History WMG / CourageTheCowardlyDog

One day, after some years of being married to Muriel and having Courage as a pet, Eustace got a visit from his old patron (in "Ball of Revenge"). Katz asked him to get Courage out of the way, and Eustace was eager to comply. However, since Katz is who he is, even Eustace himself was in grave danger. Katz promised immortality, [[JackassGenie but said nothing about being]] DraggedOffToHell.

[[WMG: Eustace and Muriel are currently living off of Horst's Life Insurance.]]
It was shown in "Farmer-Hunter, Farmer-Hunted" that the farmhouse was his, as well. Or at least that the family lived there, but he was clearly in charge. This is how they have money and land despite not ever growing anything to sell or seeming to have ever had jobs beyond being farmers.

It's part of why Eustace pinches his pennies (despite in some episodes being shown to have a lot of money) because he knows if he doesn't he'll run out and have nothing at all.

One day, after some years of being married to Muriel and having Courage as a pet, Eustace got a visit from his old patron (in "Ball of Revenge"). Katz asked him to get Courage out of the way, and Eustace was eager to comply. However, since Katz is who he is, even Eustace himself was in grave danger. Katz promised immortality, [[JackassGenie but said nothing about being]] DraggedOffToHell.

[[WMG: Eustace sold his soul to Katz.]]
Eustace ran away from home as a teenager and met Katz in some point. They made a simple deal. Eustace will be immortal ([[TheDogBitesBack "that will prove my famliy who's the best Bagg. Stupid boy? Useless? I'll outlive them all. I'll live long enough to dance on your grave, stupid mother!"]]) and Katz will have the right to ask for favors whenever he like. One day, after some years of being married to Muriel and having Courage as a pet, Eustace got a visit from his old patron. Katz asked him to move Courage out of the way. Eustace was eager to compile. However, since Katz is who he is, even Eustace himself was in grave danger. Katz promised immortality, but said nothing about being dragged to hell.

Along with the above multiple descriptions of Courage being both a benevolent and lethality-absorbing pet dog of a nice old woman and a grumpy old man [[TheyKilledKenny (when he's not acting]] [[TooDumbToLive too dumb to live)]] Courage's fur color, species, personality and even given plot scenarios involving keeping [[SealedEvilInACan sealed evil in a hotspot from escaping]] fit in either greatly or near-flawlessly with those of Light Gaia. Whether the setting of the show is in [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic's]] world in the far past or not, the story could be that after his and his owner's time on earth was up, Courage, through some mysterious spiritual process got resurrected and transformed into a timid-mannered but good and benevolent deity tasked with watching over the cycle and order of the natural world for millenniums to come, [[EarnYourHappyEnding probably as his reward for]] [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments showing his pure owner's love]] and [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome standing up against the otherwise impossibly threatening adversaries of nowhere]].

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* [[CaptainObvious That is very obvious]].

[[WMG: ''Courage'' takes place at some point in ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman''[='s=] world.]]

Both of these series star [[FunnyAnimal talking animal characters]] ([[SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism some of whom are more human-like than others]]), who often find themselves getting involved in some [[SurrealHumor extremely bizarre]] [[ScienceFantasy supernatural misadventures]]. And considering the fact that these two shows are both owned by Creator/CartoonNetwork, a potential {{crossover}} between them is theoretically possible (even if unlikely for now), due to the lack of any legal barriers.

Along with the above multiple descriptions of Courage being both a benevolent and lethality-absorbing pet dog of a nice old woman and a grumpy old man [[TheyKilledKenny (when he's not acting]] [[TooDumbToLive too dumb to live)]] Courage's fur color, species, personality and even given plot scenarios involving keeping [[SealedEvilInACan sealed evil in a hotspot from escaping]] fit in either greatly or near-flawlessly with those of Light Gaia. Whether the setting of the show is in [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic's]] world in the far past or not, the story could be that after his and his owner's time on earth was up, Courage, through some mysterious spiritual process got resurrected and transformed into a timid-mannered but good and benevolent deity tasked with watching over the cycle and order of the natural world for millenniums to come, [[EarnYourHappyEnding probably as his reward for]] [[CrowningMomentOfHeartWarming showing his pure owner's love]] and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome standing up against the otherwise impossibly threatening adversaries of nowhere]].

It certainly pays to have a friend with mystic powers. Given what Shirley is capable of, and that she's mostly on good terms with Courage, she reverses the various transformations/deaths the characters experience. She also wipes their memories each time, because though she'd never admit it, she actually likes having the family around and realizes that if they could remember each horrifying adventure, they'd have moved away a long time ago.

Both of these series star [[FunnyAnimal talking animal characters]] ([[SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism some of whom are more human-like than others]]), who often find themselves get involved in some [[SurrealHumor extremely bizarre]] [[ScienceFantasy supernatural misadventures]]. And considering the fact that these two shows are both owned by Creator/CartoonNetwork, a {{crossover}} between them is theoretically possible (even if unlikely for now), due to the lack of any legal barriers.

Thanks to [[WordOfGod John Dilworth openly stating]] that the show, like any great art, should be left to interpretation, expect a lot of this.

[[WMG: Fred is mentally a child]]
He uses the word “naughty“ when he‘s talking about his obsession.

[[WMG: Courage The Cowardly Dog takes place in a setting AfterTheEnd.]]

[[WMG: Courage is just a normal dog but the entire show and everything that happens in it is how he sees it through a dog's eyes.]]

[[WMG: Fred is the Antichrist.]]

Apparantly, Courage has become delusional from living in the middle of nowhere. His cowardly nature doesn't help.
* It's ''all'' in his head-- including Muriel and Nowhere. He was "abandoned as a pup"-- and still is.
** * ManlyTears*

[[WMG: The buck deer in ''Deer Hunter, Farmer Hunted'' is Eustace's brother (Horace) reincarnated]]

[[WMG: In "Ball of Revenge" Eustace was taking a new medication.]]

Explains his shape changing abilities and why [[WeirdnessCensor nobody ever gets what he's trying to say.]]
* Could be Cerberus, the guardian of the underworld in Greek mythology. This troper's seen theories on that on several sites...

But Eustace isn't proud of his [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 stupid crazed gunman son.]]

Or alternativly, Courage is Nicolas Cage.

[[WMG: Dr Zalost is a relative of Fenella from ''WesternAnimation/ChorltonAndTheWheelies'']]

[[WMG: The Lint Lady was responsible for anthropomorphizing Doc Gerbil.]]
The lint lady used to be a mad scientist who conducted strange experiments and tested them on animals. One of her products, which causes people to have her knowledge, causes a gerbil she named Lulumay to become an anthropomorphic animal who seises revenge on those who tested on his kind. The first victim obviously being the mad scientist.

Plank actually can talk,but only to Johnny because he doesnt have enough of the tree's power to talk to the others (except occasionally ed).And a few times in the series, Plank seems to have triggered a switch or moved somewhere without Johnny's assistance.
[[WMG: The thing behind the door in Shwick's hotel room is a [[KillerRabbit rabbit.]]]]

[[WMG: The computer contains the consciousness of [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee.]]]]

[[WMG: Courage is a god]] He constantly defeats monsters that are too powerful for Chuck Norris. Plus, he's a TALKING ANIMAL and he can shape-shift!

[[WMG: Courage is the [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence mortal]] or an AlternateUniverse version of [[GodIsGood Chip/Light Gaia]] From ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'']]

[[WMG: Muriel grew up in British India.]]

[[WMG: Eustace's marriage to Muriel is him subconsciously searching for the maternal affection he never got]]

[[WMG: The Perfect Trumpet Thingy learns that there's no such thing as perfection, and gets a happy ending]]

[[WMG: The farm is Hell]]

[[WMG: The show takes place in the ''Franchise/WhenTheyCry'' series]]

[[WMG: The reason the Clutching Foot appeared in "Ball of Revenge":]]

[[WMG:Eustace and Muriel are both suffering from severe cases of dementia or senility.]]

[[WMG:The Duck Brothers and the Chicken from Outer Space are from the same planet.]]

[[WMG:Eustace (and perhaps Courage and Muriel as well) have some kind of ResurrectiveImmortality.]]

* Or another reason for why they never visit: [[FreudianExcuse because they were raised by]] [[AbusiveParents Eustace Bagge]].

[[WMG: Muriel once encountered and fought the [[Series/DoctorWho Slitheen]] ]]

[[WMG: Computer and [[Creator/{{Toonami}} Swayzak]] are affiliated with each other]]

Well they are both sexy, and both from Cartoon Network, so... plus Swayzak would be better than whatever virus that was in Hard Drive Courage.

[[WMG: Courage takes place at some point in ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman''s world]]

Both series have humans and human-like animals living side by side. But while Bojack lives in modern civilization, Courage lives around the 60s in the middle of,well, Nowhere, a much more regressive area of the country where animals are treated like lower class, and some(like Katz, Schwick, and LeQuack) resort to criminal methods to get by. In his later years after Eustace and Muriel passed away, Courage finally moved from nowhere to get proper citizenship and became a civil-rights activist. He also published his experiences with the Bagges'. His more supernatural adventures were either [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory exaggerated accounts]], or Nowhere really is that big a WeirdnessMagnet.
Meanwhile, Shirley became a famed psychic, possibly even finding a gig in Hollywoo, and Katz gained infamy as a Zodiac-killer type when Courage helped finally put him away.

Both series have humans and human-like animals living side by side. But while Bojack lives in modern civilization, Courage lives around the 60s in the middle of,well, Nowhere, a much more regressive area of the country where animals are treated like lower class, and some(like Katz, Schwick, and LeQuack) resort to criminal methods to get by.

[[WMG: Katz is somehow related to Fergurina from ''TheDirdyBirdy''.]]

* We might wonder [[WhatCouldHaveBeen what we could expect to see]] if [[SonicEXE Sonic.EXE]] or [[{{Fanon}} anything similar]] ever became [[CosmicHorrorStory a real game and/or plot element]] [[BewareTheSuperman in a sonic game]] and featured Light Gaia as [[HopeSpot Sonic's remaining connection]] with his own [[MoralEventHorizon rational and sanity as well as grip with reality]] while fighting [[EnemyWithin the enemy within.]]

[[WMG: The Middle of Nowhere is set either within or right next to Area51 (or a similar secret military research facility) where everything from aliens to forbidden (I'll bet [[CosmicHorrorStory beyond even alien understandings]]) things take place.]]
This could at least explain the wide variety of strange going-ons that take place in nowhere, ranging from aliens to bizarre scientific experiments to the paranormal and so on and so on. The research facility primarily exists to capture, record and study such anomalies and relevant data much like how the Wiki/SCPFoundation works. The home of Eustace and Muriel could either be a house of unsuspecting human and canine guinea pigs or it might be that they just happen to be in the way while all this is going on.
* Heck, Eustace clearly doesn't act so nice when it comes to taking about finances, maybe they wound up there because of [[YouWouldNotWantToLiveInDex the low property value that they couldn't refuse?]]
* I'll go one further and say that it's not just any military base, but [[WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity The Top Secret Military Base (please look the other way)]].
* [[TruthInTelevision Area 51 is set in Nevada, not Kansas]] just so you know...

[[WMG: The lint lady was responsible for anhrpomorphising Doc Gerbil.]]

Hence why [[TheyKilledKennyAgain no matter what kind of absurd injuries, deaths, or other strange fates]] fall upon them, they always revert to being alive, well, and normal.

[[WMG: Katz is actually Red from {{All Dogs go to Heaven}}.]]

[[WMG: Plank from ''EdEddNEddy'' is a piece of the Magic Tree.]]

[[WMG: Courage is the [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence mortal]] or an [[AlternateUniverse Alternate Universe]] version of [[GodIsGood Chip/Light Gaia]] From [[SonicUnleashed Sonic Unleashed]]]]

[[WMG: The Middle of Nowhere is set either within or right next to Area 51 (or a similar secret military research facility) where everything from aliens to forbidden (I'll bet [[CosmicHorrorStory beyond even alien understandings]]) things take place.]]
This could at least explain the wide variety of strange going-ons that take place in nowhere, ranging from aliens to bizarre scientific experiments to the paranormal and so on and so on. The research facility primarily exists to capture, record and study such anomalies and relevant data much like how [[Wiki/SCPFoundation the SCP Foundation]] works. The home of Eustace and Muriel could either be a house of unsuspecting human and canine guinea pigs or it might be that they just happen to be in the way while all this is going on.

They used to be top secret agents charged with battling aliens, monsters, and all other manner of supernatural life forms. At some point, one of two things happened: Either something happened during a mission that erased their memories, or when they retired, the government themselves took their memories of it all so they couldn't potentially leak classified information. This is why creepy stuff seems almost drawn to them all throughout the show.

[[WMG: Plank from ed edd n eddy is a piece of the magic tree.]]

[[WMG: Katz is somehow related to Fergurina from The Dirdy Birdy .]]

This gave me an idea: what if Eustace sees ''everything'' like this, even with his glasses? It's possible that when he's close to something, he sees it as it truly is (as evidenced by his fixing things around the house) but from afar, he sees things as monsters, and all that the loss of his glasses did was take away his ability to distinguish objects. This would also explain his nonplussed reactions to sick things in other episodes, and how we often see him [[IdiotBall taunt, mock, or ignore monsters]]–maybe he sees ''everyone'' (except, perhaps, Muriel and Courage) as monsters, but has gotten used to this and so treats everything the same because to him, they're all the same. In other words, Eustace does not treat weird things with their appropriate amount of caution simply because weird, to him, is completely normal.

[[WMG: Dr. Vindaloo is the secret to Eustace's survival]]
Most of his supposed "deaths" throughout the series are reversible through cartoon logic. For example, in Evil Weevil, Eustace crumbles to dust and Courage uses him as fertilizer. He is later seen growing as a flower, to which Muriel states that she hopes he grows back to his old self. Well, who's to say he didn't? Another one being in the Tower of Dr. Zalost, when Eustace is inexplicably petrified, he can still be heard talking, so it's likely that he himself wasn't turned to stone, but instead was encased in it. Eustace was turned into a part of King Ramses' slab due to a curse, but curses can be broken. The one that always bothered me was when the Snowman removed his "non-melting gene" and he melted. That's where Dr. Vindaloo comes in. In the episode with Velvet Vic, he has a small machine that can clone the record "good as new." So perhaps he has a way of doing the same thing for Eustace. Courage brings in whatever remains he can, like the pitcher of water that Eustace became at the end of the snowman's episode, and Dr. Vindaloo clones a brand new Eustace, with the non-melting gene included! It may have a slight impact on his memory which is why he's never brought it up before.

* Heck, Eustace clearly doesn't act so nice when it comes to taking about finances, maybe they wound up there because of [[Main/YouWouldNotWantToLiveInDex the low property value that they couldn't refuse?]]

* [[Main/TruthInTelevision Area 51 is set in Nevada, not Kansas]] just so you know...

[[WMG: Courage is the [[Main/AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence mortal]] or an [[Main/AlternateUniverse Alternate Universe]] version of [[Main/GodIsGood Chip/Light Gaia]] From [[Main/SonicUnleashed Sonic Unleashed]]]]
Along with the above multiple descriptions of Courage being both a benevolent and lethality-absorbing pet dog of a nice old woman and a grumpy old man [[Main/TheyKilledKenny (when he's not acting]] [[Main/TooDumbToLive too dumb to live)]] Courage's fur color, species, personality and even given plot scenarios involving keeping [[SealedEvilInACan sealed evil in a hotspot from escaping]] fit in either greatly or near-flawlessly with those of Light Gaia. Whether the setting of the show is in [[Main/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic's]] world in the far past or not, the story could be that after his and his owner's time on earth was up, Courage, through some mysterious spiritual process got resurrected and transformed into a timid-mannered but good and benevolent deity tasked with watching over the cycle and order of the natural world for millenniums to come, [[EarnYourHappyEnding probably as his reward for]] [[CrowningMomentOfHeartWarming showing his pure owner's love]] and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome standing up against the otherwise impossibly threatening adversaries of nowhere]].
* We might wonder [[WhatCouldHaveBeen what we could expect to see]] if [[SonicEXE Sonic.EXE]] or [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Fanon anything similar]] ever became [[CosmicHorrorStory a real game and/or plot element]] [[Main/BewareTheSuperman in a sonic game]] and featured Light Gaia as [[Main/HopeSpot Sonic's remaining connection]] with his own [[MoralEventHorizon rational and sanity as well as grip with reality]] while fighting [[Main/EnemyWithin the enemy within.]]