Cat Coat Color and Patterns Artistic License

In cartoons, comics, animated movies and TV shows, and other fictional media (even more realistically drawn cats like in Warrior Cats), there are cats with coat colors and patterns that would be impossible in real life.

For example, Penelope Pussycat from Looney Tunes is a black cat with a white chest, belly, and muzzle but not feet. Real life cats with white chests, bellies, and muzzles also have white feet.

General Examples of Cat Coat Color and Pattern Artistic License Include:

• True solid orange and cream cats (Red and cream cats can be genetically non-agouti or solid, but even they still show the tabby pattern at least a little.)
• Black noses on all-white cats and any cat without black or seal point Siamese fur (i.e., an orange, cream, cinnamon, fawn, chocolate, lilac, or grey cat with a black nose.
• Tabby cats with stripes on the back and not on the legs. (Tabby stripes on a mackerel tabby cat are usually more distinct on the legs, and there are tabby cats with stripes on the legs and not he back.)
• The variation of the white spotting pattern the fictional cat has doesn't show up in real life. Examples include:
  • The black, grey, tabby, orange, cream, e.t.c. cat that has the whole belly and/or chest be white but the feet are left colored (A cat can have a white locket or button marking on the throat, chest, and/or belly without having white paws though.)
  • The cat is white but the paws, face, muzzle, and/or belly left colored (The white part of the white spotting pattern starts on the chest, belly, and paws. The last areas of the body left colored are the tail, top of head, and ears.)

Can you think of any cat coat colors and patterns in fiction that are impossible in real life? Can you think of any cartoon, comic, movie, or other fictional cat that has an impossible-in-real-life coat color or pattern?

Well, Not much other than male calico cats.

Also, I feel compelled to point out this is oddly specific.

Hello Kitty has a yellow nose and Heathcliff is an orange cat with a black nose.

This is not a trope. It's just something that happens. There's no extra meaning in the unnatural coat colors used on cats.

Agreed 100%.

Male calicos can exist but they're generally XXY.

Anyway I think this isn't really a trope and more because while cat coat genetics is something that has been studied most people don't have a lot of knowledge hanging around their brains and don't really figure to research. It doesn't have a certain meaning to the story and the inaccurate coloring of a cat does not actually affect the story.

Male calicos can also be chimeras or have a somatic mutation on the orange gene causing mosaicism. The latter looks like a black patch on an otherwise orange cat.