Showing the villain (or Anti-Hero) engaging in a moment of kindness, especially towards someone who can't repay them, as a way to humanize or soften them. Cuteness Proximity · Nazis with Gnarly Weapons · World War II » Useful Notes

Pet the Dog in Western Animation. Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog has Doctor Robotnik and "Fuzzy-Wuzzy", his old favorite toy and only real friend. Yes, …

Griffith has a pet the dog moment when he saves none other than Casca, the woman he raped as Femto during the Eclipse in his crossing of the Moral Event ...

Pet the Dog in Films. Apocalypse Now: Brubaker: Crash: This film is heavily devoted to showing jerks petting the dog.

Sub Tropes include Photo Op with the Dog, Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas ... The TV movie A Is for Acid featured mass murderer John Haigh adopting a dog ...

A page for describing PlayingWith: Pet the Dog. Basic Trope: A mean character shows that he's not so bad by doing something nice. Straight: The Inspector …

Live-Action TV ». Pet The Dog · Part of Morpheus's Character Development is that he is more willing to make up for his mistakes and/or do favors for others.

The dark side of this trope lies in the Unfortunate Implications—a "cute", "helpless" character is often called upon to act as the "dog". So, then, What Measure ...

"Can you pet the dog?" is a question gamers have been asking since time immemorial, or at least since 2019, which given the fast pace of the gaming industry ...

11 сент. 2011 г. · Pet the dog (or save the cat) is a little trick authors can use to make even their darkest anti-heroes sympathetic.