History Main / TheBigBadWolf

* He appeared in one commercial for Super Golden Crisp cereal. Fortunately for Red, she had Sugar Bear to help her deal with him this time. It's hard to find it these days, but you can see it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyI60tn0V1w here]] at the 4:34 point.

* "Advertising/AmericanHondaPresentsDCComicsSupergirl" features parodies of the "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Three Little Pigs" wolvess reimagined as jerkass truckers. B. B. Wolf hits ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s car because he is in a hurry to get to the grandmother's house. His kid brother C. C. Wolf hits the pig brothers' car, and he laughs when his stunt throws two of them off the vehicle.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH1FojBjcOA This commercial]] for Honey Nut Cheerios. (Clearly, Red has a ''lot'' of friends among cereal mascots. Incidentally, the Wolf's voice is done by Kelsey Grammer here, with Red played by a young Carrie Fletcher.)

* The Big Bad Wolf shows up in ''Anime/GrimmsFairyTaleClassics'' adaptations of ''Little Red Riding Hood'', and ''The Fox and The Wolf.''

* [[WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittlePigs Disney]] has one version, Zeke Wolf, who is pathetic and always fails to get the three little pigs. His son Li'l Bad, who is friends with the pigs, is ashamed of him.

* Franchise/ScoobyDoo deals with a phantom wolf (Gold Key issue #15) whose howl causes the people of a mining town to sleepwalk. The wolf turns out to be a German Shepherd in phosphorus paint and used by its owner to obtain slave labor in the mines.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'':

** A second wolf character appears in ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'' who is referred to as the Big Bad Wolf in various marketing materials, though he is never referred to as such in the actual film and is treated as a separate character. Ironically, this wolf is far more intimidating in both appearance and actions. [[spoiler:He also happens to be Death.]]

* ''Film/{{Freeway}}'', being loosely based on the Literature/LittleRedRidingHood story, has Kiefer Sutherland playing Bob Wolverton, a serial rapist and murderer.

* "Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs" has the Big Bad Wolf, who seeks to eat the three pigs and blows away the first two pigs' houses, only being tricked by the outsmarting of the last pig. The clever pig puts a boiling cauldron under his chimney when the wolf tries to go down it after failing to blow down his house. Notably, this story may be the first instance of the term "Big Bad Wolf" being used to describe the archetype in the English language.

* "Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs" has the Big Bad Wolf.
* "Literature/LittleRedRidingHood". Except in the versions where he's a Big Bad Werewolf.

Not just any big bad wolf, but [[SpellMyNameWithAThe THE]] Big Bad Wolf. The one with the ''Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs'', or ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood'', or [[CompositeCharacter both]].[[note]]Or less famously ''Literature/TheWolfAndTheSevenYoungKids'', Music/PeterAndTheWolf, and a number of ''Literature/AesopsFables''.[[/note]]

Not just any big bad wolf, but [[SpellMyNameWithAThe THE]] Big Bad Wolf. The one with the ''Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs'', or ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood'', or [[CompositeCharacter both]]. [[note]]Or less famously ''Literature/TheWolfAndTheSevenYoungKids'', Music/PeterAndTheWolf, and a number of ''Literature/AesopsFables''.[[/note]]

* In Creator/MontyPython sketch for German television, also seen in the film Monty Python ''Live At The Hollywood Bowl'' (1982) featured a low-budget version of Literature/LittleRedRidingHood where John Cleese plays Little Red Riding Hood and a little dog is used as the wolf.

Not just any big bad wolf, but [[SpellMyNameWithAThe THE]] Big Bad Wolf. The one with the ''Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs'', or ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood'', or [[FusionFic both]]. [[note]]Or less famously ''Literature/TheWolfAndTheSevenYoungKids'', Music/PeterAndTheWolf, and a number of Aesop's fables.[[/note]]

* He's a character in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' movies, [[WholesomeCrossdresser still wearing Red Riding Hood's Grandmother's nightgown and bonnet]]. He's actually [[AdaptationalHeroism one of the good guys, and is best friends with the pigs]], but can still huff and puff and blow a house -- or a squad of the villain's mooks -- down with ease. A later short shows that while he doesn't want to eat the three little pigs, he [[HumanityEnsues transforms into a human]] [[GenderBender woman]] [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent during the full moon]] that does.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys'': VillainProtagonist Mr. Wolf references himself as this, based on how others see him. His introduction includes a pile of children's books showing the monstrous Big Bad Wolf as the antagonist. This connection is PlayedForDrama later; deep down, he's unhappy having to live his life as a feared criminal but was never given a chance to be anything else.

* Wolf in ''Series/TheTenthKingdom'' is a werewolf who works for the Evil Queen (and is also the grandson of the [[Literature/LittleRedRidingHood original]] big bad wolf). [[spoiler:However, he [[HeelFaceTurn reforms]] and ends up marrying the heroine in the end.]]

** A second wolf character appears in ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'' who is referred to as the Big Bad Wolf in various marketing materials, though he is never referred to as such and is treated as a separate character. [[spoiler:He also happens to be Death.]]

* In WesternAnimation/Noveltoons, Blackie the lamb battles Wolfie the Wolf to prevent him or other sheep from being eaten.

** The Big Bad Wolf appears in "WesternAnimation/PigsInAPolka", where the story is told to the tune of many of Creator/JohannesBrahms' "Hungarian Dances", specifically No.5, No.7, No.6 and No.17 (in that order). The pigs defeat him by tricking him into falling down an elevator shaft.

* The stop-motion short ''Anime/MyLittleGoat'', being a dark, adult-orientated sequel to the folktale ''Literature/TheWolfAndTheSevenYoungKids'', natually has this. Two, in fact -- [[spoiler: a literal one who attacked the aforementioned Goast Kids at the beginning of the short, and a metaphorical one in the form of a [[PervertDad peodophillic human]] who tries to [[ParentalIncest rape his own son]].]]

* ''Cap'n O. G. Readmore Meets Little Red Riding Hood'' stars Readmore, an anthropomorphic cat who has been in and out of a lot of storybooks and is generally convinced that he can do 'better' than the average character. His punishment for his attitude is being physically turned into the Big Bad Wolf so his hunger keeps overwhelming his brain, leading him to eat the grandma, despite regretting it immediately afterwards, and get into some sticky situations.
* Disney's short film ''WesternAnimation/ReduxRidingHood'' features The Big Bad Wolf as the main character (unrelated to the one introduced in WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies). The Wolf is depicted as being married to a lamb named Doris and sees himself as a huge failure for being unable to eat Little Red Riding Hood. He only ends up making a bigger fool of himself after building a time machine to help his past self.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drCWcLnWGP8 Another]] Big Bad Wolf has COPD. With the proper medication from his wolf doctor, he enjoys life with his happy wolf family- and makes the pigs worried he might blow their house down!

* The stop-motion short ''Anime/MyLittleGoat'', being a dark, adult-orientated sequel to the folktale ''Literature/TheWolfAndTheSevenYoungKids'', natually has this. Two, in fact -- [[spoiler: a literal one who attacked the aformentioned Goast Kids at the beginning of the short, and a metaphorial one in the form of a [[PervertDad peodophillic human]] who tries to [[ParentalIncest rape his own son]].]]
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Jabra, a member of the [=CP-9=] organization, can turn into a wolf thanks to his Zoan-type Devil Fruit. He loves to mock his opponent, in this case Sanji, into thinking that he surrendered only to reveal that it was a trap and that you should never trust a big bad wolf. Though, he's also a bit of a subversion in that while the rest of CP9 revel in their jobs, especially assassination, Jabra sees killing as business, dirty business, but just business. He hates drawing out pain and causing suffering, and seeks to end fights with the kill-strike as fast as possible.

** In the "Little Red Riding Hood" episode, he's played by Creator/MalcolmMcDowell as a FauxAffablyEvil sort (he got kicked out of his pack "Just because I ate that little boy all by myself"). While he manages to eat both Red's grandmother and Red herself, [[spoiler: they're not only rescued by a woodcutter who cuts them out of the wolf's belly, but they proceed to fill it with vegatables and sew it up...turning him into a vegetarian]].

* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'': Fangmon, a constantly salivating wolflike Digimon with red fur and creepily long legs, claws and jaws, was explicitly formed from data of the monstrous wolves of fairytales and adopts many of their traits, such as lurking in forests to prey on those who lose their way; its habit of disguising itself as its prey's loved ones is lifted directly from Literature/LittleRedRidingHood's classic version of the Big Bad Wolf.

** The last original Bugs Bunny cartoon, "False Hare," had Bugs' pondering joining Big Bad's club for rabbits, but immediately wise decides to play along with Big Bad as little more than the rabbit's ButtMonkey. Throughout the cartoon, Big Bad's adoring nephew joins him in the quest, which ends with Big Bad's house being destroyed and WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn wanting to join the wolf's new "chicken club."

* In Noveltoons, Blackie the lamb battles Wolfie the Wolf to prevent him or other sheep from being eaten.

** Anther Droopy cartoon has Zeke assuming the part of the wolf, but he's not interested in Red, just the food she carries. Droopy fools him into stealing a basket full of seafood; ''live'' seafood, as in lobsters whose claws are not strapped.
** Tex Avery's first MGM cartoon ''[[WartimeCartoon Blitz Wolf]]'' cast the Big Bad Wolf in the role of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler.
** Avery also pitted a BBW against a baby pig (modeled after Red Skelton's "Mean Widdle Kid" character) in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K50DVM1tgrQ One Ham's Family.]]'' The cartoon was set at Christmas, so the Wolf disguised himself as SantaClaus. The piglet eventually deals with the wolf himself and presents him as a fur coat to his parents.

* [[Creator/DisneyChannel Disney Junior]]'s ''[[WesternAnimation/GoldieAndBear Goldie & Bear]]'' has the Big Bad Wolf, or "Big Bad," as a somewhat comic and goofy, bumbling villain who's trouble for the Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood and the two title characters. This may or may not be the same Disney Big Bad Wolf mentioned above, though he too is voiced by Creator/JimCummings. As a relatively softer version of the character, he has occasional PetTheDog moments -- when his schemes cause serious harm, he's usually genuinely remorseful.

* ''Anime/JinRohTheWolfBrigade'' is filled to the brim with ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood'' references (the original, unsanitised version) with main character Kazuki Fuse filling the role of the wolf. Sympathetically, mind.

* In ''Mang/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'', the Big Bad Wolf is just one of ''many'' fairy-tale characters brought to life by Ungalo's Stand, Bohemian Rhapsody.

* ''The True Story of the Three Little Pigs'' is a book supposedly told by "A. Wolf" that has the wolf claiming that he just had a very bad cold (sneezing) and the pigs were refusing to give him sugar to bake his poor granny a cake. Oh, and he ate the pigs after he sneezed because it's like seeing a cheeseburger lying around.