Red Riding Hood

"My mother wanted me to choose between being a wolf and being a human. Granny did, too. You are the only person who ever thought it was okay for me to be both."

- Red Riding Hood to Snow White

"Red" Lucas, better known as Red Riding Hood, is a character on ABC's Once Upon a Time. She débuts in the first episode of the first season. She is portrayed by guest star Meghan Ory, and is the Enchanted Forest counterpart of Ruby.

Red Riding Hood is based on the titular character and the Wolf from the fairytale "Little Red Riding Hood", the Wolf from the composition "Peter and the Wolf", and on Rose-Red and is an allusion to the Bear from the fairytale "Snow-White and Rose-Red".

Trivia

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Etymology

 * Violet Roberts was the one who gave Red her nickname, due to the latter's cloak being red.
 * Red is one of very few Enchanted Forest characters to only be known by her nickname.

Character Notes

 * Red appears in the title card for "7:15 A.M.", "Red-Handed" and "Child of the Moon".
 * Red, like all werewolves, is immune to any weapon except silver while in the form of a werewolf.


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Lost

 * When Snow White and Red Riding Hood are looking for tracks in the woods, Red says that the one they're looking for will be, "Like, eight inches across". 8 is the second Lost number.


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Props Notes

 * In Henry's storybook, there is an illustration of Red Riding Hood from 1909, by the famous book illustrator Arthur Rackham.

Set Dressing

 * A small doll plushie of Red Riding Hood sits on the shelf of Emma's nursery in the Enchanted Forest.
 * In Henry's room, there are numerous faiytale illustrations, including several of Red Riding Hood:
 * "Little Red Riding Hood" (1875), by the artist and book illustrator Walter Crane.
 * An illustration from 1867 by Gustave Doré, which depicts a scene with Red Riding Hood in bed with the wolf. This illustration was created for Les Contes de Perrault, an 1867 edition of the seventeenth century French author Charles Perrault's fairy tales.
 * "Red Riding Hood", a watercolor painting by the freelance illustrator Medusa Lemieux, from the 2009 Student Scholarship Competition at the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design.
 * "Red Riding Hood meets old Father Wolf", from Gustave Dore's 1864 edition of Histoires ou contes du temps passé (Stories or Fairy Tales from Past Times with Morals), also known as Les Contes de ma Mère l'Oye (Mother Goose Tales), a collection of literary fairy tales written by Charles Perrault, first published in 1697.
 * When Emma and Neal are walking down the streets of New York to meet Tamara, the artwork Red Riding Hood by Russian artist Lora Zombie is on display in a store window.

Costume Notes

 * One of the fans at Isaac's book signing is dressed up as Red Riding Hood.

Appearances
Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.