History Main / CatGirl

* Tira, from ''[[SoulSeries Soul Calibur]]'' was originally designed as a catgirl, but the idea was scrapped because she was associated with {{ravens|AndCrows}}. The mantle was passed onto [[CuteBruiser Talim]], who donned a cat-themed look for her second player costume in ''[[SoulSeries SC IV]]''.

* Aya from Anime/MasterOfMartialHearts was forced to put on {{Main/Meido}} outfit with cat ears after Rin [[Main/ClothingDamage destroyed her clothes]] while [[Main/CatFight fighting each other]].

* Aya from "Anime/MasterOfMartialHearts" was forced to put on "Meido" outfit with cat ears after Rin destroyed her clothes while fighting.

* Jean de La Fontaine [[described http://www.musee-jean-de-la-fontaine.fr/jean-de-la-fontaine-fable-uk-59.html]] a cat turned into a woman (and keeping some key cat traits, though ears are not mentioned), making the trope OlderThanSteam.

* Yoriko in ''VisualNovel/DaCapo'', a more or less hidden character unlocked after the five main routes. She's actually [[spoiler:a rich girl that fell in love with Junichi by watching him go to school in the form of her cat. Only shapeshifted to look mostly like her.]] When asked [[LampshadeHanging what possible function cat ears could serve]], Junichi accidently blurts out that they're cute, right? [[spoiler:Presumably to avoid fridge logic of bestiality, the romance between them doesn't get intimate until after she turns back into a cat and her real body starts going to his school.]]

* In ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance]]'', the humanoid forms of the had the cat, tiger and lion Laguz look like LittleBitBeastly humans with cat ears and tails.

* Yes, you read that right. A Japanese (naturally) invention, [[http://neurowear.com/ Neurowear]] are testing artificial, brain-wave controlled cat ears. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prd2iUf9oAk Here]] is a demonstration video of the prototype.
** And now they're real: [[http://en.necomimi.com/ Necomimi]]. For obvious reasons, they are very popular at AnimeCons.

* In ''Anime/YuGiOhZexal'', Yuma's friend Cathy has no real physical cat-like features (she wears her hair in a way to make it resemble cat ears) but she does have a strange ability to communicate and control actual cats, something that has never been explained. Natually, as a duelist, her deck uses cat-themed monsters. (Her two known Xyz monsters, Twin-Tail Cat Lady an Cat Girl Magician, are bona-fide [=Catgirls=] themselves.)

* The ''original'' cat girl is probably the cat goddess Bast from EgyptianMythology. The lion goddess Sekhmet also counts.

A [=Catgirl=] is a character that looks mostly like a human but she has [[UnusualEars the ears]] and tail of a cat (and sometimes a natural FurBikini). A [=Catgirl=] is not furry, and should still have human skin, human hair, a human face, a completely human nose, and a human skull and torso structure. The [=Catgirl=] is stereotypically female, though examples of [=Catboy=] can also be found.

A [=Catgirl=] is a character that looks mostly like a human but she has [[UnusualEars the ears]] of a cat. A [=Catgirl=] is not furry, and should still have human skin, human hair, a human face, a completely human nose, and a human skull and torso structure. The [=Catgirl=] is stereotypically female, though examples of [=Catboy=] can also be found.

* Millianna from ''FairyTail'' is a bit of a mystery as to how much of a catgirl she is. She doesn't have actual cat ears (only hair styled as cat ears), but her eyes and nose look somewhat cat-like. She also has a movable tail, but since she didn't seem to have it before the TimeSkip, it is presumably not real (though since this is a magic world, [[AWizardDidIt you never know]]). At a point, Natsu wears a cat mask, and she gets angry at him for being a human who tries to look like a cat. It's not fully known whether this is just HypocriticalHumor, or if she really is a NotQuiteHuman catgirl who doesn't want real humans to look like her.

* The final BakersDozen episode of ''Anime/DragonautTheResonance'' features Toa with cat-ears and a tail, demonstrating FauxPaw, and talking in a stereotypical catgirl way. This is quite out of character for her.

** In the ''Manga/{{Mai-Otome}}'' manga, however, Mikoto's a VoluntaryShapeshifting [=Catgirl=], [[VerbalTic nya]].

->''"You've got cats ''and'' boobs. All you need to do is to work bacon in there somehow, and you've got the internet trinity."''\\
--'''{{Website/SFDebris}}}''' on ''Series/RedDwarf'' ("Lemons")

->''"Here, kitty, kitty. Wish I was playing hide-and-seek with [[DatingCatwoman Black Cat]]. I ''so'' prefer my felines female."''
-->-- '''Franchise/{{Spider-Man}}''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan''

* Fauna of Roleplay/DCNation defaults to a felinoid form during a battle. A cat is simply, pound for pound, one of the most effective land predators on the planet, making it a rather useful fallback for a fight.

* MSFHighForum: Michelle is this crossed with Legion, Jess and Mira however are full Cat Girls though. Justin Mclish on the other hand is a cat boy/

* Fauna of DCNation defaults to a felinoid form during a battle. A cat is simply, pound for pound, one of the most effective land predators on the planet, making it a rather useful fallback for a fight.

* ''{{Cats}}'' costumes resemble this, though the characters they are playing actually fall under NearlyNormalAnimal.

* Fam from ''RuinExplorers'' has a cat tail and a pair of CuteLittleFangs.

* The Ecaflips in ''VideoGame/{{Dofus}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'' are cat people. They also count as a male version, even if they do possess some feline traits.