Grimm (TV)/Fridge

Fridge Logic

• In the pilot Sweet Dreams is playing on the runner's iPod when we see her murdered and also when the police arrive on the scene, was she listening to it (and nothing else) on repeat? Why would Nick assume that it would have been playing at the time of the murder?
  • Either the jogger had it liberally sprinkled in the playlist, she had an extremely long remix, or since it was left playing it just happened to come back around to Sweet Dreams by the time the police found it.
  • Or she could have just had that one song on repeat and no playlist at all.
  • No real in-universe explanation but the out of universe explanation is probably a modern version of the broken watch on a dead body. That body gets attacked violently, probably breaking the watch which then stops at the time of the attack. Same premise just... not really understanding how technology works.
• After the end of "Tarentella", how is anyone not in on The Masquerade going to explain how the arrested Spinnetod aged into an old woman overnight, or that she has a regenerated finger with an exact print match to the severed one found at the scene of the first murder? Even if Captain Renard takes steps to cover it up, how would he do so without attracting suspicion from Nick?
  • Perhaps Renard acknowledges the unusual condition and has her sent to a hospital for caretaking... only she has a heart attack on the way there and dies. IE he retires her to a wesen home where she lives her days in anonymity. Nick might get suspicious but Renard might gamble on the general lack of knowledge Nick has as well as the general obscurity of spinnetods. Still, it's a stretch to be sure.
• "Last Grimm Standing". Why does Monroe split at the end when the cops come? At first, yes, it's so he's not caught where he's not suppose to be as with other episodes. But a few scenes before, Nick explicitly told Hank that Monroe had/was following a lead for them ("... he found a guy that was doing bets...") so it's not like Monroe's involvement was a mystery or unofficial. And if he was officially helping out, then Monroe being in the cage and fighting would not be unusual (nor would he be charged with any wrong doing since he wasn't trying to kill anyone) since he could legitimately say what happened - he was helping out with a lead, got caught, and forced to fight.
  • Did he run? I don't remember that...
    • In Monroe's defense, he had no way of knowing that the police had been filled in on his involvement. For all he knew, he really wasn't supposed to be there
    • One thought might be that while he was there in an official capacity, when the police came, he and Nick had been in a fight. This would mean the police would want to give medical attention to Monroe (plus, pull evidence from the other fighters and such). However, due to Monroe's past (recent and otherwise), something as simple as doing a blood test by the police might result in him getting arrested. So if the police had arrived before Monroe had to fight, he might not have had to run since there wouldn't be any evidence linking Monroe to any of his past crimes.

Fridge Brilliance

• Why does Nick always catch the cases with Wesen involvement? Because Captain Renard always assigns them to him. Figure that even if Renard can't always know for sure, he's better at spotting the telltale signs of such crimes than Nick would be.
• In "Happily Ever After", why did the step mother run away screaming if the wesen killer was known to her? Because the wesen in question -wanted- her to see their Game Face and so she was running away from what she saw as an actual monster.
• Roddy's DJ name is Retchid Kat a.k.a "Wretched Cat". Why go with such a name? Firstly, his father could easily be replaced with a *cat* and seeing as he and his father are ratfolk... what would they hate more than cats?
• The traditional allies of the Grimms are the same creatures in fairy tales that help the protagonists. Same applies for traditional enemies and neutral parties.
• Blutbaden are the source of the modern day meathead -- Monroe's "diet, drugs and exercise" to control most of his more violent tendencies combined with the volitile nature of many blutbaden describes your stereotypical jock.
• "He's a cop and a Grimm? Is that even legal?" This line may seem like just Hap being stupid, until you consider that a large part of the non-human community defines Grimm as synonymous with Serial Killer (or at best, a vigilante). From that perspective, the question is a bit more valid.
  • Given that at least two types of non-humans gravitate towards politics (heck, JFK was one), it may very well be that Grimms weren't exactly operating within some sort of unspoken law.
  • "Island of Dreams", a wesen and Nick discuss this a little bit as sort of a double life. It may be less of a law or rule and more the demands of being a Grimm.
• JFK being a ziegevolk might have contributed to his assassination in this universe. After all, would -you- want a nigh-irresistible charmer at the head of a powerful country? Other heads of state would never be able to accomplish anything since he could simply charm them into doing otherwise.
• The show seems to have most of their non-human murders done through impaling, stabbing, slashing, rending, and so forth with none done through bludgeoning or what not. This makes sense when you consider that the various non-humans would be more comfortable acting on instinct and natural abilities - and since they all have forms based off animals, very few animals bludgeon things to death. Likewise, the snake character in Of Mouse and Man, what does he do to the mouse character for intimdation? Put him in a choke hold (constricting).
• Given that the ziegvolk in Tarantella tries very hard to not die to the spinnetod when presumably he could simply charm her, it may be that their charming touch is heavily dependant on many factors and not a guarentee - humans just happen to be the most suseptible while other wesen are more or less affected depending and their own natural abilities (much like the other wesen abilities we've seen). This would go on to explain why some people 'just don't like' that new boyfriend of yours in a way they just can't say - you're a human, your boyfriend is a ziegvolk, and your friend is a wesen trying to protect you.
  • Also, the one in Lonelyhearts greatly amplified his pheromones by eating toads. Regular ziegevolk may be more successful seducers than the average person, but wouldn't necessarily have the borderline mind-controlling influence he did.
  • And the first victim of that episode was a Fuchsbau, not a Ziegvolk.
• The location itself is a bit a fridge brilliance if you know one thing about it. Portland OR actually has its own city motto. That motto is “KEEP PORTLAND WEIRD”, (if you ever go there you’ll actually see a billboard with this logo near the highway). What better setting for a show like Grimm then a city that has so embraced it’s own weirdness.
• Why is it so many Wesen seem to be in Oregon? Now that we know there’s an evil organization that some of them are trying to escape over in Europe, which coast is further from Europe again?
• Back in Game Orge it's mentioned that the Orge killing rifle was associated with royalty. Since we now know that Grimm are associated with the seven royal families, a member of the families had the gun commissioned for the Grimms. And since Nick was in the hospital, when the gun was used it's leading Renard to think that another agent of the royal families was in town.
• "Leave it to Beavers" and the episodes preceding it give a good reason as to why Grimms would typically not be police officers and otherwise live on the fringes of society (human and otherwise). From a relationship perspective, there's the Reapers. But from a pure human society perspective who knows nothing about Reapers and wesen, having to spend every other week hiding bodies doesn't exactly go hand in hand with normal life very easily or otherwise explaining the various perils.
• Freddy Calvert's terror of Nick first comes across as the standard "Oh God, it's a Grimm, please don't kill me," but a key member of The Resistance should be braver then that. Then we learn that the Grimms have been working for the Seven Families, which means he had a very good reason to fear that he had been found out and the Grimm was there to kill him.
• The plot twist in "Woman in Black" can be seen in hindsight. We're told from the very first episode from Marie herself that Grimms usually can't live a normal life. And what's more normal than trying to raise a kid. Not only that, we have come to learn that Grimms usually have a really hard time living within the bounds of the law/within normal society. So that Nick's mother is alive and perhaps faked her own death in order to allow Nick to be raised with Marie who was already dying from cancer makes sense. His parents protect him from threats and keep him safe while their enemies assume they're dead.
• Stories about cultures eating other people or eating various animal parts for special powers... those stories come from non-wesen witnessing wesen and attempting to 'gain' their powers. Or perhaps wesen themselves initially believing that they were what they are because they took powers from animals. So in the same way that human bits are medicinal for wesen, the reverse may also be true.
• Fridge Brilliance if you’ve ever been to Portland. The location where Adalind and Nick duke it out in “Love Sick” Is close to a place known to locals as “Witch Castle”, a place subject to many local legends.

Fridge Horror

• Imagine the potential damage or boon to civilization that a frog-eating ziegvolk plus the coins of Zarythos would do. You'd have a someone able to naturally influence people combined with coins that are suggested to have caused the rise of empires like the Roman Empire... and Nazi Germany.
• At the end of "'Tarantella" we see Nick and Hank taking the daughter of the episodes monster, a spinatod, to live with family now that her moms been arrested. That in and of itself is sad, but not fridge horror. What makes this fridge horror is that while their taking her away it's made perfectly clear that this young girl is also a spinatod....which means when this girl grows up she's going to have to go thru the same damn thing her momm just went thru. Either that or "retire" and face rapid ageing. Not a happy future.
• Go back and re-watch the showdown between Adalind and Nick. Is this troper the only one who got serious Attempted Rape vibes from the way he was pinning her down?
  • It's probably intended to be symbolic in the same way that fairy tales typically were. That is, a prince uses his power to take away the wild magic of women in order to turn her into a normal woman. Less about rape and more a throwback/shout out to symbolism in fairy tales.

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