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* [[Alien Animals]] - for when you want to take an ordinary terrestrial animal and justify its human-like behavior by saying it's just that good at keeping its true nature hidden from humans.
* [[Intelligent Gerbil]] - No, they're really aliens, they just look an awful lot like the animals we know and love.
* [[Half -Human Hybrid]] - We've gotten really, really good with bio-technology. Best used for [[Science Fiction]] works.
 
For the more mundane aspects of your furry setting:
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* [[Carnivore Confusion]] - Carnivores eat meat. Meat comes from animals. Your animals can now talk, so... yeah, you need to come up with a rational solution to this. There's plenty of options.
* [[Cute Monster Girl|Cute Monster Girls]] vs. more realistic treatments of animals.
** If your cast includes lizards and birds, you may want to forgo [[Non -Mammal Mammaries]] for the sake of realism, too.
* [[Cats Are Mean]] / [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]] and similar tropes vs. settings with less [[Fantastic Racism]]. Sometimes these tropes end up applied to other species just because of [[Author Appeal]] (i.e. The author likes cats and/or reptiles and thus makes one the star of the comic, therefore we're ''supposed'' to like them), so pay attention.
* [[Feather Fingers]] - Sometimes it's just easier to give your characters extra hands rather than invoke this trope.
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* [[Hatedom]] - The sooner you accept this, the less it will affect you.
** It's getting better in recent years, though.
* [[Rule Thirty Four34]] - A ridiculous amount of furry porn is already out there, and there are a disproportionate number of furry comics with sexual themes compared to webcomics at large. It's not new (see ''[[Omaha the Cat Dancer (Comic Book)|Omaha the Cat Dancer]]'' for pre-internet examples), but you're not doing yourself any favors if you go and add any more to the heap.
** Oh, and if your [[Furry Comic]] is about a porn studio? It's a [[Recycled Script]], so unless you have a DAMN good twist to it, don't even try it.
* [[Stripperiffic]] - Yes, humans can be sexy, and your characters are being treated as though they were human. If a human character wouldn't wear that outfit, your furries shouldn't either.
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* [[Fantastic Racism]] - From ''Maus'' on up, different species have been used as placeholders for various nationalities / races / religions for a long time. Works best if your setting is not all that different from the modern world.
* [[What Measure Is a Non -Human?]] - Found in works where Humans and Furries coexist, especially if that existence is an unequal one (Think ''[[Family Guy]]'', especially in episodes where Brian is trying to be treated like a human being)
* [[What Measure Is a Non -Cute?]] - For plots where [[What Measure Is a Non -Human?]] seem to already be (mostly) hammered out. Works well for monsterous species, or even simply bizarre ones compared to the usual creatures we see, and can even be extrapolated for Aesops about body types and physical abnormalities / deformities.
 
=== '''Potential Motifs''' ===
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