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8	->''"Beauty is only skin deep. My beauty, your skin."''
9	-->-- '''Gotcha Grabmore''', ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures''
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14	Someone who [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals delights in animals' suffering]] when used to make food and clothing from them. Someone who prefers any product which required an animal to die. Fur is not for [[PrettyInMink warmth, style, or just enjoying how it feels]], it's because [[KickTheDog they know innocent creatures died for it]]. Or if makeup is [[AnimalTesting tested on animals]], it's not better because of any supposed advantages to the testing, but because these people know that their hair spray has also hurt innocent creatures. [[MeatVersusVeggies Meat is not merely a valuable source of protein, but it's delicious because an animal died]].
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16	Some {{Evil Poacher}}s are driven more by a hatred of animals (or possibly [[AnimalNemesis one particular animal]]) than profit -- especially in cartoons. Will most likely not include HuntingTheMostDangerousGame in case you're wondering.
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18	Not to be confused with HuntingIsEvil, which is where hunting itself is treated as evil (though it can overlap if they're hunting people for food or clothes).
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20	This trope is seldom TruthInTelevision. Sadists who hurt animals directly tend to move on to hurting people, and people who wear fur or eat meat are mostly not doing so for sadistic reasons. Most animal rights activists don't believe this is true either, as they bank on people's compassion in many of their campaigns -- not that that [[TheWarOnStraw stops them invoking this trope]] ''in'' said campaigns.
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22	A SubTrope of StrawCharacter, though it can be used simply as a CardCarryingVillain.
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24	A more specific form of BadPeopleAbuseAnimals. Compare AnimalWrongsGroup, FurAndLoathing (a common fictional view on fur coats), EnemyToAllLivingThings, ExoticEntree, MeatVersusVeggies, StrawVegetarian. Contrast FriendToAllLivingThings, ItsFakeFurItsFine, and AnimalLover.
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26	!!Examples:
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28	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
29	* Although it's only mentioned in a throwaway joke, Shiho of ''Manga/PsychicSquad'', who's a [[PsychicPowers psychometer who can read the memories and feelings of objects she touches]], mentions that she finds the fear and suffering of whatever meat she's eating to be the best spice.
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32	[[folder:Comic Books]]
33	* In ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'' #18 (2011), the villain Jade Claw is introduced being served by beefcake men, using a servant as table and with the following food: "Dinner is served, Madame. Cantonese noodles with seared hummingbird hearts and caramelized butterfly brains. Grilled bull elephant tongue with shitake mushrooms and bald eagle hollandaise. Curried Tyrannosaurus Pate, imported fresh from [[LostWorld the Savage Land]]. Baby Seal Soufflé a la mode. And Bacon wrapped tiger eyes sautéed, as always, in the tears of your enemies." The "dinner" starts out ridiculous, goes on to involves mostly very endangered species and serves the plot not for a single inch except to [[KickTheDog illustrate just how evil she is]].
34	* Creator/ECComics: In "Half-Baked", in issue #40 of ''Tales from the Crypt'', the owner of a seafood restaurant delights in the suffering of lobsters because he considers them "ugly," a sentiment which prompts his chef to remark "''Perhaps''... to a ''lobster''... it is ''you'' who are ''ugly'', Mr. Dugan!" In a bit of karmic justice, [[spoiler:he dies in a flaming car wreck with his body split open]].
35	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': In comic book story "101 Darnations", an {{Expy}} of the {{Trope Namer\|s}} wants to make a coat of the Warner siblings' fur.
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38	[[folder:Fan Works]]
39	* ''Blog/BetterBonesAU'': One of DestroyerDeity One-eye's incarnations, all of which have the goal to kill as many Tribe cats as possible, was a human who had an intense hatred for the cats living in the area, who convinced other humans to help kill said cats.
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42	[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
43	* Cruella De Vil from ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' is the {{Trope Namer\|s}}, though the movie downplays this aspect compared to the book.
44	* In ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun'', Mrs. Tweedy takes sadistic pleasure in killing chickens for her evening dinner, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness especially those that can no longer produce eggs]], and soon plans to turn the rest of them into chicken pies with her newly purchased pie machine for quick profits. In the sequel ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRunDawnOfTheNugget'', Mrs. Tweedy switches from pies to nuggets and brainwashes chickens to happily walk into the nugget processor, all in the name of revenge against chicken kind and revenue for her pockets.
45	* In ''Franchise/DespicableMe'', Gru has a ''panda'' skin in his living room. Of course, the panda ''could'' have died of natural causes, but that's unlikely.
46	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' introduces a comedic example in the form of an AxCrazy chef who gleefully hacks up fish while [[https://youtu.be/UoJxBEQRLd0 singing a gruesome little ditty about it]].
47	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'': Megamind sarcastically [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this trope when announcing to the super-hero Metro-Man he had kidnapped Roxanne:
48	-->''"OH! I'm ''shaking'' in my ''custom baby seal leather boots!''"''
49	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesInAnAdventureWithScientists'' makes [[spoiler:Queen Victoria]] leader of a secret society of powerful people who [[spoiler:eat rare animals to make them extinct and/or show off how exotic a meal they can acquire]].
50	%%* ''WesternAnimation/RugratsInParis'': Coco herself qualifies as one of these.
51	* One of ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie'''s many antagonists is [[HumansAreCthulhu the Cyclops]] (so named for the circular face visor in his CreepyOldFashionedDivingSuit), who captures sea creatures and dries them out to sell as knickknacks at his souvenir shop, Shell City. As expected, he loves his job just a ''tad'' bit too much, laughing maniacally at the suffering of his catches.
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54	[[folder:Films -- Live Action]]
55	* In ''Film/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians1996'' and [[Film/OneHundredAndTwoDalmatians its sequel]], Cruella [=DeVil=]'s killer fashion sense is implied to expand to other animals, not just dogs, as she gets her goons to steal a beloved rare white tiger from the zoo and turn it into a rug for her room.
56	* ''Film/TheLastSupper1996'' is about a group of liberal college students inviting over [[StrawCharacter conservative classmates]] to gradually murder them. One of those is Jason Alexander, credited as "The Anti-Environmentalist".
57	-->''"I'm not anti-Earth, I'm pro-Earthling."''
58	* Referred to in the Italian film ''Film/{{Fantozzi}} 2000'' where one of the female characters buys a "precious coat made from panda fur.... ", panda that was "clubbed to death with a sledgehammer."
59	* ''Film/{{Beethoven}}'':
60	** You'd think there would be better and easier ways to test a new type of explosive handgun round, but the villain seems to take a perverse pleasure in using dogs.
61	** There's also [[RichBitch Regina]] in the second film, who's perfectly willing to drown Beethoven's puppies...at least until she finds out how much money they're worth.
62	* In ''Film/TheFreshman'', an underground restaurant serves jaded gourmands meals which are specifically made from endangered species. While actual suffering on the animals' part isn't guaranteed, the diners pay extra when assured the animal they're eating is the LastOfHisKind [[spoiler: (but not really; they're actually served oddly-seasoned supermarket meats)]].
63	* In ''[[Film/AceVentura Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls]]'', Ace gets dragged to a formal affair in Africa, and meets a particularly obnoxious woman in a gratuitous fur coat. Avowed animal lover Ace responds by ''[[RefugeInAudacity KOing her husband and draping the bugger over his shoulders.]]''
64	* In ''Film/OneCrazySummer'', BigBad [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Aquilla Beckersted's]] EstablishingCharacterMoment has him brought a live lobster which he then dumps into a cooking pot with boiling water, followed by placing a stethoscope inside the pot to hear the pained shrieks of the boiling lobster. ''Even the audience is able to hear the screams.''
65	* In ''Film/TroopBeverlyHills'', the adult leader of the Culver City "Red Feathers" troop, Velda Plendor, is enraged at the Beverly Hills troop winning Day 1 of the final competition. She then notices the SmellySkunk that chased them to the finish line. The next scene shows her that night by a campfire wearing a skunk pelt like a coonskin hat, implying she killed the skunk.
66	-->'''Velda:''' (''holding the skunk up by the scruff'') You're gonna pay for this. Oh yes you are.
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69	[[folder:Literature]]
70	* Named for Cruella de Vil, the villain of ''Literature/TheHundredAndOneDalmatians'' (the basis for the Disney movie ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians''). In the book, she drowns any kittens her cat bears, and she only keeps her cat alive for the money the cat is worth (pedigree, but the kittens are fathered by alley cats).
71	* Esme Squalor, a FashionVictimVillain from ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', has a fur coat specified to be made from animals killed in particularly nasty ways (although she probably didn't create it herself).
72	%%* ''Literature/TheGloveOfDarthVader'' is all over this. Trioculus takes a break from pursuing our heroes to hunt animals.
73	* The Extinctionists in the sixth Literature/ArtemisFowl book, ''The Time Parodox'', act like this. They are described as haters of animals that they feel are useless to humans, and they wear expensive fur coats and other animal skin clothing. In a novel twist, some are described as hating animals so much that they are vegetarians and will not eat animals. "How could I sully my body by ingesting such a disgusting creature?" That said, when the Extinctionist's leader serves rare fish at a banquet, he expects the vegetarians at the table will willingly go hungry just for an excuse to stab the fish.
74	* The High Horse, in Graham Masterton's ''Night Wars'', is a particularly {{squick}}y example of this trope. He wears a cape of live animals sewn together...and [[MeaningfulName rides three horses stacked on top of each other and fastened by bolts]].
75	* The third ''Literature/MsWiz'' book ''You're Nicked Ms Wiz''. The antagonist is a Cruella {{Expy}} called Mrs Darcy who's leading a ring of kidnapping various cats from the neighbourhood. It's mentioned that everything she wears is [[FurAndLoathing made of fur]] - which really doesn't work out [[DefeatByModesty well for her]] when Ms Wiz casts a spell to free all the animals that made her coat.
76	* In the Grimms FairyTale ''Thousand Furs'', the princess tries to postpone her wedding to her father (yes you read that right) by insisting she must have a coat made from the fur of every animal in the kingdom - not thinking he'd actually do it. When he does she's shocked and horrified - and makes up her mind to flee the castle at once. Though she has no objections about ''wearing'' the coat to keep herself warm.
77	* ''Literature/JoePickett'': In ''Below Zero'', Joe arrests a hunter nicknamed 'the Mad Archer' who hunts mostly for the pleasure of seeing animals suffer, and will shoot at anything, regardless of whether it is in season (or even if it is a legitimate prey animal). His targets include a golden eagle and a dog. The dog in particular gets the townsfolk so incensed that when Joe arrests him, the Archer begs the sheriff to keep him jail, fearing that he will be lynched if he is released.
78	* In the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' short story "Robber's Roost" by Max Allan Collins, the Penguin targets a club where rich people eat endangered animals, intending to both rob them and liberate the rare owls they've captured. When Batman turns up, his sympathies are very much with Cobblepot for once. (He doesn't let him keep the money, but he doesn't insist on it being returned either; it goes to the Humane Society.)
79	* In ''Literature/BloodMeridian'', Judge Holden buys a pair of puppies from a child, walks over to a bridge and throws them in the water below, where another member of the gang shoots them as they drown. All while the child is watching, of course.
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82	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
83	* The two stars of ''Series/AbsolutelyFabulous'' did a video where they portrayed women who wear fur as outright bloodthirsty.
84	* Mimi from ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'' probably doesn't like animal suffering per se, but in one episode she insists that any cosmetic product she uses has to be "strong enough to blind a rabbit" when somebody challenges the use of an animal-testing brand.
85	* Not animal suffering (except that humans are animals), but on ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', some of Elliot's makeup is [[StealthPun made of baby foreskins]]. Oddly, this is a case of TruthInTelevision for many cosmetics, even cruelty-free ones because [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark PETA doesn't care about people]].
86	* The Endangered Species Club from ''Series/TheGoodies'' episode "Dodonuts". They only hunt endangered species because their small numbers make them hard to find. Common species of animals and birds are too abundant and therefore too easy to hunt.
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89	[[folder:Music]]
90	* Music/BarenakedLadies averted this in one song, where they sing about how if they had a million dollars, they'd buy a fur coat - but not a ''real'' fur coat, that's cruel. Of course, they also say they wouldn't buy a ''real'' green dress because [[RunningGag that's cruel]].
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93	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
94	%%* ''TabletopGame/InNomineSatanisMagnaVeritas'': Caym, demon prince of animals, and his servants.
95	* ''TabletopGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesAndOtherStrangeness'': Subverted. While the MadScientist Doctor Feral sounds like he should be the poster boy for this trope, the gamebook goes out of its way to state he ''isn't'' cruel he just has a strange sort of view of the world where he sees anything non-human as either a tool or as a candidate for experimentation and is noted for being "extremely polite" [[AffablyEvil even to his vivisection victims!]]
96	* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': While wearing the skin of your enemies is a common fashion statement, it's most prevalent among Chaos forces and the Dark Eldar. Among them, a certain [[ShoutOut Kruel]][[Literature/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians lagh]] the Vile, known as "da skinna" by the Orks...
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100	* Of course, Cruella de Vil, whom the trope is named for, who appears in ''Film/ChildrensPartyAtThePalace''. However, she doesn’t wear her usual fluffy fur coat, but a dress and cloak that look like they are made from the fur of a Dalmatian and a zebra.
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103	[[folder:Video Games]]
104	* ''VideoGame/ImpossibleCreatures'' has Velika La Pette, a woman who wears tiger, cheetah, and zebra furs at the same time. Her interest in the [[MixAndMatchCritters Sigma tech]] is to create hybrids with interesting patterns to kill them for fashion purposes.
105	* In ''VideoGame/BeneathASteelSky'', set in a dystopian future, CorruptCorporateExecutive Lamb wears a coat made of beaver fur. From the world's last ten beavers.
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108	[[folder:Webcomics]]
109	%%* Alexa from ''[[http://www.shapequest.net Shape Quest]]'', who is a scientist for the military.
110	* Inverted in ''Webcomic/BobTheAngryFlower'', somewhat inevitably when a story focuses on an OmnicidalManiac sentient plant. In his more moderate days Bob has discovered Vegans to be psychotic haters of all plantkind.
111	* A [[TheWarOnStraw straw-omnivore]] HateSink character from ''Webcomic/VeganArtbook'' wears a wolf-skin hat [[ForTheEvulz just to show how much she hates wolves]].
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114	[[folder:Web Original]]
115	* PlayedForLaughs in ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', where Princess Snake, voiced like [[VideoGame/MetalGear that other Snake]], comments how she loves her fur coat, especially since she killed all the animals for it herself. With her bare hands of course.
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118	[[folder:Western Animation]]
119	* Gotcha Grabmore, a recurring villain on ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'', tried to make beauty products from whales. For some reason she talked like Zsa Zsa Gabor.
120	* You'd think ''WesternAnimation/{{Captain Planet\|AndThePlaneteers}}'' would be all over this trope like a HurricaneOfPuns, but it didn't do this all that often. When they ''did'' venture into this territory, the usual character they would use was [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Looten Plunder]]--and even he was more interested in money than anything else.
121	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
122	** Mr. Burns in the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E20TwoDozenAndOneGreyhounds Two Dozen and One Greyhounds]]", which was directly inspired by Cruella de Vil, the villain of ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians''.
123	** Burns again in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E21TheOldManAndTheLisa The Old Man and the Lisa]]", in which he makes recycling evil by using plastic soda rings as fishing nets.
124	** Even Krusty isn't above this. One episode has him don a coat made from a panda, boots made from its cubs, and mittens made from monkey heads.
125	--->'''Krusty:''' Yep, I'm a real class act.
126	** Cletus Spuckler the Slack-Jawed Yokel of all characters borders on this in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E14YokelChords Yokel Chords]]" when he takes advantage of his children's musical success by purchasing outrageously lavish items like a live dog embroidered in gold.
127	** Exaggerated in an episode of ''JustForFun/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'', an evil looking old woman, resembling a fatter version of Cruella, buys the fresh and bloody skin of Scratchy the cat, off the Itchy, the show's villain to wear. Scratchy wasn't just a cat, but a humanoid sapient being that was literally just shopping at the mall with the other humans and his skin even still had his WhiteGloves on it!
128	* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' - The villainess Peltra of the eponymous episode from "Dial "M" For "Monkey". She collects pelts from animals all across the galaxy. Downplayed somewhat in that value does seem to be at least somewhat of a factor, since she flips out when Honeydew ruins Monkey's pelt by covering him in paint.
129	* ''WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies1980s'' - Katrina Stoneheart was a blatant ripoff of Cruella De Vil. She, too, wanted to make a fur coat out of the title dogs, and even had a fantasy sequence where she imagines herself dressed in a fur coat made from patches of the main characters' fur.
130	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays'' episode "The Return of Tsul 'Kalu", Doyle has to protect a black marketeer who not only illegally sells cryptids but who also eats panda dumplings.
131	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'', Norb and Dag are dared to introduce themselves to 100 "unfriendly" people...furriers at a FanConvention for people who like wearing fur, also featuring traps and such for those wishing not only to ''wear'' fur coats but ''actually make'' them.
132	%%* Baron [=DeKlau=] in a few episodes of the ''[[WesternAnimation/AceVentura Ace Ventura: Pet Detective]]'' series, with a touch of AristocratsAreEvil.
133	* In ''WesternAnimation/YoohooAndFriends'', one of the crimes committed by the Nasty Corp executives when they were human was dining on endangered eagle, then picking their teeth with ebony toothpicks [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and throwing the toothpicks out of their private jet]].
134	* The [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Earth Queen]] from ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' is revealed to hate animals...though she has allergies to animal fur (like from Oogi), somewhat justifying it. But then it's revealed she loves [[ExoticEntree eating endangered animals' meat]] and rumored to have eaten her father's pet bear, Bosco.
135	* In the ''WesternAnimation/ToxicCrusaders'' episode "A Sight for Sore Eyes", Tromaville's corrupt mayor Max Grody complains that every time he goes to the Toxic Crusaders' home, he ruins another pair of shoes made from an endangered species.
136	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'': Parodied in "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS2E3TenAndOneToiletsFamilyPlotz 10 & 1 Toilets]]". The Stars' pet toilet Tinkle has puppies, which [=GrandPat=] wants to disassemble to revive his line of toilet-themed fashion.
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