History Main / OurWerewolvesAreDifferent

* Lobo Hombre en Paris by La Union is about a wolf that was bitten by a [[AWizardDidIt wizard]], and turns into a man that take the name Denis and installs himself in a poor place. The music video does not show the monster, but rather a group of detectives looking for a crime scene where, probably, Denis cannot control his instincts and killed a woman that is referred in the lyrics.

* Lobo hombre en paris by La Union is about a wolf that was bitten by a [[AWizardDidIt wizard]], and turns intro a men. His name is Denis.

* ''Fanfic/UnleashingOfADarkNight'': Werewolves have ''three'' forms compared to two for other kinds of [=WereMobian=]s: a daytime form, the standard Were form ([[NighttimeTransformation their nighttime form]]), and the Rage Form, only awakened once angered to a certain extent. Being part Werewolf, [[OriginalCharacter Tomoya the Volt]] has this capability, but since she is only half True Were, she lacks the standard Were form. Well, she was supposed to, if not for Dark Gaia...

* ''Fanfic/YouCallThatACostume'': Rainbow Dash, dressed as a werewolf for Halloween, becomes a huge wolf when one of Twilight's spells goes wrong.

Although stories describing werewolves and similar beings go back to antiquity, medieval werewolf legends do not closely resemble the modern concept of the werewolf very much at all, and tended to fall into three categories: monstrous man-eating wolves that did not transform and had never been human, people permanently cursed into the shapes of wolves, and witches who gave themselves illusory wolf-like shapes and went out to murder people without any mental change. ''Literature/TheWerewolfOfParis'' is usually named as the werewolf counterpart to ''Dracula'', but cinema seems to have been more definitive in terms of shaping the monster's modern form. Lawrence Talbot, as played by Creator/LonChaneyJr, from the 1941 film ''[[Film/TheWolfMan1941 The Wolf Man]]'' is regarded as providing the template that others have followed and originated many of the modern werewolf tropes, similarly to how ''The Golem of Prague'' codified modern golems or ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' did so for vampires. In 1981, with dramatic improvements in visual effects and makeup now available, ''Film/TheHowling'' established the modern image of a werewolf as a far more lupine humanoid being.

Although the werewolf is a monster that goes back to antiquity, there are no stand-out legends or literature that define its modern image in a way that ''The Golem of Prague'' does for golems or ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' does for vampires. ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'' is the most well-known work to utilize werewolf themes, but it isn't a werewolf story and not popularly viewed as one either. For that matter, medieval werewolf legends do not closesly resemble the modern concept of the werwewolf very much at all, and tended to fall into three categories: monstrous man-eating wolves that did not transform and had never been human, people permanently cursed into the shapes of wolves, and witches who gave themselves illusory wolf-like shapes and went out to murder peoplle without any mental change. ''Literature/TheWerewolfOfParis'' is usually named as the werewolf counterpart to ''Dracula'', but cinema seems to have been more definitive in terms of shaping the monster's modern form. Lawrence Talbot, as played by Creator/LonChaneyJr, from the 1941 film ''[[Film/TheWolfMan1941 The Wolf Man]]'' is regarded as providing the template that others have followed and originated many of the modern werewolf tropes. In 1981, with dramatic improvements in visual effects and makeup now available, ''Film/TheHowling'' established the modern image of a werewolf as a far more lupine humanoid being.

* Myth/ClassicalMythology: A number of werwolf stories are present in Greek and Roman myths and legends, and tend to focus on a theme of humans being transformed into wolves as a form of divine punishment. These transformations are typically permanent or indeterminate -- in most regards, they're a form of ForcedTransformation more so than what "werewolf" is taken to mean in the modern day -- but in several versions of these myths the people so transformed have the option to -- again permanently -- turn back into humans after a nine-year period. One of the older stories describes how a king named Lycaon tried to serve [[ImAHumanitarian the flesh of his own son Nyctimus]] as a [[HumanSacrifice meal for Zeus]]. Instead, Zeus punished Lycaon by changing him into a wolf. "Lycaon", fittingly, was derived from ''lúkos'', the ancient Greek word for "wolf", which is also the linguistic origin for "[[AKindOfOne lycanthropy]]", the condition of being a werewolf -- the original term, ''lukánthrōpos'', literally meant "wolf-man". Ancient writers, however, used "lycanthrope" specifically to refer to people suffering from delusional beliefs that they were wolves, as the concept of a human-wolf shapeshifter did not exist at the time.

* ''WebOriginal/HappySunDaycare'': Werewolves in this universe behave more like real wolves as opposed to the always violent and malicious creatures in most depictions. They also don't need a full moon to transform, instead passing out at random moments in a case similar to narcolepsy and transforming while doing so, which can even happen during the daytime. A special tea can be made to prevent the transformation.

Although the werewolf is a monster that goes back to antiquity, there are no stand-out legends or literature that define its modern image in a way that ''The Golem of Prague'' does for golems or ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' does for vampires. ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'' is the most well-known work to utilize werewolf themes, but it isn't a werewolf story and not popularly viewed as one either. ''Literature/TheWerewolfOfParis'' is usually named as the werewolf counterpart to ''Dracula'', but cinema seems to have been more definitive in terms of shaping the monster's modern form. Lawrence Talbot, as played by Creator/LonChaneyJr, from the 1941 film ''[[Film/TheWolfMan1941 The Wolf Man]]'' is regarded as providing the template that others have followed. In 1981, with dramatic improvements in visual effects and makeup now available, ''Film/TheHowling'' established the modern image of a werewolf as a far more lupine humanoid being.

* Myth/ClassicalMythology: A number of werwolf stories are present in Greek and Roman myths and legends, and tend to focus on a theme of humans being transformed into wolves as a form of divine punishment. These transformations are typically permanent or indeterminate -- in most regards, they're a form of ForcedTransformation more so than what "werewolf" is taken to mean in the modern day -- but in several versions of these myths the people so transformed have the option to -- again permanently -- turn back into humans after a nine-year period. One of the older stories describes how a king named Lycaon tried to serve [[ImAHumanitarian the flesh of his own son Nyctimus]] as a [[HumanSacrifice meal for Zeus]]. Instead, Zeus punished Lycaon by changing him into a wolf. This serves as the linguistic origin for "[[AKindOfOne lycanthropy]]", the condition of being a werewolf.

* Werewolves in ''Fanfic/TheSweetieChroniclesFragments'' are wolves which turn into ''bigger wolves'' during the full moon.
* In ''Fanfic/MyLittleMagesTheNightmaresReturn'', the Diamond Dogs are reimagined as werewolves, which in this setting are wolves who learned magic and took on human form.
* The social ramifications of lycanthropy in Literature/HarryPotter are fully explored at ''Roleplay/AbsitOmen'' including direwolves: werewolves engineered by a dark wizard that are more dangerous than the canonical versions, being transformed for the entirety of the full moon cycle.

** Subverted in ''Fanfic/AttackOfTheTeacherCreature'' - the werewolf is really just a wax sculpture.

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has the four types of werewolf that appear in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': magical shapeshifters who choose to turn into wolves; hexenwolves - who turn willingly into giant wolves via an enchanted belt that keeps them human, but tends to get them DrunkOnTheDarkSide; lycanthropes - people who stay physically human but are essentially TheBerserker and naturally channel a spirit of rage that makes them stronger and gives them a HealingFactor under the full moon; and the loup-garou - under a hereditary curse to transform into nigh-indestructible savage monsters each full moon (it's also the only type vulnerable to silver - inherited silver, specifically). Additionally, there are ''Literature/HarryPotter'' style werewolves, which are like canon, infectious, and akin to lesser versions of the loup-garou. Further, in Asgard, there are the Wolf-People, who willingly shapeshift between human, wolf, and something in between.
* Two different (but related) kinds of werewolf show up in ''Fanfic/WeresHarry''.
** The Skin-Changers [[spoiler: like Harry]] can shift between forms at any time, with full control in both shapes. They are also noted to look bulkier and more bestial when transformed (If a regular werewolf looks something like a human with claws and a wolf's head, a Skin-Changer looks more like a wolf's head on a gorilla's body, again with claws). The bite is not infectious, with the gift instead being a hereditary talent. [[spoiler: Harry is the only one currently known to exist.]]
** The werewolves were created when a ritual designed to cut off the Skin-Changers from their alternate forms went badly awry. Werewolves can change only under the full moon, have infectious bites, and go berserk when transformed. "Born" werewolves (werewolves born to other werewolves) retain greater control through the change, to the point where a third-or-fourth generation "born" wolf retains his or her full human mind without the need for Wolfsbane.
* In the ''Franchise/StarWars'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10809048/1/Ocumwhowurst Ocumwhowurst]]'', someone created werewolves by messing around with mixing wolf DNA with other beings. A serum was created, and although someone guarded it after it was discovered, a couple humans still got hold of some and became werewolves. One of them bites Luke, who then has to try and find a cure.
* In the ''Manga/OutlawStar'' fanfic ''Fanfic/AFistfulOfDragonite'' Aisha of the C'tarl Tribe proudly (and loudly) proclaims she is a mystical skinchanger, a rare breed of native capable of changing her shape into a voracious, ferocious beast. Whether or not this is true is... [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane subjective]].
* Lycanthropy is very thoroughly elaborated in the ''Fanfic/{{Dangerverse}}'', and given that Remus Lupin is one of the main characters, virtually all the details are plot-relevant at some point or other.

* In ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'', Crazy Smurf of ''Film/TheSmurfs'' film series turns into a were-Smurf at every full moon.
* Acknowledged explicitly in ''Fanfic/TaarokosBuffyTheVampireSlayer'' when Oz and Nina Ash meet for the first time; although the two have no problem with each other as people, they instinctively react violently to the other the moment they make contact when shaking hands, Willow speculating that Oz and Nina's different breeds of werewolf are natural enemies even if the two each want to be friendly to each other in their human identities.
* In ''Fanfic/YouCallThatACostume'', Rainbow Dash, dressed as a werewolf for Halloween, becomes a huge wolf when one of Twilight's spells goes wrong.
* Lycanthropy in ''Fanfic/FurAndPhotography'' is contagious through bites like in the legends, but they are sentient even when they change. They are able to change whenever they want, but the full moon compels them to change anyway. They operate with their own customs and instincts they call "the Beast", this compelling them to hunt, fuck and seek companionship with other werewolves in the form of packs. There are such things as alpha-breeds that lead these packs.
* ''Fanfic/ThereWasOnceAnAvengerFromKrypton'': According to Doctor Strange, werewolves are a diverse classification, coming in many different types of similar creatures.
* In ''Fanfic/HildaAndTheHowlingWoods,'' werewolves are thought of as violent savages, but before long most of the cast realizes that they [[FantasticRacism thought the same thing about Trolls]], forcing them to challenge conventional wisdom and figure out the nuances of lycanthropy in the setting.

* ''FanFic/UnleashingOfADarkNight'': Werewolves have ''three'' forms compared to two for other kinds of [=WereMobian=]s: a daytime form, the standard Were form ([[NighttimeTransformation their nighttime form]]), and the Rage Form, only awakened once angered to a certain extent. Being part Werewolf, [[OriginalCharacter Tomoya the Volt]] has this capability, but since she is only half True Were, she lacks the standard Were form. Well, she was supposed to, if not for Dark Gaia...
* Werewolves are the main focus in the ''WebAnimation/SpookyMonth'' fanfic series ''Fanfic/SweetsClothing'', primarily with the idea that Kevin is one. Originally meant as the finality of the build-up in the first story ''The Night Off'', the curse is explored more in the later stories.

* ''WesternAnimation/OpenSeason'' The fourth direct-to-video follow-up ''Scared Silly'' features a werewolf named Wailing Wampus Werewolf, a forest legend of sorts that only seems to be a werewolf in the sense that it's a perpetual wolf/human hybrid, though a subplot has Mr. Weenie fear turning into one after Elliot briefly makes a false conclusion.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Music/WarrenZevon "Ah-hooooo..."]][[labelnote:L-R, top-to-bottom]][[Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon David Kessler]], [[Manga/DragonBall Man Wolf]], ComicBook/WerewolfByNight, and [[WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor Valerie]].[[/labelnote]]]]

* PlayedForLaughs in episode 9 of ''WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged'': being a parody of [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} the original series]], most of the same features of The Captain still apply here (multiple forms, HealingFactor, being able to turn into mist and ''being a Nazi''). Only in this, Seras gets to [[LampshadedTrope point out]] the utter ''absurdity'' of it all, her reaction to him being a werewolf being "He's a NAZI-[[PrecisionFStrike FUCKING]]-'''WEREWOLF?!'''".

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheGoblinKing'': Shaggy and Scooby encounter a bouncer, who is a werewolf and Velma also turns into one. The difference about these two is that the bouncer has light blue fur without a tail, turns under the full moon, and retains his sapience, while Velma has brown fur and a tail, turns under a spell, and is in a feral state.

* In ''Anime/WolfChildren'', the main character's lover is a man who is descended from the extinct Japanese Honshu wolf and their two children end up being [[HalfHumanHybrid wolf-human hybrids]]. There are three forms a wolf person may take; a full human form, a wolf form, and a half-wolf form, though it takes time and maturity for them to control their transformations. They also still have wolf instincts no matter what form they are in. If a wolf child decides that [[spoiler:they want to live as a wolf instead of a human, then their wolf body and mind will mature accordingly, as shown by Ame becoming an adult wolf despite being only ten years old in human years]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheGoblinKing'': Shaggy and Scooby encounter a bouncer, who is a werewolf and Velma also turns into one. The difference about this two is that this one has light blue fur without a tail, turns under the full moon, and retains his sapience, while Velma has brown fur and a tail, turns under a spell, and is in a feral state.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheGoblinKing'': Shaggy and Scooby encounter a bouncer, who is a werewolf and Velma also turns into one. The difference about this two is that this one has light blue fur has light blue fur without a tail while Velma has brown fur and a tail.

* ''FanFic/UnleashingOfADarkNight'': Werewolf Mobians have ''three'' forms compared to two for other kinds of [=WereMobian=]s: a daytime form, the standard Were form ([[NighttimeTransformation their nighttime form]]), and the Rage Form, only awakened once angered to a certain extent. Being part Werewolf, [[OriginalCharacter Tomoya the Volt]] has this capability, but since she is only half True Were, she lacks the standard Were form. Well, she was supposed to, if not for Dark Gaia...

* Rougarou [[Main/TheSavageSouth from Louisiana folklore]] are humans who turn into people with wolf heads every night. [[Main/SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Because of this, they are very lethargic when in human form]]. They are also said to [[Main/ScareEmStraight enjoy eating Catholics who break Lent.]] A rougarou can pass the curse on to someone else from the 41st day onward, no sooner. They are vulnerable to decapitation and Main/KillItWithFire.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werwolf Unternehmen Werwolf]] (literally, "Operation Werewolf") was a plan by ThoseWackyNazis to create a guerilla force to operate inside Allied-held areas of Germany; according to popular legend, Werwolf cells may have even been intended to keep fighting as TheRemnant after Germany's surrender. As we can see simply by cracking open a history book, [[ForegoneConclusion it never amounted to much]], and ended up being more useful as a propaganda tool for the SS than as an actual combat unit.

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has the four types of werewolf that appear in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': magical shapeshifters who choose to turn into wolves; hexenwolves - who turn willingly into giant wolves via an enchanted belt that keeps them human, but tends to get them DrunkOnTheDarkSide; lycanthropes - people who stay physically human but are essentially TheBerserker and naturally channel a spirit of rage that makes them stronger and gives them a HealingFactor under the full moon; and the loup-garou - under a hereditary curse to transform into nigh-indestructible savage monsters each full moon (it's also the only type vulnerable to silver - inherited silver, specifically). Additionally, there are ''Literature/HarryPotter'' style werewolves, which are like canon, infectious, and akin to lesser versions of the loup-garou.
** Further, in Asgard, there are the Wolf-People, who willingly shapeshift between human, wolf, and something in between.