Di Lung

**Di Lung** is a character from the *Courage the Cowardly Dog* series.

Di Lung is a young Chinese-American Mad Scientist who mostly makes small cameos in episodes where he almost runs into Courage (usually in his car) and says his catchphrase.

## **Appearance**

Di Lung is a young man of Chinese descent. He has somewhat scruffy black hair and wears black sunglasses. He is most commonly seen wearing a white V-neck T-shirt, navy blue shorts and pink sandals with flowers on them.

## **Personality**

Di Lung is intelligent, but has a rather temperamental, egotistical and arrogant personality. He often belittles others and likes to show off with his incredible inventions. He also has a more sadistic side, delighting in watching Mecha-Courage beat down his original counterpart.

Di Lung often speaks English with a Chinese-American Brooklyn accent. This is further explained in several episodes as he has many Chinese traits.

## **DreamTheater Intermix: The World Within**

Di Lung is a student member in the City Saints Academy.

### **Biography**

In Chapter 25, Di Lung is one of the people that Edwin "Ed" Horace Hall nearly ran over across the city streets.

In Chapter 27, Di Lung nearly collided with Tenma Daytona Romeoford in the streets and called him a fool before walking off.

## **Trivia**

* Di Lung is seemingly of royal heritage, as his aunt is the Evil Empress.
* In Chinese, Di Lung's name (Dà Lóng) means *Big Dragon*, which probably supports the fact that he's royalty (nephew of the Chinese Empresses). The "Di" in his name is pronounced as "dye" and not "dah" (da) or "dee" (di, Pinyin romanization). This may be because Di Lung speaks Cantonese, the most common Chinese language among Chinese overseas communities. The Cantonese Jyutping romanization is "daai6" with the 6 indicating a low tone, as Cantonese (and indeed most Chinese dialects) is a tonal language.
	+ Di Lung's name may also be a sly reference to John R. Dilworth himself, due to the recurring theme of the name "Dil" from within the series' lore.
* Di Lung owns a red, open top sports car which appears to be based on a 1950's Cadillac Deville. His license plate also reads "Tim" as seen in Hothead, likely a reference to his voice actor.
* The sheer irony of Di Lung's "Watch where you're goin', ya fool!" catchphrase is the fact that it almost always has him be the one not paying attention when he yells it.
	+ In "Hothead", Di Lung yells it at Eustace after parking his car in the middle of an open road and nearly causing Eustace to crash his truck in the process; his (Di Lung's) following "90-degree" turn is so exceedingly sloppy that it nearly causes said car to slip off of said road altogether.
	+ In "Courage in the Big Stinkin' City", Di Lung yells it at Eustace after HE (Di Lung himself) bumped into Eustace (who was NOT moving at all) and thus making him drop his hot dog; naturally, this actually causes Eustace to publicly and very openly mock him for how much of a hypocrite he is being (by yelling the same catch phrase back at him).
	+ In "Courage VS Mecha-Courage", Di Lung yells it at the driver of a truck that he gets hit by while standing in the middle of an open road (for a long-enough period of time for him to somehow be able to make an entire Courage VS Mecha-Courage comparison chart during said period, no less).
	+ In "Scuba Scuba Doo", Di Lung yells it at Ma Bagge while surfboarding in a tsunami that she is swimming in.
	+ In "Fishy Business", Di Lung yells it at an octopus after said octopus removes him from its natural habitat.
	+ In "The Nutcracker", Di Lung yells it at Courage after Courage uses him as a foot-stool in order to avoid the glue trap that he is stuck in; rather humorously, this actually causes the rats surrounding him to hatefully glare at him as their way of pointing out his hypocrisy.
	+ In "Le Quack Balloon", Di Lung yells it at a clearly walk-signal-following Courage while recklessly barreling straight toward him on his bicycle; roughly two seconds later, said bicycle runs directly into Courage's leash, sending him (Di Lung) flying and tumbling in a very cartoonish fashion.
	+ In "Squatting Tiger, Hidden Dog", Di Lung yells it at Courage while running right next to him atop the Great Wall Of China (one could argue that this is simply his way of saying that Courage doesn't belong in China itself, let alone atop its Great Wall, but then again, neither does he)
	+ In "Muted Muriel", Di Lung yells it at Courage after nearly running him over with his car, then gets crushed by the very same monster that Courage is fleeing from, which is perhaps the show's most extreme example of him being able to survive absolutely anything.
	+ In "Food Of The Dragon", Di Lung yells it at the episode's titular dragon for smashing his car, which is rather surprisingly his only actually accurate canonical usage of the phrase.
	+ In "Cabaret Courage", Di Lung yells it at Eustace after bumping into him and thus causing himself to drop his photographs of himself; he then threatens to "make sure that Eustace never finds work in this town again" as punishment for Eustace damaging his ego.
* Di Lung's voice actor, Tim Chi Ly, was an animator and graphic designer for *Courage the Cowardly Dog*, providing his natural voice for the role. Creator John R. Dilworth felt that Tim "could make any line sound fantastic" (despite not being a trained voice actor), which is why Di Lung is among Dilworth's top 3 favorite characters.

## **External Links**

* Di Lung at Courage the Cowardly Dog Wiki