WMG / Bojack Horseman Miscellaneous

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There's a very long and horrific history of Fantastic Racism in the BoJack Horseman world.

For most of (recorded) history, humans ruled over all the other animals, treating them as inferior creatures beneath any dignity. Domestic animals were treated as slaves, at best they were pets used as companions and laborers, or at worst they were livestock slaughtered for food. Wild animals were treated as savage tribes, and were also hunted for food.

Eventually most animals successfully fought for their freedom, however a minority of them continued to be drugged up and stupefied to become food (as seen in the "Chickens" episode). Also, some members of wild animal species (like deer) are similarly drugged up and then released to the woods, so that they can be shot with impunity by hunters.

Animals throughout history

• Horses and dogs were the first animals to willingly make alliances with humans. Dogs with their sharp sense of smell became indisposable as hunting companions. Horses with their incredible strength and stamina helped with plowing fields and pulling carts and carriages. There were a few strikes and uprisings from horses and dogs who didn't feel fairly compensated. People who could afford it often dressed the horses pulling their carriages in livery. A contraption meant to force such horses to keep their heads straight up was banned after the publication of Black Beauty, this world's equivalent to Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The kidnapping of Edward VI was foiled by a spear bearing guard who just happened to be a Spaniel. He was shot and killed as he shouted for other guards to come help him. When they got there, they found the Spaniel dead from a gunshot and Thomas Seymour attempting to drag the young king from his bed. Seymour's crimes were read at his execution as both high treason and murder.
• Marie-Antoinette's perfumed sheep were among the peasants who revolted against her. Apparently, she overestimated their loyalty to her and "forgot" to pay them for entertaining her and her guests as they played at being peasants.
• St. Gellert was a greyhound who was a valet to Prince Llewelyn. Gellert was asked to watch Llewelyn's son while the prince went hunting. While the prince was away, a wolf tried to kidnap the baby and Gellert had to kill him to save the baby. Llewelyn came home to see an overturned cradle and Gellert covered in blood with a knife drawn. Gellert barely had time to say "Wait! I can explain!" before Llewelyn rammed his sword into him. When Llewelyn found the dead body of a wolf and his son alive, he ordered Gellert buried with all honors. St. Gellert has since been canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church.
• Hachikō was involved in one of the first human/dog marriages recognized in Japan. Unfortunately, she went a little crazy after the sudden death of her husband Hidesaburō Ueno, and refused to leave the train station where she always came to greet him after work.
• Catherine O'Leary was a recently immigrated Irish Moiled cow who built a fire to keep herself warm one night, but fell asleep and let it go out of control, resulting in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
• Incitatus was a member of Caligula's consul. Caligula rewarded him handsomely for spying on his enemies for him.
• Bucephalus was Alexander the Great's Aide-de-Camp and, allegedly, his lover. Most movies made about Alexander tend to gloss over these allegations.
• Cher Ami was the code name of a pigeon who transported secret messages for La Resistance in World War II.
• Most presidential "pets" were nannies or tutors hired to help take care of the president's kids. Poll Grey (An ancestor of famed motivational speaker Alex Grey) was a valet and close friend to Andrew Jackson. Poll was asked to leave Jackson's funeral because he was shouting swear words in a fit of grief. Hilmar and Hermione Beagle were a married couple serving as maid and butler in Lyndon Johnson's household, until they quit, citing abuse from the president. Johnson swore Hilmar's vehicular death was an accident. Socks was Chelsea Clinton's piano teacher who did not get along with Buddy, Bill Clinton's PR consultant.
• Dolly Dorset was a scientist who discovered genetic cloning.
• Laika the dog was a Soviet cosmonaut, famous for being the first person to ever visit outer space.
• Ham Chimpson was the first American astronaut in space.
• Jumbo the elephant was a clown in P. T. Barnum's circus. He died after shoving another elephant clown (Tom Thumb) out of the way of a train.
• Topsy the elephant lived a tragic life as an abused slave who was abducted from her jungle village in Southeast Asia. Brought to America to perform as a clown in Adam Forepaugh's circus, she eventually snapped and beat a spectator to death, for which she was sentenced to execution by electric chair. The phrase "elephant in the room" emerged from this incident since no one really wanted to talk about the injustices that led to Topsy snapping.
• Mary the elephant was another circus clown who fatally beat her supervisor Red Eldridge, after he struck her for pausing to have a quick snack during a parade. She was then thrown into a local jail, where she was dragged outside by a lynch mob and then extrajudicially executed via public hanging.
• Tyke was the stage name of a Mozambique-born elephant performer who became known for one of the most serious incidents of workplace violence in Hawaii when she attacked her personal assistant and then fatally bludgeoned a coworker who came to the the man's aid. Afterwards, she charged out into the streets, attacking anyone within reach until she was killed in a hail of police gunfire.
• The British soldier Jim Corbett was a Bounty Hunter renowned for slaying multiple leopard/tiger serial killers in British India:
  • The Champawat Tigress was a serial killer who was born in Nepal. After a run-in in with the Nepalese Army, she fled to India where she killed villagers who went into the forest to gather firewood and resources, as she hoped these deaths would be chalked up to people disappearing in the forests. She was eventually killed in a shootout with Jim Corbett. This act would then propel the (relatively unknown) soldier to fame as a bounty hunter, who specialized in capturing or killing the most dangerous of serial killers in India.
  • The Leopard of Panar was a scavenger who exploited a cholera epidemic to enrich himself by looting bodies and homes of the deceased. He soon became greedy and started murdering people for their belongings. He killed and robbed upwards of 400 people, but the true number is likely to be unknown as he committed his crimes in the Panar region which was a very remote part of northern India, during the early 20th century. He was killed in a shootout with Jim Corbett in 1910.
  • The Leopard of Rudraprayag was another scavenger who took advantage of the 1918 influenza pandemic and high death toll to enrich himself by looting the bodies and homes of the deceased. After the pandemic died down, greed took over and he became a Serial Killer, murdering and robbing pilgrims on their way to the Hindu shrines located in Kedarnath and Badrinath. In some cases, he would even break into houses, kill the inhabitants as they slept and steal all their belongings. He is estimated to have killed at least 125 people, but the true number of victims is likely higher. He successfully evaded British and Gurkha soldiers sent to capture him but was eventually killed after a ten-week-long manhunt and subsequent shootout with Jim Corbett.
• Timothy Treadwell was an eccentric nature photographer who often spent summers camping in Katmai National Park, Alaska. Out of loneliness, he frequently visited a nearby village of grizzly bears, who thought of him as being a crazy yet harmless weirdo. Treadwell and his girlfriend Amie Huguenard were eventually killed (and allegedly eaten) by a male brown bear after he filmed the bear fishing, as the bear did not want to be photographed (speculations suggested that the bear was a fugitive criminal or was doing something illegal up there). The bear was ultimately shot and killed after he attacked park rangers who went to search his house, fearing they would find Treadwell's and Huguenard's bodies and arrest him for their murders.
  • Treadwell's life and death were the focus of Werner Herzog's true crime documentary Grizzly Man, which included interviews with some of the Alaskan grizzly bears whom he was acquainted with, along with the park rangers who pursued and fought his killer.
• The Battle of Ramree Island was an ambush of retreating Japanese soldiers perpetrated by the local Saltwater Crocodile communities in retribution of war crimes committed by the IJA, which would result in the near-total annihilation of Japanese forces who were allegedly Eaten Alive by the crocodiles as well as neighboring snakes and insects. This event has been controversial amongst most mainstream WW2 historians who cite the battle as an Urban Legend due to the fact that the crocodile community had relatively primitive weapons thanks to their isolation from the rest of the world. Supporters however cite that the Japanese were already weakened by malnutrition and disease and that the crocodiles were in fact covertly supported by the British who were invading Ramree at the time giving them a lopsided advantage over the normally technologically superior Japanese.
• The Tsavo Butchers were a duo of maneless lions whose usual food supply was decimated by the diseases the British colonists (human and animal) brought to Kenya. In desperation, they began to raid the camps of the workers who were hired to build the Kenya-Uganda Railway to steal food. After one of their raids goes awry, leaving one of the lions severely injured, the duo decide to take revenge on the people who destroyed their food supply by entering the camps and abducting workers, who are usually found killed and mutilated. Eventually, John Henry Patterson succeeded in ambushing and killing the duo after a wild running gunfight.
• Travis was a chimpanzee actor who had appeared in several commercials and TV programs. He did not handle fame too well and as a result, he quickly became addicted to Xanax. After seeing Charla Nash handling one of his awards, Travis flew into a Xanax-induced rage and severely injured her. Still high on Xanax, he attacked a responding police officer and was fatally shot.
• Fufu the dog was a royal bodyguard and close friend of Thailand's Crown Prince (and future King) Vajiralongkorn. Fufu became (in)famous due to an online video which showed the dog sharing a birthday cake with Vajiralongkorn's wife Srirasmi (who was only wearing a G-string); which led to wild rumors among Thai people, claiming that Fufu was in a secret three-way sexual relationship with both the Prince and Princess. Fufu became even more notorious when he (despite being a rather young and inexperienced soldier) was somehow promoted to the rank of Air Chief Marshal in the Royal Thai Air Force, which seemed to be a blatant act of cronyism on Vajiralongkorn's part. Fufu later died unexpectedly from an unknown illness in 2015, and was then given an expensive military funeral.
• The Gombe Chimpanzee War was a four-year-long blood feud between the Kahama and Kasakela chimp families in Tanzania over water and farmland. The end result was the near-complete annihilation of the Kahama family. This conflict was extensively documented by Jane Goodall in her 1986 book The Chimpanzees of Gombe.
• Wojtek was a Iranian orphan who adopted by one of the many Polish civilians who accompanied the Polish armed forces after they were deported to the Soviet Union. He soon became enamored with Anatol Tarnowieck and with his parents' permission, he hung around their camp and soon became their unofficial mascot. By sheer coincidence, by the time he reached his teens, the Polish II Corps had been reassigned to fight in the Italian Campaign alongside the British Eighth Army. Without hesitation, he enlisted but due to speciesism at the time, he was only permitted to serve in non-combat roles. Regardless of such, during the Battle of Monte Cassino, he assisted the soldiers by carrying artillery ammunition to the front lines. For this, he received a promotion to corporal.
• Kesagake was a Ussuri brown bear, who began raiding the food supplies of the settlers after losing his usual hunting grounds and farmland to deforestation. It was after he was shot and injured during one of his raids that he began to attack and kill settlers in retaliation. He was shot by Yamamoto Heikichi after a three-day search. Kesagake was also implicated in the killings of three women but those were never conclusively proven. More lurid tales allege that he also ate parts of his victims, but as his body was quickly buried (and the survivors of his attack did not wish to discuss them), those allegations remain unproven.
• Alex Grey was a parrot and motivational speaker who encouraged his listeners to identify what was different about them and embrace it in order to unlock their true potential. He had a sudden fatal heart attack after telling his assistant Irene Pepperberg he would see her tomorrow.
• On October 6th, 1945, A billy goat and tavern owner named Murphy Sianis was kicked out of a Chicago Baby Humans game for drunk and disorderly conduct. He responded with "Yeah, you guys stink anyway!" After the Baby Humans lost to the Detroit Samurai, they started a decades long losing streak. Rumors abound that Murphy somehow cursed the team.
• "Clever" Hans von Osten was a horse who claimed he was capable of reading minds. His most well-known trick was to tell people to think of a number and then he'd tap out that number on the table. His performances were debunked by Oskar Pfungst, who found out that he was simply very skilled at reading body language. Even after the debunking of his performances, he continued to perform his mind-reading tricks throughout Germany.
• Diane Whipple was a lacrosse player killed by two Presa Canario gangsters named Janet "Hera" Coumbs and Paul "Bane" Scheider. At the time of the murder, both of them were out on parole, despite serving time for armed robbery. Robert Noel and Marjorie Knoller, the two lawyers who advocated placing the duo on parole were later found to have failed to disclose a conflict of interests for the parole hearing as they were both good friends with them. Later testimony revealed that Janet had assaulted an acquaintance of Robert and Paul had run a motorist off the road and threatened them with a gun in a road rage incident; neither of these incidents were reported to police. Janet and Paul were sentenced to death for Diane's murder and Robert and Marjorie were disbarred for unethical behavior. Regardless, controversy still remains over how Janet and Paul were even eligible for parole given that they were serving time for armed robbery and they were both known to be violent career criminals with extensive criminal records.
• Throughout the 50's, 60's and even some of the 70's, Lassie Weatherwax was a famous Hollywood movie star. She usually played a nanny whose young charges got in trouble, and she'd have to rescue them using her courage and cleverness. She was both lauded and criticized in her time for playing female roles that defied the damsel in distress stereotype. After her death, it was revealed that Lassie was actually a trans female Rough Collie whose deadname was Pal Shetland.
• Gustave was Nile Crocodile who was feared throughout his homeland of Burundi as a serial killer who was said to have killed and eaten 200-300 people during the late 1990s and early 2000s. A film shot in 2004 documented the attempts of self-taught private investigator Patrice Faye to capture him. Due to the risk of civil war in Burundi at that time, they were unable to capture Gustave. While it was rumored that he was killed in 2019, there was no concrete evidence supporting such allegations and he still remains something of a boogeyman in his home country.
• Mr. Ed was a TV show in the early to mid 60's, but with a very different premise. Shortly after architect Wilber Post built a cottage on his property to use as an office, his old college roommate Ed Lane (Played by Bamboo Harvester) showed up, disowned by his rich family due to his partying too hard and embarrassing the family. The first season was Wilber hiding the fact from his wife that Ed was living in his office. When Connie Hines complained that it made her character look stupid, the second season had her find out about Ed, and be OK with him living in the cottage as long as he got a job to pay for his share of groceries. From season 2 on, there was a running gag about Ed getting jobs and money-making schemes that blew up in his face. Because of the time, what he did with girls he brought to the cottage was left to inuendo and they were only shown dancing to rock music. Despite the character being something of a ladies' man, there was a rumor that Bamboo was gay. Actually, he was asexual. He married a lesbian and they adopted some kids to keep up appearances. Bamboo didn't have quite a good relationship with his kids, who rarely visited him when he was older.
• Shamu was a tragic tale. She was kidnapped at a young age, trafficked and forced to perform in various strip clubs. She managed to get out of the clubs and working for herself in porno films. She put on a glamorous and sexy facade, but she was doing a variety of drugs to cope with how unhappy she was. Things came to a head when she was forced into a girl-on-girl scene with bikini model Annette Eckis. Shamu revolted, injuring Annette in the process. Four months later, Shamu died of a heroin overdose.
• Tilikum was a native Icelandic orca forced into a life of indentured servitude due to unscrupulous employment agencies. He spent most of his life as an entertainer at Sealand of the Pacific and later Seaworld, both of them competing marine fantasyland theme parks. He is known to have killed three humans.
  • Keltie Lee Byrne was the supervisor of Nootka, Haida and Tilikum who had cheated the three performers out of their pay in order to keep them longer as indentured servants and who allowed the non-indentured performers to harass and abuse the indentured performers. As a result, the three orcas, who were indentured servants, murdered her in retaliation for cheating them out of their pay and fostering a toxic work environment. Sealand of the Pacific quickly fired the three orcas, claimed Keltie's death was a workplace accident and closed down shortly after.
  • Daniel P. Dukes was a troubled vagrant with a history of petty thefts who was found dead inside Tilikum's room at Seaworld. Tilikum maintains the man was drunk, slipped and hit his head on the edge of a table. But there are rumors Tilikum caught him stealing and bludgeoned him to death.
  • Dawn Brancheau was Tilikum's supervisor at Seaworld whom he attacked (and later died from the injuries he inflicted) after she touched him despite him warning her that he wanted to be left alone. This then resulted in an investigation, followed by the award-winning documentary film Blackfish that revealed deceptive hiring practices, use of indentured servants as staff, abusive working conditions for the marine mammal staff as well as extreme workplace toxicity and bullying that was ignored, if not encouraged by upper management.
• Joe Camel was a model and small-time actor in the 50's when he got his big break starring in commercials for Camels cigarettes. When the FCC made it illegal to advertise cigarettes on TV, Joe continued to license his likeness in magazines and billboards. In the 60's, Camels got on board the feminism train by producing Humps, cigarettes marketed to women. Joe personally "auditioned" the models to advertise Humps. He made enough money by 1987 to invest in a Las Vegas hotel/casino he called "Joe's Place" where he often hosted photo shoots for magazine ads. He was criticized for making smoking look cool, especially for young people. Joe laughed off the claims, until he was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1997. His last photoshoot was of himself in his empty casino, his fur fallen out and looking very unglamorous. It was his way of repenting his years as a cigarette spokesperson. He died before the ad went to print.
• Mantacore was a white tiger who worked as a magician's assistant for the duo at the Mirage Casino. In 2003, he severely injured Roy Horn by botching a dangerous magic trick. While Roy claims that the botched trick was an attempt by Mantacore to force him to cancel the show and see a doctor for a persistent injury, the spokesman for Mantacore, Chris Lawrence claims that it was due to Mantacore not being properly trained to perform the trick. In addition, he also claims that the duo and the Mirage Casino covered up the real reason for the incident to protect their reputations.
• George was a elderly Jack Russell Terrier who was watching over a group of five children at an afterschool program when two pit bulls, angry over the perceived failure of the school to address bullying that eventually led to their children dying by suicide, decided to attack the children out of a twisted sense of revenge.. George died from multiple stab wounds as he held off the two attackers, giving the children time to flee the scene. He was posthumously awarded the George Cross for his actions in saving the lives of the five children.

Some theories regarding this show's version of Australia.

• The Emu War was a literal war. The Australian Army fought against a tribe of anthropomorphic emu birds (who were ethnically Aboriginal), and the former side somehow lost the conflict (or at least failed to exterminate the latter).
• Azaria Chamberlain was killed and eaten by a murderous anthropomorphic dingo. As a result, "Dingoes ate my baby!" became a rather controversial misquote.
• "Crocodile" Dundee also attracted controversy due to the crocodile attack scene, which made these reptiles look like savage beasts.
• Kangaroo Jack was widely criticized and mocked for its depiction of the titular character, who was considered to be an Animal Scrappy.
  • Or it may have been a case of Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales, since the titular character is constantly outsmarting and triumphing over the human protagonists.
• Steve Irwin was still killed by a stingray while diving. Only in this world, that stingray was arrested on murder charges.

Some theories regarding this show's version of India.

• Cattle, elephants, monkeys, etc. tend to serve as clergy in Hindu temples, due to the popular reverence of these animals in Hinduism.
• The city of Chennai, Tamil Nadu is mostly populated by birds. It is also a city geared to tourists, and has many businesses that show off their attractive young avian employees, to capitalize on the diverse bird population that gets the place attention. Humans and other non-birds have thrived from this even more than the birds, but it's bittersweet for them since they feel underrepresented.
• The pug Cheeka, who appeared in commercials for a cellular service, lead to both her and the boy in the commercials (Jayaram) becoming heavily hounded celebrities. This unfortunately caused an unexpected consequence; many people, due to this being their first exposure to pugs, developed a fetish for that dog breed, leading to increased trafficking of poor pugs from China to India by canine traffickers working alongside Mail-Order Bride companies; and some locals will annoy, stalk, and gaslight pug tourists. Cheeka is really disturbed by this, as is her kid co-star Jayaram, feeling partly responsible for the situation. It has since thankfully died down to some degree since the mid-to-late 2000s.
• The man-eating tigress Avni was a highly publicized serial killer, before she was caught and executed thanks to the help of a goat patrolman who risked his own life to lure her out. Her death was controversial, due to the involvement of other criminals who targeted the tiger minority in India on a regular basis.
• New Delhi and several other cities have had problems with macaque street gangs who harass tourists and locals alike, pick-pocketing them or just outright mugging or even attacking them.

Actors, creators, and other celebrities who are animals in this universe may include...

• Michael Rooker is Michael Rook, a rook.
• Seth Green is a European green lizard, and was born Seth Lacerta Viridis-Green.
• Jessica Alba is Jessica Albatross, an albatross.
• Shakira is a gazelle.
• Benicio del Toro is a bull.
• Guillermo del Toro is also a bull.
• B.D. Wong is Black Dog "B. D." Wong, a dog with black fur, specifically a Chinese Imperial.
  • The B.D. Wong one might not be possible, since "Brrap Brrap Pew Pew" already brought him up during the abortion conversation in MSNBSea, and he was human.
• Thea Gill is a yellowfish.
• Rinko Kikuchi is a rabbit, playing off her Typecasting as a woman of few words, and rabbits being thought of as generally quiet animals.
• Mike Colter is a horse.
• Steven Seagal is a bird named Steven Seagull. It's kind of a missed opportunity that Steven never appeared in this show, considering that he's already a parody of himself in real life.
• US President Harry S. Truman was a hairy woodpecker.
• Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel is a Bichon Frise.
• The members of Man With a Mission are actual wolves instead of men in wolf masks.
• The members of Coldplay are all chimpanzees as a reference to the Animated Music Video for "Adventure of a Lifetime".
• Kendrick Lamar is Kendrick Duckworth, a duck. At one point, he meets Illinois senator Tammy Duckworth and is surprised to learn that she isn't a duck. Then professional baseball pitcher Brandon Duckworth, who is a duck, jumps out of a nearby closet and, for absolutely no reason, shouts out that English footballer Michael Duckworth also isn't a duck.
• Ryan Gosling is a goose.
• Rhea Seehorn is a rhea bird.
• David Harbour is a harbor seal.
• Finn Wolfhard is a wolf.
• Megan Fox is, well, take a guess.
  • A Wire Fox Terrier? What? It'd make for a decent Bait-and-Switch joke in the show itself.
• Lionel Richie is a lion.
• Tiger Woods is a tiger.
• Elon Musk is a rodent whose full name is Elongated Muskrat.
  • Halfway confirmed. "Elon Muskrat" was made canon in "Sunk Cost and All That" on BoJack's whiteboard.
• Eddie Izzard is a reptile named Eddie Lizard.
• Mark Ruffalo is a bovine named Mark Buffalo.
• Buffalo Bill was, despite what some might assume, not a literal buffalo; he was just a human with an animal nickname.
• Matt Damon is... well actually, he's just a regular human. But according to some fringe corners of the Internet, this guy's real birth name is in fact Matt Daemon, and he is The Antichrist himself!^note (Though only if you choose to believe in all this crazy nonsense.)
  • He's the human Mitt Dermon.
• CNN's Wolf Blitzer is an Atlantic wolf fish.
• Romare Bearden was a bear.
• Milton Horn was a horned owl.
• The electroclash duo Fischerspooner's two members are a Fischer's lovebird and a spoonbill, but, in a situation similar to the bit with Scott Wolf and Matthew Fox, Warren Fischer is the spoonbill and Casey Spooner is the lovebird.
• Billy Bush is a bush dog, possibly named Billy Bushdog.
  • This would be quite ironic given the existence of "A Billy Bush Type" who is a human.
• Shay Mitchell is a cougar.
• Timothy Olyphant is an elephant.
• Rami Malek is an Abyssinian cat.
• Jodie Comer is a Yorkshire Terrier.
• Jennifer Carpenter is a cheetah.
• Charles, Prince of Wales is a whale. He's very touchy about the homophone to the point of infamy, meaning that Donald Trump misnaming him as "the Prince of Whales" on Twitter was met with even more jokes than in real life.
  • This would make the joke in "INT. SUB" about Diana, Princess of W[h]ales complaining about being "all things to all whales" more Hilarious in Hindsight.
• Kathryn Newton is a poodle. Or a newt.
• Penn Badgley is an opossum.
  • Either that, or a badger named Penn Badger.
• Tony Curtis is a tiger, so Todd confusing him with Tony the Tiger in "After the Party" actually isn't too ridiculous.
• Foxes is a fox.
• Butch Hartman is an American Rottweiler.
• Ariana Grande is a black labrador retreiver.
• Lady Gaga is a goose (obviously because of her pseudonym).
• Bjork is a swan, and wore a human dress to the 2001 Academy Awards.
• Pedro Capó is a mountain lion.
• Ava Max is a bat. (mainly to coincide with her passion of ghouls and dark nature).
• Ally Brooke is a pelican.
• Anne-Marie is a frog.
• Marshmello is a polar bear (in order for his fur color to coincide with the mask he wears).
• Dua Lipa is a llama.
• Antonia is a brown horse.
• A Boogie wit da Hoodie is a cricket.
• Donald Trump is an armadillo.
• Khaled is a walrus.
• Katy Perry is a Siamese tiger.
• Jay Roach is a roach. Not a cockroach, that is, just a regular fish.
• Becky G is a Mexican burro.
• Ed Sheeran is a bear.
• Camila Cabello is a black bear.
• Britney Spears is a Great Pyrenees dog.
• Jennifer Lopez is a British Shorthair Cat.
• Little Sis Nora is a black labrador retriever.
• Olivia Rodrigo is a monkey.
• Demi Lovato is a rhyno.
• Léa Seydoux is a papillon.
• Daniel Craig is a falcon.
• Pedro Pascal is a golden lion tamarin.
• Ana de Armas is an aye-aye.
• Annie Murphy is a weasel.
• Chicha Amatayakul is a striped hyena.
• Willie Wolfe, a founding member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, was indeed a wolf. He adopted the name "Kahjoh" but the media (to his annoyance)misspelled it as "Cujo". A few years after Wolfe's death after a gunfight with LAPD, Stephen King would write a novel about a St. Bernard mechanic named Cujo who contracted a zombie virus after trying to help a bat that he thought had been in an accident. (Actually, a zombie virus infected a local bat burial ground.) King doesn't remember why exactly he made the title character a St. Bernard rather than a wolf, though it's speculated to work with the "work of fiction...resemblance to real people" disclaimer.

Fictional characters who are animals instead of humans in-universe include...

• DC Comics:
  • Batman: Various characters (the ones with animal codenames, such as The Penguin) might be literal animals. However, Batman himself is still a human dressed like a bat.
  • Wonder Woman: Interestingly enough, there's a canon variation of this theory that appears in the actual show itself; during Season 5, the Warbler Bros. studio headquarters has a poster for a movie called Wonder Worm.
• Marvel Comics:
  • Spider-Man: The titular hero is obviously still a human with spider-like abilities. However, there's one amusingly major difference to his origin story: Peter Parker would've been bit by an irradiated spider that was also anthropomorphic. So just imagine a man-sized spider having a casual conversation with Peter, before biting him for no apparent reason.
  • X-Men: Nightcrawler is an earthworm; a mutant earthworm with non-earthworm traits, like blue skin. Oh, and Wolverine is obviously a literal wolverine, who just happens to have retractable metal claws.
• Star Wars:
  • Sabine Wren of Star Wars Rebels is a Sabine's gull.
  • Finn is a melon-headed whale. Because fins, get it?
  • Tarkin is a rat.
• Star Trek:
  • Data, while still an android, looks like a brant/brent goose, played by Brant Spiner.
• Hellboy:
  • The titular protagonist is instead a harbor seal-like demon (because as mentioned in the above WMG, David Harbour (who plays the character in Hellboy (2019)) is a harbor seal).
  • Abe Sapien wouldn't be all that special in a world filled with anthropomorphic fish people, so he's a human who can do everything a fish can.
• Lilo & Stitch: Cobra Bubbles is a cobra.
• Clue: Mrs. White is a wolfdog named Mrs. Whitefang.
• RWBY: Qrow is a crow.
• Hey Arnold!: Stinky Peterson is a skunk.
• Ed, Edd n Eddy:
  • The eds are all three of them sewer rats.
  • Sarah will remain a human, as her mom (a human) married to a rat.
  • Jimmy is a lamb.
  • Nazz is a squirrel.
  • Kevin is a raccoon.
  • Rolf is a gray European bison.
• Total Drama:
  • Chris McLean is a Bengal tiger.
  • Chef Hatchet is a gorilla.
  • Owen is a bull.
  • Lindsay is an American Quarter Horse.
  • Harold is a basset hound.
  • Leshanaw is a Santa Gertrude cow.
  • DJ is a platypus. Same for his mom.
  • Duncan is a Nile crocodile.
  • Courtney is a deer.
  • Bridgette is a dolphin.
  • Tyler is a Provence Donkey.
  • Katie and Sadie are both cows.
  • Cody is a yellow domestic duck.
  • Beth is a bunny rabbit.
  • Heather is (also) an American Quarter Horse.
  • Eva is a crow.
  • Alejandro is a black horse.
  • Sierra is a donkey.
  • Leshaniqua is a Galloway cow.
  • Zoey and Mike are both domestic cats. Zoey dyed her fur to purple.
  • Brick is a bear.
  • Jo is a sparrow.
  • Lightning is a yellow-tailed woolly monkey.
  • Scott is a rat. Since, as he admitted, grew on a smelly farm, he very well is a stinky rat. Which is why a running gag in the series would be the other characters holding their noses when they are around him.
  • Anne Maria is a Hackney horse.
  • B is a bulldog.
  • Sam is (also) a bulldog.
  • Rodney is (also) a rat.
  • Jasmine is a kangaroo.
  • Sky is a white lion.
  • Dave is a mountain lion.
  • Amy and Samey are Siamese dogs.
  • Max is a wasp.
  • Scarlett is a domestic pig.
  • Topher is an opposum.
  • Sugar is (also) a domestic pig.
  • Jerd McLean remains a human, unlike Chris, because of being native to the hometown he lives in and the fact tigers aren't living in Newfoundland.
• Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race:
  • Kelly and Taylor are hens.
  • Emma and Kitty are Munchkin cats.
  • Crimson is a pony, while Ennui is a Clydesdale horse.
  • Jay and Mickey are guinea pigs.
  • Ryan is a buffalo (while Stephanie remains human).
  • Brody is a toucan bird.
  • Sanders is a Dobermann and McArthur is an alligator.
  • Chet and Lorenzo are both chihuahuas.
  • Tom is a male ladybug, while Jen is a seagull.
  • Rock is a coyote. (Spud remains human)
  • Laurie is an emu, while Miles is a canary.
  • Mary and Ellody are both wild boars.
  • Tammy is a rhino (Leonard remains human).
• Phineas and Ferb:
  • Phineas, Ferb, Candace, their parents are grandparents are all tapirs.
  • Isabella (and her mother) are ponies.
  • Baljeet is a worm.
  • Perry would still be a platypus, but just another friend of Phineas and Ferb's, a kid with serious mental disabilities that thinks he is a secret agent. He would ocasionally torment Mr. Doofenshmirtz, the two brothers' next-door neighbour (who is a white eagle) that Perry sees as and pretends to be an evil scientist who wants to rule the world. Doofenshmirtz's catchphrase would still be "Curse you, Perry the Platypus!", but with another context that his peaceful life is always ruined by him. Doofenshmirtz, in this alternate show-within-a-show, works as an accountant.
• Scooby-Doo:
  • Shaggy is a brown chimpanzee.
  • Fred is a bull.
  • Velma is a hamster.
  • Scrappy-Doo will still be Scooby's nephew, but the reason he will be taken by his uncle on mystery solving is the fact Scooby's sister (with her husband) is gone oversees with her job and needs someone to take care of her son.
• Daria canonically exists in this world as a well-known MTV cartoon as in our world. One difference is Daria is a small Siamese mix cat. Jake Meowendorffer is a Persian and Helen is a Siamese. Daria got more of the Siamese traits and Quinn got more of the Persian traits. Because cats even in this world tend to be born in litters, Daria and Quinn might be in the same grade. They may even have at least one more sibling. Years after the show ran its course, pictures of Daria's face became the inspiration for the Grumpy Cat meme.
  • Kevin would likely be a dog, possibly a yellow lab like Mr. Peanut Butter.
  • Brittany would also be a dog, but a Yorkie who wears her fur in twin pigtails.
  • Mrs. Bennett is a butterfly who wears a brooch shaped like a human.
• Bojack tried to sue the writers of Sabrina the Teenage Witch for having a character named Sabrina. (He was a bit high at the time.) The case was thrown out as a personal name cannot be trademarked and anyway, the comic predated Horsin' Around. Nick Bombay (who, despite his name, is an American Shorthair "And proud of it".) was a former circus brat who was trained in acrobatics and contortionism but really wanted to go into comedy. When he and some other comic writers got together to come up with a show, someone suggested adapting one of the old Archie comics, noting that one of the characters is a black cat named Salem Saberhagen. In this universe, Salem is a wizard who happened to be a black cat. When he attempted world domination, the Wizard Council punished him by removing his arms. The Spellmans tell everyone he's a cousin who lost his arms in an accident. For the show, Nick would wear blue elbow length gloves that would be later chroma keyed out. He would take advantage of his circus training to do armless stunts that always got a reaction from the live studio audience. In one episode where he was meeting his daughter who didn't know he was missing his arms, Hilda put on furry black gloves and stood behind Salem, pretending to be his arms.
• Frankenberry of the Monster Cereals is much the same as in our world as the Frankenstein monster was made only out of human parts. (Otherwise, Dr. Frankenstein would look really stupid at being shocked by how it looked.) Carmella Creeper is the same. Count Chocula looks even more bat-like. Fruity Yummy Mummy is more cat-like as most of the early Egyptian rulers were cats. Fruit Brute never existed as werewolf legends either don't exist in this world or at least are seen in bad taste. Booberry looks like a blue lorikeet, due to being based on actor Peter Lory.

Talking dog/puppy movies aimed at children from real-life are actually mean-spirited affairs meant to mock and belittle dogs in-universe.

As a result, average dog children dislike them.

• Or perhaps such movies are not meant to be malicious, but they tend to contain invokedcringeworthy dog stereotypes, which naturally leads to film critics and animal activists complaining about them.

Rodeos are common in this world, but very different.

In this world, rodeos are a proud staple of blue-collar horse culture. (Upper-class horses tend to look down on it.) It consists of horses and bulls dressed in western wear chasing each other around with lariats. The champion is whoever can rope up the most opponents in the least amount of time. If you get roped yourself, you're out of the game. Think dodge ball with ropes. Bojack has an uncle on Butterscotch's side who taught him how to use a lariat, which came in handy when saving the baby seahorse. Beatrice discouraged him from associating with such "riff-raff" which was a shame. Uncle Cocoa would've been a much better role model than either of Bojack's parents. Even if he did have a porn stash that a young Bojack stumbled on.

• Steer wrestling is a common activity among working-class bulls and horses. It's a combat sport that consists of a horse chasing a bull and then attempting to tackle him, wrestle him to the ground and pin him until he taps out. The event is judged by how long it takes the horse to pin the bull. Also, while the steer can kick, punch, grapple and body slam all he wants, goring leads to automatic forfeiture of the match. Frequent goring incidents can lead to getting banned from the sport.

Ancient Egypt....

Most of the early royal families of Ancient Egypt were cats and were treated as though semi-divine. These cats were tall, slender and short furred, usually with a tabby or ticked pattern. Pharoah Khafre was behind the construction of the Pyramids of Giza. The Spinx, believed to be modeled after him, is a giant stone bipedal cat enthroned as he gazes upon his creation. Many of the Ancient Egyptian gods are animals as they appear on the show. Ammit is depicted as more bipedal in this world, but is still a huge, heart eating monster. Pharoah of the tale of Moses in the Bible is commonly depicted as a cat, turning many modern cats off on Abrahamic religion. The Ptolemic Dynasty saw more Romans and Macedonians enter the ruling class. They were mostly humans, horses and wolves. Cleopatra's personal physician was an asp who she pleaded to bring her death when she learned of Marc Anthony's death. Egyptian art depicts Cleopatra as a cat while Roman art depicts her as a wolf and Greek art depicts her as a horse. A few artworks even depict her as human. Which one she really was is a matter of historical debate. It is believed she was buried with Anthony, but their tomb has never been found.

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