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9Dogfaces, or dognoses, are [[LittleBitBeastly nearly human]] dogs that populate the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse, ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse, ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' (and [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017 2017]]), ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'', ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'', ''WesternAnimation/AnExtremelyGoofyMovie'' and some of the WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts. One even shows up in the ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack'' episode "All Hands on Duck". WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} is considered to be a dogface as well. Similar character designs have been used by other cartoon studios as well, though Disney is largely the TropeCodifier.
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11This trope is very prominent in the works of Creator/CarlBarks, who initially wanted to draw humans for the Donald Duck comics, but Disney insisted on keeping humans out. Barks compromised by adding pig or dog noses to the human designs he drew, though occasionally he did manage to sneak in actual humans. Creator/DonRosa followed Barks's lead, though he would sometimes drop the "dog snout/ears" element, making them basically humans with black noses.
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13'''Physical Characteristics Common to Dogfaces/Dognoses:'''
14* They often have [[FurIsSkin fur in human skintones]] or no fur at all.
15** WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} and Max have black fur all over their bodies. Goofy has a flesh-colored muzzle and Max has a flesh-colored face.
16** In ''WesternAnimation/MickeyDonaldGoofyTheThreeMusketeers'', the Beagle Boys have grey fur all over.
17* They usually have muzzles like dogs.
18* They almost always have [[HumanlikeFootAnatomy feet shaped at least somewhat like human feet]].
19* They [[InexplicablyTailless do not have tails]].
20* They often have [[FurryFemaleMane human-like head hair]], and sometimes have human-like facial hair and body hair.
21* Unlike characters like Donald, Mickey, or even Goofy, their species is almost never mentioned, and they are only referred by generic terms like person (with the notable exception of Ma Beagle and the Beagle Boys).
22* They usually have black or brown (typically button) noses.
23** But Goofy Jr., Max's prototype, has a pink nose.
24* They usually have ears that flop ("rose ears" like those of a greyhound or bulldog) or those that droop ("pendant ears" like those of a bloodhound). Occasionally they will be drawn mistakenly with human ears.
25** But [[WesternAnimation/GoofTroop Pistol]] has erect ears like a Chihuahua, [[WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie Roxanne]] has ears that [[FurryEarDissonance look like human ears]], and Goofy Jr., [[WesternAnimation/AnExtremelyGoofyMovie Sylvia]][[note]]her tresses are treated as ears instead[[/note]], and [[WesternAnimation/GoofTroop Peg]] are drawn ''[[ArtisticLicenseBiology without any pinnae (ear flaps)]]'' whatsoever.
26** Sometimes they will have completely humanlike ears.
27* They usually range in portrayal from FunnyAnimal to LittleBitBeastly.
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29Related, but slightly less common are similar human designs with minimal animal features added. The second most common tends to be people with pig-noses/ears, but others may show up such as bird people with "[[HumanlikeFootAnatomy feather feet complete with toes]]" or cat eared people.
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31Even though they are most prominent in the Creator/{{Disney}} universe, dogfaces/dognoses are not exclusive to Disney. In fact they are ostensibly OlderThanDirt since the concept of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynocephaly cynocephali]] has been documented in many ancient civilisations from ancient Greeks to Inuit.
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33!!Tropes that apply to Creator/{{Disney}} Dogfaces:
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35* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: There is a dogface version of Bigfoot in ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie''. A dogface version of the Yeti appears in the [[VideoGame/DuckTales video game adaptation]] of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987''.
36* CartoonCreature
37* DenialOfAnimality: They act completely human, they are almost never acknowledged to be dogs, and they refer to themselves as "people", "person", "man", "men", and any other human-related term. They don't refer to themselves by any dog-related term at all. They don't even act anything like dogs. [[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse Mickey]], Minnie, and Mortimer are still referred to as mice, and [[WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck Donald]], Daisy, the Nephews, Scrooge, Von Drake, and the rest of the Duck family are still referred to as ducks, however.
38* DependingOnTheArtist: Sometimes, dognoses are drawn with human-like ears.
39* ExecutiveMeddling: Carl Barks loved drawing humans, and wanted to include them in his [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Donald Duck stories]], but the higher ups demanded Dogfaces to be used all the time. He sneaked some humans here and there, before completely sending his bosses' wishes to screw themselves with his classic story ''Dangerous Disguise'', in which Donald and his nephews are the sole ducks in a world otherwise exclusively populated by humans. Barks got the warning of his life for that one, and was forbidden from using humans ever again. His chief editor declared that it simply looked bad, and that it "took the ducks out of their own world". Subverted in the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck ''cartoons''. If you pay attention, dogfaces populate Donald's world only in the earliest shorts; unlike many of the WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse toons before, Don's universe was much more likely to shelter actual humans; in fact, ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack'' settled on using them instead of dogfaces because there was already a rich history of duck-human interactions on these WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts.
40* FantasticRacism: A mild example. The two richest residents of Duckburg are duck people, while most of the middle and lower classes and seemingly the entire criminal element (the Beagle Boys) are made up entirely of Dogfaces. Think about it.
41* FullyDressedCartoonAnimal
42* FunnyAnimal
43* FurIsSkin: Many of them have this, it is just common for them to just not have fur at all.
44* FurryBaldness: Some older male Dogfaces have this.
45* FurryFemaleMane: Most of the female dogfaces have these, though a lot of male dogfaces have human-like head hair too.
46* FurryLens: Of all the classic Disney cartoon and comics animals, dogfaces are the most contextually human ones (more so than the mice and ducks), rarely slipping a FurryReminder if any.
47* FurryReminder:
48** One dogface in ''WesternAnimation/AnExtremelyGoofyMovie'' catches a Frisbee in his mouth as a normal dog would.
49** In one episode of ''Goof Troop'', Goofy himself says, "I'm great with dogs. It's like I'm one of the family."
50* HistoricalDomainCharacter: In some works, dogface versions of historical characters can appear. In particular Creator/DonRosa apologized for depicting UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt as a dognose for the sake of consistency in ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck''.
51* HumanlikeFootAnatomy: They have feet like those of humans.
52* HumanoidFemaleAnimal: The female Dogfaces in ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'', ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'', ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'', and ''An Extremely Goofy Movie'' are a little more likely to be humanlike, to the point where their noses, muzzles, and ears can often be their only non-human feature. Though male dogfaces aren't immune, particularly when they are caricatures of celebrities or historical figures.
53* OlderThanYouThink
54* SpeciesSurname: Completely averted, but for some reason played straight with [[QuirkyMinibossSquad the Beagle Boys]] and Penny Pooch from ''Minnie 'N Me'' line of merchandise.
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56!!Disney Examples:
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58* ''WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts'': The shorts depicting Goofy as "George Geef" depict him with a furless body outside of his head. In a few shorts, George Geef even had ears. Pete and his (unnamed) son in their [[TheCameo Cameo]] in "Father's Week End" appear similar.
59* Most secondary, tertiary and background characters in the [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Donald Duck]] and [[ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse Mickey Mouse comic universes]]. Chief O'Hara and Neighbor J. Jones are both broadly doglike.
60* ''Franchise/DuckTales'':
61** Ma Beagle and the Beagle Boys of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' and ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' are notable for their name actually calling attention to their species. There's also Scrooge's butler Duckworth, who despite his name is a dog rather than a duck, and minor baddie/ally Dijon/Faris D'jinn.
62** ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'', a SpinOff of the former show, has Dogfaces as well. Characters like Jambalaya Jake are bog-standard Dogfaces, though other anthropomorphic dog characters (such as The Liquidator) have more canine-looking heads and faces.
63* ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'': Goofy, Max, WesternAnimation/{{Pete}}, and P.J. have dogface (or catface for the latter two) furless bodies like in the George Geef shorts. Most other characters are full-on, flat-out dogfaces with occasional people with cat or pig features such as the customers in "Goofin' Up the Social Ladder".
64* In ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'' and ''WesternAnimation/AnExtremelyGoofyMovie'', Goofy and Pete revert back to having furred bodies like in the classic shorts.
65* Some of the relatively minor characters in ''WesternAnimation/MickeyAndTheRoadsterRacers'' have these features, but some of them are actual anthropomorphic animals such as elephants and goats.
66* Surprisingly averted with Penelope Poodle from ''WesternAnimation/MinniesBowToons''; she is an anthropomorphic poodle instead of a dogface.
67* ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'': The character Dr. Doppler is actually one of these, though he atypically evidences some canine behavior traits, and coexists with actual humans (namely Jim Hawkins and his mother).
68* ''VideoGame/TreasurePlanetBattleAtProcyon'': The Canid species, which includes the aforementioned Dr. Doppler, is an example of this.
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70!!Tropes that apply to non-Disney Dogfaces:
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72* BlackfaceStyleCaricature: Some black African people in early 20th-century comics were drawn to look rather like short-muzzled, black-furred dogfaces with peach or light skin tone muzzles. Unfortunately, this may be where this trope has its roots.
73* CaptainErsatz: The bank robbers in [[http://disneyweirdness.blogspot.com/2010/10/excellent-idea.html this John Stanley "Woody Woodpecker" strip]] look awfully like the [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Beagle Boys]].
74* FullyDressedCartoonAnimal
75* FurIsSkin: Like the Disney ones, most of them have this.
76* OlderThanYouThink
77* SpeciesSurname: Mostly averted as with the Disney examples, but somehow played straight with the titular character of the WesternAnimation/{{MGM Oneshot Cartoon|s}} "Officer Pooch".
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79!! Non-Disney Examples:
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84* Cheadle Yorkshire from ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' looks very much like a dog but is actually a human who had her appearance changed as such to match her role as a Zodiac Hunter (the Dog Sign).
85* Iggy from ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' zigzags this trope. Earlier on, his face looks like that of an actual, if fairly ugly, dog, but around [[DayInTheLimelight the fight with Pet Shop]], Araki started drawing him with a very human-looking face to have him facially express more emotions. The anime goes about this by making Iggy's face slowly develop from his "ugly" face to his "cute" face, finishing his face's development at the Pet Shop fight.
86* In a grislier example, ''Manga/OdeToKirihito'' features Monmow Disease, which causes the victim's head and facial features to mutate into a more canine form.
87* A majority of the characters of ''Anime/SherlockHound'' have this trait.
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91* This might be the most common subtype of FunnyAnimal in ''ComicBook/{{Bamse}}''. Examples include: Knocke and Smocke, the pirates, Burre, Miss Fiffi, et cetera.
92* '''Mazing Man'': Maze's best friend/{{Heterosexual Life Partner|s}}, Denton Fixx, is fully human, but has a dog face (though it makes him look like a dogface) -- see the {{floating head|Syndrome}} in the upper left [[http://d1466nnw0ex81e.cloudfront.net/iss/600w/482/104821/645444.jpg here]].
93* Dogfaces even show up in Creator/WalterLantz's ''[[http://stanleystories.blogspot.com/2010/02/killer-not-filler-john-stanleys-woody.html New Funnies]]'' comics that also feature WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker.
94* Leo Ortolani's peculiar style makes all of his human characters look like not dogs, but monkeys. This is especially evident for the protagonist of ''ComicBook/RatMan1989'', who without his Rat-costume seems perpetually naked and in fact looks like a monkey rather than a human.
95* The 1960 issue 11# of the ''Literature/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer'' comic series by Creator/DCComics, which ran from 1950 to 1962, features Rudolph encountering western bandits and cowboys who are all anthropomorphic dogs.
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99* Most of Gondoland's population in ''WesternAnimation/MuzzyInGondoland'', with the exception of the green goblinoid Corvax and possibly the King (who looks like anthropomorphic lion but can be considered a Dogface with mane-like hair).
100* The characters in the movie ''WesternAnimation/RockAndRule'' are all hyper-evolved rats, cats and dogs which created their own civilization after [[AfterTheEnd humanity nuked themselves]]. Outside of having animal muzzles and ears, the majority of them look totally humans.
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104* ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' has Barf the Mog -- half man, half dog ("I'm my own best friend") and looks the part, complete with nose and ears.
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108* The Whos from various Creator/DrSeuss works (like in ''Literature/HortonHearsAWho'') are similar to Disney's dogfaces. They are a type of DemiHuman in the animated and live-action versions of ''WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', though.
109* ''Literature/KeysToTheKingdom'': A literary example would be the Fetchers from ''Mister Monday''.
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113* The musicians and people on the album cover of Music/FrankZappa's ''Music/CruisingWithRubenAndTheJets'' all have dog noses and ears. Album cover designer Cal Schenkel did this as an {{Homage}} to Creator/CarlBarks. On the album cover of ''Music/ThePerfectStranger'' and ''Francesco Zappa'', another dogfaced creature is shown, wearing sunglasses.
114* Music/TheClash's album ''Music/{{Sandinista}}'' has liner notes formatted like a fictitious newspaper, "The Armegideon Times". All the illustrations in this newspaper feature cartoon dogfaces rather than humans.
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118* The titular character of ''VideoGame/ParappaTheRapper'' looks like a dogface with floppy ears.
119* Timburr and its evolutionary family from ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' resemble overly muscular dog-faces.
120* Of the various FunnyAnimal people in ''VideoGame/SphinxAndTheCursedMummy'', the most common are dog-like people. They bear a strong resemblance to the Disney dogfaces, especially in their "snouts". Given their Egyptian origins, they're probably jackal-people.
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124* One ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' arc takes place on a planet populated by dogfaces trying to investigate what appears to be a murder perpetrated by Schlock.
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128* ''WebAnimation/TheRodfellows'': Jimmy and Widenar Glover the dogs appear to be dogfaces with black ears and lacking tails.
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132* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'': In sharp contrast to the other anthropomorphic animals, the character Wes Weasley looks exactly like a human complete with a furless humanoid body and humanlike ears. The only Weasel trait of Wes is his muzzle, essentially a "weasel-face".
133* Several characters from ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', such as Binky Barnes, though unlike Fern or Prunella, he has a rather human-like nose.
134* WesternAnimation/BettyBoop started out as one of these before [[ArtEvolution her dog nose was removed and her floppy ears replaced with hoop earrings]].
135* The female-gendered tow truck in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' episode, "Calling All Cars," has a face that looks like that of a dogface.
136* Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid was eventually redesigned into one of these to mask that he was originally a [[BlackfaceStyleCaricature racist, politically incorrect caricature of a black person]].
137* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'', most of the extras and supporting characters are humans, but some of them are really, grotesque, bizarre looking Dogfaces.
138* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': In the episode "Teacher's Pet", Crocker turns his mom into something resembling a dogface after hooking her to his Mother machine. Unlike most of the examples, she acts like a dog and even [[RunningOnAllFours runs on all fours]].
139-->'''Crocker:''' I hooked Mother up to Mother, but she got a little too much bloodhound.\
140'''Unnamed man:''' That's one freaky bloodhound.
141* The German animated adaptation of ''ComicBook/FixUndFoxi'' has dogfaces as citizens in their town, as well as the Peppercorn Family.
142* Both Snuffy and Old Oscar from ''WesternAnimation/JayJayTheJetPlane'' have a face that looks like that of a dogface due to the covers of their propellers.
143* The salesman in ''WesternAnimation/JungleJitters'', one of the infamous WesternAnimation/CensoredEleven.
144* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
145** J. P. Cubish from one WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck cartoon and ''Daffy Duck's Quackbusters''
146** The earliest shorts with Daffy and WesternAnimation/PorkyPig have dognoses as supporting characters and extras, but these would largely be replaced with humans in the shorts made after the early 1940s.
147* Pounder (a.k.a. Pound Hound) from ''WesternAnimation/MatchboxHeroCity'' has a face of a bulldog.
148* The title character in ''Officer Pooch'', an WesternAnimation/{{MGM Oneshot Cartoon|s}} that Bill Hanna and Joseph Barbera directed.
149* ''WesternAnimation/{{Noveltoons}}'': A very minor star, only seen in two cartoons, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin literally named]] "[[https://youtu.be/ZQL1T82OCA8?t=10 Dogface]]", rather averts this. He's a straightforward pet-slash-FunnyAnimal who talks to humans, at least in his first picture.
150* The very first episode of the Fleischer ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} cartoon featured dogfaces as background characters, though this is an example of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness; most other Popeye shorts feature strictly humans.
151* Some of the generic civvies in ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground''.
152* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'' introduces the Nelvaanians, who are blue-grey furred dogface aliens with black manes. The males are shown to have somewhat more wolf-like faces. (As the species and their home planet Nelvaan are a ShoutOut to the animation studio Creator/{{Nelvana}}, their canine design is almost certainly a nod to the aforementioned ''WesternAnimation/RockAndRule'', Nelvana's first animated feature.)
153* There are a few WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons, especially in the 1950s, that feature dogfaces.
154* The original WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}} (a.k.a. Shoeshine) and Sweet Polly Purebred look like dogfaces, unlike the Disney [[Film/{{Underdog}} version]] of both characters, who are a beagle and a cocker spaniel respectively.
155* Many of the incidental characters in ''WesternAnimation/VictorAndHugo''. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d once when Victor makes Ponsward the butler fetch a stick and Lord Hobbes-Sutclyffe responds "Oh, for Heaven's sake! Ponsward's not a dog!"
156* These show up a lot in Creator/WarnerBros one-shots from the 1930s, many of which, such as "WesternAnimation/ThugsWithDirtyMugs", were directed by Creator/TexAvery.
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