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| 7 | Not just any big bad wolf, but [[SpellMyNameWithAThe THE]] Big Bad Wolf. The one with ''Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs'', or ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood'', or [[CompositeCharacter both]].[[note]]Or less famously ''Literature/TheWolfAndTheSevenYoungKids'', Music/PeterAndTheWolf, and a number of ''Literature/AesopsFables''.[[/note]] In short, the archetypical wolf who appears as an antagonist in multiple {{Fairy Tale}}s and {{Fable}}s. |
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| 9 | When the Big Bad Wolf appears in works of fiction, there are some common themes included, such as his predation on [[WouldHurtAChild children]], pigs and [[LittleDeadRidingHood innocent young women in red]], his [[MasterOfDisguise knack for disguising himself]] (used to fool Little Red Riding Hood), and his [[BlowYouAway powerful]] [[SuperBreath lungs]] (used to destroy two of the Three Little Pigs' houses). He's also been known to appear [[AWolfInSheepsClothing in sheep's clothing]]. Additionally, adult-oriented fairytale retellings since the seventies or so have developed a tradition in which he is often either a werewolf or a wolfwere (a wolf who turns into a human). |
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| 11 | This character is a common target of AlternativeCharacterInterpretation, so when adding an example, please specify ''how'' the Big Bad Wolf is portrayed. |
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| 13 | The character is usually [[SavageWolf a savage wolf,]] but please note that the character doesn't have to be a genuine wolf to fit this trope. Those are traditional characteristics of the character, but AlternativeCharacterInterpretation can go quite far. Not to be confused with a BigBad who's a wolf, though sometimes they are, or with [[Series/DoctorWho Bad Wolf]] (although that name is inspired by this character, as mentioned among the examples). |
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| 15 | See also ''Film/BigBadWolf'' the movie. For big wolves (whether or not, strictly speaking, bad), please see CanisMajor. |
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| 18 | !!Examples |
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| 21 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 22 | * In an [[https://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2012/feb/29/open-journalism-three-little-pigs-advert?INTCMP=ILCNETIMG12382I advertisement]] for ''[[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers The Guardian]]'', the three pigs, on trial for boiling the wolf alive, confess that they set him up as part of an InsuranceFraud scheme when it is revealed that the wolf had asthma. |
| 23 | * The Wolf 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. |
| 24 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH1FojBjcOA This commercial]] for Honey Nut Cheerios. The Wolf's voice is done by Kelsey Grammer, with Red played by a young Carrie Fletcher. |
| 25 | * The Big Bad Wolf shows up in an adaptation of the ''Three Little Pigs'' for a PSA about smoking, as he attempts to blow down a little pig's house and ends up coughing terribly from too much smoking. |
| 26 | * [[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! |
| 27 | * A PSA for whooping cough vaccinations has an unvaccinated grandmother turn into the Big Bad Wolf when she picks up her infant grandchild. |
| 28 | * An ad for Sprint's Caller I.D. service shows how it can save users from unwanted calls, by having an adult Little Red Riding Hood receive a call, see a name on her Caller I.D. box and react with disgust before leaving her house rather than answering it. Then viewers are shown the man on the other end of the line... who is disappointed that she didn't answer, wonders "what [[Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs those pig brothers are up to]]", and removes his LatexPerfection mask to reveal he's the Big Bad Wolf. |
| 29 | * "Advertising/AmericanHondaPresentsDCComicsSupergirl" features parodies of the "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Three Little Pigs" wolves 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. |
| 30 | [[/folder]] |
| 31 | |
| 32 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 33 | * ''Anime/GrimmsFairyTaleClassics'': The Big Bad Wolf appears in adaptations of ''Little Red Riding Hood'', and ''The Fox and The Wolf.'' |
| 34 | * ''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. |
| 35 | * In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'', the Big Bad Wolf is just one of ''many'' fairy-tale characters brought to life by Ungalo's Stand, Bohemian Rhapsody. |
| 36 | * 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 Goat Kids at the beginning of the short, and a metaphorical one in the form of a [[PervertDad pedophillic human]] who tries to [[ParentalIncest rape his own son]].]] |
| 37 | * ''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. |
| 38 | * ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'': Wolfrun is based off of this trope. During the episode where Miyuki was sucked into ''Cinderella'', he used his powerful lungs to create a powerful wind that toppled the pumpkin carriage. In another episode, he disguised himself as a human (which the Big Bad Wolf would sometimes do). [[spoiler:His true form is that of a fairy who played this role in fairy tales back in the MagicalLand. He was hunted and despised, which made him easy for Joker to brainwash him.]] |
| 39 | * In the original ''Anime/YuGiOh'', Leon had a card called "Forest Wolf" among his fairy-tale themed cards that was based on the wolf in the story of Literature/LittleRedRidingHood (and he had a card depicting her, too), dressed in a nightgown who could attack opposing monsters by ''swallowing'' them. (But if it was destroyed, the opponent would get the monster back, symbolizing how the Huntsman in some versions were able to rescue its devoured victims by cutting him open.) When Rebecca (his opponent) asked if it was the Big Bad Wolf, he replied, "That's another story." (Being somewhat of an authority on such stories, he wasn't joking.) |
| 40 | [[/folder]] |
| 41 | |
| 42 | [[folder:Asian Animation]] |
| 43 | * The ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' character Wolffy [[AvertedTrope isn't the Big Bad Wolf]]. In fact, the series' production team actively defied this, referring to the character as "Big ''Gray'' Wolf" in Chinese to avoid connecting him to the archetypal Big Bad Wolf. |
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| 46 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 47 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittlePigs'': The comics have 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. |
| 48 | * In ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'', The Big Bad Wolf is known as Bigby. He's a great hero, with doing the BigDamnHeroes routine as one of his specialties. But he did very bad things [[RetiredMonster a long time ago]], and he is still feared and hated by many. Because the other fairytale animals distrust him, Bigby became a [[HumanityEnsues reverse werewolf]] so that he can pass as a human. His blowing abilities come from his father, the North Wind. |
| 49 | * In ''ComicBook/{{Promethea}}'', TBBW is a primordial monster, fueled by all fear of darkness and predators. He's pretty much invincible. |
| 50 | * In ''ComicBook/SnowWhiteZombieApocalypse'' there's a zombified version of him who gets brutally curb-stomped by an ActionGirl version of Rapunzel. |
| 51 | * Barnabus Benjamin Wolf in ''BB Wolf and the 3 [=LPs=]'' is a farmer and blues singer who is a victim of FantasticRacism on the part of the pigs. When the youngest pig has his home burned and his family killed, BB goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and kills two of the pigs before [[spoiler:he is arrested and executed for the murder of the two pigs and his own family.]] |
| 52 | * ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'': The group 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. |
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| 55 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 56 | * One of Creator/DrSeuss's UsefulNotes/WorldWarII cartoons (October 1, 1941) depicted an America Firster reading to two children from a storybook whose gruesome cover is titled "UsefulNotes/{{Adolf|Hitler}} the Wolf": |
| 57 | -->"...and the Wolf chewed up the children and spit out their bones... But those were ''Foreign Children'' and it really didn't matter." |
| 58 | * ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'': |
| 59 | ** One cartoon depicted a city of pigs and straw skyscrapers, with a wolf driving towards it thinking, "Oh man... I've been away too long." |
| 60 | ** In another cartoon, he was at a psychiatrist, telling the doctor that he's ''still'' been dressing like Red Riding Hood's grandmother ever since that incident. (And understandably finds it bizarre.) |
| 61 | ** Yet another one has the wolf and the pig who burned him tied up in court: |
| 62 | --->"So, Mr. Pig--you built that fire ''after'' you heard my client coming down the chimney! ... Did you know my client is an endangered species, Mr. Pig, while you yourself are nothing more than a walking side of ham?" |
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| 65 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 66 | * In ''Fanfic/SeventhEndmostVision'', while the Big Bad Wolf himself doesn't appear, motifs from his stories are repeatedly used for the main villain, [[AdaptationalVillainy Lucrecia]]; one character even thinks of her labcoat as a set of grandmother's clothes, all just a way to hide the monster within. |
| 67 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12783735/1/RWBY-A-Grimm-fate RWBY: A Grimm Fate]]'', the main character, Fenrir Lupus, has a [[FairytaleMotif fairy tale motif]] of this trope. He's an [[SavageWolf Alpha]] [[AnimalisticAbomination Beowolf]] [[HumanityEnsues turned into a]] [[LittleBitBeastly Wolf Faunus]], his Semblance is the ability to unleash [[AnIcePerson freezing]] [[BlowYouAway winds]] in the form of a [[MightyRoar powerful howl]], the title of the chapter his Semblance debuts in is "Huff and Puff" in association with "The Three Little Pigs", and he's paired with Ruby Rose, tying into her fairy tale motif of "Little Red Riding Hood" being associated with this trope. |
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| 70 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 71 | * In ''WesternAnimation/The3LittlePigsTheMovie'', the big bad wolf, "Big Boss", owns & runs an inn in the forest, called ''"The Inn of The [[NonIndicativeName Gentle]] Wolf"''. |
| 72 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys2022'': 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. |
| 73 | * ''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. |
| 74 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}'', the Big Bad Wolf turns out to be an intelligent but bumbling IntrepidReporter and a MasterOfDisguise, modeled on [[Film/{{Fletch}} Irwin Fletcher]]. As it turns out, he is neither trying to attack Red Puckett (who he thinks was the villain due to an eavesdropped conversation that has a poor reception) nor responsible for the goody thefts that cause the story's main conflict. He is actually a good guy who ends up helping Red catch the real villain in the end. |
| 75 | * 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. |
| 76 | * ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'': |
| 77 | ** The Big Bad Wolf is a character in the ''Shrek'' franchise, [[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. |
| 78 | ** A second wolf (carrying sickles) appears in ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish''. While various marketing materials referred to him as the Big Bad Wolf, 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:In fact, the reason why he's a separate character is because he's TheGrimReaper himself]]. |
| 79 | [[/folder]] |
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| 81 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 82 | * ''Film/{{Freeway}}'', being loosely based on the Literature/LittleRedRidingHood story, has Creator/KieferSutherland playing Bob Wolverton, a serial rapist and murderer. |
| 83 | * ''Film/HardCandy'' is one particularly disturbing modern version of Little Red Riding Hood, with a girl who calls herself Haley in the role of Little Red Riding Hood [[spoiler:as well as the woodsman]]. An Internet pedophile named Jeff fills the role of the Big Bad Wolf, luring Haley over to his place under false pretenses and then starts trying to get her drunk. It goes downhill from there, but [[TheHunterBecomesTheHunted maybe not exactly in the way Jeff had planned...]] |
| 84 | * In ''Film/TheWoodsman'', the main character is not the Big Bad Wolf. Or is he? In this dark drama about a man who was recently released from 12 years in prison for raping a child, "The Woodsman" and "The Big Bad Wolf" exist only as underlying archtypes for who he wants to be and who he fears to be. |
| 85 | * Max Cady repeatedly refers to himself as "the Big Bad Wolf" in the remake of ''Film/CapeFear''. This actually holds [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys some appeal]] for Sam Bowden's teenage daughter. |
| 86 | * The Big Bad Wolf has a few cameos in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' as one of the {{Toon}}s who live in ToonTown. |
| 87 | * ''Film/RedRidingHood'' has the Big Bad Wolf as a werewolf capable of telepathic conversations with the heroine. There are various suspects for the human identity of the wolf; the grandmother (who's rather creepy,) the heroine's boyfriend (who wants her to leave town with him, which is what the wolf asks her to do) are the most prominent. The wolf is in fact [[spoiler: the heroine's father, which puts his very predatory behaviour towards his own daughter in a rather more disturbing light]]. |
| 88 | * ''Film/TheCompanyOfWolves'', based on one of the Angela Carter stories mentioned in the Literature section, is the TropeCodifier for the Big Bad Wolf being a werewolf or reverse werewolf. |
| 89 | * ''Film/LadyInTheWater'' has the Scrunt, a supernatural wolf that camouflages in the grass and is the natural predator to the Narfs, a kind of water nymphs. He is also the ''BigBad'' of the film, as he wants to kill the only remaining Narf, Story. |
| 90 | * In ''Film/VanHelsing'', the werewolves are very ''big'' but not truly ''bad'' until Dracula become their master after their first midnight. Justified as [[spoiler:werewolves are the only monsters who can kill the vampire lord and thus they become this trope to him]]. |
| 91 | * The ''Film/IntoTheWoods'' film adaptation has the wolf played by Creator/JohnnyDepp but his song introduces him more as a creepy child stalker. However, he's still hungry for Red Riding Hood and her Grandma. |
| 92 | * ''Film/RomasantaTheWerewolfHunt'': If Romasanta [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane really is a werewolf]], then he fits this trope. But even if he isn't, there is a pack of killer wolves roaming the forest whose attacks on humans help Romasanta conceal his killings for so long. |
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| 95 | [[folder:Folklore]] |
| 96 | * "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, who 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. |
| 97 | * "Literature/LittleRedRidingHood" features one of the most well-known examples and codifiers of this archetype in folktales. The wolf is a cunning and ruthless character who tricks the titular girl into revealing her grandmother's house, and manages to eat both the grandmother and, after disguising himself as her, Little Red Riding Hood herself. In most versions, the wolf is eventually defeated by a woodcutter, who rescues the victims by cutting open the wolf's stomach. |
| 98 | * "Literature/TheWolfAndTheSevenYoungKids", which has similar motifs to ''Little Red Riding Hood'' - the malevolent wolf tricks seven young goats with disguises and swallows all but the youngest, who together with their mother is able to rescue the others. |
| 99 | ** The Wolf appears in "The Goat and Her Three Kids", a Romanian variant of "The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids". |
| 100 | * "Literature/TheWolfAndTheFox" involves a wolf, sometimes identified as the Big Bad Wolf, enslaving a fox to help it hunt for food with the {{greed}}y and [[VillainousGlutton gluttonous]] wolf getting the lion's share. In contrast to the [[CunningLikeAFox cunning fox]], the wolf is a poor hunter who has no sneaking skills, and [[LeeroyJenkins bumbles any attempt]] to steal food from the farmer. Eventually the fox concocts a scheme in which they invade the farmer's cellar and ransack it for food. While the wolf [[JabbaTableManners loudly eats all he can]], the [[KarmicTrickster tricky fox]] takes only a little bit and escapes, alerting the farmer in the process. The overstuffed wolf is unable to escape, and is killed by the farmer, [[DeathByMaterialism undone by his own greed]]. |
| 101 | * The archetype appears in several of Literature/AesopsFables, usually representing violence and gluttony, such as in "The Wolf and the Lamb" and "[[CryingWolf The Boy Who Cried Wolf]]". |
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| 104 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 105 | * ''Literature/TheTrueStoryOfTheThreeLittlePigs'' 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'd be a shame to let perfectly good pork go to waste. |
| 106 | * In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/WitchesAbroad'', the main villain warps reality so it'd be like fairly tales. This includes making a wolf think he's a person. The wolf suffers horribly, stuck between species, and begs for a MercyKill. |
| 107 | * In ''Literature/TheSistersGrimm'', the Big Bad Wolf is [[spoiler:Mr. Canis]]. He has actually become a good friend with the three little pigs and apparently the story of Little Red Riding Hood is very different: [[spoiler:the one that everyone knows is a lie that the woodsman made up to make himself famous while Mr. Canis lost all his memories in the incident.]] However, the ''real'' Big Bad Wolf is a dangerous and feral spirit who the good-natured [[spoiler: Mr. Canis]] has to fight for control. [[spoiler: Red Riding Hood later accepts the Wolf's spirit into herself to help fight the villains.]] |
| 108 | * In the ''Literature/LittleWolf'' books, the Big Bad Wolf is the title character's [[EvilUncle uncle]], a {{Jerkass}} and a VillainousGlutton who threatens to eat his own nephew more than once. He eventually dies when he explodes from eating too many baked beans. This doesn't prevent him from appearing in later books as a ghost. |
| 109 | * The roles of the wolf and pigs are reversed in ''The Three Horrid Little Pigs'' -- the wolf is a friendly builder while the pigs are crude hooligans who were forced out of home by their mother. |
| 110 | * The [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Loups]] of ''Literature/TheBookOfLostThings'' are the descendants of the Big Bad Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood, who seduced and had children with him. She later had other women couple with wolves to produce more Loups, some willingly and others not. |
| 111 | * Angela Carter's collection of DarkerAndEdgier fairy tale retellings ''Literature/TheBloodyChamber'' contains a couple of variations on the Big Bad Wolf. |
| 112 | * In the children's book, "[[InvertedTrope The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig]]" three young wolves are sent out into the world by their mother and are promptly harassed by a big bad pig. The wolves are far smarter than their porcine counterparts and bricks are their starting point-unfortunately, their antagonist is cleverer than his counterpart, and uses heavy demolitions to bring down their ever-heavier fortifications. Finally one of the wolves gets the idea to make the house out of flowers, and the pig is [[HeelFaceTurn converted to the side of good]] by the pleasant aroma. |
| 113 | * In ''Literature/TheWolfsTale'', the Wolf isn't interested in eating people, only chicken and other animals. However, Red is convinced that PredatorsAreMean and tries to force him to become a vegetarian, stopping him from hunting properly and making him sick in the process. He disguises himself as Grandma (who is away) so that he can eat the chicken in her basket, and in the end he only wants to get away. |
| 114 | * Henry Whelp, the protagonist of ''Literature/DustCity'', is the son of the Big Bad Wolf, who is in prison for the murder of Red and her grandmother. Henry believes that his father was put up to it in some way. [[spoiler: As it turns out, the murder was committed under the influence of [[FantasticDrug tainted fairy dust]], which turns [[TalkingAnimal animalia]] like the Whelps violent.]] |
| 115 | * Wolfgang of ''Literature/BigBadDetectiveAgency'' is actually innocent of destroying the three pigs' homes -- the worst thing he ever did was steal chickens, and he prefers tending his garden these days. He teams up with the fourth pig to find the real culprit. [[spoiler: The culprit is the pigs' mother, who missed them and wanted them to come home.]] |
| 116 | * In ''Literature/WolfWontBite'' the three pigs capture the wolf and [[BullyingADragon force him to perform tricks for them]]. [[LaserGuidedKarma This goes about as well as you'd expect.]] |
| 117 | * The Big Bad Wolf in ''The Big Bad Wolf and Me'' has fallen on hard times -- no one believes in him anymore, and a little boy helps him get his confidence back. |
| 118 | * The wolves in the book series ''The Other Side of the Story'' explain their fairy tales [[PerspectiveFlip from their own point of view]]. |
| 119 | ** In ''Little Red Riding Hood Was Rotten!'', the Wolf is a vegetarian... most of the time. He claims to have mistaken Red and her grandmother, both self-absorbed {{Jerkass}}es, for apples. |
| 120 | ** Meanwhile, the Wolf in ''No Lie, Pigs (And Their Houses) Can Fly!'', is a [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood social outcast with a bad case of UBS (Uncontrollable Breathing Syndrome)]] who just wants to be friends with the pigs... but saw no harm in eating the first two when the accidental destruction of their houses caused them to panic and accidentally kill themselves. He befriends the last pig, who teaches him how to use his UBS to help others, on the condition that he not eat meat. |
| 121 | * The Wolf decides to pull a HeelFaceTurn in ''Big Bad Wolf is Good'', only to be [[ReformedButRejected ostracized and distrusted by the other animals]]. He finally earns their trust when he rescues a missing duckling and returns it to its mother. |
| 122 | * In ''Little Red's Riding 'Hood'', the Wolf is portrayed as a monster truck named Tank. |
| 123 | * The Wolf in ''Red: The True Story of Red Riding Hood'' is a sympathetic character who lost his pack to the Huntsman, and who ultimately befriends Red while the Huntsman turns out to be a villain. |
| 124 | * In ''The Three Little Hawaiian Pigs and the Magic Shark'' and ''Ula Li'i and the Magic Shark'', the Wolf is an amphibious Magic Shark. The shark ultimately pulls a HeelFaceTurn when he learns how to cook his own food instead. |
| 125 | * The FracturedFairyTale series ''Literature/SeriouslySillyStories'' riffs on the trope a few times. In "Eco-Wolf and the Three Pigs", the wolf is a friendly hippie who must drive the three pigs, portrayed as {{Jerkass}} land developers, away from his forest. Meanwhile, in ''Little Red Riding Wolf", the characters' roles are reversed, with a Big Bad Girl terrorizing the innocent Little Red Riding Wolf. However, Little Red's grandmother is much bigger and badder than she is. |
| 126 | * While human, Wolfgang in ''Literature/GrimmtasticGirls'' is that version of Red Riding Hood's Big Bad Wolf, and she [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys has a (reciprocated) crush on him]]. While he is suspicious and appears to be allied with the villains, it turns out that he's [[DarkIsNotEvil actually a good guy]], and only wanted to join their secret society [[TheMole so he could spy on them]]. He's afraid of being like his uncles, who really ''were'' evil. |
| 127 | * In ''Literature/TheBadGuys'', Mr. Wolf is pointedly the same wolf from ''The Three Little Pigs'' and ''Little Red Riding Hood'', as his rap sheet states. Despite this, he’s the first member of the team to invoke the [[HeelFaceTurn change to good]], and is the one most insistent on keeping it. |
| 128 | * Neither Big Bad Wolf in ''Fairytales Gone Wrong!'' is evil. In ''Who's Bad and Who's Good, Little Red Riding Hood?'', Red meets a wolf, who she refuses to talk to, and a friendly rabbit on her way to Grandma's. The wolf [[DarkIsNotEvil turns out to be Grandma's friend]] and was just in Grandma's bed to recover from a cold, while [[BitchInSheepsClothing the rabbit is a thief]]. In ''Blow Your Nose, Big Bad Wolf!'' the three pigs selfishly refuse to lend the wolf a tissue when he's sick, and he (accidentally) [[LaserGuidedKarma spreads his cold to them]] when he sneezes their houses down as he asks for one. |
| 129 | * The 1980s childrens' book ''Lucy and the Big Bad Wolf'' by Ann Jungman is about a modern little girl who is attacked by the Big Bad Wolf because she's wearing a red anorak. She quickly makes friends with him and he integrates into modern society by impersonating a dog. |
| 130 | * In the Frank Asch picture book ''Happy Birthday, Big Bad Wolf'', Little Pig's parents tell him they all have to hide when then the Big Bad Wolf comes. Reminded of his grandfather's birthday party, Little Pig jumps out and yells "Surprise!" when the Big Bad Wolf comes in, thinking they're holding him a SurpriseParty. The parents end up going along with this and, in the end, the Big Bad Wolf decides not to eat the pigs [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe because of the kindness]] they, and particularly Little Pig, showed to him. |
| 131 | * The Wolf in ''Literature/CleverPollyAndTheStupidWolf'' is clearly patterned on the Big Bad Wolf, with his obsession with eating Polly. As the title suggests, however, he is easily bamboozled by the {{Guile Hero}}ine. |
| 132 | * ''Literature/RoysBedoys'': |
| 133 | ** In “Roys Bedoys & the Three Little Pigs”, Roys plays the big bad wolf in his class’s play of ''Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs''. |
| 134 | ** In “Roys Bedoys and Little Red Riding Hood”, he (reluctantly) plays the wolf again when he and his friends reenact ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood''. |
| 135 | * After Grandma goes to a retirement home for fairy tale characters, the Big Bad Wolf in ''Wolfgran'' and ''Wolfgran Returns'' goes in search of her in Granny's clothing and eats anyone he meets. Because he's a fairy-tale wolf, the various people he ate are able to be rescued. The Wolf ultimately reforms (kind of) - he becomes a police officer who eats criminals instead of arresting them, and singlehandedly stops a crime wave. |
| 136 | * In ''Flash Eddie and the Big Bad Wolf'', television host Flash Eddie invites a retired Big Bad Wolf onto his show. The wolf ultimately eats Flash, but he was so insufferable that no one really cares and his more competent assistant takes over. |
| 137 | * In the Spanish children's book ''Donde Viven Los Lobos Feroces'' (Where The Big Bad Wolves Live)[[note]]The term ''El Lobo Feroz'', which translates to "The Ferocious Wolf", is the Spanish equivalent of ''The Big Bad Wolf''[[/note]], a grandmother tells the children of her village a JustSoStory about how big bad wolves appeared on fairy tales. According to her, the village was constantly terrorized by various wolves back when she was a little kid, until the magician from a travelling circus agreed with them to stop doing so. Instead, he offered some of them the opportunity to travel inside some fairy tale books and terrorize Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs, Literature/LittleRedRidingHood and [[Literature/TheWolfAndTheSevenYoungKids the Seven Young Kids]]. The other wolves promised to stay in the forest and not go into the village ever again. |
| 138 | * The Brazilian children's book ''Wolf Wanted'' (''Procura-se Lobo'') revolves around a human called Manny Wolf who must answer application letters for a company that seeks for a real wolf. Among the many applicants rejected by Manny are the wolves from ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood'', ''Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs'', ''Literature/TheWolfAndTheSevenYoungKids'', ''[[Literature/AesopsFables The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing]]'', ''[[Literature/AesopsFables The Wolf and the Lamb]]'' and ''Music/PeterAndTheWolf'', along with a CaptainErsatz of [[WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittlePigs Disney's Big Bad Wolf]] (more specifically, his comic counterpart). |
| 139 | * The Costa Rican anthology book ''Cuando los cuentos crecen'' (When stories grow up) consists on modern-day humorous sequels to classic fairy tales. One of the book's stories is called ''De como los lobos de los cuentos decidieron mejorar su imagen ante el mundo'' ("How the wolves from the stories decided to improve their image in the world"). It revolves around the fairy tale wolves ―among which are included the ones from ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood'', ''Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs'' and ''Literature/TheWolfAndTheSevenYoungKids''― trying to, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin improve their image in the world]] due to their past evil deeds. Their ways to do so include becoming vegetarians, using false teeth and going to church. [[spoiler:They end up being so extreme that once the wolves are finally accepted by society, they have turned into dogs]]. |
| 140 | * In the Peruvian children's book ''El Hambriento Lobo Feroz'' (The Hungry Ferocious Wolf), a wolf plans on eating a pig, a goat and a little girl, but has qualms over doing so after remembering the fate of his defunct relatives, who were the wolves that once tried to eat Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs, [[Literature/TheWolfAndTheSevenYoungKids the Seven Young Kids]] and Literature/LittleRedRidingHood. He finally decides to just make a vegetable salad. |
| 141 | * ''Literature/TalesOfTheFiveHundredKingdoms: Beauty and the Werewolf'': The process of creating a big bad wolf is mentioned in Chapter 3: |
| 142 | --> A big, healthy, single wolf had probably been driven out of his pack for aggression. Maybe cub-killing. Granny had told her about one such beast that had eventually required a Champion to come kill it, [...] Granny wouldn't tell her ''why'', but she claimed such beasts attracted a malignant magic towards themselves that made them bigger, faster and, above all, much more smarter than ordinary creatures. |
| 143 | [[/folder]] |
| 144 | |
| 145 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 146 | * At one part of the ''Series/BarneyAndFriends'' video "Come On Over To Barney's House", Barney gets visited by the Big Bad Wolf (with only the latter's grey arms visible), who threatens to huff and puff and blow his house down. After Barney [[FakeInteractivity prompts the viewers to guess who is at the door]][[note]]refering to the wolf in the end as "The Mean Old Wolf" instead of "Big Bad"[[/note]], the wolf mentions that he doesn't have any friends. Barney convices him to use his huffing and puffing for better things, like blowing up a ball. And, as the wolf is still hungry, he also tells him to try his peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. The wolf likes them, arguing that his mother makes similar ones. |
| 147 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' has a Big Bad Wolf in form of a werewolf, who also lampshades it. |
| 148 | * In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', when a ghost is making a town re-enact fairy tales (not as cutesy as it sounds, this is ''Supernatural'', after all), a young man with a Wile E Coyote tattoo gets [[MindControl hypnotised]] into being the Big Bad Wolf. He attacks three overweight builder brothers, killing two and injuring one (the Three Little Pigs), then murders an old lady and abducts her granddaughter (Little Red Riding Hood). [[spoiler:He's freed from control as Sam stops the ghost, just as Dean, acting out the part of the huntsman, is about to kill him.]] |
| 149 | * ''Series/Charmed1998'': The Big Bad Wolf shows up and is defeated when it swallows Piper whole, only for her to blow it up from the inside with her powers. |
| 150 | * ''Series/JacksBigMusicShow'' has the "Little Bad Wolf", younger brother of the Big Bad Wolf. In the namesake episode, Big Bad is on vacation, so Little Bad takes on huffing and puffing and blowing stuff away in Jack's clubhouse (which he first thought was the three little pigs' house). In the end, Jack and his friends convince him to blow a tuba instead. |
| 151 | * In ''Series/{{Grimm}}'', the actual creatures who inspired the Big Bad Wolf legends are the Blutbaden, who are basically [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves by a different name]]. There's plenty of bad blood between them and the [[PigMan Bauerschwein]]. |
| 152 | * ''Series/OnceUponATime'' reveals that [[spoiler:Red Riding Hood herself is actually the storied wolf. Her red cape is what keeps her wolf form at bay.]] |
| 153 | * In the early 2000s, a Belgian children's puppet TV show, "De Grote Boze Wolf Show" ("The Big Bad Wolf Show"), centered around a fairy tale wolf who boasted to be a "Big Bad Wolf", but actually rather THOUGHT he was. |
| 154 | * 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 dachshund is used as the wolf. |
| 155 | * Wolf in ''Series/The10thKingdom'' 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.]] |
| 156 | * ''Series/SesameStreet'': |
| 157 | ** The Big Bad Wolf is a relatively harmless version of the character who eventually gives up chasing the pigs and takes up bubble-blowing as a hobby. However, he doesn't hesitate to huff and puff in anger when losing a game. He also has a kindly brother named Leonard who gets along well with pigs and explains that he isn't like the Big Bad Wolf at all. |
| 158 | ** In one skit, the wolf stops chasing Little Red Riding Hood when they ''both'' get angry at the Huntsman when they find out he chopped down a tree they both liked, and then ''[[EnemyMine they both]]'' start to chase after ''him''. |
| 159 | ** Another sketch had the pigs trying to take the wolf to court, but keep accidentally accusing the wrong person (This is a LITTLE Bad Wolf. This is a Big GOOD Wolf. This is a Big Bad CHICKEN). Then the actual Big Bad Wolf shows up and the pigs don't recognize him because he's wearing a false beard. |
| 160 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 161 | ** Rose uses "Bad Wolf" as an alias after merging with the Time Vortex. This was foreshadowed in "The Unquiet Dead" when Rose encounters a woman who has the power to see the future. |
| 162 | --->'''Gwyneth:''' And you, you've flown so far. Further than anyone. The things you've seen. The darkness. The Big Bad Wolf. |
| 163 | ** This is playfully turned in on itself in the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse book ''Literature/TimeLordFairyTales'' with a TwiceToldTale version of "Little Red Riding Hood" in which the heroine is aware of the stories of a Bad Wolf in the woods -- but she's patterned on Rose...The actual villain turns out to be [[spoiler: a Zygon]] instead. |
| 164 | * This is one of Koragg the Knight Wolf's {{Motifs}} in ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'', along with BlackKnight. [[spoiler: He eventually turns out to be the powerful and noble Leanbow, father of the main protagonist, who was [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed]] into becoming evil and later joins the good guys.]] |
| 165 | * ''Series/FaerieTaleTheatre'' had two very different takes on this trope: |
| 166 | ** 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 vegetables and sew it up...turning him into a vegetarian]]. |
| 167 | ** In the PlayedForLaughs "The Three Little Pigs" Buck Wolf (Creator/JeffGoldblum) has the mannerisms of a CigarChomper gangster and loves to push others around, but is also a lazy HenpeckedHusband who's only pursuing the pigs because his seen-but-not-heard wife Nadine orders him to get one for some visiting coyotes. He's not only outwitted by the pigs in the end, but they tie him up and leave him on a platter outside his cave as a last humiliation! |
| 168 | * In one episode of ''Series/SleepyHollow'', Ichabod and his comrades encounter a [[{{Hellhound}} Barghest]], which according to Crane, was the creature that Creator/TheBrothersGrimm drew inspiration from in creating the story of Red Riding Hood, particularly its ability to take on a human form. In this case, the Barghest disguised itself as young Molly's stepfather in order to kill her. For extra homage, while Molly is running from the creature, she is wearing a red coat that is fluttering like a cape. |
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| 170 | |
| 171 | [[folder:Magazines]] |
| 172 | * A ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' page from 1962 imported the Big Bad Wolf (from Disney's lot in Burbank, apparently) to huff and puff and blow the Berlin Wall down. |
| 173 | ** Years later, in Sergio Aragonés "A Mad Look at Fairy Tales", he tries and fails to blow the Pigs' brick house down, only to stop, gasping for breath; then he storms off, throwing away a box of cigarettes as he does. (Implying that those are the reason he couldn't.) |
| 174 | [[/folder]] |
| 175 | |
| 176 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 177 | * Sergej Prokofiev's musical tale ''Music/PeterAndTheWolf'' features a big dangerous wolf. |
| 178 | * Sam Sham and the Pharaohs' "Little Red Riding Hood" is sung from the point of view of the Big Bad Wolf, and is sung as a [[StalkerWithACrush sort of love song]], where the Wolf decides to disguise himself so Red won't be frightened away. The fact that this would pretty much prove that he's untrustworthy, thus derailing his chances at getting her to trust him, are lost on him. |
| 179 | * The music video for the VAST song "Pretty When You Cry" has lots of visual references to Literature/LittleRedRidingHood. |
| 180 | * The Green Jelly song "Three Little Pigs" updates the classic folk tale for modern times, but keeps the Big Bad Wolf as its villain. |
| 181 | * The hit single "Big Bad Wolf" by Duck Sauce, complete with a sample of wolf howling! |
| 182 | * Both the lyrics and music video for "Someone's In The Wolf" by [[Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge Queens of the Stone Age]] make references to the story of Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf. |
| 183 | [[/folder]] |
| 184 | |
| 185 | [[folder:Poetry]] |
| 186 | * The Bret Harte poem "What the Wolf Really Said to Little Red Riding-Hood" presents the wolf as a somewhat romantic StalkerWithACrush who disguises himself as Red's grandmother because he is too shy to approach her as himself. |
| 187 | [[/folder]] |
| 188 | |
| 189 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 190 | * The Wolf pursues Red Riding Hood in ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods''. Basically played straight, although with disturbing overtones about what his actual intentions toward Red are. Traditionally, the wolf suit is as Anatomically Correct as the production feels they can get away with. And since the Wolf is standing like a human (for obvious reasons), it's a lot more obvious than it would be on an actual wolf. |
| 191 | * In ''The Trial of the Big Bad Wolf'', the Wolf ends up eventually befriending the three pigs after his trial. |
| 192 | * The Wolf in ''The Real Story of Little Red Riding Hood'' is a well-meaning character who joins forces with Grandma to [[ScareEmStraight teach the bratty Little Red Riding Hood a lesson]]. |
| 193 | * In ''Baby Bear and the Big Bad Wolf'', the Wolf is, strangely, the same character as the witch in Literature/HanselAndGretel. They are defeated by Literature/{{Goldilocks}}, the pigs, Baby Bear, and Hansel and Gretel invoking NeverTheSelvesShallMeet. |
| 194 | * In ''The Disappearance of the Three Little Pigs'', a FilmNoir-style mashup of fairy tales, B. B. Wolf is the shady owner of the Howl Hole nightclub. |
| 195 | * ''Theatre/RedTheRedRidingHoodMusical'' is an adaptation of the original fairy tale, and an exploration of the different versions of the story. The Wolf is played straight, albeit with a profoundly creepy stalker-y vibe to him. Right up until the end, when the story tellers start [[FracturedFairyTale arguing over which version of the ending they should re-enact, at which point the "wolf" (played by one of the storytellers) starts arguing with Red and Grandma over which one of them gets eaten, and whether or not he gets shot.]] |
| 196 | * In a Russian adaptation of the Red Riding Hood story, the brutish Wolf is aided by a [[CunningLikeAFox fox]] who [[TheStarscream secretly plans to let the Wolf be chased out of the forest after he eats Red]]. They are eventually dealt with by the woodsman and Red's friends -- a bear, a rabbit, and a grass snake. |
| 197 | * In "Holka Polka", the Wolf is actually one of the main protagonists, and claims to be afraid of little girls. |
| 198 | [[/folder]] |
| 199 | |
| 200 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 201 | * In ''The Zantabulous Zorceror of Zo'', this archetype is represented by [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Shaykosch the Deathless Wolf]]. An enormous wolf who is defeated by a hero each generation, only to rise again for the next. |
| 202 | [[/folder]] |
| 203 | |
| 204 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 205 | * In ''Toys/EverAfterHigh'', Mr. Badwolf is a teacher at the title school. [[spoiler: He fell in love with Red Riding Hood during his story and married her, having two daughters with her.]] |
| 206 | [[/folder]] |
| 207 | |
| 208 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 209 | * ''Manga/{{Doraemon}} 2: SOS! Otogi no Kuni'', being set in the world of fairy tales, has the Wolf himself serving as the boss of the Red Riding Hood stage. With Shizuka as Red Riding Hood. |
| 210 | * ''VideoGame/ThePath'' is an unusual indie art game that is a modern horror adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood. You play as six different girls, all with names that evoke the color red, and each girl has a MindScrew encounter with a "wolf". |
| 211 | * ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has the Opera event in Karazhan, which sometimes tells the tale of Little Red Riding Hood -- the wolf is the boss encounter, chasing after one of the players designated as the girl (and turned into a gnome in appropriate attire) |
| 212 | * Activision's ''{{VideoGame/Oink}}'' has, of course, the Big Bad Wolf from the Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs (given the name Bigelow B. Wolf) using his breath to knock down bricks in the wall that the pigs (controlled by the player) try to patch up before he blows a big enough hole to capture them. His breath, due to Platform/{{Atari 2600}} graphics, looks like a laser beam, and becomes part of his VacuumMouth when it makes contact with any of the pigs. |
| 213 | * Telltale's ''{{VideoGame/The Wolf Among Us}}'' is a video game adaptation of the ''Fables'' comic books and thus features Bigby Wolf as the main protagonist who has reformed as the sheriff of Fabletown. Why sheriff? Because they thought Bigby was the only one tough enough for the job. |
| 214 | * The MOBA ''VideoGame/ArenaOfFate'' which has Little Red Ridding Hood facing against her Big Bad Wolf Fenrir, as in the same Fenrir of Norse mythology. |
| 215 | * The Big Bad Wolf appears in ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIIRomancingTheThrone'' as one of the quest characters the player must get rid of in his adventure, directly spoofing ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood''. |
| 216 | * In ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'', Warwick used to be this before his rework. Since now he was retconned into a vigilante, he'll become this only if you are a scumbag criminal from Zaun. |
| 217 | ** Funnily enough, his "Big Bad Warwick" skin turns him into the granny-disguised wolf from ''"Literature/LittleRedRidingHood"''. |
| 218 | * In the Sharp X1 game ''Sanbiki no Butasan'', the wolf is the biggest and baddest of the animals trying to thwart the pig's quest to build houses of straw, sticks and bricks. However, all it takes to dispatch this wolf is a hammer. |
| 219 | * In ''VideoGame/LobotomyCorporation'', one of the [[EldritchAbomination abnormalities]] you have to manage is "The Big And Might Be Bad Wolf". It appears as a very large, seemingly-friendly cartoon-esque wolf that can be placated by [[IAmAHumanitarian feeding it agents]], which you regain the next day. Let its mood drop too low, however, and it will escape containment, gain a much more [[LeanAndMean lean form]], and live up to the "big" and "bad" parts of its name. |
| 220 | * ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterPC'' have werewolves as common enemies, and a bunch of Red Riding Hood references throughout. One level filled with werewolves you need to kill is explicitly titled "Red Riding Hood's Revenge!" andf there's a KingMook werewolf boss in a stage called "The Big Bad Wolf". |
| 221 | * In ''The Three Little Cyberpigs'', a TooSmartForStrangers PSA, one of the pigs accidentally invites the Big Bad Wolf to his house through an Internet chatroom. This has consequences in the sequel when the same pig, who is convinced from his experience with the Big Bad Wolf that wolves are AlwaysChaoticEvil, teams up with a [[FantasticRacism wolf-hating]] duck to try and bully a friendly wolf out of a skateboarding chatroom they're all members of. Fortunately, his siblings convince him that this was wrong and he apologizes. |
| 222 | * In ''VideoGame/Revolve8EpisodicDueling'', the Big Bad Wolf appears in Little Red Riding Hood's storyline, but instead of tricking Little Red he ends up getting strong armed into acting as her bodyguard during her trip to her grandma's and gets forced to wear grandma's clothes as part of a prank. It's also subtly hinted throughout the story that [[spoiler:Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf are long lost cousins, and have the same grandma]]. |
| 223 | * ''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 fairy tales 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. |
| 224 | * ''VideoGame/PowerPete'': Appears in the Fairy Tale Trail department, naturally -- it's the very first enemy that Pete runs into. |
| 225 | [[/folder]] |
| 226 | |
| 227 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 228 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Annyseed}}'', our Big Bad Wolf character is Count Tarrorviene. He seeks the blood of a younger vampire in order to release him from the trappings of his victorian blood machine. |
| 229 | * In ''Webcomic/EverAfter'', The Big Bad Wolf appears to be something similar to the ''ComicBook/{{Promethea}}'' one -- a formless monster of pure fear, which may or may not exist mainly inside the head of the hopelessly-insane Red Riding Hood. ''Ever After'' has more-or-less stalled, but Big Bad and his pet [[ChainsawGood chainsaw-wielding]] crazygirl have also put in a fairly major appearance in the still-progressing ''Webcomic/SugarBits''. |
| 230 | * The ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' [[TwiceToldTale Stick Tale]] "Little Red Riding Hoodlum" casts Belkar as the wolf. The wolf's villainy is considerably downplayed from the original story; he only wants one of the muffins Red (Haley) is carrying. He locks Red's "grandparent" (V) in a closet, then tries to pretend that he's the grandparent who's polymorphed into a wolf, but Red sees right through it. He ends up being knocked out and becomes a druid's animal companion. |
| 231 | * In ''WebComic/KevinAndKell'', Kell and her son Rudy claim to be descended from the Big Bad Wolf. Kell later proves it by blowing all the leaves off their home, and later the layer of shedded fur that was causing gridlock in Domain. Note that along with them, Kell's brother Ralph has the same claim. So does Kell's daughter Coney and Ralph's daughter Corrie (and Corrie's clone Mary). What makes those last claimants unusual is that Coney's a ''rabbit'' and Corrie and Mary are ''sheep''. When it turns out the Dewclaws all carry the domestication gene, Lindesfarne suggests the Big Bad Wolf may have called himself that because he was overcompensating. |
| 232 | [[/folder]] |
| 233 | |
| 234 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 235 | * ''Literature/LoomingGaia'': Evan's werewolf form is named Bigbad in reference to this trope. He tells his foster son Isaac to beware "the Big Bad Wolf" when he asks things like why the trapdoor to his room is so small to keep his lycanthropy a secret from him, though Isaac eventually finds out. |
| 236 | * In ''Literature/TalesoftheBigBadWolf'' Maximilian Wolfram is a reclusive king of wolves who meets the RedRidingHood proxy, Elanore Redley, and deliberates what to do with the young girl who shows an affinity for magic. His approach to dealing with her unnerves the hunter in her life. |
| 237 | * The Big Bad Wolf appears in ''WebAnimation/DoctorLollipop''. Unfortunately for him, he's promptly SwallowedWhole, along with Red, by a hungry raptor. |
| 238 | [[/folder]] |
| 239 | |
| 240 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 241 | * Whenever ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' spoofs either ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood'' or ''Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs'', the Big Bad Wolf usually appears as an IneffectualSympatheticVillain. |
| 242 | ** ''The Trial of Mr. Wolf'' has the wolf on trial. In his testimony, he tries to convince the jury that Red and her grandma were trying to kill him for his fur coat. No one buys it (despite the fact that the jury is made up entirely of wolves), especially after the wolf says, [[TemptingFate "And if I'm lying, I hope to get run over by a streetcar!"]] and [[CueTheFlyingPigs a streetcar smashes through the courtroom and runs him over]]. He then says, "Okay, maybe I did exaggerate a little..." |
| 243 | ** ''The Turn-Tale Wolf'' has the BBW explaining to his nephew how the Three Pigs had bullied him and stolen his tail. But he's an UnreliableNarrator and he really lost it in a swinging door. |
| 244 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/LittleRedRidingRabbit'', the wolf and WesternAnimation/BugsBunny end up joining forces against Red Riding Hood, because she's just that annoying. |
| 245 | ** The Big Bad Wolf sides with Bugs Bunny in ''The Windblown Hare'' after Bugs realizes that the Three Pigs conned him into buying the straw and stick houses before the wolf came by. With Bugs's help, the wolf successfully destroys the brick house. |
| 246 | ** The last original Bugs Bunny cartoon, "WesternAnimation/FalseHare," 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." |
| 247 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittleBops'' revamped the story as being set in a jazz club where the three little pigs are a hot band. The Big Bad Wolf only resorts to blowing the clubs down when the pigs refuse to let him and his lousy trumpet jam with them. The wolf actually becomes a fairly competent musician after he dies and [[RockMeAsmodeus goes to hell]]. |
| 248 | --->'''One of the pigs:''' The Big Bad Wolf, he learned the rule: you gotta get hot to play real cool! |
| 249 | ** ''Little Red Walking Hood'' involves Red eventually being saved by [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Elmer Fudd]] (in his first appearance), who hits the Big Bad Wolf with a mallet. |
| 250 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/RedRidingHoodwinked'', [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester the Cat]] teams up with the Big Bad Wolf so that he could get at Tweety Pie, whom Little Red Riding Hood brings to her grandmother. Of course, the Big Bad Wolf is constantly forgetful of Little Red Riding Hood's name and gets prompted by Sylvester from time to time. However, [[NeverMessWithGranny Little Red's grandmother is no pushover]], as she knocks both the Big Bad Wolf and Sylvester off the bus she's driving at the end of the story. |
| 251 | ** The wolf and the Three Little Pigs tale is recounted in "A Gander at Mother Goose," only when the wolf blows at the pigs' door, they pass along a bottle of mouthwash to him. |
| 252 | -->'''Wolf:''' Why don't some of my best friends tell me these things?!" |
| 253 | ** The Big Bad Wolf appears in "WesternAnimation/PigsInAPolka", where the story is told to the tune of many of Music/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. |
| 254 | * In WesternAnimation/{{Noveltoons}}, Blackie the lamb battles Wolfie the Wolf to prevent him or other sheep from being eaten. |
| 255 | ** Wolfie would latter appear as a villain in some WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost cartoons, the most noteworthy being "Once Upon a Rhyme" and "Pig A Boo". In them, respectively, Casper befriends and then saves Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Pigs. |
| 256 | * Creator/TexAvery: |
| 257 | ** The character Wolfie, who made his debut in "WesternAnimation/RedHotRidingHood", is either a CasanovaWannabe lusting after Red, or being chased by Droopy. Avery created another interpretation of the character for ''Three Little Pups'' in the '50s: a slow-witted, deadpan bungler with a Southern drawl (which voice artist Creator/DawsButler would later reuse for WesternAnimation/HuckleberryHound). |
| 258 | ** Another 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. |
| 259 | ** Tex Avery's first MGM cartoon ''WesternAnimation/BlitzWolf'' cast the Big Bad Wolf in the role of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. |
| 260 | ** Avery also pitted a BBW against the third little pig's baby (modeled after Red Skelton's "Mean Widdle Kid" character) in ''[[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6t1w8y 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. |
| 261 | * Creator/HannaBarbera examples: |
| 262 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/LoopyDeLoop'', the wolf is a kind and helpful character who takes it on himself to give wolves a better name, and was [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood only trying to help Red Riding Hood and the three pigs]]. Unfortunately, his intentions are often misunderstood and he is constantly the victim of AmusingInjuries. |
| 263 | ** WesternAnimation/YogiBear and Boo Boo deal with the wolf (Daws Butler doing Phil Silvers) and the Three Little Pigs in the cartoon "Oinks and Boinks" where the bears get lost. The pigs, knowing that the wolf will show up, give them the straw house and the wooden house and each time the wolf blows them down because it's his obligation. Yogi and Boo Boo find their cave only to find the pigs squatting there rationalizing that they gave the bears two of their houses and there was no logistical justification in building the brick house. The wolf finds his way to the cave where he orders the pigs out and to follow the story as it was written ("I want to frustrate myself!!") |
| 264 | ** A second run in with Yogi, Boo Boo and the Big Bad Wolf occurs when Red Riding Hood and Grandma are otherwise indisposed, so Boo Boo fills in for Red while Yogi poses as grandma. The wolf is absolutely flummoxed at the cast change. |
| 265 | ** In one cartoon, WesternAnimation/HuckleberryHound finds himself encountering Red Riding Hood. Familiar with the tale, he decides to head Red off and stop the Big Bad Wolf before he can get to her. Unfortunately, despite Huck's good intentions, the characters don't want him to meddle with the story and [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished he ends up getting arrested]]. |
| 266 | ** Yet another example is Hokey Wolf. He's more of a con artist than he is evil. |
| 267 | ** Mildew Wolf on the ''It's The Wolf!'' segment of ''WesternAnimation/TheCattanoogaCats'' started evil, always seeking to make Lambsy his next dinner only to be thwarted by Lambsy's protector Bristle Hound. He'd do a HeelFaceTurn eight years later as he became one of the announcers on ''WesternAnimation/LaffALympics.'' |
| 268 | ** Wilfred Wolf was a Wile E. Coyote expy who was none too successful in catching [[WesternAnimation/TheKwickyKoalaShow Kwicky Koala]]. |
| 269 | * Alexander Graham Wolf, the [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Wile E. Coyote]] {{Expy}} from the Literature/RaggedyAnn cartoon ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatSantaClausCaper'' is identified by Comet as the Big Bad Wolf. His main villainous act in-story is taking over SantaClaus's toy factory, encasing toys in his invention, and forcing children to pay for them. The Wolf is eventually redeemed through ThePowerOfLove. |
| 270 | * In the Dutch series ''De Fabeltjeskrant'', the Wolf turns out to be only bad because of his [[HairTriggerTemper short temper]] and [[LonersAreFreaks loneliness]], and [[HeelFaceTurn softens]] after being shown kindness by the other fable characters. |
| 271 | * Creator/{{Disney}} has its own version of the Big Bad Wolf: An utter failure of a CardCarryingVillain who made his first appearance in the [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts 1933 short]] ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittlePigs'', and was the subject of the popular song 'Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf'. He later reappeared in the short's sequels, and, as of late, he has officially been made part of the ''Disney Villains'' franchise and can even be seen occasionally roaming Disney parks. |
| 272 | ** The Big Bad Wolf shows up in ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' as the jazz musician "Big Bad Wolf Daddy" to perform for the club alongside the Three Little Pigs whom he has on a "play or fillet" contract (either they play in his band or he eats them). Also, his "huff and puff" reaction is triggered not by the pigs, but ''doors''. |
| 273 | ** A later episode has him in his usual appearance, this time working in the control room (replacing Horace Horsecollar), when Pete's taken over hosting duties and had to hire his fellow villains to help run things. |
| 274 | * The big bad wolf appears in an old ''WesternAnimation/MightyMouse'' cartoon named "Mighty Mouse and the Wolf", on which the super-heroic mouse saves Little Red Riding Hood, a flock of sheep and the Three Little Pigs from him. |
| 275 | ** In "Mother Goose's Birthday Party", the wolf is the only one not invited to the titular party. The reason ''why'' becomes apparent when he crashes it to get even, but fortunately, Mighty Mouse shows up to deal with him. |
| 276 | ** "The Reformed Wolf" has said canine explaining to a friend why he's gone vegetarian. Every time he tried to steal a sheep, he was thwarted in ways that baffled him, never realizing Mighty Mouse was behind it each time. |
| 277 | ** The villain of "Mighty Mouse Meets Deadeye Dick" is a wolf that Mighty Mouse bests twice, posing as a mysterious stranger at first then going in drag as a buxom belle later. |
| 278 | * In a ''WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker'' cartoon, Woody decides to mess up the story completely. After finding out that the Wolf simply mugged Red on the road and took her basket, he manages to get to the house before the Wolf does, convinces Granny to go to a ball game, and then turns the tables on the wolf, dressing up in Granny's clothes and tricking him in a similar fashion, then driving him away after driving him crazy. Unfortunately, when Granny comes home, she's upset; apparently, [[DidntSeeThatComing she and the Wolf had been secretly dating.]] |
| 279 | * [[Creator/DisneyChannel Disney Junior]]'s ''WesternAnimation/GoldieAndBear'' 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/{{Jim Cummings|1952}}. As a relatively softer version of the character, he has occasional PetTheDog moments -- when his schemes cause serious harm, he's usually genuinely remorseful. |
| 280 | * The Wolf in the Russian film ''Gray Wolf & Red Riding Hood'' is portrayed as a VillainousGlutton who devours numerous characters (including a doctor [[TheFarmerAndTheViper who fixed his teeth]]) over the course of the story until the people he ate revolt, blowing him up from the inside. |
| 281 | * In the short film "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpbLDwVG-IE Fetch]]", Red Rid Riding Hood is chased by a frightening-looking Big Bad Wolf with GlowingEyesOfDoom. Subverted in the end when it turns out that [[DarkIsNotEvil all he wants is to play fetch]]. |
| 282 | * In ''Petya and Little Red Riding Hood'', a GenreSavvy Boy Scout named Petya enters the world of [[MediumAwareness a Little Red Riding Hood cartoon]]. Petya proceeds to utterly derail the story -- he distracts the wolf, warns Grandma ahead of time that the wolf is coming, tricks him into eating a SleepingDummy, and takes Red's place when confronting him. The wolf is dismayed when Petya doesn't give the traditional "What big..." exchange. When Petya's plan backfires, Red returns the favor by summoning two hunters for a BigDamnHeroes rescue. |
| 283 | * Big bad wolves appear in several episodes of ''WesternAnimation/SimsalaGrimm''. In "The Wolf and Seven Kids", the wolf's WhiteSheep son "convinces" him and his wife to [[CarnivoreConfusion quit eating meat]]. In "Little Red Riding Hood", the wolf is a DumbMuscle brute who is manipulated by a flea on his back, and in "The Three Little Pigs" the pigs' snoring scares the wolf away. |
| 284 | * The Big Bad Wolf appears in an episode of ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'', in an ultraviolent adaptation of "The Three Little Pigs". This version of the wolf is [[SmarterThanYouLook one of the more intelligent and cunning ones]]; he eats and kills the first two pigs by tricking them into opening the door instead of simply blowing the house down (which he already tried) and frames the third for the crime with the help of an [[KangarooCourt all-wolf jury]]. When the third pig escapes and takes revenge on the wolf, [[spoiler: he ultimately revives as a zombie and [[TheBadGuyWins kills the third pig]].]] |
| 285 | * In ''WesternAnimation/The7D'' the Wolf is a [[HonestJohnsDealership scam artist]] who dupes Sneezy into blowing down the three pigs' houses, while he actually intends to steal their families' food. When he tries again on Red Riding Hood, Sneezy takes Red's place and blows the Wolf back to the time of the dinosaurs. |
| 286 | * The Big Bad Wolf's son Wolfy is a recurring character in ''WesternAnimation/SuperWhy'' -- he can be a bit of a bully and is definitely a prankster, but the main characters consider him a friend and he rarely causes intentional harm. The Big Bad Wolf himself turns up in the episodes focusing on Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs (both major characters in the show). |
| 287 | * The Big Bad Wolf makes a cameo in ''WesternAnimation/BubbleGuppies'', dressed up as Red's grandma. However, he [[DarkIsNotEvil means no harm]] and is actually very nice. |
| 288 | * The ''WesternAnimation/PiggsburgPigs'' had two ComicRelief antagonist: the wolves Huff and Puff (which contrasted with the really evil and scary monsters that the main characters normally encounter) but still were clearly based on the Big Bad Wolf. |
| 289 | * The Big Bad Wolf in ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' is a flamboyant SkyPirate named Don Karnage. |
| 290 | * In one Czech cartoon, the Big Bad Wolf is a predatory VillainousGlutton who is [[ExtremeOmnivore happy to eat inanimate objects]], too, stalking and swallowing a garden gnome before going after Red and Grandma. When he [[ISophagus eats a radio]], which Red and Grandma play within his body, he goes to a human doctor for help. The doctor releases Red and Grandma and puts balloons in his stomach. The wolf falls and drowns when the balloons float out, and is [[AlasPoorVillain mourned by the other predators in the forest he came from]]. |
| 291 | * In ''The Big Bad Wolf'', a black lamb disguises himself as the Big Bad Wolf to play a prank on the other sheep. This becomes a problem when the ''real'' Big Bad Wolf abducts a lamb, who has to be rescued by Little Boy Blue, Little Bo Peep, and an animated scarecrow. |
| 292 | * In ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'', the Wolf is an AffablyEvil character who is upset when King Koopa takes over his role in the story, assists Mario in defeating him, and even lets the heroes go once Koopa is dealt with. |
| 293 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans'': In "Escape from Fairytale Village", Austin plays a wolf who seems to want to huff and puff at Paperboy Tyrone and have him for dinner. He really wants to inflate a flat tire on Tyrone's bike and for the moose to have dinner ''with him''. |
| 294 | * ''WesternAnimation/BozoTheWorldsMostFamousClown'' deals with a couple of clueless wolves. The first wolf first tries stealing the sheep of Bozo's uncle then tries to get to Red Riding Hood's grandma (only to get flummoxed by Bozo telling him there was never a clown in the Red Riding Hood story). The second was Wacko Wolf who was a con artist. |
| 295 | * The appearances of Wendy Wolf and her family on ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig'' sometimes get accompanied by references to the archetypal big bad wolf. For example, in "Wendy Wolf's Birthday", Peppa and her friends comment on Granny Wolf's big eyes and Wendy Wolf huffs and puffs at her birthday cake. |
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