@@dillonc7955 If I'm not doing anything, I answer Dave's calls, calls like Simeon and Dom are like Roman in 4, pointless and not helpful! Dom: "Dude, there's this awesome sick ju-" Me:"FOR FUCK'S SAKE, DOM, I'M BEING SHOT AT BY ALBIAN GUNRUNNERS, NOW'S NOT THE TIME TO ASK IF I WANT TO THROW MYSELF OUT OF A FUCKING HELICOPTER!"
@@flashstudiosguy Once I was in the middle of some intense shootout, and I jumped off the Pacific standard Bank, and right as I went to pull my chute dom called. "HEY BUDDY" *SPLAT* Ever since I hit decline.
@My_pfp_beats_all_dog_breeds. He does in story mode. But GTAO originally was set before the story mode events, until the heists updates where it became present day. So modern GTAO is in two timelines simultaneously.
"It's unclear as to what actually happened here; did he intend to die, or did he just forget his parachute?" I always interpreted it that Dom was so full of himself, and so frustrated that Franklin was outdoing him, that he decided he didn't need a parachute. His ego led him to believe he could do a jump like that without the need for a chute, and that if he could jump off the dam without one, he'd finally be able to prove to no one in particular that he was better than Franklin.
That's what I always thought, since he was trying to be the "best" why not jump off a bridge with a chute? technically GENIUS! Nobody else will do it, so one thing he can't be bested at!
It's pretty clear the dog is meant to be a reference to Lassie... Franklin starts off with "what's that?" Which is the classic catchphrase we all "know" people asked Lassie (no idea if that happened in the books and films, but we all "know" it happened).
I wonder if Franklin ever lies awake at night. Thinking about this misadventure. Thinking about the dog and maybe just the supernatural in general. He probably thinks about that dog anytime he sees another one when hes alone with his thoughts.... As for Dom, i like to think his death jump was just a short sighted stunt for ultimate bliss. Rather than a regular suicide attempt. In his drug and adrenaline fried brain he thought he'd reach enlightenment in those brief few seconds before going splat.
Gotta keep in mind, these are the same guys who made Manhunt, which has gone down as one of the goriest video games ever released. On top of that, this is in the first game in the series to show people getting mulched in meat grinders and jet engines.
10:20 I think he was trying to prove that he didn’t need one, and that the jump wasn’t actually as dangerous as people believe. Essentially, he was trying to “outdo” Franklin and prove that he and only he has experienced the height of thrill and overcoming human instinct/fear. In his mind, he would jump into the river and find it was actually deeper than everyone thought or he would simply float on the surface so there was never any real danger at all. He was sadly - or perhaps not so sadly - mistaken.
I hope the ghost dog comes back in gta 6, having it be a reoccurring ghostly figure like the strange man in the red dead series, a guardian angel, who finds people to save people from certain death.
I think it's obvious. It's Rufus. He's proving what a good boy he is traveling through time from Red Dead Redemption to help people only to realize that humanity is doomed.
13:11 it says he didn't bring a parachute. so, either he went into the jump *wanting* to kill himself, or just assumed he could make it. I also don't think the dog is Dom's guardian angel; he might just be guarding or looking after that area in particular. It would make sense with the picture of the family that crashed their car. After the dog died in the same/nearby area, maybe his soul couldn't pass on because he felt he failed in his duty as the family's dog to protect them? So now the dog helps to protect and save others in deathly scenarios in the same area in order for him to move on? depressing though lol
11:20 My guess is that Franklin only recites the sentence spoken by the dog so that the player can understand, since at one point the dog says something, and franklin responds with a question regarding the statement and not the statement itself
I’m so glad someone made a deep dive video about this, cuz every now and then I’m really sit there and think “Why can Franklin talk to a dog? Why Franklin? Where did the dog go?”
I believe there's a reference to the dog in a Mary Ann mission with Franklin. In the middle of the race between Mary and Franklin, they go through a jogging trail and a woman will ask Franklin if he's seen a dog on while jogging past him and Franklin says yes, possibly relating to this dog, but I'm not sure. Still a thought though
THE DOG IS ARTHUR MORGAN. Hear me out here: we find the dog around ARTHUR’S trail or whatever and Arthur is a character with a good heart but also kinda doesn’t like to take s**t from people or tolerate idiots. If you think about what this dog says through Franklin and picture it in Arthur’s voice, it definitely sounds like something Arthur would say. It’s just like Arthur to begrudgingly try to help someone thanks to his good heart, but also kind of be fed up with a person’s antics. We see him encounter people like that all the time. It also makes that dog a good boah, so… (I don’t know what I’m saying, I just think it’s funny XD)
What??? NO... SURELY NOT. And here I was wondering why Red Dead 2 was of such HIGHER QUALITY than GTA 5. Oh my GOD, it ALL MAKES SENSE NOW. (In case you can't tell, I'm being sarcastic.)@@R4VNG3
If Red Dead and GTA shared a universe, which we pretty much much know they don’t aside from one or two references, I would say that the dog is some kind of familiar for The Strange Man. It would make some sense as both are harbingers of doom for characters near the end of their life yet are still given a final chance to prove their moral character by this spooky, supernatural force. But they don’t, so this one is DOA. 😂
I mean they very well might, the family you save in RDR2 (the blonde family at the end of chapter 2) is found on a portrait in El Rubio's house in GTA Online. El Rubio is super rich and the family from RDR2 Ran a gold mining company. You could explain the places having different names as post WW1 changes in their universe.
After Dom’s ill-fated leap, that dog appears again, near the spot where Franklin first met Dom. The dog will walk up to you and sit near you, but it won’t follow you around, as it appears to be grieving the loss of Dom, sitting solemnly near his old friend’s favorite trails. Kinda cool, kinda creepy!
Not only is it Rufus, but it is also Michael's dog and he also appears in paleto Bay on the end of the island, which in my theory indicates that he found the bodies from the infinity killer
Idk but what i think is that the one website "play god" that you talked near the end of the video is more related to dom and the dog than some may think, maybe dom was the dad and possibly survived a car crash then due to him having a near death situation made him become a sort of daredevil, because of the "adrenaline" he had in the car crash, whilst the dead family dog wanted to warn people about his owner, but im not so sure tho.
knowing Rockstar games... I'm like 99% sure that the joke of "to star in a movie more worthy of my talents" based on previous conversations... is a porno. I mean... it IS rockstar.
Given most of the GTA dev team is based in Britain, it feels more like a nod to mythology and tales, that have been in British history for a rather long time. There are multiple variations of dogs, like the infamous hell hound which can be found all over the world. However, majority of the tales involving an other wordly dog has been good rather than evil. In fact it has been long believed that when someone is in a time of need especially being lost in the woods, a dog will appear to either help guide them out or look for someone to guide them to their location if they are stuck/injured. In fact, I can give you two legit stories locked in British historical records of such encounters. The first one is of a man called John, who was walking through some woods to get to another location. Upon entering the woods he felt a presence near him, he could in fact hear it too. It was a dog, a large black dog which he couldn't see clear enough to tell its complete description, due to the dark black coat and it being night time in woods. He just knew it was around hearing it panting beside him staying right next to him as he walked through the woods. He said he felt calm and at ease around this dog, saying he didn't feel like it was a threat. He still wasn't comfortable enough to touch the dog as it walked beside him, but he found it rather comforting knowing it was there. Upon reaching the clearing and near his destination the dog disappeared. It wouldn't be until later when two convicts were given their last right, when one of them turned around about a night in the woods where they found John walking. Neither of them liked the man and were set to mug him, killing him being an option both would gladly take. However, upon seeing a large black dog beside the man, the pair of them decided to let him be. Fearing John would easily be overpowered, but the large dog looked menacing. The other story, is of a little girl who used to travel through a small stretch of woods to go from her nans house to her mums, on both occasions she traveled this route at dark, she was met by a dog. A dog who would stay right beside her and accompany her on her way. It's been shown time after time, of these strange dogs appearing to those in a time of danger. As guardians, they have also appeared to those who are lost. Rather strangely they appear more times with women and girls, than men and boys. Showing that this dog chooses the weaker people to protect. Of course the evil dog sighting have all come from the fact back in the day we didn't dig deep graves, so dogs would wait at grave yards to dig up people as they are scavengers. This gave them the connection to the dead, and being guardians of the underworld even seen with the ancient Egyptian. It is also why a lot of Muslims are afraid of dogs regardless of breed. It's a fascinating subject which I quickly skirted around, there are many more and for me it feels like a nod to this. Even more so with what the gta community is like with myths, cryptids such as big foot and more.
If I'm not mistaken there's a story involving a British mountain climber who got caught in a blizzard while attempting to summit Everest. He basically gives up his will to live until he "sees" or senses the presence of a dog that suddenly appears out of nowhere and helps to guide him back to base camp and even continues to encourage him along the way when he gets off course and thinks about giving up again. The dog suddenly vanishes mere steps away from the safety of a warm camp. I could be getting two stories mixed up as there are multiple accounts of friendly strangers suddenly appearing to help climbers in survival situations before vanishing; the phenomenon has a name too, third man syndrome. But I'm pretty sure one of those accounts involved a mysterious dog.
I think the dog is the "play god" dog and its spirit being bound to Dom after he plays god, crashing into the same tree in the "play god" picture. It was freed after Dom sewer-slided.
Here's a fun theory: What if this was Dom's dog, which either died in one of his stunts or its passing was the trigger for him to start doing them? And its spirit reaches out to Franklin to try and protect him, or help him through his grief? Lonely banker loses his dog he was very close with, and he spends all his money doing daredevil stunts to avoid facing his grief. The Maze Bank stunt pushed him further over the edge, pardon the pun.
Ive always interpeted the dog as some kind of angel, or benevolent entity. What is intresting though is ghost dogs leading someone to help you is quite a common story. Especially golden retrievers.
Fun fact, with the last 2 halloween events in online. Dom's ghost is one of several you can find, he stands at the bottom of the dam where he dom'd himself.
I like to think every time franklin swears when responding to the dog its him not even throwing them in there its just the sog swearing with excitement
For dom I feel like he wasted his money both on the extreme sports addiction and some regular drug addictions so he just un alived himself in 1 last stunt because that is the only real time he seemed afraid.
You missed one huge detail! They only character you can play the mission "The Last One" I think it's called with the sasquatch is Franklin and after the sasquatch takes off a mask and reveals it's human it actually starts barking just like the dog! Which makes you wonder if it is human or an alien or something..
Remember the sasquatch guy quotes the dialog from the Sasquatch in RDR UNDEAD . My theory is Rdr1 Rdr2 are TRUE events written in a book by Jack Marston aka J. Marston. Undead Nightmare the game also is a BOOK by J Marston, but fictional since Jack kills Ross turning the events into a book alleviates him for going down in real life for the murders etc. Jack said he wanted to be a writer, it makes too much sense to just be coincidence as alot of people say it is. The sasquatch guy is cosplaying the Sasquatch from Undead Nightmare, he's like a freak fan of the series. That's why his quotes are exactly what the Sasquatch told John Marston about being the last of his kind, same thing was said to Franklin. The dog may be Rufus, or Arthur Morgan. "Arthur's pass" Los Santos may be the exact area geographically where Arthur died. Like Rockstar probably had the script or character plan for Arthur for YEARS. Just like in movies scripts get passed around for years before some movies are ever made. ALL Rockstar games are linked in my opinion. Like Ed Low, and Enmand Lowry
@@mrbootystealer5712 yes any update after the gunrunner update takes place after the story but Dom still exists despite that point it's sort of an inconsistency in terms of the word
@@mrbootystealer5712 honestly, I didn't start playing GTA Online until the pandemic I played it a lot but after a while, GTA Online just felt like a grind so I stopped playing. tho for shits and giggles, I did play GTA Online on PC just to see about the talk of modder and shit kinda disappointing they didn't update GTA Online on PC to the Next gen version tho but whatever
The timeline for GTA Online is all over the place. Canon or not, anything that happens in it probably doesn't necessarily happen at the time you see it happen, as everyone plays the events in different orders to everyone else.
This “ghost dog” might be a past dog of Franklin’s, having the spirit of one of Dom’s dog. Although he doesn’t have the recollection of any dog, it just might be.
Imagine jason from gta6 sees the dog and safes franklin, and yeah. I enjoyed it, thank you so much for making thouse videos, i love the rdr gta 4&5 videos. Well done fizhy
The link to the website about playing god shouldnt be ignored, playing god, thinking your invincible, only to learn the hard way that you're not invincible, like what happened to the family in the website pictured they pay the price (prolly for overspeeding). Dom here on the other hand, is a great candidate for someone thinking that theyre invincible, after all he just wants to show that his stunts is possible and easy to do, he plays god, and then pays the price when trying to jump without a parachute
what if the dog belonged to dom which he somehow got killed and it feels compelled to continue to try and help dom despite being such a dangerous asshole? i know it's unlikely and most probably just a lassie easter egg but it makes you think
I guessed it's kinda creepy considered that red redemption universe clearly take place in the same universe as that of gta,. manhunts, and bully and various other games rockstar have been involved in. Taking place in same universe so a place called Arthur pass on a mountain is inherently creepy considered implications of it being a final resting place of Arthur Morgan and apparently numerous other people have also lost their lives there so the fact that dom survived a near death experience in a place filled with people dying in horrifying way it's just a death omen for dom that he is about to died him surviving just for to do whole thing again but in various other places until he died at a dams.
The dog may be a form of guardian (wether you believe them to be an angel or not is up to you) and they have either been assigned to Dom or has attached to Dom and now feel obligated to try and save Dom but is unable to directly interact with Dom themself
Genuinely one of the most unsettling encounters in GTA V and in a Rockstar game, due to the number of questions you have afterwards. At this point wondering if the dog is a guardian angel or a not is irrelevant; how can it communicate with humans, how can it communicate with Franklin and why, and why can Franklin understand it? Why does it disappear quickly during each meeting and why did it disappear for good after Dom died? Was it ever more than a mental image projected to Franklin or was it real, and if it is why can no one else see it or even sense it? Why does the dog care for Dom but only up to a certain point? See? Unsettling as fck.
I find it interesting Dom's reaction both times to hearing Franklin mention the dog is in annoyance/anger. It's not a typical reaction you'd expect if he didn't know anything about the dog.
the dog does fit the bill for some interpretations of guardian angels. even though they're supposed to be god's servants, they lack free will, and are ordered to protect the silly mortals who keep making the same silly mistakes over and over again, so angels at some point got fed up with mortals' shenanigans, but continue to do their job because they can't help it, they would only protect us because they are, as the Ghost Dog puts it, "made this way". idk, it's funny to think Dom has a dog as a guardian angel
The dog saying that it's going to use its take its talents elsewhere definitely feels it like it saying "fuck this guy, I've got someone better to protect." 😂 I've come to conclude that the dog is indeed an angel of some sort sent by a diety similar to God to protect Dom. Of course, otherworldly beings can not directly intervene in the lives of those they're set to protect, so that's where Franklin comes. Perhaps Franklin was meant to convince him that he could do so much better, but his ego got the better of him, he plummeted to his death, and the dog no longer was tied to this asshole who was beyond saving at that point.
I did this strangers and freaks mission right after the mission where franklin steals the car off a movie set, and as a result I got franklin to skydive in a white tuxedo.
I like the idea of a guardian angel growing tried of looking over a human who's just so reckless with his life that the angel just becomes almost completely apathetic to whatever may happen to him. Sounds like it could be a plot to a movie lol.
I think the "move better suited to his tallents" could refer to any of the '[adjective] Bud' series of movies starring a golden retriever who can, or can't talk depending on the installment
Glad that you have started doing gta, i started watching your content 2020-2021 or something when you where doing a lot of Rdr2. Hope to see a lot more of this🙏🏻
I think a funny explanation is that dog was the one who died in the car crash and then Dom just happened to be the closest guy near the dog who needed a guardian angel at the time so the dog was assigned to Dom But after being his angel for so long even the dog stopped caring for Dom
Yeah Dom definitely sounds like a guy that had a lot of help from his guardian angel dog that he constantly took for granted. He probably survived so many stunts, barely got seriously hurt when he could've, and so he just continued doing those stunts thinking he was indestructible until finally the dog just had enough and left when Dom needed it most. Tbh, how much you want to bet that the dog DID appear several times in front of Dom, but Dom constantly ignored it or forgot about it? This guardian angel needs to be assigned to someone else.
If you go somewhere by the shoreline, I think at Sandy Shores you can see that dog and if you go in Michael’s house, you can see pictures of them with it
I like to think the dog is based on the movie Far from Home Adventure of Yellow Dog [spoiler] about a labrador who got lost in the woods with his master. When they were about to be rescued by helicopter the dog fell into the rapids below and they all thought the dog has died...
If your channel has taught me anything it's that I really didn't flesh out my GTAV time as much as I thought i did. Also that people had to create the "play god" and Leonora crime scene pictures and that can't be 100% healthy
To this day, any time Dom pops up on my GTA Online phone, I just hit "Deny" and carry on with what I'm doing.
You deny Dom's calls. I deny English Dave's calls even if he tells me he's seconds away from death. We are not the same.
@@dillonc7955 If I'm not doing anything, I answer Dave's calls, calls like Simeon and Dom are like Roman in 4, pointless and not helpful!
Dom: "Dude, there's this awesome sick ju-"
Me:"FOR FUCK'S SAKE, DOM, I'M BEING SHOT AT BY ALBIAN GUNRUNNERS, NOW'S NOT THE TIME TO ASK IF I WANT TO THROW MYSELF OUT OF A FUCKING HELICOPTER!"
@@flashstudiosguy
Once I was in the middle of some intense shootout, and I jumped off the Pacific standard Bank, and right as I went to pull my chute dom called.
"HEY BUDDY"
*SPLAT*
Ever since I hit decline.
@My_pfp_beats_all_dog_breeds.
He does in story mode. But GTAO originally was set before the story mode events, until the heists updates where it became present day. So modern GTAO is in two timelines simultaneously.
@My_pfp_beats_all_dog_breeds.apparently Not?
"It's unclear as to what actually happened here; did he intend to die, or did he just forget his parachute?"
I always interpreted it that Dom was so full of himself, and so frustrated that Franklin was outdoing him, that he decided he didn't need a parachute. His ego led him to believe he could do a jump like that without the need for a chute, and that if he could jump off the dam without one, he'd finally be able to prove to no one in particular that he was better than Franklin.
Personally I feel like he blew all his money on his hobby and wanted one last ride.
He forgot GTA V removed water negating all fall damage
I thought about the same. He was so obsessed with finding the next adrenaline high that he stopped thinking rationally.
He should be one of the Halloween ghosts this year
That's what I always thought, since he was trying to be the "best" why not jump off a bridge with a chute? technically GENIUS! Nobody else will do it, so one thing he can't be bested at!
You think Franklin ever sits down to think “What da dog doin’?”
I think about this quest regularly, and I only did it once, 10 years ago.
I’d never done it before and yet it felt so oddly familiar
*Woof*
"A man is stuck in a tree?!"
Franklin's last name is actually Thornberry.
@LayannaNelson-zh9wh oh that explains why he can talk to the dog
@@LayannaNelson-zh9wh ｢I don't get it, what does that mean?｣
…in Lego City!
@@NoOneatallworthy2000s baby, huh?
It's pretty clear the dog is meant to be a reference to Lassie... Franklin starts off with "what's that?" Which is the classic catchphrase we all "know" people asked Lassie (no idea if that happened in the books and films, but we all "know" it happened).
I have always believed that it is a reference to the film "My Ghost Dog" by John Putch (1997)
I wonder if Franklin ever lies awake at night. Thinking about this misadventure. Thinking about the dog and maybe just the supernatural in general. He probably thinks about that dog anytime he sees another one when hes alone with his thoughts....
As for Dom, i like to think his death jump was just a short sighted stunt for ultimate bliss. Rather than a regular suicide attempt. In his drug and adrenaline fried brain he thought he'd reach enlightenment in those brief few seconds before going splat.
Franklin literally does NOT sleep
Sometimes it's really easy to tell when a person has a tumblr account.
I wish that this was referenced in the contract dlc, where he would smoke with Lamar and mention a dog that could talk but only he could see it.
@@ryantalley5284why
Jesus, the “play god” picture was unexpectedly gnarly for a video game
I think it's also the first (in my knowledge) depiction of a child in a gta game to be gravely injured or killed in the series
Yeah, that was not fucking nice to see while high.
Gotta keep in mind, these are the same guys who made Manhunt, which has gone down as one of the goriest video games ever released. On top of that, this is in the first game in the series to show people getting mulched in meat grinders and jet engines.
@@olliegoria Yeah but there weren't any kids, and it wasn't a family with a golden retriever all dying.
@@The-S-H3lf-Eater Yeah but that's not my point. I was saying that Rockstar's been doing gory deaths for a minute
The dog fist bumping him was hilarious !!
10:20
I think he was trying to prove that he didn’t need one, and that the jump wasn’t actually as dangerous as people believe. Essentially, he was trying to “outdo” Franklin and prove that he and only he has experienced the height of thrill and overcoming human instinct/fear.
In his mind, he would jump into the river and find it was actually deeper than everyone thought or he would simply float on the surface so there was never any real danger at all. He was sadly - or perhaps not so sadly - mistaken.
I hope the ghost dog comes back in gta 6, having it be a reoccurring ghostly figure like the strange man in the red dead series, a guardian angel, who finds people to save people from certain death.
That’s actually a good idea
I think it's obvious. It's Rufus. He's proving what a good boy he is traveling through time from Red Dead Redemption to help people only to realize that humanity is doomed.
Yeah the poor mf never stopped running from beeches hope
Omg
It's bad writing.
@@Hamstersandw1chfound ya johnny boy
Definitely helped me install Windows many times
a sad lonely man surviving a near death experience thru divine intervention only to turn himself into an adrenaline junkie is a pretty funny idea
13:11 it says he didn't bring a parachute. so, either he went into the jump *wanting* to kill himself, or just assumed he could make it. I also don't think the dog is Dom's guardian angel; he might just be guarding or looking after that area in particular. It would make sense with the picture of the family that crashed their car. After the dog died in the same/nearby area, maybe his soul couldn't pass on because he felt he failed in his duty as the family's dog to protect them? So now the dog helps to protect and save others in deathly scenarios in the same area in order for him to move on? depressing though lol
That’s a great theory my guy.
11:20
My guess is that Franklin only recites the sentence spoken by the dog so that the player can understand, since at one point the dog says something, and franklin responds with a question regarding the statement and not the statement itself
I’m so glad someone made a deep dive video about this, cuz every now and then I’m really sit there and think “Why can Franklin talk to a dog? Why Franklin? Where did the dog go?”
one of the best feelings is when being tired and exhausted then fizhy uploads a 10+ video, i swear it's one of the best feelings ever
Oh aye
I believe there's a reference to the dog in a Mary Ann mission with Franklin. In the middle of the race between Mary and Franklin, they go through a jogging trail and a woman will ask Franklin if he's seen a dog on while jogging past him and Franklin says yes, possibly relating to this dog, but I'm not sure. Still a thought though
There are a lot of dogs in Los Santos
@@Fizhy yeah probably, but still give it a thought
THE DOG IS ARTHUR MORGAN.
Hear me out here: we find the dog around ARTHUR’S trail or whatever and Arthur is a character with a good heart but also kinda doesn’t like to take s**t from people or tolerate idiots. If you think about what this dog says through Franklin and picture it in Arthur’s voice, it definitely sounds like something Arthur would say. It’s just like Arthur to begrudgingly try to help someone thanks to his good heart, but also kind of be fed up with a person’s antics. We see him encounter people like that all the time.
It also makes that dog a good boah, so…
(I don’t know what I’m saying, I just think it’s funny XD)
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Bruh gta came before rdr2 🤦♂️
What??? NO... SURELY NOT. And here I was wondering why Red Dead 2 was of such HIGHER QUALITY than GTA 5. Oh my GOD, it ALL MAKES SENSE NOW. (In case you can't tell, I'm being sarcastic.)@@R4VNG3
I think it's Rufus
@@jolo6051 bro are you like 10 years old because I can’t take you seriously
If Red Dead and GTA shared a universe, which we pretty much much know they don’t aside from one or two references, I would say that the dog is some kind of familiar for The Strange Man. It would make some sense as both are harbingers of doom for characters near the end of their life yet are still given a final chance to prove their moral character by this spooky, supernatural force.
But they don’t, so this one is DOA. 😂
I mean they very well might, the family you save in RDR2 (the blonde family at the end of chapter 2) is found on a portrait in El Rubio's house in GTA Online. El Rubio is super rich and the family from RDR2 Ran a gold mining company. You could explain the places having different names as post WW1 changes in their universe.
Omg if the dog is the strange man or another being of similar power
@@SG-qx9kono
After Dom’s ill-fated leap, that dog appears again, near the spot where Franklin first met Dom. The dog will walk up to you and sit near you, but it won’t follow you around, as it appears to be grieving the loss of Dom, sitting solemnly near his old friend’s favorite trails. Kinda cool, kinda creepy!
Not only is it Rufus, but it is also Michael's dog and he also appears in paleto Bay on the end of the island, which in my theory indicates that he found the bodies from the infinity killer
It seems the dog is some kind of guardian angel
Who hates his job
Franklin is a Disney princess...that's why he can speak to the dog.
Nah, he went on to star in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai with Forest Whitaker.
Franklin has that dog in him, quite literally it seems because he can understand dogs
Idk but what i think is that the one website "play god" that you talked near the end of the video is more related to dom and the dog than some may think, maybe dom was the dad and possibly survived a car crash then due to him having a near death situation made him become a sort of daredevil, because of the "adrenaline" he had in the car crash, whilst the dead family dog wanted to warn people about his owner, but im not so sure tho.
Dom was definitely not a father, theres just no way
knowing Rockstar games... I'm like 99% sure that the joke of "to star in a movie more worthy of my talents" based on previous conversations... is a porno. I mean... it IS rockstar.
I love how you speak in full and complete sentences.
There are quite a few stories about spirits of animals and humans that guide lost or troubled individuals. So the ghost dog is kinda relevant
Given most of the GTA dev team is based in Britain, it feels more like a nod to mythology and tales, that have been in British history for a rather long time.
There are multiple variations of dogs, like the infamous hell hound which can be found all over the world. However, majority of the tales involving an other wordly dog has been good rather than evil.
In fact it has been long believed that when someone is in a time of need especially being lost in the woods, a dog will appear to either help guide them out or look for someone to guide them to their location if they are stuck/injured.
In fact, I can give you two legit stories locked in British historical records of such encounters.
The first one is of a man called John, who was walking through some woods to get to another location. Upon entering the woods he felt a presence near him, he could in fact hear it too. It was a dog, a large black dog which he couldn't see clear enough to tell its complete description, due to the dark black coat and it being night time in woods. He just knew it was around hearing it panting beside him staying right next to him as he walked through the woods. He said he felt calm and at ease around this dog, saying he didn't feel like it was a threat. He still wasn't comfortable enough to touch the dog as it walked beside him, but he found it rather comforting knowing it was there. Upon reaching the clearing and near his destination the dog disappeared. It wouldn't be until later when two convicts were given their last right, when one of them turned around about a night in the woods where they found John walking. Neither of them liked the man and were set to mug him, killing him being an option both would gladly take. However, upon seeing a large black dog beside the man, the pair of them decided to let him be. Fearing John would easily be overpowered, but the large dog looked menacing.
The other story, is of a little girl who used to travel through a small stretch of woods to go from her nans house to her mums, on both occasions she traveled this route at dark, she was met by a dog. A dog who would stay right beside her and accompany her on her way.
It's been shown time after time, of these strange dogs appearing to those in a time of danger. As guardians, they have also appeared to those who are lost. Rather strangely they appear more times with women and girls, than men and boys. Showing that this dog chooses the weaker people to protect.
Of course the evil dog sighting have all come from the fact back in the day we didn't dig deep graves, so dogs would wait at grave yards to dig up people as they are scavengers. This gave them the connection to the dead, and being guardians of the underworld even seen with the ancient Egyptian. It is also why a lot of Muslims are afraid of dogs regardless of breed.
It's a fascinating subject which I quickly skirted around, there are many more and for me it feels like a nod to this. Even more so with what the gta community is like with myths, cryptids such as big foot and more.
If I'm not mistaken there's a story involving a British mountain climber who got caught in a blizzard while attempting to summit Everest. He basically gives up his will to live until he "sees" or senses the presence of a dog that suddenly appears out of nowhere and helps to guide him back to base camp and even continues to encourage him along the way when he gets off course and thinks about giving up again. The dog suddenly vanishes mere steps away from the safety of a warm camp. I could be getting two stories mixed up as there are multiple accounts of friendly strangers suddenly appearing to help climbers in survival situations before vanishing; the phenomenon has a name too, third man syndrome. But I'm pretty sure one of those accounts involved a mysterious dog.
@@pugachevskobra5636Third man syndrome is so chilling, being supernatural or just a tactic of our brain for survival I find it fascinating
I think the dog is the "play god" dog and its spirit being bound to Dom after he plays god, crashing into the same tree in the "play god" picture. It was freed after Dom sewer-slided.
Here's a fun theory: What if this was Dom's dog, which either died in one of his stunts or its passing was the trigger for him to start doing them? And its spirit reaches out to Franklin to try and protect him, or help him through his grief? Lonely banker loses his dog he was very close with, and he spends all his money doing daredevil stunts to avoid facing his grief. The Maze Bank stunt pushed him further over the edge, pardon the pun.
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Ive always interpeted the dog as some kind of angel, or benevolent entity.
What is intresting though is ghost dogs leading someone to help you is quite a common story. Especially golden retrievers.
Could you give some examples
Fun fact, with the last 2 halloween events in online.
Dom's ghost is one of several you can find, he stands at the bottom of the dam where he dom'd himself.
I think the dog could be the dog we see in Michael's house
I like to think every time franklin swears when responding to the dog its him not even throwing them in there its just the sog swearing with excitement
For dom I feel like he wasted his money both on the extreme sports addiction and some regular drug addictions so he just un alived himself in 1 last stunt because that is the only real time he seemed afraid.
love these mystery videos bro. you are the perfect channel for videogame urban legends etc
Arthurs pass trail you think it's a rdr2 easter egg just as the book😅
Probably just a coincidence seeing as rdr2 released 3 years later
@@unoriginalperson72actually five years, so you’re more right
I to this day am still confused on this dog. Though I think lowly of the dog because he introduced me to Dom and I fucking hated those missions
Thanks for these videos man, I’ve always loved GTA so I REALLY love these videos!!! ❤
You missed one huge detail! They only character you can play the mission "The Last One" I think it's called with the sasquatch is Franklin and after the sasquatch takes off a mask and reveals it's human it actually starts barking just like the dog! Which makes you wonder if it is human or an alien or something..
Remember the sasquatch guy quotes the dialog from the Sasquatch in RDR UNDEAD .
My theory is Rdr1 Rdr2 are TRUE events written in a book by Jack Marston aka J. Marston.
Undead Nightmare the game also is a BOOK by J Marston, but fictional since Jack kills Ross turning the events into a book alleviates him for going down in real life for the murders etc.
Jack said he wanted to be a writer, it makes too much sense to just be coincidence as alot of people say it is.
The sasquatch guy is cosplaying the Sasquatch from Undead Nightmare, he's like a freak fan of the series. That's why his quotes are exactly what the Sasquatch told John Marston about being the last of his kind, same thing was said to Franklin.
The dog may be Rufus, or Arthur Morgan. "Arthur's pass" Los Santos may be the exact area geographically where Arthur died. Like Rockstar probably had the script or character plan for Arthur for YEARS. Just like in movies scripts get passed around for years before some movies are ever made. ALL Rockstar games are linked in my opinion. Like Ed Low, and Enmand Lowry
I honestly wish GTA Online took place sometime after story mode so we don't got to get calls from Dom since you know he commited suicide
I thought the newer heists took place after story mode since Franklin is a ceo now and Trevor is still alive
@@mrbootystealer5712 yes any update after the gunrunner update takes place after the story but Dom still exists despite that point it's sort of an inconsistency in terms of the word
@@claiminghawk well online mode sucks so I don't really consider online canon in my mind anyway lol
@@mrbootystealer5712 honestly, I didn't start playing GTA Online until the pandemic I played it a lot but after a while, GTA Online just felt like a grind so I stopped playing. tho for shits and giggles, I did play GTA Online on PC just to see about the talk of modder and shit kinda disappointing they didn't update GTA Online on PC to the Next gen version tho but whatever
The timeline for GTA Online is all over the place. Canon or not, anything that happens in it probably doesn't necessarily happen at the time you see it happen, as everyone plays the events in different orders to everyone else.
I've never heard of this before but it must be good if Fizhy is covering it :D
That's a yellow lab, not a golden retriever.
This “ghost dog” might be a past dog of Franklin’s, having the spirit of one of Dom’s dog. Although he doesn’t have the recollection of any dog, it just might be.
Imagine jason from gta6 sees the dog and safes franklin, and yeah. I enjoyed it, thank you so much for making thouse videos, i love the rdr gta 4&5 videos. Well done fizhy
The link to the website about playing god shouldnt be ignored, playing god, thinking your invincible, only to learn the hard way that you're not invincible, like what happened to the family in the website pictured they pay the price (prolly for overspeeding). Dom here on the other hand, is a great candidate for someone thinking that theyre invincible, after all he just wants to show that his stunts is possible and easy to do, he plays god, and then pays the price when trying to jump without a parachute
Maybe Dom is the bit in the car crash and survived and that is why the dog is Atchison to him
what if the dog belonged to dom which he somehow got killed and it feels compelled to continue to try and help dom despite being such a dangerous asshole? i know it's unlikely and most probably just a lassie easter egg but it makes you think
Please keep doing these Rockstar lore videos. I love them so much 😊 lol
i mean, the place being Arthur's Pass already is kinda creepy.
I guessed it's kinda creepy considered that red redemption universe clearly take place in the same universe as that of gta,. manhunts, and bully and various other games rockstar have been involved in. Taking place in same universe so a place called Arthur pass on a mountain is inherently creepy considered implications of it being a final resting place of Arthur Morgan and apparently numerous other people have also lost their lives there so the fact that dom survived a near death experience in a place filled with people dying in horrifying way it's just a death omen for dom that he is about to died him surviving just for to do whole thing again but in various other places until he died at a dams.
The dog may be a form of guardian (wether you believe them to be an angel or not is up to you) and they have either been assigned to Dom or has attached to Dom and now feel obligated to try and save Dom but is unable to directly interact with Dom themself
I have always believed that it is a reference to the film "My Ghost Dog" by John Putch (1997) Good video.
The ghost dog? Reminds me of Zero from Nightmare before Christmas
Genuinely one of the most unsettling encounters in GTA V and in a Rockstar game, due to the number of questions you have afterwards. At this point wondering if the dog is a guardian angel or a not is irrelevant; how can it communicate with humans, how can it communicate with Franklin and why, and why can Franklin understand it? Why does it disappear quickly during each meeting and why did it disappear for good after Dom died? Was it ever more than a mental image projected to Franklin or was it real, and if it is why can no one else see it or even sense it? Why does the dog care for Dom but only up to a certain point? See? Unsettling as fck.
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I'm in love with your channel, can you please explore the mysteries of gta san andreas and other older gtas
As and when I get to properly playing through them, I certainly shall.
@@Fizhy Happy to hear it ^^
I find it interesting Dom's reaction both times to hearing Franklin mention the dog is in annoyance/anger. It's not a typical reaction you'd expect if he didn't know anything about the dog.
I agree with you I think that the guardian angel dog got tired of protecting that guy Love the video ❤👍
I love the mood you set in these videos, ngl, you made me want to open any GTA right now and do a myth hunting again like the good old times.
the dog does fit the bill for some interpretations of guardian angels. even though they're supposed to be god's servants, they lack free will, and are ordered to protect the silly mortals who keep making the same silly mistakes over and over again, so angels at some point got fed up with mortals' shenanigans, but continue to do their job because they can't help it, they would only protect us because they are, as the Ghost Dog puts it, "made this way". idk, it's funny to think Dom has a dog as a guardian angel
The dog saying that it's going to use its take its talents elsewhere definitely feels it like it saying "fuck this guy, I've got someone better to protect." 😂
I've come to conclude that the dog is indeed an angel of some sort sent by a diety similar to God to protect Dom. Of course, otherworldly beings can not directly intervene in the lives of those they're set to protect, so that's where Franklin comes. Perhaps Franklin was meant to convince him that he could do so much better, but his ego got the better of him, he plummeted to his death, and the dog no longer was tied to this asshole who was beyond saving at that point.
I did this strangers and freaks mission right after the mission where franklin steals the car off a movie set, and as a result I got franklin to skydive in a white tuxedo.
Excellent quandary into the unexplained. Extremely good video. I laughed, and I wondered....
The dog is Dom's guardian dog angel.
Who decided “nah this guy is an ass ima let him die”
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Perfect length for getting ready for whatever it is you had planned, don't cancel on my behalf
@@FizhyI absolutely love these videos, cheers!!
The ghost dog is from that picture on the website the family had the car crash
Your videos are consistently perfect. Another great release my British friend
13:30 leave it to rockstar to still squeeze in an incest joke in the middle of showing a shock image
Excellent video!
I like the idea of a guardian angel growing tried of looking over a human who's just so reckless with his life that the angel just becomes almost completely apathetic to whatever may happen to him. Sounds like it could be a plot to a movie lol.
there is a dog bark in one of the movies and you didn't touch on that!?!?
He doesn't really give a shit but he's made this way
@My_pfp_beats_all_dog_breeds.it’s what the dog says in the first mission
@My_pfp_beats_all_dog_breeds. I meant the first mission of the dom sidequests not online
I know the dog is a reference to lassie, but I like to think Franklin can just talk to animals
I hope in 6 they have like stories of that dog seemingly trying to help exploited child actors in a tv show it was in or something
I think the "move better suited to his tallents" could refer to any of the '[adjective] Bud' series of movies starring a golden retriever who can, or can't talk depending on the installment
Hey Fizhy, i hope youre doing good. Thank you for the videos
Glad that you have started doing gta, i started watching your content 2020-2021 or something when you where doing a lot of Rdr2. Hope to see a lot more of this🙏🏻
I think a funny explanation is that dog was the one who died in the car crash and then Dom just happened to be the closest guy near the dog who needed a guardian angel at the time so the dog was assigned to Dom
But after being his angel for so long even the dog stopped caring for Dom
There are pictures of a similar dog in Michaels house and i think people have drawn some possible connections there but idk
Yeah Dom definitely sounds like a guy that had a lot of help from his guardian angel dog that he constantly took for granted.
He probably survived so many stunts, barely got seriously hurt when he could've, and so he just continued doing those stunts thinking he was indestructible until finally the dog just had enough and left when Dom needed it most.
Tbh, how much you want to bet that the dog DID appear several times in front of Dom, but Dom constantly ignored it or forgot about it?
This guardian angel needs to be assigned to someone else.
If you go somewhere by the shoreline, I think at Sandy Shores you can see that dog and if you go in Michael’s house, you can see pictures of them with it
If you spell dog backwards you get the name Dom.
Gom 😮
The Dog is obviously a higher being.
It's pretty clearly a representation of Franklin's inner conscience and sense of morality. He helps even though he doesn't want to.
14:47 probably got casted in the in-game movie ‘Man Eats Dog’
gta v has underrated lore
I like to think the dog is based on the movie Far from Home Adventure of Yellow Dog [spoiler] about a labrador who got lost in the woods with his master. When they were about to be rescued by helicopter the dog fell into the rapids below and they all thought the dog has died...
The crazy thing is Dom can be seen as one of the last ghosts in the ghosts exposed quest for halloween in gta online at the same Spot where he died
Rdr has the strange man
Gta has the strange dog
You should cover Mörkö in the game INFRA! Definitely mot a well-known topic but it's sort of interesting.
If your channel has taught me anything it's that I really didn't flesh out my GTAV time as much as I thought i did.
Also that people had to create the "play god" and Leonora crime scene pictures and that can't be 100% healthy
10:25 hurtled into too shallow water, hit the bottom, bust his head open, probably died instantly
That play God picture.. weird to see a little kid in GTA
I can't believe I've been watching icebergs, speedruns, and deep dives about this game and I've never heard of this dog.
1:39 No one got the Lassie satire reference.
I did