Thor (Bad Moon)

Thor is the main protagonist of the 1996 horror film Bad Moon. He is the pet German Shepherd dog of Janet and Brett Harrison.
He is portrayed by Primo.
==Biography==
Thor appears as the family dog of the Harrison family, playing fetch with his human boy Brett out in the front yard when a salesman walks up to the property. Thor is cautious and stands in front of Brett, protecting him as Janet, the owner of the house steps out to confront the man. The salesman claims to be from an educational reading project of the Pacific Northwest, looking to help teach children, when in actuality he's a conman who provokes Thor into attacking him so he can sue Janet. Janet sees through his scheme and tells him to leave the property. He leaves, swearing that he'll return and take her to court. 
Later on, Janet gets a call from her brother Ted, a photo-journalist who recently came back to the Pacific Northwest. Janet, Brett, and Thor drive up to Timberline lake where he's staying in his Airstream trailer to visit him. The visit seems fine at first, until Thor goes out into the woods and finds the mutilated remains of a forest ranger that Ted killed. Ted tells Janet that it was nice to see her again, but she should get leaving before sundown. Janet asks Ted to stay with her, but he refuses, saying that he'll come and visit soon.
The next day the police show up, investigating the murders in the woods. Ted under fear of being found guilty, calls Janet and tells her he's changed his mind and wants to visit for a few days. He parks his Airstream in her backyard in hopes that being near his family he'll be able to control his lycanthropic urges. Thor however becomes suspicious of Ted's behavior as Ted goes out at night for a "jog" with a pair of steel handcuffs. Thor starts barking at the door until Janet lets him outside.
Thor runs off into the forest to find Ted, transformed into a werewolf handcuffed to a tree to restrain himself. Meanwhile Janet goes out looking for Thor after hearing him barking. Thor runs off to find Janet as they safely return to the house. The next day at breakfast Janet sees a news report about a series of recent murders up by the lake where Ted originally stayed. The news reporter stating that five men and women were found mutilated, believed to have been caused by a grizzly bear. Thor and Brett go outside to play as Thor urinates on Ted's Airstream, marking his territory. Janet confronts her brother about the news and tells him to stay until the curfew by the lake gets lifted. Brett goes inside and watches Werewolf of London, as Ted laughs at the old film, stating how movies get werewolf lore wrong and that a werewolf can transform under any cycle of the moon. Brett finds Ted's words ridiculous, telling him that werewolves don't exist. Janet tells Brett to take out the trash as she has a private conversation with Ted. He asks her what Thor was barking at last night, to which Janet tells her that it was nothing. Ted tells her that she should be more cautious and take Thor's behavior more seriously, warning her about the possibility of dangerous predators like bears or wolves being nearby. Janet tells Ted that he's being overconcerned as he decides to turn in for the evening.
At around sunset, Ted grabs his handcuffs and steps out of his trailer, but Thor blocks his path. Ted starts to worry as he calls Janet to bring Thor inside. That night Thor starts barking at the door again as Brett lets him out. Thor runs off into the woods to find Ted's torn clothes and handcuffs. Realizing that he wasn't able to cuff himself to the tree in time, Thor runs back to the house to find werewolf Ted in the backyard as they begin fighting. Janet is awoken from the commotion outside as she turns on the deck lights, the bright lights blinding Ted and scaring him off as he runs back into the woods. Janet goes outside and finds Thor, covered in blood and slashed claw marks as she takes him inside and gets him cleaned up and calls the local sheriff. Afterwards she goes to the Airstream to inform Ted, thinking that he's there but instead finds his journal and pictures of his victims, the journal detailing Ted's struggles with finding a cure for his "disease". After reading the journal, Janet goes back in the house as the conman from earlier shows up, intent on killing Thor, but gets viciously attacked and killed by Ted.
The next day the sheriff shows up and questions Janet about Thor, telling her that the conman had been found mutilated out in the woods near her property, believing that Thor could be the culprit since he almost bit the man the last time he was there. Janet asks if the recent murders in Timberline could have been caused by a human, but the sheriff tells her that those kinds of mutilations could have only been caused by a big predatory animal like a wolf. Before he leaves, he warns her that if Thor did kill him, she should give him away and get a new dog. Janet goes to confront Ted and ask him where he was last night, but Thor attacks him and bites him on the arm. Janet calls animal control and has Thor taken away to the local dog pound.
Later on at dinner, Brett feels upset about having his dog taken away, and that night he sneaks out of the house to get Thor back. Meanwhile Janet follows Ted out to the woods to confront him about his aloof behavior. He begins to transform into a werewolf, as Janet runs back to the house to grab her pistol. Brett arrives at the dog pound and frees Thor as the two make their way back to the house. Werewolf Ted breaks into the house and chases Janet up to Brett's bedroom, and right as he's about to kill her, Thor shows up and the two get into a brutal fight. 
Thor had a bit of an advantage by pouncing on Ted's back, surprising him from behind, but Ted managed bash him against Brett's dresser cabinets and throw him to the floor. Thor, still determined to protect his family, gets back up and charges at Ted, smashing him into a wooden desk as the two bite and slash at each other. Thor attempts to rip Ted's throat out by biting him on the neck, but Ted finally grabs Thor and throws him up at the ceiling, smashing into the light bulb causing the room to go dark. Brett runs into the room as Ted strangles him. Janet finishes loading her pistol as she screams "Get the fuck off my son!" and fires all eight rounds on Ted. Thor who is still alive, gets back up and lunges at Ted, causing the two to crash through the window and fall out into the front yard. Ted gets up and retreats back into the woods as Thor follows him. At sunrise Thor finds Ted, who has now turned back to human form. Injured and covered in blood, he tells Thor to put him out of his misery, in which Thor lunges at Ted, killing him. Thor returns home as Janet and Brett thank him for saving them, only for him to turn into a monstrous werewolf dog and roar at them. But it turns out to be just a nightmare as Janet wakes up as Brett comforts her as the two of them start petting Thor, who is still alive and wrapped in bandages after the fight.
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