Big Bad Wolf

Bilious Bartholomew Wildehund, better known as the Big Bad Wolf, was a childhood friend of Frieda Jacobs. Later, after a serious of unfortunate events, he was pressed into the service of the young woman’s chief nemesis: the Wizard of Oz.

Appearance & Personality

Billy, as his friends called him, was a gentle giant at heart. The traits of his public persona—ferocious, bloodthirsty, and cruel—were adopted out of the sadness and resignation that the wolf felt when he heard exaggerated stories of his exploits. If the people were going to fear him anyway, then he decided to play the role they’d thrust upon him. Better that, he figured, than to have his heart broken again by someone he’d come to love.

The wolf stood 8' 11" tall when fully grown and weighed 864 pounds. The shape of his head, his ears, and his feet were decidedly wolflike, but the rest of him was the shape of a man. An extraordinarily muscled and long-limbed man—and hairy, too!—but a man just the same.

Supernatural Abilities

Billy possessed the ability to expel air from his mouth at such speed and with such force that he could blow down houses built without proper reinforcement. The wolf also had a stomach like a pocket dimension—like literally like a pocket dimension. When he swallowed someone or something whole, he could choose to send them through his traditional digestive system or else keep it/them prisoner in the confines of a stomach that was definitely “bigger on the inside.”

Biography

Warning: Here there be spoilers!

Early Life

Bilious Bartholomew Wildehund was born in the Forest of Fangs in 243, the runt of a litter of seven, and he was different from the start. The descendent of wolves who had been part of the same Reekian experiments which created Albus Lepus and the crocodilian Sobek, Billy was the only member of his litter—and the only wolf so far, in the decades since the experiment—who developed the humanlike traits the Reekian scientists had been seeking to splice into their test subjects.

Fearing the way that Billy spoke, the way he sounded more man than wolf, his parents cast him out of the pack. Lost in the woods, with a sense of smell that wasn’t quite as keen as that of his forebears, Billy wandered without purpose or plan until he was found by Frieda Jacobs on one of her regular treks to her grandmother’s house. After that, and throughout their adolescence, the two were inseparable.

After the Betrayal

As Billy reached the age of maturity, however, many of his more wolflike instincts began to take hold of him. And after one particularly violent incident—an accident in Billy’s opinion, but something more in Granny’s eyes—Billy was cast out once more.

For years, he wandered the Forest of Fangs in search of his parents or his siblings. But for years, he never saw another wolf amongst the trees. They knew the smell of him, he decided. And they all stayed away on purpose. Despondent, he eventually made his way across the border and into the land of Oz to see if he might make a life for himself there instead.

The Wizard’s Pet

In 263, after refusing a summons from the Wizard, Billy was captured by a pack of winged monkeys—and flown against his will to the Emerald City. That was when the Wizard coerced Billy into attacking his old friends Granny and Frieda—all in an attempt to upend the Wonderlandian unification movement before it could properly begin. And the rest of that story can be found in The Blood of Seven Queens.

Species

Mixer

Year of Birth

243

Hair

Brown

Height

8' 11"

Weight

864 lbs

Appears in...

• The Blood of Seven Queens #1
• The Blood of Seven Queens #2
• The Blood of Seven Queens #3
• The Blood of Seven Queens #6