Alien Dog Names

When talking about the dogs of science fiction, it’s hard to choose just one. While many aliens are often humanoid or the complete opposite, when dogs happen to be aliens, they’re often easy to spot. Throughout the film, television, and literary history, more than enough famous canine aliens have graced us with their weirdness, so instead of narrowing the options down to a singular extraterrestrial canine, we’re going to highlight a select three of the most interesting. 

Although many non-comic book fans may think Superman was just a regular guy who somehow inherited superpowers, it’s often overlooked that he’s actually an alien from the planet Krypton. In a similar fashion, when his canine companion, Krypto, came into being, he shared a similar history as an alien being with a regular appearance but with crazy super-canine powers. In fact, despite the difference in species, Krypto even shares most of Superman’s powers such as flight and x-ray vision, reinforcing the specific superpowers heroes are imbued with when coming from a single origin. 

Much like Krypto, there was another semi-popular dog that came into being around the same time: Lockjaw. Lockjaw was closely tied to the Fantastic Four and although he originally started as a human before being mutated into his canine form by exposure to the Terrigan Mists, he is still known for his ultra-sensitive (and inter-dimensionally capable) nose and ability to teleport through space and time. 

Muffit may be one of the strangest we’ve featured on any list. Originally the canine sidekick of Boxey from the first Battlestar Galactica series, Muffit (the daggit, the Battlestar word for dog) was eventually killed by Cylons, shortly before colonial scientists were able to reassemble him Million-Dollar-Man-style, giving him the appearance of a freakish Muppet with fluffy fur and a strange stagger that was largely the product of being acted by a chimpanzee named Evolution. 

Although Kazak isn’t always given much page-space, the time-traveling dog does appear in two of Kurt Vonnegut’s most famous novels, The Sirens of Titan and Breakfast of Champions. While descriptions of him are vague in the prior, he is revealed to be a Doberman Pinscher in the latter, one who has transformed from a sci-fi canine companion into a restless and aggressive beast waiting to take a piece of out the narrator, his short appearance wholly representative of the thematic elements Vonnegut layers his books with like thick frosting.