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== Film ==
* [[Devil Dog: theThe Hound Fromof Hell]] bases itself around this
* ''[[The Chronicles of Riddick]]'' has alien dogs, named hellhounds, that guard a prison. They look like a cross between a dog and a [[wikipedia:Pangolin|pangolin]].
* The movie ''Black Dog'' is about hellhound that will take everything away from greedy truckers.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Early ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' had several types of hellhounds, including one that could breathe out fire and one as part of [[The Wild Hunt]]. By 2nd Edition and onwards, actual hellhounds were established as huge, fire-breathing dogs ''literally'' from [[Hell]] that are used by devils to hunt mortals or summoned by evil spellcasters. Other similar monsters include the shadow mastiff and the yeth hound. Their [[Good Counterpart]] is the blink dog.
* [[Warhammer 4000040,000]]: Flesh Hounds of Khorne, although they look more like lizard-dog hybrids than the traditional hellhound.
** A Flesh Hound special character Karanak has three heads, and is used by Khorne to hunt down and catch those mortals who earn his ire.
*** Just to note, there's also an Imperial Guard unit called the Hellhound, but it's simply a tank with a really big flamethrower. Although any soldier seeing one on the battlefield, and it's not on his side, is [[Kill It with Fire|usually doomed]].
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* Several games in the ''[[Zork]]'' series, notably ''Wishbringer'' and ''[[Return to Zork]]'', directly connect hellhounds and poodles. This is probably a [[Shout-Out]] to ''Faust'' (see above).
* "Heck Hounds" in ''[[Secret of Mana]]'' were a [[Bowdlerise|Bowdlerization]] of hellhounds.
* Barghests are an enemy in the ''[[Wild ArmsARMs]]'' series.
* In the MMORPG ''[[RunescapeRuneScape]]'', hellhounds are a fairly strong standard monster that look like giant red dogs. There's also a quest boss called a skeletal hellhound, which is both [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]] and, strangely, weaker then a normal hellhound.
** 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.
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* ''[[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: theThe Sacred Stones]]'' has Mauthe Doogs and Gwyllgis (the latter having three heads).
* In the later games of the ''[[Avernum]]'' series, hell hounds show up.
 
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== [[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 OneI|Battle of Belleau Wood]].
* 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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