The Book of the Dun Cow/YMMV


 * Complete Monster: Cockatrice, who torments Senex's hens (including Pertelote),, and attempts to engineer the return of Wyrm.
 * Jerkass Woobie: While he gets a little too excited about his son, it's hard not to feel sorry for Senex when.
 * Moral Event Horizon: Cockatrice crosses it as soon as he grows up by
 * Squick: A basilisk gets into the Coop and  by hiding inside the body of a Wild Turkey it killed.
 * Cockatrice's birth.
 * Tear Jerker / Crowning Moment of Funny: The last scene of the book, where Chauntecleer and John Wesley Weasel argue about who's going to  somehow manages to be both simultaneously
 * The Woobie: Mundo Cani. That is, until his Crowning Moment of Awesome.
 * Wangst: What Mundo Cani does for most of the book, often about his Gag Nose. MAROONED!
 * However, it is implied that at least part of his Wangst comes from