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* [[Badass Longcoat]]: {{spoiler|Scarlet's wolf}}
* [[Bald of Evil]]: {{spoiler|Carmen's wolf}}
* [[Be a Whore
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Grandma puts it best: "Wolves lurk in every guise... the sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth."
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: {{spoiler|Ruby's wolf}}
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* [[Darkness Equals Death]]: Subverted. Grandmother's house has limited lighting (and is associated with darkness) but is safe. After the wolf encounter, the rooms are more brightly lit even if they are a bit more hazy or blurred. The only exception is standing still after the wolf encounter, which darkens the view but isn't otherwise dangerous.
* [[Dark Reprise]]: In {{spoiler|Rose's version of Grandma's house}}, you can hear her nervously singing to herself the safe song that plays when you're on the path.
* [[Death
** {{spoiler|This is almost certainly true. [[Word of God]] says that each wolf represents temptation as much as it does death.}}
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Ruby seems to be this. “A scarecrow. And no birds. Efficient! Wish I had one to keep the idiots away.”
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* [[Environmental Symbolism]]
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Ginger's wolf, the Girl in Red, is the counterpart to the Girl in White. Her foreground overlay is even rendered upside down.
* [[Expy]]: Several. Ginger is modeled after a young [[Natalie Portman]], Rose's hair is a variant on [[Serial Experiments Lain|Lain's hair]], and Ruby bears a striking resemblance to ''[[
** Not to mention that the Girl in White is explicitly based on the deaf-mute princess from a previous video game project they worked on.
*** Also note her resemblance to designer Auriea Harvey at age 8, shown [http://grandmothers-house.net/rose.html here] (scroll down).
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* [[Granny Classic]]: If the girl's livejournals are good indicators, Grandmother is your classic old lady figure. She even gave Robin her treasured red hooded coat.
* [[Grimmification]]: [[Little Red Riding Hood]] darkened and modernized.
* [[Growing Up Sucks]]: {{spoiler|A common interpretation of the game. The [[Little Red Riding Hood|original story]] has been interpreted by some to be about puberty. In the case of each girl, they more or less are taught a "life lesson" by their wolf before they reach Grandma's house. And at the end of their "path" (or life) [[We Are
** It seems to be the general view that Ginger has, believing Scarlet to be proof that growing up makes you boring and uptight.
* [[Harmful to Minors]]: {{spoiler|Poor Robin.}}
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* [[I Coulda Been a Contender]]: It's implied that Scarlet had to give up her dreams of being a pianist to take care of her family.
* [[Idle Animation]]: Each girl has their own; you can even swivel the camera around and watch them.
* [[Ignoring
* [[I Just Want to Be Loved]]: Carmen and Scarlet, although the latter is willing to take the secret of her loneliness with her to the grave.
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Ruby
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* [[Les Yay]]: {{spoiler|Ginger and her wolf.}}
** In Carmen's livejournal she states that if she were a man, and if Ruby wasn't related to her, she could see herself "liking" Ruby. And in one of Scarlet's entries, Carmen leaves a comment about enjoying feeling heat on her skin and Ruby comments that Carmen has "a beautiful body that is a pleasure to look at, I'm sure".
* [[Light Is Not Good]] / [[A Light in
* [[Little Dead Riding Hood]]
* [[Looks Like She Is Enjoying It]]: In Grandmother's house for {{spoiler|Carmen}} there are the sounds of saws and chopping, as well as someone moaning. It's either the sound of Grandmother in pain or {{spoiler|Carmen mid-coitus - consensual or not.}}
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* [[Scary Black Man]]: Though it's hard to tell in-game, [http://tale-of-tales.com/ThePath/blog/2010/03/23/the-making-of-woodsman-wolf/ The woodsman] is black.
* [[Sexy Walk]]: Carmen tries to pull it off.
* [[Shout
** Shares more than a little in common with ''[[The Company of Wolves]]''.
* [[Shrug of God]]: In [http://tale-of-tales.com/ThePath/blog/2010/03/27/the-making-of-cloud-wolf/ the creators discussion on Rose's wolf], they explain that they have no idea who or what he is, not even Rose. But she ''aspires'' to know.
* [[Sinister Scraping Sound]]
* [[Spirit Advisor]]: Possible interpretation of the Girl in White.
* [[Stay
* [[Surreal Horror]]: The woods, especially if it's night. And did we mention Grandma's house?
* [[The Ghost]]: The girls' mother.
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* [[Visual Innuendo]]: {{spoiler|After each girl's encounter with their wolf, they wake up with body language that suggests... ahem... [[Is That What They're Calling It Now?|rough treatment]]; they move sluggishly and limp across the bridge to Grandma's in a torrent of rain. Also, at least two of the wolf encounters seem somewhat sexualized. Carmen essentially seduces her wolf.}}
* [[Violation of Common Sense]]: The only way to proceed in the game is to do the opposite of what the game first tells you to do.
** And even then, with all the warnings that you can only complete the game by straying from the path, if you stay on the path and do what you're told multiple times, [[Anti
* [[What Could Have Been]]: Early working progress clips [http://tale-of-tales.com/ThePath/blog/2010/03/21/2-early-protoypes/ showed there was originally] going to be some kind of dancing game included involving the wolves.
** One of the early ideas was to make Rose and Ginger twins.
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