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  • In the Halloween episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius where Jimmy makes a machine that accidentally turns Sheen into a werewolf, Jimmy ask to Goddard info about them but Ms. Fowl comes out of nowhere and explains it instead. She justifies her knowledge of werewolves by saying she was married to one.
  • Adventure Time:
    • The Whywolves are werewolf-like creatures born out of inquiry and bloodlust. Finn mistook them for normal werewolves at first, however, implying there's more than one type.
    • "Hug Wolf" has Finn get infected by being hugged by the titular "Hug Wolf", a werewolf with heart-shaped hands and feet that hugs anyone it comes across. The Hug Wolves have three varieties, Omega, Alpha, and Beta, with the former two being able to infect others during a full moon. It's also revealed that if a Beta Hug Wolf can out hug an Alpha, the curse will be broken and both will return to normal.
  • The Halloween Episode of Amphibia ends with Polly staring into the blue moon. While it doesn’t do anything at first, she eventually turns into a a bizarre tadpole/werewolf hybrid. Thankfully, everything is back to normal by the next episode.
  • Animaniacs featured a somewhat unusual version in the Minerva Mink short "Moon Over Minerva". A geeky wolf, named Wilford B. Wolf, would turn into a hunky wolf when exposed to the full moon. Minerva won't give his geeky self the time of day, but she goes crazy for his moonlit self. Needless to say the short is pretty heavy on the Fanservice for both the male and female audiences. Also doubles as You Sexy Beast.
  • Archie's Weird Mysteries: Turning into a werewolf requires a wolf bite, the full moon, and possession of a pentagram ( which is only defined as a "five-pointed star", so a sheriff's badge works just fine). Putting something silver on the werewolf will turn it back and prevent further changes. The interesting thing about the wolf bite is that it does not seem that a full wolf is needed, as a wolfdog that is mostly dog will do.
  • A Tale Dark And Grimm: In the third episode, Hansel is consumed by greed and becomes a wolflike creature, unable to control his urge to kill. While in beast form, he is killed by Lord Meister and his servants, and only becomes human again when they cut open the wolf and Hansel comes out of it, looking like a normal boy. But in the ninth episode it is later revealed that he still has some control over his beast side and can get a boost of strength from it.
  • Atomic Betty: In the episode "Werewolves on Zeebot" The Chameleon uses the powers of the Red Moon of Zeebot to turn the citizens into werewolves.
  • The Backyardigans: Uniqua as a werewolf in the episode "Scared Of You".
  • Ben 10: "Benwolf" introduces an alien version of the werewolf called a Loboan (which was mistaken by everyone for a Navajo werewolf called the Yenaldooshi). It scratches the Omnitrix, causing it to get mode-locked and making Ben slowly and seemingly painlessly turn into another alien werewolf. Later, the creature is added to the Omnitrix's active list and he later dubs it Benwolf (renamed Blitzwolfer in Ben 10: Omniverse).
  • Buzz Lightyear of Star Command has a very "mechanical" twist: when the robotic vampire Nos-4-A2 accidentally bites Ty Parsec, who winds up turning into a robotic wolf-monster called a "wirewolf" when hit by the light of a nearby moon. Buzz and the others destroy the moon, though a piece of it reactivates the curse in a later episode.
  • Bottersnikes and Gumbles: A Gumble that eats a blue grub during the night of an orange moon transforms into a large, feral version of themself that actively hunts for Bottersnikes and resumes their normal form as soon as they're no longer exposed to the moon.
  • The CatDog episode "Full Moon Ever" establishes that Dog transforms into a wolf-like state during the full moon.
  • Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels: One episode features a snow wolf monster that resembles a yeti more than a werewolf.
  • In the episode "A Wolf in Cheap Clothing" of Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers a wolf has been robbing homes. It turns out that the villain, Professor Nimnul, has been using an invention that turns him into a wolf, but in order to do so, the device must turn a wolf (in this case a perfectly innocent wolf named Harry from the local zoo) into a human. In other words, it switches Nimnul's humanity with Harry's wolf-ity, making one a voluntary werewolf and the other an involuntary wolfwere.
  • Codename: Kids Next Door: The episode "Operation: H.O.U.N.D." introduces Valerie, an honors student who transforms into a werepoodle and eats other students' homework. A later episode, "Operation: D.O.G.H.O.U.S.E.", revealed that all the honors students were weredogs, lead by Mrs. Thompson, who was under a curse from a necklace given to her by her ex-husband. They eat homework to feed, and bad homework (such as Numbuh 4's) is poison to them.
  • Count Duckula: While we never see him onscreen, Towser apparently cannot convert people as he's attacked Igor and Goosewing and they've remained the same. "The Return of the Curse of the Secret of the Mummy's Tomb Meets Frankenduckula's Monster and the Wolf-Man and the Intergalactic Cabbage..." featured a traditional Wolf Man (or rather a Wolf Bird) who transforms by the light of the full moon.
  • Cybersix: In the episode "Full Moon Fascination", the Villain of the Week is Elaine, a genetically-engineered werewolf who is able to turn humans into her own kind through a bite or scratch and is implied to have some mental control over them in both her wolf and human forms, as shown when she seduces Lucas.
  • Wulf from Danny Phantom is an Esperanto-speaking ghost werewolf with extendable claws which can tear up portals between Earth and the Ghost Zone. He is not shown to have the ability to shapeshift, and is presented as an anthropomorphic muscular wolf.
  • In the Darkwing Duck episode "Monsters R Us", Morgana's father transforms the eponymous character into a duck-billed and poodle-like werewolf that often acts like a dog. With his new wolf form, Darkwing puts on a new alias known as "Darkwolf Dog".
  • Drak Pack: Howler can transform from human to wolf-man form (and back) more or less at will, his main power is imitating The Big Bad Wolf (with a more rarely-used power of howling as his name suggests) rather than using those claws and fangs, and he tends to act as the group's Cowardly Lion.
  • DuckTales (1987): One episode, "Ducky Horror Picture Show" features Mr. Wolf, who is shown in both duck and wolf form.
  • DuckTales (2017): The Halloween Episode "The Trickening!" features a werewolf duck (or a "wereduck" as he is called). In a similar case with Count Duckula, he is an anthropomorphic duck with wolf-like fur, fangs, and claws.
  • In on episode of Ernest Le Vampire, Ernest's intended victim has a pet dog who is also a werewolf.
  • The title character of the Ruby-Spears cartoon Fangface would transform whenever his human form saw the full moon... or a photograph of it... or anything which vaguely reminded him of it. The reverse transformation was similarly triggered by the sun. Or any other sun-like image.
    • Even within the show, werewolves were different. One episode of the series featured another werewolf who transformed by way of a "Werewolf Secret Formula", and who was nothing like the Funny Animal-ish title character, instead having more of a classic Wolf Man Lon Chaney Jr. look. During that episode one of the other heroes accidentally drank the formula, and turned into a werewolf that was a hybrid of the two, looking more like a wolf man, but acting like Fangface.
  • Freakazoid! did a parody of the original The Wolf Man with an obvious Lon Chaney Jr. parody coming to Dexter for help with his werewolf problem. Freakazoid, after forcing him to suffer numerous indignities, ultimately cured him by dumping him into the Internet and back out again. The episode even parodied the frame-by-frame transformation of the film for both the Lon Chaney Jr. Expy and Freakazoid himself.
  • Fright Krewe features a French variation of werewolf called a rougarou. They can transform at will and turn others into more of their kind through bites; however, they are said to specifically eat the bones of children. Though the rougarous shown in series are more friendly and the child eating thing only happens when a newly turned rougarous goes through an initial craving.
  • Futurama:
    • In a direct parody of An American Werewolf in London (and Turbo Teen), the episode "The Honking" has a curse that can turn any mild-mannered robot into a werecar. Unlike the hovercars the characters in the show are familiar with, these cars are "crawling around on round rubber feet... like a wolf!" The Spanish dub correctly calls them "coche lobo", car-wolf (as opposed to "hombre lobo", werewolf). Werecar implies that the monster is some sort of mix between a man ("were") and a car, and Bender is a Man-bot.
    • Werewolves themselves are confirmed to exist in the episode "Related to Items You've Viewed", apparently as the traditional wolf-like humanoids working under the full moon. Given they apparently get confused by the sudden appearance of a second moon, they possibly retain their human intelligence in wolf form.
  • Garfield and Friends: In the episode "The Carnival Curse", Garfield receives a gypsy's curse that turns him into a wolf-cat when the moon is full. Note that he is never referred to as a werewolf but rather a "wolf-creature", which makes sense as "were" means "man".
  • Gargoyles:
    • In "Eye of the Beholder," Xanatos presents Fox the Eye of Odin as an engagement gift — only for it to turn her into a wolf-like being every night until he, Elisa Maza and Goliath are able to forcibly remove it. In this case, it's noted that her were-form is unsustainable; she has to feed constantly and is in danger of burning out and dying.
    • "Mark of the Panther" featured were-leopards who transformed involuntarily because of a curse.
    • Also, recurring villain "Wolf", formerly a human mercenary/TV star, who due to genetic engineering is a half-man, half-wolf creature; he can't change back to human form or spread his condition, but he's frequently referred to as a werewolf, which, as werewolf roughly translates as "man-wolf", is technically true, although "mutant" and "hybrid" would be better terms.
  • Gravedale High had a rather nerdy werewolf teen named Reggie Moonshroud.
  • The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: In one episode, Irwin gets bitten by a werewolf and transforms after looking at the "moon" of a baby's butt on a billboard. He changes into a non violent four legged wolf that thinks itself to be a dog and remains in wolf form even when the daytime comes. The only way to return him to normal was to have a wereflea bite him.
  • Hotel Transylvania: The Series: "Creepover Party" has Mavis being visited by two members of her girl scout troop who were both werewolves. They power down into their human forms, which poses a problem because the hotel has a strict "no humans" policy.
  • Johnny Bravo: "A Wolf in Chick's Clothing" involves Johnny finding out that his date is a werewolf. He goes on the date anyway, reasoning that he just has to stick it out until sunrise for her to turn back into a beautiful woman. Unfortunately, it's a Wednesday, and it turns out that on Wednesdays she turns into an annoying little man named Melvin who keeps trying to show people his stamp collection.
  • Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures: The transformation into a werewolf comes because of a genetic disorder that only affects men. Averted in the original Jonny Quest series, where a werewolf was just a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax formulated by a crew of gold-smugglers.
  • Love, Death & Robots: "Shape-Shifters" centers on a pair of werewolves serving as U.S. Marines. Their shapeshifting is voluntary, and even in their human form they have enhanced abilities, but they suffer Fantastic Racism from the other Marines who derisively call them "dog soldiers". Then we find out that the terrorists have werewolves on their side, too.
  • Mary Shelley's Frankenhole. The Wolfman can only be killed by a silver bullet. The death will only be temporary and he will heal as soon as the bullet leaves him (even if he has to rot and decay for 70 years before the bullet leaves). The only way for him to permanently die is if a lover fires the silver bullet.
  • Marvel's Spider-Man: The lunar crystal that turns John Jameson into the Man-Wolf from being exposed to it, that in addition to absorbing gamma radiation, can also transmit the energy through inflicted wounds that turns anyone into werewolves, making it contagious.
  • Mega Man (Ruby-Spears): Wolfbot only transforms under a full moon and is a butler otherwise, and can shoot his claws to turn people into werewolves.
  • Mighty Max: "Werewolves of Dunneglen" has Max travel to Scotland to confront what was thinks to be a murderous werewolf. It turns out that the werewolves are the immortal protectors of the land and are quite benevolent. While they do have the power to shift shape between human and wolf forms, it's not an ability that they can willingly transfer via a bite. In fact, their power is being stolen by the actual villain of the episode, who captured the pack and is milking them of essence.
  • Monster Farm: Scare-Woof is a werewolf dog.
  • Monster Force: Niles Lupon, alias Bela the Werewolf, the one who cursed Luke's grandfather, seems to be a harmless old man when in human form and becomes a hulking, red-furred humanoid wolf when he shifts forms. The more benevolent Luke, meanwhile, becomes a grayish-toned Wolf Man when he transforms. It's implied that this is because the curse has been in Luke's bloodline for generations.
    • All werewolves seem to have Magic Pants, their clothes will be shredded during the transformation, but will revert back to normal if they change back to human form.
    • In episode 8, there is an order of monks who have designed rooms, doors, and cages that cannot be used by werewolves. Niles is captured by them before the episode.
    • Niles is shown to have a variety of Antagonist Abilities. He can freely shapeshift from human to werewolf form at night, create werewolves than he can summon and command, and in episode 8 he assumes the form of a different human. This last ability is never explained nor seen again.
    • According to Doc, there are 'real' werewolves like Niles and Luke while there are the Mooks Niles creates in episode 2. These humans revert back after Niles is presumed dead. Doc never explains the difference between Luke's family curse and the townspeople who revert back by the end of the episode.
  • Monsters vs. Aliens (2013): In "The Wormhole Has Turned", Dr. Cockroach's teleportation device yields one that only goes as far as twenty feet. Also, it's lactose intolerant.
  • My Gym Partner's a Monkey: In the episode "Up All Night", Windsor explains the difference between a werewolf and a wolf man.
  • Nate Is Late: "The Werewolf" features one that can change without needing a full moon just by the scent of food. Though the transformations can be contained by a special necklace. She can still pass on her lycanthropy by a bite or scratch, but that can be cured with medicinal plants and a werewolf's saliva.
  • Bernard from OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes outwardly defies many werewolf stereotypes; he's outwardly polite and friendly, he's Happily Married to a vampire, and while he appears as an anthropomorphic wolf at all times, exposure to the full moon turns him fully human.
  • In the PAW Patrol episode, "Pups and the Werepuppy", has the titular werepuppy, a werewolf-ish transformation of a pup (in this case, Rocky) into a larger, stronger, furrier version of themselves.
  • The Pet Alien episode "Night of the Werescruffy" reveals that if Scruffy is fed anchovy pizza while the full moons of Conforma are aligned and the global population of Conforma engages in a synchronized belch at the same time, he becomes a large, werewolf-like creature called a Werescruffy. While in this state, he's inclined to eat anyone in sight and eating sugar makes him grow 400 times in size. However, the transformation only lasts fifteen minutes, at which point he reverts back to normal and vomits out everything he swallowed.
  • At the beginning of the Phineas and Ferb episode "The Curse of Candace", the movie that Candace and Stacy watch "Early Evening", which featured a werewolf.
  • The Pickle and Peanut episode, "Tweenage Lupinus", Peanut thinks he's turned into a werewolf, he tries to make Pickle one. However, both of them turn into werewolves.
  • In one episode of Pink Panther and Pals, "Remotely Pink", Pink Panther uses the remote to turn the sky from day to night which turns a bicycle newspaper delivery boy into a werewolf.
  • PJ Masks has The Wolfy Kids, a trio of werewolf-like villains. Physically, they mostly resemble the beastman version of werewolves (human looking, but with claws on their hands and feet, sharp teeth, pointy ears and long messy hair). They also display typical wolf behaviour like running on all fours, howling, and biting, though they can also walk on just their hind legs, and are still capable of speech.
  • Popeye episode "The Wiffle Bird's Revenge" has Wimpy turning into a werewolf every time he says "hamburger".
  • Rabbids Invasion: In the episode "Rabbid Werewolf", a Rabbid turns into a werewolf after putting shampoo on.
  • The Real Ghostbusters:
    Peter: Egon, not to be intrusive or unduly nosy, but what do you mean by "worse"?
    Egon: Well, when a vampire bites someone, he becomes a vampire, right?
    Peter: Right.
    Ray: And when a werewolf bites someone, they become a werewolf too!
    Egon: Exactly! So what happens when a werewolf bites a vampire, and a vampire bites a werewolf?
  • Road Rovers: The humans, even humanoid canines (such as in the case of Colleen) can become werewolves. The cure is to use swamp water.
  • Lycanthropes in Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends are actually aliens who look like humanoid wolf creatures. They poses the ability to shape-shift back and forth between their true form and a human appearance.
  • Rugrats (2021): "The Werewoof Hunter" has the standard horror movie idea of werewolves being people turning into feral humanoid wolves due to a bite, but with the kid-friendly twist that the curse can be lifted just by putting a band-aid on the wound.
  • Scooby-Doo:
    • After Shaggy is turned into the titular character in Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf he reverts to his old self by saying "Oogly boogly wobbly wye, no more a werewolf am I, I'm going to be a normal guy!"
    • Winnie the Werewolf from Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School is a student of the titular All-Ghouls School.
    • In the direct-to-video Halloween film, Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King, Scooby Doo and Shaggy go to the Magic World and encounter a bartender who was a werewolf. They manage to convince him that they're a werewolf themselves by using a variation of the Totem Pole Trench and switching themselves to make it look like Shaggy transforming into Scooby. Velma becomes a werewolf very briefly (along with Fred who becomes a vampire, and Daphne who turns into a witch) as a result of the Goblin King's magic scepter.
    • Big Top Scooby-Doo!: The Monster of the Week is a werewolf which is terrorizing a circus and stealing jewelry. In Scooby-Doo tradition, however, the monster is actually a person in a suit, surprisingly the first for a werewolf in the franchise.
  • The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror:
    • "Treehouse of Horror X": The segment "I Know What You Diddily-Iddily-Did" ends with Ned revealing he survived Marge running him over because he was attacked by a large grey Dire Wolf just before, and then becomes a Man-Wolf right after; a rare case of two types in one show. Oddly, werewolves are described as undead creatures, despite that not being the case in myth or most other depictions of them.
    • "Treehouse of Horror XVI": In the segment "(I've Grown) A-Costume to Your Face", after a witch curses everyone in Springfield to transform into their costumes, Bart becomes a wolf-man, since he was dressed as Eddie Munster.
  • The Smurfs (1981):
    • In "A Wolf In Peewit's Clothing", Peewit becomes a werewolf when he eats an enchanted condiment called Wolf Gravy with his dinner, and is turned back to normal by eating a garlic bud. The same thing also happens to Greedy, although only his face gets turned into something vaguely resembling a wolf.
    • In "I Was A Brainy Weresmurf", Brainy turns into a furry blue weresmurf by being scratched by a thorny plant called wolfsbane, and is turned back to normal by wearing a garland of silveroot and garlic.
  • Spider-Man Unlimited: This series marks the first time that John Jameson's form the Man-Wolf has appeared outside of the comics. Unlike his counterparts, in which his transformation caused by a gem, this version of him was the result of being experimented by the High Evolutionary and happens when he gets angry.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: In the episode "The Great Patty Caper", when Patrick asks the train conductor if he is a werewolf, the full moon suddenly appears and a random fish turns into one.
  • Summer Camp Island: The island has a hidden werewolf population. Their leader is just a normal talking wolf, while the other werewolves are various other residents of the island, including Betsy, one of the camp counselors, and they get together on a full moon to have parties. Hedgehog actually stays as one of them at the end of the episode. For some reason, they also like to eat shoes.
  • Super Monsters: Lobo Howler and his whole family, save for his cousin Vida, who's a skeleton instead of a werewolf.
  • Tom and Jerry Tales: "Monster Con" has Jerry befriending a werewolf that acts like a playful dog. Tom also turns into a "werewolf-cat" after getting bitten by said werewolf.
  • The Tom and Jerry Show (2014): In "Werewolf of Catsylvania", a puppy becomes a werewolf.
  • Toonsylvania: "WereGranny" has Dr. Vic's grandmother become a werewolf who changes even when she looks at a picture of the moon or hears someone say "moon". Igor and Phil initially think that they've turned Dr. Vic's granny into a werewolf by brewing her tea from wolfbane, but Dr. Vic reveals at the end of the episode that his grandmother has always been a werewolf.
  • Total DramaRama: In "Cluckwork Orange", Cody was turned into a werewolf, because he sucked his thumb after petting a wolverine, without washing his hands first.
  • Ugly Americans: Werewolves turn shortly after being bitten, but retain their intelligence. They're still pretty vicious though, one tore a man's arm off just to get tickets to a magic show. After turning, that man grew his arm back, albeit very slowly (it took the entire episode just to grow the arm to half its original size). They also don't turn back, or it hasn't been shown anyway.
  • Vampirina: The family dog, named Wolfie, is a werewolf. When either the sun sets or he either eats or drinks either milk or anything milk-related, the change happens, and anything like the morning sunlight (or a sun lamp) will reverse it. Wolfie is pretty harmless even in werewolf form. Just intimidatingly huge.
  • Welcome to the Wayne: All it takes to transform someone is contact with werewolf saliva, while the cure is a specific brand of lip gloss to the lips. Werewolf hunters fend them off with spatulas instead of spoons.

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