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| “ | Hey! Shut the f**k up! | „ |
| ~ Doug’s first line in the film, yelling at Reggie. |
| “ | Fetch!... F**k! | „ |
| ~ Doug's constant attempts to get rid of Reggie, and his reaction when Reggie inevitably returns, as well as his most famous quote. |
| “ | Now, what do I got to do to get you the f**k out of my life? I mean, how do you not get it, man? I drove you three hours away. I mean, how could I make it any more clear that I don't care about you? I don't f**king love you. Goodbye forever, sh**bag. |
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| ~ Doug revealing his true nature to Reggie, finally confessing that he purely despises him, and tries to kill him with a baseball bat. |
| “ | F**K!!! | „ |
| ~ Doug's breakdown and final word following his defeat after he's told that his penis couldn't be reattached at the end of the mid-credits scene. |
Doug is the main antagonist of the 2023 adult animated-live action hybrid comedy film Strays. He is Reggie's owner and only keeps his ex-girlfriend's dog to spite her, but realizes that he has no use for him and decides to abandon him, unaware he has led his former dog on a path to vengeance against him.
He was portrayed by Will Forte, who also played Principal Farquhare in The Cleveland Show, Eddy Davenport in Lab Rats, Chester V and his holograms in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 and Older Scott in Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.
Personality[]
Doug can be easily described as a crude, selfish, lazy, sexist, cowardly, foul-mouthed and bad-tempered man, as shown by him cheating on girlfriends and keeping a dog he hated just to spite one of them. Doug is extremely childish to the point that he refuses to get a job, throws tantrums when things do not go his way and relies on his mother for financial support. He possesses a sadistic streak, as demonstrated by his willingness to physically attack Reggie and his admission to liking only the dog's death in the movie Marley & Me (due to his hatred of dogs).
After he decided that he has no use for him, Doug decided to abandon Reggie without any thought or hesitation, completely unaware that he set him on a path to vengeance. It is also shown that, despite blaming Reggie for everything in his life going down the drain, he purely hates him for existing as he hates dogs and was pissed his ex-girlfriend got him. He also tries to compensate for his cowardice with toxic masculinity by hitting on women, two timing women and having a metal scrotum on the bumper of his beat up pickup truck.
Appearance[]
Doug is a slender Caucasian middle-aged man (presumably in his 40s) with unkempt brown hair, grey eyes and an unshaven beard. His clothing mostly consists of t-shirts, pajama pants, tank tops, shorts, white socks, tennis shoes, sandals and baseball caps.
In the final battle, he wears a plaid bathrobe.
Biography[]
Very little is known about Doug's background. In a phone call with his mother, Doug states that he cannot move back in with her because he cannot be in the vicinity of a school. This implies that he has a criminal record which involves child abuse. Doug claims to have had two girlfriends when Reggie and his friends confront him, which indicates that Doug has cheated on at least one woman, if not more. This is further confirmed when Reggie finds an undergarment not belonging to his original owner, and an argument between her and Doug ensues. Doug additionally flirts with a woman in the convenience store on the day his ex-girlfriend adopts Reggie, indicating that he had secret affairs with previous girlfriends prior to the movie's events.
He spends his days doing drugs and watching porn. He came into the possession of his girlfriend's border terrier Reggie, when she broke up with him and he decided to keep Reggie to spite her. One day, Doug receives an eviction notice, much to his dismay and chagrin, and during a phone call with his mother, Reggie knocks down Doug's bong, causing him to scream in rage. Enraged, Doug decides to get rid of Reggie and constantly tries in vain to dispose of him. He would drive miles away from home and throw a tennis ball to distract Reggie before driving back, but Reggie would find his way back home every time, convinced this is all a game of "Fetch and F**k" (the expletive being Doug's reaction every time Reggie comes back).
Finally, Doug decides to drive all the way to Atlanta to get rid of Reggie once and for all. In the city, Reggie meets three dogs: Bug, Maggie, and Hunter, who help him see how abusive and odious Doug was. Reggie decides to pay Doug back by taking away the only thing Doug genuinely loves, which is his penis.
During a high mushroom hallucination drug, Reggie sees a cord and a plug in socket on a tree and sees Doug shaving the hair off his testicles and a big pile of pube hairs. Doug greets Reggie along with a talking gnome (which Reggie humped one in reality earlier). Doug says goodbye and vanishes.
When Reggie eventually returns home after an argument with Bug, he confronts Doug in a greeting, and Doug was furious. As Reggie says goodbye to him and attempts to leave out the door, Doug closes the door on him and tries to kill Reggie with a baseball bat, but Reggie's friends arrive just in time to come to Reggie's aid. One by one, they attack Doug in a vicious fight and incapacitate Doug, allowing Reggie to castrate him by biting off Doug's penis as promised, while Hunter defecates on his face. Doug is left humiliated without anything he loves as his house, car and possessions are now all destroyed, and he lies on the ground in defeat. During the mid-credits while hospitalized, as he survives his burn wounds and the alarming amount of fecal bacteria (as stated by the doctor), he finds out his penis cannot be reattached, and yells out in anger, as he is finally marginalized permanently.
Quotes[]
| “ | Let me tell you furry f**ks something. Your little buddy here ruined. My. Life. Before him, I had a f**king good thing going. A roof over my head, checks from my mom, two girlfriends, now I have no house, no girlfriends, and I have to masturbate all day. Alright? THIS DOG TURNED ME INTO A F**KING LOSER! [...] You ever see the end of "Marley and Me"? Huh? Yeah, me neither. It's f**king boring. But I do know that the dog dies in the end. I'm gonna enjoy squeezing the life out of you, 'cause you squeezed the life out of me. | „ |
| ~ Doug lecturing Reggie's friends, and preparing to kill Reggie. |
| “ | Bad... f**king... dog. | „ |
| ~ Doug to Reggie, before getting castrated. |
Trivia[]
- Doug's penchant for calling Reggie and his friends by derogatory names suggests that he may have been a bully as a child or an adolescent and never changed with age.
- Doug mentions only his mother throughout the film, which could mean that his parents are divorced, that his father is deceased, that both incidents happened, that he hates his father, or that he never knew his father.
- Despite being the main antagonist of the movie, Doug has only eight minutes of screentime.
- Given that the movie takes place in the state of Georgia, Doug would've faced some prison time for abusing, neglecting, and abandoning Reggie. Though it's unclear why his ex-girlfriend didn't come back for Reggie as he kept him out of spite. (Making it understandable that she wants nothing to do with Doug again.) Meaning that his ex was likely not aware of him having dumped Reggie in Atlanta (and the rest of the events of the film).