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▲[[File:Cerberus_1024x768_copy_9588.jpg|frame|Abandon all tennis balls, ye who enter here.]]
Dogs. The oldest of the domesticated animals and man's constant companion throughout history. Cute, loyal, and steadfast. [[Yes Except No|Except when they, you know,
▲Dogs. The oldest of the domesticated animals and man's constant companion throughout history. Cute, loyal, and steadfast. [[Yes Except No|Except when they, you know,]] ''[[Yes Except No|aren't]].''
▲Hellhounds have been appearing since [[Hesiod]] wrote his ''Theogony'', making this one [[Older Than Feudalism]]. Standard hellhounds are black with glowing red or flaming eyes. They may have two or even three heads. Famous hellhounds are [[Greek Mythology|Cerberus]] and the [[Sherlock Holmes|Hound of the Baskervilles]]. [[Norse Mythology|Fenrir]] may also fit, and Garmr certainly does.
As their name implies, they are generally thought to originate in the underworld, but this has become a relaxed requirement for modern incarnations.
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'''Hunter'''
Escaped or deliberately released from [[Hell]], these hellhounds exist only to hunt and kill. These are usually "hellhound classic," appearing as black hounds with red eyes. The eponymous hound from ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' is probably the most famous example of this type, although [[It Was His Sled|it turned out to be]] [[Scooby
'''Guardian'''
This version is usually just as dangerous as the Hunter, but it is tasked with guarding a location or person. If they're guarding a person, that person is usually associated with Hell. The most famous guardian hellhound is of course Cerberus. Garmr is the same but with a Northern accent ([[Doctor Who
'''Portent'''
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They may be part of [[The Wild Hunt]] or the [[Legions of Hell]]. Compare to [[Hellish Horse]]. Contrast [[Heroic Dog]] and [[Big Friendly Dog]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Berserk]]'' has an example of this trope in the form of the Beast of Darkness. It's a vicious, sadistic pointy-snouted wolf-like creature with lighting-bolt shaped eyes that seeks to corrupt Guts. The disturbing part is that [[Super
* ''[[Hellsing]]'' has Alucard able to summon a hellhound, explicitly named as The Hound of the Baskervilles. He also takes on the form of one in the TV series.
* There's an Ultimate level ''[[Digimon]]'' known as Cerberumon. There's also a card-game-only character named Anubismon. However, he's an ''aversion'' of [[Everyone Hates Hades]] - [[All There in the Manual|the manual]] treats him as ''mythology'' treats death gods. Whether you're going to the Dark Area or eligible for reconfiguration is up to him.
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** In the third season, a mage named Verossa was introduced who has the power to summon packs of ghostly, classic hellhounds for hunting down his targets. He's one of the good guys, though.
* In ''[[Naruto]]'', Pain's Animal Path is fond of summoning a gigantic hellhound with multiple heads that can split into lots of smaller ones.
* ''[[One Piece]]'''s Thriller Bark arc had a Cerberus-style "[[Frankenstein
** {{spoiler|[[General Ripper|Admiral]] [[Knight Templar|Akainu]] makes one of these via his Logia [[Magma Man|element]] to attack Whitebeard during the Battle of Maineford.}}
* Asuna and crew in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' found themselves facing a Cerberus guarding the room Negi was held in during the Mahora Festival arc. It was the classic depiction of Cerberus too, complete with three heads and a mane of serpents.
* In the first ([[Anachronic Order|in TV order]]) episode of ''[[Rental Magica]]'' the team had to deal with a rather impressive entity [[Kindhearted Cat Lover|Nekoyashiki]] described to his chief as a "dog" because it's a "four-legged mammal with teeth that barks", despite [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|glowing red eyes]], ability to catch up with a truck on an empty road and so on.
* One filler episode of [[Chrono Crusade]] featured a demonic canine that was slaughtering New York's organized crime families.
== Film ==
* [[Devil Dog:
* ''[[The Chronicles of Riddick]]'' has alien dogs, named hellhounds, that guard a prison. They look like a cross between a dog and a [
* The movie ''Black Dog'' is about hellhound that will take everything away from greedy truckers.
* In ''[[The Omen]]'', Damien is protected by black dogs.
* Although called Terror Dogs, Zuul and Vinzclortho from the first ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' movie could be considered hellhounds.
* Apparently, the Master's doberman in ''[[Manos:
* There's also a representation of Cerberus in Disney's ''Hercules''. This version also appears as a boss battle in both ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' games.
* ''[[Hellboy (
* ''Lost Boys'' calls a vampire's canine daylight guardians the "Hounds of Hell".
* Gmork in the film version of ''[[The Neverending Story (
* One of several manifestations of "The Bell Witch" in ''[[
* In ''[[Predators]]'' the early stages of hunting the human group is done with alien creatures that resemble huge hellhounds, (huge as in waist high or taller, and ''very'' thick) with tusks. [[It Got Worse|Lots and lots of tusks]].
* {{spoiler|[[The Scrappy|Scrappy-Doo]]}} becomes one of these at the end of the first live-action ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' movie.
* The Chatter Beast from ''[[Hellraiser Bloodline]]'', though background material indicates it [[Was Once a Man]].
* Belladonna from [[All Dogs Go to Heaven|''An All Dogs Go To Heaven]] [[Yet Another Christmas Carol|Christmas Carol'']] and [[Recycled: the Series|''All Dogs Go To Heaven: The Series'']].
== Gamebooks ==▼
* Various types of Hellhounds serve as recurring enemies in the ''[[Lone Wolf]]'' books. In earlier adventures, Lone Wolf has to face the Doomwolves, the (barely) tamed pets/mounts of the goblin-like Giaks. Then he has to face the Akataz, the warhounds of the Drakkarim. Book 18 has as one enemy encounter the Hounds of Vikkak, described as "hellish beasts born of dark sorcery". Finally, Book 19 introduces a ''mecha'' version of one, aptly named Mech-Wulf.▼
** And let's not forget about Demon Lord Tagazin, a recurring villain with the appearance of a sabertoothed jackal.▼
== Literature ==
* [[Diana Wynne Jones]]' ''[[Dogsbody]]'' has the Welsh Cwn Annwn version, complete with [[The Wild Hunt]].
* In the ''[[Heralds of Valdemar]]'' series by [[Mercedes Lackey]], this role is filled by the wyrsa, which are a [[Mix
* In ''[[Harry Potter]]'', Fluffy is a three-headed hellhound. It guards something and, like Cerberus, can be put to sleep with music.
** The Grim could also be considered a hellhound. However, it's uncertain if the Grim exists as an actual creature rather than just an omen.
* The two dogs in [[RL Stine]]'s "The Barking Ghost". The title is somewhat misleading as the dogs are not ghosts; they're really {{spoiler|two people whose souls had been traded into the bodies of dogs by a magical cabin in the woods}}.
* Arthur Conan Doyle's [[Sherlock Holmes]] novel, ''The Hound of the Baskervilles''. (Actually an [[Invoked Trope]] since {{spoiler|the ghost hound was a hoax}}.)
* ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' has darkhounds, corrupted wolves which are associated with [[The Wild Hunt]]. Of the hunter variety, they can track their prey across any terrain, though they can be impeded by running water. Their blood and saliva is poisonous, and they leave pawprints on stone, but not earth. There are also two classes; greater darkhounds can recover very quickly from any injury, and can only be permanently killed by magic.
* Pratchett and Gaiman's novel ''[[
** Who quickly mellows out. Having the [[Anti
*** Dog's existence is shaped by Adam's desires. Originally more like what you would expect from a hellhound, he is transformed into a flopeared, terrier-style mutt, due to Adam's expectations of what his ideal dog would be like. He quickly adjusts, due in no small part to the fact that female dogs don't exist in Hell if you catch my drift.
* Grimhounds appear as straight-up villains in ''[[
** Amusingly, up until that point, Pratchett always insisted he was talking about Rottweilers.
** Referenced in the webcomic ''[[True Magic]]'', in which the Light Bringer's first commandment is, "Trust not any dog which hath orange eyebrowes."
* The [[Sword of Truth]] series has Heart Hounds, which are tan, but otherwise fit the trope to a T.
* Sorrow and Rage, as well as the rest of the black hounds that accompany Alain in Kate Elliot's ''Crown of Stars'' series, are hellhounds of the Guardian type. Interestingly, Alain is implied to be a saint or messiah rather than from hell.
* [[Christopher Moore]]'s novel ''[[
* In Steven Erikson's ''[[Malazan Book of the Fallen]]'', the Hounds of Shadow are powerful and terrifying supernatural beasts that do the bidding of Shadowthrone, and {{spoiler|the Hounds of Darkness}} are even more powerful and terrifying, but they do no-one's bidding... And there are the T'lan Ay, the primitive undead semi-domesticated dogs of the T'lan Imass.
* [[
* Sauron took the form of a werewolf/hellhound in ''[[The Silmarillion]]''.
** All werewolves can probabaly count as this, as they were basically spirits on the same level as Balrogs only in wolf-form. Carcharoth was the greatest of these, and he only became more hellish after ingesting one of the Silmarills, which started burning him from the inside, driving him mad.
* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' novel ''Grave Peril'', Harry and Michael spend a little too long in the Nevernever and end up drawing the attention of the Leanansidhe, Harry's [[The Fair Folk|fairy godmother]] (and no, not the ''good'' fairy godmother), and her pack of hellhounds.
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"Harry," Michael said sternly, "you know I hate it when you swear."
"You're right, sorry. Holy shit," I breathed, "[[Gosh Dang It to Heck|heckhounds]]." }}
** Also, the mercenary Kincaid's nickname is "the Hound of Hell" or just "the Hellhound," and he's not entirely human. He displays senses much sharper than any human, including being able to identify a specific type of antipersonnel mine because "the Brits use a different chemical primer."
* The dogs of [[The Wild Hunt|Gwyn the Hunter]] in [[Lloyd Alexander]]'s ''Chronicles of Prydain''.
* The unnamed dog pack in ''[[Riddley Walker]]'', although not actually supernatural, do represent the wholly supernatural dogs Folleree and Folleroo from their equivalent of [[Punch and Judy]] shows.
* Mrs. O'Leary in the [[Percy Jackson and The Olympians|Percy Jackson]] series is definitely a
* In ''The Gnome's Engine'', a troll makes several references to the troll king's "hounds". When a half-fairy guest of the trolls notices some extremely large, fearsome dogs in the courtyard, she's informed that they're merely the king's ''dogs'': if she met his ''hounds'', she'd know the difference. An aversion? We'll never know...
* Snarleyyow, from "Snarleyyow" by Captain Frederick Marryat is a dog believed by the ship's crew to be straight out of hell. With good reason... Doesn't quite fit the three standard models given at the top of the page though, Snarleyyow is a miserable thing that backs down when faced with any real resistance, only reason it hasn't gone overboard is that it belongs to the captain.
* The Hounds of Tindalos created by Frank Belknap Long for the [[Cthulhu Mythos]] are
* Two variations in ''[[Kate Daniels]]'':
** In "Magic Mourns", Cerberus is sent from Hades to retrieve the stolen corpse of a Greek pagan priest. He's described as a three-headed dog the size of a two-story house with a barbed tail. Thanatos mentions offhandedly that he owns several of Cerberus' puppies.
** In ''Magic Bleeds'', {{spoiler|Grendel}} turns out to be a Black Dog, which appears to be a regular dog until danger threatens. Then it transforms into its true shape of a giant black dog with burning blue eyes and huge fangs.
* In ''[[The Guardians]]'', Hellhounds were bred by [[Satan|Lucifer]] by crossing dogs with wyrms, and are used by him to keep his subjects in line. They are giant, demonic, three-headed dogs completely loyal to their chosen masters and their venom can paralyze and kill demons. Sir Pup is a "bad" hellhound more mischievous than evil, and he prefers the form of a three-headed Labradour.
* In L. Jagi Lamplighter's ''[[
* In [[Roger Zelazny]]'s ''This Immortal'', the narrator refers to his mutant dog Bortan as a hellhound:
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He worked for the better part of a minute, and when he was finished they were all in pieces and none of them alive. }}
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In the series ''[[Reaper]],'' there is a small dog from Hell named Spike, who can transform into a big, nasty hellhound.
* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' also has invisible hell hounds that work for demons. They can only be seen by the people they've come to kill.
* The original ''[[Kolchak the Night Stalker|Kolchak: The Night Stalker]]'' episode "The Devil's Platform" had a Devil worshipper who could turn into a
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Big Wolf
* There's a pretty ridiculous 1978 TV movie out there called ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077429/ Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell.]'' [[Exactly What It Says
* A "webisode" of ''[[Rescue Me]]'' features the firemen hunting a mysterious, possibly dangerous animal (one of them thinks it's a chupacabra) that has gotten into their station {{spoiler|it turns out to be an Irish Wolfhound. In their defense, they're pretty friggin' huge dogs}}
* ''[[Lost Tapes]]'' features one as one of its monsters.
== [[Myth and Legend]] ==
* [[Classical Mythology]] has Cerberus, the guardian of Hades, and his somewhat similar lesser-known brother [[wikipedia:Orthrus]], guardian of Geryon's cattle. Both (all?) of them are also [[Multiple Head Case]]s.
* The British Isles have many legends of ghostly hounds, referred to as [[
** Probably the best known malevolent example is the Black Shuck, which according to folklore burst into a church in Blythburgh on 4 August 1577, killing a man and boy and causing the church tower to collapse through the roof. As the dog left, he left scorch marks on the north door which can be seen at the church to this day.
** On the benevolent end of the scale are the Gurt Dog of Somerset, which was said to protect children and lone travellers, and the Friend of the Moore, a rather obscure example from the north-east of England which also aided travellers.
* [[Norse Mythology]]:
** Garmr
* Many in the various incarnations of [[The Wild Hunt]]▼
**
▲* Many in the various incarnations of [[The Wild Hunt]]:
** In Britain, Yeth hounds chase sinners or the unbaptized.
** In Wales, the hellhounds ('Cwn Annwn') accompanying the Wild Hunt were white with red ears. Another version gives them mirrors for eyes.
* A Barghest is a monstrous black dog with large teeth and claws. It was either a portent of death or it preyed on lone travelers. In some versions it can change shape, but it [[Red Right Hand|always keeps its red eyes.]]▼
* The Grimhound (portrayed, typically, as a black dog with fiery eyes, the same as half a dozen other examples of this trope) are both guardian and portent. They're the protectors of the dead... but if you can see one of them, it's because ''you'll'' soon be one of those it's guarding.▼
▲* In Norse mythology, one of the Black Dogs could appear on your hearth. If it did, you'd have to care for it for a year.
▲* A Barghest is a monstrous black dog with large teeth and claws. It was either a portent of death or it preyed on lone travelers.
▲* The Grimhound (portrayed, typically, as a black dog with fiery eyes, the same as half a dozen other examples of this trope) are both guardian and portent. They're the protectors of the dead...but if you can see one of them, it's because ''you'll'' soon be one of those it's guarding.
* The Egyptian jackal god of the dead Anubis can be interpreted this way. On top of that, there's also his white wolf cousin Wepwawet (a war god associated with Anubis and the dead, making him a Hunter to Anubis' Guardian), Duamutef, a jackal god assigned to protect the stomach and intestines of the mummified, though his history made him more of a Hunter than a Guardian, Sed, a minor jackal god associated with Wepwawet with a festival named after him celebrating the anniversary (and imminent demise) of a Pharaoh's reign, and Khenti-Amentiu, a jackal god of the dead much older than Anubis that is likely his direct predecessor.
== Music ==
* Robert Johnson sings about the third type in Hellhound On My Trail.
* ''Black Shuck'' by The Darkness descibes a hellhound, the Black Shuck of the title, which has the distiction of being one of the best known of the British Black Dogs/Hellhounds.
* The [[
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Early ''[[Dungeons
* [[Warhammer 40,000]]:
** The Flesh Hounds of Khorne fit many of the motifs, although they look more like lizard-dog hybrids than the traditional hellhound. A Flesh Hound special character known as Karanak has three heads a la Cerberus, and is used by Khorne to hunt down and catch those mortals who earn his ire.
* ''[[Magic:
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'':
▲* ''[[Magic the Gathering]]'' has the [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=146095 Hollowborn Barghest].
** One of the oldest examples is [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Flame_Cerberus the aptly named Flame Cerberus.] There's naturally also several cards themed around Anubis.
*
** There's also [http://
** [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Flamvell_Firedog Flamvell Firedog] has a lava-like appearance and two protrusions coming out of its shoulders, which is no doubt an allusion to Cerberus.
* ''[[Munchkin]] Bites'' has a monster called the Heck Hound.
* ''Shadowrun'' had several Awakened (magical) canine monsters.
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** The Hellhound could breathe out fire and was immune to fire.
** The Gabriel Hound could freeze you in place and was a terror in combat.
* In ''[[
* In [[NetHack]], hell hounds have been present in the game since ''Hack 1.02''; fittingly, they and their pups are usually only seen in Gehennom, with one accompanying [[Big Bad|the Wizard of Yendor]] when encountering him. NetHack 3.0.0 gave them the ability to breath fire.
▲=== Gamebooks ===
▲* Various types of Hellhounds serve as recurring enemies in the ''[[Lone Wolf]]'' books. In earlier adventures, Lone Wolf has to face the Doomwolves, the (barely) tamed pets/mounts of the goblin-like Giaks. Then he has to face the Akataz, the warhounds of the Drakkarim. Book 18 has as one enemy encounter the Hounds of Vikkak, described as "hellish beasts born of dark sorcery". Finally, Book 19 introduces a ''mecha'' version of one, aptly named Mech-Wulf.
▲** And let's not forget about Demon Lord Tagazin, a recurring villain with the appearance of a sabertoothed jackal.
== Theater ==
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* [[Harry Potter]] also had the Gytrash, a giant ghostly dog, which appeared in some of the games.
** It's based on a Lincolnshire myth, although the original gytrash was sometimes a horse or a crane as well.
* Several games in the ''[[
* "Heck Hounds" in ''[[Secret of Mana]]'' were a [[Bowdlerise|Bowdlerization]] of hellhounds.
* Barghests are an enemy in the ''[[
* In the MMORPG ''[[
** Without muscles and skin, you'd be weaker too!
* The second ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' game features adorable [[The Heartless|Heartless]] versions of hellhounds inhabiting the underworld, in addition to the aforementioned boss monster, Cerberus.
* The first boss in ''[[Devil May Cry]] 3'' is Cerberus, here portrayed as being frozen in ice and chained in front of the door to Temen-Ni-Gru. You have to shoot the ice off before you can effectively hurt him, and he can refreeze himself at will. As he loses health, two of his heads get blown off, and halfway down his health bar he [[Turns Red]] and snaps some of his chains.
* A number of these appear in ''[[Shadow Hearts]]''; perhaps the most notable are the Mailmen, demons that appear as hounds with human arms jutting from their mouths. In the first game, when backed into a corner, the mayor of Bistriz turns himself into a hideous, giant dog made of flayed flesh, named [[Shout
* Cerberus is very popular. In the first ''[[Parasite Eve]]'', a police dog transforms into a giant three-headed monster.
* ''[[Castlevania]]'', being the [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]] that it is, features a few games with these, plus one as a miniboss in Bloodlines.
* ''[[
* Most ''[[Silent Hill]]'' games include creepy dog monsters as normal enemies.
* The first boss in ''[[Lost Kingdoms]] 2'' is a monster called Hell Hound, the best Jump card. There's also the monster Cerberus. It too is a Jump card, but not as good.
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* Somehow, ''[[Quest 64]]'' gets away with this one. Naturally, it's a one-headed wolf that breathes fire.
* An enemy in some of the Castlevania games. The N64 ones feature double headed ones, whilst Bloodlines features one with a rotting rear end as a miniboss.
* Both episodes of ''[[Penumbra (
* ''[[Heroes of Might and Magic]] III'' has Hell Hounds and Cerberi in the Inferno castle.
** IV, V, and (coming soon) VI also have them.
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** Also, according to [[Word of God]], {{spoiler|Willie, Forrest Kaysen's [[Canine Companion]] is one relaying messages to him from the Red World, therefore making him something of an [[Eldritch Abomination]].}}
* In ''[[Dokapon Kingdom]]'', there are no hell hounds, only [[Gosh Dang It to Heck|heckhounds]]. They use heckfire, obviously.
* Cerberus appears as a demon or persona (depending on the series) in almost all the games in the ''[[
* ''[[Kid Icarus]]'' has Twinbellows. Like his name implies, he has two heads.
* ''Blood Omen: [[Legacy of Kain]]:'' Multi-headed dogs that [[Breath Weapon|exhale fire]] can be encountered in a cave with lava.
* ''[[Fire Emblem:
* In the later games of the ''[[Avernum]]'' series, hell hounds show up.
* ''[[Master of Magic]]'' has Hell Hounds as a common Chaos realm summon. They breath fire, otherwise comparable (as 4 figures, 2 move units) to basic cavalry and generally stronger than most of it (except Wolf Riders, who pack comparable punch and are tougher). As such, very good in the early game as long as you avoid large groups of shooty enemies, but have low usefulness in mid-game, being weak against decent shooters, buffed cavalry and elite units.
* ''[[Age of Wonders]]'' has Hell Hound as a cheap Fire summon. As such they are immune to fire and poison, set enemies on fire and are weak to cold (though good Resistance in part offsets this). Other than this, they are [[Glass Cannon]], slightly more frail than Cavalry, but make artillery support somewhat easier, in that they are not hurt when units in melee with them are firebombed.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[
** There's also a bonus page featuring several [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=362 "Black Dogs of the British Isles,"] based on actual folklore.
* ''Sivine Blades'' subverts it by having the "wild" hellhounds relatively harmless. However, when one is captured and used as a guard dog...
* Bun-bun rides one during [http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=031206&&mode=weekly his assault] on Thanksgiving castle as part of the Holiday Wars arc.
* ''Speak With Monsters'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20101129071555/http://speakwithmonsters.badgods.com/comics/hellhound speculates] on what might happen if hellhounds were bred with other types of dog.
* Becquerel, Jade Harley's pet in ''[[Homestuck]]'', at least according to Dave. He is a mixture of [[Physical God]], [[Reality Warper]], [[Big Badass Wolf]], and [[Big Friendly Dog]].
** {{spoiler|Jack Noir probably counts as a malevolent version after Bec is prototyped.}}
* Subverted by one of the species of sentient canines in ''[[Wurr (Webcomic)|Wurr]]'': While they're called "hellhounds" by one of the other species, they're really just big, [[Body Horror|freakishly mutated]] dogs with no particular great inclination towards evil (although they've certainly got their share of [[
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', Cerberus is the Devil's pet, and spends his time menacing the cast (especially Slick) and eating mailmen.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20080824070450/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2904 Li'l Evil summons one]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131005134112/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2905 It can, at least, breath fire.]
== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[AH Dot Com the Series]]'' has Sudanases Hunting Dogs (based on a forum running joke) which shoot clouds of bees from their mouth when they bark. As a [[Shout
* [[Marmaduke]] is this to [[The Comics Curmudgeon]].
* Not only are there hellhounds in the [[Whateley Universe]], but in the novel "There's an Angel in Father John's Basement", the techno-mage Korrupt has figured out how to summon a really nasty mecha variant of his own devise.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise|Robots In Disguise]]'' had [[Merchandice Driven|toy-only]] character
* Doomageddon from [[League of Super Evil|the League of Super Evil]] is a hellhound known for teleportation to and from an alternate dimension.
* Parodied in ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' with the Black Knight of Worcestershire and the Hounds of Heck who chased after him through all the moors and lands because his suit of armor was recycled dog food cans.
* Grim from ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* Crunch the Rockdog from the original ''[[My Little Pony]]'' series. Guardian type, created to protect the Heartstone of a living mountain and armed with a jewel that could [[Taken for Granite|petrify]] enemies. Unfortunately, said mountain had forgotten the need for Crunch to have a heart and as a result Crunch eventually ran wild, turning everything he could reach to stone. The Little Ponies were able to subdue Crunch long enough for him to be endowed with a sliver of the Heartstone, making him both kinder ''and'' loyal enough to do his job right.
** The ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* One cybersite featured in ''[[
* [[Fluffy the Terrible|Fluffy]] from ''[[Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures]]'', another Cerberus Expy, who guards the [[Big Bad]]'s castle.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* This could be related to the reluctance for adopting large black dogs, dubbed [http://www.blackpearldogs.com/ Black Dog Syndrome].
* A common nickname for US Marines? Devil Dog. Owing to an anecdote about the German soldiers' reaction to seeing Marines in gas masks frothing at the mouths as they clawed their way up a hill to get at the German defenders during the [[World War
* The Israeli anti-terrorist dog that ''bit off'' a terrorist's arm. Even the IDF's drug-sniffing dogs are really freaking scary, and this holds true for most military dogs around the world.
* [[Winston Churchill]] used to refer to his chronic depression as "the black dog on my shoulder," in reference to the portent variety of this trope.
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