DC:
Gorilla GroddGorilla Grodd is probably the most famous (infamous?) evil super-ape in Comiclandia. He's mostly a Flash villain. He was tinkered on by aliens, which gave him (and all the other nearby apes) super-genius intelligence, as well as telepathy and telekinesis (OK, the latter two are just for him, and Solovar, not all the others in Gorilla City. Yeah, that's right, all these super-smart apes and the only name they could come up with for their super-duper city was Gorilla City. I guess you can be super-smart and not be super-creative, if you're a super-smart ape. Sigh.).
Anyway. Yeah, so after he orchestrated the deaths of the aliens that gave them their smarts, he became the leader of Gorilla City (again, after Solovar). I'll leave this entry with just that he's a pretty evil guy. In fact, in the Justice League Unlimited cartoon, there's some implied bestiality going on with him and one of the female, human super-villains. Yeah.
Monsieur MallahOK, I'll say it now just to get it out of the way: what is there to not love about an evil super-ape that speaks in a French accent and has homosexual feelings toward a brain in a jar? Nothing! There's absolutely nothing to not love!
Moving on, Monsieur Mallah was gentically altered by the evil Brain (which was also the object of his affection) to be super-smart and able to speak. Although he prefers to use his brute force (he's so butch) and guns to get his point across. He's a member of the Brotherhood of Evil, which is largely a villainous group that goes up against the Doom Patrol and Teen Titans from time to time. In the Teen Titans cartoon, he is depicted with a very Worf-like sash of bullets. The one thing I'm looking forward to is that now, after Infinite Crisis, all versions of the Doom Patrol (and presumably their villains) are supposed to be in continuity, so hopefully someone will touch on the weird, evil love between an evil, genetically altered ape and the evil brain that made him. I'm looking at you, Geoff Johns! Make it so. People want their gorilla/brain love that dare not speak its name.
Detective ChimpThe name really says it all, doesn't it? I mean, his name is Detective Chimp, and he dresses like one, too. (OK, so technically his real name is Bobo, but come on; that's lame-o.)
Unlike Grodd and Mallah, Detective Chimp only has human-level intelligence (so, you know, he's still a super-chimp). He got this intelligence from the Fountain of Youth (yeah, that one), which allows him to speak to anything in it's own language, plus the whole eternal youth schtick. And did I mention that he smokes and drinks a lot? And dresses like a detective? Oh yeah, he's also a member of the new Shadowpact. So there'll be more of him, soon, when that new title starts coming out. Soon. Soon. Soon. Soon. Soong? Plus, Detective Chimp is seemingly the only super-ape that's not evil. Isn't that nifty?
Dial B for Blog has way more stuff on Detective Chimps history. Check it out, yo!
Ultra-HumaniteOK, so what do you get when you cross a mad scientist's brain with an albino gorilla? Um, I guess the image gives it away, eh?
So, yeah, the Ultra-Humanite is the result of some wacko who could transfer his brain into any body and got stuck in the albino gorilla one. He's dead now. But when he was alive, he gave Superman a hard time, I tell you what. Although Crisis on Infinite Earths kinda screwed with that, but it also had him go up against the Justice League, too. But yeah. Oh, he also may or may not have raped some Golden Age hero. And he's also been in the Justice League cartoon.
Um, that's about it. Don't really know all that much about him. And he's dead. So, you know, you don't have to remember any of this about him. Heh.
Marvel:
The (Communist) Super-Apes
What's a lonely, Soviet scientist to do when he's, you know, lonely. I know: make some Commie super-apes and call them just that (sans the Commie part).
So as to not be upstaged by that cursed Fantastic Four, the Red Ghost launched into space with a gorilla, a baboon, and an orangutan to try and emulate the cosmic accident that gave the FF their powers. And it worked. The Red Ghost can turn invisible, Miklho the gorilla got super-strength on par with the Thing, Peotor the orangutan got magnetic powers similar to Magneto and Polaris (although not as strong), and Igor the baboon became a shapeshifter. All of the apes also display some form of super-intelligence (although I use that loosely because they end up giving into their ape-like ways more than using their super-intelligence, so it's not really all that super, you know?).
But yeah. That's about it. Super-Communist-apes. They fought the Fantastic Four. And recently they went up against the Black Panther and the X-Men. And besides the novelty of them, I think they're kinda sucky. Meh.
OK, that's all. Lemme know who your favorite super-ape is via the magic of comments. Enjoy.
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