Grandmaster
TMDB
Modern, Comics: The Grandmaster stages a roller derby to win over Dazzler, is turned down, and leaves Earth.
Cinematic
The Grandmaster, apparently En Dwi Gast, is the long-lived tyrant of Sakaar, brother of the Collector. He runs the Contest of Champions, a gladiator spectacle fought by enslaved prisoners. After Hulk arrived in 2015 he became the favorite champion. Grandmaster bought Thor and matched him against Hulk, but Thor escaped, an uprising followed, and the people of Sakaar overthrew his rule.
Comics
En Dwi Gast, an immortal Elder of the Universe obsessed with games, who took the Grandmaster name after exiling the original holder. He stages contests using Earth's heroes as pawns, from wagers with Kang, the Prime Mover, Death and Krona to a planet-wide match against the Challenger. He briefly held the Mind Gem, lost it to Thanos, and runs a casino called the Speculatorium and a Cosmic Game Room.
Timeline 14 events
- Silver · Comics: The Grandmaster creates the Squadron Sinister and wagers with Kang in the 31st century, pitting Avengers against his champions in a contest.
- Bronze · Comics: In a game with the Prime Mover over Earth's fate, he uses the Defenders on three planets and then loses a coin toss to Daredevil.
- Bronze · Comics: Grandmaster challenges Death to a Contest of Champions on Earth's heroes to revive the Collector, and agrees to give his own life.
- Modern · Comics: The Elders plan to kill Galactus with the Infinity Gems to trigger a collapse and rebirth of the universe, hoping to survive as Galactus-like beings.
- Modern · Comics: Thanos, in the form of a recreation, beats the Grandmaster at a game and takes the Mind Gem from him.
- Modern · Comics: The Grandmaster wagers with Krona, pits the Justice League against the Avengers, merges the two universes and is left near death.
- Modern · Comics: He reunites the Squadron Sinister and sets it against the Thunderbolts.
- Modern · Comics: The Grandmaster stages a roller derby to win over Dazzler, is turned down, and leaves Earth.
- Secret Wars · Comics: In the New Contest of Champions on the ruins of Battleworld, Maestro takes the ISO-Sphere and casts the Grandmaster and the Collector out of the Battlerealm.
- Fresh Start · Comics: The Challenger returns for a rematch, Earth is moved to a distant galaxy as the arena, and the Challenger disintegrates the Grandmaster, who recovers.
- Fresh Start · Comics: After the contest he sends the Black Order to topple the Sinnarian Empire in a bet with Emperor Attican.
- Fresh Start · Comics: Grandmaster brings Shatterstar to Horus IV for a gladiatorial Contest of Champions and is defeated when Shatterstar takes him to Earth-1218.
- Fresh Start · Comics: Grandmaster and Myrddin bet on the Avengers and Kang over Kang's data codex, destroying the Speculatorium, and he later stages a galactic war in a challenge with Maximus.
- 2015 · Cinematic: Hulk arrived on Sakaar and became one of Grandmaster's champions, soon his favorite.
enemy of
Thor, Loki Laufeyson, Valkyrie, Korg, Hulk, Miek, Kang the Conqueror, Thanos, Man-Thing
allied with
Taneleer Tivan (Collector), Valkyrie, Loki Laufeyson, Kang the Conqueror
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