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* The 80s SaturdayMorningCartoon ''The Trollkins'' which managed to combine ''TheSmurfs'' with ''TheDukesOfHazzard.'' No, seriously.

* ''Disney/TheRescuers'' and ''TheRescuersDownUnder'', two animated Disney features based on [[Literature/TheRescuers the aforementioned series of books]] by Margery Sharp.

* ''Webcomic/{{Scurry}}'', where the main characters are talking mice who inhabit in a ruined human house and live by screening human food -- though, as fitting the tone of the (possibly) post-apocalyptic setting, they have very little of the usual comforts of the trope.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Antz}}'' is one of the few ones where an unnamed and [[HumansThroughAlienEyes unseen boy]] serves as a minor antagonist. Also, Insectopia is made out of trash and the end-reveal, which isn't much of a reveal thanks to the poster, shows that the Z's whole adventure happened in [[spoiler: Central Park]] making it more specific than usual about the human world.

* {{Literature/Gnomes}} is a wonderfully detailed illustration on how six-inch humanoids might survive in the wild. For the most part they live InHarmonyWithNature but they do occasionally scavenge things from human beings and their domestic animals.

* ''Literature/TheTaleOfDespereaux'' has one for mice (the TropeNamer), who live in hiding in the main castle, and one for rats, who live in the lights dungeon. They all have to stay hidden because, after the queen died of a heart attack after a rat fell in her soup, the king essential declared war on the rats, and on the mice by association, forcing them all into hiding.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'', its sequel, and ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar''

* ''WesternAnimation/FatherOfThePride''
* ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians: The Series''
* ''WesternAnimation/KryptoTheSuperdog''
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}''
* The island of Namboombu from ''Film/BedknobsandBroomsticks''.

* ''Anime/{{Hamtaro}}''
* [[http://myanimelist.net/anime/30738/Gamba__Gamba_to_Nakama-tachi "Gamba: Gamba to Nakama-tachi (Adventures Of Gamba)]] stars a group of talking mice. The film is also an adaptation of the 1975 anime "Ganba no Boken".

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* ''ComicBook/MouseGuard''

* ''Literature/StuartLittle''

* The ''Literature/DeptfordMice'' books by Creator/RobinJarvis.
* ''Literature/TheTaleOfDespereaux'' has one for mice (the TropeNamer) and one for rats.

* ''Big Ears, Small Mouse'', a supplement for ''TabletopGame/BigEyesSmallMouth''.

* ''Webcomic/{{Scurry}}'' - though, as fitting the tone of the (possibly) post-apocalyptic setting, they have very little of the usual comforts of the trope.

* ''WesternAnimation/CapitolCritters''

** The movie took it far further, though; the mice have tables, chairs, a bed, separate rooms and curtains in the doorways of their home, whereas in the original, it was just a two-opening cinderblock.

* Most ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' and ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTales'' cartoons and episodes.
* The alley cats in ''Disney/TheAristocats''.
* The penguins in ''WesternAnimation/ThePebbleAndThePenguin''
* The birds from ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio}}''.

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* The merpeople and fish in ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''
* ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo''
* ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale''
* ''FishHooks''
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''

* ''[[Anime/{{Arrietty}} The Secret World of Arrietty]]'', Creator/StudioGhibli's film adaptation of ''Literature/TheBorrowers''
* ''Anime/TheLittlBits''

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* ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'', a Belgian comic.

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* The Psyches and their city-village Psychelia from ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf''.

* ''Literature/TheLittles''
* ''Literature/TheBorrowers''
* Terry Pratchett's Nac Mac Feegle (aka the Pictsies) in ''Wee Free Men'' and other ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' books. His earlier children's books, ''Literature/TheCarpetPeople'' and ''[[Literature/NomesTrilogy The Bromeliad Trilogy]]'' (''Truckers'', ''Diggers'', and ''Wings'') are a more obvious example.
* ''Literature/MistressMashamsRepose''
* The Gallivespians in ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials''

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap''.
* ''VideoGame/MarioParty DS''.
* ''VideoGame/MushroomMen''
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'': Tozas
* ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'' from Olimar's point of view, although only on the Distant Planet. His home world is just right for the dominant race's size.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheWorldOfDavidTheGnome''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleTwins''
* ''The Wisdom of the Gnomes''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeamUmizoomi'' , depending on the episode.
** Mostly a subversion, since the humans interact with the team.
* 80s SaturdayMorningCartoon ''The Trollkins'' which managed to combine ''TheSmurfs'' with ''TheDukesOfHazzard.'' No, seriously.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Mr Bogus}}''

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* ''Anime/TwilightOfTheCockroaches''
* ''[[Manga/{{Gokicha}} Gokicha!! Cockroach Girls]]''

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAntBully''
* ''The City Under the Back Steps'' by Evelyn Sibley Lampman, in which two children are shrunk down to ant size and have adventures in/with an ant colony

* ''[[Literature/MayaTheBee The Adventures of Maya the Bee]]''
* ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'': Interestingly humans never directly appear, but their existence is obvious through the use of garbage as buildings for the bugs in the Bug City and at least a trailer-park with a lantern. Also a beggar cricket has a tablet that says that a kid pulled his wings off.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Antz}}'' is one of the few ones where an unnamed and [[HumansThroughAlienEyes unseen boy]] serves as a minor antagonist. Also Insectopia is made out of trash and the end-reveal, which isn't much of a reveal thanks to the poster, shows that the whole adventure of Z happened in [[spoiler: Central Park]] making it more specific than usual about the human world.

* ''WesternAnimation/BeeMovie''

* ''WesternAnimation/MissSpidersSunnyPatchFriends''

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster''

* ''Literature/TheVelveteenRabbit''
* ''WesternAnimation/GnomeoAndJuliet'' (gnomes and other garden ornaments)

* Played quite realistically in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon film ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'', where the most BambooTechnology utilized by the rats is their musical instruments. Other than that, they're quadruped rodents. Remy, who engages in more humanlike behavior like walking on his hind legs and reading, is considered an oddity by the others.

--> '''Brain:''' Quickly, Pinky! We must return to the past! I must change it all back again!

* ''The Deptford Mice'' books by Robin Jarvis.

* The [[Creator/RankinBassProductions Rankin/Bass]] special ''TwasTheNightBeforeChristmas'' involves a family of mice living with the family of a human clockmaker. Unusually for the trope, the human is not only aware of his counterpart's existence but actually interacts and works with him.

* One episode of the second season of ''WesternAnimation/FlashGordon'' establishes that, along with all the other animal-themed races on Mongo, there is a race called the Mouse Folk, who are ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.

* Little Rodentia, a neighborhood within Disney/{{Zootopia}} reserved for mice and other small rodents.

* ''Literature/AngelinaBallerina''

* ''Literature/GeronimoStilton''

** There's also St. Ninian's church, which was burned down in ''Pearls of Lutra'', and a mention of the ([[CaptainObvious human]]) country of Portugal in the first book.

If they deal with human opponents directly, expect clever trickery, stealth and the odd ColossusClimb. They may become DinkyDrivers to operate human vehicles. If humans aren't aware of them in the slightest (as in most cases), it's usually because they either have a strong WeirdnessCensor, the tiny species is keeping a complex and clever [[TheMasquerade masquerade]], or they simply regard talking and/or clothed {{Funny Animal}}s or tiny humanoids as an UnusuallyUninterestingSight. In some cases one lucky human ([[ChildrenAreSpecial usually a child]]) SpeaksFluentAnimal and is the only human character in the story aware of the tiny species. In combination with an IncredibleShrinkingMan, you can have a TrappedInAnotherWorld plot. Other slightly larger animals such as cats and dogs may also play a role in this world, but expect AnimalJingoism to come into play, along with examples of CatsAreMean.

* ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'', although the scale is not kept consistent.

* ChinaMieville's ''Literature/KingRat'' plays this with gritty realism. Organized rats are real city rats living in the sewers.

* The island of Namboombu from ''BedknobsandBroomsticks''.

* Terry Pratchett's Nac Mac Feegle (aka the Pictsies) in ''Wee Free Men'' and other ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' books. His earlier children's books, ''TheCarpetPeople'' and ''[[Literature/NomesTrilogy The Bromeliad Trilogy]]'' (''Truckers'', ''Diggers'', and ''Wings'') are a more obvious example.

* ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'': Interestingly humans never directly appear, but their existence is obvious through the use of garbage as buildings for the bugs and at least a trailer-park with a lantern. Also a beggar cricket has a tablet that says that a kid pulled his wings off.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Antz}}''
* ''WesternAnimation/MrBugGoesToTown'', a feature-length Fleischer cartoon. The bugs attempt to co-exist with a human couple who have a parallel story, after people accidentally endanger them in the park their village is built in.[[spoiler: They end up finding their garden as a new home.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife''

* ''WesternAnimation/MrBugGoesToTown'', a feature-length Fleischer cartoon.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' Originally a Belgian comic.

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