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.

 

 

 

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 ==

* ''[[White Fang]]'' - For a Disney film, the scenes where the characters are being hunted by a pack of wolves in the opening 20 minutes or so is almost downright terrifying.

* ''[[Season of the Witch]]''

* ''[[The Grey]]''. This is the plot of the movie. The survivors of a plane crash in Alaska not only have to survive the elements, but survive the pack of wolves that is chasing them down.

* ''Wolf Town''

* ''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 ==

* 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 ==

 

== Video Games ==

* In ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'', wolves are tough, highly aggressive, persistent, have a knack for showing up precisely when you don't need them do, love to kill your horses, and ''attack in waves''. You gun down four or five of them, look around, and the coast seems clear, only for another batch to arrive just as you put your gun away.

* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', many Wolf-type enemies have an ability that causes them to howl and alert other nearby wolves of the player's presence, effectively swamping you if you're not very careful.

* In ''[[Sly Cooper|Sly 3]]'', there is a huge wolf called Lupis Gigantormus that roams Holland.

* In ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins'' you'll occasionally run into packs of wolves as enemies. There's even one specific encounter on the overworld map that can be especially vicious on higher difficulties, a rare form of That One [[Random Encounter]].

* In ''[[Skyrim]]'', it's not uncommon for a player to find themselves being attacked by two or three wolves at once. They're rather easy to kill, but they are quite large. However, they can become [[Paranoia Fuel]] if you can hear the howls but are unable to see them or know the direction the howls come from.

* 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 ==

 

== Western Animation ==

* Lord Shen's henchmen from ''[[Kung Fu Panda 2]]'' are wolves.

* ''[[The Secret of Kells]]'', when [[The Fair Folk|Aisling]] sics her wolves on Brendan as he's traveling through the forest in search of oak galls. Later inverted when {{spoiler|Aisling sics them on the Vikings that are about to kill Brendan and Aidan in a [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment.}}

* [[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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