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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Redwall}}'': Rats are a common antagonistic species, with Cluny and most of his bandit horde being comprised of them. In Season 2, Mattimeo attacks Vitch purely on the basis that he's a rat and ergo must be evil. While Matthias scolds him for his prejudice, it turns out that Mattimeo was right about Vitch, who was a spy for Slagar's slavers.
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Could be seen as a type of FantasticRacism. See also NiceMice, ResourcefulRodent, and SwarmOfRats. RatMen, {{Rat King}}s or RodentsOfUnusualSize can be even worse. A RatStomp is when rats become one of the first monsters to face a newbie adventurer in an RPG. Compare with CatsAreMean, BewareOfViciousDog and ReptilesAreAbhorrent. ScrewballSquirrel is this trope but as a squirrel. BatOutOfHell is probably related, as bats are seen as similar to rats. May also [[ElephantsAreScaredOfMice scare the crap out of]] {{Honorable Elephant}}s ''and/or'' (in case of EvilVersusEvil) {{Cruel Elephant}}s. Subtrope of WhatMeasureIsANonCute.
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Could be seen as a type of FantasticRacism. See also NiceMice, ResourcefulRodent, AMischiefOfMice and SwarmOfRats. RatMen, {{Rat King}}s or RodentsOfUnusualSize can be even worse. A RatStomp is when rats become one of the first monsters to face a newbie adventurer in an RPG. Compare with CatsAreMean, BewareOfViciousDog and ReptilesAreAbhorrent. ScrewballSquirrel is this trope but as a squirrel. BatOutOfHell is probably related, as bats are seen as similar to rats. May also [[ElephantsAreScaredOfMice scare the crap out of]] {{Honorable Elephant}}s ''and/or'' (in case of EvilVersusEvil) {{Cruel Elephant}}s. Subtrope of WhatMeasureIsANonCute.
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* ''VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime'': [[spoiler:[[BitchInSheepsClothing Penelope]], ''[[EvilAllAlong Penelope]]'', '''''[[TheSociopath Penelope]]'''''. Murder, greed, manipulation, warmongering, and, of course, treason, makes her one of the most odious enemies the Cooper Gang has faced.]]
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* The Graverobbers in ''VideoGame/DungeonsOfAether'' are big, evil rats.
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* One board in ''VideoGame/MarioParty9'' has an event where a Scaredy Rat appears and steals Mini-Stars from the players, then tries to run down a hallway to escape. The players take turns rolling Dice Blocks in the order chosen by the player that started the event, and if one of the players manages to catch the Scaredy Rat before it gets away, they get the Mini-Stars for themselves.
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** However, one major exception of the usual inversion of the trope in real life are the trench rats infamous for their abundance, burrowed the grueling battlefields of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI — playing the trope awfully straight. Many Allied soldiers felt negative effects from the presence of the rats throughout their time in the war. Alleged rumors of the rats being able to grow to [[RodentsOfUnusualSize sizes "as big as cats"]] doesn't help the fact at all.
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** However, one major exception of the usual inversion of the trope in real life are the trench rats infamous for their abundance, abundance burrowed in the grueling battlefields of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI — playing the trope awfully straight. Many Allied soldiers felt negative effects from the presence of the rats throughout their time in the war. Alleged rumors of the rats being able to grow to [[RodentsOfUnusualSize sizes "as big as cats"]] doesn't help the fact at all.
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** However, one major exception of the usual inversion of the trope in real life are the trench rats infamous for their abundance, burrowed the grueling battlefields of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI — playing the trope awfully straight. Many Allied soldiers felt negative effects from the presence of the rats throughout their time in the war. Alleged rumors of the rats being able to grow to [[RodentsOfUnusualSize sizes "as big as cats"]] doesn't help the fact at all.
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* ''VideoGame/VentureKid'': [[PlayerCharacter Andy]] can encounter rats in the sewers of the city level.
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* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'' enemy, Verminous Skumm, is a mutated anthropomorphic rat who wants to spread disease.
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** The team's recurring enemy, Verminous Skumm, is a mutated anthropomorphic rat who wants to spreaddisease.disease.
** Played with in "[[Recap/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteersS2E23HateCanal Hate Canal]]". Skumm, as always, plays into the negative stereotypes about rats and his [[SwarmOfRats swarms of mutated rats]] are a major threat. However, non-mutated rats are presented as regular animals; during one scene, [[TheHeart Ma-Ti]] finds two cowering in an unlit fireplace and uses his ring to calm them.
** The team's recurring enemy, Verminous Skumm, is a mutated anthropomorphic rat who wants to spread
** Played with in "[[Recap/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteersS2E23HateCanal Hate Canal]]". Skumm, as always, plays into the negative stereotypes about rats and his [[SwarmOfRats swarms of mutated rats]] are a major threat. However, non-mutated rats are presented as regular animals; during one scene, [[TheHeart Ma-Ti]] finds two cowering in an unlit fireplace and uses his ring to calm them.
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* ''Franchise/TombRaider'' a common enemy in several games are rats, which range in size from normal to RodentsOfUnusalSize.
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* ''VideoGame/BotGaiden'': One of the bosses of the game is a gigantic robotic rat named... Ratbot. It attacks by trying to strike [[PlayerCharacter the ninja bots]] with the circular sawblade on its tail.
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* Averted in ''VideoGame/ComixZone'': Roadkill the rat is the main character's CoolPet and NonHumanSidekick - he helps solving puzzles, finds secret places and hidden items, and can OneHitKill [[EekAMouse female enemies]].
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* Averted in ''VideoGame/ComixZone'': Roadkill the rat is the main character's CoolPet pet and NonHumanSidekick - he helps solving puzzles, finds secret places and hidden items, and can OneHitKill [[EekAMouse female enemies]].
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* ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'':
** Plague Rat, whose mutations have turned him into a giant, toxic rat creature.
** The Pike Industrial environment includes rats as targets. They do minimal damage to the lowest-HP targets, but the Experimental Mutagen card buffs them for each card out.
** The Rat Beasts from The Final Wasteland, which are implied to be the descendants of Plague Rat -- they even share a nemesis with him.
** Plague Rat, whose mutations have turned him into a giant, toxic rat creature.
** The Pike Industrial environment includes rats as targets. They do minimal damage to the lowest-HP targets, but the Experimental Mutagen card buffs them for each card out.
** The Rat Beasts from The Final Wasteland, which are implied to be the descendants of Plague Rat -- they even share a nemesis with him.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'': Rats, of both normal and [[RodentsOfUnusualSize giant-sized]] varieties, are enemies Zagreus will face in the Temple of Styx (the final level before the FinalBoss). This makes them some of the toughest common enemies in the game, partly because they attack in [[ZergRush large numbers]] and because they can inflict poison damage. If Zagreus is ''very'' unlucky, he can encounter a variant of the small rat known as the King Vermin, which looks exactly the same, but it has over 12 000 HP (only two other foes in the game have more health, one of which is an OptionalBoss and the other being the FinalBoss), can summon hordes of giant rats, teleport, and does far more damage than normal.
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!!I'm the Giant Rat that makes all of the tropes!
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!!I'm the Giant Rat that makes all of the tropes!
da Tropes!
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* Rats in ''Webcomic/InOurShadow'' are an entire species of XenophobicHerbivore {{Dirty Coward}}s who can't feel safe unless every other species is either cowed into submission, either through the "submission signal" broadcast throughout the Northern Hemisphere or brute force, or extinct.
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* Rats in ''Webcomic/InOurShadow'' are an entire species of XenophobicHerbivore AbsoluteXenophobe {{Dirty Coward}}s who can't feel safe unless every other species is either cowed into submission, either through the "submission signal" broadcast throughout their empire in the Northern Hemisphere or brute force, or extinct.[[FinalSolution extinction]]. [[spoiler: Later subverted when it turns out that [[EmperorScientist Emperor Schorl]] created a second signal to amplify his subjects' fear response to make it easier to control them, and rats who spend enough time outside its influence can overcome their xenophobia.]]
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Could be seen as a type of FantasticRacism. See also NiceMice, ResourcefulRodent, and SwarmOfRats. RatMen, {{Rat King}}s or RodentsOfUnusualSize can be even worse. A RatStomp is when rats become one of the first monsters to face a newbie adventurer in an RPG. Compare with CatsAreMean, BewareOfViciousDog and ReptilesAreAbhorrent. ScrewballSquirrel is this trope but as a squirrel. BatOutOfHell is probably related, as bats are seen as similar to rats. PricklyPorcupine is the more (physically) nastier cousin of this trope. May also [[ElephantsAreScaredOfMice scare the crap out of]] {{Honorable Elephant}}s ''and/or'' (in case of EvilVersusEvil) {{Cruel Elephant}}s. Subtrope of WhatMeasureIsANonCute.
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Could be seen as a type of FantasticRacism. See also NiceMice, ResourcefulRodent, and SwarmOfRats. RatMen, {{Rat King}}s or RodentsOfUnusualSize can be even worse. A RatStomp is when rats become one of the first monsters to face a newbie adventurer in an RPG. Compare with CatsAreMean, BewareOfViciousDog and ReptilesAreAbhorrent. ScrewballSquirrel is this trope but as a squirrel. BatOutOfHell is probably related, as bats are seen as similar to rats. PricklyPorcupine is the more (physically) nastier cousin of this trope. May also [[ElephantsAreScaredOfMice scare the crap out of]] {{Honorable Elephant}}s ''and/or'' (in case of EvilVersusEvil) {{Cruel Elephant}}s. Subtrope of WhatMeasureIsANonCute.
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* ''Music/RadioactiveChickenHeads''' "Pest Control" is about the band dealing with a CorruptedCharacterCopy of Creator/ChuckECheese that's been terrorizing a pizzeria.
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* ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp'' features the rat pictured above, which threatens the Darlings' baby before being stopped by [[PapaWolf Tramp]].
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* The titular protagonist of ''WebAnimation/RatboyGenius'' is a definite aversion to this. Little King John plays it straight though, at least [[HeelFaceTurn at first.]]
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Fictional rats are typically rangier and leaner than the chubbier or fluffier designs used for mice, [[TypicalCartoonAnimalColors and also tend to be colored black or dark gray]] in contrast to the lighter colors used for mice, emphasizing the moral contrast between the two sorts of rodents. A rat might also be ''literally'' dirty and [[PlagueMaster more disease-ridden]] compared to mice.
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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', the Skaven are AlwaysChaoticEvil rat-men who practice foul sorcery and use chaos-empowered steampunk technology to wage war on everyone else (even the other AlwaysChaoticEvil races). It's explicitly stated that they are the most evil race in the whole setting, and this is a place where [[OurDemonsAreDifferent daemons]] exist. Vampires are [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes capable of genuine love and affection]] even though they'll enslave whole populations of living people to use as food and servants, Dark Elves are driven to cruelty as a way of life and some individuals can become questionably heroic, and even the most brutish Orc will go off and have a cry if his pet squig dies. Skaven hate everyone and everything; they are more cowardly than Goblins, more cruel than Dark Elves, and even more fractitious than Chaos. No Skaven character thus far as shown any sympathetic or redeeming traits whatsoever, nor have they ever shown any concern or love for anyone other than themselves. The only thing that unites the Skaven at all is hatred of any living thing that isn't a Skaven, [[EnemyMine giving them a common enemy to fight]] lest they fall in against each other like... well, a pack of rats.
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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', the Skaven are Nazi-Rats; AlwaysChaoticEvil rat-men who practice foul sorcery and use chaos-empowered steampunk technology to wage war on everyone else (even the other AlwaysChaoticEvil races). It's explicitly stated that they are the ''the'' most evil race in the whole setting, and setting[[note]]And this is a place where [[OurDemonsAreDifferent daemons]] exist. Vampires are [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes capable of genuine love and affection]] even though they'll enslave whole populations of living people to use as food and servants, Dark Elves are driven to cruelty as a way of life and some individuals can become questionably heroic, and even the most brutish Orc will go off and have a cry if his pet squig dies. dies[[/note]]. Skaven hate everyone and everything; they are more cowardly than Goblins, more cruel than Dark Elves, and even more fractitious divided than Chaos. No Skaven character thus far as has shown any sympathetic or redeeming traits whatsoever, nor have they ever shown any concern or love for anyone other than themselves.themselves[[note]]rumors and legends claim that the few offscreen token-heroic Skaven were quickly torn to shreds by their many, many siblings[[/note]]. There may be a ''slight'' exception to the females, if only because the male Skaven have enslaved them as ''mindless breeding sows'' to rape at their discretion. The only thing that unites the Skaven at all is hatred of any living thing that isn't a Skaven, [[EnemyMine giving them a common enemy to fight]] lest they fall in against each other like... well, a pack of rats.
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* In the ''Soldiers of Barrabas'' pulp novel "Butcher's of Eden", a Tamil man shoots several Singhalese policeman who are in the process of raping his family, but runs out of ammunition before he can finish off the last one. Desperate to silence the DirtyCop when he starts shouting for help, he grabs the nearest ImprovisedWeapon he can find--which happens to be a rat dying of poison--and jams it down the cop's throat until, as the author put it, "both rats were dead."
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* In the ''Soldiers of Barrabas'' pulp novel "Butcher's of Eden", a Tamil man shoots several Singhalese policeman who are in the process of raping his family, but runs out of ammunition before he can finish off the last one. Desperate to silence the DirtyCop when he starts shouting for help, he grabs the nearest ImprovisedWeapon he can find--which happens to be a rat dying of poison--and jams it down the cop's throat until, as the author put it, "both rats were dead."
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* ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'' features swarms of rats who have not only brought a deadly plague to the city of Dunwall but can also ''[[ToServeMan devour live humans]]''. And you may later gain the magical power to summon these man-eating rats to attack enemies.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'' features swarms of rats who have not only brought a deadly plague to the city of Dunwall but can also ''[[ToServeMan devour live humans]]''. And you may later gain the magical power to summon these man-eating rats to attack enemies. The rats act as part of the game's KarmaMeter system: the more people you kill, the more corpses there are for the rats to eat, increasing their numbers and in turn spreading the plague throughout more and more of Dunwall.
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* Ultimately subverted in the world of ''Realms of Pugmire''. From the perspectives of dogs and cats, as found in both ''TabletopGame/{{Pugmire}}'' and ''TabletopGame/MonarchiesOfMau'', rats are effectively shifty, lowly criminals (although, in the latter, [[spoiler: the story "All Hail The Rat King!" reveals more positive rat figures, like Meeka Chase]]). However, in the spinoff sourcebook ''Squeaks in the Deep'', it’s shown that they mainly play this role due to being on the [[FantasticRacism lowest end of the social ladder]], and growing a sense of cynicism from the ways they’ve been treated by other species. In fact, mice are often treated better than rats directly because of the [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute more harmless way mice seem]], which only causes rats to be even more distrustful towards non-rodents. Not helping is [[MadScientist the cult of Labo Tor]], which does play this trope straight (although the members also include mice). Ultimately, cynical demeanor or not, rats, like any playable animal, are just as likely to be good or evil as any other.
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* Jokingly discussed in ''Mike Nelson's Mind Over Matters'', where he argues that rats should have their status as mammals revoked:
--> ''...not because they don’t qualify genetically, but on charges of moral turpitude. There are only so many great plagues that you can cause before you have to take responsibility. In the trial against them, their bald tails (so horrible and unmammal-ly) should be admissible as evidence against them.''
--> ''...not because they don’t qualify genetically, but on charges of moral turpitude. There are only so many great plagues that you can cause before you have to take responsibility. In the trial against them, their bald tails (so horrible and unmammal-ly) should be admissible as evidence against them.''
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* In the ''Literature/FreddyThePig'' series, the rats are recurring characters who make up the equivalent of [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether a mob family]] led by their patriarch Simon. On several occasions they team up with human crooks to commit extortion, theft, or other dirty deeds. In one later book, they go so far as to stage a full-blown fascist coup to take over the Bean Farm and install Simon as dictator.
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** A very strong aversion: Master Splinter in any incarnation is a wise, gentle, and patient fellow. [[BerserkButton Just don't]] [[PapaWolf threaten his adoptive sons]].
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** A very strong aversion: Master Splinter in any incarnation is a wise, gentle, and patient fellow. [[BerserkButton Just don't]] [[PapaWolf threaten Just don't hreaten his adoptive sons]].
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* The ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' series has the rats, a group of bandits who are so sleazy, creepy, kleptomaniac and disgusting that even the others bandits don't like them. Did we mention they are cannibal? Technically they aren't real rats but are [[AnimalMotif themed]] and named around them.
