Basic Trope: A character who resembles an animal in appearance, biology and behavior.
- Straight: Doug is caninoid with pointed ears, fur-like hair all over his body, claws and a fierce loyalty.
- Exaggerated: Funny Animal.
- Downplayed: Little Bit Beastly.
- Justified: In the Sliding Scale this is classified as borderline Beast Man.
- The work is set After the End when humans are long extinct and dogs have taken over as the dominant species.
- Humans took dog DNA and placed them on an alien planet.
- Radiation, a Freak Lab Accident, or Genetic Engineering caused an ordinary dog to mutate into one.
- Subverted: Doug turned out to be a human using prosthetics and a deep understanding of caninoid behavior to pretend to be a Beast Man.
- Double Subverted: ... except he's actually not a human, it's just that many millenia of cross-breeding have caused him to lose his canine features.
- Parodied: Doug is just a guy in a cheap dog suit who doesn't even act dog like, but everyone treats him as if he were an alien.
- Enforced: The story is set in space or a High Fantasy realm, and either Furries Are Easier to Draw or it's just easier to modify existing animals instead of coming up with completely original designs.
- Lampshaded: "If you're an extraterrestrial, why do you look like a dog?"
- Discussed: "Poor Doug, his species has millennia of rich history and everyone just refers to him as the alien dog guy."
- Conversed: "Why is it that all the intelligent species in this video game resemble Earth animals?"
Back to Beast Man.
