Wolfgang Grimmer

Wolfgang Grimmer is one of the two tritagonists (alongside Dieter) of the manga and anime series Monster. 
He is a survivor of Kinderheim 511. He is trained as a spy, and travels around Germany posing as a freelance journalist, but is in actuality trying to uncover more information about Kinderheim 511 and his past.
Grimmer is voiced by in Japanese and by in the English.
==Bio==
Wolfgang is a perpetually smiling man searching for Franz Bonaparta, the man whose pedagogic theories formed the basis of the brainwashing program Grimmer had been subjected to as a child. Unable to feel emotion in his regular state (according to himself, although that doesn't stop him from trying to "fake it"), he transforms into a brutal and unstoppable alter-ego when under extreme duress.
== Personality ==
Grimmer is a wonderful man who is always found smiling, no matter how difficult situation would befall him. He is very concerned for the well-being of others, especially children, and wants to ensure the best possible futures for them. At first glance he seems to be a modest person who finds joy even in the simplest things, life can offer. But due the treatment he experienced in 511 Kinderheim, he actually is not able to develop real emotions like joy, love or sorrow. Despite this issue. He's trained as a spy and is a very quick thinker, which gets him out of sticky situations.
He is not a type of person who gets hurt easily, actually, it hurts him more when he sees others being in trouble or suffer unfairly. He even offered to give his shoe to a boy who cried because his shoes were taken by peers. Grimmer managed to comfort the boy and teaches him not to be brought down by losers but to move upwards because people are born without shoes.
 
He is favoured by children because he is entertaining and careful and that is seen during the Prague arc, when he was trying to free orphans from Petrov's care that was supposedly the continuous 511 experiment. It turned out to be the opposite after he noticed kids laughing at his clumsy move in soccer game. The kids were trying at all costs to prove Grimmer's innocence and risked their life when one of them, Milosz confronted Petrov's murderer. In Ruhenheim, he easily earned Wim's respect when Wim was crying witnessing Grimmer's death.
==Background==
Grimmer attended Kinderheim 511 until he was fourteen. In there, he lost almost all of his memories. The only piece of information he could remember was his friend, Adolf Reinhardt (Roberto). Adolf's parents were killed crossing the Berlin Wall. He loved drawing and insects, but hated bug collectors because they killed the bugs; he always let them free. He cherished his weekly hot cocoa, but when Grimmer was sick, gave him his. Roberto, in turn, probably knew some information about Grimmer, maybe even his real name, but he died before anything could be revealed. He was also stripped of his emotions, and says that the hardest thing for him to ever learn was how to smile.
After leaving Kinderheim 511, Grimmer was trained as a spy. One day a woman confessed her love for him, so he married her, because he was told having a family was a good cover up for someone of his position. The two of them had a son together, and they lived happily, until their son mysteriously and unexpectedly died. Grimmer's wife said he was to blame, because he was incapable of loving and and nothing in his heart. He couldn't even cry at his own son's funeral.
== Trivia ==
* Grimmer was subtly haunted by his son's death, even if he couldn't properly feel emotion; being able to vividly recall everything. Dying himself, Grimmer's failing condition allowed him to finally grieve and get some closure.
== External Links ==
* Wolfgang Grimmer on the Naoki Urasawa's Monster Wiki
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