YMMV / Grimm Fairy Tales

• Arc Fatigue: The Myst Arc which takes several volumes worth to get through and is constantly interrupted by event titles which at times can interfere with the flow.
• Awesome Art: Every single panel that involves Sela and Gaia during #66 is absolutely gorgeous and managed to captivate the readers without the series signature gratuitous fanservice. Too bad that it's only an Art Shift. In addition, every single cover that doesn't have the ridiculous amount of fanservice also counted as well.
• Badass Decay: Druana. She was introduced to be Gaia, mother of nature and was able to hold her kingdom together against the Horde even with only a portion of her powers. In later arcs, she was nearly killed by a machine gun and was revealed to be Dead All Along and replaced by her sister even when she regained her power.
• Complete Monster: See here.
• Covers Always Lie: The series started out as a horror series, though it became a fantasy series halfway through. The covers make it look like porn.
• Designated Hero: The Queen of Clubs. Yes, losing her love sucks when the Queen of Diamonds doesn't remember her. No, that doesn't justify kidnapping people from Earth, infect them with madness to be her soldier and, unlike the Queen of Spades and Hearts, she had a happy ending with the Queen of Diamonds.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Alice Liddle has aspects of this despite being a Posthumous Character for most of the main Wonderland story. Despite this, she appears in several covers and stars in the prequel and its follow up.
  • The Queen of Diamonds and Clubs for being the first gay protagonists in the series.
• Genre Shift : The series started off as a horror fantasy Aesop series but shifted into Action Dark Fantasy series.
• Growing the Beard: There's three points of major contention: the reveal of Sela's backstory (around chapter #16), the change in format (occurs around #30) and the end of the Myst arc (#74) saw the series began to form a coherent arc and create deep Character Development for Sela and the supporting characters. Too bad that the series began to get convoluted and tangled with spin-off and cross overs around the Myst arc to truly enjoy the story.
• Heartwarming Moments: The "Three Billy Goats Gruff" story and David's legacy after.
  • The "Snow Queen" story, in which Sela saved Timmy from Belinda's clutch with nothing but her reassurance that he is a good person and a hug.
  • The ending of 'The Mouse and The Lion', in which a famous Mixed Martial Artist throws his final match and his undefeated record, when already fighting with an injury that could cause permanent damage, to save the manager who took him in from loan sharks. The final panel of Sela's smile really says it all.
• Les Yay: Robyn and Marian. Yes you read that right, Robyn is a woman after all. Leads quite the awkward moment as well. Sela and Belinda have aspects of this.
• Narm:
  • The overly sexy outfits of the female characters can ruin a lot of the more touching / scary moments.
  • #22, #23 & #24 crosses between this and Narm Charm because the former has a real-world segment in which Sela wears more sensible clothes while the latter two has Sela and Rose Red performs a Heroic Sacrifice that is so gut-wrenching the clothes didn't manage to ruin it.
• Nightmare Fuel: Goodness, yes! Though the reigning champion is Grimm Fairy Tales presents: Wonderland—all of that particular storyline is practically RUN on it.
• Tear Jerker:
  • The end of the Timmy arc, especially the final pages of #24 as Sela performed a Heroic Sacrifice.
  • The "Juniper Tree" story which is Sela's final Cynicism Catalyst.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Baba Yaga. Her off-screen death is pretty anti-climatic for such a long-running character in the series.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: A lot of the stories can fall into this trope considering the fact that the Dark Lords and his allies / minions are simply too powerful / important to the stories to ever truly be defeated while the heroes suffered loss upon loss. Storylines falling right into this trope include: the Oz storyline ended with the main heroine Dorothy performing a Heel–Face Turn and siding with her mother Zamora, the new villain is the incarnation of dream and can never be killed unless by driving every human on Earth insane, Neverland got a Downer Ending where The Villain Wins. Really, only the Wonderland storyline avoids this trope by making Calie the White Queen, Violet the Mad Hatter, killing off the Queen of Hearts and Spade, getting the Queen of Diamonds and Clubs back together, escaping Wonderland to settle in Earth and defeating the Madness in Wonderland.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: The Queen of Hearts. While she did horrible things, she is just as bad as the rest of the queens who isn't Diamond but, like Diamond, she was kidnapped from Earth, merged into one and controlled by the Queen of Spades. She is the only queen who died in the Clash of Queens series and that aspect of her was quickly glossed over.
• The Woobie: Quite a few characters, both heroes and villains. Most of the main heroes are certainly this.

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