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* The ''WesternAnimation/SummerCampIsland'' episode "Popular Banana Split" revolves around Max and Porcupine accidentally being turned small and finding a high school for AnthropomorphicFood.

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* ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'', although the scale is not kept consistent. Abandoned in TheRemake, which is simply a WorldOfFunnyAnimals.

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* ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'' (which was based on a series of books by Eve Titus, ''Literature/BasilOfBakerStreet''). Exaggerated in that while set in London, the mouse version of London is almost exactly the same as the human, without BambooTechnology. They have clockwork, ''guns'', functioning cabarets and (bizarrely) even Queen Mousetoria, who's an identical mouse version of Queen Victoria. Also, living directly under SherlockHolmes' house is Basil, a mouse who's an amazingly clear if Disney-fied {{Expy}} of Holmes himself.
* ''Disney/TheRescuers'' and ''Disney/TheRescuersDownUnder'', two animated Disney features based on [[Literature/TheRescuers the aforementioned series of books]] by Margery Sharp.
* ''Disney/{{Cinderella}}'''s mouse-friends, though not the center of the story, have significantly adapted the house so they can move about freely inside it.
* The novel ''Literature/MrsFrisbyAndTheRatsOfNIMH'', or TheFilmOfTheBook ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH''.
** 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.
** The novel (and the later sequels) ''did'' state that the Rats of NIMH had made their tunnels surprisingly human-like (and it only got more so, after they moved to the valley, including a statue of one of the rats who died near the end of the first book). ''Racso'' even has some of the younger rats figuring out how to make ''candy''. And Mrs. Frisby was married to [[spoiler: one of the mice from NIMH. So her husband might have been partial to human-like amenities, and Mrs. Frisby humoured him.]]
* The computer-animated film ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'' has a rat-sized recreation on London made out of junk in the AbsurdlySpaciousSewer, with its own Tower Bridge, Picadilly Circus (complete with not-so-big screens) and Big Ben.
* ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'', although the scale is not kept consistent. Abandoned in TheRemake, which is simply a WorldOfFunnyAnimals.
* Played quite realistically in ''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.
** The rat-adapted kitchen of the bistro at the end of the film expands upon its Mouse World elements, with tiny ladders granting Remy's colony-mates access to high shelves and kitchen appliances arranged so teams of rats can manipulate them.
** Also used, of course, in Creator/VideoBrinquedo's [[TheMockbuster Mockbuster]] of this movie, ''Animation/{{Ratatoing}}''.
* ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAForest'', though it takes place mostly in the wilderness where humans are seen as [[HumansAreCthulhu mythical, frightening and destructive monsters]], the WoodlandCreatures encounter with 'the yellow dragons', aka construction equipment, as well as other human inventions such as streets and animal traps qualifies it. They also live in houses built into trees.

* ''WesternAnimation/BeeMovie''m\,centered around a human-like civilization inside a bee hive.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBuzzOnMaggie'', short-lived Disney show about a teenage fly.

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

%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheAntBully''

* ''WesternAnimation/MrBugGoesToTown'', a feature-length Fleischer cartoon. The bugs attempt to co-exist with a[[HumansThroughAlienEyes human couple]] who have a parallel story, after people accidentally endanger them in a park in Central Park their village is built in.[[spoiler: They end up finding their garden as a new home.]]

%%* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap''.
%%* ''VideoGame/MarioParty DS''.

* There is a weirdly humanlike monkey society in ''Literature/TheJungleBook'', but they do not act humanlike around any person other than Mowgli.
** The animals in general only act humanlike toward Mowgli.

* In the book, ''House of Tribes''. It shows life entirely from the perspective of rodents. It is a very well done example, that fits this trope to the T.

* ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'' (which was based on a series of books by Eve Titus, ''Literature/BasilOfBakerStreet'')
** Exaggerated in that while set in London, the mouse version of London is almost exactly the same as the human, without BambooTechnology. They have clockwork, ''guns'', functioning cabarets and (bizarrely) even Queen Mousetoria, who's an identical mouse version of Queen Victoria. Also, living directly under SherlockHolmes' house is Basil, a mouse who's an amazingly clear if Disney-fied {{Expy}} of Holmes himself.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory''

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If they deal with human opponents directly, expect clever trickery, stealth and the odd ColossusClimb or GulliverTieDown. They may become DinkyDrivers to operate human vehicles. In more rural or wilderness setting, the may live in {{Mushroom House}}s. 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.

%%* ''ComicBook/MouseGuard''

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

%%* ''Literature/TheBorrowers''

%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheWorldOfDavidTheGnome''

%%* ''The Wisdom of the Gnomes''.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/BeeMovie''

* A classic of British fantasy literature, ''The Little Grey Men'', features four gnomes who presumably had a Mouse World culture once, but now are the LastOfTheirKind.

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

* ''WesternAnimation/OzzyAndDrix'' (technically, body cells are living things, but not in its everyday sense.)
%%* ''Literature/TheVelveteenRabbit''
%%* ''WesternAnimation/GnomeoAndJuliet'' (gnomes and other garden ornaments).

** Also used, of course, in VideoBrinquedo's [[TheMockbuster Mockbuster]] of this movie, ''Animation/{{Ratatoing}}''.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/ FishHooks''

* ''Tube Mice'' a Creator/{{CITV}} series about mice living beneath a LondonUnderground station, who even have their own MP - Mouse of Parliament.

Similar in many ways to BeneathTheEarth, MouseWorld exists in secret on the fringes of human society; the difference is scale. This is an entire class of stories built around tiny protagonists operating just out of sight in the human world. These come in a few flavors, but all share some important common elements. In any case, the lives of the little folk draw eerie parallels to the lives of the big-folk.

If they deal with human opponents directly, expect clever trickery, stealth and the odd ColossusClimb or GulliverTieDown. 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.

* The ''Ratatouille'' ride at Disneyland Paris takes guests through the MouseWorld experience, traveling on rat-themed carts under furniture and through spaces between walls.

* ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'', although one not exclusive to rodents. Dogs, cats, arthropods, fish, birds, and pretty much every other sort of animal is an active part of the MouseWorld.

** The rat-adapted kitchen of the bistro at the end of the film expands upon its MouseWorld elements, with tiny ladders granting Remy's colony-mates access to high shelves and kitchen appliances arranged so teams of rats can manipulate them.

* Most of ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' is set in a "normal" human world; however, the episode "The Third Mouse" (a parody of ''Film/TheThirdMan'') is set inexplicably in a 1940's MouseWorld.

* A classic of British fantasy literature, ''The Little Grey Men'' features four gnomes who presumably had a MouseWorld culture once, but now are the LastOfTheirKind.

* The tiny stitchpunks of ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}'' live in a [[ScavengerWorld Scavenger]] MouseWorld AfterTheEnd. Noticing everything they've used for their technology, such as a sextant for a telescope, is a lot of fun.

->''"For behind the wooden {{wainscot|Society}}s of all the old houses of Gloucester, there are little mouse staircases and secret trap-doors; and the mice run from house to house through those long narrow passages; they can run all over the town without going into the streets."''

* Series/KabouterPlop (Plop The Gnome) a popular Belgian children's show created by {{Creator/Studio100}} focuses on 4 (Later 6) small gnomes that live inside mushroom houses. It gained a few movies over the years.