History Literature / TheLastDogs

* BigDamnVillains: Dolph and his pack surprisingly pull one at the end of ''The Vanishing'' and ''The Long Road''. Special mention goes to ''The Long Road'', where, after Max persuades the police dogs to let the wolves eat some dog food, Dolph saves Max from Belle and her crazy dogs, believing that [[MakesUsEven they're even now]].

* NobleWolf: Very ''very'' downplayed in ''The Long Road''. Dolph is still eager to hunt Max down, but he doesn't approve of needlessly attacking livestock, even scolding a wolf for breaking this rule. Once he and his pack eat enough dog food, they leave the dogs alone for a while before returning for their BigDamnVillains against Belle.

* TranslationConvention

-->'''Max''': Weren't you just howling about how I ruined your life?
-->'''Rocky''': I just get a little cranky when I'm hungry.

* NiceHat: Captain the schnauzer wears a ship captain's hat, to show his gruff bossy nature whenever Boss isn't around. He later sets this hat gently on Boss's grave after the dogs hold a funeral for him.

* AbandonedHospitalAwakening: Max had spent two weeks alone in an abandoned veterinarian's kennel. When he finally gets out, he find that he has company: Rocky (whose owner is the veterinarian) and a pack of hungry wolves.

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Thanks to Praxis, animals affected by it become smarter. The Mountain even relates the dogs' life story by from body shapes or scars and even on Dolph, leading to [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech taunting him for his flaws]].

* HonorableElephant: Mortimer the elephant in ''Dark Waters'' is one, though he refers to be called "The Mountain". He had come from a laboratory where animals were experimented on to make them as smart as humans (along with him were Madame Curie and Gertrude the pig), with a kind of drug called Praxis. Though he is honorable, he's prone to throwing wild temper tantrums (due to having been away from his fellow elephants for a long time), though he does save Max and his friends from the wolves during one of his tantrums.

** Dolph at the end of the series is outraged at the humans interrupting his final showdown with Max and is ready to attack them. But one tranquilizer dart later, and Dolph is knocked out.

* MixedAncestry: Max's nieces and nephews are Dorkies, their father being a dachshund and their mother being a Yorkshire Terrier.
** Whitey the Labradoodle has a Labrador retriever father and a poodle mother.