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See [[Fantastic Foxes]] and [[Kitsune]] for the myths, legends, and fables that inspired this trope. Compare [[Rascally Raccoon]] for another trickster animal stereotype.
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== Anime and Manga ==
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** The fox (usually female) is most always a sly trickster in Russian folklore and works based on it.
*** In one Russian fairy-tale, a living round bread who had managed to escape an old man and his wife, a hare, a wolf and even a bear, was easily tricked by a fox and [[The Bad Guy Wins|eaten]].
** If a fox shows up in a Scandinavian folktale, you know that it's going to at some point trick or at least deceive ''someone'' in an amusing way -- and if a [[
** A common punchline in Hungarian fairy tales is that a fox manages to trick several people ([[Take That|usually of a Slavic ethnicity]]) until he's double crossed by a Szekler, who are also known for their wits and unusually non conventional way of thinking.
** [[Aesop's Fables (Literature)|Aesop's Fables]], probably the [[Ur Example]]:
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== Theater ==
* As in the picture at the top of this page: ''The Cunning Little Vixen'' (''Píhody Liky Bystrouky''), best known as an opera by Leo Janáek, tells the story of a vixen who is orphaned as a cub, captured by a forester, but eventually escapes, tricks a badger into leaving his hole and taking it for her own, finds and marries a handsome fox, and raises a family of cunning children.
* Referenced in ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'' when Gremio refers to himself as "an old Italian fox". Ironically, Gremio is a rather foolish character (being based on the [[Commedia Dell
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== Web Original ==
* [[SCP Foundation (Wiki)|SCP-953]] is a [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-953 very, very nasty nine-tailed Kumiho]. She once slaughtered twenty-seven people at a furry convention, and the first time a group of agents cornered her, she used [[Master of Illusion]] abilities and a [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] act to horribly murder all of them except the one Korean agent on the team; the rest assumed that she was a kitsune and fell for it badly. Yeah, she's smart. Really smart. In the most [[Squick|disgusting, horrifying]] way possible.
* Mr. Fox in ''[[Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time]]'' lives up to his name in full. This is a guy who manages to strategically win against the Chef in almost anything, is not afraid to [[Combat Pragmatist|play dirty]] when he doesn't (like pulling a gun on his opponent during an arm wrestling match), and ''loves'' playing pranks on the chef, like stealing all the toilet paper when he's on the toilet [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and sending him links leading to Rebecca Black's Friday]].
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