American McGee's Grimm

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.

"I wanna make the insufferable suffer!
Bring back the dark!
Bring back the gruesome!

Bring on the Grimm!"
—Grimm

Once upon a time, people told stories with dark danger lurking around every corner and important warnings. But as time passed, the stories got watered down into a pile of mushy stuff that would put Walt Disney to shame.

In the 23-episode platformer series American McGee's Grimm, your player character is Grimm, a dirty dwarf who hates how the fairy tales have turned out and decides to bring back their darker aspects... by running around the settings of said tales, his very presence causing things to become as grim and gruesome as he is.

A five-issue 2009 Comic Book adaptation by IDW Publishing has Grimm, having successfully Grimmified the fairy tale world, moving on to various Comic Book settings, starting with a Captain Ersatz-filled superhero universe in "Crisis on Earth 57",

Tropes used in American McGee's Grimm include: