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By the hair on your chinny-chin-chin, I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in!
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~ Zeke Midas Wolf to the three pigs.
Zeke Midas Wolf, more commonly known across popular media as the Big Bad Wolf, is a anthropomorphic wolf of various Disney cartoons and comics who is the main antagonist of the Silly Symphonies short "The Three Little Pigs" and its sequels.
He was voiced by the late Billy Bletcher from 1933 to 1941, and is currently voiced by Jim Cummings. In "The Wonderful World of Mickey", he is voiced by Clancy Brown.
Zeke is a male anthropomorphic wolf with a plantigrade posture. He has black fur, a white muzzle, long arms and hind legs, white hand palms and feet with claws. He wears wide red trousers which are damaged and dirty and are held up by a pair of green suspenders; in the comics, he has blue overalls and a red cylinder instead. He also wears white gloves and a damaged, old blue top hat on his head. In Disney Parks, his fur appears to be brown, his pants are green held up with one red suspender with a red patch.
History[]
In "The Three Little Pigs", Zeke is first seen mouthwateringly observing Fifer and Fiddler Pig. He then attempts to catch the two pigs, but they both spot him in time and run off. Zeke chases down Fifer to his straw house and warns him that if he does not open the door, he will blow his house down. Fifer refuses and Zeke blows down his house until the house collapses, causing Fifer to run off to Fiddler's house. Zeke chases the pig down to the wooden house and pretends to give up, running off while disguising himself as a sheep. He then tries to convince the two pigs that he's merely a young sheep who wants someone to take care of him, but the pigs don't fall for his trick. Zeke throws off his disguise and blows down the wooden house. Fifer and Fiddler Pig then run off to the house of their brother, Practical Pig, while successfully knocking Zeke in a tree and giving themselves a headstart. Once at the brick house, Practical Pig lets his brothers in and locks the door. Zeke disguises himself as a salesman and tries to enter the house of the third pig, but he also sees through the wolf's disguise and keeps him outside, while hitting him three times with the brush. Now infuriated, Zeke tries to blow down the Practical Pig's house, but the stone house remains intact. After a few more attempts to blow the house down while also causing his suspenders to break and his pants to fall down, Zeke then tries to open the door. However, he fails at doing so due to the lock. The now naked wolf then tries to come up with a second plan and spots the chimney, jumping toward it while trying to make his way down. Meanwhile, Practical Pig sees how ashes from the chimney fall down and he fills up the boiling cauldron with turpentine. The wolf then drops down right into the cauldron and burns his lower. While screaming in pain, he jumps out of the chimney and runs off in the distance, leaving the pigs alone.
Zeke's second appearance was in the short "The Big Bad Wolf", where he tries to eat Red Riding Hood, her grandma and the Three Pigs. Unfortunately for Zeke, the pigs see through his fairy disguise and his attempt at catching them fails. When he goes to Red Riding Hood's house to eat her grandma, the old lady barely escapes from the fierce beast and locks herself into the closet. Zeke then dresses himself as the grandma, lies down in her bed and waits patiently for Red Riding Hood to arrive. Upon her arrival, she notices something different about her grandma and asks why her ears, eyes and mouth are much bigger than before. During the last question, Zeke attacks Red Riding Hood, who finds shelter with her grandma in the closet. Practical Pig and his brothers arrive just in time to stop the wolf, throwing hot popcorn down his pants. Once again, Zeke runs off with popcorn popping in his pants.
In "Three Little Wolves", Zeke is giving his three mischievous sons a lesson on the best parts of a pig to eat. Meanwhile, Practical Pig is building a Wolf Pacifier (patent not applied for), while Fifer and Fiddler Pig trick him by crying "Wolf" with the Wolf Alarm. Zeke Wolf dresses up as Bo Peep and tricks Fifer and Fiddler Pig into following his sons, who are dressed up as the lost sheep, and captures them. When they blow the Wolf Alarm, Practical Pig passes it off as another trick. Fifer and Fiddler trick Zeke Wolf into blowing it, which finally summons Practical, who brings along his Wolf Pacifier. He tricks Zeke into running into the Wolf Pacifier, which beats Zeke, then tars and feathers him, and finally fires him out of a cannon, while his sons rush to catch him.
In "The Practical Pig", the wolf disguises himself as a mermaid to trick Fiddler and Fifer when they go swimming and captures them. He brings them back to his home where his three sons are impatiently waiting for dinner. He tells his sons that they are not eating until they also have the Practical Pig and sets out to catch the Practical Pig. While he is outside, the Three Little Wolves prepare to eat Fifer and Fiddler, who are shocked that they are not listening to their father.
Big Bad Wolf disguises himself as a messenger and delivers a poorly written message to Practical Piggy. He is captured and placed on a lie detector, which scrubs his mouth with soap, slaps him, and hits him on the head when he lies. Back at the mill, Fifer and Fiddler escape when the Three Little Wolves use pepper to make them sneeze and run home. The big bad wolf finally tells the truth and is dispatched with a rocket.
House of Mouse[]
The Big Bad Wolf has made several appearances in the House of Mouse series. His most notable role was in the show's second episode, where he appeared as a popular jazz singer known as Big Bad Wolf Daddy (a parody of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy), with The Pigs providing the music for him (he had them under contract to say he would not eat while they play for him). The Bimbettes also seemed to like him as they sang along to his song, much to Gaston's chagrin. In the episode, it was revealed that the wolf's "huff and puff" reactions are activated by looking at the door and not the three pigs. His "inflating" would end up blowing up the House of Mouse (just like the last time he was there, according to Mickey).
In later episodes of House of Mouse, the wolf reverted to his more traditional appearance, with no mention of his role as Big Bad Wolf Daddy. In the episode "Pete's House of Villains"; replaced Horace in the control room. In the episode "House of Turkey", the wolf decides to leave the pigs alone all day because he would rather have a turkey, much to their relief. In the episode "Dining Goofy", Bambi growled hungrily.
Wolf also starred in a cartoon short for House of Mouse, based on his escapades in the comics. The wolf also had cameos in the show's compilation films, Mickey's House of Villains, where he joined a legion of villains and complied when Jafar had him activate the machine, staging the film's final act. He also appeared in Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at House of Mouse.
Mickey Mouse (2013)[]
The Big Bad Wolf in the episode "Sock Burglar" as one of the suspects interrogated by Minnie Mouse, here with a hungry look during the interrogation.
The Big Bad Wolf later appeared in "The Perfect Dream" as an annoying biker who disturbs Mickey's dream with the noise made by his ride. Eventually, Mickey turns the noise of Wolf's bike (as well as other noises that annoy him) into music to complete his dream.
The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse[]
The Big Bad Wolf appears in the episode "The Big Good Wolf", in which he moves into Mickey and Minnie's neighborhood and wreaks havoc. Mickey offers to fix the wolf by taking him across town to help others. The wolf agrees, but secretly uses this as an opportunity to eat everyone in town, including the Three Little Pigs, Minnie, Goofy, Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Pluto, Dumbo, Timothy Q. Mouse, Clarabelle Cow, and Horace Horsecollar, among other residents .
The wolf eventually invites Mickey to dinner as a cover to eat the mouse, but Mickey learns of the wolf's plans and frees the townspeople. The wolf tries to exact revenge by huffing and puffing Mickey into a fire to roast himself, but Mickey uses pepper to stop the wolf huffing and puffing, causing the wolf to sneeze in the sun. Even as Mickey laments his failure to reform the Big Bad Wolf, he and the other residents celebrate the wolf's "change of address".
Other Media[]
The Big Bad and the pigs appear in the animated opening of The Mickey Mouse Club TV series. He is tied up and pulled by pigs during the theme. At the end of the theme, he and the pigs are in a crowd of Disney characters gleefully tossing Mickey Mouse into the air.
He made two cameos in the film in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, first in Toontown and second in the final scene of the film with several other toons during which they talk about what Judge Doom really was and how the toons say what they are, they claim to be sheep. Here he is voiced by Tony Pope.
In Mickey's Christmas Carol, the wolf at the beginning of the film appeared as Santa Claus on a street corner and said "Merry Christmas!" to people passing by.
Relationships[]
His son is Li'l Bad Wolf, a wolf like his father in appearance, but animated by feeling quite the opposite: friendly and polite, Li'l Bad Wolf was indeed a great friend of the Pigs and the animals of the forest in general, and often helped them to take shelter from the clutches of the parent, much to the despair of the same old wolf that he wanted a fierce predator.
The Big Bad Wolf is the archenemy of The Three Little Pigs, as he despises them and want to eat them.
Trivia[]
The Big Bad Wolf is one of the few characters from the classic Disney shorts to have sons instead of nephews.
Despite having four sons, it's never explained if the Big Bad Wolf has any mate or even if he had his sons with different mates.
In the original stories of The Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood, the Big Bad Wolf was much more sinister and had no children nor wife. Three Little Wolves have their own book called The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig.
In traditional version of The Three Little Pigs, Big Bad Wolf succeeded in eating the first and second little pigs, except the third little pig who owns the brick house and lights a pot of water on the fireplace to prevent being eaten by the wolf and cooks him in the process to eat the meat for dinner.
An earlier version of The Three Little Pigs depicted Zeke wearing a human mask during his disguise as a Jewish salesman. However, the variation was removed after the outbreak of World War II, due to the anti-semitic stereotype. The trope is also a reference to the fact that eating pork is considered taboo by Jews in accordance with kosher regulations, hence why Zeke disguised himself as a Jewish peddler to make himself appear non-threatening to the three pigs.
A Zeke Midas Wolf-unnamed lookalike appeared in the Looney Tunes short film A Gander at Mother Goose. While he unsuccessfully destroyed the brick house, the little pigs gives him a bottle of histerine and takes a dose of the mouth rinse.
His design in Raw Toonage is based to his Universal Pictures counterpart Algernon Wolf from the short film The Hams That Couldn't Be Cured.
