History Main / KindHeartedCatLover

** Gary Seven regularly holds and pets his cat Isis. He is on Earth to save it from nuclear war and saves Captain Kirk from being killed by Roberta.

* Creator/BarbaraHambly's Franchise/StarTrek TieInNovel ''Literature/{{Ishmael|1985}}'' is a [[FishOutOfTemporalWater time travel story]] set in 1860s Seattle. The local protagonist notices that cats have a strange affinity for [[AmnesiacHero Spock]] but that dogs are afraid of him.

* Played with in the opening scene of ''Film//{{TheGodfather}}'' in the opening scene, where Don Vito Corleone is causally stroking a cat on his lap while listening to an acquaintance beg for his help. He continues playing with the purring cat all while politely, calmly pretending to have a conversation that very thinly veils his displeasure over being disrespected. While he seems [[AffablyEvil affable]] throughout the entire scene, the fear in the undertaker's face shows he knows damn well what displeasing Don Corleone means. However, Vito's gentleness with the cat juxtaposed with how intimidating he is to an acquaintance characterizes that Vito can be warm, even affectionate, [[EvenEvilHasLoved Ones to those close to him]], particularly his [[HappilyMarried wife]], [[GoodParents children]], and young grandchildren, but that does not mean he is any less scary for it.

* Okuyasu Nijimura from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'' turns out to be this. [[spoiler:He and his father adopt [[CatsAreMean Tama/Stray Cat]] after Kira's death. Even during ''the final battle'', Okuyasu is able to calm down the otherwise violent animal-turned-plant quite quickly in order to neutralize him as a threat upon grabbing Tama/Stray Cat in his hand. It's telling when Tama/Stray Cat doesn't attack any more people after that]].

* Played with in the opening scene of Film//{{TheGodfather}} in the opening scene, where Don Vito Corleone is causally stroking a cat on his lap while listening to an acquaintance beg for his help. He continues playing with the purring cat all while politely, calmly pretending to have a conversation that very thinly veils his displeasure over being disrespected. While he seems affable[[AffablyEvil]] the entire scene, the fear in the undertaker's face shows he knows damn well what displeasing Don Corleone means. However, Vito being very gentle with the cat (stroking it, letting it play with him, and very gently letting it down from his lap when he stands up]] even while causally intimidating an acquaintance characterizes that Vito can be warm, even affectionate, to those close to him, particularly his wife[[HappilyMarried]], children[[GoodParents]], and young grandchildren, but that does not mean he is any less scary for it.

* GentleGiant Corporal Randel Oland in ''Anime/PumpkinScissors'', who apparently spends most of his pay on cat food.

* ''WesternAnimation/PostmanPat'' is always accompanied by his black and white cat, Jess, who later got her own SpinOff.

** [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Granny Weatherwax]], however, is ''not'' a cat person. Or... that's what she wants everybody to believe (especially when she's around Nanny Ogg; tripled near Greebo). Until, that is, she is offered the kitten, You, in ''Wintersmith'', to which she shows no affection at all (in front of any witnesses). You have it ''made''.

* ''ComicBook/TheCrow'': [[TheHero Eric]] [[AntiHero Draven]] has his pet [[GenderBlenderName Gabriel]], which is one of the few things that he owned in life with [[TheLostLenore Shelly]]. Eric is shown in a couple of pages talking with her, and in the end, he tells [[TheCommissionerGordon Captain Hook]] that she's pregnant and it's expecting kittens soon. Considering how brutally Eric gets revenge, this, among other things, makes him even more [[TragicHero human]].

* Frank Fritz, from AmericanPickers had a much-loved cat called Arby who sadly died of old age (he was 18, and that's pretty old for a cat). It was discussed in passing on the series that Frank has always been a cat man, and it can be seen that Frank, whilst not actually crying over the loss of his cat, was VERY subdued for quite a while after his death.

* Toyed with in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. Data, the robotic crew member is the only one that keeps a pet. This makes sense since he's the character exploring WhatMeasureIsANonHuman and humans inexplicably take pleasure in the company of certain animals. And it's all fine with the cat, whose name is Spot: any [[MagicFromTechnology robot sufficiently advanced to serve cat food and provide a warm lap]] is an acceptable human substitute to the average cat.

* Lily on ''Series/ColdCase''

* [[ChildrenAreInnocent Peter]], the protagonist of the Paul Gallico novel ''Literature/TheAbandoned'', is stated to have quite an affection for cats such that he longs to own one as a pet though neither his family nor his nanny allows him to. However, he does not really understand much about them until his experience with Jennie [[BalefulPolymorph after he's been transformed]]. [[spoiler:In the end, [[AllJustADream when it turns out to have been a dream]], he is finally given a kitten.]]

* Side material in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' shows [[AntiVillain Reiner Braun]], [[DarkActionGirl Annie Leonhart]], and [[WildCard Ymir]] to to be this, playing with cats during quiet moments.
* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'': Sakaki is very kindhearted and loves all animals, especially cats. Unfortunately, [[AnimalsHateHim the cats don't love her back]]. For most of the series she is bitten by a grey cat with [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily enormous teeth]] every time she tries to pet it. However, near the end of the series [[spoiler:she befriends a mountain cat named Maya. This cat later protects her from an attack by the bitey Kamineko and Co]]. At one point, she lets the biting cat chomp down on her hand... ''and pets it with her other hand''. WordOfGod is that Sakaki's height and her cold, tough default attitude makes animals think she's going to hurt them.

* Kaoruko of ''Manga/ComicGirls'' is [[NotGoodWithPeople more comfortable to cats than to people]], and since moving from Fukushima to Tokyo, she started having feline ''withdrawal symptoms'' since her new apartment doesn't allow pets.
* Lindon of ''Manga/ACruelGodReigns'' has seven cats, and whenever he is at his home, there is at least one in his lap.

** Milliana is of the villainous [[spoiler:[[HeelFaceTurn (at first)]]]] variety, and has turned loving cats into an ''obsession''. At one point, she refuses to even hurt Natsu, her enemy, who was currently poorly-disguised as a cat, and she was even well aware of it.

** It's implied Scar is one of these too, at least in the omakes. ''Brotherhood'' confirms it. The episode when they first meet May and Shao May, Scar reaches towards Shao May in the most awkward fashion, making many of the viewers believe that he was about to molest her.
** The elder Slicer brother is a cat-lover as shown in an omake as well, placing a kitten in his helmet to shield it from the rain. In contrast, his younger brother is a dog-lover.

* Miu and Kisara from ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'' instantly become overjoyed when in a cat's presence. [[ActionGirl Kisara]] has taken this fondness to new extremes when she created the ''Nya Kwan Do'' which is a style based off of a cat's movement.

* ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'': Fred feed ''thirty'' stray cats around the slums of London and wishes he could adopt all of them. Of course, he's also one member of the team who strives most to keep everyone together and happy.

* Sora in ''[[Manga/{{Sketchbook}} Sketchbook ~full color'S]]'' doesn't have a cat (though a few of her friends do), but is your typical FriendToAllLivingThings...but the kid keeps giving them expired food, which her brother calls her out on. So this might be subverted in the cats' eyes, until she realizes her error.
* [[BewareTheNiceOnes Kanone Hilbert]] of ''Manga/{{Spiral}}'' adores cats, though he doesn't own any himself, he's been seen feeding strays and buying plush cats to keep himself company. [[spoiler:What's more, at one point during his attack on Tsukiomi highschool, Hiyono Yuizaki planned to momentarily "stun" him and thus keep from getting shot simply by ''wearing a pair of kitty ears''. The craziest part? '''''It worked.''''']]

* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', Akira Mado turns out to be hiding a kind personality beneath her cool exterior. One of the first hints is when Amon brings her back to her apartment after a night of drinking, and meets her very ugly cat. During a mission, she even quips that she cannot die yet, because her cat is waiting for her at home.

* ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} is a cat person. Back in UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|OfComicBooks}}, she owned a pet tomcat called Streaky (which accidentally got super-powers). In [[ComicBook/Supergirl1982 the '80s]], [[https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MTwWbbx306Y/V2u-Rd8G-KI/AAAAAAAAqwg/s4UrgLkcRqYs3rYO0LEAxNotSBlNBDyXwCKgB/s1600/dnaos%2B6-10.jpg she found a stray female cat and she adopted it and named Streaky right away]]. [[https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fWggXIjrZs8/V2u-RTryVNI/AAAAAAAAqwk/VsEhsjFGs-U3frgfLr2p4cjs1UcbmTviwCKgB/s1600/dnaos%2B6-11.jpg She really adores her cats]]. In ''ComicBook/TheComingOfAtlas'', Kara [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PL5y2k7GJAg/VqnODZZtj-I/AAAAAAAAHqk/xidprEOLdzc/s0-Ic42/RCO014.jpg is playing with a pride of thoroughly confused lions]] when she hears her cousin is in trouble. It must be a genetic trait, because [[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Post-Crisis Kara]] and ComicBook/PowerGirl (her alternate universe counterpart) also own pet cats (although Power Girl's is called [[UnfortunateNames Stinky]]).

* ''ComicBook/TheCrow'': [[TheHero Eric]] [[AntiHero Draven]] has his pet [[GenderBlenderName Gabriel]], which is one of the few things that he owned in life with [[TheLostLenore Shelly]]. Eric is shown in a couple of pages talking with her, and in the end he tells [[TheCommissionerGordon Captain Hook]] that she's pregnant and it's expecting kittens soon. Considering how brutally Eric gets revenge, this, among other things, makes him even more [[TragicHero human]].

* Subverted with Pizzazz from ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHologramsIDW''. She loves cats to the point where her pajamas are cat themed, however she is a SpoiledBrat with a HairTriggerTemper. She has HiddenDepths but they're hidden under her angry, PerpetualFrowner personality.

* One of the earliest indications that ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'''s Spider Jerusalem isn't entirely an UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist is when he rescues a stray cat (with two mouths, three eyes and a chain-smoking habit) off the street. The cat, which Spider never names and simply refers to as "Cat" or "Ugly Purry Thing", remains his companion for most of the strip (even though she never does anything for his job other than kill geckos and urinate on him at inopportune moments) and Spider is shown to take reasonably good care of her.

* In ''Roleplay/AsukaQuest'', SB!Asuka is both a much nicer person than canon Asuka, and an absolute lover of cats who gets pet cats for most of the cast. This actually nearly gives her away to Kaji, who's aware that the original Asuka was not as fond of cats.

* [[http://madcarrot.deviantart.com/art/Kitten-Love-23207949 Death Eater Walden MacNair]] is far from kind-hearted, but in this picture he does have a very soft spot for cats…

* [[spoiler:Matt Engarde]] in the ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' fic ''Fanfic/SomebodyThatIUsedToKnow''. He starts out the story as a genuinely kindhearted young man, before some unknown but severe trauma sets him on the path to being the two-faced sociopath we know from the game. But at no point in the story does he ever stop caring for his pet cat, Shoe, and he continues to care for his kitty well after the point where he's clearly stopped giving a crap about people. See page entry for more details.

* [[VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition Evelyn]] in ''Fanfic/WalkingInCircles'' has a soft spot for cats. In fact, the reason her magic was discovered when she was still a little girl was because she threw a fireball at a man who was abusing a cat. Solas even tries to give her the task of taking care of Fennel when they leave Ostwick in hope that it could do something to [[spoiler: her Tranquil state]].

* ''Fanfic/TheKingNobodyWanted:'' The High Septon adopts Princess Rhaenys Targaryen's former cat after finding him wandering the streets and gushes affectionately over the animal, while struggling not to cry whenever he thinks of the cat's late owner.
--> '''The High Septon:''' Who's a sweet boy? You, Balerion, you are a sweet boy. Yes you are.
* ''Fanfic/WithThisRing'': Paul/Orange Lantern loves cats, despite being all too aware of their less than noble qualities, and remembers his family cats Bingo and Magic back on Earth Prime a few times. While he does want to aquire new ones, he's uncertain about being able to make Mount Justice a good habitat for one, due to the lack of exits and space for them to roam. He eventually aquires Teekl, originally the cat familiar of Klarion the Witch Boy, and she becomes his companion through much of the fic [[spoiler: only for him to accidentally destroy her when permanently dealing with Klarion months later, much to his guilt]]

* In ''Film/NorthSeaHijack'', also released as ''ffolkes'' (yes, with 2 f's and no capital, not a typo) Roger Moore is deliberately cast against type. Rather than the womanizing playboy characters he was known for as Film/JamesBond and Series/TheSaint, the character Rufus Excalibur ffolkes was a bearded eccentric arrogant misogynist cat-lover. At the end of the film, having expressed his disdain for medals, he's instead presented with a trio of kittens in recognition of his heroism. He's rather touched.

* ''Film/TheHungerGames'': Prim; she simply adores her cat Buttercup, who is [[CatsAreMean utterly nasty to everyone]] except her, but then, she's the only one who seems to treat him with kindness.

* As shown in ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'', Comicbook/NickFury absolutely ''loves'' cats and takes a shine to Goose. [[spoiler:Even though Goose is actually a [[KillerRabbit Flerken]] and the one eventually responsible to taking Fury's eye out.]]

* The ancient Japanese fairytale of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Drew_Cats The Boy who Drew Cats]] was popularized by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafcadio_Hearn Lafcadio Hearn]]'s amazing translation.

** [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Granny Weatherwax]], however, is ''not'' a cat person. Or... that's what she wants everybody to believe (especially when she's around Nanny Ogg; tripled near Greebo). Until, that is, she is offered the kitten, You, in ''Wintersmith'', to which she shows no affection at all (in front of any witnesses). You has it ''made''.

* Harrison Withers from Louise Fitzhugh's ''Literature/HarrietTheSpy'' shelters 26 cats (who eat better than he does). After a Health Department raid he has a HeroicBSOD which she witnesses -- just before she loses her notebook. As she puts her life back together, she spies on Harrison again, and sees him happy and content with a single tiny kitten. This becomes the first story she writes for publication.

** Taran and Fflewddur Fflam in ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfPrydain'', but most notably Fflewddur. When facing the giant wild cat, Llyan, Taran can't help but appreciate the magnificent creature and when Fflewddur had the opportunity to slay her, he didn't. Whether it was out of animal appreciation or cowardice or a mixture of both is never clear[[spoiler:, but the end result is that Llyan becomes Fflewddur's mount and pet by the end of her debut book and he dotes on her every bit as much as she dotes on him]].

* ''Literature/TheCatInTheStacksMysteries'': Charlie, who found the young Diesel as a cold, wet stray and quickly took him in. He also takes in five kittens in book 10, and is noted as having owned cats before.

* [[ChildrenAreInnocent Peter]], the protagonist of the Paul Gallico novel ''Literature/TheAbandoned'', is stated to have quite an affection for cats such that he longs to own one as a pet though neither his family nor his nanny allow him to. However, he does not really understand much about them until his experience with Jennie [[BalefulPolymorph after he's been transformed]]. [[spoiler:In the end, [[AllJustADream when it turns out to have been a dream]], he is finally given a kitten.]]
* Gallico returns to cats in ''Thomasina: The Cat Who Thought She Was God.'', a gripping story that is also a poem of Scotland, a polemic for compassion and animal rights and a parable of love overcoming fear. Disney's ''Film/TheThreeLivesOfThomasina'' is faithful to the book and its core messages, thanks to Gallico having written the script, maintained creative control and insisted on being on the set at all times, similar to William Peter Blatty for ''Film/TheExorcist''.[[note]]Thomasina was played by several cats; one had been trained to do a particular stunt, but when the cameras rolled, it just sat there, of course. Disney was furious, while Gallico laughed his ass off.[[/note]]

* ''Literature/ConfessionsOfGeorgiaNicolson'': One of the things that solidifies the titular UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold is her literal MoralityPet, her cat Angus. She's cared for him ever since finding him as a kitten, and positively dotes on him despite him being, by any objective metric, terrifying. The prospect of being seperated from Angus is a surefire way to depress her.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has the Doctor himself, at least the Sixth, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh incarnations. Six, even as he donned that [[ImpossiblyTackyClothes hideous coat]], decided to make it marginally less ghastly with some cat shaped lapel pins. Nine actually pets a cat during an episode, and Ten has a good rapport with some cat people (not people who like cats. People who are cats.) in one of his episodes. Eleven talks to a housecat to investigate a time loop in Colchester.

* The host of ''Series/MustLoveCats'' loves cats so much that he even write songs and sings to them.
* Jackson Galaxy of ''Series/MyCatFromHell'' is dedicated towards helping cats and owners get along. Since he's a musician, he looks more like a biker than a cat lover.

* ''Series/LawAndOrderUK'': Matt Devlin mentions having a cat to friend/colleague Alesha Philips. She's delighted to hear this. The moments gets a very sad callback in the following episode, where Matt's partner Ronnie is seen caring for it and commiserating with it, petting him and telling him, "Yeah, I miss him too.", as well as walking off with it at the end.
* Toyed with in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. Data, the robotic crew member is the only one that keeps a pet. This makes sense, since he's the character exploring WhatMeasureIsANonHuman and humans inexplicably take pleasure in the company of certain animals. And it's all fine with the cat, whose name is Spot: any [[MagicFromTechnology robot sufficiently advanced to serve cat food and provide a warm lap]] is an acceptable human-substitute to the average cat.

* Brenda Leigh Johnson in ''Series/TheCloser'' adopts a cat that belonged a murder victim, naming it Kitty. Brenda always referred to Kitty as 'he' or 'him' (even after [[YourTomcatIsPregnant 'he' gave birth to a litter of kittens]]) and was devastated when he had to be put to sleep. At the end of series 5, Fritz gives her a new kitten named Joel.

* Both ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' and ''Series/TheMunsters'' are based on the concept that creepy and scary looking people are actually very kindhearted nice individuals. Both of the families have a lot of pets but, to live up to this trope, both families have a feline pet. In the case of the Addams is Kitty Kat (an adult lion) treated like a spoiled kitten, in the case of the Munsters is a black cat with the roar of a lion.

* The Man in the Shack in ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', who refuses to believe he rules the universe because he has no evidence the universe exists, is a generally pleasant person once he's been persuded to temporarily accept your existence, and makes a point of being kind to his cat. Zarniwoop seizes on this as evidence that he believes in ''something'', but the Man simply replies that it makes him happy to behave a certain way to something he thinks may be a cat.

** Mairead also has a soft spot for cats, and her cat Sir Roger in particular. She is, however, the only person in the cast who can outdo Padraic in the "homicidal lunacy" department, and spent time "protesting against the meat industry" by shooting the eyes out of cows with an air rifle.

** Cammy White is a highly-trained Delta Red Agent and former assassin, but melts at the sight of a cat as she adores them. In ''Super VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'', it turns out [[ChekhovsGun to be quite important:]] in the prologue, Cammy is shown to be friends already with a cute cream-colored cat... [[spoiler:and in her ending she brings it as a gift to her fellow ex-Doll and sort-of adoptive sister Juni, who is hospitalized. The girl's reaction to the kitty, proof that she's getting better from her ordeals as a BrainwashedAndCrazy {{bodyguard babe|s}}.]]

* ''VideoGame/MitsumeteKnight'' has Laury Callwell, Gene Petromolla (who's a FriendToAllLivingThings in general) and, to the surprise of the players, [[spoiler:[[GangBangers Sam]] [[SunglassesAtNight Burston]].]] They're all linked by an interesting event : Laury first finds three abandoned kitten she decides to adopt, and names them. Later, if you have Gene in your girl roster and [[RelationshipValues have good relationship]] with both Laury and Gene, Laury will lose the kitten and you can offer to search for them for her. You'll have two possible leads : [[spoiler:Go ask Gene, or go ask the local punks]]. Choosing the first option will [[spoiler:net you a special CG, where Gene has found the kitten, and, after explaining the situation, will agree to give them back, albeit with a sad face]]; choosing the second one will [[spoiler:allow you to see an unknown kind side of Sam (who's normally in antagonistic ways with the main protagonist), and he too will give the kitten back]].

** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEchoesShadowsOfValentia'', ''both'' Alm and Celica are seen cooing and fawning over every single kitty cat that shows up in their travels. Plus one of Alm's companions, the very socially-awkward mage Luthier, tells Alm in one of their base talks that he never got on well with humans, but had beloved cat friends.

** Katsuya Suou of ''VideoGame/Persona2 Eternal Punishment'' isn't a grouch by any means, but he's quite stern. In addition to being a sucker for [[SupremeChef baking cakes]], he also adores cats. If Eriko Kirishima is the fifth party member midway through the game,the party will find a black cat in a TV Studio and Katsuya finds it adorable. His initial Persona, [[PlayingWithFire Helios]], resembles a black cat wearing 19th-century dress.
** The protagonist of ''VideoGame/Persona4'' seems to have shades of this. If the player completes one quest to feed a stray cat, the protagonist will request himself to continuing feeding it. Also, there's the option to spend the ''entire afternoon'' just petting a cat.

* Asuka Kazama of ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' is the niece of two of the game's heroes, great niece of the main villain, and cousin of the current protagonist, so badass is in her blood. She's also a BullyHunter and in the game's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUSZ2tCQ_Ko&feature=player_detailpage#t=190s intro]] she rescues a CatUpATree.

** Almost all Japanese characters in this game: Megumi, Akane, even the Shirogane Family!.

* In ''VideoGame/TheSims'', we get Ginia Kat with her four cats in ''The Sims Unleashed'' who is sweet but on the shy side and loves to write children's book in her freetime. Tara Kat in ''The Sims 2 Pets'' wishes to open a pet store to help precious kitties find loving homes. And Catarina Lynx in ''The Sims 4 Cats and Dogs'' who can't turn down a poor stray cat. ''The Sims 3 Pets'' gives a more straight example of the CrazyCatLady trope with Hetty Lionheart however as she's highly disliked by everyone in town.

* The Felined Eccentric in ''Videogame/SunlessSkies'' is a lovely person with three incredibly evil pet cats that she's inseperable from. [[spoiler:It turns out they aren't cats, and she didn't used to be so nice. She became how she is now after being imprisoned in [[EldritchLocation Piranesi]] and the "cats" are actually aspects of her personality that refuse to go away. Her whole questline involves getting rid of them.]]

* ''VideoGame/SpiderManMilesMorales'' has the rough around the edges but kind at heart Bodega owner Teo Álvarez who has a cat he's named after Spider-Man (albiet he takes some warming up to Spider-Man II as he preferred Spidey I). His cat gets petnapped by the Kingpins mooks during a raid on Teo's Bodega & Miles has to rescue the kitty. Teo later shelters his neighbours during a major fight hitting Harlem.

** Megumi Mikihara of ''Tokimeki Memorial 1'' is rather a FriendToAllLivingThings, but in one of her Events, she finds abandoned kitten in a cardboard box under a snowy night, and decides to take them in and take care of them until she finds kind new owners for them. It's also the basis of her scenario in ''Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Tokkae Tama'' (one of the two Puzzle Game spin-offs of the game).
* Matt Engarde from ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'' loves cats and owns one by the name of Shoe. He asks Phoenix to go to his apartment and feed him at one point. [[spoiler: It's a subversion, because he turns out to be a BitchInSheepsClothing later on. He does genuinely care for the cat, though.]]

** The PlayerCharacter can be this, if he takes a stray cat in despite how his apartment building doesn't allow pets... [[spoiler: The cat [[ShapeshiftingLover turns out to be pretty... special]].]]

* Belkar Bitterleaf of ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' is ''far'' from kindhearted under usual circumstances, being ChaoticEvil, AxCrazy, and an all around SociopathicHero with little of the "Heroic" part. However, he genuinely likes Mr. Scruffy, the late Lord Shojo's RightHandCat, and caring for him has led to numerous PetTheDog moments as part of his real/fake CharacterDevelopment.

* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': The comic's AfterTheEnd society is extremely reliant on {{Evil Detecting Cat}}s, so most humans can be assumed to be on good terms with them. Most of the families seen in the DistantPrologue have a cat with them and are the ancestors to the main characters, which suggests being this trope helped a lot with surviving the ZombieApocalypse in the first place.

** On his way back home in the pouring rain, Teddy comes across a poor little kitten in a cardboard shelter. He feeds it, takes it home, and eventually adopts it as his pet, which is the biggest showing of his secret soft side. Afterwards he's often seeing reading books and magazines about cats, and always makes sure to leave out food for the cat he finds hanging around school.

* Claire of ''WebVideo/CreamHeroes'' had seven cats until 2020, where she took in three more (a mom and her kittens she was initially fostering).

** Subverted by [[LetsPlay/DuncanJones Duncan,]] who was really excited to get his in-game cat Tiddles in his Minecraft series with [[LetsPlay/KimRichards Kim]], but his care for it... let's just say there's been several Tiddleses.

* Ellen Rose of ''WebVideo/OutsideXbox'' loves all cute animals, but is particularly affectionate towards cats. At one point, during a sort of "two lies and a truth" thing, the first one proposed is that Ellen was once late for school because she lost track of time while petting a cat[[note]]actually one of the lies; the correct answer was that she was so much of a TeachersPet that one of her teachers used to make up fake errands for her to go on so that he could yell at the rest of the class without her being included[[/note]]. Her teammate Luke's reaction is telling:

* While their furry child gives them a hard time during streams and his outdoor advantures, it's clear that LetsPlay/ProtonJon and LetsPlay/{{Lucahjin}} adore their one-eyed tabby Bagel.

* Another Disney example: WesternAnimation/MinnieMouse has Figaro the kitten from ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'' (see Film: Animation) above after he started appeared in shorts. That's right, a kitten is owned by an anthropomorphic mouse!

* Dan from ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'' is an interesting subversion of this trope. On the one hand, he is the show's protagonist, but on the other hand he is ''dangerously'' unstable and possesses a HairTriggerTemper. His cat Mr. Mumbles is his literal MoralityPet and the only thing that can get him to stop a revenge scheme.

* This is how Ryan Adams is portrayed in ''WesternAnimation/HeyJoel''. He wrote an entire album for his dead cat, Wiskers, and even thinks the song "Mandy" was about a dog.

** While Lisa Simpson has her ocassional JerkassBall moments, she is often portrayed as one of the most caring characters of the series, and she is very fond of cats.

** Egon in the BabyMorphEpisode when he is de-aged is shown to distract from his job of setting up the trap for a ghost by hugging a stray kitten. In other episodes (almost all episodes with witches involved) cats seem to follow him or liking him for some reason ([[AllWitchesHaveCats might be the fact that he comes from a family of wizards]]). He (albeit with his generally emotionless way to be) is in general kind to all animals including a dragon.

** Muhammad was a noted cat lover. There is an account of Muhammad cutting a sleeve off his robe rather than disturb the cat sleeping on it. This still persists in Islam today; there are hundreds of stray cats around the Alhambra and other ancient mosques in Spain that let you pet them and give them treats. Cats are even allowed into the Masjid al-Haram, and are considered ritually clean by Islam, in ways that [[ScavengersAreScum dogs]], for example, are not.
** One of the Shahabat (Companions, people who first practiced Islam and lived in proximity with Muhammad) was named Abu Huraihah ([[MeaningfulName Father of Kittens]]) because he kept many cats in his household. He was also a notable source for the Hadith: According to one story, he once stepped out of his home, and all his cats gathered around him.

* Creator/HPLovecraft gave cats magical powers in his stories and wrote one, "Literature/TheCatsOfUlthar", about an entire city of cats taking terrible vengeance on an elderly pair of creeps who kill a kitten. He deeply loved his [[ValuesDissonance unfortunately named]] black childhood cat "Nigger-man"[[note]]named by Lovecraft's father, not by him[[/note]] who disappeared at the age of eight. Lovecraft never owned another cat, but fed and named every alley cat in the streets of Providence. At a party a kitten fell asleep in his lap and he remained sitting still until it woke. Near his last home was a cat colony which he christened ''Kappa Alpha Tau'', offering them catnip and letting them play and sleep in his study. His letter describing the elderly bodega cat "Old Man" will have you wiping your eyes.[[note]]'' In fancy I pictured him as an hierophant of the mysteries behind the black archway, and wondered if he would ever invite me through it some midnight... ''[[/note]] He dreamt repeatedly of walking with Old Man long after the cat had died. Shortly before his death, he wrote in a letter to a friend that he had been walking through a little wooded area near his home and found himself [[{{Psychopomp}} escorted by two kittens]].

* Music/FreddieMercury of Music/{{Queen}} wrote two good-bye songs dedicated to his cats shortly before his death. He had 10 cats when he died, all of whom had the run of his house and most of whom were rescues. His beloved calico, Delilah, was on his bed when he passed away.

* Koko the gorilla was a noted fan of cats, and cared for several as pets. In fact, when informed that her first kitten "All-Ball" had been killed by a car, she mourned and cried.

** Ship's cats (who catch and kill rats) are a long time tradition dating to the age of sail in almost every navy. Naturally the Ship's cat (or cats) are beloved mascots.

* Creator/MarlonBrando had a kittycat who [[http://www.barnorama.com/wp-content/images/2011/03/b%20863/01.jpg helped with his correspondence]]. He also famously adopted a stray cat that was hanging around the set of ''Film/TheGodfather'', and [[ThrowItIn included it in a couple of his scenes]].

* Vanna White of ''Series/WheelOfFortune'' fame often mentions her cat, Stella. She used to have a second cat named Kiki, but had to give it away because it fought with Stella.

* Robert 'Bob' Engstrand, the keyboard player for Finnish metal band Turisas, is a huge, beardy Swedish guy who dresses up like a viking for a living, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqBpOFSiVu8 absolutely adores]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74IjkVFCXSU his]] [[http://media.tumblr.com/8c7ea81f9f042eda88d61e4a7219b9c3/tumblr_inline_mtfmnx5Ll61qmkalr.jpg cats]].

* Florence Nightingale is known for two things; her innovations and reforms to nursing, and her adoration for cats. Her Crimean War hospitals were overrun with rats so the soldiers brought her kittens. Over her lifetime she had over sixty cats. They were her comfort and solace through the PTSD she suffered after the war, and she provided carefully for them in her will. Her letters, architectural drawings and manuscripts are covered with their paw prints.
* Creator/SalvadorDali absolutely loved his kitty-cat. Of course, being a very unusual man, he had a very unusual cat: An ocelot.

* Frank Fritz, from AmericanPickers had a much loved cat called Arby who sadly died of old age (he was 18, and that's pretty old for a cat). It was discussed in passing on the series that Frank has always been a cat man, and it can be seen that Frank, whilst not actually crying over the loss of his cat, was VERY subdued for quite a while after his death.

* A [[https://twitter.com/ParisZarcilla/status/1001748442119593984 twitter thread by Paris Zarcilla]] went viral in 2018 when the screenwriter/producer discovered an unknown cat nursing four newborn kittens under his bed. She had apparently entered through a back door he often left open. Overwhelmed with protective emotions, Zarcilla decided he was now a "cat dad" and then and there devoted his life to protecting the family. Best of all, mama didn't have a chip, so he was able to adopt everybody. It has completely changed his life; ''The Cat Gods have smiled upon me with benevolence and turned the monsters under my bed into kittens...''

* UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln owned several cats, and even fed one of them by fork when it jumped on his lap during a state dinner. Once, when visiting a military encampment, he saw some kittens and immediately started petting them, and later charged an officer with making sure they were taken care of.

* ''VideoGame/SpiderManMilesMorales'' has the rough around the edges but kind at heart Bodega owner Teo Álvarez who has a cat he's named after Spider-Man (albiet he takes some warming up to Spider-Man II as he preferred Spidey I). His cat gets petnapped by the Kingpins mooks during a raid on Teo's Bodega & Miles has to rescue the kitty. Teo later shelters his neighbours during a major fight hitting Harlem.

** Between the members of Creator/AchievementHunter, they have collectively adopted ''16'' cats and often mention them in podcasts and recordings. Jack Pattillo and Gavin Free each have four, Jeremy Dooley has ''five'', Matt Bragg has one, and Lindsay and Michael Jones have two. During their streams and recordings from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, their cats can be seen wandering on screen looking for attention or sleeping behind them in their facecams.

* The Man in the Shack in ''Radio/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', who refuses to believe he rules the universe because he has no evidence the universe exists, is a generally pleasant person once he's been persuded to temporarily accept your existence, and makes a point of being kind to his cat. Zarniwoop seizes on this as evidence that he believes in ''something'', but the Man simply replies that it makes him happy to behave a certain way to something he thinks may be a cat.

** The film ''Film/BohemianRhapsody'' demonstrates this from the opening shots (including mentioning Delilah and another cat, Romeo, by name, and having Freddie announce his plans to give Delilah a room all to herself. ''[[{{UpToEleven}} One with a chandelier]].'') They're also seen with Mary Austin (Freddie's friend/ex-girlfriend) and Jim Hutton (his boyfriend). Ironically, they're never seen in the same shot as {{Creator/Rami Malek}}, as [[{{IronyAsSheIsCast}} he's allergic.]]

* Several characters in the ''Literature/{{Chrestomanci}}'' series.
* ''Literature/{{Petaybee}}'': Clodagh certainly, and Aisling less obviously.

* Captain Tinker, from Esther Averill's charming ''Jenny and the Cat Club'' series of children's books.

* According to Buddhist legend cats were not allowed into heaven because the cat would not come with the other animals to sit with Buddha when he was dying. Elizabeth Coatsworth fixed that, with her TearJerker tale of ''The Cat Who Went to Heaven'', where we learn that the all-merciful Buddha loves kitties too.

* Travis Touchdown in ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes''. "Kindhearted" is... [[AntiHero well, enough of a stretch you could use it for a tightrope, but he's devoted to his cat]].
** For much of the second game, it seems like his cat is his only friend.

* WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} in ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' has Waffles, resulting in this trope being filled by an [[FurryConfusion anthropomorphic dog]]. Later, in ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse'', he has [[FormallyNamedPet Mr. Pettibone]].

* Claire of WebVideo/CreamHeroes

* Creator/LittleKuriboh owns three cats which his love for is shown via twitter.