Wolf, the slick protagonist of the upcoming DreamWorks release The Bad Guys, looks like a classic American male sex symbol, in the grand tradition of Cary Grant, Harrison Ford, and Brad Pitt. To that end, the character is prompting hordes of thirsty comments on the internet: “Mr. Wolf isn’t attracted to u OR anyone else. He’s in love with ME,” reads one representative tweet. Wolf is an actual wolf (albeit one voiced by reportedly human actor Sam Rockwell), most of the people posting about Mr.Īnother is more to the point: “When do I get to see Mr wolf from bad guys cock in the movie.” (For those interested, there’s plenty on fan art on Twitter where you can see just that.)īecause Mr. Wolf are furries, a term used to describe those who enjoy dressing up as or drawing anthropomorphized animals. Meet the Beatle: A Guide to Ringo Starr's Solo Career in 20 Songs Despite most popular conceptions about furries, not all people in the fandom harbor sexual attractions to anthropomorphized creatures - but many of those currently thirsting after Mr. “The fandom is going wild for it right now,” one digital artist and fursuit maker says of The Bad Guys. “I think what resonated in the fandom is the main character of Mr.
He’s a suave guy with a fun art style that really appealed to the artists in the fandom.”Īlmost immediately after the trailer dropped late last year, furries gravitated to The Bad Guys, and to Rockwell’s character in particular. On TikTok, the #TheBadGuys hashtag has nearly 100 million views, with the top videos largely being thirsty fan edits of Rockwell’s character. There are more than 1,000 pieces of Bad Guys-themed fan art on the NSFW furry art site e621, most of which feature a muscle-bound Mr. Wolf in various states of concupiscence or in compromising positions with Diane Foxington, a sultry, powersuit-wearing fox played by Zazie Beetz or Shark, played by Craig Robinson. One tweet with more than 6,000 likes features an anthropomorphized wolf lustily sniffing Mr. Furries on message boards like Fur Affinity also started drawing comparisons between Wolf and Nick Wilde, the wily fox protagonist of Zootopia voiced by Jason Bateman, who is prevalent in furry fan art and at cons.
The big bad wolf, but bader-rer… #TheBadGuys /Cd6haRkJXW And nearly 10 percent of all tweets and replies to DreamWorks’ Bad Guys trailer included the word “furry,” according to TrendsMap data.
Of course, The Bad Guys is not explicitly a furry-targeted film it’s a movie about anthropomorphized animal aimed largely at families and children, albeit with a few potentially adult jokes thrown in (a moment in which Mr.