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{{quote| ''When the little girl opened the door of her grandmother's house she saw that there was somebody in bed with a nightcap and nightgown on. She had approached no nearer than twenty-five feet from the bed when she saw that it was not her grandmother but the wolf, for even in a nightcap a wolf does not look any more like your grandmother than [[Metro Goldwyn Mayer|the Metro-Goldwyn lion]] looks like [[Calvin Coolidge]]. So the little girl [[Briefcase Blaster|took an automatic out of her basket]] and [[Boom! Headshot!|shot the wolf dead]].''}}
 
{{quote| ''([[Spoof Aesop|Moral]]: It is not so easy to fool little girls nowadays as it used to be.)''}}
 
{{quote| '''"[http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/quotes/picnicba.html The Little Girl And The Wolf]"''', ''by [[James Thurber]]''}}
 
In her original fairytale incarnation, [[Little Red Riding Hood]] was a naive, helpless little girl who was at the mercy of [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|a vicious predator]]. The story has become so ingrained into Western culture that any time we see a little girl dressed in a red hooded coat on television, [[Little Dead Riding Hood|it is reasonable to expect that something terrible is going to happen to her]].
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== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Roald Dahl]]'s retelling from ''Revolting Rhymes'':
{{quote| The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.<br />
She whips a pistol from her knickers. }}
* The very earliest versions of the folktale didn't include the hunter, killed the grandmother off for real, but had Red Riding Hood escape the wolf by herself. Perhaps we have a [[Cyclic Trope]] on our hands?
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* A similar take on the Riding Hood story is created in the finale of [[Sy Fy]]'s ''Faceoff''. One of the final character makeups is a werewolf huntress in a red cloak based directly on the fairytale (as required by the competition).
* Played with in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', when Buffy dresses up as Little Red Riding Hood for Halloween.
{{quote| '''Xander:''' (wolf-like) What you got in the basket, little girl?<br />
'''Buffy:''' Weapons.<br />
'''Xander:''' Oh. }}
* Red Riding Hood and her Granny in ''[[Once Upon a Time (TV series)|Once Upon a Time]]'' are scary in a fight (Granny packs a crossbow), {{spoiler|and that's even ''without'' the family lycanthropy curse kicking in. }}
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