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The Three Little Pigs

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The Three Little Pigs	comment	"The Three Little Pigs" is a Talking Animals Fairy Tale/Fable that was written in the 1840s. The young pigs of the story's title move out of their mother's house to seek their fortune, but are hindered by the fact that there is The Big Bad Wolf out there with intentions of eating them. The first little pig builds his house out of straw, but the wolf blows it down and eats him. The second little pig builds his house out of sticks and meets the same fate. The third pig, however, being the brains of the outfit, builds his house out of bricks, which the wolf cannot blow down. The wolf makes several attempts to trick the pig into coming out of the house, but fails each time. Finally, he tries going down the pig's chimney, but is cooked in a pot that the pig puts there, and ends up eaten by the third pig himself, though several adaptations have the first two pigs escaping safely from the wolf and hiding inside the third pig's house.Among the many retellings that have been made of the story, perhaps the best known is Walt Disney's 1933 cartoon version. Activision also created a game based on the story called Oink!Various versions of "The Three Little Pigs" and related tales can be read here.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_5b7e0d2d	comment	Go Fetch: In the original Joseph Jacobs version, the third pig is accidentally caught climbing down an apple tree by the wolf and manages to escape by making the latter chase after an apple.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_614d9a06	type	Brainy Pig
The Three Little Pigs / int_614d9a06	comment	Brainy Pig: Averted for the pigs who make their houses out of straw and sticks, and some adaptations will have them be straight-up stupid, inverting the trope. The pig who builds the brick house is definitely the most sensible, so he's at least a downplayed example, but some adaptations play it straight and have him be smart and strategic.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_6ce4c7b0	type	Ascended to Carnivorism
The Three Little Pigs / int_6ce4c7b0	comment	Ascended to Carnivorism: In the Joseph Jacobs version, the third little pig eats the wolf. Pigs are technically omnivores, but they are a prey item to wolves.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_71ff7f0d	type	Cooked to Death
The Three Little Pigs / int_71ff7f0d	comment	Cooked to Death: The third pig finally defeats the wolf by placing a pot of boiling water in the fireplace while the wolf is making a chimney entrance, thus boiling the wolf to death (or, in most Bowdlerized versions, causing him to just have his tail burnt). There are several versions in which the pig then spontaneously eats the wolf.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
The Three Little Pigs / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Most versions omit the deaths of the first two pigs (generally by having them run to the next pig's house) and the wolf at the end of the story.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_8a9eb844	type	Perspective Flip
The Three Little Pigs / int_8a9eb844	comment	Perspective Flip: A popular way to make this story into a Fractured Fairy Tale: The popular children's book The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, narrated by the wolf. There also was a Looney Tunes cartoon told from the wolf's perspective. And an earlier one set to Johannes Brahms' Hungarian Dances. Finally, there's The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig, a book that takes this to the logical extreme, pitting three little wolves against a bullying, vandalizing pig. They wind up becoming friends in the end.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_8c74d8b6	type	Super-Breath
The Three Little Pigs / int_8c74d8b6	comment	Super-Breath: The wolf easily "huffs and puffs" and blows down the house of straw and the house of sticks of the first two pigs. The house of bricks of the third pig, on the other hand, is another thing...
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The Three Little Pigs / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
The Three Little Pigs / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: The wolf gets himself killed in his attempts to eat the pigs, and in Joseph Jacobs' tale it is him that gets eaten in the end.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_91ba819e	type	Chimney Entry
The Three Little Pigs / int_91ba819e	comment	Chimney Entry: The Wolf in the end tries to enter the brick house like this, unintentionally falling into a cauldron full of boiling water that the pig had left at the bottom for him.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_a68d74b1	type	Pain-Powered Leap
The Three Little Pigs / int_a68d74b1	comment	Pain-Powered Leap: In tamer versions, upon landing in the pot in the fireplace, the Wolf bounces back up the chimney in pain rather than being cooked.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
The Three Little Pigs / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: Presumably the reason there are three little pigs.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_aa30e350	type	Sole Survivor
The Three Little Pigs / int_aa30e350	comment	Sole Survivor: The third pig is the only pig that lives to see another day in the original fable. Later adaptations avert this by sparing the lives of the first two pigs.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_ab497c22	type	Predators Are Mean
The Three Little Pigs / int_ab497c22	comment	Predators Are Mean: There's a reason why he's called the Big Bad Wolf. This wolf wants nothing more than to kill and eat three pigs, terrorizing them and destroying their homes in the process.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_abcb9af1	type	Eaten Alive
The Three Little Pigs / int_abcb9af1	comment	Eaten Alive: In some versions of the story, the first two pigs get devoured by the wolf, though most modern retellings tend to have them successfully run away and hide at the next pig's house.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_b901ef97	type	Forgotten Fallen Friend
The Three Little Pigs / int_b901ef97	comment	Forgotten Fallen Friend: In versions where the first two pigs die, don't expect the third to care.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_d308cbb0	comment	Character Catchphrase: The iconic exchange between the wolf and the pigs:
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The Three Little Pigs / int_dc835463	comment	The Big Bad Wolf: One of the Trope Makers, along with "Little Red Riding Hood". The main antagonist is an evil wolf who tears down the nice pigs' houses to eat them alive.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_dd46397e	comment	Just Desserts: The third pig in Joseph Jacobs's version does not stop at boiling the wolf to death, but also eats him "for supper".
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The Three Little Pigs / int_e8497e34	type	Adaptation Species Change
The Three Little Pigs / int_e8497e34	comment	Adaptation Species Change: Earliest version of the story was originally about three pixies and a fox, instead of pigs and a wolf that are more well known from later versions.
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