This index is for tropes related to rodents (mice, rats, squirrels, beavers, etc.). Not to be confused with Country Mouse, City Mouse, or What Happened to the Mouse?.
Tropes
- Dogs Hate Squirrels: Dogs chasing squirrels.
- Eek, a Mouse!!: A fairly common reaction towards small rodents, particularly among women.
- Elephants Are Scared of Mice: Elephants are irrationally afraid of mice, rats and similar small rodents.
- Hamster-Wheel Power: Machinery that is powered by living beings that walk or run on a wheel.
- Mouse Hole: A neat, arch-shaped hole cut into a wall at the floor, sometimes with a door.
- Mouse Trap: A device that traps rodents.
- Nice Mice: Mice depicted as friendly.
- Pest Episode: When the main characters spend the episode trying to catch a pest.
- Prickly Porcupine: Porcupines portrayed as either anti-social and pessimistic or shy and lonely.
- Rat King: Ruler of rat-kind, be they actual rats or a rat-like race.
- Rat Men: Humanoid rodents.
- Rat Stomp: Killing large or monstrous rats at the beginning of a game.
- Reduced to Ratburgers: When a desperately starving character eats rats just to survive.
- Rodents of Unusual Size: Abnormally large rodents.
- Screwball Squirrel: Squirrels depicted as hyperactive pranksters or just straight-up sadists.
- Squirrels in My Pants: When an animal enters clothing, dance parties ensue.
- Swarm of Rats: A large group of rats added for scare factor.
- Terrifying Pet Store Rat: Animals used as movie monsters end up looking obviously tame and domesticated.
- You Dirty Rat!: Rats portrayed as evil and disgusting.
