Hank

Hank is a bumbling beagle dog and the main protagonist of Paws Of Fury: The Legend Of Hank, he currently resides in Kakamucho and ever since he entered and saved the town, he made a lot of new cat friends including Jimbo, Emiko, Sumo and Yuki, he's currently being trained to become the next samurai by Jimbo.

### Aliases

Samurai Hank (formely by Emiko), Bad Dog (formely by Yuki), Dog (sometimes by Jimbo)

### Affiliation

Jimbo (best friend), Sumo, Emiko, Yuki
Little Mama
Toshi
Chuck
Ichiro
Shogun
Kakamucho inhabitants

### Occupation

Jimbo's student, Samurai (for a few minutes), Kakamucho's hero

## Biographical information

### Place of birth

Land O’ Dogs
Kakamucho

## Summary

Back in his childhood days, Hank was a normal street dog that lived at Land O' Dogs where he was harrased and bullied a lot, one day while being attacked and bullied, a samurai comes out of nowhere and starts attacking the gang, after he's finally done, he goes away but accidentally leaves his sword/blade which starts Hank's interest in becoming a samurai, years later he would be arrested for some reason by Ika Chu's army and was gonna be executed, the day the execution came, Ika Chu had an idea... send Hank to Kakamucho as their new samurai to then be attacked and possibly be killed by it's inhabitants, everything goes according to plan until Hank shows his cup with "SAMURAI" written on it, which stops the chase and everyone leaves, then after waking up, he meets Emiko, a young persian cat who like him, also wants to become Kakamucho's samurai, he gives her the idea to be his mentor but Yuki, another persian cat and mother of Emiko, stops him and hits him with a map, then he would meet Jimbo who at first wouldn't want to train him to become a samurai, eventually agress after Emiko shows her cuteness to him via signing a contract that promises to not break it or else the training is over, Hank at first didn't got acostumbrated to all the stuff Jimbo was teaching him but after doing a hearing test, he started doing better and eventually comes across Sumo, a big and tough cat who hated Kakamucho, he failed a lot of times until Jimbo had to angrily finish Sumo and everyone then called him a hero and Kakamucho's new samurai, later at night, he and Sumo apologized for the battle, then Chuck and Ichiro congratulated him by giving him a squishy hot dog and a baseball ball, Emiko and Yuki also congratulated him by giving him a big bone while at the same time both him and Yuki share a special romantic flirting moment which is interrupted by Jimbo (although the flirt does continue for a few more seconds after Jimbo finishes his talk), later him, Sumo and Emiko were at a bridge and river where he and Emiko were making origiami and Sumo started becoming more friendly to him and Emiko but the fun is ruined by Jimbo when he asks him to continue training despite not wanting to since he's already the new samurai of Kakamucho, as such he is invited by Ika Chu to a private nightclub and Jimbo breaks the training contract, during the party, he has a lot of fun while making new friends and signing stuff, however during the party Ika Chu calls Ohga and his army to start destroying Kakamucho, without him knowing which he realizes after returning and everyone telling him to go back to his home, sadly he does but when the origami that Emiko gave him falls down, he returns back to Ika Chu's palace and meets again with Jimbo who despite breaking the contract, they work together to defeat Ika Chu's army and save Sumo, after doing such, Sumo hugs him and Jimbo and the three start planning their escape which goes wrong and the three are surrounded, Hank and Sumo escape but Jimbo stays to defeat the army, back at Kakamucho he tries to reconcile with everyone and forms a plan with the inhabitants to end Ika Chu's army for good, succesfully starting a battle, Toshi comes in and asks what's going on, Ika Chu then tells him all what he did and approves the execution of him, as he was about to be killed by Ohga but Ohga is suddenly stopped by Jimbo who then goes with him to defeat Ika Chu, back at the palace he and Ika Chu start fighting in his giant jade toilet which after Ika Chu jokes to him that he's his father, he flushes Ika Chu and after Ohga tries to save him, he accidentally causes a flood, which him and Jimbo tell everyone to dig, succesfully digging, Emiko and her friends fall into the flood and everyone works together to save them, after the flood is over and the town is back to normal, Toshi declares Jimbo as the new samurai but Jimbo thinks that he deserves it more, which then he gives to Emiko because he isn't ready yet, making her the new samurai of Kakamucho and he and Jimbo start training again.

## Trivia

* Michael Cera is the first voice actor in a while to give voice to two main protagonists from the same studio in the same year, those being Hank and Armen from the upcoming Under The Boardwalk (although this was unintentional since Cera was the voice of Hank before Paramount bought the rights)
* He is another of those main characters that don't have a love interest/crush. (while he does romantically flirt with Yuki two times in the movie, their relationship isn't expanded meaning they aren't dating or in love and that flirt was likely just a joke directed at the usual romance moment cliche)
* He is a character that likes breaking the fourth wall a lot, he does it a lot throughout the movie.
* He is one of the first main characters where by the title and sypnosis you think the character's goal would be completed but in reality Hank is only a samurai two times throughout the movie, making Emiko the real samurai by the end of the film.
* He is based on Sherrif Bart from Blazing Saddles.