Grimm (TV): Difference between revisions

** Nick does so a little bit near the end of the second episode.

{{quote|'''Frank Rabe''': It isn't easy to give up your history. You haven't had to give up yours.

** Captain Renard gets a chance too.

{{quote|'''Caller''': Did you get your present?

* [[Destructive Romance]]: Monroe and Angelina's relationship was depicted as this in episode six.

** However, not all primates are hominids. So it would seem her notes were meant to show she thought the hair was from something which is similar to either but not actually fitting in either at the same time.

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything]]:

* [[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 klaustreich is married to a seltenvogel but he keeps her a virtual prisoner and is only interested in harvesting the extremely valuable golden egg growing in her throat.

* [[Dramatic Irony]]: The spinnetod in "Tarantella" ends up getting caught by Nick because she becomes entangled in a web that's over water.

* [[The Dreaded]]: Grimms have a nasty reputation among the supernatural species and merely being in the presence of a Grimm can cause some of the meeker ones to go into panic mode. For the Grimms that have gone up against the more nastier aspects of Wesen society such as that featured in "Organ Grinder" on a regular basis, their cynical [[Kill'Em All]] mentality is perhaps justified/rationalized in their minds simply due to the infrequent instances of running into people like Hap and Monroe.

{{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 Ziegvolk, who can generate lust-inducing pheromones, for Nick.

{{quote|'''Monroe''': I can't be around that guy -- I almost bought him a drink!}}

* [[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.

{{quote|'''Reginald''': You promise you won't hurt my family!

* [[Eyeless Face]]: The hexenbiests display this trope.

* [[Fairy Tales]]: Each episode is at least partially based off of one.

** "Beeware" is partly based on "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen_Bee The Queen Bee]".

** "Danse Macabre" is based on "[[The Pied Piper of Hamelin]]".

** "Let Your Hair Down" is very loosely based on "[[Rapunzel]]". Loosely in that she's a [[Wild Child]] Blutbad who strangles someone in her first appearance.

** "Game Ogre" is loosely based on "[[Jack and the Beanstalk]]".

** "Organ Grinder" is based on "[[Hansel and Gretel]]".

** "Three Coins in a Fuchsbau" has a quote from "The Master Thief".

** "Plumed Serpent" has a quote at the beginning from "The Two Brothers".

* [[Femme Fatale]]: Adalind Schade, and possibly all the hexenbeist who are said to be lovely in human form, and are loyal servants to royalty.

* [[Feuding Families]]:

** The Grimms have been killing Wesen for centuries, and the families of the dead hold grudges. Monroe's grandfather was killed by a Grimm and he is afraid that he will be disowned if his family finds out that he is helping Grimms instead of killing them.

** Other species tend to operate more on natural animal lines - the snake creature that appears in "Of Mouse and Man" suggests that they are natural predators/antagonists towards the mouse creature that also appears.

* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Angelina.

* [[Five-Bad Band]]: Possibly:

** [[The Big Bad]]: Renard, if he is even bad, which is unknown.

* [[Five-Man Band]]: One is beginning to take shape:

** [[The Big Guy]]: Monroe when he put his [[Game Face]] on.

* [[Flash Back]]: Nick gets them to things Aunt Marie told him, and to earlier experiences with Adalind.

* [[Flashmob]]: "Beeware".

** 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 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.

** 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]].

* [[Genre Blind]]: Nick. He doesn't understand the purpose of wolfsbane or walking through water when trying to track down {{spoiler|a Big Bad Wolf in human clothing}}.

** Justified in he is new and used to only going after human suspects. Or not, in that he seems never to have read fairy tales or seen a horror movie. Those are also pop culture references.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Monroe.

{{quote|'''Monroe:''' Oh, this is usually the part in the movie where the sidekick gets it.}}

{{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.

* [[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.

** Some Wesen names have roots in other languages, such as Greek.

** There's also some [[Gratuitous French]], as Renard talks to his cohorts/superiors in French occasionally.

* [[Heart Is an Awesome Power]]: Reinigen. Suddenly the ability to control rats with music doesn't seem so harmless anymore...

* [[Held Gaze]]: Naturally occurs between Nick and Juliet.

* [[He's Dead, Jim]]: Aunt Marie fights off another would-be assassin, then delivers [[Last Words]] to Nick: "Follow your instincts, believe nothing else" before the scene changes to Nick and his girlfriend at the cemetery.

* [[Hive Mind Testimonial]]: The interviews with the "flash mob" come out like this. Nick even comments on it, asking the last suspect why it sounds like there's an echo in the room. (Of course, they're bees. It IS a hive.)

** 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.

* [[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|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.

* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Nick asked, almost immediately after realizing his abilities as a Grimm, how to stop it.

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: The episode title "Game Ogre" (game over).

* [[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".

* [[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 ''ziegevolk'' appear to the world: unattractive (or at least, not handsome) men with a knack for landing incredibly attractive women.

* [[Lady in Red]]: Blutbaden are provoked by the color red. Which is worrying, since Nick's girlfriend Juliette often wears red.

* [[The Lancer]]: Hank Griffin in law-enforcement matters and Monroe regarding Grimms and the supernatural.

* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: In "Beeware", {{spoiler|Nick guns down a Mellifer queen. At the end of the episode, he's stung by a bee. What makes this look a lot like direct payback is the fact that the bee first lands gently on the back of his right hand, ambles around harmlessly for a moment, and then ''stings his trigger finger''}}.

* [[Loners Are Freaks]]: The ostracized teenager in "Danse Macabre" was treated like this. In the same episode, Nick empathizes with the teen and implies that he was once a loner, too.

* [[Made of Iron]]: Ogres are ridiculously hard to kill, but they're not immortal. The simple way to kill them is with an extremely rare poison that calcifies their bones and makes them brittle enough to shatter from the inside out; or, simple overwhelming force can be applied. Both of these approaches get combined when {{spoiler|Monroe poisons the rounds he fires through Marie's antique triple-barrel elephant rifle, taking Stark down in one shot}}. Presumably, anything invoking the [[Chunky Salsa]] Rule would also work.

** Grimms are also this to a degree. That Nick was capable of taking a beating from a Skalenzahne in "Last Grimm Standing" and ''still'' manage to easily best it, heavily implies that Grimms have far superior strength and stamina than most ''Wesen''. The aforementioned Ogre however, is something clearly beyond even their limits.

* [[Masquerade]]: The fight between the Grimms (and their allies) against the creatures who aren't as concerned with humans, which continues to the 21st century as ordinary persons do not know about this fight. The two factions want it that way.

** Although, if you look carefully, Hank, who was affected by the coins, never came into skin contact with them...

** Not to mention the fact that the coins bring out the ''exact'' same [[Putting on the Reich|symptoms]] in the people who possess them...

** One of Barry's friends Jägerbar 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]]...

** "Organ Grinder", an episode loosely based off of "[[Hansel and Gretel]]", had two central characters named Hanson and Gracie.

** Leo Taymor the Lowen in "Last Grimm Standing". Nick actually [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshades]] this one.

* [[Men Are the Expendable Gender]]: Overwhelmingly, victims tend to be male. Even the initial multi-victim attack in "Bigfoot" ends up with the sole female still alive.

* [[Mentor Occupational Hazard]]: Aunt Marie ends up in a hospital bed after an attack by Hulda the Troll, and a nurse reveals Marie's body is [[Covered with Scars]]. Nick fends off another attempt to kill her while visiting her. {{spoiler|She dies in the second episode}}.

* [[Monster of the Week]]: Looks like that's going to be the format here. That said, the show does seem to make an effort to have recurring creatures outside of the [[Myth Arc]] creatures like blutbaden. As the series has progressed and matured to the point where much of the initial world building has already taken place, it has become less about new monsters and more about the drama. To a certain extent, the [[Police Procedural]] aspects have been toned down as well, serving more as an excuse for Nick to get involved/informed about the situation than as an actual story line where someone gets arrested.

* [[Monsters Anonymous]]: Monroe.

* [[Muggles]]: Anyone who isn't a Grimm or one of the creatures he hunts. Nick has to deal with weird reactions from his partner because his partner is a regular mortal human.

* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]: Goes right along with Ariel's [[Stalker with a Crush]] antics.

* [[Never Mess with Granny|Never Mess with Auntie]]: Aunt Marie really puts the English on the trope given she's ''dying of a terminal illness'' and still takes on Hulda with only a knife and her [[Bald of Awesome]]. We find out later she was a [[Badass Bookworm]], having been a librarian by trade. A knife concealed in the handle of [[Sword Cane|her cane]], that is. She also stares down Monroe while she's clinging to life in a hospital bed. Considering we see Monroe rip off a man's arm a few scenes later, that took no small amount of guts.

* [[Non-Human Sidekick]]: Monroe.

* [[Non-Idle Rich]]: Though not exactly rich, Monroe is affluent enough to indulge in fairly niche hobbies and has enough spare time to help Nick out on a regular basis. Given his occupation though, it's perhaps justified as people of his skill and talent are few and far between so he can charge a premium.

* [[The Nose Knows]]: Stated by line by the one who embodies the trope: Monroe.

* [[No Swastikas]]: Subverted. Renard goes into detail about the history of the Swastika, and what it originally meant.

* [[Once an Episode]]: Each episode begins with a quote from a story or fairytale relevant to the episode in question. Nick also ends up calling on Monroe for ''something'' in every episode, whether Monroe likes it or not.

* [[One-Gender Race]]: The satyr-like Ziegevolk, who impregnate human women. Also, all Hexenbiests seen so far are female. The Spinnetods are not a one gender race, but only the females have the degenerative condition that makes them prey on young men, and the males are, as a rule, killed by their mates (the husband Spinnetod in "Tarantella" being an exception).

* [[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.

* [[Our Monsters Are Different]]: Called 'Wesen' in-universe. [[The Other Wiki]] has a more complete list.

** Judging by the medical records of the ogre Nick encounters, it seems that a lot of the monster's abilities are natural and can be detected through mundane means. It's when they get excited, frightened, aroused, or other natural biological triggers that they demonstrate greater than human abilities.

** The Blutbaden are the basis of [[The Big Bad Wolf]]. Despite Monroe's condescension for Nick's comment about silver bullets, they are [[Our Werewolves Are Different|basically werewolves by a different name]].

** The Mellifers are the basis for ''The Queen Bee''.

** Hexenbiests are the basis for several evil witches, including the Evil Queen from ''Snow White'' and the witch from ''Donkey Cabbages''.

* [[Out with a Bang]]: {{spoiler|Adalind’s potion was intended to cause this in Hank}}.

* [[Poisoned Weapons]]: The {{spoiler|bullets}} in Game Ogre were poisoned.

* [[Product Placement]]:

** iPod, iPhone, and Nike, all within the first five minutes of the first episode.

** "Beeware" has the sounds particular to Android phones.

* [[Rape as Drama]]: The entire episode of "Lonelyhearts" was about a satyresque monster, making him a serial rapist by human standards.

* [[Red Eyes Take Warning]]: When Blutbaden get pissed, their eyes turn red.

{{quote|'''Monroe''': Maybe I should just get you your own key.}}

{{quote|'''Monroe:''' I'm not really a status quo kind of guy.}}

* [[Ship Tease]]: From the moment she showed up, this has been happening between Rosalee and Monroe.

** Ariel Eberhart claims she got her dragon tattoo "long before [[The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo|that book]] came out."

* [[Sinister Scythe]]: Seems to be the [[Weapon of Choice]] for the Reapers of the Grimms.

* [[Spiritual Successor]]: So Nick is essentially [[The Chosen One]] who protects people from the forces of darkness, his mentor Aunt Marie is a librarian with a weapons cabinet and a giant book of demons (and she can kick ass). And the monsters have a [[Game Face]] that looks oddly familiar. And David Greenwalt is the executive producer. [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Remind you of anything?]]

* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Ariel Eberhart somehow manages to come across as this, even though Nick was the one stalking ''her'' (well, following her for a case, technically speaking). {{spoiler|Of course, it's all part of her plan}}.

* [[Status Quo Is God]]: In-universe example. The Reapers don't take kindly to anyone messing with the status quo of the supernatural system and alliances. Nick's crossing lines and making certain allies is not well liked as a result.

* [[Stock Sound Effects]]: Several of the over-the-top type, probably to enhance the "supernatural creatures out of folk tales" feel.

* [[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.

* [[Swarm of Rats]]: An unlucky music teacher becomes a meal for a pack of hungry rats, and a ''reinigen'' can actually control them.

* [[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.

{{quote|'''Hap''': He's a cop ''and'' a Grimm? Is that even legal?}}

* [[Things That Go Bump in the Night]]

* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: Because, of course, Hitler was a [[Eats Babies|Schakal]]!

* [[To Be Lawful or Good]]:

** 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.

* [[Took a Level In 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.

* [[Underground Railroad]]: For Wesen who are trying to escape the Old World controlled by [[Evil Aristocracy|The Seven Families]], there is this as a means of escape in United States.

* [[California Doubling|Vancouver Doubling]]: Averted. The series is both set and filmed in [[The Other Rainforest|Portland, Oregon]], with the exception of the end chase scene of "Lonelyhearts", which is filmed on location an hour or so up the highway.

* [[Vegetarian Vampire|Vegetarian Werewolf]]: Monroe is one now, but wasn't always.

** Charlotte in "Tarantella" is an example of what happens to Spinnetod women if they succeed in resisting the urge to kill every five years. The result is [[Younger Than They Look|rapid aging]].

* [[Wall of Weapons]]: Nick has one in his trailer. Monroe finds it—and the rest of the Grimm 'lair'--to be appropriately cool and scary from his perspective as a blutbad.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Melissa and her minions, killing Hexenbiests because they're evil.

* [[Wham! Line]]: From "Love Sick".

** From "Woman in Black".

* [[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|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.

* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Nick mixes Blutbaden with werewolves, and asks if he might need silver bullets.

{{quote|'''Monroe''': What, are you an ''idiot''?}}