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Dogs named "Dog" in webcomics.


  • Zero Zero Zero This Comic Appears First Alphabetically has its main characters Bat and Bean, who are apparently supposed to be a bat and a walking bean with a face.
  • Lampshaded in El Goonish Shive, though it's only used partially and only for some of the animal-people. The "brothers" of Grace, animalistic shape-shifters, are Guineas (a guinea pig), Hedge (a hedgehog) and Vlad (a bat... sorta). The kicker is when Elliot, temporarily transformed into a cat-person, is caught and interrogated by Damien.
    Damien: Now, what is your name?
    Elliot: Um, well, what with me being a cat and all... Cat?
    Damien: All of you animal-people have horrible names.
  • The Cartoonist in Sinfest has named his dog Pooch. Monique lampshades the absurdity:
    Monique: Nice to meet you. My name is Girl!
  • The robot from Zap!'s real name is XR-743-9Q. Zap can't remember it, so he redubs him to Robot.
  • In Awful Hospital, Kidney Stone, who is a giant sapient kidney stone, though her name only appears in a supplemental file.
  • In Rusty and Co., the main characters are a mimic named Mimic (actually Boxford), a gelatinous cube named Gelatinous Cube, and a rust monster named Rusty. When Mimic's real name is mentioned, and he lampshades how silly it would be for him to actually be named "Mimic", Kris points out that he knew a human named Manny and a guy named Guy, which he considers equivalent.
  • In Crazy Ghosts we get Ghost, who has no knowledge he is a Reality Warper and is also a Dirty Old Man
  • A non-animal version comes up in Schlock Mercenary, when Tagon asks Petey what the local inhabitants — whose water-covered planet they're orbiting — call their world, it comes out as "Wet". When Tagon comments that this isn't very imaginative, Petey replies that they compare favourably to the natives of "Earth".
  • In Trying Human, Hue had a pet dog (that was accidentally abducted along with a pair of hippies). He never calls his pet anything else but Dog.
  • Annie in Gunnerkrigg Court builds a robot in the very first chapter and starts calling him Robot. He does have a proper name, revealed later on, but the main characters keep calling him Robot (which can get somewhat confusing since there's a lot of other robots in the story).
  • In "Tails of the Mynarski Forest" the vixen is named "Liska" (Czech for 'fox') http://mynarskiforest.purrsia.com/xsl97_07.htm
  • In No Rest for the Wicked, a boy named Boy.
  • Dragobo from RPG World is a parody of it. When he meets other Dragobos and tell them his name, they joke about it by calling him "THE Dragobo".
  • Brawl in the Family lampshades the tendency for Mario games to do this. Mario seeks the Toad named Toad and the Yoshi named Yoshi, but finds the wrong Toad and the wrong Yoshi.
    "I'm not Toad! I'm just a Toad!... You got the wrong guy!"
  • Commander Kitty: The main character is, unsurprisingly, a cat; more obscure is Nin Wah, whose name is taken from the Chinese for "red panda." On a grander scale, entire planets are named for their inhabiting species (or possibly vice versa): Cats come from Planet Cat, Gazelles come from Planet Gazelle, and so forth.
  • Good Guy Comic features a guy named Guy.
  • In Leftover Soup, the commentary in comic #209 reveals that the name of one of Max's 7 cats is Dog.
  • In Alice and the Nightmare, the bipedal, talking rabbits serving Rougina are only ever referred to as Rabbits.
  • Karen Park in But I'm a Cat Person gave her Being, the Bear, the straightforward name "Cub".
  • White Dark Life: At first a name like Entegra Whidoe seems more like a case of Meaningful Name since the character is a black widow. But remove the first "E" and "T" from her first name turns it into Negra(Black) Widow.
  • The endlessly creative Kleya Smith created a Cat Girl character for the Game, naming her Kat. Several other characters imply that she's not the first one to use that particular combination either.
  • Ask a Cat has Cat and Mouse.
  • In The Bird Feeder, the first robin of spring is named Robin. Amazingly, as is revealed in #226, "Names," people still tend to get the name wrong.
  • The Fuzzy Princess has a bear named Kuma, which is Japanese for "bear".
    • Subverted with Princess Kat, however; it's short for Katrina.
  • Furry Experience has a cat named Cat, to her roommates' initial shock...only to be subverted the following strip to have her explain that it's short for Catherine.
  • Sluggy Freelance: A frog that gains intelligence and the ability to talk is later introduced as being called "Frog". Ironically, his non-talking friend is called "Corsica"... or at least he seems immediately convinced of this as soon as he starts to talk, even though neither of them could even have uttered such a name before that moment.
  • Validation (2013): Ally’s stuffed dinosaur friend is named Mr. Dino.
  • White Rooms: Ivan has a teddy bear named Mishka.
  • Wilde Life gives us an animal person named Raven.
    Clifford: So what's your name?
    Raven: Pfft. I'm a raven, silly.
    Clifford: No shit. And I'm a wolf. But my name is Cliff.
    Raven: Okay, then just call me Raven. We'll be like humans and have names!
  • Objectified: Typical to most Object Shows, objects are generally referred to by common names (Spool being a spool, Citrus an orange...) However, they also each have unique "brand" names. Razor's is Astra.
  • Vampire Girl: Vampire Hunter and Goofy Idiot Sidekick, who happen to be a vampire hunter, and his goofy idiot sidekick.
  • Vixen Logic: The five main characters are anthropomorphic foxes named for their specific species: Red is a red fox, Arctica is an arctic fox, Ferra is a Tibetan fox (scientific name: Vulpes ferrilata), Zerda is a fennec (Vulpes zerda), while Marble is actually named for her color morph (white and grey "red" fox).
  • The three protagonists in Daddy-Long-Legs are a harvestman named Mr. Harvestman, a cranefly named Mr. Crane and a cellar spider named Mr. Scapegrace.


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