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8	->''"Oh my god, what is that? It's like a fox, but kinda looks like a girl."''
9	-->-- '''Phoenix SC''' analyzing a user-created ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' recipe, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffFN6iuDweQ "Dumb Minecraft Crafting Recipes"]]
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11	A subtrope of BeastMan, a Fox Man is a character with foxlike traits. Typical features are pointy ears, nose, fur, and the all-important [[AdorableFluffyTail bushy tail]]. Most vulpinoid characters tend to be based off of red foxes -- other species tend to be rarer.
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13	Their personality tends to be sly, intelligent and {{cunning\|LikeAFox}}, sometimes even {{foul\|Fox}}, and if you encounter one you can bet that they are some sort of trickster or ConArtist. They are depicted in both positive and negative lights, ranging from heroic if tricksy people, to annoying but ultimately harmless, to [[GreyAndGrayMorality morally grey]] characters with HiddenDepths, to simply being villains.
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15	Characters of this variety fall on the SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism as LittleBitBeastly to BeastMan. For varieties that are actual foxes -- ranging on the scale from FunnyAnimal to NearlyNormalAnimal -- see FantasticFoxes.
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17	See also AsianFoxSpirit, a page on foxes in East Asian folklore and mythology. A supertrope to FoxyVixen. For their wolf cousins, see WolfMan.
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19	!!Examples:
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24	* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'':
25	** ''Anime/DigimonTamers'': Renamon is a bipedal fox with yellow fur and piercing blue eyes. Her Ultimate/Perfect-level form Taomon has more or less the same design, but is dressed in priestly garb.
26	** Doumon is a blue PaletteSwap of Taomon that appears in ''Anime/DigimonFusion'' as a minor illusionist villain. Another one appears in ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'', having come to the human world [[TruerToTheText to study onmyodo]] but getting possessed along the way.
27	* ''Manga/TamamoChansAFox'': Tamamo and her sisters are [[AsianFoxSpirit divine fox spirits]] who assume a glamor that makes them look human so they can live in the human world. Those who can see past the glamor, such as 99.9% of the student body of Tamamo's school and one SenseiChan, see the sisters as bipedal, humanoid foxes with white fur.
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31	* Alopex from ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIDW'' was once a normal arctic fox before she was caught by the Foot Clan and mutated into their first mutant kunoichi. While her SuperSpeed made her a deadly foe to the turtles, she eventually defects when she finds out that the Foot Clan killed her family and burned down the forest she once lived in in order to secure her loyalty.
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35	%%* ''Fanfic/TalesOfTheMonkeyQueen'': Lew.%%'''Administrivia/ZeroContextExample'''
36	* ''Fanfic/TeanasTravels'': Aspatrians are a race of vulpine sapients, who were under the control of a vicious dictatorship who violently oppressed and objectified women and children (to the point where they literally weren't considered people). The League caught wind of this thanks to an escaped slave, and promptly leapt in and deposed the dictator and his armies. The Aspatrians, now much happier and more stable, were made a "protectorate" of the Tripartate.
37	* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27736435 Zero Context: Taking Out the Trash]]'': Aldonza Karate is a Kittenoan, an alien race of anthropomorphic cats and dogs that draw inspiration from the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' franchise, and is described as a mixed-breed fox caninoid. WordOfGod clarifies this to mean that she has both red fox and bat-eared fox heritage, giving her the coloration of the former and the ears and teeth of the latter.
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41	* ''Literature/AmaranthineSaga'': Amaranthines are shapeshifters who can change between a "speaking form", which is humanoid with some inhuman and animalistic traits, and a "truest form", which is an unusually large form of whatever animal their clan is aligned with. Fox-clan Amaranthines are thus a subtle version of this in speaking form, appearing as humans with vulpine ears, tails or eyes. Unusually, however, most of the foxes focused on in the series are silver foxes, not the typical reds (although Lady Nona and her sister are red foxes).
42	* ''Literature/TheBookOfDeacon'', by Joseph Lallo, has malthropes[[note]]mixed Latin and Greek for "bad person/human"[[/note]] who look like fox-people and are hunted down as vermin by the humanoid races. Practically to extinction on the continent where most of the stories take place.
43	* ''Literature/TheDarkProfitSaga'': Most breeds of Gnoll look like canine halflings[[note]]they were originally a clan of Gnome that was corrupted by the Dark God[[/note]]; Fennekin are a Demi-gnoll breed with more fox-like features and large ears.
44	* ''Literature/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'' has the Renards, a rare race from the Far East who are known for having [[LittleBitBeastly fox-like ears and a tail.]] They're unique among the races as they're integral to the creation of a Killing Stone, which rips a renard's soul out of their body to allow the holder to use whatever magic that renard could. [[spoiler:Ishtar wanted to force Haruhime to create a Killing Stone for her so she could use her magic to overrun the Freya Familia.]]
45	* ''Literature/LogHorizon'':
46	** Fox Tails are one of the three Beast Folk races in the {{MMORPG}} Elder Tale, resembling [[LittleBitBeastly humans with fox ears and one or more tails]] (which they can hide with magic). While they have high magical stats, they're [[HighTierScrappy unpopular with players]] due to [[MechanicallyUnusualClass a bizarre mechanic]] which replaces one of their skills with a random one every few levels (with results that can vary from JokeCharacter to GameBreaker).
47	** When Elder Tale somehow fuses with a real fantasy world, the trapped players find that the mix of real and videogame physics allows them to [[EmergentGameplay use their characters' abilities in previously impossible ways]], nicknamed "Overskills". One Fox Tail player, Nureha, invents an Overskill which takes the race's [[AsianFoxSpirit Kitsune]] themes up a notch -- [[AbilityMixing combining the racial "hide your ears" illusion with the persuasion abilities of her Courtesan subclass]] in order to create a {{Glamour}} effect that can disguise her as other people.
48	* ''Literature/{{Medea}}'': The alien Fuxes start life as foxlike, 6 legged, female centaurs that lose a pair of hind limbs each time they reproduce. When the final pair drop off, they are left as bipedal and male.
49	* ''Literature/TheRedVixenAdventures'': The Foxen are aliens who happen to look like anthropomorphic foxes and have a culture strongly resembling Edwardian England.
50	* ''Literature/TourOfTheMerrimack'': In the final book, a planet with is discovered whose primary sapient inhabitants are bipedal, foxlike marsupials at an approximately stone-age level of development.
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54	* ''Series/{{Grimm}}'':
55	** Fuchsbau are wesen based on foxes. In accordance with animal stereotypes, they're generally considered to be less than trustworthy, being cunning, mischievous and sly. Rosalee Calvert is part of the main cast, making the Fuchsbau the second most prominent Wesen to appear.
56	** Vulpesmyrca are bigger black fox wesen, with less human shaped heads, larger fox like ears and much more pronounced fangs. They also possess enhance physical strength and speed, and who commonly work as mercenaries and prey upon Willaharas (rabbit wesen) for their feet.
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60	* ''Tabletopgame/{{Chaotic}}'': Kinnianne and her father, Hune Canin, are fox-like Overworlders. While Hune appears to be based on a red fox, Kinnianne appears to be based on a fennec, based on the color of her fur, size of her ears, and the fact she lives in the desert as ambassador to the desert-dwelling [[LizardFolk Mipedians]].
61	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
62	** The 3rd edition ''Oriental Adventures'' sourcebook has a hengeyokai race with the Shapechanger type, who can switch between humanoid, animal and [[PartialTransformation hybrid]] forms; 3.5 removes the Shapechanger type, making them Humanoids (resulting in some GameplayAndStorySegregation, as they're still described like Magical Beasts).
63	** The vulpins are a race of foxlike humanoids with a reputation as formidable warriors and very capable and honorable leaders. Unfortunately, some human societies and religions never accepted them and hunted them to their brink of extinction.
64	** In 4th edition Raavastas were conniving demons that looked like fox-headed humanoids in their base form, replacing the jackal-like Arcanaloths of previous editions. Arcanaloths returned in 5th edition, some of them still resembling foxes, including [[TabletopGame/{{Planescape}} Shemeshka the Marauder]].
65	* ''TabletopGame/FadingSuns'' has Vulpanthropes, a species created as shock troops by a noble with MadScientist leanings from human and fox DNA. They proved more prolific than expected and have come to plague isolated human settlements on many planets.
66	* ''Tabletopgame/{{Pathfinder}}'' has a race called kitsune, although despite the name they're only nominally related to traditional kitsune in Japanese mythology. ''Pathfinder'' kitsune are based on the 3.5 fox hengeyokai, but {{Nerf}}ed by removing the animal form (which instead becomes a "disguise" that higher-level kitsune can learn by spending a feat) and making the hybrid form their true form. They also have a reputation as tricksters who use their guile and charms to get what they want, and have a racial rogue archetype based on fitting this stereotype.
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70	* ''VideoGame/ArmyOfTentacles'': Thatcher is a friendly, if shy, student with fox ears and tail.
71	%%* ''VideoGame/BraveFrontier'': Mau, a fox-like boy. '''Administrivia/ZeroContextExample'''
72	* ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireDragonQuarter'': Hortensia has fox ears. Concept art shows she was going to have a tail too, like Lin, but her final design doesn't have one.
73	* ''Franchise/DragonQuest'': The Fencing Fox, Night Fox, and Volpone monsters are agile aristocrats who wield rapiers and are capable of doing [[MagicDance magical dances]] to befuddle opponents, reduce tension, or heal.
74	* The Raposa from ''VideoGame/DrawnToLife''. Their species name is the Portuguese word for "fox," and they sport big ears, mostly reddish-orange or grey fur, and short, fluffy tails.
75	* ''VideoGame/DungeonFighterOnline'': Hunter Von, a Pandemonium resident who is part of the Adventurer's Guild. He resembles a fennec.
76	* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'': The Lilmothiit were a vulpine beast race who once inhabited Black Marsh. They were said by some to be related to the [[CatFolk feline]] Khajiit of Elsweyr. The Lilmothiit were a nomadic tribal group, but became extinct long before the games began.
77	* The vupfox in ''VideoGame/ExodusBorealis'' look like anthropomorphic foxes in colonial-era clothes. [[https://smugmarmot.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Pair-of-Fox-1024-1024x683.png The art]] on the developer's website shows them with tails, but the in-game assets originally lacked them.
78	* ''VideoGame/EXTRAPOWERAttackOfDarkforce'': Fei's youkai companion Ri=Ko, a sarcastic and cheeky fox girl with obligatory ears and tail. Fei's rival, Ran Ran, also has a youkai companion En with similar features.
79	* ''VideoGame/FateExtra'': Tamamo-no-Mae, who is actually a facet of the sun goddess Amaterasu. She's commonly mistaken for a fox, and while she doesn't mind she points out that foxes did not exist in Japan during that era, and that the animal in her legend was more likely a wild jackal that got confused with the fleeing woman.
80	* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' has Kitsune as a CharacterClass. They're depicted as LittleBitBeastly characters, with fox ears and a tail, and the ability to [[{{Animorphism}} turn into an actual fox]] for their attacks. Their chief, Kaden, is very friendly, and puts a lot of value into repaying kindness, but can [[BewareTheNiceOnes become very dangerous]] when someone is after the fur of himself, or his daughter, Selkie. Kaden even straight up lures Corrin into a trap in Conquest, and he and the generic Kitsune enemies in that chapter can use illusions to avoid combat temporarily.
81	* ''VideoGame/{{Furwind}}'': The PlayerCharacter is an anthropomorphic fox who's been tasked with defeating Darhun before he can spread his darkness across the land.
82	* ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'': The Forest Shadow and her fox-spirit servants look like six-foot-tall anthropomorphic fox women with two tails. They're said to take human form to test humans with tricks.
83	* ''VideoGame/{{Paladins}}'': The Vulpin are humanoid fennec foxes, and smaller than humans. Their [[PlanetOfHats hat]] is [[HealingPotion medicinal alchemy]], although Pip, the playable representative of the species, prefers using potions as weapons.
84	* ''VideoGame/PrinnyCanIReallyBeTheHero'': Cardomon is one, although she's pretending to be a CatGirl because her master, Sir Sweet, hates foxes. She appears as a boss in the Demon Sea Aria. She tends to be extremely flirty but will attack at a moment's notice.
85	* ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'': You can bump into randomly-generated fox people, in both regular and [[FesteringFungus mushroom-infested]] varieties. [[ShoutOut Their homeworld may or may not be Lylat]], depending on rolls.
86	* ''VideoGame/TheTenthLine'': Rik is a Kobold, a humanoid fox [[SapientFurTrade whose fur is sought after by hunters]].
87	* ''VideoGame/{{Tunic}}'' puts players into the metaphorical boots of the Ruin Seeker, an adorable little bipedal fox roaming the mysterious world with a sword and shield in hand. [[spoiler:And you might not be the only one, either.]]
88	* ''VideoGame/VambraceColdSoul'': Foxiers are a race of fox-eared people who excel at archery. They also have Korean-styled names, as opposed to the more Western-styled names of basically everyone else.
89	* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': The ''Battle for Azeroth'' expansion introduced the vulpera, a group of [[LittlePeople Gnome-sized]] Fennec people native to Zandalar. A number of them have also formed a pirate crew known as the Bilge Rats.
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93	* ''Webcomic/CrimsonFlag'': Reyn, the primary sapient species of the setting, are based on different species of fox. Reds, Grays, Snow, and Fens have been seen. It eventually turned out [[spoiler: they are foxes that were uplifted by the "goddess" worshiped by the Reds as a ServantRace.]]
94	* ''Webcomic/DelaTheHooda'': "Hood" are a vulpine species from the ScienceFantasy dimension of Mhâr where they exist alongside more "traditional" fantasy races like goblins, elves, dwarves, and humans. Dela found herself in Canada after an accident with her halfling boss's experimental jump drive.
95	* ''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation'': Marena is a [[TabletopGame/{{Exalted}} Lunar Exalted]] with the fox totem, and as such her ShapeshifterDefaultForm has fox ears and tail and her [[https://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0142.html warform]] is a giant anthropomorphic fox.
96	* ''Webcomic/MyImpossibleSoulmate'' has Kitsune, a type of demi-human with [[LittleBitBeastly fox-like ears and a tail]]. Among the students in Room P-1 is Keegan, a LittleBitBeastly fox boy with a very expressive tail and equally expressive ears.
97	* ''Webcomic/{{Terinu}}'': Vulpines, a fox-like alien species formerly enslaved by the Varn but who allied with humanity to overthrow their galactic domination.
98	* ''Webcomic/YetAnotherFantasyGamerComic'': Pookas are shapeshifters who can look like what they please. T'Chall seems to prefer looking like a humanoid fox.
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102	* ''WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}'': Fubuki Shirakami is a fox-girl, but unfortunately [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten still]] has to deal with "cat-girl" commenters due to a ''very'' catchy song that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-Xxo6utgNA claims she's a cat and not a fox.]]
103	* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-953 SCP-953]] is ''not'' a kitsune, but an evil being from Korea called a kumiho. This is compared in-universe to "the difference between a Cherokee Indian and a New Delhi Indian". She takes advantage of the confusion when it suits her.
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107	* ''WebVideo/DiceCameraAction'': Shemeshka the Marauder is an Arcanaloth that appears as a fox-like woman in elaborate evening gowns and spectacles.[[note]]Arcanaloths in ''Dungeons And Dragons'' are usually described as jackal-like rather than fox like, so presumably some ArtisticLicense is used.[[/note]]
108	* ''WebVideo/EmpiresSMP'': Lizzie's Season 2 kingdom of Animalia counts bipedal foxes[[note]]retextured villagers[[/note]] among its citizens. One of them was sent through the Rift, and [[spoiler:was turned into a regular Minecraft fox on the Hermitcraft side]].
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112	* Alopex from ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'' was once a normal Chinese girl before she and her brother wandered into a Kraang portal and mutated into a fox and tiger respectively. When they escape, they join a circus before they involve themselves in the Triad. While her brother would go onto become the Foot Clan hitman Tigerclaw, she would blame her brother for their life's downward spiral and seek vengeance on him.
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