History Main / NemeanSkinning

* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vexillarius Vexillarius]] and the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginifer Imaginifer]] in the [[AncientRome Roman Army]] wore headdresses made from the head of a wolf.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Susan Strong", Finn discovers a tribe of humans [[spoiler:at least, he thinks they're humans,]] that wear animal skins as hats, similar to Finn's own hat. The fifth season episode "Little Dude" left Finn with the need for a new hat.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Bush Comes to Dinner" when Stan drops Hayley into his "Pit of No Return", she shows up alive later, prompting Stan to ask how she got past what was supposedly his guard beasts (we don't know what they were for sure because Hayley cuts him off). She killed them all, [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith even the younglings]], and used their hides to make Stan a wallet.
* Avatar Kuruk in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' manifests wearing the skin of a polar bear-dog to suggest he's a badass.
* Similar to the ''Foster's'' example below, the ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' episode "Dexter the Barbarian" has Dexter, imagining he's a barbarian warrior, wearing a fur like this after fighting a pack of wolves. It later turns out that he had shaved the family dog.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' movie ''WesternAnimation/AbraCatastrophe'', after [[ItMakesSenseInContext monkeys become the dominant species]], the world changes to become jungle-themed, and Timmy's parents are attacked by leopards. The next time we see them, they're wearing leopard skin clothes and discussing all the other things they've made with the skins (but [[ParentalNeglect nothing for Timmy]]).

* On ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', a feverish Bloo (as his alter ego Bloo Superdude) fights a [[KillerRabbit vicious giant pink rabbit]] and wears his skin afterwards. Turns out it was Eduardo's stuffed bunny, Paco.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Hereafter," Franchise/{{Superman}}, having been blasted into the far future, [[BroughtDownToBadass under a red sun]], is accosted by big mutated wolves, until he makes himself a sword and kills their leader, wearing its skin as a cape afterward. It clearly took time for him to fashion the skin into a cape, which would certainly be easier than making it into a tunic or something anyway and require way less skill to pull off.
* In ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts'', Wolf's... well, wolf pelt is this. In particular, it's later revealed to be [[spoiler:the pelt of her adoptive mother, who she killed after she and the rest of said wolf family tried to eat her]].
* Although it's only mentioned twice in passing, ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' implies that the original Nemean Lion is an ''inversion''; the skin Heracles wears is theorized to be his costume while [[TransformationTrinket transformed]] with an otherwise unknown Lion Miraculous.

* In the "Ice Station Impossible!" episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', Brock does this to a polar bear ''in seconds'' to help Dr. Venture survive being dumped naked in the tundra. In fairness, both Brock and the bear pelt were absolutely covered in blood. That didn't stop Dr. Venture from wearing it for the rest of the episode, including after he got back to the station, and while working in the lab to cure a volatile mutagen.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'' season 1 episode 17, Sadlygrove shears a pack of arctic dog-like beasts with one slash of his sword -- without even killing them -- to provide wool for his companions.
* The ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode "The Bounty" depicts a case of this backfiring on the wearer, EvilPoacher BountyHunter Rongruffle the Huntress. When she runs afoul of another specimen of the alien species that provided her with her skull and pelt, it's none too pleased.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}''. When Connor returns to our world after [[RaisedByWolves growing up in a demon dimension]], he's wearing "things that I've killed", though he's pragmatic enough to steal a leather jacket off a gangbanger, so save him the trouble of this trope.

* ''ComicBook/DarthVaderDarkLordOfTheSith'' has Tarkin leading a [[CarnivalOfKillers team of expert bounty hunters]] to hunt down and kill Darth Vader. The story opens with the bounty hunters seeing Vader in the distance, wearing the skin of an animal [[InvisibilityCloak that can change to fit its surroundings.]] Apart from this useful feature, Tarkin also notes that the animal was the apex predator on the planet, so him flaunting the cloak also serves as a BadassBoast to [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame his hunters]].

** ''ComicBook/DarthVaderDarkLordOfTheSith'' has Tarkin leading a [[CarnivalOfKillers team of expert bounty hunters]] to hunt down and kill Darth Vader. The story opens with the bounty hunters seeing Vader in the distance, wearing the skin of an animal [[InvisibilityCloak that can change to fit its surroundings.]] Apart from this useful feature, Tarkin also notes that the animal was the apex predator on the planet, so him flaunting the cloak also serves as a BadassBoast to [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame his hunters]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Beowulf|2007}}'' adaptation, there's a barbarian with a wolf skin. It's likely meant to be a pun on the name, "Beowulf". In which case it would be a lame pun, as Beowulf's name comes from "Bee Wolf," that is a bear, which he was described as being able to grapple like one.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Epic|2013}}'', [[BigBad Mandrake]] and his son [[OverlordJr Dagda]] wear the pelts of a bat and a rat respectively as hooded cloaks. Dagda specifically made his to mimic his father; Mandrake genuinely complimenting him on it is one of the film's earliest hints that EvenEvilHasLovedOnes.
* In ''WesternAnimation/FireAndIce'', the mysterious warrior Darkwolf wears a hood made from the pelt taken from the head of wolf.
* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', a reference to the original myth is kept when Hercules is seen posing for a picture in a lion-skin. The [[ShoutOut best part]]? It looks like [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Scar]].
* Hercules wears a lion pelt in ''WesternAnimation/HerculesPureMagic'', although the TropeNamer isn't present in the movie.

* ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' : Upon arriving in the afterlife naked, the first thing [[SerialKiller Billy Kincaid]] does is kill some sort of lizard thing and take its skin for clothes.

* ''Manga/WildRock'': This goes hand in hand with the [[OneMillionBC prehistoric setting]].

** The ''Lonesome Road'' DLC adds Colonel Royez, a BonusBoss who wears a unique suit of PoweredArmor decorated with bear fur.

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'': This trope is required to move beyond starter equipment because the stuff you find in the shops is quickly outdated. However, while most of your armor and weaponry are made of the bones, shell, and hide of things you hunt down and kill/capture, you never make it yourself during a hunt, but rather take the materials in to a professional to have them processed and crafted into a suit of armor/weapon (As demonstrated in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I5n2dP_FRA opening of Freedom Unite]], which explains why crafting also costs money on-top of materials). There's also the Nerscylla, which is known to skin Gypceros hides to wear, as well as the Shrouded Nerscylla which wears Khezu hides.

* Although it's only mentioned twice in passing, ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousTalesOfLadybugAndCatNoir'' implies that the original Nemean Lion is an ''inversion''; the skin Heracles wears is theorized to be his costume while [[TransformationTrinket transformed]] with an otherwise unknown Lion Miraculous.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Susan Strong", Finn discovers a tribe of humans [[spoiler:at least, he thinks they're humans,]] that wear animal skins as hats, similar to Finn's own NiceHat. The fifth season episode "Little Dude" left Finn with the need for a new hat.

*** The White Lions of Chrace, the elite bodyguards of the High Elf Phoenix King, wear the pelts of the beasts they take their name from with Korhil, the Captain of the White Lions, wearing the hide of the mutated great lion Charndis that he strangled with his bear hands. These lion cloaks are so thick that they grant their wearers added protection against missile attacks.

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' gives the Heavy a bear-head hat. To quote the item description, "In Siberia, bear try to attack family. He try this once. Now he is little hat."

* ''VideoGame/{{Raft}}'': If you kill a shark or bear, you can sometimes take their head and wear it as a mask.

* ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'': After killing him in an epic, days-long battle, Thragg does this to [[spoiler: Battle Beast.]]