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* ''FanFic/UnleashingOfADarkNight'': Werewolf Mobians have ''three'' forms compared to two for other kinds of [=WereMobian=]s: a daytime form, the standard Were form ([[NightlyTransformation their nighttime form]]), and the Rage Form, only awakened once angered to a certain extent. Being part Werewolf, [[OriginalCharacter Tomoya the Volt]] has this capability, but since she is only half True Were, she lacks the standard Were form. Well, she was supposed to, if not for Dark Gaia...

* Invoked in the ''{{Anime/Kirby Of The Stars}}'' episode "Sheepwrecked", which features [[AWolfInSheepsClothing Amon]], a fierce-looking sheep who appears in Cappy Town's flock one day and encourages them to rise up against their would-be shepherds and predators. After [[CynicismCatalyst becoming disillusioned with their treatment]] following a narrow escape as a lamb from King Dedede's attempt to eat him where he saw his kind being prepared for butchering, he journeyed through the wilderness alone, and claims that after lightning struck one night [[WolvesAlwaysHowlAtTheMoon as he howled atop a cliff]], he was no longer a sheep, but a wolf. When he finally engages Kirby in battle, he [[OneWingedAngel turns into an enormous dark-wooled beast with drill horns]], which [[https://cdn.wikirby.com/9/9c/Monster_Amon.png?20200722203608 doesn't look very much like a wolf]] itself, but he runs at opponents and howls much in the way of one, and his elongated snout and two triangular horns also evoke a wolf's head; comparing him to [[https://cdn.wikirby.com/6/65/E26_Scene_10.png Wolfwrath/Chilidog]], a more conventionally wolf-based monster in the show's style, they do have similar spike attacks, stances, and glowing eyes. Unlike most monstrous transformations in the show being sourced to [[BigBad Nightmare]] and his magic, Amon is a true LoneWolfBoss who seems to possess full control of his transformation despite Sword and Blade Knight guessing he's a demon beast - he even exits the form willingly and ceases fighting despite being on the winning end against Kirby once he realizes that the Cappy Town sheep [[FollowTheLeader haven't changed their ways]], leaving peacefully with the goal of truly finding his own true flock and encouraging Kirby to fight for what he knows is right.

* Invoked in the ''{{Anime/Kirby Of The Stars}}'' episode "Sheepwrecked", which features [[AWolfInSheepsClothing Amon]], a fierce-looking sheep who appears in Cappy Town's flock one day and encourages them to rise up against their would-be shepherds and predators. After [[CynicismCatalyst becoming disillusioned with their treatment]] following a narrow escape as a lamb from King Dedede's attempt to eat him where he saw his kind being prepared for butchering, he journeyed through the wilderness alone, and claims that after lightning struck one night [[WolvesAlwaysHowlAtTheMoon as he howled atop a cliff]], he was no longer a sheep, but a wolf. When he finally engages Kirby in battle, he [[OneWingedAngel turns into an enormous dark-wooled beast with drill horns]], which [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/kirby/images/6/6b/Sheep_monster.png/revision/latest?cb=20200918175251&path-prefix=en doesn't look very much like a wolf]] itself, but the theming is definitely there; his elongated snout and two triangular horns also evoke a wolf's head, and comparing him to [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/kirby/images/e/e1/WolfWrath.png/revision/latest?cb=20200913133806&path-prefix=en Wolfwrath/Chilidog]], a more conventionally wolf-based monster in the show's style, they take a similar stance. Unlike most monstrous transformations in the show being sourced to [[BigBad Nightmare]] and his magic, Amon is a true LoneWolfBoss whose transformation is entirely under his control and seemingly gained by experience - he even exits the form willingly and ceases fighting despite being on the winning end in his fight with Kirby when he realizes that the Cappy Town sheep [[FollowTheLeader haven't changed their ways]], leaving peacefully with the goal of truly finding his own flock and encouraging Kirby to fight for what he knows is right.

** Rougarous are wolf men who can turn into true wolves and back at will. They're often mistaken for werewolves, but are not actual lycanthropes and deeply hate true werewolves, whom they hunt without mercy.

* ''Toys/MonsterHigh'''s werewolves such as Clawdeen and her brother Clawd's transformations are triggered by moonlight or a spotlight. Even then, their physical changes are minimal - weres in the MH universe have not been shown to have a fully human or fully lupine form. In Clawdeen's diary, their younger sister Howleen is mentioned as having been sprayed by a skunk, whether this indicates she was hunting, or simply in the wrong place at the wrong time is not mentioned.

A SubTrope of OurWerebeastsAreDifferent, dealing with variations of lycanthropy (i.e. werewolves). [[OurVampiresAreDifferent As with vampires]], the exact parameters of lycanthropy vary, but to meet the definition, a werewolf must be like an {{Animorph|ism}} who takes the form of a wolf every month (okay, the exact details do vary — see the [[Analysis/OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Werewolf Analysis Page]] for a listing of common characteristics and customization options). Far and away the most popular conceit is that a werewolf is a human who has somehow become able to temporarily transform ([[InvoluntaryShapeshifting usually unwillingly]]) into a wolf that goes on to run wild ([[AlternateIdentityAmnesia rarely remembering their romp]]). Usual methods include a ViralTransformation spread by being bitten, but a lot of depictions show lycanthropy as solely hereditary. Other popular causes include {{curse}}s and typical MadScientist experiments. Like most werewolves, the classic wolf-man only transforms on the full moon, or, failing that, at night, though none of this is a ''given'' in modern works.

* What do you get if you mix this trope with a choose-your-own-adventure story written by random people on the Internet? You get the werewolves at ''[[http://cyoc.net Choose Your Own Change!]]'' '''Warning''': May not be sfw since it is a fetish station (registration required). Both PoesLaw and SturgeonsLaw are in full effect.

* While ''Film/AreWeMonsters'' follows the classic full-moon transformation and SilverBullet tropes, the only lupine quality it gives them are the sharp fangs and glowing eyes. While they still keep the name, they can be more compared to the Rokurokubi with the long neck they tend to have.

* ''Film/TheCompanyOfWolves'' has a very different take on werewolves, in that they're actually much more faithful to the medieval version of werewolves, albeit combined with a lot of [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible hard-to-understand symbolism]]. But hey, the transformation sequences are awesome.

** Mikola Rostov from ''ComicBook/TheWarlord'' was a Russian fencing instructor cursed to become a werewolf every full moon. Rostov followed his lover Mariah to the other-dimensional realm of Skartaris, hoping the perpetual sunlight would free him of his curse. He eventually went back in time to the age when the land was called Wizard World. There Jennifer Morgan cast a spell that cured him from his werewolf curse. However, he can still use his "wolf spirit" in battle.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' did it during a ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' episode where Ned Flanders gets bitten by a large grey Dire Wolf and then becomes a Man-Wolf; a rare case of ''two types'' in one show.
** In the later ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' segment "I've Grown A Costume to Your Face", after a witch curses everyone in Springfield to transform into their costumes, Bart becomes a wolf-man, since he was dressed as Eddie Munster.

* In "'X'-tra 'X'" in ''Creepy'' #34, a mutated form of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinefelter_syndrome Klinefelter syndrome]] causes the extra X chromosome to be affected by the full moon's gravity and produce a certain fluid which is responsible for lycanthropic transformations.

* ''Film/Werewolf1996'' was wildly inconsistent in its portrayal of the titular monsters; they vary between looking like really hairy men and looking like "a bear with a bat mask." Even a scratch from a dead werewolf's ''bone'' is enough to transmit "werewolfism" to other people; one victim gets scratched and transforms ''while driving''. [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mike and the 'bots]] did not let this pass without comment; for instance, the sketch where Mike accidentally gets scratched by Crow and begins transforming into a "were-Crow", or "Where Oh Werewolf". The film has the gall to go out of its way to argue that its titular beast is "not a traditional white man's movie monster", but some obscure Native American curse. And then proceeds to have said werewolf behave... exactly like a white man's movie monster. It is claimed that the silver bullets only incapacitated one of the infected characters. And the inconsistent makeup seems to just show progression; they just look very hairy at the start of their transformation, and wear the bat-mask when they're fully "wolf". By the way, said werewolves aren't very tough; a random bystander gets into a fistfight with one, and ''almost wins''.

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* ''Manga/SpiceAndWolf'': Holo is a [[InsistentTerminology wise]] Dire-sized wolf who inhabits wheat that can change into a young Wolf Girl. She needs either wheat or blood to transform from one form to another. She is a wolf-god who transforms voluntarily into a human form, however, not a human who becomes a wolf.

* Myth/ClassicalMythology: A number of werwolf stories are present in Greek and Roman myths and legends, and tend to focus on a theme of humans being transformed into wolves as a form of divine punishment. These transformations are typically permanent or indeterminate -- in most regards, they're a form of BalefulPolymorph more so than what "werewolf" is taken to mean in the modern day -- but in several versions of these myths the people so transformed have the option to -- again permanently -- turn back into humans after a nine-year period. One of the older stories describes how a king named Lycaon tried to serve [[ImAHumanitarian the flesh of his own son Nyctimus]] as a [[HumanSacrifice meal for Zeus]]. Instead, Zeus punished Lycaon by changing him into a wolf. This serves as the linguistic origin for "[[AKindOfOne lycanthropy]]", the condition of being a werewolf.

* ''WebOriginal/TheFederalVampireAndZombieAgency'': Werewolvism is also caused by a virus that turns a person into an anthropoid wolf, but the transformation is irreversible and they never turn back to human.

-->-- '''Calibretto''', ''Mysanthropy and the Full Moon''

->''"It's a full moon tonight,\\
I'm gonna get a bite,\\
I can't wait till I start transforming."''

** Anthony Lupus, a werewolf who has fought ComicBook/{{Batman}} a couple of times. Lupus was an Olympic athlete who was given a serum by [[MadScientist Dr. Milo]] that transforms every full moon. The first appearance of Lupus was loosely adapted into the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE43MoonOfTheWolf Moon of the Wolf]]", in which Lupus' [[MeaningfulName name]] is changed into the slightly less [[WerewolfThemeNaming obvious]][[note]]although remember who the mythical founders of Rome were {{raised by|Wolves}}[[/note]] Anthony Romulus.
** Lar-On is a Kryptonian werewolf whom ComicBook/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/{{Batman}} fought in ''World's Finest #256'' (way back in UsefulNotes/{{the Bronze Age|OfComicBooks}}) and who fought ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} in ''ComicBook/SupergirlRebirth''. His lycanthropy was a sickness caused by Red Kryptonite poisoning (Red-K does weird things to Kryptonians as opposite to the lethal and most famous green type). He turns into a muscled, huge, purple-red, humanoid wolf with fiery EyeBeams.

** ''Young All-Stars'', a companion book to ''ComicBook/AllStarSquadron'', had the rather unusual Sea Wolf in Axis Amerika, in that he was an aquatic werewolf who acted as an evil expy of ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}. His transformations seemed to willful, as he reverted back to human form when he was knocked unconscious.

** In ''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'', one storyline had a wolf who, thanks to a magical artifact, transformed under a full moon into a "wuz-wolf", a feral-looking human being. (The Zoo Crew's Earth having no humans, who are considered only to be fictional creatures, is noted at several points during the story).

** Mikola Rostov from ''ComicBook/TheWarlord'' was a Russian fencing instructor cursed to become a werewolf every full moon. Rostov followed his lover Mariah to the other-dimensional realm of Skartaris, hoping the perpetual sunlight would free him of his curse. He eventually went back in time to the age when the land was called Wizard World. There Jennifer Morgan cast a spell that cured him from his werewolf curse. However he can still use his "wolf spirit" in battle.
** In ''Creature Commandos'', Warren Griffith isn't a mythic werewolf, but rather one created by science. He lacks any of your typical werewolf weaknesses, and be can usually transform at will, but he'll also occasionally change at random due to flaws in the procedure that have him his powers. His wolf form also has a markedly different personality than his human form -- a berserk BloodKnight vs a meek, stuttering FarmBoy with an inferiority complex.

* In Fred Perry's ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'', one of the main characters is one of the last Werecheetahs. Other weres include Lions, Tigers, Rats, and Wolves. Each subspecies is able to shift between human, animal, and a "Wolf-Man" styled hybrid form. All of the weres retain their rationality in each of their forms, although they need to learn to control their instincts during childhood. Although the weres are separate species, they are capable of spreading Lycanthropy to Humans as a disease; they were originally created by a wizard as {{Super Soldier}}s before said wizard was betrayed. They have a HealingFactor for everything except attacks by another were and silver, which literally burns their flesh and souls! Magic and Dwarven Steel disrupts the magic in the were's aura, which slows down their HealingFactor. The main character in question is the last Full-blooded were-cheetah and the werewolves have only one fertile female left due to a war between the two [[spoiler:and betrayal by the leader of the werewolves which left Britanny the last were-cheetah and the werewolf clan in ruins]].

* ''ComicBook/LastManStanding'''s [[ChickMagnet Ronin]] is a RaginCajun salesman who had his life turned around under a Blue Moon...

* Being set in a WorldOfFunnyAnimals, the Italian comic ''Lupo Alberto'' features the were''man'', a wolf that turns into human, as a somewhat recurring theme. After first appearing in [[ShowWithinAShow a horror book the main character (a wolf) was reading]], Alberto himself (said main character) turned out to be one, though with different flavors to the transformation the two times it happened:
** The first time he turned into a bureaucrat that went to the nearby farm to inform Moses, the guardian, that at morning it would be razed to allow the construction of a new highway, giving him such a scare that when Alberto turned back Moses was just too happy it wouldn't happen to beat him up. In this story, nobody, not even Alberto, knows he's a wereman, and Alberto has no idea what he did.
** By the second time Alberto being a wereman is known, to the point he'll have Moses tie him up to a tree and muzzle him hours before the full moon so he won't terrorize the surroundings. This time however he doesn't turn into a bureaucrat but into a neo-nazi that spouts racist insults... And as Moses has forgot to muzzle him, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Enrico]] decides to do the deed himself, but when he sees he arrived too late [[LetNoCrisisGoToWaste he turns him into a show and sells tickets to watch the amazing Wereman in complete safety]].

*** Similarly to Rahne Sinclair/Wolfsbane (see below), the Lobo Brothers are mutants who can transform into wolf-men.
*** John Jameson (J. Jonah's son) was an astronaut who was transformed by a ruby he found on the moon into one. He was later transported to the dimension the ruby originated in, where he became Stargod.

*** Wolfsbane debuted in ''ComicBook/NewMutants'' and is a {{mutant|s}} shapeshifter who originally could become a red-furred wolf, or a 'werewolfgirl' intermediate form. These forms continued to change as she grew, influenced by emotional crises, mind control, drugs, mutant energy influxes, whatever the writers could dream up. She's been stuck in her intermediate form before, too. Twice (at least) depowered and restored, she has served on more teams (and in more different comic books) than most any character. Wolfsbane's LoveAtFirstSight is the [[StarCrossedLovers Asgardian]] wolf prince Hrimhari, who is a regular wolf with the power to turn into a wolf-man. She also befriended Catseye of the Hellions, who was a werecat who also changed shape voluntarily. However, she had to be coaxed into human form by her teammates and had a strange way of speaking that suggests that like Hrimhari, she's an animal who can turn into a human and not the other way around.

*** Karl Lykos a.k.a. Sauron is a were-''pteredactyl''. He's not hurt by silver or affected by the moon, and his shapeshifting works based on his energy drain power; in human form, he needs to drain people to survive (it's not fatal), but if he drains a mutant's power, he turns into his pterodactyl form until it's used up.
* ''Menace #1'' features several American tourists who find a man being chased by wolves during a full moon. They keep the wolves at bay until dawn, only to discover that the man they were protecting is a type of werewolf who only turns ''human'' when the full moon is shining. Once the sun rises, he reverts to his wolfman form and attacks them.

** [[StevenUlyssesPerhero Jack Russell]] from ''ComicBook/WerewolfByNight'' inherited the werewolf curse from his father, coming into effect on his 18th birthday. He transforms into a WolfMan [[WeirdMoon three times a month]], and eventually gains some control over his form, being able to shift whenever he wants while retaining his human mind.

** In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', the heroes have to go up against a group of "cowboy werewoofs". One character is surprised at this because "there isn't even a full moon tonight". This prompts another character to point out that the "moon is always full."

** [[StevenUlyssesPerhero Jack Russell]] from ''ComicBook/WerewolfByNight''. He inherited the werewolf curse from his father, coming into effect on his 18th birthday. He transforms into a WolfMan [[WeirdMoon three times a month]], and eventually gains some control over his form, being able to shift whenever he wants while retaining his human mind.
** ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': John Jameson (J. Jonah's son) was an astronaut who was transformed by a ruby he found on the moon into one. He was later transported to the dimension the ruby originated in, where he became Stargod.
** The infamous ''Man and Wolf'' [[http://www.cbr.com/i-love-ya-but-youre-strange-the-glorious-debut-of-capwolf/ story arc]] from 1992 brought pretty much anything wolf related in the Marvel Universe into play as ComicBook/CaptainAmerica had to deal with a whole town of werewolves created by Nightshade via scientific means. This included Captain America ''himself'' becoming a werewolf, called "Capwolf" in the series. Eventually, even [[KarmicTransformation Nightshade herself was infected]], motivating her to actually cure the problem she started.

[[MonsterMash Together]] with Count {{Dracula}}, the {{Mummy}}, and FrankensteinsMonster, this is generally considered to complete the set of "classic" [[MonsterMash horror monsters]]. Unlike the other three, however, there is no single specific source of popular werewolf lore. The closest claim to such a source in literature might be Creator/GuyEndore's classic novel ''Literature/TheWerewolfOfParis'', but cinema seems to have been more definitive in terms of shaping the concept. Hence, Creator/LonChaneyJr's character (Lawrence Talbot) from the 1941 film ''[[Film/TheWolfMan1941 The Wolf Man]]'', as something closer to an ape with vaguely canine features is usually regarded as providing the template that others have followed. In 1981, with dramatic improvements in visual effects and makeup now available, the classic film, ''Film/TheHowling'', established the modern image of a werewolf as essentially a far more convincing humanoid canine creature, especially with the head now typically having a more convincing muzzle for the face.

Werewolves did not receive the same ''revisionist'' treatment as vampires did during the '90s, partly due to the high probability of SpecialEffectFailure in visual media, but also because the concept is ''much'' more difficult to rehabilitate. While having your neck bitten by beautiful people is erotic, being torn into bloody chunks and eaten is not. And in most common depictions, werewolves [[AlternateIdentityAmnesia aren't exactly sapient in wolf form.]] Hence, they're often relegated to supporting roles in FurAgainstFang storylines and FantasyKitchenSink settings. Surprisingly, such an earlier revisionist treatment happened in medieval times for fictitious werewolves; in the ChivalricRomance, a werewolf could be a [[NobleWolf perfectly gentle and noble beast]]. Then again, with the growing knowledge that North American wolves have been seriously misunderstood and are not that aggressive to humans while being devoted parents thanks to classic works like ''Literature/NeverCryWolf'', that lends itself to a serious image makeover as potentially heroic monsters. In fact, one can take it further considering with the proper circumstances and disposition with the being in sufficiently rational control, werewolves can be [[YouSexyBeast sexy]] or even cuddly.

* ''Film/{{Werewolf}}'' was wildly inconsistent in its portrayal of the titular monsters; they vary between looking like really hairy men and looking like "a bear with a bat mask." Even a scratch from a dead werewolf's ''bone'' is enough to transmit "werewolfism" to other people; one victim gets scratched and transforms ''while driving''. [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mike and the 'bots]] did not let this pass without comment; for instance, the sketch where Mike accidentally gets scratched by Crow and begins transforming into a "were-Crow", or "Where Oh Werewolf". The film has the gall to go out of its way to argue that its titular beast is "not a traditional white man's movie monster", but some obscure Native American curse. And then proceeds to have said werewolf behave... exactly like a white man's movie monster. It is claimed that the silver bullets only incapacitated one of the infected characters. And the inconsistent makeup seems to just show progression; they just look very hairy at the start of their transformation, and wear the bat-mask when they're fully "wolf". By the way, said werewolves aren't very tough; a random bystander gets into a fistfight with one, and ''almost wins''.