Never trust this guy to house sit or look after your granny. The Big Bad Wolf is the archetypal villain of fairy tales.
Never trust this guy to house sit or look after your granny. The Big Bad Wolf is the archetypal villain of fairy tales, the go-to bogeyman for generations of cautionary stories including The Boy Who Cried Wolf, The Three Little Pigs, and most famously, Little Red Riding Hood. In a plot twist that defies both logic and digestion, his victims often emerge unscathed from his belly.
Never one to pass up a marketable miscreant, Disney adopted the Big Bad Wolf for their roster, even giving him a son named Lil' Bad Wolf. Modern retellings have attempted to rebrand this character as a misunderstood softie, a victim of anti-wolf propaganda. But let's be real – accidentally eating Grandma is a tough "oopsie" to come back from.