There's also an eerie parallel between Bigwig saying "I'd like to try standing up to some of these elil" and General Woundwort saying, "Dogs aren't dangerous! Come back and fight!"

Oh yeah, that had also occurred to me, although I forgot about it by the time I wrote up the above. But it's kind of interesting to look at it from the perspective of Bigwig's "I'll fight you, I'll fight your cat, etc" attitude culminating in trying to fight the fox in the next part - and then he starts learning to back off, whereas Woundwort of course doesn't have an "off" button and thinks he can win against literally anything.