History Main / Dogfaces

** But [[WesternAnimation/GoofTroop Pistol]] has erect ears like a Chihuahua, [[WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie Roxanne]] has ears that [[FurryEarDissonance look like human ears]], and Goofy Jr., [[WesternAnimation/AnExtremelyGoofMovie Sylvia Marpole]][[note]]her tresses are treated as ears instead[[/note]], and [[WesternAnimation/GoofTroop Peg]] are drawn ''[[ArtisticLicenseBiology without any pinnae (ear flaps)]]'' whatsoever.

** But [[WesternAnimation/GoofTroop Pistol]] has erect ears like a Chihuahua, [[WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie Roxanne]] has ears that [[FurryEarDissonance look like human ears]], and Goofy Jr. and [[WesternAnimation/GoofTroop Peg]] are drawn ''[[ArtisticLicenseBiology without any pinnae (ear flaps)]]'' whatsoever.

Dogfaces, or dognoses, are [[LittleBitBeastly nearly human]] dogs that populate the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse, ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse, ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' (and [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017 2017]]), ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'', ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'', ''An Extremely Goofy Movie'' and some of the WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts. One even shows up in the ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack'' episode "All Hands on Duck". WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} is considered to be a dogface as well. Similar character designs have been used by other cartoon studios as well, though Disney is largely the TropeCodifier.

This trope is very prominent in the works of Creator/CarlBarks, who initially wanted to draw humans for the Donald Duck comics but Disney insisted on keeping humans out. Barks compromised by adding pig or dog noses to the human designs he drew, though occasionally he did manage to sneak in actual humans. Creator/DonRosa followed Barks's lead, though he would sometimes drop the "dog snout/ears" element, making them basically humans with black noses.

'''Physical Characteristics Common to Dogfaces[=/=]Dognoses:'''

* Unlike characters like Donald, Mickey, or even Goofy, their species is almost never mentioned and they are only referred by generic terms like person (with the notable exception of Ma Beagle and the Beagle Boys).

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' and [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017 the 2017 reboot]]: Ma Beagle and the Beagle Boys are notable for their name actually calling attention to their species. There's also Scrooge's butler Duckworth, who despite his name is a dog rather than a duck, and minor baddie/ally Dijon / Faris D'jinn.

* [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Donald Duck]] and [[ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse Mickey Mouse comic universes]]: Chief O'Hara and Neighbor J. Jones are both broadly doglike.

* ''WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts'': The shorts depicting Goofy as "George Geef" depict him with a furless body outside of his head. In a few shorts, George Geef even had ears. [=Pete=] and his (unnamed) son in their [[TheCameo Cameo]] in "Father's Week End" appear similar.
* ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop.'' Goofy, Max, WesternAnimation/{{Pete}}, and P.J. have dogface (or catface for the latter two) furless bodies like in the George Geef shorts. Most other characters are full on flat out dogfaces with occasional people with cat or pig features such as the customers in ''Goofing up the Social Ladder.''
* ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'' and ''An Extremely Goofy Movie'', Goofy and Pete reverted back to having furred bodies like in the classic shorts.
* Most secondary, tertiary and background characters in the ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse.
* Surprisingly averted with Penelope Poodle from ''WesternAnimation/MinniesBowToons''; she is an anthropomorphic poodle instead of a dogface.
* Some of the relatively minor characters in ''WesternAnimation/MickeyAndTheRoadsterRacers'' have these features, but some of them are actual anthropomorphic animals such as elephants and goats.
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'': Oddly, Jake sports a dog-like nose in his dragon form, as do some of the other Western dragons seen in the show.
* ''VideoGame/TreasurePlanetBattleAtProcyon:'' The Canid species, which includes the aforementioned Dr. Doppler, is an example of this.

* SpeciesSurname: Mostly averted as with the Disney examples, but somehow played straight with the titular character of the WesternAnimation/{{MGM Oneshot Cartoon|s}} "Officer Pooch."

* J. P. Cubish from one WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck cartoon and ''Daffy Duck's Quackbusters''
* The earliest shorts with Daffy and WesternAnimation/PorkyPig have dognoses as supporting characters and extras, but these would largely be replaced with humans in the shorts made after the early 1940's.
* WesternAnimation/BettyBoop started out as one of these before [[ArtEvolution her dog nose was removed and her floppy ears replaced with hoop earrings.]]
* The very first episode of the Fleischer ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} cartoon featured dogfaces as background characters, though this is an example of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness; most other Popeye shorts feature strictly humans.
* '''Mazing Man'': Maze's best friend/HeterosexualLifePartner, Denton Fixx, is fully human, but has a dog face (though it makes him look like a dogface). (The [[FloatingHeadSyndrome Floating Head]] in the upper left [[http://d1466nnw0ex81e.cloudfront.net/iss/600w/482/104821/645444.jpg here.)]]
* There are a few WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons, especially in the 1950s, that feature dogfaces.
** They showed up a lot in Warner Bros. oneshots from the 1930s as well, many of which, such as "WesternAnimation/ThugsWithDirtyMugs", were directed by Creator/TexAvery.
* Dogfaces even show up in Creator/WalterLantz's [[http://stanleystories.blogspot.com/2010/02/killer-not-filler-john-stanleys-woody.html New Funnies comics]] that also feature WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker.
* The original WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}} (a.k.a. Shoeshine) and Sweet Polly Purebred look like dognoses, unlike the Disney [[Film/{{Underdog}} version]] of both characters, who are a beagle and a cocker spaniel respectively.
* The characters in the movie ''WesternAnimation/RockAndRule'' are all hyper evolved rats, cats and dogs which created their own civilization after [[AfterTheEnd humanity nuked themselves.]] Outside of having animal muzzles and ears, the majority of them look totally humans.
* Cheadle Yorkshire from ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' looks very much like a dog, but is actually a human who had her appearance changed as such to match her role as a Zodiac Hunter (The Dog Sign).
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' in sharp contrast to the other anthropomorphic animals, the character, Wes Weasley looked exactly like a human complete with a furless humanoid body and humanlike ears. The only Weasel trait of Wes was his muzzle, essentially a "Weasel Face."
* A literary example would be the Fetchers from ''[[Literature/KeysToTheKingdom Mister Monday]]''.
* The title character in ''Officer Pooch'', an MGM Oneshot Cartoon that Bill Hanna and Joseph Barbera directed.
* The Whos from various Creator/DrSeuss works (like in ''Literature/HortonHearsAWho'') are similar to Disney's dogfaces. They are a type of DemiHuman in the animated and live-action versions of ''WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', though.
* Several characters from ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', such as Binky Barnes, though unlike Fern or Prunella, he has a rather human-like nose.
* Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid was eventually redesigned into one of these to mask that he was originally a racist, politically incorrect caricature of a black person.
* Of the various FunnyAnimal people in ''WesternAnimation/SphinxAndTheCursedMummy'', the most common are dog-like people. They bear a strong resemblance to the Disney dogfaces, especially in their "snouts." Given their Egyptian origins, they're probably jackal-people.
* Both Snuffy and Old Oscar from ''WesternAnimation/JayJayTheJetPlane'' have a face that looks like that of a dogface due to the covers of their propellers.

* Leo Ortolani's peculiar style makes all of his human characters look like not dogs, but monkeys. Ths is especially evident for the protagonist of ''[[ComicBook/RatMan1989 Rat-Man]]'', who without his Rat-costume seems perpetually naked and in fact looks like a monkey rather than a human.

* Pounder (AKA Pound Hound) has a face of a Bulldog from WesternAnimation/MatchboxHeroCity
* Most of Gondoland's population in ''WesternAnimation/MuzzyInGondoland'' with the exception of the green goblinoid Corvax and possibly the King (who looks like anthropomorphic lion, but can be considered a Dogface with mane-like hair).
* Some {{Blackface}} style caracitured black African people in early 20th-century comics look rather like short-muzzled, black-furred dogfaces with peach or light skintone muzzles.
** Unfortunately that may be where this trope has its roots.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'', most of the extras and supporting characters are humans, but some of them are really, grotesque, bizarre looking Dogfaces.
* An alternate nickname for [=GI=]s in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
* Many of the incidental characters in ''WesternAnimation/VictorAndHugo''. {{Lampshaded}} once when Victor made Ponsward the butler fetch a stick and Lord Hobbes-Sutclyffe responds 'Oh for Heaven's sake! Ponsward's not a dog!'
* Fix and Foxi, the german comic series animated adaptation, has dogfaces as citizens in their town. As well as the Peppercorn Family are dogfaces.
* The titular character of ''VideoGame/ParappaTheRapper'' looks like a dogface with floppy ears.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents'' episode "Teacher's Pet," Crocker turned his mom into something resembling a dogface after hooking her to his Mother machine.
-->'''Crocker:''' I hooked Mother up to Mother, but she got a little too much bloodhound.
-->'''Unnamed man:''' That's one freaky bloodhound.
** Unlike most of the examples, she acts like a dog and even [[RunningOnAllFours runs on all fours]].
* Some of the generic civvies in ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground''.
* Music/TheClash's album ''Music/{{Sandinista}}!'' has liner notes formatted like a fictitious newspaper, "The Armegideon Times". All the illustrations in this newspaper feature cartoon dogfaces rather than humans.
* The musicians and people on the album cover of Music/FrankZappa's ''Music/CruisingWithRubenAndTheJets'' all have dog noses and ears. Album cover designer Cal Schenkel did this as an {{Homage}} to Creator/CarlBarks. On the album cover of ''Music/ThePerfectStranger''' and ''Francesco Zappa'' another dogfaced creature is shown, wearing sunglasses.

* In a more grisly example, Creator/OsamuTezuka's manga ''Manga/OdeToKirihito'' features Monmow Disease, which causes the victim's head and facial features to mutate into a more canine form.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'' introduces the Nelvaanians, who are blue-grey furred dogface aliens with black manes. The males are shown to have somewhat more wolf-like faces. (As the species and their home planet Nelvaan are a ShoutOut to the animation studio {{Creator/Nelvana}}, their canine design is almost certainly a nod to the aforementioned ''Rock and Rule'', Nelvana's first animated feature.)
* ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' has Barf the Mog. Half man, half dog ("I'm my own best friend") and looks the part, complete with nose and ears.
* ''ComicBook/{{Bamse}}'': This might be the most common subtype of FunnyAnimal in this universe. Examples include: Knocke and Smocke, the pirates, Burre, Miss Fiffi, etc.
* ''WebAnimation/TheRodfellows'': Jimmy and Widenar Glover the dogs. They appear to be dogfaces with black ears and lack tails.
* One ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' arc takes place on a planet populated by dogfaces trying to investigate what appears to be a murder perpetrated by Schlock.
* The 1960 Issue 11# of the ''Literature/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer'' comic series by Creator/DCComics that ran from 1950 till 1962, featured Rudolph encountering western bandits and cowboys who are all anthropomorphic dogs.
* A very minor star, [[WesternAnimation/NovelToons only seen in two cartoons]], [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin literally named]] "[[https://youtu.be/ZQL1T82OCA8?t=10 Dogface]], rather averts this. He was a straightforward pet-slash-FunnyAnimal who talked to humans, at least in his first picture.
* Iggy from ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' zigzags this trope. Earlier on, his face looks like that of an actual, if fairly ugly, dog, but around [[DayInTheLimelight the fight with Pet Shop]], Araki started drawing him with a very human-looking face to have him facially express more emotions. The anime goes about this by making Iggy's face slowly develop from his "ugly" face to his "cute" face, finishing his face's development at the Pet Shop fight.

* Half of the relatively minor characters in ''WesternAnimation/MickeyAndTheRoadsterRacers'' have these features, but some of them are actual anthropomorphic animals such as elephants and goats.

* The characters in the movie ''WesternAnimation/RockAndRule'' are all hyper evolved rats, cats and dogs which created their own civilization after [[AftertheEnd humanity nuked themselves.]] Outside of having animal muzzles and ears, the majority of them look totally humans.
* Cheadle Yorkshire from Manga/HunterXHunter looks very much like a dog, but is actually a human who had her appearance changed as such to match her role as a Zodiac Hunter (The Dog Sign).

* A literary example would be the Fetchers from ''[[WesternAnimation/KeysToTheKingdom Mister Monday]]''.

* Timburr and its evolutionary family from Franchise/{{Pokemon}} resemble overly muscular dog-faces.

* Many of the incidental characters in WesternAnimation/{{Victor And Hugo}}. {{Lampshaded}} once when Victor made Ponsward the butler fetch a stick and Lord Hobbes-Sutclyffe responds 'Oh for Heaven's sake! Ponsward's not a dog!'

* FurryDenial: They act completely human, they are almost never acknowledged to be dogs, and they refer to themselves as "people", "person", "man", "men", and any other human-related term. They don't refer to themselves by any dog-related term at all. They don't even act anything like dogs. [[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse Mickey,]] Minnie, and Mortimer are still referred to as mice, and [[WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck Donald,]] Daisy, the Nephews, Scrooge, Von Drake, and the rest of the Duck family are still referred to as ducks, however.
** In the worlds of WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, and other WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts, "dogs", save for Penelope Poodle from ''WesternAnimation/MinniesBowToons'', [[FurryConfusion are ''always'' non-anthropomorphized,]] which in turn, actually include Pluto, and as a result, many people are still determining what animal Goofy actually is.
*** On ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'', Pete (who is, of course, a cat, although in ''Goof Troop'' this was made ambiguous) had a pet dog called Chainsaw, who acted like a real dog. There was even an episode where Max, frustrated by Chainsaw's misbehavior, muttered, "I hate dogs" (!).

* Both Snuffy and Old Oscar from ''WesternAnimation/JayJayTheJetPlane'' have a face that looks like that of a dogface due to the cover of the their propellers.

Even though they are most prominent in the Creator/{{Disney}} universe, dogfaces/dognoses are not exclusive to Disney. In fact they are ostensibly OlderThanDirt since the concept of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynocephaly cynocephali]] has been documented in many ancient civilisations from ancient greeks to Inuit.

* On ''WeternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'', most of the extras and supporting characters are humans, but some of them are really, grotesque, bizarre looking Dogfaces.

** ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'', a SpinOff of the former show, has Dogfaces as well, though that show's characters tend to have heads and faces that are more doglike than other Disney duck media.

* Leo Ortolani's peculiar style makes all of his human characters look like not dogs, but monkeys. Ths is especially evident for the protagonist of ''ComicBook/{{Rat-Man}}'', who without his Rat-costume seems perpetually naked and in fact looks like a monkey rather than a human.

Even though they are most prominent in the Creator/{{Disney}} universe, dogfaces/dognoses are not exclusive to Disney. In fact they are ostensibly OlderThanDirt since the concept of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynocephaly cynocephali]] has been documented in many ancient civilisations from ancient greeks to Inuit; turns out depicting other people as dogfaced is an old pastime of racists.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'' introduces the Nelvaanians, who are blue-grey furred dogface aliens with black manes. The males are shown to have somewhat more wolf-like faces.

** But [[WesternAnimation/GoofTroop Pistol]] has erect ears like a Chihuahua, [[WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie Roxanne]] has ears that [[FurryEarDissonance look like human ears]], and Goofy Jr. and [[WesternAnimation/GoofTroop Peg]] are drawn ''[[ArtMajorBiology without any pinnae (ear flaps)]]'' whatsoever.

* Several characters from ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', such as Binky Barnes.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' and [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017 the 2017 reboot]]: Ma Beagle and the Beagle Boys are notable for their name actually calling attention to their species. There's also Scrooge's butler Duckworth, who despite his name is a dog rather than a duck, and minor baddie Dijon / Faris D'jinn.

* The title character in ''Officer Pooch'', an MGM Oneshot Cartoon that Bill Hanna and Joseph Barbara directed.

* ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'': The character, Dr. Doppler is actually one of these, though he atypically evidences some canine behavior traits.