Griffin Tessly is one of the main characters of Bakugan. He first appeared in Fire In The Sky. He is a Human from the planet Earth.
Appearance[]
Griffin has a buzzcut dark brown hair and dark skin with brown eyes and one slit eyebrow. He has both ears pierced with white stud earrings in them. Griffin wears a white t-shirt underneath a green and white varsity jacket that has white and lime green details. He wears dark blue jeans and a gold chain necklace. His shoes are also green and white like his jacket but they have some orange details and built in speakers that he added on himself.
Personality[]
Griffin as a bit of tech fanatical geek. He's also a super-fan when it comes to his favourite cartoons and he even references specific episodes of Tyranoman and Captain Shadow when brawling.[1][2]
Griffin loves to breakdance and play some really loud music.
Alternatively he seems to act as peacekeeper a lot as seen when he stopped Dan and Mia from teasing each other during their first battle[3] and he was also calming down Trox after first arriving on Earth.
Biography[]
Bakugan[]
Griffin first appeared in Fire In The Sky he was at the schoolyard with Mia during Dan's explanatory flashback to one year ago when the Bakugan first appeared. Griffin is reading a comic on his tablet with headphones on, he joins in Dan and Mia's conversation but yells rather than talking regularly because he can barely hear anything with his headphones on. When Dan and Mia tell him he's too loud he apologises for yelling and then joins Mia in making fun of Dan for forgetting his science test, Dan comments how he doesn't like that Griffin never forgets anything and Griffin laughs that it's because of his "crazy photographic memory". When the Bakugan land on earth, Griffin tells Dan not to touch it, warning him that it "could be space parasites! They'll get inside your brain, they'll take over!" Mia questions him about this and he admits he got the idea from a combination of science and comic books. Later when Mia and Dan start making fun of each other during their battle Griffin is the one to tell them to break it up. In the present time we see Griffin with Mia and Ventri watching Dan and Drago battle Nillious.
In Ready To Rampage Griffin is see when Tia Dee tries to interview Drago about becoming giant, during this interview Griffin cheers for Dan and Drago, saying "Oh yeah! Dan and Drago are the bomb!". Later on, Griffin asks Dan how many more times he's going to watch that news report of him. When Dan and Mia go to stop the rampaging Bakugan, Griffin goes to his room in an apartment block and watches the battle out of the window using some technologically advanced binoculars, he calls Mia to check if she's okay after she falls off Ventri's back during the battle and then gives commentary, warnings and advice to both Dan and Mia during the battle to help them out. At the end of the episode, Griffin is seen watching the news about how Brawling has been made illegal with Dan, Mia Drago and Ventri.
Relationships[]
Friends[]
- Dan Kouzo - Dan and Griffin are good friends. The two of them sometimes make fun of each other lightheartedly, like when Griffin joked about Dan thinking a Tuesday was a Saturday. Griffin warns Dan to be careful when he goes to look at the thing that had fallen from the sky. Griffin is always cheering Dan on such as during his battle against Nillious and during the interview with Tia Dee, along with looking out for Dan during the battle against the rampaging Bakugan.
- Mia Ono - Griffin and Mia are close friends. Griffin sometimes has to break up the lighthearted bickering beteween Dan and Mia. Mia sometimes makes fun of Griffin lightheartedly for things such as his space parasite comment. Griffin is the first to check if Mia's okay after she falls off Ventri's back during the battle against Octogon and even though Griffin isn't able to fight alongside her and Dan, he watches out for them both during the fight and giving them information to help them in the battle. It's also been confirmed that Griffin was the one to invent and make Mia's hairclip device that allows her to change her appearance at will, him inventing something to help her out shows the closeness of their friendship.
- Juno Reyes - While Griffin and Juno might have diametricly opposing personalities, but in terms of anything scientific they get along very well.
- Trox - Griffin and Trox share the same love for comic books, TyronnoMan
Enemies[]
- All members of the Dino Clan
Bakugan[]
Battles[]
| Opponent(s) | Episode(s) | Outcome |
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Trivia[]
- Griffin has suprisingly keen photographic memory.
- Griffin's chain necklace originally had nothing on it, but after the Bakugan arrived on Earth he put a gold Bakuball pendant
- Griffin's surname Tessly is a somewhat referance to Nikola Tesla.
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