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* Rats are quite some pests on ''[[Warrior Cats]]'', but the most evil is seen on ''Firestar's Quest'', where a rat {{spoiler|1=speaks cat language and hints that his kind drove out the former SkyClan}}. And then, there were the rats that caused almost all of ShadowClan to get sick in ''Rising Storm''...
* [[Mary Gentle]]'s [[Intelligent Gerbil|Rats]]—who are generally the dominant sapient species of any work in which they appear—tend to be crooked, [[The Chessmaster|manipulative]], [[Ambition Is Evil|ambitious]], [[It's All About Me|self-centered]], and [[Fantastic Racism|bigoted]]—in other words, [[Averted Trope|about as bad]] as [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]]. (And they're ruled by [[Stealth Pun|rat kings]] with their tails deliberately knotted together.)
* Averted in [[Spider Robinson]]'s ''Telempath''. Rats are very dangerous — the main character lost his left arm after rat bites got infected — and at one point near the book's end he confronts hundreds of them. "Some were the size of tomcats. They were like a great grey carpet of death." He manages to [[The Empath|empathically]] suggest a truce. The rats don't attack. One of his friends wonders, "Can even ''that'' war be ended someday?"
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