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Wolves weren't originally called wolves. "Wolf" is the alias we gave them because we were too afraid to use their actual name, which went on to disappear from history, probably before 300 AD.
Sleek predators, with cunning pack hunting behaviors, impressively menacing doglike appearances, and, of course, the ever-frightful howl. As one of the top predators in the Northern Hemisphere, wolves were feared as rivals for people of the past, who had to compete with wolves when hunting, and, in times of famine, lost livestock to lupine predation.
Perhaps for this reason the Wolf occupies a singular place in Western folklore and fiction. Among all the predators of folklore, few have been as demonized as wolves, who almost inevitably appear as savage, cunning, endlessly rapacious and irredeemably evil. It is the Big Bad Wolf who devours Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother and the boy who cried wolf, the wolf packs that haunt the dark forests. Indeed, in fiction, the wolf almost seems to function as an entire species of Evil Twins to the tamer, more noble dog. Even when they are good, they are by no means nice.
But as industrialization progressed across the globe and wolves no longer posed as much of a threat, people came to understand wolves differently. The primary reason people disliked wolves - their predation of livestock - was largely forgotten as most people no longer had any experience of livestock themselves. In reality, wolves only very rarely prey upon humans, and display many positive attributes - cunning, cooperation, and great beauty - that gradually elevated them from wicked monsters to respected, even admired predators. It helps that they are devoted to their cubs, who are fall down cute (they look like dogs; or, more accurately, dogs look like them ).
In keeping with this new, more palatable image of the wolf came a wave of idealized portrayals. Far from being wicked agents of evil, these wolves are proud, majestic, noble protectors of nature, often wise in their own right and sometimes even allies of the forces of Good. Indeed they are almost treated like lions of Europe and North America, or at least a handsome variant of dogs with more personal dignity. Even when wolves were not intrinsically good creatures, they still carried with them a healthy dose of Badass.
Most modern portrayals of wolves range between these two extremes. On the one hand, there's still something chilling about the sound of a wolf's howl, and they look just enough like a dog to be unnerving. On the other hand, having a lupine ally, pet, or character definitely falls under the Rule Of Cool, a law that many fictional wolves benefited from since Raised By Wolves first appeared.
In reality wolves fall under neither extreme, much like human conceptions of any animal. While normally unaggressive to humans, wolves can still be dangerous if cornered, and attacks on humans, albeit very few, have been documented—although these are generally attributed to conditions such as rabies. They are also a major danger to livestock in many areas where ecological damage and/or competition with human hunters has made prey rare.
This is a Cyclic Trope / Evolving Trope.
One of the examples of Animal Stereotypes. Wolves' image is commonly transferred to the faction of Petting Zoo People styled after them.
Compare Canis Major and Our Werewolves Are Different.
Examples of Big Bad Wolves:
Comic Books
- The wolf shown in the beginning of the film/comic 300 is just demonic and threatening enough to be classified as this.
- Bigby Wolf from Fables is a definite bad ass wolf with how he took on the Empire and his whole secret agent thing.
- Not the mention that he's the original Big Bad Wolf upon whom all the legends are based.
- The latest Promethea encounters the original Big Bad Wolf concept on her first jaunt into the Immateria. It's probably the only thing in the entire series that's really capable of killing her. By nature, the Big Bad Wolf can only be killed in its own story, by its own plot characters. Anyone else- ANYONE else- just falls into the role of "hundreds of victims."
- Fenris from the Lucifer comics manages to take revenge for his fellow mythologies by hijacking Jesus , stomping into a story arc almost entirely populated by Judo-Christian characters. When one challenges him for this he points out that before humanity cowered before demons they feared the wolves beneath the trees, proceeding to pretty much become the Big Bad through raw Bad Ass.
Folklore
- Most portrayals of wolves in folklore and the Disney canon, including:
- Little Red Riding Hood
- The Boy Who Cried Wolf
- Beauty and The Beast (Disney version)
- The Three Little Pigs
- Peter and the Wolf
- Werewolves in general, though modern writers like to mix things up a bit.
Literature
- In Dan Abnett's Gaunts Ghosts novel His Last Command, Gaunt remembers how Colm Corbec would tell stories of wolves circling "the stranded, the unlucky, the lost" to bring them down; his current situation, being stalked by an unseen Chaos creature, reminds him.
- The mutant wolves in Gone by Michael Grant
- Maugrim the talking wolf in CS Lewis' The Chronicles Of Narnia.
- An evil werewolf appears in Prince Caspian, as well.
- In William King's Warhammer 40000 novel Space Wolf, the aspirants hear and fight giantatic wolves during their training. Ragnar's having actually killed one alone, while being trained, is the source of his name "Blackmane". (They are also threatened with the prospect of becoming "wulfen" wolf-like creatures, and one does.)
- In White Fang, wolves are presented as harsh and savage, but the hero, being part dog, eventually rises above his instincts to become "tamed"... After being forced into dog-fighting along the way, although "fight" is perhaps not entirely accurate - "execution" comes closer. It got to the point where they had to tie him up for the start of the fight, otherwise he'd kill the other dog before it had finished its preliminary snarl-and-threaten routine.
- Another Jack London novel, The Call of the Wild, has a dog doing the opposite: after being forcefully taken from his comfortable life on a large estate and then forced into becoming a sled-dog in the Yukon, he eventually joins a pack of wolves.
- In A Song of Ice and Fire, the Stark children all have direwolves as pets. Some of them grow mean badass.
- Bran is a warg or skinchanger, too...
- Although the accuracy of Farley Mowat's Never Cry Wolf has been disputed, it cannot be denied that the book helped change a lot of minds about the true, and far less threatening, ways of the North American wolf.
- The werewolf Fenrir from Harry Potter is quite... disturbing, to say the least. He delights in biting young children to turn them early, and was not opposed to eating someone (Dumbledore) in the climax of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Note: this person was still alive.
- The Wargs and werewolves of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion are classic Big Bad Wolves, although the Wargs are not entirely natural creatures.
- In The Silmarillion, there is a wide chasm between the noble and intelligent dog Huan and the evil, bestial monster-wolf Carcharoth, who was bred by Morgoth specifically to slay Huan.
- Gmork from the book (and movie) The Neverending Story.
Mythology
- Fenris the giant death wolf, bringer of end of the world, and fated to devour Odin himself is the ultimate expression of this tropes, though ironically he is arguably justified for his revenge, having been imprisoned in horrible pain for a crime he had yet to commit.
- Norse myth also features Hati and Sköll, who are destined to devour the moon and sun during Ragnarok.
Tabletop Games
- Dungeons And Dragons had Dire Wolves, Worgs (taken from Tolkien's "Wargs") and Winter Wolves, all very dangerous.
Video Games
Web Comics
- In No Rest For The Wicked, the woods are known to house wolves, which is why Perrault refuses to believe that November came through the woods alone. However, the actual wolves appear only as skins in Red's cottage.
Examples of Big Badass Wolves:
Anime and Manga
- Garurumon/WereGarurumon/MetalGarurumon in Digimon Adventure, literally the best friend Yamato has ever had.
- His spiritual successor in Digimon Savers, Gaomon/Gaogamon/Machgaogamon/Miragegaogamon.
- Well, Gaomon and his evolution feels more dog-like than wolfish. "Gao" is Cantonese for "dog."
- A better example might be Kouji from Digimon Frontier, whose Digimon forms are Wolfmon/Garmmon/Beowulfmon/MagnaGarurumon (Lobomon/KendoGarurumon/Beowulfmon/MagnaGarurumon).
- The wolves portrayed in the film Princess Mononoke. Wolves in that movie were enormous, the size of quarterhorses, could run unbelievably fast, and leap enormous heights. They were portrayed in a very positive light, as noble, solemn protectors of the forest, actually attacking human settlements as mankind tried to develop their land and cut down the forests that the animals and forest spirits lived in.
- The entire premise of the anime Wolf's Rain.
- However, the titular pack from the episode "Fallen Wolves" have given up on being badass and make a living through scavenging and even enslaving some of their pack to humans - much to the disgust of Kiba's pack.
- Mew Zakuro from Tokyo Mew Mew, a wolfgirl, is a Tall Dark And Bishoujo Broken Bird and one of the strongest Magical Girls on the team.
- Horo from Spice And Wolf.
- Both extremes exist here. Horo is seen as gentle, but a trickster, but when she takes her full wolf form everyone is frightened by her. At the end of the first season there's also a pack of wild wolves, also led by a wolf deity, that truly frighten the characters. Except Horo.
- Komamura Sajin in Bleach reveals himself as an anthropomorphic furry, close to a wolf (The Guide Book confirms that he's supposed to be a Wolf, but his red fur causes some people to mistake him for a fox). Embodies the wolf spirit of loyalty greatly, but his Badass status is often questioned, since Kenpachi broke his Shikai easily, he didn't get to unleash the true power of his Bankai (again, because of his loyalty), and finally, he jobbed to Aizen (though this is rather excusable because he is Captain Broken), and hasn't been in another fight ever since.
- It should be noted when Komamura's not in battle, he's basically a Gentle Giant, he's adorable, and has a few fans, mainly Furries.
- Until recently. Now it's demonstrated that he really is badass.
- Even before then, the data book shows Komamura with a maxed out Attack, Stamina and Defence stat, offset by a low speed stat.
- Arf and Zafila of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. Wolf familiars whose fangs and claws can rip through steel.
- In Mahou Sensei Negima, Kotaro's summoned spirits, the Inugami, are usually fierce and relentless in their hunting during combat, but even during - depending on Kotaro's team alignment (or mood) - they can be depicted as almost majestic and beautiful. That still doesn't stop them from acting puppy-like on occasion (they are technically dogs). Kotaro later shows an ability to become a monsterous wolf at full power.
- Free from Soul Eater, calling him a "werewolf" is somewhat an understatement; his specific power is Nigh Invulnerability.
- War Wolf from Corrector Yui. Very powerful as a Corruptor, and also very powerful as a Corrector.
- The Captain from Hellsing is a Made Of Iron werewolf who is one of the strongest characters in his series. In Hellsing: The Dawn, he fought Walter and Alucard (Hellsing's resident God Mode Sue) at the same time and won. And despite being a member of an evil Nazi organization bent on starting Word War 3, he seems to have an incredibly strong sense of honor, refusing to fight any humans he doesn't have orders to kill and has a sense of chivalry for fellow warriors (he even decided to spare Heinkiel, against orders). He also is incredibly loyal to The Major.
- And if it counts as a "wolf", there's Alucard's Hellhound transformation/familiar as the inverse of The Captain. It's a vicious killing machine that only serves Alucard because it was enslaved to do so. It actually turns on its master when Walter releases it from him.
- The God-form of Rayearth.
- Hatsune from Zettai Karen Children, although she doesn't have to transform to be feral.
- Jyabura, from One Piece transforms into such a wolf as his Devil Fruit power.
- Everyone imagines Sakaki as one of these in Azumanga Daioh and goes gaga. Sakaki imagines... something else. A cute widdle wolf puppy
- Sasami finds a wolf in one of the Tenchi Muyo manga volumes, an escapee from a zoo transport. Notably, all the girls (being not from around here—namely, Earth) have no idea what a wolf is until educated.
Comic Books
- John Talbain from the Darkstalkers series, a Half Human Hybrid who also knows kung-fu.
- In the GI Joe comics continuity originated by Marvel, Snake-Eyes has a wolf named Timber who is his on-again, off-again pet. He and the wolf both spook the nearby townspeople so bad that it's rumored he's a werewolf. When he's reactivated and brought into GI Joe, he leaves Timber behind. One of the two characters who came to get him asks the other about his leaving "that poor animal" without any support. The other points out it's a wolf, not a dog, and it "doesn't eat Alpo".
- In ElfQuest the reader is repeatedly reminded how badass the wolves are. Even the elves (well, some of them) are part-wolf.
Fairy Tales
Literature
- The Canim from Jim Butcher's Codex Alera are anthropomorphic Big Badass Wolves. They actually fit this trope both ways - most of the Alerans hate and fear them because of their great skill and physical power and ruthless raiding habits, but Tavi learns to have a great deal of respect for their culture. The Canim generally are treated as the Alerans' Worthy Opponents.
- The wolves of David Eddings' The Belgariad are, if not totally idealized, still treated as clever and admirable predators rather than ravening monsters.
- Brophy in Terry Goodkind's Wizard's First Rule, a former soldier who was turned into a big wolf by magic.
- The wolves of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, while technically not fond of humans, are still more admirable than not. Indeed, they are in fact apparently meant to fight alongside the forces of good during The Last Battle.
- The wolves in Rudyard Kipling's original Jungle Book(s), although the tiger Shere Khan subverts some of them into Big Bad wolves until Mowgli attacks them with a burning branch.
- Buck in Jack London's The Call of the Wild isn't exactly a wolf, but by the end of the book he has gone feral and leads a wolf pack, so he's close enough. This makes this Older Than Radio.
- The wolves of Discworld, as described by Angua, are seen as Big Bad but are really Big Badass wolves.
- Angua is a very biased source of information on wolves.
- The Fifth Elephant: All ordinary wolves in the book are pretty damn clever in their own element, and have no desire to get involved in matters they don't understand. Save for the one Angua apparently had, er...special relationship with some time ago.
- Most of the Royal Wolves in the Firekeeper series, particularly Blind Seer, although there is the occasional Jerkass. Cousin Wolves, by comparison, are just animals.
- Owing to their status as emblems of House Stark (arguably the "protagonist" house), the direwolves in A Song Of Ice And Fire fit this to a tee.
- This troper would argue that this is a very shaky example. While Bran and Jon's wolves do seem like this, that is probably a result of them being around humans all the time, and in Bran's case, sharing his mind sometimes. Arya's wolf however, in absence of human control, has apparently formed a giant and very aggressive wolf pack that conforms pretty closely to the original view of wolves.
- This is because the wolves in A Song Of Ice And Fire are symbolic pets. Jon's is white, separate from all the rest, and he had his eyes open already. Anya is "lost" in the world, and similarly her wolf is wild and untamed. Lady was obedient to the point of death, which bodes ill for obvious reasons for Sansa. So it has aspects of this trope (and strongly; the dire wolves are fearsome companions) but aspects of others as well.
- If short story "Dracula's Guest" is anything to go by, Dracula can turn into one of these, or at least cause them to do his bidding. It's mostly an excuse to snuggle a hurt, scared Jonathan for warmth.
- In the children's book, "The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig" (no prizes guessing what it parodies), three young wolves are sent out into the world by their mother and are promptly harassed by a big bad pig. The wolves are far smarter than their porcine counterparts and bricks are their starting point-unfortunately, their antagonist is also quite a bit cleverer than his counterpart, and uses heavy demolitions to bring down their ever-heavier fortifications. Finally one of the wolves gets the bright idea to make the house out of flowers, and the pig is converted to the side of good by the pleasant aroma.
- The Avalik River Pack in Julie Of The Wolves and its sequels, especially Julie's Wolf Pack.
- The trellwolves in A Companion to Wolves make a good example.
- Grimya in Louise Cooper's Indigo series. Indigo herself in shapeshift form may also count.
- Preferred combat form of Cassie in Animorphs.
Live Action TV
Tabletop Games
- Since 3rd edition Dungeons And Dragons, players have it suggested that wolves aren't there for killing (werewolves are still fair game, though). The biggest example: the default animal companion for a druid is a wolf.
- Fenrisian Wolves from Warhammer 40000 take the "big" and the "badass" to, well, 40k levels, sometimes growing to the size of a tank. They're the sometime companions, sometime foes of the Space Wolves chapter of Space Marines, who both revere the wolves and hunt them as a ritual of manliness, wearing their tails and their pelts as trophies. (The Space Wolves themselves are big badasses who call themselves Wolves.)
- According to the background, the only way for a Space Wolves Marine to get a pack to follow him is to become the pack leader- by killing the previous one (as part of that ritual of manliness, usually. Doing it with a gun doesn't work.).
- Presumably wolves, with their acute sense of smell, are able to smell the old pack leader on those who have gone head-to-head with them, and Fenrisian ones are smart enough to know that anyone who can take out the old top dog is not one to be trifled with.
- In the latest codex, certain champions can ride especially large wolves.
- There are a number of wolf-based cards in Magic: the Gathering. Most of them are green or white cards and emphasize cunning and teamwork.
- Essentially the point of both versions of White Wolf's Werewolf games.
Video Games
- The Rawuff race from Wizardry games are playable anthropomorphic wolves. This is a unique view on them - as they have a well-rounded build but with more Piety than most races, making them a good choice for Lord (think of Paladin), Valkyrie, and Priest classes. Rarely do you see a wolf-like race be associated for support!
- Okami Amaterasu, who takes the form of a white wolf.
- There's also the entire Oina tribe. And Oki. Especially Oki. Shinranui probably deserves her own mention as well, considering she travels from the past to help Amaterasu, and is the previous incarnation of Amaterasu at peak power. She looks pretty badass too, with the Solar Flare and alternate design. All in all, Shinranui is probably the only person in the game who should inspire more terror than Amaterasu. Who regains her former strength as an Eleventh Hour Superpower. Sucks to be Yami.
- Wolf O' Donnell of the Star Fox series. Originally presented as a generic "evil Star Fox", the later games showed him to be a gruff pilot with a sense of honor, teaming up with Star Fox in many an occasion. Super Smash Bros. Brawl even has him as being taller than Fox (Although his stance puts him lower).
- In The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Link turns into a Big Badass Wolf in the Twilight Realm. Later in the game, he gains the ability to turn into the wolf at will.
- Tiger of the Wind from Monster Rancher is another combination, (overly) proud and often rather ruthless yet brave and loyal to the point of death.
- Blanca from the second Shadow Hearts game.
- Luceid, the Guardian of Desire from the Wild ARMs series, takes the form of a wolf and is frequently the only Guardian strong enough to take a physical form without a medium.
- Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn has a pair of wolves, Volug and Nailah. Nailah is especially badass as she is one of the laguz royals that can stay in animal form indefinitely, but Volug also remains in wolf form for all of Part I.
- Shamans in World Of Warcraft have the ability to turn into a Ghost Wolf for faster travel as well as summon Spirit Wolves that tend to tear up anything they can.
- The Orcs ride large, befriended wolves as mounts. The supplementary material has the bonded wolf as one of the orc's closest companions.
- With a few exceptions, the portrayal of any wolf that isn't a Random mob is a noble creature/spirit to be respected.
- And in one case, even a wolf you do kill is also respected and revered by the local natives, even if none truly mourn Ghost Howl's death due to his unfortunate insanity. Still, one of three particular spawn points of said mob puts it in a good spot to eat newbie characters without any chance for retaliation.
- There's also the Worgen, such as the Sons of Arugal.
- The evolved form of Poochyena in Pokemon, Mightyena, It looks more like a little known species called the Striped Hyena, but it acts more like a wolf in that it lives in packs. and it knows the move howl. It's Dark-type, but is described as being very loyal to a skilled trainer.
- Lucario is kind of wolf-like too.
- As is Manectric.
- Debatably Suicune.
- Houndour and Houndoom look like a Doberman, but act like wolves.
- The Fenris Wolf Brood in Age Of Mythology. They are huge wolves that get stronger and faster as their numbers increase. The scenario editor also includes a Fenris Wolf hero named Ornlu.
- Ornlu appears in Age Of Empires II as well, as a super-powerful wolf you must kill during the first mission of the Genghis Khan campaign.
- Shiro in Suikoden 2.
- He's more of a wolf-dog mix though.
- A more proper example is King Diulf of Suikoden Tierkreis. He's the king of the Furious Roar tribe, and a very powerful and loyal ally.
- Shining Force series has a badass staple wolf character.
- Shining Force has Zylo, a bad-ass lord who essentially is one of the overpowered characters in the game.
- Shining Force III has Frank, a wolfling donning American-Indian clothing.
- Shining Soul II has Sachs, a wolfling using knives and claws, and is considered one of the broken classes because of the knife skill.
- Shining Tears has Volg, a former Beastman Commander who now runs a tavern, who raised Mao away from the Beastman city to prevent her for being shamed. Despite being old, he fights quite well.
- Shining Wind has Rouen, a pirate king of a Chinese-inspired town who went AWOL to investigate the happenings on the world. He's also voiced by Tetsu Inada so that makes him more badass.
- Shining Force EXA has Duga, captive turned feral but then rescued by the main characters. He is large and fights using ice attacks.
- Lang-Gong of Arcana Heart. A wolf whose spirit became the Arcana of Fire.
- In Diablo 2 is introduced a new class, named Druid who can turn into a Werewof. Which makes the character a monster when it comes to hit-and-run tactics. Run to a massive group of enemies, wipe out one third, run, heal, wipe out.
- Mabari War Dogs from the upcoming RPG Dragon Age: Origins are...well, DOGS, not wolves, but they deserve a mention for the simple fact that these fighting dogs are trained to be able to break ranks of pikemen and UNSEAT MOUNTED KNIGHTS. Best of all? You can GET one in your party.
Webcomics
- Gunnerkrigg Court upholds the noble wolf trope by subverting the Big Bad Wolf trope: Ysengrin is a dangerous predator, teetering on the brink of insanity, but that's because he underwent a Biological Mashup that made him less of a wolf.
- Reynardine falls under this indirectly, even though he's actually a fox. Since possessing Annie's wolf doll, he seems to be undergoing a slow Heel Face Turn - in particular, he's noticeably less of a "jerkface" when he takes the form of a full-sized wolf, rather than his usual pint-sized plushy form.
- One could argue that this is more of an Alternate Character Interpretation. More and more it appears that he never was a bad guy to begin with. Of Course, as with most everything at the court, we really don't know.
- The Cyantian Chronicles has Syris Akaelae, who has been so badass during several wars that the artists among his enemies depict him as a god of war! Thankfully, he's also got a heart of gold.
- A paladin in Order Of The Stick rides a big badass wolf into battle. It even has the ability to harm demons, thanks to the paladin's obfuscatingly stupid uncle misunderstanding the definition of "table scraps".
- Vorg from Cwen's Quest is literally a big badass wolf...guy. Of course personality wise he seems to have more in common with corperate sharks then common wolves, plus is pretty Ax Crazy.
- The Sarghress clan from Drowtales have a wolf as their clan animal, and the Highland Raiders ride wolves into battle. Definitely big, definitely Badass.
- The wolf in Autumnside
- Milov Danovich of Dominic Deegan has had his moments of badassery, especially during his time in the limelight as can be seen here and here.
- Somehow Kevin And Kell fell through here? One's in the title.
Western Animation
- The wolves portrayed in Balto.
- And also in the sequel, particularly Balto's mother and the shaman Nava.
- Silverbolt of Beast Wars takes the form of a wolf with eagle wings.
Web Original
Real Life
- Lobo, the King of Currumpaw, a wolf from the 1890s. Hunters tried poison, bear traps, hunting parties, and everything they could throw at him, but were unable to catch him. Finally, the hunter Ernest Thompson Seton captured Lobo's mate and killed her, then used her scent to lure Lobo to the traps. When they finally found Lobo, all four legs were in traps. Upon seeing Seton, Lobo stood up and howled. Seton's book (Wild Animals I Have Known) portrayed Lobo as the hero (and himself as the villain!), and is one of the main reasons for society's viewpoint being changed to view wolfs as more noble than vermin.
- A truly spectacular number of Furries model themselves on wolves with no attempt at irony or modesty. You know who you are!
- Irony? Modesty? A true wolf knows not these words!
- They still appear as rapists and murders in some stories written by furries though.
- In old Slavic mythology, some gods were said to take wolves as their avatars, and the animal is a potent symbol of otherworldly power. The animal was so respected that the neighboring nations were said to believe Slavs sometimes turn into wolves themselves.
- Clearly drawing on the reputation and adopting the usual style, wolf packs.
- Adolf Hitler had a thing for wolves, he even named one of his quarters "Wolfsschanze" ("wolf's lair").
- The name "Adolf" also comes from old German "adelwulf", "noble wolf".
- He also used the name Wolf as a pseudonym for himself in the 1920s.
- At least three breeds of dog are intentionally bred to resemble wolves-of these, two of them are also extremely wolf-like of temperament and not for the inexperienced dog owner, while the third, the tamaskan, is a very friendly and personable breed suitable for anyone with the time and the space to care for it.
- Let's not forget "Three Toes" of Harding County. It evaded capture for THIRTEEN YEARS and killed $50,000 worth of livestock. And he was pretty damn big, too.
- Then there are the Big Bad of all Big Badass Wolves: The Beast of Gévaudan:[1]It terrorised Gévaudan in southern France for several years during the 1760s, killing over a hundered people. The speculations of what the beast really was range from a ordinary wolf or wolfdog to a Hellhound or Werewolf. These later theories is in line with the legend that claim that it was killed by a silver bullet.
- Can we just say that the entire species count? They have been the apex predator of the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere for 300.000 years, until Cro Magnon decided to invent civilization, and even when domesticated, they prove to still be quite badass
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