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Furry Lens
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Anthropomorphic animals tend to be allegorical by default. After all, as conceptions of human beings, anthropomorphic animals are based off a human template, and tend to be metaphors for the human condition, political groups or even just individuals. Some creators, however, go one step further and make the characters straight up not anthropomorphic animals at all, but human beings, visually portrayed as anthropomorphic animals. In this case, the characters are contextually human beings, but are portrayed as animals, often for symbolic or aesthetic reasons. Some, but not all of these works are Mature Animal Stories. Some examples can look like World of Funny Animals due to all the characters being drawn to look like anthropomorphic animals. Can explain the Furry Confusion occurring in the work, because the anthropomorphic animals in the work turn out to be contextually human and the nonanthropomorphic animals are contextually their respective species of animal. Sub-trope to Stylized for the Viewer and Ambiguously Human. Compare and contrast Denial of Animality, which can invoke this, but it is (usually) non-overlapping since it directly acknowledges that the characters are animals. Contrast World of Funny Animals, where the whole cast really are anthropomorphic animals. See also Beast Man, which is about taking an Earth animal and using it as inspiration for another species. Compare Musical World Hypothesis. |
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Maus is an a biography of Art Spiegelman's father, in which various ethnic groups are visually portrayed as animal species (i.e. Jews as mice, Germans as cats, French as frogs, et cetera). Contextually, they are still human beings, and refer to themselves as such; they are not allegorical animals representing human groups. Humorously, the author does address the issues that arise when this trope meets Furry Confusion. At one point the Jewish protagonist— drawn as a mouse— visits a friend who owns several pet cats. In the comic, anthropomorphic cats represent Germans and Nazis, which leads Spiegelman to write "Can I mention this, or does it just louse up my metaphor?" At another point, the protagonist visits his therapist, and one panel shows a picture of a non-anthropomorphic cat; the picture has a label next to it saying, "Framed portrait of pet cat - really!" It can get a little odd when it comes to "mixed" marriages and the like. One scene also features a man in a concentration camp claiming to be a German World War I vet as a mouse in one panel and a cat in the next, representing his conflicting identities. |
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Punpun and his family from Goodnight Punpun are depicted as sloppily drawn cartoon birds. Everyone else is a semi-realistic human. It's been shown that Punpun is also a human, and that "Punpun" probably isn't even his real name, however he resembles a bird to the reader. Punpun's form also changes when he becomes dark or depressed. Punpun's real face is never fully depicted, only bits and pieces of it are shown at a time. A character drew him once; however the eyes were marked out. | |
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Uchitama!? Have You Seen My Tama? inverts this as well; the viewers see the cast as Little Bit Beastly humans, but they're really a bunch of dogs and cats. | |
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Ruby Quest: While the characters are drawn as anthropomorphic animals, this is done purely to help the reader tell them apart in the simplistic art style; Word of God states they are human beings, and indeed, the characters never once give any indication that they're not human in behavior or appearance. | |
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The spinoff Postcards from Buster leans heavily on the "furry lens" interpretation, as all of the locations Buster visits are shown in live-action, with humans—presumably as they would appear to the audience if they were within the show. | |
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The "Ape Town" mutator in Streets of Rogue causes all NPCs to look like gorillas. It has no effect on gameplay; the only people who act like gorillas are the ones who were gorillas before, being kept in cages by the "human" gorillas. | |
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Arthur: Zig-zagged. The original books and the earlier seasons of the TV series state or at least imply that the characters are animals, albeit functionally human for all intents and purposes. However, as the TV series went on, most of these Furry Reminders were phased out. This is most obvious in the episode where Arthur and his friends watch the Self-Parody Andy and Co. and point out all the Fridge Logic inherent in a Funny Animal series. Historical figures and racial profiling (i.e The Brain is described as being African-American in-universe, even celebrating Kwanzaa, but he doesn't appear as such to the audience, being a bear) match those of the real world, further suggesting the characters see themselves as humans. Real-life celebrity guests are also drawn as anthropomorphic animals. The spinoff Postcards from Buster leans heavily on the "furry lens" interpretation, as all of the locations Buster visits are shown in live-action, with humans—presumably as they would appear to the audience if they were within the show. The Grand Finale seems to heavily imply this, as a grown-up Arthur (who is a cartoonist, behind the entire series) says he "just likes drawing animals". |
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Precocious creator Christopher Paulson claims that he thinks of the characters as humans when writing the scripts. Though occasionally, a Furry Reminder might be used for a one-off joke. | |
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In Odd Taxi, the final episode reveals that all the characters are actually humans, but the main character Odokawa and thus the audience sees them as animals because of his “visual agnosia� brain condition. This is hinted at, such as when his doctor laughs at being called a gorilla and a passenger is confused when he refers to a member of Mystery Kiss as a calico cat. | |
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Inverted in the manga Nyankees. The characters are street cats, but are drawn as human delinquents about 50% of the time. | |
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El Deafo: It's a semi-autobiographical work illustrating human beings as rabbits. | |
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The characters of Lackadaisy are portrayed as anthropomorphic cats, but (at least in the canon strips) act exactly like prohibition-era humans. The non-canon strips have an occasional Furry Reminder, like Rocky claiming he had to shave Freckle's face to see his freckle, and the characters being confused what Tracy J. Butler's Author Avatar (depicted as a cartoony human) actually is. Tracy J. Butler also made drawings of how the characters would look like as humans - which is presumably their actual appearance. | |
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Disney Mouse and Duck Comics generally do depict their characters as actual animals (albeit functionally human, for all intents and purposes). Not so much The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, where the characters are very explicitly human beings, depicted (often randomly) as either ducks or dogfaces. One issue has the Young Scrooge run into a herd of cows and the cattle-handlers reacts with surprise that Scrooge… speaks in a Scottish accent, just like their boss, real-life cattle-baron and fellow Scotsman, Murdo MacKenzie. | |
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In Beacon Pines, every character is portrayed as an anthropomorphic animal, and this is never acknowledged in any capacity; nobody ever mentions what species anyone is, nor does the narration or dialogue ever use words like "tail" or "paw". | |
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The Grand Finale seems to heavily imply this, as a grown-up Arthur (who is a cartoonist, behind the entire series) says he "just likes drawing animals". | |
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Acknowledged In-Universe in Catherine. Anyone entering the Nightmare will see themselves as human and everyone else as sheep. | |
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In Tomorrow's Pioneers, the co-hosts, although dressed as funny animals, don't show any animal traits, are human-sized, refer to themselves as humans, and even have fully human parents. | |
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