Tag: grimm

Okay, so you have the Bauerschwine striking at the Blutbaden (twice, actually, seasons apart). You have Marty the Maushertz attacking bullies, including one of his natural predators (the Lausenschlange). The Mellifers fighting back against the Hexenbiests. Arguably Roddy the Reinigen falls under this category of timid Wesen fighting back, even though he wasn’t necessarily targeting a Wesen that was targeting him, per se. And you have the sheep Wesen later on in the series as well.

I think fandom often focuses on all “the bad ones” i.e. the natural predator-type Wesen who have worked hard to put that heritage of destruction and violence behind them as examples of how Wesen are not defined and shouldn’t be stereotyped by the animal side of their nature. It’s easy to forget how often the show goes the other way to touch on Wesen that are used to being stepped on who finally have enough and start to fight back.

And it’s…worth asking where a Grimm fits into this schematic. I mean clearly, Grimms haven’t historically just stuck to killing “the bad ones,” i.e. Wesen that were violent toward humans. Otherwise, Wesen like Eisbibers would seemingly have no reason to fear them. And yet.

I feel like this episode is canonical proof that Grimms are actually quite physically resilient and hard to kill. Because Nick should have been nearly dead after that beating, but he didn’t even have any broken bones.

Juliette is shown to be kind and compassionate from episode one but this episode is the first time she shows her just ridiculous levels of courage and badassery.

That guy is HUGE. And she doesn’t try to escape, she runs for a weapon. Her first instinct is the knives…she was straight up going to try to stab this guy. But then she saw the boiling water and figured that would work better.

Just…I never get over how amazing she was in this episode.