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| - Ruff (formerly Gabo) is a playable character in VII. He is a White Wolf that was turned into a human.
- Ruff is a small black female.
- Ruff, an orange cat child voiced by Don Messick.
- Ruff was a Basilisk sent to Jason by Strife and Discord. Ruff was turtle like, and unlike the mythological version, spit venom. This venom quickly turned into fire, causing trouble for anyone who threatened him.
- Ruff is a one-shot character who appeared in Issue 4 of Sonic the Comic. He is a Norfolk Terrier dog and a resident of the Emerald Hill Zone. In the story Day Of The Badniks, Ruff and his friend Stripes witness what they think is Sonic tearing a Star Post out of the ground. They flee the scene only to be ambushed by Badniks, which capture them and use them as organic batteries. Once installed, the Badniks rendezvous with Doctor Robotnik and a group of other Badniks just in time to witness Sonic and Tails' capture and subsequent victory. Ruff and the others are released from their Badnik shells when Sonic - who had somehow resisted Badnik programming - threatened Robotnik.
- Ruff was the storyteller of the Jalis, responsible for guarding and retelling the Tenna Birdsong Tales, during the reign of King Lucan. Doran the Dragonlover mentions him in passing in Secrets of Deltora, listing Ruff as one of the reasons one may want to visit Jaliad.
- Ruff and Stripes stumbled across Badnik Sonic destroying Star Posts as part of Doctor Robotnik's plan to eliminate all access to his new Special Zone base. Ruff was convinced that this badnik was the real Sonic, citing his crazy spikes and ability to spin as proof, although Stripes thought that the being they saw was too large to be Sonic. The two of them were soon ambushed by badnik versions of themselves, and Ruff was installed as an organic battery in the Badnik Ruff. Ruff and Stripes were later freed when Sonic blackmailed Robotnik into releasing the captives.
- The ruff is a long-necked, pot-bellied bird. This species shows marked sexual dimorphism; the male is much larger than the female (the reeve), and has a breeding plumage that includes brightly coloured head tufts, bare orange facial skin, extensive black on the breast, and the large collar of ornamental feathers that inspired this bird's English name. The female and the non-breeding male have grey-brown upperparts and mainly white underparts. Three differently plumaged types of male, including a rare form that mimics the female, use a variety of strategies to obtain mating opportunities at a lek, and the colourful head and neck feathers are erected as part of the elaborate main courting display. The female has one brood per year and lays four eggs in a well-hidden ground nest, incubating t
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