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* ''Film/TronLegacy'': Sam Flynn has a lot of anger issues, [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob no actual day job]], few social contacts, and no direction in his life. His stalwart companion is a "rescue" dog named Marv who gets rewarded with a cheeseburger [[spoiler: for helping him prank his dad's company]].

* Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/BerenAndLuthien'': Although Huan is Celegorm's loyal wolfhound, he takes a liking to the heroes Lúthien and Beren. Although he helps Lúthien, Huan still wants to be loyal to Celegorm. When Celegorm and his brother Curufin attempt to murder Lúthien and nearly murder Beren, Huan abandons Celegorm for good: and it is said that no dog of any kind would love or obey Celegorm ever again.

* Franchise/{{Superman}}:
** ComicBook/{{Superboy}}[=/=]Franchise/{{Superman}} and his dog companion Krypto the Superdog.

* In ''Film/Dune1984'', Creator/PatrickStewart actually charges into action against the evil Harkonnen while clutching a pug dog to his chest. Mind you that's not the safest position for a dog to be in...

-->'''Foggy:''' I hate to bring it up again, but I spent 3,000 dollars on that seeing eye dog...
-->'''Matt:''' I didn't ask you for the dog--I didn't want a dog!
-->'''Foggy:''' Can I tell you something else? Seeing eye dogs bond for life--yours ran away. What does that tell you about how emotionally available you are? ''([[ActuallyPrettyFunny Matt laughs]])''

* ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'': Beren and Lúthien win the loyalty of Huan, the hound of Valinor, even though he is their enemy's dog.

* ''LightNovel/TheCaseFilesOfJewelerRichard'': Richard is a huge dog lover, dating back to when he was a child. According to Jeffrey, he cried his eyes out when his childhood dog died and he immediately takes to Seigi's adopted dog, saying he loves dogs very much and wants to cuddle him, which the dog is less than fond of. He also quickly sets to training it and agrees to adopt another dog with Seigi. Perhaps this is why he likes Seigi's puppylike nature so much?

* Sam from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' loves dogs. He's adopted at least two dogs over the course of his life and doesn't keep them mostly due to his dangerous and nomadic lifestyle. PlayedWith with Dean who, due to his experiences with hellhounds, dislikes dogs for a few seasons. However, later he spends an episode being able to communicate with all animals and befriends a German Shepherd, telling the dog that he wishes he could adopt him. Then, in the final season, he does find a PostApocalypticDog and adopts him.

* Sam from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' loves dogs. He's adopted at least two dogs over the course of his life and doesn't keep them mostly due to his dangerous and nomadic lifestyle. Averted with Dean who, due to his experiences with hellhounds, dislikes dogs.

* Averted in ''Film/Daredevil2003'', which has a DeletedScene where Foggy complains that he bought a seeing-eye dog for Matt Murdock and ran away (no doubt because [[SuperSenses Matt had no use for it]]).

-->Matt:''' I didn't ask you for the dog; I didn't want a dog!

** Ferelden culture loves dogs in general and particularly the majestic [[http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Mabari Mabari Hound]] for their strength, courage, and intelligence (which is implied to be on the same level as humans). The capital city of Denerim is even compared to the Mabari, and the term "Dog Lords" is used as a slur for Fereldens by other cultures.

** According to Fereldan folklore the savior Andraste had a [[http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Codex_entry:_Andraste%27s_Mabari loyal Mabari]] that got cut out of the canon version of her story. Andraste was, of course, Ferelden.

* ''Literature/{{Anpanman}}'' has Cheese, Anpanman's pet dog. He found Cheese as a stray when he was a little boy, and was the first creature he gave part of his head to to eat.

* All the girls in ''Manga/SchoolLive'' have a thing for Taromaru, though Taromaru [[AnimalsHateHim doesn't like Miki much]]. In the manga she never even ''met'' Taromaru as he is a minor PosthumousCharacter, though one chapters cover does show Miki photographing a puppy who doesn't seem to like her.

** All of Gladion's Pokémon are in some way canine -- Umbreon, Midnight Lycanroc, and even Silvally to a degree. Later on he catches a Zoroark.

** In ''ComicBook/KryptonNoMore'', Superman, Supergirl and Krypto fight and have fun together.

* In ''Fanfic/WonderfulMazinja'', [[TheCape Taylor]] makes masks -called Wonder Masks- that grant people super-powers. When she manages to make Wonder Masks for [[AntiVillain Rachel]]'s dogs, everyone who have fought alongside Taylor want to get a "Wonder Dog".

* In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'', Team MNVW adopts a puppy that Izuku found [[AbandonedPetInABox abandoned in a box]]. After naming her [[DeathbringerTheAdorable Lulu-Bell, Lord of Thunder]], the team quickly finds themselves distracted from studying from their final exams by how much fun it is to play with her. Nora and Weiss also begin competing for Lulu's affection and are incensed after Pyrrha takes her out for a walk.

-->'''Nasthalthia:''' Okay. So Lex and Superboy were enemies, now. Lex wasn't in trouble with the law yet, but that wouldn't take long. Lex tried to kill Blue Boy and his stupid dog with some living-Kryptonite thingies he'd created, and got close as dammit to doing it. It took one of those Legion kids to save Supes's backside in that one.\\

* In the second book of the ''Our Own League'' series, which has CharacterFocus on Superboy, Conner liberates a wolf-like animal that [[ShockAndAwe shoots electricity from his crystal horn]] from Brainiac's ship, names him Cobalt and adopts him as the Titans' TeamPet. According to WordOfGod, Cobalt was created as a more "alien" equivalent to Comicbook/KryptoTheSuperdog.

* ''Film/TronLegacy'': Sam Flynn has a lot of anger issues, [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob no actual day job]], few social contacts, and no direction for his life. His stalwart companion is a "rescue" dog named Marv who gets rewarded with a cheeseburger [[spoiler: for helping him prank his dad's company]].

* In ''Film/{{Defendor}}'' film Defendor has a small figurine of a dog in his truck with word "Defendog" written under it, maybe implying an imaginary sidekick dog.

* ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'': Beren and Lúthien win the loyalty of of Huan, the hound of Valinor, even though he is their enemy's dog.

** Invoked with an entire ''family'' of heroes. In the first chapter, the five Stark children and their bastard brother find six orphaned direwolf pups, which will grow up into mighty wolves. There are four males and two females; one of the males an albino outcast. Naturally, the bastard adopts the albino, the three Stark boys take the other males, and the two Stark girls take the females. The wolves become their closest companions, reflecting each child's personality, fate, and [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent more]].

* In ''Literature/WolfHall'', Thomas Cromwell likes small dogs that remind him of the one he had to abandon in his youth; as an adult he acquires a number of them and calls them all Bella after that first pet. He genuinely sympathizes with Anne Boleyn when she's crying over the fatal (and suspicious) fall of her spaniel from a window and knows very well not to suggest she just get a new one.

* Zig-zagged in ''Literature/FrannyKStein''. When Franny first got her dog Igor in the second book ''Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid'', she initially saw him as an unwanted pest, but grew to like him after he saved her life and begins to trust him more with assisting her in her experiments and saving the day from experiments gone wrong.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': Angel, which is lampshaded by Angelus, who offers to send Angel "to that big puppy pound in the sky" as revenge for all those puppies he's saved. PlayedForLaughs when Gunn assures him that he'll get along fine with The Conduit — as long as he likes cats. Whoops.

** The direwolf is the sigil of House Stark and each member of the newest generation (Robb, Jon, Sansa, Arya, Bran and Rickon) receive one as a pet.

* In ''{{Series/Longstreet}}'', Mike has a seeing eye dog named Pax. In the pilot, he was initially against having a dog, not out of hate; but because to him it was a reminder of his blindness. However he comes to love Pax and is devastated when [[spoiler: Pax nearly dies of a fatal stab wound.]]

** Discused in "Rabbit in a Snowstorm". When [[HandicappedBadass Matt]] shows up to work sporting a bruise over his right eye from his fight with the Russians in the previous episode, Foggy and Karen suggest he get a seeing-eye dog.

** While he is a very violent AntiHero who kills criminals with extreme prejudice, [[ComicBook/ThePunisher Frank Castle]] adopted a dog the Kitchen Irish had been using for fights after he machine-gunned the previous owners. Its arguably one of the few things he is still emotionally attached to as Finn and the other Kitchen Irish get Frank to confess where he hid their money he had stolen by threatening to kill the dog. He does confess, knowing full well the money's been booby-trapped with a bomb.

* ''Series/{{Victorious}}'': It's mentioned a few times that Beck wants a dog. When Jade wants to win him back, she thinks of buying him a Rottweiler. Another episode has him dog sitting for his neighbor.

* Adapting a case listed on the comic book folder, ''Series/Hawkeye2021'' has Kate Bishop ensuring to save from incoming traffic an one-eyed dog who bit one of her adversaries. It's one of the things Yelena Belova, who in [[Film/BlackWidow2021 her debut]] showed an interest in dogs, compliments about her. And Lucky is [[BigFriendlyDog so lovable]] that even a [[KnightInSourArmor cynical, jaded hardass]] like Clint can't help but become fond of him.

* Brick from the ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' series may be a gigantic, hugely-muscled, BloodKnight SociopathicHero, but he still loves dogs. In the first game he wears the paw of his deceased dog on a necklace as a TragicKeepsake. In the second game a second paw is added, since he had gotten another dog in between games that was killed by Nisha because she knew it was the only way to really hurt him. In ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'', where Nisha is PromotedToPlayable, it's revealed that [[spoiler:when she was a child she had a dog that she loved very much, and was forced to put it down when it went berserk after being bitten by a venomous creature. The incident scarred her and caused her to develop a hatred of cute animals, puppies in particular.]]
* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyGhosts'' gives your heroes a loyal attack/scouting dog, which you control for a few sequences..

* [[{{Deuteragonist}} Ellie]] from ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'' seems to be fond of them, as she reacts with gleeful excitement when she sees a couple of them playing in the distance while her and [[PlayerCharacter Joel]] travel through an abandoned suburb. Joel is implied to like them too, when he can pet a dog that lives in the Jackson settlement. WordOfGod says that the team thought about letting Joel and Ellie adopt a stray puppy during their journey, but it was ultimately cut. [[VideoGame/TheLastOfUsPartII The sequel]] downplays this a bit in Ellie's case, showing that she's perfectly fine with killing them in self-defense. She's still friendly to the ones who aren't a threat to them though.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', dogs and cats naturally like Link, partially because he can turn into a wolf and communicate with them. To add extra awww they are the only living thing you can pick up without throwing.

** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'': [[TheWoobie Otacon]] loves dogs and Snake is known to keep a team of Huskies, as he dabbles as a musher. However, Snake is not above murdering dogs which get in his way, much to Otacon's horror. [[TheVamp The villain Sniper Wolf]] also keeps a pack of wolf-dogs, referring to them as her family. Otacon indicates that [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter this is an example that she is, in fact, a nice person,]] though Snake is very doubtful of this.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'', one member of S.E.E.S. is Koromaru, an albino shiba inu who is taken in and cared for after he is discovered to have a Persona of his own and becomes the TeamPet. Shinjiro bonds quickly with Koromaru and cooks fancy meals for him. A female PlayerCharacter in the game's PSP port can forge a Social Link with him. Furthermore, in ''VideoGame/Persona4ArenaUltimax'', Koromaru fights alongside Ken Amada.

* ''VideoGame/SepterraCore''. Grubb builds his own RobotDog, Runner, his best friend. [[spoiler: When Runner went missing, and was later found with Led, she and Grubb started bickering about which of them was his owner]].

* In ''Webcomic/TheGlassScientists'', Jekyll is a dog person front and centre and he loves all dogs whether they're alive, Church Grims or werewolves.

** ''Videogame/{{EarthBound}}'' gives us a very old dog named King, who's been Ness's pet since the day he was born.

* Krypto inspired Creator/BillFinger to add Ace the Bat-Hound to the [[Characters/BatmanAndBatFamily Batman Family]].

* In ''Fanfic/{{Wonderful}}'', [[TheCape Taylor]] makes masks -called Wonder Masks- that grant people super-powers. When she manages to make Wonder Masks for [[AntiVillain Rachel]]'s dogs, everyone who have fought alongside Taylor want to get a "Wonder Dog".

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Epic}}'', MK is clearly very fond of her goofy pug, Ozzie.

* ''VideoGame/PuttPutt'' has a pet dog.

* In ''VideoGame/Persona4'', Chie explains to the PlayerCharacter in her Social Link that she and her best friend, Yukiko, met as children over a dog that Yukiko's parents wouldn't let her keep, so Chie took care of the dog instead. In the [[Anime/Persona4TheAnimation anime adaptation]], Chie even has a picture of the dog, [[https://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/Chie_Satonaka?file=Chie_has_a_picture_of_her_pet..jpg who has grown into a big ol' pupper]].

* ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} got a dog in the first issue of his late 2012 ongoing after he saved him from being shot at by some thugs while he was unarmed (the dog took a liking to Barton because he gave him a slice of pizza) and ended up getting hit by a car because of it. The dog, while now severely banged up, is seen living with him by the second issue. For added points, the dog's called [[ContrivedCoincidence Arrow]], but he thinks of changing that name.

* ‘’VideoGame/GuiltyGear’’: [[Characters/GuiltyGearStrive Giovanna]] is very affectionate towards Rei, her [[AnimalCompanion canine spirit]]. She spends time petting and snuggling with Rei between battles.

* Majin Buu's HeelFaceTurn in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' starts when he heals and befriends a small dog named Bee, who accompanies him throughout the rest of the arc.

* Keith Goodman/Sky High of ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' likes to spend his spare time walking his dog, John.

** In ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton'', Kara tries to make friends with Krypto, but Krypto doesn't appear to like her. She is upset about it. [[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Later they become friends]].

* VideoGamn/GuiltyGearStrive: [[Characters/GuiltyGearStrive Giovanna is very affectionate towards Rei, her [[AnimalCompanion canine spirit]]. She spends time petting and snuggling with Rei between battles.

Contrast RightHandCat and RightHandAttackDog, compare KindheartedCatLover and IntrovertedCatPerson.