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* The animals of ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'' are pretty easy to identify, even when their features are changed or exaggerated for artistic license. Shifu is another matter, and unless you've [[AllThereInTheManual read the guidebooks]] you might guess anything from raccoon dog (face, tail) to lemur (hands, ears) [[labelnote:*]]non-native to China[[/labelnote]]. Creator/DustinHoffman, who plays Shifu, went for, "I don't know... some kind of raccoon?" He's officially a red panda, but since red pandas look like [[https://www.google.es/search?q=red+panda&tbm=isch this]] and Shifu looks like [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Shifu_5_4093.png this]], you can understand his confusion. Shifu has huge round ears, more whitish orangey fur, and dark brown hands, while [[http://www.pluspets.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Red-Panda4.jpg red]] [[http://www.pluspets.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Red-Panda2.jpg pandas]] have medium sized, rounded triangular ears and are more reddish with a black underside and legs.

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* The animals of ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'' are pretty easy to identify, even when their features are changed or exaggerated for artistic license. Shifu is another matter, and unless But there are a few that are different matters. For example:
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you've [[AllThereInTheManual read the guidebooks]] you might guess Shifu is anything from raccoon dog (face, tail) to lemur (hands, ears) [[labelnote:*]]non-native to China[[/labelnote]]. Creator/DustinHoffman, who plays Shifu, went for, "I don't know... some kind of raccoon?" He's officially a red panda, but since red pandas look like [[https://www.google.es/search?q=red+panda&tbm=isch this]] and Shifu looks like [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Shifu_5_4093.png this]], you can understand his confusion. Shifu has huge round ears, more whitish orangey fur, and dark brown hands, while [[http://www.pluspets.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Red-Panda4.jpg red]] [[http://www.pluspets.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Red-Panda2.jpg pandas]] have medium sized, rounded triangular ears and are more reddish with a black underside and legs.legs.
** The Chameleon is supposed to be, well a chameleon, but while she has a head crest and a very long tongue like the real deal, she's missing the distinctive eyes that real chameleons have (instead having typical reptilian eyes) and has unusually long spines along her tail (more akin with the spines of an iguana).
** Her komodo dragon guards look little like the real deal, and look more like huge iguanas due to having dark green scales rather than golden-brown scales like real komodos, and also have long spikes along their heads and tails and on their chins, which real komodos lack.
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* While the WolfMan didn't look much like a wolf already, his animated design in ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunksMeetTheWolfman'' looks even less so. He has a shorter muzzle and a mane around his head, making him more resemble a lion than a wolf. He also has only three toes in each foot, unlike in the original where he has four toes like a wolf.

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* While the WolfMan didn't look much like a wolf already, his animated design in ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunksMeetTheWolfman'' looks even less so. He has a shorter muzzle muzzle, a thinner nose, and a mane around his head, making him more resemble a lion than a wolf. He also has only three toes in each foot, unlike in the original where he has four toes like a wolf.
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*''Film/{{Padak}}'': Bream was said to be a rockfish, but looks more like a barred knifejaw as seen by his black and white stripes.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Leo}}'': Leo is supposedly a tuatara, despite looking more like a strange iguana-chameleon-gecko hybrid. It's also unusual because tuataras are not kept as pets anywhere; the only thing that the film gets right is its extraordinarily long lifespan.
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* ''Franchise/WinniethePooh'':
** Rabbit looks more like a hare than an actual rabbit.
** Both Kanga and Roo look more like quokkas than actual kangaroos.
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* A few of the reviews for ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'' when it first came out complained about how un-catlike Tiger looked. The [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/anamericantail/images/e/eb/Cossackcats.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120315200727 Cossack Cats]] in the beginning scene could easily be mistaken for weasels, wolverines, or even wolves.

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* A few of the reviews for ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'' when it first came out complained about how un-catlike Tiger looked. The [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/anamericantail/images/e/eb/Cossackcats.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120315200727 [[https://anamericantail.fandom.com/wiki/The_Cossack_Cats Cossack Cats]] in the beginning scene could easily be mistaken for weasels, wolverines, or even wolves.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys2022'': Diane Foxington is a mild example. She's meant to be a fox (if her surname wasn't a giveaway) but her incredibly bright orange fur, shorter muzzle and the way her ears stand up make her look more like a Welsh corgi than a fox. It doesn't help that her bushy tail (another physical trait popular among foxes) disappears halfway through the movie.
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* A few of the reviews for ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'' when it first came out complained about how un-catlike Tiger looked. The Cossack Cats in the beginning scene could easily be mistaken for weasels or even wolves.

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* A few of the reviews for ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'' when it first came out complained about how un-catlike Tiger looked. The [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/anamericantail/images/e/eb/Cossackcats.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120315200727 Cossack Cats Cats]] in the beginning scene could easily be mistaken for weasels weasels, wolverines, or even wolves.
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** Jiminy Cricket is so heavily anthropomorphized that he looks more like a little green man with a rabbit nose and no ears. Animator Creator/WardKimball, who designed him, admitted that "he's a cricket because we ''say'' he's a cricket." And then the live-action adaptation actually had him as a tiny green human. (Contrast the Cricket in the recent, stop-motion, ''WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio'', who is far more accurately cricketlike in design, down to retaining six limbs.)

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** Jiminy Cricket is so heavily anthropomorphized that he looks more like a little green man with a rabbit nose and no ears. Animator Creator/WardKimball, who designed him, admitted that "he's a cricket because we ''say'' he's a cricket." And then the live-action adaptation actually had him as a tiny green human. (Contrast the Cricket in the recent, stop-motion, stop-motion ''WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio'', who is far more accurately cricketlike in design, down to retaining six limbs.)
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** Jiminy Cricket is so heavily anthropomorphized that he looks more like a little green man with a rabbit nose and no ears. Animator Creator/WardKimball, who designed him, admitted that "he's a cricket because we ''say'' he's a cricket." And then the live-action adaptation actually had him as a tiny green human.

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** Jiminy Cricket is so heavily anthropomorphized that he looks more like a little green man with a rabbit nose and no ears. Animator Creator/WardKimball, who designed him, admitted that "he's a cricket because we ''say'' he's a cricket." And then the live-action adaptation actually had him as a tiny green human. (Contrast the Cricket in the recent, stop-motion, ''WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio'', who is far more accurately cricketlike in design, down to retaining six limbs.)

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