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Hi everyone,

Recently I was thinking about the different designs that my demons will have and given that most of them are strongly linked to an animal, I felt like giving them animal characteristics. At the same time I'm quite unsure about that, as it seems like ''furry'' characters (humanoids with dominant animal traits) are in a pretty bad spot right now and I've got to wonder: Why?

Let's go back and look at the old characters - surprisingly enough, so, so many characters were ''furries'' in the past and nobody seemed to care. Just have a look at the list that I've compiled off the top of my head:

- Sonic

- Ratchet (and Clank)

- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

- Sly Cooper

- Conker

- Thundercats

- Fox Mc Cloud (and the rest of the crew)

- Sam & Max

- Khajit & Argonians in the Elder Scrolls

... the list just goes on and on.

Yet strangely enough when a new game with furry characters comes out there is usually a barrage of questions and posts concerned with it and with tons of people saying that ''it looks fun but it's got furries in it so no thanks'' - an example of that would be ''Dust - An Elysian Tail''. That game got so much feedback on the furry theme that it completely outweighed all the useful feedback on the actual game.

Even on another forum when I looked at an old post just asking for games with furries in it for some project or something the OP got interesting comments such as ''if you are a fur fetishest, then i regrettably must inform you that the only universal truth that /b/ has ever spoken is OH GOD KILL IT WITH FIRE'' or ''As much as I hate furries...'' 

Please note that the person was only asking for a list. Nothing offensive or suggestive was posted in the original post.

Quite recently I've also bumped into the 2011 remake of the old Thundercats and from what I've watched it seemed really freaking awesome. Magic, sci-fi, cool characters and possibly one of the more exciting first episodes ever? (Honestly, if you have like 40 mins and haven't got anything fun to do I recommend checking it out, I really enjoyed it.) I thought that it was a big thing, yet I quickly found out that it was cancelled after one season, even though people actually liked it. I don't want to go all ''Illuminati controls everything and cancels shows with furries'', but was the fact that the show had an all furry cast a coincidence? Perhaps.

Additionally, looking at the new remake of TMNT, one quite easily bumps into this picture:







The new turtle it pretty much a weird green human, at least that's what he looks like to me. Definitely does not look like the TMNT that I know.

So, I guess that after all this, a couple of questions remains: do you think that furry characters still have a place in modern media?

Is having a large furry cast detrimental to the game or is it just like having a large alien cast? How do you think that the general's audience viewpoint has changed over the years and why has it changed?

I'm really curious what you think.

Thanks!

(Also, for the record: I'm talking about ''normal'' furry characters, like the ones in the past. I'm not talking about fetishes and other weird things like that, I think it's quite clear what the usual attitude is towards that stuff.)