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Line 2: [[File:Grimmintertitle 4995.png\|frame\|Exactly what it says, folks.]] '''''Grimm''''' is a [[Cops and Detectives\|detective series]] with significant [[Fantasy Series]] and [[Horror Series]] elements. Nick Burkhardt, a new on the beat homicide police detective with the Portland Police Bureau in Oregon, is about to marry the woman of his dreams. He comes home to discover his Aunt Marie has turned up unexpectedly. They take a walk and she hits him with the truth she's been keeping secret from him: he is one of the last descendants of the Grimm family—as in [[The Brothers Grimm (creator)\|The Brothers Grimm]]—and as such, is gifted with the ability to see monsters, or "Wesen", walking among us, and that his family has hunted and slain these monsters for generations. Line 13: * [[Achilles' Heel]]: The Blutbad have a weak spot at the lower right part of their back. If hit there it will stun them for a few seconds. * [[Aggressive Negotiations]]: Nick invokes this with Adalind. {{quote\|'''Nick''': Adalind, I think it's time we settled our differences. Violently.}}. * [[Alien Catnip]]: Apparently mold that’s poisonous to us humans is “meth plus helium” to Wesen. * [[An Arm and a Leg]]: A type 2 example in "Bears Will Be Bears" when Monroe was fighting the people sent to kill Marie, he literally dis-armed one of them. Line 73: In the episode "Lonelyhearts", Nick's partner is shown carefully placing a tracker on the monster of the week's car, only for it to go for a walk instead. Originally this seems to be played for laughs, but then in the end when the monster tries to escape by driving to another state, as he has every other time he is close to being caught, they can track him. Rosalee's box cutter. Just before Freddy's murderers return to the apothecary she is shown using it to sift through boxes attempting to find herbs Wesen will kill to get their hands on. When one of the murderers grab her she frees herself by jamming the box cutter into his arm. ** In "Leave it to Beavers", there is a [[~~Chekov~~Chekhov's Gun\|Chekhov's Crossbow]] that Nick uses {{spoiler\|to kill a Reaper}}. * [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: The first Wesen Nick sees, Adalind, {{spoiler\|is working with the forces attempting to kill off Marie, and almost succeeds at the end of the pilot}}. * [[Chekhov's Skill]]: Ariel's {{spoiler\|fire breathing act which ends with her eating fire. It hints at the fact that she's actually fireproof which comes into play at the end of the episode when she fakes her death}}. Line 144: "Plumed Serpent" has a quote at the beginning from ''The Two Brothers''. "Leave It to Beavers" is based on ''[[The Three Billy Goats Gruff]]''. "Happily Ever Aftermath" is based on ''[[Cinderella (~~Literature~~fairy tale)\|Cinderella]]'' {{spoiler\|but inverted, with the stepmother and stepsisters being terrorized by the entitled, sociopathic Cinderella expy}}. "Big Feet" is about Big Foot {{spoiler\|but not really. It's more like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde}}, although the official website states that it was based off the story of ''Hans the Hedgehog''. * [[Femme Fatale]]: Adalind Schade, and possibly all the Hexenbiest who are said to be lovely in human form, and are loyal servants to royalty. Line 170: * [[Game Face]]: All Wesen have one, though only Nick and the other Grimms can see it. Marie says that the creatures can be seen for what they are when they "lose control", although it appears that they can also make a deliberate effort to show their inhuman aspect, or suffer momentary [[Glamour Failure]] that reveals their true nature to Nick. Unlike other instances though, the various creatures don't seem to actually transform physically—if they do, then their morph form remains hidden even for non-Grimms/non-creatures and they don't seem to have any real physical benefits for showing their [[Game Face]]; their strength and other abilities are as natural to them as breathing. Good evidence for this is seen with the ~~Jägerbars~~Jägerbärs and Mellifers; the former are shown holding and using a bear-like weapon while Nick's book shows the Mellifer's sting as a large device. Using more-than-human abilities however seems to force (or require) some amount of transformation or diversion of energy though this also varies with the person in question. Adalind and Monroe, both of whom regularly engage in non-human activities, demonstrate considerable physical ability with no transformations while the family of bears (who have suppressed their non-human natures) seem to prefer transformation for any sort of show of ability. While Nick himself doesn't seem to have one, most Wesen he encounters are able to identify him as a Grimm. Since this generally only occurs after Nick has seen a given Wesen's [[Game Face]], this may be based on his reaction more than anything else. On the other hand, its entirely possible that Nick's presence might inadvertently ''trigger'' their [[Game Face]], alerting them to the fact he's a Grimm. Monroe suggests that non-Grimms/non-creatures can indeed see their [[Game Face]] if the creature in question wants them to. However, he also points out that doing so is usually a bad thing if only because humans generally aren't prepared for the sudden shock to their [[Weirdness Censor]]. Line 184: * [[Ghostapo]]: The coins in "Three Coins in a Fuchsbau" are stated to be responsible for this. * [[Gladiator Games]]: The Löwen, a lion-like species of Wesen, enjoy running them to the modern day. {{spoiler\|Captain Renard sanctioned the event with a list of approved targets to snatch and fight. He is not happy when they deviate from the list}}. * [[Go Mad ~~From~~from the Revelation]]: Based on Monroe's testimony and {{spoiler\|Hank's freak-out upon seeing two Wesen in their game faces}}, most normal humans tend to go mad from seeing a Wesen in their other form as their minds cannot handle such a break from reality. A really good example can be seen in the first murder of "Happily Ever Aftermath", though in that case, the darkness and the fact that said Wesen was trying to kill the victim didn't help matters. * [[Good Is Dumb]]: Hap is easily the nicest Blutbad encountered so far, and also the dumbest. * [[Good Is Not Soft]]: Nick demonstrates this more and more as the series progresses. Monroe gets several instances of this as well. Line 202: That same episode starts with coffee at Monroe's house in the morning, with Monroe asking Nick when he was going to tell his girlfriend. He means about Wesen and Grimms, but the viewer might be forgiven in thinking that they started sleeping together. In "Leave It to Beavers", this happens when Juliette wants Monroe to come to dinner. Nick immediately panics trying to figure out Monroe and he are going to say that will keep the nature of their (working) "''relationship''" secret from her. The whole scene plays out like they're trying to hide an affair. * [[Horrible Camping Trip]]: The couple at the beginning of "Let Your Hair Down" had no idea what was coming... and it wasn't even [[Humans Are ~~Bastards~~the Real Monsters\|a supernatural threat.]] * [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: Monroe knows way more about the supernatural than Nick does, and is way more physically capable if he goes wolfy, which admittedly isn't his favorite thing. * [[I Am Not Left-Handed]]: "I didn’t call a Fuchsbau"—cue Blutbad attack. Line 231: * [[Meaningful Name]]: Gilda Darner is the name of the victim of the week in a Goldilocks-themed story. Gilda as gilded or gold. She also is a blonde. More groan-worthy is the young ~~Jägerbar~~Jägerbär named Barry. Whose last name is Rabe, an anagram of "bear". One of Barry's friends ~~Jägerbar~~Jägerbär friends is named 'T.B.', as in 'Teddy Bear'. In light of [[The Reveal]] at the end of the pilot, one must wonder about Police Captain [[Fantastic Foxes\|Renard]]... ** In "Beeware", the Queen Bee of the Mellifers is Melissa, which means "honey bee" in Greek. Line 282: * [[Playing With Fire]]: The Wesen in "Plumed Serpent", known as Dämonfeuer, have [[Breath Weapon\|fire breath]]. They apparently do this by vaporizing their fat, "vomiting" that vapor into the air, then somehow igniting it through static electricity. The family includes two flamethrower operators, a welder, and a fire dancer, so they obviously quite like fire. * [[Poisoned Weapons]]: The {{spoiler\|bullets}} in "Game Ogre" were poisoned. * [[Potent Pheromones]]: Zigevolks are goat-like Wesen who have a gland that releases pheromones from their sweat. By eating live amphibians, they can stimulate more pheromones and make them airborne to enthrall people. * [[The Power of Blood]]: There are several kinds of potion that include blood of the maker and blood of the target as ingredients; these potions can only be cured by killing the person who made it. Furthermore, {{spoiler\|if a Hexenbiest ingests the blood of a Grimm they [[Brought Down to Normal\|become human]]}}. * [[Product Placement]]: Line 306 ⟶ 307: In Episode 11, they meet a friend of Monroe's, a [[Black Widow\|Spinnetod]], named [[Charlotte's Web\|Charlotte]]. Ariel Eberhart claims she got her dragon tattoo "long before [[The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo\|that book]] came out." Episode 19 episode is titled "[[Leave It to Beaver~~\|Leave It to Beavers~~]]s". The bigfoot investigators in "Big Feet" are named Patterson and Gimlin, after the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson-Gimlin_film Patterson-Gimlin film.] * [[Sinister Minister]]: {{spoiler\|One of Captain Renard's allies is a Catholic priest who serves as "God's Wrath" and will kill those who go against Renard's rule over the Wesen in the area}}. Line 330 ⟶ 331: Nick runs up on this trope in "Beeware" when he has to protect Adalind from Melissa. In the eyes of the law, Melissa is a murderer, and he's a cop. In the eyes of the supernatural, Adalind is a Hexenbiest and Melissa a Mellifer, messenger and helper to Grimms. This time, Nick chooses the law. He faces this again in "Cat and Mouse" when {{spoiler\|he let Ian, the head of the Resistance, go after Ian killed a defenseless man in front of Nick and had Monroe dump the body away from Rosalee's shop all to protect his friends. So in sum, he picked Good}}. * [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: Nick in "Organ Grinder" where, for the first time, we see him intentionally threaten creatures with his status as a Grimm and exactly why that means they should be treading ''very'' carefully around him. He also pointedly warns the Geier in the clinic that he's ''NOT'' being a cop at that moment. In "Last Grimm Standing", it's revealed that Grimms have superior strength to that of ordinary humans, allowing Nick to easily defeat an adversary that several well-trained Wesen failed to do. Monroe's comment about digging down deep and channeling previous generations of Grimms could indicate that they might potentially have more abilities. Line 347 ⟶ 348: * [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Melissa and her minions, killing Hexenbiests because they're evil. * [[Wham! Episode]]: "Three Coins in a Fuchsbau". {{spoiler\|Aunt Marie was once engaged to a Wesen, but had to break it off when her sister (also a Grimm) was killed by another Wesen, who had stolen coins she was protecting--coins responsible for Nero, Caligula, and the Third Reich}}. Also, [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy\|Hitler was a Wesen.]] ** "Woman in Black". {{spoiler\|Adalind has afflicted Juliette with some unknown poison. To get her to seek medical treatment, Nick tells her everything, but she falls unconscious before he can show her definitive proof. Hank is starting to [[Go Mad ~~From~~from the Revelation]] after seeing both Monroe in his Blutbad form and a Wildermann turn back to human when he died. Oh yeah, and Nick's mother is alive}}. * [[Wham! Line]]: From "Love Sick". {{quote\|'''{{spoiler\|Adalind}}:''' {{spoiler\|You killed me}}. Line 357 ⟶ 358: * [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: In "Let Your Hair Down", the last we see of the doggie-wash guy, he's tied up in a basement. ** So, as of the end of "Tarantella", there's a prematurely aged young woman in jail who is missing no fingers, but the cops have a detached finger that matches her DNA. How did the law process this one? * [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]/[[Van Helsing Hate Crimes]]: Subverted. Unlike some of [[Supernatural (TV series)\|its brethren]] in the genre, Nick is fine with letting supernatural creatures live their own lives as long as they're not breaking the law, and so far has treated them as he would human beings in comparative situations. This has come to shock some of them as this approach seems unheard of for a Grimm (on the other hand, Marie very specifically said "Hunt down the bad ones"). Conversely, it turns out that some of the supernatural creatures are either (usually) harmless and not involved in any real trouble or are allies of the Grimms. The former still tend to be wary of Nick while the latter tend to be surprised that Nick seems to ignore the traditional feuds. Nevertheless, the reputation of the Grimms is enough that most creatures that recognize Nick instantly expect him to kill them on the spot. * [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?\|Why Did It Have to Be Rats?]]: "Danse Macabre". * [[Woman in Black]]: The titular character of, well, "The Woman in Black". * [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Nick mixes Blutbaden with werewolves, and asks if he might need silver bullets. {{quote\|'''Monroe''': What, are you an ''idiot''?}} * [[~~:Category:Yandere\|~~Yandere]]: Ariel Eberhart from "Plumed Serpent" quickly demonstrates an intense obsession with Nick. * [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: {{spoiler\|Renard}} to Leo in "Last Grimm Standing". ** Renard once again to {{spoiler\|Adalind}} sort of. Line 369 ⟶ 370: {{reflist}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Fantasy Series]] [[Category:Action Adventure Series]] Line 374 ⟶ 376: [[Category:Horror Series]] [[Category:Cop Show]] [[Category:~~Grimm~~TV Series]] [[Category:Noughties Drama Series]]