Slick Joe McWolf, better known as simply the Wolf, is a major character created by cartoonist Tex Avery. His portrayal varies from being one of Droopy's main enemies to being the latter's best friend.

The Wolf is most famous, however, in the short Red Hot Riding Hood, which is the first in the trilogy mentioned above. In the short, Little Red Riding Hood, Grandma, and the Big Bad Wolf get fed up with how the story was never changed and the narrator, annoyed, complies. He changes the setting so that Grandma lives in a penthouse, Little Red Riding Hood is a gorgeous dancer/singer at a nightclub, and the Wolf is a womanizer heading towards the nightclub.

The last of Tex Avery's variations on Le petit chaperon rouge (1943), in which the country wolf visits his city cousin, who tries to teach him the rudiments of civilised behaviour when watching girls in nightclubs - without, it has to be said, a great deal of success.