YMMV / The Sisters Grimm

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Bunny's apology to Mirror just before his death. Up until this point, the series has made it quite clear that she didn't regret abusing and mistreating him in the slightest. Was her apology genuinely sincere, born out of a last-minute sudden repentance, or was she lying just to make him feel better in the moments before he died?
• Crossing the Line Twice: When Red Riding Hood is defeated, Daphne goes up to her, bows to her, then drop kicks Red in the face.
• Funny Moments: The gingerbread man in book 4 accusing Sabrina of being a "bakist".
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In the second book, the unscrupulous Big Bad is Rumplestiltskin and the Pied Piper, who is temporarily overpowered by him, has a good heart deep down and loves his son. A few years later, in Once Upon a Time, the roles got reversed.
• Jerkass Woobie: Being trapped in a mirror for hundreds of years and having to deal with cruel owners made Mirror bitter and led him to become the Master.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • For the readers, we have the illustration of Little Red Riding Hood at the end of the second book. Sure, the description of her with the smile of a serial killer is disturbing in its own right, but the actual illustration does quite a bit to elevate the creepiness, both by depicting her smile and the obscuring of her eyes and figure in the darkness.
  • Also, the thought of the more unpleasant fairy tale characters being both alive and at large, and the idea that the terrible things some of them did actually happened... It becomes Fridge Horror of finest caliber.
  • At one point, the flesh literally melts off the bones of one character.
  • Briar's death. Essentially, she gets swatted by a dragon and cracks her skull against a tree.
  • This illustration, depicting Little Red Riding Hood on the Jabberwocky. Not only is Red still sporting her Slasher Smile, but the Jabberwocky is equally terrifying.
• Strawman Has a Point: Sabrina is often put into this position during her arguments with Daphne (and to a lesser extent Relda). She's always depicted as the one in the wrong and Daphne as the one in the right, but while Sabrina is often wrong (since she has a tendency to make major mistakes or make the wrong assumptions about people about once per book), she still makes a legitimate point in each major argument she has with her little sister over the course of the series. (It's only because Sabrina takes her side of the debate way too far in each book due to whatever Compressed Vice she has for that installment that she ends up being the one to lose the argument.):
  • The Fairy-Tale Detectives: Relda does seem to be under the delusion that all of her neighbors are fairy tale characters, and is offering no evidence to back her wild claims, and none of the people of Ferryport Landing seem to have anything magical about them. To any logical person, Relda clearly appears to be out of her mind, and someone of such an unsound mental state is not a suitable guardian for children (no matter how harmless her delusion seems to be). It's only when Relda gets kidnapped by a giant that there's finally proof her claims are true.
  • The Unusual Suspects: The Grimms have no way of knowing which of the Ever Afters in Ferryport Landing had a role in Henry and Veronica's kidnapping, and any of them could be the culprit(s), so it's impossible to really trust any of them (besides Mirror and Mr. Canis) at this point.
  • The Problem Child: Relda (or Canis or Uncle Jake) isn't always going to be around to protect the girls when they get attacked by dangerous Ever Afters, and so they really should learn magic to protect themselves in tight spots.
  • Once Upon a Crime: The life of a fairy tale detective is a pretty dangerous one, and it's only getting more dangerous for Sabrina and Daphne as of late. Since little girls aren't meant to be in such dangerous situations, maybe it'd be better if they moved to a safer locale.
  • Tales from the Hood: Canis's control over the Big Bad Wolf is starting to fade, and the Grimms have no idea when Canis will lose control completely and the Wolf will break free and go on a rampage again, and so they really should be a little more uneasy around Canis at the moment.
• Tear Jerker: Briar's death in book 7. Not only was it an extremely unpleasant way to go, but it becomes more saddening when we find out that Jacob was planning to propose.
• Wangst: Sabrina does try to run away a few times.

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