Courage The Cowardly Dog Is a purple-ish scaredy dog who somehow always ends up facing creepy, traumatic and disturbing events He screams a lot (no shit sherlock) but somehow never gets a soar throat, must be that damned UnAnything Logic! He apparently able to talk sometimes (DESPITE being a dog) because cartoon logic. If it doesn't make sense in the Real World, then it makes sense in the Cartoon World.
He used to be an abandoned pup who was later found by Muriel. She and her husband Eustace then adopted Courage, despite Eustace being often mean to Courage. They live in The Middle of Nowhere and yet there there is always a bunch of crazy shit going on. Courage is also (quite obviously) the main character of the Courage The Cowardly Dog Show, the cartoon who made all 90s kids either love or despise the horror genre with a burning passion.