To-do list:
- Move examples of East Asian fox spirits from Kitsune to Asian Fox Spirit, and move examples of fox spirits from other cultures to Fantastic Foxes. Remove any examples that don't fit either.
- Possibly move parts of the old description to Analysis.Asian Fox Spirit.
Original post
I would like to draft a proposal to rename Kitsune to Nine-Tailed Fox (which it is presently a redirect for), Asian Fox Spirit, or something similar if neither of those proposals work.Japan isn't the only country to have myths, legends, and stories featuring multi-tailed fox-spirits, nor is it the country in which multi-tailed fox-spirits originated. And while Japan may have been — and still be — the most-prominent source of Western-imported media featuring fox-spirits over the course of the 20th and 21st centuries, more and more Korean and especially Chinese and Chinese-themed works featuring multi-tailed fox-spirits have been coming out over the last few decades — i.e. Painted Skin, Jiang Ziya, White Snake (2019).
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Samples
- AFK Arena — Solise, The Floral Wonder — "* Kitsune: She's based on one, being a Fox Folk with nine tails and supernatural abilities even for her own people." — UNCLEAR EXAMPLE
- A New Hope (Danganronpa) — Hora Island — SINKHOLE
- Arknights Nations — Suzuran — "Suzuran and her father are both nine-tailed Vulpos, which obviously point to them being based on the Kitsune." — INSPIRED BY HULI JING note
- Beware of Chicken — Nezan — "* Kitsune: Nezan is one of the Chinese variation, known as a Huli Jing. See Fantastic Foxes for more detail." — EXAMPLE, HULI JING; ZERO CONTEXT
- Buster Keel! — Dakki — "* Kitsune: She's a seven-tailed monster fox whose name and action are based on the infamous huli jing from Fengshen Yanyi." / "* Unusual Eyebrows: Her eyebrows have a peculiar shape, reminding the stylized, spiral-like tuffs of fur drawn on Kitsune in some depictions." — EXAMPLE, HULI JING
- Chinese Mythology — Daji — "* Foul Fox: She is sometimes identified with a malicious fox spirit, and... look at the other tropes attributed to her." — EXAMPLE, HULI JING
- Fushigi Yuugi — Chichiri — "* Kitsune: Chichiri isn't a literal kitsune, but numerous characters remark that his Cool Mask makes him look like one. His celestial powers, mostly based around illusion and shapeshifting, and his trickster-ish personality also line up with kitsune mythology." — MISUSE
- Fuzzy Logic — Musume Uchiha — * Kitsune: The kitsune, in fact. — ZERO CONTEXT EXAMPLEnote
- God Eater Aragami — Kyuubi — * Kitsune: As its name indicates, the Kyuubi takes the appearance of one, except with three tails instead of nine. — EXAMPLE, BUT LITTLE CONTEXT
- Gugure! Kokkuri-san — Kokkuri — Zero Context Example; just a link to Kitsune
- Honkai Impact 3rd – Honkai Beasts and Herrschers — Hellmaru — * Multiple-Tailed Beast: In keeping with its kitsune image, it has 4 tails. — INSPIRED BY; UNCLEAR EXAMPLE
- Honkai Impact 3rd – Other NPCs and Historical Characters Higokumaru''' — "* Kitsune: The in-game description of her mentions that she claims to be a human, but notes the 4 tails and the fox ears, and the fact that she likes inari-age (seasoned tofu skin). The description concludes that "she must be a fox". As ch. 12 and a supplementary comic shows, she didn't always look like this; it's implied that after the power of the 12th Herrscher is turned into the sword Jizo Mitama, her leftover body and original consciousness (i.e Rin) merged with that of the fox beast (which likely was a normal fox), causing her to gain fox features." — EXAMPLE, KITSUNE
- Juushinki Pandora — "* Eldritch Abomination: It is an ancient force whose power spurred the process of evolution, making it the source of the B.R.A.I., and is hypothesized by Lon to also be the source of humanity's myths about gods and monsters such as the Monkey King and nine-tailed fox as well. In the penultimate episode, it assembles a makeshift body from the amalgamated corpses of Dark Drive-equipped B.R.A.I., and in the final episode attempts to turn Neo Xianglong itself and all the M.O.E.V. into B.R.A.I." — SINKHOLE; EXAMPLE, HULI JINGnote
- Journey To The West - Demons — Nine Tailed Old Vixen/Juweihuli — "* Kitsune: She is a nine-tailed fox, but she's not particularly powerful or pretty, being an old crone in possession of a magic rope." EXAMPLE, HULI JING
- Journey To The West - Demons — The Spirits of Biqiu Kingdom — "* Kitsune: The White-Faced Vixen is, as the name suggested, a white-faced Hulijing." — EXAMPLE, HULI JING; LACKING CONTEXT
- Characters/Kanokon — Chizuru Minamoto — EXAMPLE, SINKHOLEnote
- Korean Mythology — "Gumiho: Name literally meaning 'nine-tailed fox', they are the Korean version of the Kitsune." — EXAMPLE, KUMIHO
- League Of Legends A — Ahri — "* Kitsune: Although referred to in development as a Gumiho, the Korean equivalent. Hence her vampiric nature. She becomes an actual Kitsune, to the point of being able to shape shift into one, in her Spirit Blossom skin, as the skin-line instead takes inspiration from Japanese folklore for the Ionian Spirit Blossom festival." — INSPIRED BY KUMIHO
- Monster Hunter Fourth Generation Monsters — Mizutsune (Tamamitsune) — "* Kitsune: Its vulpine appearance, its 4GU Gunner headgear describes as smelling of fried tofu, its weapons in Wings of Ruin referencing a man married to a Mizutsune turned into a woman. The list goes on." — NON-EXAMPLE, INSPIRED BY KITSUNE
- Monster Hunter Frontier Monsters — Dyuragaua / Mi Ru — "* Kitsune: They are based on the kitsune of Japanese folklore. Mi Ru takes this further with its ability to change forms." — NON-EXAMPLE, INSPIRED BY KITSUNE
- Naruto - Tailed Beasts — Kurama — "Kitsune: Kurama is a kaiju-sized nine-tailed supernatural fox." — EXAMPLE, KITSUNE
- Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan - Other Yokai Groups — Hagoromo-Gitsune — "* Kitsune: She's a kitsune who survives by possessing the bodies of women. She can manifest fox tails, with the number of tails being equivalent to the number of times she has reincarnated." — EXAMPLE, KITSUNE
- Pathfinder Fey — Gumiho — "* Kitsune: Based on the creature of the same name from Korean folklore, gumihos are legendary nine-tailed foxes who, when disguised in humanoid form, use charm and guile to lure prey deep into the forest before revealing their true form, tearing out their victim's throat and feasting on their liver." — EXAMPLE, KUMIHO
- Persona 5: The Phantom Thieves of Hearts — In general — "* Animal Motifs: Akechi, Ann, and Yusuke have bird, cat, and fox Persona masks; Ann and Yusuke's respective Metaverse outfits even have tails attached to them that match their respective animals. This leads to Ann, Yusuke and Akechi have the heist code names Panther, Fox, and Crow, respectively. This also dips into Japanese Mythical Motifs for Akechi and Yusuke, as Akechi's mask is based on a Tengu, a crow based Yōkai known for having red faces and ridiculously long noses, while Yusuke's is a traditional Kitsune style mask." — SINKHOLE
- Raishon — Reika Tsukimori — "%%* Kitsune - Also the assistant of one. " — ZERO CONTEXT EXAMPLE
- Sengoku Youko — Several examples — ZERO CONTEXT EXAMPLE
- Summon Night — Hasaha — "%%* Kitsune" — ZERO CONTEXT EXAMPLE
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime — Tempest Citizens — Kumara — "* Kitsune: All the hallmarks of it, with ancient and modern depictions mixed into both her pre and post evolutions." — ZERO CONTEXT EXAMPLE; INSPIRED BY NINE-TAILED FOXES
- Teen Wolf Antagonists — The Nogitsune — "* Kitsune: A particularly evil one." — EXAMPLE, BUT ZERO CONTEXT
- The Game of the Gods — Kitsune — "* Kitsune: Not an example. Her name is kitsune "fox" but she is not a fox." — MISUSE
- The Gamers Alliance Five — 'Inari Okami — "* Kitsune: She's one of the mythic shapeshifting foxes." — EXAMPLE, KITSUNE; LACKING CONTEXT
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet — Yayoi — No example given, just a link to the page in her bio saying she's similar to one. — NON-EXAMPLE
- The Vampire Diaries Book Characters — Shinichi — "* Kitsune: This is Shinichi's species, alongside his twin sister, Misao. Their origin is from Japan. Kitsune are described as intelligent beings and as possessing magical abilites that increase with their age and wisdom, every 100 years they get a tail, becoming more powerful, and when they reach nine tails (Kyuubi no Kitsune), they become demi-gods, reaching the omniscience, and almost the omnipotency. Foremost among these is the ability to assume a human form. While some folktales speak of kitsune employing this ability to trick others as foxes in folklore often do other stories portray them as faithful guardians, friends, lovers and wives. The folklore says they are afraid of dogs, running away every time they see one." — EXAMPLE, KITSUNE
- Touhou Kaeidzuka ~ Phantasmagoria of Flower View — Aya Shameimaru — "* Everybody Hates Mathematics: She shows in Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red that, while Ran Yakumo may enjoy doing math in her spare time, not everyone in Gensokyo shares her enthusiasm for the subject." — SINKHOLE
- Touken Ranbu — Konnosuke — "* Kitsune " — ZERO CONTEXT EXAMPLE
- Uma Musume — Inari One — "* Kitsune: Her name and motif are both based on the mythical Fox Youkai. (Makes sense, given the "Inari" present right there in her name)" — INSPIRED BY KITSUNE
- Warriors Orochi — Tamamo — "* Kitsune: As in the legend, Tamamo is a fox spirit. Her real form, Kyūbi, is the famed nine-tailed fox." — EXAMPLE, KITSUNE
- Warriors Orochi — Da Ji — "* Red Right Hand: Her feet are actually paws, fitting the legend that a kitsune cannot completely conceal her foxy nature." — ZERO CONTEXT; EXAMPLE, HULI JING note
- We Are Our Avatars — Mara Bjornsen — "* Kitsune: Has nine tails (normally physiologically hidden), power over flame, and can shapeshift into a fox. " — UNCLEAR EXAMPLE
- Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Kitsune — "Werefoxes native to east Asia, with powerful magic skills and close ties to Luna. They are the youngest of the Changing Breeds, coming into existence following the War of Rage." — UNCLEAR EXAMPLE
- ×××HOLiC — Kudagitsune / Mugetsu — "* Kitsune: Its true form." — EXAMPLE, KITSUNE; ZERO CONTEXT
- Beasts of Burden — "* Kitsune: A kitsune is one of the creatures encountered in Occupied Territory." — EXAMPLE, KITSUNE; LACKS CONTEXT
- The Sandman — K — "* Kitsune: The Dream Hunters is a fairly traditional kitsune romance, with Morpheus and other Sandman characters making cameos." — UNCLEAR EXAMPLE, LACKING CONTEXT
- Onmyōji — "Mythology Gag: Seimei often looks faintly vulpine; this is a reference to his mythological background where his mother was a kitsune. Specifically referenced by Hiromasa in-universe; upon first being introduced to each other, Seimei playfully teases Hiromasa about the myth." — EXAMPLE, KITSUNE
- Bungo Stray Dogs — "Dazai is frequently likened to a fox, and certain merchandise features him as a Kitsune. Not only are these creatures known for being cunning...but they also can be thwarted by the presence of dogs!" — SINKHOLE
- Anime & Manga — "* Kamisama Kiss has Tomoe, a male Little Bit Beastly Kitsune, posing as Nanami, a female human Ordinary High-School Student, a total of three times so far. The first when she was sick, he covered for her at school. The second time when she was attending the conference, he also covered for her at school. The third, well..." — EXAMPLE, KITSUNE
- Bluebeard — "* "The White Road" by Neil Gaiman is a version of the "Mr. Fox" variant, with a twist - Mr. Fox may be innocent, having been framed by a kitsune. (That said, it's very ambiguous if you read the story closely.)" — UNCLEAR EXAMPLE
- Mail Fox Tales — "* Kitsune : Eva, as well as the servants and some of the Inari she meets." — EXAMPLE, KITSUNE; ZERO CONTEXT
- Tale of the Nine Tailed — "* Kitsune: The show revolves around the Korean variation, the gumiho." — EXAMPLE, KUMIHO; LACKS CONTEXT
- Elona — "Kitsune: The fox brother, one of his evolution paths allows him to become a nine-tailed fox brother." — UNCLEAR EXAMPLE
- Tally:
- Huli Jing: 8
- Kumiho: 3
- Kitsune: 11
- Unclear: 7 — overlap with other categories note
- Zero Context: 11 — overlap with other categories note
- Sinkhole: 6 — overlap with other categories note
- Misuse: 3 note
- Inspired By: 6 note
~Macron Notes: Added in the OP's wick check from here
Edited by GastonRabbit on May 17th 2022 at 11:35:18 AM
#152: May 21st 2022 at 12:03:26 PM
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Yes. They should be reworded or deleted.
#153: May 21st 2022 at 1:50:44 PM
Ah, it looks like you got to them—at the least in that they're now commented out, with plagiarism notes—thank you for that, and for the confirmation above!
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#154: Jun 6th 2022 at 9:11:25 PM
So how's this wick clean going? Has it stalled or is it still being worked through?
I realize it's not on the Cleaning Projects page, so it was out of sight, out of mind for me. I might add it tomorrow morning when I wake up! Seems like a pretty straightforward to-do list.
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#155: Jun 6th 2022 at 9:14:43 PM
I don't if anyone is actively working on this but I did try to work on some of the wicks. I have been using potholes for Kitsune mentions because I think it's awkward to use Asian Fox Spirit instead of Kitsune in most instances.
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#156: Jun 7th 2022 at 12:08:15 AM
That sounds fine to me.
I've also been reworking examples when I come across them.
Edited by Arawn999 on Jun 7th 2022 at 12:08:36 PM
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#157: Jun 7th 2022 at 11:49:25 AM
What do I do for the Music.Baby Metal entry? It seems like kitsune is their whole motif so it has a ton of stuff under its entry. Do I pothole AFS and keep the title of Kitsune?
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#158: Jun 7th 2022 at 11:51:14 AM
I don't think that's necessary and we aren't supposed to use potholes in trope lists like that (as per "Do Not Alter or Pothole the Trope Name" guideline under How to Write an Example). Just move it to Asian Fox Spirit. I don't think that that will cause confusion.
Edited by MacronNotes on Jun 7th 2022 at 2:54:15 PM
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#159: Jun 7th 2022 at 11:55:27 AM
Alright, gotcha. Yeah, I had just read the page on not potholing that way somewhat recently, which was why it was on my mind!
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#160: Jun 8th 2022 at 12:40:26 AM
Ah, sorry—for my part I had stalled in the wick-cleaning, having had somewhat-limited energy of late, which I've been directing elsewhere. I'd been meaning to do more, however.
That said, I would not object to leaving this to the wick-cleaning projects, if it's taken there.
As to references to kitsune, it might be worth noting that "Kitsune" redirects to "Asian Fox Spirit" now. I'm not sure of what our actual rules are, but can mentions like the one in "BabyMetal", above, not thus simply remain as "Kitsune"?
Edited by ArsThaumaturgis on Jun 8th 2022 at 9:40:52 PM
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#161: Jun 8th 2022 at 4:51:25 AM
We should always use the tropes main title in work example lists (gender redirects are the exception though.
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#163: Jun 10th 2022 at 6:29:45 PM
Dewicked Main/! Down to 752 now.
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#164: Jun 14th 2022 at 1:13:28 AM
Nicely done, and thank you! ^_^
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#165: Jun 19th 2022 at 8:20:09 AM
Since this is still in the Trope repair shop I feel safe asking this question.
I haven't even been on here for a year and I'd like to get something cleared up. The current idea is that all Asian fantastic foxes, especially if they're human morphs will become "Asian Fox Spirit", correct? What if they're specifically mentioned by their "species" name be it the Korean or Japanese version in the work? Do I have to default to the new trope name or use the original more accurate one?
I seem to remember the Korean version showing up in Lovecraft County, would I put in the trope under "Kumiho" or just have it in this new trope for simplicity?
Thanks in advance for answering my question, know it's in the frustrating minutia of tropper work.
Edited by Third-attemptS on Jun 19th 2022 at 8:20:41 AM
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#166: Jun 19th 2022 at 8:27:07 AM
On work example lists, you should use Asian Fox Spirit, but for direct mentions of the creature, you can pothole Asian Fox Spirit to Kitsune/Gumiho/Huli-jing so that the sentence flows naturally.
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#167: Jun 19th 2022 at 8:28:24 AM
Generally, redirects shouldn't be used, they are for search engine purposes.
* Asian Fox Spirit: Character X is based on Kumiho from Korean Mythology, <agruments how>.
Edited by Amonimus on Jun 19th 2022 at 6:28:36 PM
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#168: Jun 19th 2022 at 8:59:23 AM
Makes an acceptable amount of sense, thanks for the prompt response folks!
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#169: Jun 20th 2022 at 7:45:38 PM
Update: Less than 150 wicks to go (I only contributed a little to the dewicking)
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#170: Jun 21st 2022 at 7:21:51 AM
OK, the dewicking's done (again mostly not by me) but I did remove or cutlist the remaining sandboxes (inc. Sandbox.Asian Fox Spirit since it was merged into the description a while ago). I was literally about to close this thread before remembering to ask if there was something else that needed doing — Fantastic Foxes doesn't need to be cleaned up here, right?
Edited by Synchronicity on Jun 21st 2022 at 9:22:05 AM
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#171: Jun 21st 2022 at 7:38:27 AM
OK after input from the meta thread, Fantastic Foxes doesn't need to be cleaned here. Any description rewrites can be furthered to the Trope Description Improvement Drive.
I'll close this thread.
Fantastic Foxes wick check for posterity
Fantastic Foxes came up in the TRS discussion for Kitsune as a trope that both overlaps and may cover some of the concepts Kitsune is meant to cover. This check is to see how Fantastic Foxes is used for comparison sake.
Wicks: 51/50
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Non-East-Asian, and not like East-Asian foxes
- Characters.Elena Of Avalor Team Avalor: Fantastic Foxes: A magical talking trickster fox.
- The Arts of Dark and Light: Fantastic Foxes: Or one, at least: a mysterious red fox that speaks with human words. It turns out to really be a demon.
Non-East Asian, but similar to them
East-Asian
- Characters.Beware Of Chicken: Kitsune: Nezan is one of the Chinese variation, known as a Huli Jing. See Fantastic Foxes for more detail. Not only is it literally a Kitsune example, but there's no Fantastic Foxes wick to be found.
- The Element of Time: Fantastic Foxes: Kurama the 9-tailed fox fits the Kitsune version of this trope. There is also Zenko the rinnegan fox summon Naruto creates to use for scouting purposes.
- Horny Devils:SCP-953, a Korean nine-tailed fox is entirely malevolent. She seduces a member of the SCP team sent to capture her, then rips off his testicles and shows them to him. Even the Sole Survivor of the team is implied to have an unhealthy fascination with her, and you have to keep away the Furry Fandom as well.
- Literal Maneater: Speaking of Fantastic Foxes, the Korean Gumiho is, unlike the Japanese Kitsune, traditionally depicted as a vicious man-eating fox that uses its guise of a beautiful human maiden to get men alone so it can feast on their livers or hearts. The Chinese Huli Jing is also sometimes portrayed this way, but feeds on spiritual energy rather than flesh.
- Dragon Ball Multiversal Characters: Fantastic Foxes: An anthropomorphic tall slender fox god with multiple tails.
- Love, Death & Robots: "Good Hunting": Fantastic Foxes: Huli jing, a Chinese fox spirit similar to Kitsune, alleged to feed on the yang of men. In this case they hear the voices of men obsessed by their beauty, which spirit hunters mistake for bewitching them. There are also two potholes on the page that both refer to this.
- Analogue: A Hate Story: * Little Bit Beastly: *Mute has some aspects, such as her bow resembling fox ears and her teeth being slightly fanged. As noted on the page, a gumiho - fox magicians who used to be depicted as either benevolent or amoral - is frequently associated with becoming human. Thus, the opposite of Hyun-ae, who became an AI. Potholes "gumiho" to "Fantastic Foxes"
- Elsword Playable Characters 1: Fantastic Fox: Eun (Korean for "silver"), the fox spirit that resides within Ara's hairpin. More precisely, a gumiho (its Korean equivalent).
- Popular with Furries * Naruto:
- Kurama the nine-tailed fox. Being a giant monster sized fox, he is popular with furry macro fans. I'm presuming from the source, the name, and the indicated number of tails that this character fits here.
- Anime & Manga: Laon is a manhwa about a Gumiho (Korean version of Fantastic Foxes) who is sent to earth as punishment and has to seek out its missing tails. In the process lots of people die, demons attempt to invade our world, and a poor young man who lost his true love long ago and yet can't remember how or why gets mixed up in the meddling. The page only has tropes and description up to about the third volume at best, and since all six have been localized in a number of countries by now it definitely deserves more attention than it's been getting, if only because it's pretty informative about certain Korean myths.
- The Gu Family Book: Complete Monster: Jo Kwan Woong is an ambitious nobleman who destroys a man who was his friend and sends the man’s daughter to be turned into a state gisaeng, or prostitute. He then attempts to rape her himself, stating that defiling her would be no fun if she didn't struggle, before discovering she has escaped. In retribution, he executes her brother and later engineers her betrayal of her Kumiho husband Wol-Ryung. 20 years later, Kwan Woong has a number of people in high level positions purged and murdered, and conducts a series of further murders, even killing the goodhearted Lord Park, brainwashing Park's son that it was his foster brother and raping Park's daughter. When Wol-Ryung returns as an amnesiac demon, Kwan Woong still comes off as the worse of the two by manipulating him for his own purposes. Even at the end, Kwan Woong confesses his actions were all to alleviate the tedium of life, with no remorse for his evil deeds.
- DEATH BATTLE! (Season Four): Fantastic Foxes: Again, Renamon is based on a Kitsune.
- Historical Fantasy: The Fox Sister is set in Seoul, Korea, of 1968, adding Fantastic Foxes to the otherwise realistic setting.
- The Bridge: Complete Monster:
- Jeog, aka "Beautiful Terror", is a monstrous, bloodthirsty Gumiho. Viewing love as something she can take by force by eating someone's heart, Jeog pretended to be a Kirin doe and was adopted into the Cho Family, most of whose members she butchered before being sealed away, only to escape years later to finish the job. She then killed Cho Yon, Ki Seong's betrothed, and attempted to feed her soup made from his remains while trying to murder her as well. Chasing her victim onto a ship, Jeog slaughters the entire crew. Finally tracking Seong down, Jeog attempts to kill her honorary niece Gentle Leaf several times, and attempts to rip out her new love Anguirus's heart and liver while disguised as her. While kept at bay by wards, Jeog tries to convince Seong to run to her death by making it appear she's holding Gentle Leaf hostage. During the final battle, Jeog paralyzes Ki Seong so she can be Forced to Watch the Gumiho kill Anguirus. Despite not being a kaiju herself, Jeog proves more monstrous than many of them.
- Cookie Run: Cookie Run S Rank Cookies[[note]]Rare: ... Ninetales/Kumiho Cookie, ... Edited down to the relevant section, as the full entry is a rather long list.
- Love, Death & Robots: "Good Hunting": Fantastic Foxes: Huli jing, a Chinese fox spirit similar to Kitsune, alleged to feed on the yang of men. In this case they hear the voices of men obsessed by their beauty, which spirit hunters mistake for bewitching them.
- Kemono Heroes: Fantastic Foxes: Fudemaru, whose special Voluntary Shapeshifting ability is common among foxes in Asian folklore.
Foxes as a motif
- To Be A Miraculous Master Recurring Rivals: Fantastic Foxes: Lila's team, according to [This example contains a TRIVIA entry. It should be moved to the TRIVIA tab.] Word of God (via the author's bio), is based around this. She particularly owns a Ninetales and a Zoroark.
- Codex Alera Other Races: * Animal Motifs: The Marat tribes are each based around a certain animal, and the animal's nature is typically reflected in the tribals' demeanor. The known tribal animals are horses (fast, deceptively dangerous, hard-working, and stoic), wolves (merciless, cold, savage, and excellent at teamwork), herdbane (treacherous, quick-witted, flighty, impulsive, and stubborn), gargants (honorable, wise, slow to act but absolutely devastating and near-impossible to counter), and lions (though the latter never appear in the series). There was formerly a Fox Tribe, but the Wolf and Herdbane Tribes wiped them out several years prior to the start of the series.
- Henshin Heroes: * Animal Motifs: One of the primary elements of the Greeed and OOO. With three animal Medals at a time, OOO's can access a wide range of powers. default mode is [[color:red:Hawk]]-[[color:gold:Tiger]]-[[color:green:Grasshopper]]; [[color:red:Taka]]-[[color:gold:Tora]]-[[color:green:Batta]] in Japanese, "[[color:red:Ta]][[color:gold:To]][[color:green:Ba]]" for short. Overlaps with Mix-and-Match Critters.
Foxes that transform
- Literature.Satyrday: Vera, the snow fox, has magical powers, lived for many years, and can transform herself into a nymph and a mermaid (albeit only for a short while)
- Hungarian Folk Tales: Fantastic Foxes: In "The Fox Princess", the protagonist is helped by a shapeshifting fox.
- Exalted: Exalted of Creation: Fantastic Foxes: Her spirit shape.
- SCP Foundation: SCPs 3000 to 3999: Fantastic Foxes: Everyone who goes into the lookout encounter hostile and apparently shapeshifting fox creatures instead of the parasites from the original.
Fox-people
- Gems of War: Fantastic Foxes: She's a fox-woman belonging to the Wargare race.
- Mystara: Fantastic Foxes: In 2nd edition, Dragon #237 introduced no fewer than three fox-based lupin subraces: the druidic Foxfolk, the flamboyant swashbuckling Renardois Folk, and the desert-dwelling, preternaturally lucky Fennecs.
Unclear
- VideoGame.TRI Of Friendship And Madness: Following the guidance of a mysterious temple monk, the player is tasked with entering the Odd Gods' World in hopes of finding where one of the missing fox deities of this realm disappeared off to.
- Pantheon.Power Archetypes: Portfolio: Fantastic Foxes, Cunning Like a Fox, Ms. Fanservice, Creates Fox Fire, Charms EVERYONE and ANYONE, Wanting to Be Human by Using Her Beauty to Kill Others for Their Essense Until She Gained Human Morality Through Her Killings and Sought Alternative Means to Gain Humanity, Has Whisker-life Marks and Fox Ears and Tails
- Too Bleak, Stopped Caring/Film: * A version of Zootopia that got pretty far into production, with many key scenes already entering rough animation, was discarded due to this reaction from test audiences. This incarnation of the film had Con Man Nick Wilde as the primary protagonist, and Zootopia was filled to the brim with open anti-predator prejudice, as exemplified by laws requiring all predators to wear shock collars that go off whenever they get too excited for any reason. Moments such as "the taming party" scene, combined with an already cynical point-of-view character, made the film's setting so dark that viewers wanted Nick to escape this awful police state rather than try and fix it. The team reworked the story to focus on deuteragonist Judy Hopps instead, backtracking to when that character was still a Wide-Eyed Idealist new to the police force, and the rest of the story and setting quickly followed suit to the point that the dystopian world present in the early versions of the film now come across more as the Bad Future the final film's villain is aiming for.
- League Of Legends: Si-Sy: * Ms. Fanservice: Although her outfits aren't especially revealing (and several of them are downright conservative) her spectacular breasts have elevated her incredibly high in the community's esteem. She's truly a beautiful character and is considered to be comfortably within the top 5 most desirable characters in the game (in fact, in a forum poll from 2012 she ranked in second place, although still a long way behind first-place winner Ahri). Merely a pothole, alas.
- Occult Detective: Grimm. Homicide Detective Nick Burkhardt of the Portland Police Bureau learns he is descended from a line of "guardians" known as "Grimms", charged with keeping the balance between humanity and the mythological creatures of the world, called Wesen.
- It's worth noting that Nick is actually fairly unique in this regard. It's all but stated that most Grimm tend to act as the occult hunters rather than detectives, who'd gladly kill any Wesen, regardless of whether they've done anything to warrant it, whereas Nick only goes after Wesen who commit crimes and leaving the peaceful ones like Monroe and Rosalee alone. Understandably, this throws a lot of Wesen for a loop when they meet him.
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- WesternAnimation.The Canterbury Tales: In "The Nun's Priest's Tale" a fox tricks Chanticleer the rooster into letting his guard down by praising Chanticleer's singing ability.
- Lumberjanes: Fantastic Foxes:
- Apollo sics multiple three-eyed foxes on the group. The foxes collapse into dust when defeated.
- In Issue 40 a borderline-malevolent fox-spirit shows up seeking revenge on the Bearwoman.
- Adaptational Styles: * After her one of her journey in the Subhouse of Mesozoic Beasts and hearing about a goddess of magical foxes, a curious crystal decided to go visit Renamon in the nearby House of Canines. The two quickly befriended one another and sometimes talks about how the magic in their normally high-tech universes differ. However, her enticing appearance ended up earning the attention of a much more nefarious member of the House in the form of Reynard the Fox. The salacious trickster, after hearing of the vixen's tumultuous relationship with Fox, approached her and tried to get in her good grace by telling the tale of how he tricked the pilot out of his first divine title. While initially rather flattered by the male fox's courteous words, Krystal quickly changed her tune upon learning more about him and the atrocities he committed back in his world. And so, she has sworn that she would freeze if he ever got in her sight again, much to his disappointment. Appears to refer to magical foxes in a very broad sense.
- Empress Theresa: Fantastic Foxes: A fox is the host for the magical alien for many years until Theresa is 10 years old. The implication — via Boutin himself suggesting that HAL is pure intellect — is that foxes are magically and intellectually proficient.
- Canine Companion: It's not limited to dogs; a Noble Wolf or a Fantastic Fox can count as one if they accompany their owner.
- Tropes S to Z: Summon Magic:
- While many tomes conjure elements for the user to strike their foe, all of the Norse color prefix tomes summon ethereal objects or animals for the user to attack the enemy, which also have some specific effects tied to them as well:
- -fox: Summons a fox to leap upon the enemy. If the user initiates combat, inflict -4 Atk/Spd/Def/Res on the target during combat.
- While many tomes conjure elements for the user to strike their foe, all of the Norse color prefix tomes summon ethereal objects or animals for the user to attack the enemy, which also have some specific effects tied to them as well:
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- Characters.Grimm Main: His last name is Renard, a form of Reynard. Ring any bells?
- Manga.Cat Paradise: Tsukumoisshu. He doesn't quite look like one, though, being physically closer to a giant aardvark with long hair, pointy teeth, and sharp claw. His odd appearance is even lampshaded in his first encounter with the student council.
Tsukasa: More importantly, is that thing really a fox?
- Manhwa.Laon: Laon
- Myth.Korean Mythology: Samguk Yusa includes many tales of foxes, dragons and tigers taking human form. One Silla story involves a man named Kim Hyun falling in love with a cute girl (actually a female tiger) he met at the festival. However, her three brothers had killed too many humans that Heaven decided to punish them, but the girl said that she would instead become a scapegoat, and told Kim Hyun to kill her the next day, saying: "If I have to die, then let me be killed by the man who loves me" . Kim Hyun had no choice but to do it (in tears), and after getting the reward from the King for killing a Tiger, used it to build a Temple (named Howeonsa, meaning 'Temple of the Tigers wish') in memory of his love.
- OhCrap.Webcomics: The Fox Sister: When the Kumiho runs into Soot Bull.
- VideoGame.A Tale Of Two Kingdoms: The Pooka.I happen to be familiar with this work. The Pooka, as I recall, is one of the Fairy Folk in the Celtic/Brittanic style, and possessed of fox-ears and a fox-tail. She's a playful trickster, primarily.
- True Tail: Fantastic Foxes: Viktor the Thief is a fox. "Foxes exist"
- To Be A Miraculous Master Lumiose Trainer Academy Friends Classmates: Fantastic Foxes: Trixx, under Alya's ownership.
- Class Clash: The Never-ending Legend: Fantastic Foxes For what it's worth, I note that apparently the character described is of a race called "vulpine".
- Namco × Capcom: Fantastic Foxes: Xiaomu (Chinese) and Saya (Japanese). And they are foxy indeed. '''
- Animalistic Abomination: The SCP Foundation has contained a number of these, some of the most notable being SCP-1055, SCP-682, SCP-334 and SCP-953. Almost everything with the "animal" tag qualifies as one of these.
- True Tail: Fantastic Foxes
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Kitsune
24th Apr '22 10:52:59 PM
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Consensus was to rename Kitsune because it covers Asian fox spirits other than the Japanese kitsune. What should its new name be?
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All right, I've cleared the examples in Fantastic Foxes, I believe.
Interestingly, many of the examples were already present in the "Asian Fox Spirit" page!
(In some cases I elected to copy some or all of the text from Fantastic Foxes, in particular where I thought it better than the text already present in Asian Fox Spirit.)
There were a few examples that I was uncertain of—for example, the entry for Book of Imaginary Beings. The description notes the foxes in question as being Chinese—but doesn't seem to mention the traits of a nine-tailed fox, save for longevity.
This has left Fantastic Foxes somewhat short on examples.
On which note, should empty folders be left in place, or deleted?
And finally, I note that the Asian Fox Spirit page, in the examples under "Mythology And Religion", has what appear to be copy-pasted text from Wikipedia. Am I correct in thinking that that's not okay?
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