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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|predation on children]], [[Predators Are Mean|pigs and innocent young women in red]], his knack [[Master of Disguise|for disguising himself]] (used to fool Little Red Riding Hood), and his [[Blow You Away|powerful lungs]] (used to destroy the two of the Three Little Pigs' houses).
Since this character is a common target of [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: When adding an example, please specify ''how'' '''the Big Bad Wolf''' is portrayed.
Please note that the character doesn't have to be either badass nor a wolf to fit this trope. Those are traditional characteristics of the character, but Alternate Character Interpretation can go quite far. Thus: Sometimes ''but far from always'' a [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Big Badass Wolf]].
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[[The Big Bad Wolf]] is ultimately the [[Trope Namer]] for [[Big Bad]].
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* He appeared in one commercial for Super Golden Crisp cereal. Fortunately for Red, she had Sugar Bear to help her deal with him this time. It's hard to find it these days, but you can [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyI60tn0V1w see it here] at the 4:34 point.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftTZZRAyjWM This commercial] for Honey Nut Cheerios. (Clearly, Red has a lot of friends among cereal mascots.) Incidentally, the Wolf's voice is done by [[Kelsey Grammer| Kelsey Grammer]] here, with Red played by a young [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Hope_Fletcher Carrie Fletcher].
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In the original ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', Leon had a card called "Forest Wolf" among his fairy-tale themed cards that was based on the wolf in the story of Little Red Riding Hood (and he had a card depicting her, too), dressed in a nightgown who could attack opposing monsters by swallowing them. But if it was destroyed, the opponent would get the monster back, symbolizing how the Huntsman in some versions were able to rescue its devoured victims by cutting him open. When Rebecca (his opponent) asked if it was the Big Bad Wolf, he replied, [[The Three Little Pigs|"That's another story."]] Being somewhat of an authority on fairy tales, [[Serious Business|he wasn't joking.]]
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Three Little Pigs (Disney film)|Disney has one version]] who is pathetic and always fails to get the three little pigs. His son, who is friends with the pigs, is ashamed of him.
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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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* ''[[Once Upon a Time (TV series)|Once Upon a Time]]'' reveals that {{spoiler|[[Little Red Riding Hood]] herself is actually the storied wolf. Her red cape is what keeps her wolf form at bay.}}
* 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|blames his smoking habit for failing to blow down the brick house.]]
▲== [[Magazine]] ==
▲* 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.
== [[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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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[The Path]]'' is an unusual indie art game that is a modern horror adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood. You play as six different girls, all with names that evoke the color red, and each girl has a [[Mind Screw]] encounter with a "wolf".
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has the Opera event in Karazhan, which sometimes tells the tale of Little Red Riding Hood. Here, he is specifically stated to be a worgen, [[Our Werebeasts Are Different| one of a playable race of lycanthropes.]] Looting the corpse will occasionally give a player the [https://www.wowhead.com/npc=71014/lil-bad-wolf Lil Bad Wolf] Battle Pet.
* ''[[The Witcher|The Witcher 3]]'', the Big Bad Wolf is one foe Geralt can encounter in the Land of a Thousand Fables; he's nursing a bad hangover, and has a French accent for some reason. As far as combat goes, he's much like the typical werewolf, {{spoiler| but rather than being vulnerable to cursed oil, he's vulnerable to beast oil, seeing as, unlike most werewolves, he was never human to begin with.}}
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Annyseed]]'' our Big Bad Wolf character is Count Tarrorviene. He seeks the blood of a younger vampire in order to release him from the trappings of his victorian blood machine.
* In ''[[Ever After (webcomic)|Ever After]]'', The Big Bad Wolf appears to be something similar to the ''[[Promethea]]'' one — a formless monster of pure fear, which may or may not exist mainly inside the head of the hopelessly-insane Red Riding Hood. ''Ever After'' has more-or-less stalled, but Big Bad and his pet [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw-wielding]] crazygirl have also put in a fairly major appearance in the still-progressing ''[[Sugar Bits]]''.
* The backstory for Kell's family in ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'' says The Big Bad Wolf was one of their ancestors - which made Kell's decision to marry Kevin horrendous in her family's eyes. Cue subplots about tolerance.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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** [[Flat What|What]].
** Also, he's actually one of the good guys, and is best friends with the pigs.
* In ''[[Harley Quinn (TV series)|Harley Quinn]]'' the Big Bad Wolf is one of many demonic versions of fairy tale creatures the Queen of Fables summons, although in this case it seems like little more than a mindless beast dressed in nightclothes.
* He appears as a villain in many ''[[Mighty Mouse]]'' cartoons:
** "Mighty Mouse and the Wolf", the hero saves Little Red Riding Hood, the Three Little Pigs, ''and'' a flock of sheep from him.
** Mother Goose's Birthday Party", the Wolf is the only one not invited to the titular party. The reason why becomes apparent when he crashes it to get even, but fortunately, Mighty Mouse shows up to deal with him.
** "The Retired Wolf"; he relates to an old friend how he had several [[Epic Fail]]s trying to steal sheep (having been foiled covertly by Mighty Mouse each time) and is now a vegetarian.
** It was ''probably'' him whom the hero opposed in "Mighty Mouse Meets Deadeye Dick", seeing as he was a wolf who was [[Disguised in Drag]].
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