History Main / WolfMan

* 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: [[BigBad the Condesce]]]] [[BrainwashedAndCrazy takes control]] and [[spoiler: turns her [[FanNickname Grim bark]]. 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.

** In the 2020 reboot, he is given the ability to shift between his humanoid (note that he is [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot also a]] [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombie]]) and wolfman form, and his last name is changed to Lycan (as Silverpen discovered Universal's Wolf Man is not in public domain).

'''Note:''' Not to be confused with [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves]]. This is for characters that look like wolves.

* A business woman changes in search of hunger in a 1988 ''Hershey's Bar None'' commercial.

* A man becomes a werewolf from stressing over the frustration of his credit card bill in a ''Capital One'' commercial.
* A teenage werewolf scarfs down a can of ''Chef Boyardee'' beef ravioli and changes back to human.
* A 2009 ''Mighty Taco'' ad features a werewolf running from the fuzz with two bags of food in his paw.
* In a classic ''New York Telephone'' Dial-a-Joke spot, a transformed wolf man reverts to his human state while listening to a funny joke over the phone.
* A ''Sonic Burger'' commercial features a bashful werewolf enjoying a Blazin' BBQ Loader Burger, which sears most of the fur off of his face and body.

* A well-dressed job applicant turns into a werewolf as part of his interview for security guard in a local ''Westaff'' spot from 2012.

* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'': Ginei Morioka is a werewolf and can transform into his wolf-man form at will, but the phase of the moon significantly influences his SuperSpeed. Unlike most examples, Ginei's transformation doesn't rip off his clothes, thus you often see him fully clad as a wolf-man, which might be a bit jarring, since he only wears casual clothes or his school uniform.

* ''ComicBook/TraggAndTheSkyGods'': Snark, the world's first werewolf, transforms into a form that is half man, half dire wolf, but maintains the upright posture of a human.
* The '90s Wrestling/{{WWE}} comic book series ''Wrestling/TheUndertaker'' features Lootan, who was a well-dressed werewolf detective and right hand man to the titular character.
* Mikola Rostov from ''ComicBook/TheWarlord'' was a Russian fencing instructor cursed to become a werewolf every full moon. He tried to escape his curse by moving to world of perpetual sunlight. This was not as successful as he might have hoped.
* John Jameson, son of Daily Bugle publisher J. Jonah Jameson, has served as a member of Franchise/SpiderMan's rogues gallery as Man-Wolf after being exposed to a moonstone that mutated him into a werewolf.
* The Marvel character ''ComicBook/WerewolfByNight'', real name [[StevenUlyssesPerhero Jack Russell]]. While the way his werewolf form has been portrayed over the years has varied, he has always looked more or less like a Wolf Man.

* The 1961 Film/HammerHorror ''Film/TheCurseOfTheWerewolf'' (a loose adaptation of GuyEndore's ''TheWerewolfOfParis'') starred Creator/OliverReed as the werewolf, humanoid in shape but with a more wolfish and frightening appearance than in the Lon Chaney Jr. film.
* ''Film/DeadtimeStories'': Willie, the werewolf in "Little Red Running Hood", turns into a classic wolf man. (Or, rather, he turns into a man in an [[SpecialEffectsFailure obvious rubber mask and gloves]]. Being otherwise fully clothed spares them the necessity of make up on any other part of his body).
* In ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'', Lupin's transformation has him with human-like proportions, bald, and extremely underfed.

* In ''Film/HouseOnBareMountain'', Krakow, who works for Granny Good running her still and roams the grounds scaring the girls whenever there is a full moon, is a 7n ft. tall werewolf who seems to be permanently stuck in his wolf man form.
* The werewolves in ''Film/TheHowling'' seem to be able to take a pseudo-anthropoid form when convenient (or the better to terrify you with), though they seem to prefer being in full wolf form (though with sharp claws and human degrees of aggressiveness and cruelty).
* Michael Landon in the 1957 film ''Film/IWasATeenageWerewolf'', who turns into a wolfman through hypnotherapy.
* Subverted with the Wookiees of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' universe, which, while not humans who transform, rather closely resemble a Wolf Man due to being upright, humanoid dog-like creatures.
** There's also the Shistavanen and the Defel races, both of which ressemble humanoid wolves.

* The now-lost 1913 Thanhouser film, ''Film/TheWerewolf'', was perhaps the UrExample, although the few--and admittedly vague--descriptions suggest they used a dog or wolf/dog mix for the werewolf rather than making up a human.
* ''Film/TheWerewolf1956'' has Duncan Marsh, the first on-screen character to turn into a wolfman through scientific means rather than supernatural causes.
* Creator/DeanStockwell in the 1973 film ''Film/TheWerewolfOfWashington''.
* ''Film/TheWerewolfOfWoodstock'' (1975) starred Tige Andrews as Bernie, a werewolf who got his lycanthropy through an electrical power surge.

* GuyEndore's 1933 novel ''Literature/TheWerewolfOfParis'' ( a tale of a 19th century French Werewolf) is one of the most important Werewolf novels.
* 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). This is very different from the game's usual take on werewolves.

* The ''Literature/{{Belgariad}}'' has Poledra, who turns out to be a ''natural'' wolf able to shapeshift into a human, a trick she learns from patiently watching sorcerors. Belgarath meets her after he tries his hand at shapeshifting (in the early days of magic, when the sorcerors had to find out everything by themselves), and after they eventually marry, Belgarath spends a lot of his time in wolf form and starts to consider it as natural as his human form. Belgarion, the series' main character, has the time of his life when he gets invited by Poledra to try it too.
* Werewolves in Literature/{{Discworld}} vary enormously in their powers and appearance. The best example of this trope is probably Ludmilla Cake, who is a perfectly presentable young lady for three weeks out of the month, and a perfectly well-behaved Wolf Woman for the remaining week.

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' has four different kinds.
** Lycanthropes have the genetic disorder that causes continuous hair growth on their bodies and their change is mostly mental, they tap into a primal rage and strength. They are most connected with this trope.
** Werewolves are people who have mastered one particular spell that allows them to turn into a wolf. The Were-form is often bigger than a normal wolf because they are using their image of a wolf as opposed to an natural wolf.
** Hexenwolves make a DealWithTheDevil to get an AmplifierArtifact that turns them into a beast that is larger and more powerful than a Were-form, but it is addictive.
** Loup-Garu are people who were cursed. They and their descendants will transform into a huge Anthropomorphic Wolf on the full moon. They have a weakness to Inherited Silver as it has an element of sacrifice to it.
** Bob has stated that the ViralTransformation is something that [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent is something that Hollywood took from Vampires]].

* Over the course of the last third of ''Literature/AWolfInTheSoul'', Greg's transformation back into human form each morning gradually becomes less and less complete.

* George from ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'' turns into a sort of wolf-man creature during his "time of the month".
* The main character from the aptly-named ''Series/BigWolfOnCampus''.
* The way werewolves in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' are shown varies over the seasons. They started out as a feral-looking wolfmen, walking on two legs but with a wolf-like head. Later they are [[RetCon portrayed]] as quadruped and without a muzzle. The season 8 comics show them as a hybrid of the two, able to walk on two legs but running on four.
** ''Series/{{Angel}}'' showed a 'special' kind of werewolf that differs the ''Buffy'' one (because they are a subspecies). They walk on two legs, have powerful jaws but lack the thick coat of fur. And, [[spoiler:sometimes wind up on someone's buffet table.]]
* ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Tooth and Claw": The Doctor and Rose encounter a boy who transforms into a humanoid-looking werewolf (of alien origin, naturally).

* Jiro/Garulu of ''Series/KamenRiderKiva'' can transform from human to wolfman at will.

* All of the werewolves in ''Series/TeenWolf''. Beta wolves are the best example of this, being humanoid with wolf-like features. Alphas are more like the classic werewolf. And there's also a type that can go fully into wolf form, too.
* Wolf from ''Series/TheTenthKingdom''.

* ''Series/HammerHouseOfHorror'': The woodsman and his werewolf brood in the episode "Children of the Full Moon".
* In ''Series/LilHorrors'', Claudia Howell, the resident werewolf, is permanently in a human/wolf hybrid form (presumably so they didn't have to construct extra puppets). However, she does live in fear of [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent transforming into a sweet little girl every full moon]].

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** Werewolves, wolfweres (wolves that could take human shape) and greater wolfweres could half-change, thus gaining a hybrid mostly human body.
** Third-party WeirdWest setting ''TabletopGame/Spellslinger'' has the Gray Runners, a race of humanoid wolves who stand in for Native Americans.

* Not surprisingly, the game ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' was all about these, as is its successor, ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken''. Werewolves in both have a hybrid form (Crinos in ''Apocalypse'', Gauru in ''Forsaken'') and the wide range of other werecreatures in both old and new Worlds of Darkness have such forms as well.

* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' 3E sourcebook ''Bestiary'' Second Edition. Were-Creatures (such as werewolves) could have a "Beast-Man" form, an anthropomorphic blend of human and animal.

* One level of ''[[VideoGame/OsuTatakaeOuendan Osu! Tatake! Ouendan 2]]'' has the group cheering on a werewolf as he struggles to keep from transforming in front of his girlfriend. Made more difficult for him because he transforms just by seeing things that are round, including balls, ice cream, and bald heads. If the player fails the song, the poor lug gets carted off to the pound. The actual ending of the stage has him finally transform in front of his astonished girlfriend (set off by her ''eyes''), who turns out to be happy because she loves dogs.
** Poor kid's name is even Goro Okami, with the kanji for "Wolf Boy" on his shirt.
* Werewolves are a common enemy in the PC game ''VideoGame/{{Nocturne}}'', appearing in all but one chapter, and they can be killed with any weapons; it's just that silver bullets kill them a lot faster.

* In ''VideoGame/AlteredBeast'', the first (and also the last) beast the player can turn into is a Werewolf - [[http://www.i-mockery.com/shorts/altered-beast/3.gif preceded by a]] TransformationSequence - which is a muscular and furry man with a wolf head.
* Gerhalt from ''VideoGame/ShiningForce II'' becomes this upon promotion. It is unknown whether or not he has the ability to return to his human form.

** The werwolves of Quelb in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' are closer to this than actual 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.

* One of the supporting characters in ''[[http://www.noroomformagic.com/ No Room for Magic]]'' is Roy, [[http://www.noroomformagic.com/d/20050915.html whose dad turned him into a werewolf]] so that he could survive gym class. [[http://www.noroomformagic.com/d/20051208.html It's made him less shy, but he feels compelled to sniff strangers' butts]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}!'' did a parody of the original ''The Wolf Man'' with an obvious Lon Chaney Jr. parody coming to Dexter for help with his werewolf problem. Freakazoid, after forcing him to suffer numerous indignities, ultimately cured him by dumping him into the internet and back out again. This same episode even parodied the frame-by-frame transformations of the original Wolfman, for both the Lon Chaney Jr. {{Expy}} and Freakazoid himself. It was one of the funniest moments in a series [[Funny/{{Freakazoid}} full of them]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' did it during a ''[[HalloweenEpisode Treehouse of Horror]]'' episode where Ned Flanders becomes a werewolf.

* In the Halloween episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' where Jimmy makes a machine that accidentally turns Sheen into a werewolf, Jimmy ask to Goddard info about them but Ms. Fowl comes out of nowhere saying the page quote and explaining about them. She justify her knowledge about werewolves saying she married one before.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': The HalloweenEpisode "The Trickening!" features a werewolf duck (or a "wereduck" as he is called). In a similar case with ''Count Duckula'', he is an anthropomorphic duck with wolf-like fur, fangs, and claws.

* ''Manga/HeterogeniaLinguistico'': The first community Hakaba visits, and the one whose language he's most proficient in, is a village of "werewolves" who look like wolf men but are apparently close enough to humans that they can interbreed -- Hakaba's guide and {{deuteragonist}} Susuki is an adorable LittleBitBeastly half-werewolf girl.

* ''Anime/WolfChildrenAmeAndYuki'' 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 the animated series ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'', Mayor Shelbourne turns into one in a halloween episode "Mayornormal Activity".

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* ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'': Ginei Morioka is a werewolf and can transform into his wolf-man form at will, but the phase of the moon significantly influences his SuperSpeed. Unlike most examples, Ginei's transformation doesn't rip off his clothes, thus you often see him fully clad as a wolf-man, which might be a bit jarring, since he only wears casual clothes or his school uniform.

* The now-lost 1913 Thanhouser film, ''The Werewolf'', was perhaps the UrExample, although the few--and admittedly vague--descriptions suggest they used a dog or wolf/dog mix for the werewolf rather than making up a human.
* ''The Werewolf'' (1956) has Duncan Marsh, the first on-screen character to turn into a wolfman through scientific means rather than supernatural causes.
* Dean Stockwell in the 1973 film ''The Werewolf of Washington''.
* ''The Werewolf of Woodstock'' (1975) starred Tige Andrews as Bernie, a werewolf who got his lycanthropy through an electrical power surge.

Subtrope of MonstrousHumanoid and BeastMan. See also FoxFolk.

Subtrope of MonstrousHumanoid and BeastMan. See also FoxFolk and FoxyVixen.

An often overlapping sister trope is the [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] or lycanthrope, a person that can turn into a wolf or a wolflike creature. In older horror films (Franchise/{{Universal|Horror}} era up into TheSeventies), werewolf transformations usually took the form of getting hair and fangs, but otherwise remaining something closer to an ape with vaguely canine features. (The "classic" Wolf Man appearance is not entirely dissimilar to the symptoms of a rare genetic disorder, hypertrichosis.) With the advent of more sophisticated make-up and visual effects, techniques have been developed that allowed more wolflike features on humanoids, such as giving a character a wolf's muzzle and ears. {{Phlegmings}} are popular for modern versions.

A sister trope to Wolf Man is the [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]], or lycanthropy, featuring a person that can turn into a wolf.

In older horror films (Franchise/{{Universal|Horror}} era up into TheSeventies), the transformation usually took the form of getting hair and fangs, but otherwise remaining something closer to an ape with vaguely canine features. (The "classic" Wolf Man appearance is not entirely dissimilar to the symptoms of a rare genetic disorder, hypertrichosis.) With the advent of more sophisticated make-up and visual effects, techniques have been developed that allowed more wolflike features on humanoids, such as giving a character a wolf's muzzle and ears. {{Phlegmings}} are popular for modern versions.

While they are the good guys, Wolf Men tend to be noble, loyal, and strong essentially being TheBigGuy, although what sets them apart is that they tend to be quite intelligent as well. If they are villains, chances the Wolf Men are AlwaysChaoticEvil tribes with sadistic, bloodthirsty and murderous tendencies, orchestrating the {{Evil Plan}}s in style of TheBigBadWolf. As a result of this, a Wolf Man will usually fight using melee weapons or even bare-handed. And just like their real life counterparts, they also tend to be quite speedy, running either on two legs or [[RunningOnAllFours four]].

While they are the good guys, Wolf Men tend to be noble, loyal, and strong essentially being TheBigGuy, although what sets them apart is that they tend to be quite intelligent as well. If they are villains, chances the Wolf Men are AlwaysChaoticEvil tribes with sadistic, bloodthirsty and murderous tendencies, orchestrating the {{Evil Plan}}s. As a result of this, a Wolf Man will usually fight using melee weapons or even bare-handed. And just like their real life counterparts, they also tend to be quite speedy, running either on two legs or [[RunningOnAllFours four]].

* 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 the BigBadWolf, 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.

Wolf Men tend to be noble, loyal, and strong essentially being TheBigGuy, although what sets them apart is that they tend to be quite intelligent as well. As a result of this, a Wolf Man will usually fight using melee weapons or even bare-handed. And just like their real life counterparts, they also tend to be quite speedy, running either on two legs or [[RunningOnAllFours four]].

Subtrope of MonstrousHumanoid and BeastMan.

* Tamamo of ''Manga/OInariJKTamamoChan'' is an Inari fox spirit who has taken on human form to attend school. The manga almost always depicts her as a humanoid canine because the premise of the series is she's actually very bad at taking human form and she's oblivious to the fact that, [[InvisibleToAdults except for adults and one particularly stuck up student]], everyone sees her as a fox.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. Werewolves, wolfweres (wolves that could take human shape) and greater wolfweres could half-change, thus gaining a hybrid mostly human body.

* ''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.

** 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 to live as a wolf man who aged in dog years.

* Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair) of the ComicBook/NewMutants (X-Men, 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.