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->''"Wish I was playing hide-and-seek with Black Cat. I ''so'' prefer my felines female."''\\
-- ''{{The Spectacular Spider-Man}}''

''[[TropeCo/CatGirl This item]] is available in the TropeCo/TropeCo catalog.''

The Japanese (or at least manga and anime creators) (and the internet) seem to have a fascination with ''Nekomimi'' -- catgirls, literally [[UnusualEars "cat-eared"]]. The combination of feline and female seems to resonate strongly in the collective muse and shows up in many forms, ranging from the "10,000 horsepower innocent" cyborg Nuku-Nuku (from ''AllPurposeCulturalCatGirlNukuNuku'') all the way up to the devastatingly sexy criminals Ana and Una Puma from ''DominionTankPolice''. They are found in genres as widely varied as HighFantasy (Merle and others in ''VisionOfEscaflowne''), light comedy and CyberPunk, proving that they are not a setting-specific feature, but a general type that can be inserted into just about anything. This makes sense, because [[AnimalStereotypes cats are girls.]]

The catgirl seems to have roots in ancient myth with a ''Nekomata'', but the first true catgirl (and thus the trope) appears to have been created by OsamuTezuka in the 1950s. Interestingly, Catwoman from the ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' series predates this creation by at least 10 years, but she only dresses up in cat motif -- she doesn't have any ''biologically'' cat-like features, an ''Island of Dr. Moreau''-esque episode of ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' notwithstanding.

It is noteworthy that the most common (if somewhat hackneyed) method of drawing anime characters, particularly females, tends to give them catlike features (large eyes, a small mouth and a skull shaped much like that of a young human child) - and that cats are ''extremely'' anthropomorphic for non-primates in the first place. Given this, the catgirl is possibly nothing more than the logical conclusion of this.

Catgirls usually have CuteLittleFangs and a tendency to use a CatSmile when happy.

For some reason, characters which are not actually catgirls often show up ''as'' catgirls in the [[FanService fantasies of other (male) characters]]. Collars often make a prominent appearance in such cases. In a less suggestive context, playful female characters often have catgirl avatars in CyberSpace sequences.

The view of catgirls among Western fans is somewhat mixed. Catgirls are ''extremely'' common subjects of [[CosplayOtakuGirl cosplay]] and roleplaying and in the US at least, catgirl cosplayers are often stereotyped as [[FanDumb obnoxious, pushy preteens]] with squeaky voices speaking [[GratuitousJapanese broken Japanese]]. (Cosplaying a pre-established character who just happens to be a catgirl is much more socially acceptable, but cosplaying your own original catgirl, or just wearing cat ears with your normal clothes, fits right here.) [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp01192004.shtml 'Please spay your catgirl']] is a common joke in some circles, reflecting the general low esteem they are held in by some people, especially those who conflate them with the more negative aspects of the FurryFandom. However, catgirls are a popular subject of FanArt among US anime fans, including catgirl versions of non-catgirl characters.

As we have learned from one Internet meme, every time you mention [[MST3KMantra real science]] in a discussion of [[ComicBookTropes comic book science]], [[ParanormalTropes the supernatural]], or [[SpeculativeFictionTropes science fiction]], {{God}} kills a catgirl.

Every so often, you'll see a catboy, which is the same thing in male flavor, essentially. They're far less common than the female version, but otherwise the same basic idea. They tend to be either {{Keet}}s or [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys bad boys]], and are actually ''more'' likely to wear collars than their female counterparts - especially in FanArt.

Western comic books prefer the cat-people type to the ears-and-tail version. Expect a Western feline-themed character to be portrayed as [[ClassyCatBurglar especially sexy and especially dangerous,]] with deadly claws and agility second only to SpiderMan. CuteLittleFangs are present but seldom used in a cute manner.

Characters who are fully human but with a cat theme tend to be the more acrobatic sort of BadassNormal. Clawed gloves come standard. It is not uncommon for them to be 'upgraded' to actual cat-person via AppliedPhlebotinum.

For less common Kemonomimi, see PettingZooPeople. Possibly related is the [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/air_intakes.jpg "air intake"]] hair formation found on long-haired characters, which might resemble cat ears...

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* Far too many anime series to list here. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_catgirls Wikipedia]] has a decent, but still incomplete list. A ''complete'' list would likely cause the Spine of the Internet to break.
* ''[[http://www.gomanga.com/manga/neconoclasm.php Neconoclasm]]'' is a manga about catgirls with a nicely-sized online preview, and thus provides a very nice example.
* While the Diclonii in ''ElfenLied'' are not catgirls, their horns give them a similar appearance.
** Also, in the manga (though not in the anime), a Diclonius who's been pushed too far and slipped into Kill mode will sometimes display cat-like slit pupils (though this may instead fall under HellishPupils). A good example is Nana in [[http://www.onemanga.com/Elfen_Lied/74/31/ Chapter 74]], after [[spoiler:[[CompleteMonster The Hunter]] casually slaughters [[TheWoobie Number]] [[KillTheCutie 2]][[AndIMustScream 8]]]].
*Parodied in ''[[JungleWaItsumoHaleNochiGuu Haré+Guu]]'', Guu occasionally dresses up as one [[LittleMissSnarker and does a pretty bad job of being cute]]. Also Marie once dressed as one after taking advice from Gupta, who has strange tastes.
* Something of a homage, the ''{{Genshiken}}'' club members try to persuade Saki to wear a set of cat-ears, despite her violent opposition and retaliation.
* Evangeline of ''MahouSenseiNegima'' accepted a bet where she would have to wear cat-ears (plus glasses, a school swimsuit, and the top of a fuku) if she lost. Regrettably, Evangeline won this bet, so the ultimate vampire fanservice never came to fruition. Also, during the festival, several girls wear cat ears as part of a costume or on their own.
** We do get to see Eva with all that stuff on, courtesy of her imagination. It's not as it would have been if she lost the bet, but it's something.
** In the recent "Magical World" arc, all of the members of Ala Alba except for [[RobotGirl Chachamaru]] wear them at some point or another. At no time is this ever commented on, so ThisTroper can only assume that they function as part of a disguise. Chisame and Setsuna are the worst offenders, while the other girls do it more sporadically.
** There's also Kotarou, who is the complete opposite of a CatGirl (a Dog Boy), but still manages to have them.
** And now we've got Koyomi, one of Fate's Ministrae, who's ears and tail are apparently the genuine article. She even transforms into a were-cat-beast-thing during the second fight against Jack Rakan.
** And now we have [[spoiler: Chachamaru's pactio, which appears to be a [[http://www.imagebam.com/image/bd86d547066864/ cyber catgirl.]]]]
* Likewise, Inugami from ''Nurarihyon no Mago'' is a Dog Boy [[spoiler: and is naturally loyal to the death]] and while he constantly has his tongue out he doesn't have dog ears, although his hair is spiky enough.
* Somewhat of a subversion: Mikoto from ''{{Mai-HiME}}'' merely behaves like a CatGirl, while being a regular human in appearance.
** In the ''Manga/{{Mai-Otome}}'' manga, however, Mikoto's a VoluntaryShapeshifting CatGirl, [[VerbalTic nya]].
* The same applies to Meow in ''KazemakaseTsukikageRan'', cumulating in very fetching cat-like moves when she fights.
* The "ears" of most life-size Persocoms in ''{{Chobits}}'' (actually used to contain interface jacks) may be deliberately designed to resemble CatGirl ears.
* Parodied in ''TsukuyomiMoonPhase'': Hazuki is a vampire, but Kouhei's grandpa asked her to wear a pair of cat ears.
* [[PunnyName Schrödinger]] from the ''{{Hellsing}}'' manga and [=OVAs=] is a [[CuteShotaroBoy cute shotaro]] [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi]] catboy.
* Even the makers of ''ElCazadorDeLaBruja'' found it necessary to let the two female leads wear cat ears in one episode.
**Don't forget Ricardo. Nya.
* Tsukiyomi Ikuto from ''ShugoChara'' has a catboy as his guardian chara, and therefore being a catboy represents his inner would-be self.
* Kyouka from ''KyouranKazokuNikki'', a [[GenkiGirl hyperactive]] [[OlderThanTheyLook young-looking]] catgirl who was worshiped as a goddess, and views herself as such. She's the ''mother figure'' in the family.
* Ichigo from ''TokyoMewMew'' is the leader of a band of MagicalGirl PettingZooPeople, so there's no question that she would be a catgirl.
** Mia Ikumi's earlier one-shot manga, ''Tokyo Black Cat Girl'', from which TMM was supposedly derived, also featured a magical catgirl as the protagonist.
* Viral from ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' is essentially a catboy with some shark thrown in on the side. As if cats didn't have pointy ''enough'' teeth....
** Considering how his only feline traits are his clawed hands and his HellishPupils, he's more of a [[PettingZooPeople shark-man]] with some cat thrown in on the side, really. Viral is also the ''least'' animalistic beastman in the series by far.
***[[spoiler: It's played straight when the Anti-Spiral traps the Gurren-dan in a fantasy world, in which Viral's wife has cat ears.]]
* Princess Sara in the ''SonicTheHedgehog'' anime movie.
* Merle, Nariya and Eriya from ''VisionOfEscaflowne''.
* The Liese sisters, Aria and Lotte, of ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha''. There's also Linith, Precia's familiar who prominently appears in the [[AllThereInTheManual second Sound Stage of the first season]], though she's embarassed about her feline bits and tries to hide them.
* Himari from ''OmamoriHimari'' is a {{samurai}} catgirl MagicalGirlfriend. She speaks in an old-time dialect. Notable is one scene where she uses her cat features while at work in a maid cafe to her advantage - everyone thinks it's just a costume. However, Yuuto's allergic to cats, so that's slightly problematic for her.
* ''ChronoCrusade'' has Shader, a cat-''demon''. She still looks basically like a catgirl, however, only with odd markings on her face and horns on her head.
* ''PrincessTutu'' has a rare male, mostly-feline version in Professor Cat.
* Aisha [=ClanClan=] from ''OutlawStar'' is a C'tarl-C'tarl, a race of gluttonous adrenaline-filled cat-people with insane invulnerability levels. Aisha can also transform into a huge white tiger when she's at full power.
* Najimi in ''DoujinWork'' does a good job [[{{Cosplay}} cosplaying]] as a cat girl in an otaku cafe, considering that her main motivation is making money.
* In ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'', Shampoo, who is already cursed to [[InvoluntaryShapeShifting turn into a small pink cat]] by Jusenkyo, runs into the Maomolin --a [[MegaNeko giant]] ghost cat who fancies her as a bride. He'll turn her ''[[ModeLock permanently]]'' into a cat if the New Year's Bell rings [[OneHundredAndEight 108 times]]. As the ritual proceeds, she grows cat ears and a tail.
** If [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes sufficiently pressed]], Ranma can often turn into an [[BerserkButton entirely different]] sort of [[UnstoppableRage catgirl]].
* Although she's not a catgirl per se, Hikaru from ''MagicKnightRayearth'' gets the ears-and-tail motif (and goes SuperDeformed) whenever she's befuddled or charmed by something she sees.
* Similarly, Lushe from ''{{Bastard}}'' is often depicted with cat ears.
* [[SoulEater Blair]] is an example who's actually a cat, well some of the time. She's usually fanservice.
* Not a real catgirl, but ''CardCaptorSakura'' once had Tomoyo place the title character in a catgirl costume. To be more specific, a CatGirl {{Meido}} costume made of rubber (She was fighting [[ShockAndAwe The Thunder]] at the time). [[FetishFuel For some reason, this became one of her most popular outfits]].
** [[KiTA This troper]] just realized the reasoning behind the rather staggering amount of [[AuthorAppeal rather weird]] [[FetishFuel Sakura/Tomoyo-as]][[{{Lolicon}} -rubber-maids fanart]] on [[RuleThirtyFour Japanese pages.]] [[NightmareFuel Gah.]]
* Shadow Panther, Misaki/Hikaru's first opponent in ''AngelicLayer''.
** So is Mao.
* Natsuki Sasaehara, the heroine of HyperPolice. The rest of the main cast are [[PettingZooPeople a Kitsune and two Werewolves]]
* Parodied in ''CromartieHighSchool'' when resident [[ButtMonkey butt monkey]] Akira Maeda has to become a cat for a week to prove that he can comprehend the relationship between animals and humans. After a week, he finally gives up, only for him to be congratulated on being an excellent cat.
* All of the main characters in ''{{Free Collars Kingdom}}''. Subverted though, in that they are actual ''cats'', but for the most part they appear as cat girls/boys.
* NininGaShinobuden has Shinobu dressing up as a cat girl for Kaede's school festival.
* ''AxisPowersHetalia'' has a strip dealing with a festival in memory for the cats killed because they were thought to be evil. This becomes an opportunity to show several characters with cat ears, male or female.
** France also wears a pair of cat ears during the Christmas strips. He lampshades them when he's having what he thinks are his last thoughts [[spoiler:after facing the wrong end of Switzerland's gun]].
* Interesting example with the DOGS manga. There is a cat-girl... only she's at least seventy, and looks every year.
* ''Catgirl Nuku Nuku'' although she's actually a robot with a cat's brain inside.
* Nekoko in ''{{Kannazuki no Miko}}'' is a cat girl who and also a {{Girl With Psycho Weapon}}, as she attacks with a giant syringe, representing [[spoiler: the fact that she was a subject of unethical medical testing as a child]].
* Lampshaded in ''Maria+Holic'' by the Dorm Leader. The characters discuss how her ears "aren't fake" and can "actually move," and at one point, the protagonist finds a cat-ear headband in the garden, leading them to speculate if the catgirl is actually real.
* In ''{{Bleach}}'', there's a momment when Orihime says "I smell Kurosaki-kun" and get's rather...cattish.
** And then there's Youruichi, who can shapeshift from a completely human woman to a black cat at will. This troper has also seen art of her in human form with a tail, and isn't sure if it's cannon or not.
* Pink from the Hentai Manga ''DragonPink'' is a sexy, cute and uber unlucky slave girl turned into a catgirl after she takes a pair of cursed panties found in a treasure chest. While the curse gives her some interesting gifts (Speed, agility, flexibility, night vision and quick healing) it also makes her plummet to the bottom of the social scale and being considered as a ''pet'' rather than a human being.
* ''{{Fruits Basket}}'' has a male semi-example. Kyo is possessed by the spirit of the cat from the legend of the Chinese Zodiac, meaning that whenever a girl hugs him, he [[InvoluntaryTransformation turns into an ordinary kitty cat]]. (Well, ordinary, aside from maintaining his ability to speak.) When he gets angry, his hair lifts into cat ears and he sprouts a tail, but these are both considered artistic interpretations and are not actually noticed in the story. None of the other Sohmas do this at all. Kyo also [[spoiler: has his cursed form, which is a very twisted draconic catman]].
* Kana of ''{{Saki}}''. Not a real cat girl, but she has a CatSmile, a CuteLittleFang, a Nya~ VerbalTic, and those HyperspaceEars of hers pop up more often than not.
* A manga titled ''Cat Hunt'' was done by a Yamamoto Kumoi. In it, a [[LonersAreFreaks creepy guy]] envisions all the cats he sees as catgirls and catboys, and he describes by narration [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything how he uses catnip to get close to some of them so they can play]]. Granted, some of them are friendly enough to approach him without need for catnip.
* ''{{Utawarerumono}}'' had catgirls and boys among its menagerie of PettingZooPeople.
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[[folder:Card Games]]
* There are a few in the ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}!'' Trading Card Game -- the two Nekogals and Thunder Nyan Nyan. The Thunder Nyan Nyan is depicted as a cat-girl playing drums.
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[[folder:Comics]]
* Cat-people and Werecats:
** The Cat was once a costumed heroine, but a ritual was performed on her, transforming her into the werecat Tigra, who would go on to join Comicbook/TheAvengers. There's a tug-of-war between her human and feline instincts and which has the upper hand tends to depend on the writer. One day she's able to fly interstellar spacecraft, the next she's chasing and eating mice and unable to speak (except in cat noises.)
** ''WonderWoman'' has faced four villains called Cheetah: Two pre-Crisis costumers and two PostCrisis werecats. The first werecat, Barbara Ann Minerva, is the current and best-known Cheetah and the basis for the animated version. (The other werecat was her successor, and male. Barbara killed him.)
** The ''{{X-Men}}'' franchise has several, most notably the male, deadly Sabretooth and two sisters known as Feral and Thornn.
*** There's also one of Emma Frost's early students, Catseye, who could turn into a cat. However, this was later [[RetCon retconned]] into her being ''a mutant cat who could turn into a human''.
*** Dr Hank [=McCoy=], better known as the Beast, recently turned from a furry ape-man into a furry cat-man due to his "secondary mutation".
*** And Sabretooth, Feral and Thornn are actually Wolf People. Yes they are, [[DorkAge Jeph Loeb says so]].
** Although Mam'selle Hepzibah (of the Starjammers) is actually a ''[[PettingZooPeople skunkgirl]]'', she looks feline enough.
** Rare male example: Tom, the son of the superhero Wildcat of DC Comics' JSA, is a catboy.
** Jil [=DeSmoot=] in ''Nexus'' is a Felim, an alien species of, well, cat-people. She's also a LipstickLesbian (in fact, one issue revealed that the males and females of her species have a deep instinctive aversion to each other except during mating season).
** Another male example is Talon, from Marvel's [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]] spin-off ''Guardians of the Galaxy''. Who's also a sorcerer, a {{Keet}}, and possibly a CelibateHero [[spoiler:if you don't count [[RapeAsDrama what a female villain did to him]] at a point in the series after [[CanonDisContinuity the first long-term writer was disavowing the storyline]], that is]].
** Britanny Diggers from the ''{{Gold Digger}}'' Comic By Fred Perry is a were-cheetah. Her half-clone sister Brianna also fits this trope, because she's half Brit and half Gina (Brit's Sister by adoption).
** Pantha, of the ''TeenTitans'', was a catgirl created by genetic alteration. She doesn't know if she was a human woman or a female panther prior to the alteration.
** Catspaw, of the ''LegionOfSuperheroes'', was similar to Pantha, but was definitely a human before being altered by the Dominators.
** Does [[{{Shazam}} Mr Tawky Tawny]] qualify as a Catboy?
* Costumers
** Hellcat inherited The Cat's costume after The Cat was upgraded to Tigra.
** Catwoman is the ur-example of the BadassNormal version. Although Catman (Thomas Blake) runs a close second after Gail Simone's overhaul of the character.
** ... And {{Spider-Man}}'s former love interest the Black Cat is what you get when Marvel [[FollowTheLeader Follows The Leader]], though she's since evolved into her own character.
** ''TeenTitans'' villain Cheshire is named for a type of cat, but her costume's only cat-themed in the AnimatedAdaptation.
*** Animated TeenTitans also gives Batman villain Killer Moth a daughter named Kitten who briefly took on an anime-like catgirl form and meowed when asked to clarify her name. Of course, given the show's love of sight gags, there's no being sure if this was seriously meant to be a superpower of hers.
**** Animated Starfire was also turned into a cat briefly.
** Carrie Kelly in ''Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again'' is ''named'' Catgirl.
** British superheroine The Cat Girl has a magical cat costume that gives her superhuman abilities.
*** The British had several cat-themed superheroes. Billy The Cat is probably the best known.
* Close to manga, but done in the USA... a comic series called ''Reality Check!'' by Studio Tavicat featured as a main protagonist Catreece. In the world of VirtualReality, she's a cute bouncy cat girl (her sister's a bit more... well, catty). In the world of reality, she's a... cat.
* Ed Power and Melissa [=DeJesus'=] ''MyCage'' is a comic strip about Norm T. Platypus, a cubicle slave in an all-anthropomorphic future. Norm's assistant is a delectably bitchy tiger girl named Ashley T. Bengal.
* Bob Weber Jr.'s comic strip ''SlylockFox'' has the title detective solving crimes committed by a rogue's gallery of animals, including Cassandra Cat - who pulls in a number of adult fans to a children's strip.
* ''OmahaTheCatDancer''.
* ''FlashGordon'' has Prince Thun's race of Lion Men; although, as their name implies, it's normally the males who appear in the comic.
*Most residents at [[HeliosEclipse The Land Of The Beasts]].
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[[folder:Films]]
* ''CatPeople'' had a literal cat girl, the main character a girl who can turn into a black panther and in fact a whole darn population of people who had this power.
* The whole entire cast of main characters in ''{{Cats}}'' are feline (and not just the girls either) from the mystical Mr. Mistoffelees (who is some sort of a cat magician), railroad master cat Skimbleshanks, the delightfully evil Macavity, to the wise, old sage cat Old Deuteronomy.
* ''{{Monkeybone}}'' has a catgrrrl played by Rose [=McGowan=]. Rrrrow.
* In the 90's version of Dr. Moreau with Marlon Brando, his daughter played by Fairuza Balk is transformed into a literal cat girl.
* MissKitty, in the SpaceWestern ''Oblivion'' is a CatGirl Madame, played by Julie "Catwoman" Newmar.
* Somewhat subverted in the independent short ''{{Pat Gets a Cat}}'': the protagonist imagines a human girl behaving like a cat, but without the ears, tail or most common traits of the garden-variety catgirl.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''AmericanGods'' has the protagonist [[IntimateHealing healed]] by Bast. Her humanoid form has feline eyes and a rough tongue (yes, cat tongues are harsh).
* Kilgore Trout's ''Venus On The Half Shell'' (ghostwritten by Philip Jose Farmer instead of Kurt Vonnegut) has a cat-like alien queen who makes love to the hero and grants him immortality.
* Cordwainer Smith's ''Instrumentality of Mankind'' series has C'Mell, who literally is a cat girl. C'Mell, and any other Underpeople (animals modified into human form and intelligence) with "C" in front of their name, is cat derived. Typical of the trope, C'mell works as a girlygirl, or [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean a type of hostess]]. Not so typical is that C'mell is never mentioned having cat ears. It's notable that this is a Western short story from the 1960s.
* CJ Cherryh's ''Chanur'' series - subverted by making these catlike aliens a powerful space-faring species where the female is dominant, and having them rescue and take care of Tully, a lost human male.
** If this troper recalls correctly, social traits of the ''hani'' were inspired by both lions and hyenas.
* Greebo's human form in the ''{{Discworld}}'' books is very male, ruggedly handsome, and vaguely feline.
** Not to mention he apparently exuded sexual energy; being able to "commit sexual harassment by sitting quietly in the next room"
* FritzLeiber's ''The Wanderer'' has a Sexy Alien Catgirl from a SuperiorAlien Species teach the hero about Sexy Catgirl Sex. It's notable that this is a Western novel from the 1960s.
* {{Mercedes Lackey}}'s ''[[HeraldsOfValdemar Mage Winds]]'' trilogy. The trilogy boasts as major characters both Nyara, a created catgirl, and her father, Mornelithe Falconsbane, the trilogy's BigBad (an evil mage [[GrandTheftMe inhabiting the bodies of his descendants]]) who, [[ParentalIncest among other things]], uses Nyara as a 'test subject' for feline alterations to his own body.
* Meena in the novel ''BraveStory'' (which later became a manga and a movie) is a cat girl. In the book, she's depicted as a FunnyAnimal, with fur all over and decidedly feline features; in the visual adaptions of the novel, though, she's portrayed as a [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute cute]] [[PettingZooPeople nekomimi.]]
* ''{{Dragaera}}'' has cat-centaurs- more of a HalfHumanHybrid version, but they do seem fairly playful, like many of the other examples.
* Richard Calder's ''Dead Boys'', ''Dead Things'', and ''Frenzetta'' feature [[spoiler:semen-hungry ]] cat-girls and the demigod-like men (later represented as wolf-men in the last book mentioned) who love [[spoiler:to commit sexualised murder on]] them. This makes the "computer virus turning girls into gynoids" of his ''Dead Girls'' seem simple and pleasant by comparison....
* Feral from the superhero novel ''SoonIWillBeInvincible'' is a massive, brawling Bengal tiger mashup man who gets back-aches from trying to walk on two legs. Too bad he's a minor supporting character.
* Rohant, from Jo Clayton's ''Shadow'' series, could be [[ShellShockedVeteran an older, grimmer]] "catboy." If you squint. (Actually, the entire [[ProudWarriorRace Dyslaeror species]]—who seem to be altered humans with leonine traits—probably count.)
* In Neal Asher's ''PoliySeries'', a popular body-modification subculture are those called catadapts, who have modified themselves into a feline appearance.
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* The cat-nuns from ''DoctorWho'', but these are considerably more feline and are later discovered to have males in their species as well.
** Presumably Brannigan in Gridlock was one of them. And the kittens, partly....
** There's also the cat people from the [[PlanetOfHats cheetah planet]] who seem to be mostly female. The influence of the planet causes anyone who stays there too long to become a cat person as well, starting with yellow eyes and CuteLittleFangs and working up to full body fur and a cat head. Naturally, Ace starts to change while there. Played as frightening, not sexy unless you believe the theory about [[FreudWasRight lesbian subtext]].
*** Well, when you consider that [[http://www.btinternet.com/~david.darlington/WORDS/RonaMunroInterview.htm the author has stated that that was intentional]], and that she ''hated'' the costumes and makeup they wound up with because they were serving as FetishRetardant and making it impossible to see the work the actors were doing...
***Be that as it may, it was one of the best-looking alien costumes the original series ever had.
* Also Doctor Katherine "Kat" Manx from ''PowerRangersSPD'', who is an alien humanoid feline, much like how her boss Anubis "Doggie" Cruger is a alien humanoid canine (albeit one with scales instead of fur like his Japanese counterpart Doggie "Boss" Kruger.).
** Oddly enough, her sentai counterpart is a Swan-girl, with wings on her head. This is why her Ranger form has a "Cat Feathers" attack.
* Season 1 of ''BigWolfOnCampus'' had a literal cat girl in the form of french exchange student Carole who was a Werecat of some kind.
* No ears or tail, but Jessica Alba's character Max from ''DarkAngel'' was chock-full of [[LegoGenetics cat DNA]]. For larfs, she goes into heat in two episodes.
* Another male example, the Cat from ''RedDwarf''. Evolved from the ship's cat, his only remaining feline features are fangs, a crazy sense of fashion, a self-centered nature, a desire to chase his food (usually after he's thrown it), and, allegedly, six nipples.
** Terry Farrell (Jadzia Dax from DS9) played a female version of Cat in the second pilot for the US version of Red Dwarf.
* Trance Gemini, from Gene Roddenberry's ''{{Andromeda}}'', is basically a purple anime catgirl from outer space. She has elf ears rather than cat ears, but she does have a prehensile tail (though with a devil-like spaded end), and the playful personality to match.
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[[folder:Music]]
* Gene Vincent's song "Catman", later covered by The Birthday Party. The titular character is, admittedly, as sexy a beast as Ray Winstone, but is scary as hell.
* David Bowie's song "Cat People", which is the theme from the 1982 remake of ''CatPeople'', has a lot of cat-like things about it.
* The Shonen Knife song "I am a Cat" is about a young woman who ... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well, yeah]].
** Note that the title is a reference to a fairly famous Japanese novel that is almost totally unknown outside of its native country.
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[[folder:Mythology]]
* The Egpytian goddess Bast is often depicted as a woman with the head of a cat or a lioness. Par for the course, as the Egyptians were absolutely fascinated with cats and even treated them like gods.
** Better said: They believed that the ''ka'' (part of the soul) of their gods resided in animals of a special kind -- in Bast's case, the cats.
** Hey, don't forget Sekhmet!
** Or the male version of this trope, the lion-headed Maahes.
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* "Catgirl" is a ''monster'' in the ''{{Munchkin}}'' spoof RPG. The Munchkin catgirls are just as adorable as their anime counterparts, but also happen to be vicious cannibals who love to eat male adventurers. Most of the catgirl's attacks are standard ''[[DungeonsAndDragons Dungeons & Dragons]]'' attacks, with cutesy names-"Pounce" becomes "Pouncy-Poo", while "Rend" becomes "Rendy-Wendy".
** And there's also the "Catboi hireling" in the same game. A cute tigerstriped male in a loincloth, usable only by female characters. But he's on the player's side, not a monster.
* From the people who brought you ''{{Munchkin}}'', there's also the game ''[[FunWithAcronyms SPANC]]: [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Space Pirate Amazon Ninja Catgirls]]''. It's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
** Indeed SJGames likes this trope. {{GURPS}}: Ultratech features a race of genetically engineered cat-girls. They can temporarily gain SuperSpeed but afterward their libido goes into overdrive as a nod to the FetishFuel.
* And if you find yourself angry with catgirls, you can always go ahead and [[http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/31216 Whack a Catgirl]],
* The ''Tempest'' block of ''MagicTheGathering'' featured [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?id=6155 Mirri]], a leopardlike cat warrior. Though she has a very feline head, ''below'' the neck...
** Mirri's people, the cat warriors, turned up all over ''[=MtG=]'''s backstory, including the heroic tiger-man [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=1660 Jedit]] [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=124344 Ojanen]], the feral panther-woman [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=3304 Purraj of Urborg]], and the godlike wizard [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=25889 Lord Windgrace]].
** The lionlike leonin from the world of Mirrodon, on the other hand, are considered a separate race from the leopard-, jaguar-, or tiger-like cat warriors of Dominaria (though cards that benefit cats work for both). Their ruler in the Mirrodin novels was [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=73569 Raksha Golden Cub]].
** Confusing matters are the nacatl from the world of Naya in ''Shards of Alara'', who look like leopards but are still called a leonin subrace.
** There are also the [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=121229 nishoba]], a race of ogre-sized anthropomorphic smilodons.
* ''{{Shadowrun}}'' has catgirls/catboys thanks to a spike in the mana levels when Halley's Comet swung around, triggering what became known as Sudden Unexplained Recessive Genetic Expression, or SURGE.
* ''[[DungeonsAndDragons Dungeons & Dragons]]'' have a number of races that might qualify.
** There are numerous lycanthropes based on felines, most notably weretigers. Werelions appear in the ''Al-Qadim'' campaign setting, but they lack a half-human form. The werejaguars from the ''Mystara'' setting are strange in that their legs, torso, and upper arms remain completely human but their head and lower arms are catlike; the werejaguars from ''Ravenloft'', on the other hand, are more traditionally furry-like, as are the wereleopards from the same setting.
** The tabaxi are a race of leopard people who live in tropical jungles. The ''ForgottenRealms'' SpinOff setting ''Maztica'' featured a race of jaguar people ''also'' called tabaxi; it explained that the name of the leopard-tabaxi from the Realms was pronounced "ta-bax-ee" while that of the Maztican jaguar-tabaxi was pronounced "ta-bash-ee", but no justification was given to how two different species of cat-people on opposite ends of the world could have the same name.
** Weretouched (people who have a were-something in their family tree) may exhibit minor features of their were-whatever ancestors, like ears, eyes, or fangs, as can the shifters from ''{{Eberron}}'', an entire race of feral human/lycanthrope hybrids.
** The rakasta from the ''Mystara'' setting were probably the purest example of anthropomorphic cat-people in ''D&D'', resembling domestic cats (but having very ''un''-domestic personalities). An article of ''{{Dragon}} Magazine'' featured a vast array of rakasta subraces, from alley cats to ocelots and lions to smilodons.
** Rakshasa are anthropomorphic tiger-like creatures with powerful magic, who can only be killed by a magically blessed crossbow bolt to the heart.
** Much more conventional example: the Catfolk of 3.5E introduced in ''Races of the Wild'' as a playable race, who enjoyed bonuses to dexterity and charisma, and had a Native American-ish culture dwelling on the plains. Definitely one of the more commonly seen splatbook-added races in games, and for some reason, many players keep shoehorning them into an Eastern-style civilization...
** The tibbits, introduced originally in ''Dragon'' magazine and reprinted in the ''Dragon Compendium'' book qualify. They're cat-people who can turn into cats, what could be better!
** 4th Edition's ''Player Handbook 2'' includes the decidedly feline-looking Razorclaw Shifter.
*** Somewhat justified in that they're descended from weretigers.
* Old ''WorldOfDarkness'' players have a couple options for making catgirls (and boys): Gangrel from ''Vampire: The Masquerade'' whose animal features "happen" to be mostly feline, Bastet werecats, pooka from ''Changeling: The Dreaming'' with a cat affinity, and an entire kith of catpeople (traditional look and all) among the Eastern fae with the Neyan--whose name is even the Japanese version of "meow".
** Those wanting to play catpeople in the New World of Darkness have other options: Changelings of the Beast seeming who have feline characteristics, cat Skinchangers, the Bastet Changing Breeds, and the werecats of the Colony.
* The Lion Fey from ''{{Exalted}}''. Basically Fair Folk with the Assumption of Bestial Visage Charm, who've decided to take leonine form.
* Being a catgirl is one of the potential Special Qualities a maid can have in ''MaidRPG'' -- and they can also be were-tigers or were-lions. Female butlers can also have these Special Qualities. Player Character Masters or {{NPC}} Masters made with the Master creation rules only have access to the were-cat Special Quality (They don't get access to the portion of the Maid Special Qualities table the normal catgirl is on), but other {{NPC}} Masters can be whatever the GM feels like. Your catgirl can also actually be a spider, depending on what you roll and whether you're willing to go for it.
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[[folder:Theater]]
* Uh, ''{{Cats}}''?
** No, nonsense. ''You lie''.
** For those Tropers with this fetish (at least half of us) it's better than porn.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Most famous video game example: Felicia from ''{{Darkstalkers}}''.
* Additional video game example: The Mithra from ''FinalFantasyXI'' are an entire ''race'' of catgirls.
** There _are_ male mithra, but they don't go out adventuring. They're rare and weak or something.
*** It's their rarity. They're needed for breeding so they don't get to leave the villages.
**** Those lucky bastards
** Adelle from ''FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' has many traits of a cat, she even got her nickname ''Adelle the Cat''.
* ''FireEmblem: Path of Radiance'' had the cat Laguz. Duh.
** And Tiger and Lion Laguz, too.
** It's worth pointing out that male cat-people actually outnumber the females. Even without bringing in the lions, we've got Ranulf, Kysha, Mordecai, and Muarim versus just Lethe and Lyre. For added points, they vary in personality widely, and handily avoid the standard stereotypes.
* ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' had Juhani, a member of a species that were basically anthropomorphic cats. She wasn't very attractive, though.
** RuleThirtySix.
* Your first companion in ''DarkCloud'' is a cat-girl, transformed from an actual cat. She comes complete with ears, collar and bell. In ''DarkCloud 2'', a cat-girl costume can be acquired for the female main character.
* Chen and Rin Kaenbyou from the ''{{Touhou}}'' games.
* "You Show Me Yours and I'll Show You Mine" was the title of a thread on the ''CityOfHeroes'' message boards. The topic? Catgirl characters. Just about everyone has one, it seems, and with the versatility of the game's costume editor, they go from ears-and-tail to scary-feral. Some people have several. [[strike: Even]] Especially male players. Or so the [[MemeticMutation joke goes]]. The canon CatGirl is Mynx, though, who glib speedster Synapse apparently found rooting through garbage one day, or some such. [[{{Fanservice}} She cleans up pretty good]], to her credit.
* The Kilrathi from ''WingCommander'', although instead of being cute, they're [[ColdBloodedTorture sadistic]], [[BloodKnight bloodthirsty]], [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy warlike]] [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Scary Dogmatic Catpeople Aliens]] who treat other races as slaves and are [[MegaNeko seven feet tall and 400 pounds]]. Tend to resemble "big cats" such as tigers, lions, and panthers rather than house cats for added intimidation value.
* Katt from ''BreathOfFire II'' is half-woman, half-tiger.
** [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar And half naked.]]
** Lin from ''BreathOfFire V'' is also a catgirl, but never removes her ear-covering headgear in the game itself, though her tail is still quite evident - a rare case of Concept Art Dang It.
** The series also has a couple of catguys (definetly not boys) with Rei from III (though he started the game as a fit young catshounen) and Cray from IV. All the examples of catpeople from this series are all from each of their respective game's version of the Woren tribe.
** IV also had a variant of the catgirl, the foxgirl, in the kitsune-like Ursula.
* The ''BloodyRoar'' games have Shina (who turns into a leopard) and Uriko (a literal cat-girl, including the eyes).
* ''TheElderScrolls'' has an entire race of catpeople: the Khajiit. And you can play as one. They're not all that attractive, though.
** [[FetishFuel Says you.]]
** Only the ones seen in Morrowind and Oblivion. The prequels were much closer to this trope, and the setting has various different types of Khajiit, ranging from looking almost identical to wood elves to being gigantic man-tigers.
** There's also a variety of wild cats to resemble, as one can be either a lion or a tiger. [[WizardOfOz Oh my, not a bear though.]]
* ''IronRealms'' has catpeople, but once again, much more cat-like. Or tiger like. ThisTroper has seen people playing that race as catgirls (with human appearance, ears, tails), though.
* ''StarOcean'' has an entire race of people (Fellpool, denizens of planet Roak) with cat tails and elf ears. Fellpool don't act catlike at all, but Lesser Fellpool have the cat ears too and are apparently more beastlike -- the one that may join your party in the [[StarOcean1 first game]] can change back and forth from cat to catgirl, and uses cat-themed martial arts moves.
** ''[=~Star Ocean: The Second Story~=]'' has Leon Geeste -- A "Fellpool" with cat ears (we never see a tail, but it might be under his coat) inexplicably on planet Expel (Expellians look like normal humans). No one in the game comments on this. Aside from looks, Leon doesn't display any feline traits, though.
*** The in game dictionary in ''[=~Star Ocean: Till The End of Time~=]'' explains Leon's prescence. Expellians are actually a [[HalfHumanHybrids hybrid race]] descended from both [[HumanAliens humans]] and fellpool that were native to Expel. Leon is a genetic throwback that only appears when both parents have the same reccesive gene on the twelfth chromosome.
** Let's not forget Noel from the same game, a Nedian who's also a cat-man.And the astute will notice his name is "Leon" backwards.
** In ''[=~Star Ocean: The Last Hope~=]'', Meracle joins your party, and she is a by-the-books catgirl who can also turn into a normal-sized cat. She thinks she might be originally from Roak (she's not sure of her origins, due to being [accidentally] kidnapped by a MadScientist at a young age) Also, it's ... unclear what the scientists were doing to her in the first place, given what they [[http://img.neoseeker.com/ca/star_ocean_4_conceptart_6Bi9n.png made her wear]] (note the collar).
* Another masculine example: Kurt, from ''ShadowCaster'', morphs into a feline as his first alternate form, with all the stat and power boosts one would expect.
* The sci-fi empire-building series ''MasterOfOrion'' featured an entire empire of cat-people, the Mrrshan, which were known for being one of the most aggressive and militaristic races throughout the series.
* The ''{{Wizardry}}'' series has had Felpurr, humanoid cats described as descended from house cats, stretching back to 1990 in Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge. Felpurr are known for having one of the best stat lines in the game, reaching many elite professions with fewer attribute points than any other race. Particularly favoring speed and personality, they overshadowed even hobbits as the best thieves and bards in the series.
* Yayoi, the geisha who guards the entrance to Dark Demon's lair in ''DynamiteHeaddy''. When you deal enough damage to her, she gets pissed off and becomes much more fast and aggressive. They replaced her with a boring robot in the US version. Diss!
* Beastmasters in ''{{Disgaea}} 2'' combine standard [[UnusualEars demonic ears]] with not quite as standard lion tails and "mane-like" hair for the appearance of almost-but-not-quite [[{{Catgirl}} lion girls]]. The "Kit Cat" breed of monsters are so obvious they didn't even get mentioned, with kitty ears, tail, and strategically placed strips of fur, Felicia-style
** Not to mention the Thieves in Disgaea 2, who had cat eyes and wore a hood that resembled cat ears.
* Meï in ''BeyondGoodAndEvil'' is a blue-furred cat woman, and almost completely catlike in appearance. Except for, you know--the lack of tail, the blue lips, and huge, uh, [[MostCommonSuperPower assets.]]
* Cham Cham out of ''SamuraiShodown 2'' is quite a catgirl. Ears, tail, claws, and fleas. Seriously, she acts more feline than not--when she's unarmed, she walks on all fours (not crawl, but catlike), whenever she relaxes she sits on her haunches, and some of her poses (including a taunt) have her scratching behind an ear with her hindleg..er, foot.
* The ''{{Lunar}}'' RPG series features "beastmen" as a race. They have pointed ears, ''CuteLittleFangs'' and a lot of hair. Curiously, they intermingle freely with humans rather than living separately. Some of the playable characters were Beastmen.
* ''AtelierIris'' also has Norn, a catgirl whose catlike behavior (but oddly enough, not her cat features) baffles people. Though one (female) NPC does becomes obsessed with touching her ears(!) The game also features female werecats as random monsters. It is eventually revealed that [[spoiler: Norn is really a cat turned into human form by a witch. Whether this means a normal cat or a werecat isn't clear; a werecat NPC thinks she's one of them, though.)]]
** [[WildMassGuessing Maybe the Werecats are the result of too many wizards and witches with this fetish actually creating a stable population of catpeople?]]
* La Hire and Bartolomeo in ''JeanneDArc'' are axe-wielding lion and panther men, respectively.
** Mawra and Blaze, two thirds of the Therion QuirkyMinibossSquad, are an anthropomorphic lynx and white tiger, as well.
* ''SuikodenIV's'' Noah deliberately invokes this trope. She's got kitty ears and oversized cat paws... which are most likely just a headband and gloves, though she insists she's actually a [[PettingZooPeople Nay-Kobold]]. She's a [[ConMan con girl]] and loves weaving sob stories, trying to weedle sympathy and material goods out of any suckers who actually fall for her tall tales.
* KOS-MOS from ''{{Xenosaga}}'', a RobotGirl, gained headgear that resembled cat ears after a plot-important upgrade in Episode III.
* Len in [[{{Tsukihime}} Kagetsu Tohya]] is an advanced familiar/succubus made half dead cat and half little dead girl soul, which makes her alive again. Normally, she's either a cat or girl, but this seems to be merely a matter of preference as she can be seen with cat ears when surprised and also tends to act quite like a cat even when in the form of a girl.
** Also Arcueid, from the same series, who isn't a cat girl but ocassionally grows cat ears in the same fashion as Hikaru from Magic Knight Rayearth. There's also a super-deformed version, Neco Arc.
*** Even villain Nrvnqsr Chaos gets a super-deformed cat version of himself, Neco Arc Chaos, in the later Melty Blood games.
* Shanoa from ''{{Castlevania}}: Order of Ecclesia'' can transform into a catgirl with a particular glyph. In addition to giving her a new set of attacks, it also allows her to talk to the various cats that she rescues.
* Taokaka from ''BlazBlue'' comes from a race of cat-people who hide their real faces underneath hoods, giving them a decidedly [[FinalFantasy Black Mage]]-like appearance. Aside from the obvious big claws and tail, she also possesses an [[BigEater insatiable appetite]].
** Supporting cast member Kokonoe is another catgirl, this time quite visibly modeled on the above-mentioned nekomata, having the trademark split tail, and [[MadScientist some rather... interesting hobbies.]]
* Nikki from ''ManaKhemiaAlchemistsOfAlrevis'', among others.
* The 4 catgirls from ''NekoKawaigari''.
* [[MegaManX Neon Tiger]] is a humanoid tiger. Also a robot.
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* Fairly common in Western {{webcomics}}, especially those with significant anime influences (e.g., ''[[http://www.tsunamichannel.com Tsunami Channel]]'', ''[[http://www.egscomics.com El Goonish Shive]]'', ''TwoKinds'', and of course ''[[http://www.clanofthecats.com Clan of the Cats]]''). There is a tendency for webcomic catgirls to be closer to were-cats, as opposed to the ears-and-tail catgirls more typical of anime.
** Arguable if ''Tsunami Channel'' even counts as "Western", as the author is outright bilingual and claims that his thoughts are in Japanese. The setting of the comics is in the US, though -- namely, in Pittsburgh. This has absolutely no bearing on the story, though.
** Don't forget ''VGCats''.
* Notice, however, that ''ElGoonishShive'' features a ''tough cat man'': [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-08-28 Elliot himself]], during the Sister arc, who turns into a were-cat to return to Moperville.
** Another werecat: Katie from ''TheWotch''. Anne also turns into a cat at times.
** ''ElGoonishShive'' also has Catalina Bobcat. Not a werecat, or even a costumer, but definitely cat-like.
* ''[[http://exterminatusnow.comicgenesis.com/ Exterminatus Now]]'' has anthropomorphic characters, including one cat-boy. Drawn in Sonic-style artwork (the story however is not for children), the characters are humanoid animals, not just humans with animal ears and tails, as they all belong to the same race. However, they identify their ''species'' as "fox" or "penguin" or even "zebra" according to their appearance.
* The cast of ''[[http://www.drunkduck.com/Purgatory_Tower/ Purgatory Tower]]'' is entirely made up of (non-cute, non-Anime-style) animal/humanoid hybrids or anthropomorphics (and in one case, a plant/animal/human hybrid), as the world the webcomic plays in is peopled by socalled "marsuls", humanoids fused with animals and displaying animal traits, down to their psyche. Features a cat-woman, a hyena-woman, a squirrel-girl, a racoon-man and others.
* The all-but-defunct ''[[http://underpower.non-essential.com/index.php?comic=latest Under Power]]'' has a catgirl character who is adorable, sweet, domestically submissive, with a high libido... and who also happens to be a nigh-invincible cyborg who kills her "boyfriend" every time she sleeps with him. Lucky, he seems to be powered by {{FPS}}s, and can respawn every time he's killed.
** Repeatedly respawning just to die again seconds later can be more of a curse than a blessing, especially when he pisses off the Elf.
* The jury's still out on wether or not Gina from ''OutsideInterference'' is a cat. Although she has cat-like ears and features, she lacks any visible tail, in a setting where all the other {{Anthro}} characters have them.
* ''SomethingPositive'' doesn't have any actual catgirls, but frequently has gags involving catgirl {{cosplay}}ers, which are depicted as grotesque muppet-like creatures which swarm through fan conventions annoying everyone else.
** Oh, and now they swarm through fan conventions KILLING everyone else.
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* ''LastResort'' goes for the furrier side of catgirls, although technically Adharia's the only true catgirl (Jigsaw's a marsupial, but because of her otherwise feline features, ends up being the definitive catgirl for the series - although she does end up being called a rat sometimes thanks to her large ears.)
* Felicity from ''[[http://dreamlandchronicles.com The Dreamland Chronicles]]''.
* ''Ghost 2138'' features a much more catlike catgirl than usual; she looks more like a cat than a human other than her size and general body shape.
* Subversion: Neko from [[http://www.taoofgeek.com The Tao of Geek]] acts like a normal housecat. [[spoiler: Who might also know the Anti-Life Equation.]]
* Anya from ''[[TsunamiChannel Experimental Comic Kotone]]''. In a case of questionable biology, her sister Lisa is a ''[[PettingZooPeople fox-girl]]''.
* The webcomic ''[[http://www.yoshsaga.com/latest.php Yosh!]]'' has one of the main characters changed into a catgirl by the applied plebotinum of the comic's world.
* [[http://www.jaydenandcrusader.com Jayeden and Crusader's]] character Kat is a catgirl and appears with no warning and apparently no reason in the middle of the comic with a very rushed (2 line!) introduction. Why? This troper is pretty sure it was Author Appeal
* Kathleen "Kat" Vance of ''Webcomic/SequentialArt''.
* ''TheDragonDoctors'' features a, as Sarin, resident pervert says "The least CatGirl I know."
* ''FlakyPastry'' has [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=126 Marelle]] as a lead character, who [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=127 hates being called a Catgirl]].
* [[http://www.truefork.org/Art/comic/cindex.php?159 Myshka]] from ''NotQuiteDailyComic'', a regular cat who was accidentally transformed into a "dangerously furry" CatGirl, retains most of her former behavior, somewhat subverting the trope.
* In ''SluggyFreelance'' Riff had a ''very'' disturbing dream about a [[http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=021119 satanic cat girl clown]].
* Aeris from ''VGCats'' counts, right?
** Then Leo should as well. ThisTroper thought they would be FunnyAnimals, though apparently nobody remembers what the difference is anyway.
*** Having a Muzzle seems to be the popular distinction on this wiki.
* ''{{Linburger}}'' calls them Mirrakae. For whatever reason they're a dying breed with low population. They have trouble finding long term relationships, but little trouble finding a partner for one night stands, due to the fact they seem to be something of a fetish in-universe.
* Liger Neqishol (do NOT call her Nekishojo)of Triquetra Cats (the main characters fall under the costume only definition)
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''DrawWithMe'', the characters are drawn like this.
* Miyet, just to name one from the ''WhateleyUniverse''. (Double catgirl quotient because the actual goddess Bast -- see Mythology -- is behind her transformation and talks to her in her head every so often.)
* In ''[[http://www.datapacrat.com/www.wulfarchives.com/home.html The Wulf Archives]]'', one of the title character's dearest lovers is Li-Shu, a Kaitian (a Tiger-woman), a powerful and passionate HotAmazon who is [[http://www.elfwood.com/~cshayden/Shu_Li.2649079.html pictured here.]]
* "Kittymorphs" are one of the first alternate player character races you can unlock in ImprobableIsland.
* In ''The Official Fanfiction University of {{Redwall}}'', an {{Otaku}} signed up as a CatGirl.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Ashely alias Katt Nappe of ''XiaolinShowdown'' seems mostly to be cosplaying a CatGirl, but her tail does twitch, her fangs are real, and her claws retractable.
** It's mysterious, really... best not to think about it.
* Clover in ''TotallySpies!'' became a catgirl in the episode "Wild Style" after being injected with a serum.
** It's possible that this was done in yet another superficial and misguided attempt at making people believe the show is a real anime.
* Every female in ''SwatKats'' qualifies.
** They're more like Furries, though.
** Still catgirls.
** It's fairly common for female FunnyAnimal characters to be more human-like in order to read as "pretty". (see: ''{{Blacksad}}''.) Callie is still catlike enough, but I would call Felina Feral a catgirl.
*** Which is interesting, since Callie is supposed to be the 'sexy' one, and Felina is just there to kick ass and take names. And offset her [[InspectorJavert uncle (Commander Feral)]].
* Manny Rivera from Nickelodeon cartoon ''ElTigre'' has a superpowered alterego which is a catboy called El Tigre -- he can turn into this form by spinning his mystical belt buckle. In fact, it seems ''every male in the Rivera side of the family'' consists of cat-themed supers, be they hero or villain.
* Angel in the underrated early-80's animated film ''Rock and Rule'' is clearly a biological cat-woman.
* Variation: in ''CodeLyoko'', Odd Della Robia's virtual form on Lyoko is a Cat Boy, albeit one with non-retractable claws and the ability to fire "laser arrows" from his forearms.
* Subversion: Cat Man is a (very) non-sexualized hench of BigBad Coiffio in ''Perfect Hair Forever'', a 6-episode anime parody, who appears to be a surly man in a cat costume. He hates {{shounen}} like Gerald with a passion and will fire indiscriminately at them with a gatling gun if they bother him. He lives in a giant cat-carrier -- his floor is a sea of cat litter -- he frequently grooms in public, and loves batting around stuffed-mice-on-strings.
* ''{{Thundercats}}''.
** HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
* ''StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'': M'ress.
** Also the alien race the Kzinti, imported from the novels of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
* Adam West in ''FairlyOddParents'' is known as Catman (a nod to the 1960's Batman) who is a crimefighter who is part man part cat.
* The new ''BikerMiceFromMars'' series features a race of alien humanoid cats called Catatonians- the member of this species that fits this trope is Katalina Katacal
* Parodied in the ''Stroker and Hoop'' episode "XXX Wife (a.k.a. Stroke Her and Boob)"; when the pornographers attempt to [[LegoGenetics splice feline DNA]] into two [[TheDitz ditzy]] co-eds to cash in on the [[FurryFandom Furry]] market, they wind up with insane mutant catgirls that [[ImAHumanitarian eat human flesh]].
* [[{{Chaotic}} Intress, Attacat, and Tangath Toborn]] seems to be part of a race of cat people that are part of the Overworld tribe.
* Cleo from ''{{Heathcliff And The Catillac Cats}}'' is a anthromorphic female cat with blonde hair and the breasts and hourglass figure of a human woman.
* There are numerous ''{{Transformers}}'' that turn into cats: [[BeastWars Cheetor]], Lio Convoy, Lio Junior, Victory Leo, Leobreaker, [[EvilKnockoff Nemesis Breaker]], [[TransformersGeneration1 Ravage]]...
* An episode from [[BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Batman]] had Selena Kyle, aka Catwoman, kidnapped by a Dr. Moreau wannabe who turned her into...you get the picture. It should also be noted that the episode also had a cat-man (man-cat?) who liked how he was and wanted Selena to stay.
* The ''{{TMNT}}'' episode "Across the Universe" had a white-skinned (furred?) woman with [[HairColors green hair]] and cat ears. No tail, though. Also, the Neko clan and Ame Tomoe from the ''Usagi Yojimbo''-derived episode.
** the original 80's TMNT had an ep where April was turned into a catgirl, she tried to eat Splinter.
* The Mutates in ''{{Gargoyles}}'' were an attempt by a mad scientist to turn human test subjects into gargoyles they're basically Catboys (and one catgirl) with bat wings and electric eel powers.
* Beingal from LegendoftheDragon. Okay she actually transforms into a tiger but the theme is similar. [[http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/b/beingal.jpg]]
* In ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' there is Cheetah, who despite of her name resembles a female anthropomorphic cougar. [[FetishFuel For the obvious reasons, she's always naked]].
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* And then, there's [[http://www.stalkingcat.net Cat Man]] himself (also known as Stalking Tiger). Through years and years worth of plastic surgery, tattoos, and other body art, he has transformed himself into a literal cat-man.
** It's part of his Native American belief, though.
*** Which rather raises the question of which Native Americans have ''tigers'' as a totem animal.
*** That's not more Native American than me. Even if he were really Native American (which this troper isn't convinced of), his antics wouldn't mean that they're really part of his culture. In fact, this troper, who's worked with quite a few Native Canadians, is pretty sure that most Aboriginal people in their right mind would be disgusted at the simplistic and crazy image this guy gives of them.
*** Everyone has their own interpretation. Native Americans of the South America certainly did things to themselves no less freaky in the past (check the beauty ideals of the Mayans some time, and the lengths they made to reach them, some time). Whether most contemporary First Nations would like to recognise this guy or not (probably not), he's hardly without precedents in history.
***Also, Native Americans aren't one monolithic group.
* As well as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soo_Catwoman Soo "Sue" Catwoman]], whom many Tropers might recognize as a significant 1970's punk icon.
* Also, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Wildenstein Jocelyn Wildenstein]], although her later surgeries took her further from "catlike face" and further into "looks like she lost a fight with a hive of killer bees"...
* In the annals of BDSM, kitten-play is when a person, usually female, has to act like a cat because their master said so. They [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean attach]] a tail, put on cat-ears, paint on a nose, and have to do cat stuff.
** In fact it's just one subset of pet-play. OrSoIHeard.
* Zoe Bell. I don't think her nickname "Zoe the Cat" is just because of her agility. [[FetishFuel Rrowrr!]]
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