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Cats are the elves of the animal kingdom. They're better than us — and they know it. Cats are almost always portrayed as particularly intelligent, cunning, and independent, and in works with any degree of anthropomorphization a cat is likely to be The Chessmaster, a Deadpan Snarker (see also Cool Cat and Cats Are Snarkers), or other Sub-Tropes of The Trickster. Sometimes they are all but stated to be a Superior Species. On the other hand, cats' perceived negative qualities — such as aloofness, arrogance, smugness, and laziness — might be attributed to their awareness of their exalted position. This can, but need not, overlap with Cats Are Mean. Superior cats can have a wide range of attitudes toward lesser creatures: showing contempt for them, ignoring them, treating them with amused tolerance, or taking pains to guide and protect them. There's also an overlap between this and Cats Are Lazy, with cats thinking that they should be pampered. This trope is approached from another direction through the traditional association between cats and magic. Whether Magic Is Evil or benign, it is yet another way for cats to show intelligence and wield power. Is it any wonder that witches have long been associated with them? This trope is often subverted when dog characters are the main characters of the story or are more major to the story than cat characters. Compare Panthera Awesome, King of Beasts, Cute Kitten, Cunning Like a Fox. Contrast Dogs Are Dumb. |
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Afterlife SMP: In his second life, Jimmy mentions this while bearing the Feline origin, saying if someone has a pet cat, "their house" would in actuality be the cat's house and no long the person's.note In his defense, he's a cat owner in real life. He himself displays that mentality by moving into Joel's house while he was on holiday in real life, meaning he could do nothing about the catboy that moved into his base, while proclaiming himself to be "adopted". Sadly, Joel doesn't react quite as well to this, deciding to build a trap to murder Jimmy via TNT minecarts. | |
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The finale song of (what else?) Cats is all about the proper way for humans to suck up to cats, as the glorious creatures obviously deserve. Might be slightly tongue-in-cheek; it's hard to tell because of the style of the music. | |
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The Aristocats has the song "Everybody Wants to Be A Cat", where the cats sing an ode to their species' superiority. The song is a pun on the Jazz term "cat", meaning a hip and swingin' musician. | |
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Yoruichi from Bleach falls into this trope. And then you see her true form and it all makes sense. | |
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In Golden Treasure: The Great Green, Slideclaws believe themselves to be perfect, having domesticated the No-Tails, being fed and stroked by them, and seeking only amusement in life. They'll only teach you how to Dream if you bow down to them (an abject humiliation for a mighty Draak-kin). | |
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Shere Khan is presented as a billionaire tycoon in TaleSpin, and he definitely feels superior. | |
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Most outdoor cats in Prince of Cats talk down to Lee, whom they telepathically communicate with as part of an obligation to their princess who is smitten with him. | |
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Redwall: Cats tend to be evil (with a few exceptions) and think considerably more of themselves than the vermin they rule over (especially Ungatt Trunn, A Nazi by Any Other Name). Riggu Felis goes even further by reigning over other cats (he considers that he's superior to them by virtue of being a wildcat, while they're merely feral cats. The fascinating implication of there still being humans to tame cats this late in the series goes unexplored). | |
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In The Last Unicorn, all cats can talk — they just don't often feel inclined to do so. | |
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Disney Animated Canon In The Jungle Book (1967), this is applied to both Shere Khan the tiger and Bagheera the leopard. The former overlaps with Cats Are Mean by being portrayed as Wicked Cultured, whereas the latter subverts Cats Are Mean by making Bagheera still a hero, but of the Deadpan Snarker/Good Is Not Nice variety. Which makes Bagheera meaner than in the original books (seems like a Disney theme to make cats mean). In the source material, Bagheera was the one to spoil Mowgli and be overindulgent with him, while Baloo the bear was the overly strict teacher. The Aristocats has the song "Everybody Wants to Be A Cat", where the cats sing an ode to their species' superiority. The song is a pun on the Jazz term "cat", meaning a hip and swingin' musician. |
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The black cat from Coraline. Snarky, deadpan, aloof, insulting, arrogant — but willing to help in Coraline's time of need and vital to her confrontation with the Other Mother. | |
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You could make a case for Plagg from Miraculous Ladybug — he's not a cat, but a cat-themed, um, "kwami", but he tends to just want to sit around eating camembert cheese all day, regardless of what Adrien tries to tell him. That is, until an Akuma shows up, upon which Plagg becomes one half of his Transformation Trinket and undergoes a sort-of Fusion Dance with Adrien into his superhero identity, Chat Noir. | |
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Gray Ghost in Manehattan's Lone Guardian has a deeply ingrained cat-like mindset to match a significantly altered biology, to the point that she cheerfully taunts Leviathan before a duel and—when warned not to underestimate her—shrugs it off by calling her "fish sticks". | |
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This is, somewhat, the whole schtick in Katmandu, as the anthro feline races that inhabit the titular planet are the predominant race in the setting, while the rodents are the other, less predominant one. Oddly enough, most of the Fantastic Racism goes on between the felines (Velites and Hoplites, the first based on domestic cats, while the latter are based on wild felines like tigers, lions, cougars, etc.) rather than against the rodents, except in some isolated cases, and most of those cases involve the rats. | |
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Cat Pack: The cats think cats are superior to other animals. They say that they wouldn't even need owners if they could open their own cans. | |
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In Isle of Dogs, cats tend to be owned by those in positions of power. | |
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Cold Days presents Cat Sith, king of the malks, who is ordered by Queen Mab to serve Harry. He is an incredibly dangerous Combat Pragmatist whose shadow is much larger than his already-large form. | |
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The Way of Kings (2021) is a novel about lions. They believe themselves, or at least their original ancestor, to be King of Beasts. | |
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In the novel The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, cats are high-powered, intelligent and benevolent. | |
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The Dresden Files: Harry has a massive 20+ pound cat named Mister. Harry routinely comments on how "above-it-all" Mister holds himself. Upon having Mouse brought into the apartment as a puppy, Mister responded by creating a tradition of swatting him half way across the room with a paw. Since then Mouse has become a very large dog, but Mister sees no reason that should change his treatment of Mouse, and Mouse accepts it. The Sight allows Harry to see the true form of whatever he looks at. Mouse glows with hidden power, his cop friend looks like an angel, monsters look even more hideous...and Mister looks exactly the same as he does when this power is turned off. Mister's continual intimidation of Mouse is made exponentially more impressive over the next few books when it is gradually revealed that Mouse is a total badass powerful enough to be feared/respected by a 2000 year old terrorist and Harry's Faerie Godmother. Cold Days presents Cat Sith, king of the malks, who is ordered by Queen Mab to serve Harry. He is an incredibly dangerous Combat Pragmatist whose shadow is much larger than his already-large form. |
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Animaniacs has Rita and Runt, a cats-rule-dogs-drool Odd Friendship. However, Rita is more of a sympathetic nature as, despite her arrogance and selfishness, most of her misfortunes have been examples of unfair and unequal treatment. Still, others are brought on by her own ego, so there's a slight subversion there, and Runt is frequently saving her bacon. | |
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Garfield, perhaps. He's definitely smarter than his human. The cartoon takes it a step further, with cats actually being aliens that "rule" humans in that they get free food and don't have to do anything all day. | |
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Discworld: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents: Amazing Maurice. He calls himself amazing for a reason. Nanny Ogg's cat Greebo is cunning enough to know he can push things up to a point with his indulgent owner. He is also bright enough to know that Nanny Ogg is a Witch and she has her limits, and that he shouldn't even think it around Granny Weatherwax. |
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In the "Nature's Balance" arc from Nerf NOW!!, the cat gets dissed for its Charisma-focused build, and the bigger feline asks if it intends to charm the humans into submission. It does so, surviving comfortably while bigger cats are mounted on the wall. | |
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Novelist Haruki Murakami loves this trope; cats in his novels almost always hold symbolic or supernatural significance. In Kafka on the Shore, one of the cats comments "Cats know everything, unlike dogs." | |
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In the Land of Oz books: Eureka is just as self-centered in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz as in The Number of the Beast, below. The Glass Cat also has this attitude, viewing herself as superior even to regular cats due to her pink brains - "you can see 'em work", and utterly contemptuous of the magician who brought her to life. She's a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, though, at one point running to get help for her companions as soon as she's sure they can't see her do it. |
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Bravelands: Lions are one of the few animals who don't worship the Great Spirit or respect the Great Parent. As a result, other animals dislike them for being haughty. Subverted with cheetahs. They worship the Great Spirit and generally aren't presented any worse than the other animals. |
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Guardian Cats and the Lost Books of Alexandria: Downplayed when Cicero mentions that cats generally have a major flaw about being too prideful. | |
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In one of The Lion King: Six New Adventures stories, Nala's cubhood friend Chumvi believes that lions are superior to other animals. | |
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Infamously, in the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons, an average housecat has a better than even chance of winning a fight with an average first level Commoner. | |
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In Dwarf Fortress, cats are the only animals which you can't control the adoption of. Cats choose their owners, not vice versa; they can even adopt dwarves while the game is paused. You can't go without cats because they're the only creatures that can protect your food stocks from vermin. Thus, the "catsplosion," where cat breeding gets out of control because you can't get rid of pets like you can strays. Kittens, before they adopt make a great food source, however. | |
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A Dog's Purpose: Bailey, the dog protagonist, thinks that cats believe this. He doesn't understand body language and just thinks his owner's cat is a self-important freeloader. After being reincarnated as Ellie and adopted into a home with several cats, her views on cats sway a bit, but she still doesn't like them. | |
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In Steven Universe, Steven's pet lion is a King of Beasts that's got all sorts of special powers and stuff and assists in battle, but rarely follows Steven's orders and tends to wander off on his own. | |
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Tortall Universe: Song of the Lioness: Faithful (or Pounce) is a very sarcastic companion to his humans, who he adopts largely out of boredom. He has a number of strange magical abilities and isn't above showing off. In The Immortals we meet the goddess of cats, Queenclaw. She's incredibly smug. |
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In the children's series Doctor Snuggles a recurring character is The Cosmos Cat, a perhaps Sufficiently Advanced Alien that is a Rubber-Forehead Alien — it's just that it is a cat that has the rubber forehead (antennas and such), not a human. (And at least in the Swedish dub, he speaks as an Erudite Stoner.) | |
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Tomcat Blue Eyes' Diaries: Blue Eyes is a very sweet little tom-cat who usually likes meeting other animals and respects more experienced cats but he is horrified when he meets a dog who belongs to his human's friend. He cannot understand how the dog can be so submissive and so satisfied taking orders. Eventually they become somewhat friendly but still, he's not Blue Eyes' favourite animal. | |
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In ThunderCats (2011) this is deconstructed and Played for Drama, since the Catfolk of The Empire of Thundera are a Proud Warrior Race who are genuinely excellent fighters, have an order of Kung-Fu Wizard/Magic Knights and possess powerful Ancient Artifacts. As a result, they do much Cultural Posturing around believing their own press, that they were and are the great civilizers of their planet, who "brought law and order to a world of warring animals." This is a deeply-rooted societal justification for jingoistic Fantastic Racism against other Animals. They place minorities like Dogs in a Fantastic Ghetto to be victimized by "Alley Cats" (the bottom rung of Cat society, who apparently distract themselves from their own low status by lording it over the even lower-status Dogs). In their war with the Lizards, the Cats enslave the hungry Lizards they catch raiding crops (due to the Cats' monopolization of arable land) even lynching them if they feel like it. It's only a matter of time until the Cats' sense of security undoes them. It turns out that this is all due to the Cats being Mumm-Ra's most trusted lackeys back before crash landing on Third Earth when they overthrew Mumm-Ra. The cats were put in charge of the new society; generations later, it went to their heads. | |
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Mr. Cat from Kaeloo. He has shown contempt of other species (even naming the trope once), and he is the only actual smart person on the show; the other "smart" characters are Ditzy Geniuses. | |
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Girl Genius plays the concept for laughs with Emperor Krosp I, ruler of all cats. Krosp is a large, bipedal talking cat with a Badass Longcoat, the result of an experiment intended to create somebody able to command ordinary cats to do the bidding of his creator, and could be considered a perfect success...if, much to his frustration, the other cats weren't still perfectly normal animals nowhere near his own intellectual level! Ironically, it's only when the human protagonist sarcastically kinda-sorta offers her fealty to him and he accepts that he acquires a "subject" that he can actually relate to. | |
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Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats covers this in the Theme Tune: | |
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Seems to be played at first in the ending of Ghost Trick with the cat Sissel being a lot smarter than Missile (a dog), to the point that everybody around him was convinced that he was a human spirit for a whole night. Subverted when Missile is revealed to be The Chessmaster in the end, who outsmarted Sissel on many levels. | |
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Haunt the House: Terrortown: The Pharaoh, the ghost of highest status, is revealed to have been a cat in life. | |
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Song of the Lioness: Faithful (or Pounce) is a very sarcastic companion to his humans, who he adopts largely out of boredom. He has a number of strange magical abilities and isn't above showing off. | |
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In The Immortals we meet the goddess of cats, Queenclaw. She's incredibly smug. | |
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The Number of the Beast: Eureka the cat has this attitude while eating dinner with Deety, the Cowardly Lion, and the Hungry Tiger. | |
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Beerus and his twin brother Champa in Dragon Ball Super. They're Destroyer gods, making them the most powerful formerly mortal beings in their respective universes. There are very few beings in all of existence that even approach their power level. Their vassals and mentors, Whis for Beerus and Vados for Champa, are a bit stronger than each of them. They all answer to Zen'O, the ruler of all creation. | |
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In The Jungle Book (1967), this is applied to both Shere Khan the tiger and Bagheera the leopard. The former overlaps with Cats Are Mean by being portrayed as Wicked Cultured, whereas the latter subverts Cats Are Mean by making Bagheera still a hero, but of the Deadpan Snarker/Good Is Not Nice variety. Which makes Bagheera meaner than in the original books (seems like a Disney theme to make cats mean). In the source material, Bagheera was the one to spoil Mowgli and be overindulgent with him, while Baloo the bear was the overly strict teacher. | |
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This shows up in Pugmire, or rather, in the companion game Monarchies of Mau. Where the dog Code of Honour (the Code of Man) asks the dog to obey a worthy master, the cat code (the Precepts of Mau) asks the cat to always reward loyalty — or, in other words, to be a worthy master. Perhaps not surprisingly, the dog state is a fairly centralised kingdom, while the cat state is a loose confederation that only recently came together. It also shows up in their dominant religions: most dogs believe they were favoured servants of Man/the Old Ones. Cats usually believe the Old Ones were their favoured servants. | |
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Pokémon: A number of cat Pokémon are like this, including Mewtwo for a bit in the anime. Alolan Persian in particular embodies this trope, as they were historically the pets of Alolan royalty and became accustomed to it—after the monarchy fell and the Persian wound up in the wild, they still hold the same attitude to this day. Inverted with Perrserker, who is a Blood Knight and doesn't care about getting its paws dirty—or any other part of its body. They were raised by a seafaring people who engaged in a lot of violence, the Pokémon world's counterpart to the Vikings, and Perrserker hate living a pampered life as they deem it boring. Perrserker very much dislike Alolan Persian and Kantonian Persian, and the hatred is mutual. |
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In the Futurama episode,"That Darn Katz!", cats are revealed to be a Sufficiently Advanced Alien species who left their dying homeworld, got the Ancient Egyptians to worship them and help them construct the pyramids — all while being Manipulative Bastards towards humankind. | |
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On Kitty Is Not a Cat, the feline characters are generally very self-assured in their place as the superior creatures on the planet. King Tubby, in particular, often highlights this in his "lectures" about humans, satirically discussing how humans make everything unnecessarily complicated for themselves and are easily swayed by the far more easygoing and far less harried cats. | |
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Boldores And Boomsticks: Mal initially assumes that Blake hides her cat ears so people don't get jealous of her feline superiority. | |
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In Minecraft, Creepers are the bane of any player's existence. But Creepers know better than to mess with cats. | |
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Dean & Nala + Vinny: According to Nala, cats are classy and dignified. Stating so is often followed by her taking a pratfall, being caught with Comical Nap Drool, returning from getting caught in the rain or under sprinklers, or something else to take her ego down a few notches. | |
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Abigail Tucker's non-fiction book, The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World, explores the history of this trope from Ancient Egypt to YouTube cat videos. | |
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Subverted in The Jungle Book: Bagheera is among the biggest badasses in the jungle (and not afraid to remind people of it), but even he can't stand Mowgli's gaze for more than a few seconds. | |
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In The Cinder Spires, cats are fully sentient creatures who cohabit the Spires with humans. The chapters narrated by Rowl, Prince of the Silent Paws clan, show them to be incredibly arrogant and selfish, but nonetheless very brave, honourable (albeit with Blue-and-Orange Morality,) and capable of forming strong bonds with humans who earn their affection (though they usually find some way to justify their displays of affection to avoid acknowledging actual care for the lowly humans). | |
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The Fuzzy Princess: The main character is literally a cat princess. Although Princess Kat is generally pretty nice. Played straight with her mom, Queen Felicia, who is much more haughty. | |
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In Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, Sassy is quite arrogant and condescending to Chance, often talking about how cats are superior to dogs. By contrast, Sassy does show respect toward the wise and grandfatherly Shadow. Her arguments with Chance are more of a Running Gag between the two of them. | |
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Meowth from Pokémon: The Series has commented more than a few times that he thinks of himself as superior to humans. | |
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Karate Bears have a pet Karate Kat who is badass. here he is taking on 4 large dogs This one is also really badass: Kitty Kat smoking | |
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Magic Kingdom of Landover: Edgewood Dirk believes felines to inherently superior animals. Of course in his case, he is actually literally a fairy, and in that world, fairies might as well as be Starfish Aliens as well as aware of far more magic, knowledge, and philosophy than mere humans could, so some of this may be justified. Doesn't stop his Smug Snake, Deadpan Snarker, and Holier Than Thou attitude from becoming very annoying sometimes, though. Though Dirk seems to identify himself as a cat first and Faerie second, to the point where any time he tries to explain or justify his attitude, it's always by reminding the person annoyed at him that he is a cat, never that he is a Faerie creature. | |
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Tailchaser's Song: Cats believe themselves to be the superior species and the first species that was created by their cat goddess. Humans are deformed cats cursed to serve and worship cats for all of eternity. At worst they're looked down upon with scorn and at best they exist for cats' amusement. Feral cats do fear humans, however they're still seen as beneath them nevertheless. | |
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Warrior Cats: Most cats don't have particularly good views on other species. Even many of the kittypets think twolegs are dull; they rarely even identify them individually or gender them. Dogs are either annoying pests or dangerous brutes, badgers are frightening beasts, and prey animals like mice are dumb and cowardly. | |
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Plonqmas: In "A Plonqmas Tale — 1998" and "A Plonqmas Tale — 1999", Plonq's feline pets are depicted as stereotypically detached, self-absorbed, quarreling, and food obsessed. In other words, typical cats. | |
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A story in Mandrake the Magician has Narda, Mandrake's girlfriend, dream — or does she? — that cats are descendants of aliens that got stuck on Earth and used the primitive humans to survive, having lost their technology. (The same applies to dogs — the dog aliens and cat aliens were at war, and the hostility between cats and dogs is a remnant of this.) | |
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"The Cat Who Walked By Himself" makes bargains with the first humans where other animals become servants, which makes this trope Older Than Radio. | |
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The World at the End of Time: Cats became extinct until near the end of the book when a fatal plague affected Newmanhome and nobody could make a cat to wear a gauze mask impregnated with an awful-smelling fungicide — the cat acknowledges no law but its own even if it dies for it. | |
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