History Main / SapientFurTrade

* Alluded to in ''WebComic/TwoKinds''. As early as page two, we have a [[spoiler: [[GodInHumanForm god disguised as a]]]] huntsman threatening a [[PettingZooPeople keidran]] with being skinned because her fur will fetch a pretty penny. Much later, a secondary character's people is said to have nearly been driven to extinction for their pelts.

* In the ''Franchise/StarWars'' ExpandedUniverse Trandoshans, such as Bossk hunt Wookiees and take their pelts as trophies for a religious ritual. Ironically there's one story where Bossk is taken prisoner and an Imperial governor wants to make him into a lizard-skin jacket for his wife.

* Alluded to in ''WebComic/TwoKinds.'' As early as page two, we have a [[spoiler: [[GodInHumanForm god duisguised as a]]]] huntsman threatening a [[PettingZooPeople keidran]] with being skinned because her fur will fetch a pretty penny. Much later, a secondary character's people is said to have nearly been driven to extinction for their pelts.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'' Itchy (a mouse} skins Scratchy (a cat) and sells his fur to a furrier, who then sells it to a rich woman. Scratchy accosts her, with his bones and muscles on display, and takes his fur back, wrapping it around himself. Then he gets assaulted by anti-fur protesters.

* Sand Cats in Literature/MarkOfTheCat are hunted for fur despite being sentient, or perhaps because of it. They don't generally make good neighbors, after all.

* Alluded to in ''WebComic/TwoKinds.'' As early as page two, we have a [[spoiler: [[GodGuise god duisguised as a]]]] huntsman threatening a [[PettingZooPeople keidran]] with being skinned because her fur will fetch a pretty penny. Much later, a secondary character's people is said to have nearly been driven to extinction for their pelts.

Compare ImAHumanitarian (particularly if the raw material people are being killed for is food), CruellaToAnimals (being cruel whether or not the animals are sapient), DesecratingTheDead, OrganTheft.

** There exists a black market for [[CatFolk Khajiit]] furs. One of [[Literature/TheElderScrollsInUniverseBooks In-Universe Books]] is titled ''Confessions of a Khajiit Fur Trader'', written by a Khajiit who trades in the fur of his own kind.

-->-- '''Courtney Gears''' to Ratchet, in ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal''

* ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal'': When Ratchet is fighting Courtney Gears, one of her battle taunts is saying she'll make a fur coat out of him.

** One of [[Literature/TheElderScrollsInUniverseBooks In-Universe Books]] is titled ''Confessions of a Khajiit Fur Trader'', written by a [[CatFolk Khajiit]] who trades in the fur of his own kind.

** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'', you can slay fully sentient dragons, rip out their souls to learn the [[MakeMeWannaShout Thu'um]], and sell their bones and scales for a hefty price if you don't feel like turning them into armor.

** One of Literature/TheElderScrollsInUniverseBooks is titled ''Confessions of a Khajit Fur Trader'', written by a Khajit who trades in the fur of his own kind.
** In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' you can slay fully sentient dragons, rip out their souls to learn the [[MakeMeWannaShout Thu'um]], and sell their bones and scales for a hefty price if you don't feel like turning them into armor.

* In ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'' Nick once sold the mob don Mr. Big a very expensive rug made from the fur of a skunk... 's butt. Whether that's illegal or not is never stated.

* In ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'' Nick once sold the mob don Mr. Big a very expensive throw rug made from the fur of a skunk... 's butt. Whether that's illegal or not is never stated.

* In Creator/MCAHogarth's ''[[Literature/{{Paradox}} Earthrise]]'' there's one scene where Irene, a Harat-Shariin[[note]]one of those races of human-animal hybrids known collectively as "The Pelted"[[/note]], suggests that maybe surrendering to the pirates chasing them and being sold into slavery isn't such a bad thing. So Reese suggests that maybe they want to make her into a rug instead. That's enough to scare her into changing her mind.

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* The {{Predator}} franchise has the titular aliens taking human skulls and weapons as trophies. They have rules, a code of conduct (no children, noone unarmed) and in one movie capture humans and place them on a "hunting preserve". A hunting preserve that's an entire planet.

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* PlayedWith in many ways in Creator/RobertSheckley's short story ''Hunting Problem''. Aliens from a distant world consider it a rite of passage to hunt down and skin a dangerous creature named "Mirash", whom they believe to be naturally cunning but not sentient. It turns out, however, that "Mirash" are actually the occasional human visitors of their planet, and [[spoiler:"skinning" them actually only involves taking the fancy space suits they usually arrive in]].

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* A King Features {{Popeye}} cartoon "Valley of the Goons" has Popeye saving the inhabitants of Goon Island from poachers out to harvest "goon skins".

* In ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' Clover was transformed into a humanoid animal, as well as many hostages, in a villain's plans to dominate the fashion industry by bringing fur scales and feathers back in prominence, purportedly because materials from humanoid bodies would make for a better fit.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' Clover was transformed into a humanoid animal, as well as many hostages, in a villain's plans to dominate the fashion industry by bringing fur scales and feathers back in prominence, purportedly because the humanoid materials would make for a better fit.

A subtrope of FurAndLoathing, supertrope to GenuineHumanHide. If the raw material people are being killed for is food, see ImAHumanitarian. If it's a TalkingAnimal setting where those being skinned really aren't people, that's just CruellaToAnimals. If it happens for shock value to enemies or punishment for the deceased rather than because the dead bodies have a pragmatic use, that's DesecratingTheDead. Compare OrganTheft.