History Literature / TheFoxAndTheHound

* Tempting Fate: After first being persued by Chief, Tod is completely worn out from the chase and hopes to never see the hunter and his dogs again. Given this is the second chapter...

* TheMaster: See below.

* ChekovsSkill: Essentially how Tod and his kind's entire mindset works. His repertoire of hunting skills and evasive maneuvers are made up of various tricks that worked once and are repeated verbatim - he doesn't question ''why'' something works, he just knows that it ''does''.

* FragileSpeedser: Greyhounds.

* HumansAreCthulu: Copper knows that "human beings had strange powers that no dog could understand", such as the ability to miraculously scent trails where he cannot (or, as it may be, visually follow footprints and other sign). The formal foxhunters are even more bizarre and inscrutable. Tod is probably the character least awed by humans, and even then they still do things he finds inexplicable from time to time.

* InsistantTerminology: Mannix acknowledges that some people might find his habit of calling baby foxes pups instead of cubs a little odd, but defends himself by saying "Foxes are actually little wild dogs and so would have pups". He alternates between the two terms, but generally prefers "pup".

* [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog]]

The plot of ''Literature/TheFoxAndTheHound'' stars a human-raised red fox named Tod. After Tod causes the death of a hunter's prize hound, Chief, the [[AnimalNemesis hunter pursues Tod in a fit of vengeance]], aided by his aging half-bloodhound Copper. Of ten chapters, Copper gets four as the viewpoint character and Tod six. The novel takes great pains to show both characters' distinctly non-human thought processes - in particular, scent rules their world far more than sound or sight, especially in Copper's case.

* EverythingsWorseWithBears: While Chief protects the hunter from a bear, Copper cowers in fear.
* GhibliHills: Subverted. The forest and The Master's land all get eaten up by urbanization.

* InfantImmortality: Averted. [[spoiler: A human child ends up eating the poison the hunter leaves out for foxes and dies, and ''almost none'' of Tod's pups that he sticks around to raise make it to adulthood. One lone pup possibly lived - at the very least, it drops out of the narrative without explicitly dying.]]

* NoNameGiven: The hunter, who is referred to as [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep The Master]] by Copper and the hunter or the Man by Tod.

* InfantImmortality: Averted. [[spoiler: A human child ends up eating the poison the hunter leaves out for foxes and dies]], and ''none'' of [[spoiler: Tod's pups that he sticks around to raise]] make it to adulthood.

* NoNameGiven: The hunter, who is referred to as [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep The Master]] by Copper and the hunter by Tod.

* GreenEyedMonster: Copper, an aging bloodhound-mix who'd fallen out of his master's favour, absolutely hates Chief, a younger dog who is challenging his role as head dog. He's overjoyed when Chief is [[spoiler: killed prematurely]].

The plot of ''Literature/TheFoxAndTheHound'' stars a human-raised red fox named Tod. After Tod causes the death of a hunter's prize hound, Chief, the [[AnimalNemesis hunter pursues Tod in a fit of vengeance]], aided by his aging half-bloodhound Copper. Of ten chapters, Copper gets four as the viewpoint character, and Tod six. The novel takes great pains to show both characters' distinctly non-human thought processes - in particular, scent rules their world far more than sound or sight, especially in Copper's case.

* GroinAttack: What Chief uses to distract a bear about to kill his master.

The plot of ''Literature/TheFoxAndTheHound'' stars a human-raised red fox named Tod. After Tod causes the death of a hunter's prize hound, Chief, the [[AnimalNemesis hunter pursues Tod in a fit of vengeance]], aided by his aging half-bloodhound Copper. Of ten chapters, Copper gets four as the viewpoint character, and Tod six.

* ShownTheirWork: Mannix spent over a year studying foxes, which included watching them in the wild, interviewing hunters and even keeping a pair of red foxes in his home. It shows.

A novel written by Daniel P. Mannix and published in 1967. It had a {{Disney}} [[Disney/TheFoxAndTheHound movie]] based on it, which is much better known than the book.

The plot of ''Literature/TheFoxAndTheHound'' stars a human-raised red fox named Tod. After Tod causes the death of a hunter's prize hound, Chief, the [[AnimalNemesis hunter pursues Tod in a fit of vengeance]].

* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies: BOTH of them. See DownerEnding.]]
* InfantImmortality: Averted. [[spoiler: A child ends up eating the poison the hunter leaves out for foxes and dies]], and ''none'' of [[spoiler: Tod's pups that he sticks around to raise]] make it to adulthood.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: Chief]] dies in the novel and the [[RecursiveAdaptation book of the film]], but not the {{Disney}} film that inspired the [[RecursiveAdaptation book of the film of the book]].

** After noticing Chief tailing him, Tod waits in front of a railroad track for a train to arrive, and dashes across at the last minute. Chief follows... and you can guess the rest.

* GreenEyedMonster: Copper, an aging bloodhound-mix who'd fallen out of his master's favour, absolutely hates Chief, a younger dog who is challenging his role as head dog. He's overjoyed when Chief is killed prematurely.

* InfantImmortality: Averted. A child ends up eating the poison the hunter leaves out for foxes and dies, and ''none'' of Tod's pups that he sticks around to raise make it to adulthood.
* {{Jerkass}}: Both title characters. There's Tod, who hangs around by the hunter's dogs and taunts them while they're chained. When one, Chief, finally gets loose and chases him, he kills it. And Copper, whose jealously toward Chief makes him so hateful of the dog that he's ''happy'' when Chief is killed by Tod.
* [[KickTheDog Kick The Fox]]: The hunter kills at least two of Tod's mates and at least two litters of Tod's kits.

* ShootTheShaggyDog
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Chief dies in the novel and the [[RecursiveAdaptation book of the film]], but not the {{Disney}} film that inspired the [[RecursiveAdaptation book of the film of the book]].
* SummonBiggerFish: In this case, Tod uses a train to off Chief.

The plot of ''Literature/TheFoxAndTheHound'' stars a human-raised red fox named Tod. After Tod causes the death of a hunter's prize hound, Chief, the [[PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSpecies hunter pursues Tod in a fit of vengeance]].

* DeathByAdaptation: Chief dies in the novel and the [[RecursiveAdaptation book of the film]], but not the {{Disney}} film that inspired the [[RecursiveAdaptation book of the film of the book]].

* InfantImmortality: Averted. A child ends up eating the poison the hunter leaves out for foxes and dies, and ''none'' of Tod's cubs that he sticks around to raise make it to adulthood.

* ShaggyDogStory

* {{Jerkass}}: Tod, who hangs around by the hunter's dogs and taunts them while they're chained. When one finally gets loose and chases him, he kills it.

* {{ptitleeyyr8ln8spjv}}: While Chief protects the hunter from a bear, Copper cowers in fear.

* DownerEnding: Tod [[spoiler: is finally killed]], and with most of his property gone and no more purpose in life, the hunter and Copper retire to a nursing home.

* InfantImmortality: Averted. A child ends up eating the poison the hunter leaves out for foxes and dies.

* KickTheDog: The hunter kills at least two of Tod's mates and at least two litters of Tod's kits.
* NoNameGiven: The hunter, who is referred to as [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep The Master]].

* NoNameGiven: The hunter, who is referred to as [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep TheMaster]].

* {{ptitleeyyr8ln8spjv}}: While Chief protects the hunter from a bear, Copper cowers in fear.