Everything's Worse with Wolves: Difference between revisions

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So you're out in the wilderness having a jolly time. Then you feel like you're being followed. You ignore it at first and keep going. Then you become aware that you are being hunted. Congratulations, you are being hunted by a wolf.

At first glance, you would think that dealing with a wolf is not so bad as dealing with a [[Everything's Worse with Bears|bear]]. However, there's one thing to keep in mind.

 

 

Contrast with [[Big Badass Wolf]], which normally deals with one wolf. This deals with multiple wolves.

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* In ''[[One Piece]]'', there are wolves guarding the fifth floor of [[The Alcatraz|Impel Down]]. They were moved there from Level 2 so they wouldn't kill all the other beasts there!

** Subverted earlier when the crew was in Upper Yard. The wolves appear menacing at first, but after their leader is impressed by Nami's ferocity, they join the campfire.

 

== Film ==

* ''Far From Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog''

* Look Who's Talking Now featured a group of wolves during the final act of the film. [[Played for Laughs]].

 

== Literature ==

* [[Inverted]] in ''[[The Jungle Book (novel)|The Jungle Book]]''.

* While he's watching the Alphas in action in ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', Harry notes that humans in this age of guns and helicopters have forgotten just why we used to be afraid of wolves, and that there are several ''very good'' reasons.

* ''[[The Wolves of Willoughby Chase]]'': In the novel that gave its name to the series, an alternate England where packs of wolves roam the 19th century Yorkshire countryside, the young heroine is almost killed when one such pack ''attack a train''. She's only saved when the man sharing her carriage stabs the wolf that's got in with them to death.

* During the "[[Succession Crisis|War of the Five Kings]]" in a ''[[A Clash of Kings]]'' it's become apparent that an enormous pack of wolves, possibly numbering in the hundreds, is roaming the Riverlands under the leadership of a [[Big Badass Wolf|fearless direwolf]], {{spoiler|presumably Arya's former pet Nymeria}}. The pack has apparently grown stronger by the events of ''[[A Dance With Dragons]]''.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* Wolves in ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' are green most of the time. The [http://magiccards.info/mm/en/252.html pack aspect] tends to get played up on wolf-related cards too, often with some ability leading to [http://magiccards.info/wwk/en/118.html more wolves] joining the fray.

 

== Video Games ==

* Wolf packs are one of the worse non-zombie threats in the ''[[Cataclysm]]'' [[Roguelike]]. They're made all the worse by the fact that their letter color can make them ''very'' hard to spot before they're on top of you.

* In ''[[Minecraft]]'', wolves normally mind their own business, and can even be tamed and used as guard animals. But if you attack a wolf, it and its whole pack go berserk and try to kill you.

** In order to leave the cemetery, you have to fight two stone wolves which guard it.

 

 

== Web Original ==

* [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]] in ''[[Tasakeru]]'', where wolves are one of the eight sentient species. The other species ''think'' they're scary, primitive, carnivorous savages, but they're just following very old traditions.

 

== Western Animation ==

* [[Rover Dangerfield]] - along the lines of the wolf scenes in Look Who's Talking.

* ''[[Metalocalypse]]'' - the band's therapist tries to attack them but falls out a window. He survives the multi-story fall, but then gets his arms ripped off by wolves who live in the compound (though he survives that and gets a new pair of mechanical arms).

 

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