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** However, most importantly, he's the one doing the experimentation on Rowf in the film.
** Also, he is fully complicit in the social and sensory deprivation experiments (experiments that consists of monkey being stuffed in a container barely large enough to fit it in, and being left there for months and years without any contact with the outside world), which are considered extremely cruel even by people not otherwise concerned by animal experimentation.
** Also, he is fully complicit in the social and sensory deprivation experiments (experiments that consists of monkey being stuffed in a container barely large enough to fit it in, and being left there for months and years without any contact with the outside world), which are considered extremely cruel even by people not otherwise concerned by animal experimentation.
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* AccentSlipUp: He speaks like a posh British gentleman... until Digby Driver shocks him by telling him he knows about his history as a Nazi scientist. [[spoiler:Nazi scientist]]. He also loses the German [[spoiler:German]] accent once the shock wears off again.
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!The Whitecoats
[[folder:Dr. James Robert Boycott]]
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2020_06_09_dr_boycott_1.png]]
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Very, ''very'' little, he's still the guy who basically tortures animals, but unlike in the book, he isn't a jerk to his subordinates, isn't responsible for testing on Rowf, and most importantly, his experiments aren't depicted as brutal and pointless, but as simply brutal. It is mentioned several times that other (reputable) centres had shown interest in his research. Boycott in the book isn't nearly as respected, being more of a heartless incompetent moron with a doctorate.
* BadBoss: In the book, he's presented as basically bullying his assistant Powell. While the animals get the same sadistic treatment in all media, the film drops this aspect of Boycott's personality completely, and he acts rather polite to every human he interacts with.
* BigBad: In the film. The book switches its focus on Digby Driver very soon, whilst Boycott remains the main source of misfortunes for the heroes throughout the whole movie.
* DeadlyDoctor: His experiments often have lethal results.
* DrJerk: While polite, he's cold and uncaring to people around him. Also, his experimentation is notably sadistic.
* ForScience: Zigzagged. He definitely feels like he's doing important research, but most of it is straight up nonsensical.
** He's presented as much more reputable scientist in the film, with Cambridge showing interest in his research into social deprivation. The same experiment is written off as completely pointless in the book.
* HeadInTheSandManagement: Tries to ignore the fact two dogs have escaped his research centre. Remains like this in the book, while the film forces him to take action by hiring Ackland to shoot the dogs.
* MadDoctor: Inverted. His actions are the actions of a madman, but he's very well aware of what he's doing.
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Apart from his specialisation (a neurosurgeon instead of a psychologist), he's very clearly based on Harry Harlow, American scientist (in)famous for his sadistic experiments on monkeys regarding love, maternal feelings and social activities.
** The book even subtly alludes to Boycott's indifference to suffering of others being a result of depression, while Harlow's experiments are believed to have taken an even more sadistic turn after he underwent an electroshock therapy for his depression.
** The social deprivation experiment done on monkeys is based on Harlow's real life experiments, as all experiments depicted in the story are based on ones that took place in the real world.
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[[folder:Dr. Stephen Powell]]
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2020_06_09_watch_the_plague_dogs_online_free.png]]
[[caption-width-right:225:But you don't want it to drown, do you?]]
* AdaptationalJerkass: He isn't the guilt-ridden submissive assistant in the film, but rather an animal researcher in his own right. He supports the experimentation, is much more keen on helping Boycott, and even expresses sadness when he hears Rowf and Snitter escaped, because of the information lost.
* AdultFear: His daughter is terminally ill, and Powell joined the research in hopes of helping to find a cure for her disease.
* CruelTwistEnding: For him. He joined the research to help find a cure for a disease that's killing his daughter, only to be assigned to a research that has nothing to do with it.
** Most importantly, he's the one experimenting on Rowf in the film.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Subverted, while he is someone who takes part in inhumane experimentation on animals, he's doing it simply so he can support his ill, slowly dying daughter.
* FridgeHorror: His ending in the book might seem happy - he finally gets enough confidence to leave and saves an animal that had cruel testing done to it. One might almost forget he is scarred for life because of the experimentation he witnessed and bound to suffer from PTSD. Also, his daughter is still dying.
* SayingTooMuch: Reveals too much about the experiments done in A.R.S.E. to a person that gives him a lift... who turns out to be a reporter.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In the book, being a witness to a pointless sensory deprivation test makes him turn on A.R.S.E., and he leaves to be "a teacher or something". He even takes a monkey that was experimented on with him.
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[[folder:Dr. William Goodner[[spoiler:/Dr. Wilhelm Geutner]]]]
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[[caption-width-right:225:I haff done nothing there. I go in, I go avay again-]]
* AccentSlipUp: He speaks like a posh British gentleman... until Digby Driver shocks him by telling him he knows about his history as a Nazi scientist. He also loses the German accent once the shock wears off again.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Has very likely met Ephraim, as [[spoiler:Goodner was a "researcher" in Buchenwald, where Ephraim remembers being experimented on.]]
* [[spoiler:HerrDoktor: Was a German Nazi scientinst prior to moving to Britain and becoming a naturalised citizen there.]]
* MadScientist: Inverted, he does the most insane research, but seems actually be the most (coldly) rational of all researchers.
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: [[spoiler:While he seems to many as based on Josef Mengele, he is actually a mirror image of Shiro Ishii, the "Japanese Mengele". His research is concerned with diseases, rather than genetics (Mengele's subject), it was deemed legitimate by the victors (Mengele's experiments were instead seen as purely sadistic ventures even at the time), he received a pardon for his results (Mengele remained a wanted war criminal until his death) and was even allowed to carry on researching in some capacity, all of which aligns with Ishii's life story.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Disturbingly, the [[spoiler:ex-Nazi]] scientist researching plagues and testing biological weapons on animals is the only one who seems to know what he's doing. Dr. Boycott is doing pointless experiments with no practical use for the sake of it, Dr. Powell isn't even an expert on animal research who got assigned to the animal research basically by accident. Dr. Goodner, while an awful human being, not only does his (admittedly horrible) job properly, he's the only one of the scientists to not screw anything up. He's also the only one to secure his area, correctly telling Digby Driver there's no way the animals could have got infected (who does ignore this part, in order to make a more catchy headline).
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* DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: Smokes one in every scene.
* JustInTime: Saves himself by sabotaging the kennel door just before Powell and Boycott come investigating how could the dogs escape.
* MomentOfSilence: He's one chatty chap who talks to the caged dogs when attending to them, who in turn won't stop howling and barking. But when a dog dies from earlier experimentation and Tyson has to take his corpse away from the kennel, both he and the dogs become completely silent, with only Tyson's footsteps breaking the soundless moment.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Appears only in the beginning, but the fact he doesn't shut the kennel properly allows Rowf and Snitter to escape.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: In spite of his love for the animals, sees their suffering as acceptable, since the research surely leads to a greater good.
* TokenGoodTeammate: He's the only one who actually cares about the well-being of the animals. He knows every dog a bit, talking to them when he takes care of them, and expresses genuine sorrow when Kiff dies after being electrocuted. That said, he won't help them escape, as he believes the research is for the greater good.
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[[folder:Dr. James Robert Boycott]]
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Very, ''very'' little, he's still the guy who basically tortures animals, but unlike in the book, he isn't a jerk to his subordinates, isn't responsible for testing on Rowf, and most importantly, his experiments aren't depicted as brutal and pointless, but as simply brutal. It is mentioned several times that other (reputable) centres had shown interest in his research. Boycott in the book isn't nearly as respected, being more of a heartless incompetent moron with a doctorate.
* BadBoss: In the book, he's presented as basically bullying his assistant Powell. While the animals get the same sadistic treatment in all media, the film drops this aspect of Boycott's personality completely, and he acts rather polite to every human he interacts with.
* BigBad: In the film. The book switches its focus on Digby Driver very soon, whilst Boycott remains the main source of misfortunes for the heroes throughout the whole movie.
* DeadlyDoctor: His experiments often have lethal results.
* DrJerk: While polite, he's cold and uncaring to people around him. Also, his experimentation is notably sadistic.
* ForScience: Zigzagged. He definitely feels like he's doing important research, but most of it is straight up nonsensical.
** He's presented as much more reputable scientist in the film, with Cambridge showing interest in his research into social deprivation. The same experiment is written off as completely pointless in the book.
* HeadInTheSandManagement: Tries to ignore the fact two dogs have escaped his research centre. Remains like this in the book, while the film forces him to take action by hiring Ackland to shoot the dogs.
* MadDoctor: Inverted. His actions are the actions of a madman, but he's very well aware of what he's doing.
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Apart from his specialisation (a neurosurgeon instead of a psychologist), he's very clearly based on Harry Harlow, American scientist (in)famous for his sadistic experiments on monkeys regarding love, maternal feelings and social activities.
** The book even subtly alludes to Boycott's indifference to suffering of others being a result of depression, while Harlow's experiments are believed to have taken an even more sadistic turn after he underwent an electroshock therapy for his depression.
** The social deprivation experiment done on monkeys is based on Harlow's real life experiments, as all experiments depicted in the story are based on ones that took place in the real world.
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[[folder:Dr. Stephen Powell]]
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[[caption-width-right:225:But you don't want it to drown, do you?]]
* AdaptationalJerkass: He isn't the guilt-ridden submissive assistant in the film, but rather an animal researcher in his own right. He supports the experimentation, is much more keen on helping Boycott, and even expresses sadness when he hears Rowf and Snitter escaped, because of the information lost.
* AdultFear: His daughter is terminally ill, and Powell joined the research in hopes of helping to find a cure for her disease.
* CruelTwistEnding: For him. He joined the research to help find a cure for a disease that's killing his daughter, only to be assigned to a research that has nothing to do with it.
** Most importantly, he's the one experimenting on Rowf in the film.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Subverted, while he is someone who takes part in inhumane experimentation on animals, he's doing it simply so he can support his ill, slowly dying daughter.
* FridgeHorror: His ending in the book might seem happy - he finally gets enough confidence to leave and saves an animal that had cruel testing done to it. One might almost forget he is scarred for life because of the experimentation he witnessed and bound to suffer from PTSD. Also, his daughter is still dying.
* SayingTooMuch: Reveals too much about the experiments done in A.R.S.E. to a person that gives him a lift... who turns out to be a reporter.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In the book, being a witness to a pointless sensory deprivation test makes him turn on A.R.S.E., and he leaves to be "a teacher or something". He even takes a monkey that was experimented on with him.
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[[folder:Dr. William Goodner[[spoiler:/Dr. Wilhelm Geutner]]]]
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* AccentSlipUp: He speaks like a posh British gentleman... until Digby Driver shocks him by telling him he knows about his history as a Nazi scientist. He also loses the German accent once the shock wears off again.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Has very likely met Ephraim, as [[spoiler:Goodner was a "researcher" in Buchenwald, where Ephraim remembers being experimented on.]]
* [[spoiler:HerrDoktor: Was a German Nazi scientinst prior to moving to Britain and becoming a naturalised citizen there.]]
* MadScientist: Inverted, he does the most insane research, but seems actually be the most (coldly) rational of all researchers.
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: [[spoiler:While he seems to many as based on Josef Mengele, he is actually a mirror image of Shiro Ishii, the "Japanese Mengele". His research is concerned with diseases, rather than genetics (Mengele's subject), it was deemed legitimate by the victors (Mengele's experiments were instead seen as purely sadistic ventures even at the time), he received a pardon for his results (Mengele remained a wanted war criminal until his death) and was even allowed to carry on researching in some capacity, all of which aligns with Ishii's life story.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Disturbingly, the [[spoiler:ex-Nazi]] scientist researching plagues and testing biological weapons on animals is the only one who seems to know what he's doing. Dr. Boycott is doing pointless experiments with no practical use for the sake of it, Dr. Powell isn't even an expert on animal research who got assigned to the animal research basically by accident. Dr. Goodner, while an awful human being, not only does his (admittedly horrible) job properly, he's the only one of the scientists to not screw anything up. He's also the only one to secure his area, correctly telling Digby Driver there's no way the animals could have got infected (who does ignore this part, in order to make a more catchy headline).
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[[folder:Harry Tyson]]
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[[caption-width-right:225:Too much for you, was it?]]
* DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: Smokes one in every scene.
* JustInTime: Saves himself by sabotaging the kennel door just before Powell and Boycott come investigating how could the dogs escape.
* MomentOfSilence: He's one chatty chap who talks to the caged dogs when attending to them, who in turn won't stop howling and barking. But when a dog dies from earlier experimentation and Tyson has to take his corpse away from the kennel, both he and the dogs become completely silent, with only Tyson's footsteps breaking the soundless moment.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Appears only in the beginning, but the fact he doesn't shut the kennel properly allows Rowf and Snitter to escape.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: In spite of his love for the animals, sees their suffering as acceptable, since the research surely leads to a greater good.
* TokenGoodTeammate: He's the only one who actually cares about the well-being of the animals. He knows every dog a bit, talking to them when he takes care of them, and expresses genuine sorrow when Kiff dies after being electrocuted. That said, he won't help them escape, as he believes the research is for the greater good.
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* BlatantLies: [[spoiler:Tells Snitter that The Tod will be fine after his heroic sacrifice, because he's to smart to be caught.]] Snitter is too crazy at this point to realize what is going on, and even forgets they're being followed by the army, and simply lies down and asks to be woken up [[spoiler:once The Tod returns]]. However, Rowf is strongly implied to very well know that isn't happening, though he never says it outright.
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* BlatantLies: [[spoiler:Tells Snitter that The Tod will be fine after his heroic sacrifice, because he's to too smart to be caught.]] Snitter is too crazy at this point to realize what is going on, and even forgets they're being followed by the army, and simply lies down and asks to be woken up [[spoiler:once The Tod returns]]. However, Rowf is strongly implied to very well know that isn't happening, though he never says it outright.
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* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace:[[spoiler: Accidentally presses a trigger while trying to climb up a hunter who can't bring himself to shoot him and decided to PetTheDog instead.]] After this happens, he finally breaks, loses all hope to ever find a new master, and starts to take much more refuge in his hallucination.
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* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace:[[spoiler: Accidentally presses a trigger while trying to climb up a hunter who can't bring himself to shoot him and decided to PetTheDog instead.]] After this happens, he finally breaks, loses all hope to ever find a new master, and starts to take much more refuge in his hallucination.
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* AfraidOfDoctors: Expanded to some degree all humans (calling all humans "White Coats", but simply seeing an actual white coat is enough to send him running for his life.
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* AfraidOfDoctors: Expanded to some degree all humans (calling all humans "White Coats", Coats"), but simply while he's unfriendly and aggressive towards most of them, seeing an actual white coat is enough to send him running for his life.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Basically switches personality with Snitter in the end, trying to convince him everything will be okay and tries to sound optimistic. Both Heartwarming and a TearJerker.
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* TheAtoner: Subverted. He believes himself to be required suffer because he feels responsible for the death of his master. It actually helps him in the beginning to handle the harsh reality. However, after he "causes" the death of Ephraim, he starts to believe himself to be BeyondRedemption, and hides for two days to starve in loneliness. Rowf and The Tod manage to find him, but he never truly recovers, at one point allowing himself to be captured, believing he deserves the suffering he's subjected to in A.R.S.E.
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* TheAtoner: Subverted. He believes himself to be required to suffer because he feels responsible for the death of his master. It actually helps him in the beginning to handle the harsh reality. However, after he "causes" the death of Ephraim, he starts to believe himself to be BeyondRedemption, and hides for two days to starve in loneliness. Rowf and The Tod manage to find him, but he never truly recovers, at one point allowing himself to be captured, believing he deserves the suffering he's subjected to in A.R.S.E.
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* WaifProphet: To Rowf's TheBigGuy.
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* WaifProphet: To Rowf's TheBigGuy.
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* ADogNamedDog: The Tod is a northern slang word meaning fox. Ironically, he's the only one of the trio to not be a dog, who both have names.
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* ADogNamedDog: The Tod is a northern slang word meaning fox. Ironically, he's the only one of the trio to not be a dog, who while both dogs actually have names.
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* HeelFaceTurn: It's very subtle and easy to miss, but The Tod that openly exploits the dogs in the beginning is very different from The Tod that [[spoiler:sacrifices himself to save the dogs in the end.]]
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!The Main Trio
[[folder:Rowf]]
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rowf_4.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:225:I'll fight... I'll tear their white coats...]]
* ActionPet: Avoided. He's just a normal dog trying to survive.
* AfraidOfDoctors: Expanded to some degree all humans (calling all humans "White Coats", but simply seeing an actual white coat is enough to send him running for his life.
* AnimalTesting: Drown and brought to life repeatedly, leaving him with a crippling phobia of swimming.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In the beginning, desires to be feared by humans, which does happen soon after, when he's believed to have been infected with the Bubonic Plague.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Unlike Snitter, he isn't hopeful about their future, but expresses desire to do anything to avoid being killed, including literally suicidal thoughts.
* TheBigGuy: To Snitter's WaifProphet.
* BlatantLies: [[spoiler:Tells Snitter that The Tod will be fine after his heroic sacrifice, because he's to smart to be caught.]] Snitter is too crazy at this point to realize what is going on, and even forgets they're being followed by the army, and simply lies down and asks to be woken up [[spoiler:once The Tod returns]]. However, Rowf is strongly implied to very well know that isn't happening, though he never says it outright.
* BreakTheCutie: Happens time and time again.
* [[spoiler:DeathByAdaptation: Drowns in the film.]]
* GrumpyBear: Up until the end.
* HumansAreBastards: Believes humanity is inherently evil.
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: After starving once it starts snowing, eats a hunter who fell to his death when trying to shoot him.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Basically switches personality with Snitter in the end, trying to convince him everything will be okay and tries to sound optimistic. Both Heartwarming and a TearJerker.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Has a phobia of swimming in water, as a result of all the testing.
* StrawNihilist: He never had any nice life outside of the laboratory, and as a result, believes he's predestined to suffer all his life. [[spoiler:He is proven right in the film.]]
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Is believed, along with Snitter, to carry the Bubonic Plague.
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[[folder:Snitter]]
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/snitter.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:225:I'm in my own head now... and it's where I should be]]
* ActionPet: Avoided. He's just a normal dog trying to survive.
* AdoptTheDog: All Snitter ever wants is to have a nice master again. [[spoiler: The book grants him his wish, the film does not.]]
* AfraidOfDoctors: Though unlike Rowf, his fear is only of humans in white coats and/or with knives.
* AnimalTesting: Had a brain surgery to connect his conscious and subconscious mind, which leaves him with hallucinations, suffering from seizures and imagining things, like flies in his head. He also repeatedly expresses desire to put his head in cold water to "stop the burning".
* TheAtoner: Subverted. He believes himself to be required suffer because he feels responsible for the death of his master. It actually helps him in the beginning to handle the harsh reality. However, after he "causes" the death of Ephraim, he starts to believe himself to be BeyondRedemption, and hides for two days to starve in loneliness. Rowf and The Tod manage to find him, but he never truly recovers, at one point allowing himself to be captured, believing he deserves the suffering he's subjected to in A.R.S.E.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler: In the end, to run away from the army, "sees" an island and swims towards it. However, it is heavily implied he imagined island from the beginning, allowing himself to be drowned rather than to be shot. DeusExMachina saves him in the book, whereas the film proceeds with DownerEnding.]]
* BreakTheCutie: Happens time and time again.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Because of the experiments, he suffers from frequent hallucinations, loses trail of thought, suffers from seizures and repeatedly has moments of imagining flies in his head hurting him. The book also describes him as seeing constant raining in one eye.
* TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight: Occasionally, he will predict things in his hallucinations, most notably in the beginning, when a hallucination tells him "The door is not a wall anymore", after which Rowf discovers the janitor didn't close his kennel properly. Also, when he sees military helicopters in the sky, he describes them as the flies from his head, and in his last vision sees a man torture and kill all animals, namely describing whales - of which he had no previous knowledge.
* [[spoiler:DeathByAdaptation: Drowns in the film.]]
* DoomMagnet: Believes he attracts misfortune because he's responsible for the death of his master. After one seizure, he also believes that his death will be the end of the world, and threatens to kill himself to imaginary humans.
* {{Escapism}}: His mental state worsens each time something bad happens, with him openly accepting being "inside his own head" after getting caught, and only snaps out of it once he's literally dragged away by The Tod. This suggests that he might be using his hallucinatory state as a way to deal with (i.e. escape) reality.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Is believed, along with Rowf, to carry the Bubonic plague.
* HeroWorshipper: Idolizes The Tod, even trying to imitate his accent on an occasion.
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace:[[spoiler: Accidentally presses a trigger while trying to climb up a hunter who can't bring himself to shoot him and decided to PetTheDog instead.]] After this happens, he finally breaks, loses all hope to ever find a new master, and starts to take much more refuge in his hallucination.
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: After starving because of the winter, he eats a hunter who fell trying to shoot Rowf.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Though he becomes less and less optimistic as the story progresses, his sudden loss of any hope in the end is shocking to see, especially how it contrasts with usually pessimistic Rowf, who desperately tries to keep him from giving up.
* SanitySlippage: His mental state worsens as the story progresses. He starts of as having an occasional vision [[TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight that even sometimes come true]], and is capable of functioning normally. By the end, he basically lives in his own fantasy world.
* TalkativeLoon: Snitter contrasts heavily with mostly silent Rowf, and is a bit crazy.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: How he sees the world.
* WaifProphet: To Rowf's TheBigGuy.
* WickedStepmother: Got sold off to the A.R.S.E. by his master's sister, who didn't want to take care of him.
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[[folder:The Tod]]
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tod_4.png]]
[[caption-width-right:225:You? Wild animals? I've never seen anyone dafter!]]
* [[spoiler: AllForNothing: His sacrifice in the film does allow Rowf and Snitter to board a train and run away... only to be seen by a helicopter and forced to run into a sea, where they'll probably die.]]
* CunningLikeAFox: A rare case of this trope played literally, The Tod is shown to be much more intelligent than any other animal.
* ADogNamedDog: The Tod is a northern slang word meaning fox. Ironically, he's the only one of the trio to not be a dog, who both have names.
* CynicalMentor: He is slimy, selfish and seems to only mentor the dogs to get food easily. He doesn't show how much he cares for them up until the end.
* FunetikAksent: He's a Geordie and his lines are written to reflect that.
* GoodIsNotNice: He helps the dogs and is ultimately shown to genuinely care about them, but he still is a wild animal, and will act seemingly selfish at many points.
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice: In the book, he lets himself be chased after by hounds during a hunt to allow Snitter to escape, and one of the hunters is then described as tossing a "fox's body" to his hounds. In the movie, he misleads military dogs after himself, who then proceed to kill him, to allow Rowf and Snitter escape the army.]]
* HumansAreBastards: Unlike Rowf, doesn't actively hate humans for the way they are, but sees them as his enemies.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Comes across as a jerk, especially in the beginning, but the truly cares for the dogs.
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: He causes a hunter to fall to his death when he was trying to shoot Rowf. The starving animals then eat him.
* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: Comes across as very self-serving and selfish. However, that is only the result of The Tod being a wild animal who's used to care only for himself, and he's shown to genuinely care for the dogs even after Rowf tries to attack him for eating a whole nest of chicken eggs without telling them about it.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: He's usually very confident in his abilities, but loses his calm demeanor when he distracts the hunting hounds (in the book)/military dogs (in the film). In the book, he keeps his posture to say goodbye to Snitter, while in the film, he gives clear instructions to the dogs to run directly no matter what. In both media, once the dogs are gone, his behaviour changes the moment they're gone. He knows he might not be getting out of this.
* OopNorth: He's a Geordie.
* {{Slimeball}}: A rare positive example. He comes across like this a lot, but his actions slowly show he does have good intentions.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Subverted, Tod isn't actually his name, but a slang word for a fox OopNorth. The film portrays it as if The Tod is really his name, but the book contains a scene where he has problems understanding the concept of having a name.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Subverted. Initially joined the dogs just to have a influx of food without having to do much work, but at some point, he started caring so much for them he is willing to risk his life to help them.
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!The Main Trio
[[folder:Rowf]]
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rowf_4.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:225:I'll fight... I'll tear their white coats...]]
* ActionPet: Avoided. He's just a normal dog trying to survive.
* AfraidOfDoctors: Expanded to some degree all humans (calling all humans "White Coats", but simply seeing an actual white coat is enough to send him running for his life.
* AnimalTesting: Drown and brought to life repeatedly, leaving him with a crippling phobia of swimming.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In the beginning, desires to be feared by humans, which does happen soon after, when he's believed to have been infected with the Bubonic Plague.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Unlike Snitter, he isn't hopeful about their future, but expresses desire to do anything to avoid being killed, including literally suicidal thoughts.
* TheBigGuy: To Snitter's WaifProphet.
* BlatantLies: [[spoiler:Tells Snitter that The Tod will be fine after his heroic sacrifice, because he's to smart to be caught.]] Snitter is too crazy at this point to realize what is going on, and even forgets they're being followed by the army, and simply lies down and asks to be woken up [[spoiler:once The Tod returns]]. However, Rowf is strongly implied to very well know that isn't happening, though he never says it outright.
* BreakTheCutie: Happens time and time again.
* [[spoiler:DeathByAdaptation: Drowns in the film.]]
* GrumpyBear: Up until the end.
* HumansAreBastards: Believes humanity is inherently evil.
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: After starving once it starts snowing, eats a hunter who fell to his death when trying to shoot him.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Basically switches personality with Snitter in the end, trying to convince him everything will be okay and tries to sound optimistic. Both Heartwarming and a TearJerker.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Has a phobia of swimming in water, as a result of all the testing.
* StrawNihilist: He never had any nice life outside of the laboratory, and as a result, believes he's predestined to suffer all his life. [[spoiler:He is proven right in the film.]]
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Is believed, along with Snitter, to carry the Bubonic Plague.
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[[folder:Snitter]]
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/snitter.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:225:I'm in my own head now... and it's where I should be]]
* ActionPet: Avoided. He's just a normal dog trying to survive.
* AdoptTheDog: All Snitter ever wants is to have a nice master again. [[spoiler: The book grants him his wish, the film does not.]]
* AfraidOfDoctors: Though unlike Rowf, his fear is only of humans in white coats and/or with knives.
* AnimalTesting: Had a brain surgery to connect his conscious and subconscious mind, which leaves him with hallucinations, suffering from seizures and imagining things, like flies in his head. He also repeatedly expresses desire to put his head in cold water to "stop the burning".
* TheAtoner: Subverted. He believes himself to be required suffer because he feels responsible for the death of his master. It actually helps him in the beginning to handle the harsh reality. However, after he "causes" the death of Ephraim, he starts to believe himself to be BeyondRedemption, and hides for two days to starve in loneliness. Rowf and The Tod manage to find him, but he never truly recovers, at one point allowing himself to be captured, believing he deserves the suffering he's subjected to in A.R.S.E.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler: In the end, to run away from the army, "sees" an island and swims towards it. However, it is heavily implied he imagined island from the beginning, allowing himself to be drowned rather than to be shot. DeusExMachina saves him in the book, whereas the film proceeds with DownerEnding.]]
* BreakTheCutie: Happens time and time again.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Because of the experiments, he suffers from frequent hallucinations, loses trail of thought, suffers from seizures and repeatedly has moments of imagining flies in his head hurting him. The book also describes him as seeing constant raining in one eye.
* TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight: Occasionally, he will predict things in his hallucinations, most notably in the beginning, when a hallucination tells him "The door is not a wall anymore", after which Rowf discovers the janitor didn't close his kennel properly. Also, when he sees military helicopters in the sky, he describes them as the flies from his head, and in his last vision sees a man torture and kill all animals, namely describing whales - of which he had no previous knowledge.
* [[spoiler:DeathByAdaptation: Drowns in the film.]]
* DoomMagnet: Believes he attracts misfortune because he's responsible for the death of his master. After one seizure, he also believes that his death will be the end of the world, and threatens to kill himself to imaginary humans.
* {{Escapism}}: His mental state worsens each time something bad happens, with him openly accepting being "inside his own head" after getting caught, and only snaps out of it once he's literally dragged away by The Tod. This suggests that he might be using his hallucinatory state as a way to deal with (i.e. escape) reality.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Is believed, along with Rowf, to carry the Bubonic plague.
* HeroWorshipper: Idolizes The Tod, even trying to imitate his accent on an occasion.
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace:[[spoiler: Accidentally presses a trigger while trying to climb up a hunter who can't bring himself to shoot him and decided to PetTheDog instead.]] After this happens, he finally breaks, loses all hope to ever find a new master, and starts to take much more refuge in his hallucination.
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: After starving because of the winter, he eats a hunter who fell trying to shoot Rowf.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Though he becomes less and less optimistic as the story progresses, his sudden loss of any hope in the end is shocking to see, especially how it contrasts with usually pessimistic Rowf, who desperately tries to keep him from giving up.
* SanitySlippage: His mental state worsens as the story progresses. He starts of as having an occasional vision [[TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight that even sometimes come true]], and is capable of functioning normally. By the end, he basically lives in his own fantasy world.
* TalkativeLoon: Snitter contrasts heavily with mostly silent Rowf, and is a bit crazy.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: How he sees the world.
* WaifProphet: To Rowf's TheBigGuy.
* WickedStepmother: Got sold off to the A.R.S.E. by his master's sister, who didn't want to take care of him.
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[[folder:The Tod]]
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tod_4.png]]
[[caption-width-right:225:You? Wild animals? I've never seen anyone dafter!]]
* [[spoiler: AllForNothing: His sacrifice in the film does allow Rowf and Snitter to board a train and run away... only to be seen by a helicopter and forced to run into a sea, where they'll probably die.]]
* CunningLikeAFox: A rare case of this trope played literally, The Tod is shown to be much more intelligent than any other animal.
* ADogNamedDog: The Tod is a northern slang word meaning fox. Ironically, he's the only one of the trio to not be a dog, who both have names.
* CynicalMentor: He is slimy, selfish and seems to only mentor the dogs to get food easily. He doesn't show how much he cares for them up until the end.
* FunetikAksent: He's a Geordie and his lines are written to reflect that.
* GoodIsNotNice: He helps the dogs and is ultimately shown to genuinely care about them, but he still is a wild animal, and will act seemingly selfish at many points.
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice: In the book, he lets himself be chased after by hounds during a hunt to allow Snitter to escape, and one of the hunters is then described as tossing a "fox's body" to his hounds. In the movie, he misleads military dogs after himself, who then proceed to kill him, to allow Rowf and Snitter escape the army.]]
* HumansAreBastards: Unlike Rowf, doesn't actively hate humans for the way they are, but sees them as his enemies.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Comes across as a jerk, especially in the beginning, but the truly cares for the dogs.
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: He causes a hunter to fall to his death when he was trying to shoot Rowf. The starving animals then eat him.
* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: Comes across as very self-serving and selfish. However, that is only the result of The Tod being a wild animal who's used to care only for himself, and he's shown to genuinely care for the dogs even after Rowf tries to attack him for eating a whole nest of chicken eggs without telling them about it.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: He's usually very confident in his abilities, but loses his calm demeanor when he distracts the hunting hounds (in the book)/military dogs (in the film). In the book, he keeps his posture to say goodbye to Snitter, while in the film, he gives clear instructions to the dogs to run directly no matter what. In both media, once the dogs are gone, his behaviour changes the moment they're gone. He knows he might not be getting out of this.
* OopNorth: He's a Geordie.
* {{Slimeball}}: A rare positive example. He comes across like this a lot, but his actions slowly show he does have good intentions.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Subverted, Tod isn't actually his name, but a slang word for a fox OopNorth. The film portrays it as if The Tod is really his name, but the book contains a scene where he has problems understanding the concept of having a name.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Subverted. Initially joined the dogs just to have a influx of food without having to do much work, but at some point, he started caring so much for them he is willing to risk his life to help them.
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