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FloatingRootBeer
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09:05:12 PM May 28th 2010
...if a person is born on the 24th of December... they are werewolves.

Whoa! Stephanie Meyer is a werewolf? That's so... coincidental.
MajinGojira
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06:18:56 AM Feb 17th 2011
All Lycans Are Wolves has a good idea too it (giving non-wolf therianthropes their own page), but it was gone about so poorly that I have to bring at least some discussion of it here.

First of all, the title is crap. Largely because the word Lycan is derived from Lycanthrope which is greek—the word Lycos in the combination coming from the word for WOLF. The trope is literally called "All Wolves are Wolves" when is should be about beings who turn into animals besides Wolves.

But do you think we have enough examples for this to work? Outside world mythologies, I can only think of Night Watch were-tiger and Beorn from The Hobbit. I'm sure there are others but would a split from this page be justifiable?
zarpaulus
07:58:18 AM Feb 17th 2011
Hmm, how about "All Weres Are Wolves"?
Auxdarastrix
08:09:03 PM Aug 21st 2011
The issue of Non-Wolf Were creatures has been addressed on a Trope Repair Discussion and has been launched as Our Werebeasts Are Different.
Pannic
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06:49:23 PM Mar 8th 2011
Does this example really need to be so honkin' long?

"The Whateley Universe features all kinds of characters who could be considered 'weres' of some kind or other. The 'regular' ones were created by the Sidhe in ancient times to serve as warriors in the fight against the Great Old Ones; their community near Whateley Academy (which is in fact built on their tribal territory) includes feline weres and at least one werebear in addition to plain old werewolves, and there are others scattered at least over the US. They are capable of infecting humans and most mutants by way of a quick-acting magical virus transmitted by biting, but this isn't currently common practice. At the school, one might also run into Harry Wolfe a.k.a. Techwolf, who's basically a wolf-man due to a family curse, or Bloodwolf, who's about as easy to get along with as his name indicates and seems to be getting his powers from some kind of wolf spirit. A secondary character living at Hawthorn Cottage is actually a wolf who turns into a human. There's the supervillain Lycanthros, who looks kind of caveman-ish normally, and can turn into a massive werewolf when he wants; he wears a bunch of pelts that might be wolves or maybe even werewolves, so he may fall into the 'deal with the devil' category of mythology...and finally (for now) we have the creatures nicknamed 'Voodoo Wolves' or more generally 'Voodoo Weres', who are part-regular were, part-Eldritch Abomination, serve somebody who goes by the meaningful title 'The Bastard', and can actually infect 'normal' weres and transform them into their own kind."
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