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Dragon In Chief

When the dragon is more dangerous than the main antagonist.

The Dragon-in-Chief is a version of The Dragon who serves as the de facto Big Bad of the story, even if they're technically not at the top of the bad guy hierarchy. They're nominally subordinate or in service to another villain, but typically so much smarter, stronger or more skillful, and just as evil if not more so (and almost always scarier) that it's clear who's really the biggest threat in the story.

The supposed main villain, for their part, overestimate The Dragon's loyalty or are too afraid to keep them in line. It could also be that the Big Bad is more of a puppet king being manipulated by subordinates, and the Dragon finds this set-up preferable to taking charge personally.

Examples:

Games of Thrones: Lord Tywin Lannister serves as the Dragon-in-chief to his grandson, the incompetent teenaged fool of a King Joffrey Baratheon, who he is technically only the Hand to, and not even that until Season 3. Perhaps best exemplified by the Season 3 finale in which Joffrey claims that it was his father who won the war while Tywin "hid under Casterly Rock!" In response to this challenge, Tywin just sends Joffrey a death glare, which Joffrey quickly buckles under after a just few seconds of attempting to keep eye contact.

Doctor Who: In the episodes The Stolen Earth/Journey's End, Davros is little more than a "pet" for the Supreme Dalek, but it's his plan for the Reality Bomb his creations are following. Also, Dalek Caan needed him to recreate his species. All of this, combined with his personal enmity with the Doctor, makes Davros effectively the face of the Dalek threat.

Resident Evil The Umbrella Chronicles: Sergei Vladimir is the de facto Big Bad, carrying out Ozwell Spencer's orders for him. When Sergei dies, Spencer is left with no allies and no support, and in the following game, is killed by Albert Wesker.

Dragon Ball: In the Red Ribbon Army Arc, there is Officer Black, who is much more competent and threatening and has more morals than Commander Red. When he finds out how petty the wish Red planned with Dragon Balls was —making himself taller—he kills him.

Rio: Nigel to Marcil. While his owner Marcel still drives the plot to some degree, Nigel is the more direct threat and far more menacing and evil than Marcel, while also serving as the lynchpin for Marcel's entire plan.

Avatar (2009): Though Parker Selfridge is the nominal leader of the human forces, the main antagonist of the film is Colonel Quaritch, who runs his mercenary army exactly how he wants to and ultimately becomes the real power in the operation and it's clear they both know it. About the only things that keep Selfridge in place are the fact that he's paying, and that Quaritch can't be bothered with the administrative details.

Alice in Wonderland (2010): The Jabberwocky (which, for bonus points, just so happens to resemble a dragon) is by far the bigger threat compared to his mistress the Red Queen, given that Alice's goal is to slay it and as soon as she does, all of the Red Queen's followers abandon her and she's quickly banished.

Kim Possible: Shego (mostly) helps Drakken carry out his schemes rather than invent and execute any of her own. But we know she has the power to completely overthrow Drakken if she wants to. The only thing that stops her fulfilling all the criteria is that for most of the series, she lacks the ambition to become a bigger treat. Drakken is actually more scientifically savvy than Shego — she just has a lot more common sense and can actually fight on a near-equal level with Kim.

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comicgeek2003 · 3 months

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The publications "The Starscream" and "Evil Counterpart Race" are been upgraded.

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comicgeek2003 · 4 months

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Arch-Enemy

The most notable enemy.

The Arch-Enemy can be the Big Bad, the Dragon, the rival, an evil counterpart, or even a harmless villain. the most important beetwen arch-enemies is that, with them, it's personal.

The Arch-Enemy will stand out from the protagonist's rogue gallery — will be one opponent where the relationship to the hero and the motivations for battling them are more potent. These feelings may be mutual, felt more by the villain than the hero, or occasionally vice-versa.

Sometimes, there can more than one single arch-enemy, in some occasions, if more than one villain from his rogue gallery stand out, or if a former Arch-Enemy dies and new one comes in to the picture.

Also, remember that being the big bad does not automatically make a villain the hero's Arch-Enemy.

Examples:

Transformers: Optimus Prime and Megatron. They both are the leader of their respective team and fight for the destiny of the planet Earth and their species, however, Megatron wants to rule the planet Earth and humans serving the Decepticons (depending on the countinuity) and optimus prime wants to live in peace between the humans and being a benevolent leader of his home planet Cybertron, (again, depending on the countinuity).

Total Drama: Heather and Gwen. Gwen is the most frequent victim of Heather's cruel actions, and is even given the nickname "Weird Goth Girl". It became more personal when Heather deceives Gwen into believing that her love interest, Trent, was cheating on her with Heather. Since then, they were personal enemies, though it significantly died down by All-Stars.

Doctor Who: In terms of species, the Doctor's greatest enemies are the Daleks, the only foe to have appeared in every Doctor's television era, and responsible for many companion departures and the Last Great Time War that left the Doctor the last of the Time Lords. Behind them are the Cybermen, the Doctor's second most recurring enemies, and responsible for at least two of their regenerations, and even more companion exits than the Daleks. In terms of individuals, the Doctor has his old friend, the Master, and Davros, the creator of the Daleks. Following the Last Great Time War, Rassilon, the founder of Time Lord society resurrected for the war, became another major thorn in the Doctor's side, being one of the reasons the Time Lord embraced the war and become warmongers.

The Boys: Homelander to Billy Butcher. Homelander raped Butcher's wife before she mysteriously went missing. For Homelander's part, he didn't even remember who Butcher was for the longest time, and even after finding out about Butcher he treats him and his threats like a joke. However, after Butcher took Ryan from him in the season 2 finale, the feeling is finally mutual.

TMNT: In almost all incarnations of the franchise, the Shredder has always been at odds with the Turtles and Splinter, and always at a deeply personal level. In the 2003 cartoon, his hatred of them was so deep that it culminated he was willing to destroy the multiverse to destroy all turtles, even at the cost of his own life and that of his daughter Karai, the only other living being that he honestly cares about. The 2012 version was most definitely this to Splinter as well, willing to go to truly insane lengths to make his former brother suffer.

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comicgeek2003 · 4 months

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Demoted to Dragon

The former Big Bad now works as the new Big Bad's right hand man/woman.

Generally, when a Big Bad is defeated is replaced by a new one, but when the previous one is still there, one of the things the former antagonist can do is work for the new one as his right hand man.

Demoted big bads will frequently become the Starscream, especially if the only reason they were demoted was because the other big bad happened to have an advantage and the alternative would mean certain death.

Although, some Dragons will do the opposite: they will happily accept the new position, be actually loyal to the new main antagonist and have a trustworthy relationship, often because the Dragon will realize that he works better and more efficiently by working for someone else, and the Dragon may actually become a much bigger threat than when he was the main villain thanks to the help and resources of the new one.

Examples:

Transformers The Movie (1986): Megatron, the main antagonist of the first two seasons of the cartoon, is left for dead by Starscream in the void of space, only to be found by Unicron. Unicron turns him into his slave, reformatting Megatron into Galvatron and ordering him to destroy the Autobot Matrix of Leadership.

All Dogs Go To Heaven: Scarface was the main antagonist of the original movie, but in the sequel movie he played lackey to Red and to Belladona in the series.

X-Men Apocalypse: Magneto is NOT the leader of the supervillain team; this time around, he plays second fiddle to Apocalypse.

My Hero Academia: After Shigaraki defeated Re-Destro the leader of the Meta Liberation Army, he becomes a subordinate of his when they form the Paranormal Liberation Front and declare war on the Heroes.

Gravity Falls: Gideon was the Big Bad in the season 1, but he becames Bill Cipher's enforcer in the season 2 finale after Bill fulfills his plans ands brings about the "Weirdmaggedon".

Teen Titans (2003): Slade is demoted to Trigon's henchmen when the latter tries to take over the world. An unusual case where the former big bad is actually MORE of a threat to the heroes when he's serving as someone else's henchman, because Trigon gave him a truckload of powers in the bargain.

Stitch: In the third season of the anime, the previous big bad Hämsterveil partners up with a new villain named Delia. However, considering that Delia often tortures him when he fails her and that she creates an experiment that is more powerful than Stitch, it's clear that Hämsterviel is no longer the main antagonist this go around.

Street Fighter: In the original Street Fighter, Sagat was the final boss, but in the sequel Street Fighter II, he's simply the last fighter the player must face before M. Bison.

Pirates of the Caribbean At The World's End: The previous film's big bad Davy Jones is demoted to being a henchmen for Cutler Beckett. Justified by Beckett possessing the heart of Davy Jones, and therefore being quite capable of having Jones killed and replaced if he doesn't obey Beckett's orders.

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comicgeek2003 · 5 months

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Eviler Than Thou

In the villains business, there's only can be one.

Two villains are rivals, each wreaking havoc in their own special way. Each one has the potential to be the one and only Big Bad. The poor heroes are caught in the middle between two completely different threats, and have to be flexible enough to stop both. They may team up against the heroes for a while (each planning to double-cross the other), but usually they go for each other's throats, and the cross-fire threatens to destroy the world.

Whichever villain wins will rub it in with a cackling speech about how the other villain is deficient.

Examples:

Wander Over Yonder: Lord Dominator to Lord Hater and the other villains. When she appears in the season 2 premiere, it really shows that she is worse than Hater. More later, Lord Awesome tries to flirt with her, but she make him clear she is not interested and lock up him in a cell. In the episode "My Fair Hatey", she even sings "I Am The Bad Guy" to Wander and Hater to shows up how truly evil she can be.

Megamind: The titular character who acts more out of showmanship than any real malice, is horrified when he finds out that Titan/Hal turned out to be a villain who enjoys wreaking real havoc out of pure spite.

The Dark Knight Rises: John Daggett hires Bane to help him in his schemes to take control of Wayne Enterprises, and realizes all too late that Bane was the one who was using him all along. Bane is also implied to have actually been too evil and extreme for Ra's al Ghul and the League of Shadows themselves.

Doctor Who: In the episodes "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday", an entire army of Cybermen stomps onto Earth from a parallel universe, seemingly taking control of the planet. Then the Cult of Skaro show up, and make it clear they view the Cybermen as no more than a pest problem.

#eviler than thou #marvel #thanos #mephisto #the infinity gauntlet #wander over yonder #megamind #the dark knight rises #doctor who #army of ghosts #doomsday #invincible #bane dc #cybermen #daleks #invicible #omni man

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comicgeek2003 · 6 months

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I recently post my first fic about 101 Dalmatian Street.

You can check it and tell me your opinions.

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Frankenstein's Monster

A monster clearly inspired by the Frankenstein's novel.

An iconic product of mad science , this creature has lumbered through scores of films and TV series, monstrous yet also pitiful.

In the early films, the monster is evil because a criminal or damaged brain was used. Modern media often revert to the original idea, depicting the monster as an innocent trapped in a monstrous body, unaware of the damage he can do, rejected by a cruel world. When he starts out as an evil henchmen, he often reform himself.

Examples:

Frankenstein (1931): The monster's first appereace in media. The monster goes on to appear in a series of franchise sequels, including three films of its own and four featuring other Universal monster properties. Four different actors would portray the monster for Universal.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Adam is a human/demon patchwork man... and he's also a Cyborg, since he had machine and computer parts.

Gargoyles: Demona and Xanatos use a set-up much like the classic mad scientist laboratory where they use both magic and technology to create the cyborg Coldstone out of the parts of three Gargoyles. When it moves, Xanatos screams: "It's alive, ALIVE!" then calmly turns to Demona and says: "I always wanted to say that".

Johnny Bravo: The titular character fell for a Bride of Frankenstein-esque female in the episode "Frankenbravo". By the end of the episode, he's a Frankenstein monster too.

Game of Thrones: The Mountain has been compared to this as after almost dying in the duel against the Viper, he is taken by Qyburn (a rogue maester suspected of performing necromancy and black arts) and is experimented upon. Qyburn turns him in some sort of zombie-like, red-eyed, giant, hulking, speechless monster with greenish skin that lumbers about killing people on Cersei's orders.

#frankestein #mary shelly #the modern prometheus #frankenstein 1931 #buffy the vampire slayer #angel #gargoyles #johnny bravo #game of thrones #a song of fire and ice #the mountain #cercei lannister #qyburn

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comicgeek2003 · 7 months

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Monster Mash

A massive crossover between iconic monster from popular culture.

Most commonly found in a setting where the heroes live in a world where this creatures existed and may be part of a Crossover Cosmology, especially if they themselves are supernatural. The creatures, rather than becoming shut-ins who never leave their designated niche or dark corner of the world... they actually socialize. Vampires and werewolves, usually antagonists, agree to keep up a mutual hidden existence against humans. Fairies and ghosts work together to scare local homeowners. And the wizards work with all of them to save both worlds.

Is not really necesary it had to involve terror of any type.

Examples:

The Monster Squad: The movie has Count Dracula attempting to raise an army of darkness with the assistance of Frankenstein's Monster, a werewolf, a mummy, and a gill-man.

Goosebumps (2015): The movie and it's sequel had monsters from the titular books that they were releashed.

Hotel Transylvania: The main characters are Dracula and his daughter; their friends and guests include a mummy, a werewolf, Frankenstein, witches, an invisible man, a blob, and more. Justified by the title setting being, well, a hotel for monsters.

Nightmare Before Christmas: The citizens of Halloween Town include living skeletons, ghosts, zombies, witches, vampires, a werewolf, a devil, a monster clown and a mad scientist with his stitched-together creation, along with many original monsters.

Monsters vs Aliens (2009): The movie includes versions of the Fifty-Foot Woman, the Fly, the Blob, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and Mothra are gathered together to kick alien butts. The Invisible Man also used to be a member of the team.

Castlevania: This video game saga, practically runs on this trope, with demons and mythical monsters thrown in for extra variety. Hell, even Cthulhu makes an apperance, as does Leatherface in Order of Ecclesia.

One Piece: The Thriller Bark Arc has a mansion filled with Zombies that do double duty as frankenstein's monsters, an invisible man, a ghost girl who controls ghosts instead of being one, an invisible mix and match critter, a mad scientist, and their leader who bears a striking resemblance to a vampire and has a special ability that renders its targets unable to touch sunlight without burning up.

Ed, Edd n Eddy's Boo Haw Haw: Ed, after watching too many horror movies, hallucinates seeing the cul-de-sac kids as monsters of a different varienty, as witches, aliens, vampiresses, gorgons, a spider monster, etc.

#MonsterMash #themonstersquad #goosebumps #hotel transylvania #nightmare before christmas #monsters vs aliens #one piece #castlevania #ed edd n eddy

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comicgeek2003 · 7 months

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Due to the holiday, I planning to publishing tropes about scary stuff like the classic monsters, terrifying concepts, etc.

#Halloween #all hallows eve #happy halloween #boooo

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comicgeek2003 · 9 months

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The Starscream

A Big Bad's treacherous right-hand man/woman.

When a villain have henchmen, sometimes one of them could be more ambitious than the others (sometimes, could be more than one) and want to overthrow the boss to be in charge.

The difference between the Dragon and the Starscream are meanwhile the first one is loyal and trustworthy to the Big Bad, the second one is treacherous and disloyal.

Examples:

Transformers: Starscream is practically the trope namer, every incarnation of this cybertronian was Megatron's right-hand man, but he want to be more than that and he tries to overthrow him since '84. If you want other examples in the franchise; Shockwave from Transformers Marvel Comics, Airachnid from Transformers Prime, Terrorsaur, Tarantulas and Blackarachnia from Transformers Beast Wars.

Doctor Who: Since he appers in the episode "Genesis of the Daleks", Davros was betrayed by his own creations, the Daleks. Since then, the Daleks have repeatedly turned against and overthrown their creator, only to come crawling back when they are weak, because he is smarter than them. Unfortunally, in "The Stolen Earth", he Daleks don't even pretend to respect him this time, and are keeping him as a "pet".

Henry Stickmin: Reginald Copperbottom was the original Toppat Clan leader, but Henry become the new leader. In "The Betrayed", Reginald doesn't rescue Henry and leave him for it's own. In fact, in his biography, Reginald did the same move to the former Toppat Clan leader, Terrence Suave.

Bionacle: Roddaka is this to everyone who's working for. When Sidorak ordered her to fight Keelongu, she leaves the battlefield. The results; Sidorak is killed by Keelongu, meanwhile Roddaka is safe and in one piece.

Crash Bandicoot It's About Time: When Uka Uka opens an interdimentional rift outside the primitive times, he's tired by the force he needed to make it. Then, N. Tropy and Neo Cortex leave him there, saying he served his porpuse.

Super Paper Mario: Dimentio succeeds through manipulating everyone to use the Pure Hearts to defeat Count Bleck so he could control the Chaos Heart and destroy all worlds and create perfect new ones so he could be a god.

Dragon Ball Z: Vegeta was essentially this to Frieza, serving him until he discovers the dragon balls and planning to became immortal and overthrow him. Frieza was aware of this, but was so far out of Vegeta's league that he never considered him a threat and that when he did turn on him he could kill him easily.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Hector Barbossa was this for Jack Sparrow. Originally, Barbossa was Sparrow's first mate, until one day he and several other pirates on Sparrow's ship decided to get rid of their captain by throwing Sparrow overboard once Sparrow gave up the bearings to their treasure, and as a result Barbossa becomes their captain instead.

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comicgeek2003 · 9 months

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Evil Counterpart Race

A whole species who serve (like says in the title) as the evil version of another species.

Sometimes, the specific race doesn't looks like the other race. There's ocassions where the "good" race isn't good (or at least not harmless), otherwise, the evil race have a good individual who's rebelling against the evil in his race (or even the evil race isn't that evil at they seems).

Examples:

Dungeons and Dragons: The Drow are this to the Elves. An estranged elven subrace that has settled the Underdark, infamous for their cruel matriarchal society, dedication to their evil spider-goddess Lolth, and their burning hatred for surface-dwelling elves.

Mario and Luigi Partners in Time: The Shroobs has this to the Toads, whereas the Toads are a peaceful, kind folk, the Shroobs are warlike and cruel. They even has an counterpart to the Princess Peach in the Princess Shrobb.

Doctor Who: The Daleks are this to the Time Lords. the Revival initially upgraded the Daleks into this for the Time Lords, their equals in power and enemies during "The Last Time War". Note that this wasn't always true, but as the series drew on, it became more and more this way, before being cemented as such in the New Series. However, "The End of Time" demonstrates that the Time Lords have gladly sunk to their level.

The Lord Of The Rings: The Orcs to the Elves. They're both loyal to the Valar and later the Maiar (in the Orcs cases only to one Vala, Morgoth, and later to one Maia, Sauron, the Elves to a whole pantheon of them) and practically act in reverse to each other (Orcs despise sunlight while Elves like it, Orcs destroy the forest that many Elves guard, etc.).

DC Comics: The green martians like the Martian Manhunter are wise, peaceful, and obscenely powerful (with an exception: Malefic, Martian Manhunter's evil brother). White Martians have all the powers of their green cousins, but are monstrously evil (also with, to date, a single exception in Miss Martian).

The Fairly Oddparents: Anti-fairies, as their names imply, are the blue-skinned polar opposites of fairies in terms of both morality and their respective fairy counterpart's personality. Like fairies, they can have godchildren and grant wishes, but they're only assigned to mean people and they only grant wishes with sinister results, and they have a love of spreading bad luck amongst humans, so their favorite holiday is Friday the 13th.

Star Trek: The Romulans to the Vulcans. They are descendants of a dissident group of Vulcans who had left Vulcan thousands of years ago. For many years the Romulans were hostile towards the Federation, having never truly been defeated nor allied.

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comicgeek2003 · 9 months

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Hello, if there's someone reading this right now, I will announce the return of the Tv Tropes examples.

All the contains doens't belong to me, It belongs to all Tv Tropes community.

#TvTropes #returning #i'm back

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comicgeek2003 · 2 years

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I was thinking to make a fancomic about 101 Dalmatian Street, but I got some problems in my hand, I decide just make it in Archiveforourown.

#101 dalmation street #archive for our own

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comicgeek2003 · 2 years

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A Day In Limelight

A secondary or Ensemble character gets the primary focus for an episode in an atypical fashion. This can be used to either give various cast members a rest, both for the actor and for the audience or to allow different episodes to be shot simultaneously to save on time or costs. It can also be used to explore the possibility of an expanded role for a recurring or secondary character, or to set up a Spin-Off.

Examples:

Codename: Kids Next Door as Operation: T.R.A.I.N.I.N.G, focused on Numbuh 2's younger brother, Tommy, going through training at the KND Arctic base.

OK K.O.! Lets Be Heroes as "RMS & Brandon's First Episode", as the name implies, revolves around Brandon and A Real Magic Skeleton, whose friendship undergoes some tension when RMS decides he wants to leave the frame store and find a new job.

Cowboy Bebop as "Mushroom Samba" for Ed (and Ein).

Fantastic Four as some issues that focuses on characters like Franklin Richards, for example.

#ADayInLimelight #CodenameKND #OkKOLetsBeHeroes #CowboyBebop #Fantastic4

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comicgeek2003 · 2 years

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The Dragon

The villain needs a number two; he's the main villain's closest confidant (or something akin to it), frequently acts as his foil, and may be seen working as the front-liner of the evil forces to personally carry out his master's orders as one of his most dangerous and competent subordinates.

Examples:

Darth Vader to Darth Sidius/Emperor Palpatine. Sidius has many dragons trough the franchise like Darth Maul, General Grivous and Grand Morff Tarkin, but Darth Vader is probable the first option that Star Wars fans pick.

Smithers to Mr. Burns. He's probable the only servant that Mr. Burns has, also Smithers is very loyal to him (that depend on writers, trough).

Oddjob to Goldfinger. He's Goldfinger's powerhouse, a huge, musclebound man that loves to fight and is very good at it.

Iago to Jafar. He's makes trouble for our heroes in stealing their posessions, decieving them with fake voices, and acting as a sort of sentry before the final conflict. He even gives Jafar ideas about how to proceed (like suggesting that he try and usurp the throne).

#TheDragon #SecondInCommand #StarWars #TheSimpsons #JamesBondGoldfinger #aladdin

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comicgeek2003 · 2 years

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I was thinking to publishing Tv Tropes content.

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comicgeek2003 · 3 years

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101 Dalmatian Street lore ins't pretty well known.

-Dylan and Dolly's age (both, 12 years old in dog years) was revelated in "The Daily Pups" (a promotional newspaper).

-In the song "In the House" all the puppies names was revelated (even the side-characters).

-A japanese television guide site said, before meeting each other Delilah and Doug each had a litter of 15 puppies. Then they meet each other and had 15 more puppies, before then adopting 54 more puppies (each from strays and rescue shelters).

-Some materials claim that the dalmatians family had a rich human owner, but she live on an island (the human owner's name is Dodie Smith, the original's book writer in 1956).

-The concept art shows that the background human characters do have names, for example the human that is activist and park vendor who the dalmatians family pair Mister Fuzzy up in "Dog's best friend" is called Lucy.

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