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** Buffy does jump at a sewer rat in "I Will Remember You", but that's a sign that she's nervous over [[UnresolvedSexualTension working closely with Angel]].
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* In ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'', The Hood sneaked a camera disguised as a mouse aboard Thunderbird 2. The plot failed, because it was attracted to, and only photographed, the screaming Lady Penelope.
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** In a different episode, Cindy runs into the kitchen asking Alice if she has seen her pet lizard that escaped its box. Through a clenched-teeth smile, Alice answers, "Yes I have. He's over there." Camera zooms out to reveal that Alice is standing on the table.
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* Employed and then subverted in ProducingParker when Parker shrieks at the sight of a mouse in Dee's office. Dee, who has been turned into a human/reptile hybrid by experimental snake venom-based drugs, promptly [[SquIck claps her jaws shut on the little critter and gulps it down]].
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* This is the premise of the movie ''Mouse Hunt''.
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* This Lt. Alexis in ''Film/TheWildcat'' is TheCasanova to an absurd extreme. When it's time for him to leave for his next duty station on the premise frontier, literally hundreds of women throng the movie ''Mouse Hunt''.streets, obstructing his car. The other soldiers finally get the crowd of ladies to disperse by dumping a barrel of mice.
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* ''{{Tintin}}''. The Thomson twins are startled by mice used for experiments in "Recap/TintinDestinationMoon".
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* ''{{Tintin}}''.''Franchise/{{Tintin}}''. The Thomson twins are startled by mice used for experiments in "Recap/TintinDestinationMoon".
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* Cousin Serena in ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' both invoked and inverted the trope with this line about a woman she found disgusting. "I'll bet when the mice see her, THEY climb up on chairs."
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* Monomi and Monokuma in ''VisualNovel/SuperDanganronpa2'' are revealed to be terrified of mice in chapter 4.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode "Eek, an Urchin!" invokes this with the titular creature terrorizing the Krusty Krab.
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* [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife TvTropes must have ruined the life of someone involved in making]] ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' There's an episode that's actually called "Eek, an Urchin!" invokes this with which involves the titular creature terrorizing the Krusty Krab.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode "Eek, an Urchin!" invokes this with the titular creature terrorizing the Krusty Krab.
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* ''[[FanFic/TheRockFarmersDaughters The Rock Farmer's Daughters]]'': Taken to an unusual extreme in the chapter titled "Unusual Incentive": [[spoiler:Marble opens a cupboard, and a waterfall of mice ends up falling onto her head, while everypony else finds mice seeping out of every nook and cranny. Cut to Igneous and Maud outside, hearing Marble shriek. She spends most of the chapter curled up on the table while the others drive the mice out of the house]].
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* Happens in the ''DangerMouse'' story arc "The Great Bone Idol." Count Duckula steals the idol and awakens a herd of elephants in the underground cavern in which DM and Penfold had traversed to locate the idol. The elephants naturally freak out.
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* ''WebAnimation/PorkchopNFlatscreen'' has a mouse showing up and scaring...the girl called Mouse. She panics and tries to smash it with a baseball bat, which then flies out of her hands, conks her on the head, and lets loose her SuperpoweredEvilSide.
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** The Gene Deitch short "Sorry Safari" has the elephant that's carrying Tom and his master getting frightened of Jerry when Tom sticks him in his trunk.
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* In the Mexican SoapOpera ''{{Carrusel}}'', [[ThePrankster Pablo]] releases a mouse in the middle of class. All but one of the girls start screaming and crying. [[spoiler: The one girl who isn't scared, [[{{Tsundere}} Valeria]], "punishes" Pablo by pretending to pass out and tricking him into believing she had a heart attack.]]
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* In the Mexican SoapOpera ''{{Carrusel}}'', ''Series/{{Carrusel}}'', [[ThePrankster Pablo]] releases a mouse in the middle of class. All but one of the girls start screaming and crying. [[spoiler: The one girl who isn't scared, [[{{Tsundere}} Valeria]], "punishes" Pablo by pretending to pass out and tricking him into believing she had a heart attack.]]
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* ''InuYasha'': Kagome can handle {{youkai}}, blood, guts, wounds, two-timing boyfriends, time-travel, saving the world while trying to pass exams, lifting the spirits of the depressed, downtrodden and bullied and can even befriend the reclusive, the painfully shy, and aggressively hostile, but ask her to help a giant beast-faced [[HalfHumanHybrid hanyou]] in his herb garden when there's an earthworm in plain sight and she'll fall to pieces.
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* ''InuYasha'': ''Manga/{{InuYasha}}'': Kagome can handle {{youkai}}, blood, guts, wounds, two-timing boyfriends, time-travel, saving the world while trying to pass exams, lifting the spirits of the depressed, downtrodden and bullied and can even befriend the reclusive, the painfully shy, and aggressively hostile, but ask her to help a giant beast-faced [[HalfHumanHybrid hanyou]] in his herb garden when there's an earthworm in plain sight and she'll fall to pieces.
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* ''Manga/AiYoriAoshi'': Miyabi is capable of bodily throwing someone across the room if she even ''suspects'' someone is trying to [[MamaBear harm Aoi]], but completely flips her lid at the sight of bugs. Unfortunately for her, the Sakuraba house's pet ferret, Uzume, develops a habit of bringing her dead bugs.
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This trope is arguably justified by evolution. For the vast majority of human existence, the animals commonly associated with this trope--rodents, snakes, spiders, etc.--were potentially venomous or carrying disease, and a human's fear could be an evolved self-preserving instinct.
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This trope is arguably justified by evolution. For the vast majority of human existence, the animals commonly associated with this trope--rodents, snakes, spiders, etc.--were potentially venomous or carrying disease, and a human's fear of it could be an evolved self-preserving instinct.
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This trope is arguably justified by evolution. For the vast majority of human existence, the animals commonly associated with this trope--rodents, snakes, spiders, etc.--were potentially venomous or carrying disease, and a human's fear could be an evolved self-preserving instinct.
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Re-added two deleted examples since they both exemplify this trope. Why Did It Have To Be Snakes is when a character has a long-established phobia. This trope is when someone freaks out at the sight of a small crawling creature, but isn\'t established to have a long-standing fear of it, only a heat-of-the-moment reaction.
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* In the nonfiction book ''Retail Hell: How I sold my soul to the store'', this happened in the "Big Fancy" store when someone returned a product to the handbag department that had a ''huge'' Cockroach in it. Naturally; this trope ensues and Freeman is told to kill it as the ''sole'' male working the department.
* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQRKjoAr_q8 Soldiers vs Camel Spider]]", a hilarious Youtube video where a pair of muscular, manly American soldiers are standing on their beds ([[ShirtlessScene in their underwear]]) and hunting down a camel spider in their room...WITH RIFLES.
** 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 [[ScaryScorpions scarier than they are]]. Freaking out is predictable if you think something can literally gouge out chunks of your flesh.
* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQRKjoAr_q8 Soldiers vs Camel Spider]]", a hilarious Youtube video where a pair of muscular, manly American soldiers are standing on their beds ([[ShirtlessScene in their underwear]]) and hunting down a camel spider in their room...WITH RIFLES.
** 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 [[ScaryScorpions scarier than they are]]. Freaking out is predictable if you think something can literally gouge out chunks of your flesh.
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* AkiraToriyama, creator of ''DrSlump'' and ''DragonBall'', has an intense fear of mice, such that when his work suffered when his workplace had an infestation, since he was too scared to step inside.
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* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQRKjoAr_q8 Soldiers vs Camel Spider]]", a hilarious Youtube video where a pair of muscular, manly American soldiers are standing on their beds ([[ShirtlessScene in their underwear]]) and hunting down a spider in their room...WITH RIFLES.
** 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 [[ScaryScorpions scarier than they are]]. Freaking out is predictable if you think something can literally gouge out chunks of your flesh.
* Special effects legend turned actor Tom Savini is terrified of cockroaches. When he was working on ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'', specifically the segment "They're Creeping Up on You", one of the cockroaches touched his ankle. Savini has no memory of actually crossing the room, but he ended up on the other side of it.
** 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 [[ScaryScorpions scarier than they are]]. Freaking out is predictable if you think something can literally gouge out chunks of your flesh.
* Special effects legend turned actor Tom Savini is terrified of cockroaches. When he was working on ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'', specifically the segment "They're Creeping Up on You", one of the cockroaches touched his ankle. Savini has no memory of actually crossing the room, but he ended up on the other side of it.
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On the Thunderbirds episode The Mighty Atom Lady Penelope while on Thunderbird 2 saw a spy camera shaped like a mouse that was planted by the Hood and started screaming \"EEEK!!\" as the mouse spy camera took pictures of her instead of the top secret insides of Thunderbird 2.
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* The ''Series/ThreesCompany'' episode "The Best Laid Plans" revolved a mouse being loose in the trio's apartment, with Janet being the mouseophobic one.
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* The ''Series/ThreesCompany'' episode "The Best Laid Plans" revolved a mouse being loose in the trio's apartment, with apartment. Larry kills the mouse, but Jack doesn't want the girls to find out because Janet being won't sleep in her bed as long as the mouseophobic one.mouse is around and Jack is using it as an excuse to sleep in the same room as Chrissy. Meanwhile, Mr. Roper doesn't want Helen to know the mouse is dead because he was using it as an excuse for Helen's mother to not visit.
*''TheGoldenGirls'' had one, revealing why Dorothy's nickname is Pussycat. Instead of catching it as the other girls expect her to, Dorothy talks the mouse into escaping.
* The {{Facebook}} game ''MouseHunt'' features the king of Gnawnia hiring a team of mouse hunters to rid Gnawnia of their mouse problem.
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* Several old ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' shorts utilize this trope.
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* The film ''Of Unknown Origin'' is about a New Yorker obsessed with eliminating the large rat that keeps invading his apartment.
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* Real life: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vDD5Up3SWE weatherman vs. cockroach]].
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* [[http://learnfrommyfail.com/2010/06/07/fail-story-lfmf-learn-from-eeks-fail/ Learn From EEK's Fail]].
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* [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26963256 Rat on New York City subway scares passengers]]
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* AkiraToriyama, creator of ''DrSlump'' and ''DragonBall'', has an intense fear of mice, such that when his work suffered when his workplace had an infestation, since he was too scared to step inside.
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* TexAvery, naturally, built an entire cartoon out of this trope. "Slap Happy Lion" has a mouse scaring a much-feared lion simply by saying "Boo!" at him. The cartoon ends with the mouse being scared by a much smaller mouse.
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* TexAvery, Creator/TexAvery, naturally, built an entire cartoon out of this trope. "Slap Happy Lion" has a mouse scaring a much-feared lion simply by saying "Boo!" at him. The cartoon ends with the mouse being scared by a much smaller mouse.
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