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{{quote|'''Dr. Light:''' Behold! my greatest invention! [[Mega Man (video game)|Rush, the robotic dog!]]
'''[[Idiot Hero|Mega Man]]:''' What? A robotic dog? What's so great about that? Does it [[Transforming Mecha|transform]] or something?
'''Dr. Light:''' [[
|''[[Bob and George]]''}}
Robots are cool. Dogs are cool. Put them them together and you get a '''Robot Dog'''!
Unsurprisingly, the best traits a dog could have make for excellent traits in robot companions: loyalty, friendliness, a fierce protective streak... so why not jump to the logical conclusion and combine the two? A Robot Dog has all the good perks of a lovable pooch without (theoretically) any of the bad! Tearing furniture up, hiding your slippers, leaving hidden piles of poop for you to step on in the yard? All a thing of the past should you own one of these metallic mutts!
However, these traits also make them a force to be reckoned with. If you thought a fiercely loyal and aggressive attack dog was scary enough, those traits are so much worse in a more durable, powerful robot than can be armed with all kinds of weapons.
As a rule, Robot Dogs tend to be owned by scientists of both the benevolent and mad varieties, tech geeks, kids with family ties to influential toy and robot companies, as well as evil overlords, CEO's, and any other unscrupulous types with money to burn.
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* Friender from any incarnation of ''[[Neo-Human Casshern]]'' (save the live action movie), who was a [[We Can Rebuild Him]] case. Friender is also the inspiration for [[Mega Man (video game)|Rush]].
* Balican from ''[[Chargeman Ken]]'' was Ken's sidekick robot dog.
* Peach from ''[[Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z]]''.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* In ''[[Nobody Dies]]'', Zwei, or [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Unit-02 as you may know him,]] is a 200-foot-tall killing machine that thinks that it's Asuka's doggie; it's a deliberate [[Expy]] of Dug from ''[[Up (animation)|Up]]''.
* In ''[[Final Stand of Death]]'', more like a [[Petting Zoo People]] mixture with [[Mechanical Lifeform]], Fusion Gundam in counts since they do take on wolf-forms.
* In the [[Mega Crossover]] ''[[No Tendo]]'', the giant AI tank on the planet Refuge creates dozens of AI dog-bots to be its liaisons with various human groups (and to be the occasional infiltrator as well).
== [[Film]] ==
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* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and later ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' have K-9.
** Averted in a Series 6 episode when [[The Nth Doctor|The Eleventh Doctor]] advises Craig to avoid stepping on Yappy, the Robot Dog, then remarks that it wasn't as much fun as he remembers.
* Muffy II the robot [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp|Daggit]] in the 1970s ''[[Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]''.
* Murphy in ''[[Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger]]''.
* R.I.C. 2.0 (Robotic Interactive Canine) from ''[[Power Rangers SPD]]'', he can transform into a [[BFG]] for the rangers, or a [[Powered Armor]] for the Red Ranger. Or a scooter to ride on when the bumbling assistant scientist pretended to be a Ranger. He really becomes a [[Do-Anything Robot]], with a lot of random things added to him just because they could when said assistant and the tech-savvy Ranger, Bridge, upgraded him in their spare time.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Dog from ''[[Half-Life]] 2''. Not too dog-shaped, but it has a dog-like behavior and name. Then again, Alyx said he used to be "yay-high", implying that Dog was more dog-like until Alyx began "adding on to him".
* The Mecha-Chomps from ''[[Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga]]''
* K9 in ''[[Fallout 2]]
* Rush
** Sigma has one of his own in the form of Velguarder in the first ''[[Mega Man X]]'' game. If his dialogue is any indication, he regularly lets him deal with soldiers of his that turn traitor.
▲* Rush, [[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'s robot dog. There's also the [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|giant, fire-breathing robot dogs]] in Wood Man's stage.
* The K9000 enemy from ''[[Mother 3]]''.
* The FENRIS Mechs from ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''. The collector's edition of ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' will include a non-hostile one that follows Shepard around on the Normandy.
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* In ''[[Secret Agent Barbie]]'', one of [[Barbie]]’s gadgets is a tiny and rather cute robot dog.
* MEL from the late 1990s ''[[Blaster Series]]'' games.
* ''[[Wolfenstein: The New Order]]'' has Panzerhunds, which are colossal mechanical nightmares created by Deathshead to serve as some of the deadliest killing machines the Nazis have in their arsenal.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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