History Main / CruellatoAnimals

* In ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'' #18 (2011) the villain Jade Claw is introduced being served by beefcake men, using a servant as table and with the following food: "Dinner is served, Madame. Cantonese noodles with seared hummingbird hearts and caramelized butterfly brains. Grilled bull elephant tongue with shitake mushrooms and bald eagle hollandaise. Curried Tyrannosaurus Pate, imported fresh from the Savage Land. Baby Seal Soufflé a la mode. And Bacon wrapped tiger eyes sautéed, as always, in the tears of your enemies." The "dinner" starts out ridiculous, goes on to involves mostly very endangered species and serves the plot not for a single inch except to [[KickTheDog illustrate just how evil she is]].
* In "Half-Baked," in issue #40 of ''Tales from the Crypt'', the owner of a seafood restaurant delights in the suffering of lobsters because he considers them "ugly," a sentiment which prompts his chef to remark "''Perhaps''...to a ''lobster''...it is ''you'' who are ''ugly'', Mr. Dugan!" In a bit of karmic justice, [[spoiler: he dies in a flaming car wreck with his body split open.]]

-->"OH! I'm ''shaking'' in my ''custom baby seal leather boots!''"

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'': "OH! I'm ''shaking'' in my ''custom baby seal leather boots!''"

* One of ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie'''s many antagonists is [[HumansAreCthulhu the Cyclops]], an old-timey diver who kidnaps sea creatures and dries them out to sell as knick-knacks at his souvenir shop, Shell City. As expected, he loves his job just a ''tad'' bit too much, laughing maniacally at the suffering of his catches.

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* In "Half-Baked," in issue #40 of ''Tales from the Crypt'', the owner of a seafood restaurant delighted in the suffering of lobsters because he considered them "ugly," a sentiment which prompted his chef to remark "''Perhaps''...to a ''lobster''...it is ''you'' who are ''ugly'', Mr. Dugan!" In a bit of karmic justice, [[spoiler: he died in a flaming car wreck with his body split open.]]

%%* Caym, demon prince of animals, and his servants in ''TabletopGame/InNomineSatanisMagnaVeritas''. He's absent from the American version ''TabletopGame/InNomine''.
* Subverted in {{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles And Other Strangeness}} while {{Mad Scientist}} Doctor Feral sounds like he should be the poster boy for this trope, the Gamebook goes out of its way to state he ISN'T cruel he just has a strange sort of view of the world where he sees anything non-human as either a tool or as a candidate for experimentation and is noted for being 'extremely polite' [[AffablyEvil even to his vivisection victims!]]
* While wearing the skin of your enemies is a common fashion statement in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', it's most prevalent among Chaos forces and the Dark Eldar. Among them, a certain [[ShoutOut Kruel]][[Literature/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians lagh]] the Vile, known as "da skinna" by the Orks...

** Exaggerated in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'', an evil looking old woman, resembling a fatter version of Cruella, buys the fresh and bloody skin of Scratchy the cat, off the Itchy, the show's villain to wear. Scratchy wasn't just a cat, but a humanoid sapient being that was literally just shopping at the mall with the other humans and his skin even still had his WhiteGloves on it!

* ''WesternAnimation/RugratsInParis'': Coco herself qualifies as one of these.

* Referred to in the Italian film ''Film/{{Fantozzi}} 2000'' where one of the female characters buys an " precious coat made from panda fur.... ", panda that was "clubbed to death with a sledgehammer."
* In ''Film/{{Beethoven}},'' you'd think there would be better and easier ways to test a new type of explosive handgun round, but the villain seems to take a perverse pleasure in using dogs.

* ''Literature/TheGloveOfDarthVader'' is all over this. Trioculus takes a break from pursuing our heroes to hunt animals.

* Caym, demon prince of animals, and his servants in ''TabletopGame/InNomineSatanisMagnaVeritas''. He's absent from the American version ''TabletopGame/InNomine''.

* Alexa from ''[[http://www.shapequest.net Shape Quest]]'', who is a scientist for the military.

* Baron [=DeKlau=] in a few episodes of the ''[[WesternAnimation/AceVentura Ace Ventura: Pet Detective]]'' series, with a touch of AristocratsAreEvil.

Someone who [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals delights in animals suffering]] when used to make food and clothing from them. Someone who prefers any product which required an animal to die. Fur is not for [[PrettyInMink warmth, style, or just enjoying how it feels]], it's because [[KickTheDog they know innocent creatures died for it]]. Or if makeup is [[AnimalTesting tested on animals]], it's not better because of any supposed advantages to the testing, but because these people know that their hair spray has also hurt innocent creatures. [[MeatVersusVeggies Meat is not merely a valuable source of protein, but it's delicious because an animal died]].

* The High Horse, in Graham Masterton's ''Night Wars'', is a particularly {{squick}}y example of this trope (then again, it's ''[[{{Gorn}} Masterton]]''). He wears a cape of live animals sewn together...and [[MeaningfulName rides three horses stacked on top of each other and fastened by bolts]].

* Cruella [=DeVil=]’s killer fashion sense is implied to expand to other animals, not just dogs in the [[Film/101Dalmatians1996 Disney live-action remake]], as she gets her goons to steal a beloved rare white tiger from the zoo and turning it into a rug for her room.

* Cruella [=DeVil=]’s killer fashion sense is implied to expand to other animals, not just dogs in the [[101Dalmatians1996 live-action remake]], as she gets her goons to steal a beloved rare white tiger from the zoo and turning it into a rug for her room.

* The 1995 film ''The Last Supper'' was about a group of liberal college students inviting over [[StrawmanPolitical conservative classmates]] to gradually murder them. One of those was Jason Alexander, credited as "The Anti-Environmentalist."

* In ''The Freshman'', an underground restaurant serves jaded gourmands meals which are specifically made from endangered species. While actual suffering on the animals' part isn't guaranteed, the diners pay extra when assured the animal they're eating is the LastOfHisKind [[spoiler: (but not really; they're actually served oddly-seasoned supermarket meats)]].

* Although it's only mentioned in a throwaway joke, Shiho of ''Manga/ZettaiKarenChildren'', who's a [[PsychicPowers psychometer who can read the memories and feelings of objects she touches]], mentions that she finds the fear and suffering of whatever meat she's eating to be the best spice.

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This trope is seldom TruthInTelevision. Sadists who tend to hurt animals directly tend to move on to hurting people, and people who wear fur or eat meat are mostly not doing so for sadistic reasons. Most animal rights activists likely don't believe this is true either, as they bank on people's compassion in many of their campaigns -- not that that [[TheWarOnStraw stops them invoking this trope]] ''in'' said campaigns.

* The Extinctionists in the sixth Literature/ArtemisFowl book, ''The Time Parodox'', act like this. They are described as haters of animals that they feel are useless to humans, and they wear expensive fur coats and other animal skin clothing. In a novel twist, some are described as hating animals so much that they are vegetarians and will not eat animals. "How could I sully my body by ingesting such a disgusting creature?"

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie'' briefly features one such sadist who laughs maniacally while drying sea creatures out to sell as knickknacks at his souvenir shop.

* Cruella De Vil from ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' is the TropeNamer, though the movie downplays this aspect compared to the book.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1'' introduces a comedic example in the form of an AxCrazy chef who gleefully hacks up fish while [[https://youtu.be/UoJxBEQRLd0 singing a gruesome little ditty about it]].

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