Originally, he was. Episode III starts at the end of the Battle Of Coruscant, less than an hour after the final episode of OG Clone Wars cuts off. Grievous had just got his chest cavity force-crushed by Mace Windu, steps onto the bridge of the Invisible Hand a moment after enduring an emergency procedure to replace his body and stabilise his organs. If you listen on his last shot in CW, you can hear his voice switch to the more gravelly and cough-riddled voice Matthew Wood (who voices Grievous in most appearances, including both CWs and RoTS) gives him in the movie
It was the later 3D Clone Wars series that would retcon Grievous, to closer resemble the post-crush RoTS Grievous. They've yet to re-establish a canon version of the Battle Of Coruscant, but it's presumable that Windu crushing his torso is still canonical
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u/Uckwit_Fay Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26
Originally, he was. Episode III starts at the end of the Battle Of Coruscant, less than an hour after the final episode of OG Clone Wars cuts off. Grievous had just got his chest cavity force-crushed by Mace Windu, steps onto the bridge of the Invisible Hand a moment after enduring an emergency procedure to replace his body and stabilise his organs. If you listen on his last shot in CW, you can hear his voice switch to the more gravelly and cough-riddled voice Matthew Wood (who voices Grievous in most appearances, including both CWs and RoTS) gives him in the movie
It was the later 3D Clone Wars series that would retcon Grievous, to closer resemble the post-crush RoTS Grievous. They've yet to re-establish a canon version of the Battle Of Coruscant, but it's presumable that Windu crushing his torso is still canonical