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The Plague Dogs

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The Plague Dogs	comment	A 1977 novel by Richard Adams about two dogs named Rowf and Snitter. The two narrowly escape from an animal testing lab and roam the English countryside with the help of a fox known only as "the tod" (a dialect word for "fox"). The facility, Animal Research, Scientific and Experimental, attempts to reclaim the dogs and spreads a rumour that the two harbour a dangerous bioweapon to assist in their capture, hence the title. It was made into an animated feature-length film in 1982, a few years after Adams' other book, Watership Down.Known for being Darker and Grittier than the previous work, it is set in the gray and wintry fells of England's Lake District. The animated adaptation is an infamous Tear Jerker as well (to the point that many call it "a British version of Grave of the Fireflies with dogs"); the original print of the film was censored for wide release and was considered rare until recently, as now at least one Blu-Ray release includes both the theatrical and full versions of the film.Emphasis is made of Rowf's Woobie status as an animal subjected to repeated drowning experiments, and Snitter's role as a Doom Magnet is emphasized in at least one scene of death and serious injury that is probably the emotional nadir of the story.
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The Plague Dogs / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
The Plague Dogs / int_141a6acb	comment	Madness Mantra: For Snitter, "The lorry's coming, the lorry's coming!"
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The Plague Dogs / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Plague Dogs / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: The novel has a happy ending in which Snitter's former owner, himself recovering from injuries, reunites with Snitter and adopts Rowf. In the animated film, the dogs are last seen swimming out to sea toward a distant island that may not even exist except in their minds.
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The Plague Dogs / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
The Plague Dogs / int_1e1aa82a	comment	Diabolus ex Machina: Ephraim, the hunter who wants to adopt Snitter, instead accidentally shoots himself in the face.
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The Plague Dogs / int_234bd900	type	For Science!
The Plague Dogs / int_234bd900	comment	For Science!: Most of Dr. Boycott's animal testing. For example, in one experiment, cats are forced to wear hoods that constantly cover their eyes and ears. The purpose of the experiment is to find out what happens to cats who are forced to wear hoods that constantly cover their eyes and ears.
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The Plague Dogs / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
The Plague Dogs / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Surprisingly literal.
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The Plague Dogs / int_2be15316	type	Ambiguously Jewish
The Plague Dogs / int_2be15316	comment	Ambiguously Jewish: Ephraim. He doesn't eat pork, is described as darkly-complexioned, strongly implied to be a survivor of The Holocaust, and when trying to calm Snitter speaks German to him. Later dialogue between Phyllis and Vera confirms that at least they think he's Jewish, as he is described as "that poor Jewish gentleman."
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The Plague Dogs / int_34889673	type	Gender Flip
The Plague Dogs / int_34889673	comment	Gender Flip: In the book, the Intrepid Reporter chasing the dogs is a man named Digby Driver. In the film, for no apparent reason, the reporter is a woman named Lynn Driver.
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The Plague Dogs / int_3c7d0418	type	Doom Magnet
The Plague Dogs / int_3c7d0418	comment	Doom Magnet: Snitter literally believes himself to be this, suggesting that they cannot kill him because if he dies all the humans would die, too.
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The Plague Dogs / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
The Plague Dogs / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: At the end of the novel both dogs are rescued by a boat that just happened to be hanging around — a boat piloted by Sir Peter Scott and Ronald Lockley, no less. The novel also pulls off the impressive trick of suggesting that the reader themselves managed to talk the author into sparing them.
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The Plague Dogs / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Plague Dogs / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: In the film, while Rowf and Snitter are running from the humans, the tod offers to distract the humans so they can get away. He ends up getting killed in the process, and Rowf and Snitter are very aware of it, but assure each other that there's no way the humans got him, because he was too clever. They are both quite aware that this isn't true.
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The Plague Dogs / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
The Plague Dogs / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Animal testing includes drowning, vivisection, etc.
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The Plague Dogs / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
The Plague Dogs / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Rowf, Snitter and Snitter's owner.
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The Plague Dogs / int_48d9e12d	type	Funetik Aksent
The Plague Dogs / int_48d9e12d	comment	Funetik Aksent: Most of the characters besides Snitter and Rowf.
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The Plague Dogs / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
The Plague Dogs / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: Played with. The "White coats" certainly qualify here, even to the point of being Cthulhu-esque, but most of the humans are three dimensional and are only after Rowf and Snitter because they killed sheep and eventually a man. Completely averted in the case of Snitter's idea of "Masters," whom he almost deifies.
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The Plague Dogs / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
The Plague Dogs / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: It happens over and over and it only gets worse as the plot progresses.
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The Plague Dogs / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Plague Dogs / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The Deus ex Machina is not present in the film version and it's strongly implied that the two protagonists die by drowning.
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The Plague Dogs / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
The Plague Dogs / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Digby Driver. A lot of what goes wrong for the dogs is his fault, but he later makes up for it by finding Snitter's owner and helping save the two dogs. There's also Stephen Powell, one of the scientists at the lab. He eventually grows uncomfortable with the work being done there and quits, taking one of the lab monkeys with him.
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The Plague Dogs / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Plague Dogs / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Geoffrey Westcott is determined to hunt down the dogs because they invaded his car and ate his groceries.
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The Plague Dogs / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Plague Dogs / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: It begins and ends showing a dog in the water, struggling to stay afloat.
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The Plague Dogs / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
The Plague Dogs / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Rowf is afraid of water because of the drowning experiments he went through. At the end, he has to scape by swimming into the sea.
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The Plague Dogs / int_5d5cc3fd	type	Through the Eyes of Madness
The Plague Dogs / int_5d5cc3fd	comment	Through the Eyes of Madness: Frequently from Snitter's point of view.
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The Plague Dogs / int_5f52cfcf	type	Intrepid Reporter
The Plague Dogs / int_5f52cfcf	comment	Intrepid Reporter: Digby Driver. He's also an example of the Immoral Journalist, as he doesn't care about finding out the truth; he only wants to stir up trouble so he could sell his newspaper.
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The Plague Dogs / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
The Plague Dogs / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Snitter. He starts out crazy and only gets worse as the story progresses.
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The Plague Dogs / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Plague Dogs / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: In the film, the tod gives himself up to buy the two protagonists time to escape. In the book, the tod is dead long before the dogs run for the sea.
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The Plague Dogs / int_665136e6	type	Animals Lack Attributes
The Plague Dogs / int_665136e6	comment	Animals Lack Attributes: Averted. Snitter, Rowf and many other animals are anatomically correct.
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The Plague Dogs / int_697b5232	type	Those Wacky Nazis
The Plague Dogs / int_697b5232	comment	Stephen Powell barely appears, and former Nazi scientist Dr. Goodner is only mentioned.
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The Plague Dogs / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
The Plague Dogs / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Geoffrey Westcott takes the fact that the dogs broke into his car to steal some food a bit too seriously, and goes on a one man crusade to try and hunt them down.
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The Plague Dogs / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
The Plague Dogs / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Several Rowf: Canine onomatopoeia. Snitter: Nervous noise a dog makes Animal Research, Scientific and Experimental: A.R.S.E.
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The Plague Dogs / int_6f7c8268	type	Waif Prophet
The Plague Dogs / int_6f7c8268	comment	Waif Prophet: Snitter is a bit of an expy for Fiver.
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The Plague Dogs / int_71d51663	type	God Is Inept
The Plague Dogs / int_71d51663	comment	God Is Inept: Rowf believes that the star dog gave the world up as a bad job.
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The Plague Dogs / int_7332c94f	type	Suicide by Sea
The Plague Dogs / int_7332c94f	comment	Suicide by Sea: When animal control and the police converge upon the two dogs in an attempt to recapture them, Rowf and Snitter swim out to sea rather than go back to the horrors of the lab.
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The Plague Dogs / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
The Plague Dogs / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: When the story starts it seems quite clear that the baddies are the whitecoats and the men with guns, while the goodies are those who show sympathy to the dogs. Later, as the characters become more developed, the "baddies" begin to appear more human, reasonable and even nice in their own way, while the "goodies" show signs of shallowness or hypocrisy. (See Humans Are Bastards.)
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The Plague Dogs / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
The Plague Dogs / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Geoffrey Westcott. Although he appears in the film, his role as the man that falls off a cliff is taken by Ackland, a Bounty Hunter hired by Dr. Boycott to take out the dogs.
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The Plague Dogs / int_7969f21e	type	No One Gets Left Behind
The Plague Dogs / int_7969f21e	comment	No One Gets Left Behind: Rowf goes back for Snitter, even though the valley is full of hunters looking for them.
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The Plague Dogs / int_79a0e313	type	Bolivian Army Ending
The Plague Dogs / int_79a0e313	comment	Bolivian Army Ending: The movie ends with the two dogs swimming out to sea trying to reach an island. Just to increase your doubt in either direction further, the last shot is of an island, while the music for the credits is a song about dying and going to Heaven.
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The Plague Dogs / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
The Plague Dogs / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: At the research facility Rowf was forced to swim around in a tank of water until he couldn't swim anymore and drowns. He would then be taken out of the tank, revived and forced to repeat the whole process over again. The experience has understandably left him with a crippling fear of water.
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The Plague Dogs / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
The Plague Dogs / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: The hunter covers his face with binoculars when he spies on Snitter and when Snitter comes, we only see the hunter from the neck down. When when Snitterpulls the trigger with his foot, the man clutches his face in agony after he's shot.
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The Plague Dogs / int_7ac1f1e5	type	Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist
The Plague Dogs / int_7ac1f1e5	comment	Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: The major in charge of hunting the dogs frequently expresses sympathy for them and openly regrets having to hunt them, expressing anger at A.R.S.E. for their experiments and ordering his men to kill them quickly.
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The Plague Dogs / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
The Plague Dogs / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: Near the end, Ronald Lockley mentions Richard Adams, and criticizes him for antropomorphizing rabbits.
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The Plague Dogs / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
The Plague Dogs / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: All experiments shown in the movie, even the most obviously pointless ones, actually happened in real life.Yes, even the ones like drowning and resuscitating dog repeatedly.
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The Plague Dogs / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
The Plague Dogs / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: Snitter's mental hallucinations are portrayed this way on film, and also in-story to suggest his limited eyesight
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The Plague Dogs / int_986bd638	type	This Is a Work of Fiction
The Plague Dogs / int_986bd638	comment	This Is a Work of Fiction: In the foreword, Adams explains that the unsympathetic characters are entirely fictional, but the sympathetic ones are usually real (though many of them already moved from the Lake District or died by the time the novel was published). Also, Animal Research: Scientific and Experimental does not exist, but the experiments described were all carried out in reality.
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The Plague Dogs / int_98c2a8f2	type	Humans Are Cthulhu
The Plague Dogs / int_98c2a8f2	comment	Humans Are Cthulhu: See Rage Against the Heavens.
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The Plague Dogs / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
The Plague Dogs / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: The two dogs swim out to sea to escape their human pursuers.
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The Plague Dogs / int_99b2613a	type	Oop North
The Plague Dogs / int_99b2613a	comment	Oop North: It's grim up north if you are a dog on the run.
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The Plague Dogs / int_9a42558d	type	Animal Nemesis
The Plague Dogs / int_9a42558d	comment	Animal Nemesis: The dogs to Geoffrey Westcott.
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The Plague Dogs / int_9afa05c7	type	Family-Unfriendly Death
The Plague Dogs / int_9afa05c7	comment	Family-Unfriendly Death: Oh so very many. The tod is killed by hunters, both dogs are strongly implied to have drowned, Ephraim is shot in the face with blood splattering everywhere, and Ackland is killed by a long fall and his corpse is eaten.
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The Plague Dogs / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Plague Dogs / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The first shot of the movie gives away how it ends by showing Rowf in a vat of water, failing to stay afloat and beginning to drown.
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The Plague Dogs / int_a1d70162	type	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
The Plague Dogs / int_a1d70162	comment	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: The hunter who gets shot in the face because Snitter accidentally stepped on the trigger of his hunting rifle.
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The Plague Dogs / int_a2a8c6b6	type	Bewildering Punishment
The Plague Dogs / int_a2a8c6b6	comment	Bewildering Punishment: Rowf and Snitter aren't certain why the humans have all turned against them.
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The Plague Dogs / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Plague Dogs / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Ephraim pointed his rifle at just the right angle, although we see nothing more than him clutching his face with blood everywhere.
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The Plague Dogs / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Plague Dogs / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: See Marvin, above.
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The Plague Dogs / int_a5cfe2ac	type	And There Was Much Rejoicing
The Plague Dogs / int_a5cfe2ac	comment	And There Was Much Rejoicing: The dogs have a song about another dog from their lab. It ends with "His name was Kiff, he was black and white/He was burned to cinders—serve him right." Subverted, since Rowf and Snitter actually seem to miss Kiff and often mention him. In the novel, Kiff created the song and the dogs "barked the place down singing his song" when the whitecoats took him away for the last time.
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