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== Literature ==
* ''[[1984]]'' by George Orwell features enormous rats, apparently capable of chewing straight through a man's head. The Party uses them as a torture device {{spoiler|on Winston in [[Room 101]]. [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|And Winston is terrified of rats]]}}.
* The [[Stephen King]] short story ''Graveyard Shift'' has a lot of rats of usual size...{{spoiler|until you go down to the sub-basement where there are not only rodents of unusual size but they're mutated as well, the "queen" of which is big enough to eat a man}}(appears in the collection ''[[Night Shift]]'').
* The James Herbert trilogy of novels: ''The Rats'', ''Lair'' and ''Domain''.
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* ''[[The Underland Chronicles]]'' has these as main characters- not to mention the giant insect and bats....
* Ratmen (and a genius ratgirl) play a part in Glen Cook's ''Garrett P.I.'' 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.
* Like other mammals, rodents were well-represented in the ''[[Spellsinger]]'' novels, although rats and mice were treated like second-class citizens, forced to wash floors and so on.
** It seems to be a common subversion that if rats ''aren't'' the monsters or the bad guys, they're the [[Butt Monkey]] race.
* The rats in ''[[Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH]]'' were Rodents Of Unusual ''Smarts''.
** Brutus, while certainly not giant, was described as being rather large as rats go.
* 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.
* The children's novels ''The Castle in the Attic'' and ''The Battle for the Castle'', by Elizabeth Winthrop, are about a kid with a magical miniature castle. Through use of a magic token, he can become small enough to enter the castle—and the entire medieval world beyond it. ''Battle'' features a battle with giant rats, which makes sense if you think about it, since the rats in the attic don't have magic tokens...
* Lampshaded in the Russian play "The General Inspector" by Gogol. One character ''dreams'' of two "Rodents of Unusual Size" the night before becoming a letter that said inspector is secretly coming to his town - and since he is an [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]], it's a very bad thing indeed.
* ''[[Redwall]]'': In ''The Long Patrol'', [[Big Bad]] Damug Warfang is a Greatrat, described as twice the size of a normal rat.
* While the titular rodents of Paul Zindel's ''Rats'' are generally of normal size, the book also features the Rat King ([[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|no, not that one]]), which is described as being even bigger than a capybara.
* The race of Rumbles in ''The Borribles'' are described as rat-like, and are the size of human children.
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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.
* The H.G. Wells' novel ''The Food of the Gods'' features giant rats, about the size of wolves, as part of the mutated ecology that the titular food's unleashed. Unfortunately for humans, the rats also have the carnivorous temperament of wolves and quickly become the dominant pack hunters in the hot zones.
* The Changelings from ''[[Discworld/The Amazing Maurice
* 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.
* 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 ''dor''mouse; his name came about because he's in the business of renting out use of his [[Cool Gate]] collection.
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