Three Billy Goats Gruff: Difference between revisions

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The youngest and smallest goat crosses the bridge first. (At this point, if reading to a small child, [[This Is the Part Where|it is traditional to say]] "trip trap, trip trap". Please imagine your own trip-trappings for the sake of efficiency.) The troll pops up and says; "Who's that trip-trapping over my bridge?"

 

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== [[Film]] ==

* In ''[[The Troll Hunter]]'', Hans ties three increasingly large billy goats to the top of a bridge as bait for a troll.

* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', the Gruffs are the Summer Court's, more specifically Titania's, elite wetworks assets, and they always operate in teams of three. Their primary duty is killing [[Smash Mook|trolls]] and in the [[The Verse|Dresdenverse]], trolls are ''tough'', even by the standards of the supernatural. Eldest Brother Gruff is capable of pimp-smacking fallen angels without breaking a sweat.

* [[Discworld]]'s trolls have [[Never Live It Down|a longstanding rivalry with goats]].

* "Troll Bridge", a short story by [[Neil Gaiman]], is a variation in which, instead of a succession of goats, there's a single human who twice manages to persuade the troll that if it lets him go, there'll be more of him to eat next time he crosses the bridge. The third encounter, of course, goes rather differently.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[The Elder Scrolls Four]] Oblivion'': An [[Easter Egg]] to be found is that one of the bridges in the game has a dead troll under it, with a rather pathetic note on its corpse, referencing this story.

* ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]'' also has it's own [[Easter Egg]] on the tale [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p95ESJG0Sr8 here.]

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

 

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