* CarnivoreConfusion: Given that all animals are sapient and can talk, it potentially causes a few issues. It comes up a lot more in the comic, where most of the cats (even otherwise sympathetic ones) have no qualms trying to eat talking mice or birds. In the cartoon, the cats eat mostly garbage or food fed to them by a kindly old lady, and not their pigeon friend.
* CatsAreMean: Averted. Cats have different temperaments and personalities, just like humans -- in the cartoon, most of them are even implausibly friendly with other animals that real life cats consider food, or at least prey. A lot of Hubert's friends are {{Jerkass}}es to Billy to begin with, but come around eventually. The only cat who can really be considered mean is Sanctifer, who in the comic is KilledOffForReal while in the cartoon has been toned down and goes through quite a bit of DiminishingVillainThreat.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Several characters, though none more prominent than Jumbo the pigeon, who thinks he's an airplane -- or at least that he might become one if he acts enough like one.
* FishOutOfWater: Billy has no idea how to survive as a cat.

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* AGodAmI: Sanctifer slips into this -- or rather, drops any pretense that he isn't like this -- towards the end of the first comic after having beaten Hubert thoroughly and is about to leave him to die:
-->"You see, the difference between us is that you're going to die, and I'm going to live! But that's not all: No one will mourn your passing! There are thousands of cats like you, so alike that they can't even tell one another apart. ''I'' am Sanctifer, the chosen one of the divine cats, the prime example of the ressurection of our immortal powers! I'm the prophet of the rebirth of our kind! I'm the purifier!
* AnimalTesting: ''In the Skin of a Cat'' has a dark, creepy underground lab in an old factory where animals are kept in cages and experimented upon. It's never made clear just what the experiments are for (nor do we see the actual experiments -- just the imprisoned animals, some of whom have been driven insane by the experiments), but it seems to be a shady and most likely illegal business.
* ArtEvolution: The first three comics are drawn in a noticeably different style than the latter ones; it's most noticable with Hubert.
** The pilot comic looks very different; Billy looks nothing like he does in the series proper, and some of the cats are HalfDressedCartoonAnimals -- the series has them as AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimals at the most. 
* BadSamaritan: Sanctifer in the first comic. He takes Billy in under his wing, but proves to be a ManipulativeBastard with megalomaniac tendencies.

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18th Oct '12 7:02:46 PM moderator blackcat

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