History Main / NemeanSkinning

* Some editions of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' encourage heroes to skin defeated dragons in order to turn them into dragonhide armor or shields.
* A very common foe in ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}''. "Nemean" is a term that refers to any animal that is supernaturally huge, powerful, and evil, usually somehow related to the titans. A nemean lion can be the size of an elephant. A nemean elephant can be the size of a house. All of them generally look like gigantic versions of the common animals, but sometimes they have some monstrous features. The skin of a nemean animal is nigh impenetrable, and many heroes have made coats, cloaks, or jackets from nemean beast skin that are the best non-Relic armor available in the setting (and often enough, they become Relics). On a sidenote, once you become so powerful that a lion the size of an elephant is your version of a common mook, don't worry: there are also ''Typhonian'' animals, that are big enough to provide a serious challenge to ''gods''. A typhonian lion can be the size of a tall building, its hide is even tougher, and if you skin it, is even better a prize...

* In ''TabletopGame/{{BattleTech}}'', within Clan Ghost Bear, Warriors may undergo the Clawing Ritual in which teams of high-ranking unClawed warriors are given basic provisions including a simple metal spear and hunting dogs, and journey into Strana Mechty's punishing Antarctic region to kill a ghost bear and bring back its carcass as proof. If successful the Warriors feast on the bear's meat and a cloak is made for each member of the hunting party (due to a ghost bear's size there is enough hide to make a good-sized cloak for every member), with the Warrior who landed the killing blow being allowed to ornament his or her own cloak with the animal's teeth while the other participants ornament theirs with the animal's claws. Most outside Clan Ghost Bear consider it counter-intuitive that the Clan hunts and kills their totem animal but it is justified by Clan Ghost Bear since these expeditions are very rarely successful. Warriors who succeed gain considerable prestige within the Clan and receive more consideration for rank advancement.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'': You can get certain weapons, armors and accessories by poaching monsters and trading them--all you have to do is equip the relevant support skill and have that character do the last hit on the monster. The skinning happens instantly and removes the monster, corpse and all, from the battlefield. Very useful for getting rid of ghost- and zombie-type enemies, who have a chance of coming back to life every time they die.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': If you take the skinning profession then you can skin ''any'' beast (and a few smaller critters) as long as you've got a high enough skill level. This ranges from rabbits to massive dragons. And often enough, in skinning both huge and tiny animals, you tend to get the same kind of leather in the same amount. E.g., giant dinosaur and tiny gazelle might give 1-2 Light Leather each. Oh, but you [[MemeticMutation can't skin Tauren]]. No matter how badly you may want to. Some bosses give specific leathers that can't be gotten any other way, though they've let this practice pass and any equipment from this will now be entirely out of date.

* ''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.
* ''VideoGame/GodEaterBurst'' as a similar mechanic as Monster Hunter.
* ''VideoGame/{{Toukiden}}'': The body parts of the large oni are purified and made into various armor and weapon. They don't resemble their source materials, but they do give similar traits.
* In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', the Frumentarii, spies of Caesar's Legion, all wear Vexillarius helms made from coyotes, foxes, and other desert-dwelling canines. Except when going undercover, obviously. At one point, the Courier can Legionnaire dressed so by threatening to kill the Legionnaire and wear his head in the same way.
** The ''Lonesome Road'' DLC adds Colonel Royez, a BonusBoss who wears a unique suit of PoweredArmor decorated with bear fur.
* Explicitly averted in ''VideoGame/{{Mabinogi}}'' (at least as of the original in-game region): the only leather you can use has been harvested and de-furred (and presumably tanned) by less civilized species than the player characters.
* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', officers of the Stormcloak Rebellion wear a bearskin cape and cowl, while a [[PlayerCharacter Dragonborn]] who maxes out their Smithing skill can craft a suit of Dragonbone or Dragonscale armor (as well as Dragonbone weapons). There's also the quest for the Daedric Prince Hircine where you're sent to kill and skin a werewolf to make a piece of armor. Also, while he's not seen wearing anything like this outside of Mods, a particularly infamous Werewolf Hunter is named "Krev The Skinner."

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' gave the Heavy the chance to use a bear's head as a hat. Guess the "big shaved bear that hates people" outclasses ''actual'' bears.
-->'''Item description:''' ''In Siberia, bear try to attack family. He try this once. Now he is little hat.''
* Chroma from ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'' wears the pelt of a draconic creature. [[DetachmentCombat Said pelt can be turned into a]] [[DroneDeployer stationary sentry gun]] capable of [[SummonBiggerFish obliterating groups of enemies by itself]].

* The Alien Rulers in ''VideoGame/XCOM2'''s Alien Hunters DLC can be turned into armored suits once they've been killed. With unique abilities and the chance of scarring aliens of that ruler's type.
* While not strictly this trope, some of Franchise/{{Kirby}}'s copy abilities in the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' games take on an aesthetic that evokes it when he copies some of the more beastly or animalistic fighters, such as [[http://images5.fanpop.com/image/polls/869000/869971_1320280597357_full.jpg?v=1320280554 Yoshi]] and [[https://i.redd.it/r9xq0frjcp311.jpg Ridley.]]
* ''VideoGame/CerealSoup'': According to a LoadingScreen tip, the ''Suricate'' (meerkat) and ''Canis'' (canine) species celebrate their [[RiteOfPassage coming-of-age ceremonies]] by wearing the skins of either their dead relatives or their first kill, though this counts as GameplayAndStorySegregation as whenever players [[EvolutionaryLevels grow their characters]], no ceremony or even a reference to that ceremony occurs.
* In ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'', the pelts of animals you kill can be sold to the trapper. These pelts are used to make special clothing options, including a bear-head hat (gotten from taking down a legendary bear).
* In ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}} 2: Forsaken'', one of the Scorned Barons, [[ColdSniper Pirrha the Rifleman]], wears the pelt of a Cabal War Beast in this fashion.

Can also overlap with PeltsOfTheBarbarian. Compare CarcassSleepingBag, for when you don't have access to magical tanning skills.

* 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. This casts disturbing implications on the nature of Finn's own NiceHat. The fifth season episode "Little Dude" left Finn with the need for a new hat.

* In Disney's ''Disney/{{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 [[Disney/TheLionKing Scar]].

* While not strictly this trope, some of Franchise/{{Kirby}}'s copy abilities in the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' games take on an aesthetic that evokes it when he copies some of the more beastly or animalistic fighters, such as [[https://www.ssbwiki.com/images/7/74/SSBU_KirbyYoshi.png Yoshi]] and [[https://i.redd.it/r9xq0frjcp311.jpg Ridley.]]

* In ''Film/BlackZoo'', during the meeting of the animal cult, the high priest Radu and Michael Conrad wear robes of tiger skin with the entire open-mouthed head of the tiger as a hood. It is not established wear the robes came from, however.

* In ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemptionII'', the pelts of animals you kill can be sold to the trapper. These pelts are used to make special clothing options, including a bear-head hat (gotten from taking down a legendary bear).

* ''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).

Can also overlap with PeltsOfTheBarbarian.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Hereafter," Franchise/{{Superman}}, having been blasted into the far future, 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 ''Manga/HajimeNoIppo'', Takamura once took out a bear by [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome punching it a bunch of times]]. He let the bear live because she was only [[MamaBear protecting her cub]]. However, Nekota came across the bear, killed it, and made bear stew. In Takamura's next fight, he wore the bear skin as part of his grand entrance.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' movie ''WesternAnimation/AbraCatastrophe'', after [[ItMakesSenseInContext monkeys become the dominant species]], the world changes to become jungle-themed, and Timmys 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]]).

* Aztec priests of Xipe Totec ("The Flayed One") skinned their {{Human Sacrifice}}s and paraded in their (untreated) skins for ''twenty days''. It's [[RuleOfSymbolism supposed to be symbolic]] of how their god sheds his skin and is reborn in a golden body every year, which itself symbolises the maize harvest being husked.

* In ''Windwalker'' the [[BadassGrandpa ancient]], [[OnlyMostlyDead returning-from-the-dead]], [[ThePatriarch chief]] has an adrenaline boosting run-in with a bear. After killing it, he wears its pelt to keep warm in the snow.

* ''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 opening of Freedom Unite, which explains why crafting also costs money on-top of materials).

* A {{Cosplay}} example [[http://www.buzzfeed.com/ashleytalong/cookie-monster-slayer-hpz here]]. The cookie farmers are safe once more - for another year, at least.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{BattleTech}}'', within Clan Ghost Bear Warriors may undergo the Clawing Ritual in which teams of high-ranking unClawed warriors are given basic provisions including a simple metal spear and hunting dogs, and journey into Strana Mechty's punishing Antarctic region to kill a ghost bear and bring back its carcass as proof. If successful the Warriors feast on the bear's meat and a cloak is made for each member of the hunting party (due to a ghost bear's size there is enough hide to make a good-sized cloak for every member), with the Warrior who landed the killing blow being allowed to ornament his or her own cloak with the animal's teeth while the other participants ornament theirs with the animal's claws. Most outside Clan Ghost Bear consider it counter-intuitive that the Clan hunts and kills their totem animal but it is justified by Clan Ghost Bear since these expeditions are very rarely successful. Warriors who succeed gain considerable prestige within the Clan and receive more consideration for rank advancement.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Susan Strong", Finn discovers a tribe of humans [[spoiler:(or so he thought)]] that wear animal skins as hats. This casts disturbing implications on the nature of Finn's own NiceHat. The fifth season episode "Little Dude" left Finn with the need for a new hat.

* In an {{Elseworld}} mashup of ''Comicbook/{{Superman}}'' and ''Literature/TheJungleBook'', K'l'l of the wolves manages to turn Shere Khan's skin into [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081013012508/marvel_dc/images/c/c6/Superman_Annual_Vol_2_6.jpg this]].

In RealLife this would be a complicated process. [[note]]tanning the leather (for the curious, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanning converting a fresh animal skin into usable leather,]] especially in medieval and classical times, was an extremely long and labor-intensive process -- we're talking months of work here, involving noxious and smelly chemicals like quicklime, animal brains, urine, etc.), cutting it, and then sewing it back into a wearable suit.[[/note]] However, you're not likely to see this in an action based series because it's time consuming and not as fun to watch as the slaying of the creature. Despite all this, the trope is used [[RuleOfCool because it's just that cool]].

In RealLife this would be a complicated process. [[note]] tanning the leather (for the curious, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanning converting a fresh animal skin into usable leather]], especially in medieval and classical times, was an extremely long and labor-intensive process -- we're talking months of work here, involving noxious and smelly chemicals like quicklime, animal brains, urine, etc.), cut it, and then sew it back into a wearable suit. [[/note]] However, you're not likely to see this in an action based series because it's time consuming and not as fun to watch as the slaying of the creature. Despite all this, the trope is used [[RuleOfCool because it's just that cool]].

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents'' movie WesternAnimation/AbraCatastrophe, after [[ItMakesSenseInContext monkeys become the dominant species]], the world changes to become jungle-themed, and Timmys 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]]).

** In ''TabletopGame/{{Necromunda}}'', the Ratskin natives of the Underhive got their name from their tradition of wearing cloaks made from the skins of the [[RodentsOfUnusualSize Necromundan Giant Rats]] that they hunt for food.