History VideoGame / AmericanMcgeesGrimm

* TheComputerShallTauntYou: Subverted. Grimm will only berate you if you fall into a BottomlessPit.

* VillainSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYdmOYSAiw0 The Intro song]].

* AutoAim: Of a sorts. Standing around will make Grimm pee. Jumping while he is doing this will have him jump to the location he was urinating on.

* BrokenAesop: Stories like Cinderella or Rapunzel shouldn't be changed just because they have some unseemly parts to them...''unless'' they had a happy ending to begin with, like ''Literature/AChristmasCarol''.

Originally released as weekly episodes on [=GameTap=] from July 2008 to April 2009, the whole series was made available on {{Steam}} in January 2014.

* TalkingToHimself: Roger L. Jackson is the only voice actor for the game.
** LarynxDissonance: Yup, that's a guy doing Cinderella's voice.

* SophisticatedAsHell: Grimm is like this at times. Despite his preference for filth, he has a surprisingly large and elegant vocabulary.

* SophisticatedAsHell: Grimm is like this at times.

* CatsAreMean: Grimm comes to this conclusion in Puss in Boots. He even considers getting on of his own.

** In The Devil and His Three Golden Hairs, the devil speaks with a scottish accent and mentions [[Film/AustinPowers his 'belleh' and a 'turtle head']].

** Even in the Puss in Boots story, after the {{Grimmification}}, he says the AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs {{Meme}}

* TheElevatorFromIpanema: From episode 7 onward, pausing the game results in a tinny muzak rendition of the opening theme.

* CatsAreMean

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* [[EvilBrit Evil]]/[[TheMeanBrit Mean Brit]] - God help you if Grimm doesn't like the way your story goes...

* {{Grimmification}} - Very literally here.

In this episodic platformer, your player character is Grimm, a dirty dwarf who hates how the fairy tales have turned out and decides to bring back their darker aspects... by running around the settings of said tales, [[WalkingWasteland his very presence]] causing things to become as grim and gruesome as he is.

A ComicBook adaptation by IDWPublishing has Grimm, having successfully Grimmified the fairy tale world, moving on to various ComicBook settings, starting with a CaptainErsatz-filled superhero universe in "[[CrisisCrossover Crisis on Earth 57]]",

* AnAesop - Grimm delivers one of these at the end of each darkened fairy tale, they range from normal, to [[SpaceWhaleAesop Space Whale]], to (unsurprisingly) [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop Family Unfriendly]].
* BloodyHilarious - Most definitely prevalent.
* BrokenAesop - Stories like Cinderella or Rapunzel shouldn't be changed just because they have some unseemly parts to them...''unless'' they had a happy ending to begin with, like ''Literature/AChristmasCarol''.
* CatchPhrase - Grimm's motto is, ''"Happily Ever After" ends NOW!"''

* ChristmasEpisode - Grimm takes on "Literature/AChristmasCarol", then goes on to trash Santa's workshop and hijack his sleigh in order to grimmify all of Edwardian London.

* CrapsackWorld - Grimm's motivation is to transform the MarySuetopia of the fairy tale world into this.

* EarnYourHappyEnding - This seems to be one of Grimm's beliefs. He believes that the "Happy Endings" in modern fairy tales are undeserved by the protagonists.

* GrotesqueCute - The game's visual aesthetic. Behold puppet Satan!
* HalloweenEpisode - Grimm turns "The Master Thief" tale into a cheesy B+ vampire movie.
* HideYourChildren - Averted. They seem to be the official [[ButtMonkey Butt Monkies]] of the game.

* InfantImmortality - See HideYourChildren.

* LoonyFan - Grimm is a [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Death]] fanatic.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge - Grimm likes to give these to abused heroines, such as Cinderella and The Girl Without Hands.

* ShoutOut - To many films, such as ''Film/TheTerminator'' and, more obscurely, ''Film/{{Metropolis}}''.

* SnowMeansDeath - In the ''Godfather Death'' episode, Grimm's progress turns most of the areas into frozen wastelands.
* SophisticatedAsHell - Grimm is like this at times.
* SuperDrowningSkills - Grimm's weakness is liquids of varying types, up to and including vomit.

* TalkingToHimself - Roger L. Jackson is the only voice actor for the game.
** LarynxDissonance - Yup, that's a guy doing Cinderella's voice.

* VillainProtagonist - Grimm himself, though he might argue differently.
* VillainSong - [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYdmOYSAiw0 The Intro song]].
* WalkingWasteland - Grimm brings decay and crapulence to those stories he chooses to rewrite.

!!Provides Examples Of:

* ShoutOut - To many films, such as ''TheTerminator'' and, more obscurely, ''Film/{{Metropolis}}''.
** At the end of the Golden Goose episode, Grimm plans to sail the ship the final level takes place in to VideoGame/YoshisIsland.

* EvilerThanThou: Grimm is this to several of the villains he encounters

* EarnYourHappyEnding - This seems to be one of Grimm's beliefs. He believes that the "Happy Endings" in modern fairy tales are undeserved by the protagonists

* HeroicSociopath - Grimm.

* InfantImmortality - See above.

* BrokenAesop - Stories like Cinderella or Rapunzel shouldn't be changed just because they have some unseemly parts to them...''unless'' they had a happy ending to begin with, like AChristmasCarol.

* ChristmasEpisode - Grimm takes on "AChristmasCarol", then goes on to trash Santa's workshop and hijack his sleigh in order to grimmify all of Edwardian London.

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* HideYourChildren - '''Brutally''' averted. They seem to be the official [[ButtMonkey Butt Monkies]] of the game.

* HideYourChildren - '''Brutally''' averted. They seem to be the offical [[ButtMonkey Butt Monkies]] of the game.

* SpoofAesop: The ultimate result of much of Grimm's interference is such gems like "[[BlackAndGreyMorality you can't get rid of cruelty in your own generation, so why bother]]" and "[[CatsAreMean Felines are cruel and vicious creatures who only help others out of the knowlege that they'll come off better in the long term]]". To show just how bad the SugarBowl is before Grimm comes along, these actually make more sense then the [[BrokenAesop previous]] [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop ones]].

* ShoutOut - To many films, such as ''TheTerminator'' and, more obscurely, ''{{Metropolis}}''.