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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Tad dies, a big friendly dog that never wanted to hurt anyone dies, but Vic and Donna reconcile, and by the end, things are getting a little bit better for them. Charity and Brett meanwhile ultimately live better due to Joe's death.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Tad dies, dies ([[SparedByTheAdaptation unless you watch the movie]]), a big friendly dog that never wanted to hurt anyone dies, but Vic and Donna reconcile, and by the end, things are getting a little bit better for them. Charity and Brett meanwhile ultimately live better due to Joe's death.]]
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"Rattlesnakes", a sequel short story centering on Vic, will be published in King's collection ''Literature/YouLikeItDarker'' in 2024.
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Tragic Monster is the correct trope for a good or neutral character turned against their will into something that tries to kill people, Tragic Villain is a character who is evil of their own free will and knows they are evil but feels they have no other option.
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* TragicVillain: Cujo. He's shown to suffer terribly from rabies, and he only attacks people under the frenzied belief that they are responsible for his pain. At the end of the book, it's written: "It would perhaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog. [...] He had never wanted to kill anybody. He had been struck by something, possibly destiny, or fate, or only a degenerative nerve disease called rabies. Free will was not a factor." He was also ''possibly'' influenced by the ghost of a [[Literature/TheDeadZone previous Stephen King villain...]] Not to mention his brief encounter with [[Franchise/TheDarkTower Randall Flagg]]. Sadly, Cujo [[spoiler:isn't even at peace after his death. His restless, malevolent spirit makes a cameo appearance in [[Literature/NeedfulThings King's "last" Castle Rock story]].]]
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* TragicVillain: TragicMonster: Cujo. He's shown to suffer terribly from rabies, and he only attacks people under the frenzied belief that they are responsible for his pain. At the end of the book, it's written: "It would perhaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog. [...] He had never wanted to kill anybody. He had been struck by something, possibly destiny, or fate, or only a degenerative nerve disease called rabies. Free will was not a factor." He was also ''possibly'' influenced by the ghost of a [[Literature/TheDeadZone previous Stephen King villain...]] Not to mention his brief encounter with [[Franchise/TheDarkTower Randall Flagg]]. Sadly, Cujo [[spoiler:isn't even at peace after his death. His restless, malevolent spirit makes a cameo appearance in [[Literature/NeedfulThings King's "last" Castle Rock story]].]]
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* TheScapegoat: This is how Vic and Roger see themselves in the subplot about Sharp cereals and the Raspberry Zingers controversy. One batch of contaminated food dye makes it into the company's cereal, and even though nobody is actually hurt or sickened by it, and even though the cereal company itself isn't to blame, Sharp's sales fall and their stock price plummets. Obviously the outside advertising agency promoting the cereal had absolutely nothing to do with any of that, but Vic and Roger understand that Sharp will probably fire them just to show they're taking decisive action and recover a bit of their stock price. Ultimately subverted when Sharp decides to retain Vic and Roger for two more years, though the two men understand it's just a stay of execution and they're going to get fired once those two years are up.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The incubation period for rabies in dogs is two weeks to four months, but Cujo starts showing symptoms almost immediately.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The incubation period for rabies in dogs is two weeks to four months, but Cujo starts showing symptoms almost immediately.immediately after he's bitten.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The incubation period for rabies in dogs is two weeks to four months, but Cujo starts showing symptoms almost immediately.
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* ResurrectedMurderer: There is some implication in the novel that Cujo, after contracting rabies, was also possessed by the vengeful spirit of Frank Dodd, a [[SerialKiller Serial]] KillerCop from Creator/StephenKing's previous novel ''Literature/TheDeadZone''. Sheriff Bannerman certainly believed so as he was being mauled to death by the rabid St. Bernard, and there are other bits of text that highly imply Dodd's influence over the diseased animal.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Borderline example. Rabies typically takes longer than a week to begin showing symptoms (it usually takes a few months) - to be more precise, symptoms don't begin to show until the virus reaches the brain. However, the distance from bite site to the brain is actually a factor, and Cujo was bitten on the nose, so there is a slim possibility that the virus could indeed have advanced that quickly. In an unusual case [[TurnOfTheMillennium during the modern age]], a human victim got bitten by a wolf very close to the head and the virus got into the nervous system almost instantly. ''Despite the full vaccine course and serum being given the next day at the hospital'', the poor guy developed rabies and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath died a horrible death]] in less than 2 weeks after the bite. Very rare, one-in-a-million chance, but it still can happen.
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* InstantIllness: Borderline example. Rabies typically takes longer than a week to begin showing symptoms (it usually takes a few months) - to be more precise, symptoms don't begin to show until the virus reaches the brain. However, the distance from bite site to the brain is actually a factor, and Cujo was bitten on the nose, so there is a slim possibility that the virus could indeed have advanced that quickly. In an unusual case [[TurnOfTheMillennium during the modern age]], a human victim got bitten by a wolf very close to the head and the virus got into the nervous system almost instantly. ''Despite the full vaccine course and serum being given the next day at the hospital'', the poor guy developed rabies and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath died a horrible death]] in less than 2 weeks after the bite. Very rare, one-in-a-million chance, but it still can happen.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: [[Literature/TheDeadZone Frank Dodd]]'s legacy looms large over the town, but he doesn't play any role in the novel outside of a subplot and a few hints he might be influencing Cujo's rampage somehow on account of being dead.
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* VillainousLegacy: [[Literature/TheDeadZone Frank Dodd]]'s legacy looms large over the town, but he doesn't play any role in the novel outside of a subplot and a few hints he might be influencing Cujo's rampage somehow on account of being dead.
