Mr. Grin

Sean Green
Biographical Information
Name	Sean Green
Alias	Mr Grin
Physical Information
Status	Deceased

Mr. Grin is the secondary antagonist in Stormbreaker. He is Herod Sayle’s butler and personal henchman.

Role in Series

Stormbreaker

When Alex is discovered to be a spy investigating Sayle's Stormbreaker computers, Mr. Grin knocks Alex out and takes him to Sayle. While Sayle explains to him his plan, Mr. Grin threatens Alex with knives in order to intimidate him and make him reveal everything he knows. Alex manages to escape from their capture and confronts Mr. Grin on a plane full of some of Sayle's Stormbreaker computers. He aims a gun at Mr. Grin and forces him to fly him to London so that he can stop Sayle. As Alex parachutes from the plane, Mr. Grin swerves round to try and ram Alex, but Alex has left the Bomber Boy cartridge from his Game Boy on board (given to him by Smithers). Alex activates the cartridge and it lets off a cloud of tear gas which fills the plane, leaving Mr Grin temporarily blinded. The plane hurtles towards the ground and crashes into a dock, and Mr. Grin dies in the resulting explosion.

In the movie Stormbreaker

Unlike the novel, Mr. Grin isn't killed from an explosion. In fact, it is unknown where he dies at all. From Smithers , Alex gets a new gadget that shoots out a dart which makes the victim do whatever the attacker wants. Alex uses this and sees Mr Grin collapse after telling him to take Alex to London. Even though he collapsed, it is presumable that he did what Alex asked since Alex doesn't know how to ride a helicopter.

Appearence

Tall and thin, with ginger hair and a very pale face - almost white. He has two horrendous scars, one on each side of his mouth, twisting up to his ears. The scars are a gruesome shade of mauve. He acquired these scars long ago during a novelty knife-throwing act in a circus. For the climax, he would catch a spinning knife between his teeth. One night, however, when his mother came to see the show, he was distracted and ended up getting his timing wrong. He was left with no tongue and two scars on each side of his mouth, forming a Glasgow smile. As well as this, he can no longer talk. Instead, he makes howling or grunting noises in order to communicate. Mr. Grin is occasionally referred to as being 'vampire-like'.

Career

After his accident, he changed his name to Mr. Grin and started working for Herod Sayle as his personal assistant.

Sources

• Photo:
• General information: various sources, including but not limited to:
  • Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz (primary)
  • The Stormbreaker film (2006) (primary)