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Popular culture can help us out. When the villain has a 'personal pet', as opposed to a shark tank or alligators, it's generally a cat. Though sometimes dogs,
by dsq 4y ago
Popular culture can help us out.
When the villain has a 'personal pet', as opposed to a shark tank or alligators, it's generally a cat. Though sometimes dogs, either a Doberman or German shepherd. So, relatively big dogs.
I don't recall the hero ever having a pet.
Maybe this is the proof for the trope that women prefer the bad boy?
/jest
- nolok 4y agoJohn Wick comes to mind, especially the part where the director explained having the dog died allowed them to have absurd amount of revenge violence committed by the hero later on and still feel justified for the audience. On my phone so I can't look up the articles but the quote was more or less "once we killed the dog, Wick was allowed to do anything he wanted"
- dsq 4y agoAbsolutely, John Wick stands out. Though I think he started out villainous in the backstory.
- latexr 4y ago> I don't recall the hero ever having a pet. See TV Tropes’ Loyal Animal Companion[1] for a list of lists of examples. Like Canine Companion[2], which itself contains Post-Apocalyptic Dog[3], which links to I Am Legend[4], The Road Warrior[5], and others. I’ll stop before going too deep into this rabbit hole. [1]: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LoyalAnimalCompanion https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LoyalAnimalCompa... [2]: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CanineCompanion https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CanineCompanion [3]: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PostApocalypticDog https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PostApocalypticD... [4]: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/IAmLegend https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/IAmLegend [5]: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheRoadWarrior https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheRoadWarrior
- dsq 4y agoThanks for those examples. Great reading!