You'd have to be pretty square to fall for this, it's one of the oldest tricks in the book.
This tale is a Fountain of Expies in various media. See also Little Dead Riding Hood, Little Red Fighting Hood, The Big Bad Wolf, and Red Riding Hood Replica.Advertising
- Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf appear in a commercial for Honey Nut Cheerios. The Big Bad Wolf is about to eat Little Red Riding Hood, but Buzz the Bee convinces him to eat a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios instead.
- McDonaldland: In the "Grimace in Storyland" commercial, when Grimace goes into Storyland, Ronald goes in after him to make sure he's safe. Ronald comes across Little Red Riding Hood and asks her "Did Grimace walk this way?", to which Little Red tells him "No, he walked this way!" while imitating Grimace's walk cycle.
- American Honda Presents DC Comics Supergirl: The Big Bad Wolf is stopped and beaten up by Supergirl when he was on his way to grandma's house.
- The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: In Chapter 82.5 (a collection of Fractured Fairy Tales), Kusuri plays Red Riding Hood, and initially thinks that her grandmother drank a "makes-you-wolf-like" drug before nearly getting eaten by the wolf.
- Date A Live has an episode where all the main protagonists become various fairy tale characters. The shy, sweet Yoshino becomes Little Red Riding Hood, who Shido finds in a brick house (It Makes Sense in Context) has brought a basket of goods for her grandmother, revealed to be the wolf... Who is promptly shot by Nia. Again, it makes sense in context.
- In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, when Ungalo's Bohemian Rhapsody brings stories to life, Weather Report rides a bus with Little Red Riding Hood besides him as a passenger while Anasui is attacked by an old man who was transformed into the Wolf.
- Smile PreCure!: In Episode 34 and the video game tie-in, as part of the fairytale fashion show, Yayoi dressed as Red Riding Hood.
- In the future of Kingdom Come, Roy Harper's daughter Lian takes on the heroic identity Red Hood. This is vehemently not meant to reference the first alias used by the Joker, but instead is a direct reference to Little Red Riding Hood.
- Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail: Chloe Cerise gets a motif of Red Riding Hood due to her signature color being read and she's into the Ars Goetia demon Marchosias, a fire-breathing wolf. She gains an artifact call the Cloak of Marchosias and Wepwawet which is essentially a red cloak with a wolf hood. She even calls herself "Chloe Red Riding Hood".
- My Little Pony: The Movie (1986): During their Establishing Character Moment, Reeka and Draggle were reading Little Red Riding Hood. They began to argue on which one of them would turn the page.
- In The Rugrats Movie, this exchange occurs when the babies discover the wolf's footprints:Chuckie: Gosh, it looks kinda like Spike's feet, only if he was a giant.
Phil: I saw feetprints like that in our storybook. A wolf made them, and then he ate that Little Red Riding girl.
Chuckie: The wolf ate a girl?
Phil: They got her out.
- Davy And The Goblin: Davy sees Red Riding Hood in chapter 7, who turns out to be the daughter of Robin Hood.
- Rainbow Magic: One of the Storybook Fairies, Ruth, protects Red Riding Hood and her story.
- St Elmo: In chapter 25, Hattie sees Lila Manning wearing scarlet clothes and calls her "Red Ridinghood".
- Sylvias Lovers: Chapter 8 mentions "Sylvia carried the basket, and looked like little red riding hood."
- In The Toy Castle episode appropriately titled "Little Red Riding Hood", the Ballerina puts on a show of Little Red Riding Hood, and ropes the Clown and the Goblin into being the wolf and the grandmother. However, neither of them want to cooperate, and the show quickly falls apart.
- Bear in the Big Blue House:
- In "The Great Pretender", when Ojo sees the red dusting cloth that Bear got in the mail, she uses it as a red hood so she can play "Ojo Red Riding Hood", with Treelo playing Red's Grandma.
- In "The Senseless Detectives", Shadow tells Bear the story of Little Red Riding Hood.
- Animal Restaurant: The Granny Wolf is a male wolf who wears a headscarf, a reference to the wolf from "Little Red Riding Hood".
- Doraemon 2: SOS! Otogi no Kuni has a stage set in the Red Riding Hood tale, with Shizuka playing Red. The stage ends with The Big Bad Wolf as its boss.
- In Infinite Craft, "Little Red Riding Hood" is a possible crafting recipe.
- In the Living Books adaptation of Arthur's Reading Race, on Page 3, Arthur reads Little Red Riding Hood to D.W., who tells him that even though she loves the story, it should have been called Little Pink Riding Hood, as she likes pink better than red. Upon hearing this, Arthur tells her that nobody's ever heard of Little Pink Riding Hood.
- Lonely Wolf Treat: Chapter 8 begins with Trick (a Little Bit Beastly wolf person) walking through the woods and bumping into a squirrel girl in a red cloak, who immediately mistakes them for a big bad wolf and runs back to her grandma, who threatens Trick with an axe until they leave.
- Monster Hunter (PC) have a stage titled "Red Riding Hood's Revenge" where all the enemies are werewolves.
- Mortal Kombat 11: A pre-fight intro between Baraka (a monstrous being with More Teeth than the Osmond Family) and Jacqui Briggs has them referencing the "Grandma, you have big teeth" line:Baraka: Speak your joke to my face.
Jacqui: Grandmother, what big teeth you have!
Baraka: My grandmother's were the biggest!
- Hark! A Vagrant: Red is unimpressed with "Grandma"'s attempts to get her to come closer. Not because she notices it's a wolf, but because old people annoy her.
- Garfield and Friends: One U.S. Acres segment is entitled "Little Red Riding Egg". In this segment, Orson films his own version of Little Red Riding Hood, with Sheldon in the role of the titular character, Booker in the role of The Woodsman, Roy in the role of The Wolf, and Wade in the role of Grandma. During the filming, Roy gets captured by The Fox, who tries to catch Booker and Sheldon. When Orson tells Wade that The Wolf is going to lock him in a closet, Wade stands up to The Fox, having mistaken him for the costumed Roy, at least until the real Roy shows up. Fortunately, Bo sends The Fox away in a go-kart.
- Rugrats (1991): In "Tommy's First Birthday", Stu and Drew put on a puppet show of Little Red Riding Hood for the babies when they substitute for the no-show puppeteers. Stu plays Little Red Riding Hood, and Drew plays the Wolf, but the two quickly begin to argue over how the lines go, leading to them to argue about stuff that happened many years ago, when they were children.
- Samurai Jack: In "Aku's Fairy Tales", Aku tells a Fractured Fairy Tale where he is Little Red Riding Hood who vaporizes the Wolf with Eye Beams.
- The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!: In "Little Red Riding Princess", Princess Toadstool is on her way to her grandmother's house to deliver a basket of food. When King Koopa sees Toadstool crossing the forest alone, he captures her grandmother and disguises himself as her as part of his plan to capture Toadstool. Toadstool and her grandmother are eventually rescued by Mario, Luigi, Toad, and the Big Bad Wolf.
- Unikitty!: In "Bedtime Stories", Unikitty and her friends use a machine to enter into a storybook to change the stories it contains. One of them happens to be Red Riding Hood where they save the titular character and fight the wolf.
- Wacky Races (1968): In "Idaho A-Go-Go", Dick Dastardly disguises himself as Little Red Riding Hood and tricks Penelope Pitstop into going off course by having her deliver a basket of cookies to Red's Grandma's house. He later disguises himself as Red's Grandma and Muttley as the Wolf. Penelope knocks both Muttley and Peter Perfect with a frying pan, and by the time Dastardly locks Penelope in the closet, the real Wolf comes in, kicks Dastardly out, and rescues Penelope.
