History Literature / TheThreeLittlePigs

* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Earliest version of the story was originally about three pixies and a [[FoulFox fox]], instead of pigs and a wolf that more well known from later versions.

* AnAesop: The little pig who works hard and uses intelligence to choose the strongest building material is the one who beats the wolf.

* CookedToDeath: In many versions of the tale, the third pig finally defeats the wolf by placing a pot of boiling water in the fireplace while the wolf is making a chimney entrance, thus boiling the wolf to death. There are several versions in which the pig then spontaneously [[JustDesserts eats the wolf]].

* CharacterCatchphrase: Each time the wolf blows down one of the pigs' houses, they have an iconic exchange:

* JustDesserts: The third pig in Creator/JosephJacobs' version does not stop at boiling the wolf to death, but also eats him "for supper".

** Finally, there's ''The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig'', a book that takes this to the logical extreme, pitting three little ''wolves'' against a bullying, vandalizing ''pig''. [[spoiler:They wind up becoming friends in the end.]]

* SuperBreath: The wolf easily "huffs and puffs" and blows down the house of straw and the house of sticks of the first two pigs. The house of bricks of the third pig, in the other hand, is another thing...

* CatchPhrase: Each time the wolf blows down one of the pigs' houses, they have an iconic exchange:

* {{Bowdlerize}}: In some modern versions of the story, nobody dies: when the wolf blows down one pig's house, they simply run off to hide at the next one's place, and the wolf runs away with a burnt tail after going down the brick house's chimney.

* EatenAlive: In some versions of the story, the first two pigs get devoured by the wolf, though more modern retellings tend to have them successfully run away and hide at the next pig's house.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Many versions omit the deaths of the first two pigs (generally by having them run to the next pig's house) and the wolf at the end of the story.

** And [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh11A41klL4 an earlier one]] set to Johannes Brahms' ''Hungarian Dances''.

%%* TheBigBadWolf: Co-TropeMaker, along with "Literature/LittleRedRidingHood".
* {{Bowdlerize}}: In a lot of the more modern versions of the story, all pigs survive and the wolf simply runs away with a burnt tail after falling down the brick house's chimney.

* ChimneyEntry: The Wolf in the end tries to enter the brick house like this, unintentionally falling into a cauldron full of boiling water that the pig had left at the bottom for him.
* EatenAlive: This is the fate that the first two pigs suffer as they get devoured by the wolf.

* PredatorsAreMean: He's the Big ''Bad'' Wolf.

"The Three Little Pigs" is a {{Talking Animal}}s story that was written in the 1840s. The young pigs of the story's title move out of their mother's house to seek their fortune, but are hindered by the fact that there is TheBigBadWolf out there with intentions of eating them. The first little pig builds his house out of straw, but the wolf blows it down and eats him. The second little pig builds his house out of sticks and meets the same fate. The third pig, however, being the brains of the outfit, builds his house out of bricks, which the wolf cannot blow down. The wolf makes several attempts to trick the pig into coming out of the house, but fails each time. Finally, he tries going down the pig's chimney, but is cooked in a pot that the pig puts there, and ends up [[KarmicDeath eaten by]] [[AscendedToCarnivorism the third pig himself]], though several adaptations have the first two pigs escaping safely from the wolf and hiding inside the third pig's house.

"The Three Little Pigs" is a {{Talking Animal}}s story that was written in the 1840s. The young pigs of the story's title move out of their mother's house to seek their fortune, but it is hindered by the fact that there is TheBigBadWolf out there with intentions of eating them. The first little pig builds his house out of straw, but the wolf blows it down and eats him. The second little pig builds his house out of sticks and meets the same fate. The third pig, however, being the brains of the outfit, builds his house out of bricks, which the wolf cannot blow down. The wolf makes several attempts to trick the pig into coming out of the house, but fails each time. Finally, he tries going down the pig's chimney, but is cooked in a pot that the pig puts there, and ends up [[KarmicDeath eaten by]] [[AscendedToCarnivorism the third pig himself]], though several adaptations have the first two pigs escaping safely from the wolf and hiding inside the third pig's house.

* TheBigBadWolf: Co-TropeMaker, along with "Literature/LittleRedRidingHood".

->'''Wolf''': Little pig, little pig, let me come in!\\