Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20170505174118/@comment-25936766-20170531044332

HookshotHotshot wrote:

1) True, strength can get you pretty far. I guess the reason I want a piercing or slicing weapon is because they've proven to be fatal to Grimm where much larger blunt-force blows haven't killed the Grimm outright.

2) As far as we know, Grimm don't work like typical animals do. In every Grimm fight we've seen, especially when we see Qrow slice the Griffon in half during "Heroes and Monsters", we don't see anything that would cause death due to blunt trauma alone; namely, we don't see blood splatter, muscle, viscera, anything. 1) That's purely due to how the fights are constructed.

1-Most characters have cutting weapons because swords are generally seen as "Cool", and most characters who land the killing blow use cutting weapons.

2-The characters with blunt weapons are more of a minority, thus you don't see them killing Grimm as often.

However, saying they haven't killed Grimm, is completely ignorant. For starters, Yang. A punch is not a cutting attack, and she has been shown killing Grimm multiple times.

Second of all, it's been shown many times in the show that blunt-damage has been very effective against Grimm. The Geist and the Nuckelavee are examples at different points of their fights. There's also the time Nora drove the Deathstalker's stinger into it with a hammer blow, which would have been difficult-if-not-impossible with a blade.

There's also Ren's Aura Charge thing. The Palm Strike that blew up the Taijitu's head. If you wanna count it.

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2) We have seen them dying from blunt trauma alone, however, so it's all irrelevant.

Even then, we saw the Beowulf be practically stunned by Coco's kick in the groin in Breach. So regardless of their anatomy, a blunt attack does have an effect on them.

And the lack of muscles, viscera and bones has a simple justification: It's a waste of time. Nearly all games that show dismemberment and such, yet don't make it the selling point, don't go with much detail. Just some red thing in the orifice and just that.

You could assume that in-universe, they do have muscles and bones, but we simply don't see them. It's similar to the idea of everyone speaking "Remnantese" but we hear them speaking in English.

And of course, the lack of Blood in itself is due to the show being PG-Rated in V1-3, while in-universe it fits the Grimm more to not bleed.