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'''Mad Dok Grotsnik''' is an infamous [[Ork]] [[Painboy]].

Grotsnik is, like most other [[Ork]] [[Painboyz]], completely insane and obsessed with "serjery". He has experimented on himself so much that he has become even more resilient (and demented) than most other Orks. His implanted [[bionik]] weapons make him a fearsome killing machine in close-combat. He is more than willing to experiment on any hapless Ork who ends up on his operating table.{{Fn|1}}

Grotsnik began his career as a standard Painboy on the world of [[Urk]]. It was Grotsnik who performed the surgery [[Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka]] when the future [[Warboss]] received a [[bolter]] round to the head, replacing a large chunk of his skull with [[adamantium]], which led to Ghazghkull's communion with [[Gork and Mork]] and his subsequent dominance. Ghazghkull's sudden rise to power was fortuitous to Grotsnik, who found himself rising alongside the Warboss. Grotsnik seeks to turn Ghazghkull into a pet for his own ends, and he has killed the [[Grot]] [[Makari]] in the past for interfering with this plan (though the lucky Gretchin always reincarnates into a new body).{{Fn|4a}}

[[Image:GrotsnikArtNew.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Grotsnik{{Fn|6}}]]

Despite the general unpopularity of Grotsnik's wanton surgery, no Ork would dare to harm him while he is under Ghazghkull's personal protection. Suddenly extremely popular, Grotsnik looked at the mob of Orks waiting outside his tent and saw another great opportunity. He convinced the richest [[Nobz]] of his tribe that they too should have need for the procedure that saved Ghazghkull. What What Grotsnik didn’t tell them was that each cranium contained a portion of high explosive, and that he had a remote trigger hidden away for each of them. The work kept rolling in, and if a Nob with a metal cranium offended Grotsnik, he had no issue detonating their upgrade later.{{Fn|2b}}

After Ghazghkull left the [[Armageddon]] warzone, Grotsnik followed suit and took part in [[Da Great Waaagh!]]. As Ghazghkull subjugates rival Warlords and adds their forces to his own, so Grotsnik picks over the casualties and takes the best wounded for his own nefarious purposes. Grotsnik even bullies rival Painboyz into working for him as orderlies, much to their chagrin. Those Painboyz that complain at their treatment are said to be turned into ghoulish "brain-bots".{{Fn|2b}} A similar rumor goes that the [[Brainbot]] is a device containing the knowledge of the Painboyz that failed him one way or another.{{fn|5}}

Sometime after the formation of the [[Great Rift]], Grotsnik led a warband of [[Painboyz]], [[Cyborks]], and modified [[Killa Kans]] upon a [[Silver Templars]] [[Chapter]] [[Strike Cruiser]]. He seized a number of [[Primaris Space Marine]]s alive, though what he intends to do with them is best not imagined.{{Fn|2a}}

After Ghazghkull's death at the hands of [[Ragnar Blackmane]] at the [[Battle of Krongar]], Grotsnik and [[Bullets]] worked together to resurrect [[Makari]] once more and he revealed to the Grot that they were the same. While Makari was Ghazghkull's proud banner-waver, he was the dark companion to the Warboss who was chosen by [[Gork and Mork]] to aid him. Together, Grotsnik and Makari set about bringing back the Prophet despite their mutual hatred for each other. They recovered Ghazghkull's body and Grotsnik worked his madness, dismembering it and attaching the various parts to a gigantic suit of armor. Grotsnik utilized a power generator in orbit existing between both the Materium and [[Immaterium]] to shoot down a beam of green lightning at the spot where Ghazghkull's form lay. The experiment had a 4-in-5 chance of destroying half the planet, but it succeeded in bringing Ghazghkull back to life.{{Fn|4b}}

[[Image:Grotsnik.jpg|center|250px|thumb|Mad Dok Grotsnik]]

*{{Endn|1}}: [[Codex: Orks (4th Edition)]], pg. 59

*2: [[Codex: Orks (8th Edition)]]: