Nick Burkhardt
Detective Nick Burkhardt is the protagonist of the fantasy tv show Grimm. He is a cop partnered with a close friend named Hank Griffin. He is also a special type of person known as a Grimm (a superhuman warrior/hunter, of a long bloodline, whose job it is to protect the world from the monsters that secretly live in it) which the show is named after. He is one of the last ones left of his kind, and as such he possess many great powers, he is able to see people as these types of creatures they truely are, able to see past there disguse, and see the true monster with in. He also possess enhanced Strength, Durability and Stamina, allowing him to match his superhuman foes. He is however strickened with guilt, as his ancestry is a brutal one, filled with murder, torture and destruction. He also has all the problems that being a Grimm affects his life, as he can not tell anyone one about what's really going on. And He must hunt many types of monsters such as Hexenbiests (haglike witches), Blutbads (werewolves) and many many more.
In Season 2 following his Girlfriend falling into a comma, due to a curse placed upon her by Adalind (a Hexenbeast) in retalation for Nick stripping her of her powers, Nick entered problems, enhanced by the surprise of his mother, who had been faking her death all these years to protect Nick from her enemies. Together the two Grimms managed to patch up there relationship just in time to defeat a dangerous monster sent to kill Nick by the Seven Royal households. Nick and his friends managed to cures Juliet, and Sean work her up, however she was left without memories of him. His mother left to destroy a dangerous weapon Nick had been looking after. Over the series Hank discovered Nicks secret, Nick discovered Sean's (he's half wesen and half royal, a dangerous combination) and Juliet slowly began to regain her memories of Nick. Nick however began to get darker and more dangerous, brought on by all the grief in his life, although he never crossed the lines between good and evil, he stopped caring if he killed his enemies or not. By the end of the series, Juliet regained her memories and also discovered Nick's secret, and everything seemed to be going well. But then Baron Samdie arrived in Portland, Nick took him on, but the Baron defeated Nick and infected him. Thus trapping Nick, leading to him being captured by the Baron, who gave him to Prince Eric.
However due to being a Grimm the Barons toxin had an odd effect on Nick, turning him wild and violent, while also enhancing his strength and Grimm powers, he killed the Baron and caused the plane they were on to crash. Nick survived and went on a rampage, arriving in a bar, one man shoved him and that set him off he
Nick Burkhardt after Baron Samedi poisonned him.
attacked knocked down the patrons, easily defeating them all and putting several of them in hospital. He then still wild broke into someone house. Hank and Monroe bursted in and tried to stop him, but he soon proved more than a match for them. Leading Nick out of the house, the managed to temporarily trap him. Renard, Hank and Monroe tried to stop him, however Nick proved to powerful. But Juliette and Rossalee managed to give him the anitdote in time. Despite this Nick's enhanced powers remained, and lingering affects of the poision carried on.
