The Golden Goose

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* Dark

**The Golden Goose** is the fifth episode of the second 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.

* Dimwit
* Golden Goose
* Dimwit's Mother
* Dimwit's Father
* Bestboy
* Smartypants
* Little Old Man
* The King
* The Princess
* Unquenched Man
* Fatso

## Plot

### Light Version

A father sends his three sons to go a chop some wood, with Samrtpants and Bestboy having the better food over their younger brother. As they enter the woods, they all meet a peculiar small old man asking for food, the two older brothers ignore the man and move on as the younger brother stops and shares half his food. As a result of his kind actions, he is told to cut down an old tree baring rewards as his brother's selfishness bring bad luck, killing both of them. After Dimwit cuts down the tree, he finds a golden goose at the roots and takes it to town. Curious women attempt to steal the goose but as soon as they touch the goose, they become stuck to the feathers, more people also follow suit. As Dimwit takes the goose about, it catches the eye of the princess who laughs at the sight of people being dragged about by the giant goose, she pleas her father to marry him but he finds Dimwit beneath them. The King is eventually pressured by his daughter and allows them to get married, as long as Dimwit fulfils three tasks. The first task is to find a man who can drink an entire cellar full of wine, the second; find a man who can eat a mountain of bread. And finally, find a ship that can sail on land and sea. For the first task, Dimwit goes to the forest and finds a man who's thirst cannot be quenched. He takes the Unquenched Man back to the castle and leaves him to drink all the wine. For the second task, Dimwit finds a giant floating head in the forest and takes him to "Mount Bread", the floating head claims to have a "big stomach" and eats the mountain. For the third task, Dimwit meets the little old man again, who provides a unique ship. After all this, Dimwit returns and marries the Princess. However, after the wedding, The King became ill and dies, Dimwit then inherits all The King's fortune and the kingdom, now as king himself.

### Dark Version

A Father is disappointed in his sons and forces them to go off into the forest to cut down wood, else they will get no food. The brothers are annoyed with their father and beat him up before murdering him with a hatchet. A mean spirted dwarf meets the brothers and demands food, or else, the brother don't give their food over and beat the little old man up, however, with the dwarf threatens Dimwit he gives some food over, which the old man appreciates and helps Dimwit. Dimwit then finds that his brothers had mutilated themselves with the axes, he passes by them to cut down the tree the old dwarf told him to cut down. Under it is a large golden goose, which Dimwit takes into town, only for people to get stuck to its feathers and taken by the goose. The Princess witnesses this and finds it hilarious, as well as a great way to control the population, begging her father for her to marry Dimwit so she can have his children and make use of the goose. The King is hesitant and but allows it if he commits to three tests. The first task is to find a man who can drink an entire cellar full of wine, the second; find a man who can eat a mountain of bread. And finally, find a ship that can sail on land and sea. For the first task, Dimwit finds a man who's thirst cannot be quenched. He takes the Unquenched Man back to the castle and gets him to drink all the wine before the two drown in it. For the second task, Dimwit finds finds a giant floating head in the forest and takes him to "Mount Bread", he insults the giant head and tells him to eat fast, which the head does so, killing all the Gingerbread People who lived there. For the final task, Dimwit finds a ship and delivers it, there he weds the Princess on the boat. The King has a change of thought, acknowledging his dim-witted son in law and lunatic daughter, fearing for the "spawn" they'll have. So The King decides to end his own bloodline by getting the giant Golden Goose to stomp on the ship, killing everyone on board, ending the royal line.

## Levels

### Scene 1

At the family home, Grimm feels as if the father is a lazy coward, sending his children out to do all the manual labour and as such decides to make them more angry and aggressive.

### Scene 2

In the forest, Grimm first navigates to Dimwit and the Old Man, converting them both which opens a new pathway. Passing by the dead/dying brothers, Grimm makes it to the large old tree where he converts all the branches, helping the Golden Goose escape and Dimwit in tearing down the tree.

### Scene 3

In the town square, Grimm goes all around, converting the people and animals so they, almost magnetically get attracted to the Golden Goose. After he's done with the people he converts the Goose and causes it to land by the King.

### Scene 4

Here, Grimm is in the wine cellar, as he intentionally floods the place only to need to travel upwards and away to safety, breaking more pipes and flooding the cellar more.

### Scene 5

At Mount Bread, Grimm is forced to run all the way to the top to escape the Giant head and prevent being eaten. Grim does so, but is eaten, so he farts inside the head's mouth and it spits him back out.

### Scene 6

Set on the boat, Grimm makes his way from the bottom all way to the top to convert the Goose into "Goosezilla". However, strong winds hinder Grimm's mission, not that it didn't stop him. Goosezilla then destroyed the boat.