Grant Walker
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Grant Walker is a fictional enemy of Batman, created for The Adventures of Batman & Robin, played by Daniel O'Herlihy. He is futurologist, magalomaniac millonaire, urbanist and criminal losely based in some aspects of Walt Disney.
Much like Ra's Al Ghul, Grant Walker is a powerful man obesed with two things: destroying the rest of the world to create a perfect society and living to guide and see it blossom. But unlike Ghul, by the end of his only appearance, he is arleady more than halfway there.
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[edit] DC animated universe biography
Grant Walker is a succesful multimillonaire who, tired of the sins of the world, creates Oceana, a futuristic city he populates with people he considers to fit the requirements for a perfect society. For his next step he plans to destroy Gotham City, but first, due to his aged and poor physical condition, and his ambition to be inmortal he figures out a way to convince Victor Fries, who already got inmortality through the accident that turned him into Mr. Freeze.
Contrary to what Mr. Freeze believes, his wife, Nora, didn't actually died after the incident in which his former boss unppluged her life supporting machine in the episode Heart of Ice. The machine with her body is actually bought by , Grant Walker, who learned about Fries' work to cure cancer and wants to found it.
[edit] Walt Disney parody elements in Grant Walker
Several characteristics of Grant Walker are taken from facts and miths around Walt Disney, the creator of the animation company and the theme parks:
- Both are successfull millonaires with creative minds.
- Both are visionary urbanists.
- Epcot Center, although only a theme park, proposes a series of idealistic lifestyles for the future, just as Oceana is suposed to create.
- According the the popular urban myth about Walt Disney, they are both involved in freezing processes to extent their lives. In Disney's case, the myth has him involved in some cryogenically freezed until a his people finds out a way to cure his lung cancer and revive him; while in Walker's, he undergoes a process that has him in a permanently frozen-alive mutated condition to extent his life.
- Both wear expensive suits, small black moustaches and the same haircut and comb.
- Both had bad health conditions towards the end of their lives.
- Name: Walt Disney and Grant Walker, as they are both comonly know, are both monosyllabic names with bisyllabic surnames and Walt is short for Walter, all the letters of Walter are in "Grant Walker".
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[edit] See also
- Walt Disney, the real life person in which Grant Walker is inspired.
- Roger Myers Sr., a Disney parody in The Simpsons.
- Roy Brisby, a Disney parody in The Venture Bros.
[edit] External links
- The World's Finest, a site with a complete guide to the DC animated universe. It's the source of a great deal of the related images in Pop-Cult Guides.
- DCAUResource.com, a very well documented site when it comes to DC fictional biographies.
- The Animated Batman, an Unofficial Guide, a site with a complete guide to Bruce Timm's Batman. It's the source of a great deal of the related images in Pop-Cult Guides.
