Chief [first lines]
Okay, it's worth it.
Most-quoted character in Isle of Dogs (2018): in 21 of its 70 quotes
A line from Chief [to Atari, as he was checking his size to ride the Pagoda Slide]No, you can't ride the Pagoda Slide. You're below the safety-limit, anyway. Let's go. We made an emergency plan, even if we didn't get to vote and agree to it yet: rendez-vous at the cause-way to the Far-away Cuticles, and go find your dog. Maybe everybody else just got crushed, compacted, and incinerated- but we're going to be there. Let's go. [Atari goes up the stairs] Don't. Repeat: don't. I am not your pet. I never liked you. I don't care about you. I won't wait for you. I bite. [Atari goes up the slide] Good luck.
More lines from Chief
19 quotes Chief Chief [to Igor and his pack]
Get out of here and don't come back.
Chief You make me sick. [vomits and walks to the four dogs] I've seen cats with more balls than you dogs. [yells at Duke] STOP LICKING YOUR WOUNDS!!! [Duke's eyes shift awkwardly as he just sits with his tongue out. Chief walks up to Boss] You hungry? Kill something and eat it. [walks up to Duke] You sick? Take a long nap. [walks up to King] You cold? Dig a hole in the ground, crawl into it, and bury yourself. [walks up to Rex] But nobody's giving up around here, and don't you forget it, ever. You're Rex. You're King. You're Duke! You're Boss! I'm Chief. We're a pack of scary indestructible alpha dogs. You're talking like a bunch of housebroken... pets.
Chief Go ahead, say it. I'm a stray, yeah.
Chief We’ll find him. Wherever he is, if he’s alive, we’ll find your dog.
Chief [to Rex]
You're not our leader, we all are. Let's take a vote.
Chief I don't sit.
Chief [enraged; to Spots]
You son of a bitch!! If we don't drown, I'm gonna strangle you myself. I don't care how many exploding teeth you try to spit out at me. Do you have any idea what that little pilot just went through to try to rescue you? How DARE you?!
Chief [to the owl]
You'll meet a bitch named Nutmeg. Tell her Chief says, "I'll see you in Megasaki."
Chief Wait, what?
Chief [to Rex, Duke, King, and Boss]
Let's take a vote.
Chief [growls after Atari tries to pet him]
I bite.
Chief I've never been offered a Puppy Snap in my life. I don't even know what they taste like. Okay, I'll try it. [trying his first Puppy Snap] Crunchy. Salty. Supposedly, it cleans your teeth. This is my new favorite food. Thank you.
Chief Why should I?
I've been hunted by dog-catchers all my life. I'm not easy to trap. I've only got three captures on my record where I actually got sent to the pound, I mean, and the first two times, I escaped within 24 hours, but the third time... I got adopted before I could finish digging the break-out-tunnel. It was a big family. Five kids, two other dogs, already. They stuck me in the back of a station-wagon and drove me out to the middle of the sticks. Grass, trees, swimming pool, cartoons on TV. Anyway, one morning a week later, the youngest boy, his name was Toshiro, woke me up at 6:15, bright-eyed, wide-awake, and he tried to pet me. He didn't mean anything by it. He was just being friendly. Apparently, I bit him so hard, I nearly chewed his hand off. Blood all over the kitchen floor. They rushed him to the emergency room and I got pad-locked out in the tool-shed with the lights out. It gave me some time to think. What happened? Why did I do that? To this day, I have no idea. I guess he scared me. I bite. That night, an old woman, she must've been the grandmother brought me out a bowl of some homemade hibachi-chili. I like to think she cooked it for me, personally, but who knows? Maybe it was just more leftovers. But... You've got a tick. [takes off the tick off Rex's nose and spits onto the golf hole] Anyway, that's my favorite food I ever ate. The old woman made a great bowl of chili. [Rex: What happened after that?] I dug my way out by morning, jumped on the back of a dump-truck, and hitched back to Megasaki. I was always a street-dog, let's face it.
Chief [after Atari gives him a bath]
Where'd you get that dog? He looks like me with a pink nose. I come from a nine-dog litter, but they drowned the sisters. We're not a rare breed: short-haired-Oceanic-speckled-ear/sport-hound-mix. [stammers] I'm getting confused now. My--my belly feels funny.
Chief Don't ask me to fetch that stick.
Chief I'm telling you, I don't fetch.
Chief I'm not doing this because you commanded me to, I'm doing it because I feel sorry for you.
Scenes with Chief
1 scene
Narrator
Canine saturation has reached epidemic proportions. An outbreak of snout fever rips through the city of Megasaki. Blizzards of infected fleas, worms, ticks, and lice menace the citizenship. Dog flu threatens to cross the species threshold and enter the human disease pool. In a special midnight session at the Municipal Dome, Mayor Kobayashi of Uni Prefecture issues emergency orders calling for a hasty quarantine: the expulsion and containment of all breeds, both stray and domesticated. By official decree, Trash Island becomes an exile colony.
Mayor Kobayashi
(in English Version)
Banish all dogs. Save Megasaki City of Uni Prefecture!
Narrator
[The audience applauses]
The Isle of Dogs.
Narrator
The exiled dog population grows weaker, sadder, angrier. [A sack lands on the island] Desperate.
[Igor and his pack of white dogs check it out, but they see the alpha dogs Rex, King, Duke, Boss, and Chief, the leader, who arrived and start growling at each other, getting ready to fight, but Rex interrupts]
Wait a second. Before we attack each other and tear ourselves to shreds like a pack of maniacs, let's just open the sack first and see what's actually in it. It might not even be worth the trouble.
Igor
[Igor and his pack murmur for a second]
All right.
[Rex opens the sack, and inside it is garbage with maggots all over it as Igor's pack and the alpha dogs look at it]
A rancid apple core, two worm-eaten banana peels, a moldy rice cake, a dried up pickle, a tin of sardine bones, a pile of broken egg shells, an old smushed-up rotten gizzard with maggots all over it—
Chief [cutting Rex off]
Okay, it's worth it.
Chief [Both dog packs start the fight, then Chief grabs Igor's ear and rips it out, ending the fight]
Get out of here and don't come back.
Dog
[Igor and his pack turn to leave]
Sheesh, Igor, I think he chewed your ear off.
Igor
Mm-hmm.
I used to sleep on a lambswool bean bag next to an electric space heater. That's my territory. I'm an indoor dog.
I starred in 22 consecutive Doggy Chop commercials. Look at me now, I couldn't even land an audition.
I was the lead mascot for an undefeated high school baseball team [sneeze]. I lost all my spirit. I'm depressing.
I only ask for what I've always had. A balanced diet, regular grooming, and a, uh, general physical once a year.
A double portion of Doggy Chop from the can mixed into a bowl of broken Puppy Snaps with a vitamin crushed up into it.
King's the spokes-dog for that. He's the Doggy Chop dog.
Used to be.
Was that your daily meal?
Not always. My master was a schoolteacher and we weren't rich, you know. You?
A center cut Kobe ribeye, seared on the bone with salt and pepper.
Wow.
It was my birthday supper, every year.
Mine's hot sausage, yakitori style. The snack vendor always saved me one on game days.
Uh, green tea ice cream. My master had a sweet tooth, I probably inherited from her. [Boss sneezes] You heard the rumor, right? About Doggy Chop.
Remind us again.
What rumor?
They folded.
Oh, no.
Hmm.
Doggy--? Doggy Chop folded?
Chief [Duke, King, and Boss turn to Chief]
Me? Uh, I don't care. Garbage, trash, scraps of rubbish. I'm used to leftovers. [King, Rex, Duke and Boss murmur] Of course, I wasn't always a stray.
Chief I said, of cou-- I wasn't always a stray.
Chief [King, Duke, Boss, and Rex asks Chief why he wasn't a stray. Chief sighs]
Rex! King! Duke! Boss! You made it!
What happened to you?
Chief I took a bath.
What, he's got soap?
Chief Just a little.
You're too fluffy.
Chief We played fetch.
With a stick?
Chief With a hunk of rubber radiator tubing.
And you brought it back to him?
Chief Yeah. He's a good boy.
Don't you tell me that! I'm the one that tried to make you be loyal to him, in the first place.
Chief Stop. Stop! This is the rendezvous. Where's that trash-tram taking you?
You think we booked this ride through a travel agent? We were fighting for our lives in a high-velocity trash-processor while you were getting scrubbed and brushed.
Chief Jump.
Where?
Chief Here!
When?
Chief Now!
Why?
Chief WHAT?!
Let's take a vote. All in favor of jump... [the trash-tram stops]
Chief I'm standing by, Master Atari.
