The Terrible Dogfish

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The Terrible Dogfish
The Adventures of Pinocchio character
Il Terrìbile Pesce-càne swallows Pinocchio, as drawn by Enrico Mazzanti.
First appearanceThe Adventures of Pinocchio
Created byCarlo Collodi
In-universe information
SpeciesGiant Dogfish

The Terrible Dogfish (Italian: il Terribile Pesce-cane) is a dogfish-like sea-monster, which appears in Carlo Collodi's 1883 book The Adventures of Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio) as the final antagonist. It is described as being larger than a five-story building, a kilometer long (not including its tail) and sporting three rows of teeth in a mouth that can easily accommodate a train. So fearsome is its reputation, that in Chapter XXXIV, it is revealed that the Dogfish is nicknamed "The Attila of fish and fishermen" (L'Attila dei pesci e dei pescatori).