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** Several books have instances of children getting into realistic danger, such as Little Alfred nearly being bitten by a rattlesnake (''Faded Love''), his cousins Amy and Ashley almost being attacked by a rampaging stallion (''The Case of the One-Eyed Killer Stud Horse'') and Little Alfred falling through the ice (''The Christmas Turkey Disaster'').
** In ''Slim's Goodbye'', the cattle market becomes very lean, and Slim takes off, thinking Loper can't afford to keep him on and not wanting to be a burden. He gets stopped midway to his destination thanks to a number of illegal things about his pickup and winds up having to set up shop in the local town. He even thinks for a little while he'll have to live out of his pickup (not that the place he ends up getting is very impressive either).
** Several books have instances of children getting into realistic danger, such as Little Alfred nearly being bitten by a rattlesnake (''Faded Love''), his cousins Amy and Ashley almost being attacked by a rampaging stallion (''The Case of the One-Eyed Killer Stud Horse'') and Little Alfred falling through the ice (''The Christmas Turkey Disaster'').
** In ''Slim's Goodbye'', the cattle market becomes very lean, and Slim takes off, thinking Loper can't afford to keep him on and not wanting to be a burden. He gets stopped midway to his destination thanks to a number of illegal things about his pickup and winds up having to set up shop in the local town. He even thinks for a little while he'll have to live out of his pickup (not that the place he ends up getting is very impressive either).
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* MamaBear: Sally May, mother of Little Alfred and Baby Molly. Unfortunately, Hank is quite often the target of her scorn for "corrupting" her children. Still, more than once she's stood up to some pretty serious dangers to keep her kids safe.
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* MamaBear: MamaBear:
** Sally May, mother of Little Alfred and Baby Molly. Unfortunately, Hank is quite often the target of her scorn for "corrupting" her children. Still, more than once she's stood up to some pretty serious dangers to keep her kids safe.
** Sally May, mother of Little Alfred and Baby Molly. Unfortunately, Hank is quite often the target of her scorn for "corrupting" her children. Still, more than once she's stood up to some pretty serious dangers to keep her kids safe.
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* MeaningfulName: Tuerto, the eponymous equine from ''The Case of the One-Eyed Killer Stud Horse''. "Tuerto" means "one-eyed". It's even more appropriate because a Spanish idiom for having bad luck is being seen by a one-eyed person, and anyone who runs into Tuerto without a weapon is pretty unlucky.
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* DrawAggro: In "The Case of the One-eyed Killer Stud Horse", Hank gets Tuerto's attention so Little Alfred's cousins Amy and Ashley can get to safety. He originally plans to do this in such a way that he can stay out of Tuerto's range, but when the horse says he wants the girls, Hank goes for the jugular.
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* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: In ''The Case of the Double Bumblebee Sting" (#22), the local Vet explains that snake-bitten dogs develop an immunity to the venom. "Next time he gets bit, he won't get so sick".
-->'''Sally May''': ''Next time?'' You don't think he's learned his lesson from this?
-->'''Vet''': (Laughs) No, they never learn. Sometimes they go back to the same place and the same snake, [[HereWeGoAgain do it all over again]]. Until the snake either moves out, or dies from exhaustion.
** [[spoiler: Which Hank does at the end of the book. Thankfully, the Vet was right about the immunity]].
-->'''Sally May''': ''Next time?'' You don't think he's learned his lesson from this?
-->'''Vet''': (Laughs) No, they never learn. Sometimes they go back to the same place and the same snake, [[HereWeGoAgain do it all over again]]. Until the snake either moves out, or dies from exhaustion.
** [[spoiler: Which Hank does at the end of the book. Thankfully, the Vet was right about the immunity]].
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Hank is terrified of, appropriately enough, snakes.
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Hank is terrified of, appropriately enough, snakes. Lucky for him, he's got an immunity to rattlesnake venom since the events of Book #22 (The Case of the Double Bumblebee Sting).
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* GuileHero: Hank likes to think he's this, but more often than not his schemes blow up in his face. He has his moments though, such as in "''Murder in the Middle Pasture''" when he escaped a nasty situation involving a Gang of stray dogs and the Coyotes by goading them into fighting each other.
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* GuileHero: Hank likes to think he's this, but more often than not his schemes blow up in his face. He has his moments though, such as in "''Murder in the Middle Pasture''" when he escaped a nasty situation involving a Gang of stray dogs and the Coyotes by goading them into fighting each other. He repeats the trick in ''Every Dog Has His Day'' by siccing Rip and Snort onto Rufus the Dobermann.
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* WouldRatherSuffer: In ''The Case of the Prowling Bear'', Wallace the Buzzard says he'd rather sit on a cactus than say "thank you."
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* ExtremeOmniGoat: The story ''The Case of the Dancing Cowboy'' (which was originally serialized in newspapers and later released via audio, but not in a printed form) has Drover mentioning how he once knew a goat who "ate tin cans and ketchup bottles''. (And rose bushes.) Hank doesn't believe a word of it.
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* PlatonicDeclarationOfLove: In ''The Garbage Monster From Outer Space'', Sally May has declared that she plans to give Hank away after he runs away and is ultimately discovered rooting around in some garbage cans. Little Alfred tries to make a deal with her. When it fails, Alfred bursts into tears and says Hank is his friend and he loves him. Sally May relents, although she warns Hank about getting into any more trouble.
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* IAteWhat: In "The Case of the Measled Cowboy", Little Alfred fixes Slim a plate of hash when he's down with the measles. Later, Slim notices the can it came out of and states that it was dog food.
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* CluckingFunny: Chickens are described by Hank as being so dumb that they only have six words in their own language, three of which are just different cries for help. J.T. Cluck, the head rooster, is shown speaking fluently on other occasions, so he may be [[YogiBear smarter than your average hen]].
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* CluckingFunny: Chickens are described by Hank as being so dumb that they only have six words in their own language, three of which are just different cries for help. J.T. Cluck, the head rooster, is shown speaking fluently on other occasions, so he may be [[YogiBear [[WesternAnimation/YogiBear smarter than your average hen]].
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-->'''Hank''': If there's anything worse than pretense, it's reality. And anything that weighs 1200 pounds and bites and kicks and stomps ''must'' be considered reality.
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* GuileHero: Hank likes to think he's this, but more often than not his schemes blow up in his face. He has his moments though, such as in "''Murder in the Middle Pasture''" when he escaped a nasty situation involving a Gang of stray dogs and the Coyotes by goading them into fighting each other.
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* IWasNamedMyName: Hank is content with the Slim naming him that, as that was the name his mother gave him.
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* ICanExplain: In ''The Case of the Measled Cowboy'', Hank begins to rehearse his explanation to the woman of the house, Sally May, for the tremendous mess that he and her son made in her absence. Subverted in that he admits he can't get any farther than "I can explain."
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* NowYouTellMe: During one book, Eddy the Rac rescues Hank from an attempted drowning at the hands of his cousin Bubba. He then tells Hank that Bubba hates dogs and he should never tangle with him in the water.
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* NowYouTellMe: During one book, ''The Secret Laundry Monster Files'', Eddy the Rac rescues Hank from an attempted drowning at the hands of his cousin Bubba. He then tells Hank that Bubba hates dogs and he should never tangle with him in the water.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Beulah (collie next door who has a boyfriend) and Missy Coyote (coyote [[TheChiefsDaughter princess]] who was once offered to Hank if he would attack the ranch).
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** Beulah (collie next door who has a boyfriend) and Missy Coyote (coyote [[TheChiefsDaughter princess]] who was once offered to Hank if he would attack the ranch).
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* NowYouTellMe: During one book, Eddy the Rac rescues Hank from an attempted drowning at the hands of his cousin Bubba. He then tells Hank that Bubba hates dogs and he should never tangle with him in the water.
-->'''Hank''' ''[with a [[DeathGlare stern glare]]]'': That's great advice, Eddy. Too bad you weren't around ten minutes ago when it might have done some good.
-->'''Hank''' ''[with a [[DeathGlare stern glare]]]'': That's great advice, Eddy. Too bad you weren't around ten minutes ago when it might have done some good.
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* LivingCrashpad: On one occasion, Drover ended up on Hank after they jumped a fence.
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* FantasticRacism: The coyotes are portrayed like stereotypical Native Americans, with a leader named Chief Many Rabbit Gut Eat in Full Moon.
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* FantasticRacism: The coyotes are portrayed like stereotypical Native Americans, Americans of TheWestern genre, with a leader named Chief Many Rabbit Gut Eat in Full Moon.Many-Rabbit-Gut-Eat-In-Full-Moon.
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** Beulah herself has the choice between Plato (Betty) and Hank (Veronica). She consistently chooses Plato, but there are hints that she'd like to choose Hank.
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* BigBadassWolf: Many of the members of the coyote tribe fit the trope's description, despite not actually being wolves.
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** and those are the usual ranch horses. The eighth book in the series pitches Hank against Tuerto, the neighbor's [[TitleDrop "One-Eyed Killer Stud Horse"]] who breaks loose and terrorizes the ranch just because [[ForTheEvulz he can]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Hank isn't nearly as strong as he boasts he is, as smart as he boasts he is, or as charismatic as he boasts he is...but when the cards are down and someone's in danger, he still charges into battle as though he was.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Hank isn't nearly as strong as he boasts he is, as smart as he boasts he is, or as charismatic as he boasts he is...but when the cards are down and someone's in danger, he still charges into battle as though he was.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Hank isn't nearly asstrong as he boasts he is, as smart as he boasts he is, strong, smart, or as charismatic as he boasts he is...is... but when the cards are down and someone's in danger, he still charges into battle as though he was.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Hank isn't nearly as
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* LukeNounverber: The coyotes' names like "Girl Who Drinks Blood".
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* CoolUncle: Hank to his sister's children (puppies?). His ''sister'' has a different opinion.
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** There's also a mother cat in one book, who runs off a ''bull'' when it comes too close to her kittens.
* MenCantKeepHouse: Slim's shack. In fact, Slim in general.
* MenCantKeepHouse: Slim's shack. In fact, Slim in general.
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* CluckingFunny: Chickens are described by Hank as being so dumb that they only have six words in their own language, three of which are just different cries for help. J.T. Cluck, the head rooster, is shown speaking fluently on other occasions, so he may be [[YogiBear smarter than your average hen]].
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* TheCaseOf: The series began using this pattern with the eighth book, ''The Case of the One-Eyed Killer Stud Horse''. At this point, the majority of the books in the series follow this template.
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->''It's me again, Hank the Cowdog.''
-->-- '''Hank''', at the beginning of each book.
''Hank the Cowdog'' is a series of children's books written by John R. Erickson starting the titular hound. The adventures consist of the goings-on at the West Texas ranch where Hank acts as the "Head of Ranch Security." He is assisted (if you can call it that) by Drover, his sidekick and a chronic coward. Together, they work tirelessly to keep the ranch safe from any threat, be it moles in the garden or blood-thirsty coyotes raiding the chicken coop, with Hank's ego and Drover's [[LameExcuse bad leg]] providing plenty of humor along the way.
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!!This series provides examples of:
* AndTheAdventureContinues: More than one book has ended with this tone, implying that the work of the Head of Ranch Security never ends.
--> '''Hank''': Case closed, and back to work!
* AnimatedAdaptation: The first book was adapted into an episode of CBS's ''Storybreak''.
* BigBadassWolf: Many of the members of the coyote tribe fit the trope's description, despite not actually being wolves.
* BettyAndVeronica: Beulah (collie next door who has a boyfriend) and Missy Coyote (coyote [[TheChiefsDaughter princess]] who was once offered to Hank if he would attack the ranch).
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs:
-->'''Drover''': She had pretty brown eyes...
-->'''Hank''': Were they pretty and brown or pretty brown? This could be important!
-->'''Drover''': Both. They were pretty and brown. And pretty brown.
* CatsAreMean: Pete the Barncat often teases and takes advantage of Hank and the other characters. Other cats aren't shown to be much better.
* TheChiefsDaughter: Missy Coyote
* DrunkenSong: "Monkey Business"
* EverythingsBetterWithChickens: Chickens are described by Hank as being so dumb that they only have six words in their own language, three of which are just different cries for help. J.T. Cluck, the head rooster, is shown speaking fluently on other occasions, so he may be [[YogiBear smarter than your average hen]].
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: The story ''Monkey Business'' has Hank finding a monkey in a crate and using him as his own personal servant, inflating his ego in the process. The monkey later starts talking and usurps Hank's command, calling himself the Pasha of Shizzam. [[spoiler: But it turns out it was AllJustADream.]]
* [[ExitPursuedByABear Exit Pursued By Two Coyotes]]: Sinister the Bobcat in ''Lost in the Dark Unchanted Forest''.
* ExpospeakGag: Hank usually describes his physiology as if he were a high-tech piece of machinery, especially when he's getting ready for a fight.
* FantasticRacism: The coyotes are portrayed like stereotypical Native Americans, with a leader named Chief Many Rabbit Gut Eat in Full Moon.
* GirlNextDoor: Beulah, the neighbor's collie.
* GoodOlBoy: The cowboys, especially Slim. Rip and Snort are described by Hank as "good 'ol boy coyotes" who love nothing more than fighting, eating, and singing (in that order).
* HeroicDog: Hank, having sworn an oath "to protect and defend all innocent children against all manner of monsters and evil things."
* HorsingAround: Hank hates horses because, not only do they think they're better than everybody else, they will go out of their way to try and prove it.
-->'''Hank''': If there's anything worse than pretense, it's reality. And anything that weighs 1200 pounds and bites and kicks and stomps ''must'' be considered reality.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Hank isn't nearly as strong as he boasts he is, as smart as he boasts he is, or as charismatic as he boasts he is...but when the cards are down and someone's in danger, he still charges into battle as though he was.
* LameExcuse: Whenever Drover suspects the slightest possible risk, he'll complain about his leg hurting. Once or twice Hank has done the same thing when he's really scared.
* LittleKnownFacts: Hank always tries to impress Drover with exaggerated explanations of natural phenomenon. Drover, of course, believes him.
* LordErrorProne: Hank pretty much epitomizes this trope; he's a canine ''Don Quixote'' who actually winds up against legitimate enemies most of the time. There's even a sequence where he and his sidekick, Drover, confuse a thunderstorm with an enemy invasion.
* TheOwlKnowingOne: Madam Moonshine, the witchy little owl. She often provides magical assistance to Hank when it suits her, although she does have some odd mannerisms, like referring to him as "Hank the Rabbit."
* {{Malaproper}}: Hank himself. Sometimes he catches it and tries to correct himself, with varying degrees of success. BluntMetaphorsTrauma is also a defining narrative trait of his.
* MamaBear: Sally May, mother of Little Alfred and Baby Molly. Unfortunately, Hank is quite often the target of her scorn for "corrupting" her children. Still, more than once she's stood up to some pretty serious dangers to keep her kids safe.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Sinister the Bobcat and Scraunch the Terrible.
* {{Narrator}}: Hank tells each adventure himself, if the opening line didn't tip you off.
* RascallyRaccoon: Eddy the Rac is a cute little orphan raccoon Hank runs into occasionally. He's a nice kid, but his TricksterArchetype creeps up on him often.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Rip and Snort, the coyote brothers.
* TranslatorBuddy: Snort to Rip.
* UnreliableNarrator: Played with; Hank tends to flavor the stories to make himself appear stronger and braver than he really is, but when he comes to a really humiliating defeat like losing a fight or running away, he'll tell the reader to send the kids off to bed so they don't hear it.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Hank is terrified of, appropriately enough, snakes.
* TheVoiceless: Rip, who only grunts in affirmation ("Uh") or negation ("Uh-uh"). [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Hank who tries to get Snort to swear an oath beginning with the line "I, Snort the coyote, and my brother Rip who never seems to talk..."
* YouNoTakeCandle: The Coyote Dialect as we hear it. Hank talks about it as if it's an actual language, but it's never clarified whether or not we're just hearing a translation.
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->''It's me again, Hank the Cowdog.''
-->-- '''Hank''', at the beginning of each book.
''Hank the Cowdog'' is a series of children's books written by John R. Erickson starting the titular hound. The adventures consist of the goings-on at the West Texas ranch where Hank acts as the "Head of Ranch Security." He is assisted (if you can call it that) by Drover, his sidekick and a chronic coward. Together, they work tirelessly to keep the ranch safe from any threat, be it moles in the garden or blood-thirsty coyotes raiding the chicken coop, with Hank's ego and Drover's [[LameExcuse bad leg]] providing plenty of humor along the way.
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!!This series provides examples of:
* AndTheAdventureContinues: More than one book has ended with this tone, implying that the work of the Head of Ranch Security never ends.
--> '''Hank''': Case closed, and back to work!
* AnimatedAdaptation: The first book was adapted into an episode of CBS's ''Storybreak''.
* BigBadassWolf: Many of the members of the coyote tribe fit the trope's description, despite not actually being wolves.
* BettyAndVeronica: Beulah (collie next door who has a boyfriend) and Missy Coyote (coyote [[TheChiefsDaughter princess]] who was once offered to Hank if he would attack the ranch).
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs:
-->'''Drover''': She had pretty brown eyes...
-->'''Hank''': Were they pretty and brown or pretty brown? This could be important!
-->'''Drover''': Both. They were pretty and brown. And pretty brown.
* CatsAreMean: Pete the Barncat often teases and takes advantage of Hank and the other characters. Other cats aren't shown to be much better.
* TheChiefsDaughter: Missy Coyote
* DrunkenSong: "Monkey Business"
* EverythingsBetterWithChickens: Chickens are described by Hank as being so dumb that they only have six words in their own language, three of which are just different cries for help. J.T. Cluck, the head rooster, is shown speaking fluently on other occasions, so he may be [[YogiBear smarter than your average hen]].
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: The story ''Monkey Business'' has Hank finding a monkey in a crate and using him as his own personal servant, inflating his ego in the process. The monkey later starts talking and usurps Hank's command, calling himself the Pasha of Shizzam. [[spoiler: But it turns out it was AllJustADream.]]
* [[ExitPursuedByABear Exit Pursued By Two Coyotes]]: Sinister the Bobcat in ''Lost in the Dark Unchanted Forest''.
* ExpospeakGag: Hank usually describes his physiology as if he were a high-tech piece of machinery, especially when he's getting ready for a fight.
* FantasticRacism: The coyotes are portrayed like stereotypical Native Americans, with a leader named Chief Many Rabbit Gut Eat in Full Moon.
* GirlNextDoor: Beulah, the neighbor's collie.
* GoodOlBoy: The cowboys, especially Slim. Rip and Snort are described by Hank as "good 'ol boy coyotes" who love nothing more than fighting, eating, and singing (in that order).
* HeroicDog: Hank, having sworn an oath "to protect and defend all innocent children against all manner of monsters and evil things."
* HorsingAround: Hank hates horses because, not only do they think they're better than everybody else, they will go out of their way to try and prove it.
-->'''Hank''': If there's anything worse than pretense, it's reality. And anything that weighs 1200 pounds and bites and kicks and stomps ''must'' be considered reality.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Hank isn't nearly as strong as he boasts he is, as smart as he boasts he is, or as charismatic as he boasts he is...but when the cards are down and someone's in danger, he still charges into battle as though he was.
* LameExcuse: Whenever Drover suspects the slightest possible risk, he'll complain about his leg hurting. Once or twice Hank has done the same thing when he's really scared.
* LittleKnownFacts: Hank always tries to impress Drover with exaggerated explanations of natural phenomenon. Drover, of course, believes him.
* LordErrorProne: Hank pretty much epitomizes this trope; he's a canine ''Don Quixote'' who actually winds up against legitimate enemies most of the time. There's even a sequence where he and his sidekick, Drover, confuse a thunderstorm with an enemy invasion.
* TheOwlKnowingOne: Madam Moonshine, the witchy little owl. She often provides magical assistance to Hank when it suits her, although she does have some odd mannerisms, like referring to him as "Hank the Rabbit."
* {{Malaproper}}: Hank himself. Sometimes he catches it and tries to correct himself, with varying degrees of success. BluntMetaphorsTrauma is also a defining narrative trait of his.
* MamaBear: Sally May, mother of Little Alfred and Baby Molly. Unfortunately, Hank is quite often the target of her scorn for "corrupting" her children. Still, more than once she's stood up to some pretty serious dangers to keep her kids safe.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Sinister the Bobcat and Scraunch the Terrible.
* {{Narrator}}: Hank tells each adventure himself, if the opening line didn't tip you off.
* RascallyRaccoon: Eddy the Rac is a cute little orphan raccoon Hank runs into occasionally. He's a nice kid, but his TricksterArchetype creeps up on him often.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Rip and Snort, the coyote brothers.
* TranslatorBuddy: Snort to Rip.
* UnreliableNarrator: Played with; Hank tends to flavor the stories to make himself appear stronger and braver than he really is, but when he comes to a really humiliating defeat like losing a fight or running away, he'll tell the reader to send the kids off to bed so they don't hear it.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Hank is terrified of, appropriately enough, snakes.
* TheVoiceless: Rip, who only grunts in affirmation ("Uh") or negation ("Uh-uh"). [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Hank who tries to get Snort to swear an oath beginning with the line "I, Snort the coyote, and my brother Rip who never seems to talk..."
* YouNoTakeCandle: The Coyote Dialect as we hear it. Hank talks about it as if it's an actual language, but it's never clarified whether or not we're just hearing a translation.
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