Dante (101 Dalmatian Street)

Dante is one of the Dalmatian puppy siblings of the Dalmatian family and a character in the TV series 101 Dalmatian Street.

## Background

Dante's first major appearance is in "Power to the Puppies", where he predicts that division and disaster (also rain) are coming to Dalmatian Street, based on a dream he has.

Throughout the episode, he keeps proclaiming about the disaster coming, seeing the events as what he predicted, and reminding Dolly and Dylan how he did try to warn them. He later joins Dylan in the tree house, when Diesel becomes Top Dog, and when Dolly comes in asking for help, with the two admitting their faults, Dante groans about how they're depressing even him and asks them to do something about the situation.

## Dante Dalmatian

### Relatives

Doug (father)Delilah (mother)Dylan (eldest brother)Dolly (eldest sister)Dizzy (sister)Dee Dee (sister)Dawkins (brother)Diesel (brother)Triple D (sisters)Delgado (brother)D.J. (brother)Deepak (brother)Da Vinci (sister)Dorothy (youngest sister)84 other pups (siblings, half siblings, adopted siblings and step-siblings)

## Appearances

### Debut

101 Dalmatian Street

His next prominent role is in "Crushed Out", when he assists Fergus in doing Dylan up get Portia Poodle's attention, transforming Dylan into a goth pup whom Portia calls "Danny".

In "Flea-Mageddon", he warns about impending disaster, first by claiming there to be famine (meaning they're out of Chewie Snacks), before drawing attention to Diesel scratching, making Dylan realise they have fleas. Dante is part of the main group that

are not infected with fleas. However, when Dolly suggests taking the pups to the park to use the merry-go-round to fling the fleas off of them, Dante points out that they could risk infecting others on the way there. At that very moment, Dylan hugs him and notices fleas appearing on Dante (not realizing the true source of the fleas was a space rock he is wearing). Dylan sadly sends an understanding Dante to quarantine the basement until they learn the source of the fleas and are able to get them off the other Pups.

## Personality

Dante is a goth pup who lacks positivity in his mindset and is paranoid, often thinking the world will end at any moment. He also has the ability to change his voice to something more intimidating, mostly used by him for dramatic effect on how supposedly doomed he and his siblings are in a situation. Another pastime of his is lurking in the shadows; when questioned why he lurks in the shadows, his response is that it's the best place to do so.

## Appearance

Dante is an inverse color Dalmatian, being black with white spots, with the exception of purple spots on his left ear, purple paws and tail tip. He wears a spiked gray collar and has dark pink bags under his eyes. He also has gray nose and eyebrows.

Compared to his siblings, he seems to be one of the oldest puppies, possibly surpassed only by Dolly and Dylan.

## Trivia

1. His name comes from Dante Alighieri, best known for his poem the Divine Comedy, which tackles a person's life when a world is ended.
2. Due to the color of his fur, Dante is different from the usual appearance of a Dalmatian. He might be a melanistic Dalmatian.
3. It's highly possible that the purple on Dante's fur and the pink bags under his eyes, which could just be his lower eyelids, are dyed instead of being naturally colored like that. This is further supported in "Crushed Out" with how Dylan's fur was dyed for his gothic makeover.
4. This is further supported when Dante confirms that, despite his fur, he is a Dalmatian, in "Dante's Inferno".
5. While Dante seems to be at the appropriate age to look after his siblings, it's highly unlikely that Dylan and Dolly would leave him in charge if they are occupied with something else. It's possible Dante's pessimistic and gloomy outlook would have a negative impact on his younger siblings.
6. This would also explain why Dolly and Dylan would leave Dawkins in charge in spite of Dawkins seemingly younger than Dante.