The ruler of a planet made of other planets' rubbish, who runs a gladiator tournament and has never once been told no.
The Grandmaster rules Sakaar, where he hosts the Contest of Champions, and he is the Collector’s brother. Jeff Goldblum plays him almost entirely as himself, improvising, and the effect is a tyrant who has been in charge so long that cruelty has become a mannerism rather than a decision.
He is eventually overthrown by his own subjects, which the film treats as a small comic revolution rather than a triumph, and which he takes about as well as you would expect.
Show detailsWhere else he turns up
He appears in the sequence after the credits of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and in Team Darryl, a short film from 2018 in which he moves into a flat in Australia. This catalogue does not carry the short as a separate entry.