The Book of the Dun Cow/YMMV
- Complete Monster: Cockatrice, who torments Senex's hens (including Pertelote), murders his own father, and attempts to engineer the return of Wyrm.
- Jerkass Woobie: While he gets a little too excited about his son, it's hard not to feel sorry for Senex when he is killed by Cockatrice.
- Moral Event Horizon: Cockatrice crosses it as soon as he grows up by murdering Senex rather callously and shoving the body aside.
- Squick: A basilisk gets into the Coop and kills the Wee Widow Mouse by hiding inside the body of a Wild Turkey it killed.
- Cockatrice's birth.
- Tear Jerker / Crowning Moment of Funny: The last scene of the book, where Chauntecleer and John Wesley Weasel argue about who's going to join Mundo Cani under the Earth in fighting Wyrm somehow manages to be both simultaneously
- The Woobie: Mundo Cani. That is, until his Crowning Moment of Awesome.
- Wangst: What Mundo Cani does for most of the book, often about his Gag Nose. MAROONED!
- However, it is implied that at least part of his Wangst comes from knowing about his Heroic Sacrifice.