History Main / CatFolk

** In "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS2E9LookWhosPurging Look Who's Purging Now]]", the duo visits a planet inhabited by humanoid cat aliens who live in an Old West-style culture. Oh, and they experience a night of brutal [[Film/ThePurgeUniverse purging]] once a year.

** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival Survival]]" has the Cheetah People. They're more cheetah than man, though [[WhatMightHaveBeen the original intention was just the opposite]].

* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'': Sora in his Monster form in the [[WesternAnimation/MonstersInc Monstropolis world]] is very cat-like in appearance, with a few elements of [[FishPeople fish]].

** The Catfolk, a nomadic BeastMan species reminiscent of lions, found in the ''Races of the Wild'' rule book.
** Rakshasas are devils (Lawful Evil outsiders) with tiger-like forms and backwards forepaws. They are highly skilled at magic, and like to set themselves up as Kings or Queens on the Material Plane to corrupt mortals. They are also very trustworthy, if very ruthless, merchants. They are copied from Indian legends.
** The Wemic are a species of [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centauroid lionfolk]], with purely leonine lower bodies and the torsos and heads of humanoid lions. Wemics are excellent hunters and fighters who do not make settled homes, but generally follow the herds they hunt for food in the manner of a lion pride.
** ''TabletopGame/{{Mystara}}'': The Rakasta are another species of anthropomorphic cat-people, the most known subrace resembling domestic cats with very ''un''-domestic personalities. A ''Magazine/{{Dragon}} Magazine'' [[http://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?articleid=14141 article]] features a vast array of rakasta subraces, from alley cats to ocelots to lions to smilodons.
** The ''TabletopGame/AdvancedDungeonsAndDragons1stEdition'' {{sourcebook}} ''TabletopGame/OrientalAdventures'' introduced [[BakenekoAndNekomata cat hengeyokai]] as a playable character race.

** 4th Edition's ''Player Handbook 2'' includes the decidedly feline-looking Razorclaw Shifter, descended from Weretigers.
** The Tibbit race, which are Small humanoids with cat ears and markings as if their skin were fur; they can also turn into a full cats in the manner of a [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent werebeast]].
** The Guardinals are a race of extradimensional creatures of IncorruptiblePurePureness who take on the forms of anthropomorphic animals. Their leaders are leonals, or catfolk lions. ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' expanded the race, gave it a new name, and made their leaders draconian creatures, but kept the leonals.
** 5th Edition adds leonins, a race of humanoid lions with a terrifying roar from TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering, as a player character race

* [[Myth/CelticMythology Irish mythology]] has multiple cat folk characters, many of whom are fittingly titled or named "Caitcheann" (pr: ''Caht Kahn''/''Caht Kyown'') meaning "Cat Head". The first is Cairbre Catcheann, a Milesian tyrant who usurped the high king and ruled for a time before being overthrown. The second is named either "Cat Head" or "Pus An Chuine (Cooneh)" and is the son of a hag. He, his brothers and his mother, battled Fionn Mac Cumhaill during the latter's early adventures and were ultimately defeated by him. The third was Catcheann, a general serving under Daire Donn, the so called "King of the World", and led an entire nation of cat folk in battle, and was defeated by the combined efforts of Fionn's Fianna and the Tuatha De Danann.

* ''Literature/TheDeathGateCycle'': Tiger-men, some of the many kinds of monsters native to the Labyrinth, resemble outsized tigers capable of walking on their hind legs and provided with opposable thumbs. They're capable of dropping to all fours when running and are skilled climbers, but rarely enter forests due to their longtime enmity with the local SavageWolves. They're also enthusiastic hunters and capable of crafting tools and using simple magic, but they rarely use this for more than crippling their prey -- they prefer to kill their targets with their own fangs and claws.

** ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' features the Cathar, a mostly Republic-aligned race of humanoid felines. The first NonPlayerCompanion of the Republic Trooper class is a Cathar trooper Aric Jorgan.