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[[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.
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* [[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.
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* [[Bee-Bee Gun]]/[[Bee People]]/[[Everything's Worse with Bees]]: The Mellifers.
* [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]]:
** Monroe implies that several Hollywood actors are
** Monroe is pretty confident that Santa Claus is both real and not human; being a Gefrierengeber ([[Bilingual Bonus|German]] for "frozen giver", according to [[The Other Wiki]]) would make him capable of living "up there". Nick doesn't elaborate for the viewers but seems to take the suggestion seriously.
** Monroe also suggests that the mouse creatures introduced in "Of Mouse and Man" are behind Disney - though he doesn't say the company name, he does his usual [[Take That]] on the subject by bringing up "their cartoon thing".
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* [[Betty and Veronica]]: Rosalee (Betty) and Angelina (Veronica) seem to be this to Monroe.
* [[BFG]]: Among Aunt Marie's many weapons is a triple-barrel elephant gun. Its purpose is to kill Ogres. Interestingly, it's relatively realistic (the third, under-slung barrel is far smaller than the other two).
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Nearly all of the Wesen names are ([[Blind Idiot Translation|at least supposedly]]) meaningful in German (Jägerbär,
* [[Birds of a Feather]]: Rosalee and Monroe. Rosalee is a rehabilitated drug addict who's cleaned up her act. Monroe himself is also a rehabilitated Blutbad. Both seem to have mellow subdued personalities whilst remaining fiercely loyal to their kind. They both even decorate in a warmly antique style.
* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: {{spoiler|Lucinda}} in "Happily Ever Aftermath" is also [[The Sociopath]] according to Spencer.
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* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Hank falls victim to this {{spoiler|thanks to evil mind control cookies from Adalind}}.
** The Coins of Zakynthos do this, giving the person who holds them delusions of grandeur, charismatic influence over others and an obsessive need to possess them. They are explicitly mentioned as being the reason for it the rise of several tyrannical Roman Emperors as well as [[Ghostapo|the Third Reich]]. We even get a glimpse of this in action when Hank and Renard briefly come into contact with them and begin [[Putting on the Reich]].
** Also the power of a frog eating
* [[Brought Down to Normal]]: {{spoiler|Apparently a Grimm’s blood has the power to do this to Hexenbiest, turning them completely human. Adalind ends up learning this the hard way}}.
* [[Buddy Cop Show]]: Twice over, no less. Hank is Nick's partner on the Muggle side, while Monroe helps with the creature stuff.
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** 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 [[
* [[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}}.
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* [[Cultured Badass]]: Captain Renard.
** Monroe can be called this too, given some of his hobbies.
* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: Female Blutbaden get fangs and red eyes when they put on their [[Game Face]]s, but are otherwise much more human-looking than male Blutbaden. Same applies when we see a female Fuschbau. Hexenbiests on the other hand, not so much. YMMV on
** Special mention goes to Rosalee, who is by far the cutest female Wesen seen.
*** Bree Turner the actress who portrays Rosalee is recognized for her big [[Brown Eyes]].
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** When Nick tries to explain Wesen and Grimms to {{spoiler|Juliette}}, he sounds like a rabid fan trying to explain his favorite TV show to someone who never watched the show and is not a fan of the genre. He gets bogged down explaining small details and fails to realize that the other person does not have the same enthusiasm as he is not convinced of the basic premise. Naturally by the end, the other person thinks that he has gone off his rocker.
* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: Or rather, the mouse bites back—with some fairly disturbing results.
* [[Domestic Abuser]]: Klaustreich tend to be irresistible to women but also have a nasty reputation of mistreating them. In "The Thing With Feathers" a
* [[Don't Go in The Woods]]: Ties into the entire mythos of Grimm fairy tales that ominous activity happens in the woods. You can guess where [[Captain Obvious|most of the drama happens in this show.]]
* [[The Dragon]]: Juliette gets kidnapped by one. This is played with, however... {{spoiler|since it's an actual dragon and Nick has to fight it}}!
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** Apparently, the Grimms have become the monsters of ''their'' fairy tales.
{{quote|'''Monroe''': ''You're'' the monster under the bed! [...] You're not ''real!'' You're a scary story we tell our kids! Be good or a Grimm will come and cut your head off...}}
* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: Almost occurs when Monroe spies on the
{{quote|'''Monroe''': I can't be around that guy -- I almost bought him a drink!}}
* [[Every Man Has His Price]]: Monroe disliked being used by Nick for tracking... until Nick offered him a bottle of 1978 Bordeaux for helping out. Monroe had no complaints from there on.
* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]: The villains of "The Thing with Feathers" just can't get that Nick is trying to protect the
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Though you can't exactly call her "evil", [[Fiery Redhead|Angelina]] is this to [[Heroes Want Redheads|Juliette.]]
* [[Exact Words]]: Reginald really should have been careful of how he worded his bargain with Edgar Waltz.
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** "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 (
** "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.
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* [[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
** 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]].
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{{quote|'''Monroe:''' Oh, don't tell me we are going upstairs... Oh my God, we are going upstairs!}}
* [[Ghostapo]]: The coins in "Three Coins in a Fuchsbau" are stated to be responsible for this.
* [[Gladiator Games]]: The
* [[Go Mad
* [[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.
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** 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
* [[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.
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* [[Informed Ability]]: Averted with Monroe, whose day-job occupation as a clockmaker (which he is evidently very good at) comes up in the eighth episode of the first season when he is called upon to identify and provide information about an antique watch. In the next episode, he is called out to fix a clock. {{spoiler|Unfortunately, it turns out to be a ploy to send a message about his work with Nick. He takes it about as well as you'd expect from a [[Retired Monster]]--defiantly}}.
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Zaubertrank are magic potions, but are almost always referred to as Zaubertrank. When Nick asks Monroe why they aren't just referred to as potions, the answer is basically "because Zaubertrank sounds cooler".
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: While it isn't known how taboo it is, the
* [[It's All My Fault]]: Monroe (mostly) and Angelina in "The Three Bad Wolves" {{spoiler|after Hap was assassinated by Orson while the two were away}}.
* [[It's Not You, It's My Enemies]]: Aunt Marie's reason for being an old maid; she suggests it to Nick when she reveals the truth to him about his lineage.
* [[Kavorka Man]]: How ''
* [[Kink Meme]]: [http://grimm-kink.dreamwidth.org/ Yeah, the show has one.]
* [[Knight Templar]]: While we don't know how Grimms operate in the modern world, previous generations are possibly implied to have fallen under this category, judging from [[Oh Crap|the reaction]] of many creatures when they realize what Nick is. Monroe's description of what [[Van Helsing Hate Crime|they did]] to his grandfather certainly paints a vivid description of their form of justice. Although we know that grandpa deserved it. As we know that nearly all Blutbaden are killers, or at least dangerous. Even Monroe admits to having killed before he became reformed, its very hard to say if it was or wasn't justified. So far all the creatures recorded in the Grimm books that Grimms killed deserved it. So mileage may vary on this.
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* [[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
** One of Barry's friends
** 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.
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** Oleg Stark<ref>"Stark" means "a stern, determined or physically strong man".</ref> in "Game Ogre".
** "Organ Grinder", an episode loosely based off of "[[Hansel and Gretel]]", had two central characters named Hanson and Gracie.
** Leo Taymor the
** A bird based Wesen named Robin.
* [[Memetic Badass]]: Grimms to Wesen, [[In-Universe]]. It's important to note that Grimms seem to have no real special powers other than the ability to see Wesen. It's only the centuries of hunting and thus the downright mythical stories told of Grimms by Wesen to each other and their children that give Grimms their fierce reputation and legendary status.
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* [[Opening Narration]]: In this case, it seems, as of the first episode, to be a quote from the fairy tale the villain of the week comes from.
* [[Opium Den]]: Nick and Monroe track a couple of Wesen junkies into one specifically for Wesen (if a human were to smoke the stuff, they’d die). The smoke messes with Monroe’s nose.
* [[The Other Rainforest]]: Set and filmed in Portland, Oregon. There are a lot of little in jokes that are funnier if you're a Portlander or an Oregonian (two
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: Dämonfeuer, Wesen descendent from a dragon-like lineage. They can breath fire by vaporizing their body fat and igniting it, seem to hoard copper, and are {{spoiler|fireproof}}. As with the werewolf entry below, Monroe makes the important distinction that dragons are a myth while the Wesen that inspired them are real.
* [[Our Monsters Are Different]]: Called 'Wesen' in-universe. [[The Other Wiki]] has a more complete list.
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* [[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]]:
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* [[Ship Tease]]: From the moment she showed up, this has been happening between Rosalee and Monroe.
* [[Shout Out]]: In Season 1 Episode 6, a Blutbad, in other words a werewolf of sorts, by the name of [[Mercy Thompson|Adam Hauptmann]] is mentioned.
** In Episode 11, they meet a friend of Monroe's, a [[Black Widow|
** 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
** 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}}.
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* [[Superpowerful Genetics]]: With a magical element. The death of the previous generation passes on the powers to the next. Because Marie has terminal cancer, the abilities were passing to Nick a little at a time. Upon her death, though, the rest showed up.
** Though, this is questionable as it's revealed that {{spoiler|Nick's mother is still very much alive}}.
* [[Swarm of Rats]]: An unlucky music teacher becomes a meal for a pack of hungry rats, and a ''
* [[Television Geography]]: Portland is divided into five geographic sectors—North, Northeast, Northwest, Southeast and Southwest. Every street name is preceded by one of these sector names (i.e. Northeast Tenth Avenue) except for Burnside Street which is labeled "East" or "West". East-west streets can run through two sectors of the city; the names of north-south avenues (which are numbered) can exist in up to four sectors of the city. Therefore, it's important to not only say the name of the street, but also the sector where it exists. In ''Grimm'', names of streets are given without their corresponding sectors (probably to keep viewers from visiting [[Real Life]] addresses).
* [[There Should Be a Law]]: Hap is surprised that it's legal for a Grimm to be a police officer. He is not the brightest guy.
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** 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
** 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.
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* [[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
* [[Wham! Line]]: From "Love Sick".
{{quote|'''{{spoiler|Adalind}}:''' {{spoiler|You killed me}}.
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* [[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''?}}
* [[
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: {{spoiler|Renard}} to Leo in "Last Grimm Standing".
** Renard once again to {{spoiler|Adalind}} sort of.
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