Fluffy Tamer: Difference between revisions

** If one of them was Cerberus, [[wikipedia:Orthrus|the other one may have been Orthrus]].

* When she and Carnage first encountered the Doppelganger, ''[[Spider-Man]]'' foe Shriek stopped Carnage from killing it because she thought it was neat, and eventually turned it into a loyal little pet. To put things in perspective, Doppelganger is an animalistic, six-armed, fanged monster clone of Spider-Man with compound eyes. It got even freakier looking when it came [[Back from the Dead]], mostly due the photorealistic approach the artist took.

 

== [[Fan Works]] ==

* ''[[Enemy of My Enemy (Fanfic)]]'': Little Sarah Jennings, who effortlessly befriends a Hunter pair, to the point where they {{spoiler|once abandon their post to save her from a Brute pack. Also, when the two are [[Last Stand|killed by overwhelming odds]], the last one's final thoughts are of her}}.

* In the ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' inspired [[DeviantArt]] work [https://www.deviantart.com/willobrien/art/Pathfinder-The-Pesky-Pet-915789368 seen here], the owlbear looks ferocious, until you look closer and see it has a collar, and is being chased by a young girl trying to calm it with a slab of meat...

 

== [[Film]] ==

* The most famous example is ''[[Harry Potter]]'''s Rubeus Hagrid. He has raised giant spiders, baby dragons, and a three headed dog. Their names were Aragog, Norbert, and Fluffy, respectively. He's a half-giant, so such creatures are less likely to hurt him, but he tends to not realize that most people aren't as indestructible as he is. This has landed him in trouble numerous times. Tom Riddle was able to use Aragog to frame him for opening the Chamber of Secrets and yet he never seems to learn. He's also a Fluffy ''breeder'', credited with the creation of the Blast-Ended Skrewts, an incredibly dangerous and aggressive hybrid possessed of absolutely no useful qualities.

* Lady Sybil Ramkin from ''[[Discworld]]'' is this way towards dragons. Also worth noting is she ''likes'' Nobby Nobbs when she first meets him.

** Hodgesaargh, Lancre's royal falconer, is somewhat of an example, although he doesn't name his charges "Fluffy". Still, he's successfully reared the most lethal feathered hunters in the world (which is, after all half the point of falconry). He just hasn't managed to tame them completely (admittedly, this is the other half) - which also gave him the second part of the name. And that's still better than some people could manage, given that Lancre's native birds of prey are described as having "a certain 'sod-you' disposition".

* In [[The Thrawn Trilogy]], [[Knowledge Broker|Talon Karrde]] keeps a pair of vornskrs, [[Gratuitous German|Sturm and Drang]], as pets. Wild vornskrs are quite vicious and dangerous, as Luke and Mara find, but apparently surgically removing their tails curbs their aggression. Even so, Sturm and Drang are both hostile to Force-Sensitives, even if they don't make instant diving leaps of death, and won't listen to his commands to relax. Karrde does have the sense to have one of his people take the animals away when he talks to Luke.

* In Otis Adelbert Kline's novel ''Outlaws of Mars'', the hero attempts to save a [[Human Aliens|Martian woman]] he just met from a hideous lizard monster that he sees running towards her. After he kills it the weeping woman has him arrested for killing her pet that she raised from a baby.

** Formerly this was supposed to be the job of a Dungeon Master - having one appointed lets you tame anything with the [PET_EXOTIC] tag, which means you can greet a siege with a flock of War Giant Eagles or [[Demonic Spiders|Giant Cave Spider]] web-turrets. Of course, the Dungeon Master was [[Perpetual Beta|bugged into non-existence]] and eventually was dropped, though the players often replaced those tags with regular [PET] and [TRAINABLE] tags in the raws to make any beast tamable by default.

** In the new system, all trainable animals work the same way - with "animal trainer" skill. But a civilisation in worldgen will have domesticated particular animal only if it's on "domestic animals" list or lives where the settlements are built, and normally ''cannot'' have "exotic" ones domesticated on its own. Sometimes migrant animal trainers arrive with their own pets (even giant cave spiders), however. The catch is that if your civilisation doesn't have knowledge of taming the creature in question and it's caught in the wild, it cannot be tamed fully, thus you want your trainer to be skilled enough by the time you try, and then go through the ''second'' generation before they are mature, otherwise animals revert to semi-feral and then wild at a wrong time in the middle of your civilians and "FUN" ensues. But when the trainer is good at this...

* Anyone who owns a Mabari in the ''[[Dragon Age]]'' [[Dragon Age II|games]]. While Mabari do act like adorable puppies around the people they like, one can't forget that they are sentient warhounds fully capable of tearing apart armored warriors.

** In ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' ''Mark of the Assassin'', [[Big Bad|Duke Prosper]] has a pet wyvern named [[Fluffy the Terrible|"Leopold"]]. Wyverns are huge, vicious, venom-spitting, man-eating lizards, and Leopold is much bigger and stronger than wild wyverns. Prosper has tamed Leopold so well that he can ''ride'' the beast.