At the end of The Flash season 2, episode 7, “Gorilla Warfare,” the team sent Grodd to a gorilla refuge on Earth-2. What about this refuge’s comic book counterpart?

It seems that Grodd was sent to The Flash‘s version of Gorilla City. It makes sense that if Gorilla City were going to appear that it would be on Earth-2, as Atlantis is apparently alive and well on that world as well. Perhaps we’ll find out some of the other more fantastic locales of the DC Comics also exist on Earth-2.

But what exactly is Gorilla City? Where is Grodd going to make his new home?

In the DC Comics

Gorilla City debuted in 1959’s The Flash vol. 1 #106. Gorilla City, as the name suggests, is a city inhabited by intelligent gorillas. After an alien spacecraft crashed into the jungles of Africa, the indigenous gorillas were transformed by the rays of the ship. They developed advanced intelligence and telepathic abilities. With these new abilities, the gorillas created Gorilla City and technology to hide the city’s existence from the rest of the world.

The city, for many years, was ruled by a benevolent king, Solovar, who forbade contact with the outside world. The first human to make contact with Gorilla City was Barry Allen after Grodd left Gorilla City to come to Central City in search of the secrets of mind control. After learning the secrets of mind control, Grodd took over Gorilla City, and Solovar reached out to The Flash for help. Barry traveled to Gorilla City and helped defeat Grodd, leaving him in Gorilla City for punishment with the promise that he wouldn’t reveal Gorilla City’s existence.

Later, Grodd escaped his imprisonment and used neo-magnetic radiation to make everyone within a hundred miles of him admire him, which led to him becoming king of Gorilla City. Not content to rule Gorilla City, Grodd then took his technology to Central City. Under the influence of this radiation, the local politicians thought Grodd would be a great candidate for governor — though Grodd’s aspirations were much higher. The Flash eventually managed to defeat him once again, however.

Eventually King Solovar decided that Gorilla City could not continue ignoring the problems of the world. He revealed the existence of Gorilla City to the world and campaigned for membership in the United Nations. However, his peaceful platform was not popular among all the gorillas under his rule, and he was assassinated by a group being manipulated by Grodd, though a human terrorist group was blamed. After Solovar’s death, his son, Nnamdi, became king and adopted the old isolationist policy Gorilla City once upheld.

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On ‘The Flash’

Grodd’s portrayal on The Flash differs from his portrayal in the comics, in which he is a super villain. On The Flash, while he is an antagonist, he is more portrayed as a victim of Harrison Wells/Eobard Thawne. He is lonely and sad because there are no others of his kind in the world, while in the comics, Grodd comes from a city of gorillas like him.

However, considering Grodd’s expression at the end of the episode, it seems like Gorilla City is in for a rude awakening with Grodd’s arrival. It would not be surprising if Grodd becomes more like his comic book counterpart once he enters the city and finds others like him.

Might Grodd become a Big Bad in a later season of The Flash or Legends of Tomorrow?

The Flash airs Tuesdays at 8:00 p.m. ET on The CW.