Big Badass Wolf: Difference between revisions

* The beast Harley Mac Finn turns into in ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' when his family curse comes on him. Murphy describes it as an "Ice Age looking thing" and it sounds very much like the direwolves of [[Genetic Memory|our racial nightmares]]...

{{quote|'''Dresden''': "...it's been nearly a hundred years since the wolf went extinct in most of the United States. You've got no idea, none at all, of how dangerous they can be. A wolf can run faster than you can drive a car through most of Chicago. His jaws can snap your thighbones with one jerk. A wolf can see the heat of your body in the complete dark, and can count the hairs on your head from a hundred yards off by starlight. He can hear your heart beating thirty or forty yards away."}}

 

 

* The wolves of ''[[Discworld]]'', as described by Angua, are seen as Big Bad but are really Big Badass wolves.

** Angua is a very biased source of information on wolves.

* Most of the Royal Wolves in the ''[[Firekeeper]]'' series, particularly Blind Seer, although there is the occasional [[Jerkass]]. Cousin Wolves, by comparison, are just animals.

* Owing to their status as emblems of House Stark (arguably the "protagonist" house), the direwolves in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' fit this to a tee.

** Surnames include Wolfson, Lopez and Volkov, (all meaning son of the wolf) Farkas, Lupei, Lupino, Ochoa, Vovk and Vukotić.

** Wolf itself is also a name.

 

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[[Category:Native American Mythology]]

[[Category:Canine Tropes]]

[[Category:Fairy Tale Tropes]]

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