History Main / CatGirl

* Keke from the ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' series. She is a Cat Girl [[WickedWitch witch enemy]] who flies around on a broom and gives Kirby the Cleaning ability. Her name is a ShoutOut to Kiki of ''Anime/Kiki'sDeliveryService''.

* Creator/AdamWest in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' is known as Catman (a nod to the 1960's {{Series/Batman|1966}}) who is a superhero crimefighter who is part man part cat. Same thing with his female counterpart, [[TropeNamer Catgirl]].

* ''LightNovel/FailureFrame'': Nyaki has cat ears, although the rest of her resembles a normal human being. Nyantan is a more straightforward example, having cat ears, a cat tail and claws.

* The 2016 Flip Calendar for ''Manga/{{TokyoGhoul}}'s'' theme for the 22nd, in a play on the Japanese words for 2 ("nii") and a cat's meow ("nyan"), features character(s) shown as catgirls and catboys. Notable examples being Sasaki as a Calico Cat and [[KindHeartedCatLover Akira]] delighted to find her {{Love Interest|s}}, Amon, transformed into a Catboy.

%%* [[MsFanservice Ocelotina]] in ''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}''

* S. Andrew Swann's Literature/MoreauSeries features Tiger-man Nohar dating a literal catgirl at the beginning of the series, a Jaguar named Maria. She reappears in the final book of the series.

** "Catgirls" are monsters. The Munchkin catgirls are just as adorable as their anime counterparts, but also happen to be vicious cannibals who love to eat male adventurers. Most of the catgirl's attacks are standard ''Tabletopgame/DungeonsAndDragons'' attacks, with cutesy names -- "Pounce" becomes "Pouncy-Poo", while "Rend" becomes "Rendy-Wendy".

** Len is an advanced familiar/succubus made half from a dead cat and half from a little dead girls soul, which makes her alive again. Normally, she's either a cat or girl, but this seems to be merely a matter of preference as she can be seen with cat ears when surprised and also tends to act quite like a cat even when in the form of a girl.

* ''WebComic/YokokasQuest'': Yokoka becomes a catgirl after leaving Betel's Forest at the end of chapter 1. Mao becomes a catboy shortly after this, though seems to have lost the cat ears and tail as of chapter 9.

* ''LightNovel/HaremInTheLabyrinthOfAnotherWorld'': Miria is a Beastkin of the Cat Tribe, and has both cat ears and a cat's tail.

** ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'' players have a couple options for making catgirls (and boys), including Gangrel from ''Vampire: The Masquerade'' (bestial vampires whose animal features are mostly feline), bastet werecats (who are by default either fully human or fully feline, but whose war form is a colossal bipedal feline monsters), pooka changelings with a cat affinity, and an entire kith of CatFolk (traditional look and all) among the Eastern fae with the Nyan (whose name is even the Japanese version of "meow").

* In ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'', the native people of the titan Gormott are cat folk, albeit of a tail-less variety. Oddly, their children appear more bestial, having furry arms and legs along with clawed toes, though they seem to lose these traits as they mature. Nia, the first party member to join Rex, is of this race though she's a little odd compared to the other Gormotti for the fact that her ears point backwards instead of forwards. [[spoiler: It eventually turns out there's much more to her then meets the eye, and her unusual ears are perhaps a symbol of this.]]

* The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' has [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2085 SCP-2085]], a "space wizard" and his gang of "cyborg catgirls". They're all very WrongGenreSavvy, believing themselves to be in a lighthearted action anime, not a bleak CosmicHorrorStory. Although it's ''only'' in the SCP article itself that they're wrong; in the [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/stealingsolidarityhub tales]] starring them they broke out of Foundation custody and were back on wild adventures after three months.

* ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger'' featured a monster-of-the-week based on the [[BakenekoAndNekomata Bakeneko]].

* A DLC costume for Palicos from ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter Generations'' is Toon Link from ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda''. This gives the effect that Link has cat ears, a cat tail, and he moves like a cat.

* Madeline Zargosty from [[{{Literature/Voidskipper}} In Pursuit of Bark's Finest]] invoked this trope, favoring a morph with several distinctly feline traits such as ears, a tail, and the ability to purr.

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': A pervert looking for hot aliens mentions "cat girls and kitsune." None ever show up on screen, so we don't know if they actually exist or if he was just talking about some vaguely cat-like aliens. The closest would be the uuplechans, who are pretty much just bipedal cats--including in size.

** Later on, Bubble, one of the Cauldron Sisters who was accidentally [[BalefulPolymorph turned into a cat]], is changed back, but retains her cat ears.

* ''LightNovel/CatPlanetCuties'' has the Catians, a CatFolk of creatures resembling catgirls. Females enter their first heat at the age of 16. They are enemies with a [[AnimalJingoism race of dog-eared people]]. Eris, the first Catian character introduced, was at first mistaken by humans for a CosplayOtakuGirl wearing a [[AnimalEaredHeadband Cat-Eared Headband]].

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': Silica and Sinon have Cait Sith avatars in Alfheim Online, which are designed to evoke this trope, complete with the ears and tail.

->''"Here, kitty, kitty. Wish I was playing hide-and-seek with Characters/{{Black Cat|MarvelComics}}. I ''so'' prefer my felines female."''
-->-- '''Franchise/SpiderMan''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan''

%% * ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfWiglafAndMordred'' - Herschell.
* Faith, from ''Webcomic/AloneInACrowd'': In her case, it's described as a "birth defect", one which her parents refused to have "fixed" because they loved her just as she is [[spoiler: before they died]]. Although Faith is bullied at school because of them, her ears do have at least one benefit - cat-like hearing.

%% * Kit Ballard in ''Webcomic/BladeKitten''.
* The world of ''Webcomic/ButImACatPerson'' includes three cat-based shapeshifters: Reseda (a housecat), Blake (an "every big cat that isn't a lion", typically seen as a tiger), and a not-yet-introduced Lion. They typically stick to entirely-human or entirely-feline forms, but will sometimes sprout ears and a tail for the cuteness/weirdness/otaku-appeal factor.

* Myan from ''Webcomic/CatNine'' when she's transformed. She's supposed to be fully human when using her collar, but the spell that allows her to transform was incomplete, but they decided to leave like that anyway.
* Han of ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate'' is a cat youkai with cat ears and a humanoid face and figure, her calico hair is styled in a loose layered bob and her remaining hand is multicolored calico, her twin brother is slightly more humanoid in appearance than she.
* Teeko from ''Webcomic/{{Chirault}}''. The cat-person species is known as Kyrions, and they're considered a type of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]].
%% * Matt from ''Webcomic/{{Concession}}''.
* Mzzkiti from ''Webcomic/FreighterTails'' and ''Webcomic/CrossTimeCafe''.
* ''Webcomic/TheDragonDoctors'' features one who is, as Sarin, resident pervert, says "The least fun Catgirl I know."
%% * Lillith in ''Webcomic/{{Dreamkeepers}}''.
%% * Felicity from ''Webcomic/TheDreamlandChronicles''.
* Tiren from ''Webcomic/DubiousCompany'' is a catgirl ninja. Her mother is a ninja and her father is a "beastman" so she's also a HalfHumanHybrid.
* Kade Whiteclaw is a lusted after catboy in ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'' that sometimes has difficulty controlling his cat-like impulses.

* Willow from ''Webcomic/{{Fillbert}}'' has cat ears and a tail.

* In ''Webcomic/GhostsAmongTheWildFlowers'' Julia is more like an elegant panther or jaguar than the usual cutesy anime style.

** StraightMan Sarah was stuck as one for a day [[NoodleIncident in the backstory]] when Tedd was careless with his TransformationRay, which left her scared of even VoluntaryShapeshifting, though with some help from him and Grace, she [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2012-07-16 eventually]] managed to get over this.

** Catalina Bobcat. who "[[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2007-11-16 seems just a tail short from being a catgirl]]" without shapeshifting, magic or even a costume. So, of course, she eventually gets a spell that ''does'' give her a tail and cat ears.

* In ''Webcomic/GravityBreakCataclysm'', the protagonist and much of the cast are catgirls. Catgirls are humans who have transformed with the help of futuristic medical science. The transformation comes with ears and tail, as well as sharpened senses and gravity-bending [[GravityMaster superpowers]].

** Nepeta's character design invokes this image. She's a troll with her ear-like horns and permanent CatSmile, including CuteLittleFangs. She wears a tail and a hat with sort of a cat face, and fights using [[WolverineClaws gloves with claws attached]]. She also roleplays as a cat online, and makes [[PungeonMaster feline-related puns at any pawsible chance]].
** Later done more literally with [[spoiler:Jasprosesprite^2, who is part cat, part eldritch princess doll, part girl, and two parts game sprite]].
* Anya from ''[[Webcomic/TsunamiChannel Experimental Comic Kotone]]''. In a case of questionable biology, her sister Lisa is a fox-girl.
* ''Webcomic/{{JaydenAndCrusader}}'s'' [[http://www.jaydenandcrusader.com]] character Kat is a catgirl and appears with no warning and apparently no reason in the middle of the comic with a very rushed (2 line!) introduction.
* Three of the four "title" characters in ''Webcomic/{{MADHVinyl}}'' are nekomimi: Miyuki, Anna Marie, and Hyacinth (Diamond is an elven sorceress). The three nekomimi attend Nekomi Special Middle School, where the student body consists exclusively of nekomimi. There are lots of characters with kitty ears and tails. In the MV world nekomimi are suggested to be some kind of biological experiment and some of the featured characters actually live in laboratories being actively experimented on in between classes. ''Squick''.
* In ''Webcomic/MenageA3'', Zii was obliged to cosplay as "Nekomimi-chan" -- somewhat against her will, perhaps, until she discovered that a minimalist catgirl costume [[DistractedByTheSexy disabled any anime geek who saw her]]. Thanks to further events, the cute [[AnimalEaredHeadband cat ears]] from the costume ended up with some distinctly erotic associations.
* Mari is the main character of ''Webcomic/{{Moxie}}''. She has white ears and a white tail. When she gets angry, sometimes her canine teeth will show.
* In ''Webcomic/MyRoommateIsAnElf'' Jacinda and her mother qualify as this. They have cat-like ears, a tail, whiskers, and [[CatsHaveNineLives have nine lives]].

* [[http://www.truefork.org/Art/comic/cindex.php?159 Myshka]] from ''Webcomic/NotQuiteDailyComic'', a regular cat who was accidentally transformed into a "dangerously furry" catgirl, retains most of her former behavior, somewhat subverting the trope.

* The jury's still out on whether or not Gina from ''Webcomic/OutsideInterference'' is a cat. Although she has cat-like ears and features, she lacks any visible tail, in a setting where all the other Anthro characters have them, but this could be that she might be a Manx cat, which has no tail whatsoever.
* The titular character from ''Webcomic/PandorasTale'' along with her fellow Helpers - an artificially engineered species bred and conditioned to serve the rich.
* The cast of ''Webcomic/PurgatoryTower'' ([[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Purgatory_Tower here]]) is entirely made up of (non-cute, non-Anime-style) animal/humanoid hybrids or anthropomorphics (and in one case, a plant/animal/human hybrid), as the world the webcomic plays in is peopled by socalled "marsuls", humanoids fused with animals and displaying animal traits, down to their psyche. Features a cat-woman, a hyena-woman, a squirrel-girl, a racoon-man and others.
* Ai in ''Webcomic/RoninGalaxy'' is a robotic version of a catgirl. She was apparently manufactured with these parts as an accessory.

* Kathleen "Kat" Vance of ''Webcomic/SequentialArt''. And her good friend Vanity Thorn (Her ''real'' name... [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=399 poor girl]]).
* Among the other [[RealityWarper reality warping]] abilities fangirls have in ''Webcomic/AndShineHeavenNow'', they've turned objects of their affection into a cat-person twice: [[http://hellsing.comicgenesis.com/d/20080731.html Alucard]], and [[http://hellsing.comicgenesis.com/d/20090705.html Rip]].
* In ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'', [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Unity]] takes advantage of her AppendageAssimilation abilities and stitches some [[http://skin-horse.com/2013/eventually/ bobcat ears]] onto her head in order to resemble a favorite TV character.
* In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' Riff had a ''very'' disturbing dream about a [[http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=021119 satanic catgirl clown]].

* Yuri from ''Webcomic/{{Spacetrawler}}'' starts off wearing a pair of costume cat ears all the time. Then she gets a pair of real cat ears surgically grafted onto her head.
* Katt o' Nine Tails in ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}'', a [[CanadaEh French Canadian]] superheroine who, from what little we've heard so far, gained her powers from a magical cat. Unusually for this character type, Katt has ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as her name suggests]]) no less than nine fully prehensile tails. She's also apparently a fantastic masseuse.
* Liger Neqishol (do NOT call her Nekishojo) of ''Webcomic/TriquetraCats'' (the main characters fall under the costume only definition)
* The all-but-defunct ''Webcomic/UnderPower'' ([[https://web.archive.org/web/20010904162738/http://underpower.non-essential.com/index.php here]]) has a catgirl character who is adorable, sweet, domestically submissive, with a high libido... and who also happens to be a nigh-invincible cyborg who kills her "boyfriend" every time she sleeps with him. Lucky, he seems to be powered by {{FPS}}s, and can respawn every time he's killed.
** Repeatedly respawning just to die again seconds later can be more of a curse than a blessing, especially when he pisses off the Elf.
* Aryssa Katrina of Nick Meyer's ''Verboten'' is a catgirl in the classical mold. This is because she's [[HalfHumanHybrid part feralian]] -- a species of humanoid felines with a tribal, ProudWarriorRace society. Since she's only ''half'' feralian, she's a cute BeastMan, but she lacks the agility and strength of full feralians, and she's not too popular with her tribe.

* In ''WebComic/YokokasQuest'', Yokoka becomes a catgirl after leaving Betel's Forest at the end of chapter 1. Mao becomes a catboy shortly after this, though seems to have lost the cat ears and tail as of chapter 9.
* ''[[Webcomic/{{Yosh}} Yosh!]]'' has two of the main characters (Kate and Blue) changed into catgirls by the AppliedPhlebotinum of the comic's world.

* Burst Lion, from ''Webcomic/TalesToBehold'', ''Webcomic/SectionP'', and ''Webcomic/StrangeTalesOfTheDAMultiverse'', has the ability to transform herself into an anthropomorphic cat girl.

The entire concept is OlderThanTheyThink, with the first recorded mention of a modern catgirl (as opposed to the monsterlike ''nekomata'' and ''bakeneko'') dating to a sideshow-like fair where there was a catgirl as one of the crew[[note]]which was almost certainly someone wearing a costume[[/note]] in 1769! In fact, visualization of anthropomorphic cats as mostly-human women is a trope that dates all the way back to Myth/EgyptianMythology (most famously Bast), making this trope OlderThanDirt.

* Shizuka becomes a quadruped variation in the ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' episode ''Shizuka-chan Disappeared!?'' after she drinks some Transformade drinks.

* ''LightNovel/SlaveHaremInTheLabyrinthOfTheOtherWorld'': Miria is a Beastkin of the Cat Tribe, and has both cat ears and a cat's tail.

** Rin "Orin" Kaenbyou is a kasha, a kind of youkai cat that's often associated with Hell and the afterlife. While she does have cat ears, she's tailless in most official art aside from her cameo in ''Hopeless Masquerade'', where she has two tails.

See also BeastMan, for an individual (fully) anthropomorphic cat person and CatFolk, for an anthropomorphic cat species. For when a character sprouts cat ears and/or tail out of thin air, see SproutingEars. Compare CuteMonsterGirl.

The entire concept is OlderThanTheyThink, with the first recorded mention of a modern catgirl (as opposed to the monsterlike ''nekomata'' and ''bakaneko'') dating to a sideshow-like fair where there was a catgirl as one of the crew[[note]]which was almost certainly someone wearing a costume[[/note]] in 1769! In fact, visualization of anthropomorphic cats as mostly-human women is a trope that dates all the way back to Myth/EgyptianMythology (most famously Bast), making this trope OlderThanDirt.

What makes a catgirl different from an anthropomorphic [[BeastMan catwoman]] or a FunnyAnimal cat is that she only looks ''superficially'' feline. The catgirl is stereotypically female, though catboys do exist. (These are usually found in {{Yaoi|Genre}}, and as a general rule tend to be {{Uke}} archetypes.) Catgirls oftentimes follow feline AnimalStereotypes associated with cats, specifically female ones. Catgirls often tend to be [[SexyCatPerson sexualized]] and/or have added {{Moe}}/[[CuteKitten cute]] traits to better appeal to the audience.

What makes a catgirl different from an anthropomorphic [[BeastMan catwoman]] or a FunnyAnimal cat is that she only looks ''superficially'' feline. The catgirl is stereotypically female, though catboys do exist. (These are usually found in {{Yaoi|Genre}}, and as a general rule tend to be {{Uke}} archetypes.) Catgirls oftentimes follow feline AnimalStereotypes associated with cats, specifically female ones. Catgirls often tend to be [[SexyCatPerson sexualized]] and/or have added {{Moe}} traits to better appeal to the audience.

The entire concept is OlderThanTheyThink, with the first recorded mention of a modern catgirl (as opposed to the monsterlike ''nekomata'' and ''bakaneko'') dating to a sideshow-like fair where there was a catgirl as one of the crew[[note]]Almost certainly someone in {{Cosplay}}.[[/note]] in 1769! In fact, visualization of anthropomorphic cats as mostly-human women is a trope that dates all the way back to Myth/EgyptianMythology (most famously Bast), making this trope OlderThanDirt.

* The [[CrazyCatLady Crazy Old Cat Lady]], a recurring VillainOfTheWeek in ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', is not only half-human, half cat, but owns a large amount of cats that can even gather around her and MakeMyMonsterGrow on herself.