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== Advertising ==
* Several Kia car commercials feature giant hamsters, sometimes complete with giant hamster wheels.▼
* In an ad for Doritos, a man puts a piece of an extra-cheesy dorito on a mousetrap, then sits down to eat some more. A giant mouse (well, a man in a mouse suit) bursts out of the wall and tackles him, presumably not being satisfied with the tiny tip of one chip.▼
* Orkin's series of Giant Creepy Crawly extermination-service ads now includes one in which a family comes home from a trip to find scruffy human-sized rats hanging out in their living room.▼
* There's a commercial for extra-durable work pants which demonstrates their toughness with a giant cartoon beaver, which loses its teeth trying to bite through a pair.▼
== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Galaxy Angel (anime)|Galaxy Angel]]'' had this alien hamster thing which they found in the ruins of a once great city.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' has a monster outright called "Giant Rat". Then there are Nimble Momonga, which is just a very large flying squirrel, and a bunch of other more pathetic low-level monsters.
== Comic Books ==
* [[Neil Gaiman]]'s gag biography in ''[[Sandman]]: The Season of Mists'' [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|denies]] that he was found outside a London sewer unable to say anything more than "Powerful big rats, gentlemen". And then goes on to deny that he had a vestigial tail, played a part in the ''obviously fictional'' negotiations between Londons Above and [[Neverwhere|Below]], or that there were any tooth marks on the bones.
* In the ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' universe they have these. After examining the meat from one they decide to farm them in place of the regular rats they used to farm.
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* In [[Bone]], the Giant Rat Creatures, despite that they are drawn without snouts and that they cut off their rat tails as a cultural ritual.
* One supporting character from ''[[The Elementals]]'' was a wererat who had a crush on Fathom.
== Commercials ==▼
▲* Several Kia car commercials feature giant hamsters, sometimes complete with giant hamster wheels.
▲* In an ad for Doritos, a man puts a piece of an extra-cheesy dorito on a mousetrap, then sits down to eat some more. A giant mouse (well, a man in a mouse suit) bursts out of the wall and tackles him, presumably not being satisfied with the tiny tip of one chip.
▲* Orkin's series of Giant Creepy Crawly extermination-service ads now includes one in which a family comes home from a trip to find scruffy human-sized rats hanging out in their living room.
▲* There's a commercial for extra-durable work pants which demonstrates their toughness with a giant cartoon beaver, which loses its teeth trying to bite through a pair.
== Film ==
* [[Trope Namer|Named]] after the R.O.U.S. from ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]''.
* The movie adaptation of H. G. Wells' ''[[The Food of the Gods]]'' features giant rats besieging some people in a cabin. Or rather, it features normal rats romping around a miniature set, and a few prop rat-heads that make "The Talons of Weng-Chiang" look like ''Aliens'' by comparison.
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* The Rh/attes are an aptly-named alien race from ''Chess With A Dragon''.
== Live
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'', "The Talons of Weng-Chiang" (considered a [[Special Effect Failure]] in actual execution though)
* ''[[The New Avengers]]'' episode "Gnaws".
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== Music ==
* The ''[["Weird Al" Yankovic|Radioactive Hamsters From a Planet Near Mars]]''.
* Green Day had an album cover where a gigantic Hamster was attacking society.
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== Mythology ==
* There's a Japanese legend called "The Boy Who Drew Cats", in which a city is plagued by a giant demonic rat. Which is eventually killed by the titular drawings of cats. [[A Wizard Did It|It's magical, okay?]]
* Also from Japan: Tesso (Iron Rat), a former human noble with [[Jerkass]], ungrateful parents who was cursed by a monk. He's a man-rat hybrid that raids the temples and the houses with a horde of smaller rats and devour everything on his path.
== Periodicals ==
* This is an [https://web.archive.org/web/20110811203152/http://garfield.nfshost.com/1981/09/20/ occasional] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110811204848/http://garfield.nfshost.com/1983/12/10/ gag] in ''[[Garfield]]''; Garfield will be pretending to mouse, or maybe teasing a mouse and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20111113133145/http://garfield.nfshost.com/1987/11/22/ mouse] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110811202633/http://garfield.nfshost.com/1989/04/03/ will be] [https://web.archive.org/web/20111113134536/http://garfield.nfshost.com/1991/11/08/ larger] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110811205423/http://garfield.nfshost.com/2000/07/21/ than] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110811220935/http://garfield.nfshost.com/2002/11/16/ normal]. Then there's the [https://web.archive.org/web/20111113140923/http://garfield.nfshost.com/1984/12/18/ Training Mouse] from the arc where Garfield got locked out and found his way back to where Mama Leoni's used to be.
* The infamous "Moon Hoax", a series of articles in the 19th century New York ''Sun'', included fanciful accounts of giant civilized beavers living on the moon.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* Some people think that the [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] universe contains the Skaven, three-foot tall ratmen, using giant rats and rat-''ogres'', [[Flat Earth Atheist|but they are of course mad]].
** Or form Middenland, since you know you have been attacked by a ''massive'' army of said three-foot ratmen with [[Schizo-Tech|lazer cannons]]
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== Video Games ==
* [[Pokémon]] has quite a few of these, often [[Com Mons]]. Examples include Rattata, Pachirisu, and of course, the Pikachu family.
** [[Super Smash Bros.]] has very scary implications if it weren't for the fact that the characters are trophies. Imagine, if you will, dropping a life-sized Pikachu on [[Kirby|Pop Star]] or [[Pikmin|Hocotate]]. A malicious Pikachu (or however many more) in either of those settings would be a Cthulhuesque horror upon the populations of those worlds, as it fits ALL of the ROUS criteria without the use of [[Super Mario Bros.|Super 'Shrooms]].
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* ''[[Duke Nukem Forever]]'' has regular-sized rats attacking Duke... after he's been hit by the effects of a [[Incredible Shrinking Man|shrinking device]]. Duke then quips "''Talk about your rodents of unusual size!''"
* Giant mutant rodents are the signature creation of ''[[Narbonic]]'''s Helen Narbon. Of course, Helen being a young girl at heart, they happen to be giant mutant ''gerbils''.
* The trope name is evoked in the title of an ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'' [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2005/07/12/episode-575-rats-of-unusual-size/ episode] which discusses dire rats... but the resulting rodent isn't one, just an [[Ax Crazy]] dwarf disguised to chase for it.
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== Web Original ==
* Actually older than [[Web Original]], as it goes back to Usenet,
▲* Actually older than [[Web Original]], as it goes back to Usenet, the [http://cgi.cs.indiana.edu/~oracle/ Internet Oracle] has as his arch enemy Woodchucks. The reason is the infamous Woodchuck question he is constantly asked, "How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?". Some of his enemy woodchucks were rather large. After ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]'' came out, they were given the official name of "R.O.U.S.".
* Squirrels are one of the eight [[Insistent Terminology|sentient (i.e., humanoid)]] species in [[Tasakeru]]. They're the only rodent species among sentientkind; the others are canines (wolves and foxes), mustelids (badgers, ferrets, raccoons, and skunks), and lepines (rabbits).
* [http://www.kongregate.com/games/nerdook/monster-slayers Monster Slayers] features these as one of the enemies.
* [[Kizzsprite]] is a chinchilla, resurrected as a kernelsprite. Of course, much weird plot shit surrounds him. We probably shouldn't get any further than that.
== Western Animation ==
* Splinter from ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' is a pet rat who was mutated into a four foot rat-man.
** Or, if you refer to the 1987 series, a human mutated into a four foot sewer rat.
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* One episode of ''[[Cyberchase]]'' involved The Hacker using a giant hamster called a hamborg (which for some reason resembled a capybara) as part of his evil plan.
* In the ''[[Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner]]'' cartoon "Chariots of Fur", Wile E. tries to catch the Roadrunner with a giant mousetrap. Instead, he snags a giant mouse, who then turns the tables on him.
== Real Life ==
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