History Main / AsianFoxSpirit

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-953 SCP-953]] is a kumiho, and calling her a kitsune [[BerserkButton sends her into a violent rage]]... though she has [[TheFakeCutie taken advantage of the confusion]] on occasion. Her profile notes that the difference between kumiho and kitsune seems to be a matter of ethnicity and culture akin to "the difference between a Cherokee Indian and a New Delhi Indian."

* The eponymous ''Series/KamenRiderGeats'' aka Ace Ukiyo is based on the ''kitsune'', and not only is he an ExperiencedProtagonist, he's also willing to manipulate and lie - though he's also got his softer side.

** Kyuemon Izayoi from ''Series/ShurikenSentaiNinninger'', who fits the trickster archetype because he's extremely secretive and manipulative, and you never really know where his loyalties lie [[spoiler:until late in the series, where it turns out he's BigBad Gengetsu Kibaoni's firstborn son]]. The same goes for his ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' counterpart, [[Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel Madame]] [[ShesAManInJapan Odius]], who [[spoiler:ends up usurping Galvanax as the BigBad]].

* ''Series/LovecraftCountry'': [[spoiler:Meeh Ji-Ah]] is a Korean woman possessed by a kumiho/nine-tailed fox, and she must kill 100 men and absorb their souls through her tails during sex to become a human again. She's convinced to stop at 99 and learn to accept herself as she is.

* ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania3SummerVacation'': One of the film's extras is a female, posh-looking kitsune, being the only Eastern creature among a cast made up entirely of Western monsters.

** Tamamo-no-Mae was a beautiful fortune teller who could answer any question, and whose [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished beauty was never tarnished]]. The Emperor Konoe fell in love with her and made her one of his courtesans, but after several years the Emperor fell seriously ill. Eventually, Abe no Yasuchika, an [[UsefulNotes/{{Onmyodo}} onmyoji]] descended from Abe no Seimei, told him that Tamamo was a powerful ''kitsune'' -- in later versions the same fox-spirit as Daji from the ''Literature/FengshenYanyi'' -- that had been poisoning him. Her identity exposed, Tamamo fled, and the Emperor sent his army to kill her. The army tracked Tamamo to the Nara plains, but after [[Mystical108 108 days]] only Kazusa-no-suke and Miura-no-suke -- the two most powerful warriors in Japan -- remained. Tamamo appeared to Miura-no-suke in a dream, prophesying he would kill her and pleading for her life, but the following day Miura-no-suke shot and killed her. In the original narrative, Tamamo's body was taken to Edo, and miraculous treasures were found inside, but in later iterations it [[TakenForGranite became a cursed stone]] called the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sessho-seki Sessho-seki]]'' (Killing Stone) and Tamamo's spirit an [[StringyHairedGhostGirl onryo]] who haunted it. In an addendum to the tale written in 1653, Tamamo-no-Mae was eventually exorcized by a Buddhist monk named Genno, allowing her to pass on in peace and be enshrined as the fox-goddess Sasahara Inari. In some versions, the ''Sessho-seki'' was shattered and its pieces scattered across Japan, manifesting as lesser ''kitsune'' called ''kuda-gitsune'' and other ''yokai''; this latter myth got scrutinized a lot more closely when the ''real'' stone [[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/07/japans-killing-stone-splits-in-two-releasing-superstitions-and-toxic-gases split on 5 march 2022]].

** Tamamo-no-Mae was a beautiful fortune teller who could answer any question, and whose [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished beauty was never tarnished]]. The Emperor Konoe fell in love with her and made her one of his courtesans, but after several years the Emperor fell seriously ill. Eventually, Abe no Yasuchika, an [[UsefulNotes/{{Onmyodo}} onmyoji]] descended from Abe no Seimei, told him that Tamamo was a powerful ''kitsune'' -- in later versions the same fox-spirit as Daji from the ''Literature/FengshenYanyi'' -- that had been poisoning him. Her identity exposed, Tamamo fled, and the Emperor sent his army to kill her. The army tracked Tamamo to the Nara plains, but after [[Mystical108 108 days]] only Kazusa-no-suke and Miura-no-suke -- the two most powerful warriors in Japan -- remained. Tamamo appeared to Miura-no-suke in a dream, prophesying he would kill her and pleading for her life, but the following day Miura-no-suke shot and killed her. In the original narrative, Tamamo's body was taken to Edo, and miraculous treasures were found inside, but in later iterations it [[TakenForGranite became a cursed stone]] called the ''Sessho-seki'' (Killing Stone) and Tamamo's spirit an [[StringyHairedGhostGirl onryo]] who haunted it. In an addendum to the tale written in 1653, Tamamo-no-Mae was eventually exorcized by a Buddhist monk named Genno, allowing her to pass on in peace and be enshrined as the fox-goddess Sasahara Inari. In some versions, the ''Sessho-seki'' was shattered and its pieces scattered across Japan, manifesting as lesser ''kitsune'' called ''kuda-gitsune'' and other ''yokai''.

** Tamamo-no-Mae was a beautiful fortune teller who could answer any question, and whose [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished beauty was never tarnished]]. The Emperor Konoe fell in love with her and made her one of his courtesans, but after several years the Emperor fell seriously ill. Eventually, Abe no Yasuchika, an [[UsefulNotes/{{Onmyodo}} onmyoji]] descended from Abe no Seimei, told him that Tamamo was a powerful ''kitsune'' -- in later versions the same fox-spirit as Daji from the ''Literature/FengshenYanyi'' -- that had been poisoning him. Her identity exposed, Tamamo fled, and the Emperor sent his army to kill her. The army tracked Tamamo to the Nara plains, but after [[Mystical108 108 days]] only Kazusa-no-suke and Miura-no-suke -- the two most powerful warriors in Japan -- remained. Tamamo appeared to Miura-no-suke in a dream, prophesying he would kill her and pleading for her life, but the following day Miura-no-suke shot and killed her. In the original narrative, Tamamo's body was taken to Edo, and miraculous treasures were found inside, but in later iterations it [[TakenForGranite became a cursed stone]] called the ''Sessho-seki'' (Killing Stone) and Tamamo's spirit an [[StringyHairedGhostGirl onryo]] who haunted it. In an addendum to the tale written in 1653, Tamamo-no-Mae was eventually exorcized by a Buddhist monk named Genno, allowing her to pass on in peace. In some versions, the ''Sessho-seki'' was shattered and its pieces scattered across Japan, manifesting as lesser ''kitsune'' called ''kuda-gitsune'' and other ''yokai''.

* Miyabi in ''VisualNovel/EnchantedInTheMoonlight'' is a kitsune, with the usual shapeshifting powers, ghostly blue fox-fire, and trickster attitude. He appears variously as a handsome young human man, a longer-haired version of his human form with fox ears and tail, and an actual fox with supernatural markings.
* Yuuichi Komura from ''VisualNovel/HiiroNoKakera'' is descended from one and can partially transform into one.
* [[spoiler:Makoto Sawatari]] in ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'' turns out to be a fox [[spoiler:that Yuuichi cared for when he was young, but he set her free when he had to leave town. Her wish to see him again lets her become human, but despite being able to meet him again years later she has no memories of being a fox, or really anything about her former life at all]].
* The Nine-Tailed Fox who, according to legend, opposed the {{tengu}} Tenma Taro in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies''. He even inspired a MaskedLuchador, the Amazing Nine-Tails.

** The protagonist is a Korean fox-spirit who goes by Miho and is searching for a traveler who showed her kindness when she was a normal fox, wandering the Earth while relying on her mysterious ability to be forgotten after 24 hours by anyone who meets her to survive through thievery. When her travels take her to the floating island city of Wellington, New Zealand, Miho ends up befriending -- and perhaps falling in love with -- the human barista[=/=]aspiring novelist Aspen and the vampire librarian Juliet, [[spoiler:and can end the game having ascended into a divine nine-tailed fox once her ''yeowoo guseul'' is fully-charged]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SonicPrime'': The alternate universe version of Miles -- who as a two-tailed fox was already based on the ''kitsune'' -- from New Yoke City is shown giving himself seven extra mechanized tails that double as CombatTentacles, bringing him up to a total of nine. This coincides with his MeaningfulRename of "Nine", based on a legend of a ''kitsune'' gaining nine tails total upon reaching full maturity. His shadow in the recap of his backstory highlights his hardened nature, showing his usual two-tailed form before going to a menacingly posed nine-tailed version.

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