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Foxes occupy a unique place among Animal Stereotypes. They can be good guys, bad guys, or completely neutral, but they're always crafty, clever, and cunning. Their sly nature sometimes results in illegal activities, so it's not uncommon to see them portrayed as thieves or con artists; in other words, they're a classic Trickster Archetype. Although it is not unknown for them to be too clever; another term for Too Clever by Half is "outfoxing yourself". Sometimes this trope is invoked under the phrase "crazy like a fox" for when the brilliant plan seems crazy to anyone who isn't quite as brilliant. They're sometimes your adventurous Canine Companion. This stereotype is, to some extent, Truth in Television: Foxes do live in family groups like wolves, though they tend to hunt by themselves, and they are more known for stealing farm animals in the dark of the night than outright attacking them in broad daylight. The "crazy like a fox" part has roots in real fox behavior as well; red foxes have been known to jump around and act crazy to entice curious rabbits into coming closer. If the work in question is East Asian (or inspired by any East Asian culture), expect the fox to be a magical creature with the same stereotype of guile and trickery associated with it. Compare Fantastic Foxes, which combines this archetype with a touch of the supernatural, and Foul Fox, for when foxes are outright cruel or evil. Compare further Those Wily Coyotes, for another stereotypically clever wild canine, and Rascally Rabbit, Rascally Raccoon, Sneaky Spider, and Stealthy Cephalopod for other trickster animals. It's not uncommon to pitch a Rascally Rabbit against a cunning fox, with the two of them trying to outsmart each other. Not to be confused with a certain Desert Fox, even if he was quite a cunning one. Also not to be confused with a Silver Fox. See also Foxy Vixen, the other major stereotype associated with foxes. |
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Subverted with Carmelita Fox from the Sly Cooper series. She's a By-the-Book Cop all the way through, which probably explains why she's always getting outsmarted by Sly and his gang. | |
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Foxy the Pirate Fox from Five Nights at Freddy's series is a villainous example, often having a trick up his sleeves that forces the player to watch out for him specifically. Five Nights at Freddy's: Instead of sneaking around like the other animals, Foxy will wait at the right moment to rush to your room and attack when you aren't watching him on camera. He also is one of the only animatronics, who doesn't fall for the Freddy mask the player can wear in Five Nights at Freddy's 2. Phantom Foxy is also among the most difficult hallucinations to handle in Five Nights at Freddy's 3. However, he suffers a bit of Villain Decay in Five Nights at Freddy's 4 and is arguably less lethal than his fellow Nightmares Chica and Bonnie. His Ultimate Custom Night incarnation is surprisingly sneaky. His strategy, if the player can't keep him cooped up in Pirate's Cove, is to disassemble himself and sneak a piece into the office whenever you check the monitors. Once he's all in, he attacks. |
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Song of the South features Br'er Fox, who is the main villain of the animated segments. He's clever enough to think up a Tar Baby (trapping Br'er Rabbit with his own temper) but isn't as clever as he thinks he is — something Br'er Rabbit can use to his advantage and does. | |
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John Constantine the Hellblazer was described as a fox by God himself. | |
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In The Space Gypsy Adventures main characters Gemma and Damien Mildury are a brother-sister pair of anthropomorphized vulpine con artists. | |
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The Fox was the con-artist nemesis of the Hunter on King Leonardo and His Short Subjects. Towards the end of each episode, the Hunter would bumble his way into exposing the Fox's schemes. | |
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Bleach: Ichimaru Gin gets nicknamed "Fox Face" by Ichigo fairly early on. He has proceeded to earn that nickname throughout the series. | |
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In The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli said that princes must be like this, as well as fight like lions. | |
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Reynard from Fables, who may be the original trickster fox. | |
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Hunter Ravenwood of Suicide for Hire doesn't seem particularly cunning at first glance, being something of a Cloud Cuckoo Lander (dancing around brandishing handguns on a public street, shooting the television on a regular basis, and telling random strangers he has "banged yer sister" being just a few of his eccentricities). However, he's deeply involved in highly illegal activities and has managed not to get caught yet, so evidently he has more street smarts than are obvious at first. | |
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Rosalee in Grimm is a fox-like Wesen and is very cunning. | |
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The foxes in Redwall tend to be much more into subterfuge than all the other bad-guy species, which often veers into Chronic Backstabbing Disorder, especially when they're the main villains of the book. | |
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Disney Animated Canon: Robin Hood (1973): Disney rather appropriately turned Robin Hood into a fox for the animated movie. Maid Marian is also a fox, which leads to the amusing inversion of a chicken guarding a fox (her duenna is a white hen). Pinocchio features a trickster fox, just like the original novel (see Literature). The Fox and the Hound played with it, in part because the fox starts out as a pup. He did avoid getting killed on a hunt on more than one occasion. Zootopia has Nick Wilde, who's a fox con artist. As it turns out, this plays into his backstory: when he was a child, he wanted to be a Junior Ranger Scout but was bullied and muzzled by the other scouts for being a fox and considered untrustworthy. At that point, he decided that if others were going to consider him sneaky and untrustworthy just for being a fox then he might as well be just that. Finnick, his partner in crime is also a fox, specifically a fennec who exploits his small size and being a Ridiculously Cute Critter in hustles by pretending to be a child. Averted with Gideon, however: Although he is also a fox, Gideon is poor at critical and lateral thinking, though he has a keen memory. |
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The Simpsons: Homer Simpson tries to invoke this while trying to get Springfield's lemon tree back from Shelbyville's car impound, responding to the man in charge saying "Bust in here and take it?! You must be stupider than you look!" with "Stupider like a fox!" and immediately attempting to climb over the fence, right in front of them. He fails. In another episode, Homer smuggles illegal booze in hollow bowling balls and gutters each one (so a contraption can carry them to Moe's bar). Bart sarcastically comments on how much Homer sucks, prompting him to reply "suck like a fox!" It is indeed one of the most elaborate and successful schemes he's carried out. |
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Trope averted in the Columbia studio's The Fox and the Crow cartoons, where the fox is kind of prissy, naive, and a constant patsy to the trickster crow. | |
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Seymour "Big" Cheese from Samurai Pizza Cats is a conniving Evil Chancellor who is constantly scheming to take over Little Tokyo. He was designed to be an anthropomorphic fox in the original Japanese version, however, the English dub refers to him as a rat despite not changing his foxlike design. | |
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Two examples from Miraculous Ladybug: Lila Rossi is turned in the fox-themed supervillain Volpina, with her only power, inspired by the Fox Miraculous, being hyperrealistic illusions that dispel with touch. Thanks to her cunning, she's one of Hawk Moth's most successful minions, getting Ladybug to surrender twice thanks to judicious use of her powers and only failing due to unrelated events she had no way to anticipate exposing her illusions for what they were. Rena Rouge, the actual (temporary) holder of the Fox Miraculous, proves her cunning in her first outing, taking a single illusion to distract the Sapotis long enough for Ladybug to defeat them. |
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In the children's book Hilda and Richie, the fox pup Richie plays this trope straight. After making a mess with bubble gum, he figures out a way to prevent any more messes in the future. | |
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Naruto: The titular character has a fox-monster spirit inside him. He has come up with some diabolical Indy Ploys to get him through tough fights. | |
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Nightfall (Series): Prince Vladimir is a villainous example. He can outsmart all of his opponents while tricking them into doing exactly what he wants them to do. | |
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In The Bad Guys (2022), Governor Diane Foxington, a red fox, at first appears to be an aversion of this; she's framed as a trusted, heroic and beloved politician in contrast to the Bad Guys. It's later revealed that she was once the Crimson Paw, one of the greatest thieves of all time. During what was supposed to be the biggest heist in her career, she was too ashamed to pull it off due to living up to the stereotypes of foxes being thieving tricksters, and left her criminal career behind.. | |
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Pinocchio features a trickster fox, just like the original novel (see Literature). | |
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Subverted in Stray (1987). Pufftail makes fun of this trope after narrowly escaping being killed by a fox. He considers foxes to be barely smarter than dogs and needlessly savage compared to cats. | |
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The Story of Anima has Kit Vulpes, a fox beastkin who fights with his wits and agility. | |
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Kajortoq of No Evil doesn't show it often, it would be beneath her, but she does have a Trickster streak as one jackalope salesman discovers when he tries to pull one over on her. | |
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SCP-953 is a very, very nasty nine-tailed Kumiho. She once slaughtered 27 people at a furry convention, and the first time a group of agents cornered her, she used Master of Illusion abilities and a Yamato Nadeshiko act to horribly murder all of them except the one Korean agent on the team; the rest assumed that she was a kitsune and fell for it badly. Yeah, she's smart. Really smart. In the most disgusting, horrifying way possible. | |
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In To Belong, Aurora's animorphism form is a red fox. She and her boyfriend Dimitri are thieves who trick people. Aurora uses her looks to attract men. | |
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Lord Russel the fox in The Book of the Dun Cow is a chatty but well-meaning fellow who is, in an interesting case of Carnivore Confusion, a firm ally of the rooster hero, Chauntecleer. | |
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Some versions of the The Odyssey have Circe saying that a fox would be a fitting animal for Odysseus, what with him being a Guile Hero. She says this because she's a sorceress who frequently does Forced Transformations. | |
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Pokémon Sword and Shield introduce Nickit and Thievul, two Dark-type Fox Pokemon who are described as cunning thieves in the Pokedex. | |
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Hyper Police: Kyuubi-fox Sakura is an 8-and-1/5 tailed version. She tends to fall into Too Clever by Half role. | |
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Five Nights at Freddy's: Instead of sneaking around like the other animals, Foxy will wait at the right moment to rush to your room and attack when you aren't watching him on camera. | |
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Phantom Foxy is also among the most difficult hallucinations to handle in Five Nights at Freddy's 3. | |
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Crimestrikers, which is set on a World of Funny Animals called Creaturia, pits several clever foxes against each other. The Hero Diana Mastron is leader of the titular team, which also includes Genius Bruiser Hendrik Alquist. The Crimestrikers fight the international crime syndicate Outrage, which is led by Big Bad Vance Coffin; one of his main advisers is Diana's Archnemesis Dad, Walter Mastron. | |
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Robin Hood (1973): Disney rather appropriately turned Robin Hood into a fox for the animated movie. Maid Marian is also a fox, which leads to the amusing inversion of a chicken guarding a fox (her duenna is a white hen). | |
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Ace Ukiyo, the titular Kamen Rider Geats, has a fox motif and frequently refers to himself as such. He's also a massive trickster, frequently manipulating everyone, friend or foe, to his own ends, such as by feeding Keiwa a false sob story to get him to give up the Boost Buckle. He often makes this clear by making a "fox ears" hand gesture. Despite this, he's still a good person deep down. | |
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Le Roman de Rénart is an anthology of tales about a cunning fox called Renart who outwits other animals (see the Folklore folder above). Those stories were satires of medieval society at the time it was written. They were loosely adapted into an animated series, Moi Renart. Also adapted into a series of Low Fantasy adventure novels: The Reynard Cycle. The eponymous character fits this trope to the tee. |
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The fox in The Plague Dogs helps the protagonists survive in the wild and avoid the humans chasing them. Without his help, they probably would have either starved or been caught. | |
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The Spanish word for "fox" is Zorro. While better known for his swordsmanship, Zorro is just as cunning. | |
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Vulpes Inculta (Latin for "Desert Fox") of Fallout: New Vegas is The Spymaster of Caesar's Legion. | |
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Mr. Croup from Neverwhere is characterised extensively with fox-related imagery and is generally the more cunning of he and his associate, Mr. Vandemar, who's more oafish and is compared to a wolf or a hound in the same way. | |
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Fox of The Animals of Farthing Wood. | |
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Avoided with most fox characters in Bamse, who aren't very sly or cunning. But played completely straight with the rather recent Reinard, who is a crafty villain more or less introduced because most "bad guys" in the comic had deteriorated to the point they only worked as Ineffectual Sympathetic Villains. | |
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In the Amaranthine Saga, Foxes are noted as being among the trickster clans, and several characters warn Tsumiko about their devious natures. Argent is a silver fox and Guile Hero, and matches up against a pair of vixen who try to be devious but are outclassed by him. | |
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Pathfinder: Pipefoxes are a variation, in that they're clever and sneaky (the sneaky part being helped by the fact that they are very small creatures), but more scholarly than tricky. Pathfinder also has kitsune as a playable race, who fulfill the "quick-witted trickster" stereotype. Fading foxes are the result of centuries of selective breeding and judicious use of magic by Taldori nobles and their huntmasters to create increasingly challenging and exotic quarry, resulting in cunning, elusive, and agile creatures seemingly capable of bypassing any trap or barrier and eluding any pursuit. To the nobles, they're some of the finest quarries in the nation. Taldori peasants are considerably less thrilled; to them, the foxes are fiendishly cunning pests that can find their way into any henhouse, and they're legally prohibited from stopping the foxes since only nobles are allowed to hunt them. |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Ireyon in Danish Paperinik stories fits the clichés, since she is a cunning thief who runs a Robin Hood-like operation of taking from the rich and giving to the poor. (Fun fact: in some of her appearances, the artist was Mårdön Smed, who is the creator of Hieronymus Borsch, above.) | |
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In Dungeons & Dragons, the basic ability-boosting spells are all named after animals. The spell that grants a bonus to Intelligence is called fox's cunning. | |
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Dora the Explorer: "Swiper, no swiping." | |
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: The fox is definitely pretty cunning. He manages to outsmart a couple of wolves by giving them the wrong direction. | |
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The Knowledge Seekers from Avatar: The Last Airbender. They make a brief return in The Legend of Korra. |
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Daniel P. Mannix's The Fox and the Hound has the fox Tod constantly outsmarting the hunter pursuing him. He's not even anthropomorphic. | |
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Balan Wonderworld: Subverted. Box Fox, a fox costume, has a wizard outfit, implying that it knows some powerful spells. As it turns out, its only ability is turning into an unmoving box, and it can't even control when this happens. | |
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In the Lonely Wolf Treat series, Moxie at least tries to be the most proactive member of the fox gang, while her friends are all too lazy to put any significant effort into whatever scheme Moxie comes up with. When she runs into money troubles in the third game (appropriately titled Clever Fox Moxie), she manages to establish a small hotel business through sheer improvisation, and the fox gang is able to scrape by for a while. However, Moxie's friends soon become tired of running the hotel and decide to move out, forcing Moxie to close up shop due to lack of employees. | |
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Zootopia has Nick Wilde, who's a fox con artist. As it turns out, this plays into his backstory: when he was a child, he wanted to be a Junior Ranger Scout but was bullied and muzzled by the other scouts for being a fox and considered untrustworthy. At that point, he decided that if others were going to consider him sneaky and untrustworthy just for being a fox then he might as well be just that. Finnick, his partner in crime is also a fox, specifically a fennec who exploits his small size and being a Ridiculously Cute Critter in hustles by pretending to be a child. Averted with Gideon, however: Although he is also a fox, Gideon is poor at critical and lateral thinking, though he has a keen memory. | |
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Gunnerkrigg Court features Reynard (The selfsame fox from folklore), who becomes the main character's companion. He's better known as Reynardine, the name given to him by Antimony's mother, Surma. | |
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Slylock Fox features a cunning fox detective. Even his name is a pun on "sly". | |
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Fenneko from Aggretsuko is a fennec fox. She is one of the smartest characters in the show and fittingly for an animal with huge ears, she is very observant and pays close attention to everything going on with her coworkers. | |
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Wolf Children: An old fox, a guardian of the mountain, becomes Ame's sensei, teaching him everything he needs to learn about the wild. Near the end of the movie, the old fox gets flattened by a falling tree, leaving Ame to leave his human life behind and live as a wolf and the mountain's new guardian. | |
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Similarly, Tamamo from Hell Teacher Nube is a youko, a "sorcerer fox" whose natural form is as an enormous half-fox, half-human demon who removes human skulls from his victim in order to assume a true human form. Very, very cunning as well. | |
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Gargoyles featured a character known as Fox (birth name "Janine Renard"). Though her husband Xanatos is better known than she is for trickery, she's had her moments. Also notable is that among the canid Theme Naming of her old team, the Pack, her name represents the only one that isn't a pack animal. | |
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In Kitsune: Of Foxes and Fools the players are mystical foxes who compete with one another by playing tricks on foolish mortals. "Wits" is actually one of the key stats. | |
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Pokémon Red and Blue has Vulpix and Ninetales, which were also Kitsune-based. | |
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Hanse Davion of BattleTech was known as The Fox during the days of his rule, and he proved more than deserving of the name; some of the setting's most brilliant plotting can be laid at his feet, not the least of which was laying the groundwork to unify two major realms and nearly conquer a third. | |
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Mat Cauthon from The Wheel of Time is associated with the fox as part of his trickster archetype. He has a fox head medallion that makes him invulnerable to the One Power and his signet ring has a fox scattering ravens. He is sometimes clever but at other times a bit of a buffoon. | |
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Zorua and its evolution Zoroark from Pokémon Black and White are based on Kitsune. The former is even called the Tricky Fox Pokemon. | |
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Kitsunefoxy in Gai-Gin is a Beast Man with fox tail and ears, and has a habit of telling elaborate lies about her supposed friends behind their backs. | |
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The Delver's Guide to Beast World: Vulpines get a bonus to Intelligence and a once-per-day Sherlock Scan ability. However, Varasta, the God of Chaos, Gambling, and Nature is commonly known as the "Idiot Dice Fox" because of his habit of manifesting a vulpine avatar and leaving the odds of the Beast World's survival in a casino bathroom where somebody might read it and destroy their mind. | |
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Agent Fox from The Bad Guys is a mysterious fox agent and member of the International League of Heroes, a secret organization of heroes that helps the main characters in situations. She's clever and brave, but it's hinted that she has a similar past to the main four as well. It was later revealed in "Superbad" that her parents were killed by hunters when she was a little girl, and the grief caused her to fall into a rebellious phase, until she met the other members of the International League of Heroes, bonded over their similar troubles, and then made a vow to become heroes. | |
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Don Diego de la Vega, better known as Zorro, who fought for justice back in the olden days when California was still a Spanish colony; as a Bilingual Bonus, "zorro" means "fox" in Spanish, which is even referenced by the theme song of the 1950's series: "Zorro, the fox so cunning and free..." | |
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Tom McCaughren's Run With the Wind and its five sequels (think Watership Down but with Irish foxes instead of British rabbits). All of them are depicted as being cleverer than any of the other animals but a few are crafty even for foxes, like Old Sage Brush, a blind Trickster Mentor or Hop-Along, who uses an eclipse to fool a hare into thinking he can leap high enough to take a bite of the moon. | |
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Dusk from Faux Pas is the typical cunning vixen and also rather amoral. Cindy is much nicer but also clever. The guileless, naive Randy is an aversion. | |
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The Swamp Fox, a Disney mini-series that ran for eight episodes as part of the Walt Disney Presents series in 1959, featuring Leslie Nielsen before he was known for comedy as American Revolutionary War general Francis Marion, nicknamed "The Swamp Fox". Its theme song remarks: "Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox, tail on his hat, Nobody knows where the Swamp Fox at; Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox, hiding in the glen, He'll ride away to fight again." In real life, General Francis Marion was noted for his extensive use of guerrilla warfare and maneuver warfare which was considered unorthodox for its time, and was noted for quick surprise attacks against the British and equally quick withdrawal from the field. He also managed to elude the British forces by travelling along the South Carolina swamp paths. |
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Zorua Trainer: Due to being a Zorua, this version of Ash Ketchum certainly qualifies; as he uses his illusions to trick many people, even his own trainer Delia at times. | |
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Pokémon: Zorua and its evolution Zoroark from Pokémon Black and White are based on Kitsune. The former is even called the Tricky Fox Pokemon. Pokémon Red and Blue has Vulpix and Ninetales, which were also Kitsune-based. Pokémon X and Y has Fennekin, which appears to be based on a fennec fox. Its evolutions Braixen and Delphox take it even further as they're also based on Kitsune-themed wizards. Pokémon Sword and Shield introduce Nickit and Thievul, two Dark-type Fox Pokemon who are described as cunning thieves in the Pokedex. |
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Kamisama Kiss: Tomoe is a Little Bit Beastly fox demon. While most of the time he is a regular asshole, he is both intelligent and cunning. | |
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Junjie, one of the antagonists from Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, is a devious trickster of a fox who resents Shifu for being chosen as master of the Jade Palace instead of him. He is ready to use deception and sneak attacks to exploit his opponents' weaknesses. He prefers not to get his paws dirty but lets his snow leopard mooks do the rough stuff. Mei Ling the Rogue, Shifu's one-time love interest, has a flirtatious and devious personality, even though she's aware that a romantic relationship between her and Shifu can never be, even willingly going to jail after Junjie blackmailed her into stealing the Imperial Crown. |
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Smirre the fox in The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. He only appears a few times in the book but becomes a recurring antagonist in the anime, constantly stalking the geese. | |
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In Strays the Affectionate Pickpocket is a Little Bit Beastly — fox form. | |
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Averted for Eastwood in Exterminatus Now, who could charitably be described as a lucky idiot who is only competent in dire situations or when the enemy is standing between him and his morning coffee. If a plan of his has more than two or three steps, and none of them contain the verbs "shoot" or "explode", it's time to make sure you've got the real Eastwood. | |
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The Dutch comic Tom Poes has a recurring The Barnum character, Joris Goedbloed, who is a fox. | |
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Moi Renart is an animated series loosely based on the Le Roman de Renart tales (see Literature and Folklore). Featuring much more anthropomorphic animals than the original work, Renart is a cunning fox who goes to make a living in Paris. | |
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Crazy Like a Fox: Named after a variation of the trope, describes the lead Harry Fox, a crafty private eye with red hair. | |
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The Sandman: The Dream Hunters: The kitsune is confident she can catch a baku to save her love because foxes are crafty creatures. She succeeds and later avenges him by elaborately seducing his enemy and causing his downfall. | |
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Referenced in The Taming of the Shrew when Gremio refers to himself as "an old Italian fox". Ironically, Gremio is a rather foolish character (being based on the Commedia dell'Arte character of the "pantaloon"), and at that point in the play, he's trying to talk down Tranio—a true trickster who's already thought circles around him. | |
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Paulus de Boskabouter: Reintje is a very sneaky and cunning fox. | |
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Downplayed with Tails from the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Despite being a Child Prodigy with a knack for building gadgets, his otherwise humble personality prevents him from actually being cunning most of the time. | |
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Pogo had Seminole Sam, a con-man. He tended to wobble between antagonist and neutral. He partially subverts the trope, since he was often out-bamboozled by the superior brains and cunning of his intended victims. |
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Crazy Redd from Animal Crossing is a kitsune and a travelling salesman, pressuring customers to buy his "special deals" and selling famous artwork which is often fake. His deals are CRAAAAZY!! | |
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Pom Poko: Kitsune were driven from their homes the exact same way tanuki are, by human cities expanding into their hills and forests. However, instead of declaring all-out war on humans like the tanuki do, kitsune found a more cunning solution. They used their transformation skills to become humans and live in their society. You can still distinguish them by their pointy, angular faces that vaguely resemble a fox's snout. This refers to the Japanese term 'kitsune kao', and traditionally someone with those features is held to be this clever. The opposite is a round, wide face, 'tanuki kao', which makes sense, considering the end of the film. | |
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Mr. Fox in Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time lives up to his name in full. This is a guy who manages to strategically win against the Chef in almost anything, is not afraid to play dirty when he doesn't (like pulling a gun on his opponent during an arm-wrestling match), and loves playing pranks on the chef, like stealing all the toilet paper when he's on the toilet and sending him links leading to Rebecca Black's Friday. | |
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In "Kolobok", a living round bread who had managed to escape an old man and his wife, a hare, a wolf, and a bear, was easily tricked by a fox and eaten. (This is a variant of The Gingerbread Man where the living cookie is also tricked into being eaten by a clever fox.) | |
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Mononoke: The Medicine Peddler, but you'll only notice if you're ready to read between the lines quite a bit. His Kitsune-mask-like face is not the only reason for this comparison — but it certainly helps. | |
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The embodiment of Greed in Jack is a fox, though he's so heavily mutilated that this is a bit hard to tell. | |
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Blackadder: Goes Forth gives us the page quote, in question to Baldrick's (final?) cunning plan. Becomes a brick joke at the end of Blackadder Back & Forth: |
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The Fox and the Hound played with it, in part because the fox starts out as a pup. He did avoid getting killed on a hunt on more than one occasion. | |
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Criminal Minds: Serial Killer Karl Arnold's official nickname is "The Fox". Coincidentally, he is red-haired. "The Fox" is also the name of the episode he was in back in season one and he returns in a season five episode called "Outfoxed". |
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Aesop's Fables, probably the Ur-Example: In The Fox and the Crane, a fox invites a crane to dinner and plays a prank on her by giving her a flat dish of soup she can't drink from, because of the shape of her big bill. He gets hit by Laser-Guided Karma when she invites him to dinner and gives him a jug with a narrow neck that he can't drink from, either. Subverted in The Donkey, the Fox, and the Lion. A donkey and a fox are friends but they come across a lion. The fox promises to get the lion a meal, and tricks the donkey into hiding in a pit. The lion eats both of them. In The Fox Who Had Lost His Tail, a fox loses his tail in an accident and tries to persuade the other foxes that they should cut their tails off, too, because they're ugly and heavy. One of the foxes comments that he wouldn't be trying to get them to cut their own tails off if he hadn't lost his. In The Fox and the Goat, a fox falls into a deep well and a passing goat, who is thirsty asks if the water is good. The fox says it's the best water he ever tasted, and to come try it. The goat jumps in, and after drinking his fill, asks how to get out. The fox says that if the goat lets him climb on his horns and escape, he will help the goat out. The goat does so, but when he asks the fox to help him get out, the fox says it's his own fault for jumping into the well without realizing he couldn't get out again. In The Lion and His Three Councilors, a lion asks a sheep, a wolf, and a fox in turn if his breath smells bad. The sheep says yes, and gets eaten. The wolf says no, and gets eaten. The fox says that he has a cold and can't smell anything, and survives. |
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Dogs, wolves and foxes don't get along in Survivors. They're related enough to understand one another but they're too different to get along. Foxes are seen by dogs as "feral and wily and savage". Foxes are sneaky and some are malicious, such as the gray foxes that double-cross Bella in the first book and try to eat Moon's pups, but they're not inherently evil. | |
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Blud misuses this phrase in Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami. | |
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The title character of Vuk the Little Fox regularly outsmarts humans once he's grown up. | |
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Ōkami: Dark Lord Ninetails is an evil fox that spends more time on complex plots than most of the other villains. | |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl. A children's classic wherein a fox and his family help the rest of the burrowing creatures rob three evil farmers. | |
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They make a brief return in The Legend of Korra. | |
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One of the past lives of Clark Kent on Lois & Clark was as "The Fox," a Robin Hood/Zorro type hero. (Zorro is the Spanish word for "fox.") | |
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Mary Poppins features a fox that needs rescuing from a foxhunt, but once safely on a merry-go-round horse will mock his pursuers - a common criticism of the Guile Hero is that he is, in essence, a coward. | |
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CG5: Double subverted in "Let Me Through." Throughout the song, different versions of Foxy (A Hostile Animatronic fox) want to get into the security guard's room, presumably to kill him. The Foxys spend most of the song wandering aimlessly and attacking other animatronics, seemingly just to get them out of the way. However, Funtime Foxy eventually gets the idea to find the circuit breaker and turn off the power so he can get into the security room. Unlike the other Foxys, he succeeds. | |
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Diabolik has Altea's uncle Fabio Von Waller, that for a long time was only known as Altea's Uncle, The Fox and Altea's Fox Uncle. He's possibly the most intelligent and cunning character in the series, with his debut having him getting Diabolik easily arrested (with him being savvy enough that, had he been in command, Diabolik would have been 'accidentally' shot in the process in case Diabolik somehow escaped Ginko's latest measures to keep him caught until execution, as he in fact did) and his latest appearance at the time of this writing showing him easily manipulating Diabolik (a Chessmaster on his own) into killing a group of terrorists and keeping Diabolik under surveillance just to enjoy the show. For obvious reasons, he doesn't appear often. On one occasion he was suspected of murder, with enough evidence to actually arrest him. The investigating officers, however, knew it was a frame-up the very simple reason that if it had been him, they wouldn't even know it had been a murder. |
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Alabaster: The Doomed Session 's Renart Azeban lives and breaths this trope. | |
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In Everybody Edits Flash, the Flavor Text for the Fox describes it as sly. | |
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Rurouni Kenshin: Megumi is often compared to a fox, being nicknamed Kitsune-onna (fox lady) by Sanosuke and others, having fox ears pop up above her head, and one memorable Imagine Spot by Saitou. | |
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The protagonist of Hunter's Moon (1989) is a clever fox vixen named O-ha who lives in the English wilderness. | |
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His Ultimate Custom Night incarnation is surprisingly sneaky. His strategy, if the player can't keep him cooped up in Pirate's Cove, is to disassemble himself and sneak a piece into the office whenever you check the monitors. Once he's all in, he attacks. | |
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Thistil Mistil Kistil Loki's first form. | |
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Housepets!: Karishad the fox is a trickster who is constantly pulling pranks and jokes that drive everyone around him nuts. After Keene falls for one of his tricks he decides to get Karishad to work for him and put him to good use. While the Great Kitsune is a divine being who acts as GM of the Cosmic Chess Game running in the background while being annoyingly helpful to the mortals caught up in it. | |
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Pokémon X and Y has Fennekin, which appears to be based on a fennec fox. Its evolutions Braixen and Delphox take it even further as they're also based on Kitsune-themed wizards. | |
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Kurama from YuYu Hakusho is a fox demon possessing the body of a human boy. He's as cunning as the trope would indicate. He always used to be a lot more a jerkass than he is now. His arms and legs were once paralyzed during a fight. He still wins. Later all of his plant powers are sealed inside his body. He wins by wounding himself on the enemy's blade and planting seeds into the open wound. | |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox: Fox, an incorrigible chicken thief (see also Literature). | |
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