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* ''Series/{{Wednesday}}'': In something of a TropeNamer, the series involves primarily the title character and her roommate at the Nevermore academy, but other characters do possess shapeshifting abilities.
** With Wednesday herself, it is invoked and deconstructed. First by being named that way after a song, "Wednesday's child is full of woe" as discussed by her mother. And while she doesn't shapeshift, she remains resolute and true to herself and pursues the investigation of the mysteries at the Nevermore with intensity. She is quite apart from the rest of the school staff and students. Her aversion to friendships, authority and even color gets her into a lot of trouble.
** Everything with Enid is played straight, though she cannot turn into a werewolf just yet until the very end of Season 1 -- even on a full moon like the rest of the werewolf students, it makes her conflicted because her mother wishes it for her more than anything, to lengths of lycanthropy conversion summer camps and counseling, this makes it a big issue that only serves to frustrate Enid into embarrassment of being a late bloomer.
** With Wednesday herself, it is invoked and deconstructed. First by being named that way after a song, "Wednesday's child is full of woe" as discussed by her mother. And while she doesn't shapeshift, she remains resolute and true to herself and pursues the investigation of the mysteries at the Nevermore with intensity. She is quite apart from the rest of the school staff and students. Her aversion to friendships, authority and even color gets her into a lot of trouble.
** Everything with Enid is played straight, though she cannot turn into a werewolf just yet until the very end of Season 1 -- even on a full moon like the rest of the werewolf students, it makes her conflicted because her mother wishes it for her more than anything, to lengths of lycanthropy conversion summer camps and counseling, this makes it a big issue that only serves to frustrate Enid into embarrassment of being a late bloomer.
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This trope includes animal-based shapeshifters other than werewolves as well. Of course, a possible transformation cycle based on the moon would be on top of having to go through [[MenstrualMenace another inconvenient monthly cycle]] as well.
Related with MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch but with emphasis on the interplay of shapeshifting and [[SlidingScaleOfGenderInequality gender]]. Subtrope of BlessedWithSuck. Contrast with CuteMonsterGirl. See also: BeautyToBeast[[note]]vanity angst[[/note]], GenderRestrictedAbility, IAmAMonster, ShapeshifterIdentityCrisis [[note]]identity angst[[/note]], and StagesOfMonsterGrief. If ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing is in effect, female werewolves can have a much harder time with being forced to run around naked than a male werewolf.
Related with MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch but with emphasis on the interplay of shapeshifting and [[SlidingScaleOfGenderInequality gender]]. Subtrope of BlessedWithSuck. Contrast with CuteMonsterGirl. See also: BeautyToBeast[[note]]vanity angst[[/note]], GenderRestrictedAbility, IAmAMonster, ShapeshifterIdentityCrisis [[note]]identity angst[[/note]], and StagesOfMonsterGrief. If ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing is in effect, female werewolves can have a much harder time with being forced to run around naked than a male werewolf.
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This trope includes animal-based shapeshifters other than werewolves as well.werewolves. Of course, a possible transformation cycle based on the moon would be on top of having to go through [[MenstrualMenace another inconvenient monthly cycle]] as well.
Relatedwith to MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch but with emphasis on the interplay of shapeshifting and [[SlidingScaleOfGenderInequality gender]]. Subtrope of BlessedWithSuck. Contrast with CuteMonsterGirl. See also: BeautyToBeast[[note]]vanity angst[[/note]], GenderRestrictedAbility, IAmAMonster, ShapeshifterIdentityCrisis [[note]]identity angst[[/note]], and StagesOfMonsterGrief. If ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing is in effect, female werewolves can have a much harder time with being forced to run around naked than a male werewolf.
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* ''Series/{{Wednesday}}'': In something of a TropeNamer, the series involves primarily the title character and her roommate at the Evermore academy, but other characters do possess shapeshifting abilities.
** With Wednesday herself, it is invoked and deconstructed. First by being named that way after a song, "Wednesday's child is full of woe" as discussed by her mother. And while she doesn't shapeshift, she remains resolute and true to herself and pursues the investigation of the mysteries at the Evermore with intensity. She is quite apart from the rest of the school staff and students. Her aversion to friendships, authority and even color gets her into a lot of trouble.
** With Wednesday herself, it is invoked and deconstructed. First by being named that way after a song, "Wednesday's child is full of woe" as discussed by her mother. And while she doesn't shapeshift, she remains resolute and true to herself and pursues the investigation of the mysteries at the Evermore with intensity. She is quite apart from the rest of the school staff and students. Her aversion to friendships, authority and even color gets her into a lot of trouble.
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** With Wednesday herself, it is invoked and deconstructed. First by being named that way after a song, "Wednesday's child is full of woe" as discussed by her mother. And while she doesn't shapeshift, she remains resolute and true to herself and pursues the investigation of the mysteries at theEvermore Nevermore with intensity. She is quite apart from the rest of the school staff and students. Her aversion to friendships, authority and even color gets her into a lot of trouble.
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* ''Literature/MercyThompson'': Whilst it's perfectly possible for women to become werewolves (and the series features a number of prominent examples, most notably [[TheEmpath Anna Cornick]] the protagonist of the spin off Alpha and Omega), due the fact that inverse becoming a werewolf requires having your body ravaged to the point that if you don't turn your die and the transformation itself is extremely agonising, by nature the vast majority who survive are men. Case point Adam Hauptman's pack and the thus the entire Columbia Basin werewolf population (which is considered quite large by their standards) only has three female members. Due to their rarity female werewolves are highly prized, with packs even having been known to go to war to induct them into their membership. They likewise aren't able to hold rank in their own right (regardless of how dominant or powerful they are) being forced to share the status of their mate.
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* ''Literature/MercyThompson'': Whilst While it's perfectly possible for women to become werewolves (and the series features a number of prominent examples, most notably [[TheEmpath Anna Cornick]] Cornick]], the protagonist of the spin off Alpha ''Alpha and Omega), due the fact that inverse Omega''), because becoming a werewolf requires having your body ravaged to the point that if you don't turn your die you die, and the transformation itself is extremely agonising, by nature the vast majority who survive are men. Case point in point: Adam Hauptman's pack pack, and the thus the entire Columbia Basin werewolf population (which is considered quite large by their standards) standards), only has three female members. Due to their rarity female werewolves are highly prized, with packs even having been known to go to war to induct them into their membership. They likewise aren't able to hold rank in their own right (regardless of how dominant or powerful they are) are), being forced to share the status of their mate.
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** Leah's transformation takes on broader connotations too. For one, the male werewolves are perfectly comfortable shifting back and forth around each other, ending up naked each time, but it becomes much more awkward once they have Leah in the pack. She also is quick to telepathically dwell on unpleasant things and broadcast them to the whole pack, like the fact the leader of the pack was her longterm boyfriend until he "imprinted" on her best friend as the love of his life and dumped her cold. She also nastily brings up a lot that the potential father of one of the boys, who due to the way the bloodlines work, had to have been born out of an affair since all the men who could be his father were married at the time of his conception. Since werewolves cease to age so long as they consistently shift on a regular basis, Leah also reveals to Bella that's she's ceased to have her period and is essentially in menopause, making her infertile until the threat of the vampires has been dealt with so she can stop shifting and live a normal life. This is one of the reasons she's so upset and bitter about the entire business of being a werewolf.
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Related with MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch but with emphasis on the interplay of shapeshifting and [[SlidingScaleOfGenderInequality gender]]. Subtrope of BlessedWithSuck. Contrast with CuteMonsterGirl. See also: BeautyToBeast[[note]]vanity angst[[/note]], GenderRestrictedAbility, IAmAMonster, ShapeshifterIdentityCrisis [[note]]identity angst)[[/note]], and StagesOfMonsterGrief. If ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing is in effect, female werewolves can have a much harder time with being forced to run around naked than a male werewolf.
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Related with MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch but with emphasis on the interplay of shapeshifting and [[SlidingScaleOfGenderInequality gender]]. Subtrope of BlessedWithSuck. Contrast with CuteMonsterGirl. See also: BeautyToBeast[[note]]vanity angst[[/note]], GenderRestrictedAbility, IAmAMonster, ShapeshifterIdentityCrisis [[note]]identity angst)[[/note]], angst[[/note]], and StagesOfMonsterGrief. If ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing is in effect, female werewolves can have a much harder time with being forced to run around naked than a male werewolf.
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Shapeshifters often have a hard time of things. So do women who live in a society more focused towards men. Being both can cause no shortage of issues. Often they may be the only female werecreature around, and thus are the focus of lust for any male werecritter around. Of course, being weaker than a male can cause issues all by itself.
This trope includes animal-based shapeshifters other than werewolves as well. Of course, a possible transformation cycle based on the moon would be on top of having to go through [[MenstrualMenace another inconvenient monthly cycle]] as well.
Related with MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch but with emphasis on the interplay of shapeshifting and [[SlidingScaleOfGenderInequality gender]]. Subtrope of BlessedWithSuck. Contrast with CuteMonsterGirl. See also: BeautyToBeast[[note]]vanity angst[[/note]], GenderRestrictedAbility, IAmAMonster, ShapeshifterIdentityCrisis [[note]]identity angst)[[/note]], and StagesOfMonsterGrief. If ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing is in effect, female werewolves can have a much harder time with being forced to run around naked than a male werewolf.
Reminder: if this problem would be unchanged if she was a man, then that is not this trope. Being female, in some part, led to her problems.
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* ''ComicBook/BadWolf'': Lupita Luka is one of only a handful of known female werewolves, and this leads to a bunch of annoyances. For starters, she frequently has to run around in a skimpy outfit because form-fitting clothing gets in the way of her transformations. Second, being a werewolf gives her some strange appetites. She also suffers blackouts and memory loss that may be related to her transformations, which becomes a problem for her when she is framed for murder and can't entirely account for her whereabouts during that time.
* ''ComicBook/NewMutants'': Wolfsbane's werewolf-like abilities are due to being a mutant rather than a supernatural gift/curse. As such, when a Norse wolf-god bred her the resulting pregnancy seriously endangered her until she got a power upgrade because she did not have the supernatural constitution to handle it. Plus, having been raised a strict Scots-Presbyterian, she would normally have been repulsed by a pagan deity, but her female wolf instincts kicked in.
%%* ''ComicBook/XMen'': Part of [[Characters/MarvelComicsRogue Rogue's]] powers of power-stealing involves changing her appearance if the power has a specific physical component to it. Since Rogue already has issues arising from not being able to be touched, early in her career she didn't want to tarnish her beauty by risking looking like Colossus or Nightcrawler if she took their powers.
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* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''/''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' crossover ''Fanfic/TheManyWorldsInterpretation'', a creation of Creator/AAPessimal, the canonical character of Lucy is (as in the TV show) a slightly-built, nerdy, young girl with crippling social anxiety and shyness. A visiting Discworlder speculates as to whether there is something like a small easily-frightened deer in her genetic ancestry. This is shown to be literally true when, on the Discworld, Lucy is scared to an extent she has never experienced before [[note]]The trigger is Angua the werewolf[[/note]], and she literally becomes a small frightened deer. Lucy then has to come to terms with being a weredeer, or perhaps a weregazelle. Among other things, she realises she always comes back naked, and she also has to come to a working arrangement with other were-species, especially Tony the were-leopard and Angua the classic werewolf. [[note]]Fortunately, both werewolf and wereleopard are part of the Agreement not to view a weredeer as a tasty venison-based lunch. Both help her adjust to Ankh-Morpork.[[/note]]
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* ''{{Franchise/Shrek}}'': Fiona's existence as a ''princess'' were-Ogre grants her far less autonomy than Shrek is given. At least at first.
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* ''Film/TheBoyWhoCriedWerewolf'': Downplayed. After Jordan becomes a werewolf, she gains a lot of confidence, athletic ability, and even the ability to see without her glasses. However, she laments that no boy will want a snarling, hairy werewolf for a girlfriend. Her brother, Hunter, insists that he knows ''several'' guys who would want to date her.
%%* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'': Mystique mentions that she has faced many woes because of her ability to change her appearance, this has made her TheDragon to Magneto, only strengthening her confidence and resolve to fight humans and support to further Magneto's plans. However, once abandoned by Magneto because of losing her ability in defence of his, she turns on him in service to normal humans.
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%%* ''Literature/TheAbusedWerewolfRescueGroup,'': it's mentioned that [[MagicalSeventhSon seventh sons]] in certain families become werewolves [[PubertySuperpower at puberty]], but seemingly not daughters.[[note]]This is based on the South American legend of the ''lobisomem''.[[/note]]
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* ''Literature/BloodAndChocolate1997'': The female werewolf who wins the '[[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Bitches Dance]]' is supposed to become the new Alpha's mate. Vivian already has a human boyfriend and thus doesn't want to do this.
* ''{{Literature/Discworld}}'':
** Angua's narration often mentions her transformation in the broader context of her being the only woman in the Watch (at least until female dwarfs start openly dressing female) and likening it to MenstrualMenace, but also mentions problems like the nagging feeling she should be wearing three bras.
** Sally the vampire also mentions turning into a cloud of bats is more of a problem for her than for a man since she ends up naked afterwards.
* ''Literature/LonelyWerewolfGirl'': a whole family of female werewolves find it impossible to date; one becomes so desperate he starts dating a [[DatingCatwoman werewolf hunter]].
* ''Literature/MercyThompson'': Whilst it's perfectly possible for women to become werewolves (and the series features a number of prominent examples, most notably [[TheEmpath Anna Cornick]] the protagonist of the spin off Alpha and Omega), due the fact that inverse becoming a werewolf requires having your body ravaged to the point that if you don't turn your die and the transformation itself is extremely agonising, by nature the vast majority who survive are men. Case point Adam Hauptman's pack and the thus the entire Columbia Basin werewolf population (which is considered quite large by their standards) only has three female members. Due to their rarity female werewolves are highly prized, with packs even having been known to go to war to induct them into their membership. They likewise aren't able to hold rank in their own right (regardless of how dominant or powerful they are) being forced to share the status of their mate.
* ''Literature/TheOtherworld'': Elena is the only female werewolf, due to having been bitten by Clay. Not only did this cause massive problems in her and Clay's romantic relationship, but makes her a target for "mutts," non-Pack werewolves who want to possess the only female werewolf in existence.
* ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'': Certain families among [[MagicalNativeAmerican the Quileute tribe]] have werewolves, a trait which has always passed from father to son. The Clearwaters knew that this might one day be an issue for their son, but when their older daughter Leah transformed, it was enough to give her father a heart attack. She's the only female werewolf, though, and why she inherited it remains unexplained.[[note]]The stress seeing this was what prompted the son, Seth, to have ''his'' first change as well.[[/note]]
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* ''Series/{{Bitten}}'': The whole premise of the show is that the protagonist, Elena Michaels, is the world's only female werewolf. Thus, she is inherently weaker than most any other werewolf. Also, given that the werewolves have no taboo against nudity and she is the only female...
* Discussed in an episode of ''Series/NightCourt2023'', where one of the defendants on the docket is a self-proclaimed female werewolf accused of biting people, who takes offense when the court refuses to accept her defense that she was simply following her lupine instincts. She laments that it's hard enough being recognized as a werewolf by other werewolves, as most of them are men and they apparently have long refused to admit that there are female werewolves as well.
* Joked about in ''Series/TeenWolf'', even as it seems female werewolves don't actually suffer any additional consequences or stigma from male werewolves. When [[spoiler:Peter]] talks about having bitten Lydia to Stiles, and thus Lydia possibly turning into a werewolf, Stiles notes that once a month she might try and rip his throat out. [[spoiler:Peter]] shrugs and says "Well, since she's a woman. . . twice a month." Later, Derek informs his newly-bitten wolf Erica, on the night of the full moon, "you're going to want to kill anything you can find." Erica quips back "Good thing I had my period last week, then."
* ''Series/{{Wednesday}}'': In something of a TropeNamer, the series involves primarily the title character and her roommate at the Evermore academy, but other characters do possess shapeshifting abilities.
** With Wednesday herself, it is invoked and deconstructed. First by being named that way after a song, "Wednesday's child is full of woe" as discussed by her mother. And while she doesn't shapeshift, she remains resolute and true to herself and pursues the investigation of the mysteries at the Evermore with intensity. She is quite apart from the rest of the school staff and students. Her aversion to friendships, authority and even color gets her into a lot of trouble.
** Everything with Enid is played straight, though she cannot turn into a werewolf just yet until the very end of Season 1 -- even on a full moon like the rest of the werewolf students, it makes her conflicted because her mother wishes it for her more than anything, to lengths of lycanthropy conversion summer camps and counseling, this makes it a big issue that only serves to frustrate Enid into embarrassment of being a late bloomer.
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* ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'':
** Black Furies are exclusively female, aside from a few metis males, due to the will of Pegasus and many members being {{Straw Feminist}}s. Thus, while all tribes do not have enough members, this increased restriction further decreases the number of Furies in the world.
** Female Kinfolk may not be able to turn into werecreatures, but due to them being more likely to give birth to future shapeshifters, they are often forced to be bred by those they do not choose.
** Due to the supernatural taboo prohibiting two werewolves mating, not only doing so guarantees the female will get pregnant with a metis baby, but for the last few months of the pregnancy she has to maintain the warform of Crinos to handle such a baby coming to term, and the birthing process can be rather bloody, with the inherent healing ability of being a Garou the only reason the female has any hope of surviving the birthing process. Even if she survives, she bears the stigma of bearing an automatically-sterile metis instead of a baby that could one day reproduce.
** One short story features a female werewolf training to be a warrior. A werewolf's role in their society is determined by the phase of the moon they were born under, and those born under the full moon are Ahroun, or warriors. It's soon revealed that she's a runaway from the Get of Fenris tribe, and this subsection of the Tribe believes Fenris "does not allow the bitches of the Tribe to be warriors," and she ran away because she knew the claim that she was born under the crescent moon, making her a Theurge, was false. The matter is settled by the spirit of Fenris being summoned and validating her as being born under the full moon. The Get still rejects her, but the Children of Gaia Tribe welcome and adopt her.[[note]]Often, disinfected female Get join the aforementioned Black Furies.[[/note]]
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* ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'': Kirara actually began life as a cat before she became a {{Nekomata}}. In addition to learning how to deal with life as a human, she is also having to learn how to be female, especially in how she dresses. She was such a [[RummageSaleReject fashion disaster]] that the fashion designer Chiori made her a special outfit for fear that when Kirara left her shop that people would think Kirara's "fashion" was indicative of Chiori's outfits.
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* ''WebVideo/PopCrossStudios'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRb5CZ37grA Redemption of the Were-Jaguar]] [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructs this trope]] with the titular were-jaguar, Vasilia Kuznet. Despite projecting an image of herself as a "tall, confident and gorgeous" woman (which, for the most part, she ''is''), she secretly harbours deep shame at having been bitten and turned by another were-jaguar that she killed [[LittleMissBadass at the age of five]]. Early on, she used to transform uncontrollably and attack her family and neighbours, so an ashamed Vasilia tries [[HideYourOtherness hiding it]] from her friends, and ''especially'' her boyfriend Heath. So, upon arriving in another dimension which leaves Vasilia in a ShapeshifterModeLock, she panics and tries desperately to find a way to get them all home without giving her secret away. On top of that stress, Vasilia has to work alongside the [[CreatureHunterOrganisation Van Helsing family]], whose ward, Gangadharan, treats her with [[VanHelsingHateCrimes unwarranted suspicion]], which makes her angry enough to feel tempted to lose control and lash out. But as Gangadharan points out, [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse her past woes don't justify her secretive behaviour]]:
-->'''Gangadharan:''' You claim ''[[TheCynic I]]'' have trust issues, and yet, if you truly have control over this form and all its power, why would you not be constantly turning into it?
-->'''Vasilia:''' ''[[TranquilFury Because]]'' I get enough judgment from family for it after years of ''not'' having control! Friends need not know about were-jaguar form, even if I do have control now!
-->'''Gangadharan:''' ''[[JerkassHasAPoint Only further emphasizing my point!]]'' Either you ''don't'' have as much control as you claim, and avoid turning to conceal that fact, or you ''do'' have full control, as you say, and don't trust your friends to be accepting of your... ''more fanged side''. So, ''don't'' lecture ''me'' about trust, because you're either a liar... ''Or a '''[[YouAreWhatYouHate hypocrite]].'''''
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Shapeshifters often have a hard time of things. So do women who live in a society more focused towards men. Being both can cause no shortage of issues. Often they may be the only female werecreature around, and thus are the focus of lust for any male werecritter around. Of course, being weaker than a male can cause issues all by itself.
This trope includes animal-based shapeshifters other than werewolves as well. Of course, a possible transformation cycle based on the moon would be on top of having to go through [[MenstrualMenace another inconvenient monthly cycle]] as well.
Related with MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch but with emphasis on the interplay of shapeshifting and [[SlidingScaleOfGenderInequality gender]]. Subtrope of BlessedWithSuck. Contrast with CuteMonsterGirl. See also: BeautyToBeast[[note]]vanity angst[[/note]], GenderRestrictedAbility, IAmAMonster, ShapeshifterIdentityCrisis [[note]]identity angst)[[/note]], and StagesOfMonsterGrief. If ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing is in effect, female werewolves can have a much harder time with being forced to run around naked than a male werewolf.
Reminder: if this problem would be unchanged if she was a man, then that is not this trope. Being female, in some part, led to her problems.
Indices: {{Shapeshifting}}, WerebeastTropes, WomenAreDelicate, JustForFun/PunnyTropeNames
''Where the wolfwomen at?''
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!!Examples:
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* ''ComicBook/BadWolf'': Lupita Luka is one of only a handful of known female werewolves, and this leads to a bunch of annoyances. For starters, she frequently has to run around in a skimpy outfit because form-fitting clothing gets in the way of her transformations. Second, being a werewolf gives her some strange appetites. She also suffers blackouts and memory loss that may be related to her transformations, which becomes a problem for her when she is framed for murder and can't entirely account for her whereabouts during that time.
* ''ComicBook/NewMutants'': Wolfsbane's werewolf-like abilities are due to being a mutant rather than a supernatural gift/curse. As such, when a Norse wolf-god bred her the resulting pregnancy seriously endangered her until she got a power upgrade because she did not have the supernatural constitution to handle it. Plus, having been raised a strict Scots-Presbyterian, she would normally have been repulsed by a pagan deity, but her female wolf instincts kicked in.
%%* ''ComicBook/XMen'': Part of [[Characters/MarvelComicsRogue Rogue's]] powers of power-stealing involves changing her appearance if the power has a specific physical component to it. Since Rogue already has issues arising from not being able to be touched, early in her career she didn't want to tarnish her beauty by risking looking like Colossus or Nightcrawler if she took their powers.
%%Almost every other example is animal based, so Rogue might not fit here
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''/''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' crossover ''Fanfic/TheManyWorldsInterpretation'', a creation of Creator/AAPessimal, the canonical character of Lucy is (as in the TV show) a slightly-built, nerdy, young girl with crippling social anxiety and shyness. A visiting Discworlder speculates as to whether there is something like a small easily-frightened deer in her genetic ancestry. This is shown to be literally true when, on the Discworld, Lucy is scared to an extent she has never experienced before [[note]]The trigger is Angua the werewolf[[/note]], and she literally becomes a small frightened deer. Lucy then has to come to terms with being a weredeer, or perhaps a weregazelle. Among other things, she realises she always comes back naked, and she also has to come to a working arrangement with other were-species, especially Tony the were-leopard and Angua the classic werewolf. [[note]]Fortunately, both werewolf and wereleopard are part of the Agreement not to view a weredeer as a tasty venison-based lunch. Both help her adjust to Ankh-Morpork.[[/note]]
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[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
* ''{{Franchise/Shrek}}'': Fiona's existence as a ''princess'' were-Ogre grants her far less autonomy than Shrek is given. At least at first.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/TheBoyWhoCriedWerewolf'': Downplayed. After Jordan becomes a werewolf, she gains a lot of confidence, athletic ability, and even the ability to see without her glasses. However, she laments that no boy will want a snarling, hairy werewolf for a girlfriend. Her brother, Hunter, insists that he knows ''several'' guys who would want to date her.
%%* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'': Mystique mentions that she has faced many woes because of her ability to change her appearance, this has made her TheDragon to Magneto, only strengthening her confidence and resolve to fight humans and support to further Magneto's plans. However, once abandoned by Magneto because of losing her ability in defence of his, she turns on him in service to normal humans.
%% Questionable how much Mystique's problems are just being a mutant. Plus, not animal based.
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[[folder:Literature]]
%%* ''Literature/TheAbusedWerewolfRescueGroup,'': it's mentioned that [[MagicalSeventhSon seventh sons]] in certain families become werewolves [[PubertySuperpower at puberty]], but seemingly not daughters.[[note]]This is based on the South American legend of the ''lobisomem''.[[/note]]
%% AWRG might fit, but someone more familiar with the source material needs to clarify
* ''Literature/BloodAndChocolate1997'': The female werewolf who wins the '[[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Bitches Dance]]' is supposed to become the new Alpha's mate. Vivian already has a human boyfriend and thus doesn't want to do this.
* ''{{Literature/Discworld}}'':
** Angua's narration often mentions her transformation in the broader context of her being the only woman in the Watch (at least until female dwarfs start openly dressing female) and likening it to MenstrualMenace, but also mentions problems like the nagging feeling she should be wearing three bras.
** Sally the vampire also mentions turning into a cloud of bats is more of a problem for her than for a man since she ends up naked afterwards.
* ''Literature/LonelyWerewolfGirl'': a whole family of female werewolves find it impossible to date; one becomes so desperate he starts dating a [[DatingCatwoman werewolf hunter]].
* ''Literature/MercyThompson'': Whilst it's perfectly possible for women to become werewolves (and the series features a number of prominent examples, most notably [[TheEmpath Anna Cornick]] the protagonist of the spin off Alpha and Omega), due the fact that inverse becoming a werewolf requires having your body ravaged to the point that if you don't turn your die and the transformation itself is extremely agonising, by nature the vast majority who survive are men. Case point Adam Hauptman's pack and the thus the entire Columbia Basin werewolf population (which is considered quite large by their standards) only has three female members. Due to their rarity female werewolves are highly prized, with packs even having been known to go to war to induct them into their membership. They likewise aren't able to hold rank in their own right (regardless of how dominant or powerful they are) being forced to share the status of their mate.
* ''Literature/TheOtherworld'': Elena is the only female werewolf, due to having been bitten by Clay. Not only did this cause massive problems in her and Clay's romantic relationship, but makes her a target for "mutts," non-Pack werewolves who want to possess the only female werewolf in existence.
* ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'': Certain families among [[MagicalNativeAmerican the Quileute tribe]] have werewolves, a trait which has always passed from father to son. The Clearwaters knew that this might one day be an issue for their son, but when their older daughter Leah transformed, it was enough to give her father a heart attack. She's the only female werewolf, though, and why she inherited it remains unexplained.[[note]]The stress seeing this was what prompted the son, Seth, to have ''his'' first change as well.[[/note]]
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[[folder:Live-Action Series]]
* ''Series/{{Bitten}}'': The whole premise of the show is that the protagonist, Elena Michaels, is the world's only female werewolf. Thus, she is inherently weaker than most any other werewolf. Also, given that the werewolves have no taboo against nudity and she is the only female...
* Discussed in an episode of ''Series/NightCourt2023'', where one of the defendants on the docket is a self-proclaimed female werewolf accused of biting people, who takes offense when the court refuses to accept her defense that she was simply following her lupine instincts. She laments that it's hard enough being recognized as a werewolf by other werewolves, as most of them are men and they apparently have long refused to admit that there are female werewolves as well.
* Joked about in ''Series/TeenWolf'', even as it seems female werewolves don't actually suffer any additional consequences or stigma from male werewolves. When [[spoiler:Peter]] talks about having bitten Lydia to Stiles, and thus Lydia possibly turning into a werewolf, Stiles notes that once a month she might try and rip his throat out. [[spoiler:Peter]] shrugs and says "Well, since she's a woman. . . twice a month." Later, Derek informs his newly-bitten wolf Erica, on the night of the full moon, "you're going to want to kill anything you can find." Erica quips back "Good thing I had my period last week, then."
* ''Series/{{Wednesday}}'': In something of a TropeNamer, the series involves primarily the title character and her roommate at the Evermore academy, but other characters do possess shapeshifting abilities.
** With Wednesday herself, it is invoked and deconstructed. First by being named that way after a song, "Wednesday's child is full of woe" as discussed by her mother. And while she doesn't shapeshift, she remains resolute and true to herself and pursues the investigation of the mysteries at the Evermore with intensity. She is quite apart from the rest of the school staff and students. Her aversion to friendships, authority and even color gets her into a lot of trouble.
** Everything with Enid is played straight, though she cannot turn into a werewolf just yet until the very end of Season 1 -- even on a full moon like the rest of the werewolf students, it makes her conflicted because her mother wishes it for her more than anything, to lengths of lycanthropy conversion summer camps and counseling, this makes it a big issue that only serves to frustrate Enid into embarrassment of being a late bloomer.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'':
** Black Furies are exclusively female, aside from a few metis males, due to the will of Pegasus and many members being {{Straw Feminist}}s. Thus, while all tribes do not have enough members, this increased restriction further decreases the number of Furies in the world.
** Female Kinfolk may not be able to turn into werecreatures, but due to them being more likely to give birth to future shapeshifters, they are often forced to be bred by those they do not choose.
** Due to the supernatural taboo prohibiting two werewolves mating, not only doing so guarantees the female will get pregnant with a metis baby, but for the last few months of the pregnancy she has to maintain the warform of Crinos to handle such a baby coming to term, and the birthing process can be rather bloody, with the inherent healing ability of being a Garou the only reason the female has any hope of surviving the birthing process. Even if she survives, she bears the stigma of bearing an automatically-sterile metis instead of a baby that could one day reproduce.
** One short story features a female werewolf training to be a warrior. A werewolf's role in their society is determined by the phase of the moon they were born under, and those born under the full moon are Ahroun, or warriors. It's soon revealed that she's a runaway from the Get of Fenris tribe, and this subsection of the Tribe believes Fenris "does not allow the bitches of the Tribe to be warriors," and she ran away because she knew the claim that she was born under the crescent moon, making her a Theurge, was false. The matter is settled by the spirit of Fenris being summoned and validating her as being born under the full moon. The Get still rejects her, but the Children of Gaia Tribe welcome and adopt her.[[note]]Often, disinfected female Get join the aforementioned Black Furies.[[/note]]
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'': Kirara actually began life as a cat before she became a {{Nekomata}}. In addition to learning how to deal with life as a human, she is also having to learn how to be female, especially in how she dresses. She was such a [[RummageSaleReject fashion disaster]] that the fashion designer Chiori made her a special outfit for fear that when Kirara left her shop that people would think Kirara's "fashion" was indicative of Chiori's outfits.
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[[folder:Web Videos]]
* ''WebVideo/PopCrossStudios'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRb5CZ37grA Redemption of the Were-Jaguar]] [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructs this trope]] with the titular were-jaguar, Vasilia Kuznet. Despite projecting an image of herself as a "tall, confident and gorgeous" woman (which, for the most part, she ''is''), she secretly harbours deep shame at having been bitten and turned by another were-jaguar that she killed [[LittleMissBadass at the age of five]]. Early on, she used to transform uncontrollably and attack her family and neighbours, so an ashamed Vasilia tries [[HideYourOtherness hiding it]] from her friends, and ''especially'' her boyfriend Heath. So, upon arriving in another dimension which leaves Vasilia in a ShapeshifterModeLock, she panics and tries desperately to find a way to get them all home without giving her secret away. On top of that stress, Vasilia has to work alongside the [[CreatureHunterOrganisation Van Helsing family]], whose ward, Gangadharan, treats her with [[VanHelsingHateCrimes unwarranted suspicion]], which makes her angry enough to feel tempted to lose control and lash out. But as Gangadharan points out, [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse her past woes don't justify her secretive behaviour]]:
-->'''Gangadharan:''' You claim ''[[TheCynic I]]'' have trust issues, and yet, if you truly have control over this form and all its power, why would you not be constantly turning into it?
-->'''Vasilia:''' ''[[TranquilFury Because]]'' I get enough judgment from family for it after years of ''not'' having control! Friends need not know about were-jaguar form, even if I do have control now!
-->'''Gangadharan:''' ''[[JerkassHasAPoint Only further emphasizing my point!]]'' Either you ''don't'' have as much control as you claim, and avoid turning to conceal that fact, or you ''do'' have full control, as you say, and don't trust your friends to be accepting of your... ''more fanged side''. So, ''don't'' lecture ''me'' about trust, because you're either a liar... ''Or a '''[[YouAreWhatYouHate hypocrite]].'''''
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As one sees, ''Woes of Wife-Were-Things Weren't Wholly Whimsical''.
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