History Main / CatGirl

* ''FlakyPastry'' has [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=126 Marelle]] as a lead character, who [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=127 hates being called a Catgirl]]. Quite where she fits into the trope is quite a good question since she is basically human, wears clothes and has no tail, but DOES have real cat-style ears, a somewhat flattened nose and a dark skin colour which is presumably skin, although this isn't made clear. She certainly has a mop of off-white hair styled in human fashion.

* ''VideoGame/TheTwistedTaleOfSpikeMcFang'' has a whole brigade of cute Feline Fighters, led by [[PerkyFemaleMinion Felina]].

* Ati in ''VisualNovel/SekienNoInganock'', who sports the standard (if somewhat ragged) ears and tail, along with some massive claws and a golden, slitted right eye. (Her left is still a normal blue.) Her personality can be rather cat-like at times.
** Her {{Expy}} in the PSP game ''New Traveler'', Yuno, goes one step further by being [[HalfHumanHybrid half-kitkin]], making her appear more like the traditional catgirl.
* Kurt, from ''ShadowCaster'', morphs into a feline as his first alternate form, with all the stat and power boosts one would expect.

* * In ''VideoGame/AWitchsTale'', there's the aptly-named Kitty.

** Lin from ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireV'' is also a catgirl, but never removes her ear-covering headgear in the game itself, though her tail is still quite evident - a rare case of Concept Art Dang It.

* Nikki from ''ManaKhemiaAlchemistsOfAlrevis'', among others.
* Cham Cham out of ''SamuraiShodown 2'' is quite a catgirl. Ears, tail, claws, and fleas. Seriously, she acts more feline than not--when she's unarmed, she walks on all fours (not crawl, but catlike), whenever she relaxes she sits on her haunches, and some of her poses (including a taunt) have her scratching behind an ear with her hindleg..er, foot.
* Ati in the visual novel ''SekienNoInganock'', who sports the standard (if somewhat ragged) ears and tail, along with some massive claws and a golden, slitted right eye. (Her left is still a normal blue.) Her personality can be rather cat-like at times.

** In ''StarOceanTheLastHope'', Meracle joins your party, and she is a by-the-books catgirl who can also turn into a normal-sized cat. She thinks she might be originally from Roak (she's not sure of her origins, due to being [accidentally] kidnapped by a MadScientist at a young age) Also, it's ... unclear what the scientists were doing to her in the first place, given what they [[http://img.neoseeker.com/ca/star_ocean_4_conceptart_6Bi9n.png made her wear]] (note the collar).
* Tia from Stella Deus

* ''SuikodenIV's'' Noah deliberately invokes this trope. She's got kitty ears and oversized cat paws... which are most likely just a headband and gloves, though she insists she's actually a Nay-Kobold. She's a [[ConMan con girl]] and loves weaving sob stories, trying to weedle sympathy and material goods out of any suckers who actually fall for her tall tales.
** ''SuikodenTierkreis'' features actual beast people (including many females of the feline persuasion) in a tribe known as the Furious Roar. The race is basically fur covered humans with burly frames (including the females) and beast-like heads.. [[http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr310/27runes/tierkreis-artbook/Servillah.jpg Several]] of [[http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr310/27runes/tierkreis-artbook/Lycia.jpg them]] join your group, along with the chief of the tribe who is a canine (more [[http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr310/27runes/tierkreis-artbook/Diulf.jpg wolf like]]) rather than a feline (as his [[http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr310/27runes/tierkreis-artbook/megion.jpg rulership rival]] is).
* Alicia Priss and her sisters Flare and Stare Priss are the main antagonists from ''TailConcerto'', an underrated PS1 3D game. You can see the game intro [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXNT5XnGm2M here]]
** Is worth to mention that Alicia, leader of the dreaded Black Cat Gang is [[DatingCatwoman secretly in love]] with Waffle, the game protagonist... who happens to be a ''dog''.
** Opéra Kranz in its SpiritualSequel, ''{{Solatorobo}}'', and main protagonist [[spoiler: Elh]].

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': The Faunus look humans except for certain [[LittleBitBeastly animal traits]], that are different for each individual. Blake has the ears of a cat and certain feline traits. Unable to ignore a laser light flickering on her terminal, Blake gets up from her terminal and tracks the laser light with the obsession of a stalking cat until she bumps into the perpetrator - Yang.

* The Music/ShonenKnife song "I am a Cat" is about a young woman who ... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well, yeah]].
** Note that the title is a reference to a fairly famous Japanese novel that is almost totally unknown outside of its native country.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' has [[spoiler: Blake]], who is part of a larger group of LittleBitBeastly hybrids, called the Faunus.

** Also Arcueid, from the same series, who isn't a cat girl but occasionally grows cat ears in the same fashion as Hikaru from ''MagicKnightRayearth''. There's also a super-deformed version, Neco-Arc. Even villain Nrvnqsr Chaos gets a super-deformed cat version of himself, Neco Arc Chaos, in the later ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood'' games.

* This is a 20pt template in ''BigEyesSmallMouth''. Sample neko-jin have included a warrior from the SpaceOpera world of Cathedral and a portal-travelling wanderer looking for Bastet, as in the Egyptian goddess.

* From the people who brought you ''TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'', there's also the game ''SPANC'' -- "Space Pirate Amazon Ninja Catgirls". It's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.

* Miyet, just to name one from the ''WhateleyUniverse''. (Double catgirl quotient because the actual goddess Bast -- see Mythology -- is behind her transformation and talks to her in her head every so often.)

** Then there's the [[{{Multiboobage}} triple-breasted]] cat dancer from ''[[Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier]]''.

* An episode from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' had Selena Kyle, aka Catwoman, kidnapped by a Dr. Moreau wannabe who turned her into...you get the picture. It should also be noted that the episode also had a cat-man (man-cat?) who liked how he was and wanted Selena to stay. [[spoiler: At the end of the episode, he gives her the cure, but doesn't take it himself.]]

* [[PunnyName Schrodinger]] from the ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' manga and [=OVAs=] is a cute [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi]] catboy. And the name has meaning, too. He can be anywhere ''and'' nowhere, just like the uncertainty factor of [[SchrodingersCat the real thought experiment]].

* Parodied in ''[[Anime/JungleWaItsumoHaleNochiGuu Hare+Guu]]'', Guu occasionally dresses up as one [[LittleMissSnarker and does a pretty bad job of being cute]]. Also Marie once dressed as one after taking advice from Gupta, who has strange tastes.

-->'''Lindsay:''' I just love musicals! Maybe theyll show ''Theatre/{{Cats}}''.
-->'''Sadie:''' I dont think so, Linds. Today should be a challenge day
-->'''Katie:''' [[FinishingEachOthersSentences so if anyone]] has to dress up as cats today, it would probably be us.

-->'''Eva:''' Dont say it, Duncan. We dont need to hear about your "cat girl" fantasies.

* Mei in ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'' is a blue-furred cat woman, and almost completely catlike in appearance. Except for, you know--the lack of tail, the blue lips, and huge, uh, assets.

** Opera Kranz in its SpiritualSequel, ''{{Solatorobo}}'', and main protagonist [[spoiler: Elh]].

* [[PunnyName Schrödinger]] from the ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' manga and [=OVAs=] is a cute [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi]] catboy. And the name has meaning, too. He can be anywhere ''and'' nowhere, just like the uncertainty factor of [[SchrodingersCat the real thought experiment]].

* Parodied in ''[[Anime/JungleWaItsumoHaleNochiGuu Haré+Guu]]'', Guu occasionally dresses up as one [[LittleMissSnarker and does a pretty bad job of being cute]]. Also Marie once dressed as one after taking advice from Gupta, who has strange tastes.

-->'''Lindsay:''' I just love musicals! Maybe they’ll show ''Theatre/{{Cats}}''.
-->'''Sadie:''' I don’t think so, Linds. Today should be a challenge day—
-->'''Katie:''' [[FinishingEachOthersSentences —so if anyone]] has to dress up as cats today, it would probably be us.

-->'''Eva:''' Don’t say it, Duncan. We don’t need to hear about your "cat girl" fantasies.

* Meï in ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'' is a blue-furred cat woman, and almost completely catlike in appearance. Except for, you know--the lack of tail, the blue lips, and huge, uh, assets.

** Opéra Kranz in its SpiritualSequel, ''{{Solatorobo}}'', and main protagonist [[spoiler: Elh]].

* ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' had the [[TheDitz ditzy]] Devil Girl fan-nicknamed Tangerine who wears a catgirl-y hoodie and... [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4297 Changey!]]

* The current WhiteTiger, Ava Ayala from ComicBook/AvengersAcademy. Her costume is also much more cat like that her brother's costume(Her brother being the original White Tiger).

* In ''VideoGame/HatsuneMikuProjectDiva 2nd'', one of KAITO's wardrobe name is "Neko Cyber" (Cyber Neko), which is.

* Greer Grant Nelson originally used a custom in her identity as The Cat, The Cat was upgraded to Tigra, and the costume was given to Patsy Walker, who took the name Hellcat. Hellcat crops up now and then, sometimes as an actual catgirl due to the fact that she was once the wife of the Son of Satan.

* Numans [[PhantasyStarII Nei]] and [[PhantasyStarIV Rika]] from ''PhantasyStar'' series lack tails, but they are do have cat-like ears, fight with claws, and in the former's case, [[MsFanservice dresses rather]] [[{{Pun}} beastlty]].

* Himari from ''Manga/OmamoriHimari'' is a [[EverythingsBetterWithSamurai samurai]] catgirl MagicalGirlfriend. She speaks in an old-time dialect. Notable is one scene where she uses her cat features while at work in a MaidCafe to her advantage - everyone thinks it's just a costume. However, Yuuto's allergic to cats, so that's slightly problematic for her.

Other [=Catgirls=] merely wear [[CatEaredHeadband cat-themed costumes]], sometimes as part of feline themed AnimalMotifs. These [=Catgirls=] would be a subcategory of AnimalEaredHeadband. Faux kitties will wear at least fake ears, and often a fake tail. Sometimes they wear gloves resembling cat paws.

* ''Manga/{{Loveless}}'' is set in a world where everyone -- males and females alike -- have cat ears (and tails) until they lose their virginity. Some people wear [[CatEaredHeadband fake ears]] to disguise their non-virginal status.
* Himari from ''Manga/OmamoriHimari'' is a {{samurai}} catgirl MagicalGirlfriend. She speaks in an old-time dialect. Notable is one scene where she uses her cat features while at work in a MaidCafe to her advantage - everyone thinks it's just a costume. However, Yuuto's allergic to cats, so that's slightly problematic for her.

* In ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', Shampoo, who is already cursed to [[InvoluntaryShapeShifting turn into a small pink cat]] by Jusenkyo, runs into the Maomolin --a [[MegaNeko giant]] ghost cat who fancies her as a bride. He'll turn her ''[[{{Metamorphosis}} permanently]]'' into a cat if the New Year's Bell rings [[OneHundredAndEight 108 times]]. As the ritual proceeds, she grows cat ears and a tail.

* Natsuki Sasaehara, the heroine of ''Manga/HyperPolice''. The rest of the main cast are a {{Kitsune}} and two {{Werewolves}}.

* The OELManga ''The 9 Lives'' features a race of CatFolk who end up being enslaved by humans for [[SexSlave unstated but probably questionable]] purposes. Being (an extremely mild) BoysLove story, the catperson who gets the most screentime is a TroubledButCute catboy.

* King Wohl, Princess Lione, and Prince Tio from the Flame Kingdom in ''Anime/FushigiboshiNoFutagoHime'' are lion-based {{Nekomimi}}.

* ''LightNovel/AsobiNiIkuYo'' has the Catians, a CatFolk of creatures resembling {{cat girl}}s. 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 CatEaredHeadband.

* ''Manga/PandoraHearts'' has a [[OurMonstersAreDifferent Chain]] called the [[AliceAllusion Cheshire Cat]], who looks like a human with cat ears, a tail and huge claws. He used to be an ordinary black cat until [[spoiler:[[TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour Vincent]] [[EyeScream blinded him with scissors.]] The cat's mistress, [[RealityWarper the Will of the Abyss]], gave him his CatBoy appearance and [[RedEyesTakeWarning Break's left eye]] to make up for it, but Cheshire's real form as a Chain is more monstrous.]]

'''CatEaredHeadband Costumers and Cosplayers'''

* Princess [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Sera]] in the ''Anime/SonicTheHedgehog'' anime movie.
* Najimi in ''Manga/DoujinWork'' does a good job [[{{Cosplay}} cosplaying]] as a cat girl in a CosplayCafe, considering that her main motivation is making money.

** Japan is visiting Greece, who is always flanked by stray cats. Greece says that if there is an afterlife, he would want to be reborn as a cat. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming * plop* - Japan places cat ears on him.]]

* At one point in ''Anime/{{Shuffle}}'', [[TokenMiniMoe Primula]] {{cosplay}}s as a [=Catgirl=] [[{{Meido}} maid]].

** [[EvilIsSexy Grimmjow]] gets [[PantheraAwesome Panther]] ears in his Ressurecion form...

* In episode 55 of ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'', Sakura is sucked inside a copy of ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'', and Eriol appears as a CatBoy version of the Cheshire Cat.

* ''WonderWoman'' has faced four villains called Cheetah: Two pre-Crisis costumers and two PostCrisis catgirls. The first catgirl, Barbara Ann Minerva, is the current and best-known Cheetah and the basis for the animated version. (The other catgirl was her successor, and male. Barbara killed him.)

* Male example: Tom, the son of the superhero Wildcat of DC Comics' [[JusticeSocietyOfAmerica JSA]], is a catboy.

* Catspaw, of the ''ComicBook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}}'', was similar to Pantha, but was definitely a human before being altered by the Dominators.

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** It's probably also worth mentioning that Tamaranians like Starfire are descended from tree-dwelling flying cats

* Xiao from the first ''VideoGame/DarkCloud'' game is an interesting case. She starts out as a regular stray cat found in one of the game's dungeons, and an item used to advance later on turns her into a human, and also the first ally in your party. In ''VideoGame/DarkChronicle'', a [[CatEaredHeadband cat-girl costume]] can be acquired for the female main character
* Most famous video game example: Felicia from ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' would be considered the heart and soul of this trope. [[HourglassHottie Having]] [[BoobsOfSteel a]] [[HartmanHips seductive]] [[HelloNurse body]], cat ears, a PrehensileTail, a {{Stripperific}} FurBikini, and can go from cat to catwoman form in a heartbeat, it speaks volumes.

** The in game dictionary in ''StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime'' explains Leon's presence. Expellians are actually a [[HalfHumanHybrid hybrid race]] descended from both [[HumanAliens humans]] and fellpool that were native to Expel. Leon is a genetic throwback that only appears when both parents have the same recessive gene on the twelfth chromosome.

* 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.]]

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

* Cat Man is a hench of BigBad Coiffio in ''PerfectHairForever'', a 6-episode anime parody, who appears to be a surly man in a cat costume. He hates {{shounen}} like Gerald with a passion and will fire indiscriminately at them with a gatling gun if they bother him. He lives in a giant cat-carrier -- his floor is a sea of cat litter -- he frequently grooms in public, and loves batting around stuffed-mice-on-strings.
* Adam West in ''TheFairlyOddparents'' is known as Catman (a nod to the 1960's Batman) who is a crimefighter who is part man part cat.

* Parodied in the ''StrokerAndHoop'' episode "XXX Wife (a.k.a. Stroke Her and Boob)"; when the pornographers attempt to [[LegoGenetics splice feline DNA]] into two [[TheDitz ditzy]] co-eds to cash in on the [[FurryFandom Furry]] market, they wind up with insane mutant catgirls that [[ImAHumanitarian eat human flesh]].

* King Wohl, Princess Lione, and Prince Tio from the Flame Kingdom in ''FushigiboshiNoFutagoHime'' are lion-based {{Nekomimi}}.