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'''"The Three Billy Goats Gruff"''' is a traditional Norwegian [[Fairy Tale]] concerning three billy goats (that's a term for a male goat) who are siblings and a troll who lives under a bridge. The goats want to cross the bridge to get to the plentiful grass on the other side.
The youngest and smallest goat crosses the bridge first. (At this point, if reading to a small child, [[This Is the Part Where|it is traditional to say]] "trip trap, trip trap". Please imagine your own trip-trappings for the sake of efficiency.) The troll pops up and says; "Who's that trip-trapping over my bridge?"
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The moral of the story, presumably, is that the grass actually ''is'' greener on the other side, patience ''is not'' a virtue, violence solves ''everything'', pass the buck if you're scared of facing a problem, and [[Captain Obvious Aesop|you shouldn't mess with goats]]. A [[Broken Aesop]] perhaps, though [[Your Mileage May Vary]], it still remains a very popular story.
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** [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: One can read the fable with the troll as the protagonist, which can change the moral to something along the lines of "you shouldn't just keep waiting for something better to come along."
* [[An Aesop]]: In addition to the four mentioned in the article, and the one just above this entry there are others.
** [[Big Brother Instinct|The eldest sibling should protect the the younger ones.]]
** If you're not strong, be clever.
** Be careful crossing bridges
* [[Badass]]: The third goat.
* [[Rule of Three]]
* [[Talking Animal]]
* [[Troll Bridge]]
* [[Youngest Child Wins]]: Inverted.
=== This story is referenced in: ===▼
== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[The Troll Hunter]]'', Hans ties three increasingly large billy goats to the top of a bridge as bait for a troll.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', the Gruffs are the Summer Court's, more specifically Titania's, elite wetworks assets, and they always operate in teams of three. Their primary duty is killing [[Smash Mook|trolls]] and in the [[The Verse|Dresdenverse]], trolls are ''tough'', even by the standards of the supernatural. Eldest Brother Gruff is capable of pimp-smacking fallen angels without breaking a sweat.
* [[Discworld]]'s trolls have [[Never Live It Down|a longstanding rivalry with goats]].
** In ''[[
** In ''[[
* "Troll Bridge", a short story by [[Neil Gaiman]], is a variation in which, instead of a succession of goats, there's a single human who twice manages to persuade the troll that if it lets him go, there'll be more of him to eat next time he crosses the bridge. The third encounter, of course, goes rather differently.
* Mountain goats in ''[[Rift]]'' drop an [[Vendor Trash|item]] called "Goat Gruff".▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[King's Quest I]]'', where you have to lead a billygoat along to a Troll guarding a bridge.
* ''[[The Elder Scrolls Four]] Oblivion'': An [[Easter Egg]] to be found is that one of the bridges in the game has a dead troll under it, with a rather pathetic note on its corpse, referencing this story.
* ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]'' also has it's own [[Easter Egg]] on the tale [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p95ESJG0Sr8 here.]
=== [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPGs]] ===
▲* Mountain goats in ''[[Rift]]'' drop an [[Vendor Trash|item]] called "Goat Gruff".
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[
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