History Creator / TheBrothersGrimm

* BystanderSyndrome[=/=]VillainByProxyFallacy: There's at least one character in almost each of their fairy tale versions that undergoes this, which usually allows the villain to do as they please before the plot and/or protagonist foils them (and also may tie into a majority of [[ParentalNeglect the adults being absentminded]] and/or [[AbusiveParents villainous themselves]]). To describe a few:

* EvilMatriarch: The Grimms made an effort to avoid this by having evil mothers being step-parents instead.

* UptownGirl: Seen in a few stories, such as "Die Kluge Bauerntochter" (The Peasant's Wise Daughter).

** In "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200110190119/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/29devilgoldhairs.html The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs]]", a king who discovers finds his daughter [[SelfFulfillingProphecy doomed]] to marry a poor man tries to kill him with many tasks, before and after the wedding; in the end, he fails.
** In "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/126ferdinandfaithful.html Ferdinand the Faithful]]", after being slandered, Ferdinand must get a bride for the king and then all the things she demands before she will marry him. However, in the end, the bride tricks the king into letting her kill him, and then marries Ferdinand.

The Grimms were the subject of a [[HollywoodHistory highly fantasticated]] {{Musical}} {{Biopic}} in 1962, called ''The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm'', with Karlheinz Böhm as Jacob and Laurence Harvey as Wilhelm; the film won 1 [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]] (Costume Design) and was nominated for 3 more. In 1998, the brothers, played by Andy Henderson and Joerg Stadler, made an appearance in ''[[Film/EverAfter Ever After: A Cinderella Story]]'' (despite the film being a riff more on the Perrault than on the Grimm version of "Literature/{{Cinderella}}"). In 2005, Creator/TerryGilliam made ''Film/TheBrothersGrimm'', a [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids decidedly unsettling reinterpretation]]; Heath Ledger and Matt Damon were the brethren in this outing. The Grimms in the form of Allen Smith and Millen Baird were deconstructed in the 2006 film ''Big Bad Wolves''.

* TheLostWoods: Woodlands are often home to dangerous and hostile creatures like "Hanse and Gretel"'s witch or "The Durummer"'s giants.

* TheLostWoods: The usual setting of the fairy tale

Full collection [[https://web.archive.org/web/20200428052954/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms.html here]], [[https://www.grimmstories.com/en/grimm_fairy-tales/index?page=1 here]], [[https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimmtales.html here]] and in [[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52521/52521-h/52521-h.htm Project Gutenberg]].

** In "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/43frautrude.html Frau Trude]]", the little girl goes to a witch's house, where the witch turns her into a block of wood and burns her.

* RuleOfThree: In "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/186truesweetheart.html The True Sweetheart]]", the heroine goes to the ball three times.

** In "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/29devilgoldhairs.html The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs]]", a king who discovers finds his daughter [[SelfFulfillingProphecy doomed]] to marry a poor man tries to kill him with many tasks, before and after the wedding; in the end, he fails.

** In "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/29devilgoldhairs.html The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs]]", a poor boy is foretold to be married to a princess, and does.

* SelfFulfillingProphecy: In "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/29devilgoldhairs.html The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs]]", a poor boy is foretold to be married to a princess, and does -- largely as a result of the king's attempts to prevent it.

* OldBeggarTest: In "[[https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm153.html The Star Money/The Star Talers]]" (German: ''Die Sterntaler''), an unnamed, orphaned girl is poor and homeless; she has only her clothing and a loaf of bread that a kindhearted soul has given her. She is a goodhearted person, however, and so she goes out into the countryside to see what might happen. She gives a hungry man her bread, and to three cold children she gives her cap, her jacket, and her dress. In a forest, she sees a naked child begging for a shift, and since it was dark and she cannot be seen, she gives her own shift away. As she stands with nothing left at all, suddenly stars fall to earth before her, becoming talers, and she finds herself wearing a different shift of the finest linen. The story ends with her being rich.

* [[UptownGirl Uptown Boy]]: Seen in a few stories, such as "Die Kluge Bauerntochter" (The Peasant's Wise Daughter).

** In "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/beautybeast/stories/lark.html The Singing, Springing Lark]]", the heroine has to go on a quest for seven years and face many dangers to get her happy ending.

* RuleOfSeven

** In "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/47junipertree.html The Juniper Tree]]", after the stepson has been killed and cooked by his WickedStepmother, eaten by his father, and had his bones buried by his half-sister, he comes back as a bird. After killing his stepmother, he comes back to life as a boy.

* DeathByChildbirth: In "The Juniper Tree"

** In "[[http://www.authorama.com/grimms-fairy-tales-40.html The Juniper Tree]]" the WickedStepmother chops her child stepson's head off with a heavy lid, then makes her daughter believe she did it. To hide the body, she cooks it into a stew and feeds it to the father. Later, the evil stepmother is crushed by a falling millstone.

* ImAHumanitarian: Cannibalism figures in several stories, most notably "The Juniper Tree".

* EarnYourHappyEnding: In "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/beautybeast/stories/lark.html The Singing, Springing Lark]]", the heroine has to go on a quest for seven years and face many dangers to get her happy ending.

** In "The Nixie of the Mill-Pond", the nixie's long and flowing hair cascades down her shoulders and conceals her naked body.