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Gromit is one of the two titular main protagonists (alongside Wallace) of the Wallace and Gromit franchise. He is Wallace's mute pet dog and best friend. He often has to save Wallace from many scrapes and calamities.
Personality[]
Like his owner, Gromit is good-natured and possesses a very high intellect, but tends to be more situationally aware than Wallace. He is often skeptical of Wallace's inventions and experiments, which proves to be warranted more often than not. Gromit is also shown to have a romantic side when he fell in love with Fluffles, a poodle, who later returns his feelings.
Gromit usually spots trouble before Wallace becomes aware of it. He learned of Feathers McGraw's criminal status in the Wrong Trousers, which wasn't revealed to Wallace until much later. He was also the first to discover that Wallace was the Were Rabbit. In Matter of Loaf and Death, Gromit became highly suspicious of Piella Bakewell, which led him to discover her intent to murder Wallace.
History[]
Gromit lives at 62 West Wallaby Street in Wigan, England with his owner Wallace ever since he was a young puppy. He went on to be graduated from "Dogwarts University" with a double first in Engineering for Dogs. He enjoys knitting, reading the newspaper, and cooking. His prized possessions include his alarm clock, bone, brush, and a framed photo of himself with Wallace. He also cherished his giant vegetable marrow grown for the annual Giant Vegetable Competition shown in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. He is also very handy with electronic equipment and often helps Wallace with his many inventions.
He is sensitive, intelligent, resourceful and holds a genuine affection for Wallace. Gromit remains loyal to him, even at his own expense or when Wallace's contraptions inevitably blow up in his face. Just one example of this unshakable loyalty and his strong sense of justice is in The Wrong Trousers, where even having a gun pointed at himself doesn't stop him from saving his master and obeying the law.
Though there have been times where Gromit has been wrongly accused of injustice, like in A Close Shave, when he's accused of sheep slaughter, and A Matter of Loaf and Death, when accused and punished for biting Piella Bakewell, although he didn't, which shouldn't be hard to believe, seeing that Gromit has no visible mouth.
Biography[]
A Grand Day Out (1989)[]
Wallace and Gromit are in their house looking through brochures to decide on where to go for the bank holiday. After discovering that there is no cheese in the house, Wallace decides that he and Gromit should go to somewhere where there's cheese. They decide to go to the moon as "everyone knows that the moon is made from cheese".
Gromit is enlisted by Wallace to help him build a rocket to take them to the moon. After building the rocket, the pair prepare to set off to the moon, though Wallace leaves briefly to collect crackers to bring with them.
After arriving on the moon, the pair try it's cheese, with Wallace saying it is not like any cheese he has ever tasted. After taking some of the cheese, Gromit and Wallace begin to head back to the rocket. They are followed by a robot cooker, who wishes to travel to Earth to ski. However believing that the robot is chasing them for taking the moon's cheese, Gromit and Wallace get into the rocket, but it does not take off as Gromit forgot to light the fuse.
Fortunately, the rocket takes off after the robot accidentally causes a gas leak. Parts of the rocket fall off as it takes off, which the robot uses as skis as wallace and gromit watch on as they fly back home.
The Wrong Trousers (1993)[]
On his birthday, Gromit is given a collar and leash by Wallace, who says it now looks like someone owns Gromit. Wallace then presents Techno Trousers to take Gromit for a walk.
In order to pay off depts, Wallace rents out the spare room to a penguin named Feathers McGraw. Unsatisfied with the spare room, Feathers uses Gromit's room instead, forcing Gromit to live in the spare room. Feathers keeps Gromit up all night with loud music, forcing Gromit to live in a kennel in the garden. Feeling that Feathers has come between him and Wallace, Gromit decides to leave.
Later in the film, Gromit discovers that Feathers is actually a criminal who disguises himself as a chicken.
After Feathers uses Wallace (in the Techno Trousers) to steal a diamond from a museum before returning to the house and locking Wallace in a cupboard, Gromit prepares to attack Feathers with a rolling pin, but changes his mind when Feathers pulls out a pistol and locks him in the cupboard with Wallace. The pair manage to break out of the cupboard and pursue Feathers around the house. After managing to trap Feathers in a bottle, Wallace and Gromit hand him to the police, who place him in a zoo. Wallace and Gromit then use the reward money given to them by the police to pay off their debts.
A Close Shave (1995)[]
In this film, Gromit and Wallace have set up a window cleaning business. One morning, Gromit is seen reading a newspaper about the recent wool shortage and sheep rustling that has been happening in the area. Shortly afterwards, Gromit and Wallace are called to clean the windows of the local wool shop ran by Wendolene Ramsbottom and her dog Preston, who has rationing their wool due to the wool shortage. Wallace develops romantic feelings for Wendolene but Preston takes a dislike to Gromit. After returning home, Gromit and Wallace discover a young sheep there whom Wallace names Shaun. Noticing that Shaun is messy, they put him in Wallace's latest invention The Knit-O-Matic and set it to wash mode. However the machine malfunctions and ends up shearing Shaun and his wool is turned into a jumper, which Wallace puts on him.
The next day, Gromit is seen washing a large clock whilst Wallace is with Wendolene in the wool shop. He sees Shaun going into a large van with other sheep and manages to free them, only to be locked in the van and taken away by Preston. Gromit is then imprisoned for supposedly rustling the sheep. One night, Wallace along with Shaun and the other sheep break Gromit out of prison.
The group then go to a field where they see a van pull up. Gromit and Wallace hide and see Preston and Wendolene emerge from the van and take the sheep and it is revealed that they had been rustling the sheep for their wool, but Preston wants to make the sheep into dog food. Wendolene stands up to Preston when he tries to take Shaun and says that they must stop rustling, only for Preston to lock her and Shaun in the van with the other sheep. Gromit and Wallace pursue them, but end up separated.
Gromit along with Shaun save Wallace, Wendolene and the sheep from being made into dog food by Preston, who had stolen the blueprints for the Knit-O-Matic to make his own version. Preston is sucked into the machine and is revealed to be a robot that had been built by Wendolene's father to be her protector, but had went bad. Preston attempts to kill Gromit, but is knocked into the machine's mincer by Shaun.
After Wallace rebuilt Preston to be good, he invites Wendolene to join him and Gromit for cheese, only for Wendolene to reveal that she's allergic to cheese. Wallace goes back inside the house and prepares to eat the cheese only to find Shaun helping himself to it. A horrified Wallace tries to get Gromit to deal with Shaun, only for Gromit to refuse.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)[]
In the film, Gromit makes Wallace go on a cheese diet while he prepares for the town's annual "Giant Vegetable competition" where he hopes to win this time around with a giant marrow (a melon in the US version) he's been growing. However, because of the various vegetables growing around town various rabbits have been sneaking into gardens to eat them, which gives Wallace the idea to start a humane pest control dubbed "Anti-Pesto" to capture as many rabbits as they can in time for the show.
However, as the competition arrives in only one week and due to too many rabbits still coming into town, they soon run out of space to hold all the captured rabbits, but a chance of solving a colossal pest problem from the aristocratic & animal-loving vegetable show host Lady Tottington, who his owner develops a crush on, gives Wallace a brilliant idea that could solve their current problem. That night, with a full moon high in the sky, Gromit heads down in the basement where he helps Wallace connect his newest bunny-capture device dubbed the BunVac with his latest invention called the Mind Manipulation-O-Matic: a device he made in the hopes of quelling his desire for cheese, with the plan to brainwash as many bunnies as they can to cancel out their desire for veggies, while using the full moon's rays as additional power.
While the experiment goes well at first, Gromit soon finds himself "jumping" into action when his owner accidentally sets the BunVac into "reverse" and the accident soon causes the machine to overload, which gets even more crazy when one rabbit is sucked up and gets fixed onto Wallace's head as he uses the machine's headpieces, resulting in a mental crossover. In a desperate attempt to save his master, Gromit switches off the BunVac and grabs a pipe wrench which he uses to smash the Mind-O-Matic's helmet, following this after watching the rabbit belch at a carrot, the duo conclude that the brainwashing worked, and they proceed to put their first reformed rabbit in a separate cage they name Hutch, and they settle in for the night, unaware of the catastrophic events that will unfold.
Gromit is the first to find out the very next morning when he is startled awake where he learns to his surprise that last night, numerous rabbit break-ins have occurred all throughout town last night, and the alarm system Wallace designed to wake them up got disabled, something he shows his surprised master through the latest newspaper. Heading to a town meeting at the church, he and Wallace discover from the local Vicar who had encountered the one responsible: a colossal rabbit which he calls "the were-rabbit" is out and about, much to their horror. Even though he doesn't believe such nonsense, an avid hunter and a wannabe suitor for Lady Tottington named Victor Quartermaine offers to personally hunt down the rabbit, but Lady Tottington objects and advocates a humane solution and turns to Anti-Pesto's services, which makes Wallace even more determined to impress her, which irks Gromit a little bit.
Regardless, Gromit continues to aid his owner to capture the rabbit by controlling what Wallace believes will "definitely" lure in the beast: a giant puppet of a lady rabbit attached to the top of their van... which almost immediately fails when the puppet gets stuck at the entrance of a tunnel. While Wallace goes out to get the puppet back he has Gromit stay behind to be on the lookout, though after waiting for his owner to return for awhile just as the full moon comes out, Gromit sees that the were-rabbit broke into a nearby vegetable store, which soon prompts Gromit to drive the van and chase down the rabbit by himself. Upon getting close enough to the giant bunny, Gromit tries to catch it with the van's built-in lasso, but it proves too strong for it and it pulls the brave dog and the van along. Gromit eventually finds the were-rabbit digging a tunnel and tries pulling it back up, but it still proves too strong and it pulls the van underground, forcing Gromit to just barely try to keep his eyes on it as it soon begins gobbling up vegetables from below, unfortunately the big rabbit eventually brings down a greenhouse protecting carrots, which severs the rope holding the van and the beast and it continues digging up a tunnel, much to Gromit's frustration.
After getting the glass out of the way, Gromit continues driving through the were-rabbit's tunnel until he finally reaches the place where it pops up… right in the garden of his home just as the day arrives, Gromit then finds the rabbit's footprints and follows them into the house where he meets up with a frustrated Wallace. But he manages to show the footprints that lead them all the way into the basement where they find Hutch's cage has broken, this makes the horrified duo conclude that they accidentally made the were-rabbit through Hutch via exposing him to the moon's light. Though this makes Wallace excited as they now both found and captured the beast as he excitedly races to tell Lady Tottington the news, on his master's orders, Gromit then builds a bigger cage around Hutch to try and stop him from rampaging again, but once he finishes he sees that the rabbit footprints continue from the basement and upstairs, and as he watches them turn into human footprints he sees it leads right into Wallace's room and upon checking it in, he finds it filled with vegetables which he discovers to his shock that due to the same experiment, it turned Wallace into the were-rabbit whenever the moon appears.
Seeing that the sun is already setting, Gromit races to Tottington hall to prevent Lady Tottington from seeing his master as the very beast the town wants to capture, and when he follows both her and Wallace to the former's secret garden where he sees that the transformation is slowly taking over him but manages to sneak him out in time. Driving his master back home as fast as he can, Gromit and Wallace soon find themselves driving through the forest where they bump into a chopped-down tree… and are ambushed by Victor and his attack dog Philip, who Victor plans on beating up Wallace in retaliation for him wooing over Tottington. However, Gromit watches the full moon slowly rising up, Gromit watches in horror as his owner slowly becomes the beast destroying gardens all across town before he runs off to eat more vegetables. This only makes Gromit concerned and fear for Wallace even more now that Victor saw the transformation, this gives him the chance to kill both the rabbit and Wallace while marrying Tottington with no one in his way and he races after his master, but just like the previous night, Wallace in were-rabbit mode proves to be too strong for Gromit to capture and he spends the rest of the night devouring many vegetables as he can.
The following morning, still reeling over his failure to stop the were-rabbit again, Gromit decides to show his master the terrible revelation he had discovered at breakfast… which also shows that the rabbit side is beginning to take control when he sees that all but his master's human ears aren't back to normal. Even though Wallace brushes off the issue as nothing, he also gives Gromit the outcome that during the very accident with the Mind-O-Matic, it is not only turning Wallace into a rabbit, but Hutch into a rabbit version of him, something he proves by showing him that Hutch has both gotten a fondness for cheese, but is also behaving like him, much to his owner's shock.
Now that they know the mystery behind the were-rabbit appearance, Gromit and Wallace conclude that the only way to stop it is to rebuild the mind machine and swap the reversal of Wallace & Hutch's DNA, something that proves difficult for the former due to keep thinking about vegetables but easy for the latter. Unfortunately, rebuilding the mind-O-matic is cut short when Lady Tottington visits them to tell Wallace that because of their failure to catch the were-rabbit, the town decided to let Victor kill it, which gets worse as Wallace is once again turning into the beast for the last time.
Despite Gromit's best attempts to halt it, his master fully transforms but is briefly halted by the vegetables they already have. Things only get worse for him as Victor (armed with special bullets designed to specifically kill a were-rabbit) begins marching into their home. Desperately Gromit disguises himself in the female rabbit doll, which somehow rabbit-Wallace immediately falls for and makes Victor waste 1 of his 3 bullets, but the transformed Wallace homes towards the competition at Tottington Hall eat all the giant vegetables there. Gromit tries to stop him but he is caught and is trapped by in a cage as Victor and Philip follow Wallace. But just as he is about to give up, he triggers the house's bunny alarm system which allows Hutch to free him, but with his master's life on the line Gromit opts to sacrifice his large prize winner to lure Wallace away.
With Hutch by his side, Gromit hops into the van and races to the Tottington Hall where Wallace is going, barely managing to use his giant vegetable to lure him away which makes Victor waste his remaining bullets (one in an attempt to calm down the panicking crowd and the other because someone else took his gun and missed in an attempt to kill the beast herself) as he tries to get Wallace away from the fair grounds. But things take an unexpected turn for Gromit when Victor decides to use the gold carrot trophy as improvised ammo against Tottington's wishes, this snaps Wallace's human-side awake as he grabs Lady Tottington and climbs onto the roof of Tottington Hall, and Gromit crashes into a tent full of cheese which accidentally make him squish his prized vegetable in the process, despite mourning over the loss, Gromit sees that Victor is still on the hunt for his master and races to save him.
But with no way to head onto the rooftop and everyone attending now forming an angry mob to kill the were-rabbit, Gromit hijacks one of the plane attraction's by overloading the token slots and with the help of an improvised ramp, flies up to stop Victor, but his ride to stop Victor is thwarted when Philip hijacks a plane as well which leads both dogs duking it out in a very literal dogfight around the roof of Tottington Hall. Eventually Gromit manages to take down Philip's plane, but the hunting dog manages to jump onto his plane as he tries to attack Gromit with one of the stone shovels, the loyal dog does his best to hold it off but Philip proves to be too strong for him, but just as he prepares to land the finishing blow on him, Gromit opens the plane's bombshell door and sends Philip falling down.
Now that the hunter's dog is out of the way, Gromit turns the plane around to deal with the hunter himself, flying to where his master is hanging onto a flagpole for dear life as Victor shoots his improvised bullet, Gromit manages to fly faster than the bullet and turn around so the bullet hits his plane just before it pierces through Wallace, saving him just in time. Even though both the master and dog celebrate over their victory against Victor, the plane's engine fails and begins to descend rapidly forcing Wallace to leap off from the flagpole and catch the plane to rescue Gromit and they both fall into the cheese tent.
After waking up from the fall, Gromit watches Lady Tottington, who Wallace reveals to her that he's the were-rabbit, knock Victor unconscious and sends him falling down, but with the angry mob coming towards them, Gromit takes this opportunity to give the hunter a taste of his own medicine by stuffing him inside the female were-rabbit suit the mob and his own dog mistake for the real and run him out of town. With the threat of Victor now gone, Gromit and Tottington find Wallace not waking up as it appears the effects soon wear off and he eventually turns back into his nude human self, but thinking him to be dead, Gromit, Lady Tottington and the liberated rabbits all mourn on their apparent loss, but when Hutch, unaware of his surroundings, comments on cheese, this prompts Gromit to put a piece of Stinking Bishop cheese over Wallace's nose and wake him up.
With the threat of the were-rabbit over for good, Gromit is awarded the golden carrot trophy for his courage in stopping the threat. Come the next morning, he and Wallace help Lady Tottington convert her property into a haven, which was quickly populated by Hutch and all rabbits formerly detained by Wallace, solving the pest problem once and for all.
A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008)[]
A few years after events of Curse of the Were-Rabbit, mysterious murders of bakers have taken place and he and Wallace have opened a bakery business called Top Bun. He and Wallace deliver bread all over town and almost everything is going smoothly. While delivering the latest batch of fresh bread, Wallace spots a familiar looking woman who looks like the Bake-O-Lite girl in the ads for Bake-O-Lite Bread. She is going down the street on her bicycle with her poodle Fluffles and she is going too fast on her bicycle. Wallace and Gromit rescue both her and Fluffles. The woman reveals herself to be Piella Bakewell and she reveals to Wallace that she is no longer the mascot for the company due to her obesity. Gromit feels suspicious about Piella throughout the early moments of the film. Piella inadvertently leaves her purse at Wallace's home. Gromit is sent to return her purse. While at Piella's house, Gromit notices a book and skims through it and realizes that Piella is actually the same baker killer. Gromit shows Wallace the book to convince him that he is going to be her last victim in her Baker's Dozen list. Piella takes the book away and burns it after throwing it in the fireplace. Gromit grows so concerned for Wallace that he installs a security system. More info to be added later!
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024)[]
Video Games[]
Project Zoo (2003)[]
In the video game, Gromit and Wallace decided to adopt a baby polar bear from the local zoo named Archie, but when they go to the zoo to celebrate his birthday, they find the zoo padlocked and supposedly under new management. They discover that Feathers McGraw is now running the zoo and has kidnapped Archie. Back at home, Wallace and Gromit design a giant wooden penguin (a parody of the Trojan Horse) which gets them inside the zoo. Entering the jungle house, they find that Feathers has captured baby elephants to force their parents to work for him. Soon, Wallace finds an entrance to a mine where Gromit must battle a mole machine in the first boss fight of the game. After the mole machine is destroyed, Feathers escapes underground. Wallace sees a poster nearby denoting a countdown to D-Day, which he finds odd.
Travelling underground, the duo are briefly separated which forces Gromit to navigate mining machinery and mine cart tracks. It also turns out Feathers has imprisoned baby beavers to force their parents to work. Wallace and Gromit corner Feathers, but he drops them through a trapdoor into a flooded room where they are nearly crushed before Gromit unlocks the door. The duo are briefly separated again, with Gromit needing to navigate around lava, fire and enemies before they are reunited and find imprisoned baby gorillas who Gromit is soon able to free. In appreciation, the gorillas open up the lift, allowing them further access. Eventually, after freeing all three gorillas, Wallace and Gromit find their way back to the Gyro-Copter, where they see Feathers activating some machinery.
Wallace and Gromit gum up the machinery and Feathers uses an escape pod to flee, which they follow. After eventually finding Feathers and Archie, Feathers cuts the lights, allowing him to escape to the Polar exhibit. Eventually, Wallace soups up a pedalo boat with a turnip launcher. After obtaining Feathers' remote control, Wallace accidentally activates Feathers' submarine, forcing Gromit to destroy it and icebergs.
Wallace and Gromit then find Feathers has created a Diamond-O-Matic to create diamonds, reminding Wallace of the D-Day poster. Archie accidentally gets sent into the machine, and Gromit must enter the machine and protect Archie from various threats such as fire and ice. They are able to rescue Archie and go to confront Feathers. In the final boss fight of the game, Wallace is imprisoned in a cell and Gromit must battle Feathers in a giant robot suit. Upon the robot being defeated, Wallace is freed from his cell and Feathers activates a rocket pack to escape. However, upon reaching the zoo entrance, Feathers is confronted by the parent animals before being caged by the elephants and dropping his diamond, which is swiftly picked up by Gromit. Wallace happily notes that Feathers will not be troubling them again in a hurry, with the penguin being back in his cell from the end of the Wrong Trousers.
Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures (2009)[]
In the video game, Gromit joins Wallace and the player on a series of adventures that has an interactive story and a new job depending on the story:
Starting off in Fright of the Bumblebees, Gromit aids Wallace in a new business he has called "From Bee to You" which specializes in delivering freshly made honey to his customers. He takes up the offer to provide fifty gallons of honey in repayment to the local grocer after his electric cheese-detecting machine accidentally rampaged through the store on a test run.
However, Wallace has used up all the flowers in his garden, and is forced to improvise a growth formula to turn some daisy seeds provided by his neighbour, Ms. Flitt into giant flowers. The formula is a success, and he meets his client's demand but things soon go wrong when the bees react to the growth formula, becoming huge and terrorizing the town and Wallace's home. Gromit is able to trap most of the bees, but Wallace is stolen away by the giant queen bee. Gromit gives chase in Wallace's honey tanker truck, and is able to rescue Wallace. The two work together to feed the queen more honey dosed with more of the growth formula, forcing the bee to become stuck in a tunnel. Wallace works out an antidote to the growth formula to restore the bees to normal, though he accidentally shrinks himself in the process.
Afterwards in The Last Resort, thanks to all the money from their honey-selling business, Wallace uses the money to take him & Gromit on a vacation to to Blackpool, but the weather both spoils their plans and creates a small flood in the cellar. Wallace comes up with the idea of converting the water-logged cellar into an indoor holiday resort for the rest of the townsfolk, and seeks to keep them all happy, though Ms. Flitt's two puppies raise much havoc.
When Ms. Flitt's boyfriend, Duncan McBiscuit is mysteriously injured, Wallace and Gromit deduce that the puppies, upset at having their chew toy taken away from them, attacked Duncan. In the episode's finale, the cellar drain becomes dislodged, and the puppies, chasing after their chew toy, follow it and end up in a prison cell, while Wallace starts to clean up the mess.
Later on during Muzzled!, after the holiday season, a charity fair comes into town, run by Monty Muzzle, to raise money for a new dog shelter, the old one being destroyed in the storm last episode. After dealing with three strays in their home, Wallace and Gromit go to the fair with Wallace's new invention to create any flavour of ice cream.
At the fair, Gromit discovers that Mr. Muzzle is actually attempting to steal away the townspeople's donations and using the strays as manual labor for the fair. When Wallace and Gromit uncover Mr. Muzzle's intentions, he escapes on a makeshift balloon, but Wallace and Gromit give chase, denying Mr. Muzzle of his ill-gotten money while saving all the strays. Ms. Flitt, who dumped Duncan McBiscuit earlier in the episode and has grown to admire the "bravery" of Wallace (unaware that it was actually Gromit that stopped Muzzle), mistakes his confusion at finding a loose fastening nut as an engagement ring and a marriage proposal from him.
Following this in The Bogey Man, In order to defuse Ms. Flitt's mistake, Gromit manages to make Wallace a member of the local country club, Prickly Thicket, which Ms. Flitt's aunt loathes and soundly rejects her niece's marriage to Wallace. The local constable, jealous that Wallace was admitted over him, uses an obscure bylaw to threaten the club with closure since it does not have a golf course–or rather it does, but members do not know where it is because the deed is missing, safely held in a security system designed by Wallace's (apparent) ancestor, Goodman Witless (and his faithful dog Gimlet).
Using his detective equipment Wallace manages to find the deed, but discovers that the entire town was built on the golf course, and a vengeful Duncan decides to have the town destroyed in order to rebuild the course. Wallace challenges Duncan to a golf tourney so that he may become chairman and tear up the deed, saving the town, and manages to win with Gromit's help.
However, as he goes to tear the deed, the security system traps him and the other townsfolk in a room, and Gromit is forced to disable the trap and free everyone. Wallace tears up the deed, and is thankful to find that Ms. Flitt has cancelled their engagement and gone back to Duncan, who her aunt now approves of since he is no longer the club chairman.
Wallace & Gromit: The Big Fix Up (2021)[]
In this video game, the player joins Gromit and his master in a new business he named "Spick & Spanners", where they clean and fix clients' items and on this special day, the company had won a contract to clean and fix the entire city of Bristol.
The Grand Getaway (2023)[]
In this VR game, Holidays are in the offing for Wallace and Gromit. Sun, sand, and the chance to test out their latest contraption, Auto-caddy. But Wallace has his dates mixed up – they have to be on the other side of the country in just half an hour! There’s only one thing for it… they’ll take the Rocket. But a mishap with the controls sends Wallace, Gromit and Auto-Caddy hurtling off course.
Trivia[]
- His design is similar to Bitzer.
- Gromit was originally going to be a cat. However, this was changed after Nick Park (the creator of Wallace & Gromit) realized that a dog was easier to make.
- Gromit is recognized by most kennel clubs as a beagle.
- Many critics believe that Gromit's silence makes him the "perfect straight man with a pantomime expressiveness that drew favorable comparisons to Buster Keaton".
- Gromit enjoys eating "KornFlakes" and reading many books, including The Republic by Pluto, Crime and Punishment by Fido Dogstoyevsky, and a "how-to" guide entitled Electronics for Dogs. He also listens to Bach and can solve puzzles with ease.
- In the original script for A Grand Day Out, Nick Park actually wanted Gromit to speak full coherent sentences and even cast Peter Hawkins (who is best known for portraying the Daleks in Doctor Who) for the voice role. The dialogue only took Hawkins one morning to complete. According to Nick, Gromit was intended to repeat everything Wallace said, but in a doggy-styled voice, making him somewhat similar to Scooby-Doo. However, this was eventually scrapped after Nick realized that Gromit would be better able to communicate everything with his body language and expressions from seeing the scene where Wallace uses him as support to cut wood and he rolls his eyes in annoyance. Thus, Gromit was rewritten to be completely silent. The lost dialogue by Hawkins cannot be found anywhere online and has not been heard by the public to this day.
External Links[]
- Gromit on the Wallace & Gromit Wiki
- Gromit on the Aardman Wiki
- Gromit on the Pure Good Wiki
- Gromit on the Guile Heroes Wiki
- Gromit (with Wallace) on the Ultimate Good Wiki
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