A Boy Learns What Fear Is

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**A Boy Learns What Fear Is** is the first episode of the first season of American McGee's Grimm and is based on the fairy tale *The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was*.

## Characters

**NOTE** This list only includes the characters that played an active role in the story and does not include side characters or Grimm.

* Dimwit
* Dimwit's Father
* The King
* Thieving Teacher
* Pig Princess

## Plot

### Light Version

A boy, who seemingly doesn't know nor has ever felt fear, asks his blacksmith father what fear is, to which his father sends him off to discover what fear is. He first encounters a set of wrongly accused individuals who are about to be hanged for stealing a bell. The boy investigates and finds himself at a school where he deducts that the bell was stolen by a teacher, who sobbingly admits to stealing it and goes unpunished. The boy speaks to the king who claims the boy will learn fear by staying over night at his haunted castle, the boy does so and sleeps well. As a result, the boy is able to marry the king's daughter, they quickly have a wedding, however the cannons being fired ends up scaring the boy.

### Dark Version

A boy, nicknamed, Dimwit, asks his father about fear, to which his father states many different reasons why he has fear and banishes his son to the gallows to learn what fear is from the hanged dead. Those hanged were, as it turns out, wrongly accused for stealing a bell and that the children and townsfolk find the real culprit, a teacher. The children demand that the teacher should be burnt to death, which the mayor elects to do, executing the teacher. Dimwit then meets the King who threatens Dimwits life with execution if he fails to stay at the haunted castle over night, however, if he stays the night he can marry the king's daughter (who happens to have a pig head). Dimwit manages to stay the night and is to be wed to the pig princess. Upon, seeing her and hearing her demands, Dimwit becomes fearful and runs away from her.

## Levels

### Scene 1

The first scene has Grimm navigating his way through Dimwit's village, turning the blacksmith into a lava mountain and flooding the village with lava. Grimm escapes through the rooftop converting Dimwit's father into an angry giant who beats his son and Grimm, throwing them into the next scene.

### Scene 2

Grimm starts off on the outskirts of the gallows, having to use a small boat to get to the main attraction, deep in the forest, a spiral of soon to be hanged victims. Upon converting them, all the soon to be hanged, become hanged for real.

### Scene 3

Now in a school playground, Grimm navigates his way around to punish the thieving teacher, having him tied to a pole with a bunch of books below him. One by one, Grimm converts the children into match sticks who all swarm the teacher and set him alight.

### Scene 4

The queen's recent death, results in Dimwit going to the funeral. Grimm escapes one part of the cemetery and then hatches a plan to turn the cemetery into a horror show, concentrating primarily on the birds, turning them into bats as he flies away to the next scene.

### Scene 5

Starting outside the castle, Grimm desires to change the non-creepy atmosphere to a creepy one. After, darkening the outside, Grimm moves inside and redecorates the haunted castle, even destroying a huge chunk of it and creating a small army of scared skeletons. Grimm chases after the skeletons, kills them and uses them as a bridge.

### Scene 6

Grimm hates weddings and so, Grimm wants to completely ruin it. He converts the cannons into his own personal weapons, firing at the entrance and killing some of the guests. Grimm moves onto the wedding ceremony itself, killing all the guests and transforming the princess into a hideous pig faced woman, scaring and disgusting Dimwit, completely ruining their big day.