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* In ''The Freshman'', an underground restaurant serves jaded gourmands meals which are specifically {{spoiler|(but not really; it's a scam, and they're actually served oddly-seasoned supermarket meats)}} made from endangered species. While actual suffering on the animals' part isn't guaranteed, the diners pay extra when assured the animal they're eating is the [[Last of His Kind]].
* [[Despicable Me|Gru]] has a ''panda'' skin in his living room. Of course, the panda ''could'' have died of natural causes, but that's unlikely.
* ''[[The Pirates! inIn Anan Adventure Withwith Scientists (Animation)!|The Pirates in An Adventure With Scientists]]'' makes {{spoiler|Queen Victoria}} leader of a secret society of powerful people who {{spoiler|eat rare animals to make them extinct and/or show off how exotic a meal they can acquire}}.
 
== Literature ==
 
* Named for Cruella de Vil, the villain of ''[[The Hundred and One Dalmatians]]'' (the basis for the Disney movie ''[[101 Dalmatians (Disney)|One Hundred and One Dalmatians]]''). In the book, she drowns any kittens her cat bears, and she only keeps her cat alive for the money the cat is worth (pedigree, but the kittens are fathered by alley cats).
* Esme Squalor, a [[Fashion Victim Villain]] from ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'', has a fur coat specified to be made from animals killed in particularly nasty ways (although she probably didn't create it herself).
* ''[[The Glove of Darth Vader]]'' is all over this. Trioculus takes a break from pursuing our heroes to hunt animals.
* The Extinctionists in the sixth [[Artemis Fowl (Literature)|Artemis Fowl]] book, ''The Time Parodox'', act like this. They are described as haters of animals that they feel are useless to humans, and they wear expensive fur coats and other animal skin clothing. In a novel twist, some are described as hating animals so much that they are vegetarians and will not eat animals. "How could I sully my body by ingesting such a disgusting creature?"
* The High Horse, in Graham Masterton's ''Night Wars'', is a particularly [[Squick|squicky]] example of this trope (then again, it's ''[[Gorn|Masterton]]''). He wears a cape of live animals sewn together...and [[Meaningful Name|rides three horses stacked on top of each other and fastened by bolts]].
* The [[Neil Gaiman]] short story "Sunbird" follows a society of epicureans that pursues only the rarest meals. They don't seem to delight in suffering, but do take pride in the fact that they may be eating something right off the face of the earth. {{spoiler|Trying to sample phoenix doesn't go as they expect...}}
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== Live Action Television ==
 
* The two stars of ''[[Absolutely Fabulous (TV)|Absolutely Fabulous]]'' did a video where they portrayed women who wear fur as outright bloodthirsty.
* Mimi from ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'' probably doesn't like animal suffering per se, but in one episode she insists that any cosmetic product she uses has to be "strong enough to blind a rabbit" when somebody challenges the use of an animal-testing brand.
* Not animal suffering (except that [[Captain Obvious|humans are animals]]), but on ''[[Scrubs (TV)|Scrubs]]'', some of Elliot's makeup is [[Stealth Pun|made of baby foreskins]]. Oddly, this is a case of [[Truth in Television]] for many cosmetics, even cruelty-free ones because [[South Park|PETA doesn't care about people]].
* The Endangered Species Club from ''[[The Goodies (TV)|The Goodies]]'' episode "Dodonuts". They only hunt endangered species because their small numbers make them hard to find. Common species of animals and birds are too abundant and therefore too easy to hunt.
 
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== Tabletop Games ==
 
* Caym, demon prince of animals, and his servants in ''[[In Nomine Satanis /Magna Veritas (Tabletop Game)|In Nomine Satanis Magna Veritas]]''. He's absent from the American version ''[[In Nomine (Tabletop Game)|In Nomine]]''.
 
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* ''[[Captain Planet]]'' should be all over this trope like a [[Hurricane of Puns]], but it only rarely covers this. Looten Plunder had a couple episodes, like poaching elephants.
* ''[[The Simpsons]]''
** Mr. Burns in the episode "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds", which was directly inspired by Cruella de Vil, the villain of ''[[101 Dalmatians (Disney)|One Hundred and One Dalmatians]]''.
** Burns in the episode where he makes recycling evil. By using plastic soda rings as fishing nets.
** Even Krusty isn't above this. One episode has him don a coat made from a panda, boots made from its cubs, and mittens made from monkey heads.
{{quote| '''Krusty:''' Yep, I'm a real class act.}}
* ''[[DextersDexter's Laboratory]]'' - The villain Peltra from the episode "Dial "M" For "Monkey". She collects pelts.
* ''[[Pound Puppies]]'' - Katrina Stoneheart from the 1980's cartoon was a blatant ripoff of Cruella De Vil. She, too, wanted to make a fur coat out of the title dogs, and even had a fantasy sequence where she imagines herself dressed in a fur coat made from patches of the main characters' fur.
* ''[[Megamind]]'': "OH! I'm ''shaking'' in my ''custom Baby Seal Leather Boots!''"
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