Internet names it “Muscle Fox”, pits it against “Macho Right Hook Dog”.
With soft fur and bodies resembling dogs but with feline traits, foxes are every bit as cute as their canine cousins, even more so when hundreds of them shower you with cuddly love.
Yet when fox enthusiast @fox_info_net took a picture of his favorite animals, he could not help but notice that the sleeping forms of two foxes resembled a huge, muscular beast.
▼ Thus his beefy creation was born.
マッスルギツネも宜しくお願いします💪🦊 pic.twitter.com/CHdUKzenKF
— キツネ写真館 (@fox_info_net) April 18, 2019
Looking like a fox crossing two massive, ripped arms across its chest, the hilarious drawing went viral as soon as it was posted, inadvertently becoming the foundation for even more creative and amusing works.
▼ That’s one fox who’s leveled up too many times.
https://twitter.com/MAXK5551/status/1118792365660000256The “Muscle Fox” rapidly gained a following, with artists and illustrators drawing their own take of the burly canine that no sane person would want to mess with…
▼ …such as the Muscle Fox Bodyguard.
https://twitter.com/scopensubsp/status/1118801765195849729▼ “I will break you like a twig, human.”
— .suke🦊24年7月以降納期案件〇 (@sukemyon_443) April 18, 2019
Coincidentally, the Muscle Fox phenomenon occurred around the same time another netizen took a picture-perfect moment of his Shiba Inu dog chasing its own tail.
▼ Which looked as if the dog was unleashing an incredibly powerful right hook punch.
https://twitter.com/Ninjamaaaaaan/status/1117759582229499905▼ Netizens went nuts with special effects…
https://twitter.com/fresno1993/status/1118094089872797696▼ …and the “Macho Right Hook Dog” was born.
Never underestimate the Internet.
今話題のマッチョ右フック犬描いてみました💪🐶 pic.twitter.com/WzcocOi9GX
— 瞬く🐈 Skebご依頼募集中🍎 (@bokoyai) April 16, 2019
▼ Someone even went to the extent of making figurines.
リクエストが多かったので話題の右フック犬を作ってみました。
— めーちっさい (@meetissai) April 17, 2019
破壊神シヴァ犬感 pic.twitter.com/YVGKroVq0q
With two burly beasts of epic proportions loose, it was only a matter of time before someone thought to put the two together…
▼ …in a brawl of Muscle Fox versus Macho Right Hook Dog.
右フック犬VSマッスルギツネ pic.twitter.com/5GQOGPNmqa
— タオイ(イラスト専用) (@taoi_illust) April 18, 2019
▼ Who will emerge the victor?
— Nick Giraffe🦒 (@NickOWilde_yue) April 19, 2019
▼ These two would make an unbeatable wrestling tag team.
最強獣タッグ描いてみました！！強い！！💪🐶🦊🐱 pic.twitter.com/nqmvqVHxxY
— 瞬く🐈 Skebご依頼募集中🍎 (@bokoyai) April 19, 2019
Judging at how the Japanese Internet seems to be taking it, we would not be surprised if someone actually made a fighting game out of these macho animals. Throw in a cat just as beefy, and we would have ourselves a brawling game of the century.
Source: Twitter/@fox_info_net, Twitter/@Ninjamaaaaaan via Hamusoku
Featured image: Twitter/@fox_info_net
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