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12[-[[caption-width-right:244:Aww, look at the cute, lit...cute gigantic doggie!]]-]
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14A giant canine. Any canid will do: domestic dogs, [[WolfTropes wolves]], [[ThoseWilyCoyotes coyotes]], [[CunningLikeAFox foxes]], etc., as long as it's far bigger than any in real life. Temperament varies from the AngryGuardDog on the one end to the BigFriendlyDog on the other, but since an animal's size is more often than not '''perceived''' to be proportional with how dangerous it is, the former tends to be more expected... which can make subversions all the funnier when a supposedly dangerous giant dog/wolf turns out to be as cute, playful and benign in behavior as your average puppy.
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16May or may not be a case of AnimalsNotToScale, depending on what real-life species (or, in case of domestic dogs, breed) it most closely resembles, if at all.
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18A SubTrope of DireBeast. A SisterTrope to MegaNeko, RodentsOfUnusualSize.
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20Compare PreciousPuppies, {{Hellhound}}, and CuteGiant. And who's afraid of TheBigBadWolf?
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28* In ''Manga/AnimalLand'', wolves like Jeek's father and other canines are huge.
29* Belle from ''Anime/BelleAndSebastian'' is a large white Pyrenean Mountain dog.
30* Pluto from ''Manga/BlackButler'', which can turn into a white haired human but keeps a dog mind. And can {{breath|Weapon}}e [[IncendiaryExponent fire]].
31* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Captain Sajin Komamura is the largest Gotei captain ''and'' a wolf. [[spoiler: He has nothing on his [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] ancestor, who turns out to be ''even bigger'' - to put it on perspective, the Leader is at least '''five''' times bigger than Koma himself.]]
32* Giant canines are a RecurringElement in ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'':
33** [[https://wikimon.net/Dobermon Dobermon]] is a giant doberman pinscher digimon. In ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' it's accompanied by a human partner, sent by the Digimon Sovereigns to assist the tamers in battling the D-reaper by giving them the ability to biomerge in the real world.
34** Gabumon's evolved form, [[https://wikimon.net/Garurumon Garurumon]], is a wolf big enough to be ridden with no problem. Being an evolution of one of the franchise's mascots, it tends to appear in a lot of ''Digimon'' media. There's also [[https://wikimon.net/Garurumon_(Black) a viral palette-swap]] that shows up less often.
35** There's the saber-toothed shiba dog, [[https://wikimon.net/Gaogamon Gaogamon]], in ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad''.
36** [[http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Seasarmon Seasarmon]], the lion-dog digimon with [[PowerOfTheSun solar attacks]], and [[http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Caturamon Caturamon]] the Dog-deva digimon, who has a surprisingly large effect on the plot of ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' despite being a member of the QuirkyMinibossSquad.
37** [[http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Cerberumon Cerberumon]] is another big dog Digimon based on Cerberus of Greek myth; it can evolve from all of the above except Gaogamon. ''Anime/DigimonAdventure2020'' features a Cerberumon so big that one of its heads is nearly as large as the already bus-sized Komondomon, quite possibly making it the largest example of this trope in the franchise. It leads a pack of car-sized [[SavageWolves Fangmon]].
38** ''Anime/DigimonFusion'' introduces Dorulumon, a big orange wolf with drills all over his body. He usually serves as either one member of a FusionDance or as an EquippableAlly.
39** Komondomon from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure2020'' is an eight-legged [[AnimalVehicleHybrid hybrid]] of a Hungarian sheepdog and a troop transport the size of a double-decker bus. Komondomon is a ''[[BigFriendlyDog very]]'' good boy, always making the protection of its passengers its first priority.
40** Loogamon, the main Digimon of ''Literature/DigimonSeekers'' evolves into Loogarmon, a muzzled, flame-spouting wolf with giant forelegs. Its dark evolution [=HelLoogarmon=] and Mega form [=FenriLoogamon=] are even larger and are WreathedInFlames.
41* ''Manga/{{Duklyon}}: Clamp School Defenders'' - Ineffectual villain Imonoyama uses a growth ray to enlarge the duo's beloved dog, Inuko, into a giant monster dog. Fortunately, she still retains her playful personality and is "defeated" when an equally enlarged Takeshi commands her to shake hands with him, awwwww!
42* Kaibutsu from ''Anime/GingaDensetsuWeed''. According to the Ginga wikia, he weighs at around 1200 pounds.
43* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'': Kagura's big dog Sadaharu.
44* In ''Manga/InuYasha'', Sesshomaru, his father and his mother all have true forms that are this. [[spoiler:In parts of the manga not yet officially published in English, there is a giant mountain dog and a giant fox kami]].
45* The second MonsterOfTheWeek in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha''. Unlike the later MegaNeko, this erred more towards the monstrous-looking side.
46** Arf and Zafira can both take on the form of wolves, though they look more like foxes when not in their puppy forms.
47* ''Anime/MyHime'': Natsuki Kuga's [[AttackAnimal CHILD]], Duran, is a pretty large mecha-wolf she can ride on. [[spoiler:During her climatic fight with Shizuru Fujino, whose CHILD is a kaiju-sized hydra-octopus, Natsuki's Duran grows into a massive wolf of equal size.]]
48* Fenrir's real form in ''Manga/MythicalDetectiveLokiRagnarok''; see below under Myth/NorseMythology.
49* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
50** Akamaru grows quite huge after the ''Shippuden'' timeskip. [[spoiler:And don't even think about [[OmnicidalManiac Pain's]] Giant Multi-Headed Dog, one of the most perfectly terrifying creatures incarnate.]]
51** The nine-tailed fox, who was quite large when he was going around rampaging. It's interesting to wonder how large he actually is now that he's sealed inside Naruto. The one-tailed tanuki too because although tanukis resemble raccoons greatly, they're actually dogs.
52* In ''Manga/NatsumesBookOfFriends'', Nyanko-sensei's true form is a giant inugami.
53* Kotarou's full beast form in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegieMagi''. The series also had a Cerberus, complete with the [[ShownTheirWork mane of snakes and dragon tail of the original Greek versions that most modern depictions omit]]. It didn't have the right number of heads, so Nodoka also theorizes that it might actually be [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthrus Orthrus]].
54* ''Manga/NuraRiseOfTheYokaiClan'':
55** Yura's shikigami Tanro is a massive wolf twice as tall as she is.
56** Inugami, who grows to absolutely massive size when he's angry, which is most of the time.
57* ''Manga/OnePiece'' featured a zombie Cerberus, and a squad of dog-riders in Enies Lobby. There was also wolf-man Jabura, Ohm's giant attack dog Holy, and possibly Mr. 4's dog-gun Lassoo. Yamato can turn into a huge white wolf due to his [[devil fruit abilities]].
58* Moro from ''Anime/PrincessMononoke''. Her ([[WildChild non-San]]) children are quite a bit larger than normal wolves, and are implied to be ''young children''. She is considerably bigger compared to them.
59* In ''Literature/RebuildWorld'', The largest of the cannon dogs Akira encounters is so huge that it dwarfs the nearby buildings. Akira is barely as large as its pupil, and he empties his clip in a panic on Alpha's orders in a desperate but successful attempt to kill it.
60* ''Literature/SpiceAndWolf'': Holo is a harvest deity whose true form is a very, VERY large wolf.
61* [[FluffyTheTerrible Terry Cloth]] the Battlewolf from ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' starts out pretty big (an adorable puppy that comes up to the main character's waist) and as the story progresses grows to truly gigantic proportions. [[spoiler:We get a good look at a full-grown Battle Wolf in Chapter 263 which looks like it's the size of a building at the very least.]]
62* In ''Literature/WoofWoofStory'', the main character is reincarnated into a puppy who is adopted by a wealthy noble girl in a fantasy world after he died of overwork as a Japanese salaryman. This was after a goddess apparently granted his wish to be reborn as a pet to live an easy life. The first hint that he's not a normal dog is when he looks in a mirror and realizes that he is ''much'' larger than his owner after only one month after his adoption.
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66* The ''ComicBook/AtomicKnights'' rode giant Dalmatians who had been gentically altered due to exposure to radiation.
67* ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'': Bigby's true form which he can assume anytime he wishes is that of a huge wolf as tall as a two story house.
68* John Constantine of ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' once had to put down a ghost-possessed bulldog the size of a rhino.
69* Lockjaw from ''ComicBook/TheInhumans'', though for a while he was considered an Inhuman mutated into his current form, as per Creator/JohnByrne. This later got retconned into Gorgon and Karnak playing a cruel joke on [[ComicBook/FantasticFour the Thing]].
70* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' features Fenrir, the giant wolf from Myth/NorseMythology, as a member of Thor's RoguesGallery. This version is also a shapeshifter, powerful enough to take on [[ComicBook/DoctorStrange Dormammu]], and the progenitor of many wolf gods and spirits. The latter tidbit ends up making him [[spoiler: a "grandfather" of sorts to [[ComicBook/NewMutants Wolfsbane's]] son, who was fathered with Hrimhari, one of Fenrir's many kids.]] Personality wise, he's mean and aggressive, but also [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes deeply protective of his children/descendants]] and isn't totally unreasonable. Still a major-league {{Jerkass}}, but he could be worse.
71* ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' had the giant dog Martin Tenbones, about the size of a small car, originally the [[ImaginaryFriend imaginary playmate]] of Barbie, the protagonist of the "A Game of You" arc, but who came into the waking world to try to warn her about the arc's villian, giving her The Porpentine, a magical amulet, before [[spoiler: he was shot and killed by the authorities]]. Despite being a BigFriendlyDog, upon his appearance he terrified an itinerant woman half to death.
72* The epilogue of the Creator/EmilyCarroll horror comic anthology ''ComicBook/ThroughTheWoods'' is a short story where a RedRidingHoodReplica travels through the woods to her grandmother's house safely and without incident. In her room that night, she looks out the window at the moon and comments out loud what a pleasant walk it was and how she knew the wolf wouldn't get her. The moon promptly turns out to be [[ThatsNoMoon one of the wolf's eyes]], and he takes a moment to address her, leaving her traumatized and her confidence shattered.
73-->'''Wolf:''' Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again, and you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time. But the ''wolf''... [[EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once]].
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77* ''Animation/MaxipesFik'': Maxipes (dog=pes) Fík, the dog hero from Czech animated shorts for children. When a girl named Ája (pronounced Ah-ya) got him as a puppy, he was normal-sized, but he grew to enormous size. He grew even bigger when he drank a barrel of beer, and Ája's father had to build a garage-like [[BiggerOnTheInside dog-house]] for Fík.
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81* ''Fanfic/TheBeastOfGusu'': Shifters' animal forms are all slightly bigger than regular animals, but wolf shifters are stated to become massive, to the point where it’s rumoured that a wolf alone could take down an army.
82* ''Fanfic/ADiplomaticVisit'': In chapter 9, while Twilight and Swift-Pad are meeting the students at the Ponyville Schoolhouse, Snails mentions a legend about the Dire Wolves, larger wolves that supposedly inhabit the land that the Three Tribes migrated away from, and asks if Swift-Pad's people are related to them. Later, when meeting Wise-Mind, Packleader of the Strong-Defend pack, Twilight sees how much larger and more intimidating he is in appearance and thinks to herself that he looks like what she'd expect of the Dire Wolves that Snails described.
83* ''Fanfic/GuardiansWizardsAndKungFuFighters'': After [[spoiler: Jade]] becomes a Shapeshifter, she can transform into a giant wolf.
84* ''Fanfic/TheMoonstoneCup'': The lands north of Equestria are home to giant sapient wolves. Their ruler, the immortal god-wolf Amarok, is immense -- he's easily larger than Celestia, who is herself around three times a regular pony's height.
85* ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'': Zim's new ally [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Norlock]] has a pet wolf named Phil, who's described as being the size of a horse and built like a silverback gorilla.
86* In the ''Fanfic/ATroublesomeCharge'' series, Fairy the spiritual dog is normally the size of a small pony. She gets even bigger in battle!
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90* Due to the shifted scale, Toby from ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' qualifies. He's an ordinary pup, but all the other characters are mice.
91* In {{Steampunk}} cartoon ''WesternAnimation/MrHublot'', a cute little mechanical puppy grows (somehow) into an enormous mechanical dog that is several times larger than its owner.
92* The titular Big Paw from ''WesternAnimation/PoundPuppiesAndTheLegendOfBigPaw'' is a giant ''puppy''.
93* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Wolfwalkers}}'', adult [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Wolfwalkers]] are huge in their wolf forms, standing eye-to-eye with grown men. Meanwhile, child Wolfwalkers like Mebh are a bit smaller than an average wolf.
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97* ''Film/DigbyTheBiggestDogInTheWorld''. The titular hound is a freakishly huge Old English Sheepdog who grew due to drinking liquid growth formula.
98* King Caesar from the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' movies. Maybe. The mythological creature that he is based on (a shisa, hence his name) has attributes of both dogs and lions. Further complicating things is the fact that he is not a flesh and blood creature but rather an elaborate LivingStatue, though this isn't really made clear in his introduction.
99* The three giant dogs from ''Film/{{Hulk}}''.
100* The wolves in ''Film/TheJungleBook2016''. They're at least twice the size of real grey wolves.
101* Gmork from ''Film/TheNeverendingStory''.
102* ''Film/Rampage2018'': Ralph is a mutated wolf that grows to the size of a {{Kaiju}}.
103* The Beast in ''Film/TheSandlot'' is played by a real dog, but photographed to appear almost supernaturally large. Then again, the canine actor was a mastiff who weighed over 200 pounds, pushing this trope into RealLife territory.
104* ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' has Fenris, a gender-swapped version of Fenrir (see Comics section). She's as tall as a building and wide enough to take up the entire Rainbow Bridge. During the finale, she ends up [[CoolVersusAwesome having a brutal battle with the Hulk]]. Notably, she's big and powerful enough to make the Hulk bleed -- something few people, aside from [[Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008 The Abomination]], has ever been able to do.
105* Brutus the Great Dane from ''Film/TheUglyDachshund''.
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109* In ''Literature/BlackLegion'' Khayon's bond creature, [[OurDemonsAreDifferent daemon]] Gyre, takes a form of enormous Fenrisian she-wolf. Khayon notes, though, that she doesn't really act like a wolf.
110* Pictured above: ''Literature/CliffordTheBigRedDog''. The girl over there is his owner, Emily Elizabeth. Note that Clifford was born the runt of the litter; we're told that his growing to that size was a direct result of [[ThePowerOfLove Emily Elizabeth's love]].
111* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' has Mouse, who gets his name as a puppy when Harry has him riding around in his pocket for the book. Turns out he had a whole lot of growing to do. Harry often makes jokes about the fact that Mouse is the size of a pony (literally; Harry is somewhere in the region of 6'8'' tall, and Mouse's shoulders come to his waist), ranging from calling him a "West Highlands Dogasaurus" to, "He's a mutt. Half mastiff, half woolly mammoth." He's also explicitly magical and seems to be somewhere around human intelligence, although his inability to speak can make it tough to tell exactly how much he knows.
112* In ''Literature/TheGeneralSeries'' standard cavalry mounts are dogs bred up to the size of horses, and described as between eight- and fifteen-hundred pounds of fur, fangs and bad tempers.
113* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Fluffy from ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'' is a three-headed dog that is inspired by [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Cerberus]]. He is big enough to nearly fill a room.
114* The lack of ShapeshifterBaggage for [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent Lycanthropes]] in the ''Literature/KittyNorville'' books mean that werewolves range from 100-pound "That's a big one." to 250-pound [[OhCrap "AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!"]] wolves when they shift.
115* The feral dogs in ''Literature/LocksmithsCloset''. Some of them are three feet tall at the shoulder and weigh about 200 pounds. Others are bigger than that.
116* The ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' loves its huge canines:
117** The T'lan Ay are huge prehistoric wolves. And [[TheUndead Undead]] to boot, as they've been extinct for about 320,000 years, when the T'lan Imass decided to include them in the Ritual of Tellann, which made the Imass undead.
118** The [[HellHound Hounds of Shadow]] and eventually the [[spoiler:Hounds of Light]] also count. They're said to be the size of ponies, and the former can travel between realms using [[CastingAShadow shadow magic]] as they are basically the pets of the King of High House Shadow. They are also thousands, if not hundreds of thousands years old.
119** The Deragoth, or Hounds of Darkness, are supposed to be even bigger and to reseble bears in size. They may be even older than the Hounds of Shadow, old enough, in fact, to once have domesticated early humans as ''their'' pets.
120** There is also Ryllandaras, a man/jackal [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting]] [[{{Animorphism}} beast]] that towers over everyone around it.
121* Werewolves in ''Literature/MercyThompson'' ''always'' gain mass when they take wolf form. This means that a human woman who weighs 110 lbs turns into a 180 lb wolf while a 180 lb man turns into a 250 lb wolf. The wolf forms of characters like Adam and Charles are described as being enormous.
122* In ''Literature/OperationChaos'' by Creator/PoulAnderson, the werewolf hero can be a 180-pound man or a 180-pound wolf.
123* Literature/{{Percy Jackson|AndTheOlympians}}'s lovable hellhound Mrs. O'Leary.
124* Fully grown [[NobleWolf direwolves]] in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' are the size of a pony.
125* The adults in ''WesternAnimation/SpotTheDog'''s world. At least, in the early books, and assuming the scale of their houses are one-to-one with those of the human world.
126* Creator/RogerZelazny's ''Literature/ThisImmortal'' has Bortan, Conrad's dog he once found as a puppy and reared, never imagining it would grow as big as a horse -- with plates at his sides and other mutations -- or live for as long as thirty years and counting. If not for natural causes ([[{{Mutants}} mutation through radiation]]), Bortan would qualify as a {{Hellhound}}, and Conrad even calls him one repeatedly.
127 -->'''Conrad:''' Was there ever another dog the size of a small horse, with armor plates on his sides, and jaws like a trap for bears?
128* ''Literature/TimeOutOfTime'': Gwydon is a massive wolf with the ability to fly.
129* ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'':
130** Orcs occasionally ride Wargs (most noticeably seen in ''Literature/TheHobbit''), which are giant evil wolves.
131** Also, ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' has Huan, the huge intelligent dog (good), and Carcharoth, the huge (were)wolf (evil).
132* The Quileute shapeshifters in the ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' sequels turn into wolves as big as horses.
133* In Creator/LewisCarroll's ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'', Alice briefly encounters a puppy about the size of a minivan. (Actually the puppy is normal; [[IncredibleShrinkingMan it's Alice who is anomalous.]]) Its boisterousness makes it more than a little frightening.
134* ''Literature/TheWolvesOfParis'' is based on the Beast of Gévaudan. In the book, the Beast of Gévaudan is a wolf-dog who's several feet larger than a human. This is because his father was an alaunt, a breed known for being huge.
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138* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': The Stark direwolves, which are an unusually large and intelligent species of wolf.
139* The {{Big Good}}s of ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' and ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' are anthropomorphic dog aliens named Doggie Kruger/Deka Master and Anubis 'Doggie' Cruger/SPD Shadow Ranger respectively. Bonus points for ''both'' being voiced by Creator/TetsuInada in Japan (he was Kruger's original VA, but SPD gets a RecursiveImport so he's back to dub Cruger).
140* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E16 The Elevator]]", Roger and Will find a dead dog that ate their father's super food and became a giant. It was killed by something larger which they later discover was a GiantSpider.
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144* [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek Mythology]]:
145** Cerberus which also is three-headed and, depending on the story, is on fire or possesses a mane of snakes.
146** Orthros, the hound of Geryon, Orthros had two heads and a snake for a tail.
147* Myth/NorseMythology:
148** Garm like Cerberus, guards the Underworld (Hel).
149** Fenrir, the son of Loki and a giantess, who bit off the hand of the god Tyr; fated to kill Odin. Fenrir in particular is enormous. When he opens his mouth his lower jaw is on the ground and his upper jaw hits the sky.
150** Sköll who is fated to consume Sól, aka the sun.
151** Hati who is fated to consume Máni, aka the moon.
152** If you go back far enough the Valkyries rode wolves the size of war horses.
153* Black Shuck, the mysterious [[HellHound Black Dog]] from Norfolk folklore, is sometimes said to be the size of a horse. Smaller than some other examples here, but still much bigger than a dog should be.
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157* Tony Hancock bought a pet puppy for his girlfriend Andrée in one episode of ''Radio/HancocksHalfHour'', said puppy turned out to be one of these.
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161* In ''Roleplay/TheDaoOfTheAwakened'', there is Tianlang, a Spirit Wolf living at a Font, is about the size of a house.
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165* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': Various forms of giant wolves (and, sometimes, other canids and vulpines) have shown up throughout the games. The iconic three, which seem to show up in every setting, are Dire Wolves (regular wolves, but bigger and stronger), Wargs/Worgs (Dire Wolves with human-like intelligence and evil alignments), and Winter Wolves (Wargs that [[AnIcePerson have a freezing cold bite attack and]] BreathWeapon).
166* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' has [[http://magiccards.info/shm/en/68.html Hollowborn Barghest]], a very big dog. That's not dry grass it's standing in -- those are ''trees''.
167* The mammoth rider PrestigeClass in ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' allows players to have a Huge (roughly elephant-sized) wolf if they want to, among other possible choices of massive animal companions.
168* The Literature/{{Space Wol|f}}ves of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' ride giant wolves called [[https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Fenrisian_Wolf Fenrisian Wolves]] (named after their homeworld). How giant? They can take a ''seven-foot-tall'' Viking SpaceMarine in PoweredArmor to ride and some reach the size of a [[AwesomePersonnelCarrier Rhino tank]], (whose carrying capacity is ten of the aforementioned PoweredArmor-wearing {{Space Marine}}s).
169* Werewolves in ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' and ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken'' can take on five forms, including a 800 pound bipedal wolf-headed war-beast and a dire wolf that is only marginally smaller and even more nimble to make up for the lack of thumbs.
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173* In ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' some of the enemies are this trope, with a massive, [[ManOnFire fiery]] Guardian of [[EldritchAbomination the Great Old Ones]] serving as one of the bosses of the Chalice Dungeons.
174* Giant wolves in the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' games.
175* ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'' has the Great Grey Wolf Sif, a giant wolf that wields a giant sword. In the DLC, which takes place centuries in the past, you can meet Sif as a puppy, and they are still slightly larger than a fully grown normal wolf. ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'' has the Greatwolves of the Painted World, which are just as massive as Sif. One is the RightHandAttackDog of the Champion's Gravetender and serves as one half of a DualBoss fight against the both of them. The "regular" wolves found in the DLC count as well, with the pack leaders being the size of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bWF0dbZTIQ horses]].
176* The Mystic Beasts in the ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' series are large horned canids, and seemingly a popular form of transportation, judging from some scenes in ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 4| A Promise Unforgotten}}''. In the same game, they can [[MakeMyMonsterGrow become even bigger]] in battle if another monster merges with them.
177* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'': Savage versions of regular biomes include, among other things, giant versions of all normal animals, including canids (with the exception of actual dogs, as domestic animals don't have giant versions). Giant coyotes are larger than elk, giant dingos are the size of bears, giant foxes are about four times the size of a dwarf and giant wolves are the biggest canids of any sort and grow larger than polar bears.
178* Demon Canine from ''VideoGame/EasternExorcist'' is a doberman-turned-giant monster terrorizing a village, who can grab and lift a whole person in it's jaws.
179* ''VideoGame/EternityTheLastUnicorn'' have Ulfstorr, a gigantic wolf fought in an arena who can spam magical fireballs besides clawing you to shreds. As the game is based on Norse myths, Ulfstorr could be related to the Fenris Wolf.
180* The mutated dog-boss in ''VideoGame/FurFighters''. An unusual boss as it saw two mutated spouses instead of one. The other rode around on-top of the beast.
181* ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'': An honourable mention for [[ADogNamedDog Dog]], Alyx Vance's enormous robotic pet that she's apparently owned since she was a child. He doesn't ''look'' much like a dog (at least not anymore, she's [[WrenchWench an enthusiastic and skilled mechanical engineer]] and probably upgraded him pretty extensively) but certainly acts like one.
182* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'':
183** The Zinogre, a LightningBruiser who was the only Fanged Wyvern in the series before ''World.'' It's a huge, fast and agile electric wolf.
184** ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterRise'' introduces the Canyne, a very large dog that's big enough to be employed as a mount. Canynes that are trained to accompany Hunters, including for riding, are known as Palamutes.
185* ''VideoGame/Pikmin4'' introduces Oatchi, a dog-like creature that can carry around tens of Pikmin under the player's control, as well as the player themself. [[spoiler:The FinalBoss, the [[AngryGuardDog Ancient Sirehound]], is about four times Oatchi's size.]]
186* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' has some notable examples:
187** The Fire-type Pokémon Arcanine, which is big enough to ride around on.
188** While Houndoom itself is not that big (though is larger than the dog breeds it most resembles), its [[SuperMode Mega Evolution]] clocks in at 6'03", the same size as Arcanine (although its horns make up a fair amount of that additional height).
189** ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' bring the [[OlympusMons cover legendaries]], which are a pair of wolves that are both over 9 feet long and likely stand as tall as Arcanine. Zamazenta is nearly 3 meters long!
190*** Also from ''Sword and Shield'', any Dynamaxed canid Pokémon counts as this.
191** ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'' introduces Hisuian Arcanine, a regional variant which is slightly bigger than the base version. Then you encounter [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-5t8htuQWo Arcanine, Noble Lord of the Isles]], who is easily 10 feet tall at his head.
192* Old Red in ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheAzranLegacy'' is, as his name indicates, a huge old red-furred wolf. He's so threatening-looking that he constantly scares the town of Torrido. [[spoiler: Which is actually completely unintended, as he merely has the FaceOfAThug: he just wants to see his old friend again.]]
193* In the ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' series, Feli owns a giant armored {{hellhound}} named Baldanders. Despite towering over a lot of the other characters and disliking Feli's crush Lemres, Baldanders is actually quite sweet and is even willing to go out of his way to help Feli be with Lemres.
194* ''VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria'' has the boss Therion Orthrus, which is a giant two-headed dog with fire and wind attacks. [[spoiler: It's actually the merged form of two dogs that belonged to [[ChildhoodFriends Niko]] who was killed by Velvet when she first became a Therion herself. Velvet talks them down from killing her for the sake of {{Revenge}} until after ''she'' has had her own revenge.]]
195* ''VideoGame/TokyoAfterschoolSummoners'':
196** Fenrir, an anthropomorphic wolf transient, is able to [[{{Sizeshifter}} change into a gargantuan size]] that's similar to his mythological counterpart.
197** While he isn't a {{Sizeshifter}}, Horkeu Kamui, another wolf transient, stands over 6 ft. tall, making him one of the larger companions in the game.
198* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'': the [[MeaningfulName Greater Dog]] (who turns out to be a dog in PoweredArmor) and in addition the [[MeaningfulName Lesser Dog]] (an actual dog-man). [[spoiler: There is also the Endogeny Amalgamate, which is the largest of the dog type monsters by a considerable margin. It initially looks and acts terrifying, but in the end, it turns out to actually be a BigFriendlyDog.]]
199* Orcs in ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' games ride large wolves too.
200** Some bosses in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''. Mostly [[MeaningfulName Fenrus the Devourer.]] That thing is MASSIVE.
201** The game's lore features Goldrinn, the wolf god. A picture shows Goldrinn carrying a kodo, a lizard the size of an elephant, in his teeth as if it were the size of a rabbit.
202* In the finale of ''VideoGame/TheWolfAmongUs'', it's revealed that Bigby's true form is [[spoiler:a wolf the size of a ''Triceratops'']].
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206* Parodied with ''WebAnimation/CyanideAndHappiness'': [=S1E3=]'s "Clawford The Big Blue Cat", which is a huge pain in the ass and kills the owner's mother. WHO CARES?! SHE HAS A DECIMATING GOLIATH!
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210* ''Webcomic/AllNightLaundry'' has one. At the beginning he's big, but not impossibly big. He's been bigger in each of his appearances since [[spoiler: due to damage to Bina's Timeline]].
211* ''Webcomic/{{Battlepug}}'', follows the life of a barbarian and his oversized dog, many other oversized creatures also appear.
212* ''Webcomic/ABeginnersGuideToTheEndOfTheUniverse'': While traveling along the train tracks, Snuffy and Ryan are attacked by a void wolf around twice the height of an elephant.
213* ''Webcomic/CryHavoc''[='s=] werewolves become this with a full moon. They stand about 6 feet tall at the shoulder, and are capable of standing on two legs, raising their height to nearly 12 feet. Needless to say, they also weigh more than most cars.
214* ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'': The Sarghress breed extra large riding wolves.
215* In ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'', Reynardine's true form is that of a large fox, and Ysengrin is an even larger wolf. But it is Coyote himself who can [[ShapeShifting become]] [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=286 truly massive,]] towering over even Ysengrim.
216* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': Hinjo's mount Argent is a rather oversized dog/wolf. Also subverted when Belkar gets a [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0140.html riding dog]].
217* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' author Jeph Jacques is the proud owner of a Great Pyrenees, one of the huge breeds, named Shelby. Inevitably, she's appeared in his non-canon work a [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1661 couple]] [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1730 times]].
218* ''Webcomic/QuestOfCamelittle'' has Black Fang, a creatively-named wolf puppy who can grow bigger at his own will.
219* [[http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/comic/rhapsodies-date-135/ Mitzi]] from ''Webcomic/{{Rhapsodies}}''.
220* ''Webcomic/SleipnirEquineInvaderFromJupiter'': Fenrir--named after the giant god-eating wolf from Norse mythology--is a cyborg canid kaiju that grows larger the more it eats and can mutate into more powerful forms.
221* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Dogs tend to be horse sized, or larger, and are used as [[HorseOfADifferentColor saddle hounds]] as there are no actual horses in the setting.
222* ''Webcomic/ZebraGirl'': Wally the werewolf is much larger in canine form than an ordinary wolf.
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226* In the {{superhero}} WebSerialNovel ''Literature/{{Gamer Girl|2016}}'', the first enemy encountered by superhero partners Gamer Girl and Fangirl is the Canine, an SUV-sized, pariah dog-like monster coated in fangs.
227* In WebSerialNovel ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', one character, Bitch, has the ability to make dogs temporarily grow into giant, spiky monstrous forms. When she gets a wolf cub, it definitely fits this trope when transformed, particularly as it transforms better than the dogs do (it's less deformed by the transformation), possibly because wolves are just better.
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231* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', we see giant wolves in the spirit world.
232* In the episode "Ace in the Hole" in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' Terry (aka Batman) is locked in the dog fight ring with a vicious gigantic mutated mastiff.
233* The ghost dog in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' has the ability to grow several times its normal size whenever it feels threatened. Lots of destruction occurs.
234* The title character from ''WesternAnimation/DinkyDog''.
235* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', Timmy needs some enemy that would scare Catman enough to [[RivalsTeamUp team up with his rival]] Crimson Chin. Cosmo has one [[DumbassHasAPoint bright]] moment and summons a HumongousMecha Dog.
236* The ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' episode "Legend of the Lake" tells a story set in prehistoric times where a cave cat tries to reach a distant island with lasagna trees that's guarded by cave dogs. Eventually he succeeds, only to discover to his horror that the dogs were "five whole times his size", easily towering over him. To be fair, the island was far away enough that from his starting point, the dogs looked normal-sized.
237* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'' has the Black Hound, an enormous black dog with glowing eyes that is mentioned several times throughout the series and becomes the main focus of the final episode.
238* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': Commodore Puddles (Drakken's toy poodle [[MakeMyMonsterGrow who became giant via a growth ray]]) from "Rufus vs Commodore Puddles".
239* In ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts'', which takes place a few centuries into the future, dogs are some of the only animal species to not have evolved speech or wear clothes. On the other hand, they are all bigger than an average elephant, and some of them have multiple eyes.
240* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', Korra's CanineCompanion is Naga, a [[MixAndMatchCritters polar-bear dog]] so massive that she easily serves as Korra's HorseOfADifferentColor, [[http://www.toplessrobot.com/2011/07/avatar_the_legend_of_the_biggest_damn_dog_and_to_a.php as seen here]]. Naga's dog side is predominant. Occasionally, though, her ''bear'' side shows through, and it is ''scary''.
241* In ''WesternAnimation/LumberjackRabbit'', WesternAnimation/BugsBunny discovers a patch of giant carrots being grown by Myth/PaulBunyan, but also finds they're being guarded by a giant dog named Smidgen.
242* ''WesternAnimation/TheSolidTinCoyote'' is one of the Franchise/LooneyTunes cartoons directed by Creator/RudyLarriva. That winless coyote constructs a GiantMecha coyote with which to pursue the Road Runner. The towering behemoth actually succeeds in capturing the quarry, but disposes of the coyote instead, due to obeying ExactWords.
243* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'':
244** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'': "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE20PonyPuppy Pony Puppy]]" features Dinah, a dog who is, at the minimum, the size of a rhinoceros, and she's still only a puppy.
245** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has Cerberus, a bulldog the size of your average house. The [[{{Planimal}} Timber Wolves]] can also combine into one massive wolf in the same size range as Cerberus, and Orthros, (yes, [[Myth/ClassicalMythology that one too]]), while not as massive, is still substantially bigger than most ponies.
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249* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canis_Major constellation of the same name]]. It is the {{Trope Namer|s}}.
250* Subverted by real dire wolves. Despite fiction commonly portraying it as being nearly the size of a horse, they were actually no taller or longer than modern grey wolves (though they were more heavily built) and actually smaller than some of the largest breeds of domestic dog. Played straight, however, by the prehistoric canid ''[[https://www.newdinosaurs.com/epicyon/ Epicyon]]'', which grew to the size of a lion.
251* ''[[https://prehistoric-fauna.com/Amphicyon-ingens Amphicyon ingens]]'', a [[PrehistoricMonster bear dog]] that prowled Miocene North America, could grow up to the size of a kodiak bear. Bear dogs, despite the name, are more closely related to dogs than to bears.
252* Tibetan mastiffs can easily outgrow humans, with a squatting mastiff at the same height of a human adult.
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