Li'l Lightning is Thunderbolt's little sidekick, who is severely unappreciated by Thunderbolt. Eventually, he becomes angry at always crawling in Thunderbolt's shadow, and tricks the German Shepard into running away by convincing him that the executives plan to replace him with a younger dog, then plots to manipulate the director into re-writing the show slanted towards him. When Thunderbolt and Patch return, endangering Lightning's chance at fame, he reveals himself to be the traitor that he was and has the two dogs locked away. In the end, however, he is over-powered and taken away to prison