Editing Gingerbread man (section)

==In fiction and popular culture==
* "[[The Gingerbread Man]]" is a [[fairy tale]] about a gingerbread man who comes to life, outruns an elderly couple and various animals, and is devoured by a fox in the end.
** Gingy is a talking gingerbread man character in the ''[[Shrek]]'' series of animated movies. He is derived from the fairy tale "The Gingerbread Man".
** The [[Jasper Fforde]] comic detective novel ''[[The Fourth Bear]]'' features a more-than-human-sized gingerbread man who is a psychopathic serial killer who likes to pull off his victims' limbs.  The difficulties in catching him are a reference to the fairy tale.
* In [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]'s ballet ''[[The Nutcracker]]'' (1892), the eponymous hero leads an army of gingerbread men against the Mouse King and his fellows.
* The Gingerbread People are the main characters in the game ''[[Candy Land]]'' (1945).
* The Gingerbread Men were featured in ''[[The Muppet Show]]''. In the "[[Don Knotts]]" episode, the Gingerbread Men sing the song "[[Sweet Gingerbread Man]]" as the opening number. The lead Gingerbread Man is a hand-rod Muppet performed by [[Frank Oz]] while the full-bodied Gingerbread Men were performed by [[Jim Henson]], [[Dave Goelz]], [[Richard Hunt (puppeteer)|Richard Hunt]], and
* In the film ''[[The Brothers Grimm (film)|The Brothers Grimm]]'', a nightmarish twist on the Gingerbread Man appears. A young child is splashed with mud, which steals the child's eyes, nose, and mouth. It then forms a small mud body with the child's stolen features for a face. The creature grabs the child and absorbs her into itself. It runs off yelling, "You can't catch me; I'm the Gingerbread Man!"
* The first game in the ''[[Cookie Run]]'' series, ''Ovenbreak'', is a [[runner game]] that puts players in the role of GingerBrave, a gingerbread man running to escape from the Witch's Oven. Subsequent games would introduce numerous other "Cookies", iterations of gingerbread men based on different combinations of ingredients and character archetypes.