History Main / MouseWorld

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Antz}}'' insects exist in a human-like society, though signs of huamns do exist. An unnamed and [[HumansThroughAlienEyes unseen boy]] serves as a minor antagonist, and Insectopia is made out of trash. The end-reveal, which isn't much of a reveal thanks to the poster, shows that Z's whole adventure happened in [[spoiler: Central Park]] making it more specific than usual about the human world.

* A Swedish urban art collective called [[PunnyName Anonymouse]] decorates their city with [[https://www.boredpanda.com/little-mouse-shop-sweden/ shops]] for [[https://www.instagram.com/anonymouse_mmx/ mice]], including a restaurant serving cheese and crackers and a record store featuring the works of [[Music/AmyWinehouse Amy Winemouse]], [[Music/RageAgainstTheMachine Rats Against The Machine]] and, er, Music/ModestMouse.

* ''Series/KabouterPlop'' (''Plop the Gnome'') focuses on four (later six) small gnomes that live inside {{Mushroom House}}s. It gained a few movies over the years.

%%* The ''Literature/DeptfordMice'' books by Creator/RobinJarvis.

* ''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 Z's whole adventure happened in [[spoiler: Central Park]] making it more specific than usual about the human world.

* In ''Webcomic/TheBirdFeeder'', in general, the birds have their own society, with their own odd technology, customs, calendar, holidays, and such. Played both ways in [[http://thebirdfeeder.com/comic/21 #21]], "Relative Size," as Josh wonders whether ants realize how small they are, and a human wonders whether Josh realizes how small he is.

* ''ComicBook/MouseGuard'': Featuring mice in a medieval setting, much like the Literature/{{Redwall}} series.

%%* ''Literature/StuartLittle''

* The ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' books started out with a few elements of this, which were later {{Ret Con}}ned away.

* The forest in ''WesternAnimation/{{Epic}}'' . Bonus points for an actual mouse showing up.

* 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. Unlike most examples, the monkeys live in the treetops, while most other animals live on the jungle floor, hence the two groups rarely interact.

* 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.

%%* The merpeople and fish in ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1''

* In ''WesternAnimation/Trolls'' the eponymous beings are the about the same size as the toys are in real life. Flowers tower over them as they use creatures like insects in place of appliances for conveniences like transport and lighting. They live in colorful pods that hang from trees in a way that resemble fruit.

* ''WesternAnimation/StrangeMagic'': The movie's fairy protagonists are small enough to ride armored squirrels as mounts,

* ''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.

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

* Usually averted on ''WesternAnimation/NatureCat'', in which animals either live naturally or use human-style technology ... except in the Christmas special, in which the Scratchetts, a family of wild mice, decorate a ''pine cone'' as a Christmas tree.

* The Tree people and the Grass people in ''Literature/TobyAlone''. As the names suggest, they are tiny humanoids living in the tree and in the grass, respectively.

* ''Series/LandOfTheGiants'' (Inversion: regular humans trapped in a world filled with -- guess what -- giants.)
* ''Series/KabouterPlop'', (''Plop the Gnome'') a popular Belgian children's show created by Creator/Studio100, focuses on four (later six) small gnomes that live inside mushroom houses. It gained a few movies over the years.

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%%* ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians: The Series''

* ''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 alley cats in ''Disney/TheAristocats''.

%%* The merpeople and fish in ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''

%%* ''WesternAnimation/CapitolCritters''

* The ''Franchise/ToyStory'' films are set in a world where children's toys are sentient and live their own lives when humans (who they see as almost godlike figures) aren't looking. Their adventures are complicated by the fact that they are miniature versions of humans and animals; getting dumped into a cardboard box and left to be forgotten in the attic may as well be a FateWorseThanDeath for them.

* ''Film/MinusculeValleyOfTheLostAnts'', except for the opening scene with humans.

* ''Anime/HakumeiToMikochi'', which follows a gnome-like race that lives secluded in the woods and interacts with animals.

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

* ''[[Anime/{{Arrietty}} The Secret World of Arrietty]]'', Creator/StudioGhibli's film adaptation of ''Literature/TheBorrowers'', features miniature humanoids living in a small house beneath the floorboards a human house, living by "borrowing" (stealing) small necessities from the humans. [[spoiler:One of the older humans who used to live in the house had built a dollhouse for the borrowers to live in, and in the end they leave down a creek in a boat made from a teapot.]]

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]], they operate a MobileSuitHuman or two, 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.

In an {{urban| Fantasy}} setting, the characters most often act like rats, even when they aren't actual {{Talking Animal}}s in the 3- to 6-inch range. They live in {{Mouse Hole}}s using adapted or cobbled-together materials made from human trash with the odd toys and models thrown in usually making it ScavengedPunk.

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

* ''WesternAnimation/OsmosisJones'' (technically, body cells are living things, but not in its everyday sense.)

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