In Art Spiegelman's Maus races of humans are being depicted as various species of anthropomorphic animals. Jews are depicted as this, a metaphor stemming from Nazi propaganda. In certain scenes however Spiegelman himself appears to be just wearing a mouse mask.
Like other mammals, rodents were well-represented in the Spellsinger novels, although rats and mice were treated like second-class citizens, forced to wash floors and so on.
It seems to be a common subversion that if rats aren't the monsters or the bad guys, they're the Butt-Monkey race.
The rats in Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH were mostly normal-sized but walked upright and wore clothing.
Brutus, while certainly not giant, was described as being rather large as far as rats go.
It was stated that the drugs they were given increased their size... it was part of why the normal rats feared them.
The first is actually listed in the note of wrong examples, and the other two seem to fall on the wrong side of the trope's distinction between Talking Rats and Rat Men.
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The first is actually listed in the note of wrong examples, and the other two seem to fall on the wrong side of the trope's distinction between Talking Rats and Rat Men.
Edited by DaibhidC