History Main / EekAMouse

* Played with for a laugh in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX''. Incognito princess Garnet picks up an oglop (a beetle-like insect), having no problem with the little critter whatsoever. However, since she's supposed to be undercover as a normal country girl, when an old woman comments that most girls hate them, she squeals theatrically and flings it into the air.
* Can be invoked for rewards in the [=PS2=] release of ''TheBardsTale'', by summoning and dismissing the rat in bars. In fact, this is how the eponymous Bard starts the game.

* ''WildWestCOWBoysOfMooMesa'': When a circus arrived in town, Mayor Bulloney tried to use a mouse to scare an elephant so the resulting distraction would allow Saddlesore and Boothill to steal a diamond.

* The main villain of the second half of Disney's ''Goliath II'' is a mouse in which only the titular elephant can get rid of.

* As mentioned in Real Life below, the "Elephants are afraid of mice" variant was tested by the ''MythBusters'', who were stunned when the elephant actually stopped dead in its tracks at the sight of the mouse, and gave it a wide berth when walking around it, rendering the myth plausible.

* While elephants don't typically leap onto small objects at the sight of a mouse, research has provided a possible reason for the elephant's fear of mice: an elephant's eyes are located on its head in approximately the same position as a human's ears -- add this to the elephant's large body, (relatively) poor eyesight, and sensitive hearing, and what the elephant sees turns from a small, furry rodent into a small, barely-visible, blurry and mostly-unidentifiable squeaking blob somewhere near its feet. It was tested by the ''{{Mythbusters}}''. Myth Plausible.

* [[ComixZone Mongoria]], an otherwise extremely formidable enemy, had this as her weakness.

** While "camel spiders" (which aren't spiders) are not actually very dangerous, there's a ''lot'' of misinformation out there about them, most of which makes them sound [[ScaryScorpion scarier than they are]]. Freaking out is predictable if you think something can literally gouge out chunks of your flesh.

* In the Australian mini-series ''Phoenix'', the [[TheSquadette only female member]] of the Major Crimes Division is mocked by her sergeant when she has a fender-bender accident after a spider drops out of the sun visor in front of her. At the end of the episode, he hands her a can of bug spray and declares he's not going near that car until "that horrible monster" has been killed.

* In the pregame of the Florida Panthers's home opener in 1995, a mouse entered the Panthers locker room and startled the players. One of them hit the animal with his stick. Given in that same game he scored two of the goals in the 4-3 victory, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_trick Panthers fans embraced the rat theme with pleasure]], [[ProducePelting including throwing plastic mice into the ice every time a goal was scored.]]

* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQRKjoAr_q8 Soldiers vs Camel Spider]]", a hilarious Youtube video where a pair of muscular, manly soldiers are standing on their beds ([[ShirtlessScene in their underwear]]) and hunting down a camel spider in their room...WITH RIFLES.

* A late episode of ''ElChavoDelOcho'' has Doña Florinda's restaurant plagued by mice. She and Chilindrina exhibit the expected reaction throughout, especially in a hilarious scene where Chavo unknowinlgy brushes the latter's leg with the broom he is using to hunt the mouse; she has an absolute panic attack, thinking it's the mouse climbing up her leg.

* ''WildWestCOWBoysOfMooMesa'': When a circus arrived in town, Mayor Bulloney tried to use a mouse to scare an elephant so the resulting distraction would allow Saddlesore and Boothill to steal a diamond.

* In the Australian mini-series ''Phoenix'', [[TheSquadette only female member]] of the Major Crimes Division is mocked by her sergeant when she has a fender-bender accident after a spider drops out of the sun visor in front of her. At the end of the episode, he hands her a can of bug spray and declares he's not going near that car until "that horrible monster" has been killed.

* In the Australian mini-series ''Phoenix'', [[TheSquadette only female member]] of the Major Crimes Division is mocked by her sergeant when she crashes his car after a spider drops out of the sun visor in front of her. At the end of the episode, he hands her a can of bug spray and declares he's not going near his car until "that horrible monster" has been killed.

* Exploited in ''TheWorstWitch'' when Helibore and Rowan-Webb have a wizard duel (no not [[HarryPotter like that one]]). Helibore turns Ethel into a goose girl and Rowan-Webb counters by turning himself into a mouse to scare her.

* The ''ThreesCompany'' episode "The Best Laid Plans" revolved a mouse being loose in the trio's apartment, with Janet being the mouseophobic one.
** Spinoff the TheRopers featured a gender-flipped version of this trope: it was ''Mr.'' Brooks, not his wife, who leaped up onto the couch screaming at the sight of a white mouse--safely in a cage, no less.