The Woodsman a.k.a "Woody" is a Fairy tale character known as a Fable and is a minor character in the Fables comic book series and a major charcter in it's prequel video game The Wolf Among Us. The Woodsman, like all the other Fairy Tales, is forced to leave his homelands and flee to New York City in the Mundane world. He like many other "Fables" become residents of Fabletown, a magically protected part of New York, where all the displaced Fairy Tales can safely live. Woody is the woodsman that rescued little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother from the Big Bad Wolf he was considered a hero for this. However shortly after arriving at Fabletown Woody become a mean and violent drunk, while the Wolf he had fought centuries before, became Bigby Wolf The Sheriff of Fabletown, this role reversal