Dag (Barnyard)

**Dag** is the overarching antagonist of the Barnyard franchise, serving as the main antagonist of the 2006 Nickelodeon animated film Barnyard. He is the leader of the coyotes and Otis's arch-enemy who also tried to kidnap the hens from the farm for food and sadistic.

He is voiced by David Koechner.

## Barnyard

Dag is first seen sneaking into the farm in order to break into the henhouse to hunt some hens along with his pack and when one of the hens wake up, Dag tells her to shh shush, shush, shush, shush and tells the hens good evening and he and the hens have an engagement and also shows them a keychain of chicken legs from his previous victims which frighten the hens, Dag tells the hens that he and his pack is going to take six of them and anyone makes a sound, he and his pack won't mind the extra company as well as order his pack to take any hen. Etta tells Dag that he won't take any hens tonight which cause Dag to scare her and ask her is she going to stop him and his pack but before Dag and his pack can kidnap the hens, Ben arrives and tells Dag to put the hen down. Dag was instantly scared the moment he saw Ben but quickly changes his attitude to hide his fear and also said he and his pack were just doing a little courting and how he and his pack like the hens and said there he have him and the others a bit of a disadvantaged here and there's six of us and one old fat him (which is Ben) and it's also where Ben fights Dag and the coyotes. Ben fight some of the coyotes but the rest of the coyotes attack him along with Dag sneaks up behind Ben while he is distracted by the other coyotes and bites his head. As the fight continues outside, the coyotes attacked Ben along with Dag bites his leg which cause more coyotes to pounce on him and still attack him and Dag attempts to sneak off with some hens but Ben grabs his leg, uses him to beat up the other coyotes and comes out victorious but Before Ben can hit and kill Dag, he lets him go who cowardly runs off. Despite saving the hens as well as defeating Dag and his pack, Ben is heavily injured and also died. When Ben's adoptive son Otis finds him outside after hearing from Etta, he holds to comfort him, but Ben succumbs from his injuries after his fight dying in Otis's arms.

Later, Dag and his pack tries to eat a rabbit but before they can eat it, Otis came to take vengeance on him, but he loses his burst of courage as the coyote notices him. Dag sadistically shames Otis by telling things would different if he was there for Ben as well as questioning that was he having fun with his barnyard buddies and sees that the farm left him in change. He then makes a deal with Otis, telling him he will only steal a few animals each night, but if Otis tries to do anything about it, he and his pack will kill every animal in the farm as well as he will see him tomorrow night. Because of that, Otis decides to leave the barnyard in the morning, realizing that he has no choice.

However before Otis can leave in the next morning, he is informed that the coyotes have just taken taken almost all of the hens including Etta and her chick Maddy, making Otis realizing that Dag had trick and lied to him, since Dag mentioned that he and his pack would only steal a few animals and see him at night. Otis then heads off to the junkyard to save the hens.

At the junkyard, Dag is seen on the couch as well as using one of the junk on his teeth and tells the hens it's nice for them for joining him this evening and thanked them for their patience since he says that he and his pack prefer dining at night and also howls along with his pack. Dag later said that hens are a wonderful species and love chicken and his favorite part of the chicken is the skin, then Maddie tells Dag that he is an big meanie/meaner. Because of Dag hearing that, he makes fun of her by saying meaner all over again and he has to eat, Etta tells Dag to leaver her daughter but Dag scares her again and orders his pack to cook Etta while telling them that he will have Maddie as a appetizer just because she call him an big meanie/meaner but before he can eat her, Otis arrive to the junkyard just in time but Dag's goons easily overpower him. Dag sneaks around Otis and bites his leg, just as he had done to Ben, and the rest of the pack pounce on him. Dag mocks Otis and tells him why don't he lay down there while he and his pack will eat the hens but however Otis did not give up and said that a strong man stands up for himself and a stronger man stands for others. Fortunately Otis's friends arrive to help Otis and Dag's goons are easily defeated.

Eventually, Dag tries to sneak attack on Otis similarly to how he overpowered Ben, everyone tries to warn Otis but Otis is finally warned with the help of Peck, who successfully make a loud crow. Otis catches Dag by the throat, hit his head againist a bus window and tells him remember him, he is Ben's kid as well as threating to punch him to death in a fit of rage, like his father did but instead, he tells the evil coyote to never come back to the barn and Dag agrees out of fear. Then Otis wacks Dag with a bicycle seat.

## Personality

Dag is the nasty and sadistic leader of the Coyotes who prey on farm animals (mostly the animals of the Barnyard). he is cruel, sadisctic, hedonistic, physchopatic, sneaky, and arrogant coyote who is impiled to enjoy killing animals for fun and sadistic and shown to be bully when he makes fun of Maddie and also a coward as shown when Ben and Otis threatened to punch him.

## Appearance

Dag appears to be a red coyote which is also the same for the other coyotes.

## Trivia

* At one point, Dag saids his favorite part of the chicken is the skin.
* When the coyote pack invades the chicken coop to steal hens, Dag reveals he keeps the devoured hen's feet to use as keychains and shows this to frighten the hens, meaning he is all means a serial killer.
	+ His alias "Lady Killer" could be also a reference to the late infamous serial killer Ted Bundy.

* One of the main critictisms Barnyard received was some similarities with the Lion King, comparing Dag to Scar given that both Dag and Scar are the main antagonists of their movies (Barnyard and The Lion King) and both of them kill the protagonist's father (Mufasa for Simba and Ben for Otis) but the differences is that Dag hunts for food (in a sadistic manner) and Scar wants power as well as Dag being unrelated to Otis and Ben while Scar is related to Simba and Mufasa. Also, Dag also never planned to take over the barnyard while Scar plans to take over the Pride Lands.
* Dag does not appear in any episode of Back at the Barnyard (even through the show itself deviates from the movie's events most likely due to the fact that Otis tells Dag to never come back to the farm) but he seen in several games based on the movie.
* Dag is "day" in Danish, Swedish, & Norwegian.
* Despite only appearing in the film (not counting the games), he is Otis's greatest and deadliest enemy as well as the most evil villain in the Barnyard franchise.
* Ben says that the coyotes are ruthless and desperate creatures, which could imply that they steal from the farm because it's the nearest hunting grounds from their junkyard.
* Despite the mixed recepition of the film, Dag has gained a large fanbase due to his intimadating nature.