Follow TV Tropes

Following

Context Main / FurAndLoathing

Go To

1%% Examples have been alphabetized. Please add new examples in the correct order.
2[[quoteright:350:[[WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/101_dalmatians1.jpg]]]]
3[[caption-width-right:350:That coat might as well be [[Literature/TheBible the mark of the beast]].]]
4
5->''"I love this fur coat, especially since I killed the animals for it myself!"''
6-->-- '''Princess Snake''', ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged''
7%%
8%% One quote is sufficient. Please place additional entries on the quotes tab.
9
10If you wear real fur, you must be evil or immoral. That's the only explanation.
11
12This is not about the politics of wearing fur, but simply how the mainstream media has portrayed it since the mid-1980s. In that time, groups such as PETA finally gained some traction, through celebrities building up a BandWagonTechnique. Wearing animal fur was considered the mark of evil. Leather is usually given a pass since the rest of the animal was killed for meat anyway, and as Creator/TerryPratchett put it, "would ''you'' tell a [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels 300-pound biker]] to give up his jacket?"
13
14Fur industry revenues went into a decline through the late '80s and '90s, but this didn't last long. Some other celebrities came along later decided to rebel against the curve, particularly rappers and hip-hop artists. Combined with sites like eBay marketing inexpensive furs, fur has seen a comeback in recent decades. Just go to photo sharing sites and look up "Fur coat," "mink," and even "pimp coat."
15
16Of course the media doesn't reflect this. Partly because it's [[TwoDecadesBehind Still The Eighties]], and partly to satiate the remaining anti-fur celebrities, mainstream media since the mid 1980s has an unwritten rule about fur: it's a sign of corruption. Not the fur itself (barring bad horror movies), but of what you did to get it.
17
18So wearing fur in media has now become a [[StockCostumeTraits Stock Costume Trait]], often to show how corrupted characters have become. Wearing fur identifies you as:
19* A RichBitch or SpoiledBrat, and wearing fur shows off your selfishness and amorality.
20* TheDitz, TheVamp, or FemmeFatale. As an old joke says, you slept your way to get that coat, and all the implications that leaves. Often, as a seduction ploy, [[NakedInMink they wear a fur coat with nothing underneath]].
21* CruellaToAnimals
22
23It should be noted that cavemen, [[MagicalNativeAmerican Native Americans]] and Arctic tribes like the Inuit never wear fur, they wear ''skins'', so it's all right, since it makes you CloserToEarth as a culture. Note that in RealLife, Inuit and northern Indians actually do wear fur in modern days, and not the synthetic kind which doesn't retain heat as well. Same goes with [[HuskyRusskie Russians]], who tend to think that anti-fur activists are [[AnimalWrongsGroup all deranged freaks]].
24
25Also fictional works that take place in the past, or in places like modern Russia, do not assume ViewersAreMorons, and do have people wearing fur, since they are/were common in those places and times. Yet those works still seem to portray those places and times as less enlightened, with wearing fur being a symptom of this. And in PoliticallyCorrectHistory, wearing fur seems to disappear, even in the dead of winter.
26
27Also, this can actually be combined with PrettyInMink. This is when a character wears real fur, but the character still fits the type mentioned. Works that are explicitly this trope just use fake fur.
28
29One of TheNewestOnesInTheBook; though one of the {{Ur Example}}s of this supertrope is the villain Cruella de Vil from the 1961 Disney film ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'', a good borderline for this trope is when the US game show ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'' stopped offering fur coats among their prizes in 1981.
30
31No relation to the ''Series/{{CSI}}'' episode of the same name, or [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom its subject]].
32
33For the dining equivalent, see ExoticEntree. Compare GoodSmokingEvilSmoking, ItsFakeFurItsFine, GenuineHumanHide. Contrast PrettyInMink.
34
35----
36!!Examples (examples for CruellaToAnimals should go there):
37
38[[foldercontrol]]
39
40[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
41* Mello from ''Manga/DeathNote'' wears fur-lined coats and [[LeatherMan leather]]. He is a ruthless mafia leader, but [[AntiVillain he is also trying to stop Kira]].
42%%* Alluded to in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure''. Tai jokes that Mimi - the team's resident GirlyGirl - may steal Gabumon's fur to keep warm. Funnily enough a few episodes later it's revealed that Gabumon can remove his fur willingly.
43* Ayuko Rara of ''Anime/DualParallelTroubleAdventure'' is TheDragon for an ArtifactOfDoom, but given most of the power. She spends much of her screen time wearing a fluffy white fur wrap.
44* Izaya Orihara from ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'' is rarely seen without his fur-lined coat. He also enjoys [[{{Troll}} toying with people]] because [[ItAmusedMe It Amused Him]].
45* Greed of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' is first seen wearing a vest with a fur collar. However, he's one of the [[AffablyEvil nicer]] [[NobleDemon villains]].
46* The warden in ''[[Anime/GuyDoubleTarget Guy Awakening of the Devil]]'' is cruel and greedy. At the end, when the prison is being destroyed by some weird energy waves, she stops to grab [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/guy_dt_00_7526.jpg a white fox coat and her jewelry]]. She then has a DeathByMaterialism.
47* Earlier chapters of ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'' have the titular hero and Kagome confront a pair of minor demon brothers who were the personal enemies of fox youkai BrattyHalfPint Shippo because they were responsible for killing his father and wearing his fur.
48* Suzu from ''Manga/PeacemakerKurogane'', during the sequel, after he becomes an AxCrazy DepravedHomosexual. Just to cement the fact that he's evil, he wears a long, black fur robe (without wearing any clothes inside).
49* Opillion, one of the Domitors in '' Manga/{{Radiant}}'' wears a black and white striped fur coat, but is [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] as is revealed to be actually his Nemesis which resembles a hairy snake with razor-sharp spider legs.
50[[/folder]]
51
52[[folder:Comic Books]]
53%%* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': Oswald Cobblepot, ''ComicBook/ThePenguin'' sometimes wears fur scarves or coats.
54* Captain Cold in ''Franchise/TheFlash'' wears a parka; in one issue of the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse ''Justice League'' comic he tells the Flash that it's not trimmed with real fur because [[EvenEvilHasStandards he's an environmentalist]].
55* Parodied in a ''ComicBook/JosieAndThePussycats'' comic. Alexandra has a line of fur coats, which Melody says is cruel. Alexandra explains that they are manmade, and starts naming off the synthetic ingredients. Melody [[DumbBlonde doesn't get it]] and demands she free the Orlons.
56* A rather ghoulish example happens in one ComicBook/SpiderMan story, where a gangster's wife brags about her new coat, which she believes was taken from Tigra. (Her husband seemingly convinced her that he had killed and skinned Tigra, although everyone present at the event realized he was a BadLiar trying to make himself look big.)
57* In ''ComicBook/StarfiresRevenge'', the titular ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} villainess is a ruthless crime kingpin with apirations to global domination, who likes wearing expensive and luxurious fur coats.
58%%* ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'': Sabretooth's [[PimpDuds pimp coat]].
59* In ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour'', Victor Van Damme, once he takes up the mantle of Doctor Doom upgrades from a raggedy cloak, to a majestic fur collared BadassCape.
60* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
61** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Priscilla Rich is a murderous self absorbed socialite who constructs her supervillain ComicBook/{{Cheetah}} costume out of genuine cheetah fur.
62** ''ComicBook/{{The Legend of Wonder Woman|2016}}'': Priscilla Rich is a cold murderous wealthy socialite who is wearing very prominent furs any time she's out of the house, most commonly a cropped jacket made of cheetah fur.
63* ComicBook/EmmaFrost from ''ComicBook/XMen'' is a definite RichBitch (although she wasn't as much of an actual bitch as she suddenly became). Her most famous outfit has a cape with a huge white fox collar (assuming this outfit was made for real). However, she first appeared in 1980. Yet when she turned into a hero, it was the early 1990s, and her outfits didn't include fur. Of course the costume may make her look like a FemmeFatale, but in a comic book, even the Queen of England would dress [[{{Stripperiffic}} like that]] ([[IWasQuiteALooker at least when she was younger]]).
64* In the Creator/ECComics Science-Fiction [=SuspenStory=] "What Fur?!", in a space-faring future where skunks are being driven to extinction due to demand for their pelts, a furrier seeks to make a killing on a little-explored small planet which is crawling with skunks. Unfortunately, this planet turns out also to have giant furry aliens who like to wear human skins around their necks.
65[[/folder]]
66
67[[folder:Comic Strips]]
68* In an early ''ComicStrip/GetFuzzy'' Sunday strip, Bucky accuses a woman wearing a fleece coat on the subway of being a "Muppet killer".
69[[/folder]]
70
71[[folder:Fan Works]]
72* This [[http://olieboldador.deviantart.com/art/Dresden-Files-Queen-Mab-478002029 fanart]] of [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Queen Mab]] shows her wearing a fox-fur shawl (complete with taxidermied eyes and nose)- one of many ways the image implies her callous, fearsome personality.
73[[/folder]]
74
75[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
76* Darla Dimple, EnfanteTerrible BigBad of ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'' wears fur coats and mink stoles...''in a world where'' all ''animals are apparently sentient.''
77* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Igor}}'', When the MadScientist Dr. Schadenfreude complains about his lack of respect, Jaclyn responds, "Respect? Respect doesn't keep me in baby seal leather boots!" She then nuzzles her boot, which ''still has the baby seal's face on it'', as a soft squeaky cry is heard.
78* ''Animation/MavkaTheForestSong'': The foppish and vain Frol wears a fox's skin as a fur scarf. He serves the BigBad Kylina, and he nearly kills Lukash's dog and the cat-frog with a chainsaw late in the film.
79* WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}} has "custom made baby seal leather boots", just [[CardCarryingVillain to try and prove that he's evil]].
80[[/folder]]
81
82[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
83* In ''Film/AceVenturaWhenNatureCalls'', Ace confronts a woman wearing all kinds of animal products, who dismisses him as "another ''activist''," and goes on "There's nothing wrong with enjoying the fruits of nature. I suggest you try it sometime." Ace does so, punching her husband and then dancing around with the man on his shoulders.
84* In The Stallone/Banderas film ''Film/{{Assassins}}'', Julianne Moore's animal-loving character spray-paints a woman's fur coat while standing in an elevator and making a "shhhhh" sound to mask the sound of the spraycan. The implication is that she's a free spirit while the fur-wearing woman is a RichBitch.
85* In ''Film/{{The Avengers|1998}}'', Mrs. Peel's clone wears a fur coat when she tries to murder Steed with a spear gun and pistol.
86%%* ''Film/BatmanReturns'':
87%%** The Ice Princess is a total bimbo. While the villainous Catwoman doesn't even wear leather -- she wears vinyl -- so she lives, the Ice Princess, well... For wearing fur, RedemptionEqualsDeath.
88%%** Max Shreck and his son Chip also wear fur-lined coats in the movie, but they're more the RichBitch type.
89* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''Film/BlackPanther2018'' with M'Baku, who's extremely antagonistic in his first appearance and later appears in an outfit with gorilla-fur accents. However, he proves to be a valuable ally to the protagonists.
90%%* Veruca from the 2005 ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' film. (Though her fur is fake.) Past versions weren't this trope -- she was merely a PrettyInMink SpoiledBrat.
91* In the 1967 film of ''Film/DoctorDolittle,'' the doctor has a somber-but-angry musical number toward the middle of the movie, "Like Animals" where he sings about mankind's exploitative, demeaning, and cruel treatment of animals to a full courtroom. At the end of the song he specifically addresses some upper-class women watching the proceeding, all of whom are wearing fur.
92-->''"When you dress in suede or leather, or some fancy fur or feather / did you stop and wonder whether for a fad, / you have killed some beast or other? And you're wearing someone's brother? / Or perhaps it's someone's mother in which you're clad."''
93* In ''Film/GirlsJustWantToHaveFun'', TheRival is a RichBitch, and [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gjwthf_tm_00_32.jpg wears a white fur jacket]] for the scene when she first meets the protagonist.
94%% * InvertedTrope in ''Hell on Heels: The Battle for Mary Kay'', Mary Kay wears fur, and even gives a black mink coat to the best saleswoman each year. The film portrays these women as hard-working, while TheRival, who eventually makes her company fold, never wears fur. (Is this an outright aversion?)
95* In ''Film/ItCouldHappenToYou'' one of the first things Muriel buys with the lottery money is a fur coat, only to be immediately splashed with red paint by protesters.
96%%* In ''Film/MissPettigrewLivesForADay'', Delysia Lafosse seems to like wearing fur. She even comments on how nice it feels on the skin. However, she makes this comment when she's supposed to be in the middle of a "serious" conversation. Then again, this may not count if that scene was in the original book, which was published in 1938.
97* In ''Film/SisterAct'' Deloris gets a mink coat from her mobster boyfriend in an attempt to win her back. She likes it until she sees the name of his wife embroidered inside it and [[EveryoneHasStandards gets upset that he actually gave her something that rightfully belonged to his wife]]. She goes to confront him about it which results in her witnessing his murder of his limo driver, which kickstarts the plot of the movie. The fur was used to show that Deloris was a bit TheVamp at the beginning of the movie.
98* While it's not an entire fur coat, bounty hunter Boba Fett from ''Franchise/StarWars,'' decorates his armor with braids made from ''the pelts of Wookies.'' Not only does this signify that he's a badass, since Wookies are enormous bruisers, also that he's ruthless enough to skin sentient creatures when he's done killing them. Notably when he's starring as the protagonist in ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'', the pelts are conspicuously absent (presumably they were lost when he was separated from his iconic armor for years).
99%%* Emma Frost from ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', sometimes wears a mink.
100[[/folder]]
101
102[[folder:Literature]]
103* Genius Pixie Opal Koboi in ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'': the Opal Deception has fur-covered seats in her custom-built luxury shuttle, as a sign of her leaving behind the fairy world (most fairies are vegan), and embracing [[HumansAreBastards the human world]]. It should be noted that leather doesn't get a pass in this setting, either; had the seats been made of leather it would have been just as abhorrent to the fairies. However, even Artemis is disgusted by the fur seats.
104%%* In ''Literature/BrothersInArms'' by Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold, Miles Vorkosigan buys a "cat blanket" which is made of fur. The subversion is that the blanket is a genetically engineered living organism. It doesn't shed, is self-cleaning, lives via photosynthesis or microwave absorption, purrs, and snuggles up. Still, Miles, Ivan [[spoiler:and later Mark]], are by turns delighted and creeped out by it.
105* The despotic House Harkonnen of ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' fame earned its early success through manipulation of the market for Bjondax Whale fur.
106* It gets a bit ridiculous in Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''Literature/CrosstimeTraffic'' novel ''Gunpowder Empire''. The two main characters will literally stop whatever is happening just to talk about how nobody wears fur anymore and how polite society sees it as repulsive. This doesn't just happen once, but about 9 times in a 200 or so page book. The alternate timeline never saw the Roman Empire fall or technology advance much past our timeline's 400 AD. Still, even if they're in northern Europe and freezing, "FUR IS EVIL!"
107** Notably, the narration points out the hypocrisy involved. It's something of a hallmark of Turtledove to have characters express a viewpoint, while the narration points out the flaws and cultural viewpoints that shade that belief.
108* In “Junie B. Jones is Not a Crook”, Lucille says that her grandmother can’t wear her mink coat in public or else people will throw paint on her.
109%% * ''Mary, Bloody Mary'' (a Mary Tudor POV novel) mentions Anne Boleyn owning an elegant sable coat.
110* ''The Reincarnation of Peter Proud''. While the title character is swimming in a lake, a woman wearing a fur coat goes out to him in a boat. When she gets close to him she murders him with an oar.
111* Little Red Riding Hood in Roald Dahl's ''Revolting Rhymes'' shoots TheBigBadWolf to get herself a fancy new coat. She is later called by a certain little pig who is being menaced by another bad wolf; unfortunately for the pig, her greed for accessories made out of animals doesn't stop at a second wolfskin coat.
112%%* ''Literature/TheRoadToWellville'' features characters in the early 20th century, acting like moderately militant PETA members. Whether people were actually like that at the time, it seems likely that this was more of a bow to politics at the time the film was made.
113%%** There were indeed animal lovers at the time, but for the most part they only protested against ''blatant'' cruelty to animals.
114* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/TheTraders": Despite being written in the 1940s, the Grand Master's fur collar is clearly being used to show how he's a greedy corrupt ruler for Askone.
115[[/folder]]
116
117[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
118%%* Nikki, in the short-lived US version of ''Series/AsIf'', wore a fur coat, and she slept around.
119%%* Even though ''Series/{{Dallas}}'' and ''Series/Dynasty1981'' started in 1978 and 1981 respectively, it seemed in later years, these shows and their spinoffs gave most of the fur coats to the RichBitch characters.
120* In an episode of ''Series/DesigningWomen'' Suzanne Sugarbaker (played by Delta Burke) is criticized for her new fur coat she shows off by her sister and after being attacked by animal rights activists ends up with a broken arm and refuses to have the coat cut off of herself to set the arm resulting in her spending weeks in the coat while her arm heals. At the end she swears off fur simply because she spent so much time trapped in it.
121* ''Series/ADifferentWorld'''s Whitley was occasionally seen wearing a fur coat. When one of her boyfriend Byron's political supporters chastises her for it and even insinuates that she'll withdraw her endorsement because of it, Whitley calmly and coolly informs her that her owning a fur is ''her'' business and should have no bearing on whether or not she supports Byron's Senate run.
122* In one episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}'', Phoebe got a fur coat as a gift and, being the hippie of the group, constantly complained about how evil it was -- until she tried it on and decided it looked good. For the rest of the episode, she justified wearing it using very spurious and shaky logic, and eventually she gave it to a hobo when a squirrel made her feel guilty.
123%%* ''Series/MacGyver1985'': When Mac helps a runaway turned hooker in "Runners", she wears a [[PrettyInMink rabbit fur jacket]], until she's saved.
124* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': Miss Enright, Miss Brooks' snooty, catty [[SitcomArchNemesis rival]], brags about her furs as well as other expensive clothes.
125%%* An episode of ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' had Elaine confront a woman George was trying to score with for wearing a fur. Her response to the question of whether it was real: "It better be, or my ex-husband owes me an explanation."
126%%* Any contestants wearing fur on ''Series/SnogMarryAvoid'' usually get a thrashing from POD.
127* In ''Series/StarskyAndHutch'', Hutch's thieving ex-wife shows up in a white fur coat.
128* ''Series/VeronicaMars'' [[FeeFiFauxPas wears a coat with a faux-fur collar]] while talking to some animal rights activists, realizes it, and takes it off. One of them sneaks behind her and moves to chop the collar off; Veronica catches her, shrieking "It's fake!" (This is probably important to actress Kristen Bell, who is herself an animal rights activist.)
129* In the musical episode of ''Series/XPlay'', after receiving lucrative contracts to produce their own games and stressing out factory workers to make it, Adam and Morgan go from snarky video game reviewers to rich snobs. The first shot of them after the factory scene starts with a close up of a pair of high-heels stepping onto the sidewalk, panning up a fur coat, and then to Adam's head. Morgan joins him a second later in a business suit.
130[[/folder]]
131
132[[folder:Magazines]]
133* Whenever Magazine/{{Zoobooks}} mentions fur, it's in a negative light. Its "Sharing the World with Animals", for example, has a man and a woman in seal and leopard fur coats, respectively. The captions explain the methods used to kill animals, such as the use of steel traps, which the magazine compares the force of to "a car door slamming on your hand". Justified when the trope comes up in issues for endangered animals, like in the "Tigers" issue, as poaching for fur has been cited as the reason for some animals becoming rarer.
134[[/folder]]
135
136%%[[folder:Podcasts]]
137%%* In the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' game of ''Podcast/CoolKidsTable'', Roc starts the game wearing a fur coat, though he later changes into a kimono.
138%%[[/folder]]
139
140[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
141* {{Wrestling/Carmella}} debuted as Wrestling/EnzoAndCass's TokenEvilTeammate, and wore a fur coat to the ring. When she TookALevelInKindness, she stopped wearing the fur.
142* The Wrestling/{{WWE}} tag-team MNM, a pair of {{heel}}ish celebrity hangers-on, were known for their fur coats and boots. Oddly enough, their manager, a RichBitch [[TheVamp Vamp]] by the name of Wrestling/{{Melina}}, never wore fur, though she does seem to be fond of animal prints. One member, Johnny Nitro, kept the furs even as he transitioned to his new gimmick, an odd cross between the JerkJock and the WarriorPoet by the name of Wrestling/JohnMorrison.
143* Jamie Noble - with a DeepSouth gimmick - got his ditzy girlfriend Nidia an expensive fur coat as a gift. Part of Nidia's HeelFaceTurn involved her putting the coat in a shredder.
144* {{Wrestling/Sable}} is named after a special type of fur, and it counted as a MeaningfulName when considering her vampy primadonna character. When she was a face, it leaned more towards PrettyInMink.
145* In addition to a whole bunch of wacky gear clearly designed to attract as much attention as possible,[[note]]Such as a bowler hat, umbrella, and plague doctor's mask[[/note]] "The Villain" ''Wrestling/MartyScurll'' usually wears a black fur coat to the ring.
146[[/folder]]
147
148[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
149* Despite the late medieval setting, in ''TabletopGame/{{Ironclaw}}'' the only character shown wearing something made from another creature's fur is [[http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/089/5/e/Ironclaw__Amalsand_by_andrewk.png Lady Amalsand Jakoba]], because every species of fur-bearing mammal [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals in the setting is sapient]]. There's plenty of leather though since reptiles aren't intelligent.
150[[/folder]]
151
152[[folder:Video Games]]
153* In ''VideoGame/BeneathASteelSky'', Lamb is proud that his coat is made from the last 10 beavers of the world.
154* ''VideoGame/TheClueFinders3rdGradeAdventuresTheMysteryOfMathra'' has the main villain be someone who's illegally poaching animals for their furs.
155%%* Courtney Gears of ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal'' says Ratchet would make a nice fur coat. (Covered by another trope?)
156* This is spoofed in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''. One of the many cosmetic items replaces the Medic's lab coat with one that's been lined with white fur, and [[https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Der_Wintermantel the description]] offers a "guarantee" that "at least three endangered species went extinct during the making of this product", and then it ends with [[ItsFakeFurItsFine "Note: fur is synthetic"]].
157[[/folder]]
158
159[[folder:Visual Novels]]
160* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight's'' [[BigBad Gilgamesh]] becomes the male example when he appears in a pimped-out fur coat as his 'civilian' dress. This wasn't part of his uniform when he was summoned into the world, but he went shopping and consciously selected it. Personal traits include haughty, disdainful of all others, proud of his vast riches and in fact considers himself owner of ''everything'' in the world -- does he fit the RichBitch aspect yet?
161[[/folder]]
162
163[[folder:Webcomics]]
164* Hinted at in ''Webcomic/HannaIsNotABoysName'' with Doc Worth, a sort of ChaoticNeutral character whose fur trimmed-labcoat is meant to express not cruelty so much as sleaziness. [[WordOfGod According to the author]], the fur collar was meant to [[AnimalMotifs help mimic the look of a vulture.]]
165* Webcomic/{{Realmwalker}} has Luideag, an evil loch monster who wears a baby seal fur stole [[spoiler: that is actually a baby selkie's pelt]]
166* Many of the [[StrawMan Straw Men]] that inhabit ''Webcomic/VeganArtbook'' but [[CountryMatters Cuntons]] stands out in particular. She hates all animals except her pets for [[ForTheEvulz reasons]] and loathes wolves in particular for [[ForTheEvulz more reasons]]. So naturally she killed a wolf and now wears its skinned head as a very ghoulish hat.
167%%* Parodied by ''Webcomic/ZooLaLa'' in a similar way to the above mentioned Josie and the Pussycats example in [[http://i-got-rhythm.deviantart.com/gallery/36656679 this strip]]
168[[/folder]]
169
170[[folder:Western Animation]]
171%%* Mallory Archer from ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' has a regular account at a furrier. Definitely a RichBitch, often seen in furs.
172* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
173** Given the level of technology in and where they live, Sokka and Katara are apparently wearing animal furs to keep warm, with no stigma attached. Although there is this dialogue in "Bato of the Water Tribe".
174--->'''Katara:''' Bato! It looks like home!\
175'''Sokka:''' Everything's here, even the pelts!\
176'''Aang:''' ''[unenthusiastically]'' Yeah... nothing's cozier than dead animal skins.
177** Of course, this makes sense given that Aang is a vegetarian and cares for animals in general. Using animal products as a matter of practicality is one thing, but it has to irk him slightly for his close friends to be EXCITED over it.
178** A canon comic features a fur salesman using synthetic fur and going on a rant about the cruelty of real fur.
179%%* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Braceface}}'' deals with a short tiff between Sharon and Maria when the former plans to participate in a fashion show involving clothes made out of real fur. In the end, Sharon decides to respect Maria's decision, whereas Maria has switched out all the real fur for faux fur.
180* Indirectly done in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', in the episode when Lois is mayor. She agrees to allow pollution so she can buy a fur coat. She relents, though, and doesn't have to give back the coat, but [[SnapBack the coat is never worn after that]].
181* In one episode of ''JustForFun/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'', after the show's VillainProtagonist, Itchy the mouse skins the show's hero, Scratchy the cat alive at a mall, a sinister looking RichBitch buys Scratchy's skin off Itchy to wear. Extra creepy as the skin had clearly come from a humanoid sentient being, the WhiteGloves were even still attached.
182* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has Mr. Burns; despite the fact he is normally only seen wearing his [[LimitedWardrobe trademark business suit]], the episode "Two Dozen & One Greyhounds" reveals he has a real fixation on the most unusual sorts of fur for his clothing. Besides the greyhound fur tuxedo he plans on making from the puppies he stole from the Simpsons, his wardrobe includes a vest made from the chest of a gorilla, a sweater made from Irish Setter fur, a hat made from the skin of his last pet cat, evening wear made from the skin and wings of vampire bats, slippers made from the feet of albino African rhinocerii, grizzly bear fur underpants, literal turtleneck shirts, a beret made from the head of a French poodle, two formal suits (one single-breast, one double-breast) made from the breast-feathers of robins, and a set of loafers made from gophers. He also comments that when he made the loafers, the alternative would have been skinning his chauffeurs.
183--> [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsFHEK_o9U8 "But a greyhound fur tuxedo would be best. So let's prepare these dogs..."]]
184* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode ''[[ItMakesSenseInContext Douche and Turd]],'' PETA is shown constantly going around and [[{{Foreshadowing}} dumping red paint on people wearing fur]]. This comes back to bite them when one of their members dumps paint on P. Diddy's [[PimpDuds pimp coat]]. With his crew, he proceeds to [[TakeThat gun down the entire PETA complex]].
185* One of Creator/CartoonNetwork's ''WesternAnimation/WhatACartoon'' one-shots, ''Yoink Of the Yukon'', revolved around [[BearsAreBadNews a grizzly bear named Nook]] and his feud with the Royal Canadian Mounties over their allowal of fur trapping in the Yukon. Mind you, this being meant for comedy, fur trapping here is portrayed as literally stealing the clothes off the critters backs, leaving then naked and freezing in the snow. The issue is resolved when the main character Yoink, after much conflict, ends up outfitting all of Nooks friends with a set of tuxedos he got off the Home Shopping Network.
186--> '''Yoink:''' It was the best I could do on such short notice, eh?

Top