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{{quote|''"[[That Makes Me Feel Angry|That makes me angry]], and [[Third Person Person|when Dr. Evil gets angry]], Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset. And when Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset... people '''DIE!'''"''|'''Dr. Evil''', ''[[Austin Powers]]: International Man of Mystery''}}
In an [[Evil Counterpart|evil contrast]] to how much [[Heroes Love Dogs]], [[Diabolical Mastermind
Why do bad guys like cats? Maybe because [[Cats Are Mean]] -- [[Predators Are Mean|they kill birds and mice, just so they can offer you the corpse]]. Cats are lap-sized and perfect to pet while scheming. Or maybe it's because cats also (reputedly) believe they are entitled to be worshipped and revered by humans, or deserve to [[Take Over the World]] themselves. Dogs are faithful and loyal, but cats are fickle with a superiority complex. Villains and cats just fit. It's the perfect accessory for a [[Card-Carrying Villain]].
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The [[Big Bad]]'s Right-Hand-Cat will have varying degrees of a personality depending on the context of the series. Some will display sentient facial expressions and even an evil laugh, showing a morality in sync with their master's. Some just sit there, emotionless, yawning and purring like any other ordinary pet. Even in animation, the cat will probably never speak, but it will almost always have a name.
This may stem from the tradition that [[All Witches Have Cats]] and often use cats as their [[
In real life, this is almost entirely untrue. Famous cat ''haters'' throughout history have included Caligula, Nero, Bonaparte, Hitler, and Stalin. Oddly, [[Pet the Dog|all of the above were fond of dogs]], perhaps because of their obedient, worshipful nature. (Alternately, for a psychopath terrified of assassination, a German Shepherd is a little more comforting than a tabby.)
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== Anime & Manga ==
* Giovanni with his Persian, from ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]''. For a while, the Team Rocket trio's Meowth from the same series had it as his overriding goal to ''become'' a
* In ''[[Peacemaker Kurogane]]'', after going [[Axe Crazy|crazy]] and [[Depraved Homosexual|gay]], Suzu is depicted as having a fondness for cats.
* Djibril pets his black cat in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny]]''.
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== Films -- Animation ==
* In Disney's version of ''[[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]]'', Cinderella's stepmother has a cat
* Junkman in the ''[[The Incredible Crash Dummies]]'' (a 1993 half-hour CG movie) has the Hubcat.
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== Literature ==
* In 1956, even before Blofeld made it cool, back in the original book of ''[[The Hundred and One Dalmatians]]'', Cruella de Vil had a white Persian cat, as opposed to the heroic dog-loving Dearlys. When they actually met the cat, Pongo and <s>Perdita</s> Missis found she was actually nice (we had already learned of Cruella's drowning of her
* In the ''[[1632]]'' series, it is briefly established that Richelieu likes cats after he is given a Siamese kitten as a diplomatic gift and plays with it.
* In Yulia Latynina's ''Inhuman'', when Mehmed Lee "Eat-Alive" Trastamara (an incredibly old, infamous man, the right-hand of the [[Evil Overlord]] that founded the empire, the inventor of many nasty viruses, as well as a brainwashing symbiont, and the great-grandfather of the [[Villain Protagonist]] who comes to him for advice) finally appears in the flesh, he is sitting in a chair with a big white and red cat resting in his lap. Despite being both ancient and retired, "Eat-Alive" still has a hand in almost everything that happens in the Human Empire and more, {{spoiler|to the extent of eventually organising a successful coup d'etat and establishing himself as the most adroit and savvy opponent of the alien conspiracy}}. Let's just say, he ''earned'' that cat.
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== Western Animation ==
* Mildly [[The Parody|parodied]] in ''[[Danny Phantom]]'', to the point of [[Running Gag]] status. In several episodes of the first two seasons, Danny encourages his arch enemy, Vlad, to get a cat, to which he usually gives an emphatic "No!", but lo and behold, the second episode of the third season had him sitting in his study,
* Even Angelica, the [[Devil in Plain Sight]] on ''[[Rugrats]]'', has a pet cat named Fluffy.
* Skeletor with Panthor, from ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]''. Though this was somewhat reversed in that it was the cat who carried Skeletor, rather than the other way around.
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== Films -- Animation ==
* Ratigan from ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]'' has a white cat, Felicia, do some of his dirty work for
* On ''[[Bolt]]'', the villain of the [[Show Within a Show]] has two cats. The actors who play them love to torment Bolt (who thinks the show is real) by going to his trailer and make threats in character. After Bolt is lost, he mistakes stray alley cat Mittens for one of the Right-Hand Cats and tries to get her to take him back.
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* Mob big shot Monk Eastman was fond of cats and pigeons and ran a pet store.
{{quote|"I like de kits and boids. I'll beat up any guy dat gets gay wit' a kit or a boid in my neck of de woods." }}
* [[Rush Limbaugh]] has not only owned cats, but has also had <ref>Punkin, an Abyssinian who would likely have the post due to seniority</ref> featured in [[PSA
* 4chan users, often perceived as somewhere between [[Chaotic Neutral]] and [[Chaotic Evil]], are also associated with fondness for cats, even to the point where some 4chan users [[Even Evil Has Standards|helped track down cat abusers]]. The notion that 4channers care more about abused cats than about abused humans is [[media:
* Deadmau5, a Canadian house artist popular for performing with a giant mouse head on, is very fond of his cat, Professor Meowingtons, going so far as to name one of his tours the Meowingtons Hax Tour.
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