History Characters / GrimmMain

* ActionGirl[=/=]DarkActionGirl: With her Hexenbiest powers and enhanced strength, she was able to kill a huge thug and even fight Nick for a short while (but was still completely beaten). However, after being BroughtDownToNormal, she seemed to have no combat skills. Her morality began shifting around in Seasons 3 and 4 [[spoiler:when she eventually regained her powers and one of the first things she did was save Meisner's life by killing a Verrat agent with them. The birth of Diana around the same time triggered her MamaBear instincts]], and she constantly wavered around the moral totem until she finally chose a side [[spoiler:when she had her second child]].

* HeroesWantRedheads: Nick is in love with her.

[[folder: Nick Burkhardt]]

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler: At the end of the season 2 finale Nick is "zombified" by Baron Samedi.]]

--> '''Nick''' (Looking fondly at his collection of weapons): ''[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Decapitari]]''... I kind of like that.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: His response to Reapers attempting to kill him? [[spoiler: Send their severed heads back in a box, with a note;]]
--> '''Nick''': [[spoiler: Next time, send your ''best''.]]

* BroughtDownToNormal: In the season 3 finale [[spoiler: Adalind does some kind of crazy Hexenbiest thing to him to take away his Grimm abilities.]] [[spoiler:This gave him and Juliette much debate in the early episodes of season 4 if he still wants to protect Portland as a Grimm or not. In the end he does.]]

** Other case in point? Having [[spoiler: beaten a Royal Family agent to death with a hammer after said agent attacked him with deadly intent, and thrown the body in the river. In fact, as the season progresses he's racking up an impressive body-count.]]

* LastOfHisKind: Subverted. He's just the last of his family but there are other Grimms.
** [[spoiler: Subverted even further, as we learn that his mom is still alive. Then double-subverted at the end of Season 4 when she is murdered by Prince Kenneth.]]

* NervesOfSteel: Has yet to seriously lose his cool and is essentially never flustered or indecisive. He finally does snap in “Cry Havoc”, after [[spoiler: his mother is murdered]]; however, even then he only needs around five minutes before he’s back in control and plotting his vengeance.

* NoSell: His Grimm powers allow him to ignore or work around many of the more-dangerous Wesen abilities. [[spoiler: Downplayed with Cracher-Mortel venom. Although he was able to resist the mind-controlling effect, the venom still left him in an extremely dangerous and feral state.]]

* PapaWolf: Has vowed to protect his and [[spoiler: Adalind's]] newborn son Kelly. The same applies to Adalind's daughter, Diana.
* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler: His mother faked her death and left him with his aunt when he was a child. This was in order to protect him from Wesen who might attack him in order to get to her.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: [[spoiler: In the epilogue, an adult Diana talks about "Mom and Dad" with her half-brother, Kelly, which indicates that she views Nick as her father, too.]]

* RiseFromYourGrave: [[spoiler: Baron Samedi places Nick's comatose and heavily toxin-ed body into a coffin to transport him to Europe for Eric. Nick wakes up, punches his way out of the coffin, resists the Baron's second attempt to control him and proceeds to beat the crap out of everyone on the plane before crashing it and escaping.]]

* SuperReflexes: Appears to have gotten these due to [[spoiler: the venom of the Cracher-Mortel Baron Samedi, to the point where he can catch a small statue thrown at him without even looking. They appear to have gone away with his return to [[CameBackWrong semi-normal]].]]

-->'''Monroe (On Nick about to enter a place when the owner is away)''': Don't you need a warrant for that?\\
'''Nick:''' You're right. (beat) You do it.\\

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Nick is subject to this a lot, like when a group of coyotls thinks he and Hank are just two cops with no idea what they are getting themselves into in addition to being out numbered, or in the rare instance where he gets to pull this on someone who knew he was a Grimm when the Reaper dispatcher sends ''two'' Reapers to catch him by surprise, only to get [[LosingYourHead a rather disturbing package in the mail]].
** [[spoiler: Also does this himself with Renard in "Face Off". You can tell from his expression that he had started to take for granted that he could defeat almost anything he faced in a fair fight. When Renard breaks out the ninja moves it really drives home what he's saying about how Nick doesn't know what he's dealing with. Though Nick did recover quickly, so its still unclear who would have won if they hadn't stopped the fight.]]

* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Tends to be averted - Nick is well aware that most people not already aware of Grimms and Wesen would probably think he was insane if he tried to tell them, so he instead lies about or feigns ignorance of the supernatural side of things. [[spoiler: When he does have to tell Juliette, he plays this trope straight, taking her to the trailer full of books and weapons and then trying to tell her far too much too fast, so that in his eagerness to open up to her, he comes across as a babbling loon. Understandably, she thinks he needs professional help. He gets to the point he was about to have Monroe show her Monroe's Wesen form, despite knowing there was a very good chance she could GoMadFromTheRevelation.]]

** [[spoiler: After his mother really is murdered, he turns this on Kenneth and kills him within barely an hour of her death.]]

[[folder: Hank Griffin]]

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Hank falls victim to this [[spoiler: thanks to evil mind control cookies from Adalind]].

* HeroicWillpower: He's got a little of this considering [[spoiler: he handles and recovers from the BrokenMasquerade pretty well once he finds out he's not crazy. It probably helped that the first Wesen he's properly introduced to are his close friend and goddaughter.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: In "Bad Moon Rising" he's fresh off [[spoiler: a BrokenMasquerade after weeks of nightmares and thinking he's going mad. And then a Coyotl in full GameFace rushes him. What does Hank do? Takes him out with one punch.]]

** As of "Big Feet," Hank's censor has been badly damaged after seeing Monroe with his GameFace on (although he didn't recognize him), and even more after watching [[spoiler: a Wildermann go from game face to human as he dies.]]

[[folder: Monroe]]

-->'''Monroe''': It's a ''baritone,'' not a tweety!

** We finally get to see what he'll do to defend Rosalee while in full blown love in "One Angry Fuchsbau". [[spoiler: [[CurbStompBattle Mr. Zeigevolk, meet shelf]].]]

** A notable onscreen instance occurs in "Season of the Hexenbiest". [[spoiler: On his own volition, he visits Hank in the hospital to see how he's doing and takes some initiative in helping find Hank's attackers. Despite the fact that he only really knows Hank through Nick and doesn't really have any other connection.]]

* FalselyReformedVillain: Played with. Monroe 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.

** Goes on one leading a whole pack of Blutbad against a [[SerialKiller murderous]] Bauerschwein [[EvilChef chef]]. [[spoiler: It was all an act to scare the chef into confessing.]]

[[folder: Juliette Silverton]]

* AmnesiacLover: [[spoiler: Interestingly, she doesn't abandon Nick, and they still like each other, so this may be one of the more benign versions of this trope. She later recovers.]]
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: She returns in the final scene in "Wesen Nacht", now working in Hadrian's Wall under her new alter ego Eve.]]

* BloodFromTheMouth: This is how we see that [[spoiler: Trouble's shots hit home and that Juliette's truly dying]].

* CharacterDeath: Juliette's behavior [[spoiler: as a Hexenbiest]] in the second half of Season 4 fulfills Aunt Marie's fears from the pilot when Trubel [[spoiler: is forced to perforate her with several crossbow bolts before Juliette can kill Nick. She is the first main cast character to die after a handful of close calls with her and the others throughout the series.]]

** And in "Eye of the Beholder", she takes it even further against a Klaustreich intruder who has incapacitated Nick, first by attacking him [[InTheBack from behind]] and choking him, then clapping her hands over his ears ("boxing" them), clawing at his eyes, [[GroinAttack kicking him in the balls]], and hitting him with a [[FryingPanOfDoom frying pan]]. When [[spoiler: he Woges]], she [[NoSell hits him with the pan]] ''[[NoSell again]]'', then proceeds to [[ImprovisedWeapon introduce him to the contents of her kitchen]]. By the time Nick gets there, he's more or less rescuing the intruder from ''her''.

* {{Deal with the Devil}}: with Royals [[spoiler:after she becomes an Hexenbiest. Angry with Nick and their friends for their supposed betrayal, she helps the Royal to lure Nick's mother, Kelly Burkhardt, in a trap to kidnap the king's granddaughter Diana. But then the Royals kill Kelly and leave her head behind for Nick to find it, and when he and Juliette meet again, she claims that she didn't know Royals would have also killed Kelly, as if the latters' previous actions suggested that they would have acted differently.]]

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: In season 4 she's [[spoiler: turned into an extremely powerful Hexenbiest]].

* EvenEvilHasStandards: She looked remorseful when Kenneth's plan to [[spoiler:lure Kelly into a trap, kill her and retrieve Diana]] worked, as well as when [[spoiler:Diana asks where her "mommy" is.]]
** She later outright states to Nick that [[spoiler:she only thought Kenneth wanted to return Diana into the Royals' custody without killing Kelly.]]

* EvilWearsBlack: [[spoiler: Juliette after her FaceHeelTurn]].

* ForcedTransformation: At the end of "Chupacabra", [[spoiler: Juliette becomes a Hexenbiest.]]
* FriendToAllLivingThings: She's a vet. Lampshaded by Rosalee that she and Nick are rare people who don't judge Wesen and still remain friends with them. Most importantly, they don't try to cut their heads off. However, Juliette has her limits. [[SubvertedTrope Ask the ogre...]] [[DomesticAbuse or Joe]].
* GuiltComplex: [[spoiler: About not remembering Nick]].
** [[spoiler:Eve feels terrible for all the horrible things she did as Juliette and is seeking redemption.]]

* {{Humanshifting}}: [[spoiler: Uses a potion to disguise herself as Renard in "The Believer".]]

* ImprobableAimingSkills: "Island Of Dreams" is said to be the first time she's ever shot a gun, and yet she dead eyes it at first shot. Just to prove that wasn't a fluke, she gets a perfect grouping around that first shot. This was referenced after she [[spoiler:fires at Renard during their close brush with DestructoNookie]], the police are called in and Nick remarks "These are warning shots - if she wanted to hit the intruder, he'd be dead. She's too good of a shot to miss."
* INeedAFreakingDrink: She states this after [[spoiler:seeing Bud, Rosalee, and Monroe explain ''what'' they are and fully Woge in front of her.]] They agree and look to give her one.

-->'''Juliette:''' We know a lot of Wesen.
-->'''Alicia:''' Juliette...''you don't know what you're talking about.''
-->'''Juliette:''' I ''do'' know what I'm talking about! Nick is a Grimm!
-->'''Nick:''' ''([[ThisIsGonnaSuck deflated look of resignation]])''
-->'''Alicia:''' ''(woges)'' [[OhCrap No...]] [[RapidFireNo Nononononono...]] ''(runs away as fast as she can)''

* KindlyVet: She's a vet, and she is in fact a friendly person (when she's not being threatened). [[spoiler:AvertedTrope after becoming a Hexenbeist.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler: She spends a long stretch of time remembering everything except for Nick.]]

* NeverMyFault: In "Hibernaculum" she starts blaming Nick, Monroe and Rosalee for her [[spoiler: being turned into a Hexenbiest as a side effect of re-Grimm-ifying Nick]], even though it was her decision to do it in the first place; Nick wanted to find a different way. Though, she didn't seem to feel that way at first, it seems to be a trait that comes with [[spoiler: being a Hexenbiest. According to Adalind, being a hexenbiest changes the way you feel and think.]]
* PowerIncontinence: [[spoiler:She hasn't gotten her new Hexenbiest powers under control yet and has damaged the glass in the picture frames around the house, made the back of a Wesenrein follower's head blast off, and blew up the car engine of a jerkass who almost hit her and walked away unapologetically. She didn't even realize she did the last one in her moment of rage]].

* PsychoExGirlfriend: The first thing she does after [[spoiler:finding out Adalind is pregnant with Nick's child and allying with Kenneth? Burn everything in his trailer.]]
--> "I guess I went a little overboard when I found out [[spoiler:that ''whore'' was pregnant with... a little Grimm."]]
* ReadingsAreOffTheScale: Juliette [[spoiler:isn't just a Hexenbiest, her blood is off-the-charts powerful to boot. It caused a potion to boil over and burn a hole deep into the earth.]]

* StoryBreakerPower: Juliette/Eve has telekinesis strong enough to lift a grown human off the ground, the ability to basically rewrite someone's anatomy (removing a guy's mouth, ears and eyes by doing little more than touching him for a few seconds), the power of forcing someone into a coma and subsequently bringing them back, and that's just scratching the surface of what it's implied Hexenbiests are capable of. Henrietta even told Nick that Juliette is on a level of her own. She's easily one of the most powerful characters in the show. [[spoiler: Subverted, however, when she tries to take on the dangerous [[EvilSorcerer Zauberbiest]] Conrad Bonaparte. While she gives a good fight, Conrad proves to be not only just as powerful but equally skilled and fatally wounds her.]]
* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler: By the end of Season 4, the guilt of what she's done (especially her part in the death of Nick's mother) starts to overpower the power trip induced by her Hexenbiest side. She goes back to the house and asks Nick to kill her, only attacking him when it becomes apparent that he can't follow through. Trubel ends up shooting her with arrows and Nick is devastated.]]

* ThereIsNoCure: After she's [[spoiler:turned into a Hexenbiest]] as a side-effect of a spell involving her, she approaches Henrietta for help, only to be told her [[spoiler:transformation]] can't be reversed. She slowly but surely goes out of control with her newfound powers from there. [[spoiler:Ultimately {{subverted}} in the show's last few episodes, where she as Eve is rendered human after returning to Earth from the Woge-affecting [[MagicalLand Other Place]], with Diana speculating the Hexenbiest part of her got left behind there -- a time reset returns her to her Hexenbiest state]].

** In season 4, [[spoiler:she becomes a Hexenbiest -- a powerful one. And she beats the crap out of Adalind.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: She swings rather quickly from trying to accept herself as [[spoiler: a Hexenbeist (and fearing Nick's reaction to it)]] to aggressively confronting Nick about it. This leads to her leaving Nick (again) when he doesn't [[spoiler:immediately kiss her Hexenbiest form. This is despite the fact that Nick was recently raped by a Hexenbeist. Also, a Hexenbeist's Wesen form bears a remarkable resemblance to a rotting corpse, which would make Nick border on ILoveTheDead if he had gone along with it immediately.]] Following that, [[spoiler:she gradually becomes more unpredictable and murderous until her complete FaceHeelTurn in "Iron Hans." She also burns down the trailer and becomes involved in the murder of Nick's mother though she didn't mean for Kelly to die.]]
* TranquilFury: [[spoiler: After committing herself to revenge against Adalind, she dips into this state and rarely leaves it.]]

* WalkingSpoiler: Suffice to say, everything you know about her changes dramatically about halfway through season 4.

* {{With Us or Against Us}}: When she comes to know about Adalind[[spoiler:'s pregnancy]], she wants to kill her[[spoiler: and her baby]], and when Nick stops Juliette from doing it, she angrily claims that he's choosing Adalind over her[[spoiler:, so it doesn't matter that he's bound to protect his child: for her, Nick's actions mean only that he doesn't care about her anymore.]]
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: [[spoiler: Becoming a supercharged Hexenbeist took a major toll on Juliette's psyche, completely altering her personality. She tries to remain sane but her isolation from her friends results in her changing from a sweet, lovable person to a psychopathic villainess. When she returns halfway through Season 5 as "Eve", she drops any personality she had and becomes a Kubrick Starer.]]
* WomenAreWiser: Subverted. Juliette's most obvious character trait is how calm, rational and well-adjusted she is... but for the most part Nick [[NervesOfSteel is]] [[NiceGuy the]] [[GoodIsNotSoft same way]]. This makes Nick and Juliette potentially the most stable and non-dramatic relationship on television. [[spoiler: Of course, until she gets amnesia, that is. But she has gotten better, so they're displaying the potential to return to this trope. Until she became a Hexenbeist in Season 4 and it all went down the drain.]]

[[folder: Captain Sean Renard]]

* TheDragon: [[spoiler: To Bonaparte during the later half of season 5, as the public face of Black Claw's mayoral campaign and highest ranking supporter.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Decides to give [[spoiler:Meisner]] a quicker death than [[spoiler:being painfully Force-choked by Bonaparte,]] and is also horrified to discover that [[spoiler:his girlfriend was killed by his own daughter.]]
* EvilCounterpart: It hasn't been explicitly pointed out but his skills, methods and to a certain extent his personality are very similar to Nick's. Both are smart and pragmatic and [[NervesOfSteel never lose their cool]]. Both have an inherent ability that gives them status and that they use to intimidate and give themselves gravitas. Both are willing to use their status as cops to divert investigations when it suits them and both prefer to play the various Wesen sides off against each other in order to further their own goals. Just look at how Renard deals with [[spoiler: his relatives]] compared to how Nick handles [[spoiler: the two Grimm reapers]].

* AFatherToHisMen: His actions so far show that he genuinely cares for the well being of his men, Nick particularly. This last fact has made him no friends among the creature organization he belongs to.
** On the other hand, he has no problem having Adalind drug Hank to get closer to Nick. And in the same note, when she [[spoiler: is BroughtDownToNormal, he has no compulsion to provide her with protection any more since she's of no use to him.]] So it may be that he's more motivated by pragmatism than any actual sense of compassion.

* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler: He is half-Zauberbiest. But there is a twist in that it still not certain if his Royal half is completely human.]]

* ImpoverishedPatrician[=/=]SelfMadeMan: Implies that his family has lost most of its wealth and prestige since the French Revolution. Seems to be doing pretty well for himself, indicating that he's rebuilt his fortune and power base from the ground up.
** As of Season 2 it turns out [[spoiler: his family's doing just fine, but he's had to build up his own powerbase on account of being born on the wrong side of the sheet.]]
* KangarooCourt: He arranges one to acquit himself after Nick accuses him of killing [[spoiler:Rachel Wood.]]

* NightmareFace: [[spoiler: Zauberbiest: his Wesen side is certainly horrific.]]

* PetTheDog: He demonstrates great disdain for [[spoiler: the human organ harvesting operation in "Organ Grinder" even though it's a creature thing.]] It would suggest that he has an important distinction between creature business (wolves and pigs, bees and Hexenbiests, creature versus humans of ill-repute) and creature business that gets innocents involved. For instance, he gets pretty upset when a Lowen running an underground Wesen blood sport starts picking up (ie kidnapping) Wesen that aren't on an approved list of criminals and convicts - so much so that when the Lowen doesn't back down (stop the fights), Renard brings down God's Wrath and has the Lowen killed.

** He was very happy to learn [[spoiler: he has a daughter, despite the situation (such as there's a possibility she is his niece instead). And he wants her and her mother to be safe.]]
** In a turnaround from [[KickTheDog his treatment]] of [[spoiler: Adalind]] in the first season, he spends the third season [[spoiler: trying to keep her safe even after their daughter is taken away from them.]]

--> '''Renard''': And this little piggy... went to jail.

* RoyalBlood: He is referenced to have some royal line through him when another Wesen calls him "Your Highness" and refers to the old days.
** Has mentioned that his family "lost a lot of heads" in the French revolution.
** [[spoiler: He is the illegitimate son of a King and a Hexenbiest mistress.]]
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: He's a cop [[spoiler: and the leader of a group working against the Royal Families usurping power in Europe.]]

* StiffUpperLip: [[spoiler: Boy howdy. His ability to maintain his human face under practically any circumstances is truly amazing. Whether in a fight or holding the coins, he has never ever slipped. The only time he does so is when he's about to chug a mysterious Zaubertrank which, rightfully, he's more than a little wary of.]]
** [[spoiler:He does also almost lose it as a result of the side effects of said Zaubertrank - namely, obsession with Juliette.]]
** [[spoiler: Renard has completely lost it at least twice, though both were partially intentional.]]

* TunelessSongOfMadness: [[spoiler: When possessed by the psychopathic spirit of Jack the Ripper in Season 4, he can occasionally be heard belting out a MurderBallad while doing something monstrous.]]

* WildCard: Seriously, whose side is this guy on? We know he [[spoiler: is a Royal bastard, who]] is working for the Royals to get Nick's key [[spoiler: but then gives it back to Nick once he finds it]], is in direct contact with the Wesen Council, seems to genuinely care about his work as a Portland police captain, and is trying to get Nick for an ally [[spoiler: and has, to a degree, succeeded]]. He's on [[DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent none of those sides.]] He's also high up in another organization that's allied with but separate from [[spoiler: the anti-Royal resistance]], but we still don't know what their goals are. And later on, when Black Claw sought to turn him to their side, he accepted their offer [[spoiler:and ran for mayor on their behalf, making enemies with both the Resistance and Nick. After Diana uses her powers to make him kill Bonaparte, he cuts his ties with Black Claw, reforming a shaky alliance with Nick.]]
* WorfHadTheFlu: [[spoiler: Loses a fight to Prince Kenneth because his phantom bleeding came at a very bad time.]]
* YouNeedToGetLaid: [[spoiler: Suffers from a supernatural variety as a result of his Zaubertrank. He's able to alleviate the symptoms by boning Adalind... who becomes pregnant (although it could also be his brother's).]]

[[folder: Drew Wu]]

-->'''Nick''': Can you see who he texted? \\
'''Wu''': Of course I can; I'm Asian.

** He's also apparently enthusiastic when it comes to [[spoiler:learning about the Wesen world,]] and mentions at one point that he [[spoiler:could stay in the trailer for hours.]]
* BodyHorror: He suffers from this in "[[Recap/GrimmS1E15IslandOfDreams Island Of Dreams]]" thanks to eating an evil witch cookie not meant for him. Unlike other examples of this where the victim is cured, HollywoodHealing is not in play. Not only does he have to sleep off the trauma, but he also has a mess of open sores on his face from it. [[spoiler:And for the next two episodes he is eating anything he gets his hands on, from his carpet, couch foam, to paperclips and chap-stick.]]
* BrokenMasquerade: [[spoiler: Finally seems to have occurred in "Mommy Dearest" when he fights an Aswang and sees her un-woge after being killed. Unfortunately, he takes things even worse than Hank did, apparently checking himself into a mental facility as a result. It seems to be subverted for the time being though, as he believes that what he saw was all in his head.]]

* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler: He survives his poisoning because he ate a witch cookie not meant for him but develops supernatural ExtremeOmnivore tendencies. He eats the foam padding out of his couch, then some paperclips, and then more inedible items, but he never remembers any of it despite being wide awake and even holding a conversation.]]

** He's gotten worse since the beginning of Season Four, due to the fact [[spoiler: he knows Nick and Hank are hiding something from him.]]

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler:At the end of "Mommy Dearest" Wu has finally seen a woged Wesen. Unfortunately its the mother-in-law of a childhood friend who's trying to kill and eat a baby. Wu saves the baby and Nick kills the Wesen, but Wu freaks out when he sees her change back.]] The next scene features Nick and Hank visiting him in a mental facility. [[spoiler: he recovers in the next episode by facing his fears.]]

* TheSmartGuy: [[spoiler: Once he becomes aware of the BrokenMasquerade, he spends all his free time in the trailer, binge-reading from Nick's Grimm Books. By the time of ''Maréchaussée'', he's so adept at the different types of Wessen, he's able to identify the recent murder victims as being from a Manticore just by looking at their wounds.]] For comparison, in the previous season, it took Nick and Hank most of the episode to even figure out what a Manticore was.

* StatusQuoIsGod: Everything with him is back to normal after [[spoiler: he decided that his sighting an Aswang was all in his head.]]
** Subverted in "Blond Ambition" where [[spoiler:Wu sees a page from one of the Grimm books in Nick's house that shows both a wesen and a grimm decapitating it. ''While'' he's in the house with a decapitated body.]]
* ThrowTheDogABone: In "Nameless," he makes a major leap of deduction and contributes significantly to solving the case. [[ButtMonkey Though he also gets stuck hanging off a broken fire escape.]]

[[folder: Rosalee Calvert]]

* BadassBookworm: When her brother's murderers return to get their score not only was she able to injure one of them but she was also able to lock them up in the apothecary before running away. Likewise, in "Cat and Mouse" when she's grabbed from behind, she elbows her attacker and throws him to the ground to buy time to run to safety. Heck when [[spoiler: Nick's Mom jumps Monroe, she joins Nick in trying to keep the two from killing each other by physically interposing herself between them. Let's reiterate. In a fight between a blutbad and a Grimm, she's jumping in between the two.]] There's a reason you don't mess with TheSmartGirl.

[[folder: Adalind Schade]]

* ActionGirl[=/=]DarkActionGirl: With her Hexenbiest powers and enhanced strength, she was able to kill a huge thug and even fight Nick for a short while (but was still completely beaten). However, after being BroughtDownToNormal, she seemed to have no combat skills. Her morality began shifting around in Seasons 3 and 4 [[spoiler: when she eventually regained her powers and one of the first things she did was save Meisner's life by killing a Verrat agent with them. The birth of Diana around the same time triggered her MamaBear instincts]], and she constantly wavered around the moral totem until she finally chose a side [[spoiler: when she had her second child]].
* AntiVillain: Had an [[spoiler:[[AbusiveParents abusive mom]] [[UndyingLoyalty to whom she]] [[LoveMartyr was fiercely devoted]] and was a LoveMartyr to Renard. They actually used her as a pawn and were probably sleeping together, [[MoralEventHorizon with the mother encouraging her daughter to pursue Renard in order to advance in her own agendas]]]]. Add that to the fact that Grimms are usually very dangerous to all Wesen and that all the evil things she did were to get back at [[CycleOfRevenge Nick]], whose goodness she knew little about, [[spoiler: and, later, [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal Renard]]]], and you have an AntiVillain, which still doesn't excuse casualties. However, it's hard to excuse [[spoiler: selling your unborn child to a [[NothingIsScarier still unspecified fate]] just so you can get your powers back. However, she grew to love her child, and it seemed that her new MamaBear traits would pull her further into AntiVillain territory. And indeed it did, in a very unique way. Her daughter was taken from her by the Resistance. Unaware of this, she thought the Royals had her. She contacted them to get her back, and they manipulated her by telling her that they would, but that she had to do something for them. Said something was disguising herself as Juliette, effectively raping Nick while disguised to strip his Grimm powers.]]

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: She wanted to have a royal baby and exchange it for her powers. [[spoiler: She then has her powers back, but has her baby taken away just as she realizes that she loves and wants to keep her.]]

* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler: She "dies" as a Hexenbiest, losing her powers, and when she tearfully tells her mother how it happened, her mother slaps her across the face. Then Renard, for whom she did it all, also rejects her now that she is "just another pretty girl" and less useful than the Grimm who made her lose her powers.]]
* BroughtDownToNormal: Zigzagged. [[spoiler:After taking in Nick's blood, she loses her Wesen powers.]] However, [[spoiler: as of the latter half of Season 3, she has gotten them back. Then, she loses them again towards the end of season 4, when she willingly tests a potion created to temporarily suppress Juleiette's Hexenbiest powers, and ''that'' lasts until about halfway through season 5.]]

* TheChessmaster: After coming back to get her revenge. [[spoiler: It's gets subverted in that her schemes rarely work out the way she plans.]]

* DefiledForever: [[spoiler: After Adalind lost her Hexenbiest powers [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything when Nick tainted her with his blood,]] Captain Renard views her like this. Although since the middle of Season Two, Renard ''has'' been asking her to come back to his side. Then DefiledForever is subverted when she regains her powers with a special twist.]]

* DragonInChief: Acts as this for [[spoiler: Eric Renard]] when she returns to Portland.
* EnemyMine: After Kenneth throws her under the bus [[spoiler:because he finds Juliette to be more useful (and them being on the same side wouldn't work out for obvious reasons),]] she willingly sides with Nick to help Monroe and Rosalee [[spoiler:concoct a way to depower Juliette.]] She warms up to them later on, following [[spoiler:the birth of her son.]]
* ExpressDelivery: Due to her [[spoiler: contamination ritual, she goes through a six-month pregnancy and delivers a full term baby.]]

* IdiotBall: Adalind knew just as well as any Hexenbiest that [[spoiler: drinking a Grimm's blood would remove her powers]]. She's still directly responsible for it happening.
** She continuously holds this from the point where she got pregnant. Seems like any time her baby becomes in involved all her senses just go right out the window, in the episode "Cry Luison" she [[spoiler: fell for EVERY trap while trying to escape her dungeon, even when she was explicitly told how to avoid them]] and repeatedly places her trust in Prince Viktor's honesty despite him stabbing her in the back literally every time because he says he'll help her get her baby back.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Adalind's long parade of terrible life choices always ultimately come back to bite her. From losing her powers because she just couldn't leave Nick well enough alone, and downhill from there.Not to mention[[spoiler: Juliette...Placing Juliette in a coma and then being involved in her transformation into a hexenbiest resulting in Adalind's ass being whipped by Juliette.]]She kinda deserved it at the time though.
* LastGirlWins: [[spoiler: The one Nick ultimately ends up with after her HeelFaceTurn.]]

* LoveMartyr: [[spoiler: To Renard.]]
* MamaBear: Really Adalind's biggest redeeming trait is she's deeply loving and protective of her children. Although originally planning on [[spoiler: selling her daughter to regain her powers]] she ends up falling in love with her, before she is born and tries to back out of the deal. Likewise in taking a darker direction, her attempts to get her back, cause her to resort to even eviler tactics than she normally uses. She also proves to love her [[spoiler: unborn son whose Nick's]] despite the fact his existence means her life is danger. Its implied, that her mothers abuse is partially what motivates her to be a better mother.
* ManipulativeBitch: Towards Hank, Nick, and eventually [[spoiler: Renard.]] Trouble is, while her skills are present, she overestimates them.
* MeaningfulName: "Schade" means 'it's a pity'. ''Schaden'' is German for loss, harm, or misfortune; derives from Middle High German Schade. In a double play, her name is pronounced like "Shade" on the show. [[spoiler: The pity part comes into another meaning when she's loses her power and is kicked to the curb by Renard.]]
* MorningSickness: [[spoiler: She's pregnant sooo...yeah.]]

* PetTheDog: She seems to be genuinely grieving after [[spoiler: her lover Eric Renard's death.]] She is also bonding with [[spoiler: both Meisner and her baby daughter.]] Although it unfortunately begs the question, what kind of a person mourns for [[spoiler: Eric Renard?]]

** Becomes more like [[spoiler: TheGhost in season 2 since she's directly responsible for the troubles affecting Juliette and Renard which she did as revenge towards Nick and Renard. It's suggested she's putting more cards into play as she's later then seen with Renard's half-brother making deals.]]
* RedemptionPromotion: Once she commits to her HeelFaceTurn, [[spoiler: while she doesn't get a power boost and her powers are suppressed at this point]], as a member of the main group, she now has free access to Rosalee's spice shop with all the ingredients she could ever need, the Grimm materials from Nick, and her own Hexenbiest spell-casting materials. And now that she doesn't have to look over her shoulder for betrayal from everyone around her, she becomes much more effective and formidable than she ever was as a villain.

* ShipTease: She shares some tender moments with Nick as they adjust to [[spoiler:living the domestic life and raising a son together.]]
** [[spoiler: And then she tells him and that she's in love with him and sleeps with him.]]
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Adalind’s attraction towards [[spoiler: Nick]] stems in a large part from her admiring as well as benefiting from his chivalry, mercy and compassion. After a life time of virtually all her relationships (not just romantic, but platonic and even family) being people who were using her for either her powers or her body, having somebody in her life who not only forgives her and supports her attempt for redemption, but also voluntarily cares for her when she’s at her most vulnerable, with no strings attached, really matters to her.

--> '''Adalind''': How did he know?\\
'''Renard''': Because he's smarter than you.
** Let's go down the list for this trope: Adalind tries to get the key from Nick, and loses her powers. She poisons Juliette, but it ends up [[spoiler: [[NiceJobFixingItVillain bringing Nick and Renard together as allies.]]]] She allies herself with Prince Eric, but [[spoiler: he gets killed and his successor clearly thinks she may be involved.]] She gets herself pregnant [[spoiler: by Eric or Sean Renard and sells the baby in exchange for her powers]] but [[spoiler: her dealer betrays her to the Royals.]] And even [[spoiler: her pregnancy]] goes awry in [[BodyHorror hideous ways,]] with Stefania exploiting the situation for all she's worth. [[spoiler: She got her powers back but had to run from the Royals because of her child, and then she lost her child.]] In an effort to [[spoiler: get her child back]] she makes a deal with [[spoiler: Viktor to do his bidding, except he ''doesn't'' have her child, which she only finds out AFTER sleeping with Nick while magically disguised as Juliette and taking a flight back to the Royals. She is then captured by Viktor and Mind Raped into submission and loyalty.]] And when she decided to [[spoiler: take Juliette hostage]] she ended up [[spoiler: [[CurbStompBattle getting her butt whooped]] by the [[CreateYourOwnVillain newly-powered Juliette]] instead.]] Then she found out [[spoiler:she is pregnant with Nick's child after having [[BedTrick raped him]]]], followed up by her initial attempt to lie about it being [[spoiler:Viktor's baby]] being blown to bits by Prince Kenneth, [[spoiler:who reveals that Viktor is sterile.]]

* TakenForGranite: [[spoiler: Briefly by Bonaparte during the season 5 finale.]]

* UnskilledButStrong: Adalind has no actual combat skills, however her Hexenbiest powers, granted her enhanced strength, not to Nick level or Monroe's, but still enough to take on much bigger opponents. However this ended up backfiring on her, as after she was BroughtDownToNormal she was left with no abilities to defend herself.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: When asked about her teenager years, Adalind admits that she used to be a shy nerd who never got involved in any form of teenage rebellion. Turns out that when the hexenbiest side comes out, you turn into a real bitch. She also admits that she initially went into law to prove that she was different from [[AbusiveParent her]] [[StageMom mother]]. [[spoiler: Initially though]], it didn’t work.

* WomanScorned: A good deal of her activities throughout the first half of season two involve her [[spoiler: taking revenge on Renard for dumping her.]]

** [[spoiler: Though Renard dumps her rather than killing her.]]

* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Mother]]: Subverted, though she's hurt over [[spoiler: Kelly]] killing her mother, she quickly forgives her and is more interested in saving [[spoiler: her daughter]].
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