User blog comment:Battlemaster Grunt/Idea for Grunt Squad Mate DLC/@comment-24174486-20121001152306

The three major issues with this idea that I can see:

1. Grunt may very well be dead. Having a DLC squadmate which you might not even be able to get seems a little silly.

2. Grunt would logically be a pure-combat character, as he was in ME2. However, there's already two pure-combat characters. James Vega is basically the team krogan of ME3, serving the same function as Grunt did in ME2, and is guaranteed to be in your squad. There's also Ashley Williams, if she survived Virmire and you allow her to rejoin the squad.

3. All squad members in ME3 have two "normal" powers", the passive class "power", and two "bonus" powers. Carnage wouldn't work as James already has the power, and Inferno Grenade is already claimed by Ashley.