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Not just any [[Big Badass Wolf]], but '''THE Big Bad Wolf'''. The one with the [[Three Little Pigs]], or [[Little Red Riding Hood]], or both.
When the Big Bad Wolf appears in works of fiction, there are usually some common themes included, such as his [[Child Eater|
Since this character is a common target of [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: When adding an example, please specify ''how'' '''the Big Bad Wolf''' is portrayed.
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* In ''[[The Woodsman]]'', 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.
* Max Cady repeatedly refers to himself as "the Big Bad Wolf" in the remake of ''[[Cape Fear]]''. This actually holds [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|some appeal]] for Sam Bowden's teenage daughter.
== [[Folk Lore]] ==▼
* ''The [[Three Little Pigs]]'' has the Big Bad Wolf.▼
* As does ''[[Little Red Riding Hood]]''.▼
* And ''[[The Wolf and The Seven Young Kids]]''.▼
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''The True Story of the Three Little Pigs'' 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's like seeing a cheeseburger lying around.
* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[
* In ''[[The Sisters Grimm]]'', 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.}}
=== [[
* A ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' 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.▼
** 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.▼
* In ''[[Supernatural (TV 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 tatoo gets [[Mind Control|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.}}
* It shows up in [[Charmed]], and is defeated when it swallows Piper whole, only for her to blow it up from the inside with her powers.
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* 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.
* A [[Monty Python]] sketch for German television, also seen in the film [[Monty Python Live At The Hollywood Bowl]] (1982) featured a low-budget version of [[Little Red Riding Hood]] where John Cleese plays Little Red Riding Hood and a little dog is used as the wolf.
* There was a skit in ''[[Captain Kangaroo]]'' where the Wolf, much like in the ''[[MAD]]'' example below, [[Drugs Are Bad|
▲* A ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' 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.
▲** 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.
== [[Music]] ==
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* The Green Jelly song "Three Little Pigs" updates the classic folk tale for modern times (to [[Crowning Moment of Funny|hilarious effect]]), but keeps the Big Bad Wolf as its [[Big Bad]].
* The hit single "Big Bad Wolf" by Duck Sauce, complete with a sample of wolf howling!
== [[Oral Tradition|Oral Tradition, Folklore, Myths and Legends]] ==
▲* ''The [[Three Little Pigs]]'' has the Big Bad Wolf.
▲* As does ''[[Little Red Riding Hood]]''.
▲* And ''[[The Wolf and The Seven Young Kids]]''.
== [[Theater]] ==
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