List of fictional mice and rats

This is a list of fictional mice and rats in alphabetical order.

Mice, Rats, and Dormice

In Literature

• In Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Mouse, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
• Basil and Sir Edward from Emilie Autumn's book "Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls" (Note: These are not fictional rats, but Emilie's pet rats who were featured in the book.)
• Beatrix Potter's works include Mrs Tittlemouse in The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, Mr. John Dormouse and his daughter Miss Dormouse in Ginger and Pickles, Johnny Town-Mouse and Timmy Willie in The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, Hunca Munca and Tom Thumb in The Tale of Two Bad Mice, Samuel Whiskers and his wife Anne-Maria in The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding and the mice in The Tailor of Gloucester
• Danny, in The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse by Thornton Burgess
• The Dormouse in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• The Deptford Mice from Robin Jarvis' novels (see List of characters in The Deptford Mice)
• 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
• Graveyard Rats created by Henry Kuttner
• Hermux Tantamoq from the novel Time Stops for No Mouse
• The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary features Ralph and Uncle Lester and its two sequels
• The mice of Art Spiegelman's Maus
• Pearlpelt and Ripred from The Underland Chronicles
• Poppy, Ragweed, and their clan in Avi's Poppy and sequels
• "Roger", a rat who was turned into Cinderella's page boy in Philip Pullman's I Was a Rat!
• Scurry and Sniff in Who Moved My Cheese?
• Templeton in Charlotte's Web
• Vera the mouse
• Whiskers, the mouse invented by Jenny in Dear Whiskers by Ann Whitehead Nagda
• Whitefoot the Woodmouse, in the stories of Thornton Burgess

Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales

• Hickory Dickory Dock, featuring the mouse that ran down the clock
• The Three Blind Mice, whose tails were cut off with a carving knife
• Rats, lured away by The Pied Piper of Hamelin
• The Rat in This Is the House That Jack Built
• The Mouse that played a vital role in pulling out The Giant Turnip
• In Pussy Cat Pussy Cat, that cat scares a little mouse under the Queen's chair

In Literature and media

• Algernon in Flowers for Algernon
• Angelina Ballerina, a mouse who loves to dance created by Katharine Holabird and adapted into TV Series by HIT Entertainment
• Basil, Dawson, Mlle. Relda and Professor Padraic Ratigan in the Basil of Baker Street novels and the film The Great Mouse Detective
• Bernard & Miss Bianca in Margery Sharp's novel The Rescuers, its sequels and the films The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under
• Bonaventure, a ballet dancing mouse from the book Clair de Lune by Cassandra Golds
• Chip from Martha & Chip (ISBN 1-935228-01-3) by Katharine Sohler.
• The Church Mice from Graham Oakley's Church Mice series of books
• Despereaux, Roscuro and Chiaroscuro in The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread and the loose film adaptation
• Emily and Alexander, Country Mouse and City Mouse in the children's books and cartoons of the same name which includes their many cousins
• Mr. Jingles, who befriends Eduard Delacroix in Stephen King's novel The Green Mile and the Frank Darabont movie of the same name
• Maisy Mouse

• Marcia Mouse, a Marsupial Mouse and one of Blinky Bill's best mates.
• Matthias, plus his family, friends, the Abbots/Abbesses, Cluny the Scourge, Martin the Warrior and many other mice and rats in Brian Jacques' Redwall series.
• Scabbers from the first three Harry Potter Books and the Movie Series
• Stuart Little from the movie and the book of the same name
• The Mouse and His Child plus Manny the Rat
• Tweezle Dee featured in Steven Cosgrove's book Little Mouse on the Prairie and adapted into an animated TV Series by Saban Entertainment
• Wilfred Toadflax and the other mice of the Brambly Hedge children's book series

In Animation

• Abigail the wood mouse in the film Once Upon a Forest
• Amos in Ben and Me (1953)
• Angelmouse a TV Series starring the titular character
• The lead cast of Biker Mice From Mars (namely Throttle, Modo, Vinnie, Stoker, Carbine and assorted others) - in fact 6 ft+ tall humanoid Martian Cave Mice.
• The Brisby family of mice in The Secret of NIMH and the rats Justin and Nicodemus, who aid the mice
• Cheesecake, Blueberry Muffin's pet in Strawberry Shortcake
• Chimera Rat, gigantic rat monster in Tokyo Mew Mew
• Daniel Mouse and his wife Jan in the animated television special The Devil and Daniel Mouse
• Danger Mouse
• Mouse in the German television series Die Sendung mit der Maus (1971)
• Eckhart in Eckhart
• Fievel Mousekewitz, his family, Tony Toponi and Tanya Mousekewitz in An American Tail and its sequels
• Forest Friends features the mice Namoi and her family and the rats Rascal and Ratasha and their family
• Gadget Hackwrench, Monterey Jack, Lahwhinie (In Gadget Goes Hawaiian) and Desiree D'Allure (in Love is a Many Splintered Thing) on Disney's Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (1989–1990)
• Unnamed mouse in Goliath II
• Gus, Jaq, and other similar mice in Disney's Cinderella and two subsequent sequels
• Henchrat, evil character in Earthworm Jim
• Hubie and Bertie in 1946-1951 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons, created by Chuck Jones
• Itchy on The Itchy & Scratchy Show, the show-within-a-show on The Simpsons
• Jerry Mouse of Tom and Jerry fame
• Kira Rat in Iggy Arbuckle
• Lapitch the Little Shoemaker
• Li'l Sneezer in Steven Spielberg presents Tiny Toon Adventures
• Master Splinter, mentor to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Megavolt, in the Walt Disney Television animated series Darkwing Duck
• Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, plus Mortimer Mouse (See Also Mickey Mouse family)
• Midge from Mary Mungo & Midge
• Mighty Mouse
• Minute Mouse in Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse
• Motormouse in the cartoon Autocat & Motormouse
• Mushmouse, hillbilly mouse character featured in Punkin' Puss & Mushmouse, back segments of The Magilla Gorilla Show
• Peepers, lisping girl mouse from Rock-A-Doodle
• Pinky and The Brain in the cartoons Pinky and the Brain and Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain
• Pip from Back at the Barnyard
• Pixie and Dixie included in Hanna-Barbera's Huckleberry Hound Show
• Roderick Rat and Rhubella Rat in Steven Spielberg presents Tiny Toon Adventures
• Roquefort in The Aristocats
• Sniffles, created by Chuck Jones for Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons
• Snuk in Mad Jack the Pirate
• Speedy Gonzales
• The Space Mice from Voltron: Defender of the Universe
• Timothy Q. Mouse in Disney's Dumbo
• Toopy in Toopy and Binoo
• Topo the Neapolitan Mouse from MGM's Tom and Jerry (1953)
• Tuffy (sometimes known as Nibbles), seen in MGM's Tom and Jerry cartoons from 1946-1958
• Verminious Snaptrap from T.U.F.F. Puppy
• Winslow T. Oddfellow, the "neighbor" of the title character(s) on CatDog
• Yuki Sohma in Fruits Basket

In Film/Television

• Ben from Willard (1971), its sequel, Ben, and the remake Willard (2003)
• 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
• Charlie Mouse, Eddie Mouse, Janey Mouse, Jenny Mouse, Lizzie Mouse, and Willy Mouse in Bagpuss
• Farfour, an aggressively anti-Semitic former presenter on the Hamas-run children's series, Tomorrow's Pioneers
• Fetcher and Nick, in Chicken Run
• Fingermouse - a paper finger puppet from the 1980s BBC television series of the same name
• Morton the Mouse from the 2008 Horton Hears a Who! film.
• The mouse in MouseHunt
• Phillip from Les fourmis tisserandes (Weaving Ants) (1987) by Les Producteurs TV-Cine-Video (Telcima)
• Remy, rat blueish grayish from Walt Disney Pictures Ratatouille (2007), plus his older brother Emile and their father Django
• Rizzo the Rat in The Muppet Show and Bubba the Rat in Muppets from Space
• Roddy, Rita, Sid, Spike in the DreamWorks/Aardman computer-animated collaboration Flushed Away.
• Roland Rat (also known as Roland Rat Superstar), a British television puppet TV presenter character
• Rustmice, an egg-dwelling pair of mice who get wet upon exposure to rain, from the popular television series "Wheekers"
• Socrates from Willard (1971 film) and the remake Willard (2003 film)
• Topo Gigio, the favorite puppet on The Ed Sullivan Show
• Tutter on Bear in the Big Blue House

In Comics

• Atomic Mouse created in 1953 by Al Fago for Charlton Comics
• Diddl in the eponymous comic and merchandise
• Ikabod Bubwit and other mice in Nonoy Marcelo's Ikabod
• Moosey, a veteran soldier from the webcomic Anima: Age of the Robots
• Rat, in Pearls Before Swine
• Ratbert, in the Dilbert comic strip
• Rat Tornado, are his version Red Tornado in Just'a Lotta Animals
• Reeky Rat, Max Mouse and Melody Mouse in Slylock Fox
• Supermouse, a mouse with superpowers who appears in Pines comics and Coo Coo comics

In Toys/Games

Mouse Trap, a board game made in 1963

In Video Games

• Blob, the beloved pet rat of the protagonist (and key to the first puzzle) in the game Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh.
• Fenrus, Erasmus' familiar, recurring in the Quest for Glory series by Sierra Entertainment
• Fratley, anthropomorphic rat, in Final Fantasy IX
• Freya Crescent, anthropomorphic rat, in Final Fantasy IX
• Hammer, an anthropomorphic rat and supporting character in the video game Xenogears.
• Hanpan, a pet usable as a tool in the video game Wild Arms
• The titular character in the Mappy series of classic video games
• Mia, a mouse who goes on quests in the educational game series of Mia's Big Adventure Collection by Kutoka Interactive
• Mouser from the Mario series
• Ms. Mowz from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
• Nazrin, a mouse yokai from Touhou Project
• Pipsy from Diddy Kong Racing
• Puck, anthropomorphic rat, in Final Fantasy IX
• Raticicle, a Monstrous Rat in Crash of the Titans
• Sherry from the computer games Ultima VI and Ultima VII
• Thai Rat, thai boxing rat in Brutal: Paws of Fury
• The Squeaks from Kirby: Squeak Squad

Other

• Chuck E. Cheese
• Gerald in Barrett-era Pink Floyd song "Bike"
• Johann Maus in the webcomic 21st Century Fox and two spin-off webcomics Of Mouse And Moon and Pirates Of Penumbra
• The King of Mice from The Nutcracker and its adaptions
• Wensley (short for Wensleydale) and his brother Ramses, "the angriest mouse in the world", from The Suburban Jungle

See also

• Mouse
• Rat
• List of historical cats
• List of fictional cats
• List of fictional dogs
• List of fictional pigs
• List of fictional animals