Courage

Nigel (by Basil)

Dear Boy (by Katz)

'your kid' (by Schwick)

Henry (father)

### Appears in

Courage the Cowardly Dog (TV Series)Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog (Film)

### Debut

A Night at the Katz Motel

**Courage** is the titular character and the main protagonist of *Courage the Cowardly Dog show* and *Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog*. He is a pink beagle who was found by Muriel Bagge after he escaped from the Pets of Tomorrow vet clinic in the town of Nowhere, Kansas.

## Appearance

Courage is a small pink dog of undetermined breed (possibly a mix breed) with thin and long black ears. He has a black triangular and tiny limbs in proportion to his body. His middle toe always seems to point straight ahead regardless of stance, making it appear as though Courage is always tip-toeing. He has numerous large human-like teeth, with one having a circular hole in it. He has three black spots on his back.

## Personality

Courage, as the show's title suggests, is an extremely cowardly and anxious dog that is easily frightened by almost anything. Despite this, when his owners or friends are in the face of danger, he will stop at nothing to save them, which easily makes him the bravest and most morally-aligned character throughout the series.

Though he is willing to risk his own life to protect Muriel at all costs, his irrationality sometimes causes others to doubt his intuition. Courage has been presented as an almost entirely selfless character, working to benefit others with usually little to no regard for his own well-being, risking his own life dozens of times simply to assure his owner's safety.

Although his secondary owner, Eustace, is cruel to him, he is not offended by his harsh words and cruel tricks, especially compared to Muriel. This is most likely because he has learned to deal with the jealous man's cruel jokes and short temper over time. Despite this, Courage has been shown to care about Eustace's safety as well (although not as much as Muriel's) and will go great lengths to protect him from danger, even though he is not always as successful in protecting him as he is with Muriel. On some occasions, Courage would team up with Eustace in an attempt to save Muriel or themselves from danger.

Courage is somewhat childish in his spare time, as he has expressed interest in and enjoys playing with toys and building sandcastles, as well as other childish or dog-like activities (such as burying or digging things up).

## Powers and skills

### Powerful Lungs

Perhaps Courage's greatest signature is his scream. Courage can scream so loudly that he can break a hole open in a wooden floor large enough to swallow a rogues' gallery of his previous foes ("Ball of Revenge"). In some instances Courage has been shown able to survive underwater and in outer space for prolonged periods of time. Courage's 'super screams' have even proven powerful enough to destroy planetary bodies and stars in "The Magic Tree of Nowhere".

### Shapeshifting

Courage has been shown morphing his physical body structure many times throughout the show's run, including shifting into animals, monsters, people, and even his physical composition. However, these occurrences seem to be a form of expression particularly when Courage is warning others of danger, rather than actual shapeshifting abilities.

### Superhuman Qualities

Courage has displayed an inhuman amount of resistance to physical pain in many episodes. Courage was able to withstand an assault from Mecha Courage in "Courage vs. Mecha-Courage: and take loads of damage, as it seems he is invincible to being killed. He is also superhumanly strong and fast, evident from when he hopped the entire way to Paris as a Kangaroo Monster in "The Transplant" and when he picked up the God Bone that was multiple times his size and to smash three Dog Skeletons after they assaulted him in "Stormy Weather".

### Regeneration

Courage has been known to heal from injuries of even colossal (and realistically fatal) proportions in no time. In one episode, his tongue regrew after he had it ripped off, and with the injuries he receives they simply disappear without reasonable explanation.

### Materialization

Courage has been shown pulling large and impossible objects from seemingly thin air.

### Other Skills

Courage has many other skills such as cooking, fixing things, survival skills, tracking skills, Fourth wall breaking, laying eggs and golden eggs, ect...

## Trivia

* Courage is one of seven characters (the others being Muriel, Eustace, Shirley, Dr. Vindaloo, the Computer and Katz) to appear in every season.
	+ He and Muriel are the only characters to be seen in every episode (as Eustace was not seen or heard in "Cajun Granny Stew*"*).
* Courage spoke coherent English quite often in the first season, but from the second season onwards his dialogue became increasingly limited to gibberish, mumbling, and screams, only coherently speaking occasionally. According to his voice actor Marty Grabstein, this was a deliberate decision.
* Courage's breed is often the subject of debate. Most sources say that he is a beagle (just like Snoopy from *Peanuts*), but others claim that he is a mutt or some sort of terrier.
* Courage is the only character (besides Katz and Le Quack) who ever speaks directly to the audience. The frequency with which he does so (nearly every episode) makes it one of his trademark characteristics.
	+ Courage has many sounds that he's known for, such as his strange laugh at the end of some episodes.
* During Courage's first flashback in Remembrance of Courage Past, his mother reveals his father's name when she calls him as he was playing with Courage.
* Courage's favorite food is chicken dumplings ("Remembrance of Courage Past").
* Courage is good at making shadow puppets as shown in "*T*he Hunchback of Nowhere".
* Courage can lay 14-Karat golden eggs as shown in Muted Muriel.
* Courage made a cameo in the OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes crossover episode, Crossover Nexus, as one of the heroes defeated by Strike. He also makes a cameo as a stone statue.
* According to Grabstein himself, there was difficulty casting the character.
	+ Associate producer Risa Neuwirth said 350 actors auditioned for the role before Grabstein was cast.

* Courage returns as one of the two titular main protagonists in the crossover direct-to-video film *Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog*.
* In the italian version he is called "Leone", wich means lion. In the latin spanish one he's "Coraje" (literal spanish for "courage") and in the Spain spanish version his name is "Agallas" ("Tener agallas" is the spanish for "having the guts").

## Quotes

* *"I have a bad feeling about this."*
* *"I know I'm not gonna like this."*
* *"I just* know *something bad is going to happen."*
* *"...or my name is* (*random name*)*... and it's not!"*
* *"Something smells fishy, or my name is 'Stinky Lou Lou'... and thank goodness it's not!"*
* *"The things I do for love."*
* *"What have you done with Muriel?"*
* *"It's Muriel! She's in trouble!*
* *"Muriel! I'll save you!"*
* *"What do I do?! What do I do?!"*
* *"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"*
* *"Oh no...!"*
* *"Thank you! Thank you! Very good show!"*
* *"Do I have a choice?"*
* *"Courage! That's me!"*
* *"Courage-Dooby-Doo!"*
* *"Well, goodnight, folks! Bye!"*