Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-78.72.160.162-20150328122307/@comment-24399666-20151205152711

58.110.109.78 wrote: You know there probably are a lot other Grimms out there that don't know they are grimms (probably carted off to Mental hospitals and euthanised by some mental hospital workers that happen to be Wesen) just look at Trubel, she didn't know what she was until she met Nick. There might be many more Grimms, and they're probably not of European heritage (as noted by a Japanese man who shared Grimm abilities re: Spinnetods). Trubel was orphaned at a young age and it's most likely her parents were  both Grimms. They really do need to sort out how a person becomes a Grimm, because if Nick is a Grimm, that means his father also had the Grimm gene for him to see Wesen. Many good points in this post. But I just wanted to ask about why you think his father had the Grimm gene?

Genetics in that world don't really work the same way that they do in this one (and I agree, they need to be a little clearer on certain things). Certainly the Wesen/Kehrseite pairing rules that we learned in S3 isn't really in keeping with genetics as I know them (and more knowledgable people than I have said that they don't fit with genetics). But that's fine; different world, different species, different rules... as long as there are rules. :)

Anyway, why do you think Nick's dad had the Grimm gene? The little we know about him implies that he was a regular Kehrseite or Kehrseite Schlich-kennen (namely, the people who killed him were specifically targeting Kelly, and they only took the head of the woman they thought was Kelly, because they thought they'd killed a Grimm, and they didn't take his dad's head).

And genetics-wise... I always figured that the Grimm gene was dominant. So Nick was a Grimm because Kelly passed her Grimm gene to him, whereas if she'd passed her recessive gene to him, then we wouldn't have had a show. :) That's just what makes the most sense to me.

Assuming that there even is a gene... there's a heck of a lot more to being a Grimm than just being able to see Wesen! :)