Flycatcher Flycatcher, or Prince Ambrose, and later King Ambrose, is based on the
Frog Prince and first appeared in
Fables #1 (July 2002).
Fables artist Mark Buckingham has stated that Flycatcher is his favorite character and also said that he is the only truly innocent character in the series.
Hope Hope is one of the great powers, belonging to the same group as
Mr. Dark and
The North Wind. Just like others of her kind, she has her own personal magic box artifact, her
Pandoran jar. The character, who is from the story of
Pandora and
Pandora's box, has appeared in several stories; she is the mysterious being who serves as an adviser to Snow White and
Rose Red, taking the form of
Colin Pig,
Boy Blue and Snow and Rose's mother (from
Snow White and Rose Red). Her true form is first seen, briefly, in an illustration for the
Rose Red story arc, when
Dunster Happ explains about the great powers. Earlier in the same story arc, Rose asks the spirit to show her true form, which it does, but the reader doesn't get to see what Rose sees. Hope's identity as the spirit is revealed in the final issue of the
Super Team story arc, where she explains to Rose Red that hope is neither destiny nor strategy, but that she tries to champion those who can direct their hopes into actions. Hope has several paladins working for her, including
Santa Claus,
The Little Match Girl, and the
false bride from the fairy tale
The Goose Girl.
The Devil(s) A group of Devils that
Jack Horner made a deal with to prolong his life in the
Jack of Fables story "Jack o' Lantern". According to the final issue of
Jack of Fables, they are all the Devil. •
Old Nick: An old hermit living in a swamp, Jack first ran into him during the
American Civil War, where Jack beat him in a game of cards. •
Old Scratch: A man with pointy ears who wears a carnival-like red suit. He is the same Devil as in the legend of
Stingy Jack. •
Pan: One of the gods of Ancient Greece, whose appearance (a man with two horns on his head and
hooves instead of feet) led some
Westerners to identify him with the Devil. He claims that he is the real Devil and that Old Scratch is "just an uncredentialed upstart in a badly stitched suit". •
Lucifer: The banished angel who became the Devil, he is described by Jack as being "poncy". Heavily based on the version of the Devil in
John Milton's epic
Paradise Lost. •
Chernobog: The devil from
Modest Mussorgsky's composition
Night on Bald Mountain. His home,
Bald Mountain, is identified as a place in the Fable
Homelands. Chernobog is eager to show off his nature as an embodiment of evil.
Red Riding Hood Red Riding Hood was one of the many Fables unable to escape the Homelands when the Adversary invaded, but unlike many of the Empire's subjects, she appears to have been spared of any violence and was allowed to live quietly in her cottage, where she would often remain undisturbed for long periods. Her peaceful life was occasionally disrupted by summons to the Warlock's Hall, where, unbeknownst to her, magical fetches of her were created, allowing another to take her form in order to infiltrate groups that were against the Adversary. An unnamed sorceress used her form to infiltrate the citadel at World's End during the Fables last stand in the Homelands, and during her stay she became romantically involved with Boy Blue. The sorceress's eventual fate is unknown. More recently, Baba Yaga used her form to infiltrate Fabletown in preparation for an invasion by the Adversary's Wooden Soldiers. Shortly after the incident, Boy Blue went on a covert mission in the Homelands, which eventually resulted in him finding the real Red Riding Hood. Despite her not being the version of Riding Hood that he had fallen in love with, Boy Blue brought her back to Fabletown in order to protect her from the Adversary's possible wrath. Upon arriving in the Mundane world, Red Riding Hood was meant with considerable animosity from the other Fables and was treated with undue hostility, due to Baba Yaga's previous assault on Fabletown. Upset by her cold reception and confused by the conventions of the modern world, Red latched onto Boy Blue for support, up until Blue was forced to leave for the Farm to serve his sentence there. She subsequently became close to Flycatcher, who was asked by Boy Blue to look after her while he was gone. She soon fell in love with him for his kind heart and thoughtful nature, though she had trouble expressing her love for him, and was often jealous when she thought pretty Fables were flirting with him. Red attended Bigby and Snow's wedding with Flycatcher, but she failed to recognize Bigby as her old foe, though she did admit that he looked oddly familiar. After returning, she ventured out into the mundane city to get a makeover, hoping to attract the attention of Fly. Her plan backfired when Flycatcher, shocked by her new appearance and intimidated by his attraction for her, ran away and reverted to his frog form. After Ambrose's humanity and memories were restored by Santa and the spirit of his deceased wife, he fell into a severe depression. At first, Riding Hood tried to be understanding of Flycatcher's state of mourning, checking in on him every so often to bring him food. However, after realizing Flycatcher was allowing himself to starve to death, Red scolds him for giving up on life and encourages him to take action rather than waste away. Red's message led Fly to start his journey through the Witching Well and to eventually form the Haven. During Flycatcher's heroic quest, Red Riding Hood, along with many of Fly's other friends, regularly watched Flycatcher's adventures through the magic mirror in the business office, which they dubbed "Fly T.V.". While everyone else watched Fly's journey with excitement, Red Riding Hood was wracked with anxiety and feared for Flycatcher's life, often bemoaning the amount of danger that Flycatcher often found himself in. She kept his favorite hat with her at all times, hoping to return it to him when his quest was over. After Fly's kingdom was established and became safe, Boy Blue brought Red along with him so she could move there. Upon arriving, she told Fly that she would fill in the roles of Royal Hostess and take on queenly responsibilities until Flycatcher could find himself a proper queen. The two continued to fall in love, though Flycatcher still denied his feelings for her out of fear of betraying the memory of his dead wife. During the Out to the Ballgame arc, Fly finally acknowledges his feelings for Riding Hood and kissed her, which accidentally turns him back into a frog. Riding Hood, tired of living in the shadow of Flycatcher's former wife, tells him that he has let his guilt rule him for too long, and that it is keeping him from finding happiness in the present. Flycatcher, convinced by Riding Hood's words, attempts to take control of his curse and changes himself back into human form. Later that evening, tired of being alone, he asks Red to share his bed with him, to which she delightedly accepts. In the epilogue chapter, "The Last Story of Flycatcher", Red Riding Hood is revealed to have eventually married Flycatcher and had at least four children with him, and is living a peaceful life as queen of Haven.
The Tourists The Tourists are a group of three Fables who originally worked for Bigby Wolf on keeping track of those Fables who have chosen not to live in Fabletown or up at the Farm. Since Bigby's departure, they now work for his replacement, Beast.
Mowgli The first Tourist is
Mowgli, from
The Jungle Book. He is assigned the mission of tracking down the missing Bigby and bringing him back to Fabletown. While this is outside the Tourists' normal duties, he accepts the mission when Prince Charming informs him that his friend Bagheera, imprisoned for his role in the Farm revolt, would be freed once his mission was completed. Mowgli is primarily given this assignment because, unlike the other Tourists, he was raised by wolves, and thus knows how Bigby would think. The task takes many months and covered thousands of miles, but Mowgli is ultimately successful. During
The Good Prince, Mowgli replaces King Cole as ambassador to Baghdad, as well as running an English-language school for Arabian Fables participating in the war against the Empire.
Feathertop The second Tourist is
Feathertop, the animated scarecrow from a
Nathaniel Hawthorne short story. He appeared in "A Wolf in the Fold", a prose tale in the series' first trade paperback, where he accompanies Snow White on her mission to invite the Big Bad Wolf to join them in Fabletown in approximately 1650. He was chosen because, as an entity made of straw and vegetation, the Wolf would be unable to read his emotions and would find him unpalatable. His identity as one of the Tourists is confirmed in
Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love, where he appears in silhouette in a single panel. In the follow-up series, Feathertop is the head of the Shadow Players, a black ops group that tries to keep the nastier side-effects of the Everaftering from destroying the world.
The Woodsman Bill Willingham has identified the third Tourist as being the Woodsman from the tale of
Little Red Riding Hood. He appears in flashbacks from the fairy tale in the
March of the Wooden Soldiers story arc and the
Fables graphic novel
1001 Nights of Snowfall. In addition, all of the tourists are shown in silhouette in
Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love, but not referred to by name. The Woodsman is also mentioned in
The Great Fables Crossover, in which Bigby implies that he still harbours vengeful feelings for him and is just as mad at him as he is at Jack (which does mean a lot) and that his current whereabouts are unknown. The Woodsman makes an appearance in the prequel
adventure video game
The Wolf Among Us.
Tommy Sharp Tommy Sharp was a writer for the
Daily News. He somehow got wind that there was something unusual about the Fabletown community and spent several years following it up. He tracked down records detailing the Fables' possession of the area right back to when the city was called
New Amsterdam, compiled a number of personal histories and located photographs of several of the Fabletown residents going back to the beginnings of photography, proving that none of them had aged a day. He also secretly trailed Bigby Wolf, a not unimpressive feat, given the Wolf's massively enhanced senses and witnessed him changing to his wolf form in
Central Park. In the story
A Two-Part Caper, Sharp came to Fabletown and asked to speak to Bigby, with the aim of giving the Fables a chance to respond to his story prior to publication as a journalistic courtesy. Explaining to a visibly amused sheriff that he believed them to be
vampires, Sharp stated that he would shortly be publishing his story. The concerned Wolf, realizing that even if nobody official believed the story, they'd be inundated with
goths and vampire-wannabes, quickly formulated a plan to steal all of Sharp's research, using Briar Rose's enchantment to put all the occupants of the building to sleep while they ransacked his apartment. It quickly became apparent, however, that Sharp had backed all his information on the internet. Bluebeard, who was supposed to be keeping watch downstairs, insisted that they should simply shoot Sharp, belittling Bigby when he chose a different course of action. Kidnapping Sharp, the Fables took a number of photographs of him posed with Pinocchio, in such a manner to make it appear that Sharp was a pedophile. They then informed Sharp that if he published his story, they would release these photos, plus a videotape of an interview with Pinocchio where he explained what Sharp had supposedly done to him by pointing out on a teddy bear where Sharp touched him, thus destroying Sharp's reputation completely. Sharp had no choice but to cooperate. Bluebeard, however, felt differently. Believing, as always, that he knew best and probably in no small part to spite Bigby, he summoned Sharp to Central Park where he asked Sharp if he had destroyed all his research; when Sharp confirmed he had, Bluebeard executed the journalist.
Santa Claus Stationed at the North Pole,
Santa Claus is a Fable who can magically be at every house in the world at the same time on Christmas night. Following an attempt by Jack Horner to steal the naughty and nice list in 1956, Santa has left the list with Bigby to put in a safe place every year since. He is said to be one of the most powerfully magical of the fables, and plays an important role in beginning Flycatcher's quest to restore his Homelands kingdom. It is also implied by Rose Red that Santa is the guardian of a gateway from the Homelands. Santa has also been revealed to be a Paladin of Hope, specifically the Hope for Justice, and the Hope for Reward as well as the hope that everything will turn out all right in the end, claiming that this is why Christmas takes place at the end of the year. He is also a vassal of the North Wind, and he taught Winter how use her powers to be in more than one place at a time. Winter also asked him to expand Christmas to all worlds that are under her sway, or are known to her. •
Mrs. Claus •
Santa Claus's reindeer, who are intelligent, capable of speech and can magically fly.
Gretel After
Hansel and Gretel's misadventure in the Homelands involving Frau Totenkinder, whom the children pushed into her own oven, Hansel and Gretel emerged from the Black Forest to find their land overrun by the Adversary's forces. They fled, staying ahead of the invading armies and taking sanctuary in one church after another until they learn of the mundane world. Arriving there in the mid-17th century, they made their way to the newly established Fabletown, where they were shocked to discover Frau Totenkinder among the Fables already present. When informed that, under the terms of the Fabletown Compact, Totenkinder had been granted amnesty for her actions in the Homelands, a disgusted Hansel announced his intention to live among the mundane population, leaving his sister behind in Fabletown. Many years later, Hansel visited Fabletown, asking to see his sister, begging her to leave Fabletown. Gretel refused, explaining to him that she has spent time studying with Frau Totenkinder in the intervening years and has gained a new appreciation for the magic arts, seeing them not as the devil's work, but as a useful tool. Horrified and enraged, Hansel struck her viciously with a chair, snapping her neck instantly. As a result, Hansel was stricken from the Fabletown Compact and banished forever. Gretel's body was cast down the witching well. Her spirit remained there in a sort of limbo for centuries, until Flycatcher, his memory restored and finally ready to face his past, went down the well, finding all the ghosts of those who had previously been thrown there. Gretel was one of the many spirits who were given flesh and blood and followed Flycatcher to Haven.
Civilized Apes In ''Jack'n Apes
of Jack Of Fables
, Jack Horner claims that his own adventures inspired Edgar Rice Burroughs to write the whole Tarzan legend (which would then mean that either Tarzan does not exist in the Fables'' series, or he was just Jack) and that, in turn, inspired Jack to go to
Hollywood, which led to the creation of his own series.
Apes and
monkeys he claims to have met are: •
Kong, a
gorilla. •
Magilla, a gorilla. •
George, a monkey. • Jane: From whom Tarzan's
Jane has been inspired, according to Jack. • "Clint the
orangutan": A possible reference to the pet orangutan Clyde of the
Clint Eastwood films
Every Which Way but Loose and
Any Which Way You Can. • "Edgar the other orangutan": Presumably the murderous orangutan from
Edgar Allan Poe's short story
The Murders in the Rue Morgue. • Aesop: Presumably the ape of
Aesop's Fables The Wolf, the Fox and the Ape and
The Apes and the Two Travellers. • Saunders: A
sock monkey and a possible reference to
A. A. Milne's
Winnie the Pooh; a sign over the door at Pooh's house says "Mr. Sanders", the name of the person who resided at the very address prior to Pooh making it his house. Winnie the Pooh and several other characters from the books were actually based on the stuffed toys of
Milne's son. In addition, a character looking remarkably similar to Winnie the Pooh (but drawn slightly differently, as Winnie the Pooh is currently under copyright) can be seen in flashbacks from the
Homelands, barbecuing
marshmallows with Saunders in what appears to be the
Hundred Acre Wood.
Shadow Fabletown A network of hidden Fable communities, scattered throughout the world, as seen in the
Fables spin-off
Cinderella: Fables Are Forever. Among the Fables of Shadow Fabletown are: •
Ivan Durak, a character from
Russian folklore, is one of many Fables who fled the Fable homeland of
Rus when the
Adversary invaded, and escaped into the mundane world, adopting the
Soviet Union as their new home. At some point, perhaps after a failed attempt to kidnap Snow White in the 1980s, he was killed and Dorothy Gale assumed his identity. She may have most likely killed him, herself, after her escape from Golden Burroughs Community. •
Tugarin Zmeyevich, a
dragon who can take the shape of a man, he is the ruler of Shadow Fabletown in
Russia. •
Meng Chiang-Nu, a character from
Chinese folktales, is an old woman who is the former head of the Shadow Fabletown in
China. According to
Cinderella, Meng Chiang-Nu sought her husband at the
Great Wall, went through a lot of trouble to get him buried after he died, and ended up turning into a fish. She refused to give up when
an emperor and
his whole empire told her no. Meng Chiang-Nu was killed by a
Chiss, when she was about to tell Cindy how to locate
Dorothy Gale. • The Seven Chinese Brothers: The associates and possible bodyguards of Meng-Chiang-Nu, from the anonymously written Chinese folktale "The Five Brothers" (circa A.D. 300). In some versions of the story, there were seven, or even ten, brothers. In the west, the tale was popularized by
Claire Huchet Bishop's
Five Chinese Brothers (1938), and
Margaret Mahy's
Seven Chinese Brothers (1889) more or less permanently changed the number of brothers to seven in the West. •
Anansi, a
West African Fable who is a high-ranking member of one of the hidden shadow Fable communities, he may have been part of Dorothy's schemes to trap Cinderella. What became of him afterward was never stated.
Japanese Fables A group of characters and creatures from
Japanese folklore, they live in a hidden Fable community in
Tokyo, as seen in the
Fairest story arc
The Hidden Kingdom. •
Kuchisake-onna, the slit-mouthed woman from
Japanese urban legends, appears in the
Fairest story arc
The Hidden Kingdom. Her real name is Mayumi. Before the Adversary's invasion, she was a member of the
Heika's court in the Fable Homeland of the Hidden Kingdom. Unbeknownst to her, the
Seii Taishogun was secretly laying the way for the invasion and planned to become the new ruler of the Hidden Kingdom. He offered to make her Mayumi his Empress, but she rejected him and called him "a parasite on the court". He responded by slitting Mayumi's cheeks in anger. Unable to live with her face mutilated like that, she committed
seppuku (a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment) - "or someone faked it". Her ghost began lurking in the washrooms and corridors of the Heika's palace, haunting mirrors. Eventually, she managed to take on a physical form and escaped the Homelands with a group of
yokai who had been banished from the court. The group started a new life in a hidden Fable community in
Tokyo. Centuries later, she has become the enforcer of Tomoko, a powerful female
kitsune who is a Yakuza leader. Mayumi wears a surgical mask to hide the disfigurement. She enjoys scaring people by asking them, "Am I beautiful?", before removing the mask and asking "How about now?". Eventually, with the help of
Rapunzel, the fugitives manage to find their way back to their homeland via a magical portal. • Assorted
yokai: Including a
bakeneko named Neko, various
chōchin'obake, various
funayurei, a
hitotsume-kozō, various
kappa, a
kawauso, a
kitsune named Tomoko, a kyūso, a
noppera-bō, a
nue, a
nure-onna, various
oni, a
rokurokubi, Seto taishō, a Sunamura no oryō, two human-sized
gashadokuro, various
tanuki (only referred to as "raccoons" in the modern world, but by their real name back in the Homelands), various
tengu,
Tesso, two uwabami, and a
wanyūdō. •
Godzilla: Jack Horner has a brief encounter with the legendary monster when one of the tengu drops him into the ocean off the coast of Japan.
Others •
Count Dracula: The prose story
A Wolf in the Fold mentions a
Transylvanian count who had befriended
Bigby Wolf, before he was taken to Fabletown. The count was rumored to be some fell spirit returned from the dead. In the
Fables story
The Ascent, Frankenstein's monster ("Frankie") specifically makes references to a vampire count back in Transylvania. Frankie had actually fought the count once, years before he fought the "wolf man" (Bigby) during
World War II. Most (if not all) of the killings traditionally credited to
vampires and
werewolves in the Dracula mythos were Bigby's doing in the
Fables series (though Dracula let local peasants believe they were his own doing, to enhance his fearsome reputation), making it hard to judge if vampires and werewolves are Fables and if this Dracula is a real Fable or just the historical
Vlad Tepes. During Bigby's adventures during World War II, Nazis revealed that they had knowledge of at least one werewolf, which, according to "Werewolves of the Heartland", was actually Bigby. In "Werewolves Of The Heartlands", it is revealed that there used to be werewolves in the homelands and in the mundane world, and a new breed of werewolves is also created. • The
Grim Reaper has a run-in with Jack Horner in the
Fables story ''Bag 'O Bones'', in which Jack finds a way to cheat death. •
Mary Shelley's
Dr. Frankenstein is referred to in
War Stories, a
Fables story set during World War II. A team of German Nazi scientists is using
Frankenstein's monster and talks about how they tried to create more of the monster in
World War I, but when it didn't work, they realized that the secrets of Doctor Frankenstein's process had died with him. It is unknown whether he was a Fable or one of the unmagic "mundys" of the real world. After defeating the Nazis, Bigby kept the monster's still-living head and returned it to Fabletown. In the
March of the Wooden Soldiers story arc,
Pinocchio can be seen reading the
Frankenstein novel. •
Jill: The Jill from
Jack and Jill (not to be confused with Jill the
Lilliputian, who helps Jack steal some of
Bluebeard's fortune), Jack phones her before going to
Hollywood. It is unknown if she lives in Fabletown. • The
Lone Ranger and
Tonto: The duo makes an off-screen appearance in the
Jack of Fables story arc
1883, which is set in the
Old West. A
gunsmith sells a special order of
silver bullets to the Lone Ranger instead of Jack Horner, believing the Ranger to be part of Jack's gang of robbers. The Ranger is described as a mysterious masked rider with a faithful
Native American companion. Jack kills the gunsmith in anger and sets out to find the Lone Ranger in
Montana, following his trail. Jack is apprehended by Bigby before he has the chance to catch up with him. •
Elves from
The Elves and the Shoemaker are still offering their services to the shoemaker (Crispin, who lives in Fabletown) from time to time, as seen in
Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love. They have also been secretly working for
Beauty in making the
Fable comics sold at Nod's bookstore, while Beauty was working there. •
The Cricket on the Hearth: In
"All in a Single Night", the
cricket from
Charles Dickens' novella takes
Rose Red on a journey on
Christmas Eve, in a
Fables take on
A Christmas Carol. "The Cricket on the Hearth" is also the name of one of the issue's chapters. The cricket repeatedly calls Rose "Boz", which was Dickens's family nickname and occasional pen-name. • Noah the bottle
Imp: A small, less powerful version of a
genie, who specializes in information, he helps
Ali Baba achieve his dream of wealth and love by hooking him up with
Lumi, the Snow Queen, after Ali Baba wakes
Briar Rose from enchanted sleep and realizes that Briar is not the girl for him. •
Saint George: Appears as a detective in the
Fairest story
Lamia, tracking down the issue's title character - the
Lamia, a.k.a.
Beauty - in a story set in 1940s
Los Angeles. With the sword
Ascalon, he had slain
the dragon in his Fable homeland of
Silene. With it he also slew the beast
Chimæra, the dragon
Illuyankas, the dragon
Tiamat and the serpent
Vritra. It is strongly implied that Beast kills him in order to protect Beauty. • Dragon from
Saint George and the Dragon: Referred to in the
Fairest story
Lamia. • The
Chimæra: Referred to in the
Fairest story
Lamia, it was slain by Saint George. •
Illuyankas the dragon: Referred to in the
Fairest story
Lamia, slain by Saint George. •
Tiamat: A dragon referred to in the
Fairest story
Lamia, also slain by Saint George. • The serpent
Vritra: Referred to in the
Fairest story
Lamia, another beast slain by Saint George. • Lady
Maeve: From
Irish mythology, she is from the Fable Homeland Dunhollow, and is one of Rose Red's new Knights of the
Round Table, as seen in the
Camelot story arc. •
Rama and
Veruna as seen in the
Fairest story
Of Men and Mice.
The Wolf Among Us Fables first introduced in the prequel video game
The Wolf Among Us: •
Faith, a prostitute who was found murdered in the first episode of the game, "Faith". After the Woodsman attacks her, Bigby steps in and saves her. When she is found murdered later, Bigby finds her ring stuffed in her severed head, which bears a symbol that leads to her identity. Her story states that she escaped her father, the king, by using a magic coat made from his prize donkey; she married Prince Laurence before the exodus from the Homelands. Fallen on hard times in Fabletown, Faith estranged from Laurence and turned to prostitution, and Laurence, out of guilt for burdening her, tried to commit suicide (based on the player's action, he has a chance to survive). • Toad Jr., or "TJ", the son of Mister Toad, who is the landlord of the tenement building the Woodsman lived in. He helps Bigby and Snow find a clue in Faith's donkeyskin coat, which she wore to the Woodsman's apartment and left behind after he and Bigby fought. •
Dee and Dum Tweedle, twin brothers who claim were hired as private detectives by an unknown employer to investigate Faith's death. Dee roughs up Mr. Toad while looking for The Woodsman and something thought to be in his possession; Dee is pursued and caught by Bigby when they meet at Faith's and Laurence's apartment, but Dum saves him. At the Trip Trap Bar, Dee encounters Bigby again, and the player has to choose whether to arrest Dee or the Woodsman. • Holly, a female
troll who owns and runs the Trip Trap Bar, she is friends with the Woodsman, Gren, and Jack Horner. Gren says that her sister is missing. Snow later finds the corpse of a female Fable using a black-market glamour to appear as Snow, and the body is revealed to be Lily, Holly's sister. Holly is informed of her sister's death by Bigby, and what she says next sends Bigby to investigate her pimp Georgie Porgie. In episode 3, Holly is outraged at Bigby when she learned that Lily's corpse was thrown down the Witching Well, even when Snow tells her that was Crane's doing; Holly and Gren are then injured fighting the Tweedles when they interrupt Lily's funeral. At the Trip Trap in episode 3, Holly, rendered confused and lethargic due to the medicine Dr. Swineheart gave her for her injuries, has a conversation with Bigby while he roots through Lily's possessions for a clue to the witch Crane had hired for the black-market glamour. •
Grendel, or Gren, a barfly who regulars the Trip Trap Bar, he first appears waiting in line to see Acting Mayor Ichabod Crane and calls Bigby a "fucker". He later appears at the Trip Trap Bar. When Bigby meets the Woodsman at the Bar, Gren drops his glamour, revealing his true form to resemble a shark-like humanoid, and attacks Bigby; Bigby wins by partially morphing into his wolf form and targeting Gren's right arm, implying it was reattached after Beowulf ripped it off in the old legend. After beating Gren in the fight, the player can choose to rip off his arm or not. •
Georgie Porgie is the pimp who owns the seedy bar/strip-club "Pudding & Pie", and employed Faith. He speaks in a British-
Yorkshire accent, and is quite foul-tempered and thuggish, despite a tendency to quickly back down whenever someone challenges him. He often needlessly antagonises or provokes other Fables, even when they clearly outclass him in strength and rank. He is introduced in the second episode "Smoke and Mirrors". He is revealed to be the murderer of Lilly and Faith, acting on behalf of his boss, the Crooked Man. Furious that the Crooked Man attempts to throw him under the bus for the murders, he starts a three-way fight between himself, Bigby, and the Crooked Man's henchmen, during which he is mortally slashed with a knife, before he manages to escape back to his club along with Vivian. When Vivian commits suicide out of guilt, Georgie breaks down in despair and with his dying breaths, he reveals to Bigby where to find the Crooked Man's hideout. •
Clever Hans is the handyman, janitor, and bouncer for the Pudding And Pie. A well-meaning simpleton, Hans accidentally reveals the planner the prostitutes use when Georgie was arguing with Bigby. Georgie threatens Hans with a cricket bat for revealing the book, but Bigby takes the bat and threatens to trash the club with it for the book. • Nerissa, once known as
The Little Mermaid, is a stripper and prostitute working for Georgie Porgie. Unable to break her code of silence (
"these lips are sealed"), Nerissa gets Bigby to pay for her services so she can give him a room key for The Open Arms Hotel, where Georgie's girls use to service their johns. Bigby goes to The Open Arms to find the room Lily last used and investigate what he later learns is the site of her murder. Nerissa appears at Lily's funeral in episode 3, and is later attacked by Crane at the Pudding And Pie. • Auntie Greenleaf is a witch living outside of the Thirteenth Floor of the Woodlands, and the one providing illegal glamours for Ichabod Crane to have sex with Lily in the form of Snow White. When Bigby and Snow find her apartment, she glamours herself into the form of a little girl named Rachel (presumably her deceased daughter) in an attempt to throw the duo off the trail. When they uncover the ruse, Greenleaf refuses to help them find Crane, warning them of "forces beyond their authority". When Snow threatens to burn down her ancient tree, which is both a family heirloom and what she uses to create her back-alley glamours, she tells them that Crane was at her apartment to take from her possession the Ring of Dispel, so he could undo the spell that keeps Georgie's girls from breaking their silence so Crane could prove himself innocent of Lily's and Faith's murders (Greenleaf says that the Ring lost its power decades ago). After they get this info out of Greenleaf, the player can decide whether or not to continue with destroying the tree. • Vivian is Georgie's lover and second-in-command at the Pudding & Pie. Her origin fable is shrouded in mystery for much of the story, but her true identity as The Girl with the Ribbon is revealed, when Georgie explains that she found a way to duplicate her magic ribbon and transfer its curse to the women she and Georgie employed. Filled with regret over the murders, she decides to break the spell on the women by taking off the ribbon, killing herself in the process. •
Bloody Mary is the Crooked Man's bodyguard and main enforcer. She enjoys intimidating other Fables and causing mayhem, pain, and bloodshed, something which her employment under Crooked Man gives her ample opportunity to do. She has the power to teleport by using reflective surfaces and is capable of duplicating herself. She appears as a woman with short black hair with a red-dyed streak in it, and she claims that she kills mundane children for fun. She and the Tweedles corner Bigby, Snow, and Crane in an alley so they can kidnap Crane. After she gets Dee and Dum to shoot at Bigby until he transforms into a wolf-man, she shoots and disables Bigby with a silver bullet from her revolver so she can chop off his head with an axe (heavily implying that she is the one who killed Faith and Lily, at the Crooked Man's behest); Snow surrenders Crane, so the Crooked Man signals Mary to spare Bigby (she breaks his arm instead). She ends up getting killed in a fight against Bigby. •
Tiny Tim works for the Crooked Man as a house guard and escorts Bigby to him, though it is unclear whether this is his normal job or whether he is given jobs to do by the Crooked Man. •
The Crooked Man is the main antagonist of the game's storyline. Back in the Homelands, he killed his wife and child, not wanting to share his fortune with them. In Fabletown he has become a crime boss who claims to be legitimate businessman who provides help to downtrodden Fables by offering them cheap glamours and employment, but in reality, his organisation is a thinly disguised racketeering ring which muscles in on other businesses and keeps its members in forced servitude through heavy debts, threats and acts of violence, and even torture. The Crooked Man is articulate, cunning, and manipulative, and likes to put on airs of sophistication, but when he loses his temper he reveals a terrifying and unrelenting ruthlessness. At the end of the game's storyline, he is found guilty of murder and either thrown down the Witching Well, turned into a caged raven by Aunty Greenleaf and send to the Farm, or brutally killed by Bigby. ==References==