“The Bad Guys” from Dreamworks…
Based on a highly successful kid’s book series by Australian author Aaron Blabey that premiered in 2015, The Bad Guys is a kind of crime comedy focusing on the criminal exploits of five anthropomorphic animals that include Mr. Wolf (a pickpocket), Mr. Snake (a safecracker), Mr. Shark (a master of disguises), Ms. Tarantula (a tech wizard), and Mr. Piranha (mob muscle). It’s kind of like an Ocean’s Eleven theme, but with furries. We’re not all cute and harmless, ‘ya know. I myself have kind of a dark side, which comes with being of a predacious species. Get a bunch of us together, and you have a force of nature, literally and figuratively…🙀
Now Mr. Wolf (Sam Rockwell) is the gang leader, and is both slick and hot. Get in line, ladies…but when a caper goes sour, he cuts a deal with the authorities to avoid prison time in exchange for his gang going good, which he really has no intention of doing. In the course of doing good, however, he finds that being a do-gooder actually strokes his inner need for acceptance. I should mention that Mr. Wolf has a love interest who is a real fox, one Diane Foxington, whose ears to me look rabbit-like…
As a tag line goes, these guys may be bad, but they’re good at it…and being good is no fun! Although intended for kids, The Bad Guys has something for everyone, especially if you like anthropomorphic animals with some classic themes thrown in, and a wolf who wears his threads well and can hold his own on the dance floor. The Big Bad Wolf here is really just a party animal who’s capable of redemption, only needs to channel his gifts in a socially-acceptable way, just wants to have fun, and I likes him! So let’s all let our inner animals out, whaddya say? There’s a little furry in all of youse…Yowsa! 🦊
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FOXSYLVANIA 
March 30, 2022 at 3:22 pm
“…whose ears…look rabbit-like…”
Well, they say you are what you eat!
Seriously, though: Ms. Foxington might be a prep-schooled kit fox from an oil-rich West Texan family…or even a half-caste Middle Eastern fennec!
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March 30, 2022 at 3:24 pm
Given how the two photo-captures at the bottom of the article make her look like she’s belly dancing, I’ll go with the latter theory. 😉
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March 30, 2022 at 5:07 pm
Mr. Wolf reminds me a bit of the wolf in Tex Avery’s classic “Red Hot Riding Hood.” That dude was also a party animal who dressed up well! 🐺
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March 30, 2022 at 5:02 pm
I thought about her being a fennec, but she isn’t rendered especially smaller in size, as fennecs usually are. 🦊
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March 30, 2022 at 5:21 pm
Then, we have no choice but to assume that Diane’s pet name is “Kit”!
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March 30, 2022 at 5:23 pm
As in, affectionately short for “Diane Katherine Foxington.”
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March 30, 2022 at 5:24 pm
I mean, that sounds like a real-world high society name. Doesn’t it?
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March 30, 2022 at 6:16 pm
Indeed it does! But what does a timid woodland creature like I know of high society?
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March 30, 2022 at 6:42 pm
Aren’t you heir apparent to the G. FOX fortune? 😉
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March 30, 2022 at 6:49 pm
That’s a Connecticut department store chain that was ultimately absorbed by Macy’s Inc. via May’s/Federated. So, if you _were_ a collateral descendant of Gerson and Isaac Fox, you’d probably be set “fur” life!
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March 30, 2022 at 11:13 pm
No such luck, unfortunately… 😿
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April 1, 2022 at 11:15 pm
*Insert finger-snap-of-disappointment emoji here*
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