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* ''ComicBook/{{Monstress}}'': The cats of the setting can be multitailed, among whom are those who can speak to spirits and have other beyond-the-death powers. These particular cats are, fittingly, called 'nekomancers'.

* ''Franchise/Pokemon'':

* In ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'', Sprigatito, the cat-like Grass starter Pokémon, evolves from a quadruped to Floragato, a bipedal cat Pokémon. The final evolution of Sprigatito, Meowscarada, further resembles a humanoid feline that resembles a magician.
* ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'':
** Incineroar, the final evolution of the Fire starter, Litten. It is a muscular, humanoid wrestling tiger that is based on ''Manga/TigerMask''.
** Zeraora, the final Mythical Pokémon to be released in ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'' is a bipedal cat Pokémon that resembles Incineroar but is much thinner and has control over [[ShockAndAwe electricity]] rather than fire.

* ''Series/BabylonFive'': One episode has Jha'dur, the last warmaster of the Dilgar and last surviving Dilgar in general.

* ''LightNovel/CatPlanetCuties'' has the Catians, an alien race of creatures resembling {{Catgirl}}s. Females enter their first heat at the age of 16. They are enemies with a [[AnimalJingoism race of dog-eared people]].

* Cyantropes in ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'' are a race of cat-based beastmen. Like all beastmen in this series, they are LittleBitBeastly, which measn they are effectively a species on {{Cat Girl}}s.

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': The Cait Sith race of Alfheim Online are designed intentionally this way, complete with feline ears and tail. Fittingly enough, if literally translated their name means "Cat Fairy". Another parallelism of the franchise with Literature/{{Otherland}} where there is a race with elvish / feline features called Sith.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Chaotic}}'': There are a few humanoid felines in the world of Perim, mostly living in the Overworld. Tangath Toborn and Vidav are a lion and bengal tiger respectively, and are on the more bestial side of the spectrum. Intress looks vaguely tiger-like and is very human-looking, making it unlikely that she is of the same race as the former two, resembling [[Characters/Avengers80sMembers Tigra]] or a {{WesternAnimation/Thundercat|s1985}}.

* The French Manga-style comics ''Manga/{{Dreamland}}'' has the Cat Kingdom, with most of its people specialized in trade and marketing. With one or two {{Mega Neko}}s for AsskickingEqualsAuthority and a [[HilarityEnsues cute little cat with a mustache as a King]].

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "Lion's Den", Peter Shotwell is the coach of the Lewisborough High School wrestling team, which is in the middle of a major losing streak. His old friend Jon gives him a [[FantasticDrug supposedly all-natural performance enhancing drug called Neuroflex 500 which has yet to receive FDA approval]]. When Peter gives the drug to his team (including his son Morris), their strength and stamina dramatically improves. However, the drug has serious side effects and the team begin to exhibit animal characteristics such as fangs, sharp claws and eyes similar to those of a cat. These physical changes are accompanied by a marked increase in their aggressive tendencies. When Peter presses him for more information, Jon admits that Neuroflex 500 is laced with the DNA of a big cat and that it is not supposed to be having this effect. He speculates that the boys' transformations have been so dramatic because of the increased hormonal activity in teenagers compared with adults.

While Cat Folk have been depicted with a variety of behavioural and cultural characteristics, it is common to base at least some of their behaviour on feline AnimalStereotypes. Cat Folk based on large predatory cats, such as [[PantheraAwesome lions, tigers, and panthers]][[note]][[Film/TheWizardOfOz Oh my!]][[/note]] are generally depicted as being exceptionally strong and aggressive, with a {{Proud Warrior Race|Guy}} culture. Those based more around domestic cats are often depicted as [[CatsAreMean selfish, arrogant and vain]], with their fighting styles bent more towards dirty fighting, speed and agility. Sometimes, both types are depicted as [[SexyCatPerson highly sexual]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'': Aku travels to an alien planet populated by a [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Proud Hunter Race]] of cat-people. He enlists a group of them to hunt down and capture Jack, and they are actually successful, [[WorthyOpponent but they respect any prey who can give them such a test of their hunting skills and let him go right after]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', Aku travels to an alien planet populated by a [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Proud Hunter Race]] of cat-people. He enlists a group of them to hunt down and capture Jack, and they are actually successful, [[WorthyOpponent but they respect any prey who can give them such a test of their hunting skills and let him go right after]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'' episode "Magicats", She-Ra and Catra stumble upon a civilization of magical cats, known as Magicats, that wear clothes and [[VoluntaryShapeshifting can switch]] between humanoid bipedal and fully-feline quadrupedal forms. The [[WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower 2018 reboot]] has Catra as a member of this species, though she (and presumably others of her race in this series) now lack that transformation ability.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries''
** Lieutenant M'Ress is a Caitian, a catlike humanoid alien species with pointed ears, slit-shaped pupils, whiskers, a tail and thick fur (usually including a mane). In addition to physical traits, Caitians are curious and have a hunter's instinct. Some of the surrounding supplementary materials at the time indicated they were an off-shoot of the Kzinti.
** The Kzinti in "The Slaver Weapon", an adaptation of the Creator/LarryNiven short story "Literature/TheSoftWeapon". Niven wrote the episode as well.
* Dr. T'Ana of ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' is also Caitian. So far the species has put up a better showing in the cartoon shows than in anything live action, which would presumably find them [[HumanAlien rather taxing]] [[RubberForeheadAlien on the makeup budget]].
** There is an unnamed Kzinti crew-member in ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'', whose ears (at least) are closer to Niven's original Kzinti's than the Earth-cat--like ears in ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries''’.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' redesigned the Zygerrian race into a race of feline humanoids similar to the Cathar. However in contrast to the Cathar who were shown to be quite frequently enslaved in Franchise/StarWarsLegends material, the Zygerrians' [[PlanetOfHats species hat]] is that they built a powerful empire through their slave trade that was demolished by the Jedi during the Old Republic, and [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil they sought to rebuild it by joining the Separatists]].
* Certainly the entire population of Megakat City in ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats''. Most of the characters with names have PunnyName handles involving cat species or features, such as T-Bone and Razor's real names, Chance Furlong and Jake Clawson respectively, Commander Ulysses Feral, more-so with his neice, Lieutenant Felina Feral, Deputy Mayor Callie Briggs (Callie is short for calico) and Mayor Manx.
** The episode "When Strikes Mutilor" includes a kat-like race of pacifist aliens called the Aquians.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats1985''. More so in ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011,'' where they've gone from LittleBitBeastly to BeastFolk.

* While Orube doesn't appear in the animated version of ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'', Luba does at the start of season 2.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost'' encounters Brak and Sisto.

->'''Michelangelo''': Remember all that yarn we got for her when she was trying to figure out new stuff she could make to sell in her store, and how it just kinda disappeared?\\
'''Raphael''': You're kidding.\\
'''Michelangelo''': She was rolling around in a giant pile of the stuff.

* Creator/AEVanVogt's ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheSpaceBeagle'' had a cat-like alien called Coeurl.

* ''[[Creator/CordwainerSmith Instrumentality Of Mankind]]'': Downplayed; most [[UpliftedAnimal Underpeople]], including catfolk, appear almost indistinguishable from humans, but vary greatly in how much of the non-human ancestry comes through, and at least one Lion underperson shows up in [[JeanneDArchetype "The Dead Lady of Clown Town"]] who had fur, a mane, and claws.

* The Aldebarans from ''ComicBook/BuckyOHareAndTheToadWars''.
* Creator/DCComics:

** Tomcat/Tomas Bronson turns into a Werepanther
** Cheetah from Wonder Woman
** Starfire's own people are "descended from cats" (according to Batman in ''ComicBook/SwampThing'') but this isn't obvious from their appearance. However, one ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' story featuring the first Corps members millennia in the past included a Tamaranean warlord who looked much more cat-like.

** In the BadFuture of ''ComicBook/EarthX'', ComicBook/BlackPanther has been transformed into a humanoid panther by Terrigen Mists. He’s still largely the same personality wise.
** In one issue of ''ComicBook/XMen'', Beast met a feral mutant who was half human and half feline in appearance. Despite appearing to be about 20 years old, she also showed signs that she was dying of old age. After Jean Grey probed her mind and was unable to find any sort of human-like intelligence, Beast realized that she was, in fact, a cat who'd mutated to be humanoid rather than a human who'd mutated to have a more feline appearance. [[BittersweetEnding He released her so that she could live her remaining days in the wild that she'd always known]].
* The Felim in ''Nexus'' are a race of LittleBitBeastly aliens, who also qualify for CatGirl.

* Orube in ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}'' has feline-like features. This is a relatively common characteristic on her homeworld of Basiliade (the second inhabitant of Basiliade to appear, Luba, is even more cat-looking than her), but not universal, as shown by the very first of them to appear, [[spoiler: the Oracle Himerish]], being externally identical to humans.
* Cougar from ''ComicBook/{{Youngblood}}'' is a HalfHumanHybrid: his father was the king of an isolated African civilisation of cat people, and his mother is human.

While Cat Folk have been depicted with a variety of behavioural and cultural characteristics, it is common to base at least some of their behaviour on feline AnimalStereotypes. Cat Folk based on large predatory cats, such as [[PantheraAwesome lions, tigers, and panthers]][[note]][[Film/TheWizardOfOz Oh my!]][[/note]] are generally depicted as being exceptionally strong and aggressive, with a {{Proud Warrior Race|Guy}} culture. Those based more around domestic cats are often depicted as selfish, arrogant and vain, with their fighting styles bent more towards dirty fighting, speed and agility. Sometimes, both types are depicted as [[SexyCatPerson highly sexual]].

** Starfire's own people are "descended from cats" (according to Batman in ''Comicbook/SwampThing'') but this isn't obvious from their appearance. However, one ''Comicbook/GreenLantern'' story featuring the first Corps members millennia in the past included a Tamaranean warlord who looked much more cat-like.

** The Cat People, who were created from house cats by ancient sorcerers. ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'' character Tigra got her powers from them.

* ''VideoGame/{{Diablo II}}'' has the Sabre Cats (later named Lacuni in the lore). According to the manual they are not normally considered aggressive, however have been acting strangely since the Dark Wanderer showed up so now mindlessly attack the player just like everything else in the game.

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''

* ''Videogame/EverQuestII'' has the Kerrans, which are not quite the same as [=EQ1=] Kerrans. In [=EQ2=]'s backstory, the moon of Luclin was destroyed, killing the vast majority of Vah Shir. Those who were in Norrath when the catatostrophe happened began interbreeding with the Kerrans, and over time the Kerrans became larger and stronger like the Vah Shir had been. Their bodies are covered in fur with colors and patterns denoting their lineage.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'': The Lion Men.

* The [[Literature/TheHanSoloTrilogy Togorians]], Trianii, Cathars, Farghul and Catumans (among others) of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' [[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Expanded Universe]]. The Ghorfas (more famously known as [[DesertBandits Sand People or Tusken Raiders]]) have been reported to look ''slightly'' catlike under their bandage-masks; other than being savage, however, they do not correspond at all to pantherine creatures. And the Bothans are sometimes described as feline but look more like civets (small, weasel-shaped carnivores that are closely related to cats).

* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': The Felacat look like humanoid cats.

* The [[Literature/TheHanSoloTrilogy Togorians]], Trianii, Cathars, Farghul and Catumans (among others) of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' [[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Expanded Universe]]. The Kumumgah (more famously known as Sand People or Tusken Raiders) have been reported to look ''slightly'' catlike under their bandage-masks; other than being savage, however, they do not correspond at all to pantherine creatures. And the Bothans are sometimes described as feline but look more like civets (small, weasel-shaped carnivores that are closely related to cats).

* ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'': The Lion Men.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTVSpecials'': The eponymous villain of the second short, ''Escape from Catrina'', is an anthropomorphic cat. She looks more like a humanoid with catlike characteristics than an upright cat, with very humanoid anatomy and human hair.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E3Orphan55 "Orphan 55"]]: [=Hyph3n=] the holiday rep has a very feline-looking mouth and ears, as well as a tail that the Doctor [[FurryFandom takes quite a liking to]].

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E3Orphan55 "Orphan 55"]]: [=Hyph3n=] the holiday rep has a very feline-looking mouth and ears, as well as a tail.

*** Wemics are a mixture of this trope and ; they're a race of "liontaurs" who have the upper torso of an anthropomorphic lion replacing the head of a lion. They inha

** The Wemic are a species of centauroid lions, 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.

** ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' and ''TabletopGame/OrientalAdventures'' have cat hengeyokai as character race.

** 5th Edition adds leonins, anthropromophic lions available as a player character race, who are known for their ability for having a terrifying roar.