Little Red Riding Hood

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* Dark

**Little Red Riding Hood** is the second episode of the first season of American McGee's Grimm and is based on the fairy tale of the same name.

## Characters

**NOTE** This list only includes the characters that played an active role in the story and does not include side characters or Grimm.

* Little Red Riding Hood
* Little Red Riding Hood's Mother
* The Big Bad Wolf
* Little Red Riding Hood's Granny
* The Woodcutter

## Plot

### Light Version

Little Red Riding Hood's mother gives her daughter a set of instructions and basket full of food and wine for her elderly and ill grandmother. Little Red Riding Hood ends up ignoring some of the advice her mother gave and ends up meeting a wolf, the wold tells her to go a separate direction as it could act like a shortcut, which Little Red Riding Hood obeys, unaware that the wolf had tricked her and runs off ahead to eat her granny. Little Red Riding Hood spends her time wandering aimlessly and picking up flowers for her granny before going to the house. While there she notices her granny looks different, somehow unaware that it's the wolf in disguise. She is then devoured and meets her real granny in the belly of the beast, to their luck a woodcutter manages to encounter the wolf and sliced it open, where both granny and Little Red Riding Hood escape. The wolf is stitched back up and sent away, having learnt its lesson.

### Dark Version

Little Red Riding Hood's abusive mother demands that Little Red Riding Hood should go and check if her granny has died yet, although her mother hopes her daughter dies as well on the way. On the way she meets the wolf desires to eat her, but she snaps back against the wolf and walks away, but the wolf goes straight off to Granny's House after Little Red Riding Hood let it slip. Little Red Riding Hood goes by a cemetery to find flowers as Granny requires them before arriving at granny's house. She isn't please to see granny but notices something strange about her as she is eaten also. Both Little Red Riding Hood and her granny sit inside the belly of the wolf, both planning ways to escape, however, a woodcutter, who was tracking down the wolf for weeks, finds it and slices it open, saving both Little Red Riding Hood and her granny, killing the wolf in the process. After their escape, both Little Red Riding Hood and her granny argue about moving to the village, somewhere safe, however, Little Red Riding Hood's Granny doesn't want anything to do with Little Red Riding Hood's Mother and prefers to stay where she is, despite the danger, proclaiming she'll "die another day".

## Levels

### Scene 1

The first scene is incredibly short and is set in the small village, Grimm just needs to smash through both gates to move on.

### Scene 2

Grimm starts off on the outskirts of the forest but jumps across a river to the deep forest, where he witnesses Little Red Riding Hood speaking to the Big Bad Wolf. Grimm decides to make things more sinister and creates a large "wabbit" before moving on.

### Scene 3

Grimm ends up at the flower patch where Little Red Riding Hood is dawdling away, picking flowers with other small children. He transforms the flower patch into a cemetery and turns all the children into skeletons.

### Scene 4

Leaving the flower patch, Grimm darkens Granny's House, turning the place dark, killing all the caged birds and eventually getting devoured by the wolf.

### Scene 5

Inside the wolf, Grimm travels through its insides and must make it out. He assists in the wolf's butchery, getting it chopped up, pour more fluids which rises ever more to the surface and out of the beast.

### Scene 6

Now free, Grimm turns the woodcutter's workplace into a wolf slaughter house, with dead wolves everywhere and more vicious punishment for the wolf, gutting it and then burning the body.

## Trivia

* For some odd reason the Dark Theatre misses out the wolf's punishment at the end.
* American McGee had intensions at one point to create a game in the same vein as American McGee's Alice about Little Red Riding Hood, however, this never came to be.