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A SubTrope of OurWerebeastsAreDifferent, dealing with variations of lycanthropy (i.e. werewolves). [[OurVampiresAreDifferent As with vampires]], the exact parameters of lycanthropy vary, but to meet the definition, a werewolf must usually be a person who takes the form of a wolf under certain conditions (the exact details do vary -- see the [[Analysis/OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Werewolf Analysis Page]] for a listing of common characteristics and customization options). Far and away the most popular concept is that a werewolf is a human who has somehow become able to temporarily transform ([[InvoluntaryShapeshifting usually unwillingly]]) into a wolf that goes on to run wild ([[AlternateIdentityAmnesia rarely remembering their romp]]). Usual methods include a ViralTransformation spread by being bitten, but a lot of depictions show lycanthropy as solely hereditary. Other popular causes include {{curse}}s and typical MadScientist experiments. Like most werewolves, the classic wolf-man only transforms on the full moon, or, failing that, at night, though none of this is a ''given'' in modern works.

* ''WesternAnimation/OpenSeason'' The fourth direct-to-video follow-up ''Scared Silly'' features a werewolf named Wailing Wampus Werewolf.

A SubTrope of OurWerebeastsAreDifferent, dealing with variations of lycanthropy (i.e. werewolves). [[OurVampiresAreDifferent As with vampires]], the exact parameters of lycanthropy vary, but to meet the definition, a werewolf must a person who takes the form of a wolf under certain conditions (the exact details do vary -- see the [[Analysis/OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Werewolf Analysis Page]] for a listing of common characteristics and customization options). Far and away the most popular concept is that a werewolf is a human who has somehow become able to temporarily transform ([[InvoluntaryShapeshifting usually unwillingly]]) into a wolf that goes on to run wild ([[AlternateIdentityAmnesia rarely remembering their romp]]). Usual methods include a ViralTransformation spread by being bitten, but a lot of depictions show lycanthropy as solely hereditary. Other popular causes include {{curse}}s and typical MadScientist experiments. Like most werewolves, the classic wolf-man only transforms on the full moon, or, failing that, at night, though none of this is a ''given'' in modern works.

* Given its canine features, it's quite possible The Rake of creepypasta lore (as well as ''WebVideo/EverymanHYBRID'') is a ''really [[UncannyValley creepy]]'', hairless wolfman. Its features are mostly human, with just enough canine there to be disturbing.

* Werewolves are the main focus in the ''WebAnimation/SpookyMonth'' fanfic series ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/3265002 Sweet's Clothing]]'', 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.

* "Wolf Like Me" by TV on the Radio.

* ''WesternAnimation/MadMonsterParty'': One of the characters featured in the movie is a werewolf.

* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamov_Ka-50 Ka-50]] [[ThreateningShark Akula]]'s NATO {{Reporting Name|s}} used to

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericaTheMotionPicture'': The main villain of the movie is a werewolf and traitor named Benedict Arnold.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericaTheMotionPicture'': The main villain of the movie is a werewolf and traitor named Benedict Arnold.

* ''Magazine/ForteanTimes'' reported on a rabbinical rationale dating from the fourteenth century that addressed the problem of werewolves in Jewish belief. Living as outsiders in Central Europe, Jews would have been fully aware of the belief in werewolves prevalent in the Gentile world around them. The issue was not ''if'' werewolves existed -- it was taken as a given that they ''did''. Therefore G-d must have created them, or tolerated their creation by Satan. The problem was how this could be squared with Scripture. A theological argument was advanced that when G-d cursed the serpent in the Garden of Eden to lose its limbs and crawl on its belly hereafter, the Almighty, by default, bequeathed a shape-shifting ability on such creatures. Later in Literature/TheBible, the Nephilim come into the world and mate with the daughters of Man, thus introducing a degree of angelic stock into the human race. By default, the Nephilim included the fallen angels of Satan. By mating with human women they introduced the shape-shifting ability G-d cursed the serpent with. (which neatly explains ''all'' werecreatures). The issue of the rest of Israel ganging up to nearly exterminate the tribe of Benjamin comes into it too: Biblical scripture notes Benjaminites had the suspicious and thought-to-be satanic trait of being left-handed. A line in the Bible likens Benjamin to wolves who strike mercilessly from the night. Rabbinical thought asked -- what if this is ''not'' a poetic metaphor, but literal description of a tribe of werewolves within the Jewish fold? The near-extermination of the tribe then becomes an act of ethnic cleansing -- to remove the werewolf taint from Israel and allow so few survivors (as there must always be twelve tribes of Israel) who are then explicitly found wives from other tribes, so as to dilute and hopefully eradicate the werewolf taint. And after the Babylonian exile, the lost tribe of Benjamin dispersed into the world, the werewolf strain not completely removed, and, losing their Israeli and Jewish identity, became the source of the world's werecreatures...

* [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent/LiveActionFilms Films -- Live-Action]]

* ''Magazine/ForteanTimes'' recently reported on a rabbinical rationale dating from the fourteenth century that addressed the problem of werewolves in Jewish belief. Living as outsiders in Central Europe, Jews would have been fully aware of the belief in werewolves prevalent in the Gentile world around them. The issue was not ''if'' werewolves existed -- it was taken as a given that they ''did''. Therefore G-d must have created them, or tolerated their creation by Satan. The problem was how this could be squared with Scripture. A theological argument was advanced that when G-d cursed the serpent in the Garden of Eden to lose its limbs and crawl on its belly hereafter, the Almighty, by default, bequeathed a shape-shifting ability on such creatures. Later in Literature/TheBible, the Nephilim come into the world and mate with the daughters of Man, thus introducing a degree of angelic stock into the human race. By default, the Nephilim included the fallen angels of Satan. By mating with human women they introduced the shape-shifting ability G-d cursed the serpent with. (which neatly explains ''all'' werecreatures). The issue of the rest of Israel ganging up to nearly exterminate the tribe of Benjamin comes into it too: Biblical scripture notes Benjaminites had the suspicious and thought-to-be satanic trait of being left-handed. A line in the Bible likens Benjamin to wolves who strike mercilessly from the night. Rabbinical thought asked -- what if this is ''not'' a poetic metaphor, but literal description of a tribe of werewolves within the Jewish fold? The near-extermination of the tribe then becomes an act of ethnic cleansing -- to remove the werewolf taint from Israel and allow so few survivors (as there must always be twelve tribes of Israel) who are then explicitly found wives from other tribes, so as to dilute and hopefully eradicate the werewolf taint. And after the Babylonian exile, the lost tribe of Benjamin dispersed into the world, the werewolf strain not completely removed, and, losing their Israeli and Jewish identity, became the source of the world's werecreatures...

A SubTrope of OurWerebeastsAreDifferent, dealing with variations of lycanthropy (i.e. werewolves). [[OurVampiresAreDifferent As with vampires]], the exact parameters of lycanthropy vary, but to meet the definition, a werewolf must be like an {{Animorph|ism}} who takes the form of a wolf every month (okay, the exact details do vary — see the [[Analysis/OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Werewolf Analysis Page]] for a listing of common characteristics and customization options). Far and away the most popular concept is that a werewolf is a human who has somehow become able to temporarily transform ([[InvoluntaryShapeshifting usually unwillingly]]) into a wolf that goes on to run wild ([[AlternateIdentityAmnesia rarely remembering their romp]]). Usual methods include a ViralTransformation spread by being bitten, but a lot of depictions show lycanthropy as solely hereditary. Other popular causes include {{curse}}s and typical MadScientist experiments. Like most werewolves, the classic wolf-man only transforms on the full moon, or, failing that, at night, though none of this is a ''given'' in modern works.

** Kevin's werewolf form is similar to the man-wolf, but with a touch more BodyHorror: he's covered head to toe in fur, and his limbs are long and gangly with sharp claws that burst out of his fingers. Unique to this series' interpretation of them is rather than a wolf head, Kevin's head resembles that of a lizard, being completely hairless with multi-rimmed eyes, and lines of skin connecting his jaw together. In addition, there are ''spikes'' coming out of his back.

-->-- '''Calibretto''', "Mysanthropy and the Full Moon"

** Kevin's werewolf form is similar to the man-wolf, but with a touch more BodyHorror: he's covered head to toe in fur, and his limbs are long and gangly with sharp claws that burst out of his fingers. Unique to this series' interpretation of them is rather than a wolf head, Kevin's head resembles that of a lizard, being completely hairless with multi-rimmed eyes, and lines of skin connecting his jaw together. In addition, he also has ''spikes'' coming out of his back.

** The transformed state of a werewolf has a mentality more in-line of an actual wolf, being still dangerous if not approached properly but otherwise just an animal. The shift between the human mind and wolf mind is described as the human "going to sleep" while the wolf "wakes up".

** The full moon transformations and AlternateIdentityAmnesia are true, but the ideas of the curse being TheVirus and the SilverBullet weakness are inventions of myth and cinema.
** It's been said the transformed state of a werewolf has a mentality more in-line of an actual wolf, being still dangerous if not approached properly but otherwise just an animal.
** ''The First Change'' reveals that the abilities don't manifest until puberty, Kevin's first transformation in particular coinciding with [[spoiler: [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} his first period]].]]
** ItRunsInTheFamily. Kevin is a werewolf because [[spoiler: his late mother was one]].

** ''The First Change'' reveals that the transformations don't manifest until puberty, Kevin's first transformation in particular coinciding with [[spoiler: [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} his first period]].]]

** ItRunsInTheFamily. Kevin is a werewolf because his late mother was one.

* Werewolves are the main focus in the ''WebAnimation/SpookyMonth'' fanfic series [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/3265002 Sweet's Clothing]], 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.

* The protagonist of Bear Ghost's ''12 Years Howled'' is a werewolf that transforms during a school dance and murders everyone there, including their girlfriend. They find themself turning again during the funeral.

[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Chibiokami from ''Literature/{{Anpanman}}'' is an adorable wolf pup at all times. However, the full moon turns him into a gigantic monster that makes him go berserk. He never has recollections of what happens when he's in this form, only the damage that he has done. Various items can trigger this state, too, such as headlights or a picture of the moon.
* ''Manga/{{Arago}}'' has a variation wherein [[spoiler:a specific wolf's pelt, when worn, will turn a person into a werewolf]].
* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' has a unique variation as while no actual Werewolves appear (despite the loads of other monsters and demons that exist) it’s strongly inferred Guts has become a kind of Werewolf upon wearing Berserker Armour which allows his EnemyWithin the Beast of Darkness to take hold his of his psyche and turn Guts into a Wolf-like killing machine. The fact that Guts is unable to resist succumbing to the Beast’s influence explicitly [[{{Lunacy}} during the full moon]] (which empowers the Beast and the Armour), gives massive credence to this idea.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Komamura is an anthropomorphic wolf who [[AllThereInTheManual can be mistaken]] for a dog to RunningGag proportions. He lives by the samurai code of loyalty, honour and respect and possesses UndyingLoyalty to Yamamoto for saving his life. [[spoiler: His tribe used to be humanoid with typical werewolf traits[[note]]Hair on the back of the hand, pointed ears, heavy brows, etc.[[/note]], but committed a great crime and were cursed with the anthropomorphic form. The further under the curse they fall, the more wolf-like they become until they are trapped forever as an ordinary wolf or dog.]]
* The Earth Clan from ''Manga/DanceInTheVampireBund'' have been for generations the sworn protectors of the Tepes family of vampires. In ages past, they accomplished this with claw, rage, and sword blade. These days, they go with claw, rage, and ''machine guns''. Each and every one of them is badass incarnate, especially Akira, the series' protagonist (naturally).
* Were-Garurumon of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' is a blue-and-white werewolf in spiky clothing. He is an inversion of the "classic" werewolf; he is the evolved form of Garurumon, and since Garurumon regularly powers up by evolving into Were-Garurumon, we have a wolf that becomes a werewolf, as opposed to a man becoming a werewolf. Then everything gets thrown out when Were-Garurumon's evolution is Metal Garurumon, a robot form of Garurumon. Metal Garurumon X on the other hand retains the werewolf shape under the armor.
* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'':
** Dora Nikov transforms whenever he sees a round object, becoming a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot robotic Werewolf]].
** A chapter/episode featured the Wolf-Man Cream, which turns anyone into a werewolf when they see a round object. Nobita's mother mistakenly uses it for make-up, forcing Doraemon to follow her keeping her away from any sort of round objects that would trigger the transformation.
* ''Manga/DragonBall'' features a Man Wolf ([[IAmNotWeasel not a Wolf Man]]), a humanoid wolf who transforms into a man with the full moon. [[spoiler:He tries to take revenge on Master Roshi for [[DetonationMoon destroying the moon]] leaving him a wolf, but Roshi is able to substitute for the moon with hypnotism and Krillin's bald head to turn him human.]]
* In the ''Franchise/DotHack'' series, werewolves are a type of career that players can choose for their avatars in The World, providing they have an expansion pack and certain other requirements. They appear as wolf-eared humans with animal-like agility and strength, in addition to being able to shapeshift into regular-looking wolves.
* Boma from ''Anime/HeatGuyJ''. He started off as a normal human being, but then committed a murder or series of murders. He got a life sentence (his city-state has no death penalty), and [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment his head was genetically and surgically altered to resemble that of a black wolf]]. He also has the ability to FlashStep and literally pull a sword out of thin air.
* The Captain, one of the villains from ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', is a werewolf. He has several forms which he can go between at will, ranging from a human to a mist-like Dire Wolf. In all forms he has massive physical strength and speed with a HealingFactor. Being ([[BadassPreacher one of]]) the EvilCounterpart(s) of [[EldritchAbomination Alucard]], he also qualifies as an AnimalisticAbomination, thanks to very similar abilities.
** ''Hellsing'' is confusing because while the Captain actually is a werewolf, several other Nazi characters are referred to as "werewolves" despite showing completely different magical powers. This is probably a reference to the actual German use of "werewolf" to refer to alleged post-WWII Nazi loyalists who were supposedly pre-emptively ordered to commit terrorist acts after Germany's defeat, although actual signs of this happening were rare.
* The Werewolves are different ''within'' the ''Manga/HyperPolice'' series. Both [[http://dvanime2011.ru/gallery/wallpapers/hyper_police/hyper_police_06.jpg Batanen Fujioka and Tommy Fujioka]] are werewolves, but look very different.
* Kouga's clan from ''Manga/InuYasha'' are wolf-{{youkai}}; their actual true form are wolves but can transform into human form, probably similar to Sesshoumaru, but their true form is never shown. They also have the power to control regular wolves.
-->'''Sango:''' ''[about the wolf-youkai]'' They're youkai who control wolves and even though they transform into a human form, their true nature is as wild as those wolves.
* The eponymous "Jiu Jiu" of ''Manga/JiuJiu'' are the shapeshifting, HalfHumanHybrid offspring of a human and a "demon" or "beast", but in practice they more closely resemble werewolves than demons. Jiu Jiu have the intelligence of a human, but the lifespan (and ensuing rate of maturation) and [[MyInstinctsAreShowing instincts]] of a canine. Snow & Night, a pair of Jiu Jiu brothers, were left in the care of demon hunter Takamichi as young puppies and were shown to be capable of limited speech a few weeks after birth. Shortly after that, they gained the ability to shapeshift between their human and canine forms. At three years of age, they can shift between their fully grown canine forms (being medium-large dogs) and teenage human forms at will. If exposed to the light of a full moon, they shift uncontrollably into their canine forms and fall into an irrepressible rage.
* In the {{Hentai}} anime ''La Blue Girl'', Yaku turns into a werewolf when the moon is full...unless she has a good orgasm by midnight. She is ashamed of this alternate form (and so usually tries to prevent it), but it can occasionally be handy in fights.
* Wolf familiars Arf and Zafira of ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'', who are shown as capable of shifting from giant wolves, to this, to full human (i.e., no wolf ears or tails), to FunSize versions of the first two forms. And just to punctuate the WolfMan image, Arf's first on-screen transformation into a wolf was accompanied with a full moon in the background.
* Liru from ''Anime/MagicalPokaan'' turns into a cute little puppy with anything round, strangely enough, except for the full moon.
* In ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'' introduces Shiho, who's a half-wolfman. Yes, wolfman -- as in, the sight of the full moon [[GenderBender turns her into a guy]] with some wolf-like traits. This form, named Shirou, is an entirely separate personality, but since Shiho is the main, he doesn't retain her memories when they swap (though she retains his). Shirou also changes back into Shiho at the sight of a full moon, but note that for both of them, ''photographs'' of the moon are enough to trigger the change.
* Kotaro Inugami of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' is technically a dog boy, but he associates himself with wolves. He's also proven capable of [[spoiler:turning into a really big wolf at full power.]]
* Jyabura, a villain from ''Manga/OnePiece'', possesses a Devil Fruit power that allows him to transform into a wolf or a wolf/human hybrid that looks like a typical werewolf.
* ''VisualNovel/{{Ookamikakushi}}'' and its anime adaptation have the Kamibito, supernatural wolves that have assumed human form. Under a bad moon or in the presence of humans - especially those with a strong scent, called Temptations -- they lose control of their instincts and go berserk, and can [[KissOfTheVampire turn humans into Kamibito by kissing them]].
* Ginei Morioka from ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'', though unlike most examples, instead of only transforming during a full moon he can transform at will, but his power varies according to the phase of the moon. He once lost a fight when a cloud covered the moon.
* Jean Jacquemonde is this in ''Manga/{{Spriggan}}'', as [[spoiler:his father before him was a werewolf too, being created as a biological weapon of war by ancient civilizations]]. The catch: he [[spoiler:needs to see his own blood after being shot to death to do this. He transforms back to a man after anyone near him is either gone from sight or dead]].
* Free, of Atushi Ookubo's manga ''Manga/SoulEater'' is a werewolf of the Man-Wolf variety. His transformation is entirely voluntary and is little more than cosmetic in regards to adding physical abilities (although it gives him claws and a tail). Free is also apparently immortal: He cannot die of old age and regenerates from practically any form of damage seen so far in the show (no-one have used fire or silver on him onscreen, but the witches probably tried it at some point during his imprisonment). He's also [[AnIcePerson an ice mage]] and illusionist, which come from the magic eye that he took from the leader of the witches.
* Hellwolf in ''Manga/TentaiSenshiSunred'' is [[DeathbringerTheAdorable an adorable plush wolf]] that turns into a fearsome, unstoppable werewolf-monster during a full moon. It only works as long as the full moon's rays are directly touching him, however, so when Vamp schedules the Sunred vs. Hellwolf fight to an overcast night his constant switching back and forth leaves him unable to fight in either mode and drives Sunred nuts.
* Werewolves appear in many works by Creator/OsamuTezuka.
** In ''Manga/{{Phoenix}}'', they're a kind of Shinto nature spirit.
** ''Manga/{{Vampires}}'' features more typical ones [[CallASmeerpARabbit that are called, well...]] [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] (though many vampire legends say that they can turn into wolves, too).
** Perhaps the weirdest, and arguably most realistic, example is ''Manga/OdeToKirihito'', which revolves around the mysterious illness known as Monmow Disease, an affliction that gradually turns people into canine-like mutants until the trauma that the transformation causes to their organs kills them. This is due to the illness [[DevolutionDevice forcing the expression of dormant genes left over in the human genetic code from an early mammal]], presumably supposed to represent the last common ancestor of primates and canines alike.
* In the ''[[Manga/WildFangs Wild Series]]'', manbeasts are functionally werewolves from heaven. They are a hereditary magical race and can choose when to transform, but [[InvoluntaryShapeshifter lose control]] around humans without a master to keep them in check. A master is essentially a cure to their madness.
* 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, than 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.]]
* ''Manga/WolfGuyWolfenCrest'': Akira Inugami's transformation into a werewolf is {{voluntary| shapeshifting}}, but near unavoidable around the full moon. On the new moon, he can not transform at all. Depending on the phases of the moon, he could be completely bulletproof or totally mortal. Regardless of the moon, he has [[DoomMagnet incredibly bad luck]] that tends to get others hurt or killed. Especially when [[{{Yandere}} Haguro]] is involved. The only legitimate transmission seems to be inheritance. Biting is never brought up and blood transmission just turns the recipient into a short-lived ogre.
* Subverted in ''Anime/WolfsRain'', in that the main characters are sentient wolves not capable of actual shapeshifting; but can make themselves ''appear'' human, through a sort of telepathy; in order to hide among humans who would otherwise fear and kill them. They occasionally drop this disguise to frighten humans; or, in one case, to befriend a human by appearing as an ordinary dog.
* Invoked in the ''{{Anime/Kirby Of The Stars}}'' episode "Sheepwrecked", which features [[AWolfInSheepsClothing Amon]], a fierce-looking sheep who appears in Cappy Town's flock one day and encourages them to rise up against their would-be shepherds and predators. After [[CynicismCatalyst becoming disillusioned with their treatment]] following a narrow escape as a lamb from King Dedede's attempt to eat him where he saw his kind being prepared for butchering, he journeyed through the wilderness alone, and claims that after lightning struck one night [[WolvesAlwaysHowlAtTheMoon as he howled atop a cliff]], he was no longer a sheep, but a wolf. When he finally engages Kirby in battle, he [[OneWingedAngel turns into an enormous dark-wooled beast with drill horns]], which [[https://cdn.wikirby.com/9/9c/Monster_Amon.png?20200722203608 doesn't look very much like a wolf]] itself, but he runs at opponents and howls much in the way of one, and his elongated snout and two triangular horns also evoke a wolf's head; comparing him to [[https://cdn.wikirby.com/6/65/E26_Scene_10.png Wolfwrath/Chilidog]], a more conventionally wolf-based monster in the show's style, they do have similar stances and sharp, glowing eyes. Unlike most monstrous transformations in the show being sourced to [[BigBad Nightmare]] and his magic, Amon is a true LoneWolfBoss who seems to possess full control of his transformation despite Sword and Blade Knight guessing he's a demon beast - he even exits the form willingly and ceases fighting despite being on the winning end against Kirby once he realizes that the Cappy Town sheep [[FollowTheLeader haven't changed their ways]], leaving peacefully with the goal of truly finding his own true flock and encouraging Kirby to fight for what he knows is right.
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* ''ComicBook/AgeOfTheWolf'': The werewolves that show up to herald the end of humanity are initially fairly standard lycanthropes for the most part, turning at the sight of the full moon into bestial predators and [[TheVirus spreading their infection through bites]]. Then over the course of a few decades the werewolves evolve from purely feral creatures to sapient WolfMan people with their own civilization that aims to hunt down and replace the remaining humans. At one point the female Alpha also resurrects several [[NonHumanUndead buried werewolf corpses]] to lay a trap for the heroine.
* ''ComicBook/TheAstoundingWolfMan'' focuses on a man who, after being infected with lycanthropy on a family vacation, uses it as a means by which he can become a superhero. His werewolf powers give him super strength and healing, but only work at night. Also, on the night of the full moon he enters a feral state and can no longer control his actions.
* In ''ComicBook/BeastsOfBurden'', it's a demon possessing someone's body, doesn't seem to be restricted by moon cycle when taking over the body, and it gives the person the ability to talk to animals. Silver bullets are still the way to go though.
* In "'X'-tra 'X'" in ''Magazine/CreepyMagazine'' #34, a mutated form of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinefelter_syndrome Klinefelter syndrome]] causes the extra X chromosome to be affected by the full moon's gravity and produce a certain fluid which is responsible for lycanthropic transformations.
* Werewolves in ''ComicBook/{{Crimson}}'' were [[TheDescendantsOfCain descendants of Cain]] after he murdered Abel under the influence of an angelic sword that made him kill his brother. Their condition is seemingly hereditary rather than transmitted through bites like [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampirism]]. They are capable of transforming at will and retain some sense of control and speech in transformed form.
* Creator/DCComics has several examples:
** ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Anthony Lupus is an Olympic athlete who is given a serum by [[MadScientist Dr. Milo]] that transforms him into a werewolf on every full moon. The first appearance of Lupus was loosely adapted into the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE43MoonOfTheWolf Moon of the Wolf]]", in which Lupus' [[MeaningfulName name]] is changed into the slightly less [[WerewolfThemeNaming obvious]][[note]]although remember who the mythical founders of Rome were {{raised by|Wolves}}[[/note]] Anthony Romulus.
** Lar-On is a Kryptonian werewolf fought by ComicBook/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/{{Batman}} in ''World's Finest'' #256 (way back in UsefulNotes/{{the Bronze Age|OfComicBooks}}) and by ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} in ''ComicBook/SupergirlRebirth''. His lycanthropy is a sickness caused by Red Kryptonite poisoning (Red-K does weird things to Kryptonians as opposite to the lethal and most famous green type). He turns into a muscled, huge, purple-red, humanoid wolf with fiery EyeBeams.
** In ''Adventure Comics'' #387, ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} is accidentally turned into a [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pScx8BN4h3s/Sd40lrAfbNI/AAAAAAAADY8/fDtEtx-rFa8/s320/adventure+287+-+01.jpg wolf-girl]], while a wolf-girl Supergirl from a lupine alternate universe is turned into a human.
** ''Young All-Stars'', a companion book to ''ComicBook/AllStarSquadron'', has the rather unusual Sea Wolf in Axis Amerika, in that he's an aquatic werewolf who acts as an EvilCounterpart of ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}. His transformations seem willful, as he reverts back to human form when knocked unconscious.
** Brother Donatus Chalice from ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' [[spoiler:is a Hound of God variant, seeing as he's a monk in his human form. The only thing keeping his transformations during the full moon in check is the crucifix that he wears at all times. If provoked into anger in his human form, elements of his wolf form may push through, like his nails turning into claws and his incisor teeth lengthening]].
** One storyline of ''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'' features a wolf who, thanks to a magical artifact, transforms under a full moon into a "wuz-wolf", a feral-looking human being. The Zoo Crew's Earth [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals having no humans]], who are considered only to be fictional creatures, is noted at several points during the story.
** In ''ComicBook/The Real Ghostbusters'' by NOW comic, there was a semi-recurring character Irena Cortez who was a werewolf, instead of a curse it is a hereditary condition. She can transform at will, however, if she represses the wolf side she would involuntary transform on a full moon and gain a stir-crazy other self. You don't need a silver bullet to kill a werewolf: a bullet is a bullet. Also, Peter Venkman went on a date with her in wolf form, apparently not the first woman who was hairier than him.
** In the very allegorical ''ComicBook/HouseOfMystery'' story "Maidenhead", the Children of the Blue Gray's lycanthropy is sexual (it's unclear whether arousal leads to the change or vice versa, because as far as they're concerned it's the same thing), but also seems to be tied into their [[CrystalDragonJesus Crystal Dragon Mohammad]] religion.
** Mikola Rostov from ''ComicBook/TheWarlord'' was a Russian fencing instructor cursed to become a werewolf every full moon. Rostov followed his lover Mariah to the other-dimensional realm of Skartaris, hoping the perpetual sunlight would free him of his curse. He eventually went back in time to the age when the land was called Wizard World. There Jennifer Morgan cast a spell that cured him of his werewolf curse. However, he can still use his "wolf spirit" in battle.
** In ''Creature Commandos'', Warren Griffith isn't a mythic werewolf, but rather one created by science. He lacks any of your typical werewolf weaknesses, and be can usually transform at will, but he'll also occasionally change at random due to flaws in the procedure that have him his powers. His wolf form also has a markedly different personality than his human form -- a berserk BloodKnight versus a meek, stuttering FarmBoy with an inferiority complex.
** ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'': Dolph Marrock, a.k.a. Big Bad Wolf, suffers from Lukos, a sexually transmitted form of lycanthropy. The disease causes deformation of the frontal lobe and swelling of the adrenal and pituitary glands, increasing anger, hunger, and impulsivity. When the infected is excited or enraged, they bleed from their eyes, nose, fingernails, and gums, thereby spreading the disease to those they hurt. The longer the infection, the more extreme the change, to the point of appearing akin to werewolves.
* Early in the chronology of ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'', Timmain, one of a group of elfin space travelers stranded on the Earth-like World of Two Moons, shapeshifted into various forms in order to understand the planet's ecology, finally turning herself into a fully fertile she-wolf so that she could mate with the alpha male of a wild pack and have offspring. She didn't just do that on impulse, but so that her descendants would be a part of the planet. In more recent issues (set about 20,000 years later) the elf [[spoiler:Kimo]] has learned from Timmain how to shapeshift into a wolf.
* Bigby Wolf of ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'' is a sort of inversion. He was a giant wolf great enough to eat entire armies at one go (indeed, he was ''the'' [[TheBigBadWolf Big Bad Wolf]]), but he allowed Snow White to cut him with a lycanthropy-cursed knife so that he could take a human form at will in order to live peacefully in our world. In addition to allowing him to pass as human, this gives him the ability to transform into a WolfMan form as well as a hybrid form, which he uses to keep the peace in Fabletown, but also makes him vulnerable to silver, which several villains have used against him in the comic and in the game ''VideoGame/TheWolfAmongUs''.
* ''ComicBook/{{Ferals}}'' focuses on a breed of very violent and strong werewolves that do not appear to have any restrictions on when they can transform. While they are certainly not mindless, they do seem prone to unquenchable bloodlust and cruelty while they are in wolf form. They fall closest to the dire wolf flavor of lycanthropy, except perhaps with a gallon of steroids thrown in for good measure.
* ''In the Blood'' is a limited series, currently held up in production due to the artist suffering from cancer, which centers on a teenager struggling with his burgeoning lycanthropy. He seems to be unable to control when his transformations occur and is styled after the classic Lon Chaney wolfman style. It's been implied in interviews that this [[spoiler:is a family affliction]].
* ''ComicBook/LastManStanding'': [[ChickMagnet Ronin]] is a RaginCajun salesman who had his life turned around under a Blue Moon...
* In ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'', Link periodically turns into a bipedal grey wolf in the Dark World.
* ''Little Gloomy'' takes place in Spooksville, Frightsylvania, where the moon is ''always'' out, and ''always'' full. Accordingly, the sizable werewolf population is a constant danger to the average citizen, with one of the only civilized werewolves being Gloomy's friend Larry.
* The Italian comic ''Lupo Alberto'', set in a WorldOfFunnyAnimals, has tackled the idea of the were''man'', a wolf who transforms into a human, on three different occasions through the wolfish protagonist Alberto. The first time, back when the comic was a strip, he just reads [[ShowWithinAShow a horror story about it]] -- in the two other stories, Alberto himself turns out to be one, though with different flavors to the transformation each time:
** In the first transformation, he turns into a bureaucrat who goes to the [=McKenzie=] farm and informs Moses (the AngryGuardDog working as farm leader) that in the morning, the whole place will be razed to allow the construction of a new highway. Unable to make him change his mind, Moses considers ''killing'' the bureaucrat... but when dawn comes, Alberto goes back to normal, leading Moses to think that it was just a prank.
** By the second time, everyone knows that Alberto is a wereman and that the transformation now changes him into a neo-Nazi who spouts racist insults -- thus, hours before every full moon, Alberto has Moses tie him up to a tree and muzzle him so that he won't terrorize everyone around. When Moses forgets to muzzle him, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Enrico]] decides to do the deed himself, but when he sees that he's arrived too late, [[LetNoCrisisGoToWaste he sells tickets to watch the amazing wereman in complete safety]].
* Creator/MarvelComics:
** ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'': The infamous ''Man and Wolf'' [[http://www.cbr.com/i-love-ya-but-youre-strange-the-glorious-debut-of-capwolf/ story arc]] from 1992 brought pretty much anything wolf related in the Marvel Universe into play as Cap had to deal with a whole town of werewolves created by Nightshade via scientific means. This included Captain America ''himself'' becoming a werewolf, called "Capwolf" in the series. Eventually, even [[KarmicTransformation Nightshade herself was infected]], motivating her to actually cure the problem she started.
** In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', the heroes have to go up against a group of "cowboy werewoofs". One character is surprised at this because "there isn't even a full moon tonight". This prompts another character to point out that the "moon is always full."
** ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
*** Similarly to Rahne Sinclair/Wolfsbane (see below), the Lobo Brothers are {{mutants}} who can transform into wolf-men.
*** John Jameson (J. Jonah's son) was an astronaut who was transformed by a ruby he found on the moon into one. He was later transported to the dimension where the ruby originated in, where he became Stargod.
** [[StevenUlyssesPerhero Jack Russell]] from ''ComicBook/WerewolfByNight'' inherited the werewolf curse from his father, coming into effect on his 18th birthday. He transforms into a WolfMan [[WeirdMoon three times a month]], and eventually gains some control over his form, being able to shift whenever he wants while retaining his human mind.
** ''ComicBook/XMen'':
*** Wolfsbane debuted in ''ComicBook/NewMutants'' and is a {{mutant|s}} shapeshifter who originally could become a red-furred wolf, or a 'werewolfgirl' intermediate form. These forms continued to change as she grew, influenced by emotional crises, mind control, drugs, mutant energy influxes, whatever the writers could dream up. She's been stuck in her intermediate form before, too. Twice (at least) depowered and restored, she has served on more teams (and in more different comic books) than most any character. Wolfsbane's LoveAtFirstSight is the [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Asgardian]] wolf prince Hrimhari, who is a regular wolf with the power to turn into a wolf-man. She also befriended Catseye of the Hellions, who was a werecat who also changed shape voluntarily. However, she had to be coaxed into human form by her teammates and had a strange way of speaking that suggests that like Hrimhari, she's an animal who can turn into a human and not the other way around.
*** The minor character Wolfcub is stuck in a "wolfman" form. A couple of plots have tried to explain that all mutants with regenerative powers, claws, and heightened senses are a subspecies of mutant (Homo superior lupus) that is the origin of werewolves. The same is said for demonic mutants (like Nightcrawler), angelic mutants (like Angel), and cat-like mutants (Feral, Thornn, and Catseye).
*** Myles "Vivisector" Alfred from ''ComicBook/XStatix'' is similarly a mutant whose power is to transform into a WolfMan.
* ''Menace'' #1 features several American tourists who find a man being chased by wolves during a full moon. They keep the wolves at bay until dawn, only to discover that the man they were protecting is a type of werewolf who only turns ''human'' when the full moon is shining. Once the sun rises, he reverts to his wolfman form and attacks them.
* PlayedForLaughs in a ''[[ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse Mickey Mouse]]'' comic that's centered around a "novel" written by WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}. It involves various supernatural happenings, but Goofy insists that everything has a natural explanation in the end. At one point, Mickey calls him out for having a blatantly real werewolf transformation. [[CloudCuckoolander Goofy]] insists that lycanthropy is perfectly natural -- a severe allergic reaction to the full moon. Furthermore, the werewolf transforms back to normal when a character claims it's not the full moon, and then back to werewolf form when another one corrects him that it actually is.
* ''ComicBook/RedSonja Annual 4'' has Lykaanus who sought immortality from the beast god Jhebbal Sag. Jhebbal Sag granted him this but because Lykaanus had insulted Jhebbal Sag by killing animals that were sacred to him, Lykaanus was cursed age in dog years and transform into a wolf creature during the night of a full moon. He bites Sonja, passing the curse onto her but she is able to undo it by killing him.
* Werewolves in ''ComicBook/RequiemVampireKnight'' are what religious zealots who spread death in the name of faith become in the world of Resurrection; the most powerful of all is the infamous Inquisitor Torquemada.
* In "The Wolf Doctor" in ''ComicBook/RulahJungleGoddess'' #17, a doctor infected with lycanthropy moves to the jungle where he immediately begins attacking the maidens of Rulah's tribe and converting them into werewolves. Peculiarities of this species of werewolves include a MissingReflection, being repelled by foxglove (presumably the writer meant wolfsbane) and can be slain by wooden spears or broken branches.
* ''Thicker than Blood'' features two brothers, one of whom is a werewolf (of the manwolf variety) while the other [[spoiler:turns out to be Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or at least something like him]]. The werewolf brother originally only transforms on the full moon nights after being bitten on a family trip, but [[spoiler:after drinking his brother's serum]] he appears to change more frequently and is even stronger and more feral than usual.
* ''ComicBook/TraggAndTheSkyGods'': In Tragg's first appearance (in ''Mystery Comics Digest'' #3), he and Lorn battle the world's first werewolf: created when the cowardly hunter Snark drinks from a lake contaminated by the fuel tanks of a crashed alien spaceship just after a dire wolf has been flung into the water by a stegosaurus. [[ARareSentence (And that may be the most awesome sentence I have ever written.)]] He becomes a rampaging WolfMan (or dire wolf man to be strictly accurate) under the full moon.
* A plot point in the ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'' story "Isle of the Huntress". [[spoiler:Vivienne's lycanthropy is immune to silver, but Vampirella can still kill her by sucking her dry. Jean's, on the other hand, is not immune.]]
* ''ComicBook/WelcomeToHoxford'' had a pack of werewolves running a prison/mental asylum, in order to hunt the inmates. These werewolves are huge, skeletal and vicious, and have a propensity for eating human flesh, though notably they lack the invulnerability many werewolves had, and can be killed with physical weapons. They also transform very squickily, and seem functionally ageless.
* In the Creator/{{Wildstorm}} title ''Wetworks'', werewolves are a separate species (as are the vampires, with which the werewolves are secretly at war), which spend most of their time in human form, but have trouble controlling their rage when transformed into wolfmen. For the first two years of the title, the titular team was employed as vampire killers by the werewolf king (originally presenting himself merely as a human billionaire concerned about the vampire problem). An interesting twist is that most werewolves find it increasingly difficult to control their rage as they get older, so most of the governing in werewolf society is done by the children.
* The '90s Wrestling/{{WWE}} comic book series ''Wrestling/TheUndertaker'' features Lootan, who was a well-dressed werewolf detective and right hand man to the titular character.
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* ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'' used a dire wolf transformation, who proves vulnerable to ordinary gunfire. It also almost single-pawedly popularised the [[BodyHorror horrible transformation]] subtrope. The transformation from ''American Werewolf In London'' is paid tribute to in ''Film/FrightNight1985'' where Evil Ed (who is a wolf at the time during that scene) turns back into a human.
* While ''Film/AreWeMonsters'' follows the classic full-moon transformation, AlternateIdentityAmnesia, and SilverBullet tropes, the only lupine quality it gives them are the sharp fangs, claws, and glowing eyes. Their human forms are also invulnerable to non-silver wounds until a Blood Moon, where their werewolf form becomes a manifestation of their worst fears. While they still keep the name, they can be more compared to the Rokurokubi with the long neck they tend to have.
* ''Film/BadMoon'' features a werewolf that changes every night, without the need for a full moon, and that doesn't need any special method to kill (or harm).
* Creator/TheAsylum 's ''Battledogs'' is basically a ZombieApocalypse with werewolves.
* In ''Film/BigBadWolf'' has a werewolf that can still retain its human mind, and talks even in werewolf form. Of course, this means nothing when this particular werewolf has the mindset of a serial killer and serial rapist.
* In ''Film/BigFish'' by Creator/TimBurton, the main character suspects that the circus ringmaster is a werewolf; it turns out he actually ''is'' a werewolf, but not an evil or monstrous one.
* In ''Film/BloodAndChocolate2007'', werewolves are known as loup-garoux and can transform into wolves at will, not needing the full moon. They transform by leaping into the air, at which point a bright light surrounds them and they morph into wolves. This differs from the book the film is based on (it's a ''very'' loose adaptation), where they painfully shapeshift like more classic werewolf transformations.
* ''Film/{{Bloodthirsty}}'': They can change at will after coming to grips with their nature it seems, and there's no sign they're affected by the moon's phases. It's a hereditary condition, passed by parent to child. They can also be killed with ordinary weapons, rather than things such as silver being required.
* ''Film/TheBoyWhoCriedWerewolf'':
** For one, [[spoiler:the werewolves are the good guys in the film]], as explained by Madame Varcolac during the scene where she details the history between vampires and werewolves.
** For some strange reason, [[TooDumbToLive the townspeople are not scared of them]]. Guardians or not, you would think some people would be cringing in terror (though considering the werewolves [[spoiler:saved the world from vampires in the past]], they could just know better).
** People also can become werewolves through three different methods: inheriting the condition from a relative, being bitten by one, or being infected with one's blood.
** Overall, they seem pretty standard to modern depictions otherwise, transforming under the full moon and having a weakness to silver. Along with that, they appear to have a HealingFactor, since Jordan's allergies and poor eyesight are cured upon becoming one.
* ''Film/BubbaTheRedneckWerewolf'': These are sapient beings created by deals with dark forces. They don't shapeshift, and are permanently wolf men. They have SuperStrength and don't feel pain due to a HealingFactor. Their minds are altered to give them more dog-like traits, like catching Frisbees and [[BestialityIsDepraved enjoying girl-on-dog porn]].
* ''Film/TheCompanyOfWolves'' has a very different take on werewolves, in that they're actually much more faithful to the medieval version of werewolves, albeit combined with a lot of [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible hard-to-understand symbolism]]. But hey, the transformation sequences are awesome; the wolf form literally tears its way out of the human skin.
* According to the {{mockumentary}} ''Film/TheCompleatAl'', Michael Jackson is actually a werewolf.
* In the Creator/WesCraven film ''Film/{{Cursed|2005}}'', Werewolves have a powerful sexual allure to members of the opposite sex. The curse itself seems to confer an uncanny ability to pull off [[WrestlerInAllOfUs complex pro-wrestling moves]] in high school wrestling matches, and killing the cursed werewolf that infected you won't cut it for the cure... you have to kill the natural born werewolf that infected ''it''.
* ''Film/DeadtimeStories'': Willie, the werewolf in "Little Red Riding Hood", transforms into a classic WolfMan, but takes sleeping pills to knock himself out during the full moon.
* ''Film/DogSoldiers'': These werewolves physically resemble the depiction established by ''Film/TheHowling''. While transformed, they operate like a pack and are [[ItCanThink tactical]]. They transform during the full moon, but can resist the transformation if they wish, though apparently not until the night's end. Silver weapons don't kill them, but they do cancel out their NighInvulnerability. When not harmed by silver, they're impervious to and recover from being pumped full of lead and having their faces scalded, but can be killed with ''lots of'' fire.
* ''Film/FrankensteinsBloodyTerror'': These turn others any time they draw blood, have a black star on their bodies as a sign of their curse, and can only be killed by silver piercing their heart, sent there by somebody who loves them. Otherwise, they're put into stasis until the silver is removed.
* The ''Film/GingerSnaps'' trilogy.
** The first film has its title character bitten by a werewolf on the night that she gets her first period. Unlike most werewolf movies, Ginger's transformation into the monster (which is of the Man-Wolf type) is gradual and irreversible, and there are [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything many ties with the onset of puberty]]. Silver and wolfsbane (usually referred to as monk's hood) work on the werewolves, though the latter must be liquefied and injected to have any real effect, and the infection can be spread not just through bites but also through unprotected sex. Werewolves also turn out to be as vulnerable to mundane [[CarFu vehicular manslaughter]] and kitchen knives as they are to specific weaknesses. While the film never draws attention to it, lycanthropy is [[DoingInTheWizard portrayed about as scientifically as possible]], with few if any overt supernatural elements and the transformation coming off more as TheVirus.
** In ''Film/GingerSnaps2Unleashed'', Ginger's sister Brigitte -- who survived but was infected -- takes regular, weakened doses of monk's hood in order to inhibit her transformation. It's revealed that [[HappyEndingOverride the effect of monk's hood is not only temporary]], but that the body gradually builds up a tolerance to it and requires ever-greater doses to stave off transformation, extending the first film's puberty metaphor to one for [[FantasticDrug drug addiction]].
** The third film, ''Film/GingerSnapsBackTheBeginning'', comes up with an ingenious -- and {{squick}}y -- method to detect whether or not one is a werewolf: put a leech on the person. If the patient is a werewolf, then the leech turns into a [[BigCreepyCrawlies massive were-leech]] upon drinking the infected blood, and both are swiftly put down by the fort's guards.
* In the Brazilian movie ''Film/GoodManners'', lycanthropy is completely hereditary in this story. And not even being bitten by a werewolf through breast-feeding will transform you into one. However, many other classic werewolf tropes are in full effect. Werewolves also retain elongated nails and excess hair when transforming back, which becomes a problem as Dona Amélia sees an unconscious Joel right after a full moon and quickly realizes what he is.
* One of the fake movie trailers in ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}'' is for a Music/RobZombie-directed {{Nazisploitation}} movied called ''Werewolf Women of the SS''. It's very silly.
* The 1961 Film/HammerHorror ''Film/TheCurseOfTheWerewolf'' (a loose adaptation of GuyEndore's ''TheWerewolfOfParis'') starred Creator/OliverReed as the werewolf.
* In ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'', Lupin's transformation has him with human-like proportions, bald, and extremely underfed.
* ''Film/HorrorsOfWar'': These are ravenous creatures stuck in wolf form by mad science, only kept in check by shock collars until they're let loose to kill as many people as possible until slain themselves. They resemble humans with semi-lupine features, but no more hair than they had in life. The disease is transferrable via bite, and somehow turns into more traditional lycanthropy when spread.
* In ''Film/HouseOnBareMountain'', Krakow, who works for Granny Good running her still and roams the grounds scaring the girls whenever there is a full moon, is a 7n ft. tall werewolf who seems to be permanently stuck in his wolf man form.
* ''Film/Howl2015'': The werewolves in this film have a somewhat more human-like appearance than most portrayals, with the major wolf-traits present in their anatomy being their golden eyes, pointed ears, jagged teeth, claws, noses and triple-jointed legs. Otherwise, they still possess distinctly human features including being largely hairless. Jenny even flat-out states that the werewolf who attacked her looked more like a man than an animal. Their vocalizations are a mixture of wolf-like howls and snarls, and vaguely human-sounding grunts and distorted rasps, which sound particularly disturbing. Lycanthropy infects and turns new people into werewolves via bites; but unlike the mainstream [[{{Shapeshifting}} Shapeshifter]] depictions of werewolves, this version of lycanthropy is treated as a [[TheVirus pathogenic mutation]] which slowly and increasingly transforms the victims and makes them lose their human identities in a zombie-like manner. The transformation after infection appears to be one-way and permanent. It's unknown if the full moon has any influence over these werewolves or the disease that turns them (the film's events take place on the night of a full moon). It's also worth noting these werewolves were still about in the final scene in morning daylight. They're completely feral, but still somewhat intelligent, and Scar seems to be a {{sadist}}ic hunter.
* The modern style made its popular debut in ''Film/TheHowling'' (1981), which featured infectious werewolves who otherwise acted as a species (changing at will and possibly retaining their own minds, though with predatory instincts). It should be noted that both ''An American Werewolf in London'' and ''The Howling'' came out in 1981 (as well as the sorta werewolf movie ''Wolfen''). Together, they make an almost perfect example of this trope in action. In ''The Howling'' a character points out that the werewolves must be killed with silver, while saying the full moon thing is just Hollywood made up stuff. In ''An American Werewolf in London'', the titular character is told by his now undead friend to commit suicide before transforming during the full moon, but when the werewolf asks if he needs silver bullets, he's told to get real!
* ''Film/HowlingIIStirbaWerewolfBitch'' had Transylvanian werewolves who exhibited more vampiric traits (aversion to holy water and only a stake through the heart can kill them) and are weak to titanium instead to silver.
* In ''Film/HowlingIIITheMarsupials'', we are introduced to were[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine thylacines]]. The movie also implies that the therianthropes of that reality are akin to the wolves in ''Anime/WolfsRain'', as they've evolved to become human to survive human persecution of their baser species (the wolves in Russia, thylacines in Australia). What makes that especially weird is that, despite being ten a penny in the rest of the world, [[SadlyMythtaken shapeshifting myths are completely unknown in Australia]].
* Michael Landon in the 1957 film ''Film/IWasATeenageWerewolf'', who turns into a wolfman through hypnotherapy.
* ''Film/JackAndDiane'': Diane's condition is apparently meant to be lycanthropy, though it's far from clear in the film itself. Mostly she dreams of turning into a monster that bears only the merest resemblance to a wolf or any similar creature, it's not affected by moon cycles specifically (but apparently it coincides with Diane's period) and never even clear if she's transformed.
* ''Film/{{Ladyhawke}}'' features a couple of young lovers cursed to take on animal form at different times, as to keep them apart; the man turns into a wolf at night, and the lady into a hawk during the day. They can only be together during the moments of dawn and dusk.
* ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' uses a very bizarre iteration of this trope. The Merovingian uses old programs from previous versions of the Matrix as his private Mook Army -- notably because they are powerful and notoriously hard to kill, even by Agent standards. The programs themselves are said to be variations of werewolves, vampires, and ghosts. But other than The Twins, the rest don't really exhibit any of the typical traits (other than Persephone using a silver bullet to kill a supposed werewolf program).
* ''Film/MonsterBrawl'': These are WolfMen who maintain full sentience, but do transfer their affliction by bite.
* The Wolfman from ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'' was a pretty solid Wolf Man. Regular bullets didn't work on him, as revealed in the scene with the cops and the coroner guy. In his first encounter with the protagonists in the old house on Shadowbrook Road, he gets [[GroinAttack kicked in the nards]] by "Fat Kid" Horace, which proves to be quite effective. After being blown up by the main character and his father and [[PullingThemselvesTogether recovering]], he's finally finished off when Rudy, the oldest of the titular group, uses a silver bullet to kill him.
* ''Film/NeverCryWerewolf'': Werewolves in this version keep control over their wolf form (though in this case, he was evil even as a human). They can infect people just by slashing them a bit with their claws rather than bite them, and claim those people's souls, giving them the ability to talk to them telepathically. Their curse can be broken if the werewolf that cursed them is killed prior to midnight of the next full moon.
* ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'' has a scene of a werewolf (actually, a [[MisplacedWildlife hyena]]) roaming the inn that the protagonist stops at en route to Orlock's castle in the Carpathians.
* ''Film/RedRidingHood'': One can only be turned into a werewolf if they are bitten by one during the Blood Moon. And only those that are in their bloodline can understand what they say. Everyone else hears only growls.
* ''Film/RomasantaTheWerewolfHunt'' is about Spain's first documented SerialKiller: Manuel Blanco Romasanta. During his trial, he was diagnosed as suffering from lycanthropy: a mental illness in which a sufferer has episodes where they believe they transform into a wolf. The film plays up the mystical aspects associated with the case and, through {{Gory Discretion Shot}}s and certain events being witnessed ThroughTheEyesOfMadness, [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane leaves it open]] as to whether Romasanta is a genuine werewolf; a madman who believes he is a werewolf; or a cunning criminal employing ObfuscatingInsanity to avoid punishment for his crime.
* ''Film/SilverBullet'' [[SinisterMinister has a werewolf who is a church pastor]] and changes EVERY NIGHT, though he gets less "wolfish" in form and thought the further away time gets from the full moon, and vice versa.
* The werewolves in ''Skinwalkers'' are of the Wolfman variety. They turn on the full moon, but the existence of a [[BadMoonRising Red Moon]] causes them to change regardless of the moon phase. Also, if one feeds on human flesh, it causes them to permanently develop a more wolf-like personality, though the severity varies from each werewolf.
* The infamous Cantina Scene from ''Film/ANewHope'' showed a [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Shistavanen Shistavanen]], which though not werewolves certainly fit the bill of "[[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/File:Shistavanen_NEGAS.jpg wolfman]]". The Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse gives us "wyrwulves", the nonsentient canine immature form of the Codru-Ji; [=KotOR=] also provides [[TheVirus rakghouls]], who in terms of transforming someone who has been bitten fall squarely between werewolves and zombies with a dash of BodyHorror.
* ''Film/TeenWolf'' and the AnimatedAdaptation, ''WesternAnimation/TeenWolf The Animated Series'', featured a light comedy version of this. These werewolves were hereditary, and could transform at will retaining full mental faculties, but lost control of the transformation on nights of the full moon.
* ''Film/TrickRTreat'' has this as the twist. [[spoiler:Laurie and her friends are a pack of [[OneGenderRace all-female werewolves]] who change their form by tearing off their human skin to reveal their true forms underneath in [[BodyHorror a rather gruesome way]]. They also seem to congregate on [[UsefulNotes/AllHallowsEve Halloween nights]] to party and devour people]].
* ''Film/Underworld2003'' and its [[OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo oddly named sequels]] answer the age old questions of what would happen if [[FurAgainstFang vampires and werewolves got into a centuries old blood war]], and what would happen if someone was turned by both vampires and werewolves. In ''Film/{{Underworld|2003}}'', werewolves, or [[NotUsingTheZWord lycans]], are from the brother strain of the virus that produced the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]]. There are two strains of werewolves. The first came from the first werewolf, William Corvinus, and all those bitten by him. They're dire wolves, but they can never turn back to humans ever again, and they've permanently lost their minds. The second version is the ones descended from Lucian, who was born from a woman who had been turned by one of William's wolves while pregnant. They are monstrous man-wolves with jet black skin and very little hair. The latter ones go berserk on their first transformations, but as they age they can gain control. They can [[VoluntaryShapeshifting voluntarily transform]] during the full moon, but they don't have to, and again, older ones can transform when they please. Both forms are transferred via a bite, though it's briefly mentioned that only a small percentage of humanity can be turned, and in the rest, the virus is fatal. Both forms are regenerating immortals. (Immortal to an extent anyway; silver works, but ripping their head off without silver works too). There's also Michael Corvin, who's a badass hybrid as a result of [[spoiler:Selene turning him near the end of the movie]], but resembles a werewolf far more than a vampire, likely because he was bitten by a werewolf first. He's a wolf man, and has complete and total control over his transformations, sometimes even doing partial transformations with ease.
** Lucian is also notable for having learned precise muscle control, allowing him to expel silver bullets before they poison him. Unfortunately, this is useless against [[spoiler:silver nitrate, which is a liquid]].
** Similar to Michael, Marcus becomes a hybrid [[spoiler:by accidentally tasting the blood of a lycan]]. However, since he was a vampire first (the first vampire, no less, which is what allows him to survive the transition), his new form is distinctly more bat-like, even including wings that allow him to fly or {{impale|dWithExtremePrejudice}} anyone. He still appears to fear sunlight, but that may be a psychological effect from all the centuries of fearing it and the unwillingness to test his limits. He is even tougher than Michael, although [[spoiler:being put through a HelicopterBlender appears to do the trick]].
** In later films, more hybrids appear, and they are all immune to silver.
* ''Film/VanHelsing'' features big muscular werewolves that rip the skin off their former human selves when they transform. When they turn back into a human they tear off their werewolf skin.
* ''Film/Werewolf1996'' was wildly inconsistent in its portrayal of the titular monsters; they vary between looking like really hairy men and looking like "a bear with a bat mask." Even a scratch from a dead werewolf's ''bone'' is enough to transmit "werewolfism" to other people; one victim gets scratched and transforms ''while driving''. [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mike and the 'bots]] did not let this pass without comment; for instance, the sketch where Mike accidentally gets scratched by Crow and begins transforming into a "were-Crow", or "Where Oh Werewolf". The film has the gall to go out of its way to argue that its titular beast is "not a traditional white man's movie monster", but is actually a SkinWalker. And then proceeds to have said werewolf behave... exactly like a white man's movie monster. It is claimed that the silver bullets only incapacitated one of the infected characters. And the inconsistent makeup seems to just show progression; they just look very hairy at the start of their transformation, and wear the bat-mask when they're fully "wolf". By the way, said werewolves aren't very tough; a random bystander gets into a fistfight with one, and ''almost wins''.
* The now-lost 1913 Thanhouser film, ''Film/TheWerewolf'', was perhaps the UrExample, although the few--and admittedly vague--descriptions suggest they used a dog or wolf/dog mix for the werewolf rather than making up a human.
* ''Film/TheWerewolf1956'' has Duncan Marsh, the first on-screen character to turn into a wolfman through scientific means rather than supernatural causes.
* ''Film/WerewolfOfLondon'' (1935), the earliest extant werewolf feature film (some silent werewolf films existed, but are now lost), introduced the moon/werewolf connection and the contagion meme. Not only does the full moon cause the infected to transform, but the only antidote for the transformation (the "mariphasa") is a fictional flower which only blooms under moonlight.
* ''Film/WerewolvesOnWheels'': These ones are of the Wolf Man variety, created by a Satanic curse and weak to fire.
* ''Film/TheWerewolfOfWoodstock'' (1975) starred Tige Andrews as Bernie, a werewolf who got his lycanthropy through an electrical power surge.
* ''Film/WerewolvesOfTheThirdReich'': These are genetic chimeras made from human and wolf DNA. They're intended to be berserk super soldiers, but the experiments haven't gotten that far by the time of the film.
* ''Film/TheWerewolfOfWashington'': These ones are your standard WolfMan deal, but they also have a star-shaped mark on their chests in human form.
* ''Film/WerewolfTheBeastAmongUs'' has an InUniverse example - it turns out the particular werewolf in the film is a different kind then the werewolf hunters are used to dealing with. Justified as this werewolf [[spoiler: was a result of an experiment of a mad scientist who's using the werewolf to kill people]].
* ''Film/{{Wolf}}'' has Creator/JackNicholson's character Will gradually become more and more werewolfish in his behavior during the days leading up to the full moon. In desperation, he acquires a mystic amulet that will supposedly prevent his transformation, but all it does is keep him in a half-man/half-werewolf (think about that one for a moment) state. Until the guy he bit shows up, more werewolfish than Will and threatening Will's new love interest. Will tosses the amulet aside and quickly catches up to the other werewolf, finally looking like a WolfMan lite before leaving. At the end of the film it's revealed that [[spoiler:the curse has run its course and Will has become a full wolf. And his girlfriend is going to be one, too. After next month, at least]].
* ''Film/{{Wolfman}}'': These werewolves are your traditional WolfMan archeype, except they're caused by a Satanic curse and an index finger longer than the others is a sign of lycanthropy.
* Curt Siodmak built on the above foundation in the script for ''Film/TheWolfMan1941'', and added the henceforth near-unavoidable weakness to silver. "Even a man who is pure in heart, and says his prayers at night, may become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright." A less copied touch is the trait of having the werewolf seeing the mark of a pentacle on his fated next victim. Even less copied, Lawrence Talbot (the hero/villain of the movie and its sequels) can come back even after being killed with silver if his body is exposed to the light of a full moon. This happens at least twice over the course of the movies.\\\
There are references to the use of silver against werewolves as far back as in the 18th century or more. Back then silver was considered effective against all sorts of evil entities, and wasn't absolutely necessary in disposing them. In fact there are stories of using silver against them that go back to the 16th century, and possibly earlier, it merely wasn't that common until recently when this film made it popular.
* ''Film/{{Wolves}}'': Features both rare pure-bred werewolves and the kind who became werewolves from being bitten. Although they do change, they're "mutts" and not as powerful as the born kind. Either way, their transformations are either voluntary or caused by strong emotion, especially anger. The full moon doesn't ''make'' them change, but does affect their emotions so it's more likely. They all, however, look suspiciously like people in furry masks.
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* ''TabletopGame/ArsMagica'': Lycanthropy is the result of a curse which can be magical or faery in nature, and is tied to the moon cycle. If taken as a blessing, transformations can be controlled. Were-bears and were-lynxes are also possible in the setting.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'': In the Classic Collection, the [=DuPonts=] are a branch of the mad Whateley family who are known for being werewolves, as well as inbred mad magicians. Mina Devlin has a few of them working for her at the Hunt-Phelan house.
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** Werewolves have always been able to take on the normal wolf form and infect with a bite, but other details have cropped up with the evolution of the game, including the addition of a "hybrid" form equivalent to the Man-Wolf, the existence of natural lycanthropes in addition to infected ones, and the imposition of a whole new alignment (and personality) not just on the nonhuman forms but on the human(oid) as well. The game later inversed the process with the wolfwere (and subsequent varieties of beast-were), who is an evil, intelligent, shapeshifting wolf who assumes a human form to mingle in society and lure potential victims. Werewolves and wolfweres both share intense loathing for each other.
*** In 2nd edition, there was also the seawolf (an amphibious werewolf that could take the form of either a water-breathing man-wolf or a giant wolf-headed seal) and the loup de noir (a "skinchanger" werewolf who assumed wolf form by donning an enchanted wolf's pelt).
*** ''TabletopGame/{{Mystara}}': The Basic ''D&D'' supplement ''Night Howlers'' gave Known World weres of all stripes the in-detail treatment, including rules on using them as player characters. Newly-infected weres would generally start out much weaker than their default "normal monster"-level cousins and had to earn experience in beast form to get the full range of abilities, but could also eventually end up considerably more powerful (including eventually acquiring the hybrid "beast-man" form at suitably high level). The book also justifies the infectiousness of lycanthropy by making the cause of it an explicit magical virus that escaped from an Alphatian laboratory involved in shapeshifting research centuries ago and mutated into a number of distinct strains as it spread.
** Lythari, originally described in a a ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'' monster manual and later incorporated into ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' -- are an elven ChaoticGood variant of werewolf. Lythari have no hybrid form and "convert" others very rarely -- this requires a special ritual and done only when they are really sure they want someone to join their tribe.
** ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}''
*** "Salient abilities" can make any werewolf (or vampire, golem, mummy, etc) different from any other of its kind. The ''Van Richten's Guide to Werebeasts'' gives exhaustive details on all forms of lycanthropy.
*** The Demiplane of Dread is also home to its own unique variant of werewolves, the Loup-Garou, which are more powerful than "normal" werewolves in 2e.
** 4th edition ''D&D'' makes yet another change. Shifters are presented as playable races in Monster Manual 1 and Player's Handbook 2. Regular werewolves, however, are monsters only... and they no longer transmit the "curse of lycanthropy" upon biting someone, just a generic disease. They also have a HealingFactor that can be suppressed by silver. As of a few recent sourcebooks, players can once again be full werewolves. There are two variants; one allows the player to transform between humanoid and wolf forms at-will, but makes hybrid form a daily power, while the other makes both encounter powers. Or they could just have played a Druid, who can spend most of their time as a wolf if they want.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}''; There is absolutely nothing preventing a Lunar Exalt from having a wolf as their spirit-shape, although they're not exactly your average werewolves. As far as official characters go, Ma-Ha-Suchi is [[ShapeshifterModeLock Mode Locked]] into a humanoid goat hybrid form as a result of Wyld-induced BodyHorror. He can still assume his human form, wolf form, or any other form he's acquired. But he's ashamed of his horns and hooves in his non-hybrid forms (not to mention that the hybrid form is designed for maximized asskickery).
* Creator/GamesWorkshop games:
** In ''TabletopGame/BloodBowl'' the werewolves who take part in the game are tormented creatures driven into a wild frenzy by their conflicted nature and are prone to outbursts of crazed violence, something that would make them the prefect Blood Bowl player if they could confine such violence to the opposition. As such, werewolves almost exclusively play for [[HornyVikings Norse]] Teams (who don't care about such incidents) and [[TheUndead Necromantic Horror]] teams (where any damage they cause to their own side can be easily repaired by the Necromancer Coach).
** ''TabletopGame/{{Talisman}}'':
*** The Werewolf NPC introduced in the ''Blood Moon'' expansion functions in a similar fashion to the Grim Reaper, in that it's moved around the board whenever a player rolls a one for their movement and attacks any player character it lands on. This attack can result in the player losing a life, a follower, contracting lycanthropy, or (if the player is lucky) choosing from a list of beneficial effects.
*** Player characters can contract lycanthropy, which grants them bonuses to their rolls in battle and psychic combat during the night, at the cost of being forced to attack any player character that is in a space that the lycanthrope lands on. Lycanthropy can be cured by the wolf's bane object, among other means.
** ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
*** The Space Wolves' gene-seed contains a specific gene sequence called the Canis Helix which causes animalistic physical changes such as lengthened canines, a heightened sense of smell, and their skin gradually becoming darker and more leathery as they age. However, occasionally these changes go out of control and turn the Space Wolf into a feral monstrosity. This danger is called the Curse of the Wulfen, and each Space Wolf aspirant must confront the Curse as they receive the gene-seed--either their bodies will stabilize so that they become a full Marine, they'll degenerate into a Wulfen, or they'll ''appear'' to stabilize only to manifest the Curse in the heat of battle. Wulfen make up the vast majority of the Space Wolves' 13th Company, which disappeared into the Warp millennia ago along with Leman Russ, although the rules supplement ''Curse of the Wulfen'' brought the 13th Company back from the Warp to Fenris to help fight off a Chaos invasion.
*** The huge wolves native to the Space Wolves' home, [[GrimUpNorth the planet Fenris]], are beasts [[HorseOfADifferentColor that are sometimes used as mounts for Space Wolves to ride into battle]], [[DependingOnTheAuthor depending on who you listen to]], are either native creatures, actually the degenerate descendants of the planet's first human colonists after generations of ill-conceived canine/human gene splicing experiments to try to survive the harsh frozen wastelands of Fenris.
** ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'': Skin Wolves are people cursed with the blood of a Chaos-mutated wolf. In battle, their wolf form erupts out of their body, still draped in their tattered human skin, and only once their hunger is sated does their form collapse and the human has to tear his way out of the wolf's skin, or degenerate wulfen who fully changed into animals.
* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'':
** An optional werewolf template is an uncontrollable problem triggered by the full moon. They're very hard to kill but curiously don't have any special level of strength like most werewolves.
** In the ''Banestorm'' setting, people so afflicted turn into actual wolves. It's also not contagious; either you or an ancestor has to have been specifically cursed.
* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': The werewolves of Innistrad typically resemble humans with hair, wolf heads and tails, and large claws, but most designs have an exaggerated chest and arms to emphasise their power and savagery. They transform at night, with the likelihood of a given werewolf turning increasing as the full moon approaches; few if any werewolves transform during the new moon, while all turn under the full. In-game, this is represented by a turn where nobody casts any spells, with the break of "day" coming when somebody casts two spells in a turn. In-lore, the condition begins when a victim is marked for transformation by a group of werewolves, usually after being bitten or scratched. The werewolf pack in question will howl together in the night, calling the victim to them. Over the course of the night, the victim runs and hunts with the pack, transforming into a full-fledged werewolf as their human essence enters a state of conflict with the essence of the wild. Werewolf groups, called howlpacks, are savage and disorganized affairs and led by their strongest, most savage member, who must continuously defend their position against the others. A couple of unusual varieties also arose from the broader werewolf population during certain major events:
** During the events of the ''Eldritch Moon'' set, the influence of the [[EldritchAbomination Eldrazi Titan]] Emrakul affects the werewolves alongside all other living things. These werewolves, called the Dronepack, permanently lose their human form, and instead begin to transform into horrific, lupine {{Animalistic Abomination}}s.
** During the events of ''Innistrad: Midnight Hunt'', when Innistrad begins to enter TheNightThatNeverEnds after the moon was used to seal Emrakul, the growing influence of the lengthening night and errant moon cause some werewolves to mutate into the "dire strain", a breed of werewolves who are tall, lanky and grim when human and hulking slabs of LightningBruiser muscle when wolf men.
* Creator/PalladiumBooks:
** ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'': In keeping with the FantasyKitchenSink, several varieties of werewolves exist. The Conversion book has several brands of lycanthrope, including werewolves, werejaguars, etc, which are basically creatures that can take on a human or animal appearance. They are essentially aliens, not cursed humans, and can't transmit their lycanthropy to others. Different kinds of werewolves exist in other settings, such as Russia and Canada, based on local folklore. There are also Zenith Moon Warpers, natural shapeshifters who can take on any form but are forced to revert to their true, lupine selves when the moon is at its zenith.
** ''The Rifter'': A set of semi-official articles expands the Werebeasts to the ''Nightbane'' game. There, Weres form clans collectively known as the Children of the Moon. These clans run the gamut from {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s, mercenaries, seers, insane beasts, superpowered mutants, and their own internal police force. According to their creation legend, humans were originally were''apes'', but lost their ability to change to their animal forms due to a curse that also gave the werebeasts their vulnerability to silver.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'':
** Werewolves are the archetypal lycanthropes, being hunters in the wilderness and banes of travelers, villagers and farmers. They're humanoids afflicted by an infectious curse, which gives them the ability to shift between humanoid, wolf and WolfMan forms in exchange for being locked into wolf form during the full moon. They can either natural (born to werewolf parents, and themselves werewolves all their lives) or afflicted (born as a normal humanoid and later afflicted through another werewolf's bite).
*** Afflicted werewolves have difficulty controlling their transformations, and lose their memory and sense of self during the full moon -- they'll rampage as an animal all night and then wake up with no memory of their time spent as a wolf. They can be cured of their condition before their first transformation by eating the toxic wolfsbane plant and surviving the ensuing poisoning.
*** Natural werewolves are in full control of their shifts and retain their minds and memories during the full moon's change. However, they're prevalently ChaoticEvil and deeply contemptuous of afflicted werewolves, other lycanthropes and non-lycanthropic humanoids, viewing the first two groups as their lessers and the third as prey. They however get along fairly well with winter wolves, a breed of giant, intelligent, evil wolves capable of speech. They usually worship Jezelda, the demon lord of werewolves and the moon. Natural werewolves cannot be turned into non-werewolf humanoids by any means short of magic capable of outright changing a being's species.
** Rougarous are [[BeastMen wolf men]] who can turn into true wolves and back to their normal form at will. They're often mistaken for werewolves, as the "normal" form is basically one, but are not actual lycanthropes and deeply hate true werewolves, whom they hunt without mercy.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'':
** A variant strain of the virus that turns people into vampires transforms humans into loup-garous, mindless {{Frazetta m|an}}en types which get stronger and vicious on a twenty-eight day cycle and can infect people by direct fluid contact -- say, by biting or scratching them. However, they don't gain animal traits, beyond the extra hair. Other metahumans (dwarves, elves, orks and trolls) undergo different transformations, but all are marked by increased hair growth and aggression and decreased cognitive powers.
** There are also Shapeshifters, as in normal animals of all varieties spontaneously giving birth to magically active stock able to take on human form. Not to mention all the dragons who've learned the ability...
* In ''Terror T.R.A.X: Track of the Werewolf'' (reviewed by Spoonyone), the werewolves seem to possess few characteristics that separate them from normal humans. They can be killed by ordinary methods, speak clearly, and fight using ''automatic weapons''.
* ''TabletopGame/UnknownArmies'', shockingly, decides to make werewolves fucking weird. [[spoiler:Werewolves are what happens when a demon, [[OurDemonsAreDifferent which are themselves a bit different to the norm]], accidentally possess an animal instead of a human being, and it goes wrong. The animal/demon keeps shifting between being human and animal, and the entire [[CosmicRetcon universe adapts its own history]] to decide they'd been that all along. So you get attacked by a wolf, but by the time you get to the ER, the wounds are now unmistakably tears by human fingernails and teeth.]] Goddamnit, ''Unknown Armies''.
* ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'', the {{Player Character}}s are werewolves, creatures distinct from normal humans and normal wolves, though they probably grew up thinking themselves one or the other. These "Garou" are crusading eco-warriors trying to defend the world from the depredations of evil spirits of corruption and greed (and, to a slightly lesser extent, protect the natural world from regular human encroachment). They can change into a variety of forms at will, their go-to for a fight being a giant humanoid with a wolf's head. They frequently interact with the spirit world and travel back and forth between realms often. Werewolves can breed with either humans or wolves. To mate with another werewolf is strictly forbidden, but of course it does happen from time to time, the result being a deformed and sterile pariah. Werewolves are characterized by UnstoppableRage, which is a powerful weapon but also an AchillesHeel.
* The spiritual sequel to "Apocalypse" is ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken''. As in the previous game, these werewolves are dreamspeaking, spirit-walking shaman types who police the border between the realms and keep spirits from setting up camp in the physical world, for the good of all. This game is called "The Forsaken" because the werewolves, called Uratha, are actually outcasts among their own kind, persecuted by other werewolf tribes as part of a blood feud dating to the beginning of the world. Werewolfery is hereditary, almost all werewolves growing up believing themselves human. Shacking up with your fellow werewolf is still a no-no and the result is a scary creature indeed. In all White Wolf games, silver is the big Kryptonite factor for werewolves. A few magical spells in "The Forsaken" use wolfsbane to rob the Uratha of their shapeshifting power for a time. The game also explains the whole "pass the curse by bite" thing by saying that Uratha can follow signs (e.g., the spirit world looking a bit tumultuous) to know that a new werewolf is about to undergo the First Change; some then bite the prospective changer so that they can always track them by scent, hopefully catching up to them when the Change does happen.
** The game's second edition does make werewolfism somewhat more contagious. Although a bite can't make someone Uratha, exposure to the Uratha can result in a normal human becoming Wolf-Blooded, which is a condition usually reserved for the blood relatives of werewolves. This exposure can mean surviving a werewolf's bite, getting hit by their WeirdnessCensor and shaking it off, or getting exposed to spirit activity.
* In ''[[TabletopGame/TheWerewolvesOfMillersHollow Miller's Hollow]]'', the werewolves are regular humans during the day and unstoppable monsters during the night, regardless of moon phases. There is also a race that can apparently transform a second time, getting white fur and [[FoodChainOfEvil a taste for other werewolves]].
* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'': Ghostrick Werewolf is a peculiar Ghostrick who usually lives as an ordinary human and only plays pranks on the nights he transforms into a werewolf. He’s always looking forward to the next night with a full moon.
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* In the Halloween episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' where Jimmy makes a machine that accidentally turns Sheen into a werewolf, Jimmy ask to Goddard info about them but Ms. Fowl comes out of nowhere and explains it instead. She justifies her knowledge of werewolves by saying she [[NoodleIncident was married to one]].
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
** The Whywolves are werewolves-like creatures born out of inquiry and '''bloodlust'''. Finn mistook them for normal werewolves at first, however, implying there's more than one type.
** "Hug Wolf" has Finn get infected by being hugged by the titular "Hug Wolf", a werewolf with heart-shaped hands and feet that hugs anyone it comes across. The Hug Wolves have three varieties, Omega, Alpha, and Beta, with the former two being able to infect others during a full moon. It's also revealed that if a Beta Hug Wolf can out hug an Alpha, the curse will be broken and both will return to normal.
* The HalloweenEpisode of [[WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}} Amphibia]] ends with [[spoiler: Polly staring into the blue moon. While it doesn’t do anything at first, she eventually turns into a [[MixAndMatchCritters a bizarre tadpole/werewolf hybrid]].]] Thankfully, [[StatusQuoIsGod everything is back to normal by the next episode.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' featured a somewhat unusual version in the Minerva Mink short "Moon Over Minerva". A geeky wolf, named Wilford B. Wolf, would turn into a hunky wolf when exposed to the full moon. Minerva won't give his geeky self the time of day, but she goes crazy for his moonlit self. Needless to say the short is pretty heavy on the {{Fanservice}} for both the male and female audiences. Also doubles as YouSexyBeast.
* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'': "Benwolf" introduces an alien version of the werewolf called a Loboan (which was mistaken by everyone for a Navajo werewolf called the Yenaldooshi). It scratches the Omnitrix, causing it to get mode-locked and making Ben slowly and seemingly painlessly turn into another alien werewolf. Later, the creature is added to the Omnitrix's active list and he later dubs it Benwolf (renamed Blitzwolfer in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'').
* ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' has a very "mechanical" twist: when the robotic vampire [[PunnyName Nos-4-A2]] accidentally bites a human, the human winds up turning into a robotic wolf-monster called a "wirewolf" when hit by the light of a nearby moon. Buzz and the others destroy the moon, though a piece of it reactivates the curse in a later episode.
* The ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'' episode "Full Moon Ever" establishes that Dog transforms into a wolf-like state during the full moon.
* In the episode "A Wolf in Cheap Clothing" of ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' a wolf has been robbing homes. It turns out [[spoiler:that the villain, Professor Nimnul, has been using an invention that turns him into a wolf, but in order to do so, the device must turn a wolf (in this case a perfectly innocent wolf named Harry from the local zoo) into a human. In other words, it switches Nimnul's humanity with Harry's wolf-ity]], making one a voluntary werewolf and the other an involuntary wolfwere.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': The episode "Operation: H.O.U.N.D." introduces Valerie, an honors student who transforms into a werepoodle [[ADogAteMyHomework and eats other students' homework]]. A later episode, "Operation: D.O.G.H.O.U.S.E.", revealed that ''all'' the honors students were weredogs, lead by [[spoiler:Mrs. Thompson, who was under a curse from a necklace given to her by her ex-husband]]. They eat homework to feed, and bad homework (such as [[TheDitz Numbuh 4's]]) is poison to them.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cybersix}}'': In the episode "Full Moon Fascination", the VillainOfTheWeek is Elaine, a genetically-engineered werewolf who is able to turn humans into her own kind through a bite or scratch and is implied to have some mental control over them in both her wolf and human forms, as shown when she seduces Lucas.
* Wulf from ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' is an Esperanto-speaking ''ghost werewolf'' with extendable claws which can tear up portals between Earth and the Ghost Zone. He is not shown to have the ability to shapeshift, and is presented as an anthropomorphic muscular wolf.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' episode "Monsters R Us", Morgana's father transforms the eponymous character into a duck-billed and poodle-like werewolf that often acts like a dog. With his new wolf form, Darkwing puts on a new alias known as "Darkwolf Dog".
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': The HalloweenEpisode "The Trickening!" features a werewolf duck (or a "wereduck" as he is called). In a similar case with ''Count Duckula'', he is an anthropomorphic duck with wolf-like fur, fangs, and claws.
* The title character of the Ruby-Spears cartoon ''WesternAnimation/{{Fangface}}'' would transform whenever his human form saw the full moon... or a photograph of it... or anything which vaguely reminded him of it. The reverse transformation was similarly triggered by the sun. Or any other sun-like image.
** Even within the show, werewolves were different. One episode of the series featured another werewolf who transformed by way of a "Werewolf Secret Formula", and who was nothing like the FunnyAnimal-ish title character, instead having more of a classic WolfMan Creator/LonChaneyJr look. During that episode one of the other heroes accidentally drank the formula, and turned into a werewolf that was a hybrid of the two, looking more like a wolf man, but acting like Fangface.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' did a parody of the original ''The Wolf Man'' with an obvious Lon Chaney Jr. parody coming to Dexter for help with his werewolf problem. Freakazoid, after forcing him to suffer numerous indignities, ultimately cured him by dumping him into the Internet and back out again. The episode even parodied the frame-by-frame transformation of the film for both the Lon Chaney Jr. {{Expy}} and Freakazoid himself.
* In a direct parody of ''An American Werewolf in London'' (and ''WesternAnimation/TurboTeen''), ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' has a curse that can turn any mild-mannered robot into a were''car''. Unlike the hovercars the characters in the show are familiar with, these cars are "crawling around on round rubber feet...[[{{Dissimile}} like a wolf!]]" The Spanish dub correctly calls them "coche lobo", car-wolf (as opposed to "hombre lobo", werewolf). Werecar implies that the monster is some sort of mix between a man ("were") and a car, and Bender is a Man-bot.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'':
** In "Eye of the Beholder," Xanatos presents [[UnholyMatrimony Fox]] [[ArtifactOfDoom the Eye of Odin]] as an engagement gift -- only for it to turn her into a wolf-like being every night until he, Elisa Maza and Goliath are able to forcibly remove it. In this case, it's noted that her were-form is unsustainable; she has to feed constantly and is in danger of burning out and dying.
** "Mark of the Panther" featured were-leopards who transformed involuntarily because of a curse.
** Also, recurring villain "Wolf", formerly a human mercenary/TV star, who due to [[HollywoodGenetics genetic engineering]] is a half-man, half-wolf creature; he can't change back to human form or spread his condition, but he's frequently referred to as a werewolf, which, as werewolf roughly translates as "man-wolf", is technically true, although "mutant" and "hybrid" would be better terms.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh'' had a rather nerdy werewolf teen named Reggie Moonshroud.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': In one episode, Irwin gets bitten by a werewolf and transforms after looking at the "moon" of a baby's butt on a billboard. He changes into a non violent four legged wolf that thinks itself to be a dog and remains in wolf form even when the daytime comes. The only way to return him to normal was to have a wereflea bite him.
* The ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvaniaTheSeries'' episode "Creepover Party" has Mavis being visited by two members of her girl scout troop who were both werewolves. They power down into their human forms, which poses a problem because the hotel has a strict "no humans" policy.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'', called "A Wolf in Chick's Clothing", involved Johnny finding out that his date was a werewolf. He went on the date anyway, reasoning that he just had to stick it out until sunrise for herand to turn back into a beautiful woman. Unfortunately, it was a Wednesday, and it turns out that on Wednesdays she turns into an annoying little man named Melvin who keeps trying to show people his stamp collection.
* In ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'', the transformation into a werewolf comes because of a genetic disorder that only affects men.
** Averted in the original ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' series, where a werewolf was just a ScoobyDooHoax formulated by a crew of gold-smugglers.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/LoveDeathAndRobots'' “Shape-Shifters” centers on a pair of werewolves serving as U.S. Marines. Their shapeshifting is voluntary, and even in their human form they have enhanced abilities, but they suffer FantasticRacism from the other Marines who derisively call them "dog soldiers". Then we find out that the terrorists have werewolves on their side, too.
* ''WesternAnimation/MaryShelleysFrankenhole''. The Wolfman can only be killed by a silver bullet. The death will only be temporary and he will heal as soon as the bullet leaves him (even if he has to rot and decay for 70 years before the bullet leaves). The only way for him to permanently die is if a lover fires the silver bullet.
* ''WesternAnimation/MightyMax'' episode "Werewolves of Dunneglen" saw Max travel to Scotland to confront what was thought to be a murderous werewolf. Turned out that the werewolves were the immortal protectors of the land and were quite benevolent. While they did have the power to shift shape between human and wolf forms, it was not an ability they could willingly transfer via a bite. In fact, the power was being stolen by the actual villain of the episode, who had captured the pack and was milking them of essence.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E7Bats Bats!]]", the characters have to deal with "vampire fruit bats" that are preying on Applejack's apple crop. Their plan to hypnotize the bats into not feeding on the apples succeeds, [[GoneHorriblyRight only for Fluttershy to become something akin to them]]. While the resultant "Flutterbat" is indeed [[OurVampiresAreDifferent a batlike creature that drains her prey]], her bestial, predatory nature and AlternateIdentityAmnesia upon being cured is much more evocative of werewolves.
* Bernard from ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'' outwardly defies many werewolf stereotypes; he's outwardly polite and friendly, he's HappilyMarried to a vampire, and while he appears as an anthropomorphic wolf at all times, exposure to the full moon turns him fully human.
* The ''WesternAnimation/PetAlien'' episode "Night of the Werescruffy" reveals that if [[TeamPet Scruffy]] is fed anchovy pizza while the full moons of Conforma are aligned and the global population of Conforma engages in a synchronized [[{{Gasshole}} belch]] at the same time, he becomes a large, werewolf-like creature called a Werescruffy. While in this state, he's inclined to eat anyone in sight and eating sugar makes him [[MakeMyMonsterGrow grow 400 times in size]]. However, the transformation only lasts fifteen minutes, at which point he reverts back to normal and vomits out everything he swallowed.
* ''WesternAnimation/PJMasks'' has The Wolfy Kids, a trio of werewolf-like villains. Physically, they mostly resemble the beastman version of werewolves (human looking, but with claws on their hands and feet, sharp teeth, pointy ears and long messy hair). They also display typical wolf behaviour like running on all fours, howling, and biting, though they can also walk on just their hind legs, and are still capable of speech.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' episode "The Wiffle Bird's Revenge" has Wimpy turning into a werewolf every time he says "hamburger".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'':
** There was also "No One Comes to Lupusville", in which a [[FurAgainstFang clan war between werewolves and vampires]] finally got bloody, and when they fought...
-->'''Peter:''' Egon, not to be intrusive or unduly nosy, but what do you mean by "worse"?\\
'''Egon:''' Well, when a vampire bites someone, he becomes a vampire, right?\\
'''Peter:''' Right.\\
'''Ray:''' And when a werewolf bites someone, they become a werewolf too!\\
'''Egon:''' Exactly! [[MixAndMatchCritters So what happens when a werewolf bites a vampire, and a vampire bites a werewolf]]?
* Lycanthropes in ''WesternAnimation/RoswellConspiraciesAliensMythsAndLegends'' are actually aliens who look like humanoid wolf creatures. They poses the ability to shape-shift back and forth between their true form and a human appearance.
* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'':
** After Shaggy is turned into the titular character in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheReluctantWerewolf'' he reverts to his old self by saying "Oogly boogly wobbly wye, no more a werewolf am I, I'm going to be a normal guy!"
** [[http://scoobydoo.wikia.com/wiki/Winnie_Werewolf Winnie the Werewolf]] is a student of the AllGhoulsSchool.
** In the direct-to-video Halloween film, ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheGoblinKing'', Scooby Doo and Shaggy go to the Magic World and encounter a bartender who was a werewolf. They manage to convince him that they're a werewolf themselves by using a variation of the TotemPoleTrench and switching themselves to make it look like Shaggy transforming into Scooby. Velma becomes a werewolf very briefly (along with Fred who becomes a vampire, and Daphne who turns into a witch) as a result of the Goblin King's magic sceptor.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': in ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'':
** The segment "I Know What You Diddily-Iddily-Did" ends with Ned revealing he survived Marge running him over because he was attacked by a large grey Dire Wolf just before, and then becomes a Man-Wolf right after; a rare case of two types in one show. Oddly, werewolves are described as undead creatures, despite that [[SadlyMythtaken not being the case in myth]] or most other depictions of them.
** In the segment "I've Grown a Costume on Your Face", after a witch curses everyone in Springfield to [[BecomingTheCostume transform into their costumes]], Bart becomes a wolf-man, since he was dressed as Eddie Munster.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "A Wolf In Peewit's Clothing", Peewit becomes a werewolf when he eats an enchanted condiment called Wolf Gravy with his dinner, and is turned back to normal by eating a garlic bud. The same thing also happens to Greedy, although only his face gets turned into something vaguely resembling a wolf. In "I Was A Brainy Weresmurf", Brainy turns into a furry blue weresmurf by being scratched by a thorny plant called wolfsbane, and is turned back to normal by wearing a garland of silveroot and garlic.
* The ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTales'' episode "Monster Con" has Jerry befriending a werewolf that acts like a playful dog. Tom also turns into a "werewolf-cat" after getting bitten by said werewolf.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Toonsylvania}}'' episode "[=WereGranny=]" had Dr. Vic's grandmother become a werewolf who changes even when she looks at a picture of the moon or hears someone say "moon". Igor and Phil initially think that they've turned Dr. Vic's granny into a werewolf by brewing her tea from wolfbane, but Dr. Vic reveals at the end of the episode that his grandmother has always been a werewolf.
* On ''WesternAnimation/UglyAmericans'', werewolves turn shortly after being bitten, but retain their intelligence. They're still pretty vicious though, one tore a man's arm off just to get tickets to a magic show. After turning, that man grew his arm back, albeit very slowly (it took the entire episode just to grow the arm to half its original size). They also don't turn back, or it hasn't been shown anyway.
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