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Rodents of Unusual Size
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Are they so named because they are unusually small, you ask? Heh, heh, heh... Rats are probably the most formidable and tenacious mammals in existence, being blessed with swift feet, durable incisors, impressive cunning and intelligence, numbers, and an all-consuming sense of self-preservation. The only thing they lack, it seems, is physical size and powernote and longevity (the average rat is very lucky to make three years) but don't expect to see that brought up often. Then, given that final boon, they would surely transform from shadow-scurrying scavengers to feared, flesh-rending predators that would have leather-clad barbarians knocking their knees together (but at least they're easier to hit than life-sized rats). Incidentally, if you don't find the regular-sized rats particularly worrisome already, then we hasten to point out that they are also world-class swimmers, can hold their breath more than long enough to reach the other end of the pipe leading to your toilet and have hinged ribcages allowing them to fit through any sewer pipe. (Thankfully, giant rats can rarely fit through the plumbing.) (In real life, however, the sheer successfulness of rodents can in fact be attributed to their small size. Being small, they can adapt to a wider range of niches, are able to breed more quickly, and need far less food to survive. If they were as large as most big mammals, they'd be little, if any, more successful.) Should you encounter these furry freaks, your best defense is to have a Mega Neko or a War Elephant by your side (or a Canis Major in case of giant squirrels). If in a video game, they're likely to be involved in a Rat Stomp. Occasionally, they're conscripted to provide Hamster-Wheel Power for large machines or vehicles. They are usually aggressive and dangerous animals. At its most extreme, this trope can overlap with Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever. When rodents are not only unnaturally large but also walk upright (at least some of the time) and have human-like intelligence, you have Rat Men. While rats are the most common rodents to show up as giants, others such as mice, squirrels, hamsters and such may also show up for variety or for added features (such as a giant squirrel being also a hyperactive troublemaker or a giant hamster an adept burrower). If the rodents have a high level of intelligence and resourcefulness then Resourceful Rodent can apply. If you have a pet rat (or any other pet rodent) of such size, chances are it'll be a Gentle Giant, if not Cute Giant. A Sub-Trope of Animals Not to Scale, Dire Beast. In more cartoonish works, this may overlap with Mocky Mouse. |
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An episode of Aladdin: The Series featured rat people, who were only slightly shorter than Jasmine and Aladdin. | |
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The Penguins of Madagascar features King Rat, a tall, muscle-bound mutated lab rat who occasionally leaves the sewer to make trouble for the penguins. | |
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Jerma985's video Rat Movie: Mystery of the Mayan Treasure features a mischief of rats led by The Giant Rat that Makes All of the Rules. When said Giant Rat dies, another one of the rats grows in size and becomes the next Giant Rat. | |
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Giant mutant rodents are the signature creation of Narbonic's Helen Narbon. Of course, Helen being a young girl at heart, they happen to be giant mutant gerbils. | |
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In The Borrible Trilogy, the race of Rumbles are described as rat-like, and are the size of human children. A Take That! to The Wombles? Surely not. | |
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Guns, Gore & Cannoli: One side effect of the zombie poison is causing rats, in addition to turning into zombies themselves, to grow to rather large sizes, ranging from dog-sized to being slightly taller than an adult human. The one that takes the cake, though, is Mickey the Rat, implied to be the first rat to have been exposed to the zombie poison, and is absolutely gigantic to the point he makes Vinnie himself look like a rat by comparison. | |
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The only non-mutant human creatures seen in the future in Mindwarp are giant rodents the size of a capybara. It is hinted they are descended from rats. | |
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Nancy Drew: The bonus-content version of the credits in Resorting to Danger includes a clip of Casper the albino squirrel, grown to the size of an elephant, destroying the laboratory by shooting laser beams from his eyes. | |
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Sleepless Domain: The monster that tries to break into the safety center where Vedika volunteers resembles a large purple rat, seemingly made up of a cluster of smaller rats stuck together in Rat King fashion. It's not particularly formidable by monster standards, but since Vedika, the only Magical Girl available to deal with it, has no combat powers, even it poses a considerable threat. | |
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The Changelings from The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents tend to be larger than keekees (normal rats), presumably because their intelligence lets them keep themselves better-fed and healthier. Some of the normal rats bred for the fighting-pit by the ratcatchers are also larger than average. | |
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Dead Estate has Chunks, a giant mutant rat who chases the player down if they take too long on a floor. While he can be taken down with sufficient firepower, it only stops him for that one floor and he's only dealt with in the ending, where he's either the Final Boss or by completing the Alternate Floors he's hit with an antidote that turns him back into a regular rat. | |
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Dark Chronicle fills several levels of its sewer with them. They're nearly the size of Max and walk on their hind legs. There are also variants found in Ocean's Roar Cave and The Very Definitely Final Dungeon. | |
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Prince Raffendorf from SnarfQuest was a human prince before being turned into a giant humanoid rat by an Evil Sorcerer. | |
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Professor Ratigan from the Disney movie The Great Mouse Detective insists on being called a big mouse even though he looks like a rat. In his defense he was a mouse in the original book series. | |
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In Battletoads, large humanoid rats are the Dark Queen's primary contingent of mooks. There's also "Big Bad Blag" which is a giant, fat anthropomorphic rat even larger than the toads themselves. | |
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In Bone, the Giant Rat Creatures, despite that they are drawn without snouts and that they cut off their rat tails as a cultural ritual. | |
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Book of Brownies has giant rodents in the land of giants. They are big enough as it is, but considering the three protagonists are brownies who's typically smaller than human beings... | |
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Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas: The rats in the game are half as big as the Player Character when they're down on all fours. | |
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Dark Souls III has Hound Rats. Unlike the Plague Rats, they cannot inflict poison. | |
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Tom and Jerry: Jerry pulled the same trick quoted above with Sylvester on Tom, with a baby elephant. Tom eventually decides to get a gun to solve the issue, but by that time, the Elephant's mother had shown up, and Jerry convinces her to take up the disguise to trick Tom one last time. One classic had Jerry become a giant at the end because of a growth chemical he had concocted. |
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In an early issue of What's New? with Phil and Dixie, Phil distracts a giant monster rat by throwing a live cat at it. | |
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Though a more literal example would be the Treehouse of Horror segment "Terror of Tiny Toon" in which Bart and Lisa are trapped inside the TV being hunted down by a murderous Itchy and Scratchy. In which Itchy is about the same height as the kids. Though it is averted when Itchy enters the "real world" and becomes the size of a normal mouse. | |
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In Grimm, the Reinigen are Wesen Rat Men. However, in "Rat King" it's revealed that some clans of Reinigen have the ability to Fusion Dance into a 20-foot tall rat called a Riesen Ratte or Rat King. | |
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Redwall: In The Long Patrol, Big Bad Damug Warfang is a Greatrat, described as twice the size of a normal rat. | |
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Dr. Wai in "The Scripture with No Words": One scene in a mausoleum had a rat being exposed to the titular enchanted scriptures, and subsequently growing giant-sized and attacking Dr. Wai. | |
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Deadly Rooms of Death has lemmings, which only appear in one level of the official level sets. Most of the rest of the time, this acronym stands for "Roaches Of Unusual Size". | |
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The Simpsons: In an early episode, Bart is convinced by Sherri and Terri that the Mayflower left England to escape from giant rats. While not a direct example, Homer once fantasized Lisa as a Princess, Marge as a Queen and Bart as a giant rat. Giant rat Bart then chews on the wall, which he was actually doing outside of the fantasy. Though a more literal example would be the Treehouse of Horror segment "Terror of Tiny Toon" in which Bart and Lisa are trapped inside the TV being hunted down by a murderous Itchy and Scratchy. In which Itchy is about the same height as the kids. Though it is averted when Itchy enters the "real world" and becomes the size of a normal mouse. |
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In Prehistoric Park Reimagined, one of the animals rescued alongside the smilodon populator in Red in Tooth and Claw is the josephoartigasia. Naturally, a reasonable degree of attention is drawn in the narrative to their respectably large size, with the largest amongst the group rescued being described as about the size of a hippo and one of the rescue team members present explicitly referring to the genus as '[the largest] rodent that ever lived'. | |
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One episode of Cyberchase involved The Hacker using a giant hamster called a hamborg (which for some reason resembled a capybara) as part of his evil plan. | |
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Bloodborne has Labyrinth Rat, malformed rats with enlarged eyes and lumps on their back. | |
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Godzilla: The Series featured the titular reptile chasing down giant rats in New York City in an episode entitled "Cat and Mouse." | |
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Castle of the Winds has Giant Rat, but it's pitifully weak. No, it's the ants that new characters should watch out for. | |
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In the when-nightmares-attack episode of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Lowlight is revealed to have recurrent bad dreams about hybrid rat/car horrors stalking him at night in his father's junkyard. | |
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In Back at the Barnyard when everyone got a clone, said clones were all mini-sized... except Pip's, who went the other way. | |
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Harry Potter: The Game Boy Color versions of the games feature giant rats as enemies. | |
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Looney Tunes More than one Sylvester cartoon had him thinking he's encountered this trope, but it's really a young kangaroo that keeps swapping places with the mouse he's after and smacking him around. In The Great Piggy Bank Robbery, Duck Twacy follows footprints to a teeny-tiny mousehole and deduces the criminal Mouse Man is inside. He shouts "Come on out, ya rat!" and a HUGE snarling rat-in-a-suit pops out looming over Twacy, who whimpers "*gulp*...go...back...inside." In the Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner cartoon "Chariots of Fur", Wile E. tries to catch the Roadrunner with a giant mousetrap. Instead, he snags a giant mouse, who then turns the tables on him. |
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Tomb Raider I has rats that are at least the size of a medium-sized dog once you reach the "Cistern" stage in the Greek section of the game. Given how other animals were generally a believable size up to this point, it was noticeable. Later games made the rats at a more normal size and removed their ability to swim. | |
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DuckTales for the NES had that giant rat boss guarding the Green Cheese treasure in The Moon stage. | |
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NetHack has giant rats, but even for a newly-created character they're cannon-fodder. The UnNetHack variant also includes Enormous Rats Also, one of the (non-existant) monsters you can see while hallucinating is a literal Rodent Of Unusual Size. | |
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Borderlands 2 has enemies called R.O.U.S. (initials abbreviation of the trope name) while playing on True Vault Hunter Mode. They are human experiments with rodent-esque features escaped/released from the Hyperion corporation and usually appear alongside other rat-themed enemies. They're called Lab Rats on the regular difficulty and Mutated Lab Rats on Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode. | |
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The trope name is evoked in the title of an 8-Bit Theater episode which discusses dire rats... but the resulting rodent isn't one, just an Ax-Crazy dwarf disguised to chase for it. | |
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The climax of Marvel Two-in-One #6 has the Thing and Doctor Strange fight a giant rat. | |
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Wayward: Giant rats are common enemies. They are relatively easy to kill, and their fur is a useful material for crafting. | |
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Dark Souls has Plague Rats. Very predictable and easy to kill but inflict poison. The biggest one is a single Giant Rat in the Depths, which is roughly the size of a bus. | |
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The novel Rodent Mutation by Lionel Fanthorpe (under the pseudonym "Bron Fane") involves giant beavers menacing mankind. | |
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Max & the Midknights: When the Midknights decide to go through a mountain cave, they find themselves having to deal with rats the size of a human being with bat wings. When the battle starts, though, the rats flee soon after because a large dragon shows up. | |
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The Night Shift short story "Graveyard Shift" has a lot of rats of usual size... until you go down to the sub-basement, where there are not only rodents of unusual size, but they're mutated as well. Their "queen" is big enough to eat a man. | |
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A Curtis strip had his little brother Barry worrying about some drug dealers trying to set up shop in an abandoned building across the street from their home. Curtis is unfazed because, as he explains to his brother, there are rats the size of collies living in that building. Cue off-panel screams. | |
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Puzzle Quest: Challenge Of The Warlords has giant rats, scorpions, bats, and wasps. The first two can be captured and ridden, granting the player a different stat bonus and additional spell, depending on which one you choose. | |
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Hamster's Paradise is an online Speculative Biology thought-experiment worldbuilding project about a planet seeded with simple plant and invertebrate life, plus a small colony of Chinese dwarf hamsters, by human terraformers. The humans left and never returned, but the hamsters became the ancestors of an entire biosphere's worth of vertebrate species, megafauna included, with the largest land hamsters being the 21-ton hammoths and the oceans being ruled by the whale-like seavers and the pliosaur-like leviahams. | |
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Final Fantasy III had one too. It is unusual, in that it is a normal-sized rat, but your party has to use the Mini condition to reach the Plot Coupon it's guarding. Since the Mini status effect cuts Defense and Attack to 1, you're basically forced to go at it with a party of Squishy Wizards. Best bet is to change your physical fighters into Red Mages for the duration of the dungeon, since you don't have the advanced spells they're locked out of at this point of the game. | |
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In Freefall Sam lists the Earth animals that have tried to eat him, including "... rodents of unusual size, rodents of usual size ...". | |
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Technically true in Wayne Barlowe's Expedition, in that environmental degradation on Earth has become so severe that the (ordinary) Norway rat is the largest wild animal left on the planet. | |
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In Creepozoids, Jake and Blanca are both attacked by giant mutated rats living in the old laboratory, with one of them attempting to crawl underneath Blanca's shirt. | |
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Oblivion: Rats with the size of dogs are a common encounter in sewers like where you start your adventure, to caves. There's a woman in one of the cities that keeps pet rats. Her rival hates them, and so put out meat to lure them, which had the effect of attracting mountain lions which came and killed a few of the rats. (The lions were surprisingly weak in battle compared to the ones you usually fight in the wild due to being starved.) |
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Discworld: The Changelings from The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents tend to be larger than keekees (normal rats), presumably because their intelligence lets them keep themselves better-fed and healthier. Some of the normal rats bred for the fighting-pit by the ratcatchers are also larger than average. Implied to be true of the hamster which the Igor from Going Postal recalls his veterinary cousin having kept, before it broke out of its treadmill, ate a man's leg, and flew away. |
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Discworld | hasFeature |
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Secretary, the second arc of Nature of Nature's Art, plays with this trope. All of the important characters are rodents in this arc, and some are bigger than others. In the end, though, the only one who plays the trope straight is the advanced class teacher - he makes degus (SV and NT) and chinchillas (SV's teacher) look small, and early in the arc, a mouse called NT "huge". | |
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Parrish Plessis has canrats, rat-dog hybrids that are both vicious and intelligent. One of them, the Big One, is the size of a doberman. | |
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In the Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner cartoon "Chariots of Fur", Wile E. tries to catch the Roadrunner with a giant mousetrap. Instead, he snags a giant mouse, who then turns the tables on him. | |
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Galaxy Angel had this alien hamster thing which they found in the ruins of a once great city. | |
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EarthBound (1994) features a Sanctuary Guardian called the Plague Rat of Doom. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1985): In "The Elevator", Roger and Will learn that their father's super food causes extreme growth when they find several dead giant rats in his factory, each bigger than the one before. They later find a giant cat, giant dog and a Giant Spider. | |
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In Issue #4 of The Pitiful Human Lizard, two of The Majestic Rat's numbers are kidnapped and experimented on by the same doctors who gave Human-Lizard his Healing Factor. They end up as man-sized monster rodents with the ability to spit bile. | |
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Overlord (2012): The Wise King of the Forest is very similar to a hamster, with the exception of a long scaled tail that resembles a snake's more than anything. She is also enormous enough for a human to ride her like a horse, and powerful enough to be worshiped as a legendary beast (though no match against our ridiculous main character). | |
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Fallout: New Vegas has a direct quote from The Princess Bride when doing the Debt Collector quest's final part in Broc Flower Cave, which is of course filled with Rodents of Unusual Size. Though this will only happen if you have the Wild Wasteland trait. That is, unusually sized Rodents of Unusual Size. | |
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SPG, the pet hamster of Vyvyan on The Young Ones, was usually played by a puppet the size of a guinea pig rather than the size of a real hamster. In one episode, he scarfed down an entire pot full of lentils and swelled up to volleyball size. | |
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In the remake of Willard, the role of Ben was played by a Gambian pouched rat, making him far bigger than the rest of Willard's colony. | |
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Dark Souls II introduces an even bigger rat in the form of the Royal Rat Authority boss. Strangely enough, the actual Rat King is only about the size of a small dog (but is intelligent and capable of speech). | |
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In Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms, there are large rats attacking the party. | |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four features enormous rats, apparently capable of chewing straight through a man's head. The Party uses them as a torture device on Winston in Room 101, knowing that Winston is terrified of rats. | |
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In the Red Dwarf episode "Back in the Red: Part 1", Red Dwarf has been built far too large and is returning to normal size. Starbug encounters a huge rat and ends flying into its backside, propelling it along. | |
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Instinct contains white lab rats, larger than most cats, who attacks the players in a frenzy. | |
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Dragon Age: Origins: In the Human Noble origin, you fight a bunch of giant rats who got into the kitchen larder. However, they aren't really that big; a foot, maybe a foot and a half long. | |
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Mouser from Super Mario Bros. 2 is a gigantic bomb throwing killer mouse boss. Who has probably the most ironic kind of name ever for such a creature (considering the word 'mouser' means 'cat which catches mice'). | |
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In the Blade of Toshubi we have Toshubi, a human-sized anthropomorphic mouse from a village of human-sized anthropomorphic mice. | |
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AdventureQuest has BURPS, which stands for "Big Ugly Rat Pests". They're Exactly What It Says on the Tin. And every other year there's a war fighting nothing BUT those guys. They also qualify as Goddamned Bats because they're a pain in the ass to hit, where as the bigger ones deal quite a bit of damage. At higher levels you'll still be fighting the guys, often in groups. It gets better—one of their variants is actually called the ROUS. | |
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Shining Force: The second game has rat enemies of both varieties as the above examples. On the first battle on the field, the party encounters Huge Rats. Later in the game, the party gets shrunk down as part of the storyline and faces normal-sized rats. Your stats don't suffer the debilitating effects of Mini like in FFIII, but those normal rats are still hella strong. And led by a super-rat named Willard. Slade the rat thief, who started the entire mess in the game by stealing the Jewels of Light and Evil. Including him in the fight with Willard causes instant Furry Confusion because Slade is anthropomorphic. |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: In one story, Donald and his cousin Fethry team up to fight giant rat ghosts. Unusually big rodents shouldn't be a foreign concept to Donald, considering whom he used to co-star with early on his animated career... | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: "Dire rats" are a common low-level monster that often show up in caves and city sewers. They're scavengers who won't hesitate to attack live prey if they think they can get away with it and carry disease more often than not. There are also wererats, humanoids cursed to change into dire rats much like werewolves. The Rylkar from Version 3.5's Monster Manual V are basically a nest of giant, evil rats who are connected via a hive mind to their harridan, the huge, disease and corruption-spreading, blind matriarch of the nest. Spelljammer has Giant Space Hamsters, domesticated and bred by the Gadgeteer Genius Tinker Gnomes of Krynn, and coming in a wide variety of breeds including the "Miniature Giant Space Hamster", which is identical to an ordinary hamster. The good news is, the base breed is relatively docile and non-dangerous (so much as any creature the size of a brown bear can be non-dangerous). The bad news is, the breeders being Tinker Gnomes, sanity and common sense place no limits on the kind of breeds they make (breeding a carnivorous and flying variety was deemed "an understandable line of inquiry"). Previous editions of D&D also include giant beavers, giant porcupines, and giant carnivorous flying squirrels. An adventure from the early days of Dungeon magazine shrinks the PCs down to the size of gaming miniatures, making ordinary rats appear enormous by comparison. Other humanoids, who'd previously fallen victim to the same magic, use rats as steeds. |
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Giant rats infests the sewers in Apocalypse, as the first Giant Mook-variety of enemies.Their presence is justified by the sewers being located above the prison cell, which also doubles as a bio-laboratory — hence the chemicals being dumped in the sewers turning them into gigantic monsters. | |
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Dwarf Fortress: The game has two separate varieties of oversized rats, both found Beneath the Earth: large rats are bigger than an adolescent dwarf, surprisingly quick, and adept food thieves. Giant rats are over three times the size of grown dwarves, likewise steal food, and are used as mounts by goblins during sieges. Savage biomes on the surface world house a large selection of oversized rodents, namely giant chinchillas, giant marmots, giant groundhogs, giant capybaras (which get to around the size of a moose) and the comparatively puny (i.e., a little over three times the size of a dwarf) giant chipmunks, giant red, gray and flying squirrels and giant hamsters. |
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Fallout has rats the size of the vault dweller's foot. For starters. Pig rats are the size of the vault dweller's leg, and mole rats the size of the vault dweller. | |
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Fallout 3 has a robot you can activate in the Old Olney Tunnels that mentions something during its startup sequence about an infestation of rodents of unusual size. It is usually torn to pieces soon after by the ten-foot-tall Deathclaws infesting the tunnels. | |
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Tyranno's Claw have a gigantic, man-sized rodent menacing the heroes at one point. It was preceded by a Peekaboo Corpse when the female lead stumbles over a maggot-covered body, and then they see more bodies nearby and realize they're in the home of a gigantic prehistoric rat. | |
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The Strange and Somewhat Sinister Tale of the House at Desert Bridge has giant Hamsters of Doom who provide Hamster-Wheel Power to the entire house. | |
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One supporting character in Elementals is a wererat who has a crush on Fathom. | |
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Myth Adventures: In Myth Alliances, a big rodent-like beast is seen pulling a cart on one of the visited dimensions. In Myth-Taken Identity, the mall-rats are about the size of spaniels, while their boss Rattila is twice their size. |
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An enemy from Vampire: The Masquerade is called a Ghoul Rat. It is the size of an Irish Wolfhound. There is also a changing breed in the World of Darkness called the Ratkin, that are sometimes born as humans (that have the ratkin genetics) and contract a disease that, should they overcome it, turns them into wererats. They were given the charge by Gaia to help control the human population by eating their food and spreading disease. These Ratkin can take a talent to be able to transform into a giant rat that can stand approx. 4 ft. at the shoulders. |
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Gorgonzola from Chowder. Also, overabundance of giant rats is apparently why Mung keeps poison in the spice cabinet. | |
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Beyond Good & Evil: Rattus giganteus is a common creature. While it's not as big as other examples of this trope (nor as its name would suggest), it occurs in such numbers that it's still a hindrance. | |
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Planescape: Torment includes the Dungeons & Dragons monsters, cranium rats and wererats, mentioned above. | |
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Implied to be true of the hamster which the Igor from Going Postal recalls his veterinary cousin having kept, before it broke out of its treadmill, ate a man's leg, and flew away. | |
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Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light feature a number of seemingly rodent-derived monsters among their menagerie of radioactive mutants. Lurkers are small, fast creatures that resemble oversized naked mole rats, while the larger and more vicious nosalises look more like they were originally moles or shrews of some sort. Both mutants are incredibly hostile and have an acute taste for human flesh, with the nosalises in particular having developed massive, fanged maws that can easily rip people to shreds. Watchers/Watchmen are harder to place; they have some rat-like features, like their hairless tails and ability to stand on their hind legs, but overall seem more like wolves instead (hunting in packs, howling, etc...). | |
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One episode of CatDog opened with Cat mocking mouse sized Winslow for being small. Suddenly, he and Dog are whisked to a future being oppressed by Winslow's descendant, his ancestor taking the slight to heart and beginning a family tradition of exercise that made each generation bigger than the last. Winslow the 38th is more than a few heads taller than most of the cast and flaunts it. | |
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Monster Warriors: In "Ratblaster", a sanitation workers strike, a giant rat and Luke's monsterblasting weapon combine to test the Monster Warriors. | |
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In the second part of Gulliver's Travels, the titular hero is woken up by two rats on his first night in Brobdingnag. He notes it is a good thing he went to sleep with his sword, otherwise he would have been eaten alive. | |
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Tales of Symphonia has a similar situation where the party gets shrunk down in a sewer and meets the same itty bitty mice which they can encounter as GIANT KICKBOXING MICE. | |
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Resident Evil: Outbreak File #2 features those rats that spread the T-Virus attacking one of HUNK's men after he'd been felled by Birkin. There was also artwork showing mutant rats that didn't make the game. | |
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Bunch of rats in Deadly Eyes stow away in a freighter filled with contaminated grain. Once the ship reaches its destination, their diet has transformed them into aggressive mankillers the size of small dogs. | |
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Fallout: Abnormally large rodents — deepening on the game and the specific type, they're referred to as giant rats, mole rats, pig rats or radrats — are a common sight in the wastelands of post-apocalyptic North America. Fallout has rats the size of the vault dweller's foot. For starters. Pig rats are the size of the vault dweller's leg, and mole rats the size of the vault dweller. Fallout 3 has a robot you can activate in the Old Olney Tunnels that mentions something during its startup sequence about an infestation of rodents of unusual size. It is usually torn to pieces soon after by the ten-foot-tall Deathclaws infesting the tunnels. Fallout: New Vegas has a direct quote from The Princess Bride when doing the Debt Collector quest's final part in Broc Flower Cave, which is of course filled with Rodents of Unusual Size. Though this will only happen if you have the Wild Wasteland trait. That is, unusually sized Rodents of Unusual Size. |
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In the "Down the Tubes" and "Tube Race" levels of Earthworm Jim, the only way to get through several corridors full of tiny bruisers who will slam you around and throw you back where you came from is to ride a giant, foe-eating hamster ("Whoooooooa Nelliiiiiiiie!"). | |
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All Quiet on the Western Front briefly mentions "corpse" rats, which are basically rats that have gotten huge and fat by eating the corpses of dead soldiers. When the men aren't making war on the enemy they are making war on the rats. | |
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Beasts of Burden has a Rat king leading the sewer rats, and his general is a rat larger than the two cats who fight him. | |
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The rats from The Nutcracker. Although, technically they were no bigger than the Nutcracker... | |
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RuneScape: Giant rats are very common monsters, especially in lower-level areas. | |
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Girl Genius The Sturmhalten sewer guides are actually surprised to learn from Agatha's would-be rescuers that sewer rats normally aren't giant and glowing. Lars is worried, being used to rats who are 60 centimeters, tops, but as it turns out, he needn't have worried, the monsters the group soon encounters have no rats among their number. Much later, Agatha and Co. do encounter the giant rats who guard the island lair of the English Spark Francisia Monahan. |
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12 oz. Mouse: Fitz is a human-sized mouse. | |
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One Dog Story: One of the enemy types in the game is rats that, when reared up on their hind legs, are as tall as human beings. | |
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The Squogers from the 2007 film adaptation of Bridge to Terabithia are shaggy black-furred warrior-squirrels the size of large dogs, which Jesse and Leslie imagine as minions of the Dark Master. | |
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Ultraman Nexus has the Space Beast Nosferu (Nosferatu, get it?), a hideous hairless rodent-like creature with a spear-tipped Overly-Long Tongue and the ability to regenerate From a Single Cell. | |
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Not surprisingly, Furry comic Supermegatopia has several larger anthropomorphic rodents, including Distraction Damsel (though she's only really big where it counts), Mighty Mighty Hamster, and of course, the World's Largest Hamster. | |
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The Cantina Scene in A New Hope features one, and the Star Wars Expanded Universe comes complete with a wide variety of mostly large rodents, sentient and non. Later in the film, Luke describes "womp rats" as being "not much bigger than two meters." | |
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Ultima Underworld II features giant rats of various types. | |
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In Weregeek, when the GM mentions rodents of unusual size attacking the party, they protest that given their statistics of rodent encounters, that size is the usual one. | |
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Superman: Distant Fires is an Elseworld story in which the world comes to an end, non-superpowered humans have become feral, and rats and housecats are now the size of panthers. | |
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Wilfred of Patrol 03 is a mouse with elephantesque proportions. | |
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Crew Dogs: Rodents of Unusual Size live in the ceiling spaces, and are known to feed on Second Lieutenants. | |
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The Underland Chronicles has giant rats and mice as main characters, plus giant insects and bats.... | |
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The dungeon rats in Latchkey Kingdom. They'll eat your corpse if you die in the dungeon, sure, but otherwise they're usually friendly and help keep up the place. To an inexperienced observer, they may seem to have developed a culture; in reality, they're just a bunch of animals who like to imitate society. | |
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In the first Tales for the Midnight Hour book by J.B. Stamper, a story called Phobia had a woman with a fear of rats going through the worst night of her life in a city park after dark. She's stalked by a shadowy man who seems to be able to attract rats, and ends up hiding at one point in a rat's nest. Eventually, she learns the man is actually a humanoid rat, and even though she gets away, the incident has scarred her for life. | |
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The movie adaptation of H. G. Wells' The Food of the Gods features giant rats besieging some people in a cabin. Or rather, it features normal rats romping around a miniature set, and a few prop rat-heads that make "The Talons of Weng-Chiang" look like Aliens by comparison. | |
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Sherman the Ginormouse, a white mouse the size of a two-story house, features in the opening sequence of the Odd Squad TV movie. | |
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Of Unknown Origin is a surprisingly good movie about a New Yorker who's terrorized by one of these. It's not a mutant. It's not an alien or magical. It's just a big, mean, nasty, and EXTREMELY determined Rattus norvegicus, which figures his apartment is its territory. | |
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The Elder Scrolls: The series in general has these as a standard for all rats. Most games also include at least one Rat Stomp quest dealing with them. Daggerfall has large rats in the starting dungeon. Morrowind: The game has them as a low level enemy that also frequently carries disease. The Tribunal expansion allows you to buy a trained "Pack Rat" as a pet, who will follow you and help carry your gear/loot. In the Grazelands, there is a bugged creature spawn point that causes creatures spawned there to be twice their normal size. One of the creatures that can be spawned there is a rat, making for a Rodent of Exceptional Size. Oblivion: Rats with the size of dogs are a common encounter in sewers like where you start your adventure, to caves. There's a woman in one of the cities that keeps pet rats. Her rival hates them, and so put out meat to lure them, which had the effect of attracting mountain lions which came and killed a few of the rats. (The lions were surprisingly weak in battle compared to the ones you usually fight in the wild due to being starved.) In Skyrim they're called "skeevers" and looks fuzzier to accommodate the colder climate. Despite being a bit smaller than Cyrodiil's rats, they're so big that people lay down bear traps to catch them. One crazy mage even tries to create an army of them in one quest. At least one NPC notes that the skeevers used to be smaller. |
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Pikmin 3: Bearded Amprats are an odd case, as strictly speaking they're around the same size as a real-life hamster. From the point of view of the characters, who are on average no larger than a quarter, they're however colossal beasts and can pose a serious threat to your Pikmin. | |
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In Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, the Professor accidentally creates a giant hamster. | |
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The Doormouse is a once-human businessman in the Nightside, who had himself changed into a giant bipedal mouse because he likes being cute and fuzzy. Not a dormouse; his name came about because he's in the business of renting out use of his Cool Gate collection. | |
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In Joker (2019), a news report on Gotham's worsening garbage crisis and infrastructural deterioration mentions "super-rats" infesting the city. While they don't affect the film's story in any way, they do appear briefly in some background shots, where they seem to be about the size of house cats. | |
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Pokémon has quite a few of these, often Com Mons. Examples include Rattata, Pachirisu, and of course, the Pikachu family. They are usually cute, big eyed and not very menacing. Not even those with teeth bared are all that terrifying. Raticate is slightly more intimidating than some of the others, and extremely annoying if you're up against one with that much hated Super Fang move. That's not getting into Pokémon Sun and Moon where you fight the Totem Raticate... Averted by the Bidoof family, as they are based on beavers, which really do get that big. |
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The Dao of the Awakened has Hua Yin face a pack of dog-sized rats with a leader that can grow as large as a donkey. He survives by the skin of his teeth. | |
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Everquest and Everquest II have regular giant rats, usually found in sewers and other dark areas. | |
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Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance features groups of large rats in dungeons. | |
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Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze has lots of them in the cave levels, especially Rodent Ruckus. | |
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While the eponymous rodents of Paul Zindel's Rats are generally of normal size, the book also features the Rat King (no, not that one), which is described as being even bigger than a capybara. | |
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Suikoden II had a giant, mutated Sewer Rat for a boss. Which could attack twice per turn, and hit all of your party with each attack for a lot of damage. Goddamned rats. | |
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Pixel Dungeon: and various mods have these as one of theses as some of the earliest enemies along with giant bats. | |
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Mortasheen has a few, including the amoebic, thieving Gravesnitch, the oddly-toothed Gnawful, the cold-loving Abomignash, and the absolutely disturbing Vermoeba (which is based on the Rat King detailed below) | |
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House Flipper: The mole that can sometimes infest your yard in Garden Flipper is easily the size of a small dog and leaves enormous molehills reminiscent of African termite nests. | |
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Nightmares has a segment in which a rat the size of an SUV terrorized a suburban family. | |
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More than one Sylvester cartoon had him thinking he's encountered this trope, but it's really a young kangaroo that keeps swapping places with the mouse he's after and smacking him around. | |
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In an in-'Verse example, the populace at large in Ratman's Notebooks start speculating about a human-sized man/rat hybrid on the loose after the Villain Protagonist begins using his trained Swarm of Rats to commit crimes. Amused, he plays along with these rumors by donning a rat mask on his later criminal forays. | |
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The Magi-Nation series mostly features decidedly non-real-looking creatures, but the Always Chaotic Evil Core region does get one very large rat-like creature. It's even named "Rous," in a direct Shout-Out to the Trope Namer. | |
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Magic: The Gathering has Rat as a creature type, from the classic Plague Rats that only the four-of-a-card deck construction limit really keeps from growing arbitrarily dangerous to the Kamigawa block's nezumi (rat-people complete with their own warriors, rogues, shamans and ninja). Relentless Rats was designed and printed to allow people to enjoy plague rats without the four-of-rule, explicitly stating that it ignores it. Also is much better. The original art of Giant growth featured a giant rat. Now it's a bear. |
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Dregs: Ironfang is a rat larger than most humans. | |
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In the Russian play The Inspector General by Nikolai Gogol, one character dreams of two "Rodents of Unusual Size" the night before receiving a letter that the inspector is secretly coming to his town — and since he is a corrupt Obstructive Bureaucrat, it's a very bad thing indeed. At least one actor used to hold his fingers a few millimeters apart during the scene - it isn't specified the rodents are unusually big. |
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Five Nights at Freddy's: While the franchise has no rat animatronic, one of its many fan-games, Five Nights at Candy's, has one: RAT. His list of crimes include but aren't limited to killing one or two guards, injuring a child, dismantling Chester, which includes decapitation, blaming one of the guard murders on Candy, and if he kills Marylin, the protagonist of the second game, it's compared to a bear attack. Doesn't help that the man who possesses him was an alcoholic Jerkass who thought he kept the show alive before he was accidentally murdered by his coworker. | |
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In The Great Piggy Bank Robbery, Duck Twacy follows footprints to a teeny-tiny mousehole and deduces the criminal Mouse Man is inside. He shouts "Come on out, ya rat!" and a HUGE snarling rat-in-a-suit pops out looming over Twacy, who whimpers "*gulp*...go...back...inside." | |
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In one Super Friends episode, Sinestro creates a giant rat to attack the heroes; Green Lantern handles it by using his ring to create a giant cat to chase it away. | |
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Looming Gaia: Titan rats are rats around the size of small dogs found in Umory-Ond. Pixies use them as mounts and beasts of burden, others keep them as pets, and some eat them. | |
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In Courage the Cowardly Dog, a Recurring Character who occasionally helps Courage out is a giant anthropomorphic rat named Mr. Mouse. | |
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The Lords of Creation: In the second book, In the Courts of the Crimson Kings, when the protagonist is rescued from a prison, his Martian rescuer warns him that the tunnels under Olympus Mons are inhabited by all manner of unpleasant creatures including rodents of unusual size. They turn out to be thousands of tiny rodents that swarm like army ants. | |
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Nightmare Creatures: Giant rats are reoccurring enemies in the Wharf areas. They show up somewhat late in the game, and are considerably weaker enemies (especially if you've upgraded your weapon). | |
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In The Steep Path Ahead Saito and Luise go on a Rat Stomp to earn money only for the rats to be as large as they are because they had gotten involved in some Alchemy experiments. | |
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The Graveyard School book Here Comes Santa Claws had sentient rats the size of reindeer that could stand upright. Their names are Bomber and Basher. | |
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In Yamara, Tim the paladin is turned into a vampire, but messes up his first attempt to turn into a bat, becoming a giant flying squirrel instead. | |
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Necromunda: The underhive of Necromunda's urban sprawls (and of most Hive Cities around the galaxy, most likely) is infested with these. And not just any giant rats — mutated giant rats. Some are spiky, some have two heads, some may be unnervingly intelligent, but they all are happy to eat lone humans if they think they can get away with it. Of course, humans are more than happy to return the favor. While the uppermost Hive Dwellers might feast on food exported from agri-worlds, the average Underhiver has a distinctly less pleasant variety of foodstuffs to choose between, and rat meat will serve just fine. The Underhive even hosts a faction known as the Ratskin Renegades, whose theme is based on First Nations plains tribes, with ROUS filling in for bison and horses. | |
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The Spider-Man villain Vermin is a humanoid rat. | |
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Invader Zim had Peepi the hamster. Zim used his newfound knowledge of the human weakness to cute things to make Peepi into a virtually unstoppable monster. ...of course, then he realized he had no way to control said unstoppable monster, leading to an Enemy Mine situation. |
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Morrowind: The game has them as a low level enemy that also frequently carries disease. The Tribunal expansion allows you to buy a trained "Pack Rat" as a pet, who will follow you and help carry your gear/loot. In the Grazelands, there is a bugged creature spawn point that causes creatures spawned there to be twice their normal size. One of the creatures that can be spawned there is a rat, making for a Rodent of Exceptional Size. |
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Monster Blood II features a 10-foot-tall hamster. | |
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Breath of Fire I does the small player thing, but with cockroaches. Later games didn't bother with that, and simply had giant roaches. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! has, uhm, Giant Rat... Pretty self-explanatory and pretty useful for a player who uses Earth-Attribute monsters. | |
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The average rat in Domina is about the size of a small dog. That's what happens when you let mad scientists play with a Bio-Augmentation device. | |
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The Killer Shrews features giant shrews. (Well, giant for shrews, at least. They're played by German-shepherd-sized dogs in cheap prosthetics.) Technically, of course, shrews aren't rodents at all. Close enough for this trope's purposes, though. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Necromunda: The underhive of Necromunda's urban sprawls (and of most Hive Cities around the galaxy, most likely) is infested with these. And not just any giant rats — mutated giant rats. Some are spiky, some have two heads, some may be unnervingly intelligent, but they all are happy to eat lone humans if they think they can get away with it. Of course, humans are more than happy to return the favor. While the uppermost Hive Dwellers might feast on food exported from agri-worlds, the average Underhiver has a distinctly less pleasant variety of foodstuffs to choose between, and rat meat will serve just fine. The Underhive even hosts a faction known as the Ratskin Renegades, whose theme is based on First Nations plains tribes, with ROUS filling in for bison and horses. The Hrud were originally depicted as upright, hooded rats, before their appearance was Retconned to some sort of squiddish thing. |
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In Shadowrun, devil rats are Awakened rodents that are about a meter long and weigh 8 kilos. They're nasty, vicious, disease-carrying, and (for some reason) bald all over. | |
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Sandy Cheeks from The Sponge Bob Movie Sponge Out Of Water is a rare heroic example. Usually she's an anthropomorphic squirrel no bigger than someone's hand, but in her superhero form "The Rodent", she, as well as being very realistic looking, is about twice the size of a human. | |
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Drakensang: The Wolf-Rats. Expecially Mother Ratinsky and Great Chief ''Rat''zinger. | |
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Warhammer: Between the Winds of Magic and underground Warpstone deposits, it's no surprise that sewer rats can grow to the size of wolves. Some say there is even an entire race of Rat Men called the Skaven that walk upright and breed ferocious mutant rodents the size of ogres as enormous war beasts, some covered with spikes or with blades instead of arms or with multiple heads, but any credible scholar will dismiss these claims as the raving of lunatics. | |
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The first segment of Trilogy of Terror II, "The Graveyard Rats", has eponymous rats that are big as dogs and have a taste for human flesh. | |
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The Judge Dredd universe has these. After someone examines the meat from one, they're farmed in place of the regular rats which used to be farmed. | |
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Bonfire has koshaks, man-sized rodents that appear in weak enemy mobs. They're weak but very fast, and their bites inflict Maximum HP Reduction. | |
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Duke Nukem Forever has regular-sized rats attacking Duke... after he's been hit by the effects of a shrinking device. Duke then quips "Talk about your rodents of unusual size!" | |
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Doctor Who: In "The Talons of Weng-Chiang", Theatre Phantom Magnus Greel is using specially mutated giant rats to dispose of the bodies of his victims and to deter trespassers. Leela is nearly eaten by one. (The rats are generally considered a Special Effect Failure in actual execution though.) | |
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Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser: The all-too-sapient rats in The Swords of Lankhmar are of standard size — until the right magic comes into play, late in the novel. | |
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An episode of Jimmy Two-Shoes featured a rat bigger than a horse attacking Beezy. | |
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In the Night Gallery story "Nature of the Enemy", astronauts find a large metal apparatus on the Moon. Just as the staff at CapCom have realized it looks like a mousetrap, the landing party's transmission cuts out, then resumes to show an empty space helmet being inspected by a building-sized rat. | |
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The Lemming-Men of Yull from Toby Frost's Space Captain Smith books have armed and industrialized themselves, but still retain their love of jumping off cliffs. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: In the Piranha Brothers sketch, Dinsdale Piranha is a notorious gangster, although he often had fears that he was being followed by a giant hedgehog, whom he referred to as Spiny Norman. At the end of the sketch, when the Piranhas escape prison, it turns out Norman is real, and would make infrequent appearances on the programme. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! has a monster outright called "Giant Rat". Then there are Nimble Momonga, which is just a very large flying squirrel, and a bunch of other more pathetic low-level monsters, like Beaver Warrior, which looks more like a rat than a beaver, but is a rodent either way. Some, like the Giant Rat, Nimble Momonga, and Super Nimble Mega Hamster, can be useful in swarm tactics. | |
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Played for laughs at the start of The Bard's Tale, where the eponymous Bard goes into the basement of a tavern to kill a rat for the hostess. After some patronising dialogue from the narrator, a giant rat emerges from the darkness, and breathes fire on the Bard, forcing him to retreat back above ground. Turns out it was all just a prank, which the drunken patrons got a good laugh out of. | |
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Titan Quest: The Rat-Men . You first fight the weak, thin ones in Greece and then meet their larger, strongers cousins in Orient. | |
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After Man: A Zoology of the Future posits a world 50 million years hence where carnivores have gone extinct in much of the world and many ungulates have as well, letting rodents evolve to fill the niches left open and become ubiquitous members of the smaller megafauna. Most notably, rats are the dominant predators of the new world, and many species have evolved to possess the sizes and dispositions of wolves, large cats and polar bears. Outside of the predator rats, the desert leaper is a kangaroo-like creature around three meters long and the mud-gulper reaches the size of a hippo. Rodents in South America didn't turn predatory since carnivorans still survived there, but did evolve into larger forms filling the niches of antelopes and other smaller ungulates. |
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In Beast Wars,note and its sequel series, Beast Machines Rattrap's rat mode is shown being significantly larger than normal rats. This is especially unusual in that Transformers has previously shown a willingness to show characters alternate forms as being significantly smaller than their robot modes would indicate (Megatron, Soundwave, Blaster, etc.). Justified In-Universe in that the purpose of the beast mode is not for disguise (though that could be a bonus for some), but rather to protect from energon overload: as such, size was not a priority. Size-changing is further elaborated on in the IDW comics as having become Lost Technology due to an energy crisis. In the cartoons, the Maximals and Predacons of Beast Wars were smaller descendants of the Autobots and Decepticons. The IDW comics have brought in some Beast-era characters to their G1-based universe, made them Autobots and Decepticons, and sized them up to fit in with the general populace. Rattrap is one of them, meaning his rat mode is apparently the size of a car (though he never once transforms through the course of the comic). |
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In Death Warmed Over, the zombie foreman of a garbage dump has giant rat pets that act like dogs. | |
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In the Land of the Giants episode "The Weird World", the little people encounter a giant gopher. Steve tries to scare it away with fire but ultimately kills it with a bow and arrow. http://shrinking.freehostia.com/Pic/LOTGGopher.mp4 | |
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The E13 sewers in Super Minion have really big rats. | |
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Night at the Museum: Although it's normal-sized, the squirrel in the second movie plays this trope straight from inch-tall Octavius's POV. | |
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Xanadu (Storyverse): In "Against Type", Nicodemus is transformed into a rat the size of a dog. | |
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In the Wild Cards novel Fort Freak, Vincent "Ratboy" Marinelli is an effective member of the Department of Internal Affairs, a.k.a. the Rat Squad. He is a "Joker" with the shape of a giant (4-foot) brown rat. For a little more, see another wiki. | |
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Raticate is slightly more intimidating than some of the others, and extremely annoying if you're up against one with that much hated Super Fang move. That's not getting into Pokémon Sun and Moon where you fight the Totem Raticate... | |
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Hero-U has Dire Rats (or "drats"), which are rats the size of dogs. | |
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House (2020): One of the very first perils Tabby can meet is an enormous rat who leaps in from a closed window of the storage room, and who will literally bite the player character in half if it connects with its attack. | |
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Pokémon: The Series: One episode has a giant robot Pikachu. Pikachu himself is also large for a rodent — he stands at sixteen inches (41 centimeters) tall. To say nothing of Gigantamax Pikachu... | |
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Pathfinder features the usual assortment of giant rats featured in most tabletops, with a welcome addition; the friendly, gentle capybara (see Real Life, below), also called the donkey rat, is available for use as a familiar by spellcasting classes. It has one of the largest rodents of any D&D setting with the goblin dog, which is a furless, disease-carrying rat so big that goblins ride it like a horse, and the shuln, a four-eyed naked mole rat twenty feet long. | |
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League of Legends: Twitch, a champion, was a sewer rat who gained sentience and bipedal form from magical runoff. Lonely and a bit maniacal, his goal is to duplicate the phenomenon and create a race of sentient rats to rule over. | |
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Pink Panther: Hokus Pokus Pink: While in Siberia, Pink encounters an underground living group of giant, intelligent, anthropomorphic rats. He has to get their help to create an earthquake. | |
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The Sandman (1989): Neil Gaiman's gag biography in The Season of Mists denies that he was found outside a London sewer unable to say anything more than "Powerful big rats, gentlemen". And then goes on to deny that he had a vestigial tail, played a part in the obviously fictional negotiations between Londons Above and Below, or that there were any tooth marks on the bones. | |
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Ben 10: Omniverse: Rook picked up his impressive fighting skills defending his planet's wheat silos from the local rodents, which, according to him, "Run fairly large." He wasn't kidding, as they show up in a later episode, trained up as mooks for the Villain of the Week, and they're larger than an adult man. | |
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Played straight with Alvin and the Chipmunks. In addition to possessing human-like faces and ears, the Chipmunks and Chipettes were originally human-sized, making them more like chipmunk-shaped humans in The Alvin Show, 80s TV series and films. This later became averted in the CGI/live action films when they were the size of actual chipmunks in real life. | |
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In Ant-Man, Scott's perilous first experience being shrunken includes a brief run-in with a normal-sized mouse, which pursues him until it runs into a trap. | |
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Spelljammer has Giant Space Hamsters, domesticated and bred by the Gadgeteer Genius Tinker Gnomes of Krynn, and coming in a wide variety of breeds including the "Miniature Giant Space Hamster", which is identical to an ordinary hamster. The good news is, the base breed is relatively docile and non-dangerous (so much as any creature the size of a brown bear can be non-dangerous). The bad news is, the breeders being Tinker Gnomes, sanity and common sense place no limits on the kind of breeds they make (breeding a carnivorous and flying variety was deemed "an understandable line of inquiry"). | |
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The last verse of Genesis's "All in a Mouse's Night" (on the Wind & Wuthering album) has a cat getting beaten up with one blow by a giant mouse. | |
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South Park was attacked by giant carnivorous guinea pigs. The guinea pig community was quite full of Squee over it. | |
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Parasite Eve had mutated rodents that tried to kill you. And giant squirrels, too. | |
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Hamstard, the Bastard Hamster mascot of Erfworld's in-character blog, qualifies by virtue of being incredibly fat. Really, Parson should've gotten the little blob an exercise wheel before being swept off to another dimension... | |
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The title dollhouse in Amityville Dollhouse transforms a regular mouse into a giant one. It dies when the dollhouse is tipped over. | |
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In Warrior Cats, rats are basically just normal-sized rats, but they're much bigger to cats than they are to humans, and are fearsome and universally loathed. The authors also have joked that the badgers on the cover of Twilight look like Rodents of Unusual Size. | |
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Reepicheep (and the other Talking Mice), who is described to be two feet tall. And he knows no fear. The squirrels too. For some reason, all the Talking Animals in Narnia that would be smallest in our world are slightly larger there, while the biggest ones (like elephants) are slightly smaller. This is lampshaded in The Magician's Nephew. Given that even Peter could enter their home with ease, Mr. and Mrs. Beaver must've been quite a bit bigger than normal as well. |
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In the Dred Chronicles, there are mutant rats on the Prison Ship Perdition — it's noted that the adults are now too big to fit in the ducts which people use. | |
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Giant rats are mentioned in Fallen London, though they aren't as much of a problem for most people as the normal-sized but sentient and mechanically inclined rattus faber (more commonly called "L.Bs". | |
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Mirror's Edge breaks realism to include one, if you fire at a certain sign with a sniper rifle. | |
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Project Eden features normal sized rats that transform into giant acid spraying monstrosities | |
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Miitopia: The Mice monsters are Mii-sized rodents. While much, much cuter than the average supersized mouse, they are not less aggressive than them. | |
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Oriental Legend have the Rodent Demon boss, a giant bipedal rodent monster several times larger than your players. It can also summon a Swarm of Rats on you. | |
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That Family Guy episode about the world being destroyed by Y2K. The Griffins leave Joe to fight a giant mutant rat. His response? "Bring It On!!!" | |
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Daggerfall has large rats in the starting dungeon. | |
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Monster Eye has giant rats as enemies in a few stages, the size of Dobermans. And a few Giant Mook rodents larger than most automobiles for good measure. | |
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Baldur's Gate: Played with, as Minsc's pet rodent Boo is an unusually small "miniature giant space hamster". Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance features groups of large rats in dungeons. |
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Sherlock Holmes once makes a passing mention of a case involving the giant rat of Sumatra, "a story for which the world is not yet prepared". Many, many pastiche and fanfic writers have picked up this reference over the years and based their own stories on it. Of all the "untold tales" of Sherlock Holmes, this is probably the one that's been told the most often. | |
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Woolfe - The Red Hood Diaries: The sewer level has rats as big as small dogs. | |
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The Sims Medieval has dire chinchillas. | |
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The New World of Darkness has Beshilu, one of the two iconic races of the bizarre half-spirit Hosts (the other being the Azlu). Like their cousins, they start off looking like normal rats, but quickly gain size and sentience as they eat real rats and lesser Beshilu. They then gradually gain the ability to control human corpses and eventually become humanoid, where they become far more social then other Hosts, forming tribal societies. That wouldn't be so bad-they don't prey on humans all that much-except that they also are driven by instinct to gnaw holes in the barrier between the Spirit World and the human one, which, given where they live (i.e., where normal rats live), quickly becomes a haven for disease-spirits, who of course, exist to spread disease. And like other hosts, killing them simply causes a large one to split into a swarm of rats, with one of the component rats containing his soul-which, if left alone, will eventually grow back to full size and power. | |
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Chaos Heat have giant, skinless rat monsters as one of the many hostiles spawned by the bio-lab's viral outbreak. | |
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In Majesty, giant rats were generally the first monsters to show up in your kingdom. Rat-men were another common annoyance, though they were at least one of the few enemies your city guard could handle competently. | |
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The Tick had Speak, his pet capybara (see Real Life, below), much to Arthur's dismay. | |
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In Skyrim they're called "skeevers" and looks fuzzier to accommodate the colder climate. Despite being a bit smaller than Cyrodiil's rats, they're so big that people lay down bear traps to catch them. One crazy mage even tries to create an army of them in one quest. At least one NPC notes that the skeevers used to be smaller. | |
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Rats: Night of Terror is set in a post-apocalyptic future where the rescuing men in the radiation suits take off their gas masks to reveal that...well you know that they ain't gonna be human on this trope page! Granted they might be a heroic version as they did rescue the survivors from the feral plague rats. | |
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In Sabrina the Teenage Witch, we hear the Quizmaster on the phone with an exterminator complaining that the rat in his apartment in the Other Realm is making long-distance calls on his phone and listening to his CDs without putting them back. (Whether he pays rent or not is not the point.) They are apparently unsuccessful since we meet the ROUS in another episode when he introduces himself as the Quizmaster's "roommate." | |
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The Future is Wild: The theoretical Shagrat, sheep-sized at least. The poggle, from 95 million years later, was a Rodent of Unusual Staying-power, having survived to be the last mammal on Earth... not that this did it much good... |
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Minilife TV: Ratzer, the main antagonist of the episode "Super Mini-Bros.", is a rat that's about twice the size of an average minifigure. | |
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In Fantastic Mr. Fox, Rat is the tallest of the anthropomorphic animals; his height towers the title character, who's a red fox. Do the math and you'll realize that he's gotta be one big rat. | |
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Transformers: Rattrap, from Beast Wars, who turns into a rat the size of a person. | |
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The New Avengers: In the episode "Gnaws", an experimental isotopic fluid spilled down a drain causes a sewer rat to grow to gigantic size. | |
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