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11	When it comes to animal symbolism, a major association of felines is with sex. Any feline-themed character is likely to be very sexually attractive and probably the [[MsFanservice most sexualized character in the work]]. This can range from actual FunnyAnimal cats, to characters who are to some degree feline-human [[HalfHumanHybrid hybrids]] or [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent shifters]], to alien or fantasy CatFolk, to entirely human characters who have a cat theme. Because MostWritersAreMale, this usually applies to female characters, although there are male examples.
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13	It's easy to see why: [[FemaleFelineMaleMutt cat ownership and feline traits have been historically associated with women]] (although in RealLife an equal number of men and women own cats). Many things men found attractive in women were projected onto cats. They are viewed as graceful, gymnastic, and flexible; they have a mercurial temperament; if they aren't neutered, they make it obvious to everyone around when they're in heat, and even when not in heat, they have no shame in their love of being petted and stroked. It can't be a coincidence that "sex kitten" rapidly became a term for female sex symbols. [[note]]Big cats such as tigers and [[KingOfBeasts lions]], however, are seen as masculine felines instead due to their stocky builds and powerful muscles. They are thus associated more often with {{Hunk}}s or {{Amazonian Beaut\|y}}ies.[[/note]]
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15	Note that for this to be the case, the character's sexiness and feline associations must both be unusual within the work -- if a work has a cast made up mostly of anthropomorphic cats, [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs don't add the sexy one]]. It also has to be the case ''within the work'', so SelfFanservice of a character who happens to be a feline but isn't particularly sexualized in canon — such as, say, Blaze from the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' series — doesn't count.
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17	There is a very strong overlap with ClassyCatBurglar. See also CatGirl, although they vary in their degree of sexualisation, with some being platonically "[[{{Moe}} cute]]". Compare to CoolCat.
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19	See also FoxyVixen for this trope's canid counterpart, as well as SnakesAreSexy and SeductiveSpider.
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22	!!Examples:
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25	[[folder:Advertising]]
26	* Deconstructed with ''Advertising/BiggieBear'''s Miss Pussycat -- she's the only girl, and looks rather nice enough. Enough for the titular character [[RapeAsDrama to sexually assault her]].
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29	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
30	* Yoruichi from ''Anime/{{Bleach}}'' is a sexy tanned kunoichi who can turn into a black cat and [[ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing would wind up naked when reverting to her human form]].
31	* Yukari Kotozume aka Cure Macaron from ''Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode'' who has a cat motif. She is portrayed as the most attractive member of the group to the point that EvenTheGirlsWantHer. She can also come off flirtatious to others. Even her Cure outfit is out there compare to the other's outfits.
32	* In ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', Shampoo is a beautiful Chinese warrior woman who aggressively pursues the protagonist, and turns into a cat whenever splashed with cold water.
33	* ''Manga/FairyTail'': Erza's kitty-obsessed childhood friend Milliana began sporting an extremely revealing outfit and sexy attitude after she [[SheIsAllGrownUp went through adolescence]] during the first Time Skip.
34	* Aisha Clanclan from ''Manga/OutlawStar'', a member of a race of catlike aliens, fits snugly into this trope.
35	* ''Manga/SoulEater'': Blair is a magic cat who can shapeshift into a human. In human form she's a woman who dresses very skimpily and flirts with any man she meets. (In one GenderBender story where she's temporarily changed into a man, she's just as sexy and sexually-active.)
36	* Obi in ''Manga/SnowWhiteWithTheRedHair'' has a restrained cat theme and is a sexy dude.
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39	[[folder:Comic Books]]
40	* ''ComicBook/{{Blacksad}}'':
41	** Natalia Wilford, Alma Meyer, Luanne Eva Lange and Donna Blacksad. All of whom fit this trope to a T. They are all drawn as conventionally attractive CatFolk, with even Blacksad himself being presented as a {{Hunk}} on occasion, like the FunnyBackgroundEvent with all the boyfriends arguing with their girlfriends for looking at him.
42	** Blacksad and Weekly watch a leopard exotic dancer in the opening of ''A Silent Hell''.
43	* ''Franchise/TheDCU'':
44	** The TropeCodifier in many ways is Selina Kyle a.k.a. ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}, a morally ambiguous villain-turned-(anti)hero and arguably '''the''' MsFanservice of the whole DC universe. She's a ClassyCatBurglar and FemmeFatale who serves as an occasional ally and love interest for Batman himself, while her outfit tends to be some version of a SpyCatsuit or even having her DressedLikeADominatrix.
45	** On the male side, the villain Catman spent decades as something of a C-list joke... until Creator/GailSimone got her hands on him in ''ComicBook/SecretSix'' and [[AuthorAppeal reinvented him]] as a badass, [[WalkingShirtlessScene frequently shirtless]], [[GuyOnGuyIsHot bisexual]] AntiVillain.
46	** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' villain Cheetah has been this at times. Her [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] version was a beautiful BadassNormal woman in a fur-print catsuit with hand and foot claws. Later versions have made her a feline-human hybrid, sometimes sexy but sometimes more bestial and uncanny-looking.
47	* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'':
48	** Starfire is a downplayed example. She's an alien whose species evolved from cat-like creatures and she's a beautiful, flirtatious, InnocentFanserviceGirl in a skimpy costume who became notorious by being one of the first heroic characters to have non-marital sex in a DC comic. However, there's relatively little feline about her appearance or personality, and the "evolved from cats" thing is rarely mentioned.
49	** Jade Nguyen, a.k.a Cheshire, is a flirtatious assassin who takes her alias from the Cheshire Cat of ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland''. She tends to wear revealing outfits that show off her body and has been known to use her looks to her advantage. Her portrayal in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' plays up the cat motif even further by giving her a cat mask and she retains the seductive personality in her interactions with [[spoiler:Will Harper]].
50	* Creator/MarvelComics has Catwoman's AlternateCompanyEquivalent ComicBook/{{Black Cat\|MarvelComics}}, and [[ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers Tigra]], a furry half-feline heroine in a bikini with definite animal instincts who provides the current page image.
51	* The heroine of the PornWithPlot pioneering adult furry comic ''ComicBook/OmahaTheCatDancer'' is an anthropomorphic feline stripper with frequent on panel nudity and sex scenes.
52	* Parodied in ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'' with Ocelotina, a cat-themed purported supervillainess who is basically an in-universe porn star.
53	* The ''ComicBook/AngelIDW'' post-show comics introduced an assassin named Dez, a [[HumanityEnsues female jaguar given the magical ability to shapeshift into a human]]. She was depicted as a ShamelessFanserviceGirl with many nude scenes.
54	* In ''ComicBook/TheWickedAndTheDivine'', Sakhmet, who incarnates the Egyptian CatGirl war goddess, is the most sexualised and sexually active of all the gods, hardly caring for anything except physical pleasure.
55	* ''ComicBook/{{Flare}}'' has Tigress, whose usual {{Stripperific}} tiger-print costume includes thigh boots and fingerless gloves. She once claimed to have been worshiped in ancient Egypt as the goddess Bast.
56	* ''ComicBook/{{Shakara}}'' featured a minor female character from a species of CatFolk who tries to betray the assassin Valentine D'Eath after [[FemmeFatale sleeping with him]].
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60	* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': In a series loaded with sexualized characters, [[CatGirl Fiora the forest witch]] still manages to stand out due to her mischievous nature, [[LovableSexManiac unbridled sex drive]], frequent and unashamed use of magic in [[PowerPerversionPotential lewdly-unintended ways]], and her [[TokenEvilTeammate gray morality]] letting her get away with far more lecherous behaviors than other good-aligned characters.
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63	[[folder:Film -- Animated]]
64	* The ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'' series and spin-offs portray the Puss in Boots as a DashingHispanic who likes to flirt with women, while Kitty Softpaws is characterized as a seductive ClassyCatBurglar.
65	* Sawyer, the feline female character from ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance''. Though not heavily sexualised, she does boast a rather curvaceous body, is a very skilled dancer and is the love interest to Danny.
66	* ''WesternAnimation/ElArca'' has Panthy, a FemmeFatale panther club singer with an ImpossibleHourglassFigure.
67	* ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'': Captain Amelia is the most noticeably feminine character in the cast while being a member of the CatFolk, with much emphasis on her agility and [[IAmVeryBritish accent]]. She eventually becomes a love interest for [[{{Dogface}} Doctor Doppler]] and marries him by the end.
68	* ''WesternAnimation/DogtanianAndTheThreeMuskehounds2021'': As in the original series (see below) Milady de Winter. In fact, even more so, since she spends most of her action scenes in [[SpyCatsuit a tight leather catsuit]], rather than her usual cloak.
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71	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
72	* All of the major film versions of Catwoman -- in ''Film/BatmanReturns'', ''Film/Catwoman2004'',''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', and ''Film/TheBatman2022'' -- were at least intended to be MsFanservice.
73	* ''Film/{{Cats}}'' tried this. Heavy emphasis on [[FetishRetardant "tried."]]
74	* ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'' featured a humanoid feline alien woman in two scenes working as an exotic dancer at a seedy tavern on Paradise.
75	* The famous 1942 horror film ''Film/CatPeople'' expresses a major theme of [[MyGirlIsNotASlut fear of female sexuality]] in the story of a woman who ([[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane rightly or wrongly]]) believes that she will shift into a killer big cat if she becomes sexually active. It was remade in 1982 under the same title, and made much less ambiguous and much more graphically sexual.
76	* Animala in the BMovie parody ''Film/TheLostSkeletonOfCadavra'' and sequel. [[InformedAttribute Supposedly]] she's a [[LegoGenetics mix of four different animals]], none of them cats, but is basically an attractive actress in a leotard with clawed gloves who goes around purring in a sensual manner. "Rowrr..."
77	* ''Film/{{Monkeybone}}'': Miss Kitty, the CatGirl waitress who works in Down Town. She's a LittleBitBeastly character (with cat ears, a nose, whiskers, and a tail) who dresses in a tight black and gold outfit, and she's sympathetic to the protagonist's desire to return home throughout the film. Before disappearing for the ending, she gives the characters a rough FurryReminder by [[spoiler: devouring the sapient Rat who enslaves the protagonist.]]
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80	[[folder:Literature]]
81	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': When Nanny Ogg's cat Greebo is at times magically transformed into a human, he is described as a battle-scarred HellBentForLeather tough guy exuding enough [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys bad-boy sexuality]] to leave any non-lesbian woman who sees him practically [[{{Pun}} catatonic]].
82	* In the ''Literature/OctoberDaye'' books, Tybalt is the king of the local Court of Cats and a cat shifter. When he is first introduced, he is explicitly described as "basically walking sex appeal". [[FemaleGaze Much attention]] is paid to how he looks in tight leather pants.
83	* There's a very dark example in various works by the British SF writer Richard Calder, starting with the ''Dead Girls[=/=]Dead Boys[=/=]Dead Things'' trilogy. "Catgirls" in them are the result of a human mutation that makes them beautiful, instinctive and malicious {{Femme Fatale}}s. They are also intensely masochistic, to the point of seeking out and enjoying their own QuestionableConsent sexual murders.
84	* The were-leopards of ''Literature/CityOfDevils'' are all extraordinarily good looking and ooze sex appeal. Unfortunately for everyone else, they transform into huge, hungry felines when they're aroused, and pretty much anything gets them feeling frisky.
85	* Nyara in ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' was gradually transformed into a sexy cat girl by her [[AbusiveParents sorcerer father]], who used her to test changes he then made on himself, though ''he'' styled himself after a lynx. Nyara slinks and purrs her words and is ordered to GoSeduceMyArchnemesis, but with HeroicWillpower manages to resist his orders and switch sides. In the aftermath of the first book, she runs away into the wilderness not wanting to be controlled or coerced by anyone. [[BigGood Need]] goes with her and spends several months teaching her and undoing those changes that Nyara really hates, taking her more into regular CatGirl territory.
86	* In ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'', the game Alfheim Online features a race of cat-like fairies called the Cait Sith, with members of the race bearing [[CatGirl cat ears and tails]]. The only significant characters who are members of the race, Silica and Sinon, are attractive girls who are also part of Kirito's UnwantedHarem.
87	* ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'' has Koneko Toujou's buxom older sister Kuroka. Both of them are [[BakenekoAndNekomata nekomata]].
88	* Eris in ''Literature/CatPlanetCuties'' is a [[BuxomBeautyStandard stacked]] alien CatGirl with [[InnocentFanserviceGirl no nudity taboo]]. When the Catian mothership arrives, it's shown that the rest of her species is similarly sexy and has very liberal ideas regarding nudity, casual sex, and polygamy compared to Japan. Also, they get much of their understanding of Japanese culture from Eris reading [[PornStash Kio's magazines]].
89	* Ashiol of ''Literature/CreatureCourt'' is a shapeshifter with cats as his Court form - he's beautiful, and he ReallyGetsAround, even by the standards of the very sex-happy Court.
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93	* The enhanced physical abilities of the X5 supersoldiers in ''Series/DarkAngel'' come from having some cat DNA in their cocktail, and they're also designed to all be beautiful/handsome. The female X5s experience the feline estrus cycle, going into heat two or three times each year, which proves inconvenient for the series heroine Max in two episodes.
94	* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival Survival]]", Ace's interactions with the feline Cheetah People are highly erotic and blatantly played as a lesbian sexual awakening.
95	* Catwoman in ''Series/Batman1966'' is hot whether she's played by Creator/JulieNewmar, Creator/LeeMeriwether, or Creator/EarthaKitt.
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98	[[folder:Music]]
99	* Music/{{The Cure\|Band}}'s "The Love Cats" consists mostly of a whole string of feline metaphors for sex, including semi-orgasmic cat noises.
100	* The video for the Music/FallOutBoy song "The Take Over, the Break's Over" features several women dressed as cats dancing seductively.
101	* As her artist moniker suggests, Music/DojaCat employs this kind of imagery from time to time, most recently by wearing a cat-face prosthesis at the 2023 Met Gala.
102	* Music/CardiB invokes this in the music video for "Twerk" where she dawns tiger-themed body paint.
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105	[[folder:Mythology and Religion]]
106	* This one's OlderThanDirt. Bastet, an Myth/{{Egyptian\|Mythology}} goddess associated with love and fertility, is usually depicted with the head of a cat (a lioness in earlier depictions, a housecat starting around the Late Period).
107	* Myth/NorseMythology associated the LoveGoddess Freyja with cats.
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111	* While the characters themselves are less human in behavior and fall under NearlyNormalAnimal, most of the costumes in ''{{Theatre/Cats}}'' evoke this, being tight spandex outfits decorated with tabby, calico, or other feline patterns. In addition, most of the female cats wear lipstick and eyeliner. It's especially noteworthy in the "Macavity" number, where two female cats dance seductively while singing it, and in the character of Rum Tum Tugger, who does pelvic thrusts during his song and takes a clear influence from {{Music/Mick Jagger}}.
112	** It's also all but directly stated that [[WhiteDwarfStarlet Grizabella]] may have been this in her youth, as she wears a little black dress and high heels, is more heavily made up than the other cats, is referred to as "the glamour cat", and is implied to have been a prostitute.
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116	* Ankha from ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' is frequently portrayed as this, thanks to MemeticMutation.
117	* Yellow Iris from the little-known Creator/{{Capcom}} side-scroller ''VideoGame/BattleCircuit'' is a curvy CatGirl who wears nothing but a green corset and thick leather belt.
118	* In ''VideoGame/CannonSpike'', level boss Cat Lady Beauty is a sexy woman with a cat-ear-like hairdo and a NavelDeepNeckline, who becomes a giant cat monster when she TurnsRed.
119	* Felicia from ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' is one of ''the'' most notorious video game examples and the TropeCodifier as a whole; a voluptuous CatGirl who is blatantly ''naked'' except for some stripes of white fur that look a bit like a thong bikini.
120	* Kirze from ''VideoGame/KingsRaid'' is a [[CatGirl Cat hybrid]] with an ImpossibleHourglassFigure, has cat-like mannerisms when you speak to her in the inn and her trascendence animations, and her default outfit is a [[OfCorsetsSexy corset]] with a transparent short ShowgirlSkirt and [[ZettaiRyouiki high boots]].
121	* ''{{Franchise/Pokemon}}'' has Meowscarada, the evolved form of Sprigatito and Floragato, which resembles an anthropomorphic feminine looking feline.
122	* In ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves'', Constable Neyla is a secretly DirtyCop and surprise BigBad. She is a tiger who wears a belly-baring tank top and cut-off jeans and uses her sexuality manipulatively, typically via betraying those she gains the trust of. There are also the Arabian belly dancers in ''VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime''.
123	* One of the monster classes recruitable in ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea}}'' is the Nekomata class, a race of sexy Felicia-esque catwomen.
124	* The Kasha boss from ''VideoGame/Nioh2'' takes the form of a feral but still very easy on the eyes cat girl. The fact that she's very buxom and has revealing clothes help a lot.
125	* Ms. Fortune from ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'' is a CatGirl with tan skin, a slender athletic figure, and a very revealing outfit consisting of a short top that barely covers her breasts, tight form-fitting short shorts, and torn leggings that don't even cover her thighs. Of course, the fact that she fights by [[DetachmentCombat gruesomely dismembering and reattaching her limbs]] (which also explains her skimpy outfit) slightly offsets this.
126	* Clawroline from ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand'' is an anthropomorphic leopard lady with [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics long eyelashes, purple eyeshadow, chest fluff that resembles a bust]], and an ''extremely'' exaggerated ImpossibleHourglassFigure. In a ''Kirby'' game, of all places.
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130	* ''WebAnimation/PlanetDolan'': Shima Luan is a pink cat whose buxom form is {{Lampshaded}} from time to time.
131	* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Blake the [[LittleBitBeastly cat faunus]] is noted both in and out of universe to be sexy. Her design is made to be androgynous and form-fitting to be attractive to both sexes and many characters proclaim their attraction to her. She is also the only member of the Team who has a confirmed relationship (albeit a failed one) before the series, and has multiple people interested in her over the course of it, [[spoiler:[[ClosetKey finally becoming an]] OfficialCouple with [[BoisterousBruiser Yang]] in Volume 9]].
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134	[[folder:Western Animation]]
135	* ''WesternAnimation/BugsBunnyBuilders'': In a kid-friendly variation, Penelope Pussycat is depicted in this show as a flamboyant and confident fashionista who speaks with a [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench French accent]].
136	* In ''WesternAnimation/DogtanianAndTheThreeMuskehounds'', a furry children's adaptation of ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'', FemmeFatale Milady Dewinter is one of the few cats in an otherwise mostly-canine cast of characters.
137	* In ''WesternAnimation/AroundTheWorldWithWillyFog'', a furry version of ''Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'' by the same people as ''Dogtanian'', Willy's sophisticatedly sexy love interest, Romy, is a cat.
138	* ''WesternAnimation/HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats'': Cleo is drawn to appear like a humanoid feline with blonde hair, an hourglass figure, and leg warmers. She's such a babe, that in addition to being hit on by multiple neighborhood cats, a human PR agent took one look at her and ''[[SexSells had to]]'' [[MsFanservice have her]] for his catfood company's advertising campaign!
139	* The ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' incarnation of Cheetah is arguably her most attractive design, with a voice to match.
140	* In the "Divorce" episode of the Hungarian series ''Animation/KeremAKovetkezot'', a cat singer performs a song about how sleeping around is better than marriage.
141	* Flora is this in the 4th season of ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' when wearing her Love and Pet pet store [[FanserviceWithASmile uniform]].
142	* ''WesternAnimation/MaoMaoHeroesOfPureHeart'': King Snugglemagne is a rare male version of this trope, being a MachoCamp lion with a foppish personality. Mao Mao counts as well, if only for his deep, masculine voice.
143	* In ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', one of the protagonists is [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugAdrienAgreste Cat Noir]], a cat themed superhero. He's extremely good-looking, a professional male model, and a ChickMagnet in both identities.
144	* Agazza from ''WesternAnimation/RoswellConspiraciesAliensMythsAndLegends''. She's really a [[PuppeteerParasite Vodo'un]], but unlike the others of her kind, she inhabits the body of a sexy humanoid feline alien.
145	* Catra from ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'' is more of an UnkemptBeauty, but Scorpia and Adora both openly show they find her attractive, Gimmer via an ImagineSpot is implied to find her extremely attractive, and after getting to know her for a bit, Bow can't stop gushing about how cute she is. In Season 4, Catra adopts a sleeker look, and wears a tight, figure hugging outfit.
146	* Kitty Katswell from ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy'' is Dudley Puppy's feline partner who has great acrobatics skills along with a nice figure to boot.
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