Little Red Riding Hood/YMMV
- Crosses the Line Twice: Perrault kills off Grandma, then has Little Red tricked into becoming a cannibal, and then she too meets a gruesome end in the wolf's jaws. Sleep tight kids.
- Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory: There are lots of possible underlying meanings to the story, mostly to do with growing up and/or sex. The color of the girl's hood is usually given some significance -- even though subsequent collection of French folk tales found that it was a detail that Perrault added; the folk tales do not specify the color of the hood. A more likely symbol occurs in the regional variants that have her choose between a Path of Pins and a Path of Needles - girls learning to be young women were said to be "gathering pins," while needles had a definite sexual meaning (prostitutes would even indicate their profession by wearing needles in their sleeves).
- Fantastic Aesop: Don't talk to rapists or your grandmother will get eaten. Or something like that.
- Fetish: Though the original story was an Aesop against sexual promiscuity and the modern one is merely a child's fairy tale, provocatively dressed adult versions of Little Red have cropped up in pop culture. Sultry Red Riding Hood outfits are often a popular Halloween costume. An (un)surprising amount of naughty stories have also been written with the theme and/or motifs of Little Red Riding Hood.
- Freud Was Right: A common interpretation of the tale is as an Aesop about a young girl's burgeoning sexuality, with the wolf standing in as a sexually aggressive man. The red hood is often interpreted as representing menstruation, carnality, virginity, or sin in general.
- Older Than They Think: This story's origins are Even older than Perrault.