Our Werebeasts Are Different / Western Animation

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• An episode of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective has Ace go to a village to hunt down a killer moose; it later turns out that it is a weremoose. Almost everyone Ace runs into in the village happens to be a weremoose, with even his own pet monkey Spike getting turned into one. Later on, it turns out that the very person who brought him there is the original weremoose and has the power to transform at will via a special talisman and the very reason he brought Ace over to the village is so he could turn him into one, telling him that he'll be granted special powers and that together they'll create a race of moose men.
• An episode of Aladdin: The Series, Moonlight Madness", has a woman who is the lover of the equally mysterious man who turns into a were-jackal by the full moon.
• Ben 10:
  • Ben can turn into not one, but 10 (at least at the beginning, later he gets more) different aliens, each with a different super power. Part of the show involves him slowly learning how to better discern which alien's power best fits a given situation.
  • One episode has the Omnitrix sample the DNA of a lycanthrope-like alien and assimilate it by gradually transforming him into a specimen. It appeared to everyone to be a standard werewolf situation until the process completed.
• In the Camp Lakebottom episode "Cluck of the Were-Chicken", Gretchen gets turned into the eponymous monster after everyone assumed McGee would turn into one.
• ChalkZone has "Curse of the Werefrog", mixing this with Bewitched Amphibians as Snap is bitten by a handsome man turned into a frog and becomes the titular creature. Oddly, when Snap is changed, he howls like a wolf.
• In the Codename: Kids Next Door episode, "Operation H.O.U.N.D.", Numbuh Five confronted her rival, Valerie, who was revealed to have the power to transform into a were-poodle. Earlier in the episode, Numbuh Five was attacked by a vicious dog who ate her homework, who was later revealed to have been Valerie in her were-poodle form.
  • Then in the Sequel Episode “Operation: D.O.G.H.O.U.S.E.”, it’s revealed that the school’s Honor Roll students are also weredogs, and their teacher is the Head Weredog due to a cursed necklace given to her by her ex-husband.
• In the Courage the Cowardly Dog episode "Night of the Weremole", Muriel gets bitten and transformed by a Weremole (yes, it's basically a savage, monstrous version of those small subterranean animals). Dr. Vindaloo (and possibly Eustace) are also attacked and turned into weremoles.
• The Dave the Barbarian episode "The Cow Says Moon" has Dave get bitten by a cow and turn into a werecow. Also halfway through the middle, he gets turned into other things like a cat, Oswidge, a hamster, Lula, an egg beater, a gym teacher, and finally... himself! But the twist comes at the end where Faffy ends up turning into a were-Dave.
• The Dexter's Laboratory episode "The Laughing" sees Dexter get bitten by a clown's novelty dentures, and end up turning into a were-clown whenever he laughs.
• Disenchantment has Ursula, a "Forest Selkie" who has the ability to change from a bear (her natural form) into a human woman by removing her bear skin.
• In the Extreme Dinosaurs episode "The Were-Saur", basilisks are presented in a similar manner as werewolves, with a man getting bitten by one and turned into a werebasilisk or the titular "were-saur" by the full moon. Stegz is able to make a cure for the man's condition with a sample of the basilisk's saliva gathered by the cast.
• The Flamin' Thongs: When Holden makes a koala angry in "Curse of the Were-Bear", it bites Brenda and Kevin and they both turn 'part koala'! Soon, most people in town are koala-were-bears, and Narelle and Holden have to smash a cursed crystal to turn them back into humans.
• Futurama:
  • The were-cars from the episode "The Honking", which is a curse that can affect robots. An evil, sapient automobile named "Project Satan" has the ability to turn other robots into four-wheeled motor vehicles who will mindlessly attack random people on sight, running over humans and spreading the curse to other robots. Project Satan's first victim was the actor Calculon, which led to more robots getting turned into were-cars in succession, eventually causing Bender to receive this curse.
  • The episode "The Tip of the Zoidberg" features were-yetis. People who get scratched by a yeti can catch an infectious disease known as "yeti-ism", which eventually transforms them into another yeti. The cure involves being force-fed a yeti's gland which flushes out the neurotoxin, but not before it turns the victim into a "double yeti" (which makes them bigger and hairier). Professor Farnsworth turns into a yeti, not long after revealing that he had been attacked by one many years ago.
• The Jackie Chan Adventures episode "The Curse of El Chupacabra" presents Chupacabras in a similar manner to werewolves. They're hideous, goat-eating, demonic beasts that bear no resemblance to any real animals; though if they bite or scratch a human being, they'll be turned into another Chupacabra. Jackie's friend El Toro gets infected and is forced to transform into one of these monsters every night, and he reverts to human form at daytime (though sunlight will still hurt him).
• In the Kappa Mikey episode "Night of the Werepuff", there is a creature called a werepuff — it's a furry creature that eats clothes. Mikey gets turned into one.
• One episode of Magi-Nation featured a plague of wererodents in Bograth that transform whenever it gets dark and spread by exhaling a purple mist of void energy on their victim. Patient zero was the local guardian hyren.
• An episode of Mona the Vampire has a wereclown.
• In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Bats!", the characters have to deal with "vampire fruit bats" that are preying on Applejack's apple crop. Their plan to hypnotize the bats into not feeding on the apples succeeds, only for Fluttershy to become something akin to them. While the resultant "Flutterbat" is indeed a batlike creature that drains her prey, her Nighttime Transformation along with the bestial, predatory nature and Alternate Identity Amnesia upon being cured is much more evocative of a werebat.
• One episode of The Little Mermaid (1992) involved Flounder becoming a "Howling Hairfish".
• Oh Yeah! Cartoons spoofed the trope in the short "The Forgotten Toy Box: Curse of the Werebaby", where a selfish and immature man was bitten by a baby and cursed to transform into an adult-sized infant until he learned to act his age.
• One of the characters from OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes is an elderly werefox named Crinkly Wrinkly. The episode "We've Got Fleas" has him bite K.O., Rad, and Enid, turning them into a werepuppy, a werecat, and a wererabbit respectively.
• In The Owl House, Eda the Owl Lady was cursed during her youth to turn into a monstrous owl-like beast unless she takes an elixir to counter it. When she turns into her owl form, she becomes completely feral and mindless. Should her owl form consume something (or someone), Eda will regurgitate it when she returns to her normal form. And, even in normal form, the curse still takes a toll on Eda, to the point of making her look older than what she actually is.
• The 2012 Halloween Episode of Phineas and Ferb features Dr. Doofenshmirtz turning into a werecow.
• The Powerpuff Girls (2016): In the episode, "Arachno Romance", Sapna turns into a giant spider whenever she feels love.
• Egon got turned into a werechicken in the The Real Ghostbusters episode "Poultrygeist".
• Regular Show:
  • In "Jinx", Rigby accidentally summons Ybgir (his demonic counterpart from another dimension). Ybgir is a big, black raccoon-like creature who looks and acts much like a werewolf, from attacking and scratching random people with his claws (which turns them into similar monsters), all the way down to howling.
  • In "Skunked", Rigby gets sprayed by a were-skunk, and slowly becomes one himself (while also becoming more grouchy and aggressive). While the transformation can be reversed by getting smothered in tomato paste, a fully turned were-skunk will refuse to change back willingly.
  • In "Terror Tales of the Park V" (during the segment "WerePops"), a What If? scenario involves a werewolf being put on trial for committing murder and cannibalism. He attacks and turns an unlucky Pops into another werewolf. Despite being hairy and wolf-like, they still (mostly) act and talk like regular people.
• In She-Ra: Princess of Power, the villainess Catra can change into a panther.
• Strange Hill High has Mitchell becoming a wereteacher (transformation occurring every time the school's bell rings) after the school's rabid deputy-head bites him.
• Stan Lee's Stripperella had to deal with a Werebeaver in one episode.
• The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! episode "Count Koopula" featured wereturtles (Were-Koopas).
• In the second segment of the We Bare Bears episode "Charlie's Halloween Thing", Grizz accidentally bites Chloe, turning her into a werebear, which makes her more popular on campus until her bear instincts start taking over. At the end of the short, she devolves into a regular brown bear cub, unable to even speak any human language, so the bears attempt to re-educate her. Fortunately, this whole story is non-canon.
  • The Our Monsters Are Different aspect of this trope is lampshaded when Chloe's mythology professor (who's also a professional werewolf hunter) tries to restrain Chloe with silver wire, only for her to break free. The professor is surprised to learn that her student wasn't bitten by a werewolf, but by a talking bear.
• Transformers: Rescue Bots: In the episode "Feed the Beast", a non-expiring food called Fo-Foo has side effects which include turning into a Sasquatch-like werebeast. Graham and Mayor Luskey are both transformed after eating it.

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