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They say that dogs are man's best friend, and some dogs go above and beyond simple loyalty and become full-blown heroes. They protect those in need, right wrongs, and become crusaders for justice good enough to stand toe-to-toe with their human counterparts. These are usually found in relatively realistic settings, and the dogs are not Funny Animals (with a few exceptions, see below). Depending on the medium and capability of the work in question, though, the audience may hear the dogs talk, or have some insight into the dogs' internal monologue. In the absence of any sort of character development for the dog, which is difficult to do in live-action, they will often be surrounded by several human characters. Judging by the list of Real Life examples, this seems to be Truth in Television. Given humanity's talent for getting into trouble, it's certainly nice to know that at least one other species has got our back. Many fictional portrayals of Tanuki often fall into this trope, albeit of Guile Hero territory. Given they are in the dog family, this is quite related. Often needs to rescue Timmy in a Well, and may be an Angry Guard Dog. A cousin to the Evil-Detecting Dog, and something of an inversion of Dogs Are Dumb. May or may not be a Gratuitous Animal Sidekick or Action Pet. A particularly badass way to be an heroic canine is Sled Dogs Through the Snow. For a more subtle dog hero, see Hachikō and for a close cousin of this trope, see Noble Wolf. See also Heroes Love Dogs. This is the Heroic Canine in the contrasting looks of Heroic Canines, Villainous Felines. Contrast with various villainous dogs such as the Hellhound and the Bully Bulldog. And Cunning Like a Fox, another (usually) villainous canine counterpart. If you have a Post-Apocalyptic Dog with you, it might be heroic or evil. |
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Jake the Dog from Adventure Time is an interesting case. He has magical shape-shifting abilities but does not go actively helping people like his brother Finn does and can sometimes be a Jerkass. However, he still is a good dog at heart and loyal to his friends and family. | |
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Waggit Trilogy: In Waggit Forever, Waggit sees a little girl struggling to swim in the park's lake and jumps in to rescue her. He even gets his picture on the newspaper, which proclaims that he's a hero. Unfortunately, since the Tazarians can't read, they think that Waggit's now marked to be taken to the pound. | |
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Also subverted in Tom Terrific. Tom's sidekick Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog was a rather lazy dog with a big appetite who had no skills to speak of other than the ability to talk. | |
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The episode "Pattern Seventeen" of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit had a young girl just barely avoid being kidnapped, because when the perp tried to shove her into his car, her dog bit onto his arm and refused to let go. The dog's growling and the girl's screaming were causing enough commotion that the perp decided it wasn't worth it, enabling the girl to escape with only superficial wounds. | |
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Parodied in The Far Side - The picture shows a poodle with a serious face piloting a plane on fire. | |
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Krypto the Superdog is Superman's pet dog and canine counterpart, helping him and his family fight evil since 1955. | |
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In The Artist, George Valentin's dog alerts a police officer when he sets his house on fire and is unable—or unwilling—to escape. The officer outright states that George owes his life to the dog. Later, as George prepares to kill himself, the dog apparently senses his intent and barks ferociously to dissuade him. | |
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The Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 trailer has a Team Plasma grunt order her Seviper to attack the trainers who are interrupting them, skipping the whole 'Pokemon battle' business and going straight to taking out the actual witnesses to their operation. Cue big badass fire-dog Arcanine to the rescue◊, who intercepts the snake and launches it into low orbit with a physics-defying aerial throw. | |
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Zeke of Highschool of the Dead may not be the biggest dog, but he is fiercely loyal to Alice, even on their first encounter, he tries to protect her. Later, When Alice laments she has no weapons, Hirano points out that Zeke is her weapon. Also, any dog that survives the Zombie apocalypse has badass pumping through his veins. | |
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Pack: The titular Pack has six dogs in it. There's Chastity, Diligence, Humility, Kindness, Liberty, and Temperance. | |
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PAW Patrol: It's basically the whole point of the show. | |
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Huan from The Silmarillion is (most likely) a very minor deity in canine form, but he acts like an unusually intelligent dog for the bulk of the story. He is a brave and loyal companion to Beren and Lúthien, and occasionally The Mentor (he is fated to speak only three times before he dies). Oh, and there's one other thing... he defeated Sauron in single combat. (Yes, that Sauron.) He is prophesied to only die after fighting the greatest wolf to have ever lived. He ends up performing a Mutual Kill on Carcharoth, a huge werewolf raised specially to kill him. | |
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All Dogs Go to Heaven: Charlie is a mix of this and Jerkass when rescuing Anne Marie, intending to use her gift of talking to animals to get easy cash. Over the course of the movie, he becomes more protective of her and (after accidentally causing her to run away) saves her during a fire on the riverboat. Considering that he's got a watch that represents his heartbeat and he sees it fall into the water, Charlie chooses Anne Marie first and gets her to safety, causing him to die but regaining a place in Heaven. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Homer's Enemy", has Mr. Burns make a dog his executive vice president, due to the dog pushing a baby from in front of a moving vehicle and pushing a criminal in front of it. Subverted with Santa's Little Helper, in "Homer the Heretic", the house is on fire, Homer is asleep on the couch, Santa's Little Helper takes a candy bar from his pocket and escapes. In "Old Yeller Belly", when Homer is stuck in Bart's burning tree-house, he's saved by the Heroic Cat Snowball II instead when Santa's Little Helper runs away from the scene. For the most of the episode Homer starts spoiling Snowball and scolds the dog for being a coward. |
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Hank of the Hank the Cowdog series, having sworn an oath "to protect and defend all innocent children against all manner of monsters and evil things." Even though he's quite often Lord Error-Prone, he's always on call when someone's in real trouble. | |
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In The Killers of Krypton, Krypto joins Supergirl in her quest across the galaxy to discover the truth behind Rogol Zaar and his claims of destroying Krypton. Krypto's help proves to be invaluable, either beating baddies or taking care of Kara. | |
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Underdog, who was The Cape when not in his civilian identity of Shoe Shine Boy. | |
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Most of the stories on these Reddit pages, "Redittors whose lives were saved by an animal, what happened?" and "My bird saved my life. Reddit what has your pet done that changed your life completely?" are this. | |
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Subverted in the Looney Tunes "Fresh Airedale" by Chuck Jones - a conniving dog (he lets in house burglars who pay him off with meat) sets himself up to look heroic, while the family cat, who is heroic, gets nothing but scorn. | |
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The hero's dog from Secret of Evermore. | |
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Airplane II: The Sequel: A boy and his family bring their dog, Scraps, along on the Lunar Shuttle. Naturally, when everything goes to hell and it's revealed that one of the passengers is carrying a bomb, the dog is the one who catches it before it can hit the floor. | |
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The Moonshae Trilogy has Canthus, Tristan's pet moorhound, who manages to take down a zombie knight and a werewolf before leading a pack of wolves into battle against the northmen. | |
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Akamaru, Kiba Inuzuka's canine partner from Naruto is known for protecting cats and kids all around Konoha from mean dogs, often as Kiba translates: 'Pick on someone your own size!' | |
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Lassie: The titular character had a regular human sidekick in the form of Timmy. | |
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Black Hayate from Fullmetal Alchemist saves Riza from a homunculus in the manga. | |
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Chou Chou from Les Misérables: Shōjo Cosette has his moments. He hepled Cosette and Gavroche when they were children, was a helpful figure to Gavroche's "brothers" and, specially, he saved Gavroche in the barricades. | |
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The Last Dogs: Max, Rocky, and Gizmo qualify as this since they travel through half of the USA to find Max's owners. Nothing stops Max from being reunited from them, not even wolves or hurricanes. | |
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Super Goof, Goofy as The Cape. | |
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In The Many Dates of Danny Fenton, Buttons saves Mindy when she falls off a tree. Mindy's parents freak out when they find out that their daughter could have died if not for her dog saving her, all while they were too busy with an important phone call to notice, and finally reward Buttons for his heroism. | |
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In The Divine Comedy, Jesus is described as a fierce greyhound who will chase off the lions and wolves (who represent sin) that stalk Dante Alighieri and prevent him from finding true happiness. | |
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For Better or for Worse: Farley suffers a fatal heart attack while saving April from drowning in a creek. Edgar the puppy gets an honorable mention for dashing back to the house and alerting the family to the fact that the two are in trouble. | |
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Repede from Tales of Vesperia. He's able to handle a short sword and items extremely well for a dog, and goes up against foes both human and monster alike on a regular basis for the good of the world. | |
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Alpha (2018) has the chronologically earliest example, making this more Heroic Wolf. Alpha saves Keda after he patches up her wounds by helping him get out of a frozen lake and protecting him from a cave lion. | |
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Zig-zagged in the Dusty duology. The first game, Dusty Revenge, has a basset hound who's the game only canine character, and also Friendly Sniper who helps Dusty take down multiple bosses. The prequel Dusty Raging Fist on the other hand have several hostile dogs as mooks. | |
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Cracked.com gives us 7 Dogs That Accomplished More Than We Ever Will. Particularly notable is number six on the list, who was reduced to a footnote in the story of Balto despite technically being the bigger badass (comparatively speaking). On a happier note, he and his team got huskies recognized as an official breed, and are now ancestors of most of the huskies in the US. Balto, on the other hand, had been neutered at a young age, and so contributed nothing to the bloodline. | |
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In Excel♡Saga Menchi usually acts as the emergency food supply, but in episodes that spotlight her she plays the hero. | |
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The Dresden Files: Harry Dresden's dog Mouse, who over the course of the series repeatedly saves Harry's (and others) life, is a proximity detector for evil beings and powers, has the ability to wake an entire building all at once and get them to leave in an orderly manner when the building is set on fire, and mercilessly tears apart any evil being he gets ahold of. It is strongly implied that Mouse is far more intelligent than he usually acts. His presence also greatly intimidated a millenia old sorcerer powered by a Fallen Angel (the first time the usually inflappable Nicodemus seemed afraid of anything). Did we mention that he made Leanansidhe flinch by calling her bluff? He is also extremely loyal and friendly. It helps that Mouse is descended from a guardian dog spirit. | |
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In Boogeyman 2, a dog can appear in the little girl's room. It will start barking if the boogeyman is close. | |
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Poor, beleaguered Buttons from Animaniacs. He's undeniably heroic, charging into danger time and time again to rescue his charge, Mindy, (and getting comically beat up in the process.) He always delivers her home safely, but is usually admonished by his owner for some small infraction (like tracking mud in the house) instead of recognized for his efforts. (Although he does finally get acknowledged in Wakko's Wish.) At least Mindy still likes him. Silly puppy! | |
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Underdog! | |
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Homicide: Life on the Street defied this trope when Pembleton and Bayliss investigate the death of a police dog. The dog's owner notes that the dog wasn't really exceptional in any way and was in fact pretty dopey, but he was a good dog in the ways it counted most: by being a loyal, stalwart, and unconditionally loving companion. | |
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Old Dan and Little Ann, the protagonist's two hunting dogs in Where the Red Fern Grows die fighting off a mountain lion that was attacking their master. | |
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The Lost Boys: When the Frog brothers were cornered by a vampire, it was Nanook the Alaskan malamute (also an Evil-Detecting Dog) who jumped up at it and pushed it into the bathtub where the brothers' holy water supply was stored. (All the more impressive, in that Nanook may well have figured out that this would work, having just seen the brothers splash the vampire with water from the tub and burn its face!) Nanook also bravely guarded Sam from Michael when the latter became a half-vampire and was nearly overcome by Horror Hunger. Thorn, Max's dog, can count from the villain's perspective. He drives away intruding mortals as his master is vulnerable and sleeping. |
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Married... with Children: The Bundy men and Steve take the neighborhood kids camping. Of course things go south, so Al gives their dog, Buck, a note to take to Peggy. As Al predicted, Buck braved the journey and made it home...but refused to give Peggy the note. | |
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Chet, the narrator of the Chet and Bernie detective series. His owner, Bernie, is a private detective who talks to his dog, using him as a sounding board, as he works out his cases. Chet is moral support, attacks on command, and, though he may not be much on deduction, sure can follow a scent trail. | |
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Dog, from the John Wayne western Big Jake, somehow able to figure out what Jacob McCandles wants him to do just from hearing his name called. | |
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Gaspode the Wonder Dog in Discworld, especially Moving Pictures. He's a bit of a subversion, a scruffy mongrel who hates his doggy instincts and seriously resents having to save the day. He can talk, but hardly anyone believes him. Moving Pictures also has Laddie, who looks like a Heroic Dog, but is very, very, stupid. He does however, rescue Gaspode from his Heroic Sacrifice. Wuffles, Lord Vetinari's old terrier, actually manages some heroism in The Truth. He bites Pin and Tulip, gets away, and tells the story of what happened to William de Worde so that he knows Lord Vetinari is innocent. Plucky Dog Puts Bite On Villains. The ghosts of Granny Aching's two sheepdogs, Thunder and Lightning, are sometimes summoned by Tiffany to deal with threats to the Chalk. Their appearance is always a Crowning Moment of Awesome. |
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Mundo Cani of The Book of the Dun Cow is easily the most heroic character in the book, especially when he unhesitatingly takes on a planet-sized demonic snake that is his world's equivalent of Satan and wins, although at the cost of his own life. | |
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Universal Monsters: Gayle Braddock's husky, Snow, in book 2. She comes to Gayle's rescue when the Wolf Man breaks into her bedroom, despite the danger to herself, and gives her life protecting her owner. Fortunately, she revives when the werewolves are all defeated. | |
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Doogee from The Tibetan Dog is a Tibetan Mastiff who is tracking a giant beast that killed his owner, to which he succeeds in the end, being mortally wounded in the fight and then using his last powers to save his new owner from an avalanche. | |
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Guardians of the Galaxy: The second volume has Cosmos, a telepathic Russian dog who under circumstances never explained gained telepathic powers, who operates as the head of security for Knowhere, and is therefore a friend of the Guardians (except Rocket Racoon). | |
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Fluke: The titular stray dog, against a particularly large and vicious rat, critically aids older dog Rumbo. | |
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Koromaru, from Persona 3, who fights interdimensional hellbeasts with the best of 'em with the help of his Persona, Cerberus. | |
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Rex in Fallout: New Vegas; a cybernetic dog with a... colorful history. He is also very old, practically a Time Abyss by dog standards, as he's a pre-War K9 police unit. In Old World Blues you'll find a cybernetic splicing lab where you can create Roxie to accompany you for a while. The DLC's epilogue states that the now fully-operational lab will begin to cultivate armies of cyberdogs to roam the wastes and protect frontier towns. |
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Iron Kingdoms brings us a Khadoran War Dog a good boy so phenominally good he'll protect your army's Wizard-in-command from guns, spells, and multitonne steampowered deathrobots. Both by using his Counter-charge rule to charge anything that comes close to "His Human" and by making said human harder to hit and better able to run from problems. | |
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Fable III continues the tradition - though his successor is thankfully never forced to make a Heroic Sacrifice, he'll follow your hero through seven hells and back again, loyally defending you (and available for snuggles) all the way. | |
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Genevieve from Madeline first appeared in Madeline's Rescue, after seeing Madeline fall into the river. She jumps in and saves the smallest girl from a watery grave. This was also put into the Live action movie and animated series. | |
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Lady and the Tramp: Tramp may be a stray dog who's proud to not be owned by a human, but he does help Lady protecting the baby in the house from a rat (she helps him get into the house, and he fights and kills the rat). | |
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In Resident Evil 4, a dog comes and helps Leon fight a monster - if Leon frees him from a trap earlier in the game, that is. The dog is heavily hinted at to be Hewie from Haunting Ground. | |
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Most of the main characters of the manga/anime Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin are courageous dogs, who band together to fight an evil bear who kills humans and threatens to take over the local mountains. | |
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The Mabari hound party member of Dragon Age: Origins, popularly called Rabbit, Barkspawn or Dog. | |
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Parodied in Azumanga Daioh, when Osaka is worried Chiyo will be kidnapped if she goes to America. Chiyo claims Mr. Tadakichi will protect her. Osaka's response: "BANG! Mr. Tadakichi has just been shot." | |
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Spark the Battle Dog stars the titular Spark, an anthropomorphic dog who needs to protect a kid in a cabin from hordes of zombies and mutants. | |
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In Batman Beyond, Ace (not the Bat-Hound, just a normal dog) does his fair share of rescuing, and does it in the way you'd expect an ex-dog fight contender to do it. | |
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Dogmeat from Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout 3 if the player recruits him. He is almost always the only party member who will never leave you under any circumstances save death. His incarnation in Fallout 4 plays it even straighter: he's implied to have belonged to the (currently besieged) settlers in Concord and will attempt to lead the player back to them for a Big Damn Heroes moment. Rex in Fallout: New Vegas; a cybernetic dog with a... colorful history. He is also very old, practically a Time Abyss by dog standards, as he's a pre-War K9 police unit. In Old World Blues you'll find a cybernetic splicing lab where you can create Roxie to accompany you for a while. The DLC's epilogue states that the now fully-operational lab will begin to cultivate armies of cyberdogs to roam the wastes and protect frontier towns. |
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Valiant Hearts has Walt, the Doberman Pinscher who is invaluable to the human characters, helping them with puzzles, fetching medicine, and distracting enemy troops. | |
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War Dogs: Red's Return: Red is a genetically modified dog person battling the Slaughter Club to free his home from its grasp. | |
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Rex, in Inspector Rex, is a police dog who often does as much hard policing as the rest of his team put together. | |
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One Rocket Age adventure features Timmy, a border collie belonging to Agatha Christie and Enyd Brighton, who can help the heroes get out of some serious scrapes. Characters can also have dogs as sidekicks. | |
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Arwyn's dog Kreeg in Sojourn. Not only is he an Evil-Detecting Dog, but he is badass enough to kill a troll on his own. | |
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Several of Bailey's incarnations in A Dog's Purpose. As Bailey himself, he saves his owner Ethan and his mother during a house fire. For added benefit, he catches the punk who caused it. Then, as Ellie, a police dog, he rescues a drowning girl and saves his handler's life—at the cost of his own. | |
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Cinderella has Bruno, a hound dog who is long in the tooth, but is the only one able to stop the wicked Lucifer when he's easily able to beat back the mice and birds trying to get Cinderella out of her room. | |
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In the backstory of Kara of Rokyn, Krypto joined Superboy in his adventures and saved the life of the Teen of Steel dozens of times. | |
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Inverted with Dick Dastardly's sidekick Muttley. On Wacky Races, Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines and Yogi's Treasure Hunt, he's a villainous yet opportunistic chronic backstabber. In his own segment, Magnificent Muttley, he's a hero. At least in his own daydreams. | |
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In How to Fly with Broken Wings, Finn is beaten so badly in gang riots that he can hardly stand. His Staffie, Buster, pulls on his lead, all but dragging Finn until they arrive safely at Archie's apartment. | |
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Pongo & Perdita, in 101 Dalmatians journey across the English countryside in order to rescue their puppies, as well as adopting eighty-four other puppies, in the process! There are also the united forces of Canines, in the "Twilight Bark" and those who help the Dalmatians, on their journey back to London. An In-Universe Example would also be; Thunderbolt. Thunderbolt himself becomes the mask, in "Patch's London Adventure"? |
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Go to a bookstore, a newspaper stand or a public library and pick up an issue of National Geographic Kids. In almost every trio of Amazing Animals stories, which is a section that is Exactly What It Says on the Tin, there's a story about a dog saving a person from something. | |
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Lucky Luke: Ratanplan is a complete subversion of this trope in all but intentions, usually causing more harm than good and being The Load even in.., ahem especially in video games. He'll try, bless his heart, but he just isn't very good at it. | |
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Fable II: When Lucien has you trapped, a pistol aimed at you, and is about to pull the trigger, you dog leaps in front of you and takes the shot. The dog that has been with you since the beginning of the game. Of course, he shoots you right afterward, but it was pretty awesome and gives you extra motivation to kill the bastard. Fable III continues the tradition - though his successor is thankfully never forced to make a Heroic Sacrifice, he'll follow your hero through seven hells and back again, loyally defending you (and available for snuggles) all the way. |
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The Lorelei Chronicles: Lorelei's dog Baxter sometimes accompanies her and helps out, especially when splitting up is involved. | |
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Ace the Bat-Hound is Batman's heroic dog, who even wears a little dog-styled costume similar to his master's. | |
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Played to the extreme in Gargoyles, where the Gargoyle Bound Bronx, and later another hound from Avalon, who shows up at least twice, help their 'masters'. Bronx exhibits above-average intelligence for a dog - he's no astrophysicist, but can understand basic commands in human speech, and often helps pull his friends to safety. In one episode, Lexington and Brooklyn are trapped in electrified cages, as is Bronx. Out of boredom, Brooklyn pokes repeatedly at the bars, following each spark with a monotone "Ow". Lexington notices the lights flicker, and tells Bronx to escape; he and Brooklyn grab the bars, diverting enough power that Bronx can bend the bars of his cage and run off for help. Gargoyle Hounds in general are much smarter than canines, actually being about as smart as a chimpanzee. |
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Late Phases: Ambrose's German Shepherd Shadow. It starts growling at Ambrose to keep him away from the room where the werewolf is, and then attacks again and again the beast, which has just proved to be so strong to be almost able to punch through walls, to protect his master. | |
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Journey to Chaos: One of the Dragon's Lair mercenaries is Jet, a black lap. He helps Eric find allies during a Rescue Arc. | |
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Missile from Ghost Trick. Follows his mistress into danger and dies, but when he's offered a chance to come back to life he refuses, because he's inherited ghost powers that allow him to protect his mistress better. | |
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Rex, the bomb-sniffing dog from the film Megan Leavey. In one scene, he actually jumps up to pull a soldier down to the ground, taking him out of the line of fire. Plus all the other dogs like him, even if their role isn't as prominent. | |
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In M*A*S*H, the doctors treat a dog named Corporal Cupcake, who deliberately tripped a land mine to save his human partner. | |
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Dex, the bomb-sniffing dog in the NCIS episode "Seek". So much so that at the episode's conclusion—by which point Dex has simultaneously avenged his handler (who was murdered in the opening sequence) by Taking the Bullet for Gibbs, Gibbs declares with 100â„… respect and sincerity: | |
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Parodied in the SCTV sketch "Alice", which featured a "heroic" dog that just ... basically sat there. Everyone around Alice credited her with saving their lives, fending off burglars, etc., but ... she just sat there. | |
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Widdershins has Greenwich, Harriet "Harry" Barber's evil detecting right-hand dog, who we later find out was bred by Harry's younger brother Edward, who has made a career out of breeding and training evil-detecting dogs. | |
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Lassie the heroic collie, star of multiple films and three television series. She's even in a famous 1943 group photograph of nearly all of MGM's contracted actors, sitting left front center right next to Louis B. Meyer himself. Lassie would come to most people's minds as the Ur-Example of heroic dogs on film, except that's actually... | |
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Max in Oz (Caliber), who will leap in fearlessly to attack any monster, no matter how strange. His human masters would be dead many times over if not for Max's bravery. | |
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Fortune Dogs follows The Hero's Journey of a French Bulldog named Alex, who must find the courage to become a heroic dog in order to save a Legendary Tree. | |
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Balto, both the animated version and the real dog he was based on. | |
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Clash of the Wolves: Starring Rin Tin Tin, a German Shepherd. He (and his descendants) portrayed a number of different heroic characters in several films for Warner Bros in the 1920s and '30s, two television series, and multiple radio series, where he provided his own sound effects. Quite a career for a dog. The original Rin Tin Tin died in 1932 at 14, and the role has been kept alive by multiple generations of descendants, with the twelfth generation working as spokesdog for the American Human Association Red Star Emergency Services Program since 2011. | |
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The Littlest Hobo: The dog, London, is the titular character and perpetually Walking the Earth rather than being tied down to one owner. | |
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Pokémon: While Growlithe is the most prominent example, every Pokemon based on a dog is this to some degree. Even Dark-Type ones like Houndour and Poochyena. Stoutland, the final evolution of Lilipup, is described in the 'dex as being highly skilled at rescuing people in snowstorms or lost at sea. The Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 trailer has a Team Plasma grunt order her Seviper to attack the trainers who are interrupting them, skipping the whole 'Pokemon battle' business and going straight to taking out the actual witnesses to their operation. Cue big badass fire-dog Arcanine to the rescue◊, who intercepts the snake and launches it into low orbit with a physics-defying aerial throw. |
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Boney of Mother 3. He's also Flint Norris's dog, and can phase through a speeding train. | |
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Tintin: Snowy is always there for his owner, no matter the threat level, once wishing to die by his grave and he is pretty smart too. | |
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Spike from Rugrats, in the series' first episode, rescues Tommy and Chuckie from the vicious neighbor dog, showing from the very beginning how tough and heroic he could be when protecting 'his babies'. The best example is explained in the Animated Films section above. | |
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Dynomutt, Dog Wonder, although it's a wonder he can do anything right. But come the end of the episode he'll come through. | |
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The Rugrats Movie: Spike tracks down the babies, that had been lost in the woods for a whole day and night, and when finding them, helps Tommy rescue Chuckie from a group of monkeys and later fearlessly battles a huge vicious wolf to protect the babies, nearly sacrificing his life in the process. No wonder why in Rugrats Go Wild! , when he finally gets to talk thanks to Eliza Thornberry's powers, he got voiced by Bruce Willis. |
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In The Coming of Atlas, the eponymous villain has defeated Superman, Supergirl, Superboy and Steel in rapid succession and is about to declare victory when Krypto pounces on him. And Atlas is completely unable to shake him off until Superman is fully recovered and ready for the final round. | |
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The Hills Have Eyes (1977) and The Hills Have Eyes (2006): The surviving dog, Beast, not only manages to be more useful in the survival situation than any of the normal humans, but actually manages to rack up a higher body count than any other single living creature in the entire movie. German Shepherds are pretty renowned for being great guard dogs, and in a situation where his human family is unable to defend themselves, he's going to revert to Papa Wolf mode and kill some bastards. He also had his mate, Beauty, to avenge. Dogs do hold grudges over things like that. The original movie, at least, deconstructs this somewhat with an offhand reference to Beast having killed a poodle at some point in the past, suggesting that his violent tendencies are not always heroic. |
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Scooby-Doo. For over 50 years he's helped capture and unmask criminals using faux supernatural dressings to cover their activities and many times has stepped up to rescue his teenage companions from life-threatening perils. | |
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In Krypton No More, when Superman will not help to drive an alien invasion back, Supergirl turns to Krypto for assistance. | |
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Wuffles, Lord Vetinari's old terrier, actually manages some heroism in The Truth. He bites Pin and Tulip, gets away, and tells the story of what happened to William de Worde so that he knows Lord Vetinari is innocent. Plucky Dog Puts Bite On Villains. | |
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North from Ian's Eyes is the seeing-eye dog of Ian, who's blind. He's also the Player Character. It's up to him to guide Ian through the zombie-infested school to find a way out. | |
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The Sun at Night stars Laika, a dog from space who can talk, wears a high-tech suit with a laser weapon on its back, and is helping a resistance movement take down an evil regime. | |
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Biscuit from Cindy and Biscuit fights side by side with his mistress, and has the odd solo strip. | |
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Densuke from Den-noh Coil plays a major role in the series, especially when he goes down fighting Nulls to protect Yasako. Can you resist his cuteness anyways? | |
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Pepper from The House on the Borderland. He helps his master fight off vicious monsters and later saves said master from falling into a chasm; later, however, he gets killed when the titular house ages his body billions of years in a single instant. | |
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When Courage the Cowardly Dog sees danger, he always cowers in fear. Then he always rescues his family, in spite of being scared. | |
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In the Rainbow Magic series, Rachel's dog Buttons has helped the girls at times. | |
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Old Yeller: Arguably the most tragic, but still one of the most notable and heroic dogs out there. Old Yeller defends his family from all sorts of dangers; from fighting off a Mama Bear when little Arliss messes with a bear cub, fending off a herd of wild hogs and staring down a cow daring to harm Travis, nothing will stop Old Yeller from protecting his family without a fight. Then he fights a rabid wolf when it tries to attack the family. Since he’s bitten and doomed to succumb to rabies, Old Yeller gets the Mercy Kill by Travis himself, albeit reluctantly. | |
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In Blacksad, all the cops are canines - nearly all of them dogs, with at least one fox on the force. | |
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Zip in Last of the Dogmen leads horses by a rope in order to pull two humans to safety. | |
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Game of Thrones: The Stark children's direwolves (particularly Jon's dog, Ghost, and Bran's dog, Summer) often save them. | |
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Pixie and Brutus: Brutus. He used to serve in the military, losing the use of one of his eyes for his trouble, and now he's the personal bodyguard to an adorable kitten. | |
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Hewie from Haunting Ground is the embodiment of this trope. Without him, Fiona would not have a chance in hell of escaping as one bad ending demonstrates. | |
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Benji, one of the smaller examples of this trope, regularly brought help and comfort to people and animals in trouble. Also something of a Real Life savior for fellow-canines, as his film appearances helped improve the image of mixed-breed dogs: their adoption rates at animal shelters shot upwards after his character became popular in the 1970s. | |
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The titular dog from Bingo displays both human level intelligence and intense bravery as he manages to rescue a boy from a bear, rescue hostages AND call the police (seriously, the dog dials the phone), and saves the first boy's family from a suitcase bomb, barely managing to survive the blast himself. As he lays in an emergency room after the bomb, everyone he helped throughout the movie comes to visit him, filling up the entire room. | |
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In Blackest Night, Krypto saves Ma Kent and blasts the living hell out of a Black Lantern. And he helped Superboy's Batman Gambit to get free from the black ring controlling his body, while preventing Conner from killing Wonder Girl. | |
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While his precise amount of heroism is open to question, Milo in The Mask does help his master out of some tight spots. | |
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Parodied in The Late Show (1992) with the Charlie the Wonderdog sketches, whose main joke is that the dog (while harmless) is so badly trained he has to be pulled everywhere by his lead to make it appear as if he's doing anything. | |
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The wolfdog in The Journey of Natty Gann, who sticks with Natty for most of the movie and keeps her safe. Notably, he's portrayed by the exact same animal actor who played White Fang. | |
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In Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?, Alan Moore's Grand Finale for the Pre-Crisis Superman, Krypto ends up sacrificing himself to kill the Kryptonite Man and save his master, fatally poisoning himself in the process. | |
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Doctor Who: During "School Reunion", K-9, a Robot Dog, sacrificed himself to hold back the villains of the episode and give the other characters time to regroup and free the students from mind control. | |
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Asterix: Dogmatix is as heroic as his owners and in at least one story he pretty much saved the day by finding the lost potion. | |
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Skippy the Wonder Dog from Grave Robbers from Outer Space, a version of him appearing as a Running Gag in every different genre the game covers. He's evil in a few. | |
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In Schippeitaro, the cat spirits fear the title dog. The young man triumphs over them by borrowing it. | |
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In Numberjacks Advanced, one of the Numberjacks' allies is a stray dog named Mitzy, who helps them out by distracting the meanies. | |
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Superman: Krypto the Superdog is Superman's pet dog and canine counterpart, helping him and his family fight evil since 1955. In Blackest Night, Krypto saves Ma Kent and blasts the living hell out of a Black Lantern. And he helped Superboy's Batman Gambit to get free from the black ring controlling his body, while preventing Conner from killing Wonder Girl. In The Coming of Atlas, the eponymous villain has defeated Superman, Supergirl, Superboy and Steel in rapid succession and is about to declare victory when Krypto pounces on him. And Atlas is completely unable to shake him off until Superman is fully recovered and ready for the final round. In Power Girl (2009), Professor Ivo clones Krypto and sics the dog on Power Girl. The cloned dog promptly licks her face and joins her. Angrily, Max Lord reminds Ivo that he gave very strict instructions not to clone him. In The Killers of Krypton, Krypto joins Supergirl in her quest across the galaxy to discover the truth behind Rogol Zaar and his claims of destroying Krypton. Krypto's help proves to be invaluable, either beating baddies or taking care of Kara. In Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?, Alan Moore's Grand Finale for the Pre-Crisis Superman, Krypto ends up sacrificing himself to kill the Kryptonite Man and save his master, fatally poisoning himself in the process. In Krypton No More, when Superman will not help to drive an alien invasion back, Supergirl turns to Krypto for assistance. |
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Firehouse Dog: Dewey is able to run into a burning building to help Connor Fahey rescue Jesse Presley, who had been buried in debris from the fire. | |
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In Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, when Shadow (Golden Retriever) and Chance (Bulldog) take care of a lost little girl in the woods and help her family/search party locate her; not to mention fighting and outsmarting a goddamn mountain lion. | |
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Tobimaru from Sword of the Stranger is played straight, protecting the main protagonist from poisoned knives and very nearly giving his life in the process. | |
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Toby, the ghost-sensitive dog from Rivers of London, steps out of his usual comic-relief role to defend a semiconscious Peter from Molly's Horror Hunger in the first novel. Even Peter is amazed by the little dog's nerve. | |
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Ace (the Wonder Dog) features in The Phantom (1943) as the Phantom's animal sidekick Devil. | |
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Naga from The Legend of Korra definitely counts...since she's a Heroic Polar Bear Dog. | |
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Blanca from Shadow Hearts: Covenant is actually a wolf, but makes up for it by being a party member and extra smart. At some point, you start to wonder if Yuri is the hero or the dog's sidekick. | |
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2018 saw the release of Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero, an animated version of the military career of "the most decorated war dog of World War I". The film does take a few liberties, but is largely unvarnished truth. The credits include multiple photos of the real-life Stubby. | |
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Balthazar's Dream has the Player Character Balthazar, who is traversing through a Dream Land in hopes of saving his owner from some dark force that seeks to take him away. | |
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No wonder why in Rugrats Go Wild! , when he finally gets to talk thanks to Eliza Thornberry's powers, he got voiced by Bruce Willis. | |
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Rex the Wonder Dog is a boat-driving, skydiving, cattle-roping, dinosaur-fighting, skiing, fishing, decorated World War II veteran/investigative reporter of a dog. He probably knows more skills than Batman and Mister Terrific combined. He also gained the ability to talk and joined an association of magical beings ... after doing all of the above. | |
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Reddy from The Ruff & Reddy Show is a bit of a moron and prefers to shy away from confrontations, but if his pal Ruff or anyone smaller than its antagonist is in a spot, he'll step up and fight. | |
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This trope is mentioned in "My Hero Zero" in Schoolhouse Rock!'s Multiplication Rock series. | |
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Przygody Psa Cywila has the title character, Cywil, a police dog Too Clever by Half. | |
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Double-subverted with Bolt, who plays a superhero in the in-universe Show Within a Show and thinks it's all real. Even after learning the truth, he saves his owner's life by barking into an air vent from inside a burning building such that firefighters can hear them. | |
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Radium Dog from Defenders of Dynatron City. | |
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Inubaka has Lupin's grandfather, who rescues a four-year-old Suguri from a kidnapping. Lupin himself has a moment where he rescued Kentaro's sister from being abducted by some shady guys. | |
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In Power Girl (2009), Professor Ivo clones Krypto and sics the dog on Power Girl. The cloned dog promptly licks her face and joins her. Angrily, Max Lord reminds Ivo that he gave very strict instructions not to clone him. | |
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Hong Kong Phooey, a karate-chopping "number one super guy", with an equally humble secret identity, ordinary janitor Penrod Pooch. | |
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In The Deserter, Kaleb is accompanied by a nameless dog who is capable of taking down an Apache warrior on his own. The dog takes a particular liking to Crawford and selects him for the team. | |
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Thor, the German shepherd hero of the movie Bad Moon (and the book it was based on, Thor by Wayne Smith), fights a werewolf to protect his family. | |
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Wishbone episode "Barking at Buddha": When Wishbone sees a news story about a heroic dog who saves a child from being hit by a car, he begins to fantasize about being heroic himself, which prompts the episode's adaptation of Journey to the West. | |
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