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'''Special Note - Being female and feline is not sufficient to qualify for this trope. Do not add an example here without first making sure that it doesn't belong under another trope instead.'''

 

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* The series ''Geobreeders'' has an entire race of these that mess with electronic equipment and walk through walls. Needless to say, they are seen as bad.

** Maya seems to be the only one who isn't evil, but she can't exactly talk either.

* Tsukiyomi Ikuto from ''[[Shugo Chara]]'' has a catboy as his guardian chara, and therefore being a catboy represents his inner would-be self. Sometimes Ikuto himself has cat ears just like his chara as part of his Chara Change.

* Kyouka from ''[[Kyouran Kazoku Nikki]]'', a [[Genki Girl|hyperactive]] [[Older Than They Look|young-looking]] catgirl who was worshiped as a goddess, and views herself as such. She's the ''mother figure'' in the family.

* In the setting of ''[[How Not to Summon a Demon Lord]]'', all the races except humans are a [[Little Bit Beastly]], and Pantherians have cat ears and tails. Eyes too, when they get excited or angry.

* There's an entire race of cat-people in ''[[Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?]]''. Two of the waitresses at the protagonists' favorite tavern are catgirls.

 

===[[Cat Eared Headband]] Costumers and Cosplayers===

* Something of a homage, the ''[[Genshiken]]'' club members try to persuade Saki to wear a set of cat-ears, despite her violent opposition and retaliation.

* Parodied in ''[[Tsukuyomi Moon Phase]]'': Hazuki is a vampire, but Kouhei's grandpa asked her to wear a pair of cat ears.

* ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'' finally delves into this turning Izumi into one through possession in chapters [http://img-a.onemanga.com/mangas/00000057/000325312/04.jpg 274 and 275]{{Dead link}}, including the inclusion of proving just how much of a [[Chaste Hero]] Hayate is.

** Hayate is also forced into one early on, Allowing him to be raped by the tiger. Oh yeah, the head butler also tries a move. Hayate is on the absolute verge of tears. At least it's better than the sailor suit..oh wait...no it's not...

* ''[[Puella Magi Oriko Magica]]''{{'}}s Yuma has a Catgirl-themed [[Magical Girl]] outfit.

** As does ''[[Kazumi Magica]]'''s Satomi.

* Fam from ''[[Ruin Explorers]]'' has a cat tail and a pair of [[Cute Little Fangs]].

* One of the local youkai shown in episode 19 of ''[[Our Home's Fox Deity.]]'' is a catgirl... or, rather, a middle-aged cat-''woman''. In this universe, cat-people don't remain young and cute forever.

 

== Comic Books ==

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* ''[[Ninja Sentai Kakuranger]]'' featured a monster-of-the-week based on the [[Youkai|Bakeneko]].

 

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** Cat people are also one of the "chimeras" in ''[[GURPS]] Technomancer''. They look something like the Cat-Nuns in ''[[Doctor Who]]''. Cat halflings however, resemble conventional catgirls.

* ''[[Shadowrun]]'' has catgirls/catboys thanks to a spike in the mana levels when Halley's Comet swung around, triggering what became known as Sudden Unexplained Recessive Genetic Expression, or SURGE. Only a small percentage of the SURGE-affected population became actual cat-people, though - the majority of people are more [[Furry Fandom|drastically affected]].

** Actually SURGE began with the Sixth World, when elves and dwarves first appeared. The Halley's Comet just caused a sudden and significant raise in magic level that triggered another wave of transformations (as it happened with orcs and trolls a few decades earlier) in humans. This time it was pretty random, and ranged from simple cosmetic changes, to serious cthulhu-esque monstrosities. These metahumans are known commonly as "changelings". You can find the catgirl stuff in the 'Runner's Companion'. Also, the SR level of cosmetic surgery allows easy and not-so-expensive modifications, so if you want to, you can be a catgirl.

== [[Video Games]] ==

* In ''[[Growlanser]]: Wayfarer of Time'' Leona, one of the party members and potential romance options, has the ears and tail of a cat.

* Xiao from the first ''[[Dark Cloud]]'' game is an interesting case. She starts out as a regular stray cat found in one of the game's dungeons, and an item used to advance later on turns her into a human, and also the first ally in your party. In ''[[Dark Cloud]] 2'', a [[Cat Eared Headband|cat-girl costume]] can be acquired for the female main character

* Additional video game example: The Mithra from ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'' are an entire ''race'' of catgirls.

* ''[[Exterminatus Now]]'' has anthropomorphic characters, including one cat-boy. Drawn in Sonic-style artwork (the story however is not for children), the characters are humanoid animals, not just humans with animal ears and tails, as they all belong to the same race. However, they identify their ''species'' as "fox" or "penguin" or even "zebra" according to their appearance.

* Mzzkiti from ''Freighter Tails'' and ''Cross Time Cafe''.

** Repeatedly respawning just to die again seconds later can be more of a curse than a blessing, especially when he pisses off the Elf.

* The jury's still out on whether or not Gina from ''[[Outside Interference]]'' is a cat. Although she has cat-like ears and features, she lacks any visible tail, in a setting where all the other [[Anthro]] characters have them.

* ''[[Fiyora Nya]]'' has Ayako, Sierra, and catboys Ryuuko and Ichirou.

* Katt o' Nine Tails in ''[[Spinnerette]]'', a [[Canada, Eh?|French Canadian]] superheroine who, from what little we've heard so far, gained her powers from a magical cat. Unusually for this character type, Katt has ([[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|as her name suggests]]) no less than nine fully prehensile tails. She's also apparently a fantastic masseuse.

* Aryssa Katrina of Nick Meyer's [[Verboten]] is a cat girl in the classical mold. This is because she's [[Half-Human Hybrid|part feralian]]—a species of humanoid felines with a tribal, [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]] society. Since she's only ''half'' feralian, she's a cute [[Petting Zoo Person]], but she lacks the agility and strength of full feralians, and she's not too popular with her tribe.

* Most of the main characters in [[Bittersweet Candy Bowl]].

* Fauna of [[DC Nation]] defaults to a felinoid form during a battle. A cat is simply, pound for pound, one of the most effective land predators on the planet, making it a rather useful fallback for a fight.

* [http://accessworld.deviantart.com AccessWorld] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20131017055153/http://bewildered.deviantart.com/ Bridget E. Wilde] on [[Deviant ART]], have catgirl characters.

* ''[[MSF High Forum]]'': Michelle is this crossed with Legion, Jess and Mira however are full Cat Girls though. Justin Mclish on the other hand is a cat boy.

** Don't forget Neko, the nine-year-old kitten-girl. Pure evil, in much the same sense as GIR.

* One of the more common results of biomodification in ''[[Fenspace]]''. However, most catgirls in Fenspace are the result of the Boskonian [[Baleful Polymorph|Catgirling Machine]].

** There is an entire asteroid populated almost exclusively by catgirls -- who are also engineers, [[Wrench Wench|technicians]] and [[Mad Scientist]]s.

 

== Western Animation ==