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Similar to how Viewer Gender Confusion is the audience thinking the character is of the opposite gender (or isn't sure which gender the character is in general), Viewer Species Confusion is when the audience thinks the character is of a different species. Usually it happens when the character is oddly colored, if the character barely resembles the species they're supposed to be, or if they're a species the audience hasn't heard of. This is also very common in cases of animals that are often mistaken for each other due to their similar traits. Examples include alligators and crocodiles, reindeer and moose, porcupines and hedgehogs, frogs and toads, and eagles and hawks. Several works may treat these species' terms as interchangeable, which only adds to the confusion. This is an Audience Reaction. Informed Species if intentional, I Am Not Weasel if in-universe, and Cartoon Creature if it's not even supposed to be recognized. |
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Let's Go Luna!: Thanks to Joe Murray's trademark bizarre animal designs, there has been many an argument in the fandom over the species of certain characters, especially on the show's wiki. Plenty of people thought Leo was a dog when he is actually a wombat (not that he looks much like one anyways). There are also debates as to whether Salami Strong is a crocodile, a horse, or a hippo. Mr. Hockbar has been speculated to be everything from a gopher to a turtle to a lizard. As it turns out, he's supposed to be a vole. | |
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie: If frequently asked questions on Google searches are any indication, Lumalee, a Sentient Star, has been mistaken for a flame and a ghost on multiple occasions. | |
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All over the place in Crash Bandicoot. Combined with many of the marsupial animals being seldom seen in media, many kids mistook the characters for different animals. Crash looks more like a tailless fox than a bandicoot, lacking the rodent like snout of a real bandicoot. Concept art reveals Crash was designed before he was assigned a species and his placeholder species was a wombat. Tiny Tiger is officially a Tasmanian Tiger AKA thylacine, but looks more like a monstrous version of Crash and lacks the stripes of a real thylacine. Tiny has a lion like tail and roars like a big cat; as a result many kids mistook Tiny for a lion or actual tiger rather than a marsupial. Even some later developers for the series seemed to think that Tiny was meant to be an actual tiger, as he is retconned into being one in Crash of the Titans (a retcon that was reverted by the time of the N. Sane Trilogy). |
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PAW Patrol: Chase is a German shepherd, but due to his pattern, he's sometimes mistaken for a Doberman. Zuma is sometimes mistaken for a dachshund when he's actually a chocolate Labrador retriever (his body is too short for the former breed), although the show would later introduce a proper dachshund named Arrby. The creators of the show confirmed that Tracker is a chihuahua, but he's a little too big for one. Perhaps he's a potcake dog? |
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Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has a character who is described as a dog despite looking, sounding, and acting like a cat. | |
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The original Petey the Pup from The Little Rascals is a complicated example. Different sources differ on whether he's an American Pit Bull Terrier, an American Staffordshire Terrier, or a Staffordshire Bull Terrier. The real issue here is that the American Pit Bull Terrier is not a "real breed", at least according to the American Kennel Club (it is according to several other international kennel clubs, however). American Pit Bull Terriers are combined with American Staffordshire Terriers in the AKC. Thus, Petey is listed as an Am. Staf on their breed site despite many others considering him an American Pit Bull Terrier. | |
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Chocolat from Solatorobo looks like and is thought to be a cat, but she's really a dog. | |
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Don Karnage from TaleSpin was confirmed to be a wolf, but his species was never mentioned in the show. Some viewers called Karnage a fox or coyote, as he clearly looks like a canine. | |
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The Mokonas from Magic Knight Rayearth, ×××HOLiC and Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- are usually thought to be a rabbits, when really they're just Mokona. | |
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Talon from Primal Rage is really a Deinonychus, but is often called a velociraptor. | |
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In the animated adaption of Redwall, Badrang the Tyrant (the Big Bad of the third season) is meant to be a stoat, and is easily identifiable as one in the illustration of the original Martin the Warrior book, but his animated counterpart is depicted as taller, more muscular and with gray fur and pointy ears, making a lot of viewers unfamiliar with the source material confuse him for a wolf. | |
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The cats of Achewood could easily be mistaken for Pug dogs, given their round ears and black noses (and in Ray's case — let's face it — his personality). | |
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Menchi in Excel♡Saga is a dog and is constantly referred to as such, but most people would guess "cat" upon seeing her. | |
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Some people think Rita from Oliver & Company is an Afghan Hound, with a few movie storybooks even describing her as such, but she's a Saluki. | |
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The seagulls in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty have been called "pigeons" by some. No, really. | |
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Nobody is sure what kind of animal Little Critter is. Many have theorized that he is a groundhog, hamster, guinea pig, wombat, or porcupine. According to this web page though, he says his species is a "Little Critter". | |
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Kung Fu Panda Master Shifu is supposed to be a red panda, but due to looking very little like one, viewers have mistaken him for a rat, a mouse, or a fox. Lampshaded in the fourth film where Master Shifu is called a squirrel. Since snow leopards were rarely seen in fiction when the first film was released, many viewers called Tai Lung a tiger, despite his lack of stripes. |
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Uniqua from The Backyardigans is an interesting example. Some viewers think she is some kind of bug, and some even call her a pig. According to Word of God though, her species is actually called a "uniqua", hence her name having the word "unique" in it. | |
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RWBY has a race of Little Bit Beastly people known as the Faunus, which is the cause for occasional fan confusion: Neon Katt is a Cat Girl with a tail but no cat ears. As a result of her peppy personality and her Girlish Pigtails invoking big monkey ears, many fans thought she was a monkey Faunus upon first seeing her. Adam Taurus is a bull Faunus, but many fans have trouble spotting his horns. They're small and they blend into his hair. Downplayed with Blake Belladonna. Despite her hiding her cat ears with a bow, the fandom had her pegged as a cat Faunus from the very first episode. The only confusion is whether she's a housecat Faunus or a panther Faunus. |
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Sheila Roo from Pluggers is, as the name suggests, a kangaroo, but since she's not drawn with kangaroo feet or a kangaroo tail, many readers assume her to be a fox, coyote or some kind of long-nosed rabbit. Interestingly, her species was more obvious◊ back when Jeff MacNelly still drew the strip. | |
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Mysta Rias of Nijisanji wears a dog-themed costume, but due to its orange color people often mistake it for a fox theme. | |
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Animalympics: Most viewers mistake Tatyana Tushenko to be a ferret, mink, otter, or weasel, when she is actually stated to be a sable, a mustelid that’s usually overshadowed by the other mustelid species mentioned. Bruce Kwokimoto is a puffin, but is usually mistaken to be a duck or penguin by viewers. |
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Alpha (2018) features a big cat that many viewers assume is a saber-toothed cat, particularly Machairodus due to its long tail. However, the visual effects supervisor confirmed it was not a saber-tooth but a cave lion (a more accurate choice as cave lions did live in the movie's setting of Europe 20,000 B.C., when Machairodus was long extinct). The saber teeth were apparently added to make it look scarier. | |
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Animaniacs: The Warner Brothers don't have a set species, thus no one has any clue as to what they are. Fans usually call them dogs for simplification reasons, but that's not completely accurate. Some viewers also genuinely think they're cats, but they've disproved that in an episode. Dr. Scratchansniff calls them monkeys but also knows they actually aren't. The fact that no one knows what they are is a Running Gag on the show. Pinky and the Brain are often mistaken for rats, both in-universe and by fans, when really they're mice. |
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Animal and Gonzo. No-one has any clue as to what either of them is, to the point where the latter was frequently referred to as a "whatever". Of course, Gonzo later turned out to be an alien. Gonzo also bears a strong resemblance to a Russian insectivore called a "desman". His puppet is a modified "frackle" monster from The Great Santa Claus Switch, an earlier Henson project. | |
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Sesame Street: Rosita is sometimes called a fruit bat by viewers. In reality, she's a monster, who was only designed to look somewhat like a fruit bat. | |
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Chica and Foxy The Pirate from Five Nights at Freddy's. Chica is a chicken (specifically a chick since she's yellow), but is frequently mistaken for a duck, while Foxy is, well, a fox, but is often mistaken for a wolf or coyote. To be fair, though, their names aren't really stated in-game until the seventh night. | |
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Kirara from Inuyasha is a nekomata, but due to her very fluffy tails and pointy face you'd be forgiven for thinking she's meant to be some sort of kitsune. | |
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For some odd reason, people find the Insaniquarium alien Psychosquid to be an octopus, despite him not having any octopus-like traits. He has 6 arms and a coned head, two traits that belong to squids and not octopi. | |
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Toto from Land of Oz is a nondescript "little black dog." Audiences have tried to distinguish his breed, with different results. Thanks to the MGM film he's usually pinned as a Cairn Terrier. | |
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Penny Arcade: Hardware example: Div. Newcomers who have not yet read the older strips usually think he is a DVD player, when really he is a DIVX player. Also, the wombat symbol is mistaken for a bear by newcomers. |
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The Raccoons: Cedric and Cyril Sneer are supposed to be aardvarks, but are sometimes mistaken for naked tapirs, aliens, or even pink wolves that just look like aardvark. |
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Russell in Littlest Pet Shop (2012) is a hedgehog but is frequently mistaken, both in-universe and out, for a porcupine. He takes it completely in stride (at least unless he's sufficiently agitated, like in "In the Loop"). | |
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Viewer Species Confusion | |
| Viewer Species Confusion / int_5690420f | comment |
Launchpad McQuack from DuckTales is a duck, but his beak looks more like that of a pelican. | |
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| DuckTales (1987) | hasFeature |
Viewer Species Confusion / int_5690420f | |
| Viewer Species Confusion / int_5afbc0cb | type |
Viewer Species Confusion | |
| Viewer Species Confusion / int_5afbc0cb | comment |
Undertale has a case of viewer breed confusion. No one is quite sure if the Annoying Dog is a Samoyed, American Eskimo dog, Japanese Spitz, or white Pomeranian. The file names have "pom" in it, so it's likely the last one is correct. | |
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| Undertale (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Viewer Species Confusion / int_5afbc0cb | |
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Viewer Species Confusion | |
| Viewer Species Confusion / int_5b3356f8 | comment |
In Turning Red, Mei's giant red panda form has been mistaken by viewers to be a bear, a raccoon, or a fox. | |
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| Viewer Species Confusion / int_5b3356f8 | featureConfidence |
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Viewer Species Confusion / int_5b3356f8 | |
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Viewer Species Confusion | |
| Viewer Species Confusion / int_5c81b025 | comment |
Yo-kai Watch: Komasan is a lion-dog with some Shiba Inu influences. However, he just looks like a Cute Kitten rather than a Precious Puppy (likely because he is too young for a mane). Even more confusing, his evolved form Komane puts emphasis on the "lion" part of his design. The Art Evolution later in the franchise makes it so he's more obviously a dog. | |
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Viewer Species Confusion / int_5c81b025 | |
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Viewer Species Confusion | |
| Viewer Species Confusion / int_626e7d65 | comment |
The Greek dub of 64 Zoo Lane calls Adam the Armadillo a hedgehog and Randolph the Raccoon a badger, though it's probably due to familiarity. | |
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Viewer Species Confusion / int_626e7d65 | |
| Viewer Species Confusion / int_6274f0aa | type |
Viewer Species Confusion | |
| Viewer Species Confusion / int_6274f0aa | comment |
Leo is often mistaken for an iguana when he's really a tuatara, a reptile that's rarely seen in fictional media. | |
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Viewer Species Confusion / int_6274f0aa | |
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Viewer Species Confusion | |
| Viewer Species Confusion / int_62758d41 | comment |
Inanimate Insanity: Just like the Battle for Dream Island example, some viewers mistook Bow for a piece of candy due to her shape. | |
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Viewer Species Confusion / int_62758d41 | |
| Viewer Species Confusion / int_6bf3fa88 | type |
Viewer Species Confusion | |
| Viewer Species Confusion / int_6bf3fa88 | comment |
Hidden City: Violet's dog, Alligator, looks very much like a Great Dane (albeit a tiny one, as his ears only reach Violet's waist). Some users have also suggested that he's a bloodhound with cropped ears to account for his size. G5 Entertainment later reveals that he's actually a Doberman. | |
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Viewer Species Confusion / int_6bf3fa88 | |
| Viewer Species Confusion / int_6ccd7b51 | type |
Viewer Species Confusion | |
| Viewer Species Confusion / int_6ccd7b51 | comment |
Off-White: In once scene, the wolf Hati looks like a gorilla dispute the artwork being excellent. | |
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Viewer Species Confusion / int_6ccd7b51 | |
| Viewer Species Confusion / int_6ecf6c5d | type |
Viewer Species Confusion | |
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In Adventure, the dragons look more like ducks, which was referenced in Homestar Runner. | |
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Viewer Species Confusion / int_6ecf6c5d | |
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Viewer Species Confusion | |
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One character from the PaRappa the Rapper franchise is Lammy, a lamb who looks more like a deer or a calf, or a human with stubby antlers, pointy ears, and round black nose. | |
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Viewer Species Confusion / int_70ca21df | |
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Viewer Species Confusion | |
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Newcomers to The Ren & Stimpy Show sometimes think Ren the Chihuahua is a rabbit. Reportedly, some members of the crew also mistook him for a fly or mosquito upon seeing his early concept art, a mistake which was made a few times in-universe. | |
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Viewer Species Confusion / int_727259ac | |
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Viewer Species Confusion | |
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Neon Katt is a Cat Girl with a tail but no cat ears. As a result of her peppy personality and her Girlish Pigtails invoking big monkey ears, many fans thought she was a monkey Faunus upon first seeing her. | |
| Viewer Species Confusion / int_727bb60d | featureApplicability |
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Viewer Species Confusion / int_727bb60d | |
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Viewer Species Confusion | |
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Arthur: Arthur looks like a gerbil, mouse, bear or a hamster rather than an aardvark. This gets acknowledged in "The Contest". Arthur and his friends watch a parody of the show called Andy and Company, Arthur takes offense when one of his friends calls the protagonist a "mouse": "He's not a mouse, he's a... something. I forgot." Ape and bear characters, just as Francine (ape) and the Brain (bear), cause problems with fans. A lot of fans also just think ape characters are Token Humans. Prunella was originally a rat in the books but her curly hair has caused people to mistake her for a poodle. This in turn has caused Creator Species Confusion as different sources refer to her as either a dog or a rat. Similarly, the blind girl Marina introduced in the sixth season uses the same basic character model used for other rabbits on the series. Yet Marc Brown, the author/illustrator of the original Arthur books, once referred to her in an interview as a "variation on a dog," apparently because she has the type of nose normally used on dogs on the series. Later, however, she has been established as a rabbit. It's actually easier to list the characters in the show who don't invoke this to some extent—those being Buster (obviously a rabbit) and Mr. Ratburn (obviously a rat). |
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Viewer Species Confusion / int_746814ae | |
| Viewer Species Confusion / int_747f1742 | type |
Viewer Species Confusion | |
| Viewer Species Confusion / int_747f1742 | comment |
Cinderella 3D has multiple examples of this trope: It's unclear whether Cinderella is an antelope, deer, cougar, fox, or something else entirely. Is Cinderella's stepmother supposed to be a dog? One of the characters looks like either a turkey or a vulture. If she is a vulture, this adds a another level of weirdness to a already weird film, because they ride non-anthropomorphic vultures. |
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Viewer Species Confusion / int_747f1742 | |
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Viewer Species Confusion | |
| Viewer Species Confusion / int_74cdc7b | comment |
Many eBay listings for Linny the guinea pig on Wonder Pets! often describe her variously as a "hamster," "hampster" or "hedgehog." The I Am Not Weasel references worked into the series may have been an intentional reference to this sort of confusion. | |
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Viewer Species Confusion / int_74cdc7b | |
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Viewer Species Confusion | |
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In the "Rite of Spring" segment of Fantasia, there is a small dinosaur with a domed head, shown chasing an Archaeopteryx. It's often believed to be an Ornitholestes (which was commonly shown attacking Archaeopteryx in contemporary paleo-art), a Compsognathus (because of its small size), or even a Velociraptor. What is it meant to be, according to the script? A Troodon. This one actually makes sense if you know that, at the time, Troodon was considered to be a pachycephalosaur, which explains its oddly-shaped head. | |
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Viewer Species Confusion / int_753491f7 | |
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Viewer Species Confusion | |
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Pinky and the Brain are often mistaken for rats, both in-universe and by fans, when really they're mice. | |
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Viewer Species Confusion | |
| Viewer Species Confusion / int_791e7b7f | comment |
Zootopia: Mr. Big is often called a rat, mouse, vole or opossum. He's actually an arctic shrew, which isn't even a rodent (and neither are possums). Finnick is sometimes mistaken for a Chihuahua, but he is really a fennec fox. A few people have also called Clawhauser a leopard or jaguar, but he's actually a cheetah. This is probably due to him being much chubbier than real life cheetahs. |
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Viewer Species Confusion / int_791e7b7f | |
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Viewer Species Confusion | |
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In Mass Effect, the turian species was supposed to be based on birds of prey, and "bird" is even used in-universe as a slang term for the species. However, many fans thought they more closely resembled felines due to the shape of their face (small, flat noses with W-shaped mouths). This was referenced in the Citadel DLC for the third game, where Grunt mutters, "They don't look like birds, they look like cats!", among other silly things, in his sleep. | |
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Viewer Species Confusion | |
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Palworld: Depresso is often assumed to be a cat, especially due to its similar appearance to the Pokémon Espurr. However, it's actually a koala, as revealed by its Japanese name "Ndakoala" (ンダコアラ) while the folder for its data is named "NegativeKoala". The confusion is further compounded by Depresso lacking both the koala's distinctive nose and ear shape. Incineram and its Noct variant are another case of this. Each Incineram's English and Japanese name ("Hellgoat" (ヘルゴート) for base and "Abyssgoat" (アビスゴート) for Noct), imply it's an ovine or caprine animal. However, its face is rather canine in nature, and its title is the "Hyena of the Wild" (or "Hyena of Darkest Night" for Incineram Noct), although this might also imply they fit the niche or behaviour of hyenas while not being one themselves. A number of players are confused on whether Arsox is a bovine or ovine, especially due to its name having "ox", but it resembles a bighorn sheep with curled horns seen in rams, and its flames resemble the fluffy coat of a sheep. Its Japanese name "Bullferno" (ブルフェルノ) and its data folder name "FlameBuffalo" indicate that it's a buffalo, and not a ram. |
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Viewer Species Confusion | |
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Mugimaru from Nurse Witch Komugi is a rabbit, but due to his oversized tail and ears curling inward, some think he's a squirrel. | |
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Viewer Species Confusion | |
| Viewer Species Confusion / int_80db7c52 | comment |
Aggretsuko: Some fans have mistaken Retsuko for a fox, a cat, or a raccoon instead of a red panda. Ookami was mistaken for a fox by some viewers, but he is actually a maned wolf. This is an easy mistake to make because maned wolves are the same color as red foxes and are not very well-known. Haida has also been mistaken for an African wild dog, but is actually a spotted hyena. Some people believe Manumaru to be a leopard or a bobcat, but he’s actually a Pallas's cat. At a glance, most viewers would probably consider Anai to be a dog, weasel, or meerkat, but he is actually a Japanese badger. He's even named Doug and referred to as a prairie dog in the fansubs for the TBS version. Tsubone is a Komodo dragon, but some fans assume her to be a snake with limbs added for the sake of anthropomorphism. Puko is sometimes assumed to be a domestic cat instead of a cougar. Due to her small size, Tsunoda is sometimes mistaken for a dik-dik instead of a Thompson's gazelle. Even Wikipedia made this mistake for a while. The unnamed Loony Fan from Season 3 is a llama, but some assume him to be a horse, donkey, camel, alpaca, or kangaroo, since he wears a mask for most of his limited screentime and we only see his face briefly. |
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Viewer Species Confusion / int_80db7c52 | |
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Viewer Species Confusion | |
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Ice Age: Scrat is meant to be a prehistoric version of a ground squirrel, but some viewers have mistaken him for a modern squirrel, or a rat. The two sea reptiles from the second movie, Maelstrom and Cretaceous, are subject to this. The fandom regularly refers to them as a Globidens and a Metriorhynchus respectively, but they are officially a pliosaur and an ichthyosaur, even though there are two official sources (official magazine and one online game) who indeed refer to Cretaceous as a Metriorhynchus. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Rudy is supposed to be a Baryonyx. Some viewers think he is a Suchomimus or even a badly drawn Spinosaurus. Ice Age: Collision Course: Gavin, Gertie and Roger are said to be "Dino-Birds" (basically a made-up species of feathered dinosaur), but they are believed to be Dakotaraptor by viewers (despite Dakotaraptor not being able to fly like them). |
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Viewer Species Confusion | |
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Super Mario Bros. has a botanical variant with the Goombas. They're called Kuribo in Japanese, which roughly translates to "Chestnut guy", so many Japanese fans thought they were based off of chesnuts. However, they're actually based on shiitake mushrooms. | |
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Viewer Species Confusion | |
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Nana in the Peter Pan books was based on a real dog named Luath. Luath was a Landseer Newfoundland, not a St. Bernard as Nana is portrayed in adaptations. | |
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Viewer Species Confusion / int_82a6f3fe | |
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Viewer Species Confusion | |
| Viewer Species Confusion / int_86cb4baa | comment |
In Morenatsu, Kouya has the grey fur and golden eyes of a wolf, and yet he is actually a husky. Doesn't stop fans from confusing him for the former when they first see him. The same can be said about his father, whose design looks like an older version of Kouya. | |
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Viewer Species Confusion | |
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12 oz. Mouse: Some people call the protagonist Mouse Fitzgerald a rat, probably due to familiarity. | |
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Viewer Species Confusion | |
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The Condor in Ice Climber looks more like a pterodactyl than an actual condor. | |
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Viewer Species Confusion | |
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Many have a hard time identifying Spike from The Land Before Time as a Stegosaurus due to his lack of plates and a thagomizer (most likely thanks to his young age), thinking him to be some sort of ankylosaur instead. It doesn't help that we never see any adult Stegosaurus in the first film, despite Littlefoot's mother mentioning "spiketails" when telling her son about the different types of dinosaurs. | |
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Based on the illustrations, no one can tell if the White Rabbit's gardener Pat is a hamster, guinea pig or some kind of ape. Of course the text never mentions his species, because his entire role takes place when Alice is trapped as a giant in the White Rabbit's house and can't see him, so his species is up to the illustrator to decide. | |
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Viewer Species Confusion | |
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Ludo from Star vs. the Forces of Evil tends to be mistaken for a Kappa by fans who are familiar with Japanese media, since he has a hairstyle that kappa are often depicted with. However, Season 2 makes clear that he's really supposed to be a bird monster who never grew wings, unlike the rest of his family who are much more birdlike in appearance. | |
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The Loud House: Izzy is sometimes assumed to be a gecko or iguana, when in actuality, his species isn't defined beyond "lizard". Charles is often described as a pit bull terrier by viewers. While this is mostly true, his grandfather is revealed to have been a Labradoodle in "Party Down", meaning he's actually three quarters pit bull terrier, one eighth Labrador and one eighth poodle. |
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Zazu from The Lion King (1994) is often called a toucan by less-knowledgeable viewers. He's a hornbill, and is even referred to as one in the song "I Just Can't Wait To Be King". | |
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Viewer Species Confusion | |
| Viewer Species Confusion / int_8f979c17 | comment |
In Once Upon a Forest, Michelle is sometimes mistaken for a skunk, when really she's a badger. | |
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Ice Age: Collision Course: Gavin, Gertie and Roger are said to be "Dino-Birds" (basically a made-up species of feathered dinosaur), but they are believed to be Dakotaraptor by viewers (despite Dakotaraptor not being able to fly like them). | |
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No-one really knows what My Hero Academia's Nezu, the principal of U.A. High School, is. The obvious answer would be a mouse or a rat (due to his long tail, his name being a pun on "nezumi", the Japanese word for "rat", and the obvious association between rats and experimentation). However, that leaves his size unaccounted for. His face also resembles a bear's somewhat, while his paws are closer to those of a feline or a canine. His Quirk does not provide an explanation for any of this. Whatever species he was originally, he is most likely heavily mutated, perhaps by the experiments he was put through. It's worth noting that this series has lots of animalistic characters who are actually human, so fans could have easily assumed that he was too. Instead, human is the one species that we know he can't be. | |
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Chu-Chu from Revolutionary Girl Utena is often mistaken for a mouse due to his small size, round ears, and the fact that "chu" is typically a Japanese sound effect for a mouse's squeaking. He's actually supposed to be a very small monkey. | |
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Something of a pedantic example, but the White Mare form of the Snow Queen in Son of the White Horse isn't just a horse. The Queen transforms into an antlered hybrid between a reindeer and a steppe horse, with antlers made of flower petals. Her antlers disappear and reappear depending on the scene, but only after shedding them for good does she technically become a horse. According to the director, this was meant to symbolize how the ancient Asian tribes who had originally made up this story, and to whom the film was dedicated, switched their sacred totem animal from the deer to the horse. | |
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Balto: Steele is a malamute, not a husky. He gets mistaken for a large husky because his crush Jenna is one and because he has blue eyes (which are impossible in purebred malamutes). | |
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Goofy himself has confused a number of people. That being said, anyone that knows the character's origins, knows he was originally called Dippy Dog, and even had a tail originally. The confusion comes from his species never really being focused on, much like with Pete. | |
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Fans tend to think that Nidoking and Nidoqueen are a strange combination of a rabbit and a rhino. In reality, they're based off of the kaiju Baragon. | |
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Regular Show: Eileen is a mole and Pops is a lollipop, but most people assume that the former is a tailed human, and the latter is a big-headed human. Margaret is supposed to be a robin, but her mostly red coloring has lead many to think that she is a cardinal, despite the fact that only male cardinals are red. |
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Pokémon: Charizard is a Western dragon, but because "Dragon" is an entire category in the game's Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors that it (usually) doesn't belong to, many fans mistake it for a lizard like its pre-evolution, Charmeleon (whose name is obviously based on "chameleon"). Its English and Japanese names (Lizardon) don't help, although the use of "lizard" in its name seems to be in line with how the term is colloquially used to refer to all sorts of reptiles, real and imaginary (e.g. referring to a dinosaur as a "big lizard"). Gyarados gets this to a lesser extent, being based on an Eastern dragon but referred to as a fish (like its own pre-evolution) or a non-dragon sea serpent. Charmander, the same line's first stage, is often presumed to be a Fiery Salamander, as indicated by its English name. However, it's known as the "Lizard Pokémon" and its Japanese name, Hitokage, literally means "fire lizard"; salamanders in folklore were often conflated with lizards due to their similar appearance. Raikou, Suicune, and Entei are often thought of as canines or felines by the fandom, when really they're based on creatures from Chinese/Japanese folklore (a Raiju, a Qilin and a Foo Lion respectively). The name "Legendary dogs" is puzzlingly prevalent for them, despite the fact that Raikou at least is clearly more akin to a sabretooth tiger than any kind of dog. Entei has some lion-like characteristics and Suicune... might resemble a very stylized leopard if you squint really hard (its inspiration was a hoofed animal), but "Legendary cats" is less prevalent than "Legendary dogs". Some fans sidestep the issue entirely with the sarcastic moniker "legendary gerbils". Bulbapedia simply calls them "Legendary beasts". The Legendary Beasts' Paradox variants, Raging Bolt, Walking Wake, and Gouging Fire, also get this treatment. Being mashups of the original Legendary Beasts with various dinosaurs, they're often cited as being based on Brontosaurus, Velociraptor and Triceratops respectively. However, they have much more in common with the vaguely similar dinosaurs Brachiosaurus, Coelophysis and Styracosaurus. Growlithe and Arcanine are striped like tigers, but also resemble and behave like dogs. They're actually based on a variation of the Shisa (A creature that could either be half-dog and half-lion or half-dog and half-tiger) from Okinawa folklore, which is made clearer in their Hisuian forms. Poochyena and Mightyena are often thought of as dogs or wolves, when they're possibly based on hyenas, got half of their name from the hyena and their appearance looks like a mixture of brown hyenas and canines. Fans tend to think that Nidoking and Nidoqueen are a strange combination of a rabbit and a rhino. In reality, they're based off of the kaiju Baragon. Mew is sometimes mistaken for a gerbil by the fandom. It's actually a cat-like creature. Likewise, Mewtwo is sometimes mistaken to be an alien. It doesn't help that it strikes a resemblance to both Giygas from the Mother video games and Frieza from Dragon Ball. Like Mew, it's supposed to be some sort of cat. Fans can't seem to determine whether Eevee is supposed to be a fox, cat, or some sort of small dog. It doesn't help that its evolutions can have either canine and/or feline traits. According to Word of God this was deliberate to emphasize Eevee's quality as a blank slate, making it a vague amalgamation of various animals to reflect its boundless potential. Espeon, on the other hand, is based on the nekomata. Although its ears resemble that of a fennec fox. Umbreon resembles some sort of feline or canine. However, it is actually partially based on a black cat, and, oddly enough, a rabbit. This is because Umbreon is supposed to be a Shout-Out to the Moon Rabbit of Asian folklore. Arceus has been called a horse, llama, giraffe, and a goat by the fandom. Its actually a Kirin (a unicorn-like creature from Japanese folklore. Also known as a "Qilin"). Lugia is often mistaken for a dragon by most of the fandom. Although it is partially based on one, Lugia is actually supposed to be a bird. In the end, Word of God labels it as a Cartoon Creature, meant to be "whatever your imagination says it is". Paras and Parasect are sometimes mistaken for hermit crabs, though they're meant to be cicada nymphs. Cranidos and Rampardos are sometimes thought to be Tyrannosaurs, when they are clearly pachycephalosaurs (although Pokémon X and Y later introduced proper T. rex Pokemon, Tyrunt and Tyrantrum). Doesn't help that the Pokédex states that Rampardos actively hunts other Pokémon. Sandshrew and Sandslash are often assumed to be mice of some sort; the English Pokédex even describes them as "Mouse Pokémon." But they're actually based on the pangolin, an armadillo-like creature unknown to most people outside Asia. Zorua and Zoroark are often mistaken for wolves, with many viewers thinking that the latter is a werewolf due to its claws being werewolf-like, when they're clearly both foxes, based on the kitsune, possibly of the more mischevious yako or nogitsune variety, contrast to Vulpix and Ninetales, who resemble the zenko kitsune in comparison. Calyrex is sometimes assumed to be a deer, but it is actually based on an arctic hare. Due to its name, Pikachu is widely considered to be loosely based on the pika. (The name actually comes from "pikapika", which is onomatopoeia for "sparking"). Amongst those who don't know what pikas are, it's usually thought that Pikachu is a mouse. According to interviews, Pikachu was originally based on a rice-cake before becoming squirrel-based. Psyduck is often taken to be "just a duck," but it's also based on the duck-billed platypus as well. |
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Due to his lack of a wattle, Panchito Pistoles from The Three Caballeros is not immediately identifiable as a rooster by many viewers. Some call him a turkey, and Doug Walker called him a woodpecker in his Disneycember of the film (which he doesn't really look like either, though he does resemble Woody Woodpecker). | |
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Monster Prom: One of the main characters, the Living Shadow Oz had met some confusion in regards to what sort of monster he is exactly, with a tendency for people to think of him as either a shadow or some sort of Humanoid Abomination, while these assessments aren't exactly incorrect, Oz's species was confirmed by the creators as being the Anthropomorphic Personification of fear itself, and the little creatures that sprout from him being phobias. | |
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Hivolt the Raptoroid from Mega Man ZX is a robot based on an eagle, but you'll see fans mistake him for a pterosaur, a dromaeosaur, or even a dragon. The confusion likely stems from his name ("raptor" refers to birds of prey but is often used to refer to smaller predatory dinosaurs such as Velociraptor, Utahraptor, Deinonychus, and the like) and the fact that his design is more abstract and mechanical-looking than those of bosses in the preceding X and Zero subseries. | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball has a lot of examples of Informed Species, but the title character is an unusual one. The cat, Gumball, is an example in that he looks round and colorful enough that he could pass as an anthropomorphic piece of candy who is named Gumball because he is a gumball. | |
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Danger Mouse: Colonel K is a chinchilla, but due to his mustache and how he appears in scenes where it's hard to judge his size, several people think he's a walrus. Penfold doesn't look much like a hamster, either. |
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Old Yeller: Old Yeller's breed is confusing to many because it's an obscure American breed. He's a "yellow cur", which refers to the Black Mouth Cur. Most people just think he's a Labrador (because he fits the Dog Stereotype and was played by a Lab mix in the film). | |
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hololive: Virtual Youtuber / Idol Singer Fubuki Shirakami is a fox-girl, having fox ears and a tail. She's frequently mistaken by viewers as a cat-girl, especially since her avatar usually only shows her upper body, so her tail isn't visible. Her tendency to exclaim "Nya!" (the sound cats make in Japanese) when surprised doesn't help matters. She tends to get annoyed and proclaim "I am a FOX!" whenever this gets brought up. Played for Laughs with some of the other members, especially the "Holobirds". Takanashi Kiara is meant to be a phoenix, but everyone calls her a chicken (not helped when her gimmick is running a fast food chain called KFP). Paviola Reine is meant to be a peafowl, but everyone calls her a turkey. Then there's Oozora Subaru always being called a duck, when she's just a regular human (started thanks to a botched ASMR stream where her voice was compared to Donald Duck). Though she's mostly accepted it, she's still annoyed that people think of her as a duck. There's also Momosuzu Nene, who also started as a normal human, but would later adopt a bear costume. Though everyone instead refers to her as a seal (which she's gracefully taken in stride). There's also Hakos Baelz, who takes the form of a rat, but everyone jokingly calls her a hamster (which she doesn't like). |
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Several Sonic the Hedgehog characters are often mistaken for other animals, since most of them don't really resemble the animal they're supposed to be: The biggest example would be Fang the Sniper from Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble to the point the translators were confused. He was originally given the Dub Name Change of "Nack the Weasel" and listed as a weasel/wolf hybrid. In reality, Fang is a jerboa/wolf hybrid. Jet the Hawk was mistaken for a parrot by some due to his green coloration and squawky nasally voice. Sonic, Shadow, Silver, and especially Amy don't resemble hedgehogs. Their quills are very stylized compared to a real hedgehog's. Sonic and Amy have furless stomachs and arms like hedgehogs, but Silver and Shadow don't. Amy's name is "Amy Rose", not "Amy the Hedgehog", so she causes the most confusion in her Modern design. With her bob-like quills, she gets mistaken for a cat. All of the hedgehogs often get mistaken for porcupines, even in official translations. Sonic himself had many early Brazilian material calling him a porcupine, which might have spike-like hair but is a whole different animal. Marine the Raccoon is sometimes mistaken for a red panda due to her coloration. Knuckles the Echidna has been called a mole (in Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie) or a porcupine (in his song "Unknown From M.E." from Sonic Adventure). This is lampshaded in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) when Agent Stone refers to Knuckles as a "space porcupine" only for the latter to bluntly correct him. |
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Moshi Monsters: Mr. Snoodle was called an elephant by some players, even by one of the creators at one point. In actuality, while he looks a little bit like one, he's really a Silly Snuffler, which is its own species. | |
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Battle for Dream Island: Some viewers often mistake Woody for a slice of bread due to his shape and color despite Tennis Ball outright stating he is made of balsa in the very first episode. | |
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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Rudy is supposed to be a Baryonyx. Some viewers think he is a Suchomimus or even a badly drawn Spinosaurus. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: According to some sources, Squidward is actually an octopus, but viewers assume he's a squid because of his name, Squidward. Word of God is that the name "Squidward" flowed better than any octopus-related puns. On SpongeBob Wiki, Sheila was put into the 'Octopi' category when she was clearly a squid. Many newcomers to the series, particularly younger viewers, have mistaken SpongeBob himself for a cube of cheese, based on him being a yellow cube with holes. The resemblance is even lampshaded in "Band Geeks" and "Picture Day". The entire reason his name is SpongeBob instead of simply Bob was to prevent this. SpongeBob's extended family, in contrast to SpongeBob himself, are designed to look more like actual sea sponges as opposed to a kitchen sponge. However, because their designs are so radically different to SpongeBob, on top of their circular shape, many have confused them for being sentient cookies, which isn't helped by the fact that Grandma SquarePants is well-known for making cookies. |
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In You Are Umasou, there is a purple horned carnivore whom some viewers think is a Carnotaurus. It is actually supposed to be a Chilantaisaurus like in the book of the same name and this episode from the animated series (and the animal in question does have huge arms and three-fingered hands, in contrast to stubby arms and four-fingered hands like Carnotaurus). | |
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Merasmus the Wizard from Team Fortress 2 has a monkey-like face and appearance, which will make some think he's a monkey for a second. | |
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The biggest example would be Fang the Sniper from Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble to the point the translators were confused. He was originally given the Dub Name Change of "Nack the Weasel" and listed as a weasel/wolf hybrid. In reality, Fang is a jerboa/wolf hybrid. | |
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Jurassic Park The first movie contains a case of this. The two skeletons in the Visitor Center are a Tyrannosaurus rex and a sauropod. Said sauropod is often called an Apatosaurus or a Brontosaurus, but according to the script, it's an Alamosaurus. The unnamed sauopod that appears briefly during the roundup scene in The Lost World: Jurassic Park is neither an Apatosaurus nor a Diplodocus, which it is often mistaken for by causal viewers. It's actually a Mamenchisaurus. In Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the skull that the Indoraptor is impaled on during the final battle is often called a Triceratops skull by viewers. According to the script, it's an Agujaceratops. However, Agujaceratops had holes in its frill that the skull in the movie doesn't have, which makes it look more like a Triceratops skull anyway. The film's producers, on the other hand, claim it wasn't supposed to be a specific type of ceratopsian at all, so make of that what you will. |
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The bird mascot of Duolingo is an owl, but given his green coloration, ability to produce human speech, and diurnality, he's often confused for a parrot. | |
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Martha Speaks: Martha is sometimes assumed to be a Labrador or a Golden Retriever, when she's actually a mutt and doesn't even know what breeds she has in her except that she's apparently part pit bull. Skits is sometimes assumed by viewers to be a Great Dane, when he's actually also a mutt. His fur is too woolly for him to be a Great Dane for one thing. |
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The unnamed sauopod that appears briefly during the roundup scene in The Lost World: Jurassic Park is neither an Apatosaurus nor a Diplodocus, which it is often mistaken for by causal viewers. It's actually a Mamenchisaurus. | |
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Despite his black-and-white pelt, the wolf-dog Alpha from Survivor Dogs is half-German Shepherd, not half-Husky or Malamute. He gets his coloring from his gray wolf side. | |
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Baloo from The Jungle Book is identified as a brown bear in the text. However, many fans assume he is a sloth bear due to the story being set in India. However, it's possible that he is a sloth bear, and the text is only referring to his color. | |
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The first movie contains a case of this. The two skeletons in the Visitor Center are a Tyrannosaurus rex and a sauropod. Said sauropod is often called an Apatosaurus or a Brontosaurus, but according to the script, it's an Alamosaurus. | |
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Growlithe and Arcanine are striped like tigers, but also resemble and behave like dogs. They're actually based on a variation of the Shisa (A creature that could either be half-dog and half-lion or half-dog and half-tiger) from Okinawa folklore, which is made clearer in their Hisuian forms. | |
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The book Shiloh was inspired by the writer's own experience. While visiting friends in Shiloh, West Virginia she came across a skinny, mistreated Beagle in 1989. Her friends ended up adopting the dog. As it turns out, Clover was a mutt not a Beagle. The fictional Shiloh, however, is an actual Beagle. | |
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Gregg from Night in the Woods is a fox, but players who are unaware have interpreted him as being a wolf or a dog, since his species isn't mentioned in-game. | |
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Heckle and Jeckle are often mistaken for crows, even though they're actually magpies (yellow-billed magpies to be exact). This is an understandable mistake though — how many cartoons can you name that star magpies as characters? | |
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Likewise, Mewtwo is sometimes mistaken to be an alien. It doesn't help that it strikes a resemblance to both Giygas from the Mother video games and Frieza from Dragon Ball. Like Mew, it's supposed to be some sort of cat. | |
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In T.U.F.F. Puppy, two of Snaptrap's henchmen, Ollie and Larry, are said to be an opossum and a shrew, respectively. However, Ollie looks more like a weasel or brown rat, while Larry could easily be mistaken for an opossum, white rat or mouse. | |
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Warrior Cats: Yellowfang's short muzzle and long fur has many claim that she's a Persian. She isn't. She's a mixed-breed just like almost all of the Clan cats. She gets her Persian-like traits from her mother's side. Kinkfur's perpetually messy fur has some fans claim that he's a Devon Rex or Cornish Rex. Kinkfur is mixed. Bluestar is very frequently described as a Russian Blue, even on The Other Wiki. She isn't—she's mixed. She has greyish "blue" fur and a sleek build but has blue eyes, not green. Bluestar is not from a pure Russian Blue lineage, meaning that she's not a Russian Blue. She likely has Russian Blue in her blood, however. |
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Freddy the Ferret from Barnyard has been mistaken for a weasel, a kangaroo, or a cat. | |
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The Apebeasts from Thief: The Dark Project are sometimes mistaken for Ratmen due to their hairless tails. Thief II: The Metal Age completely changes their models, making them look more like actual apes. | |
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Summer Camp Island very likely confused lots of viewers with respect to species. The protagonists are an elephant named Oscar and a Hedgehog named Hedgehog but you wouldn't know that by looking at them. Oscar has tiny ears and a tiny snout (unlike his elephant-looking parents) while Hedgehog looks like a weasel. They're two examples of many (for example, a wingless bat character resembles a badger, likely because he was a badger in the original pilot). | |
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Russell the sea otter from Happy Tree Friends is commonly mistaken for a cat due to his whiskers. Giggles is supposed to be a chipmunk, but her lack of a tail caused fans to mistake her for a bear. It was eventually confirmed that she does have a tail, but it's so short that we can't see it. Others have assumed Sniffles the anteater to be an elephant, despite the smaller ears and the fact his mouth is accurately placed at the end of his snout like an actual anteater. It's also an easy mistake to think Disco Bear to be a lion until you learn his name, due to his colors combined with his afro easily being mistaken for mane. |
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Terriermon from Digimon Tamers is supposed to be a dog, like the name suggests, but he looks more like a rabbit. It doesn't help that his twin, Lopmon, actually is a rabbit. The dub decided to just straight up change him into a rabbit. Muddling things even further is a piece of art the official Digimon twitter released for New Years 2018, themed after the Year of the Dog, featuring Terriermon... and Lopmon, who is supposed to be a rabbit. | |
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Madagascar: Mort is a very cute animal with buck teeth and a bushy tail, but he isn't a squirrel. He's a mouse lemur (which is a primate, not a rodent). King Julien is not a raccoon, despite his face mask and ringed tail. He's a lemur. |
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DNA: Species X is a group of genetically engineered animals, although what species they are based on is unknown which has lead to many readers trying to guess what they are. The author has confirmed that they are not bats, or lemurs, or dogs, or cats, or koalas, or wolves, or mice. Since they were genetically engineered, they may be based on multiple animals. | |
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Arknights has a number of cases in which players mistook an operator's animal features for those of a different animal: Goldenglow's design was first teased in a livestream nearly two years before she was implemented, and during that time she was near-universally assumed to be a dog girl due to her floppy ears and resemblance to Korone Inugami. In reality, she was based on the Scottish Fold cat breed. Santalla made a short appearance during one of the game's earliest events, but wasn't seen again until her playable debut almost four years later. Her long ears and white colour scheme led many fans to believe she was based on an Arctic fox before she was ultimately revealed to be Norwegian Forest cat-themed instead. The "White Wolf" Horn is frequently mistaken for a Cat Girl, as her home country Victoria has a strong feline Animal Motif. It doesn't help that her profile on the Global server erroneously listed her race as "Feline" when she was first implemented. |
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In Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the skull that the Indoraptor is impaled on during the final battle is often called a Triceratops skull by viewers. According to the script, it's an Agujaceratops. However, Agujaceratops had holes in its frill that the skull in the movie doesn't have, which makes it look more like a Triceratops skull anyway. The film's producers, on the other hand, claim it wasn't supposed to be a specific type of ceratopsian at all, so make of that what you will. | |
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Some people think the titular character of Bolt is a Bull Terrier, a mutt, or just a generic cartoon dog. He's actually a White Shepherd (a white off-shoot of the German Shepherd breed) but is very small for his breed. He's the same size as a house cat despite being an adult. | |
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Pete is actually a cat, but practically everyone has thought he was a dog. This even carried into Goof Troop. | |
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Io is a species of rabbit characterized by having droopy ears; it's easy to think that he's a dog, especially in Twinkle, where he forms a trio with two dog Jewelpets. This mistake was canonized by the fourth season. | |
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Despite having his actual species in his name, Badgerclops from Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart is often mistaken for a panda bear because of his body type. It doesn’t help that he was originally going to be “Bearclops�, as shown by the early material for the show before it got picked up. | |
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Knuckles the Echidna has been called a mole (in Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie) or a porcupine (in his song "Unknown From M.E." from Sonic Adventure). This is lampshaded in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) when Agent Stone refers to Knuckles as a "space porcupine" only for the latter to bluntly correct him. | |
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Timothy Goes to School has Fritz. Is he a skunk? A badger? Nobody seems to be sure. Even looking at official reviews for the original Rosemary Wells book that he appears in, Fritz and the Mess Fairy, doesn't shed any light on the subject. Publisher's Weekly calls him a "skunk," Kirkus Reviews describes him as a "badger." Presumably, this applies to Miss Appleberry (the occasionally-seen student teacher) by extension, as she appears to be the exact same species as Fritz. | |
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The Moomins: Snorkmaiden and Snork are often mistaken for Moomins, because their species (Snorks) and their difference compared to Moomins (They can change color according to their mood) are rarely brought up after Comet in Moominland. Snufkin and Little My are often mistaken for humans. It's not mentioned very often, but they're much smaller than humans: Snufkin is around the size of Moomins, who are said to have lived behind people's masonry heaters, and Little My was so small she needed to be seen through a magnifying glass when she was born. Their mother is also a Horned Humanoid in the book illustrations, and Mymbles and Snufkins (at least in the first book) are treated as a species. |
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Brutus and Nero from The Rescuers are called crocodiles in the movie, but viewers often refer to them as alligators (most likely due to the film being set in Louisiana, where alligators are common, but crocodiles are rarely seen). It should be noted gators are distinguished from crocs by possessing an overbite, whereas Brutus and Nero both have interlocking teeth appropriate for crocs. That said, the concept art and some spinoff books do call them alligators, and cartoon alligators are often drawn with crocodile-type teeth. | |
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My Little Pony: The Movie (2017): Captain Celaeno was thought by some to be a griffon when her design was first revealed, since only her top half was visible and she had a similar design as the griffons in the show the film was based on, along with long pointed ears similar to the kind griffons in other media are sometimes depicted with. Others pointed out her name doesn't start with a "G" like the other griffons in the show, and is a reference to a harpy from Greek mythology. Then her toy was revealed, showing she didn't have lion parts and looked more like a humanoid parrot than a griffon. That said, the confusion still persisted among many reviewers for a while, due to her brief appearances in the trailer. Despite official sources calling him a hedgehog, many fans call Grubber a badger due to his black and white coloration. |
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Cranidos and Rampardos are sometimes thought to be Tyrannosaurs, when they are clearly pachycephalosaurs (although Pokémon X and Y later introduced proper T. rex Pokemon, Tyrunt and Tyrantrum). Doesn't help that the Pokédex states that Rampardos actively hunts other Pokémon. | |
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The green puppet in Don't Hug Me I'm Scared is pretty clearly an anthropomorphic bird, but fans spent some time arguing what kind up until he was given an official designation of "Duck." This is mainly due to the fact that the green on him is very dark green, to the point that it looks black in a lot of earlier material, and it covers his whole body rather than being confined to his head. Due to that, a lot of fans were convinced he was supposed to be a crow—not helped by him letting out a caw in the fourth video during a fairly deranged segment. On top of all that, a common Fan Nickname for him was "Robin", which he really doesn't look like. The TV series, perhaps in a nod/added log on the fire to the confusion, has him call himself "a talking crow-like thing" as part of a Couch Gag. | |
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The art-style of Ginga Densetsu Weed and Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin makes it hard to distinguish dog breeds. John the German Shepherd, for example, doesn't look much like a GS, while Cross the Saluki looks more like a spaniel. | |
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Ravage from Transformers is supposed to be a robotic panther, but his design in the original Generation One cartoon looked more like a dog or wolf, leading to years of heated debate in the early fandom over what kind of animal he was meant to look like. Beast Wars seemingly managed to put the matter to rest by redesigning him to look more explicitly catlike... until, almost a decade later, Bumblebee reopened old wounds by having its version of Ravage look like a dog again! Lampshaded in the IDW comics, where Ravage getting constantly mistaken for a dog became a minor Running Gag. | |
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Full Metal Panic!: Is Bonta-kun supposed to be a bear or a giant mouse? Opinions on the fandom seem to be split. In fact, in Super Robot Wars W, the villains who see him in one scenario begin to argue on whether he's a bear or a mouse. | |
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The Muppets: Animal and Gonzo. No-one has any clue as to what either of them is, to the point where the latter was frequently referred to as a "whatever". Of course, Gonzo later turned out to be an alien. Gonzo also bears a strong resemblance to a Russian insectivore called a "desman". His puppet is a modified "frackle" monster from The Great Santa Claus Switch, an earlier Henson project. There's also Beauregard. It's unclear just what exactly he's supposed to be, though some have theorized that he's a mole. |
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