visitor named Calypso came to invite him to his contest, promising if Grimm won, he could get revenge on the man who destroyed his sanity. Grimm couldn't refuse this offer, he enters the contest.

Loading Screen Dialogue

1. When I win this contest, I'll have my revenge. What he did to me, to my friend,...it ripped my mind apart...
2. My killing instinct; it's coming back to me now...just like in the war. I'd forgotten how good I am at this...
3. I have to stay focused on the fight. But every dead body I see brings back the cravings...have I gone insane?
4. Minion won last year's contest. But I'm not afraid. If I can just find a way past his force field, I can beat him.
5. God, Benny...I'm so sorry. I shoulda never done what I did. I wish I had died too..
6. This arena is like the jungle, close quarters. You move in and out quick before the enemy knows what hit 'em.
7. Will the man who destroyed my mind even recognize me after all this time? I hope he does. I hope he's terrified.
8. I'm too close. I won't give up. Once I kill this bastard, nothing will stand in my way...

Ending

Mr. Grimm won the contest and saw Calypso to claim his prize. A man of his word, Calypso said that it's time for a reunion. Grimm is presented a room where, bound and gagged to a chair, was the adviser, who Grimm claims that "after all these years... looked exactly the same." He didn't recognize Grimm, but Grimm recognized him, seeing him in his nightmares for 30 years. Calypso has one more prize for Grimm, an axe, intended for "dinner for one". After Grimm kills the adviser, he remarks that over the years Grimm has grown tired of solitary food, and has developed a new craving... for human flesh.

Quotes

• "In here, you lose track of time; hours melt into days; days melt into years; 30 years in my case."
• "After so much time in solitary, I should‘ve been getting better."
• "But in my heart, I always knew there was no cure for what happened to me, but I kept on hoping."
• "I knew if I waited long enough, I'd get revenge against the man who destroyed my mind."
• "But I could only wait so long. Every day, the visions got worse."
• "Soon, I wouldn’t be able to tell reality from my nightmares."
• "But then, my life changed."
• "He calls himself Calypso. He said he ran a contest. Winner take all."
• "In my case, first prize meant getting even with the man who stole my sanity."
• "How could I refuse? I agreed to play."
• "I hadn't thought about the war in years. All the drugs and the therapy in the world could never get me to talk about what I went through."
• "But when I passed out, I couldn't escape it. The past came rushing back…"
• "It was 1971 again, and I was back in ‘Nam."
• "Ben had gone down. It was just me all alone, trying to revive him."
• "I was shouting to Benny, trying to see if he was okay. But before I knew it, the enemy was on me."
• "They put us in some stinking hole, 25 feet below the ground."
• "Benny was in bad shape. I didn't know how long he was gonna hold out."
• "Seems like forever I was screaming for someone to come and help him. Then one day, we had a visitor…"
• "The guy was an advisor to the Vietnamese. And he had his own unique idea of torture: starvation."
• "Benny was on his last legs, and I wasn't far behind."
• "Five days without any food will bring any man to the edge, and the advisor said the only way I was going to survive was to eat."
• "He gave me a knife and started laughing. He said if I wanted food, I'd have to make due with whatever I could find in the hole."
• "I tried to block out what was happening. I knew what he wanted me to do, but there was no way I was gonna give him the satisfaction…"
• "Benny died two days later. I couldn't look at him. I didn't even want to think about it."
• "It's amazing the things you'll do to survive. I think Benny would've understood…"
• "They say the mind bends and twists in order to deal with the horrors of life... I think my mind bent so much it snapped in two."
• "When a platoon of GIs freed me two weeks later, they tried to take the helmet off. I killed four of them before they took me down."
• "After that, they shipped me back to the states and put me in the asylum."
• "But now I have a chance to get even with the man who pushed me over the edge, and made Benny die."
• "I had done it. The battle was over. I had won the contest."
• "I went to see Calypso. Turns out he was a man of his word. He told me it was time for a…reunion."
• "After all these years, the advisor looked exactly the same. He didn't know who I was, but I recognised him…"
• "I've been seeing his face in my nightmares for 30 years…"
• "Calypso had one more special prize for me: Dinner for one."
• "30 years is a long time to be locked away…you get kind of tired of asylum food."
• "But after all this time, something new was on the menu."
• "As much as I hated to admit it, over the years, I’ve developed a…SPECIAL craving…for human flesh."

Trivia

• His design in the menu FMVs and some transitional scenes is different from what's seen during gameplay and the story cutscenes.
  • The difference in the menu FMVs and cutscenes is likely due to them being made by two different companies. Argonaut Films was responsible for the menu and transitional FMVs; while Foundation Imaging made the story cutscenes.
• Twisted Metal: Black was the first game in the series where Mr. Grimm was a living human.
• A producer of 3D and Flash animation created a series of six original Flash "Webisodes" to promote the release of TM:B. One of them was of Mr. Grimm.
• It is interesting to notice that, because Mr. Grimm has a backstory heavily related to the military, he's more suited to be the driver of Warthog instead of the Mr. Grimm motorcycle. Oddly enough, the driver of WartHog from this game doesn't have a war related backstory, but rather of death, the central theme of the Grim Reaper.
• It is unknown what military rank Mr. Grimm was in Vietnam. Though he was most likely a Private as he was 18 at the time.
• When Mr. Grimm says his mind must be split in two and puts on the helmet, the sound that plays is similar to the one that was used for Mr. Grimm's special from Twisted Metal 2.

Gallery

Mr. Grimm in the character selection screen.

Poster of Mr. Grimm.

Concept arts of Mr. Grimm's face, found in the Art of Twisted Metal Booklet.

Mr. Grimm's model used for the main menu and more concept arts of him.

Concept art of Mr. Grimm with a burlier design (May 2000).

Sketch of Mr. Grimm.