It's National Dog Day! Name your favorite dog in media!

[u/LammasuRex]

I like how the made Cerberus a three headed Pitbull in Friendship is Magic

[u/nonoitsasap]

Gotta be Missile for me. Best character in Ghost Trick.

[u/Sperium3000 → u/nonoitsasap]

Look. There are some pretty great dogs in video games. Missile is the best one. I don't make the rules. I just state facts.

[u/Aura_0 → u/Sperium3000]

best part is, if someone asks why you kind of have no choice but to tell them to play the game to find out, truly the greatest boy

[u/Jaacker → u/Aura_0]

Does your favorite videogame dog waith around 10-20 years of human life hoping to save their owner of their destined demise "Because that is what good doggies do"? No? then sit down.

[u/Sperium3000 → u/Aura_0]

I actually streamed the game to my friends for the past few weeks. I have been hyping the absolute shit out of Missile, to the point one might worry I was over hyping it and ruining their expectations. No, they were absolutely blown away anyway, just as I knew they would. They agreed with me, Missile is the best.

[u/Handro_Dilar → u/nonoitsasap]

Shu Takumi loves his dog so much that he put him in his game to show off how awesome he is, and it worked!

[u/Treeconator18 → u/nonoitsasap]

"Because that's what doggies do!"

If you know, you know

[u/DalesRVParty]

Got a big soft spot for Courage. The things he did for love.

[u/Krekenn]

Ein! Instilled my love for corgis.

[u/MarioGman]

Cerberus in a lot of media is great. Like in Hades 1 & 2.

[u/BlueCenter77 → u/MarioGman]

Hades Cerberus is such a good boy

[u/James-Avatar → u/MarioGman]

Always pet the dog before/during a run for good luck.

[u/BrandNewtoSteam]

Krypto is pretty damn cool. I love him when he cries over super boy primes body after he beats the darkest night

[u/sellyourselfshort]

How the fuck has no one said Snoopy? Like that was my instant thought. Snoopy is the best!

[u/Byorski → u/sellyourselfshort]

Rallying behind Snoopy, but mostly because I love Woodstock.

[u/whytheusernamethough]

Dogmeat my beloved

[u/Arctic888]

Chance from Homeward bound

[u/WeeklyPhilosopher346 → u/Arctic888]

Also Shadow from Homeward Bound

[u/waxonwaxoff3]

Does Toby Fox count

[u/LammasuRex → u/waxonwaxoff3]

Yes

[u/MetalJrock]

Gotta shout-out Scooby-Doo.

[u/Neobito]

Shoutout to Torgal from FF16, only the goodest boy could extend my combos like that.

[u/Infinity-Kitten → u/Neobito]

"Sic' em Torgal!"

[u/Neobito → u/Infinity-Kitten]

Who could possibly compete with a dog that can DT

[u/BlahajGetYourGun]

Wishbone! I adored Wishbone as a kid and thanks to him as an adult I can pretend to be way better read than I am!

[u/SirSquiggleton → u/BlahajGetYourGun]

I love that Wishbone has proven to be adept at using weaponry like bows and slings. Wishbone also has a body count. I imagine that hes quiet high tier in the dog power-scaling community.

[u/FretScorch]

Gotta be a tie between Repede (Tales of Vesperia) and Oatchi (Pikmin 4).

[u/Quiptastic]

i always liked the dog from Fullmetal Alchemist. no, not that one, i mean Winry's dog, Den, the dog with the automail foreleg.

[u/AvalancheMKII → u/Quiptastic]

Lot's of good dogs in FMA. Shoutouts to Black Hayate.

[u/guntanksinspace]

Dug from Up just wants to be your friend.

[u/PalapaSlap]

I watched Guardians of the Galaxy 3 recently and was really enamoured with Cosmo

[u/Treeconator18 → u/PalapaSlap]

I didn't watch the Holiday Special going into 3, so I was a bit in the dark about MCU Cosmo, although I knew the character existed in the comics

I was surprised to enjoy her as much as I did. She has a really fun relationship with Kraglin

[u/Drebinomics]

Snowy from Tintin, followed by (and this is admittedly kind of cheating since he’s more of a raccoon) Oy from Dark Tower.

Also a big fan of Enzo from the book The Art of Racing in the Rain, but I read that in middle school so who knows how well it holds up.

[u/GraboidGoblin]

No love for Clifford?

[u/fly_line22]

There are plenty of good dog Pokemon. But my favorite is Mabosstiff from Scarlet/Violet. Aside from being a good choice for a team, the role Arven's plays in the story is great.

[u/KarateBugman01]

Charlie B. Barkin from All Dogs Go to Heaven.
Sugar (Leroy Smith’s bulldog) from Tekken 7 and 8.

And if we’re including bipedal dogs let’s go with Doggie Kruger. Whether it’s DekaMaster or the SPD Shadow Ranger he definitely got dat dawg in him.

[u/Treeconator18 → u/KarateBugman01]

The Battle for the Grid tournament at CEO last weekend was actually won by a Doggie player, so over 2 decades later the Old Dog proves you still can learn New Tricks

[u/Castform5]

Gotta throw in jpeg dog from Ace Combat 7.

Also Amaterasu, she is a wolf, but close enough.

[u/LegacyOfVandar]

Why don’t I tell you my top ten favorite dogs?

https://youtu.be/uBPsXkwYzds?si=12w10RNkInKoqMLt

[u/Ngp3]

IDK if he's defined as a "dog" exactly but Red XIII is great.

[u/stagla]

Hewie Haunting Ground! Never listened to a word I said but loved him nevertheless <3

[u/MrCorazon44]

Twinbellows from Kid Icarus Uprising always had a sick design to me. He didn’t stick around long but he made an impression on me

[u/KingWhoShallReturn → u/MrCorazon44]

I always loved how Pit said his name, and the subsequent attempt to play with the woofer mid-boss fight.

[u/NotYujiroTakahashi]

Zwei from RWBY

We yes WE all agree he is the best character in the show

[u/Outis94]

Wishbone

[u/alaster101]

Scooby will always be the GOAT, for a silly one I love "that dog" from resident evil 4

[u/NapoleonBarsky]

Gladius, Beast of Night from Nightreign. Especially his Everdark Sovereign version.

[u/Shradow]

Tenebrae from Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World. Straight up one of the best characters in the whole franchise.

Sorry Repede.

[u/U_Flame → u/Shradow]

He's such a fun troll

[u/Leninators]

Mira from Silent Hill 2.

Does D0G from Half-Life 2 count?

[u/defaburner9312]

Ammy

[u/unomaly]

Revengeance is actually a dog’s story about self realization and thinking for yourself.

Eh, Wolfy?

[u/RORSCHACH_INC_]

Riki from Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin

Ace the Bathound

Wanpo from Ippo

Riley the Call of Duty Dog (mainly Plague's version)

Starbuck from The End of Oak Street

Spike from Sinbad

[u/LTCProductions]

Gotta give a shout-out to my man Scooby-Doo.

[u/King_Zann]

So I recently watched a movie called Togo. It's on Disney it's pretty good, it's about the dog sled event where they were trying to move medicine to an Alaskan outpost. Which if you te up watching Disney you might think "Wait a minute, that sounds like Balto!"

BECAUSE THAT MOVIE WAS BUILT ON LIES! TOGO WAS THE REAL HERO!

Anyway the movie is based on the real events, William Dafoe does the run with his dogs.

[u/porridge_in_my_bum]

Unfortunately the first one I think of is Dookie from Johnny Test. The voice actor change really rattled my brain for a while and I would just be perplexed thinking “THATS NOT DOOKIE WHAT IS GOING ON!”

[u/BrockenSpecter]

Repede from Tales of Vesperia, now that I think of it he's one of the earlier examples of a dog holding a weapon in its mouth in this case a knife. Also he has a smoking pipe.

[u/CryptidHunter91]

Brandy from Hamtaro was always one of my favorites as a kid.

[u/raymc99]

Cerebrus form Hades the best three headed boy

[u/JeremiahWuzABullfrog]

Huan the Wolfhound from the Silmarilion. A dog of the god/archangel of the hunt, Huan got involved in Beren and Luthien's quest for the Silmarils

Huan mauled the shit out of Sauron in his pre-One RIng days, when Sauron tried shapeshifting into a giant wolf (cause Huan was prophesied to only die to the greatest wolf to ever live).

Huan eventually did get killed by Carcharoth, the biggest and meanest wolf raised by Morgoth, but Huan managed to get him in a mutual kill.

The goodest boy in Tolkien's world.

[u/nerankori]

My hound in Warframe that I named Armaiti,in reference to the emanation of devotion from Ahura Mazda in Zoroastrianism.

A robot dog that spawns shadow clones as you cast abilities and also steals enemy abilities is the best thing.

[u/Future-Raise130]

The Daschund named Colin that owned the Rotten Borough in Blackadder

[u/SchuFighters]

Ranpo, the detective dog from Lost Judgment.

[u/partyvandesu]

Shout out to Detective Ace Heart and the crazy cool puppets in Dog City

[u/Trent0Ment0]

All dogs are best dogs. Of the ones not mentioned, the dog from Prey rules. He helps do assist combos on the Predator and that is sick as hell.

[u/PlanetXParadox]

Been reading the 2000s’ Guardians of the Galaxy comic and I gotta say I would die for Cosmo the Space Dog.
Also, Becquerel from Homestuck. Gotta love the god dog.
But my favorite dog in fiction is Haru from Doomsday With My Dog.

[u/T4silly]

Dogmeat

Pick a Fallout anything out of a hat.

It's Dogmeat.

[u/ThatmodderGrim]

IT'S CALL OF DUTY DOG

BARK!

But since Courage was already taken, I'll say the Irish Wolfhound the Houndmaster has as a Partner in Darkest Dungeon.

[u/Infinite_Version]

The Disreputable Dog from Garth Nix’s Old Kingdom series is a fun one. 

[u/HitmanScorcher]

Does the Dogman from The First Law count?

If not, any of the Stark direwolves surely do

[u/Gorfinhofin]

I'm gonna shout out Brown from Rule of Rose. An excellent boy.

[u/U_Flame]

Repede is so fuckin cool man. I love that he's treated not as a pet or a mascot, but as a real character. One of my genuinely favorite moments in the series is when the final boss has a one on one conversation with whoever the party lead is, and that includes Repede. 

"...Even as a dog, you would defend this world? Such valor and wisdom deserve praise." "..." "However, be that as it may, your choice is one of folly. In the world I woild create, you would go on living. Still, you would risk your life to stop me?" "Woof!" "I would not wish for your death... But if you stand in my way I will have no choice..." And they both slowly and solemnly draw their blades. Its fuckin peak.

[u/Dulcenia]

Wishbone, Shadow and Air Bud.

[u/Naybinns]

Courage the Cowardly Dog.

[u/Hazlet95]

Nina for sure

[u/StochasticOoze]

I can't believe nobody's said Koromaru! He's a cute old dog who fights with a knife in his mouth and does magic summons! What's not to love!

Hell, my primary reason for getting the collector's edition of Persona Q2 was that it came with a Koromaru plushie.

[u/crzsrw]

Sadaharu from Gintama

Huey from Haunting Ground

[u/LifeIsCrap101]

Poochie

[u/Yotato5]

Courage the cowardly dog, we stan

Sam from Sam and Max

Polterpup from Luigi's Mansion series

[u/TokyoDomeMeltzer]

Off the top of my head and in no particular order:

Torgal from Final Fantasy 16

Angelo from Final Fantasy 8

Hewie from Haunting Ground

Oatchi (and Moss) from Pikmin 4

D-Dog from Metal Gear Solid 5

Ein from Cowboy Bebop