Wolves in fiction

This is a list of wolves in fiction.

Literature

Fiction

* "The Dragon and the George" series by Gordon R. Dickson has a medieval English wolf named Aragh (or Aargh later in the series)
* "The Nocturne" by Jordan Scott (novelist) has magical wolves named Beja, Mathias, Tierney and Murdock.
* "The Wolves of Time" by William Horwood
** "Journeys to the Heartland" - ISBN 0-00-649694-6
** "Seekers at the Wulfrock" - ISBN 0-00-649935-X
* "Malu's Wolf" by Ruth Craig - ISBN 0-531-09484-7
* "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling
* "Shasta of the Wolves" by Olaf Baker
* "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George - ISBN 0-06-440058-1
** "Julie" - ISBN 0-06-440573-7
** "Julie's Wolf Pack" - ISBN 0-06-027406-9
* "White Fang" by Jack London
* "Never Cry Wolf" by Farley Mowat - ISBN 0-316-88179-1
* " by Robert Franklin Leslie - ISBN 0-393-31452-9
* "Flight of the White Wolf" by Mel Ellis - ISBN 0-590-42053-4
* "The Sight" by David Clement-Davies - ISBN 0-14-250047-X
* The legendary, Lee Falk-created superhero "The Phantom", has a trained wolf named Devil.
* "Wolf Totem" by Jiang Rong
* Wolf-Speaker by Tamora Pierce
* Wolf of Shadows by Whitley Strieber
* Wolf Brother, Spirit Walker, Soul Eater and Outcast by Michelle Paver
*"Crying Wolf" by Brent Lund Bruning
*Maugrim, captain of the White Witch's Secret Police in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis.
* The "Chronicles of Ancient Darkness" series has a wolf named, quite simply, "Wolf". The series is by Michelle Paver
*The book The Call of the Wild features a sled-dog named Buck who becomes the leader of a wolf pack.

Wolves in fantasy

Wolves are traditionally given the role of villains in fantasy literature; examples include J. R. R. Tolkien's White Wolves that terrorise the Shire during an exceptionally cold winter, and the Wargs that are in league with the Orcs, in addition to Maugrim of C. S. Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe".

"The Chronicles of Prydain" by Lloyd Alexander makes an exception to this rule: there are two wolf characters in it, Brynach and Briavel, who are on the "good side" and communicate with humans.

Jane Louise Curry depicted wolves in "The Wolves of Aam" who prove to be heroic. In the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, wolves are portrayed as highly intelligent animals having a strict code of honour, with whom some non-lupine characters can communicate using a visual-mental system which is the usual method of communication between wolves. In one book in the series Redwall, Brian Jacques depicted a wolf as a victim who froze to death in the winter mountains; half a season later, a fox came along and skinned him, claiming to have killed the wolf himself. In The Belgariad the two main characters, Belgarath and Belgarion are both associated with wolves as it is a preferred form that they can assume. In the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin, the main noble house of the series, the Starks, have a wolf as their family symbol and adopt a group of young wolf cubs, with each of the Stark children sharing a bond and certain characteristics with their personal cub. In the musical "Crying Wolf" the wolves are protagonists and the humans antagonists.

A critically acclaimed fantasy novel, "The Sight" by David Clement-Davies, tells the story of a white she-wolf named Larka who is destined to stop her evil aunt Morgra from using dark magic to take over the world and the afterlife.

The Pellinor saga by Alison Croggon features a pack of wolves who voluntarily serve the necromancer Inka-Reb, and depicts the faerie queen Ardina assuming the form of a wolf. Lycanthropy is also practiced by the main character Maerad, who is a descendant of Ardina.

A prowling, possessed timber wolf stalks and attacks several of the main protagonists in Steven King's apocalyptic novel "Desperation"

Anthropomorphic wolves take a central role in the French comic book series "Le Bois de Vierges", created by authors Jean Dufaux (writer) and Béatrice Tillier (artist), and published by Robert Laffont Fantastique.

Folk tale

* "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"
* "Little Red Riding Hood"
* "Three Little Pigs"
* "The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids"

Film

* "Balto" (plus sequels.)
* "The Jungle Book (1967 film)"
* "Dances with Wolves"
* "Never Cry Wolf"
*"Wolf"
*The Howling (film)
*"White Fang Disney movie adaptation.
*"The Journey of Natty Gann" has a wolf as one of the main characters

Television

* Diefenbaker is a "part wolf" character from "Due South"
* The short-lived American TV show Wolf Lake was set in a town which had werewolves as a majority of its prominent public authority.

Comics

*The Marvel Comics G.I. Joe title featured a Timber Wolf as a pet of Joe operative Snake-Eyes.

Toys

*The second version of the G.I. Joe figure of Snake Eyes came with a non-articulated model of Timber.

Anime and manga

*"Wolf's Rain"
*Chitti&Poppo the twin little wolves in "狼少年ケン"(okami-shonen Ken/Ken,the wolf-boy)
*Wor (the "Wolf King" in the dub) from the Sanrio film "Ringing Bell"
*Moro, the Goddess of Wolves in the movie "Princess Mononoke"
*Garurumon, WereGarurumon, and MetalGarurumon in "Digimon Adventure"
*There are wolves in the manga
*Wolves feature in the movies "Shiroi Kiba" and ""
*Wolves feature in the anime series and movie adaptations of "Call of the Wild"
*Gabu and his pack from the movie and Japanese picture book "Arashi no Yoru Ni"
*In "Tokyo Mew Mew" the character of Zakuro Fujiwara has grey wolf DNA and has wolf ears and a tail in her Mew form
*Kouga, the wolf demon who travels with a pack of wolves "Inuyasha"
*Poochyena, Mightyena, Electrike, Manectric, and Absol in Pokemon
*Horo, a Wolf Harvest Deity and a central character of Spice and Wolf.

Games

* Wolf O'Donnell of Star Wolf in the "Star Fox" series
* Wolfos are a wolf-like enemy from the Legend of Zelda series. A wolf is also Link's alternate form in"".
* "Ōkami" features the sun goddess Amaterasu in the form of a white wolf.
* "Wolf", a game by Sanctuary Woods.
* "Shining Force" has a race called the Wolfling, which is an anthropomorphic wolf. Many of its series feature them as allies. "Feda: Emblem of Justice", an SNES game that has roots from "Shining Force", has a wolfling named Ain McDougal as one of the two main characters.
* "Legend of Mana" features an ally named Larc, a dead wolf warrior resurrected to serve the underworld king.
* "Legend of Mana" also features an "enemy" named Sierra, Larc's sister, a wolf guardian serving one of the Dragons.
* "Shadow Hearts 2" has Blanca, a white wolf as one of the early party members and has a special Wolf Bout mini-game.
* "Wizardry 8" lets the player use Rawuffs, anthropomorphic wolves, as party members.
* "Breath of Fire" contains a clan of anthropomorphic wolves called the Forest Clan. Members of this clan appear in both 1&2, as does Bo, one of the eight heroes in the first segment of the series who fights using archery.
* "The Werewolves of Millers Hollow" is a game that takes place in a small village which is haunted by werewolves. Each player is secretly assigned a role - Werewolf, Villager, or special character such as The Captain, The Hunter, the Witch, the Little Girl, The Seer and so on... There is also a Moderator player who controls the flow of the game. The game alternates between night and day phases. At night, the Werewolves secretly choose a Villager to kill. During the day, the Villager who was killed is revealed and is out of the game. The remaining Villagers (normal and special villagers alike) then vote on the player they suspect is a Werewolf helped (or hindered) by the clues the special characters add to the general deliberation. That player reveals his/her role and is out of the game. Werewolf is a social game that requires no equipment to play, and can accommodate almost any large group of players.
* "" a high-fantasy themed MMORPG which contains an in game, playable race of anthropomorphic wolves.

Music

* "Peter and the Wolf"
* Dance with the Wolves
* Finnish power metal band Sonata Arctica has written many songs that are/may be interpreted to be about wolves and/or werewolves, including "Wolf & Raven", "Ain't your fairytale" and "FullMoon."

See also

* Werewolves in fiction