History Videogame / TheWolfAmongUs

* NitpickyAboutLivingArrangements: Beauty and Beast have been doing tasks for The Crooked Man in order to afford their royal-like apartment.

* StealthPun: When in his fight with Grendel in the first episode, he partially unleashes his wolf side in order to get the upper hand int he battle. So, in other words, to beat Grendel, he had to [[{{Literature/Beowulf}} Be a wolf]].

** Depending on your choice, Bigby's final action in front of [[spoiler:the Crooked Man's]] [[TheDragon Dragons]] for Episode 4; choosing to [[CallBack light a cigarette]] causes the [[SmashToBlack snap-to-a-black-screen]] ending for the episode.

* AllMythsAreTrue: As with {{ComicBook/Fables}}, all myths and fairytale characters are real people, and the story takes place in Fabletown, a community of New York-residing "Fables." Working in the police department, Snow, Crane, and Bigby have access to the Book of Fables that documents them all, but also serves as documentation on who is still alive and who isn't.

A second season was announced in 2018, but it was later cancelled due to the abrupt closure of Telltale Games. The game was UnCancelled in 2019 after Telltale Games was reformed by LCG Entertainment. It is scheduled to release in 2023. [[https://youtu.be/UkXwW5H28m0 The trailer can be seen here.]]

* BadassBaritone: Bluebeard has a very deep voice, courtesy of [[VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadTelltale Dave Fennoy]].

''The Wolf Among Us'' is an episodic adventure game developed by Creator/TelltaleGames, the developers behind ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadTelltale''. It takes place in the world of Bill Willingham's ''{{ComicBook/Fables}}'' comic book series, and is canonically a prequel to the events of said comics. [[HighConcept In a nutshell]], it's a FilmNoir set around characters of archaic tales, and their [[StartingANewLife difficulty surviving]] in a modern, {{crapsack world}}.

The game features combat similar to ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadTelltale'', Telltale's previous choice-based adventure game, in that the player must use their cursor to quickly react to events and beat down their opponents. However, there are differences between Lee and Bigby; Bigby, being The Big Bad Wolf, is larger and much more physically powerful than Lee, and he won't be fighting off any zombies, so [[GoodOldFisticuffs unarmed combat]] and [[ImprovisedWeapon improvised weaponry]] are far more par for the course than are the guns featured in ''The Walking Dead''.

* SinisterDeerSkull: The JerseyDevil, once he drops his {{Glamour}}, takes the form of a grey skinned demon with a deer's SkullForAHead.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Snow will give Bigby once at the beginning of Episode 2 if he was [[spoiler: interrogating Tweedle Dee or The Woodsman through torture.]]

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Bigby, considering [[TheBigBadWolf who he is.]] It's up to the player how much they embrace it, but intimidation and violence is always in Bigby's disposal.

* IAmNotLeftHanded: During Bigby's fight with Grendel, the latter is treating him like a rag doll. However, when Bigby's eyes turn yellow and grows claws, it becomes a one-sided NoHoldsBarredBeatdown by Bigby. The previews for both episodes 2 and 3 show a clip of Bigby in full wolf-man form, and he is ''scary''. [[spoiler:Taken UpToEleven in Episode 5, when you see full wolf Bigby, wherein he ceases to be a werewolf, and becomes an enormous wolf looking to be thirty feet.]]

* BalefulPolymorph: One possible fate of [[spoiler:the Crooked Man. He gets turned into a raven, has his tongue removed, and is shipped to The Farm.]]

* IncestIsRelative: Faith's backstory. After his wife died, her father promised her he would marry the most beautiful girl in the land, which was his own daughter. Snow White and Bigby both cringe at it.

*** You can also choose to give money to Nerissa in Episode 2. Apprehending Tweedledee and pocketing his money means that you can pay two people!
** And then in Episode 3 there's the player's treatment of Flycatcher, who is down and out after being fired from his custodial job at the Woodlands by Crane. You can be nice to him or brush him off, but according to Telltale's statistics, over ''95%'' of players offered him his old job back now that Crane has been deposed.

** Also one for Mr. Toad in Episode 4, when you can [[spoiler:give him the embezzled money you find in Crane's jacket, so he can buy Glamours.]] In Episode 5, [[spoiler:it's undone regardless, as Snow forces him and TJ to go to The Farm because Toad ends up blowing the money on a new car instead of glamours. He'll still blame you for his being sent there.]]

''The Wolf Among Us'' is an episodic adventure game developed by Creator/TelltaleGames, the developers behind ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead''. It takes place in the world of Bill Willingham's ''{{ComicBook/Fables}}'' comic book series, and is canonically a prequel to the events of said comics. [[HighConcept In a nutshell]], it's a FilmNoir set around characters of archaic tales, and their [[StartingANewLife difficulty surviving]] in a modern, {{crapsack world}}.

The game features combat similar to ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'', Telltale's previous choice-based adventure game, in that the player must use their cursor to quickly react to events and beat down their opponents. However, there are differences between Lee and Bigby; Bigby, being The Big Bad Wolf, is larger and much more physically powerful than Lee, and he won't be fighting off any zombies, so [[GoodOldFisticuffs unarmed combat]] and [[ImprovisedWeapon improvised weaponry]] are far more par for the course than are the guns featured in ''The Walking Dead''.

* BadassBaritone: Bluebeard has a very deep voice, courtesy of [[VideoGame/TheWalkingDead Dave Fennoy]].

* CliffHanger: One on-par ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'' in Episode 4 - Bigby starts following through on the player's last choice before a SmashToBlack. [[spoiler: This also occurs if the player chooses to go after Nerissa at the end of Episode 5. If instead Bigby decides to let her go, the game fades to black on the last line instead of smashing to punctuate it for dramatic effect.]]

* 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]]. Additionally, it's probably one of Telltale's most gritty and bleakest games along with [[VideoGame/TheWalkingDead The Walking Dead]] and [[VideoGame/TelltalesGameofThrones Game of Thrones]].

** The first shot of Bigby in the back of a taxi is reminiscent of the first time players see [[VideoGame/TheWalkingDead Lee Everett]].

** Georgie Porgie owns the Pudding & Pie, [[HurricaneofEuphemisms where he kisses girls and makes them cry. He tends to run away when the boys come out to play.]]

** Early on, Faith rummages through The Woodsman's pockets for the money he owes. Turns out he only has [[VideoGame/TheWalkingDead "60 cents. Two quarters, and a dime."]]

A second season was announced in 2018, but it was later cancelled due to the abrupt closure of Telltale Games. The game was UnCancelled in 2019 after Telltale Games was reformed by LCG Entertainment. It is scheduled to release in 2023.

A second season was announced in 2018, but it was later cancelled due to the abrupt closure of Telltale Games. The game was UnCancelled in 2019 after Telltale Games was reformed by LCG Entertainment.

-->--'''The first game's OpeningScroll'''

** The Woodsman is a regular at the Trip-Trap, and makes his debut in a drunken rage against Faith. In his case, it's also DrowningInMySorrows--he's extremely bitter about failing to live up to his role as the "hero" of his story.

* AmbiguousEnding: Even as of Episode 5's ending, questions remain due to the closing segment -- two interpretations of the finalé exist, as the WhamLine means either: A) [[spoiler:Faith (somehow) swapped places with Nerissa using a Glamour, meaning she never died and got the justice she wouldn't have seen otherwise]]; or B) [[spoiler:Faith was dead before the plot and Bigby only met Nerissa Glamoured as her, allowing Nerissa to earn Bigby's sympathy and spur him into avenging Faith when he found her real severed head.]]

* AnvilOnHead: [[spoiler: Even after a merciless beating - see GoodThingYouCanHeal below - the Jersey Devil's still standing, giving Bigby the option to brain him with a stone cavalry statue... or a big old blacksmith's anvil. Given that the result is the same either way, you can't blame most people for taking the sillier option.]]

* 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.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: Vivian was willing to enslave the prostitutes for eternity with her ribbons (unless she killed herself to free them), but she didn't want them to be killed.]]
** [[spoiler: Although, it should be noted that slavery was neither hers nor Georgie’s intention when they started the Pudding n’ Pie. It was meant to be a simple gimmick, until the Crooked Man came along...]]

* {{Fetish}}: Crane has one for Snow, to the point of [[spoiler:having Lily glamored to look like her]]. Bigby is ''anything'' but pleased when he learns about this.

* FlippingTheBird: In Chapter 4 if you visit the Lucky Pawn first, Toad can give the British variant to both Bigby and Jack, and Bigby can flip Toad off in return.

** Some of the things Faith says during her interaction with Bigby nod toward her later demise, particularly the whole "I won't be doing this for much longer." bit.

** When Bigby mentions the victim to have used drugs, Ichabod is reacting worried about diseases for a reason.

** Bigby smokes [[Literature/ThreeLittlePigs Huff n' Puff brand cigarettes]]. He even gives Colin, one of said Three Pigs, one.

* 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.
- Snow also isn't innocent from prejudice. It's made clear that while she wants to help, it's more out of protecting the image of Fabletown than genuine change. She sees animal Fables as talking annoyances that need to be separated from "true" Fables, ie Toad and his son. And while not as overtly prejudiced as Crane and Bluebeard, when she becomes Deputy Mayor, it's implied that she has no time for poorer Fables, and that the cycle started by Crane will continue

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