Animals

Animals are common in many settings, whether they be true Animals (e.g. Cujo) or Anthropomorphic Characters (e.g. Shadow the Hedgehog, Scar, Cthulhu, and Black Philip): a True Animal is not really evil but rather guided by instincts or hunger (e.g. Jaws and The Birds) while some who display human features may be more clever (e.g. Dr. Blowhole). Animals can also be Predators such as tigers, foxes, bears, sharks, birds-of-prey and snakes.

Aside from modern-day animals, ancient prehistoric-era creatures (dinosaurs, flying reptiles, marine reptiles, etc.) can also be Animals in fiction.

However, Anthropomorphic Animals are usually the direct opposite and guided by human emotions and ideals (e.g. Jenner's love of power, Hopper's hatred of opposition, etc.).

Some of these animals may be pets or guard/attack dogs of characters, including other evildoers.

Do not add Animal Cruelty to characters who are somehow Animals unless exceptions are found; they can often qualify for Misanthropes.

Variations[]

• Amphibians: Villains who are or possess traits of frogs, toads, axolotls, salamanders, newts, and/or caecilians.
• Annelids: Villains who are or possess traits of earthworms, leeches, and/or ragworms.
• Arachnids: Villains who are or possess traits of spiders, scorpions, ticks, and/or mites.
• Artiodactyls: Villains who are or possess traits of pigs, wild boars, warthogs, peccaries, hippopotamuses, antelopes, mouse deer, deer, reindeers, moose, giraffes, okapis, camels, dromedaries, llamas, alpacas, vicuñas, guanacos, sheep, goats, ibexes, buffaloes, bisons, yaks, gaurs, musk oxen, takins, and/or cattle.
• Birds: Villains who are or possess traits of eagles, hawks, falcons, vultures, owls, chickens, penguins, peafowl, flamingos, ostriches, toucans, canaries, parrots, cockatoos, cockatiels, lorikeets, kookaburras, dodos, crows, ravens, magpies, seagulls, pellicans, storks, ducks, geese, swans, quails, quetzals, cuckoos, loons, woodpeckers, hummingbirds, pigeons, doves, roadrunners, sparrows, songbirds, buzzards, condors, pheasants, hornbills, oxpeckers, kiwi birds, ibis, spoonbills, herons, egrets, shoebills, guineafowls, frigatebirds, skuas, emus, cassowaries, cranes, albatrosses, penguins, auks, secretarybirds, and/or other birds.
• Bivalves: Villains who are or possess traits of clams, oysters, cockles, mussels, and/or scallops.
• Canines: Villains who are or possess traits of dogs, wolves, foxes, jackals, coyotes, and/or tanukis.
• Cephalopods: Villains who are or posses traits of octopuses, squids, and/or cuttlefishes.
• Cetaceans: Villains who are or possess traits of dolphins, whales, orcas, belugas, narwhals, and/or porpoises.
• Chiropterans: Villains who are or possess traits of bats.
• Coelenterates: Villains who are or possess traits of jellyfishes, corals, sea anemones, and/or comb jellies.
• Colugos: Villains who are or possess traits of flying lemurs.
• Crustaceans: Villains who are or possess traits of crabs, lobsters, shrimps, hermit crabs, crayfishes, krills, copepods, isopods, and/or barnacles.
• Dinosaurians: Villains who are or possess traits of dinosaurs.
• Echinoderms: Villains who are or possess traits of starfishes, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, crinoids, brittle stars, and/or blastoids.
• Eulipotyphlans: Villains who are or possess traits of hedgehogs, moles, shrews, desmans, solenodons, moonrats, and/or gymnures.
• Felids: Villains who are or possess traits of domestic cats, wildcats, ocelots, bobcats, lynxes, servals, caracals, cheetahs, pumas, leopards, snow leopards, clouded leopards, panthers, jaguars, lions, tigers, and/or smilodons.
• Fish: Villains who are or possess traits of sharks, mantas, stringrays, skates, sawfish, chimaeras, goldfish, eels, salmons, seahorses, pufferfish, piranhas, clownfish, catfishes, trouts, anglerfish, barracudas, pikes, flounders, arapaimas, mahi-mahi, loaches, guitarfish, carps, coelacanths, Siamese fighting fishes, swordfishes, tangs, and/or other fish.
• Gastropods: Villains who are or possess traits of snails, and/or slugs.
• Herpestids: Villains who are or possess traits of meerkats, and/or mongooses.
• Hyaenids: Villains who are or possess traits of hyenas, and/or aardwolves.
• Insects: Villains who are or possess traits of beetles, termites, cockroaches, mantises, flies, mosquitoes, mayflies, butterflies, moths, bees, wasps, hornets, ants, sawflies, dragonflies, damselflies, grasshoppers, locusts, crickets, katydids, wetas, and/or stick-bugs.
• Lagomorphs: Villains who are or possess traits of rabbits, hares, jackrabbits, and/or pikas.
• Marsupials: Villains who are or possess traits of kangaroos, wallabies, wallaroos, quokkas, tree kangaroos, koalas, bandicoots, bilbies, marsupial moles, opossums, possums, sugar gliders, wombats, Tasmanian devils, thylacines, thylacoleos, and/or diprotodons.
• Monotremes: Villains who are or possess traits of platypuses, and/or echidnas.
• Musteloids: Villains who are or possess traits of weasels, skunks, wolverines, otters, badgers, minks, ferrets, martens, raccoons, coatis, kinkajous, olingos, costimundi, olinguitos, ringtails, cacomistles, and/or red pandas.
• Myriapods: Villains who are or possess traits of centipedes, and/or millipedes.
• Orycteropodids: Villains who are or possess traits of aardvarks.
• Perissodactyls: Villains who are or possess traits of horses, donkeys, zebras, rhinoceroses, and/or tapirs.
• Pholidotes: Villains who are or possess traits of pangolins.
• Pinnipeds: Villains who are or possess traits of seals, sea lions, sea elephants, and/or walruses.
• Platyhelminthes: Villains who are or possess traits of flatworms.
• Poriferans: Villains who are or possess traits of sponges.
• Primates: Villains who are or possess traits of chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, bonobos, gibbons, monkeys, lemurs, lorises, mandrills, baboons, bush babies, and/or tarsiers.
• Proboscideans: Villains who are or possess traits of elephants, mammoths, and/or mastodons.
• Reptiles: Villains who are or possess traits of lizards, geckos, iguanas, chameleons, frilled lizards, thorny devils, snakes, rattlesnakes, cobras, turtles, tortoises, sea turtles, alligators, and/or crocodiles.
• Rodents: Villains who are or possess traits of mice, rats, squirrels, prairie dogs, chipmunks, chinchillas, porcupines, pacas, beavers, guinea pigs, hamsters, gerbils, voles, gophers, ground hogs, lemmings, jerboas, coypu, and/or capybaras.
• Sirenians: Villains who are or possess traits of manatees, dugongs, and/or Steller's sea cows.
• Tardigrades: Villains who are or possess traits of water bears.
• Tenrecids: Villains who are or possess traits of tenrecs.
• Theraspids: Villains who are or possess traits of hyraxes.
• Ursids: Villains who are or possess traits of brown bears, black bears, polar bears, sloth bears, sun bears, moon bears, and/or pandas.
• Viverrids: Villains who are or possess traits of binturongs, civets, genets, fossas, and/or linsangs.
• Xenarthrans: Villains who are or possess traits of anteaters, armadillos, sloths, and/or glyptodonts.