History Main / CrazyCatLady

* Mrs. Hough, the school administrator in ''Series/IAmFrankie''. Taken UpToEleven in that her favorite cat ''is artificial.''

** The Apples' cousin Goldie Delicious in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E9PinkieApplePie Pinkie Apple Pie]]" takes it UpToEleven with [[AllAnimalsAreDomesticated an adult cheetah]] included in her horde of cats, and can be seen in a later episode adopting even more felines. Goldie even takes several of her cats with her on her trip to Las Pegasus in "Grannies Gone Wild".

* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' has a Crazy Cat Lady as a recurring VillainOfTheWeek. She is not only [[LittleBitBeastly half-human]], [[CatGirl half-cat]], but can even make her cats gather around her to cause MakeMyMonsterGrow on herself!

* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' has a Crazy Cat Lady as a recurring VillainOfTheWeek. She is not only [[Catgirl half-human, half cat]], but can even make her cats gather around her to cause MakeMyMonsterGrow on herself!

* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' has a Crazy Cat Lady as a recurring VillainOfTheWeek. She can even make her cats gather around her to cause MakeMyMonsterGrow on herself!

* ''TabletopGame/InNomine'' sourcebook Liber Servitorum includes an old woman who seems to be a crazy cat lady. She is, in fact, a servant of an angel who inhabits her cats.
* In ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'', one of the character templates for the Nosferatu (a {{splat}} of vampires horribly disfigured by the Embrace who live secluded lives or utilize illusion powers to maintain the {{Masquerade}}) is a crazy small animal person. The character's gender is up to you, as is the type of small animals he hoards. He seldom leaves his lair, preferring to use animal mind-control to have one of his pets act as a proxy when dealing with the coterie.
* There's a Creepy Cat Lady in the ''Horror Recognition Guide'' for ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil''. She's just that ''little'' bit creepier than normal, thanks to what she can do with her cats...
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'', one of Japanese goddess Izanami's favored human guises is an old lady with 47 cats, reflecting her divine existence as the reclusive, isolated queen of the Underworld, feared and distrusted by her pantheon.
* One of the spaces in the classic version of ''[[TabletopGame/GameOfLife The Game of Life]]'' reads "Aunt Leaves You 50 Cats", and costs you $20,000 "for their care".

* The ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' series has Satori Komeiji, who lives alone in a [[FireAndBrimstoneHell huge underground palace]] with an army of crows and cats. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that her ability to read minds means that she tends to attract a lot of animals who can't otherwise communicate with her. She's actually rather friendly, but has a habit of [[PsychicPowers responding to what people are thinking rather than what they're saying]], which causes people to avoid her. Some of her fans [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Crazy_Cat_Satori.png have done]] up [[MemeticMutation gag-art poking fun at this fact]].

* A rare male example is one of the ''15 Portraits of Despair'' in ''ComicBook/TheSandman''. A man accrues over sixty cats after a leg injury, and is left with a SadisticChoice when a job offer comes up: take the job and abandon his cats, or attempt to keep living on the meager disability payments. [[spoiler: He takes the job, and only five cats are sill alive when the police are inevitably called in.]]

* Mrs. Bond from ''Series/AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall'' and her house full of cats. Her husband seems to deal with it by ignoring it all.

* ''Webcomic/ToonHole'' [[http://toonhole.com/comic/cat-lady/ puts a spin on it]]. Someone's aunt is hording cats, but as soon as he leaves, it's shown that the cats are actually keeping the cat lady hostage.

* Susan of ''Fill/KissOfTheTarantula'', but with the titular spiders instead of cats.

* In ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'', Dwarves have a tendency to become Crazy Cat People if the cat population is left [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/catsbeard_9105.jpg unchecked]], though [[TheHypnotoad the cats are the ones adopting the dwarves]]. Because all the cats will slow the game to a crawl, to counter it, [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential you can]] [[EatTheDog have the stray cats butchered for food, leather, and bones]].

** The Crazy Cat Lady, seen up above and originally introduced in "Girly Edition", is the {{Trope Namer|s}}. If somebody approaches her house, she greets them with incomprehensible screams and thrown cats. Her real name is Eleanor Abernathy, and according to the episode "Springfield Up", she used to be a successful doctor and lawyer -- until she suffered mental burnout around age 32, turned to alcohol, and sought emotional solace in her pet cats. A later episode reveals that her mental state is a result of [[TrashOfTheTitans compulsive hoarding]] and sees her ([[StatusQuoIsGod temporarily]]) cured. "The Blue and the Gray" has her meet a [[DistaffCounterpart Spear Counterpart]] in the form of a Crazy Dog Man. They fall in love!

* Crazy Cat Ladies appear now and then as tertiary characters in the ''Literature/LordPeterWimsey'' books.

* Madame from ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'' is a mild example, being an old lady who owns a family of cats and makes them the beneficiaries of her will. One could argue that she goes full-on Crazy Cat Lady at the end of the film, when she decides to adopt ''all'' the stray cats in Paris. [[FridgeHorror And this is supposed to be a happy ending.]]

* One patient in ''Series/EmilyOwensMD'' is a hoarder who has about ten cats. She has serious infection she caught from her wounded arm. When her daugher tells Emily about her life and how she unsuccessfully tried to help her, Emily realizes that the woman might have toxoplasmosis that changed her personality.

* Creator/DCComics series ''ComicBook/{{Armageddon 2001}}'' is a series of "what if" stories picturing the fates that are going to befall various DC superheroes as the world is turning into a dystopia. One of the stories shows superheroine Ice as a crazy cat lady.

* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2'' - [[spoiler:Hicup's mother Valka is crazy ''dragon'' lady as she was described directly in the film ([[Main/StealthPun note also]] that here DragonsAreCatlike). So crazy that she abandoned her husband and her newborn son and never tried to return, though at first it could be difficult because she was kidnapped by dragons. Also, after twenty years among dragons and, rarely, hostile humans [[Main/GoMadFromTheIsolation Valka's body language became a bit inhuman and she started to forget how to speak.]] ]]
* WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragonTheHiddenWorld - And here Hiccup himself finally turns into this and Vikings [[spoiler:under his lead]] live not along with dragons, but actually ''for'' them. Solution was... quite radical.

* The newly added DM Jerem' for French Vampire LARP 7 De Sang loves cats so much that the community's facebook page was taken over by the followers of the Kitten Imperator.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' series has Satori Komeiji, who lives alone in a [[FireAndBrimstoneHell huge underground palace]] with an army of crows and cats. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that her ability to read minds means that she tends to attract a lot of animals who can't otherwise communicate with her. She's actually rather friendly, but has a habit of [[PsychicPowers responding to what people are thinking rather than what they're saying]], which causes people to avoid her. Some of her fans [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Crazy_Cat_Satori.png have done]] up [[MemeticMutation gag-art poking fun at this fact]].

** The Crazy Cat Old Man is a recurring ContinuityCameo in the Tales series going all the way back to ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia''. He's in just about every game as a sort of an EasterEgg.

* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' series

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* The ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicII'' [[DummiedOut Restored Content Mod]] has a deranged Padawan living in the ruins of the Dantooine Jedi Enclave who raises and trains Laigreks (insectoid aliens) to kill any trespassers or treasure-hunters on sight. Light Side players can dissuade her and lead her back to the light while the DarkSide options are to kill or corrupt her.

* Inverted with Galf, a [[MonsterOfTheWeek Villain Of The Week]] in ''Anime/FistOfTheNorthStar'' a crazy old dog man who keeps dozens of poorly managed dogs, and values their lives over humans.

* ''FanFic/SixDaysTheAnimorphsWereIdiots'' has Visser Three become one of these as a coping mechanism after Visser One dumps him. He ends up with at least ten, and at one point even tries to collect tigers too, but they're more trouble than they're worth.

--> '''Maya''': (while proudly showing off her new [[UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} collar]]): "Sempai noticed me, nyaa!"

-->''"The cat didn't make me any less lonely. It just became a mascot for my loneliness."''

--> '''Leonard:''' Okay, fine, live with cats! Be like my Aunt Nancy. She had dozens of 'em, and you know what happened after she died? They ATE her!
--> '''Sheldon:''' You don't have to sell me on cats, Leonard, I'm already a fan!

* In VideoGame/{{Satisfactory}}, having a ''Lizard Doggo'' (something that looks like an unholy combination between a shrimp and a short-legged dog, and behaves like a dog) as a pet is actually a beneficial mechanic as the doggo will intermittently reward the player with power slugs and other raw materials. However some players take it to CCL level by building ''doggo farms'' and retrieving and penning up as many ''doggo'' they can find and "capture". Many "doggo ranchers" will have at least 50, [[Tropers/RAMChYLD one outlier]] had 112.

--> '''Florence:''' That's how crazy cat ladies get started.

--> "If we can assemble enough cats in a small enough space, we'll have created a neural network! ''A mind!''"

* ''Webcomic/ToonHole'' [[http://toonhole.com/comic/cat-lady/ puts a spin on it]]. Someone's aunt is hording cats, but as soon as he leaves, it's shown that the cats are actaully keeping the cat lady hostage.

* In an episode of ''WebVideo/TheGuild'' it's shown that Vork keeps dozens of birds in his home. He apparently uses them for food (since he is unemployed and only barely gets by on his dead grandfather's benefit checks).
* Katherine of ''WebVideo/{{Manwhores}}'' is an unusual version of this trope in that she is in her 20's and doesn't actually own any cats (being allergic.) This doesn't stop her from filling her house with cat posters, cat models, and cat movies filling her house -- in addition to demanding to play with a cat toy to, um, get frisky.
* ''Website/CollegeHumor'''s video "[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6854922/batman-vs-cat-lady Batman vs Cat Lady]]" parodies ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} with a character clone who is a classic Crazy Cat Lady.

* In the world of the Wiki/SCPFoundation, the TailorMadePrison for [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-511 SCP-511]] requires that an old lady suffering from dementia play the role of a Crazy Cat Lady to a building full of feral cats, with said feral cats all being controlled by a cat shaped ''thing'' [[BodyOfBodies made from the decaying flesh of multiple dead cats]]. Since the family of such a woman would never let her live alone in a cat infested building[[note]]let alone live with the Frankensteinian-rotting-cat-zombie-thing[[/note]], the Foundation ''kidnaps'' one from a hospice or nursing home when the previous Crazy Cat Lady dies and forces her to live there. [[NecessarilyEvil The Foundation considers this to be a lesser evil than allowing SCP-511 to escape]].

** The Crazy Cat Lady, seen up above and originally introduced in "Girly Edition", is the {{Trope Namer|s}}. If somebody approaches her house, she greets them with incomprehensible screams and thrown cats. Her real name is Eleanor Abernathy, and according to the episode "Springfield Up," she used to be a successful doctor and lawyer -- until she suffered mental burnout around age 32, turned to alcohol, and sought emotional solace in her pet cats. A later episode reveals that her mental state is a result of [[TrashOfTheTitans compulsive hoarding]] and sees her ([[StatusQuoIsGod temporarily]]) cured. "The Blue and the Gray" has her meet a [[DistaffCounterpart Spear Counterpart]] in the form of a Crazy Dog Man. They fall in love!

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode "Invasion of the Dads" Mrs. Turner becomes one of these, [[TooDumbToLive even though she's severely allergic to cats]].

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' - Linda's sister Gayle only has three cats, but [[NervousWreck she's definitely crazy]]. According to one episode she got one of her cats, Mr. Business, from taking him off someone else's porch, and she once mentioned that the pound will not ''let'' her get more cats.

* The fiendish Mrs. Deagle from ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' has no problem with cruelty to ''dogs'' (she threatens Billy's with a ride in her spin dryer at high heat for breaking a yard decoration), but when we see her home life it turns out her house is full of cats. And since she's a greedy old hag, she has [[ThemeNaming given them all names like "Kopec" and "Dollar Bill"]].

** Voldemort. He has only one live snake, but showers her with affection he wouldn't dream of showing to another human being, even going to far as to [[spoiler: put part of his soul in her]]. And that's not even going into the recurring snake motif associated with him...

* Sonia in ''Series/GoOn'' breeds cats. Lots and lots of cats. So many that she gives one or more to each and every member of the support group. And they all blame Ryan for it.

** There's Auriaya, product of someone in the Blizzard quarters who said "Hey, what if we pick a crazy cat lady, and make her a raid boss?". She also happens to be a giant. And thousands of years old. Her cats HURT.

* The entire point of ''[[http://catversushuman.blogspot.com/ Cat vs. Human]]''

** And then there's [[http://www.housepetscomic.com/2012/12/17/baby-its-cold-outside/ the Christmas party]].

** The Crazy Cat Lady, seen up above and originally introduced in "Girly Edition", is the {{Trope Namer|s}}. If somebody approaches her house, she greets them with incomprehensible screams and thrown cats. Her real name is Eleanor Abernathy, and according to the episode "Springfield Up," she used to be a successful doctor and lawyer -- until she suffered mental burnout around age 32, turned to alcohol, and sought emotional solace in her pet cats. A later episode reveals that her mental state is a result of [[TrashOfTheTitans compulsive hoarding]] and sees her ([[StatusQuoIsGod temporarily]]) cured. "The Blue and the Gray" revealed she has a [[DistaffCounterpart Spear Counterpart]] in the form of a Crazy Dog Man.