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One mild but demonstrative beating for the terrible pun later, we must admit that squirrels are indeed creatures that, for some reason or another, tend to easily elicit wild reactions from people.
Some people find them
Because of their often amusing or annoying nature, squirrels are often included (mostly in Western works) to either lighten up the mood or drive people crazy, though more of their appearances are for humor than annoyance.
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* Twitchy from ''[[Hoodwinked]]''.
* Pip (technically a chipmunk) from ''[[Enchanted]]''.
* Though not a direct example, the dogs from ''[[Up]]''
* In [[National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation]], Clark accidentally brings a squirrel into the house with the new Christmas tree, causing a wild chase scene when it is discovered.
** ''SQUIRREL!!!''
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* The book ''[[The Fire Within]]'', supposedly about dragons, has more to do with squirrels.
* The [[Redwall]] series features several squirrel characters.
* Subverted in the second ''[[Wild Cards]]'' book, ''Aces High''. A homeless woman who has the power to communicate with woodland creatures orders hundreds of squirrels to run under the wheels of a car on a mountain road, causing the car to skid out of control on their carcasses and
* In ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]'', the factory has a room full of trained squirrels shelling walnuts, because Mr. Wonka trusts only squirrels to extract the walnuts in one piece. Veruca Salt decides she wants one of these squirrels. The squirrels decide Veruca is a bad nut and toss her down the garbage chute where bad nuts go. (Her parents go next.)
* Averted with Cheeter, the squirrel familiar of Owen the druid from ''[[Roger Zelazny|A Night In The Lonesome October]]''. Probably the grumpiest and most blunt-spoken of the familiars, mostly because he was drafted into the job.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' features squirrels on quite a few of their cards. See [http://magiccards.info/query/cards/3409574.html here] for examples. You can even make a whole deck revolve around squirrels. A winning movie that's banned in certain tournaments is where you kill your opponent by having an infinite number of squirrels magically appear out of a tree continuously.
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' got Ratatosk (flying squirrel people living on [[World Tree|Yggdrasil]] in ''[[Planescape]]''), Kercpa (normal-sized sentient wild squirells, from [[Dragon (magazine)]]) in AD&D era. In 3.5, Monster Manual features carnivorous flying squirrels and "Skiurids"
* ''[[GURPS]]'' had a supplement, 'Illuminati University'. The campus featured squirrels. And vampire squirrels. And mugger squirrels.
* [[Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do In An RPG|Mr Welch]] apparently tried to play as a squirrel, which tells a lot in itself.
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