Murderers

The Murderers are the final antagonists of the 1981 anime film The Call of the Wild: Howl Buck. They are a trio of criminals who kill John Thornton and his friends and want to kill Buck.

They were voiced by Steve Cramer and Tom Wyner in the English version.

Role
After Buck and his pack successfully hunt an elk, the murderers attacked and killed Thornton, his friends Pete and Hans and dogs Skeet and Nig. Buck arrives after the scene and howls in sadness.

Buck finds the murderers and attacks them. The murderers try to shoot at Buck, but Buck was too fast. One of the murderers tries to climb up a cliff to get away, but Buck grabs onto his leg, causing him to fall off to his death.

The other murderers try to flee from Buck and continue to shoot at him until Buck pushes one of the murderers off the cliff. The last murderer mourns over his death and was almost relieved that Buck was seemingly gone until Buck pushes him off the cliff as well. Buck was finally free from humanity and was free to live with his pack.

Trivia

 * They are based on the Yeehats from the original novel bu Jack London.