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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 (Creatorcreator)|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.
 
Now Nick must cope with his new abilities, the knowledge that comes with them, and still do his job as a police officer.
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* [[Alien Catnip]]: Apparently mold that’s poisonous to us humans is “meth plus helium” to Wesen.
* [[Ancient Conspiracy]]: Marie warns Nick of a secret organization dedicated to defeating the Grimms and their allies (known as the "Grimm Reapers", of course).
* [[Androcles' Lion]]: ''Last Grimm Standing'' seems to be setting up a situation similar to the aesop after Monroe helps pull a nail from the hand of a gladiator shortly before they are set to fight each other. But the gladiator shows no compunction about killing Monroe and probably would have done so had it not been for Nick's intervention.
* [[Animal Motifs]]: Every Wesen seen so far has had one except for Hexenbiests (eyeless hag-like creatures), Siegbarstes (ogres), Haage and Hässlich (grimm reapers and/or trolls) and well, if you consider the Dämonfeuer as based on dragons that are not really animals but mythical creatures.
* [[Anti -Villain]]: {{spoiler|Marty Burgess}}, arguably, given that he's a [[Serial Killer]] with a very good [[Freudian Excuse]] who only kills [[Jerkass|assholes]]. Although your mileage may vary on that. The people he killed may have been assholes, but they didn't seem to be in any way evil. And he was terrorizing the girl he loved at the end in a big way. Also he killed people when they saw him as harmless and were about to let him go.
** Captain Renard, who protects Nick, even though he is putting himself at risk to do so, but is looking to take the key entrusted to Nick by Aunt Marie.
** Lena, a Spinnetod (spider Wesen) who has to consume the liquefied organs of three men every five years in order to not undergo rapid aging, who is clearly reluctant to do it.
* [[An Arm and Aa 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.
* [[Art Shift]]: Perhaps not an art shift per se, but the show definitely [[Doing It for The Art|takes efforts]] to use color, lighting, shadow and other subtle visual elements to create a quasi-fairy tale/story book appearance within context of realistic visuals.
* [[Asian and Nerdy]]: Sgt. Wu, who [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] the trope.
{{quote| '''Nick''': Can you see who he texted?<br />
'''Wu''': Of course I can; I'm Asian. }}
* [[Asshole Victim]]: The ''fuchsbau'' Lena murders at the start of "Tarantella".
** This is the common trait of all the people killed by {{spoiler|Marty Burgess}}
* [[Assassin Outclassin']]: The Reapers {{spoiler|are killed by Nick.}}
* [[The Atoner]]: Monroe is implied to be one for his previous Big Bad Wolf days.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: The two Wesen junkies in “Island of Dreams”
* [[Badass Boast]]: Nick: "Next time, send your best." {{spoiler|It's sent to the leader of the Reapers, along with the heads of two of his underlings.}}
* [[Badass Family]]: Nick Burkhardt is the latest descendant of the Grimm family who have been hunting "storybook" monsters for generations. In "Tarantella", there's brief mention of a Grimm meeting an Asian doctor who shares their abilities so it may be that the Grimm family is simply the most well known or the name given to people like Nick.
* [[Back -to -Back Badasses]]: Nick and Monroe in "Last Grimm Standing". Didn't last long when the police arrived to arrest everyone involved in the underground gladiator games.
* [[Bee -Bee Gun]] / [[Bee People]] / [[EverythingsEverything's Worse Withwith Bees]]: The Mellifers.
* [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]]:
** Monroe implies that several Hollywood actors are Ziegvolk. NBC's website for the show outright states that Casanova, Frank Sinatra, and JFK were.
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* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: Some of the Wesen. "The Thing With Feathers" features a bird-like woman that makes a gold "stone/egg" in her neck that shatters like glass with impact.
* [[Black Best Friend]]: Hank.
* [[Blessed Withwith Suck]]: Spinnetods. Spider-like beings who are super-strong, super-agile and capable of regenerating any severed limb or appendage. Oh, and they must feed on three human or wesen males every five years, or they suffer massive rapid-aging. Charlotte, a Spinnetod who refuses to feed, appears to be around seventy years old, when in fact, she's actually ''twenty-six''. The two mature female Spinnetods we see seem very reluctant to perform their kills--while being required to kill in one of the most grotesque ways we've seen all season.
* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: Much pain and unintended hilarity for [[German Language|German speakers]]. Starts with simple grammar fail like using adjectives as nouns or wrongly cobbled-together compound words, and ends with completely nonsensical/unintelligible words or horrible dictionary slips (e.g. the supposed 'bee queen' is called "bee gay [person]").
** One could attribute it to 200 years of other non-German Grimms [[Fridge Brilliance|messing up the pronounciation.]] Although you do [[Fridge Logic|have to wonder]] why the ''Wesen'' even call themselves by it, since they existed ''before'' the Grimm brothers labelled them, so its clearly aren't what they were ''originally'' called.
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** Sgt. Wu eats some cookies that weren't meant for him...and his face breaks out in huge boils. Even worse are his hallucinations, where he sees Nick, Eddie, and Rosalee's faces melt off.
* [[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 explicity 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 Onon the Reich]].
** Also the power of a frog eating Ziegvolk can have this effect on people, especially women. So far we haven’t seen anyone do anything violent at a Ziegvolk request, but they where certainly doing things they never would have done otherwise.
* [[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.
* [[Can't Get Away Withwith Nuthin']]: Nick was warned by Adalind in "Beeware" that he needs to protect her or else his reputation will be called into question if Nick allows her to die on his watch.
* [[Cats Are Mean]]: Klaustreich are alley cat-like wesen with a reputation for being dangerous jerks
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: "Sweet Dreams" by the Eurythmics is playing on the iPod of the first victim in the pilot. Later, {{spoiler|the killer begins absentmindedly humming it front of the cops, tipping them off}}. [[Marilyn Manson|Marilyn Manson's cover]] of the song later plays during the pilot's [[Cliff Hanger]].
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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 [[ChekovsChekov'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.}}
* [[Civilian Villain]]: This trope is played with in the case of Monroe the Clockmaker. He is actually a fairy tale creature--a "Wesen"--of the same type as The Big Bad Wolf, but with a careful regimen of "diet, drugs, and pilates", he has gone from a ravening beast to a mostly-regular guy leading a mostly-normal life in the 'burbs.
* [[Come Withwith Me If You Want to Live]]: A very mild version of this happens in “Plumed Serpent”.
* [[Cool Guns]]: The ogre-slaying Elephant Gun in "Game Ogre". Monroe practically [[Squee|squees]] over it.
* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Aunt Marie was prepared with certain rare items and weapons for any supernatural threat.
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** Averted in {{spoiler|"Happily Ever Aftermath"}} so that {{spoiler|you can't tell which one is the murderer.}}
* [[Cycle of Revenge]]: This is depicted and discussed A LOT. Related to [[Feuding Families]] below.
* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: When Nicks fighting a Daemonfeuer he grabs a sheet of Copper to shield himself from the flames. This works without any of the realistic ramifications.
* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Angelina and Adalind
* [[Dark Fantasy]]: Hell yeah.
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** Monroe, the first creature Nick suspects of attacking girls in the woods. He ends up helping Nick find the actual creature in question, another of his kind.
** 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.<br />
'''Nick''': Yeah, it's been lots of fun. }}
** Captain Renard gets a chance too.
{{quote| '''Caller''': Did you get your present?<br />
'''Renard''': Where should I send a thank-you note? }}
* [[Destructive Romance]]: Monroe and Angelina's relationship was depicted as this in episode six.
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** In "Three Bad Wolves", Monroe's ex-girlfriend suggests that Monroe let his wild side out and [[The Alcoholic|offers him a drink.]]
** When Nick tries to explain wesen and Grimms to {{spoiler|Julliette}} 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 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.
* [[Don't Go in The Woods]]: Ties into the entire mythos of Grimm fairytales 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!}}
* [[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.
** Apparently the Grimms have become the monsters of ''their'' fairytales.
{{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...}}
* [[Dramatic Irony]]: The spinnetod in "Tarantella" ends up getting caught by Nick because she becomes entangled in a web that's over water.
* [[Dueling Shows]]: Against ''[[Once Upon a Time (TV series)|Once Upon a Time]]'' and ''[[Supernatural]]''. It shares the same time slot but is on a different channel.
* [[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!}}
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* [[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!<br />
'''Edgar Waltz''': Of course not! You kept your end of the bargain. I wouldn't dream of torturing your ''family''. }}
* [[Eyeless Face]]: The hexenbiests display this trope.
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* [[Expy]]: DJ Retched Kat in "Danse Macabre" is one of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadmau5 deadmau5].
* [[Fairy Tales]]: Each episode is at least partially based off of one.
** The Pilot's main plot is based on "[[Little Red Riding Hood (Literature)|Little Red Riding Hood]]".
** "Bears will be Bears" is partly based on "[[Goldilocks (Literature)|Goldilocksand The Three Bears]]".
** "Beeware" is partly based on "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen_Bee The Queen Bee]".
** "Lonelyhearts" is based off satyrs, with the Grimm tie-in coming from the tale of "[[Bluebeard (Literature)|Bluebeard]]" (or more specifically "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitcher%27s_Bird Fitcher's Bird]", because of {{spoiler|the monsters' abilities to induce lust in a victim through touch, and other habits}} {{spoiler|and his many wives}} (based on both the teaser quote and the name of the [[Monster of the Week]]).
** "Danse Macabre" is based on "[[The Pied Piper of Hamelin (Literature)|The Pied Piper of Hamelin]]".
** "Three Bad Wolves" is based on "[[The Three Little Pigs (Literature)|The Three Little Pigs]]".
** "Let Your Hair Down" is very loosely based on "[[Rapunzel (Literature)|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 (Literature)|Jack and Thethe Beanstalk]]".
** "Of Mouse and Man" is an aversion, since it's taken from [[John Steinbeck (Creator)|John Steinbeck]]'s book ''[[Of Mice and Men (Literature)|Of Mice and Men]]''
** "Organ Grinder" is based on "[[Hansel and Gretel (Literature)|Hansel and Gretel]]".
** "Tarantella" is based on the Japanese fairytale "Jorōgumo"
** "Last Grimm Standing" is based on Androcles {{spoiler|but with the idea averted as the "lion" does not repay the kindness it was shown.}}
** "Three Coins in a Fuchsbau" has a quote from "The Master Thief".
** "Plumed Serpent" has a quote at the beginning from "The Two Brothers".
** "Leave it to Beavers" is based on "[[The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Literature)|The Three Billy Goats Gruff]]".
** "Happily Ever Aftermath" is based on "[[Cinderella (Literature)|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''.
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** 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.
** [[The Dragon]]: Adaind's mother
** [[The Brute]]: The Priest
** [[The Dark Chick]]: Adalind
* [[Five -Man Band]]: One is beginning to take shape:
** [[The Hero]]: Nick
** [[The Lancer]]: Monroe for the wesen stuff, Hank for the cop stuff
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** Also a variation of this trope is played with between Rosalee and Monroe in "Island of Dreams". To confirm that Monroe did in fact know Freddy, Rosalee grabs onto his arm and looks him square in the eye before revealing herself to be a fuchsbau. Monroe's gaze does not falter when he reveals himself to be a blutbad.
* [[Heroic Bystander]]: {{spoiler|[[The Nose Knows|Monroe]] helps Nick track down the rogue Blutbad and the little girl}}.
* [[Hero -Killer]]: Stark from "Game Ogre" is about as close as a one-shot character can get without actually killing anyone.
* [[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.)
* [[Hollywood Satanism]]: In one episode, the medical examiner remarks that Satanic cults of this type were popular during the 80's. (In real-life, there was a [[Witch Hunt|moral panic]] at the time that resulted in many innocent people tried and convicted for nonexistent "Satanic" crimes.)
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* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Nick asked, almost immediately after realizing his abilities as a Grimm, how to stop it.
* [[I Am Not Left -Handed]]: “I didn’t call a fuchsbau” -- cue Blutbad attack.
* [[Immune to Bullets]]: Some wesen are highly resistant to Muggle tactics to taking them down. Nick even referenced he tried macing a teenage wesen who just enjoyed it.
* [[Informed Ability]]: Averted with Monroe, whose day-job occupation as a clockmaker (which he is evidently very good at) comes up in the 8th episode of the 1st 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.}}
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* [[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 ziegevolk in "Lonelyhearts" was able to reproduce with humans, so humans and Wesen are genetically compatible. {{spoiler|While it isn't known how human-Wesen lovers are seen, to the Old Land wesen wedding outside their species is a big no-no and will result in being hunted down and killed.}}
* [[ItsIt's Not You, ItsIt'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.
* [[ItsIt'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}}.
* [[Kavorka Man]]: How ''ziegevolk'' appear to the world: unattractive (or at least, not handsome) men with a knack for landing incredibly attractive women.
* [[Kink Meme]]: [http://grimm-kink.dreamwidth.org/ Yeah, the show has one].
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* [[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''}}.▼
* [[La Résistance]]: There is a resistance movement among wesen that opposes a powerful wesen conspiracy that has been infiltrating human governments and advocates racial purity.▼
▲* [[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.
* [[Love Is in Thethe Air]]: Ziegevolks have the power to charm anyone with their touch.
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[Magical Security Cam]]: [[Implied Trope|Implied]] in 'Beeware' when Nick asks if they can "do anything" (answer: "no, the camera's stationary") with recorded footage of a [[Flash Mob Coverup|flash mob murder]].
* [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]: It is never said for sure if the coins in "Three Coins in a Fuchsbau" are really magical or the people holding them are suffering from delusions caused by arsenic and mercury poisoning. The irony of the situation is that this is a universe with dragons who can breathe fire, trolls who are almost impervious to normal weapons, and satyrs that can charm you with their touch. Given instances of wesen activities (human organs as herbal remedies) and Adalind's special cookies, it may be quasi-magical by our perception but mundane chemistry with a wesen touch in the Grimm universe.
** 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 Onon the Reich|symptoms]] in the people who possess them...
* [[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.
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** In "Beeware" the Queen Bee of the Mellifers is Melissa, which means "honey bee" in Greek.
** In "Lonelyhearts" the antagonist of the episode is a creature based off satyrs. The antagonist is named Billy Capra. As in billy goat, which satyrs have the legs of. And Capra which is the genus of goats.
** Lieutenant Orson in "Three Bad Wolves" shares a name with a pig character from [[US Acres|U.S. Acres]].
** 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 (Literature)|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.
** 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.
* [[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 Withwith Scars]]. Nick fends off another attempt to kill her while visiting her. {{spoiler|She dies in the second episode}}.
** The wesen mentor in "Happily Ever Aftermath" ends up like this too {{spoiler|at the hands of his mentee, no less.}}
* [[Mind Screw]]: In-universe this happens to Hank. Warning to the wary, never eat cookies from a hexenbiest
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** Played with when Wesen attempt to fight Nick, as ''he'' is the monster that ''they'' fear. Given that he's been revealed to be stronger than Monroe, (who can rip a man's arm off), this starts to make sense.
* [[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 Withwith a Crush]] antics.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]] : If you know German (and can get past the [[Blind Idiot Translation]] pain/giggles), then names like Blutbad and Daemonfeuer are this in spades. (Means “Blood Bath” and “Demon Fire” respectively). Some of the other Wesen names are none to cuddly sounding as well.
* [[Never Mess Withwith 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.
* [[The Nose Knows]]: Stated by line by the one who embodies the trope: Monroe.
* [[Non -Human Sidekick]]: Monroe.
* [[Not So Different]]: Orson confronting Nick when the latter knows that he's of Bauerschwein origin. The former believes that they should work together as police officers and not in the Grimm -- Monster hunting view. Nick doesn't agree,{{spoiler|considering Orson's involvement in Hap's death}}.
* [[No Swastikas]]: Subverted. Renard goes into detail about the history of the Swastika, and what it originally meant.
* [[Off Withwith His Head]]: Reapers traditionally kill Grimms by decapitating them with their large scythes. {{spoiler|Nick is able to best two of them and does the same - then sends their heads to their commander as a message.}}
* [[Oh Crap]]: The reaction of various creatures upon learning that Nick is a Grimm has basically been "oh god oh god please don't kill me." Nick has used this to get information, but other times he's clearly getting exasperated at having to explain that he's not the indescriminately beheading type.
** In "Leave it to Beavers", the look the Reaper in Germany has when {{spoiler|he discovers his parcel contains the severed heads of the two Reapers tasked with eliminating Nick. As well as a note from him.}}
{{quote| '''{{spoiler|Nick}}:''' {{spoiler|Next time. Send your best.}}}}
* [[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 Dialogue, Two Conversations]]: Nick and Adalind, since he knows she's a Hexenbiest, and she knows he's a Grimm. When he has to question her for his case, they discuss it but take subtextual shots at each other with their word choice.
* [[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.
* [[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.
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** 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 Bauerschwein are the basis of the [[Three Little Pigs]]. Needless to say, Blutbaden and Bauerschwein typically aren't on friendly terms.
** The Jägerbärs are the basis of the [[EverythingsEverything's Worse Withwith Bears|bears]] of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears".
** The Mellifers are the basis for ''The Queen Bee''.
** The Reinigen are the basis for The Pied Piper.
** Hexenbiests are the basis for several evil witches, including the Evil Queen from ''Snow White'' and the witch from ''Donkey Cabbages''.
* [[Outrun the Fireball]]: Nick does this in “Plumed Serpent”
* [[Out Withwith a Bang]]: {{spoiler|Adalind’s potion was intended to cause this in Hank}}.
* [[Playing With Fire]]: The Wesen in “Plumed Serpent”, known as Daemonfeuer, 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.
* [[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. Futhermore, {{spoiler|if a hexenbiest ingests the blood of a Grimm they [[Brought Down to Normal|become human]].}}
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* [[Professor Guinea Pig]]: the psychiatrist in "Big Feet"
* [[Poisoned Weapons]]: The {{spoiler|bullets}} in Game Ogre were poisoned.
* [[Rape Asas Drama]]: The entire episode of "Lonelyhearts" was about a satyresque monster, making him a serial rapist by human standards.▼
* [[Record Needle Scratch]]: A modern version but in "Leave It To Beaver", Juliette cozies up to Nick and the background music begins to play romantic music. When she reveals she actually just wants to invite Monroe over for dinner, the music stops abruptly.
▲* [[La Résistance]]: There is a resistance movement among wesen that opposes a powerful wesen conspiracy that has been infiltrating human governments and advocates racial purity.
* [[Rewind, Replay, Repeat]]: "Beeware" has Nick repeatedly rewatching the [[Flashmob]] videos taken by various security cams in hopes of finding the person killing people at each [[Flashmob]] event.
▲* [[Rape As Drama]]: The entire episode of "Lonelyhearts" was about a satyresque monster, making him a serial rapist by human standards.
* [[Recurring Extra]]: The beaver creature plumber and his buddies seem to be setting up this way as they reappear in "Let Your Hair Down." As a twist/inversion of a monster movie, he's trying to convince his friends that Grimms are real and they proceed to watch Nick before running away when they are noticed.
* [[Red Eyes Take Warning]]: When Blutbaden get pissed, their eyes turn red.
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* [[Roaring Rampage of Rescue]]: Nick goes on one of these in “Plumed Serpent."
* [[Save the Princess]]: Invoked and Conversed when {{spoiler|Juliette is kidnapped by a Daemonfeuer.}}
* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]: Monroe is breaking all kinds of taboos by helping Nick, but he is not going to let that stop him from doing what he thinks is right. This point is made clear when, in Episode 9 ("Of Mouse and Man"), he's {{spoiler|ambushed by a group of creatures who beat him bloody and unconscious, then scrawl a Reaper scythe emblem on his car; Nick says he won't ask for any more help, but Monroe refuses to knuckle under to threats}}.▼
* [[Secret War]]: See Masquerade.▼
* [[Select Stitch At The Survival Menu]]: One of the bad guys in “Island of Dreams” is shown doing this to himself after the victim takes a good bite out of his leg
▲* [[Screw the Rules I'm Doing What's Right]]: Monroe is breaking all kinds of taboos by helping Nick, but he is not going to let that stop him from doing what he thinks is right. This point is made clear when, in Episode 9 ("Of Mouse and Man"), he's {{spoiler|ambushed by a group of creatures who beat him bloody and unconscious, then scrawl a Reaper scythe emblem on his car; Nick says he won't ask for any more help, but Monroe refuses to knuckle under to threats}}.
{{quote| '''Monroe:''' I'm not really a status quo kind of guy.}}
▲* [[Secret War]]: See Masquerade.
* [[Ship Tease]]: From the moment she showed up, this has been happening between Rosalee and Monroe.
* [[Shout Out]]: In episode 1x06, 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|spinnetod]], named [[CharlottesCharlotte'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]].
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* [[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.}}
* [[Sinister Scythe]]: Seems to be the [[Weapon of Choice]] for the Reapers of the Grimms.
* [[Somebody ElsesElse's Problem]]: Monroe tries so hard to stay out of Nick's investigations... but it seems that he just can't. {{spoiler|After "Of Mouse and Man", the villains basically reverses Monroe's stance on the matter instead of warning him off as they intended. Oops.}}
* [[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?]]
** The premise (the monster hunter is the mythical creature to the mythical creatures) also draws heavily from [[I Am Legend]] (the original story not the movie).
* [[Stalker Withwith 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.
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{{quote| '''Hap''': He's a cop ''and'' a Grimm? Is that even legal?}}
* [[They Look Just Like Everyone Else]]
* [[Things That Go Bump in Thethe Night]]
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: Because, of course, Hitler was a [[Eats Babies|Schakal]]!
* [[To Be Lawful or Good]]:
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{{quote| '''{{spoiler|Nick}}:''' {{spoiler|Next time, send your best.}}}}
* [[Trigger Happy]]: The bad guys in “Island Of Dreams” only meet the ‘shoot at the slightest provocation’ part of the trope description.
* [[Underground Railroad]]: For Wesen who are trying to escape the Old World controlled by [[Evil AristocratsAristocracy|The Seven Families]], there is this as a means of escape in United States.
* [[Useless Security Camera]]: Subverted. They couldn't find the perp with the security cams, but they were able to identify the murder victim and the people standing closest to her so they could question them about the crime. They were also able to nudge an uncooperative witness by reminding him he'd been caught on camera.
* [[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.
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* [[Visual Pun]]: Nick and Monroe at a dog park.
* [[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.
* [[What Happened to Thethe 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.
* [[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 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.}}<br />
'''{{spoiler|Nick}}:''' {{spoiler|You don't look very dead.}}<br />
''{{spoiler|Adalind}}:''' {{spoiler|I'm human.}} }}
** From "Woman in Black".
{{quote| '''{{spoiler|Woman In Black}}:''' {{spoiler|Nick. Nicky, it's me.}}<br />
'''{{spoiler|Nick}}:''' {{spoiler|Mom?}} }}
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Why Did It haveHave to beBe Rats?]]: "Danse Macabre."
* [[WomaninWoman in Black]]: the titular character of , well, "The Woman In Black"
* [[The Wiki Rule]]: [http://grimm.wikia.com/wiki/Grimm_Wiki Check it out here.]
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Nick mixes Blutbaden with werewolves, and asks if he might need silver bullets.
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