Cats Are Mean: Difference between revisions

*** Said Persian may or may not count. While he did try to force Meowth to rejoin his gang, he took the female Meowth in when her owner abandoned her and, prior to all this, gave Meowth a fish when he was so hungry he thought baseballs were food.

** Mewtwo was rather nasty for a while during ''[[Pokémon: The First Movie|Pokémon the First Movie]]''. He tried to cause [[The End of the World as We Know It]]. Mewtwo was more of a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]], though. He simply felt clones were being oppressed and wanted to start war against the natural-born Pokémon. Likewise, Mew (Yes, ''[[Cute Kitten|Mew]]'') was just as bad since (in the Japanese version) it believed that Mewtwo was [[Fantastic Racism|inferior]] and shouldn't be allowed to live just because he was a clone. Neither are evil, though, just ''very'' stubborn in their beliefs. The dub alters the two to represent a more [[Black and White Morality]], with Mewtwo being more knowingly malicious and Mew's motives being more benevolent.

** Others have also used Shampoo's transformation to their advantage - namely, as an easy way to torment Ranma. Genma uses her to frighten Ranma so he can't beat the old bastard up in the first Nekoken story. Akane uses Shampoo's transformation to force Ranma into agreeing to throw his second official duel with Mousse in the manga...and in an anime-exclusive OAV, she splashes Shampoo so that Ranma will run headfirst into a wall with her because Shampoo mockingly pointed out that Akane didn't have the skills to face the OAV's [[Villain of the Week]].

* Due to her past experience of being toyed around by a cat and having watched too many 'dog' detective TV series (whereas a cat is often the villain), in the words of Shinkuu, ''"Cats are enemies of all [[Rozen Maiden]]!"''

* ''[[All Creatures Great and Small]]'' has Boris, a cat who never got inoculated without a fight.

* While he's more a [[Chaotic Neutral]] poster child, The Cat from ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' can be callous, self-serving, greedy, and foolish.

* Data from ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' has a cat that rather skirts the line. Spot is very close to Data, and he manages to show her quite a bit of affection in his own muted way, having programmed and analyzed hundreds of meals into the replicator for her. While she often gets into trouble by somehow escaping Data's room, she's still very close to her owner. Around other members of the Enterprise's crew, however, she's infamously ill-tempered, scratching and hissing at anyone who gets close to her.

** Anyone but ''her'' humanoid, that is. A lot of cats latch onto a person or couple of people, and think of anyone else as an invader.

* The hovercat from ''[[Water Human]]''. As the name implies, it's an unholy union of cat and hovercraft which speaks in [[Creepy Monotone]]. And crushes people.

* [http://trollcats.com/ Trollcats] is pretty much [[Cats Are Mean]] [[X Meets Y|meets]] [[Refuge in Audacity]].

 

== Western Animation ==

** ''[[Lady and the Tramp]]'' has the twin evil Siamese cats who wreck the house, try to steal milk from the baby, and then frame Lady for all of it when she tries to stop them, and [[Karma Houdini|they don't even get a comeuppance]]. By contrast, the worst the dogs (even the ones in the Pound) seem to muster up is roguish and/or misunderstood.

** Lady Tremaine's cat, [[Obviously Evil|Lucifer]], from the Disney version of ''[[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]]''. Not only does he try to eat the titular heroine's mice friends, he even delights in tormenting poor Cinderella herself, particularly if you note ''Cinderella III'', where he is turned human and loves the idea of sending Cinderella to her doom.

** Honest John's feline stooge, Gideon, in the Disney version of ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]]''. At least once, he tries to hit Pinocchio on the head with a mallet, only to be stopped by the fox, who thinks that the cat's idea is too crude.

** One of the two [[Big Bad|big bads]] in ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' is feline crime boss Fat Cat. One of his henchmen, Mepps, is also a cat. In the pilot episode, Fat Cat and his main henchmen deal with the Siamese Twins, a pair of felines that scare even him. Also, when Gadget becomes a human's good luck charm (or so he thinks), his cat becomes jealous enough to kill, her being his ''previous'' charm.