Yankee Yippers

"Afirm Roger Fox! Afirm Roger Fox!"
—Yankee Yippers, Death Screen

Yankee Yippers
Location:	Inkwell Isle 4
Level:	Doggone Dogfight
Hitpoints:	59.5/68 (each) 238/272 {total)
Gender:	Male (All)
Role:	Pilots Jetpack users
Animator(s):	Tina Nawrocki
Moveset:	Tennis Ball "BOW WOW" Letter (Phase 2) Pineapple Grenade (Secret Phase)
Parry Objects:	"BOW WOW" Letter Pineapple Grenade

The Yankee Yippers are a group of 4 puppies that are members of the Howling Aces and are fought as the second mini-bosses in Doggone Dogfight.

Appearance

The Yankee Yippers are small light brown puppies with darker brown ears. They have brown shoes on and wear a yellow jumpsuit and red bracelets. They are seen with jetpacks.

Battle

Phase 1

During Phase 1, they will assist the Bulldog by tossing three tennis balls out of a hatch in the wings of his plane. In Simple Mode, they will appear less often. In Expert Mode, they toss the balls quicker.

After the Bulldog's defeat, his plane will explode, leaving the Yankee Yippers to escape by using their jetpack, thus moving onto their phase. In Simple Mode, they will simply escape with their jetpacks and will not oppose to fight the player(s), thus directly skipping to the Saluki's phase.

Phase 2

If playing on Regular or Expert mode, they will fly down near Canteen's plane to start Phase 2. In this phase, they one have one attack, which is to shout out the letters of "BOW WOW" in which some can be parried. When they defeated, they explode in a puff of cloud. They waves their hands as they fall into the background. Hitpoints = 59.5/68

All four must be individually defeated to move onto the next phase. Total hitpoints = 238/272

Secret Phase

When they get down to 21% or less of their health, their jetpacks will start to produce grey exhaust smoke, and if all four have grey smoke but aren't defeated, they will be saved by the Dog Chinook, by having it "eat" them, thus moving on with the secret phase.

In the Secret Phase, they will appear in the paw pads along with the Saluki. They toss pineapple grenades at the player(s) that will explode into three smaller shrapnel upon shooting it. Some pineapple grenades can also be parried. They can also be defeated here, which will result in them switching to another unoccupied hole in the paws.

Upon defeat, they will appear dazed.

Gallery

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  At the side

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  Defeated

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  Secret Knockout

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  Two Yankee Yippers helping Saltbaker repair the Bulldog's fighter in the epilogue

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  Pencil Test

Trivia

• "Afirm Roger Fox! Afirm Roger Fox!", translating to "ARF! ARF!". It is the RAF radiotelephony spelling alphabet, used by British soldiers when using radios to talk to each other from 1942 to 1955. Due to the crackling of the radio, they would have to speak in separate words in order to be clear on what letters they are pronouncing and have others understand them. It is similar to the NATO phonetic alphabet and has been standardized to also use it since 1956.

Inspirations and Similarities

• The Yankee Yippers may be an anthro take on the puppies of Pluto and Fifi from the Disney short Pluto's Quin-Puplets.
• Their letters attack may be a reference to Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars. Its dog enemies also attack by spitting out letters that spell "BOW" or "WOW", and the two even share the same typeface.