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. Wolf pricks his ears in response to hearing “Good boy,” for instance, could be read as a natural canine reaction - or as an example of a protagonist with a praise kink, according to some in the fandom).
That said, it’s not at all uncommon for furries to look to mainstream entertainment for inspiration for their own fan art, stemming all the way back to the days of Disney’s Robin Hood, an unofficial furry classic, says GeorgeSquares, a furry LGBTQ author. “Most people in furry subcultures remember the shirtless dancing buff tigers used in Zootopia‘s marketing that most took to more or less mean, ‘Hey furries - we know your community has an eye for masculine forms, so to speak,'” he says.
