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Author: OmarKarindu
Dec 8th 2013
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4:22:35 PM
Many characters like this have either "rat" or "vermin" somewhere in their names. Comic Books * One of [[Comicbook/GhostRider Ghost Rider's]] minor villains is the bipedal, flesh-eating rat creature Verminous Rex, the sole survivor of an entire race of such creatures that lived int he spaces between dimensional walls. * The ''Klarion'' and ''Manhattan Guardian'' miniseries in GrantMorrison's ''Comicbook/SevenSoldiers'' briefly feature a race of sentient, bipedal rats who dwell beneath New York City's subways. Since they're still the size of ordinary rats, [[spoiler: Klarion's cat Teekl rather casually devours their king off-panel.]] * The ''[[Comicbook/SpiderMan Spider-Man]]'' and ''Comicbook/CaptainAmerica'' villain Vermin is a human being mutated against his will into a cannibalistic, insane Rat Man. * In ''Comicbook/JoeTheBarbarian'', the hero, a diabetic teenager trying to stave off death, hallucinates that his pet fancy rat is a noble Rat Man warrior who aids him on his MaybeMagicMaybeMundane quest to defeat "Lord Death" and retrieve his insulin. Literature/Theatre * For practical reasons, what with actors being bipedal, hairless apes, nearly all stagings of ''TheNutcracker'' present the Rat King in this way. Some film adaptations and illustrated versions of the book have followed suit. Live-Action Film * The title character of the 1986 flop ''Ratboy'' is a mysterious hybrid of human and rat found in a dumpster by the female protagonist. * In PeterJackson's ''Film/BrainDead'' (aka ''Dead Alive'' in the States) the zombie plague is carried by the "Sumatran Rat-Monkey," a quasi-bipedal hybrid created when vicious rats from plague ships, er, [[RapeAsBackstory raped]] the native population of [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction Sumatran monkeys.]] As with many things in the film, it's probably [[BellisariosMaxim best not to think too hard about the mechanics of it.]] Western Animation * The ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanet'' villain Verminus Skumm is a particularly anthropomorphic variation on this. Apparently he was created to represent the effects of urbanization and pollution on biodiversity. * In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', the villain Shriek's lab assistant is apparently a teenaged [[TranshumanTreachery Splicer]] who has given himself rat traits.
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