- Another fable will join the law force, And there will be a fight scene between him and Bigby eventually.
- It will be revealed that Bloody Mary isn't dead, and she will become the new main antagonist.
- Bigby won't be the one to ultimately kill Mary.
- If the theory on Faith/Nerissa is correct and since Fables who are remembered and constantly talked about come back to life, the real Nerissa's body will be recovered from the lake and she will come back to life...although as a headless mermaid. Uh.
- Considering the emphasis on Toad, TJ and possibly Colin and or the Crooked Man in crow form going to "The Farm", that particular location very well may be in the sequel, if they ever get around to making one.
- Previews for Season 2 state that Bigby will find himself working alongside a mundy NYPD Detective, Faye Leung. This is probably a nod to Kelsey Brannigan's Aborted Arc. Since he starts Season 2 suspended from his position as Sheriff, Bigby won't be obligated to wipe her memory, may even appreciate working with someone who doesn't automatically see him as the monster from the stories.
- One of the achievements for episode 2 also says "Make them Cry".
- Confirmed.
- Jossed On all accounts. Georgie killed Faith and Lily on the orders of the Crooked Man. Bluebeard is not involved at all.
- Jossed; the problem is solved early in Episode 2, with Snow alive and well, and Lily's body recovered from the river, glamoured to look like Snow. Faith's body, however, is still missing...
- Strength is Bigby and Snow. Obvious, along with the picture.
- The Tower is Faith. A disaster hit her hard, and you see her at the base of the tower.
- The Ten of Swords is Lawrence. The card is 'The Lowest Point' or 'Ultimate Defeat/Despair' which sums up the poor guy's life quite well.
Episode 2 features:
- The Three of Swords. Heartbreak & betrayal: Beauty & Beast, or Nerissa.
- The Moon. As Bigby says, 'Deception.' Lily
- The Hermit. Soul Searching, introspection...but reversed it means isolation and withdrawal. Crane.
- The Proof? Snow is clearly alive in the comics, and since this is supposed to be canon, it would make sense if she wasn't truly dead.
- Half-Confirmed, Half-Jossed as of Episode 2. Snow isn't dead, and it was actually the head of Holly's sister Lily, glamoured to look like Snow. However, Lily is definitely dead and Faith is still assumed to be also.
- Maybe Jossed. Either Faith is alive and is glamoured as Nerissa or Faith was dead from the start and you met Nerissa as Faith at the start. If the former is believed, then it's Jossed.
- Confirmed.
- Add on to this that the final chapter is called "Cry Wolf."
- To add even more his name is Cryer.
- Snow is alive and well in Episode 2, and nothing at all has happened to her, and he isn't seen.
- It's also his MO, pointed out by Wolf.
- This is very unlikely since he's still around in the comics.
- Jossed.
- This is very unlikely since he's still around in the comics.
- And more importantly, this ties into the idea that just the placement of the head is a message - in this case, it's the Horseman sending a message to Ichabod that, unless he comes out to face the music, more heads will roll. This also ties in with why Crane's nerves are always so frayed.
- Might be jossed since the Book of Fables entry mentioned that the Headless Horseman was likely just another prank pulled on Crane by his rival.
- Looking further discredited in Episode 4, given the reveal that all it would take to behead any of the working girls is to pull their ribbon off. Who placed the heads, and why, is still in question.
- Completely Jossed. It was Georgie.
- Looking further discredited in Episode 4, given the reveal that all it would take to behead any of the working girls is to pull their ribbon off. Who placed the heads, and why, is still in question.
- Confirmed, at least in Episode 2.
- That's actually a perfect summary of his character as a whole.
- This troper has clearly gotten further than you in the comics—they are both very plot critical.
- Beast eventually takes Bigby's job as Sheriff in the comics, which rules them out.
- Jossed.
- Beast eventually takes Bigby's job as Sheriff in the comics, which rules them out.
- There actually is a children's (admittedly horror) story about a girl who wore a ribbon everyday and fell in love with a boy. One day, she got sick and told the boy, who had always wondered why she wore the ribbon everyday, to remove the ribbon. He complied, still wondering why it was so important. After he removed the ribbon, her head fell off and she died.
- Episode 4 reveals that something very, very bad will happen if you remove a ribbon from a girl's neck. We're still not sure exactly what.
- Episode 5 reveals that heads did indeed fall off if ribbons are removed (not anymore though, since Vivian's Heroic Sacrifice. Unconfirmed whether or not this was what killed Faith. Depending on your take on the game's Twist Ending, it might not have been Faith's head.
- Jossed.
Alternatively...
- Jossed Though Faith might not be dead.
- He has a fetish for Snow White, but he didn't kill Lily or Faith. The killer knew about this, and planted the photos in room 207 to implicate him, as it's unlikely Crane would keep those photos there.
- Part of this is Jossed in episode 3, Crane admits that that he took the photos and that they are his, but he didn't kill anyone. Which makes sense, room 207 was his private room and not even Beauty's master key could open the door to the room. Clearly Crane didn't bother to hide the photos because he didn't think anyone besides him and Lily would enter room 207.
- Bluebeard is a likely candidate in this case, since he's trying to make a power play and get Crane's job.
- Confirmed
- When investigating the room, you find that the killer smokes the same brand of cigarettes as Bigby (which Beauty notes, because she thought he was the only one who smoked them, implying it's at least somewhat common knowledge), and nearly everyone can see that he's sweet on Snow. Obviously the fact that he was at the bar at the time Lily's head was dumped on the doorstep means he wasn't the killer, but not everyone likes Bigby, so they'd probably be willing to ignore his protests to that unless someone vouches for him.
- Crane is a complete douche to Snow in the first episode, yet the killer seems almost obsessed with her (which reminds me, the killer would need a glamour to disguise himself as Crane, and he may be using the same type of black market glamour used on Lily - maybe someone should go back and compare the models for Crane seen throughout the two episodes, see if there are small differences).
- Jossed, Crane admits in episode 3 that the photos are his and that he took them, the only thing he didn't do was kill Lily.
- But it has been established in the comics that Crane was obsessed with Snow in the comics and was part of the reason he left Fable town. I doubt he is the killer, but the real killer probably knew of his Snow fetish and is using it to frame him.
- Sort of as an continuation on the Crane line of thought - it's fairly likely he's been posing as Crane (who seems to take an awful lot of time away from work anyway), because it would allow him to get ahold of Snow's hair and her perfume, and was the one who broke the mirror.
- Thinking about it, this is a killer that could potentially literally be anyone; an interaction with a character thought to be a friend could be an interaction with the killer in disguise, who could use that against you in a later episode.
- Confirmed.
- Actually, Mr. Toad does have a small role in the comics. He shows up for a bit during the "March of the Wooden Soldiers" arc.
- Jossed. He is sent to The Farm at the end.
- Jossed.
- It's also been shown in Episode 1, and 3. In the book of artifacts that you identify Faith's royal seal with, and the book that is in Crane's desk Which was where he got the page about the Ring of Dispel from.
- Jossed. The ribbons are the cause.
- Jossed
- Bigby is the only Fable that is banned from entering The Farm due to his past interactions with most of the animal fables.
- Since he's still around in issue #1 of Fables and he never mentions dying, this is unlikely.
- Jossed.
- Since he's still around in issue #1 of Fables and he never mentions dying, this is unlikely.
- Jossed: In Episode 3, he goes full wolf-man.
- Most likely she was referring to Beast.
- As neat as this theory is, it's Jossed.
- That's what they took from his room in episode 1. Whether it was stolen or hocked to help pay off his debts to the Crooked Man is up in the air.
- Unconfirmed. It's unlikely, but not completely ruled out.
From what little we've seen of and heard about him, it's clear that the Crooked Man is an influential Fable, but Bloody Mary drops a not so subtle hint that there's someone even more powerful than him when she says "Long live the Queen." And the killer's M.O. matches the Queen's most defining character trait: When she orders her guards to execute someone by chopping off their head.
- Jossed.
- "Long live the Queen" was probably just a comment on Snow taking over Crane's job running Fabletown in the mayor's absence.
- After all, anyone who read the comics knows what the Adversary did with a similar tree. Nothing good can come of it.
- Jossed. Burning down the tree makes getting the support of the townspeople during The Crooked Man's trial a lot harder.
- Everything about the guy just screams Ungrateful Bastard.
- Yup.
- Jossed.
- Bloody Mary is already in the story, so why not Slender Man, Username 666, Jeff The Killer, Leatherface or Norman Bates?
- Probably Jossed. Bloody Mary is folklore. The Slender Man and Username 666 are internet creepypasta memes. Leatherface and Norman Bates are characters from two separate licensed movie franchises.
- What about V. Frankenstein, Dracular, Van Helsing, Dante, Virgil, Dr. Hyde,...
- Jossed.
- Just a thought since usually, more arrogant villains have breakdowns than those who aren't.
- Jossed.
- The Tweedles are actually telling the truth when they claim that they're on Bigby's side. While the Crooked Man is a sick bastard, killing his victims cuts into his profits. The reason why he's so calm about Bigby's arrival into his domain is that he wants Bigby to help him track down the real killer.
- Half-Confirmed. He's not the murderer, but he did order their deaths.
- Or maybe not.
- Half-Confirmed. He's not the murderer, but he did order their deaths.
- Both Faith and Nerissa have asked Bigby what he thinks of their ribbons completely out of the blue. Perhaps giving a certain response allows the ribbons to be safely removed.
- Jossed
- Ok, say in Episode 5 Bibgy or someone else manages to kill Bloody Mary. Then what? It's a well know fact that Fables can come back from the dead if their story is known well enough. Since Bloody Mary is a popular urban legend, she won't be dead for long. If she does die, she might come back faster than most other Fables. Then again, she doesn't appear in the comics.
- Jossed. Not even she and 100 clones can stand up to Bigby in Full Wolf Form.
- One of the episode 5 achievements is called "The North Wind Blows". He will also use his true giant wolf form for added awesomeness.
- Half-confirmed as of Episode 5: He does do it, and in his wolf form too, but he does it to Bloody Mary not the Crooked Man.
- The reason that episode 4 is called 'In Sheep's Clothing' is a reference towards Tiny Tim, the most improbable character to commit somenthing horrible. The logic behind that is how someone got hurt jumping the fence when putting Faith's head in the Woodlands. Of all people that could find this task most difficult would be Tiny Tim with his bad leg.
- That said though It could just be a reference of how EVERYONE in Fabletown is involved into the Crooked Man business
- Jossed.
- That said though It could just be a reference of how EVERYONE in Fabletown is involved into the Crooked Man business
- Bloody Mary seemed REALLY satisfied when Bigby turned to his Wolfman form in episode 3, and in episode 5 she'll likely provoke him into doing it again. Seeing as Bigby is less in control of his himself when he's in Wolfman form, she may even try to... Couple with him.
- Ah yes, I remember the last time I declared my attraction for someone by shooting them in the gut and breaking their arm.
- More like, "I'm the new badass in town", as seen in Episode 5.
- Jossed. Thank God.
- Not exactly jossed, it wasn't confirmed or denied at the very least. While she never explicitly stated an attraction for him, she did seem to have some level of deep respect for what he was before mellowing out by becoming Fabletown's sheriff. Who knows, maybe with someone like her that's as attractive as anyone can be to her.
- Ah yes, I remember the last time I declared my attraction for someone by shooting them in the gut and breaking their arm.
- The ending seems to indicate that Faith was already dead when he was going to Toad's to deal with Woody. That was Nerissa glamored to look like Faith. She had to attract Bigby, butter him up, so that he would be shocked about Faith's death, instead of being some Fable hooker who got offed. Nerissa then planted the head afterward.
- More than just the ending suggests this. Gren and Holly complain to Bigby at one point that Lily had been missing for weeks. If Lily and Faith were both killed at the same time, as Nerissa stated at the end when she told Bigby she'd lied about the Crooked Man being the killer, then it would be impossible for Faith to have been working weeks after her death.
- In addition, it's established that Fables come back if people remember their story. The Little Mermaid is one of the more well-known fairy tales. Donkeyskin is not. So Nerissa, the titular Little Mermaid, would have essentially respawned almost immediately.
- The other popular theory about the game's Twist Ending. The evidence? Firstly, it would make much more sense as the dramatic reveal at the ultimate climax of five full-length episodes. Secondly, various lines of dialogue from the flashbacks seem to imply this, i.e. the line from Swinehart about Faith's head. Why would that be shown if this wasn't the twist?
- The Tweedles are not in the comics, so I assume that Dee's wound went untreated and he bled out. In the comics, Jersey is said to have been sent to the Golden Boughs Retirement Village, which is essentially the Fables' version of prison.
- It's established that Fables can only become Deader than Dead if their stories are forgotten (or if they're thrown down the Witching Well). Georgie is from a well-known nursery rhyme, Bloody Mary is a notorious Urban Legend, and the Tweedles come from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a very famous work of literature. They'll be hard to keep down. If you believe that Faith switched places with Nerissa with the use of glamours, as the ending seems to imply, then Nerissa counts as well, as The Little Mermaid is also a very well-known story.
- That last part might get a bit...Fridge Horror-y when you remember this is set in 1986. The movie that would have brought the tale to the masses' attention didn't come out until 1989.
- While that story wasn't quite as well known before the 1989 version came out, it was hardly as obscure a fairy tale as, say, Donkeyskin. In the twenty years before the setting of the game, there were at least five different films that included the story (or at least the character).
- That last part might get a bit...Fridge Horror-y when you remember this is set in 1986. The movie that would have brought the tale to the masses' attention didn't come out until 1989.
- Mary’s a nigh indestructible, batshit psycho, but she’s not an idiot. During her fight with the Big Bad Wolf, she realized it was time to fold, so she ran off while one of her clones distracted the wolf.
- Seconded. I seem to recall a bunch of the clones bolting out the door, presumably to find higher ground, as soon as Bigby goes full One-Winged Angel.
- Even if Bigby did kill her, she's a popular fable and there's no mention of scooping up whats left of her and throwing her into the witching well. It might take her a while, but regeneration is certainly not out of the question (especially if one of her allies gathered her pieces together).
- As suspicious as he is, the only actual evidence that he did it was the word of Georgie, who has both a history of lying and reason to lie about it.
- Jossed, then unconfirmed. In the trial scene of Episode 5, Nerissa states that she and several other girls heard the Crooked Man order Lily and Faith's deaths. However, in the epilogue, she states that Georgie was the one who told her about the deaths, not the Crooked Man. Whether or not he ordered them is unknown.
- Bigby isn't terribly sympathetic towards Beast and Beauty's irresponsible insistence on trying to sustain the "life they're accustomed to" when they're living in the mundie world now, especially with some fables living on the poverty line or worse. But it's not just that they're both irresponsible and shallow, but a sad case of Poor Communication Kills. From what Beast says about giving Beauty "the kind of life she deserves" and how quick he is to believe that she's cheating on him with Bigby in episode 2, he's probably mortally afraid of Beauty leaving him if he can't keep her living the kind of life he provided for her back in the homeland, not grasping that it's him she truly loves (he seems to be insecure about his own worth, possibly still finding it hard to believe that she could really love "a beast"). Meanwhile, Beauty doesn't disabuse him of this notion because she thinks it's the way HE wants to live, knowing him to be a proud individual and loving him too much to want to upset him. So with both of them thinking they need to live extravagantly to keep the other one happy, they obliviously get themselves in hock to the Crooked Man and unfortunately drive a rift between them when Beauty secretly finds work to help pay him back. A pair of fools in love...
- Aunty Greenleaf admits that she prefers a child disguise because "it works," and she keeps a picture of her and Rachel, presumably for the sake of appearances. But an angry Greenleaf does rant on how much she hates being the old woman who has to "watch everyone she loves die." Perhaps, in the Homelands, there was a Rachel in Greenleaf's life who she cared for, but tragically lost.
- According to Aunty Greenleaf's entry in the Book of Fables, there is a rumour that Greenleaf had a daughter she lost in the Homelands.
Now, during the funeral for Lily, he writes a message on a card saying how much he'll miss her. And when he confronts Woodsman about his affair with Lily, he is absolutely furious with him. Did he view it one of his few friends betraying another friend, or was it a lover's jealousy?
Did his feelings emerge after an initial platonic relationship with one of the sisters? Was he just waiting for the right moment to confess his feelings to one of them?