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** Speedy Gonzales usually puts it over on Sylvester. He had different adversaries in "Cat-Tails For Two" (Benny and George), "Mexicali Shmoes" (two unnammed cats), and of course Daffy Duck in the DorkAge cartoons (1965-69).

** Speedy Gonzales usually puts it over on Sylvester. He had different adversaries in "Cat-Tails For Two" (his debut), "Mexicali Shmoes" (two unnammed cats), and of course Daffy Duck in the DorkAge cartoons (1965-69).

* ''WesternAnimation/PixieDixieAndMrJinks'' pitted the two mice Pixie and Dixie against the hip-talking cat Mr. Jinks, usually after an initial chase.

** ''The Unexpected Pest'' has Sylvester [[MonsterProtectionRacket catching the same mouse over and over again]] to prove that he's still of use to his owners. The mouse eventually catches on to the fact that Sylvester needs him to stay alive, and he starts [[StopOrIShootMyself intentionally endangering himself]] (hopping into Sylvester's mouth, jumping off of a shelf, etc.) and otherwise breaking things around the house just to sabotage Sylvester's efforts.

* The ''WesternAnimation/PinkPanther'' cartoon "Pink-A-Boo" has a pesky mouse abscond some supplies from Pink's home, often right under his nose. Later, this mouse is joined by a platoon of guest mice, and they start a loud party in the MouseHole in the panther's living room.

* Tiktoker [[https://www.tiktok.com/@tal_on Talon-tal]] portrays WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse as a complete {{jerkass}} with a mouth full of ClusterFBomb and a HairTriggerTemper that can hit hard to the ones who bother him, like Goofy, Donald and [[WouldHitAGirl even his girlfriend Minnie]], becoming a sensation on the internet with videos like [[https://www.tiktok.com/@tal_on/video/6987479591120047365 this one]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'': {{Invoked|Trope}}; Ratigan ''[[BerserkButton loathes]]'' being called a rat and [[InsistentTerminology insists that he's just a "big mouse"]] (which he actually was in the original book). He really is a rat, though, and he's a {{sadist}} who's proud of the fact that he has drowned [[WouldHitAGirl widows]] and [[WouldHurtAChild orphans]].

* The ''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven'' game "Cheese Heist" features three mice who make their way across a large table in order to get at a giant piece of cheese seemingly left unguarded. They have to be careful not to let a very watchful black cat catch them.

* ''Anime/{{Beastars}}'': A bunch of mice decide to join together to form one big super mouse and become a feared criminal. They were defeated by [[BigGood Yafya]] and are now some of his most trusted subordinates.

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* In ''ComicBook/TheBeano'', the Nibblers are a group of anthropomorphous mice who like stealing food. Their home's owner Porky and his cat would try and fail to stop them every time.
* In ''ComicBook/TheDandy'', Korky the Cat sometimes has to deal with mice who keep raiding his larder and stealing food.

* Ignatz from ''ComicStrip/KrazyKat'' isn't the friendliest mouse you'll meet. He has a personal dislike of Krazy, who has a crush on him and is unaware of what he truly feels about the cat, and tosses bricks at Krazy's head which the latter takes as a sign of affection. This usually results in him getting arrested by Officer Bull Pupp.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Epic}}'', after she shrinks to Leafman height, MJ discovers the dangers of the forest when she and Nod are both attacked by a deer mouse, which is giant from their perspective.

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* The titular rodent from ''Film/MouseHunt'', who is the source of all of Lars and Ernie's problems and outsmarts them at every turn. [[spoiler:He reforms at the end of the film when he gets a new job as a cheese tester in the brothers' new cheese factory]].

* Played with in ''Literature/{{Anatole}}'', who is a mouse. He is most upset when he overhears a family talking about how terrible mice are for scrounging food, so he secretly sets himself up as taster at a cheese factory, leaving little signs on the different cheeses. With Anatole's cunning methods, business booms at the factory; but he keeps his identity as a mouse very secret.

* In ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'', there is Gonff the self-titled Prince of Mousethieves who, while not evil by any stretch of the imagination, is a LovableRogue who was first introduced in the book Mossflower stealing food from the antagonists, JustLikeRobinHood. In a later book, it is revealed that he has an entire tribe of descendants who are all also thieves.

* Several mouse-based Franchise/{{Pokemon}} tend to fit this bill according to their Pokedex entries. Rattata-line having rather annoying reputation, and [[SeriesMascot Pikachu-line]] having tendencies to [[ShockAndAwe shock people literally]] are two of these.

See also HairRaisingHare, KillerRabbit, ScrewballSquirrel, and YouDirtyRat. Contrast NiceMice.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH'': Martin is a mouse, as well as a BrattyHalfPint who has no trouble mouthing off to Auntie Shrew.

** "WesternAnimation/ScaredyCat" and "WesternAnimation/ClawsForAlarm", both directed by Chuck Jones, feature evil mice who try to kill Porky and Sylvester.

** ''The Unexpected Pest'' has Sylvester catching the same mouse over and over again to prove that he's still of use to his owners. The mouse eventually catches on to the fact that Sylvester needs him to stay alive, and he starts intentionally endangering himself (hopping into Sylvester's mouth, jumping off of a shelf, etc.) and otherwise breaking things around the house just to sabotage Sylvester's efforts.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Not all mice are like WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse.]]

See also HairRaisingHare, KillerRabbit, ScrewballSquirrel and YouDirtyRat. Contrast NiceMice.

** PlayedForHorror with Gregory himself. He is the owner of a HellHotel, which is basically {{Purgatory}}, and he uses psychological manipulation, and his violent hotel guests, to keep anyone from leaving. He is also physically and verbally abusive to Neko Zombie, a cat who he keeps locked up in the hotel. Despite this, his attitude is usually very whimsical. He likes to speak [[FauxAffablyEvil in a very formal way, as if he was just a regular hotel owner]]. His dialogue is often cryptic, as if he knows a lot more than he lets on. His SignatureLaugh is high-pitched and sneaky as well.

* ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'': The Space Mice were a heroic version of this. They would very much play tricks on the space explorers, particularly liking to harass Pidge. This actually becomes a plot point in the start of the series when Pidge realizes the mice are able to move around the castle at will and most likely were the ones who pilfered the Black Lion's activation key. Once they return it, they become a lot more tame, but their mischievous natures do allow them to cause the occasional amount of trouble for Zarkon's forces when they manage to get into the Castle of Lions from time to time.

* ''Animation/PakdamPakdai'': Charly, Marly and Larry are a trio of mice who, much like the titular cockroaches from ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'', constantly make the life of Don the dog a living hell on a regular basis.

* Ignatz from ''ComicStrip/KrazyKat'' isn't the friendliest mouse you'll meet. He has a personal dislike of Krazy, who has a crush against him and is unaware of what he truly feels about the cat, and tosses bricks at Krazy's head which the latter takes as a sign of affection. This usually results in him getting arrested by Officer Bull Pupp.

* ''WesternAnimation/RobinRobin'' has a slightly more benevolent example than most. Dad Mouse and his four mouse children often steal food from human homes. They're not greedy?they only take what they need to survive?but they do take pride in how good they are at sneaking around. They even sing a musical number about it called "[[https://youtu.be/tRHHZ_oyJE4 The Sneak Song]]". The protagonist, Robin, is a robin adopted by the Mouse family. She is terrible at being stealthy, which makes her feel bad. She wishes she was more like the mice, until she learns to [[BeYourself be herself]] at the end.

* ''Film/{{Babe}}'': Downplayed with the three singing mice who serve as a GreekChorus to the movie. They don't affect the plot, but tend to giggle mischievously when Babe is about to get in trouble (although they are sad and respectful when introducing the chapter when Ma dies).

* ''Film/StayTuned'' zigzags the trope. At one point, Roy and Helen Knable, jumping around on Hellivision's channels, find themselves in an animated show as cartoon mice. At that point, Roy helps himself to a donut "the size of a Buick". Then they're pursued by a cartoon robot cat, and they spend their time dodging, evading, and using every cartoon trope in the books, from dropping a dryer in a bathtub with the robot feline to saying "Don't Try This At Home." Much of what they do, though, is drawn from their own knowledge of cartoon mice, so that it's not that they're being deliberately mischievous, but that they're just doing what they know. All of it done by the great Creator/ChuckJones.

* In ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'', there is Gonff the self-titled Prince of Mousethieves who, while not evil by any stretch of the imagination, is a LovableRogue who was first introduced in the book Mossflower stealing food from the antagonists, JustLikeRobinHood. In a later book it is revealed that he has an entire tribe of descendants who are all also thieves.

* A traditional Irish song, "The Mice Are At It Again", is about a guy who lives in a run-down roominghouse, and is bedeviled by the resident mice. Not-entirely-accurate lyrics [[https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=6706 can be found at mudcat.org]].

--> I asked the Mrs. about it and she says "its ten to one

* The final biome in ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'' features mice both big and small as enemies. The small mice attack as a swarm but take little damage to kill, making them a soft check on whether or not the player has a dash boon. The large mice have a fair amount of health, attack, and drop poison on the ground when they are attacked that does dot damage to the player.
** This section also has a mini-boss called "Tiny Vermin" that is as small as the normal mice, but has a bite equivalent to the big mice. It also can summon big mice to fight against you. It is arguably the hardest mini-boss in the biome.

** ''VideoGame/MarioParty8'': Mowz appears on King Boo's Haunted Hideaway, running a roulette-like game. If the player successfully pockets a ball in either the star, coin, or candy slot, Mowz will steal the corresponding asset from another player. He also appears on Shy Guy's Perplex Express as a suspect for stealing Holly Koopa's Candy, hiding in one of three-to-five train cars.

** In "[[Recap/GarfieldAndFriendsS3E11 Rodent Rampage]]", Floyd's cousin Tyrone comes to visit, and is surprised when he discovers that Garfield doesn't chase mice, so he takes advantage of this by taking over Jon's house. Once Jon discovers Tyrone, he tries to get Garfield to catch him by [[FoodAsBribe bribing him with sausage lasagna]]. Tryone takes every step to ensure that Garfield doesn't catch him, such as putting him through traps and even feeding him [[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce tabasco sauce]]. Even Floyd, who is usually nice to Garfield, understanding of his predicaments, and has defended him against the Kitty Council and mice who were taking advantage of him in the past, [[JerkassBall does nothing to stop Tyrone and even goes along with him]].

* ''WesternAnimation/HermanAndKatnip'': Herman. A majority of the things that he commits towards Katnip are much more over-the-top, mean-spirited and brutal than [[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry Jerry]]'s brand of retaliation.

** Creator/TexAvery's early short ''Ain't We Got Fun'' revolves around mice who raid an old man's pantry, and then frame it on his cat.

* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse'': Mortimer Mouse, one of Mickey's rivals, is everything the latter is not; arrogant, rude, cocky, sexist and scheming.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse is portrayed as a CorruptCorporateExecutive who doesn't see anything wrong in selling sex to underage girls. And when Music/TheJonasBrothers start getting cold feet, [[BadBoss he beats the crap out of them]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'': The episode "Professor Goodfellow's G.E.E.C." has an inventor create a supercomputer that can automate any machine normally operated by humans. The Super Friends are skeptical at first, but the device demonstrates itself more than capable of any task. Things go wrong when a mouse gets into the circuitry, generating increasingly worrisome errors that causes automated machines to go haywire.

* The final biome in ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'', features mice both big and small as enemies. The small mice attack as a swarm but take little damage to kill, making them a soft check on whether or not the player has a dash boon. The large mice have a fair amount of health, attack, and drop poison on the ground when they are attacked that does dot damage to the player.

* ''VideoGame/YoKaiWatch'': Phantasmurai (and its recolor Spooklunk) is a boss fight who attacks the player. Whenever it's weakened, it's revealed that it's actually being controlled by a mouse.