Conrad Bonaparte is the main antagonist of the fifth season of Grimm. He was a Zauberbiest and one of the two co-founders of Black Claw, hell-bent on revealing Wesen to the world.
He was portrayed by Shaun Toub.
Biography[]
Bonaparte was first introduced when he arrived at the house that Renard and Diana were staying at, as Renard thought he was meeting Bonaparte the next day. Bonaparte couldn't wait and immediately told him that he heard about Diana's reaction to Adalind not coming with her right away. Bonaparte also stated the fact of Adalind's importance of joining Black Claw in order to improve Renard's image of becoming mayor of Portland. He want on to state that if Adalind doesn't join them then he will kill her, with Renard telling him to not to say that to Diana as she will kill him if Adalind's harmed. Bonaparte lastly told Renard that Black Claw is interested in recruiting Nick to align with them with Renard knowing, but not telling Bonaparte that Nick will never join them.
The next day, Bonaparte went to the law firm where Adalind works and introduced himself to her, to which he makes a proposal to her to choose between Nick or Black Claw by the end of the day or they will kill her as he left. Later, Bonaparte went to Zuri Ellis' home to make sure that she was successful in getting Hank to come over her house that night for dinner, which she was.
Bonaparte brought Diana over to the house where Adalind and Renard were to which Bonaparte spoke to Adalind and acknowledge that she made a difficult decision. On the day of the mayoral election, Bonaparte continued to try to get Adalind to warm up to Black Claw by telling her that they worked hard to get Diana back to her. Bonaparte tries to convince Adalind to tell him where nick is but she refuses and Bonaparte tells her that he will find him no matter what. Bonaparte gets a call form Zuri about Tony breaking into Hank's house and believes that she is suspected so he tells her to go with Nick and Hank. Unknown to Zuri this was all part of Bonaparte's plan as she can be captured and then Hadrian's Wall will be discovered. When Renard wins the election, he gets another call and that he tells the caller to wait for him.
Everyone gets back to the mansion and Bonaparte congratulates Renard. The next day, Bonaparte meets with Adalind to talk and tries to pressure her into being with Renard to keep the good publicity, except Adalind still refuses till Bonaparte grabs her hand and woges into a full Zauberbiest which frightens Adalind. He starts turning her to stone till he turned her back and telekinetically gives Adalind a wedding ring and put it on her finger and warns her that if she ever took it off then it will cause extreme pain to her children.
Personality[]
Conrad Bonaparte was a ruthless leader and intimidator who had no limits of attempting to get what he wants. He mostly had a calm demeanor, underneath though was a cold and timid man using his calm status to manipulate and intimidate people for his own purposes. These traits show his cruel sociopathic tendencies as he is willing to kill anyone who doesn't apply to his orders as he killed Meisner and tortured him for as long as possible so he can die a slow painful death, revealing that he is also extremely sadistic, showing no mercy on anyone, and this proved to be his downfall as he chokes Adalind just to receive information on where Nick lives and Diana noticing this has Renard stab Bonaparte in the back killing him.
