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** Ursa Major is a Russian superhero able to turn into a humanoid bear.
** Catseye was a member of the Hellions and was meant as an [[Evil Counterpart]] to [[New Mutants]] Wolvesbane.
* In Fred Perry's ''[[Gold Digger (Comic Book)|Gold Digger]]'', one of the main characters is one of the last Werecheetahs. Other weres include Lions, Tigers, Rats, and of course Wolves. Each subspecies is able to shift between human, animal, and a "Wolf-Man" styled hybrid form. All of the weres retain their rationality in each of their forms, although they need to learn to control their instincts during childhood. Although the weres are separate species, they are capable of spreading thirianthropy to Humans as a disease; they were originally created by a wizard as [[Super Soldier
* ''[[Tangent Comics]]'' has Wildcat, a teenage girl who transforms into a feral werecat when her handler says the word "Shazam".
* In the [[Furry Comic]] Red Shetland, Eon is one of these (technically) of the Animal-Into-Man variety. Or...Normal horse into bi-pedal walking/talking horse. It's a curse thing.
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* The ''[[Munchkin (game)|Munchkin]]'' card game gives us a werepenguin, a werehamster and a weremuskrat. They are all oversized and sharp-toothed - even the penguin has fangs.
* In the ''[[GURPS Supers]]'' supplement ''Wild Cards'', Sewer Jack is a were-alligator.
* ''[[Exalted]]'' features the Lunars, who are technically werebeasts in that they have one totem animal they strongly identify with and can easily shift
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* The 1988 video game ''[[Altered Beast]]'' includes a stage wherepower-ups transform the player into a weretiger, which provides extra strength and firepower.
* In ''[[Bayonetta]]'', the main character has the ability to transform into a black panther at will, granting her cheetah-like speed. Likewise, the character Jeanne (a fellow witch in the game) can transform into a red lynx.
* ''[[Borderlands]]'' has Were-Skags in the first DLC <ref>
* ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' universe features a variety of therianthropic creatures, including werewolves, wereboars, werelions, werecrocodiles, werebears werevultures and even [[Unreliable Narrator|possibly]] weresharks. Apart from werewolves and wereboars, all of these were only mentioned in the in-universe book "On Lycanthropy" in ''Daggerfall''.
* The main gimmick of ''[[Bloody Roar]]'' is that every character is some sort of werebeast. There's a weretiger, werebear, werelion, wererabbit, werefox, werecat, wereboar, weremole, werebat, werechameleon...
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