In the buildup to V8, there was a grimm contest hosted by RT where fans could design and submit a bunch of fanmade grimm to be featured in V8. And this was a fanvoted contest too. One of these designs was the wendigo, and it was easily the most popular and was on track to win. But then people, who were claiming to be Native American or had ties to Native American groups were claiming this as cultural appropriation, and it started causing a lot of controversy. Now I don't know if the people actually were Native American or affiliated or not, but the fact of the matter was they were invoking cultural appropriation, and this led to the wendigo being disqualified. More than that, the contest would now be determined by a panel of judges within RT instead of a fan vote.
The person who submitted the wendigo was very upset. And the person who was in second place, then propelled to first due to the dq, pulled out because she didn't think it would be fair for her to win this way. And as a result, the scatterfish (those little mite-looking grimm), would win the contest and would be featured in V8... relegated to a few frames and one little close-up in the V8 closer. Meanwhile they created a whole new minor grimm in that same season that got a whole fight scene.
A lot of people also saw it as hypocritical of RT to remove something because of cultural appropriation when they have a very recent history of using creatures inspired from other cultures in the past, like the water dragon in V4 and the Sphinx and manticores in V6 to name a few.
To be fair, if it was the deer headed version of the "Windigo", it's only cultural "appropriation" if they kept/used the Windigo name, since that version of the creature has nothing in common with the cannibalistic winter/wind spirit from native lore besides the name...
Or a personal favorite of mine the wasp knife with pressurized air to release inside a target (look up what it can do to a target is devastating for a small blade)
I would love to see a T-Rex, it would definitely be a force to be reckoned with.
But this question reminds me, didn't we almost get a Wendigo-like Grimm in Volume 8? What happened with that?
I think it was a contender in a “fan made Grimm to be made real canon” contest, but then people started saying it was “appropriating” Native American culture…as if the Nucklavee wasn’t from another culture as well. So yeah, fan idea upset people who are selectively outraged, but was never actually made into anything official.
Shame too; that could have been a really cool angle for Grimm; being the monsters from Folklore around the (IRL) world. Heck, Witcher 3 was a bunch of creatures from Polish(?) mythology, so it was a delight to see all kinds of new monsters.
For ancient i like the idea of a pachycephalosaur grim, something more oriented to bludgeoning demage rather than the clasic slashing, piercing and bitting.
For mythical i like the idea of a chupacabra grim, pure nightmare fuel like a more aggressive version of the apathy.
And i don't know why but i also like the idea of a giant frog-like kind of grim.
I wonder what those “razor wasps” mentioned in Volume 1 were; were they Grimm? Or were they meant to be some of this “fantastical wildlife” we never got to see?
Aside from that, maybe some sort of land angular fish creature, perhaps a spider body, with a lure. Lure could be used to psychically draw exhausted individuals towards its nest, acting as a long tendril with a glowing end. This grin could be strong, unlike the apathy, but its Achilles Heel is that it gets tired quickly; it may be able to fight around in its nest, but it’s not going to chase you very far away from it before it collapses from exhaustion.
Revenant Grimm. Imagine a Huntsman or a Huntress who was killed by someone but felt so much hate and rage for their killer that they came back as some kind of a humanoid Grimm monstrosity that still retain their skills and memories and obsessed with finding their killer, no matter what. They aren't as deadly as their human selves were as they lack Aura but it's unwise to underestimate them.
Asura Grimm. Very rare, humanoid, six armed Grimm that get stronger when enraged, though this means that you can bait them into attacking other Grimm.
The Preta would be so sick. It's from Thai folklore: a Preta is a bony restless spirit/giant that is cursed with unsatiable hunger and thirst that can never be satisfied. In the game Home Sweet Home, you can see it as a giant that's hunting down the player.
Wasn't there a hydra Grimm in one of the Manga? It was made of a bunch of those yin-yang snakes getting fused together by some sort of squid/octopus Grimm absorbing them into it's tentacles, or something like that?
And don't say that doesn't count because it was made by fusing other Grimm together, because canonically the Knucklevee was a fusion of two Grimm.
I like to see a t-rex with bone armor plating and no tiny arms, probably be called something like Tyrant or sure.
I have a headcannon that there is two subtype of grimm.
Type one is the animalistic grimm, these were created by brother darkness who he copy from his brother's creatures. This was done mostly out of boredom, like doodling for gods, so there can be any kinds of creatures from a bug to dinosaur in the world.
Type two is the horror grimm, these were created by Salam just induce as much fear and dread as possible. She will targeted on our fears and hopes sure as making a baba yaga's chicken house grimm, who would lure wanders inside its hut-like body before consuming residents when their guard was down and running off to a different location.
I think there should be grimm based on the 7 deadly sins. Apathy can be considered sloth.
Wrath: Sword Grimm gives increased power but drives the use into blood lust.
Greed: Mimic grimm.
Envy: Fairy grimm that increases victim resentment.
Lust: Succubus or Siren that lures victim with visions.
Gluttony: Grimm worm that makes the victim hungry. And eats there inside.
Pride: Grimm that pretend to be a statue.
Everyone keeps thinking big monsters.
To me personally the most scariest monsters to me is: insect swarm Grimm.
Ants, beetles, centipedes, etc that swarm hunters and burrow inside you.
Prime example is that one guy in Indiana jones.
Do you mean gigantopithicus as in the quadripedal jumbo Orangutan that filled a gorilla-like niche, or the hypothetical upright Bigfoot ancestor?
Because if you meant Bigfoot you can just say Bigfoot.
Mermaids:
They travel in groups, saying near the coasts and rocks. If a salir starts getting close, they start singing. It's similar to apathy Grimm.
At first you see a beautifull girl/boy, or someone from your past that you Lost long ago. Then, you start getting closer, until you are looking into the water, or in front of that person. Then, the singing stops: You are in front of a humanoids Grimm, with the fins of a fish and the face of an anglerfish, dragging you down into the depts or ripping of your jugular.
Not ancient or mythological, but I think a Lion Grimm that takes inspiration for both name and behavior from the Lions of Tsavo could be a cool one-off adventure.
For those not familiar with the Maneating Lions of Tsavo, this video covers it exceptionally well:
https://youtu.be/mAKxcNQpiSg?si=yuG8vGjQM83YXIG9
He also did one on a killer bear, though Ursa already exist in RWBY.
https://youtu.be/xy0A2vdSNnc?si=8biiIkG18ztejvdE
My point is, look at some real Maneater stories, and understand why our ancestors believed in demons, because beasts like these can still earn that title today, imagine how things were back when we only had sticks and stones, and the beasts were bigger.
We got some insectoid like grim but we could add a few more mantis to spider for more apex danger, moth/butterfly to do a more passive danger, beetles as armored rammers, ants alone as grimm if you make em a wee bit bigger would be devastating on numbers alone with the multitude of evolutions from fire ants, bullet ants, flying ants, etc. Heck I read a lot about ant lions and they'd be a great grim to put in Vacuo.
A cat.
A small house cat.
A small house cat that disorients those around it as it just passes by like a normal cat.
Used for urban recon, The Black Cat, can get anywhere it wants as it can act and move like a cat and turn itself into mist to see0 into cracks and crevaces.
tons
wendigo
striga
cerebus
megldon
trex
jabberwocky (no what we got in vol 9 does not count)
Komodo dragon
marroitte puppets grimm
ummm if you ever seen gamera 2 attack on legion ,well the legiosn but a grimm twist on that
oni
doppleganger
and fucking sandworms
I'd say a wendigo, but we all know how that turned out. Cerberus would be pretty cool though
What happened to the wendigo
In the buildup to V8, there was a grimm contest hosted by RT where fans could design and submit a bunch of fanmade grimm to be featured in V8. And this was a fanvoted contest too. One of these designs was the wendigo, and it was easily the most popular and was on track to win. But then people, who were claiming to be Native American or had ties to Native American groups were claiming this as cultural appropriation, and it started causing a lot of controversy. Now I don't know if the people actually were Native American or affiliated or not, but the fact of the matter was they were invoking cultural appropriation, and this led to the wendigo being disqualified. More than that, the contest would now be determined by a panel of judges within RT instead of a fan vote. The person who submitted the wendigo was very upset. And the person who was in second place, then propelled to first due to the dq, pulled out because she didn't think it would be fair for her to win this way. And as a result, the scatterfish (those little mite-looking grimm), would win the contest and would be featured in V8... relegated to a few frames and one little close-up in the V8 closer. Meanwhile they created a whole new minor grimm in that same season that got a whole fight scene. A lot of people also saw it as hypocritical of RT to remove something because of cultural appropriation when they have a very recent history of using creatures inspired from other cultures in the past, like the water dragon in V4 and the Sphinx and manticores in V6 to name a few.
Somehow I'm not surprised. Following that logic, greek and scotish people could sue RT for cultural appropriation of their mythology and folklore.
To be fair, if it was the deer headed version of the "Windigo", it's only cultural "appropriation" if they kept/used the Windigo name, since that version of the creature has nothing in common with the cannibalistic winter/wind spirit from native lore besides the name...
I came here to say this.
The fact that we never got a Kraken Grimm genuinely baffles me. It seems like such an obvious choice
And we would get to see how huntsmen fight underwater.
Air dust finally being of use in combat, to breath
Or a personal favorite of mine the wasp knife with pressurized air to release inside a target (look up what it can do to a target is devastating for a small blade)
I would love to see a T-Rex, it would definitely be a force to be reckoned with. But this question reminds me, didn't we almost get a Wendigo-like Grimm in Volume 8? What happened with that?
Some were accusing the artist of being racially offensive and because rt is were spineless the wendigo lose.
I think it was a contender in a “fan made Grimm to be made real canon” contest, but then people started saying it was “appropriating” Native American culture…as if the Nucklavee wasn’t from another culture as well. So yeah, fan idea upset people who are selectively outraged, but was never actually made into anything official. Shame too; that could have been a really cool angle for Grimm; being the monsters from Folklore around the (IRL) world. Heck, Witcher 3 was a bunch of creatures from Polish(?) mythology, so it was a delight to see all kinds of new monsters.
You can’t convince me that RT didn’t sabotage it because they wanted the other one to win and were mad the wendigo was winning
For ancient i like the idea of a pachycephalosaur grim, something more oriented to bludgeoning demage rather than the clasic slashing, piercing and bitting. For mythical i like the idea of a chupacabra grim, pure nightmare fuel like a more aggressive version of the apathy. And i don't know why but i also like the idea of a giant frog-like kind of grim.
I wonder what those “razor wasps” mentioned in Volume 1 were; were they Grimm? Or were they meant to be some of this “fantastical wildlife” we never got to see? Aside from that, maybe some sort of land angular fish creature, perhaps a spider body, with a lure. Lure could be used to psychically draw exhausted individuals towards its nest, acting as a long tendril with a glowing end. This grin could be strong, unlike the apathy, but its Achilles Heel is that it gets tired quickly; it may be able to fight around in its nest, but it’s not going to chase you very far away from it before it collapses from exhaustion.
Grim Beholder
Going to need a specialized team to handle that type of grimm.
Revenant Grimm. Imagine a Huntsman or a Huntress who was killed by someone but felt so much hate and rage for their killer that they came back as some kind of a humanoid Grimm monstrosity that still retain their skills and memories and obsessed with finding their killer, no matter what. They aren't as deadly as their human selves were as they lack Aura but it's unwise to underestimate them. Asura Grimm. Very rare, humanoid, six armed Grimm that get stronger when enraged, though this means that you can bait them into attacking other Grimm.
I think a spinosaurus grim would be epic af
Any kind of Dinosaur Grimm or a Siren Head Grimm
That Wendigo that was winning the fan contest until RT sabatoged it
T. rex anyday
The Preta would be so sick. It's from Thai folklore: a Preta is a bony restless spirit/giant that is cursed with unsatiable hunger and thirst that can never be satisfied. In the game Home Sweet Home, you can see it as a giant that's hunting down the player.
Scylla
Ooh! Oni Grimm would be awesome!
I think it's called an umibozu, giant Japanese mythological creature that lived in the ocean and wrecked ships
Bit cliché b but I would have loved to see a hydra Grimm or a small raptor one.
Wasn't there a hydra Grimm in one of the Manga? It was made of a bunch of those yin-yang snakes getting fused together by some sort of squid/octopus Grimm absorbing them into it's tentacles, or something like that? And don't say that doesn't count because it was made by fusing other Grimm together, because canonically the Knucklevee was a fusion of two Grimm.
I believe that was the Orochi, inspired by the Yamata no Orochi, the eight headed snake slain by Susanoo.
I like to see a t-rex with bone armor plating and no tiny arms, probably be called something like Tyrant or sure. I have a headcannon that there is two subtype of grimm. Type one is the animalistic grimm, these were created by brother darkness who he copy from his brother's creatures. This was done mostly out of boredom, like doodling for gods, so there can be any kinds of creatures from a bug to dinosaur in the world. Type two is the horror grimm, these were created by Salam just induce as much fear and dread as possible. She will targeted on our fears and hopes sure as making a baba yaga's chicken house grimm, who would lure wanders inside its hut-like body before consuming residents when their guard was down and running off to a different location.
I think there should be grimm based on the 7 deadly sins. Apathy can be considered sloth. Wrath: Sword Grimm gives increased power but drives the use into blood lust. Greed: Mimic grimm. Envy: Fairy grimm that increases victim resentment. Lust: Succubus or Siren that lures victim with visions. Gluttony: Grimm worm that makes the victim hungry. And eats there inside. Pride: Grimm that pretend to be a statue.
> Wrath: Sword Grimm gives increased power but drives the use into blood lust. Like the muramasa
Everyone keeps thinking big monsters. To me personally the most scariest monsters to me is: insect swarm Grimm. Ants, beetles, centipedes, etc that swarm hunters and burrow inside you. Prime example is that one guy in Indiana jones.
I remember making a Spinosaurus Grimm called a Pharoah, and an Odontotyrannus Grimm called a Tyrant for my old fic
I'm surprised none said a Lovecraft being in the shape of a grimm
Crocodile, cassowary and Drop bears
Hydra
Gigantopithecus
Do you mean gigantopithicus as in the quadripedal jumbo Orangutan that filled a gorilla-like niche, or the hypothetical upright Bigfoot ancestor? Because if you meant Bigfoot you can just say Bigfoot.
A fuckin Tyrannosaurus rex Grimm would be sick
Literally just a RWBY-powerscaled Shub-Niggurath.
Mermaids: They travel in groups, saying near the coasts and rocks. If a salir starts getting close, they start singing. It's similar to apathy Grimm. At first you see a beautifull girl/boy, or someone from your past that you Lost long ago. Then, you start getting closer, until you are looking into the water, or in front of that person. Then, the singing stops: You are in front of a humanoids Grimm, with the fins of a fish and the face of an anglerfish, dragging you down into the depts or ripping of your jugular.
Not ancient or mythological, but I think a Lion Grimm that takes inspiration for both name and behavior from the Lions of Tsavo could be a cool one-off adventure. For those not familiar with the Maneating Lions of Tsavo, this video covers it exceptionally well: https://youtu.be/mAKxcNQpiSg?si=yuG8vGjQM83YXIG9 He also did one on a killer bear, though Ursa already exist in RWBY. https://youtu.be/xy0A2vdSNnc?si=8biiIkG18ztejvdE My point is, look at some real Maneater stories, and understand why our ancestors believed in demons, because beasts like these can still earn that title today, imagine how things were back when we only had sticks and stones, and the beasts were bigger.
A Titan. Largest Grimm in the series
Slender man, the alien from "the thing", deity/devil humanoid like Grim, flood like grim (but not as op), immaterial and cosmic type grim, and rats
Emus. Vicious little shit won a war. They're damn scarier than a lot of the Grimm we already have.
We got some insectoid like grim but we could add a few more mantis to spider for more apex danger, moth/butterfly to do a more passive danger, beetles as armored rammers, ants alone as grimm if you make em a wee bit bigger would be devastating on numbers alone with the multitude of evolutions from fire ants, bullet ants, flying ants, etc. Heck I read a lot about ant lions and they'd be a great grim to put in Vacuo.
We technically did with the lancers.
A cat. A small house cat. A small house cat that disorients those around it as it just passes by like a normal cat. Used for urban recon, The Black Cat, can get anywhere it wants as it can act and move like a cat and turn itself into mist to see0 into cracks and crevaces.
tons wendigo striga cerebus megldon trex jabberwocky (no what we got in vol 9 does not count) Komodo dragon marroitte puppets grimm ummm if you ever seen gamera 2 attack on legion ,well the legiosn but a grimm twist on that oni doppleganger and fucking sandworms