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| 13 | [[quoteright:300:[[Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blofeldkitty.png]]]] |
| 14 | [[caption-width-right:300:[-Hello, I'm Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Will you [[Music/SarahMcLachlan be an angel for a helpless animal]]?-] ]] |
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| 16 | ->''Marplet sen Tenko was sitting in a window of the Skyrrman smoking a long-stemmed pipe. His big tiger-tom, Fang, crouched beside him on the sill. As Jame crossed the square, both the innkeeper and the cat watched her with almost the same expression, calculating, self-confident, and faintly amused. Neither would relish a quick kill, she realized with sudden insight.'' |
| 17 | -->-- ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath'' |
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| 19 | In an [[EvilCounterpart evil contrast]] to how much HeroesLoveDogs, {{Diabolical Mastermind}}s are cat people. If they [[TheFaceless don't have a face]], they will usually have a pet cat, usually some shade of white or black, sitting on their desk or in their lap, that they stroke as they describe their EvilPlan. |
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| 21 | Why do bad guys like cats? Maybe because CatsAreMean -- [[PredatorsAreMean they kill birds and mice, just so they can offer you the corpse]]. Cats are lap-sized and perfect to pet while scheming. Or maybe it's because CatsAreSuperior and believe they are entitled to be worshiped and revered by humans, or deserve to TakeOverTheWorld themselves. Dogs are faithful and loyal, but cats are fickle with a superiority complex. Villains and cats just fit. It's the perfect accessory for a CardCarryingVillain, especially the CrazyCatLady type. |
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| 23 | The BigBad's Right-Hand Cat will have varying degrees of a personality depending on the context of the series. Some will display sentient facial expressions and even an evil laugh, showing a morality in sync with their master's. Some just sit and look pretty - as stoic as ever, yawning and purring like any other ordinary pet. Even in animation, the cat will probably never speak, but it will almost always have a name. |
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| 25 | This may stem from the tradition that AllWitchesHaveCats and often use cats as their {{familiar}}s. Sometimes prone to the cat being a MoralityPet or [[TheDogBitesBack biting back]] and run a HeelFaceDoorSlam if the [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals Big Bad doesn't]] [[KickTheDog dispose it]]. |
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| 27 | In more-modern settings, this kind of villain will be probably part of an AnimalWrongsGroup. |
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| 29 | See KindheartedCatLover for heroic examples when a character's fondness for cats shows they're a good person, or at least [[PetTheDog not all bad]]. |
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| 31 | UsefulNotes/CardinalRichelieu was a famous cat-lover (he owned 14 cats at the time of his death) -- and got a HistoricalVillainUpgrade since Creator/AlexandreDumas' ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers''. Some adaptations picture him petting a white cat while scheming, making Richelieu the likely TropeMaker. |
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| 33 | Pirate captains will have a PirateParrot instead, while {{Rich Bitch}}es have [[MisterMuffykins spoiled lap dogs]]. See also FeatherBoaConstrictor. |
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| 35 | '''Please note that Right-Hand Cat at its core refers to ''passive'' evil pets, feline or otherwise. If the pet is also an active fighter, it belongs in RightHandAttackDog, [[NonIndicativeName even if it is a cat]].''' |
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| 39 | !!Examples: |
| 40 | |
| 41 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 42 | |
| 43 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 44 | * In the manga of ''Manga/DeathNote'', [[TheDragon Teru Mikami]] has one. |
| 45 | * In ''Manga/DragonBall'', the BigBad Red has one in the anime, presumably to increase his DiabolicalMastermind credentials (although his is purplish rather than white). It does not appear in the original manga, however. |
| 46 | * Parodied in a ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' Omake. In a picture of members of the cast as members of organized crime, Al is "Da Boss", and has an Adulr cat which is referred to as "demon henchbeast". |
| 47 | * Schrödinger from ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' is a CatFolk version of this to the [[BigBad Major]] right down to sitting at his side and apparently angling for head scratches. |
| 48 | * Djibril pets his black cat in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny''. |
| 49 | * Subverted in ''Anime/NowAndThenHereAndThere''. [[PsychopathicManchild King Hamdo]] starts out with one, but he kills it before it shows up on screen. You do see it after its death. |
| 50 | * Keto from ''Manga/NurseAngelRirikaSOS'' has a black cat that spies on Ririka. [[spoiler:Kanou]] later seems to own it after becoming BrainwashedAndCrazy however it [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse disappears]] after he is cured. Ririka herself [[HeroesLoveDogs has a dog]]. |
| 51 | * In ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'', [[MeaningfulName Umehito Nekozawa]], president of Ouran's Black Magic Club, always wears a cat puppet named Beelzenef, making it a ''literal'' right-hand cat. Nekozawa is a lot nicer than his obsession with black magic and creepy subjects would lead you to initially believe, though. |
| 52 | * In ''Manga/PeacemakerKurogane'', after going [[AxeCrazy crazy]] and [[DepravedHomosexual gay]], Suzu is depicted as having a fondness for cats. |
| 53 | * Giovanni with his Persian, from ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries''. For a while, the Team Rocket trio's Meowth from the same series had it as his overriding goal to ''become'' a Right-Hand Cat for Giovanni, though lately he seems to have decided he'd rather stay with Jessie and James. For another definition of [[TheDragon "right hand"]], Giovanni also had Mewtwo, for a short time. |
| 54 | * Referenced in ''Manga/SchoolLive''. When the girls are discussing the source of the ZombieApocalypse, one of them theorizes a BigBad could be behind it all. Yuki draws an ObviouslyEvil man with [[GoodSmokingEvilSmoking a cigar]] and a pet cat. |
| 55 | * In ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'', the principal of Tomobiki high is sometimes seen petting a white cat while plotting against the students. He's hardly a villain (more of a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}), but the parody is obvious. |
| 56 | * Toyed with in ''Manga/ShamanKing'', where Ren's villainous giant of a father is shown petting a fully-grown panda in his lap. |
| 57 | [[/folder]] |
| 58 | |
| 59 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 60 | * ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': |
| 61 | ** During UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks, ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} owned a pet cat named Hecate that she often employed in her schemes. Hecate even helped to spring her from prison once. |
| 62 | ** Catwoman's SpearCounterpart Catman is ofen accompanied by a big cat: usually either a tiger or a pair of panthers. |
| 63 | * Pizzazz has a cat in the IDW ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHologramsIDW'' comics. She's not really much of a "villain" but is one of the antagonists. She even has pajamas with cats on them. |
| 64 | * ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Nazi agent Red Panzer has a pet cat which he strokes while brooding and thinking up plots. |
| 65 | [[/folder]] |
| 66 | |
| 67 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 68 | * ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'': The cat called Kitty Square had the odd trait of [[CigarChomper smoking cigars]]. At different times, he belonged to two different villains: Matty Square and subsequently Mr. Bribery. Bribery attempted to break Kitty of the smoking habit, and when he that failed, he attempted to [[DRowningUnwantedPets drown Kitty in the city reservoir]]. Bribery tied a heavy steam iron to Kitty's collar and prepared to toss it into the deep water. Kitty slipped out of the collar and attacked Bribery. For some reason, this endeared Kitty to Bribery, who took Kitty home and continued to light the cat's cigars. |
| 69 | [[/folder]] |
| 70 | |
| 71 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 72 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'': |
| 73 | ** Lady Tremaine has a cat named ''Lucifer''. He is intelligent enough to understand that Cinderella is unfairly put-upon with the chores, and mean enough to complicate them at one point. |
| 74 | ** ''WesternAnimation/CinderellaIIIATwistInTime'' actually has Lady Tremaine carrying Lucifer and stroking him, Blofeld-style. |
| 75 | * Junkman in the ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibleCrashDummies'' (a 1993 half-hour CG movie) has the Hubcat. |
| 76 | [[/folder]] |
| 77 | |
| 78 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 79 | * ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'': In the 1945 film adaptation, [[spoiler:Judge Warwick]], who turns out to be the evil mastermind behind the murders, holds and strokes a house cat while explaining his scheme to one of the survivors. |
| 80 | * In ''Film/ArmyOfFrankensteins'', BigBad Captain Walton is introduced sitting his tent stroking the grey cat on his lap. He later uses the cat to test the Frankenstein serum. |
| 81 | * ''Film/AustinPowers'' |
| 82 | ** Dr. Evil, a parody of Blofeld, with Mr. Bigglesworth. Starts as a Persian, becomes a Sphinx cat after the cryogenic revival. |
| 83 | ** Mini-Me, in turn, has a Mini-Bigglesworth (a Sphinx kitten). |
| 84 | * ''Film/ComeAndSee'': The Nazi death squad commander watches the slaughter impassively from his car while a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_slender_loris loris]] sits on his shoulder and nuzzles his neck. The ostentatiousness of the pet makes him even more despicable. |
| 85 | * In the 1937 ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' film serial, [[MadScientist Moloch]] is often seen stroking a black cat. |
| 86 | * ''Film/TheEgyptian'' (1954) explains why this may be a trope among villains. The amoral and manipulative courtesan Nefer is holding a cat which she uses to warn the protagonist of the perils of falling for her ([[LoveMakesYouDumb he doesn't listen]]). |
| 87 | -->'''Nefer:''' There is a reason why the goddess of love takes the form of a cat.\ |
| 88 | '''Sinuhe:''' When I look at you I cannot think of cats or gods...\ |
| 89 | '''Nefer:''' Look, Sinuhe. A cat's paws are soft, but they hide claws. A cat takes pleasure in tormenting its victim. Not until the creature is nearly dead will it show pity... and put an end to it. |
| 90 | * In ''Film/EnterTheDragon,'' [[BigBad Han]], trying to recruit Roper into joining his organization, carries a fluffy white cat. To test Roper's resolve, Han sets the cat down in the business area of a guillotine and offers to let Roper pull the chain. Roper declines. |
| 91 | * In ''Film/TheGodfather'', the title character is seen stroking a cat in the opening scene, as a kind of PetTheDog moment, establishing him as both a deadly gangster and a devoted and loving family man. [[JustifiedTrope This was not in the book or script]]; Marlon Brando just made friends with a cat that was wandering around the set and they decided to ThrowItIn. Humorously, the cat was "villainous" for the production as well--it purred so loudly during Brando's opening speech that his dialogue had to be redubbed. |
| 92 | * In the infamous ''Film/GoingOverboard'', Noriega has a CuteKitten. [[spoiler:The last you see of it is when it gets killed along with a suicidal Noriega by a grenade.]] |
| 93 | * In the 2007 film version of ''Film/{{Hairspray|2007}}'', Velma von Tussle gets a fluffy white Persian to stroke in one scene. |
| 94 | * Auntie in the Japanese horror film ''Film/{{Hausu}}'' has Shiro, a white Persian, who the heroines discover provides Auntie with her immortality and magic abilities. [[spoiler:It turns out Auntie lied and even killing Shiro won't stop her. Not to mention, Shiro is immortal, too.]] |
| 95 | * ''Film/JamesBond'': |
| 96 | ** Ernst Stavro Blofeld, as pictured above. His ever-present fluffy white Persian is probably the TropeCodifier, being responsible for most, if not all, of the parodies and references listed on this page. This is actually due to [[NoOneSeesTheBoss his face being hidden from the audience]] in the first few movies, so there was greater focus on his pet that you'd normally have, to give the camera something to look at. |
| 97 | ** A FunnyBackgroundEvent shows that while the base in ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'' is being attacked, the cat is dead scared and trying to escape Blofeld's grasp![[note]]As you can imagine, this wasn't acting by the cat; it became startled by the pyrotechnics and ran off, and it actually took the film crew ''several days'' of searching before they found the poor thing hiding in the rafters. Apparently, the cat also had a rather nasty habit of relieving itself on Donald Pleasence's lap during filming.[[/note]] |
| 98 | ** It goes one step further in the opener to ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' -- when Bond gains control of the helicopter and comes after the Blofeld expy, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere his cat promptly runs off!]] |
| 99 | ** There was a Bond comic strip for a while, where [[DaddysLittleVillain Blofeld's daughter]] was running SPECTRE. She also had a cat, albeit a black one (probably drawing on [[AllWitchesHaveCats another trope]]). |
| 100 | ** ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'' plays with this a little, when Bond confronts Blofeld and his BodyDouble. Unsure of which is which, Bond kicks the white Persian in the room and shoots the one it jumps to for safety. Sadly, it doesn't work, as [[CrazyPrepared there's more than one cat too]]. |
| 101 | --->'''Blofeld:''' Right idea, Mr. Bond...\ |
| 102 | '''Bond:''' But wrong pussy. |
| 103 | ** Sanchez in ''Film/LicenceToKill'' has a Right Hand....''iguana''. Same general idea only reptilian. |
| 104 | ** In ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', Franz Oberhauser has a white cat hanging around his torture chamber. [[spoiler: [[{{Foreshadowing}} It's an early hint]] that he's actually [[CanonCharacterAllAlong this continuity's Blofeld]].]] |
| 105 | * In the kung fu film ''Film/KidFromKwangtung'', the main villain owns a black cat, which he strokes in numerous scenes while watching his minions kill off Redshirts, in a rather obvious nod to Blofeld. When the villain get into fights though, the black cat somehow remains in his hands without being scared off. |
| 106 | * In ''Film/LadyOnATrain'', the sinister Mr. Saunders, who is one of the conspirators in Josiah Waring's murder, carries a white cat around with him. At one point, while sneaking around the nightclub, Nikki hears meowing from behind her and knows she's been discovered. |
| 107 | * ''Film/NightOfTheDemon'': Satanic cult leader Karswell has a pet gray cat called Graymalkin. |
| 108 | * In Creator/ErichVonStroheim's 1929 silent film ''Film/QueenKelly'', the wicked and beautiful Queen Regina owns a white Persian cat that she often strokes, sometimes when nude. |
| 109 | * In the Japanese {{ninja}} movie ''Film/{{Shinobi no Mono}}'', UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga is shown petting cats in several scenes. Notably, Creator/RoaldDahl saw the film while writing the script for ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'', so while the (unseen) Blofield stroked a pet cat in earlier Bond movies, this film might have been an inspiration for his iconic representation doing it in ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice''. |
| 110 | * In ''Film/TheatreOfDeath'' (also known as ''Blood Fiend''), the cruel and demanding director Philippe Darvas (played by Creator/ChristopherLee) only shows affection towards his pet Siamese cat Seraphina. |
| 111 | * ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'': |
| 112 | ** ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers|1921}}'' (1921), Richelieu, the EvilChancellor plotting to destroy both the Queen and the Musketeers, has a cat that he holds and pets. |
| 113 | ** Vincent Price does the same when playing Richelieu in the 1948 ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers|1948}}''. |
| 114 | * ''Film/TwistedPair'', the villainous Koos carries around a small bowl of diamonds that he strokes as if it were an example of this trope. |
| 115 | * ''Film/YouthOfTheBeast'': Nomoto, the boss of a brutal {{Yakuza}} gang, has a cat he's always carrying around and snuggling with. In his first scene he throws a knife at Jo with one arm while holding the cat with another. |
| 116 | [[/folder]] |
| 117 | |
| 118 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 119 | * Etienne Galant, the BigBad in ''The Corpse in the Waxworks'' by Creator/JohnDicksonCarr, is seen stroking a white Persian. The book was published in 1932. |
| 120 | * In ''Literature/{{Changes}}'', Harry Dresden's fairy godmother the Leanansidhe, who takes pleasure at someone upgrading her from "Spooky death Sidhe lady" to "Spooky, ''crazy'' death Sidhe lady," is waiting for Harry in his home with his cat Mister on her lap. She also swivels his chair around, despite it not meant to have that function. |
| 121 | * One of the earliest examples of this trope would be Victorian Era supervillain Dr. Nikola, who was always accompanied by a huge, black cat named Appolyon, which would sit on his shoulder instead of the later lap version of this trope. |
| 122 | * In Creator/RaymondChandler's short story "Finger Man", the corrupt politico (and BigBad of the story) Frank Dorr has a large, black Persian cat on his desk, which he pets and plays with throughout his conversation with the HardboiledDetective protagonist. The cat actually plays a role in the plot besides just characterizing the villain: [[spoiler:when negotiations go south, the detective grabs the cat and throws it at Frank Dorr, then grabs Frank's gun during the resulting confusion.]] |
| 123 | * In Flannery O'Connor's short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" an escaped convict called the Misfit murders an entire family, who is stranded by an isolated road after an accident, and afterwards picks up and strokes their pet cat (that had caused the accident). |
| 124 | * Tuttan-Rha's undead pet cat, Cleopatra, from the ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}} [=HorrorLand=]'' novel ''Who's Your Mummy?'' The main character, Abby, unintentionally causing her to disintegrate by [[KillItWithWater spraying her with water]] is how she discovers Rha's weakness. |
| 125 | * She doesn't hold her cats in her hand, but [[Characters/HarryPotter Dolores Umbridge]] from ''Literature/HarryPotter'', probably the second most sadistic person in the series behind Voldemort himself, is seemingly addicted to cats. Her office is lined with plates and pictures depicting cats. As well, her Patronus was in the shape of a Persian cat, and it paced in front of her during the courtroom scene in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'' to protect her from the dementors; WordOfGod states that "she [likes] anything decorated with kittens (though found the real thing inconveniently messy)." Averted in the case of Professor [=McGonagall=], a good character in the same series, who also has a cat Patronus and can transform into a cat (an ordinary tabby rather than something fluffy and expensive). In between the two is [=Argus Filch=], the {{Jerkass}} caretaker at Hogwarts, with his unpleasantly scrawny and dust-colored [=Mrs. Norris=]. His genuine love and affection for her (to the point of being driven to tears when she was nearly killed) is one of his few redeeming traits. Hermione Granger herself also has a pet cat, the very intelligent Crookshanks. |
| 126 | * In Yulia Latynina's ''Inhuman'', when Mehmed Lee "Eat-Alive" Trastamara (an incredibly old, infamous man, the right-hand of the EvilOverlord that founded the empire, the inventor of many nasty viruses, as well as a brainwashing symbiont, and the great-grandfather of the VillainProtagonist who comes to him for advice) finally appears in the flesh, he is sitting in a chair with a big white and red cat resting in his lap. Despite being both ancient and retired, "Eat-Alive" still has a hand in almost everything that happens in the Human Empire and more, [[spoiler:to the extent of eventually organising a successful coup d'etat and establishing himself as the most adroit and savvy opponent of the alien conspiracy]]. Let's just say, he ''earned'' that cat. |
| 127 | * Subverted in Creator/ReginaldHill's ''Literature/JoeSixsmith'' series, where loving cats is a sign of virtue. Sixsmith has a much-beloved pet cat who goes everywhere with him and enjoys a good snack of beer and crisps at the pub; he later discovers that one of the friendlier police inspectors has multiple Persians. |
| 128 | * ''Literature/NickVelvet'': In "The Theft of the Mafia Cat", Nick is hired to steal the right-hand cat of a Mafia don. |
| 129 | * In the ''Literature/{{Emberverse}}'', TheChessmaster Sandra Arminger pets her Persians as an aid to concentrating on her schemes. |
| 130 | * In 1956, even before Blofeld made it cool, back in the original book of ''Literature/TheHundredAndOneDalmatians'', Cruella de Vil had a white Persian cat, as opposed to the heroic dog-loving Dearlys. When they actually met the cat, Pongo and [[strike:Perdita]] Missis found she was actually nice (we had already learned of Cruella's drowning of her kittens -- as if that woman needed extra KickTheDog credentials). She then joined the dogs in wrecking Cruella's private fur collection. |
| 131 | * In an [[WhatCouldHaveBeen early version]] of ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'', Morgoth, the first dark lord, had a right hand cat name Tevildo the lord of cats. He was massive in size and commanded other giant cats. While he would be cut from the "final" version of the stories, Tevildo is notable for being considered the original version of Sauron. |
| 132 | * Discussed in ''Literature/TheUnadulteratedCat''. The Right Hand Cat is not a Real Cat, because there are no unwanted animal bits hiding underneath the laser table. |
| 133 | * ''Literature/ThePerfectRun'': Ryan's teleporting cat, Eugène-Henry (named after Eugène Wigner & Henry Stapp - proponents of the Wigner's Friend Interpretation of the famous Schrödinger's Cat Thought-Experiment) is a white cat very much in vein of Blofeld's white Persian cat. [[spoiler:During his play-acting as PresidentEvil of the villainous Meta-Gang, he is constantly making Blofeld-esque references to how every villain overlord needs such a Right-Hand Cat.]] |
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| 135 | [[/folder]] |
| 136 | |
| 137 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 138 | * ''Series/{{Conan}}'': Creator/ConanOBrien's impression of an Creator/{{NBC}} executive involves [[BitingTheHandHumor talking in an "evil" voice and miming petting a cat in his arms]]. |
| 139 | * ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm'': Larry David and his business manager/friend Jeff Greene reference this trope and the TropeCodifier himself at the tail end of a conversation where they're scheming to get someone to play in their golf tournament. Jeff just happens to be stroking a white, very fluffy throw cushion: |
| 140 | -->'''Larry:''' Hey, nice pillow. Yeah, um-- you look like Blofeld.\ |
| 141 | '''Jeff:''' ''[busts out laughing]'' I look like I've got a kitty and we're making evil plans! |
| 142 | * In an episode of ''Series/CutthroatKitchen'' a chef's lobster is taken away and replaced by fish sticks, smoked mussels, and blackened tilapia for a sushi roll challenge. Alton pretends to pet the lobster like he's a Bond villain and says "Excellent." |
| 143 | ** In a Halloween episode he dresses up like a parody of Blofeld, complete with a stuffed cat that he can pet in evil mastermind fashion. |
| 144 | * PlayedForLaughs in the ''Series/{{Glee}}'' episode "Dynamic Duets" with Hunter Corrington, the Warblers' new captain, who is presented petting a white cat. |
| 145 | * Mick of ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'' is the pet cat of TheDon[=/=]BigBad Ryubee Sonozaki. He also [[AccidentalPun doubles]] as one of the high ranking goons: the [[MegaNeko Smilodon Dopant]]. |
| 146 | * While she wasn't a villain ''per se'', Mrs. Pynchon, the (cold and typically unlikable) newspaper publisher (and everyone's boss) in the TV series ''Series/LouGrant'', has a cat who resides on her desk at her office. |
| 147 | * Hal from ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' references this trope when he is pondering what he can do since he has [[ItMakesSenseInContext the loyalty of a dozen dim-witted bodybuilders]]. |
| 148 | -->'''Hal:''' Lois, please stop me if you see me laughing in front of an earth globe while stroking a white cat. |
| 149 | * ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E04SecretAgentSuperDragon Secret Agent Super Dragon]]" had Dr. Forrester explaining the film's BigBad was uninteresting because he lacked a pet. |
| 150 | * Referenced in the finale of ''Series/TheShadowLine'': |
| 151 | -->'''Gatehouse:''' People don't do bad things just because they want to stroke a white cat. |
| 152 | * ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' used this a few times. |
| 153 | ** "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E7Catspaw Catspaw]]": Korob has a pet black cat. Since he's dressed (and acts) like a wizard, Spock assumes that the cat is his familiar. Later on, the cat changes into the form of a beautiful woman, and it turns out that she's really the episode's BigBad. |
| 154 | ** "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E26AssignmentEarth Assignment Earth]]": Gary Seven has a black cat named Isis that appears to be intelligent. At the end of the episode, it's revealed that Isis is actually a beautiful humanoid female who can take cat form (or vice-versa). |
| 155 | * ''Series/Titans2018'': Lampshaded in Season 3 when [[spoiler:Jason Todd]] becomes a BigBadWannabe. When he wires Hank to a bomb and demands a ransom in gold bars hijacked from a Gotham bank, instead of the [[BoringButPractical money being wired]] to a SwissBankAccount, Hank sarcastically wonders if he's stroking a white cat as well. |
| 156 | * Another non-villainous example: Music/CeeLoGreen strokes a white cat in this fashion during Season 2 of ''Series/TheVoice''. |
| 157 | * Non-villainous example: King Ezekiel from season 7 of ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'' has a right-hand ''tiger'' named Shiva. [[spoiler:He used to be the zookeeper who cleaned out the tiger cage, and he saved Shiva's life during the zombie apocalypse.]] |
| 158 | * The ''Series/WillAndGrace'' episode "Bully Wooley" has Karen Walker confronting Scott Wooley/Jeff Goldblum (right after he drank cat pee thinking it was champagne) in the climax while stroking a white Persian. |
| 159 | * ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' mentions this trope in an episode where Hal befriends a group of [[DumbMuscle very strong, but not too bright]] bodybuilders who admire him for his smarts and would gladly do anything he asks. He starts to wonder what to do with all this "power" and asks Lois to stop him if he ever starts laughing while looking at a world globe and stroking a cat. |
| 160 | [[/folder]] |
| 161 | |
| 162 | [[folder:Music Videos]] |
| 163 | * Music/{{Madonna}} is holding a black cat in her arms in her [[https://youtu.be/GsVcUzP_O_8?t=40 music video]] for "Express Yourself". |
| 164 | [[/folder]] |
| 165 | |
| 166 | [[folder:Pinballs]] |
| 167 | * For ''Pinball/AustinPowers'', Dr. Evil is shown holding Mr. Bigglesworth on the playfield. Also, a small, easy-to-miss plastic model of Mr. Bigglesworth is screwed to the inside of the cabinet, near the upper-right corner. |
| 168 | [[/folder]] |
| 169 | |
| 170 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 171 | * In the extended version of ''Film/{{The Muppets|2011}}''' VillainSong "Let's Talk About Me", CorruptCorporateExecutive Tex Richman gets a little sidetracked from boasting about how great it is to be him when he mentions gold-plating his ''gold,'' which leads him to: |
| 172 | -->''I even got a guy to gold-plate my cat\ |
| 173 | I don't regret much, but I do regret that\ |
| 174 | If I could start all over, I'd do it all the same\ |
| 175 | Except I wouldn't gold-plate little Twinkles again!'' |
| 176 | * ''Series/SpittingImage''. A spoof of the ''Spycatcher'' scandal "The Spy Who Lived In Australia" has Margaret Thatcher stroking the requisite Persian cat, plus she had a giant fish tank with Norman Tebbit swimming around in it as Jaws! |
| 177 | [[/folder]] |
| 178 | |
| 179 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 180 | * Dr. Blackgaard with Sasha, from ''Radio/AdventuresInOdyssey''. |
| 181 | [[/folder]] |
| 182 | |
| 183 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 184 | * The cover to the ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' splatbook "High Programmers" has a High Programmer petting a cat with one eye. |
| 185 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'''s Vampire Queen Neferata has a ghostly cat familiar called Bastet, and her vampiric descendents - the Lahmian Sisterhood - also tend to go in for cats in a big way. |
| 186 | * Intentionally invoked [[http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44544 on this forum]] as a suggestion for a good use for a template that creates an undead made from a taxidermied skin that can pass for a living creature to all but the most keen-eyed of observers... until they look into its eyes and see the inside of its scalp, or it deflates and slithers away. |
| 187 | [[/folder]] |
| 188 | |
| 189 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 190 | * Pyewacket, Gillian's familiar in ''Film/BellBookAndCandle''. |
| 191 | * In ''Theatre/YesVirginiaTheMusical'', Mrs. Whiskers mirrors Charlotte's actions and helps her in her scheme to ridicule Virginia. |
| 192 | [[/folder]] |
| 193 | |
| 194 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 195 | * Parn is a black cat owned by the Crooked Man in ''VideoGame/{{Cursery}}: The Crooked Man''. Parn can actually take on a human form thanks to the curse on him and his master and serves to create obstacles for the player. It's revealed that he was a stray cat adopted by the Crooked Man's fiancee before her death. |
| 196 | * In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', Quickthinx Allthoughts, the leader of the Goblin Illuminati responsible for summoning Alexander, is almost always accompanied by his black courel kitten, Shanoa. Even when he's battling the Warriors of Light, he allows Shanoa to roam around the battlefield for morale support. In fact, one of the most important mechanics of the battle is preventing said morale boost from reaching Quickthinx (via destroying the floating heart which personifies it). |
| 197 | * In ''[[VideoGame/LegoBatman LEGO DC Super-Villains]]'', Lex Luthor is at one point seen stroking a cat in his lap. |
| 198 | * In ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'', Accord carries a black cat [[PerversePuppet puppet]] called Popoi. |
| 199 | * ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': |
| 200 | ** Kel'thuzad, TheDragon of the [[EvilOverlord Lich King]], has a cat named Mr. Bigglesworth after Dr. Evil's cat in his dungeon. If it is killed, Kel'thuzad gets quite upset with the players and threatens to send the Scourge to hunt them down. Notably, it's one of the few times you can [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness hear Kel'Thuzad being genuinely angry]]. |
| 201 | --->'''Kel'thuzad:''' NO! A curse upon you, interlopers! The armies of the Lich King will hunt you down! You will NOT escape your fate! |
| 202 | ** If you collect the specified vanity pets you can get Mr. Bigglesworth as a pet for yourself! For pet battles he is classified as an undead creature, but with a mix of undead, elemental and beastly attacks. |
| 203 | [[/folder]] |
| 204 | |
| 205 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 206 | * The BigBad of the [[NoExportForYou Japan-only sequel]] to ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations'' has an unusual one. First a pig appears, then a squirrel jumps on the pig, and finally a cat jumps on the squirrel. The villain then leans on the cat in a SlouchOfVillainy, also doubling as a nod to ''The Bremen Town Musicians'', a story well-known in Japan. (This is because the villain is [[spoiler:an animal tamer]].) |
| 207 | [[/folder]] |
| 208 | |
| 209 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 210 | * In ''Webcomic/TheBrickTestament'', the evil pharaoh of Egypt in ''[[Literature/BookOfExodus Exodus]]'' is [[https://thebrickbible.com/pharaohrejectsmoses/ portrayed with a pet cat (see page 2)]]. |
| 211 | * ''Webcomic/ButImACatPerson'''s Ann Walker has a tiger. Well, a shapeshifting Being that she usually keeps in tiger form. (In contrast, the house cat Being is owned by a protagonist, and, back when she was owned by a crazy cult leader, was almost always kept in human form.) |
| 212 | * ''Webcomic/DrNonami''. Dr. Mechano has Destroyer, an adorable little kitty who he insists is a vicious killing machine. |
| 213 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', Her Imperious Condescension appears to have control over a cat. [[spoiler:Which happens to be the First Guardian, and therefore has the powers of Becquerel. It is unknown if G Cat is planning anything, if he is being manipulated, or if he is a willing servant of the Condesce.]] |
| 214 | * Fidelia Lapointe of ''Webcomic/NeverSatisfied'' has Duchess, her ocelot familiar. Even though familiars are independent people from their magicians, Lapointe treats Duchess like a cross between a pet and a stuffed animal, setting a teacup on her head or clenching her fist in anger while petting her. |
| 215 | * In ''Webcomic/OverlordOfRavenfell'', Razin maintains cuddling kitties is perfectly acceptable for an Overlord. Since cats are evil, so are the cuddles. |
| 216 | * According to ''Sev Trek'' this is the reason Blofeld's mooks [[NoOneSeesTheBoss aren't allowed to see his face]]. |
| 217 | -->"It's not a pleasant sight. I'm allergic to cats." |
| 218 | %%* Marcus in ''Webcomic/StringTheory2009''. |
| 219 | [[/folder]] |
| 220 | |
| 221 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 222 | * [[http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/2009/10/20/chairman-of-the-board/ Some family decided their Right-Hand Cat would signify the patriarch in family photos.]] |
| 223 | [[/folder]] |
| 224 | |
| 225 | [[folder:Websites]] |
| 226 | * [[http://www.villainsource.com/misc.html This website sells them.]] |
| 227 | [[/folder]] |
| 228 | |
| 229 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 230 | * Catwoman didn't start with one, but ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' provided her with Isis, proving this trope fits on her pretty well. |
| 231 | * ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': Discussed in "Burger Wars", where Louise describes their landlord Mr Fischoder as "One white cat away from being a super-villain." |
| 232 | * Mildly [[TheParody parodied]] in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', to the point of RunningGag status. In several episodes of the first two seasons, Danny encourages his arch enemy, Vlad, to get a cat, to which he usually gives an emphatic "No!", but lo and behold, the second episode of the third season had him sitting in his study, petting -- what else -- a white cat, named after Danny's mother, Maddie. |
| 233 | * The title character in ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'' adopted a cat named Mr. Mumbles and sometimes brings her along with him to participate in his attempts to get revenge on whoever he feels has wronged him. |
| 234 | * Roger, the bully from ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', has a Right-Hand Cat called Stinky, whereas Doug has a reliable, intelligent dog called Porkchop. One episode gives him ADayInTheLimelight when Roger makes Doug look after him while Roger's away. He trashes the house, and eats pizza and ice cream, and is generally [[CatsAreMean nasty]]. Then, he gets sick and Doug freaks out, thinking that this is because he let the cat get its own way, and worries about what Roger will do... turns out, he was neither sick nor a "he". [[YourTomcatIsPregnant She was pregnant]]. |
| 235 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales|1987}}'': In the James Bond parody episode "Double-O-Duck", [[{{Expy}} Dr. Nogood]] has a Right-Hand Persian cat. |
| 236 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'': |
| 237 | ** One-shot villain Dr. Mystico had a white, menacing cat. |
| 238 | ** Freakazoid himself had Mr. Chubbikins used this way in during the spoof of ''Film/TheGodfather'' in the beginning of "The Freakazoid". |
| 239 | * The sky pirate villain of the ''WesternAnimation/GoldieGoldAndActionJack'' episode "Pirate of the Airways" had a white cat that he kept in the ParrotPetPosition. |
| 240 | * In ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh'', the [[DeanBitterman ill-tempered Headmistress Crone]] owned a green cat named Clawford. |
| 241 | * ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'': Parodied in the third season finale, where suave, wealthy mastermind Lex Luthor hijacks some screens to give Ivy a villainous spiel while petting and cuddling... a hairless, goofy-looking chihuahua. |
| 242 | * Skeletor with Panthor, from ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983''. Though this was somewhat reversed in that it was the cat who carried Skeletor, rather than the other way around. Also downplayed in that the hero also has a cat companion. |
| 243 | * ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'': Dr. Claw has Mad Cat, his constantly laughing cat that endures all the abuse that happens when his master suddenly pounds the table, rubs his fur a little too hard, or simply smack because he's in the way or did something Claw doesn't like. |
| 244 | -->'''Claw:''' Why are you laughing? I'm the one who did all the work! |
| 245 | * ''WesternAnimation/KiddVideo'' has the BigBad Master Blaster, a mix of a Music industry CorruptCorporateExecutive and a ''Film/JamesBond'' Villain. His cats, the Copycats, are both his pets and his minions. |
| 246 | * The ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}'' episode "In Dutch" has Miles Mayhem conspire with a nameless villain who carries around a white cat. |
| 247 | * Panthea, the BigBad of the first season of ''WesternAnimation/MiaAndMe'', has a pet cat named Ziggo that she is very fond of. During the second season, Ziggo can be seen wandering Panthea's castle and the area surrounding it when Mia and her friends have to revisit those places. |
| 248 | * Daedalus from ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyHercules'' has his pet cat Dido. Despite how over-the-top villainous he is, he is surprisingly kind to it. |
| 249 | * Ahuizotl in ''JustForFun/DaringDo'', from the episodes "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E16ReadItAndWeep Read It and Weep]]" and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E4DaringDont Daring Don't]]" of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', has a white kitten. It's worth pointing out that this cat is every bit as aggressive and dangerous as the panthers and tigers it appears alongside with, though. |
| 250 | * Xayide the BigBad in ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'' animated series has a pet lizard-cat. |
| 251 | * Baudelaire, Max Madison's cat in ''WesternAnimation/Phantom2040''. |
| 252 | * Katrina Stoneheart,the main villain of ''WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies1980s'', has a Siamese cat pet named Catgut, who in the original 1985 television special belonged to the pound's owner Mr. Bigelow. |
| 253 | * Even Angelica, the DevilInPlainSight on ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', has a pet cat named Fluffy. |
| 254 | * Geraldine has one in the ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' episode "Return of Geraldine". |
| 255 | * Ravage from ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' is usually this to the Decepticons. |
| 256 | * Sky Marshal Wade's tame pet lion in ''WesternAnimation/VoltronForce''. After he's arrested, it's taken away to be rehabilitated by the Lion Riders. |
| 257 | [[/folder]] |
| 258 | |
| 259 | !![[SubvertedTrope Subversions]] and [[PlayingWithATrope Playing with the trope]] |
| 260 | |
| 261 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 262 | * Tailmon (Gatomon in the dub) of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' started off as Vamdemon's (a.k.a. Myotismon) Right-Hand Cat (though, being a Digimon, she could talk and fight), but it later turned out that she was the missing partner of the eighth Chosen Child. |
| 263 | * What the fat cat in ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'' actually was is unclear, but Haruko spends a remarkable amount of time and attention on it. Apparently, she was using it to communicate with her boss. For those unfamiliar with ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'', don't even try to work out how said communication is supposed to in any way work. |
| 264 | * ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': |
| 265 | ** [[NationsAsPeople Russia]] has a cat -- the only animal that doesn't [[AnimalsHateHim flee from him]] -- but oddly enough, he is never depicted stroking it (though he does pet him with apparently genuine affection), and whether he's actually ''evil'' is [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation up for debate]]. |
| 266 | ** Not to mention, he's not the only cat-owning nation-tan. [[KindHeartedCatLover Japan]] is seen feeding his own cat Tama/Japaneko, and it's implied that most if not all the other Nekotalia cats belong to their corresponding nations. |
| 267 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Medabots}}'', the Right-Hand Cat contains the soul of the BigBad; the human body is just a robotic shell. |
| 268 | * ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': According to early production notes, Kaworu Nagisa was originally supposed to have a cat. It only serves to make the manga's infamous scene of him snapping a kitten's neck to spare it from starvation (because Shinji wouldn't adopt it, that jerk) even HarsherInHindsight. |
| 269 | * The anime ''Anime/NowAndThenHereAndThere'' has the resident psychotic leader pet a cat in the first episode he appears in. And then break its neck when getting his first but not last on-screen psychotic episode. |
| 270 | * Played with in ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'', where the main character is an [[TroubledButCute antisocial and skittish kid]] who is very attached to his pet cat, Karupin. He may not pet him à la Blofeld, but [[PetTheDog likes to have the feline sleeping in his bed]]. |
| 271 | * DoubleSubversion in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': the fact that Daitokouji-sensei had a pet cat could have been a clue he was TheMole, until he was further revealed to be a DoubleAgent. And after his RedemptionEqualsDeath, the cat ''takes over his job''. |
| 272 | [[/folder]] |
| 273 | |
| 274 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 275 | * ''ComicBook/BombQueen'''s eponymous supervillainess/EvilOverlord has a black cat named Ashe who, in the most recent volume, has been revealed as an ancient demon who's been using Bomb Queen and her city. |
| 276 | * ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': Atrocitus, leader of the Red Lantern Corps has an interesting use of the trope in his fellow Red Lantern Dex-Starr, who is a cat from Earth who earned a Red Lantern Ring thanks to his backstory, so he's pretty inteligent for a normal housecat, and as such, is not a pet, but an equal member of the corps. Despite this, Atrocitus seems pretty fond of him and is not uncommon to find him petting the cat and calling him a good kitty. Also adding to the subversion, is that the Red Lanterns aren't really bad guys as much as really, REALLY violent anti-heroes. |
| 277 | * ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'': |
| 278 | ** Gary "The Smiler" Callahan at one point notes that he wants a cat [[DiscussedTrope so he can keep and stroke it like a bond villain]]. This happens at the opening of a MotiveRant where he's revealed to be a misanthropic monster who wants to fuck over America for his own entertainment, making its connection to this trope even stronger. |
| 279 | ** Spider, meanwhile, has a cat... A three-eyed, two-mouthed, chain-smoking mutant cat who loves urinating at Spider when he's having a bad day. Spider does, at one point, treat her as a right-hand cat during "Spider's Trash", but otherwise she serves more as a walking PetTheDog moment for the otherwise {{Jerkass}} Spider. |
| 280 | [[/folder]] |
| 281 | |
| 282 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 283 | * TropeCodifier Ernst Stavro Blofeld still has his cat in the DenserAndWackier CharacterBlog ''Blog/AskErnstStavroBlofeld'', where it receives its name, Volcano. Blofeld occasionally discusses how much he loves ominously stroking the thing. |
| 284 | * ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace''. The heroes have been captured by the BigBad, whom they assume is a CatFolk alien when a Persian cat appears on the viewscreen. The BigBad then tells his bungling henchman that the camera is too low, and to point it at his face instead. |
| 285 | [[/folder]] |
| 286 | |
| 287 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 288 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'': Dr. Calico, the villain of the ShowWithinAShow, has two cats. The feline actors who play them love to torment Bolt (who thinks the show is real) by going to his trailer and making threats in character. After Bolt is lost, he mistakes stray alley cat Mittens for one of the Right-Hand Cats and tries to get her to take him back. |
| 289 | [[/folder]] |
| 290 | |
| 291 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 292 | * In ''Film/TheCannonballRun'' 2, Mob boss Don Canneloni is seen stroking a cat. Then he looks down... and says (quietly and with no special tone), "This cat is dead. Bring me another cat." The mooks do. |
| 293 | * Inverted in ''Film/CatsAndDogs'' where the villains of the film are cats who just happen to be led by a white Persian. The leader Persian Cat invokes this trope to interact with humans, using a comatose man in a wheelchair. The human's mouth has a bandana or something around it, so the cat makes others think the human is talking, so as not to freak everybody out with a talking cat. |
| 294 | * In ''[[Film/Disenchanted2022 Disenchanted]]'' Giselle's wish for a "fairy tale life" has the side effect of turning her from a PrincessClassic and GoodStepmother into a WickedStepmother so it also turns her [[NonHumanSidekick cute animal sidekick]], Pip the chipmunk, into an evil cat much like Lucifer from ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}''. |
| 295 | * In ''Film/LicenceToKill'', Film/JamesBond is stopped by armed men and led to a man who is stroking a cat. Turns out M was getting bored waiting for him and a cat happened to wander in. They were at [[Creator/ErnestHemingway Hemingway House]] in Key West, Florida, which is famous for its population of polydactyl cats. |
| 296 | * Inverted in ''Film/TheSpirit''. The Octopus sacrifices a white Persian cat just to demonstrate to his ArchEnemy, the Spirit, the drawbacks of his potion. As the Spirit points out, that's reason enough to kill him. |
| 297 | * In the comedy ''Film/TheyCallMeBruce?'', the Boss of Bosses rings up the West Coast mafia to express his disapproval about the FBI busting their drug operations. While he's talking the Boss is stroking a white Persian cat, and suddenly plunges his hand into a fish tank and takes out a goldfish...which [[BizarreTasteInFood he then eats himself]]. |
| 298 | [[/folder]] |
| 299 | |
| 300 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 301 | * In the book ''[[Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo 1633]]'' (in which an American town is transported to 17th-c. Europe), the people of Grantville send Cardinal Richelieu a Siamese cat as a "diplomatic offering". He takes it and strokes it in exactly the way described here. (Persians evidently were introduced in Europe in 1620 according to T.O.W., so one of them wouldn't have been quite as impressive a gift, though a modern Persian's appearance is evidently very different-looking to those times'.) |
| 302 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': |
| 303 | ** Parodied in the series, when Lord Vetinari, a MagnificentBastard dictator who began as a sort of Blofeld spoof, had an old terrier called Wuffles, even though other characters and the narrator had him pegged as the "white-cat-stroking type". |
| 304 | ** In the TimeTravel {{Prequel}} ''Literature/{{Night Watch|Discworld}}'', the young Vetinari's aunt has a Right-Hand Cat, but it's a borderline-feral and rather flatulent moggy, which Vetinari feels isn't really appropriate. He [[LampshadeHanging even thinks]] it should be a long-haired white cat. |
| 305 | ** Evil Harry Dread, a wannabe-dark lord from ''Literature/TheLastHero'', had ''intended'' to play this trope straight, but found out he's allergic to cats. The closest he could come was a fluffy white hamster in a diamante treadmill. |
| 306 | * Gregor Brastov in Creator/KimNewman's alternate-history vampire novel ''Literature/DraculaChaChaCha'' (a.k.a. ''Judgment of Tears'') is a Blofeldish cat-stroking archvillain who turns out to be [[spoiler:just a puppet manipulated by the real archvillain -- his cat. [[CaptainErsatz Hamish Bond]] should have remembered that some vampires have VoluntaryShapeshifting]]. |
| 307 | * Inverted in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''. The protagonist Harry Dresden lives with a gigantic grey cat named "Mister," whom he (Harry) rescued from a dumpster as a kitten. |
| 308 | * A rare heroic example: Literature/HonorHarrington and her treecat Nimitz. Though he's usually perched on her shoulders, which are covered with reinforced pads. |
| 309 | * Completely averted in Creator/TamoraPierce's fantasy novel ''Wolf-Speaker'' (book 2 of ''Literature/TheImmortals''). The villain HATES cats. |
| 310 | * Billingford in ''Literature/TheJenniferMorgue'' by Creator/CharlesStross has a classic Right-Hand Cat [[spoiler:as part of his Bond-based destiny trap]], which eventually turns out [[spoiler:to be posessed by the EldritchAbomination he's working for]]. |
| 311 | * Subverted in ''Literature/TheKingInYellow''. Evil psychopath Mr. Wilde has a cat. At the end, it tears out his throat, thus [[SpannerInTheWorks foiling]] [[VillainProtagonist Hildred Castaigne's]] evil scheme. To express his annoyance, Hildred [[KickTheDog kills the cat]]. So the Right-Hand Cat made the HeroicSacrifice to save the day. |
| 312 | * In ''Literature/TheMalloreon'' saga by David Eddings, Kal Zakath has a cat that serves more as an opportunity for quiet humor than a villainous icon; the (seemingly) ruthless and cold-hearted emperor of all Mallorea frequently attempts to pawn off newborn kittens to heads of state, the main characters, and whoever else seems likely to claim a cat. Of course, the frequent [[PetTheDog Pet the "Dog"]] moments only foreshadowed Kal Zakath's eventual HeelFaceTurn from not-quite-villain antagonist to ally of Belgarion. Even if he did make one of his primary reasons for turning face. "You know, Garion, I've just realized that you're ''functionally omnipotent''. So how's about I just give up and make peace before you eventually kill me?" |
| 313 | * In ''[[Literature/RiversOfLondon Moon Over Soho]]'', Peter imagines the faceless man with a Right-Hand CatGirl sitting on his lap and chatting on the phone. |
| 314 | [[/folder]] |
| 315 | |
| 316 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 317 | * Subverted in ''Series/LaFemmeNikita'' when a villain is shown holding a white Right-Hand Cat, before demonstrating nerve gas on him for buyers. |
| 318 | * Subverted in ''Series/GameOfThrones'' as Tommen Baratheon -- who loves cats and has a cat as pet named Sir Pounce -- becomes King. Whether he would be as cruel as most other kings in the setting, we won't know [[spoiler:as he kills himself in season six]]. Also averted with his older brother, predecessor and probably one of the cruelest characters on the series: Joffrey, as he actually hated cats and found pleasure torturing them. |
| 319 | * Parodied in ''Series/HappyEndings'', when Jane (once again cast in a loveable villain mode) is shown sitting ominously in a chair while petting the neighbours' white cat. She goes from standing in front of Brad and Dave, no cat in sight, to sitting behind them in a chair, stroking the pet-all without them noticing. Brad questions where she got the cat, and she says she told him earlier they were watching a friend's cat-tied into the episode's theme of Gaslighting. |
| 320 | * Series/{{House}}, in one episode of season 4, deals with [[EvilDetectingDog Death Cat]]. To confuse his team, he puts it on his lap, plays with a [[GoodSmokingEvilSmoking cigar]], and says, "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die." More than one Bond fan has noted that this was said by Film/{{Goldfinger}}, not Blofeld, though he gets Blofeld's mannerisms pretty well. |
| 321 | * In the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E04SecretAgentSuperDragon episode]] featuring ''Film/SecretAgentSuperDragon'', Dr. Forrester notes the chief reason the BigBad of the Bond-like film was forgettable was that he had no cat or pet of any kind. |
| 322 | * ''Series/PoliceSquad'': |
| 323 | ** The TV comedy has fun with this one in a few episodes, including one scene where a man is stroking a white cat until someone enters his office, at which point he casually puts the cat away in a desk drawer. He has a puppy in another desk drawer, not to mention a flock of doves in his filing cabinet. |
| 324 | ** The Boss is first shown via a Blofeld-style lap-cam pointing at his cat, until he gets tired of this and leans down to speak directly into the camera. |
| 325 | * ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': |
| 326 | ** After having sworn revenge against Dr. Cox and then overheard something that would aid him in said revenge, the Janitor turns around in a swivel chair, stroking the nonexistent Leonard. |
| 327 | --->'''Janitor:''' So, you don't want to know the ending of something. I can relate to that.\ |
| 328 | '''Dr. Cox:''' What is that in your lap?\ |
| 329 | '''Janitor:''' Leonard. Half-kitten, half-monkey. |
| 330 | ** Dr. Cox also makes use of this trope when confronting a pediatric physician in his office full of toys (sorry, collectibles), by stroking a plush white Persian cat. |
| 331 | * In the ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' parody of The Godfather, Guy Cabellero attempts to do this ala Marlon Brando. The cat, however, is less than cooperative. |
| 332 | * The ''Film/DirtyHarry'' parody ''Series/SledgeHammer'' has one episode where a crime boss is always seen with a cat and ends up throwing the cat out of the window when he is upset. It is not surprising when Sledge [[KarmicDeath kicks him out the window]] at the end of the episode (and even more ironically, the cat lands safely on the crime boss' chair). |
| 333 | * ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': |
| 334 | ** In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E7Catspaw Catspaw]]", the villain Korob has a black cat, who turns to be another shapeshifter, Sylvia, who later turns into a ''giant'' black cat. |
| 335 | ** Gary Seven with Isis in the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E26AssignmentEarth Assignment Earth]]" is initially thought to be a villain, but this is {{Subverted|Trope}} at the episode's end when Gary Seven is revealed to be trying to save the human race from a nuclear war, and Isis is revealed to be a shapeshifter. |
| 336 | * The "Spy Car" episode of ''Series/UltimateCarBuildoff'' gives us co-host Lou Santiago playing the part of a foreign spymaster with, get this, a bobcat. |
| 337 | [[/folder]] |
| 338 | |
| 339 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 340 | * In a version of ''The Pink Wasp and Yellow Jacket'', the villain has a cat that he would periodically forget he was holding and accidentally throw into the air. At one point, Yellow Jacket, played as a Asian stereotype, picks up the cat and tries to eat it. |
| 341 | * Creepily subverted in the play ''Theatre/{{Woyzeck}}'' (as well as the opera and rock opera based thereon). Although [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate the Doctor]] has a pet cat, he [[KickTheDog throws it out the window]] [[ForScience just to see whether it lands on its feet.]] |
| 342 | [[/folder]] |
| 343 | |
| 344 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 345 | * ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooieNutsAndBolts'' has Piddles, a cat given to Gruntilda by the [[DungeonMaster Lord of Games]]... who she [[KickTheDog boots 12 feet in the air after meeting]]. Needless to say, Piddles hates her mistress with a passion and gleefully takes the opportunity to be a BadBoss to her in the epilogue. |
| 346 | * In ''[[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Dangeresque 3]]'', the Cheat is used as one of these. |
| 347 | * Video game inversion: General Viggo from ''VideoGame/FurFighters'' is an anthro cat who pets a mini-human. |
| 348 | * In ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'', [[spoiler:Sissel was this to Yomiel for ten long years, as well as being his only friend since the Temsik incident. Although Yomiel isn't really evil, just [[GoMadFromTheIsolation driven crazy from solitude]].]] |
| 349 | * Similar to his comic appearance, Atrocitus in ''VideoGame/Injustice2'' is assisted in battle by his fellow Red Lantern Dex-Starr, with his special mechanic used to temporaly summon and command various attacks. But, like the above mention, Dex-Starr is not a pet, but another member of the Red Lantern corps, and as such, smarter than the average cat from Earth. |
| 350 | * An inverted example, since those involved are good guys: Telma the barmaid, in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', has one of these in Louise. Unbeknownst to her human, Louise considers herself an active part of the Resistance movement that Telma herself helps to run, and even assists Link when he's in wolf form. |
| 351 | * Parodied in ''VideoGame/LegoCityUndercover'', where Ellie finds it hard to believe that VillainWithGoodPublicity [[spoiler:Forrest Blackwell]] is evil until she realizes that his last TV appearance had him stroking a cat the entire time. |
| 352 | * In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion3'', Polterkitty initially fills the typical role of "the villain's pet cat" for [[TheDragon Hellen Gravely]], but she eventually decides to go out and actively cause trouble for Luigi herself by stealing elevator buttons from him several times. [[spoiler:She'll also turn into a [[PantheraAwesome panther-like monster]] when cornered.]] |
| 353 | * With her talents at summoning chimerae and piloting a ''HumongousMecha'', Perrault of ''[[VideoGame/{{Boktai}} Lunar Knights]]'' is not only the Right-Hand Cat of TheDragon, but also his BattleButler. |
| 354 | * Averted in ''Franchise/StreetFighter''. Cammy is shown to have a great love of cats, but she's an ex-TykeBomb ActionGirl who is firmly in the side of good after her BrainwashedAndCrazy stint is over. |
| 355 | * ''VideoGame/TheTalosPrinciple'': Only seen on the cover art, unless you find the right easter egg. |
| 356 | * ''VideoGame/TwistedWonderland'' |
| 357 | ** Mozus Trein is not a bad person, just a SternTeacher, but he's based on Lady Tremaine from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'', so he's often accompanied by his perpetually frowning cat Lucius, even in class. |
| 358 | ** [[spoiler:Fellow Honest]], eventually revealed as the ArcVillain of the [[spoiler:Playful Land event]], is accompanied by the CatBoy [[spoiler:Gidel]] who's complicit in his wrongdoing. |
| 359 | [[/folder]] |
| 360 | |
| 361 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 362 | * Nikolai Stirling in ''VisualNovel/QueenOfThieves'', the criminal mastermind known as the "[[KingOfThieves Thief Lord]]," has a pet Russian Blue cat named Elizabeth. Early in his first season, the heroine accurately deduces that he likes Elizabeth because she's capable of surprising him, and because she's elegant and aloof like he is. |
| 363 | * Played with in ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'': Bernkastel (a CatGirl to boot) has a seemingly infinite number of cat minions that she can use. But it's later revealed [[spoiler:that she is herself the pet cat of Featherine. A very snarky cat.]] |
| 364 | [[/folder]] |
| 365 | |
| 366 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 367 | * [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-02-16 Parodied]] in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' when Ellen holds Brownie and laughs maniacally while stroking her. The title of the strip notes that cats make good props referring to their use in this trope. |
| 368 | * In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', Lord Shojo pretends to [[ConsultingMisterPuppet consult his cat]], "Mr. Scruffy", as part of his [[ObfuscatingInsanity pretense of senility]]. An inversion in any case, since Shojo is a good guy. Of course, Mr. Scruffy now appears to have become a genuine Right-Hand Cat to the HeroicComedicSociopath Belkar. |
| 369 | * In ''Webcomic/ScandinaviaAndTheWorld'', any of the characters (notably, Russia) can appear stroking a white cat while in "evil mastermind" mode. |
| 370 | * ''Webcomic/{{Sunstone}}'': While cat-sitting the troublesome Mr. Bonkers, Ally tries to get some use out of [[GenderBlenderName her]] and invoke this image to enhance her powerful and seductive presence for her date. Of course Mr. Bonkers reacts to this by almost instantly bounding off in search of something interesting, ruining the effect. |
| 371 | [[/folder]] |
| 372 | |
| 373 | [[folder:Websites]] |
| 374 | * In the ''Website/SCPFoundation'' story [[http://www.scpwiki.com/the-high-court-with-the-magic-army "The High Court with the Magic Army",]] a new member of the [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness O5 Council]] remarks to a colleague, "It's like you want to live up to your reputation of Omniscient Council of Possible Supervillains. I'm surprised we don't get cats to pet and mustaches to twirl." The other O5 replies that she used to have a pet cat, but she gave it up when she joined the Council, presumably either because she would be too busy to care for it or because having a pet was seen as a security risk. |
| 375 | [[/folder]] |
| 376 | |
| 377 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 378 | * Goldentusk's video for the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc17zmeMlSI James Bond Theme Song]] parodies plenty ''Film/JamesBond'' tropes, including the Right-Hand Cat. |
| 379 | * In the ''WebVideo/JoueurDuGrenier'' videos, the CEO of Mauvais Jeux Inc. (a CardCarryingVillain) is often seen stroking a (plush) white cat. |
| 380 | * Referenced in ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries''; Ishizu tries to tell Marik that he's not really evil, because evil people do things like stroke cats while sitting in revolving chairs. Shortly thereafter, Marik tells his henchman to drive to Wal-Mart so he can purchase a revolving chair and a kitten. |
| 381 | [[/folder]] |
| 382 | |
| 383 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 384 | * Subverted in the ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' FiveEpisodePilot, wherein Fat Cat debuts as Chlordane's Right-Hand Cat, only to become a villain in his own right for the rest of the series (while Chlordane is never heard from again). Even during the pilot, after helping Chlordane steal a ruby, Fat Cat steals the ruby from Chlordane for his own purposes, making sure to return it before its absence is noticed. |
| 385 | * Twisted around in ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'' with Bob the Killer Goldfish, who has a massive cat (known only as "#4") that acts as his bodyguard. This is the only reason why anyone takes a freakin' ''goldfish'' seriously. |
| 386 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode where Timmy wished that life was an action movie, Jorgen turns villain complete with pet cat, who he accidentally abuses so much it does a HeelFaceTurn. |
| 387 | * Played straight at first when Peter meets The Don in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. However, when Peter meets him again, it looks like he's petting a cat, but the camera cuts to behind him, and he's really grating cheese. |
| 388 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "That Darn Katz!", a grumpy professor named [[MeaningfulName Katz]], who rejects Amy's proposal for harnessing the Earth's rotation for energy, has a white cat in his lap. It is later revealed that Katz [[spoiler:was really a puppet operated by the cat, who (like all cats, as it turns out) is actually an intelligent alien who wants to use Amy's device to stop Earth's rotation and transfer it to his homeworld.]] |
| 389 | * ''WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats'' has Sebastian the cat as the TeamPet. Sebastian is usually handled by Alexandra Cabot, the TokenEvilTeammate. His fur is a black-and-white mix. Sebastian isn't really evil, just snickering and subversive, much like Alexandra. |
| 390 | * [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998''. The girls once defeated an archetypal [[TheFaceless faceless]] villain who stole a valuable jewel to power a laser, and took his pet cat home afterwards. The ''cat'' [[TheDogWasTheMastermind was actually the villain all along]] and hypnotized TheProfessor into almost finishing the mass [[{{Brainwashed}} brainwashing]] project. |
| 391 | * Parodied a couple of times on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 392 | ** In "When Flanders Failed", Homer goes to see Mr. Burns in his office and finds the old man stroking a cat on his lap. |
| 393 | ** In "Itchy and Scratchy: The Movie", Bart holds the family cat, Snowball II, in his arms while roasting a 007 action figure in the microwave: [[BondOneLiner "Stick around, Mr. Bond. Things are really starting... to cook."]] |
| 394 | * ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday'': Having come BackFromTheDead, Superman is revealed to be NotHimself when he commits a VigilanteExecution. He then [[CatUpATree rescues a Persian cat stuck up a tree]], then gives a slow and frightening lecture to its owner, a very scared old lady, while caressing the kitty. During the lecture, you ask yourself if he's gonna kill the old lady, the cat, both of them or none. Finally, he just asks her to be more cautious, but when the police turn up to arrest him, cue BewareTheSuperman. |
| 395 | * Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Action'' episode "Dial M for Merger". As a parody of spy movies, Chris introduces the challenge wearing an [[EyepatchOfPower eyepatch]] and petting a white cat. Afterwards, [[AnimalsHateHim the cat attacks him]]. |
| 396 | [[/folder]] |
| 397 | |
| 398 | !!Non-Cat Examples |
| 399 | |
| 400 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 401 | * ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'': Played with in the manga and OVA with the [[BigBad Major]] and Schrödinger, a CatFolk subordinate fond of sitting on the floor next to his superior's [[CoolChair chair]] with his head at convenient scratching height. |
| 402 | %%* ''Anime/ReadOrDie'': [[spoiler:The Gentleman]] has a turtle instead. |
| 403 | * ''Anime/ReleaseTheSpyce'': Kurara Tendou, the BigBad, gets her nickname "Sparrow Woman" by keeping a pet sparrow named Chichi. |
| 404 | [[/folder]] |
| 405 | |
| 406 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 407 | * ''ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}'': The demonic Lord Arux has an advisor, Praxspoor, also a demon, who chooses to take the form of a panther-size black cat because he finds it helpful to be underestimated. |
| 408 | * ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'': The comic book version often depicts Grand Admiral Thrawn cradling and stroking a [[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Ysalamir ysalamiri]], a nearly vegetative lizard creature, like it's a cat, when in the books he carries one in a nutrient frame strapped to his back or connected to his command chair. Ysalamiri [[PowerNullifier negate the powers]] of his [[TheStarscream psychotic Dark Jedi ally]], and occasionally he reaches up and strokes it to remind C'baoth that he can't be choked, electrocuted, or {{charm|Person}}ed, but he doesn't carry one around in his arms or on his lap. You can't really do that with ysalamiri. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Plus, they smell]]. Still, the depiction is universal enough that it's practically an extension of his IconicOutfit. |
| 409 | * ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': Adrian Veidt has Bubastis, some kind of bright-red mutant lynx-thing. Until [[spoiler:he disintegrated it]]. |
| 410 | [[/folder]] |
| 411 | |
| 412 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 413 | * In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/35706256/chapters/90534466#workskin Embers of Phenex]]'', after having [[VideoGame/Persona5 Goro Akechi]] kidnapped, [[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse Hallelujah]] introduces himself in classic supervillain fashion: [[ChairReveal turning his chair around]] with his pet fox spirit Chiro in his lap. Akechi is unimpressed at this attempt at intimidation, given that Hallelujah is also fifteen years old, until Hallelujah threatens to set him on fire. |
| 414 | * In ''Fanfic/TheFlashSentryChronicles'', when everyone discovers Pinkie's Party Cave during "Party Pooped", Wild Smile does a ChairReveal and strokes Gummy as if he were a cat while welcoming everyone. |
| 415 | * In a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fan-art titled ''[[http://mickeymonster.deviantart.com/art/So-We-Meet-again-281287163 So, We Meet Again]]'', Discord is doing a Blofeld impersonation... with Fluttershy as Right-Hand Cat. |
| 416 | [[/folder]] |
| 417 | |
| 418 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 419 | * In ''Franchise/{{Asterix}}: WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfTheMagicPotion'', the villain Sulfurix pets a small wild boar sow (who accidentally brought a message to him) the first time he confronts the heroes. |
| 420 | * In ''Franchise/DespicableMe'', Gru has a bizarre-looking mongrel dog named Kyle. Hilariously, a bio-scan in ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe2'' is unable to even recognize Kyle as a dog. (SPECIES: UNKNOWN) |
| 421 | * ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal'' film. The BigBad of the "Taarna" segment has a Right-Hand Rat: a giant rat-like creature with a nasty snarl. He pets it while it sits next to him. |
| 422 | * Early on in ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'', the title villain uses one of his Brain-bots for this purpose. |
| 423 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TwiceUponATime'', Synonamess Botch has a pet armadillo named Ratatooie. |
| 424 | [[/folder]] |
| 425 | |
| 426 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 427 | * In the sequel to ''Film/CatsAndDogs'', ''Revenge of Kitty Galore'', villainess Kitty Galore (who's herself a cat, of course) has a white mouse as right-hand pet, whom she calls Scrumptious. The poor thing is treated pretty much as a ChewToy and is in a state of near panic for the whole movie. |
| 428 | * ''Film/DirtyWork'' (1998): The villain holds his tiny dog a lot. The protagonists speculate that their relationship is not entirely platonic. |
| 429 | * In ''Film/AFairlyOddMovieGrowUpTimmyTurner'', the villain, Hugh J. Magnate, has [[spoiler:an evil bunny rabbit who even giggles evilly]]. It lures [[spoiler:[[FriendToAllLivingThings Tootie]] into a trap]]. |
| 430 | * ''Film/TheFifthElement'': Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg has a bizarre little alien creature that rests on his shoulders at his corporate office (and laughs at him when he chokes on a cherry). |
| 431 | * He doesn't actually have a cat, but Mola Ram, the villain from ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'', is briefly shown holding his ''helmet'' and stroking it like a cat. |
| 432 | * In ''Film/IronMan2'', the only thing [[BigBad Ivan Vanko]] shows any affection for whatsoever other than his now deceased father is his pet cockatoo Irina. [[spoiler:Granted this doesn't stop him from [[KickTheDog killing the bird]] before his final confrontation with Stark, however...]] |
| 433 | * The BigBad from ''Film/KissOfTheDragon'' has a pet turtle that he keeps in a drawer in his desk. |
| 434 | * ''Franchise/JamesBond'': |
| 435 | ** ''Film/LicenceToKill'' BigBad Franz Sanchez is sometimes seen with an iguana. It even has a little diamond necklace, which might be a call back to the one Blofeld's cat had in ''Film/DiamondsAreForever''. |
| 436 | ** Parodied in ''Film/NoTimeToDie''. BigBad Lyustifer Safin kidnaps Madeline Swann and her 5 year-old daughter Mathilde and brings them to his island. When Bond arrives at the island to rescue them and destroy the nanobots inside, he meets Safin who is sitting on his chair with Mathilde right next to him while stroking her hair Blofeld-style. |
| 437 | * ''Film/RurouniKenshin'' BigBad drug lord Takeda Kanryu has a right-hand white rabbit. |
| 438 | * Spoofed in ''Film/SpiceWorld'', where Creator/RogerMoore strokes a series of increasingly ludicrous pets as he plays the Spice Girls' corporate boss. |
| 439 | * ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'': The Klingon Villain Kruge has a pet "Monster Dog" on board his Bird of Prey, which is said to be a cross between a lizard and a timber wolf. |
| 440 | * Jabba the Hutt from ''Franchise/StarWars'' has Salacious Crumb, a mischievous "Kowakian monkey-lizard" which officiates as jester in the crime lord's court. |
| 441 | [[/folder]] |
| 442 | |
| 443 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 444 | * In the ''Literature/CaptainFuture'' novels by Creator/AllenSteele, Ul Quorn discovered a shapeshifting alien creature called Oog that gets adopted by the Futuremen for a while. In ''The Guns of Pluto'' the Futuremen are captured by Ul Quorn who takes back Oog for himself. While he's stroking Oog on his lap, Ul Quorn complains that he used to be able to get Oog to shapeshift into a white Persian cat, but [[EvilDetectingDog it doesn't seem to want to anymore]]. Captain Future then sends a telepathic command to Oog to shapeshift into a porcupine, making the BigBad shout in pain and distract everyone at a crucial moment. |
| 445 | * In ''Goblin Moon'' and ''The Gnome's Engine'', the Duchess keeps a tiny indigo-furred ape which she pampers and pets. [[spoiler:WasOnceAMan is implied, which makes it much creepier.]] |
| 446 | * Behemoth, from ''Literature/TheMasterAndMargarita'', is a demon in the entourage of [[{{Satan}} Woland]] who appears in the shape of a man-sized, bipedal black cat. |
| 447 | [[/folder]] |
| 448 | |
| 449 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 450 | * ''Series/HannahMontana'': When Miley goes to ask Jackson for help in solving her CreditCardPlot, Jackson puts on a robe and pets a ''stuffed'' cat while [[EvilGloating gloating]] [[Franchise/JamesBond in a British accent]] just to tease her. Miley is not amused. |
| 451 | * ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': In another Blofeld parody, when Barney set out to sabotage Ted's relationship with his new crush, Zoe, Ted came home to find Barney who turned around in his chair with a rabbit in his lap to reveal his "[[PokeThePoodle evil]]" plan. |
| 452 | * In ''Series/MIHigh'', the evil Grand Master has a Right-Hand ''Bunny'' named General Flopsy. |
| 453 | * Spoofed in the "Secret Service Dentists" sketch on ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': "I'm glad you could all come to my little party. And Flopsy's glad, too. Aren't you Flopsy?" When the villain doesn't get a response, he shoots Flopsy and says "That'll teach you to play hard to get. Well, poor Flopsy's dead, and he never called me mother." Although Flopsy was a rabbit, not a cat, it still sorta works. |
| 454 | * In the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E05StrandedInSpace spoofing of]] ''Film/StrandedInSpace'', Joel and the bots dress up as a BigBad and his thugs, and Joel clutches and caresses a Right Hand ''Turtle'' in a tiny goldfish bowl. |
| 455 | * El Ecoloco, a garbage-themed villain in ''Series/OdiseaBurbujas'' in some episodes has a talking giant microbe as pet. |
| 456 | * ''Series/RedDwarf'': Parodied in the opening scene of "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIIStokeMeAClipper Stoke Me a Clipper]]", in which Ace Rimmer's evil Nazi opponent is first shown via a lap-level view of his hand stroking his [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile pet crocodile]], Snappy. |
| 457 | * In ''Series/SkippyTheBushKangaroo'', one of the recurring villains has a right-hand ''koala''. |
| 458 | * ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': In the MirrorUniverse story "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS04E18InAMirrorDarkly In a Mirror, Darkly]]", Captain Archer's dog Porthos has changed from an adorable beagle to a snarling rottweiler. |
| 459 | * The BigBad of ''Series/VRTroopers'', Grimlord, has one in his real-world Karl Ziktor identity: a lizard named Juliet. |
| 460 | * ''Series/WandaVision'''s BigBad Agatha Harkness has a pet rabbit named Senior Scratchy. It's strongly implied to be a witch's {{Familiar}}, though this reveal stayed in a deleted scene. |
| 461 | [[/folder]] |
| 462 | |
| 463 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 464 | * In the ''Red Steel'' setting for ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 2[[superscript:nd]] ed., there were several {{humanoid animal|s}} PC races. So the monster book had a tamable primate that looked like a little human (or dwarf, elf, etc., dependent on breed), to enable the evil cat person to have a [[InvertedTrope Right-Hand Human]]. |
| 465 | * In a surprisingly not-over-the-top example from ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', select special characters have pets that accompany them onto the battlefield. [[KnightTemplar Inquisitor Torquemada]] and Space Wolves' Njal Stormcalle both have android eagles. The Chaos Lord [[SpacePirates Huron Blackheart]] has his Hamadrya, a demonic {{Familiar}}, and some Chaos Sorcerors also take them as well. These are actually [[JustifiedTrope reasonably logical]] in the setting. |
| 466 | [[/folder]] |
| 467 | |
| 468 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 469 | * ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2''. Romanov is shown stroking a baby turtle which he calls Sam, in mockery of Uncle Sam and the US "Duck and Cover" policy. |
| 470 | * K. Rool has a Right-Hand Klaptrap (a small bitey crocodile) for the cutscenes of ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'', in a manner ''very'' reminiscent of [[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget Dr. Claw,]] no less. |
| 471 | * ''VideoGame/DUSK12'' has the MadScientist responsible for your predicament and mutation owning a pet cat. In the opening FMV it appears the cat is just a stray animal in the bio-lab, but after completing the game, reaching the final stage, the same cat appears in the hands of said scientist with him petting it while monologuing. |
| 472 | * PresidentEvil Rufus Shinra in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' had (very briefly) a panther named Dark Nation. Very briefly because it only shows up in the battle where you first meet Rufus, where Cloud promptly kills it. |
| 473 | * In ''VideoGame/GunmanChronicles'' [[spoiler:[[BigBad The General]]]]'s first introduction post FaceHeelTurn features him stroking a [[BizarreAlienBiology xenome]] larva in a fairly blatant homage to this trope. Subverted in that he [[KickTheDog throws it on the ground and squashes it with his foot]], moments later, to emphasize a point. |
| 474 | * Rugal Bernstein and his pet panther Rodem in ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters''. His kids, Adelheid and Rose, have a little black kitten who is apparently the offspring of Rodem. Also included is Zero with Glaugan (a black lion) from ''2001''. |
| 475 | * To an extent, Chen of ''Franchise/TouhouProject''. A cat youkai at the service of [[RealityWarper Yukari Yakumo]]. |
| 476 | [[/folder]] |
| 477 | |
| 478 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 479 | * ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner:'' from the ''Dangeresque'' films, Baron Darin Diamonocle (played by Bubs) is a parody of the Blofeld-style supervillain. He uses The Cheat as his cat-substitute. |
| 480 | [[/folder]] |
| 481 | |
| 482 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 483 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Niels}}'', Niels has spent way too much time at home due to a work-related "accident", so when Agent 300 comes to check up on him, he [[http://nielsg.com/househusband/ prepares to have a little fun.]] Of course, Niels doesn't have any pets, so he [[spoiler:uses Kiddo instead.]] |
| 484 | -->'''[[spoiler:Kiddo:]]''' Woof!\ |
| 485 | '''Agent 300:''' He's supposed to be a ''dog''?\ |
| 486 | '''Niels:''' Mayyyyyybe...\ |
| 487 | '''[[spoiler:Kiddo:]]''' Oink oink! |
| 488 | * ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'': In the strip [[https://www.oglaf.com/doctor-hexagon/ Doctor Hexagon,]] a queen bee is stroking a smaller, white-furred insect while exposing her evil plan to the beekeeper. |
| 489 | * In ''Webcomic/UmlautHouse 2'', ASCII is briefly seen with a robotic cat (he's an android) during his supervillain phase. |
| 490 | [[/folder]] |
| 491 | |
| 492 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 493 | * ''WebVideo/TFSAtTheTable'': Lott Fineday of the Grand Design Pirates is a tabaxi, a species of cat-like humanoids. When he calls the heroes to meet him, he is sat in a high-backed chair stroking a puppy. |
| 494 | [[/folder]] |
| 495 | |
| 496 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 497 | * ''WesternAnimation/AllHailKingJulien'' has the evil fanaloka Karl and his pet hissing cockroach Chauncey. It can even purr when he pets it. |
| 498 | * In ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', Megatron's Right-Hand Cat is his... actual hand. In two of the three forms he uses over the series (SoLastSeason at work), his beast-mode head is his robot-mode arm. He actually pets it at times, and at one point, when he's "asleep", the head-hand is looking around on its own. Near the end of the series, he turns from the monitor he's watching, the head-hand turns toward it, and tracks back and forth as things happen onscreen. He also has his rubber ducky. |
| 499 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'': Deborah Leevil (a parody of Austin Powers' Dr. Evil, which is in turn a parody of James Bond's Blofeld), the evil head of CEO of Creator/{{BET}}, holds a dog like other villains hold cats. It appears to be dead, which gives you an idea of her mental state. |
| 500 | * The Big Boss of ''[[WesternAnimation/COPS1988 C.O.P.S.]]'' has Scratch, a vicious pet ''weasel'', in case subtlety isn't your thing. A ''cybernetic'' weasel. |
| 501 | * A mad scientist on ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' had a right-hand rat named Rat. Rat mostly carried out errands for his manic-depressive master, but would also allow himself to be held and stroked if the morose scientist needed comforting. |
| 502 | * In ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'', Baron Silas Greenback's Right-Hand Cat is a furry caterpillar named Nero. |
| 503 | * In ''WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk'', recurrent antagonist Mildew has a pet sheep that seems to be the only living thing he loves, even more than all his dead wives. He's also often seen petting her or carrying her. The sheep also seems to agree with him in his hatred of dragons and help him willingly in all his schemes. |
| 504 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', [[AntiHero Mandy]] has her pet dog Saliva, who's about the only creature (human, supernatural, or otherwise) that she openly loves. She takes great pleasure in forcing Grim to pamper Saliva or, given that he's a [[DemBones walking skeleton]], let the dog bury him in the backyard. |
| 505 | * Parodied in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' titled "Voting of the Doomed". The shadowy figure of the Principal is seen stroking a beaver, which itself strokes a little green... thingy (it drops it and starts to cry). |
| 506 | * A few ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' villains have [[PlayingWithATrope toyed with the concept]] of the Right-Hand Cat: |
| 507 | ** Gemini, the most straightforwardly "Bondish" villain on the show, has a yappy pet Chihuahua named Pepe. |
| 508 | ** Camille Leon, who is a parody of Paris Hilton as a shapeshifting villainess, has a Sphinx cat named Debutante, who lives in her designer handbag. |
| 509 | ** Ron Stoppable, when he is changed into a villain in "Bad Boy", takes to stroking a confused Rufus in a Blofeld-esque manner during a hand-wringing rant. |
| 510 | * Like Daedalus (see above), The Sea Witch Wilhemine from ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyHercules'' has a pet bird named Elvira. |
| 511 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E4SparklesSeven Sparkle's Seven]]", Princess Luna at one point strikes the classic evil overlord pose while stroking a ''goose''. The geese, part of the castle's security system, have been shown to be very ill-tempered, and the one in Luna's lap, while calmed, is giving the rest of the room the evil eye. This is all PlayedForLaughs, of course, as Luna is a FriendlyRival. |
| 512 | * ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': |
| 513 | ** Suzy Johnson (Jeremy's DevilInPlainSight sister) has a Right-Hand ''Poodle'' whom she has trained to attack Candace. |
| 514 | ** Also, in "Spa Day", Dr. Doofensmirtz adopts a stray kitten he dubs "Mr. Fluffypants", but the mischievous feline proves to be more trouble than he's worth when he accidentally sets off several of Dr. Doofensmirtz's old evil inventions. |
| 515 | * An episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' has Mojo Jojo becoming a mob boss and the girls finding him sitting in the mayor's chair, with a little boy sitting on his lap while stroking his head in this manner. Mojo is using said boy as a way to intimidate the girls, who they believe has "cooties" that would kill them. |
| 516 | * ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'': |
| 517 | ** Hexadecimal, as an insane anthropomorphism of a computer virus, somewhat inexplicably, has a small round cute thing with a feline face called Scuzzy (as in a pun on "SCSI") as a pet. In one episode, Bob and Mike the TV find to their horror and sorrow that Scuzzy also doubles as Hexadecimal's RightHandAttackDog: one that [[MakeMyMonsterGrow can grow impossibly large]], [[SuperSpeed move very fast]], has [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily very sharp teeth]], and [[DoppelgangerAttack can clone itself as necessary]]. |
| 518 | ** Her male counterpart, Megabyte, has Nibbles, a slug-like creature that was formerly sentient but reduced to that form after losing a game. Nibbles used to be, in a sense, Megabyte's father. Nibbles is the Null of [[spoiler:Doctor Matrix, the father of Enzo and Dot, and the designer of the Gateway Command.]] |
| 519 | * One episode of ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' has Sabrina accidentally turn the world into a ''James Bond''-style movie with her crush Harvey as the lead. Salem the cat ends up as the villain and has, of all things, a pet human that he holds on his lap and strokes on the head. |
| 520 | * In ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity'', the season one finale "To Sheep, Perchance to Dream" parodies the trope of villains stroking cats by having Sheep rub the belly of a baby in his lap when [[GainaxEnding he's revealed]] [[EvilAllAlong to be the real villain]]. |
| 521 | * When he's not off spying for his master, [[BigBad Hordak]], or engaging in some other form of mischief, [[NonHumanSidekick Imp]] from ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'' fills this role. This has been taken further with his ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'' update, who is effectively silent so far and has spent 95% of his screen time hanging over his master. Hordak even gives the little guy an affectionate head rub in the fourth episode. |
| 522 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the episode "Duffless," Lisa makes an unwitting Bart the subject of her science fair project, in which she attempts to prove he's dumber than a hamster. After discovering, and hiding, the report, he does this routine with the hamster as he explains to her that she'll have to decipher a series of clues to find it (only to be quickly undercut when she finds it before he can finish explaining). |
| 523 | * All the recurring villains other than Gargamel in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' have a pet that is not a cat; Hogatha has a vulture, Chlorhydris has a toucan and Balthazar has a raven. |
| 524 | * Dr. Robotnik from ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'' has a pet robotic bird named Cluck. |
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