Fox on the run
You scream and everybody comes a-runnin'
Take a run and hide yourself away
You scream and everybody comes a-runnin'
Take a run and hide yourself away
—Sweet, "Fox on the Run"
This index is for tropes specifically about foxes, both real species and fictional species. Sub-index of This Index Barks and cousin-index to Wolf Tropes.
Despite the names, Silver Fox and Fox News Liberal have nothing to do with actual foxes.
Tropes:
- Adorable Fluffy Tail: Foxes with fluffy tails.
- Asian Fox Spirit: Asian folklore about intelligent foxes with magical powers.
- Cunning Like a Fox: Foxes are portrayed as crafty, clever and cunning.
- Fantastic Foxes: Foxes being portrayed as supernatural or intelligent.
- Foul Fox: Foxes portrayed as aggressive, cruel, or even outright evil.
- Fox-Chicken-Grain Puzzle: A precedence logic puzzle with counter-intuitive solution. The scenario involves a farmer trying to cross a river with a chicken, fox, and bag of grain, but the boat he comes across can only carry him and one other thing.
- Fox Folk: A humanoid character with fox-like traits.
- Foxy Vixen: Foxes — especially vixens — tend to be depicted as sexy.
- Tanuki/Kitsune Contrast: The Kitsune and another canid, the Tanuki, are frequently paired together and contrasted in Japanese media.