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Aversion and natter; this is about the cartoon where Grimlock definitely is dumb.


** Grimlock, who by the third season had suffered {{Flanderization}} to the point where he could barely speak coherently, became super intelligent after getting hit with a TransformationRay in the episode "Grimlock's New Brain". He quickly became the best Autobot you could have ever wanted, but was forced to build a new team of combining robots and transfer his intelligence into them to solve a dilemma.
** Averted by the biography on some of his more recent toys like the ''Transformers Universe'' Grimlock which actually gave him an intelligence score of ''eight'' (out of ten) and claims "Me Grimlock" is just a speech impediment. ALSO averted by his original toy's tech specs, which gave him an intelligence of 7 out of 10. The common excuse for "Me Grimlock" is a speech impediment, as above, usually explained away as damage from the Gladiator Pits on Cybertron prior to the Great War (only in the cartoon was he built on Earth), one he chooses NOT to get repaired so people [[ObfuscatingStupidity will underestimate him]].
** Others sources that it's a deliberate ploy Grimlock uses to fool his enemies. At least one shows that while of exceptional intelligence (i.e., piecing together information and drawing conclusions), he's ''slow'' at it due to having a primitive design. It's usually more beneficial to just start smashing stuff than to wait for the next synapse to fire.

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** Grimlock, who by the third season had suffered {{Flanderization}} to the point where he could barely speak coherently, became super intelligent after getting hit with a TransformationRay in the episode "Grimlock's New Brain". He quickly became the best Autobot you could have ever wanted, but was forced to build a new team of combining robots and transfer his intelligence into them to solve a dilemma.
** Averted by the biography on some of
dilemma. Since IntelligenceEqualsIsolation among his more recent toys like the ''Transformers Universe'' Grimlock which actually gave him an intelligence score of ''eight'' (out of ten) and claims "Me Grimlock" is just a speech impediment. ALSO averted by his original toy's tech specs, which gave him an intelligence of 7 out of 10. The common excuse for "Me Grimlock" is a speech impediment, as above, usually explained away as damage from the Gladiator Pits on Cybertron prior to the Great War (only in the cartoon was he built on Earth), one he chooses NOT to get repaired so people [[ObfuscatingStupidity will underestimate him]].
** Others sources that it's a deliberate ploy Grimlock uses to fool his enemies. At least one shows that while of exceptional intelligence (i.e., piecing together information and drawing conclusions),
fellow Dinobots, he's ''slow'' at it due to having a primitive design. It's usually more beneficial to just start smashing stuff than happy to wait for the next synapse be reverted to fire.his dumb self.

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