History YMMV / Grimm

* BrokenBase: A mild example with the addition of Theresa "Trubel" Rubel to the cast. Some feel she's a welcome breath of fresh air into the cast, and others feel she's an unnecessary and annoying.

* ArcFatigue: The amnesia storyline, which was finally resolved at the end of season 2. Monroe went on to [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall apologize for it]] during season 3.

** [[ShadowArchetype Captain Sean Renard]], officially an upstanding officer of the law and Nick's charismatic boss, is secretly the half-[[WitchSpecies Zauberbiest]] bastard son of [[GreaterScopeVillain King Frederick Renard]] of the House of Kronenberg. Forced to flee for his life as a child, Renard exploited his unique connections to eventually become de facto overlord of Portland. A [[GeniusBruiser calculating mastermind, natural leader and exemplary warrior]], Renard is also a senior figure in the [[LaResistance Laufer]]'s fight against the Royals, possessing connections the other leaders can only dream of, whilst fooling the royals into believing he's one of them. Constantly working, be it in police business, outplaying rivals at international intrigue or protecting his city, Renard never misses an opportunity he can exploit. Amongst his successes, he plants a spy within his family's own castle; assassinates his brother Prince Eric on his own turf; sets up an alliance with other resistance leaders beneath the Royals' noses; and temporarily become mayor of Portland. His Machiavellianism tempered by genuine standards and a protective nature, Renard stands out both as one of Nick's greatest enemies and his most capable allies.

* FanPreferredCouple:
** While Nick is all but engaged to his live-in girlfriend Juliette and finds a second love in Adalind (who has his son), the fandom loves to pair him off with Monroe instead.
** [[https://31.media.tumblr.com/e9e342dff9fef8409d96f5e43874c6a9/tumblr_n3jxdmdhkO1rxdn20o5_500.png Adalind/Meisner]], after the whole [[spoiler:baby Diana arc]], despite Adalind being in love with Nick and having a son with him.

* FanPreferredCouple: [[https://31.media.tumblr.com/e9e342dff9fef8409d96f5e43874c6a9/tumblr_n3jxdmdhkO1rxdn20o5_500.png Adalind/Meisner]], after the whole [[spoiler:baby Diana arc]].
** Half of that comes true as [[spoiler:Meisner adopts Diana at the end of Season 4]].

* TearJerker: [[spoiler:Angelina's]] death and [[spoiler:Monroe's]] grieving for [[spoiler:her]].

** [[ShadowArchetype Captain Sean Renard]], officially an upstanding officer of the law and Nick's charismatic boss, is secretly the half-[[WitchSpecies Zauberbiest]] bastard son of [[GreaterScopeVillain King Frederick Renard]] of the House of Kronenberg. Forced to flee for his life as a child, Renard exploited his unique connections to eventually become de facto overlord of Portland. A [[GeniusBruiser calculating mastermind, natural leader and exemplary warrior]], Renard is also a senior figure in the [[LaResistance Laufer]]'s fight against the Royals, possessing connections the other leaders can only dream of, whilst fooling the royals into believing he's one of them. Constantly working, be it in police business, outplaying rivals at international intrigue or protecting his city, Renard never misses an opportunity he can exploit. Amongst his successes, he plants a spy within his families own castle; assassinates his brother Prince Eric on his own turf; sets up an alliance with other resistance leaders beneath the Royals' noses; and temporarily become mayor of Portland. His Machiavellianism tempered by genuine standards and a protective nature, Renard stands out both as one of Nick's greatest enemies and his most capable allies.

** In "Kiss of the Muse" Monroe and Nick are awfully homey. Then Monroe gets all upset because Nick bailed on dinner with him to go talk to Juliette, and didn't tell Monroe he wouldn't be home.

* SpiritualSuccessor: to ''Series/{{Angel}}''. Not much of a surprise, considering both had David Greenwalt as a producer.

* HilariousInHindsight: This isn't the only time Dee Wallace has been [[Film/TheHowling a werewolf creature]].

** A strange example with Adalind. As the show's TheScrappy, people latched onto her [[spoiler: disguising herself as Juliette to have sex with him to strip him of his powers]] as something she did ForTheEvulz, even though the only reason she did that was because [[spoiler: she incorrectly thought the Royals had Diana, and when she called in her desperation to get her back, they told her she could do this in exchange for getting Diana back.]] Most entries OnThisVeryWiki tend to leave that part out.

** A strange example with Adalind. As the show's TheScrappy, people latched onto her [[spoiler: disguising herself as Juliette to have sex with him to strip him of his powers]] as something she did ForTheEvulz, even though the only reason she did that was because [[spoiler: she incorrectly thought the Royals had Diana, and when she called in her desperation to get her back, they told her she could do this in exchange for getting Diana back.]] Most entries on ThisVeryWiki tend to leave that part out.

* DorkAge: The fourth season due to overfocusing on the baby Diana storyline and Adalind storyline and characterization while completely excluding the other major plotlines except for the Season 4-only Wesenrein after fans had already voiced disapproval with the arc. This was after the infamous final episode of Season 3, and the whole obsession with Adalind finally did lead to a small drop in ratings in the season, and prompted a different team to write the Season 4 finale and Season 5 premiere than the previous premieres/finales; these episodes also [[spoiler:saw the elimination of the original version of Bitsie Tulloch's character through killing her after she crossed the MoralEventHorizon and dropped back into Scrappy status (she CameBackWrong later in the season), and eliminated Adalind's Hexenbiest powers on her own volition and gave her some badly-needed CharacterDevelopment.]]

** Nick may have ended up with Adalind in the series finale, but in real life he ended up with Juliette - David Giuntoli and Bitsie Tulloch began dating each other in 2013/2014 and were married in June of 2017.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: The episode "Game Ogre" has been termed "The Episode Where No-one is Useless" in which Hank Griffin and Juliette Silverton, previously [[BlackBestFriend somewhat]] [[SatelliteLoveInterest bland]] characters, both get a bit more [[AntiHero depth]] of [[ActionSurvivor character]].

----

** "[[Recap/GrimmS1E14PlumedSerpent Plumed Serpent]]": [[FemmeFatale Ariel Eberhart]] is a playful, alluring [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Dämonfeuer]] and the daughter of the slowly dying Fred Eberhart, a welder turned copper thief. Learning that Detective Nick Burkhardt is a Grimm investigating her father's involvement in a homicide, Ariel devises a plan to give her father an honorable death. She ambushes Nick when he follows her, tearing his shirt and answering his phone to trick his girlfriend Juliette into thinking he's cheating just to mess with them. The next night, Ariel tricks Nick to going to her house, kidnaps Juliette and brings her to her father's lair, thus forcing Nick to face her father in [[SaveThePrincess combat to the death to save Juliette]] and give her father a chance at dying honorably in accordance with their culture. When Nick emerges the victor, Ariel assures her father he fought well and causes an explosion, [[KarmaHoudini faking her death and leaving for parts unknown]].

** "[[Recap/GrimmS1E14PlumedSerpent Plumed Serpent]]": [[FemmeFatale Ariel Eberhart]] is a playful, alluring [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Dämonfeuer]] and the daughter of the slowly dying Fred Eberhart, a welder turned copper thief. Learning that Detective Nick Burkhardt is a Grimm investigating her father's involvement in a homicide, Ariel devises a plan to give her father an honorable death. She ambushes Nick when he follows her, tearing his shirt and answering his phone to trick his girlfriend Juliette into thinking he's cheating just to mess with them. The next night, Ariel kidnaps Juliette and brings her to her father's lair, thus forcing Nick to face her father in [[SaveThePrincess combat to the death to save Juliette]] and give her father a chance at dying honorably in accordance with their culture. When Nick emerges the victor, Ariel assures her father he fought well and creates an explosion, [[KarmaHoudini faking her death and leaving for parts unknown]].

* MagnificentBastard: [[OurManticoresAreSpinier Colonel Adam Desai]], from season 3's "[[Recap/GrimmS3E11TheGoodSoldier The Good Soldier]]", blamed himself for being unable to achieve justice for Frankie Gonzales after she was gang-raped by four [=PMCs=]. [[YourDaysAreNumbered Learning he was dying from cancer]], Desai begins to [[TheLastDance hunt down and kill the four men responsible]], luring one into his house by breaking his medals before stabbing him. When Portland police contact him about the rape, Desai tells them all he knows while tricking them into believing he's in the hospital while he's really in Portland. When one of the other contractors is killed along with his wife and Frankie is arrested, she calls Desai, who allows the Portland police to track his call, then confronts the last remaining rapist and reveals that he knows that he killed the contractor and his wife before engaging in a fight to the death. In the end, [[ThanatosGambit Desai deliberately leaves himself open for a killing blow]], declaring that "You can't arrest him for what he did to Frankie, but you can for what he did to me." Colonel Desai is shown to be the cleverest Manticore depicted in the show and meets his end on his terms.

%%
%%Bring Magnificent Bastard examples to this thread before adding any: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15255322860A44444400&page=1. Check the FAQ first to see what would qualify characters for the trope, and if there has been previous discussion on the work.
%%