Grimm (TV)/YMMV

• All Myths Are True: While the wesen have inspired various myths, it's not yet been confirmed or denied if the myths themselves are true.
• Complete Monster:
  • There have been a lot of horrible critters Nick has had to deal with, but Oleg Stark is in a league of his own.
  • The recent race of Wesen from the Organ Grinders episode (yes, the entire race) is this. The specialize in ripping out the organs of still alive humans then grind them into a powder that acts as an aphrodisiac for other Wesens.
    • More accurately, they harvest organs since each organ does different things much like humans harvest certain animal parts (shark fin, tiger bone, elephant tusk) for herbal purposes. The major difference is that for wesen, these herbal remedies actually work. And of course, it's more than likely that not all the geier are organ harvesters just like not all blutbaden are people eating monsters. If the show makes any point, it's that stereotypes don't bind anyone - even the mouse and the rat will bite back at some point.
  • Edward Waltz is basically a more homicidal version of Hans Landa.
• Crowning Music of Awesome: Starting the pilot episode with the original Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams" - and ending with Marilyn Manson's cover? Oh, HELL yeah.
• Designated Protagonist Syndrome: A common critique of the show is that Nick is just not interesting, and the Monster of the Week format doesn't give him much opportunity to become so, as it inevitably involves him calling Monroe in to explain what's happening and overshadow him.
  • The writer's seem to have realized this, and for several episodes have taken the focus off of Monroe to allow for more character development and differentiation for Nick, who has gone from a typical cop-show protagonist to become more pragmatic and snarky, as well as coming into his own new identity as a Grimm/Cop.
• Dude, Not Funny: Played with, as Monroe warns Nick not to make "heel" commands to him while he helps scenting out the Monster of the Week. Nick replies with "good boy" instead, to Monroe's dismay.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: Near death from cancer, Aunt Marie still manages to fight off one of the men sent to ensure she dies before talking to Nick again, and then give Nick some parting advice before she goes.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: Monroe for being a Cultured Badass Snarker who's considerably more Genre Savvy than Nick.
  • Adalind and Renard seem to be getting a bit of this as well.
  • Rosalee is also very popular.
  • Of couse, the list of character's above basically counts for the majority of the cast so perhaps less of a dark horse and maybe just a good ensemble as a whole.
• Evil Is Sexy: Adalind and Renard (well, not when Adalind's in her Hexenbiest form).
• Fridge Logic: How did Nick and Monroe know what address to send the severed Reaper heads to?
• Growing the Beard: As with all series there is some debate about when exactly this happened but "Game Ogre" is a good candidate. It had the first truly threatening Monster of the Week, foreshadowing some of the tough Hero-Killer monsters that Nick would face in the second half of the season. It also added character depth to two previously unpopular characters, one of whom (Juliette) went from the Shallow Love Interest of early season 1 to the cool-headed, Kuudere Action Survivor of the second half almost in the space of one episode (one scene really).
• Ho Yay: Good grief. There's Nick/Monroe, Monroe/Roddy, Nick/Renard...
  • Even if you just appreciate the epic Nick/Monroe bromance (Monbromance?)... you might say it's Guy Love, Between Two Guys...
  • Nick calls Rosalee when he needs help with a Wesen medical issue. Monroe is jealous that Nick didn't call him.
  • When Nick and Monroe are talking about how they have to lie about their entire friendship to Juliette, it sounds more like they're talking about covering up an affair rather than hiding their supernatural natures.
• Magnificent Bastard: Renard, possibly.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • For people allergic to bees or insect-phobic with "Beeware". Swarming bees.
  • Rats showed up in a later episode.
  • In-Universe, Grimms to many wesen. The wesen that aren't immediately intimidated by Grimms tend to possess a large amount of physical capability.
  • "Lonelyhearts" is pretty much an hour of Fridge Horror if you're a woman.
  • Spinnetods and everything about them. The fact that they vomit acid into their victims' digestive tracts, then suck their liquified organs out through their stomachs, and the fact that it's completely instinctual, and they have no control over their murders.
  • In "Last Grim Standing", the returning fighters in the Wesen Fight Club are fed the losers.
  • In "Three Coins in a Fuchsbau" Nick watches an old film reel of Nazi propaganda and sees Hitler transform into a schakaln. The effect was chilling. It is Hitler, and the man himself was pretty darn horrifying, but it's worsened by that fact that schakaln are known for kidnapping and eating babies.
  • Larry the Wildermann clawing at the drug pump attached to his spine enough to tear the flesh open, leaving a gaping, bloody hole in the back of his neck.
• Paranoia Fuel:
  • Anybody you come across could be a Wesen. usually they'll be fine, but if you meet one in a foul mood you might not be so lucky. Furthermore, there are several Wesen who managed to become famous leaders, and may not have the most noble intentions in mind.
  • In "Three Coins in a Fuchsbau", the letter says that Ten Coins of Zakynthos were believed to exist. Nick only has three, which means that there could be another seven out there...
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: The episode "Game Ogre" has been termed "The Episode Where No-one is Useless" in which Hank Griffin and Juliette Silverton, previously somewhat bland characters, both get a bit more depth of character and pull off their own Crowning Moment of Awesome.
  • This sticks hard for Juliette, not so much for Hank.
• Squick: The less said about the frogs in "Lonelyhearts", the better. Or the rats in "Danse Macabre" who chewed off a man's face. Or the judge with a gavel shoved down his throat and the woman with her tongue cut out in "Game Ogre".
  • How Spinnetods kill their victims.
  • Not as bad as some other examples, but two words: Blood. Cookies
  • and then there’s what happens to Wu’s face in “Island Of Dreams”
  • Basically, if you're going to get killed by a wesen who isn't concerned about The Masquerade at the moment or you're bumping into a wesen engaged in some of the more instinctual habits... it's probably not going to particularly nice.
• Stop or I Will Shoot: In the first episode, Hank shoots the escaping kidnapper in the back several times as he's running away. Is that legal?
  • He was a suspect in a brutal murder and kidnapping who was fleeing.
  • Also, he had attacked them before doing so. You are correct in that police don't ordinarily shoot at all especially in the back, but once a person demonstrates the intent to harm the officer or others, all bets are off to allow an officer to defend themselves or others around them.
  • Remember that he attacked them AFTER they broke into his house based on Nick's (thankfully) correct hunch.

• Tragic Villain: Spinnetod females. Due to the demands of their species, they're cursed to age incredibly fast (starting at puberty) with the only way to avoid this being to kill and eat young men... which may include spinnetod males.
• Too Cool to Live: Aunt Marie. Badass to the end (of the second episode).
• Unfortunate Implications: The family in "Bears Will Be Bears" has a lot of indigenous culture artifacts in their home. The wife is very devoted to the idea of respecting ancestors, to the point of letting her son do a violent and outdated ritual for their kind. And then, the father (who didn't know until it almost ended badly), who is white, says to Nick:

“It isn’t easy to have to give up your history. You’ve never had to give up yours.”

• Unreliable Narrator: Farley Kolt in “Three Coins In A Fucshbau”. He seems to be on the level when he says that he and Aunt Marie where engaged before she had to leave him to take care of Nick but in light of the fact that he was after the coins for himself, how much he can be trusted is thrown into question.
• The Woobie: Monroe, at times, especially in "Three Bad Wolves," as well as Hap. Hap gets killed over a family feud he was never involved in while Monroe is caught between looking for vengence of his friends death and staying out of the fight to avoid escalating things to worse levels... even though that means the woman he loves may end up dead.
  • Nick gets this treatment too. After he finally ask Juliette to marry him. She turns him down cause she can tell he’s keeping secrets from her. Of course, he’s keeping secrets to protect her from the crazy dangerous stuff that he now has to handle, that she would never believe in a million years even if he did tell her. Poor guy.

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