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As is often the case with Lizard Folk, [[YouDirtyRat these creatures are likely to be villainous]]. Living in filth and squalor, reproduce at a dizzying rate and worship foul deities. Still, they can also be [[DarkIsNotEvil just another humanoid race with no particularly outstanding good or bad traits]], or victims of an [[BalefulPolymorph unwanted transformation]]. They may be (or descend from) rodents that developed humanoid features or humans that developed rodent features, whether through magic, science, radiation or natural selection.

* The main antagonist of ''VideoGame/{{RATUZ}}'' is prisoner [[YouAreNumberSix Three]], who was injected with a substance that turned him into an extremely deadly and [[AxCrazy violent]] humanoid rat. He spends the game as an InvincibleBoogeyman stalking the prison/human experimentation lab, killing everyone in his path. Later on, [[PlayerCharacter prisoner Five]] also encounters [[spoiler:mouse men in the sewers, who are [[NiceMice much more benevolent than Three]] and even help Five and any surviving comrades he has find a way off the prison/lab island]].

* The main antagonist of ''VideoGame/{{RATUZ}}'' is prisoner Three, who was injected with a substance that turned him into an extremely deadly and [[AxCrazy violent]] humanoid rat. He spends the game as an InvincibleBoogeyman stalking the prison/human experimentation lab, killing everyone in his path. Later on, [[PlayerCharacter prisoner Five]] also encounters [[spoiler:mouse men in the sewers, who are [[NiceMice much more benevolent than Three]] and even help Five and any surviving comrades he has find a way off the prison/lab island]].

* The main antagonist of ''VideoGame/RATUZ'' is prisoner Three, who was injected with a substance that turned him into an extremely deadly and [[AxCrazy violent]] humanoid rat. He spends the game as an InvincibleBoogeyman stalking the prison/human experimentation lab, killing everyone in his path. Later on, [[PlayerCharacter prisoner Five]] also encounters [[spoiler:mouse men in the sewers, who are [[NiceMice much more benevolent than Three]] and even help Five and any surviving comrades he has find a way off the prison/lab island]].

* The antagonist of ''Ratuz'' is prisoner Three, who was injected with a substance that turned him into a very deadly and violent humanoid rat. He hunts prisoners [[PlayerCharacter Five]], Four, and Six as an InvincibleBoogeyman throughout most of the game. Later on, Five also encounters [[spoiler:mice men in the sewers, who are [[NiceMice much more benevolent]] than Three and even help Five find a way off the prison/lab island]].

-> '''Splinter''': You do not have to fear me, my friend. Rest assured I do not bite.\\

* ''"iterature/GarrettPI'': Ratmen (and a genius ratgirl) play a part in the series. It seems the wizards of a few generations back had quite a fad for the creation of new sentient lifeforms, and they shared real-world scientists' preference for using rats as research subjects.

* ''Garrett P.I.'': Ratmen (and a genius ratgirl) play a part in the series. It seems the wizards of a few generations back had quite a fad for the creation of new sentient lifeforms, and they shared real-world scientists' preference for using rats as research subjects.

* ''TabletopGame/RedDwarf'': One of the potential races you can play as is a race of evolved rat people (or Rattus Sapiens) who resemble LittleBitBeastly versions of humans. It is also possible to play as evolved mice people (or Mus Sapiens), who look like short humans. Notably, the Rattus Sapiens eventually appeared in an episode of the [[Series/RedDwarf series]] proper, although the one specimen shown looked a lot more rat-like.

* ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts'': Amy and Brad are two [[UpliftedAnimals Mute Rats]] who have opended up an amusement park (Ratland) and in general act human-like.

* ''WesternAnimation/GaryTheRat'': The titular character wasned into one of these as a result of a KarmicTransformation.

* Master Splinter in ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles''. Depending on the continuity, he was either a normal rat or a Japanese ninja who was mutated into a ratman.

Ratmen are the rat equivalent of LizardFolk: an entire race of intelligent anthropomorphic rodents or a single specimen thereof.

** In 3rd edition, due to its base campaign for the "Oriental Adventures" {{sourcebook}} switching from 2nd edition's ''TabletopGame/KarTur'' to a licensed adaptation of [[TabletopGame/LegendOfTheFiveRings Rokugan]], the Nezumi were introduced as a playable race. Despite this, the rat hengeyokai also appeared in the same sourcebook.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':

** In the third-party campaign setting ''TabletopGame/{{Ptolus}}'', rat people are divided by size into the halfling-sized ratlings, the human-sized ratlords, and the ogre-sized ratbrutes.

* ''Comicbook/GhostRider'': One of Ghost Rider's minor foes is the bipedal, flesh-eating rat creature Verminous Rex, the sole survivor of an entire race of such creatures that lived in the spaces between dimensional walls.

** The skaven as a whole are essentially based on [[YouDirtyRat every single negative stereotype of rats]] in British culture. Interestingly, they're ruled over by a quartet of "Great Clans" who bring in more nuanced rat stereotypes. Clans Skryre and Moulder are both based on the association of rats with scientific experiments; Skryre are {{Mad Scientist}}s who produce the highly dangerous and unstable {{magitek}} that the Under-Empire runs on, whilst Moulder are {{Evilutionary Biologist}}s who use surgery, selective breeding and mutagenic compounds to breed mutant skaven and rat subspecies for use as beasts of war. Clan Pestilens doubles down on the association of rats with disease, being a plague-worshipping cult of diseased fanatics whose very name is [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe a somewhat butchered spelling]] of [[IncrediblyLamePun "pestilence"]]. Finally, Clan Eshin tap into the association of ratfolk with Asian cultures (or at least homage Master Splinter of the ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'') by being a clan of skaven who migrated to Warhammer's version of China and Japan, learned martial arts, then came back as a clan of ninja-themed ratfolk mercenary-assassins.

* Ephaniah Grebe from ''Literature/SeptimusHeap'' is the unfortunate victim of two rogue spells, one of which involved rats, hitting him at the same time. He [[{{Hikikomori}} spends most of his time in the Manuscriptorium's basement]], hiding his rodent face from the outside world. His transformation also changed his vocal cords to make him unable to form human speech, so he communicates using notecards.[[note]]He ''can'' communicate with normal rats, though, some of which can also speak human.[[/note]] He's not a bad person at all once you get over the initial shock at his appearance.