Pinocchio

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**Pinocchio** is the fourth episode of the third and final 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.

* Pinocchio
* Geppetto
* Talking Cricket
* Fire Eater
* The Shifty Fox
* The Shifty Cat
* Blue Haired Fairy
* The Gorilla Judge
* The Master
* Dogfish

## Plot

### Light Version

A poor carpenter desperate for a son decides to craft one out of wood and it comes to life. Pinocchio gets picked on by some of the other kids but proves to have mouth on him, being rude and insulting them back. It turns out that Pinocchio gets an unlikely companion in the form of a walking talking cricket. The Talking Cricket tries to help Pinocchio out, giving him advice and teach him to be more respectful, however, Pinocchio doesn't listen to it and decides to go on an adventure. He takes some school books and goes to a circus owned by a man called "Fire Eater" where other puppets becomes jealous of Pinocchio, but he continues to act to earn money for his father. Later on, the Talking Cricket advises Pinocchio to avoid talking to some shifty animals, but he ignores the cricket after the two shifty animals persuade Pinocchio with mischief and money. However, the shifty fox and cat hand Pinocchio in a tree and leave him there with his only rescue being in the form of a blue haired fairy. Pinocchio, somehow, still believing the Fox and Cat's words, ends up planting money in the ground hoping it would "grow" but it's stolen by the fox and cat and Pinocchio eventually goes to court where he is told off by the judge despite pleading for his missing money. The judge not hearing any of it sends Pinocchio to jail. After getting out of jail, Pinocchio goes searching for the Blue Haired Fairy and ends up in a land called "Toyland" but despite searching and playing for months, only to find out the Blue Haired Fairy is dead. Pinocchio attempts to make his way back but sees children on a carriage being taken about by some donkeys wanting to stay in Toyland some more. The cricket, once again, advises Pinocchio to be careful and to see where his father's ended up. But Pinocchio snaps back and yells at the cricket, but while doing so he starts to eeyore and becomes a donkey himself. For a while Pinocchio is a donkey and becomes lame where he is dumped off at a beach where he is visited by man who wants to skin Pinocchio for his donkey skin. However, during the scrap, Pinocchio becomes a puppet again and attempts to swim away, but is eaten by a large shark known as "Dogfish". While inside, he is reunited with his father where is becomes sorrowful for his actions and behaviour and wishes to change, their fate seemingly unknown spending their lives in the belly of Dogfish..

### Dark Version

Under mysterious, dark circumstances, a carpenter managed to craft a boy out of wood that somehow came to life. The puppet is delinquent and is known to have murdered several people. Pinocchio is befriended by a Talking Cricket who tries to calm Pinocchio down and tries to make Pinocchio a better person. Pinocchio having none of it, kills the cricket by smashing him with a rock. Pinocchio later joins a circus and performs but is kicked out before meeting a shifty pair of animal. The Shifty Cat attempts to seduce Pinocchio to a life of crime while the fox claims it's a religious experience. Pinocchio joins the two but they hang him from a tree and attempt to burn him in an attempt to "exorcize the demon inside". However, Pinocchio is saved when the Shifty Cat is exploded by a blue ball, as the fox runs away, from the darkness is the Blue Haired Fairy who frees Pinocchio and claims he's a "psychological wreck and not a criminal" but she is killed by Pinocchio firing a laser from his mouth. Due to the attack by the fox and cat, Pinocchio loses his gold pieces and takes everyone to court blaming them and threatening death to all of them if he doesn't get them back. He slays several people but is then sentenced to jail by the Gorilla Judge. After being freed, Pinocchio goes to "Toyland" with a bunch of kids where he thinks his dark powers is what turned them into donkeys, but it seemed that this was false as Pinocchio himself becomes a donkey. As a donkey he wanders aimlessly to a beach where a man wants to chop him up and use him for a fire, but Pinocchio turns back to a puppet and murders The Master. Things get quickly worse as a large shark eats Pinocchio. Inside Dogfish, Pinocchio finds his father who is pleased to see that Pinocchio has embraced the dark side, Pinocchio is upset that he is trapped there because of his father's "plans" but his father is pleased and turns Pinocchio into a real boy before killing him and using him as a way to get out.

## Levels

### Scene 1

Grimm starts off in the homestead where Geppetto lives and is currently making Pinocchio. Grimm starts by converting all the Gnomes in the area to help Geppetto perform a satanic ritual to create Pinocchio. With the path open up, Grimm then targets Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket. Once converted, Pinocchio kills several people and the cricket before making his way to a wood cutter blocking the way. Pinocchio uses a bomb disguised as a piece of candy and blows up the wood cutter along with the gate.