History Videogame / TheWolfAmongUs

[[caption-width-right:350:''"Everybody knows you. [[TheBigBadWolf Big Bad Wolf]].'']]

[[caption-width-right:350:Everybody knows you. [[TheBigBadWolf Big Bad Wolf]].]]

->''"You're not as bad as everyone says you are."''
-->-- '''Faith''', Episode 1: Faith

* FallenHero: The Woodsman, but not really; see AccidentalHero above. The self-loathing is eating him up.

* FantasticRacism: Some dialogue between Crane and Snow shows that Crane doesn't like Trolls.
** This carries over the long-running theme from the comics that the human fables are on a higher social rank than non-human fables. Every fable in power is human, and it's problem.
* FatBastard: Tweedledee and Tweedledum.
* FauxAffablyEvil: The Crooked Man.

** The tarot cards appear to foreshadow some serious things indeed.

** Bigby smokes and drinks a lot, but it doesn't stop him from doing his job. That's because those habits help keep the wolf at bay.
** Also a bit of HypocriticalHumor:

* {{Grimmification}}: As carried over from the source material.
* HappilyMarried: Beauty and Beast, famously so.
* HardboiledDetective: Bigby.

* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Both Faith and Nerissa qualify.

* ImStandingRightHere: In the first scene of Episode 4, Snow, Colin and Dr. Swineheart are all fussing over Bigby and discussing his well-being among themselves. The man himself gets the opportunity to wearily point out that he's sitting not three feet away. ''Twice''.

* IncestIsRelative: Faith's backstory. Snow White and Bigby both cringe at it.
* IncrediblyLamePun: The brand of cigarettes that Bigby smokes? Huff and Puff.

* JerkassHasAPoint: In episode 2, Crane hints that whomever allegedly killed Snow might have done so to get back at Bigby. Come the end of the episode, that is exactly what's going on, and Crane would know because he might have been the one who did it.

* JerseyDevil: Makes an appearance in Episode 4.

* KickTheDog: If you choose to have Bigby rip off Grendel's arm. Though some might consider it a KickTheSonOfABitch moment.

** [[spoiler:Fridge Logic kicks in as Georgie dies to a single stab wound to the guts, which worsens when his intestines start spilling out. This, however, can be explained as Georgie Porgie is not a well-known Fable, like Big Bad Wolf or the Woodsman, and since a Fable's strength is determined by his popularity among the 'mundies', it's entirely possible for Georgie to die from a single nasty stab wound.]]
* MagicPants: Bigby's Wolfman form has them. [[spoiler: His true wolf form doesn't though, yet despite being implicitly naked when he returns to human form, he's fully clothed when he confronts The Crooked Man barely a minute later]].
** Justified in that you get a scene of him looking at some clothing on the floor nearby, [[spoiler: presumably tossed out of the window of the room the Crooked Man is standing in]].

** Colin in Episode 4.

** Of course, this game is previous to the events of the comics, so one could make the argument that his sense of smell was weaker back then.

* TheAlcoholic: Bufkin and The Woodsman.
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: The Woodsman falls victim to this.
* AllMythsAreTrue: As with {{ComicBook/Fables}}.

** [[spoiler: A does seem [[AdaptationDistillation thematically]] more fitting as The Donkeyskin Girl did make a getaway through disguise to eventually find a happy ending while H.C. Andersen's The Little Mermaid did not. There is also that the Magic Mirror will not show Faith, instead citing "these lips are sealed", which would then explain why one ribbon is still worn at the very end.]]

** If the player chooses [[spoiler: to spare the Crooked Man, he ends up trapped in the body of a raven with his tongue taken out. However, it's arguably more merciful than putting him down the Witching Well, as seen above.]]

* ArcWords: "These lips are sealed."

* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: In episode 3, when Crane confesses his "love" to Snow - who promptly tells him off because what he'd shown was definitely ''not'' love.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Bigby, considering [[TheBigBadWolf who he is.]] Averted with Ichabod Crane.
* TheAtoner: Our protagonist is the former Big Bad Wolf turned Noir Detective.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Sheriff Bigby Wolf himself, naturally.
* AxeCrazy: Bloody Mary.

* BaldOfEvil: Bluebeard. The Woodsman is bald and a drunken idiot, but not really evil.
** Jersey

* BarBrawl: Bigby gets into one with Grendel at the end of Episode 1.
* BashBrothers: The Tweedles.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Snow White spends the majority of the series as the voice of reason, patience and moderation, but when Aunty Greenleaf is identified as the one who glamoured Lily to look like her and refuses to cooperate with the investigation, Snow is the first to demand that her tree (the source of the illegal Glamour) be burned.
** Possibly because of a bad experience in her youth of another glamoured witch playing on her kind nature.
* BigBad[=/=]TheDragon: This game features the quintessential duo in [[spoiler:Bloody Mary and The Crooked Man]] - the first is a lethal enforcer providing the player a physical, action-based challenge, while the second is a moral challenge requiring the player to make difficult choices. Indeed, this replicates real life, where battles against powerful, influential baddies are won not through physical violence, but in courtrooms and legislative chambers.

* BreakingTheFourthWall[=/=]TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: A bizarre in-universe example. [[spoiler: When Bloody Mary works out that Bigby is watching her, she turns to face the player, smiles, and halts the mirror's view of her, cutting off Bigby.]]

* CarCushion: Bigby falls on top of Mr. Toad's car when he runs himself and the Woodsman out of a window.

* ChekhovsGun: While investigating the room where [[spoiler:Lily]] was killed, Bigby notices a pack of Huff n'Puff cigarettes, which he thought he was the only one smoking. Later in Episode 5 [[spoiler:in the Crooked Man's office you can see Georgie Porgie smoking one of these]], which allows us to deduce [[spoiler:that he was the one who killed Lily and Faith.]]
** Hell, even before that. [[spoiler: If you were paying attention, the cigarette machine that you could have/did smash up was for Huff n'Puffs.]]

* DeadpanSnarker:
** Bigby, in classic Noir fashion.
** Colin as well.

** In some versions the Woodsman doesn't kill the Big Bad Wolf directly but fills his belly with heavy stones which is mentioned twice in-game.
** With a little fridge logic, this makes [[spoiler: Faith and Lily's]] deaths more tragic. What fraction of readers had even heard of the [[spoiler: Donkeyskin girl]], much less know her story? While Nerissa would be famous enough to be resurrected. Those two won't be coming back.
** While technically 'unknown' in America, the Donkeyskin Girl tale is rather well known in Europe (roughly the same level as Robin Hood), so she should come back too.

* DoppelgangerAttack: [[spoiler:Bloody Mary]] during the last episode showdown.

* TheEighties: If the synthesizer-heavy soundtrack wasn't a dead giveaway, various background details seen throughout the first episode indicate the game takes place in 1986. The fact that Ichabod Crane is still Deputy Mayor of Fabletown lends further credence to this, since he'd resigned from that post by the time the comic's story started.
** To further emphasize this, in the Trip Trap, there's a poster for a "Rock Fest" happening on Monday, May 5th. May 5th fell on a Monday in the year 1986.

* NeverLiveItDown: In-universe, Bigby's reputation as the Big Bad Wolf precedes him with all the other Fables. Played for laughs with Colin, one of the Three Little Pigs, who bemoans his destroyed house in order to guilt trip Bigby into sharing his booze and cigarettes.

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** Of course, this game is posthumous to the events of the comics, so one could make the argument that his sense of smell was weaker back then.

A second season was announced for a 2019 release, but it was later cancelled due to the closure of Telltale Games. The game was UnCancelled in 2020 after Telltale Games was reformed by LCG Entertainment.

A second season was announced for a 2019 release, but it was later cancelled due to the closure of Telltale Games. Whether or not the new Telltale Games formed by LCG Entertainment will uncancel the game has yet to be determined.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Than the comics for sure, the comics themselves can be rather dark by themselves but the noir styles of the game summed up with the dirty and crooked 80's and a really dark plot can be downright unpleasant, this is pretty much the [[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit SVU]] to Fables [[Series/LawAndOrder Law and Order]]

A second season was announced for a 2019 release, but it was later cancelled due to the closure of Telltale Games.

* YouMonster: The Woodsman, if Bigby tears Grendel's arm off.

* MomentKiller: Colin in Episode 4.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: If Prince Lawrence is saved he manages to ask a very important question for the next episode.
--> '''Prince Lawrence:''' ''[[NeverFoundTheBody Where's the rest of her body?]]''

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Bigby is treated like dirt by most of Fabletown's inhabitants, [[ReformedButRejected regardless of whether he deserves it,]] because of his past as the Big Bad Wolf.

* FiveBadBand: The Crooked Man's crew.
** BigBad: The Crooked Man
** TheDragon: Bloody Mary
** The EvilGenius: Georgie
** [[TheBrute The Brutes]]: Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dum and Jersey Devil
** The DarkChick: Vivian

* DownerEnding: The comic adaptation. The game's ending is more of a BittersweetEnding.

* DeadAllAlong: Episode 5 implies [[spoiler:that Nerissa was actually Faith the whole time, and that the head in the first episode belonged to Nerissa, glamored to look like Faith's.]] Either that, or [[spoiler:meaning Nerissa used Glamour to befriend Bigby as Faith, spurring him into taking on her murder case; in other words, Faith died before the plot started.]]

* OccultDetective: Bigby. He's the reformed BigBadWolf trying to bring the murderer of a prostitute to justice.

** Episode 5's ending has this in spades. After a long episode full of twists and turns, including [[spoiler:Nerissa explaining how she indirectly caused the deaths of Faith and Lily, and how she lied in the trial]], her closing line shockingly implies very heavily that [[spoiler:Nerissa and Faith swapped places using Glamours: either "Nerissa" was actually been Faith all along, and it wasn't Faith's head at the start was the real Nerissa's; or Nerissa disguised as Faith to get Bigby's interest, pushing him into solving the case when he found the real Faith's head.]]

A second season has been confirmed. Originally announced for a 2018 release, the game has since been delayed for 2019.

* DisposableSexWorker: After Bigby rescues her from the Woodsman, Faith's head is found on the front porch of his apartment building. Also, Lily, who was murdered while glamoured as Snow White. Deconstructed by Nerissa in episode 5: [[spoiler:she knew that no one would ever investigate her friends' deaths because they weren't important enough (Lily had been reported missing weeks ago and Bigby didn't even know because the case had been thrown out before it even reached out), so she dropped off the head on the front step of the Woodlands, making it look like a threat to the people inside and thus making it high-profile enough to actually be investigated.]]

* DisposableSexWorker: After Bigby rescues her from the Woodsman, Faith's head is found on the front porch of his apartment building. Also, Lily, who was murdered while glamoured as Snow White.

A second season has been announced for a 2018 release.