Big Bad Wolf

In a vision that comes to Ylfa, a voice says "Hot. Too hot to live. Turn around, face me again." NA E3·02:07:04 Brennan describes a wolf larger than the world falling away from her toward an endless, boiling sea NA E3·02:07:22. A card names it Big Bad Wolf, with the subtitle The Ending of the Story, from Little Red Riding Hood NA E3·02:07:24. The Wolf asks Ylfa whether she knows the four most important words, and when she answers "Once Upon a Time?" it says "I knew it was you." NA E3·02:08:40 NA E3·02:08:49

In the fourth episode the Wolf walks beside Ylfa on a forest path and greets her as Little Red Riding Hood, saying he is sorry she has died NA E4·01:27:15 NA E4·01:28:09. He says he comes for everyone in their time and intends to devour each being without malice or cruelty NA E4·01:31:02. Ylfa says he told her to kill him once and she complied, and that his gifts gave her survival without a reason to survive NA E4·01:29:28 NA E4·01:29:53. At the end he opens his mouth and drops blood that catches fire onto her cloak NA E4·01:46:04 NA E4·01:46:13. He tells her "This is a less kind story you now travel to" and is burned away NA E4·01:46:35 NA E4·01:46:44.

In the memory Ylfa's party watches in the ninth episode, the Wolf lies in the grandmother's bed towering over the cottage NA E9·00:54:05. He tells Ylfa "I've eaten her. She is in my stomach now." NA E9·00:55:21 As Ylfa starves waiting for the Woodsman, he tells her to split his skull with the ax and eat his flesh NA E9·00:57:03. He says "The Woodsman is not coming." NA E9·00:57:50 Ylfa does it, and the Wolf lays down his head as the ax falls NA E9·01:00:27. Turquina says the Wolf is death, endings, an old and powerful being whom the Authors changed in many tales, and that she believes he truly wished Ylfa to live NA E9·01:02:27.

In the tenth episode the party finds the Big Bad Wolf boiled in a massive cauldron of stew by the Baron of Bricks, who says he wants to boil him away so there will be no more death NA E10·01:00:08 NA E10·01:24:18. Brennan calls him death itself; he says "Huff and puff, little girl." and is chained, and Mother Goose's Healing Word connects her with something ancient and terrifying, on the same level as the Gander NA E10·00:58:47 NA E10·00:59:05 NA E10·01:07:48. Brennan says the wolf's heart changes from wanting to kill to realizing there is a friend in the room NA E10·01:22:05. When Pinocchio breaks the muzzle, the wolf grabs the Baron and devours him in a single bite NA E10·01:57:51 NA E10·01:58:19.

In the eleventh episode after Mother Goose casts Cure Wounds on him he flops down, says "Thank you.", and Brennan says he is now a dire wolf the size of a horse rather than house-sized NA E11·00:16:58 NA E11·00:17:38 NA E11·00:17:42 He says "I am Death and I am the Big Bad Wolf, and within the Neverafter, those things are the same." NA E11·01:03:01 He learns that Ylfa is named after her grandmother and asks whether her grandmother, too, devoured a little girl who used to walk through that forest NA E11·00:11:33 NA E11·00:11:36. He offers to take the party to Snowhold and to the Baba Yaga, whom he fears most, travels with them, says "I am hated in these lands, as I am in most lands.", and leaves to find a shorter road, vanishing over a mountain range NA E11·00:50:38 NA E11·00:51:04 NA E11·01:34:12 NA E11·01:36:25.

In the seventeenth episode the Golden Goose says the Wolf is with the Baba Yaga, and Ylfa feels another being's heartbeat in her chest and tracks him through Snowhold by his prints NA E17·01:16:48 NA E17·01:17:22 NA E17·01:43:39. In the eighteenth episode Brennan shows the rug in the Baba Yaga's house to be the Wolf's head; the Baba Yaga says he asked her to keep her house in one place until it could be found and that this was the price he paid NA E18·00:29:30 NA E18·00:30:17.

In the finale Emily has Ylfa leave behind the little girl and carry Gerard over her shoulder, Brennan says "The Big Bad Wolf appears.", and the screen shows Ylfa in her Big Bad Wolf form with Gerard's body on her back NA E20·02:08:10 NA E20·02:08:26 NA E20·02:08:37. At Murph's request as a last wish, the wolf gets the little orange hat NA E20·02:08:56. Earlier, Pib's dagger collapses the Authors' hand into ink NA E20·01:37:32. A voice Ylfa hears, labeled Big Bad Wolf, says "That's something we all have in common, people and stories, comes to an end." NA E20·01:38:13 In Emily's epilogue, as Ylfa leans in to kiss Pinocchio, Brennan says the Big Bad Wolf gives a thumbs up, puts on an orange hat, shoulders a sack and walks off into the sunset NA E20·02:37:44 NA E20·02:37:54.