List of fictional mice and rats
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This is a list of fictional mice and rats in alphabetical order.
[edit] Mice and Dormice
- In Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Mouse, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
- Algernon in Flowers for Algernon
- Amos in Ben and Me (1953)
- Anatole
- Angelina Ballerina
- Basil in the Basil of Baker Street novels and the movie The Great Mouse Detective
- Benjy mouse and Frankie mouse in Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy, two members of the species which has ordered the Magratheans to construct planet Earth
- Bernard & Miss Bianca in The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under
- The lead cast of Biker Mice From Mars (namely Throttle, Modo, Vinnie, Stoker, Carbine and assorted others) - in fact 6ft+ tall humanoid Martian Cave Mice.
- The Brisby family in The Secret of NIMH (see also the Frisby family, below)
- Charlie Mouse, Eddie Mouse, Janey Mouse, Jenny Mouse, Lizzie Mouse, and Willy Mouse in Bagpuss
- The Church Mice in the books by Graham Oakley
- Chuck E. Cheese
- DangerMouse
- Dawson in the Basil of Baker Street novels and the movie The Great Mouse Detective
- The Dormouse in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- The Deptford Mice from Robin Jarvis' novels
- Mr. John Dormouse and his daughter Miss Dormouse, who sold the bad candles in Beatrix Potter's Ginger and Pickles
- Eckhart in Eckhart
- Elephant Rats of Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Emily and Alexander, Country Mouse and City Mouse in the children's books and cartoons of the same name
- Fatmouse
- Fievel Mousekewitz and his family in An American Tail and its sequels
- The Frisby family in Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (see also the Brisby family, above)
- The mouse in the traditional song "Froggy would a-wooing go".
- Gadget Hackwrench in Disney's Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
- Gawdderrat from the MUD Necromium
- Gerald in Barrett-era Pink Floyd song "Bike"
- Geronimo Stilton in the Geronimo Stilton book series
- Giant Black Rat, an aggressive species of mutant rats featured in the Rats Quadrilogy by James Herbert
- Gus and Jacques in Disney's Cinderella
- Henrietta Mouse
- The "Hickory, Dickory, Dock" mouse, who ran up the clock in the nursery rhyme
- The mice in House of Tribes by Garry Kilworth
- Hubie and Bertie in Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies
- Hunca Munca and Tom Thumb, the dollhouse-looting mice in Beatrix Potter's Two Bad Mice
- Ignatz Mouse in Krazy Kat
- Ikabod Bubwit and other mice in Nonoy Marcelo's Ikabod
- Ieniemienie in Sesamstraat
- Itchy in The Itchy & Scratchy Show, the show-within-a-show on The Simpsons
- Jack from Jack The Ninja Mouse
- Gerald "Jerry" Mouse of Tom and Jerry fame
- Mr. Jingles, who befriends Eduard Delacroix in Stephen King's novel The Green Mile and the Frank Darabont movie of the same name
- Johann Maus in the webcomic 21st Century Fox and two spin-off webcomics Of Mouse And Moon and Pirates Of Penumbra
- Johnny Town-Mouse, of Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse; also his friend from the country, Timmy Willie.
- Larry, unseen mouse who at one time saved Rose's life on The Golden Girls
- Uncle Lester in Beverly Cleary's The Mouse and the Motorcycle
- Magnus and his parents in the Dick King-Smith novel Magnus Powermouse
- Maisy Mouse
- The titular character in the Mappy series of classic video games
- The mice of Art Spiegelman's Maus
- Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse
- Mighty Mouse
- Minute Mouse in Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse
- Mlle. Relda in the Basil of Baker Street novels
- Monterey Jack in Disney's Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
- Mortimer Mouse in Outland
- Morty and Ferdie Fieldmouse
- the mouse in Mousehunt
- Mousekin, the protagonist in Edna Miller's series of children's stories.
- The mouse in If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
- The Mouse King in the ballet The Nutcracker
- Jerry's Cousin Muscles in the Tom and Jerry movie Jerry's Cousin (1950)
- Mushmouse in the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Mushmouse and Punkin Puss
- Pinky and The Brain in the cartoon Pinky and the Brain
- Pipsy from Diddy Kong Racing
- Pixie and Dixie included in Hanna-Barbera's Huckleberry Hound Show
- Poppy, Ragweed, and their clan in Avi's Poppy and sequels
- Ralph S. Mouse in Beverly Cleary's The Mouse and the Motorcycle
- Professor Padraic Ratigan in the Basil of Baker Street novels (only)
- The mice of Brian Jacques' Redwall series
- Reepicheep in C. S. Lewis' Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- Roquefort in The Aristocats
- Scurry and Sniff in Who Moved My Cheese?
- Sherry from the computer games Ultima VI and Ultima VII.
- Sniffles in Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies
- Snowberry in the children's book Ereth's Birthday
- Speedy Gonzales
- Stuart Little
- The tailor's mice who finished the Mayor's wedding waistcoat for the ailing tailor in Beatrix Potter's The Tailor of Gloucester
- Three Blind Mice, who lost their tails to a carving knife, in the nursery rhyme of that name
- Tillie Mousekewitz in An American Tail and its sequels
- Timothy Q. Mouse in Dumbo
- Mrs. Tittlemouse, of Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse
- Tony Toponi in An American Tail
- Topo Gigio the favorite puppet on the Ed Sullivan show
- Vera the mouse
- An unnamed mouse which is rescued in Watership Down
- Wensley (short for Wensleydale) and his brother Ramses, "the angriest mouse in the world", from The Suburban Jungle
- Mouse in the German TV show Die Sendung mit der Maus (1971)
- Miles Mouse of the web comic,Spifficated
- Winslow, the "neighbor" of the title character(s) in CatDog
- Tutter from Bear in the Big Blue House, but he looks like a rat.
The Clangers resemble mice, but are apparently much bigger.
[edit] Rats, water voles and muskrats
- Amy (Madison), the rat/witch in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Basil, Manuel's pet "Siberian hamster" in Fawlty Towers
- Ben or Big Ben in Willard (1971), Ben (1972), Willard (2003)
- The rats from Capitol Critters
- The Death of Rats in the Discworld novels
- David from the Animorphs book series is a human who becomes trapped in the body of a rat.
- Deo, the main character in the web comic Deo
- The Educated Rodents in The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
- Ellie Mae the Muskrat in The Rescuers
- Ferris the Rat, the pop-culture mad janitor and Tori Spelling fan in Newshounds.
- The rat in the traditional song "Froggy would a-wooing go".
- Freya Crescent from 'Final Fantasy IX'
- Gregory, Gregory Mama, and James in Gregory Horror Show
- Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni and other nezumi-bito characters from the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game and novel series.
- Lariska the rat, a companion of a villain Old Lady Shapoklyak in Russian Cheburashka children story/animation series.
- Lester in Beakman's World
- Luke the Muskrat in The Rescuers
- Martin the Warrior in The Redwall Novels
- Many Rat III as the rat slave master of the father and son toy mice seeking independence in the animated film The Mouse and His Child.
- Megavolt, the supervillain in Darkwing Duck
- Miss Whiskers, the rat who carries a message for Door and later saves Richard from the Ratspeakers in Neverwhere
- Mote, the rat mentally linked to mage Alex, and the anthropomorphic rat species (Rodeni) in Eve Forward's Animist
- The Rat in The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights by John Masefield
- Muskie Muskrat in Terrytoons Deputy Dawg
- Nick and Fetcher in Chicken Run
- Rapido and Razmo in the television series Ratz
- "Rat" from the comic strip Pearls Before Swine
- Ratbert, a co-employee of Dilbert
- Professor Padraic Ratigan in the movie The Great Mouse Detective
- The Rats of NIMH in Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (filmed as The Secret of NIMH) and sequels
- The rats of The Ratbridge Chronicles
- The rats of Brian Jacques' Redwall series
- Ratty in "Wind in the Willows" is a water vole
- Rhett the Rat in Rampage: Total Destruction
- Rizzo the Rat from the Muppets
- The Rodents of Unusual Size in The Princess Bride
- Roland Rat, British TV presenter
- "Roger", a rat who was turned into Cinderella's page boy in Philip Pullman's I Was a Rat!
- Samuel and Anna Maria Whiskers in The Tale of Samuel Whiskers by Beatrix Potter
- Scabbers, pet of Ron Weasley in the first three books in the Harry Potter series, actually Peter Pettigrew AKA Wormtail, an animagus
- Scuttlebutt from An American Tail: The Trasure of Manhattan Island
- Socrates in Willard (1971), Willard (2003)
- Sparky, a rat who made an appearance in Chip n' Dale's Rescue Rangers
- Splinter, of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Steve McQueen, a rat who makes occasional appearances on House
- The would-be pudding-makers in The Roly-Poly Pudding by Beatrix Potter
- Twapalena (Twapa) Kangaroorat (and Ciaran or Keer, Timmi, Tommi, and hundreds of numbered clones) from the webcomic Untitled!
- Templeton in Charlotte's Web
- Vampy, a former German TV presenter
- Voley, a water vole in the short film The First Snow of Winter
- Warren T. Rat from an An American Tail, who was later revealed to be a rat
- The Rumbles, sworn enemies of The Borribles
In addition, Winston Smith in Orwell's 1984 has a phobia of rats, which is exploited by Big Brother to torture him.