Mr. Grundley

"He is trying to make a name for himself."

- Description

Mr. Grundley is a gentleman fast zombie and a minor side-character in City 17 Street. Mr. Grundley is the ruler of his own zombie faction in Ravenholm in which he hopes to restore order to the world.

Overview
Mr Grundley appears mostly in cameos in the series, and is noted for his affable manner despite being a flesh eating zombie that wants to rule the world with his army in order to create a "better" society. His backstory and resurrection was depicted in a prose short story titled Mr Grundley the Gentleman Zombie.

Mr. Grundley was a shopkeeper until one day he was murdered by a gangster named Mr. Bad for not paying his protection money. Under unknown circumstances Grundley was revived from the dead 80-years later in Ravenholm Cemetery and began setting up his own undead army as part of a revolution against the modern and 'broken' world.

In 2016 Grundley took part in the battle against the Clandestine Company and fought against their demonic forces. In the aftermath of the battle in which a majority of the world was left in a rundown state, Mr. Grundley began working against the remaining demons that were left to roam the earth after the downfall of the Clandestine Company.

In the original continuity, Mr Grundley was again killed off, almost a decade since his resurrection.

In 2021, the character was rebooted as part of the Shell Beach saga, although his backstory portrayed him in a villainous and sinister light compared to his original counterpart. In his revised backstory, Mr Grundley was again a shopkeeper but was secretly a serial killer that kept victims chained up in his basement, although they were people he deemed "undesirable". He was still affiliated with the mob, and in 1950 (changed from 1930) he was shot dead by a hitman over an unpaid debt, with his corpse ironically stored away in his killer basement and sealed away. Decades later, the property would become the Cafe Baltic in the town of Shell Beach.

Seventy-one years following his murder, Grundley's great-grandson Tony Bateman gets a job at the Cafe Baltic, and during a close up he discovers the secret crypt that his grandfather kept his victims. Tony reads the diaries that belonged to Grundey which causes Tony's unstable mind to alter and he begins to believe he is his late grandfather, and goes on a quest to kill the "undesirables" in the town, using the basement as a place to keep them locked up and punished. During his murder spree Tony dons Grundley's old fashioned attire, which consists of a pin-stripe suit and fedora hat.

Trivia

 * The character is inspired by a Garry's Mod Swep named Mr. Grundley.

List of Appearances

 * City 17 Street 2010 (Character profile)
 * Mr. Grundley the Gentleman Zombie