Line #22 FurryConfusion/ComicBooks


1	* ''ComicBook/TheAutumnlandsToothAndClaw'': Dusty explains that in The Autumnlands there are humanoid animals like himself and there are the 'unshaped ones' which seem to be normal, non-anthropomorphic animals. The nature of this relationship has yet to be divulged. When Learoyd complains this doesn't make sense, Dusty is actually surprised the human world ''doesn't'' have unshaped humans.
2	* ''ComicBook/{{Bamse}}'' has this to ''some'' degree. There are anthro animals and non-anthro animals. To further confuse the issue many of the non-anthro animals are Non-Morphic {{Talking Animal}}s (although mostly among themselves) oddly enough someone obviously thought about the InterSpeciesRomance aspects: Fox-girl and badger-boy mention that it would be nice if they were of the same species [[spoiler:and then kiss despite this]]. (Then they get an apartment together, though both insist that they're still JustFriends. Draw whatever conclusion you like.)
3	* [[http://www.beaverandsteve.com/index.php?comic=23 This]] ''Webcomic/BeaverAndSteve'' comic shows the anthropomorphic Steve seeing his mother... a regular lizard. In a zoo. [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Hrm]].
4	* In the French comic ''ComicBook/DeCapeEtDeCrocs'', everyone is human except for several characters who are anthropomorphic animals [[WhatDoYouMeanItSNotSymbolic for no explained reason]] -- most notably, the main characters who are a wolf and a fox. The writer is aware of the "chicken-man eating fried chicken" wrongness and plays with it a few times, but the more memorable one happens when the heroes almost get cooked by an indigenous tribe. They manage to free themselves and run into the chief, who realizes that they're not really animals, apologizes and invites them to dinner. He later explains that the villagers "misjudged them", at which point the wolf notices a man with a big knife leading a regular dog away from a crying child... then the dog cries out offscreen and the wolf looks down at his food with a horrified look on his face. The fact that he knew an anthropomorphic dog in canon only makes it more twisted.
5	* ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse:
6	** ''Website/{{Cracked}}'''s [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20236_6-insane-disney-comics-you-wont-believe-are-real.html 6 Insane Disney Comics You Won't Believe Are Real]] shows panels from an educational comic in an issue of ''Look'' magazine showing Dr. Mickey Mouse testing sulfa drugs on common mice.
7	** The Mickey Mouse comics also have the current page image on EekAMouse, which is ''Minnie Mouse'' saying the quote.
8	* ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse:
9	** This has shown up from time to time due to the appearances of regular ducks among background animals in a world dominated by anthropomorphic, talking anatids. In one comic, after Donald and Scrooge plunge into a lake following their latest misadventure, has some regular mallards archly commenting on the two of them brining shame to all waterbirds.
10	** One comic added fuel to the fire when Fethry invited Donald to go duck hunting, while accidentally pointing a shotgun at his face. Donald understandable freaks out, and asks "Why me? I'm domesticated!"
11	* The cover of Creator/DCComics' ''Funny Stuff'' #8 (1946) shows J. Rufus Lion looking at a non-anthropomorphic lion in a zoo cage. The caged lion asks Rufus what he's looking at, and Rufus exclaims "Think of that! A talking lion!"
12	* ''Comicbook/{{Grandville}}'' plays this to the hilt, with a WorldOfFunnyAnimals in which normal animals exist, and the anthro animals recognise that there's ''some'' sense in which they're "the same", but also see themselves as different as, well, humans see animals in our world. There are two scenes in which anthros have a pet of the same species, and in the opening scene of the final volume, Talbolt amuses himself by portraying a seafood restaurant in which all the staff, and most of the clientele, are fish and crustaceans.
13	* ComicBook/HowardTheDuck, who comes from a world/alternate dimension (depending on the continuity) where mallards are a dominant species, is often shown reacting to the non-anthropormorphic ducks of planet earth. The [[Film/HowardTheDuck film version]] adds a NightmareFuel aspect by having him FreakOut upon seeing someone eating eggs.
14	* Done disturbingly in the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' comics. One story has Bugs and Elmer wanting to make money and being told that selling animals fur is a good idea. Bugs goes off and immediately traps a huge cage full of non-anthropomorphic minks. A second later, he notices a carrot dangling from a tree and ends up falling into one of Elmer's rabbit traps. Elmer's been hunting too and has a cageful of ordinary, non-anthropomorphic rabbits. If this isn't strange enough, Elmer decides to capture Bugs as well, despite them being more or less friends (in the comics, at least), and then decides to throw Bugs into his OWN cage full of angry minks that proceed to attack the rabbit while Fudd happily watches. A police officer ends up arresting Elmer. No, not because he endangered someone's life and had basically kidnapped a sentient rabbit; Elmer is actually arrested because rabbits aren't in season. Wow.
15	* Lampshaded in Creator/ArtSpiegelman's ''ComicBook/{{Maus}}'', where Jewish characters are depicted as anthropomorphic mice, while Germans are cats, and various other nationalities are other animals. At one point the main character is at the home of someone who keeps several dogs. For those panels, the characters are depicted as people in mouse ''masks'' and the author leaves a little note basically acknowledging that the metaphor falls apart for a moment there.
16	** At one point inside the story, Vladek and Anja are residing in a basement when Anja freaks out over finding a legitimate rat. Art Spiegleman has said he had to draw the rat ultra-realistically in order to distract from the weirdness.
17	** In one scene, Art is visiting his therapist. There's a picture of a cat behind his head in one panel, labeled, "Framed photo of pet cat - really!"
18	** It should be noted that the characters in ''Maus'' are not actually intended to be animals, and are merely [[FurryLens drawn that way]] to make the story's allegory more clear. In-universe, they are actually humans and see themselves as such.
19	* ''Red Shetland'' brought up the topic in a conversation between the eponymous character (a Red Sonja parody) and her Sidekick Du Jour Eeon, who was a normal pony transformed by evil druids into...well, an anthro war-pony. Crazy druids, go figure. Red has no problems riding a horse, which she's on at the moment, and asks why Eeon doesn't ride, to which he responds "on my oppressed brethren?!".
20	* In the furry comic, ''Rhudiprrt Prince of Fur'', the title character, a human whose spirit was place in the body of a humanoid cat body in a world that is the realm where the spirits of deceased cats go after death in our world. At one point, he receives a pet animal that resembles a dog and Rhudi wonders with some amusement about where the spirit of that animal will go after its death.
21	* Variously in ''Franchise/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'':
22	** Borderline LampshadeHanging in the comics, where an ordinary, non-anthropomorphic dog in the background of a panel has a head identical to Sam's, complete with hat.
23	** In ''[[VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice The Devil's Playhouse]]'' (Season 3 of the Telltale game series), we're introduced to Sal, a cockroach. But Sam's dialogue reveals that cockroaches are actually used in the recipes of the place where he used to work as a fry cook.
24	** An episode of [[WesternAnimation/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice the cartoon]] shows Sam and Max having an emotional break-up, and Sam [[HeroicBSOD leaving to go to Alaska and participate in the Iditariod]] as the head dog on the favourite sled team, flanked by lots of non-anthropormorphic huskies. Even more weirdly, his human driver was apparently non-sapient.
25	* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'':
26	** The series has Sonic's pet dog Muttski, one of the very few non-anthropomorphic animals seen in the comic (which also contains FunnyAnimal dogs). Following the reboot, [[spoiler:Muttski is now a [[AnthropomorphicShift full-fledged Mobian]], and his full name is now Ben Muttski. Sonic and Tails were shocked to discover that, to say the least]].
27	** Tasmanian Devils are explicitly described in one issue as "One of the few Mobian races that never fully evolved". Which is later thrown out the window in a later story arc in which we DO have an anthropomorphic Tasmanian Devil fighting alongside Sonic and co. A Knuckles story arc prior to the reboot involving said Tasmanian Devil – Thrash, who claimed that the reason other devils never fully evolved was actually due to the Echidna race's genetic tampering, and, as revenge, stuck all of them but Knuckles into the negative zone (once again making Knuckles the only surviving member of his species).
28	* Sometimes lampshaded in ''ComicBook/TheSpiffyAdventuresOfMcConey'' by the French comic artist Creator/LewisTrondheim, where ''all'' characters are anthropomorphic animals. In one episode our heroes go on a search of a missing pet dog (a real dog, not an anthropomorphic one!) for whom a reward has been offered. When they watch a picture (which is not shown on the panel) of the missing dog and his owner, one of them asks: "So, who is the dog?" and another one answers: "The more short and less hairy one."
29	* ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'': Some animals that are considered to be {{Youkai}} in Japanese mythology, such as foxes, cats, and tanuki, occasionally appear in non-anthropomorphic form even though there are several antho characters of those species. Particularly confusing is a recurring character named [[AsianFoxSpirit Kitsune]], who is an anthropomorphic fox named after the trickster spirits but not one herself.
30	* ''Spiff and Hercules'', an anthropomorphic dog and an anthropomorphic a cat respectively. They live in a world largely populated by humans and no one is bathing an eye. It becomes the focus of a comic where a series of shorts have the duo working as veterinarians and they help sick cats and dogs.

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