Delusions of Doghood: Difference between revisions

 

There's plenty of [[Shapeshifting]] tropes, but this one is a bit different. You see, these characters don't actually change form, they just ''think'' they do. This is whenever a character believes he is a dog or any other animal without actually being it.

 

== Anime & Manga ==

** There's also one where Ash gets hypnotized into thinking he's a Bulbasaur.

 

== Comic Books ==

== Film ==

* Big part of ''[[The Animal]]''.

* This is the overall theme of the early [[Nicolas Cage]] movie ''[[Birdy]]'', in which Cage's friend believes he's a bird after nearly being killed at war.

* The forgettable French comedy movie ''[[Didier]]'' is about a dog that's somehow turned into a human, but keeps a dog mind and [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* In ''[[High Anxiety]]'', there's a mental patient who thinks he's a cocker spaniel.

* ''[[Monty Python]]'': the Silly Olympics includes the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjm_IdLCWc4#t=2m01s 3,000 Meter Steeplechase for People who Think They're Chickens].

* This was a subplot in ''[[The Tracey Fragments]]''. Like, she'd hypnotized her brother into thinking he was a dog, permanently or something. I'm too tired right now to double check that.

* The Disney film ''You Lucky Dog'' has a dog psychic played by [[Growing Pains|Kirk Cameron]] who ends up inadvertently chanelling the personality of a rich man's St. Bernard whenever he gets excited.

 

== Literature ==

** '''Magrat:'''"I always felt sorry for Mr Wilkins...It was so sad watching him try to catch flies on his tongue."

** ''The Wee Free Men'' also has a frog who wonders if whether he's actually a man turned into a frog or a frog cursed into believing it. {{spoiler|The former}} is true.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

::They cover by saying he [[Taking the Bullet|took a bullet]] to the brain for Harry in "that war."

* Played with on ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' when the others point out that Robin's new date is basically a dog. While he doesn't act like a dog, his behavior is reminiscent of one (running after a squirrel, chasing his "tail", etc).

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

* In ''[[Beetle Bailey]]'', Beetle once hypnotises Sarge to think he's whatever he secretly wants to be, making him act like a lion. He also accidentally affects General Halftrack, but he doesn't "become" an animal: "Have you gone mad! I'm an airplane!" (Paraphrased.)

 

== Webcomics ==

* Inverted in ''[[Skin Horse]]'' with Phil the Mynah, an [[Uplifted Animal]] who thinks he's human.

 

== Western Animation ==

* In the [[Looney Tunes]] cartoon "Hare Brush", Elmer Fudd thinks he's a rabbit. He gets put in a mental institution, where he escapes, leaving [[Bugs Bunny]] in his place. Bugs gets convinced by the psychiatrists that he's "Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht." He then goes rabbit hunting, and Elmer is the rabbit he's hunting. Ultimately subverted, though, as Elmer!Bugs gets arrested for tax evasion. Elmer knows he's not a rabbit; he's faking it so he doesn't go to jail.

** In another of the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' shorts starring [[Porky Pig]] and Charlie Dog, Porky is [[Driven to Madness]] and at the end starts acting like a dog.

* In the [[Series Finale]] of ''[[Pound Puppies]]'', the stress of running the pound (and inability to escape it, even when on an attempted vacation) eventually broke the evil aunt Katrina Stoneheart, causing her to conclude that maybe she was a dog, too.

* Rat King from ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' thought he was actually a rat.

 

== Real Life ==

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