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The insertion of an animal sidekick into a property that normally wouldn't be expected to have one. Often an example of [[Executive Meddling]], particularly on [[Animated Series]].
May be a [[Heroic Dog]] as well. Compare with [[Cousin Oliver]], [[Team Pet]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Superboy]]'' had Krypto in his [[Silver Age]] comics, who also appeared in the 1960s ''Superman/Batman'' animated series. In 2005, the Last Dog of Krypton made his move to center stage on TV in ''[[Krypto the Superdog (
** Krypto also got a [[Shout
* Not to be outdone, ''[[
** Subverted in ''[[Batman Beyond]]'', where Bruce Wayne has a dog named Ace, but he's an [[Angry Guard Dog]].
*** Nevertheless he made a pretty good sidekick in one episode. "[[Incredibly Lame Pun|Good bad dog]]."
*** The [[Fully
** Ace is pretty badass in ''[[Batman:
** A version of Ace appeared in the 90s Batman comics, this time as a seeing-eye dog Batman had inherited from a blind Native American medicine man. He mostly hung around the cave with Harold, Batman's [[The Igor|mute hunchback assistant]].
** The [[
* [[DC Comics]] introduced two examples of the same basic concept in the post-[[World War Two]] days the superhero genre's decline in popularity:
** In 1948, the original [[Green Lantern]], Alan Scott, was suddenly given a canine sidekick in Streak, the Wonder Dog. Not only did Streak share GL's title, but the dog actually ''became the top-billed star of the series''! Streak also served as the prototype for DC's ''other'', subsequent wonder dog (Rex), who would operate without a superhero partner.
== Literature ==
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== Western Animation ==
* Formerly named after the original Wonder Dog in the first ''[[
** Gleek in the Zan and Jayna episodes of the ''Super Friends''.
* Spoofed mercilessly on ''[[The Incredibles]]'' DVD, in which a small rabbit named Mr. Skipperdoo is added to the badly-animated cast of the fake cartoon "Mr. Incredible and Pals". Even the supers hate the idea, as evidence in their commentary on the cartoon:
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'''Mr. Incredible''': The rabbit is cuddly! Kids like little cuddly sidekicks! I mean, the rabbit... it's a time-tested... okay, the rabbit bites. }}
* In the [[Animated Adaptation]] of ''[[Happy Days]]'', the Fonz had a dog called Mr Cool. Seriously.
** And in the ''Mork & Mindy/Laverne & Shirley/The Fonz Hour'', Mork got this pink six-legged alien dog-thing, and Laverne and Shirley were in the army with a talking pig. (We only know this from [http://www.retrojunk.com/details_tvshows/2010-mork-and-mindy-cartoon/ Retrojunk.com].)
* [[
* Nikko the Shar-Pei got shoehorned into this role for the [[New Kids
* ''[[The Brady Kids]]'' gave the kids a whole menagerie of sidekicks: a dog, a magical talking bird, and a pair of twin [[Pandaing to
** They made a cameo appearance in ''A Very Brady Sequel'' as a hallucination, and then an encore appearance in the credits.
* The first cartoon based on the Harlem Globetrotters features a [[Team Pet]] dog named Dribbles.
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