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Character Grandmaster · En Dwi Gast
The Grandmaster
The ruler of Sakaar: an ancient being who runs a gladiatorial tournament because he finds everything else boring.
- Status
- Alive
- Species
- Cosmic entity
- First in print
- The Avengers #69 (1969)
- On screen
- 2 entries
Who they are
The Grandmaster is billions of years old and has the attention span of a man channel-hopping. He is written as a light-entertainment host with absolute power, which makes him funnier and considerably worse than a tyrant — nothing on Sakaar is personal, and that is the problem with all of it.
Connections
Appearances
Canonical timeline · 2 entries
Notes are veiled until you track what you have watched, or switch spoilers off in the header.
The Sokovia Accords
2017-
Thor: Ragnarok2017 · Major role
The Contest of Champions, the melt stick, and a revolution he takes remarkably well.
Outside time
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What If...?2021 · Supporting · 0/26 ep
Jeff Goldblum, uncredited in the billed cast — running the same contest, with a party god instead of a Hulk.
Beyond the screen1 from the comics · click to open
From the comics
An Elder of the Universe
In the comics the Grandmaster is one of the Elders of the Universe — a handful of survivors from the previous cosmos, each fixed on a single obsession. His is games, played for stakes he sets himself, usually with other people's champions and other people's lives.
The Avengers #69-71 (1969), Roy Thomas and Sal Buscema