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* Emma Frost from ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' is a definite RichBitch (although [[CharacterDerailment she wasn't as much of an actual bitch as she suddenly became]]). Her most famous outfit has a cape with a huge white fox collar (assuming this outfit was made for real). However, she first appeared in 1980. Yet when she turned into a hero, it was the early 1990s, and her outfits didn't include fur.

* Megamind has "custom made baby seal leather boots", just [[CardCarryingVillain to try and prove that he's evil]].

-->-- '''Princess Snake''', '''''DragonballAbridged'''''

->"Do you know how many poor animals had to die to make that coat?"\\
"Do you know how many [[RichPeople rich animals]] I had to fuck to get this coat?"\\
-- ''{{Switch}}''

-->-- '''Princess Snake''', ''DragonballAbridged''

* An educational game called ''TheClueFinders 3rd grade adventures'' has the main villain be someone who's capturing animals for fur.

->"Do you know how many poor animals had to die to make that coat?"\\
"Do you know how many rich animals I had to fuck to get this coat?"\\
-- ''{{Switch}}''

* In ''TheAvengers'', Mrs. Peel's clone wears a fur coat when she tries to murder Steed with a spear gun and pistol.

!!Examples (examples for TheCruella should go there):

* TheCruella

This not about the politics of wearing fur, but simply how the mainstream media portrays it since the mid 1980s. In that time, groups such as PETA finally gained some traction, through celebrities building up a BandWagonTechnique. Wearing animal fur was considered the mark of evil. Leather is usually given a pass since the rest of the animal was killed for meat anyway, "and would ''you'' tell a [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels 300-pound biker]] to give up his jacket?"[[hottip:*: footnote in a novel by ''TerryPratchett'']], but fur industry revenues went into a decline through the late '80s and '90s.

* It gets a bit ridiculous in [[HarryTurtledove Harry Turtledove]]'s Crosstime Traffic novel Gunpowder Empire. The two main characters will literally stop whatever is happening just to talk about how nobody wears fur anymore and how polite society sees it as repulsive. This doesn't just happen once, but about 9 times in a 200 or so page book. The alternate timeline never saw the Roman Empire fall or technology advance much past our timeline's 400 AD. Still, even if they're in northern Europe and freezing, "FUR IS EVIL!"

* It gets a bit ridiculous in [[HarryTurtledove Harry Turtledove]]'s Crosstime Traffic novel Gunpowder Empire. The two main characters will literally stop whatever is happening just to talk about how nobody wears fur anymore and it's repulsive. The alternate timeline never saw the Roman Empire fall or technology advance much past our timeline's 400 AD. Still, even if they're in northern Europe and freezing, "FUR IS EVIL!"

* It gets a bit ridiculous in Harry Turtledove's Crosstime Traffic novel Gunpowder Empire. The two main characters will literally stop whatever is happening just to talk about how nobody wears fur anymore and it's repulsive. The alternate timeline never saw the Roman Empire fall or technology advance much past our timeline's 400 AD. Still, even if they're in northern Europe and freezing, "FUR IS EVIL!"

[[caption-width-right:350:She probably ate the puppies after.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:In case [[ViewersAreMorons it wasn't clear already]] that she's the villain.]]

Yet this didn't last long. Other celebrities came along and decided they liked fur, particularly rappers and hip-hop artists. Combined with sites like ebay making fur coats affordable, fur is more popular than it's been for decades. Just go to photo sharing sites and look up "Fur coat", "mink", and even "pimp coat".

[[caption-width-right:350:She probably ate the puppies after.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:In case [[ViewersAreMorons it wasn't clear already]] that she's the villain.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:She probably ate the puppies after.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:In case [[ViewersAreMorons it wasn't clear already]] that she's the villain.]]

* Genius Pixie Opal Koboi in ArtemisFowl: the Opal Deception has fur-covered seats in her custom-built luxury shuttle, as a sign of her leaving behind the fairy world (most fairies are vegan), and embracing [[HumansAreBastards the human world]].

** Yeah, ''SisterAct'' had that too. Whoopi's character gets a mink coat from her mob-member (boss?) boyfriend and is upset that he's actually given her his wife's fur. She goes to confront him about it and witnesses a murder than that sets up the movie. The fur was used to show Whoopi's character was a bit TheVamp at the beginning of the movie and to show that her boyfriend was a mob guy.