Courage the Cowardly Dog (character)

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 Alignment | Neutral Good

## Background

In a quaint little house in the middle of Nowhere lives the elderly married couple of Muriel and Eustace Bagge. On the surface, it looks like nothing notable could ever happen there, but as it turns out, creepy stuff happens to fall upon them time and time again. Who’s there to save the old couple from the terrors that crawl out from the darkest corners of the Earth and beyond? Why, none other than their canine companion, Courage the Cowardly Dog!

Initially abandoned as a puppy after his parents were sent into outer space by a crazed and cruel veterinarian, Courage would be soon found and (properly) named by Muriel Bagge, giving him his eponymous name. She would take in the young pup as a member of her family, much to the chagrin of her husband Eustace. With a roof to live under and the care of a kind old lady, life seemed to be looking up for Courage… until a spaceship filled with alien chickens sought to invade Earth and take Courage’s new home along with it. From there, Courage’s adventures into the creepy and crawly began, running into paranormal activity time and time again, with the responsibility of thwarting these horrific monsters falling onto the dog.

Courage, while as loving and loyal as a Komainu, is, as the show name implies, cowardly, and is consistently terrified of any and all threats that come to him and his family. But as his actual name implies, he’s able to build up the bravery to stand up to these horrors day in and day out and come up with a solution to save Muriel, Eustace and himself. Even if it’s ultimately a life of living in the middle of nowhere, Courage will do anything and everything to protect the quiet little life he’s grown to love. Even if it makes Eustace look bad.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Scream:**
	+ **Super Scream:** Used by Courage as a last resort move on plenty of occasions, it has unique properties such as shattering objects like the sun into glass, and disorienting/stunning his opponents.
* **Dog Physiology:**
	+ **Enhanced Smell:**
	+ **Tongue:**
	+ **Digging:**
	+ **Dog Call:**
* **Toon Force:**
	+ **Body Control:** Surprise! Surprise! Courage also has some insane control of his body like his combatant in this fight. Courage can stretch his torso to avoid incoming cannonballs [See above] and extend his tongue a great distance, even using it to operate tools like switches. Courage can also fix himself after being flattened and/or stretched, removing his eyes and brows, removing his teeth, and can in addition repair himself after being squashed into a cube like shape. His Ears can act like an antenna that can stretch its length and track other individuals with his enhanced hearing. Courage can even remove his head and attach it to someone's body taking control of them. He’s also been able to use his teeth to chomp through a wooden door like he was a buzzsaw.
		- **Elasticity:**
		- **Shapeshifting:** Shapeshifting is definitely a specialty for the likes of Courage. He can change his body into a UFO, robots, monsters, other humans, and even ghastly beings. Make no mistake, he has used this incredibly effectively, as shown when he became a spiked bat to smash apart his opposition and even turn into a soda drink to short-circuit the hard drive's electronic devices.
		- **Duplication:**
		- **Regeneration:**
	+ **Super Strength:**
	+ **Super Speed:**
	+ **Super Durability:**
	+ **Flight/Levitation:**
	+ **Astral Projection:** Through meditating, Courage is able to project his astral self and enter dreams. However, it does not seem like an ability Courage would ultimately use in combat, as he has only done it to save Muriel from having a bad dream.
	+ **Invisibility:** Courage can turn himself invisible at will, and presumably intangible as well, seeing as his hat and backpack fall to the floor off of his body.
	+ **Intangability:**
	+ **Self-Gravity Manipulation:**
	+ **Inflation Power:**
	+ **Mind Control:**
	+ **Transmutation:**
	+ **Mondo Magic:** Was given magic from Mondo, an evil alien
	+ **Attack Reversal:** Courage can redirect attacks by breathing it in and out as seen above. He also redirected the Evil Empress of China's glare with a mirror.
	+ **Sleep Inducement:**
	+ **Banishment Spell:**
	+ **Exorcism:** Through wearing specific clothes, Courage can perform a ritual by dancing which removes a demon mattress' soul from Muriel's body. Courage is even shown trapping McPhearson Phantom's spirit into an inkblot test.
	+ **Liquid Mimicry:**
	+ **Non-Physical Interaction:**
	+ **Teleportation:**
	+ **Imagination Creation:**
	+ **Plot Manipulation:**
	+ **Size Manipulation:**
	+ **Time Manipulation:**
	+ **Immersion/Painting Hopping:**
	+ **Hammerspace:** Like most Toony characters, Hammerspace appears! Courage can store and pull out items from an imaginary storage space at any given time, and pull a variety of wacky objects. This ranges from an anchor, to a Whale, and…really the list just spirals on from there.
	+ **Fourth Wall Breaking:** Courage can interact with the 4th wall, usually to tell the audience that Dog abuse should not happen, and even bid them farewell in his crossover with Scooby-Doo.
* **Combat Fighting Skills:** Courage is surprisingly skilled in a combat sense as well. He could outfence the Space Chicken rather easily and block all of its fencing attacks with no shown issue, despite having shown no fencing skills prior. He could match the Evil Empress of China in a fight, including disarming her of her weapon, dodging her quick attacks, using the surrounding weaponry to his advantage and turning the fight into a hand-to-hand brawl, in which he could block all of her attacks and match her martial arts skills. He is also quite agile, being able to perform 16 backflips in one go and hop from cannonball to cannonball as they’re shot at him in quick succession.
* **Brilliant Engineering Skills:**

## Alternate Forms

### Kangaroo Monster Courage

In order to save Muriel from a rampaging kangaroo-monster-turned-Eustace, Courage had a piece of the monster’s bone inserted into his back, allowing him to transform into a kangaroo monster as well. In this form, Courage was shown capable of ripping the Louvre Pyramid off of the ground, and even carried a giant slingshot… with croissants as ammunition.

## Equipment

* **Computer:** A sentient all knowing desktop who has all the answers to Courage’s problems and usually gives him items, info on what's going on, and advice on how to defeat his enemies, though it can be a little rude to him at times. It can also possess others by downloading his personality into them**.**
* **Ray Gun:** A gun taken from an evil chicken from outer space, this gun can shoot lasers that can travel around the world in seconds, and can transmute things.
* **Plunger Gun:** In the CGI special short, Courage utilizes a plunger gun on multiple occasions, using it to grab items from high places or grapple and pull people towards him, such as when he saved Muriel from falling.
* **Slingshot:**
* **Happy Plums:** Made by Muriel, these plums will make anyone, even the most miserable person to ever exist…well, happy! Courage has used these to turn Rat into a baby when he was super charged by pure aggressive emotions, and even made Dr. Zalost happy. Just one dip of them can turn a formula for Depression into a formula for Happiness. Oh, and they also go well with sour cream.
* **Salami:**
* **Explosives:** Befitting a cartoon character of his nature, Courage has various different explosives that he can utilize for maximum destructive potential, whether it be sticks of dynamite, barrels of TNT or remote-control bombs.
* **Flamethrower:**
* **Giant Chainsaw:**
* **Chemical Substance:**
* **Vampire Hunting Equipment:**
* **Duck Brother's Mind Control Helmets & Remote:**
* **Instant Quicksand:**
* **Gas Mask:**
* **Shirley's Box:**
* **Junk Box:**
* **Velvet Vic Record:**
* **Rapier:**
* **Yo-Yo:** A regular Yo-Yo which is one of Courage's favorite toys, it has some uses in which he can pull himself out of situations with it and even used it to perform hypnosis on Muriel and Eustace.
* **Spiked Club:**
* **Instant Eels:** A special powder that, once poured into water, will produce an enormous green eel, which will jealously guard whatever area they have been ordered to protect, attacking anything that gets close to them. They are also lovely singers.
* **Magic Tree of Nowhere:**
* **God Bone:** The God Bone is a giant mysterious bone that has a hypnotic addiction over dogs, to the point where they can’t stop licking the bone regardless of what’s happening to them. Courage, with trouble, resisted the bone’s hypnotic power, and later kept it for himself, now using it leisurely for his own enjoyment.
* **Dark Matter Meteor:**
	+ **Laws of Physics Rewriting:**
	+ **Mind Control:**
	+ **Kaiju Courage:**

## Feats

### Strength

* Courage can scream so loud, he shattered the sun (A scream like that would be like getting hit with over 100 septillion hydrogen bombs all at once!).
* Bent open a metal door and throws it.
* Broke off the Chicken from Outer Space’s arm during an arm-wrestling match.
* Dug through 1,000 years worth of dirt and sediment in a few seconds.
* Cracked apart a frozen lake with nothing but a pickaxe.
* Pumped a water well so hard that it creates a massive tidal wave.
* Screamed hard enough to rip off his own skin.
* Uprooted an entire tree with his back.
* Damaged an alien ship that withstood the force of moving Saturn's asteroid ring by crashing into it and also somehow crashed into the big dipper making it drop water.
* Is strong enough to physically patch up holes in the ozone layerl
* Held a star in his hand.
* Grabbed a colony of Frogs and threw them into a very far distance.

### Speed

* Dodged a lightning bolt.
* Dodged a laser beam from Eustace's cannon (74% SoL).
* Moves in tandem with light (80% SoL).
* Run around the sun to its core and back in a few seconds (29% SoL).
* Ran to multiple different countries in a short time frame (Mach 2,160 - Mach 10,912).
* Pedaled a spaceship from earth, past the sun (1,038.7c).
* Dodged a ball being thrown at him by Bubbles.
* Courage dodged one of Showa King Ghidorah’s gravity beams (280.1 7- 326.86c).
* One time, he operated a peloton controlling a UFO, and pedal at fast enough to fly past Saturn, enter hyperspace, and cross the Milky Way galaxy!

### Durability

* No-sold a rocket launcher shot launching around the world (15.828 Kilotons of TNT).
* Survived a TNT explosion that destroyed a bank.
* Survived being run over by a steamroller.
* FOUGHT AN ENORMOUS SPACE DINOSAUR ALIEN WHICH COULD SPIKE METEORS SO HARD, IT SPUN THE EARTH A THOUSAND YEARS INTO THE FUTURE!
	+ *THEN*, COURAGE GOT SHOT OUT OF A CANNON THAT PUNCHED HIM THROUGH THE MOON, ONLY TO GET SLAPPED BY THAT SAME DINO ALIEN, AND SENT CRASHING BACK TO THE PLANET. AND HE WAS FINE!
* Survived a full stomp from Mecha-Courage, his superior in every way.
* Is beaten senseless by a group of Valkyries before literally being kicked out of Valhalla and falling from the sky.
* Survived a hit from an Alien's racket that sent him back to earth (Same alien can hit a meteor so hard it hit the Earth and caused it to spin around the sun several times making it time travel 1000 years into the future and past).
* Survived being in the core of the Sun (21.9 megatons of TNT).

### Skills

* Saved the Bagges family from the creepy horrors of nowhere for presumably decades.
* Literally FIXED THE SUN.
	+ Also literally BROKE THE SUN.
* Saved Bunny from her abuser and reunited her with her partner kitty.
* Indirectly aided in Eustace reconciling with his mother.
* Successfully exorcized the Mattress demon out of Muriel's body.
* Saved the town from being mind controlled pawns of Flan.
* Traumatized an entire generation of children.
* Cured the town's depression with happy plums.
* Defended a hunchback from Eustace's bullying against him.
* Saved the Starmakers and her children from being dissected by the government.
* Has met the Powerpuff Girls and even Scooby Doo himself.
* Thwarted schemes of the most nefarious criminals, LeQuack & Kats, on several occasions.

## Weaknesses

* I mean... it’s in the name. Courage is cowardice incarnate, and as long as Muriel isn’t in trouble, he’s quick to take that “screw this, I’m out” mentality whenever something spooks him. Despite how impressive he seems, it’s not hard to physically overpower him whenever fear takes control. His thinking and speaking ultimately falls apart when he's in a panic, making him more prone to running away from the threat rather than directly confronting it.