History Main / LittleDeadRidingHood

* [[spoiler:Christina Sierra, Anew Returner, Nena Trinity and Wang Liu Mei]] from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00''. Yes, 00 ''loves'' this trope.

%%* Rin in ''Manga/InuYasha'' was wearing red when she was introduced.
* In the anime of ''Anime/Golgo13'', Duke Togo is sent to kill a DoubleAgent in a Canadian winter. He captures a female agent guarding the man, drugs her, and strips her naked so she can't run away. She's only feigning unconsciousness, and once Togo leaves she knocks out a staff member at the hotel where they're staying and takes her clothing, including a bright red overcoat. She then runs to the agent to warn him that Togo is on the way. As they flee on a snowmobile, [[OhCrap she realizes that her red jacket makes her stand out in the snow]]. Togo set the whole thing up so he could pick out his target at a distance.
* Satoru of ''Manga/{{ERASED}}'' specifically remembers Kayo alone in the snow and wearing a striking red jacket on the night she was murdered by a serial killer.

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* The paedophile murderer in ''Film/ThePledge'' preys ''only'' on little blond girls in red dresses.
* ''Film/{{Carrie|1976}}'' by Creator/StephenKing. Well, it was a red prom dress, but that's fairly close... Definitely at least qualifies for the blood-shade color-coding in the related trope BringMyRedJacket.
-->"It's pink, Mama."
* ''Film/{{Cthulhu}}'' (2007). Julia (a blonde girl in a red top) the liquor store clerk who tries to warn the protagonist and ends up [[ChainedToARock tied to a bitthead with barbed wire]] as a sacrifice to the Deep Ones. There's also a scene where she panics when the protagonist stops his car on a backwoods road at night -- clearly she has a [[GenreSavvy justifiable phobia]] about TheLostWoods.
* ''Film/{{Freeway}}'', a parody of Little Red Riding Hood -- starring Reese Witherspoon in a red leather jacket and Kiefer Sutherland as creepy pedophile Bob Wolverton.
* ''Film/HardCandy'': Hayley wears a red hoodie. The precocious young girl seems to be ignoring signs of danger as she enters the lair of a predator. [[spoiler: {{Subverted}} by the end -- she leaves that lair wearing the same hoodie, having demonstrated that ''[[LittleRedFightingHood she is]]'' [[LittleRedFightingHood the predator]].]]
* In ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' [[spoiler:Shosanna is wearing a red dress when she and Zoller shot each other.]]

%%* Miette in ''Film/TheCityOfLostChildren'', although [[spoiler: averted in that she lives.]]
%%* Robin (also note the name) wears a red coat in ''Film/TheWoodsman''.

* Lampshaded in the Literature/DarkestPowers series, when Chloe is wearing a red windbreaker while out scouting the woods. She is found by an AxCrazy ghost whom she (and her [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] [[HeIsNotMyBoyfriend friend]]) pissed off earlier. He taunts her, "That's a pretty red coat you're wearing. Literature/LittleRedRidingHood, all alone in the woods at night. Where's your big bad wolf?" Then he tries to [[{{Telekinesis}} stone her to death]].
* Literature/TheDresdenFiles: Taken very literally in ''Grave Peril''. Susan shows up for the climactic [[AFeteWorseThanDeath costume party]] dressed as Little Red, complete with crimson cloak. [[spoiler: By the end of the night, she's half-turned into a Red Court vampire and spends the rest of her time in the series resisting the urge to kill a human and transform fully.]]
* Consequently, like in Schindler's List, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel's autobiography ''Literature/{{Night}}'' depicts his youngest sister Tzipora wearing a red coat the last time Elie ever saw her (and their mother) again.
* In the Literature/TalesOfTheFiveHundredKingdoms story ''Beauty and the Werewolf'', Belle is wearing a red cloak while visiting the old woman who lives in the woods with a basket of goodies. On her way back, she is bitten by a werewolf. Given that in this series The Tradition (which forces the repeating of fairy tales) is a major part of how the world works, it was pretty obvious that this was going to happen.
* In ''Literature/QuiteContrary'' Mary wanders into the fairy tale while wearing a Sexy-Little-Red-Riding-Hood Halloween costume, and is pursued by the wolf. The sexuality aspect of this trope is played up for maximum creepiness, since Mary is twelve years old and the wolf wants to both sleep with her and eat her.
* When little Princess Rhaenys, age 6, of ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' was assassinated, she was wrapped in a red cloak, so her blood wouldn't show so much.

* The ''Series/RedRiding'' trilogy -- well, it's there in the title. A little blond girl in a hooded red coat. Abducted, murdered.
* ''Series/DoctorWho''.
** "In The Forest of the Night" opens with a little girl running through the woods and encountering...the TARDIS. She later gets chased by wolves, and ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood'' and other such DontGoIntoTheWoods tales are specifically referenced.

** Red-haired Amy Pond also owns a red hoodie, including in "The Pandorica Opens", when [[spoiler:she is fatally shot by Rory.]] She also wears it earlier in the episode "Flesh and Stone", which completes the symbolism by having her walk alone through a forest avoiding monsters.

* Though not blonde, Piper of ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' ended up in a hood and eaten by a wolf-shape shifter in a Fairy Tale themed episode. She eventually blasts her way out, blowing the wolf up.

* ''Series/{{Life On Mars|2006}}'': Annie Cartwright wears a bright red dress, while walking in a forest, before being attacked by Vic Tyler.
* In an episode of ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'' Morgana runs away to the forest in a bright red hooded cloak and is attacked by giant scorpions.
* The "Big Bad Wolf" villain in the pilot episode of ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' went after young women walking or jogging in red clothing as his modus operandi. The color does something to Blutbaden instincts. Juliette, in addition to having red hair, wears the color red a lot, and Nick is shown to be uncomfortable about it in early episodes, though he doesn't say anything to her about it since she didn't know about TheMasquerade yet.

* In the ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "Epidemiology", Annie shows up at the Halloween party dressed as Little Red Riding Hood. After the guests start turning into zombies, [[spoiler: Annie gets bitten and becomes one. She gets better.]]
* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS20E1 The Ghost of Causton Abbey]]", Barnaby is reading ''Little Red Riding Hood'' to his daughter. As he reads, the scene cuts to a female suspect wearing a long red scarf/cape being stalked by the murderer through the overgrown gardens of the abbey at night. Barnaby's narration of the story continues over the top of the action as the woman is killed.

%%* ''VideoGame/ThePath'' is all about this trope, in both straight and inverted ways.

* Princess Ran runs afoul of this trope in ''VideoGame/TwinkleStarSprites'', where the otherwise peaceful Nonja Monja creatures attack [[BerserkButton only one thing]] -- little girls in red dresses. Fortunately [[ActionGirl she can defend herself]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Claire}}'' wears a red hoodie in the present day. One of her younger selves also wears a red shirt, while the very youngest version of Claire we see has a pure white nightgown on instead.
* The RPG Maker game ''VideoGame/TheDarkSideOfRedRidingHood'' by Creator/{{Charon}}. When staying on the path, nothing will happen, but if Little Red Riding Hood strays from the path, then she will [[spoiler: be eaten by her cannibalistic grandmother, be raped by the hunter/wolf or be sold by her mother as a slave]]. The two endings that are at least somewhat harmless are the one where [[spoiler: Red kills her grandma with an axe because her mother asked her to]] and the one where she [[spoiler: gets lost and starves in the woods]]. It is also implied that there are [[spoiler: several Little Red Riding Hoods, since both the slave owner and grandma mention how she isn't the first and certainly not the last that they will get their hands on]].
* ''VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia'' starts with a FakeOutOpening in form of a horror story being told by one of the characters. It involves a little girl dressed in a red hood that the featureless protagonist aptly nicknames "Little Red Riding Hood". She wears a red hood to hide the bruises inflicted by her [[AbusiveParents abusive father]] and winds up dead after her mother commits family suicide. Before dying, she tried to get the protagonist to help her because she couldn't reach the elevator button by herself but [[BystanderSyndrome he ignored the frantic pounding on his door in favor of watching TV]]. The girl's spirit starts haunting the protagonist and eventually shows up before him to seemingly kill him in revenge... [[NoEnding before the story is interrupted by one of the characters freaking out]].
** And now in ''Literature/FateStrangeFake'', it turns out the neighbor was Ayaka Sajyou, who's been fleeing from the little girl's ghost ever since the fateful events. She's still a NervousWreck when Zelretch finds her and sends her on the path to become a Master of Saber in the Snowfield Holy Grail War.
* VideoGame/ThePath uses this heavily, as a loose adaptation of Red Riding Hood. One of the most common interpretations of the game's MindScrew {{Blipvert}} endings is that each girl has died, and [[spoiler: the game files refer to it as murder]].

* ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' v4 character Carol Burke is usually seen wearing a red hoodie. Said character is a WideEyedIdealist in an AnyoneCanDie type story. This trope has actually been [[WordOfGod confirmed by her handler]].

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "The Ghost of Causton Abbey", Barnaby is reading ''Little Red Riding Hood'' to his daughter. As he reads, the scene cuts to a female suspect wearing a long red scarf/cape being stalked by the murderer through the overgrown gardens of the abbey at night. Barnaby's narration of the story continues over the top of the action as the woman is killed.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'''s EstablishingSeriesMoment is subverting this trope. The first trailer opens with a red-cloaked teenage girl wandering a snowy plain alone at night. Inevitably, a pack of about fifteen wolf-demon...things surround her and start attacking. It's at this point that the girl whips out a [[SmallGirlBigGun huge gun]][[SwissArmyWeapon -]][[SinisterScythe Scythe]] and starts shooting. It would be hilarious if it weren't so awesome.

* The "Big Bad Wolf" villain in the pilot episode of ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' went after young women walking or jogging in red clothing as his modus operandi. The color does something to Blutbaden instincts. Juliette, in addition to [[HeroesWantRedheads having red hair]], wears the color red a lot, and Nick is shown to be uncomfortable about it in early episodes, though he doesn't say anything to her about it since she didn't know about TheMasquerade yet.