Tank Grunt

"Psst... I'm not really such a grouch. Usually I'm a gentle soul. I just fear drastic change...."
- Tank Grunt in The Sims 2 (GBA)

Tank Grunt
Gender	Male
Age	Teen
Life state	Sim
Biography
Tank Grunt wants to be just like his old man. He spends his days lifting heavy things, dodging imaginary bullets, and being bigger than the other guy, but deep down inside, he wonders if anyone really knows who he is.
Education and employment
School	Public School
Grade	A-
Family
Family/Families	Grunt Family
Parents	General Buzz Grunt, Lyla Grunt
Siblings	Ripp Grunt , Buck Grunt
Personality
Zodiac sign	Capricorn
Aspiration	Popularity
Appearance
Hair color	Brown
Eye color	Dark Blue
Skin color	Tan
Body shape	Fit
Other information
Game	The Sims 2
Playability	Playable
Neighborhood	Strangetown

Colonel Tank Grunt
Gender	Male
Age	Adult
Life state	Sim
Biography
This guy clearly has anger issues.
Family
Family/Families	Grunt Family
Parents	General Buzz Grunt
Siblings	Corporal Ripp Grunt
Appearance
Hair color	Brown
Eye color	Brown
Skin color	Tan
Body shape	Fit
Other information
Game	The Sims 2 (PSP)
Playability	NPC
Neighborhood	Strangetown

Tank Grunt
Gender	Male
Age	Adult
Life state	Sim
Biography
Tank injured his funny bone in combat. This left him permanently without a sense of irony.
Appearance
Hair color	Brown
Eye color	Dark Blue
Skin color	Tan
Body shape	Fit
Other information
Game	The Sims 2 (Nintendo DS)
Playability	NPC
Neighborhood	Strangetown

Tank Grunt
Gender	Male
Age	Adult
Life state	Sim
Biography
The son of an Army General, Tank was destined to follow in his father's footsteps until an injured funny bone left him permanently without a sense of irony.
Appearance
Hair color	Brown
Eye color	Dark Blue
Skin color	Tan
Body shape	Fit
Other information
Game	The Sims 2 (GBA)
Playability	NPC
Neighborhood	Strangetown

Tank Grunt
Gender	Male
Age	Teen
Life state	Sim
Education and employment
School	High School
Grade	B
Career	Unemployed
Family
Family/Families	Grunt family
Parents	Buzz Grunt, Lyla Grunt
Siblings	Ripp Grunt , Buck Grunt
Marital status	Single
Personality
Traits	Self-Assured
	Active
	Home Turf
	Physically Gifted
Aspiration	StrangerVille Mystery
Appearance
Hair color	Brown
Eye color	Blue
Skin color	Tan
Body shape	Fit
Other information
Game	The Sims 4
Playability	Gallery

Tank Grunt (later known as Colonel Tank Grunt) is the oldest son of General Buzz and Lyla Grunt. He is the older brother of Ripp and Buck, but he is distant from both of them. Tank is the only one of his siblings who wants to follow their father into the Military career and the only teen in Strangetown who doesn't have any friends when the neighborhood is first played. Tank's name is a reference to his military background and heritage.

Biography

Life leading up to The Sims 2

Tank wants to follow in his father's footsteps and aspires to become a General like him. They have a good relationship, but Tank wants to impress him by getting a Military job. Tank is also part of the feud against the Smith family. He is enemies with Johnny Smith and wants to win a fight against him. If Johnny throws a party while still a teen, Tank will attempt to crash it.

When first played, he is 5 days away from becoming an adult.

He considers his father, General Buzz, a friend, though the friendship is not mutual. This sort of one sided relationship would not be possible in normal gameplay, and could only occur using developer software or SimPE.

Surprisingly, Tank doesn't have any body skill points or indeed any skill points at the start of the game. He has exactly the same interests as his father. According to his Sim DNA in SimPE, he has recessive alleles for blond hair and grey eyes.

Strangely, when looking in his family album, Tank appeared to have lighter skin as a child in one of the photos, while his father Buzz had darker skin. Tank also had lighter skin in another photo as a teen.

Even though his grandmother, Missy, died when he was a baby or toddler, Tank doesn't have a memory of her passing.

Life leading up to The Sims 2 (PSP)

Colonel Tank Grunt lives in the Barracks at the military base Division 47 with General Buzz, Corporal Ripp and the Smith family. His youngest brother Buck doesn't appear in this game. Someone has hacked Tank's computer and the player's Sim has to repair it. During this time, he will constantly attack Ripp until his computer is fixed. It is also possible to sell secrets to Tank, but the one he wants to know is why Mister Smith is outside around midnight, snooping by the alien crash site. If the player chooses not to tell him, he will become very angry with the Sim.

Oddly, Tank's eye colour in the PSP version is brown, but in the PC game, his eyes are blue. This is also the case with his brother, Ripp. Both of them are adults in this game.

According to the game's data, Tank is interested in Politics, Sci-Fi, Environment, and, unlike his PC counterpart, Fashion.

Tank's secrets from The Sims 2 (PSP):

• (Personal): Tank wanted to go into ballet, but his father forced him into the military.
• (Intimate): Tank secretly blames Ripp for stealing his first love... an action figure named Missy McBoom.
• (Dark): Tank once got punished by Buzz for being "too creative" with his face paint.
• (Tank's Incompetence): Tank let someone hack into his security computer.

Personality type

This Sim has a Fire personality type in The Sims 2 for PSP.

Life leading up to The Sims 2 (Game Boy Advance)

In The Sims 2 (GBA), Tank is a resident of Strangetown. He lives in the barracks, which is next to the Medical Center and plays a major and minor roles in several episodes. He is seen in the intro for each episode. His affiliation with the army isn't directly stated, but it is heavily implied. He seems to deem many things illegal, calls the player "Citizen," and has the voice of a stereotypical army general. He will randomly start to pretend he is aiming a large gun (such as a sniper rifle) at times.

Dusty Hogg introduces the player to Tank Grunt in the tutorial mission, where he says that Tank Grunt is the only guy in town with a worse temper as him. He insults the player, Dusty, and Dusty's gift for you before admitting that he's not really such a grouch and instead is a gentle soul. He just fears drastic change. The player can talk to him in "Buried By the Mob," but he will just yell at the player for thinking he dressed weirdly.

During the mission "What Digs Beneath", the player can ask him for help with getting some iron. He believes it to be a "Top Secret Government Mission", but wonders why he hasn't been told, as he is a "High Ranking Officer". He follows the player, but when the player get there he says "That strikes me as an inappropriate seizure of private property" and "As an officer and a gentleman, I cannot justify breaking the law... Goodbye miscreant. When they throw you in the dock for stealing, don't go calling for me", and leaves. The player will have to talk to Jimmy "The Neck" instead.

In "Aliens Arrived," a strange-talking Tank Grunt comes up to the player and Dusty Hogg and asks them to give a bouquet of strange-looking paper flowers to Kayleigh Wintercrest. When the player does that, she will realize that the flowers are made of satellite images taken of the nuclear power plant. The player, Dusty, and Kayleigh will go to talk to Tank, only to realize that there were two Tanks! One of them is promptly revealed to be an alien in disguise, introducing the main issue in this episode. He also appears in the ending cutscene.

In "The New Cola," Tank Grunt walks in on Dusty and Ava Cadavra having a discussion on ladybugs to announce that he got a six pack of New Cherry Guava King Chug Chug Cola. He will make the main character drink a can of it with him, and then after realizing that the New Cherry Guava King Chug Chug Cola is making him feel weird, both the player and him will shrink down to a very small size. The rest of the episode features the player and Tank fighting through hordes of ladybugs. Midway-through, Tank will get surrounded by the ladybugs and run, and the player will have to find him and intimidate him in order to get him to move. It is implied that he is absolutely terrified of ladybugs and calls them "disgusting monsters."

During "The Doomed Earth," the player must coax a way to take Tank's telescope from him. At first, he will deny that he has one, implying that the player only thinks he has one due to being a military man. The player must talk to Misty Waters, who will say that Tank uses his telescope to keep an eye over Ara Fusilli, and that asking a man in town to flirt with her will likely make him come out. The player must ask Luthor L. Bigbucks or Tristan Legend to do so, and once either of them do, Tank will come running out, talking about how Ara's father is paying him to keep an eye on her. Ara will try to bribe Tank to stop watching her. The player can then steal his telescope while he is distracted.

In "It All Came to an End," the player can talk to Tank to be informed of the location of one of Optimum Alfred's parts.

And, finally, during "A Very Special Reunion," Tank is one of the characters that the player must find and bring back for the reunion. After talking to Frankie Fusilli, the player will hear a pre-recorded tape from Tank Grunt, stating that after Strangetown was being taken over by aliens, he decided to go into hiding until they could re-take the city from them. He asks for any humans to come and find him. He is located in the Yeti's ice cave, and when the player talks to him, he is very aggressive and assumes that they are an alien. The player will have to intimidate him to calm him down, to which he will explain that Burple stole his house from him, and he will only join the reunion if the player can get his house back. Thankfully, this is quite easy to do, as paying Burple only 500 Simoleons will do the trick.

Life leading up to The Sims 2 (Nintendo DS)

In The Sims 2 for Nintendo DS, Tank appears as a hotel guest. He has no story purpose, but he is on the 10 simoleon lottery card, "The Emperor's Coffers." His secret is that the camouflage pattern is actually tattooed on his face. He will autonomously change the radio in the saloon to the track "Heavy Metal."

Life leading up to The Sims 4

An official Maxis recreation of Tank and his family was uploaded to the The Sims 4 Gallery on February 28, 2019, marking the 19th anniversary of The Sims. In this timeline, Tank is the same age as Ripp (both will become young adults in 12 days) and he is friends with everyone in his family. He has the same aspiration and traits as his father, except for the neat trait and Buzz's traits from The Sims 4: Parenthood. He also has the Physically Gifted reward trait from completing the Rambunctious Scamp childhood aspiration. Unlike his Sims 2 incarnation and the remakes of the Newbie family and the Pleasant family on the Gallery, Tank has several skill points in a variety of different areas. He also carries incomplete homework in his inventory.

Simology

• Skills
• Relationships
• Personality
• Interests
• Memories

The Sims 4

Image	Skill	Level
	Charisma
	Fitness
	Handiness

The Sims 2

Image	Name	Relationship level
	Buck Grunt	Acquaintance
	General Buzz Grunt	Friend
	Ripp Grunt	Acquaintance
	Johnny Smith	Enemy

The Sims 4

Image	Name	Relationship level
	Buzz Grunt	Friend
	Lyla Grunt	Friend
	Ripp Grunt	Friend
	Buck Grunt	Friend

The Sims 2

Personality
Capricorn
Sloppy		Neat
Shy		Outgoing
Lazy		Active
Serious		Playful
Grouchy		Nice

Sign / personality mismatch

A Sim with this personality would normally be a Scorpio.

The Sims 2

Image	Interest	Level
	Environment
	Food
	Weather
	Culture
	Money
	Politics
	Paranormal
	Health
	Fashion
	Travel
	Crime
	Sports
	Entertainment
	Animals
	Work
	School
	Toys
	Sci-Fi

The Sims 2

Image	Memory	Type
	Potty Trained by Lyla	Positive
	Learned to Walk from General Buzz	Positive
	Learned to Talk from General Buzz	Positive
	Grew Up Well	Positive
	Met Mystery Sim	Positive
	Ripp Grew Up Badly	Negative
	Buck Grew Up Well	Positive
	Grew Up Well	Positive
	Ripp Grew Up Badly	Negative

Gallery

Tank as he originally appeared in The Sims 2

Loading screen of Grunt family in The Sims 2

Tank training with Buzz as a child

Tank being encouraged by Buzz

Tank and his (living) family

Tank Grunt in The Sims 2 for PSP

Tank as he appears in The Sims 2 for PSP

Tank's icon in The Sims 2 for PSP

Artwork of Tank Grunt for The Sims 2 (Nintendo DS)

Tank Grunt's portraits in The Sims 2 for GBA

Tank Grunt alongside Dusty Hogg and Kayleigh Wintercrest in The Sims 2 for GBA episode introduction movie

Checking Tank Grunt into your hotel in The Sims 2 for DS

Tank Grunt on The Emperor's Coffers lottery card

Tank's model in The Sims 2 for Nintendo DS

Tank as he appears in The Sims 4

Tank's wardrobe in The Sims 4

Other languages

Language	The Sims 2 (PC)	The Sims 2 (PSP)	The Sims 2 (DS)
English	Tank Grunt	Colonel Tank Grunt	Tank Grunt
Brazilian Portuguese	Culatra Rosnado
Chinese (Simplified)	坦克 格兰特
Chinese (Traditional)	坦克 古瓦特
Czech	Tank Bručoun
Danish	Bror Gundersen
Dutch	Tank Grom
European Portuguese	Tanque Grunho
Finnish	Voitto Ruutila
French	Tank Troufion
German	Theo Grunz		Eugen Panza
Hebrew	טאנק גרנט
Italian	Tank Grunt
Japanese	タンク グラント (Tanku Guranto)
Korean	탱크 그런트 (Taengkeu Geuleonteu)
Norwegian	Cephire Bang
Polish	Damazy Kamasz
Russian	Танк Грант (Tank Grant)
Spanish	Tanque Reclutas	Coronel Tanque Reclutas	Tanque Reclutas
Swedish	Tank Basse
Thai	แทงก์ กรันท์
Hungarian	Tank Mord

Notes

The Grunt Family
Rock - Wanda - Chip - Missy - Buzz - Lyla - Tank - Ripp - Buck