Cats Are Mean: Difference between revisions

*** Neko-Zero takes offense to the implication that he would ever do anything unwittingly!

* Used in ''[[Outlaw Star]]'': The Pirate girl with two cats tries to kill the crew {{spoiler|after unknowingly befriending their young second-in-command}}.

* In ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'', Gokudera's animal box weapon, a wild cat named Uri, is shown to have a horrible temper, constantly scratching and biting him.

* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' has an episode where Luna, a talking cat, is menaced by a horde of non-talking cats. A big fat cat saves her and develops a crush on her, but from there, things get complicated; the other non-talking cats are clearly jerkoffs, though.

* One of [[Desu Des Brigade|JesuOtaku's]] cats (the calico) isn't very friendly, as seen in the review for ''[[Fruits Basket]]''.

* In the ''[[LG15: the resistance]]'' video "Feline Feariousness", Reed rants about how cats are evil, manipulative, and steal souls, and finishes by urging viewers to "Get rid of your cat, before your cat gets rid of you!"

* [[Memetic Mutation|Ceiling Cat is watching you masturbate]].

* There is an internet meme which shows how a cat and a dog view their respective existences. The cat carefully plots revenge on and escape from its human captors. Meanwhile, the dog will say things like "[[Dogs Are Dumb|Walk! YAY! Food! YAY! Pet! YAY! Outside! YAY!]]"

** The comics version of Garfield is an outright bastard about killing spiders, though. This may be intentionally deconstructing the Cats Are Mean trope, though, since most humans have no compunction about acting the exact same way toward arthropod vermin.

*** There have also been a few instances in the comics where Garfield devoured sentient, talking houseplants while they begged for mercy. At least the spiders can run away...

* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' condensed this entire trope into one thirty-second skit: a cat, sitting at the top of a staircase, deliberately trips its owner. Big, flashing letters declare "Cats Are Jerks". We then get the tripping in super slo-motion, just to make the point.

** In a much later skit, several officials discuss why there was a cat at many disasters such as Kennedy's assassination and Hurricane Katrina (and also the above sketch). They conclude that they are being manipulated by cats. When one asks, "what can we do?", the scientist reveals himself as a cat, responds "YOU CAN DO NOTHING!", and shoots them all. Then a big "Cats are Jerks" pops up.

* Subverted with Bagheera from ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book]]'', though this is hardly Disney's invention.

* Walt's story men were able to get a real feline protagonist into ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]]''. True, Figaro was a cute, unrealistically obedient kitten who took a lot of crap from an old man and a goldfish, but still, good cat!

** On the other hand, ''Pinocchio'' also has Gideon, a mute but otherwise very anthropomorphic cat who tries his best to help the evil talking fox J. Worthington Foulfellow in his schemes to encourage children to be irresponsible and endanger themselves. But Gideon is not so much actually mean as just dumb.

* ''[[Oliver and Company]]'' strongly subverts this (if not inverts it) with Oliver the cat portrayed primarily as [[The Woobie]], with probably the fewest wrongdoings of any character, with the possible exception of Jenny, another woobie. Even questionable morality is mostly on the part of the dogs and, of course, [[Humans Are Bastards|the human characters]] (except Jenny). This approach is very unusual for a Disney movie.

* In ''[[The Hundred and One Dalmatians]]'' (the novel upon which [[101 Dalmatians|the Disney movie]] is based), Cruella de Vil's cat is portrayed as a sympathetic character who helps the dogs save their puppies and trashes her owner's fur collection as revenge for Cruella killing her kittens. In addition, the colonel has a female cat lieutenant, Willow (changed to the male Sgt. Tibbs in the film, who was obviously ready to die protecting the puppies. Fortunately Pongo and Perdita arrive in a classic [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment to save the day.).

* In the ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' series, the treecats of Sphinx are sentient, empathically bonded to their humans, loyal to a fault, and fully capable of obliterating anything that dares threaten them or their human charges. (Nimitz, Honor's treecat, sees enemies in two forms: those that have been properly dealt with and those that are still alive.)

** [[Reasonable Authority Figure|Professor]] [[Good Is Not Nice|McGonagall]] is a cat Animagus.

* Inversion: In R.A. Salvatore's ''Drizzt'' books, the heroic magical panther Guenhyvar is often seen fighting large and nasty canine monsters.