History Main / FurAndLoathing

This is not about the politics of wearing fur, but simply how the mainstream media has portrayed it since the mid-1980s. In that time, groups such as PETA finally gained some traction, through celebrities building up a BandWagonTechnique. Wearing animal fur was considered the mark of evil. Leather is usually given a pass since the rest of the animal was killed for meat anyway, and as Creator/TerryPratchett put it, "would ''you'' tell a [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels 300-pound biker]] to give up his jacket?"[[note]][[http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/peta-crashes-biker-gathering-not-to-be-missed/27275 someone did...]][[/note]]

For the dining equivalent, see ExoticEntree. Compare AcceptableTargets, GoodSmokingEvilSmoking, ItsFakeFurItsFine, GenuineHumanHide. Contrast PrettyInMink.

* While it's not an entire fur coat, bounty hunter Boba Fett from ''Franchise/StarWars,'' decorates his armor with braids made from ''the pelts of Wookies.'' Not only does this signify that he's a badass, since Wookies are enormous bruisers, also that he's ruthless enough to skin sentient creatures when he's done killing them. Notably when he's starring as the protagonist in ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'', the pelts are conspicuously absent.

No relation to the CSI episode of the same name, or [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom its subject]].

* Izaya Orihara from ''{{LightNovel/Durarara}}'' is rarely seen without his fur-lined coat. He also enjoys [[{{Troll}} toying with people]] because [[ItAmusedMe It Amused Him]].

* Earlier chapters of ''Manga/InuYasha'' has the titular hero and Kagome confront a pair of minor demon brothers who were the personal enemies of fox youkai BrattyHalfPint Shippo because they were responsible for killing his father and wearing his fur.

{{Webcomic/Realmwalker}} has Luideag, an evil loch monster who wears a baby seal fur stole [[spoiler: that is actually a baby selkie's pelt]]

It should be noted that cavemen, [[MagicalNativeAmerican Native Americans]] and Arctic tribes like the Inuit never wear fur, they wear ''skins'', so it's all right, since it makes you CloserToEarth as a culture. Note that in RealLife, Inuit and northern Indians actually do wear fur in modern days, and not the synthetic kind which doesn't retain heat as well. Political correctness goes out the window at 40 below. Same goes with [[HuskyRusskie Russians]], who aren't politically correct people in general but are baffled by this trend especially and tend to think anti-fur activists are [[AnimalWrongsGroup all deranged freaks]].

One of TheNewestOnesInTheBook.

For the dining equivalent, see ExoticEntree. Compare HollywoodDressCode, AcceptableTargets, GoodSmokingEvilSmoking, ItsFakeFurItsFine, GenuineHumanHide. Contrast PrettyInMink.

So wearing fur in media has now become part of the HollywoodDressCode, often to show how corrupted characters have become. Wearing fur identifies you as:

* Opillion, one of the Domitors in '' Manga/{{Radiant}}'' wears a black and white striped fur coat, but is [[Subverted subverted]] as is revealed to be actually his Nemesis which resembles a hairy snake with razor-sharp spider legs.

* Opillion, one of the Domitors in '' Manga/{{Radiant}}'' wears a black and white stripped fur coat, but is [[SurbvertedTrope subverted]] as is revealed to be actually his Nemesis which resembles a hairy snake with razor-sharp spider legs.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'', after the show's VillainProtagonist, Itchy the mouse skins the show's hero, Scratchy the cat alive at a mall, a sinister looking RichBitch buys Scratchy's skin off Itchy to wear. Extra creepy as the skin had clearly come from a humanoid sentient being, the WhiteGloves were even still attached.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'', after the show's villainProtagonist, Itchy the mouse skins the show's hero, Scratchy the cat alive at a mall, a sinister looking RichBitch buys Scratchy's skin off Itchy to wear. Extra creepy as the skin had clearly come from a humanoid sentient being, the WhiteGloves were even still attached.

Webcomic/Realmwalker has Luideag, an evil loch monster who wears a baby seal fur stole [[spoiler: that is actually a baby selkie's pelt]]

* It gets a bit ridiculous in Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''Crosstime Traffic'' novel ''Gunpowder Empire''. The two main characters will literally stop whatever is happening just to talk about how nobody wears fur anymore and how polite society sees it as repulsive. This doesn't just happen once, but about 9 times in a 200 or so page book. The alternate timeline never saw the Roman Empire fall or technology advance much past our timeline's 400 AD. Still, even if they're in northern Europe and freezing, "FUR IS EVIL!"

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'', Itchy (the mouse) skins Scratchy (the cat) alive and sells Scratchy's fur-covered skin to a GrandeDame. Scratchy, sans skin, accosts the Dame and takes his skin back, wrapping it around his neck. He leaves the store and is immediately pelted with red paint by a PETA-type group holding signs like "Fur is Murder."

* Izaya Orihara from ''{{LightNovel/Durarara}}'' is rarely seen without his fur-lined coat. He also enjoys [[{{Troll}} toying with people]] ForTheLulz.

* A rather ghoulish example happens in one ComicBook/{{Spider Man}} story, where a gangster's wife brags about her new coat, which she believes was taken from Tigra. (Her husband seemingly convinced her that he had killed and skinned Tigra, although everyone present at the event realized he was a BadLiar trying to make himself look big.)

* ComicBook/EmmaFrost from ''Comicbook/XMen'' is a definite RichBitch (although she wasn't as much of an actual bitch as she suddenly became). Her most famous outfit has a cape with a huge white fox collar (assuming this outfit was made for real). However, she first appeared in 1980. Yet when she turned into a hero, it was the early 1990s, and her outfits didn't include fur. Of course the costume may make her look like a FemmeFatale, but in a comic book, even the Queen of England would dress [[{{Stripperiffic}} like that]] ([[IWasQuiteALooker at least when she was younger]]).

* It gets a bit ridiculous in Creator/HarryTurtledove's Crosstime Traffic novel Gunpowder Empire. The two main characters will literally stop whatever is happening just to talk about how nobody wears fur anymore and how polite society sees it as repulsive. This doesn't just happen once, but about 9 times in a 200 or so page book. The alternate timeline never saw the Roman Empire fall or technology advance much past our timeline's 400 AD. Still, even if they're in northern Europe and freezing, "FUR IS EVIL!"

* In VideoGame/BeneathASteelSky, Lamb is proud that his coat is made from the last 10 beavers of the world.

[[folder:Web Comics]]

!!RichBitch

* The warden in ''[[Anime/GuyDoubleTarget Guy Awakening of the Devil]]'' is cruel and greedy. At the end, when the prison is being destroyed by some weird energy waves, she stops to grab [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/guy_dt_00_7526.jpg a white fox coat and her jewelry]]. She then has a DeathByMaterialism.

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': Oswald "The Penguin" Cobblepot sometimes wears fur scarves or coats.
* ComicBook/EmmaFrost from ''Comicbook/XMen'' is a definite RichBitch (although she wasn't as much of an actual bitch as she suddenly became). Her most famous outfit has a cape with a huge white fox collar (assuming this outfit was made for real). However, she first appeared in 1980. Yet when she turned into a hero, it was the early 1990s, and her outfits didn't include fur. Of course the costume may make her look like a FemmeFatale, but in a comic book, even the Queen of England would dress [[{{Stripperiffic}} like that]] ([[IWasQuiteALooker at least when she was younger]]).
* A rather ghoulish example happens in one ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' story, where a gangster's wife brags about her new coat, which she believes was taken from Tigra. (Her husband seemingly convinced her that he had killed and skinned Tigra, although everyone present at the event realized he was a BadLiar trying to make himself look big.)

* ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'': Sabretooth's [[PimpDuds pimp coat]].

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* In ''Film/GirlsJustWantToHaveFun'', TheRival is a RichBitch, and [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gjwthf_tm_00_32.jpg wears a white fur jacket]] for the scene when she first meets the protagonist.
* In ''Film/AceVenturaWhenNatureCalls'', Ace confronts a woman wearing all kinds of animal products, who dismisses him as "another ''activist''," and goes on "There's nothing wrong with enjoying the fruits of nature. I suggest you try it sometime." Ace does so, punching her husband and then dancing around with the man on his shoulders.
* Darla Dimple, EnfanteTerrible BigBad of ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'' wears fur coats and mink stoles...''in a world where'' all ''animals are apparently sentient.''
* In The Stallone/Banderas film ''Film/{{Assassins}}'', Julianne Moore's animal-loving character spray-paints a woman's fur coat while standing in an elevator and making a "shhhhh" sound to mask the sound of the spraycan. The implication is that she's a free spirit while the fur-wearing woman is a RichBitch.
* Veruca from the 2005 ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' film. (Though her fur is fake.) Past versions weren't this trope -- she was merely a PrettyInMink SpoiledBrat.
* Emma Frost from ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', sometimes wears a mink.
* In ''Film/ItCouldHappenToYou'' one of the first things Muriel buys with the lottery money is a fur coat, only to be immediately splashed with red paint by protesters.

[[folder:Literature]]
* Genius Pixie Opal Koboi in ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'': the Opal Deception has fur-covered seats in her custom-built luxury shuttle, as a sign of her leaving behind the fairy world (most fairies are vegan), and embracing [[HumansAreBastards the human world]]. It should be noted that leather doesn't get a pass in this setting, either; had the seats been made of leather it would have been just as abhorrent to the fairies. However, even Artemis is disgusted by the fur seats.
* In “Junie B. Jones is Not a Crook”, Lucille says that her grandmother can’t wear her mink coat in public or else people will throw paint on her.

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': Miss Enright, Miss Brooks' snooty, catty [[SitcomArchNemesis rival]], brags about her furs as well as other expensive clothes.
* Even though ''Series/{{Dallas}}'' and ''Series/Dynasty1981'' started in 1978 and 1981 respectively, it seemed in later years, these shows and their spinoffs gave most of the fur coats to the RichBitch characters.
* In the musical episode of ''Series/XPlay'', after receiving lucrative contracts to produce their own games and stressing out factory workers to make it, Adam and Morgan go from snarky video game reviewers to rich snobs. The first shot of them after the factory scene starts with a close up of a pair of high-heels stepping onto the sidewalk, panning up a fur coat, and then to Adam's head. Morgan joins him a second later in a business suit.
* In an episode of ''Series/DesigningWomen'' Suzanne Sugarbaker (played by Delta Burke) is criticized for her new fur coat she shows off by her sister and after being attacked by animal rights activists ends up with a broken arm and refuses to have the coat cut off of herself to set the arm resulting in her spending weeks in the coat while her arm heals. At the end she swears off fur simply because she spent so much time trapped in it.
* ''Series/ADifferentWorld'''s Whitley was occasionally seen wearing a fur coat. When one of her boyfriend Byron's political supporters chastises her for it and even insinuates that she'll withdraw her endorsement because of it, Whitley calmly and coolly informs her that her owning a fur is ''her'' business and should have no bearing on whether or not she supports Byron's Senate run.
* An episode of ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' had Elaine confront a woman George was trying to score with for wearing a fur. Her response to the question of whether it was real: "It better be, or my ex-husband owes me an explanation."
* In ''Series/StarskyAndHutch'', Hutch's thieving ex-wife shows up in a white fur coat.

[[folder:Video Games]]
* Courtney Gears of ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal'' says Ratchet would make a nice fur coat.

[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight's'' [[BigBad Gilgamesh]] becomes the male example when he appears in a pimped-out fur coat as his 'civilian' dress. This wasn't part of his uniform when he was summoned into the world, but he went shopping and consciously selected it. Personal traits include haughty, disdainful of all others, proud of his vast riches and in fact considers himself owner of ''everything'' in the world -- does he fit the RichBitch aspect yet?

[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Mallory Archer from ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' has a regular account at a furrier. Definitely a RichBitch, often seen in furs.
* Indirectly done in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', in the episode when Lois is mayor. She agrees to allow pollution so she can buy a fur coat. She relents, though, and doesn't have to give back the coat, but [[SnapBack the coat is never worn after that]].

!!TheDitz, TheVamp, or FemmeFatale

[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Suzu from ''Manga/PeacemakerKurogane'', during the sequel, after he becomes an AxCrazy DepravedHomosexual. Just to cement the fact that he's evil, he wears a long, black fur robe (without wearing any clothes inside).
* Alluded to in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure''. Tai jokes that Mimi - the team's resident GirlyGirl - may steal Gabumon's fur to keep warm. Funnily enough a few episodes later it's revealed that Gabumon can remove his fur willingly.

[[folder:Fan Works]]
* This [[http://olieboldador.deviantart.com/art/Dresden-Files-Queen-Mab-478002029 fanart]] of [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Queen Mab]] shows her wearing a fox-fur shawl (complete with taxidermied eyes and nose)- one of many ways the image implies her callous, fearsome personality.

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/BatmanReturns'':
** The Ice Princess is a total bimbo. While the villainous Catwoman doesn't even wear leather -- she wears vinyl -- so she lives, the Ice Princess, well... For wearing fur, RedemptionEqualsDeath.
** Max Shreck and his son Chip also wear fur-lined coats in the movie, but they're more the RichBitch type.
* ''Film/{{Casino}}'', ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'', and ''Series/TheSopranos''. People wear fur, but they're in, or related to, the mob.
* In ''Film/SisterAct'' Deloris gets a mink coat from her mobster boyfriend in an attempt to win her back. She likes it until she sees the name of his wife embroidered inside it and [[EveryoneHasStandards gets upset that he actually gave her something that rightfully belonged to his wife]]. She goes to confront him about it which results in her witnessing his murder of his limo driver, which kickstarts the plot of the movie. The fur was used to show that Deloris was a bit TheVamp at the beginning of the movie.
* In ''Film/MissPettigrewLivesForADay'', Delysia Lafosse seems to like wearing fur. She even comments on how nice it feels on the skin. However, she makes this comment when she's supposed to be in the middle of a "serious" conversation. Then again, this may not count if that scene was in the original book, which was published in 1938.
* In ''Film/{{The Avengers|1998}}'', Mrs. Peel's clone wears a fur coat when she tries to murder Steed with a spear gun and pistol.

[[folder:Literature]]
* ''The Reincarnation of Peter Proud''. While the title character is swimming in a lake, a woman wearing a fur coat goes out to him in a boat. When she gets close to him she murders him with an oar.

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* Nikki, in the short-lived US version of ''Series/AsIf'', wore a fur coat, and she slept around.
* Any contestants wearing fur on ''Series/SnogMarryAvoid'' usually get a thrashing from POD.
* ''Series/MacGyver1985'': When Mac helps a runaway turned hooker in "Runners", she wears a [[PrettyInMink rabbit fur jacket]], until she's saved.

[[folder:Music Videos]]
* Even though a lot of rap and hip-hop videos brought fur back into the mainstream, they seem to be allowed more because most of the people wearing them are pimps and ho's.
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!!Other examples

[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Izaya Orihara from ''{{LightNovel/Durarara}}'' is rarely seen without his fur-lined coat. He also enjoys [[{{Troll}} toying with people]] ForTheLulz.
* Earlier chapters of ''Manga/InuYasha'' has the titular hero and Kagome confront a pair of minor demon brothers who were the personal enemies of fox youkai BrattyHalfPint Shippo because they were responsible for killing his father and wearing his fur.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* In the 1967 film of ''Film/DoctorDolittle,'' the doctor has a somber-but-angry musical number toward the middle of the movie, "Like Animals" where he sings about mankind's exploitative, demeaning, and cruel treatment of animals to a full courtroom. At the end of the song he specifically addresses some upper-class women watching the proceeding, all of whom are wearing fur.
-->''"When you dress in suede or leather, or some fancy fur or feather / did you stop and wonder whether for a fad, / you have killed some beast or other? And you're wearing someone's brother? / Or perhaps it's someone's mother in which you're clad."''
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/TheTraders": Despite being written in the 1940s, the Grand Master's fur collar is clearly being used to show how he's a greedy corrupt ruler for Askone.
* Little Red Riding Hood in Roald Dahl's ''Revolting Rhymes'' shoots TheBigBadWolf to get herself a fancy new coat. She is later called by a certain little pig who is being menaced by another bad wolf; unfortunately for the pig, her greed for accessories made out of animals doesn't stop at a second wolfskin coat.
* The despotic House Harkonnen of ''Dune'' fame earned its early success through manipulation of the market for Bjondax Whale fur.
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[[folder:Pinballs]]
* The Rider in Creator/{{Bally}}'s ''Pinball/{{Centaur}}'' wears a large fur shawl on the backglass, but it's unclear how antagonistic she's supposed to be.
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[[folder:Podcasts]]
* In the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' game of ''Podcast/CoolKidsTable'', Roc starts the game wearing a fur coat, though he later changes into a kimono.
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[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
* The Wrestling/{{WWE}} tag-team MNM, a pair of {{heel}}ish celebrity hangers-on, were known for their fur coats and boots. Oddly enough, their manager, a RichBitch [[TheVamp Vamp]] by the name of Wrestling/{{Melina}}, never wore fur, though she does seem to be fond of animal prints. One member, Johnny Nitro, kept the furs even as he transitioned to his new gimmick, an odd cross between the JerkJock and the WarriorPoet by the name of Wrestling/JohnMorrison.
* {{Wrestling/Sable}} is named after a special type of fur, and it counted as a MeaningfulName when considering her vampy primadonna character. When she was a face, it leaned more towards PrettyInMink.
* {{Wrestling/Carmella}} debuted as Wrestling/EnzoAndCass's TokenEvilTeammate, and wore a fur coat to the ring. When she TookALevelInKindness, she stopped wearing the fur.
* Jamie Noble - with a DeepSouth gimmick - got his ditzy girlfriend Nidia an expensive fur coat as a gift. Part of Nidia's HeelFaceTurn involved her putting the coat in a shredder.
* In addition to a whole bunch of wacky gear clearly designed to attract as much attention as possible,[[note]]Such as a bowler hat, umbrella, and plague doctor's mask[[/note]] "The Villain" ''Wrestling/MartyScurll'' usually wears a black fur coat to the ring.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/TheClueFinders3rdGradeAdventuresTheMysteryOfMathra'' has the main villain be someone who's illegally poaching animals for their furs.
* In VideoGame/BeneathASteelSky, Lamb is proud that his coat is made from the last 10 beavers of the world.
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* Hinted at in ''Webcomic/HannaIsNotABoysName'' with Doc Worth, a sort of ChaoticNeutral character whose fur trimmed-labcoat is meant to express not cruelty so much as sleaziness. [[WordOfGod According to the author]], the fur collar was meant to [[AnimalMotifs help mimic the look of a vulture.]]
* Many of the [[StrawMan Straw Men]] that inhabit ''Webcomic/VeganArtbook'' but [[CountryMatters Cuntons]] stands out in particular. She hates all animals except her pets for [[ForTheEvulz reasons]] and loathes wolves in particular for [[ForTheEvulz more reasons]]. So naturally she killed a wolf and now wears its skinned head as a very ghoulish hat.
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* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Braceface}}'' deals with a short tiff between Sharon and Maria when the former plans to participate in a fashion show involving clothes made out of real fur. In the end, Sharon decides to respect Maria's decision, whereas Maria has switched out all the real fur for faux fur.
* WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}} has "custom made baby seal leather boots", just [[CardCarryingVillain to try and prove that he's evil]].

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[[folder:Real Life]]
* It has been said that when she was in college, Ann Coulter would wear fur coats even in summer to annoy her classmates (whether for attention or political reasons).
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!!PoliticallyCorrectHistory

[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/TheRoadToWellville'' features characters in the early 20th century, acting like moderately militant PETA members. Whether people were actually like that at the time, it seems likely that this was more of a bow to politics at the time the film was made.
** There were indeed animal lovers at the time, but for the most part they only protested against ''blatant'' cruelty to animals.
* It gets a bit ridiculous in Creator/HarryTurtledove's Crosstime Traffic novel Gunpowder Empire. The two main characters will literally stop whatever is happening just to talk about how nobody wears fur anymore and how polite society sees it as repulsive. This doesn't just happen once, but about 9 times in a 200 or so page book. The alternate timeline never saw the Roman Empire fall or technology advance much past our timeline's 400 AD. Still, even if they're in northern Europe and freezing, "FUR IS EVIL!"
** Notably, the narration points out the hypocrisy involved. It's something of a hallmark of Turtledove to have characters express a viewpoint, while the narration points out the flaws and cultural viewpoints that shade that belief.
* ''Mary, Bloody Mary'' (a Mary Tudor POV novel) mentions Anne Boleyn owning an elegant sable coat.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* [[ErmineCapeEffect Royalty]] will either get no comment for wearing fur, or [[PoliticallyCorrectHistory they won't wear fur at all]].
* Actress Creator/DominiqueSwain is a member of PETA, but eats meat. This is the reason she's with them.
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!!Playing With (although any outright aversions should go in PrettyInMink instead)

[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Mello from ''Manga/DeathNote'' wears fur-lined coats and [[LeatherMan leather]]. He is a ruthless mafia leader, but [[AntiVillain he is also trying to stop Kira]].
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Played with in a ''ComicBook/JosieAndThePussycats'' comic. Alexandra has a line of fur coats, which Melody says is cruel. Alexandra explains that they are manmade, and starts naming off the synthetic ingredients. Melody [[DumbBlonde doesn't get it]] and demands she free the Orlons.
* Captain Cold in ''Franchise/TheFlash'' wears a parka; in one issue of the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse ''Justice League'' comic he tells the Flash that it's not trimmed with real fur because [[EvenEvilHasStandards he's an environmentalist]].
* In the Creator/ECComics Science-Fiction [=SuspenStory=] "What Fur?!", in a space-faring future where skunks are being driven to extinction due to demand for their pelts, a furrier seeks to make a killing on a little-explored small planet which is crawling with skunks. Unfortunately, this planet turns out also to have giant furry aliens who like to wear human skins around their necks.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* In an early ''ComicStrip/GetFuzzy'' Sunday strip, Bucky accuses a woman wearing a fleece coat on the subway of being a "Muppet killer".
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* InvertedTrope in ''Hell on Heels: The Battle for Mary Kay'', Mary Kay wears fur, and even gives a black mink coat to the best saleswoman each year. The film portrays these women as hard-working, while TheRival, who eventually makes her company fold, never wears fur.
* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''Film/BlackPanther2018'' with M'Baku, who's extremely antagonistic in his first appearance and later appears in an outfit with gorilla-fur accents. However, he proves to be a valuable ally to the protagonists.
* ''Film/SisterAct'' has a {{Downplayed|Trope}} example. Vince tries to buy Deloris' love back by giving her a mink coat dyed purple. Deloris really likes the coat and since she has another fur coat she clearly doesn't have any issue with wearing fur. However, she discovers that Vince's wife's name is embroidered inside the coat, which is when she gets mad. Even then, it's not the fact that it's a fur coat but it's the fact that Vince is trying to get her back with stealing somebody else's possession. Her storming to Vince's office to return it makes her an eyewitness to a murder, which kickstarts the plot.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Creator/TamoraPierce prefaces at least one of her books with a foreword telling animal rights groups that wearing animal furs is inevitable in a middle ages-based fantasy setting, and doesn't necessarily condone them in real life.
* In ''Literature/BrothersInArms'' by Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold, Miles Vorkosigan buys a "cat blanket" which is made of fur. The subversion is that the blanket is a genetically engineered living organism. It doesn't shed, is self-cleaning, lives via photosynthesis or microwave absorption, purrs, and snuggles up. Still, Miles, Ivan [[spoiler:and later Mark]], are by turns delighted and creeped out by it.
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[[folder:Music Videos]]
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzoEK545j64 video]] for Deee-Lite's "Groove Is In The Heart" points out that Lady Miss Kier is wearing fake fur.
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[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
* In the ''Literature/BookOfGenesis'' after Adam and Eve eat the ForbiddenFruit, they become aware that they are nude, and begin to view their nudity as shameful. So they sew fig leaves together to make loincloths for themselves. They are confronted by {{God}} and kicked out of the Garden of Eden to toil in the fields, suffer, grow old, feel pain, and die, never permitted back to the Garden again. But before He kicks them out, He gives them new clothes made out of animal skins, which is usually interpreted as the price for or consequence of sin being suffering and death (in this case, of whatever animals the skins came from). It could also be interpreted somewhat more positively as the idea that HumansAreSpecial, more than the animals.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In one episode, Phoebe on ''Series/{{Friends}}'' got a fur coat as a gift and, being the hippie of the group, constantly complained about how evil it was -- until she tried it on and decided it looked good. For the rest of the episode, she justified wearing it using very spurious and shaky logic, and eventually she gave it to a hobo when a squirrel made her feel guilty.
* ''Series/VeronicaMars'' [[FeeFiFauxPas wears a coat with a faux-fur collar]] while talking to some animal rights activists, realizes it, and takes it off. One of them sneaks behind her and moves to chop the collar off; Veronica catches her, shrieking "It's fake!" (This is probably important to actress Kristen Bell, who is herself one of the sane-ish kinds of animal rights activists.)
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* Despite the late medieval setting, in ''TabletopGame/{{Ironclaw}}'' the only character shown wearing something made from another creature's fur is [[http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/089/5/e/Ironclaw__Amalsand_by_andrewk.png Lady Amalsand Jakoba]], because every species of fur-bearing mammal [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals in the setting is sapient]]. There's plenty of leather though since reptiles aren't intelligent.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* This is spoofed in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''. One of the many cosmetic items replaces the Medic's lab coat with one that's been lined with white fur, and [[https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Der_Wintermantel the description]] offers a "guarantee" that "at least three endangered species went extinct during the making of this product", and then it ends with [[ItsFakeFurItsFine "Note: fur is synthetic"]].
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* Parodied by ''Webcomic/ZooLaLa'' in a similar way to the above mentioned Josie and the Pussycats example in [[http://i-got-rhythm.deviantart.com/gallery/36656679 this strip]]
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
** Given the level of technology in and where they live, Sokka and Katara are apparently wearing animal furs to keep warm, with no stigma attached. Although there is this dialogue in "Bato of the Water Tribe".
--->'''Katara:''' Bato! It looks like home!\\
'''Sokka:''' Everything's here, even the pelts!\\
'''Aang:''' ''[unenthusiastically]'' Yeah... nothing's cozier than dead animal skins.
** Of course, this makes sense given that Aang is a vegetarian and cares for animals in general. Using animal products as a matter of practicality is one thing, but it has to irk him slightly for his close friends to be EXCITED over it.
** A canon comic features a fur salesman using synthetic fur and going on a rant about the cruelty of real fur.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'', Itchy (the mouse) skins Scratchy (the cat) alive and sells Scratchy's fur-covered skin to a GrandeDame. Scratchy, sans skin, accosts the Dame and takes his skin back, wrapping it around his neck. He leaves the store and is immediately pelted with red paint by a PETA-type group holding signs like "Fur is Murder."

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* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': Oswald “The Penguin” Cobblepot sometimes wears fur scarves or coats.

* A rather ghoulish example happens in one ComicBook/{{Spider Man}} story, where a gangster's wife brags about her new coat, which she believes was taken from Tigra. (Her husband seemingly convinced her that he had killed and skinned Tigra, although everyone present at the event realized he was a BadLiar trying to make himself look big.)
* [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Ultimate]] [[ComicBook/XMen Sabretooth's]] [[PimpDuds pimp coat]].