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Hey it’s me Alora Pendrak, I’ve been going back over some classic fairy tales and I realized something, some fairy tale protagonists suck. Some of them even make the actual evil characters look better by comparison. Maybe it’s due to it being another time where cultural ideas were different or the fact the likes of Charles Perrault and the brothers Grimm tended to slap on morals at the end even if the story didn’t have one, but it’s interesting just how many stinkers got a happily ever after. These were the protagonists or side characters, I wanted to drop kick to the moon over and over again.

1. Beauty’s father; Beauty and the Beast

This guy is such a hypocrite he spoils his children rotten and then moans about how he wishes they weren’t so spoiled. Then goes out of his ways to break every hospitality law in the book by stealing the Beast’s Rose. Just because he had to get a rose for Beauty, even if his other children aren’t getting anything and if he doesn’t want to spoil them he shouldn’t of asked them what they wanted in the first place. He’s not as bad as other fairytale parents but this guy annoys me so much with his blatant favoritism but guess who gets to move into the palace at the end, Merchant you suck!

1. Molly from Molly Whuppie

I have a confession to make, Little Red Riding hood is my favorite fairy tale. In all of its forms cute and childish cartoons to the more adult 2011 Little Red Riding hood movie to the Play into the woods, to the various oral stories written down by different authors to modern rewrites.   Even before I was old enough to get the darker implications of the story there was just something chilling about a polite wolf who leads a little girl off the path with the intent to devour her and her sweet Granny.

While older versions of the story are more interested in what Red shouldn’t have done. As Charles Perrault himself puts at the end of his version of the story. “Moral; children especially attractive, well-bred young ladies, should never talk to strangers, for if they should do so, they may provide dinner for a wolf.” However in modern times we are far less interested in what rules were broken and ponder a much deeper question. Who exactly is the wolf?

The answer to this question depends entirely on the adaptation. The 2011 version really taps into this theme with the whole movie constantly playing with the audience. As Red riding hood is given reason to suspect almost everyone in her town of being the werewolf. I could honestly talk about who is the Wolf is in any one of the hundreds of adaptations of the tale.