Mad Dok Grotsnik

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If not for [[Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka]], '''Mad Dok Grotsnik''' would probably be dead by now (Vice versa is also true, however). The [[Ork]] equivalent of the Team Fortress 2 Medic, this madman (or madork) cares for nothing more than perfecting the art of 'serjery'. Due to constant bionic upgrades and such, he's now more demented than ever. In particular, his start of madness started after some pissed off nobs killed him and his gretchen aids managed to resuscitate him. While an impressive feat for gretchen, they were gretchen, so yea. Just like with the Medic, any actual healing that this lunatic grants you is [[Grimdark|<i>simply a fortunate side-effect</i>]]. The only reason he's still allowed to keep doing his thing is because he's the one who patched Ghazghkull's skull with adamantium after it got blasted apart by a lucky Bolter round. In return, Ghazghkull was grateful not just for Grotsnik saving his life, but also because the surgery gave him the famous vision by [[Gork]] and [[Mork]] to conquer the galaxy.

Grotsnik actually has a seat on Ghaz's inner council and Ghaz still lets him operate on him. Every once in a while, Grotsnik is actually lucid and sane, and during these moments he's both a smart doctor and a good advisor that's actually saved Ghaz's life on several other occassions. That the mad doctor suspiciously becomes sane when Ghaz needs him for something really lends weight to Ghaz's claim that Gork and Mork are watching over him.

On the tabletop, he can make any unit Fearless, and grants it Feel No Pain as well. He can even upgrade another squad with Cybork bodies, including Meganobz. The <s>only problems</s> best bit stem from the fact that he's One Scalpel Short of a Medpack (no, like, that's the rule's actual name), which means his squad <s>will go on random headings around the battlefield</s> gives them rampage, the prohibitively expensive cost of him upgrading a squad of regular Orks (he's much better with mega-nobs cuz they're more likely to be out-numbered) and the rule that he's not allowed to leave units by default.

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Medusa

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'''Medusa''' was a woman in Greek mythology who was extremely beautiful. One of her suitors was Poseidon, the god of the sea, and one day he realized that, since he was a god, he didn't have to ask for her permission before having his way with her. So he did, right in the middle of the temple to Athena where she worked. Athena was furious -- not with Poseidon for raping Medusa, but with Medusa for being raped ''in her temple'' -- and turned Medusa into a [[Gorgon]], a monster with snakes for hair and a face so hideous that anyone who looked at it turned into stone. Greek gods are dicks. (Some alternative lore suggests that she actually changed her ''to protect her from future rapes'', that Medusa and her fellow gorgons were either from the underworld or the daughters of sea gods, or that they were just holdovers from even older religions, but Greek canon is a clusterfuck, so most people stick to the Athenian write-up.)

Some myths said that her face was so ugly it turned people to stone, but most artistic depictions (and almost all modern re-tellings) have her looking rather beautiful, making her one of the first [[monstergirls]]. Also: while Medusa was turned into Gorgon like her sisters only she has the stone face power which is something often conflated. That, or they all had that ability, but Medusa was the only one who could be killed. Like we said, it's a clusterfuck.

== Dungeons & Dragons ==
Medusa was a person, not a species (she is a Gorgon), but that didn't stop the writers of [[Dungeons & Dragons]] from naming a whole race after her. "Medusae" vary a fair amount depending on which edition you look at.

2e: Medusae look like elven women with snakes for hair and white eyes. They tend to rely on mating with human men to have more medusa daughters, since actual men of their race (called "maedar") are rare as fuck and the bizarre-ass nature of their reproduction keeps them that way... what? You want to know the details? Alright, it works like this: human man plus medusa equals 2-6 eggs, all of which hatch into medusa daughters. Maedar + medusa, on the other hand, equals 2-6 eggs, of which 25% will hatch into boys. Of those boys, ONE PERCENT are maedar in turn; the other boys, and all the girls, are humans. Medusa and maedar are extremely sexually dimorphic; medusae have snake hair and petrifying gazes, maedar are bald and can turn stone to flesh with a touch. There's also greater medusae, who have snake-bodies instead of legs (like a [[Lamia]]) and super-poisonous blood, and glyptars, which are undead maedar whose souls possess crystals, which can be attached to statues (to make golems) or swords (to make intelligent magical weapons).

3e: Medusae are covered in scales and, in most official artwork, tend to look rather ugly. There's no mention of maedar existing.

4e: As in 3e, medusaea are all scaly, though not actually that ugly. Male medusae have returned, but don't have their own name, are just as scaly and don't turn stone to flesh anymore; instead, they can poison anyone they look at.

5e: Medusae can be male or female now. New origins as humans who made pact with demonlords or archdevils for eternal beauty, which they got, for a time, before they were turned into snake-haired monsters. Petrifying gaze is the norm for both sexes, but they gotta avoid polished surfaces and bright light, as their own reflections can petrify them as well. In melee, they can bite with their snakes or use weapons, typically shortswords and longbows.

== Warhammer 40,000 ==
[[Warhammer 40,000]] has no monsters specifically named "Medusa," but the name is still applied to lots of places and items:
* The [[Tyranid]] [[Hive Fleet]] Medusa
* The planet Medusa, a [[Death World]] and the homeworld of the [[Iron Hands]] [[First Founding]] [[Space Marine Chapter|Chapter]] of [[Space Marines]] (incidentally, their [[Primarch]], [[Ferrus Manus]], was playfully nicknamed "the Gorgon" by [[Fulgrim]] for his lack of aestheticism). Medusa is a tectonically unstable planet with constant volcanic eruptions and so many earthquakes the Iron Hands can't build a single fortress-monastery, rather having each Clan-Company using mobile fortresses known as "Land-Behemoths" (think the size of an [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] Ordinatus Engine).
* Medusa V (no relation to the above planet Medusa), the site of [[Games Workshop]]'s 2006 global campaign, which was conveniently destroyed after the campaign ended, so no matter who won, it would not upset the status quo.
* The [[Medusa Siege Gun]], one of several artillery pieces used by the [[Imperial Guard]], and its main weapon, the [[Medusa Siege Cannon]].
* The [[Sons of Medusa]] chapter is named after the planet of Medusa, even though they now live among the asteroids of the [[Taelus]] system.

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