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This List of fictional rodents is subsidiary to list of fictional animals and covers all rodents including beavers, chipmunks, gophers, guinea pigs, marmots, prairie dogs and porcupines.

Literature

Character/s	Species	Author	Work	Notes
Morwenna	Squirrel	Robin Jarvis	The Deptford Mice	An evil squirrel who betrayed the realm of Greenreach
Vera	Mouse	Marjolein Bastin	Vera the mouse
Ratty	Water Rat	Kenneth Graham	The Wind in the Willows

Comics

Character/s	Species	Comic	Notes
Hammy	Squirrel	Over the Hedge	A hyperactive squirrel, Hammy is the least intelligent, though also the most lovable character in the strip, spouting random comments at random moments. His comments usually state an unusually short lecture on a topic of little interest to the other characters. The character started the strip as "Hammy," but the character was replaced by "Sammy." ^[1]
Amy the Squirrel	Squirrel	Sabrina Online	A friend and room mate of the skunkette Sabrina. Created by Eric W. Schwartz. Became an unofficial mascot in the Amiga community.
Princess Sally Acorn	Squirrel	Sonic the Hedgehog	The co-leader of the Freedom Fighters alongside Sonic. She was created as a character for the Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon, and then used in the comic as well. As Princess to the King he once overthrew, and now leader of a rebellion, Robotnik views her as a threat. She wishes to overthrow Robotnik and free her father from the void. A romantic relationship is often shown with Sonic, though often feelings towards other characters, such as Geoffrey St. John, and Monkey Kahn, have arisen as well.

Folklore & mythology

Character/s	Origin	Notes
Mouse	1001 Arabian Nights (Volume 3, 150) The Mouse and the Ichneumon
Mouse	1001 Arabian Nights (Volume 3, 151) The Flea and the Mouse
Mouse	1001 Arabian Nights (Volume 9, 901-902) The Mouse and the Cat
Mouse	Aesop's Fables The Lion and the Mouse
Mouse	Hickory Dickory Dock
Rats	Pied Piper of Hamelin
Mouse	The Giant Turnip	Makes a difference in pulling out the firmly rooted vegetable
Rat	This Is the House That Jack Built	This is the Rat that ate the malt, that lay in the house that Jack built
The Mouse King	The Nutcracker and the Mouse King	An evil seven-headed mouse king that seeks to destroy the Nutcracker.
Three Blind Mice	Three Blind Mice
Ratatosk	Norse Mythology	The squirrel that ferries insults between the Eagle and the Nidhogg

Film

Character/s	Species	Film	Notes
Benjy	Mouse	Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy	One member of the species which has ordered the Magratheans to construct planet Earth
Frankie	Mouse	Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy	One member of the species which has ordered the Magratheans to construct planet Earth
Mouse	Mouse	Mouse Hunt	A smart mouse determined to stay in an old house and avoid the house owners who are trying to rid him in order to auction their property.
Mr Jingles	Mouse	The Green Mile	A mouse domesticated in a prison.
Rupert	Squirrel	The Great Rupert/A Christmas Wish	A dancing squirrel who accidentally helps two economically distressed families overcome their obstacles.

Television

Character/s	Species	Television show	Notes
Rat-In-A-Hat	Rat	Bananas In Pyjamas	The shopkeeper of Cuddles Avenue

Animation

Character/s	Species	Film	Notes
Jerry Mouse	Mouse	Tom and Jerry	A fictional animated character, is the main protagonist in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's series of Tom and Jerry theatrical cartoon short films. Created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, Jerry is a brown anthropomorphic mouse, who first appeared in the 1940 MGM animated short Puss Gets the Boot.^[2] Hanna gave the mouse's original name as "Jerry",^[3] while Barbera claimed the mouse went unnamed in his first appearance.^[2]
Mickey Mouse	Mouse	Mickey Mouse	A cartoon character created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at The Walt Disney Studio.^[4] Mickey is an anthropomorphic black mouse and typically wears red shorts, large yellow shoes, and white gloves. He is one of the most recognizable cartoon characters in the world and is the mascot of The Walt Disney Company, the world's largest media conglomerate in terms of annual revenue. Mickey debuted in November 1928 in the animated cartoon Steamboat Willie after initially appearing in a test screening earlier that year. He went on to appear in over 130 films including The Band Concert (1935), Brave Little Tailor (1938), and Fantasia (1940). Mickey appeared primarily in short films, but also in a few feature-length films. Nine of Mickey's cartoons were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, one of which, Lend a Paw, won the award in 1942. In 1978, Mickey became the first cartoon character to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Rocky the Flying Squirrel	Flying Squirrel	Rocky and Bullwinkle	Usually called by the nickname "Rocky", is the name of the flying squirrel protagonist of the 1959-1964 animated television series Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show (both shows often referred to collectively as The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show), produced by Jay Ward. Rocky's sidekick is the cartoon moose, Bullwinkle. Both Rocky and Bullwinkle were given the middle initial "J" as a reference to Ward. Rocky's personality was meant to be that of an upstanding, if slightly naive, all-American youth. As the brains of the "moose and squirrel" duo, Rocky often was shown as coming up with creative solutions to the various situations the duo found themselves in on their adventures. However, he is no less gullible toward Boris Badenov's and Natasha Fatale's disguises than Bullwinkle. The best he can do is to occasionally remark, "Those two look familiar!" or "That voice, where have I heard that voice?"
Speedy Gonzales	[[Mouse}}	"Looney Tunes"	Speedy Gonzales (commonly shortened to just Speedy) is an animated caricature of a mouse in the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. He is portrayed as "The Fastest Mouse in all Mexico" with his major traits being the ability to run extremely fast and speaking with an exaggerated Mexican accent. He usually wears an oversized yellow sombrero, white shirt and trousers (Which is a common traditional outfit worn by men and boys of rural Mexican villages), and a red kerchief, similar to that of a reveler in the San Fermin festival.

Video games

Name	Type	Game	Notes
Conker	Squirrel	Diddy Kong Racing	Protagonist and main character in the Conker series. In the newer games, Conker is a greedy, heavy drinking, red squirrel. Conker, though highly materialistic and never afraid to insult, always approaches new characters with a positive outlook. Conker's adventures occur because he gets drunk and wanders in the opposite direction to his home. In the Xbox Live Arcade version of Banjo-Kazooie, his picture is seen in the Rusty Bucket Bay level where Berri's beta old appearance originally was in the Nintendo 64 version. In Conker's Pocket Tales, he has to rescue his girlfriend, Berri, from the Evil Acorn; the same version of Conker appears in Diddy Kong Racing, where he is a playable character and that game marks his first appearance. In The King of Fighters XIV for the Xbox 360, Conker decides to enter the tournament to stop the evil clown-looking guy named the Violator.
Mappy	Mouse	Mappy	The game's main character itself is a mouse. Mappy runs on Namco Super Pac-Man hardware, modified to support horizontal scrolling. The name "Mappy" is likely derived from mappo, a Japanese slang term (slightly insulting) for a policeman.
Spike	Mouse	Commandos 2: Men of Courage	A trained mouse given to commando Paul "Lupin" Toledo by the Burmese Spiritual Leader which can be used to distract enemies so that the commandos can evade or incapacitate them.

Mascot

Character/s	Species	Use	Notes
Chuck E. Cheese	Mouse	Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Restaurant	Formerly Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre and Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza

References

^ Fry, Michael (14 May 2005), Over the Hedge, retrieved 9 October 2010 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
^ ^a ^b Barbera, Joe (1994). My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century. Atlanta, GA: Turner Publishing. pp. 73–76. ISBN 1-57036-042-1. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
^ Hanna, William (2000). A Cast of Friends. Da Capo Press. pp. 39–46. ISBN 0-306-80917-6. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
^ Kenworthy, John (2001). The Hand Behind the Mouse (Disney ed.). New York. pp. 53–54.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[1] Fry, Michael (14 May 2005), Over the Hedge, retrieved 9 October 2010 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

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[WHannaPuss-3] Hanna, William (2000). A Cast of Friends. Da Capo Press. pp. 39–46. ISBN 0-306-80917-6. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

[Kenworthy-4] Kenworthy, John (2001). The Hand Behind the Mouse (Disney ed.). New York. pp. 53–54.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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