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* ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'': During the Royal Blood arc, one of the activities the depraved rich people engage in is sticking two shaved, starved cats in a glass jar so they'll fight. The art makes them look ''skinned'' rather than shaved.

** The sequel, ''Cats & Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Galore'', introduces good cats to the series, but this time the villain is a Sphinx.[[note]]Or rather, is ''played'' by a Sphinx. Her backstory involved her falling into a vat of hair removal cream.[[/note]] Her hairlessness does not go unnoticed by others, who poke fun of it.
* The Oviraptor and Velociraptor in ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'' are a product of ScienceMarchesOn, but their featherlessness fits this trope: the Oviraptor look like wrinkly plucked turkeys, while the Velociraptor, unlike the ''Film/JurassicPark'' raptors, are thin and gangly and more accurately modeled on ''Velociraptor mongoliensis'' than the JP ones based on ''Deinonychus''.
* ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'': Rocket, TheBully chimpanzee who sics his gang on Caeser when he's brought to the ape shelter, is distinctively identified from all the other chimps by his baldness. However, [[spoiler:Rocket doesn't stay a bad guy forever, eventually reneging to Caeser's command and ultimately becoming one of his most trusted allies.]]
* Mewtwo and Mew have been canonically hairless for years, but most fans didn't know this or, when learning of it, deliberately ignored it due to this trope. So when ''Film/DetectivePikachu'' portrayed Mewtwo as hairless and had online images of Mew as such as well, some fans were genuinely shocked. It's one thing to make Pikachu fluffy instead of smoothed haired, it's another to reveal that a good looking Pokemon is actually supposed to look quite creepy and human...(as well as sphynx/fetus like).

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* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' supplement ''The Fungi from Yuggoth''. In chapter VII "By the Bay Part II", the Investigators can find some mice that have been subjected to bizarre experiments by a MadScientist. The mice are disgustingly pink, hairless and misshapen.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series has many post-apocalyptic creatures that have mutated and lost much if not all of their fur, from "bighorners" to "brahmin" to "radstags," but this trope is most apparent with the lethal [[BearsAreBadNews "yao guai,"]] who are plenty frightening to look at even before you realize [[LightningBruiser how strong and fast they are.]] That same radiation has also turned the already-naked mole rat into [[RodentsOfUnusualSize cougar-sized pack hunters]] with NestedMouths and a penchant for [[DigAttack bursting out of the ground to ambush prey.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': [[TeamPet Ron Stoppable's pet Rufus]] is a naked mole rat. Ron and Kim are used to him, but others tend to be grossed out, to the point the refrain of his ImageSong is "What is that--that freaky thing?!" [[InformedDeformity Audiences aren't likely to agree]], considering his character design lacks the less attractive details of the real animal. Oddly, Rufus looked creepier as a baby, because of bulging eyes and visible veins showing through his skin.

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* In 2009 a German zoo made news for its bears all getting an affliction where they lost almost all their fur. Usually, furry animals end up looking silly when you remove all the hair. Bears, on the other hand, look like [[http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/11/04/article-1225042-0711FC57000005DC-753_634x693.jpg something that belongs in a D&D monster manual]].[[/folder]]

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' with Ron Stoppable's pet Rufus, who is a naked mole rat. When Ron was looking for a pet without fur because of his dad's allergies to fur, he found Rufus. His parents, and his best friend Kim, were freaked out by Rufus' appearance at first because Rufus was a baby at the time and looked much creepier than he would later look while fully-grown, having bulging eyes and visible veins showing through his skin. Eventually, however, they began to love him and he became the TeamPet.

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' with Ron Stoppable's pet Rufus, who is a naked mole rat. When Ron was looking for a pet without fur because of his parents' allergies to fur, he found Rufus. His parents, and his best friend Kim, were freaked out by Rufus' appearance at first because Rufus was a baby at the time and looked much creepier than his adult form. Eventually, however, they began to love him and he became the TeamPet.

* In Creator/NancyACollins's ''Literature/GolgothamTrilogy'', the [[AllWitchesHaveCats feline]] {{Familiar}} Scratch appears as a winged Sphynx cat in his SleepModeSize. Sure, at least one character still considers him UglyCute (while she's high as a kite, at least); still, not ''only'' are familiars [[OurDemonsAreDifferent explicitly demons]] (albeit ''not'' AlwaysChaoticEvil]]} in the setting, but his [[LetsGetDangerous battle form]] is [[CatlikeDragons a sort of mash-up of dragon and smilodon]].

* In Creator/NancyCollins's ''Literature/GolgothamTrilogy'', the [[AllWitchesHaveCats feline]] {{Familiar}} Scratch appears as a winged Sphynx cat in his SleepModeSize. Sure, at least one character still considers him UglyCute (while she's high as a kite, at least); still, not ''only'' are familiars [[OurDemonsAreDifferent explicitly demons]] (albeit ''not'' AlwaysChaoticEvil]]} in the setting, but his [[LetsGetDangerous battle form]] is [[CatlikeDragons a sort of mash-up of dragon and smilodon]].

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