History Main / WolfMan

* In ''ComicBook/DragonsClaws'', one of the villainous rivals is the wolf man Feral.
* Bigby Wolf from ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'' and the game ''VideoGame/TheWolfAmongUs'' is a wolfwere, a wolf that can transform into a human. In addition to his true form of TheBigBadWolf, Bigby can also take the form of a Wolf Man when he needs to fight Fables that are more powerful than his human and half-wolf forms can handle.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Grendel}}'', [[WellIntentionedExtremist Argent]] is a permanent, non-shifting, Wolf Man.
* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
** Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair) of the ComicBook/NewMutants (and X-Force, Excalibur, X-Factor...) has an interim form of a bipedal wolfgirl/woman (often wearing a leather jacket and some form of trousers). This has become the default 'combat form' for her recent outings. Her fully-wolf 'sensitive senses' form is almost never seen these days.

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'': The werwolves of Quelb are closer to this than typical werewolves, not having a human form to change back to. They are carnivorous and raise sheep for meat. In fact, for every free meal you get at the local inn, [[EatTheDog one of the sheep in town disappears]]. The werewolves' leader, Kelger, was the TokenNonhuman of the Warriors of Dawn.

* In ''VideoGame/PotionPermit'', Koblins are anthropomorphic wolves who reside in the remote areas of Moonbury. They form tribes and worship other monsters as deities, and also fight intruders with weapons such as swords and magic.

* Lawrence Talbot himself appears as a recurring character in ''Webcomic/{{Nightmarish}}'', being portrayed as the castle gardener looking like an anthropomorphic wolf (including a [[WerewolvesAreDogs dog collar]]), while retaining a human personality and posture. Doesn't mean he acts ''[[MyInstinctsAreShowing completely]]'' human, though... In the 2020 reboot, he now follows abilities and tropes more associated with the traditional shapeshifting [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] and is now explicitly referred to as such, no longer exactly following this trope. [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Also his last name is changed to Lycan]] (as Silverpen discovered Universal's Wolf Man is not in public domain).

Subtrope of MonstrousHumanoid and BeastMan. See also FoxFolk and {{Dogfaces}}.

* One of the campers featured on the Advertising/BonesCoffee flavor "[[https://www.bonescoffee.com/products/smorey-time-by-bones-coffee-company S'morey Time]]" is a werewolf relaxing against the campfire.

** Strabimon is an tall, thin anthropomorphic wolf and is the pre-evolution to Wolfmon/Lobomon. Its fur and clothing have the same color scheme as its evolution's armor.

* ''Manga/InuYasha'': The wolf {{youkai}} are mainly depicted as humans with PointyEars and wolf tails, although they are still dangerous to humans and some other yokai. It is implied several times that their human form isn't the real one, as seen when their sacred graveyard has several skeletons with humanoid posture, weapons and armors coupled with feral, wolf-like skulls.

* ''Anime/WolfChildren'' is about an InterspeciesRomance between Hana and an unnamed Wolf Man, whose death leaves her to struggle with raising their children (who, as the title indicates, have inherited their father's Wolf Man traits).

* In ''ComicBook/DragonsClaws'' one of their villainous rivals is the wolf man Feral.

* ''Franchise/XMen'':
** Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair) of the ComicBook/NewMutants (X-Force, Excalibur, X-Factor...) has an interim form of a bipedal wolfgirl/woman (often wearing a leather jacket and some form of trousers). This has become the default 'combat form' for her recent outings. Her fully-wolf 'sensitive senses' form is almost never seen these days.
** One of Rahne's lovers is the Asgardian Wolf God, Hrimhari, who is descended from the Great Wolf Fenris
* ''ComicBook/RedSonja''
** Annual 4 has Lykaanus who sought immortality from the beast god Jhebbal Sag. Jhebbal Sag granted him this but because Lykaanus had insulted Jhebbal Sag by killing animals that were sacred to him, Lykaanus was cursed age in dog years and transform into a wolf creature during the night of a full moon. He bites Sonja, passing the curse onto her but she is able to undo it by killing him.
** In ''Red Sonja: Blue'', Sonja's signature Chainmail Bikini is damaged in a fight with a wolf-like demon named Bhamothes requiring her to make a new outfit out of the demon's fur after she kills him. Unfortunately, the demon's essence remains even in his fur and in the follow up series ''Red Sonja: Unchained'', Sonja is not only unable to remove it but it turns her into a wolf creature when it comes into contact with blood.

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* Omegaverse stories generally feature this to some extent, though how wolf-like the characters are ranges from "physically human except for reproductive anatomy, but has some canine behavior" all the way to full-on werewolves.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunksMeetTheWolfman'' not only has a character named Lawrence Talbot, but [[spoiler:Theodore becomes a weremunk as well.]]

* Remus Lupin's werewolf form in ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'' resembles this, unlike the books where he transformed into a normal wolf with slight differences.
* Ron Chaney (grandson of Lon Chaney, Jr.) in ''Film/HouseOfTheWolfMan'' (2009) plays one like his grandfather, but bit more bestial.

* The movie ''Film/TeenWolf'' and the AnimatedAdaptation, ''WesternAnimation/TeenWolf: The Animated Series'', featured a light comedy version of this.
* Creator/DeanStockwell in the 1973 film ''Film/TheWerewolfOfWashington'' transforms into the standard Wolf Man but has a pentagram marked on his chest in human form.
* Jack Nicholson in ''Film/WolfMikeNichols''.
* The titular ''Film/WolfCop'', a deliberate choice as the film is a homage to cheesy 80's horror-comedies.
* ''[[Film/TheWolfMan1941 The Wolf Man]]'' (1941) as stated above is one of the main TropeMakers, though perhaps it is more the TropeCodifier and the slightly earlier ''Film/WerewolfOfLondon'' (1935 - not to be confused with the much later ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'') was the TropeMaker. Also [[Film/TheWolfman2010 the 2010 remake]] starring Benicio Del Toro as Lawrence Talbot.

* The "Wolf and Raven" stories, which are part of ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'s'' ExpandedUniverse, feature a man who is possessed by Wolf, one of the many animal totems of the world, which grants him powers and mannerisms similar to the classic Wolf Man (as well as a SplitPersonality, of sorts).

* The [[ProudWarriorRace Canim]] of ''Literature/CodexAlera'' are a whole ''species'' of wolfmen - specifically, nine-foot tall wolfmen with enormous physical power and durability and who can live for hundreds and hundreds of years. And they are ''extremely'' competent warriors and fighters, as well as having a class of deadly blood magic users. They control a much larger continent with a much more expansive civilization than the Alerans. The only reason Alera remained unconquered by the Canim was because the individual canim nations are too busy fighting amongst themselves to worry about the distant Alera, except the nation of Narash, which would occasionally launch raids at Alera.

* The Lone Lowf in ''Literature/{{Play Places}}'', who is only slightly less savage than a rabid wolf.
* [[MeaningfulName Ulf]] Turesson differs from most wolfmen in that he is about ten - but then, he appears in a Swedish children's novel called ''Jag är en varulvsunge'' - "I am a werewolf ''cub''". (Also, his condition is [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane probably]] just a child-friendly version of a psychosis, not a true metamorphosis.)
%% * [[spoiler: Luke]], Maia and her pack in ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments''.
* ''Literature/TheBloodWarTrilogy'' uses the SavageWolves Grol as the primary enemy of the protagonists. They appear as nothing so much as a combination of orcs and werewolves with the WolfMan form as their appearance. Interestingly, the Grol are simply the 'evil' faction of a much larger and more diverse race.
* ''Literature/{{Somewhither}}'': The Kynokephalai (dog-headed people of ancient tall tales) in this setting are basically anthropomorphic wolves, which furthermore are invulnerable where their fur covers them. While intelligent, they still have wolfish instincts.
* The poorly-named "beagles" of ''Literature/TheLongEarth'' are another race of wolfmen, who evolved from canids on an alternate version of Earth. They can shift their musculature to optimize for either two- or four-legged locomotion, but lack opposable thumbs, which limits their technological development. They make up for this in cunning and viciousness, and thanks to large litter sizes, suffer huge population booms every generation, which they keep in check through frequent, continent-spanning wars.
* The wolfmen of ''Literature/TheGirlFromTheMiraclesDistrict'' are people who's been hit with black magic surge that's tried to turn them into full werewolves, but failed to. As a result, they look like they're stuck in mid-transformation - with humanoid form, but wolf features and fur. In contrast to "true werewolves", they aren't sapient and feel an ever-present need for violence.

* Gou from ''Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger'' had this issue when he first appeared.
** His counterpart RJ in ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'' had a similar affliction, though it didn't show up until later, and culminated with him gaining control and becoming the Wolf Ranger.
* Eddie Munster from ''Series/TheMunsters'' was the werewolf child of a Frankenstein's Monster and Countess {{Dracula}}. You really have to question the genetics of that.
--> [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Apu]]: If your mother was a vampire and your father was a Frankenstein, how come you are a werewolf?
-->'''Butch Patrick:''' Huh, I never thought of that. Doesn't make sense, does it? But what does make sense is putting your children in the hands of [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Mr. Kidkill]] here.
** Eddie Munster from ''Series/MockingbirdLane'' [[spoiler:turns into a bona-fide werewolf in the pilot's teaser, prompting the family's move to Mockingbird Heights.]]
* Apparently the case for [[spoiler: Ethan Chandler]] of ''Series/PennyDreadful''.

* Parodied: [[Series/ThirtyRock Werewolf bar mitzvah/Spooky, scary/Boys becoming men/Men becoming wolves...]]
* The canid-based wesen from ''Series/{{Grimm}}'': Blutbaden (wolves), Schakal (jackals), Hundjaegers (dogs), Fuchsbaus (foxes), Coyotl (coyotes), etc.

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* ''Manhua/BloodlineTheLastRoyalVampire'' has the wolf girl, Shuizhi Shi.
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* Aaaa-ooooooooooo! "Werewolves of London" by TooCoolToLive Music/WarrenZevon.
* "The Animal" by Music/{{Disturbed}} celebrates this trope on all its lupine glory.
* "Howl" by Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine, a verse of which is paraphrased from the page quote.
* "Moonchild" by Music/FieldsOfTheNephilim.

* The beast in Music/OzzyOsbourne's "Bark at the Moon" is all but outright stated to be this.
* ''Music/TheLegendOfTheDogman'': A song broadcast in 1987 about a wolflike cryptid stalking the forests of Michigan.
* Music/ManWithAMission has this as a gimmick. All the members wear wolf head masks and they claim that Music/JimiHendrix was also a brilliant geneticist who created them to be the UltimateLifeForm before holding them stasis where they eventually were exposed to '90s alternative music.

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* One appears on the playfield of ''Pinball/TalesFromTheCrypt'', and is featured in the "Werewolf Countdown" mode.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': Wolfmen are a common type of beastman in the forests and mountains of the frozen North. They're savage and aggressive raiders, and feared and hated by their neighbors. Like their animals of origin, they're highly social and tend to live in larger tribes, and larger confederations and alliances thereof, than other beastman types.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}''
** There's a virus which turns people into "Loups Garous", increasing their hair growth and receding their gums, making their teeth look like fangs. Their murderous activities and rise in strength and aggression aren't linked to the full moon, but follow an even 28-days-cycle. However, they don't gain animal traits, beyond the extra hair. What Shadowrun does have are Shapeshifters, as in normal animals of all varieties spontaneously giving birth to magically active stock able to take on human form. Plus all the dragons who've learned the ability...
** Michael Stackpole's ''Wolf and Raven'' short story "If as Beast You Don't Succeed" in Ka•Ge magazine Volume 1 Issue 12. Wolfgang Kies can turn into a half-man half-wolf form.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' brings us the Wulfen, werewolves InSpace. With guns. In PowerArmor.
* Werewolves can take this form in the ''TabletopGame/{{Rolemaster}}'' campaign setting ''Shadow World''.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Starfinder}}'': Vlaka are a race of humanoid wolves who evolved on an arctic world that was at the far end of their system's inhabitable belt in a star system with a dying sun. Their homeworld is actually freezing over to the point it will soon become inhospitable even to them, and they are struggling to figure out what to do. They also suffer the unusual racial curse that two thirds of their children are born either blind or deaf, with their other senses [[DisabilitySuperpower heightening to paranatural levels in compensation]].

* In ''TabletopGame/TheChroniclesOfAeres'', Ulvir are a race of lupine-featured [[BeastMan Wilderkind]] who are most known for serving as the bulwark of the [[EnchantedForest Gruncrist]] forces alongside the [[UrsineAliens Ulvir]] during the last great war.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'': The Abhorrent Beast is a variant of [[ShockAndAwe Darkbeasts]] which retains human intelligence, stands with two legs and possesses a certain degree of sentience. [[spoiler: The Afflicted Beggar found in Forbidden Woods is a living proof of their intelligence and sentience.]]
%%* ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct'': Saberwulf.
%%* ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'': J. Talbain.
* ''VideoGame/StarOcean1'': Tinek/T'Nique/whatever. Despite the series borrowing heavily from ''Franchise/StarTrek'' he's the only thing that comes close to being a shapeshifter in any of the games.
* ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'': Kevin is a beastman that turns into a full wolfman at night. This effectively gives him two sets of moves to the other characters' one.

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has the Worgen, a race of Wolfmen that infects others through biting. Though most Worgen are feral, the Kingdom of Gilneas manages to create a "cure" that, while not removing the curse, allows the Worgen to retain their human minds while in Worgen form. The Gilnean Worgen were added to TheAlliance as a playable race in the third expansion, ''Cataclysm''.

* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': Kagerou Imaizumi is a Wolf-Woman, despite her masculine name. Despite having very prominent wolf nature, she's actually a calm person -- she wears a long gown!
* ''VideoGame/GemsOfWar'': The population of Maugrim Woods seems to be mainly wolf-people (called Wargare), and there's conflict between them and [[LittleRedFightingHood a young woman called Scarlett]]. It's also available as a selection for the player character.
* ''VideoGame/ThePath'': Although most of the "wolves" are fully human in appearance, [[spoiler: Robin's wolf]] takes this form.

* ''VideoGame/ContraHardCorps'': Brad Fang looks like what might happen if Film/TheTerminator somehow suffered from lycanthropy, being a musclebound humanoid werewolf cyborg with CoolShades and a [[GatlingGood Gatling]] ArmCannon.
* ''Franchise/BlazBlue'': Valkenhayn R. Hellsing is a member of the beastkin and can alternate between human form and wolf form. Most of the time, he's in human form and when he fights, he either transforms just his limbs or he fully transforms into a wolf. However, for his [[OneHitKill Astral Heat]], he transforms into a wolf-man to absolutely kill his opponent, making it his strongest form.
* ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'': There are canid-like humanoids such as the Jackalmen of Shapier, Kalb, the Pharaoh Dog-descended meat merchant, and the [[https://questforglory.fandom.com/wiki/Canine Canine]] Punjab merchant [[ADogNamedDog Wolfie]].
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'': The Lycans are a group of primal, wolf-fur-clad savages armed with improvised weapons like machetes and billhooks, and their own fangs and claws. They represent a pretty classic GothicHorror depiction of OurWerewolvesAreDifferent.

* ''VideoGame/JitsuSquad'': Frost's PraetorianGuard units are Stormwolves, bipedal humanoid wolves and an EliteMook enemy.

* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'': There's a whole race of these known as Shadows, wolfmen normally given to particularly influential demigods of Queen Marika's family with the potential to become Empyreans and succeed her on the throne of her empire as bodyguards and friends. We meet two over the course of the game, Blaidd and Maliketh, both of whom are fanatically loyal to their charges, Ranni the Witch and Queen Marika herself, and both of whom are extremely skilled combatants.

* In ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' {{Hellhound}}s look like anthropomorphic wolves. And if Loona is any indication they tend to dress and act like punk teenagers.

* ''Webcomic/GrimTrigger'': There's one in book 4. If you click on him his name is "Wolf Thing" and he tries to fight Tage. [[SensingYouAreOutmatched He declines.]]

* While [[spoiler: Jade's [[PhysicalGod God Tier]] form]] in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' starts out as simply LittleBitBeastly with a few behaviors resembling those of a domestic dog, she's still mostly human... until [[spoiler: [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen the Condesce]]]] [[BrainwashedAndCrazy takes control]] and [[spoiler: turns her Grimbark]]. While not changing in outward appearance except for [[spoiler: the darkness of her skin]] and the [[TechnicolorEyes stylistic effect]] of turning her irises [[spoiler: into the Green Sun]], her primal, canine rage has been brought out enough that there is a lycanthropic character to her transformation.

* Lawrence Talbot himself appears as a recurring character in ''{{WebComic/Nightmarish}}'', being portrayed as the castle gardener looking like an anthropomorphic wolf (including a [[WerewolvesAreDogs dog collar]]), while retaining a human personality and posture. [[Main/MyInstinctsAreShowing Doesn't mean he acts]] ''[[Main/MyInstinctsAreShowing completely]]'' [[Main/MyInstinctsAreShowing human, though...]]
** In the 2020 reboot, he now follows abilities and tropes more associated with the traditional shapeshifting [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] and is now explicitly referred to as such, no longer exactly following this trope. [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Also his last name is changed to Lycan]] (as Silverpen discovered Universal's Wolf Man is not in public domain).

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* Averted in this ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' article, when the campers are attacked by what is obviously [[http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/671049 Bigfoot Man]].

* ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs2017'' has two episodes "Mayornormal Activity", Mayor Shelbourne turns into a werewolf [[spoiler:before getting sucked up by one of Flint's inventions, a halloween bag with a vacuum attatched to it.]] He is actually seen as a werewolf again, only for a second, and in the episode "Swallow Fails".

* "WesternAnimation/DanVs the Wolfman".
* The ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'' segment "Were-Kaz" has Kaz drink hair growth formula and become a wolf-like beast, complete with a ShoutOut to the frame-by-frame transformation scene from 1941 film.

* In ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs2017'', Mayor Shelbourne turns into one in a halloween episode "Mayornormal Activity".
* In ''WesternAnimation/MonsterForce'', one of the protagonists, Luke, is the grandson of the protagonist from ''Film/TheWolfMan1941'' and assumes a similar "BeastMan with lupine features" look when he transforms. Strangely, Niles Lupon, who cursed Luke's grandfather in this continuity, looks like a hulking anthropomorphic wolf when ''he'' transforms.
* WesternAnimation/CountDuckula got chased by one in a MonsterMash episode. It should be noted that this wolf man doesn't really look like a wolf, on the count of being originally an anthropomorphic bird.

The Wolf Man is a ArchetypalCharacter that appears in some form in nearly, if not every culture that has ever existed. This is likely because humans and wolves evolved alongside one another, having a symbiotic relationship from the earliest days of both our species, and thus like all archetypes speaks to the human psyche on a very (no pun intended) primal level.

** [=MirageGaogamon=] is a anthropomorphic wolf in a blue full-armor. It's also much larger than [=MachGaogamon=]. Its Burst Mode has it grow long, white hair (although, it could be just decoration of its helmet) and wield an EpicFlail SinisterScythe weapon.

* ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}: Hard Corps'': Brad Fang looks like what might happen if Film/TheTerminator somehow suffered from lycanthropy, being a musclebound humanoid werewolf cyborg with CoolShades and a [[GatlingGood Gatling]] ArmCannon.

* Remus Lupin's werewolf form in Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban resembles this, unlike the books where he transformed into a normal wolf with slight differences.

* Creator/DeanStockwell in the 1973 film ''Film/TheWerewolfOfWashington''.

%%* Creator/DeanStockwell in the 1973 film ''Film/TheWerewolfOfWashington''.

* In Creator/CirqueDuSoleil's WidgetSeries ''Solstrom'', the gentle horror pastiche "Howling Wind" has a dreary hotel turned into a Gothic HellHotel. The puzzled, elderly owner decides he will just conduct business as usual, but as the episode progresses, it becomes clear that his hair [[Main/EinsteinHair permanently frizzing out]] when the transformation occurred was just the first stage of his slowly turning into this. [[spoiler:TheStinger reveals his final, classic Hollywood wolfman form. At least he's a ReluctantMonster -- as he's preoccupied with being a good host, he never loses his pleasant-at-heart nature.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}} 14'': Kagerou Imaizumi is a Wolf-Woman, despite her masculine name. And despite having very prominent wolf nature, she's actually a calm person-- she wears a long gown!

* Jack Nicholson in ''Film/{{Wolf}}''.