History Main / LittleDeadRidingHood

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Merlin}}'' Morgana runs away to the forest in a bright red hooded cloak and is attacked by giant scorpions.

* Though not blonde, Piper of ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' 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.

->''"You were too easy to spot with that hood on your head --''
->''Why don't you just wear a target instead?''
-> ''It was almost too easy, should not be allowed --''
-> ''If only you hadn't stood out from the crowd!"''

Red is, of course, the colour of blood, and as such it carries ancient associations with sexuality (as in LadyInRed) and danger (as in RedShirt). It is also simply a very strong, eye-catching colour. Anyone wearing head-to-toe red is marked out, highly visible and memorable -- not only to the audience but also to anyone who may wish to harm her. When that person is a little girl, she is bound to seem especially exposed and vulnerable.

!!Examples

* Rin in ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'' was wearing red when she was introduced.
* In the anime of ''Series/{{Golgo 13}}'', 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 realises 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.

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** "It's pink, Mama."

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

* Averted in the short animation [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om-iANuBrR4 ''Red undead'']], Little Red Riding Hood goes into the wood, being stalked by the wolf, but '''without''' her cape. [[spoiler: She tried to lure the wolf out on purpose to avenge her grandmother who got eaten by the wolf and successfully kills it in a bloody battle with a knife, only to rip out it's guts to find her grandma's eaten corpse and start crying.]] She takes her [[spoiler: grandmothers once yellow, but now blood-soaked]] red cape and proceeds to exit the forest, [[spoiler: dragging her grandmothers corpse behind her]].
* ''{{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.

* ''Film/BramStockersDracula'': Lucy Westenra is wearing red everytime she is bitten by Dracula. She seemingly dies after the third and final attack, but rises as a vampire instead.

* Blonde Rose Tyler in ''Series/DoctorWho'' wears a red hoodie in at least one episode prior to her switch to ActionGirl. Perhaps intentional -- [[spoiler:she is the Bad Wolf]]...

* ''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.

* Blonde [[Series/DoctorWho Rose Tyler]] wears a red hoodie in at least one episode prior to her switch to ActionGirl. Perhaps intentional -- [[spoiler:she is the Bad Wolf]]...

* ''VideoGame/ThePath'' is all about this trope, in both straight and inverted ways.
* [[spoiler:Princess Ovelia]] from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics''.

* ''Film/XMen''. Rogue dresses InTheHood when she meets the big bad Wolverine. Though not a red hood, the RuleOfSymbolism is obvious.

* The RPG Maker game ''The Dark Side of Red Riding Hood'' takes this UpToEleven. 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]].

* Its closer to pink than red, but the unnamed little girl in the trailer for ''VideoGame/DeadIsland''.

* {{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.

* Invoked (or at least joked about) by a wealthy werewolf socialite in ''Literature/DanShambleZombiePI'', who claims she's considering opening up her Montana estate to Girl Scout overnight camp-outs. And providing nice, thick red cloaks to all the visiting girls to keep off the chill.

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

It can be considered an AlwaysFemale version of BringMyRedJacket. [[WomanInWhite Dressing all in white]] is often a dangerous choice for girls and women, too. Contrast LittleRedFightingHood, where the blood and danger associations are meant for her enemies.

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* Theatre/RedTheRedRidingHoodMusical has the BigBadWolf reference this trope during his solo in the song "Back To The Scene Of The Crime." This song actually provides the current page quote.
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* ''ThePath'' is all about this trope, in both straight and inverted ways.
* [[spoiler:Princess Ovelia]] from ''FinalFantasyTactics''.

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

* Invoked by Paz in ''MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'', a cute young girl who wears a red raincoat during her first meeting with Snake in order to inspire his pity and sympathy, with the aim being to make [[TheMagnificentSevenSamurai his mercenary army easier for her community to hire]]. Her mentor Galvez even explains to Snake that she had been tortured, allowing the player some CostumePorn interactions where they can zoom in on her clothes and look through them to see the scars from this abuse. Even though she is deliberately putting on the Red Riding Hood act and Snake sees straight through the cheap emotional manipulation (while also allowing it to work), when we meet the villain of the game later, he has a head tattoo of a wolf. Also played with as the game uses a form of GoodColorsEvilColors to code the protagonists with bright yellow and the antagonists with red -- Paz's association with red suggests she may not be all she seems.

* Averted in the short animation [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om-iANuBrR4 ''Red undead'']], Little Red Riding Hood goes into the wood, being stalked by the wolf, but '''without''' her cape. [[spoiler: She tried to lure the wolf out on purpose to revenge her grandmother who got eaten by the wolf and successfully kills it in a bloody battle with a knife, only to rip out it's guts to find her grandma's eaten corpse and start crying.]] She takes her [[spoiler: grandmothers once yellow, but now blood-soaked]] red cape and proceeds to exit the forest, [[spoiler: dragging her grandmothers corpse behind her]].

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* Similar to the ''HardCandy'' example: Oasis's trademark hoodie during the "Phoenix Rising" arc of ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance''.
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* ''Film/HardCandy'' ends up inverting this. The red hoodie that she wears when ''she'' goes hunting was initially chosen without this trope in mind. Same as the Oasis example from ''[[Webcomic/SluggyFreelance Sluggy]]'' below.
** According to filmmakers while this trope does fit it wasn't intentional until post-production when they changed the orange shirt to red in editing.

->''"You were too easy to spot with that hood on your head -''

-> ''It was almost too easy, should not be allowed -''

Red is, of course, the colour of blood, and as such it carries ancient associations with sexuality (as in LadyInRed) and danger (as in RedShirt). It is also simply a very strong, eye-catching colour. Anyone wearing head-to-toe red is marked out, highly visible and memorable - not only to the audience but also to anyone who may wish to harm her. When that person is a little girl, she is bound to seem especially exposed and vulnerable.

* ''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.

* The ''Series/RedRiding'' trilogy - well, it's there in the title. A little blond girl in a hooded red coat. Abducted, murdered.
* Blonde [[Series/DoctorWho Rose Tyler]] wears a red hoodie in at least one episode prior to her switch to ActionGirl. Perhaps intentional - [[spoiler:she is the Bad Wolf]]...

* Invoked by Paz in ''MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'', a cute young girl who wears a red raincoat during her first meeting with Snake in order to inspire his pity and sympathy, with the aim being to make [[TheMagnificentSevenSamurai his mercenary army easier for her community to hire]]. Her mentor Galvez even explains to Snake that she had been tortured, allowing the player some CostumePorn interactions where they can zoom in on her clothes and look through them to see the scars from this abuse. Even though she is deliberately putting on the Red Riding Hood act and Snake sees straight through the cheap emotional manipulation (while also allowing it to work), when we meet the villain of the game later, he has a head tattoo of a wolf. Also played with as the game uses a form of GoodColorsEvilColors to code the protagonists with bright yellow and the antagonists with red - Paz's association with red suggests she may not be all she seems.

* Consequently, like in Schindler's List, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel's autobiography ''Night'' depicts his youngest sister Tzipora wearing a red coat the last time Elie ever saw her (and their mother) again.
* In the 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.

* Averted in the short animation [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om-iANuBrR4 ''Red undead'']], Little Red Riding Hood goes into the wood, being stalked by the wolf, but '''without''' her cape. [[spoiler: She tried to lure the wolf out on purpose to revenge her grandmother who got eaten by the wolf and successfully kills it in a bloody battle with a knife, only to rip out it's guts to find her grandma's eaten corpse and start crying.]] She takes [[spoiler: her grandmothers once yellow, but now blood-soaked]] red cape and proceeds to exit the forest, [[spoiler: dragging her grandmothers corpse behind her]].