Rodent Physiology

Rodent Physiology
Zalaks (Arknights) all have traits based on mice, squirrels, capybaras, etc.
Power/Ability to:	Use the traits of rodents.

"You want proof evolution is for real, don’t waste your time with fossils; just check out the New York City rat. They started out as immigrants, stowaways in some ship’s cargo hold. Only the survivors got to breed, and they’ve been improving with every new litter. Smarter, faster, stronger. Getting ready to rule. Manhattan wouldn’t be the first island they took over."

― Andrew Vachss, Another Life

"When the mouse laughs at the cat, there's a hole nearby."

― Nigerian Proverb

"I'm flying like the squirrel I always knew I was!"

― Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)

Power to use the abilities of rodents. Technique of Rodent Manipulation. Variation of Mammalian Physiology.

Also Called

• Rodent Body/Form/Mimicry

Capabilities

User with this ability either is or can mimic/transform into rodents, including mice, rats, squirrels, porcupines, beavers, guinea pigs, and hamsters.

Applications

• Burrowing
• Camouflage
• Cheek Pouch Protrusion
• Contaminant Immunity
  • Disease Immunity
• Enhanced Agility
• Enhanced Balance
• Enhanced Senses
• Environmental Adaptation
• Hyper Climbing
• Enhanced Bite
• Prey Instinct
  • Enhanced Stealth

Techniques

• Rodent Swarming

Variations

• Castorimorph (beavers, pocket gophers, and kangaroo rats/mice)
  • Beaver: Speed Swimming, Cold Immunity, Enhanced Lung Capacity, Pressure Resistance, Enhanced Smell, Enhanced Hearing, Decelerated Aging, Enhanced Bite
• Hystricomorph (porcupines, cavies, capybaras, guinea pigs, chinchillas)
  • Porcupine: Climbing (New World only), Needle Projection
  • Chinchilla: Mountain Adaptation, Enhanced Leap
  • Naked Mole Rat: Cancer Resistance
• Myomorph (mice, rats, gerbils, hamsters, lemmings and voles): Environmental Adaptation
  • Jerbo: Desert Adaptation, Darkness Adaptation, Enhanced Speed, Burrowing
  • Muroidea (hamsters, gerbils, true mice and rats)
    • Spalacidae (blind mole rats, bamboo rats, root rats, and zokors): Burrowing, Darkness Adaptation
• Sciuromorph (squirrels, chipmunks, marmots, flying squirrels, dormice)
  • Sciuridae (tree squirrels, ground squirrels, chipmunks, marmots, flying squirrels, and prairie dogs): Hyper Climbing, Enhanced Dexterity, Enhanced Vision, Gliding (flying squirrel only), Burrowing (ground squirrels only)
  • Gliridae (dormouse): Hibernation, Enhanced Hearing

Mythical Rodents

• Hinezumi: Fire Immunity, Volcanic Adaptation
• Ratatoskr: Super Bite, Planeswalking, Trickster, Reality Consumption, Vocal Mind Control
• Tesso: Revenant Physiology, Revenge Empowerment
• Wererodent: Werebeast Physiology

Associations

• Mammalian Physiology
• Rodent Manipulation

Rodents are associated with great number of mystical and supernatural abilities and connections in mythology and folklore, thus user with this power may have access to:

• Beaver: Water Manipulation, Enhanced Craftsmanship
• Porcupine: Missile Generation
• Rat: Enhanced Thievery

Limitations

• Can fall victim to those that mind control rodents.
• May be prey to felines.

Known Users

See Also: Rodent Tropes.

Mythology/Folklore

• Ratatoskr (Norse Mythology)
• Tesso (Japanese Folklore/Mythology)

Comics

• Little Cheese (DC Comics)
• Ch'p (DC Comics)
• Squirrel Girl (Marvel Comics)
• Sanji Yamamoto (Marvel Comics)
• Mobian rodents (Sonic SatAM/Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Humanimalian rodents (Extinctioners)

Movies

• Anthropomorphic rodents (Zootopia)
• Rodents (The Nut Job)
• Ginger (The Magic Pudding)
• Anthropomorphic rodents (The Adventures of the American Rabbit)
• Trevor the Rat (Meet the Feebles)
• Newspaper Mouse (Meet the Feebles)
• Vietnamese Gophers (Meet the Feebles)
• Lance Quiller's team (Animalympics)
• Other Mr. Bobinsky (Coraline)

Literature

• The Rat King (The Nutcracker)
• Peter Pettigrew (Harry Potter)
• Rodents (The Chronicles of Narnia)
  • Reepicheep
  • Mr. and Mrs. Beaver
• The Animorphs (Animorphs)
• Mailmouse (Dragon)
• Beaver (Dragon)
• Mice (Geronimo/Thea Stilton series)
• Maisy (Maisy)
• Cyril (Maisy)
• Mice and rats (Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH/The Secret of NIMH)

Manga/Anime

• Angelica (Fairy Tail)
• Powell/Bakumaru (Eto Rangers)
• Dormouse (Monster Girl Encyclopedia)
• Hinezumi (Monster Girl Encyclopedia)
• Large Mouse (Monster Girl Encyclopedia)
• Tristan (One Piece)
• Hamsuke (Overlord)
• Mizune Family (Soul Eater)

Cartoons

• Verminous Skumm (Captain Planet and the Planeteers)
• RatTrap (Beast Wars/Beast Machines: Transformers)
• Mouscedes King (Monster High)
• Rufus (Kim Possible)
• Experiment 507 "Woody" (Lilo & Stitch)
• Experiment 319 "Spike" (Lilo & Stitch)
• Strudel's Squirrel assistants (Pound Puppies)
• Norbert and Daggett (The Angry Beavers)
• Beaver (Franklin)
• Dr. Two-Brains (WordGirl)
• Buster Nut (Super Mansion)
• Rodents (Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers)
• Fink (OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes)
• Anthropomorphic mice (Angelina Ballerina)
• Mouse (Roobarb and Custard Too)
• Anthropomorphic mice and rats (The Pinky and Perky Show)
• Conchita (Wide Eye)
• Mrs. Rat (Bananas in Pyjamas reboot)
• Marion (Bounty Hamster)
• Anthropomorphic mice (Sumo Mouse)
• Scamper (Bill and Ben)
• Scuff (Bill and Ben)
• Squirrel (Untalkative Bunny)
• Squirrel's son (Untalkative Bunny)
• Squirrel's daughter (Untalkative Bunny)
• Beaver (Untalkative Bunny)
• Anthropomorphic mice (Brambly Hedge)
• Angelmouse (Angelmouse)
• Professor Chi-Chi (Pat & Stan)
• Echo Mouses (The Owl House)
• Sinister Squirrel (The Twisted Whiskers Show)
• Mice (The Twisted Whiskers Show)
• Loopy (Pororo the Little Penguin)
• Jiggers (Iggy Arbuckle)
• Zoop (Iggy Arbuckle)
• Kira (Iggy Arbuckle)
• Chip (Iggy Arbuckle)
• Stumpy (Kaeloo)
• Anthropomorphic rodents (Almost Naked Animals)
• Amy and Brad (Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts)
• Teeny Tiny Tony (Arlo the Alligator Boy/I Heart Arlo)
• Master Splinter (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
• Wilfred (Patrol 3)
• Albert Corncracker (Oakie Doke)
• Rose Corncracker (Oakie Doke)
• Root Corncracker (Oakie Doke)
• Snoot Corncracker (Oakie Doke)
• Hickory Corncracker (Oakie Doke)
• Ma Rat (James the Cat)
• Pa Rat (James the Cat)
• Ma and Pa Rat's children (James the Cat)

Web Original

• Bob (Brainpop)
• Ayunda Risu (hololive)
• Hakos Baelz (hololive)
• Usada Pekora (hololive)
• SCP-731-2 - Rathole Cover (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-862 - Rats (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-1166 - Perfect Lab Specimen (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-1318 - Consultant Rats (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-2050 - Sciurine Crusaders (SCP Foundation)
• Entity 24 - "Death Rats" (The Backrooms)

Web Comics

• Grace Sciuridae (El Goonish Shive)
• Scarlet, Violet, Amber and Jade (Sequential Art)

Live Television

• Dirty Rat (Ace Lightning)
• Rat in a Hat (Bananas in Pyjamas)
• Anthropomorphic mice (Bear in the Big Blue House)
• Rat Demons (Charmed)
• Rattus P. Rattus (The Ferals/Feral TV)

Video Games

• Zalaks (Arknights)
• Pipsy the Mouse (Diddy Kong Racing)
• Bakuryu the Mole (Bloody Roar)
• Kohryu the Iron Mole (Bloody Roar)
• Twitch, the Plague Rat (League of Legends)
• Ratatoskr (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Rotte(Valkyrie Crusade)
• Mouser (Super Mario Bros. series)
• Nazrin (Touhou Project)
• Corvo (Dishonored)
• Warechu/Pirachu (Hyperdimension Neptunia)
• Makoto Nanaya (BlazBlue)
• Hammond/Wrecking Ball (Overwatch)
• The Squeaks (Kirby series)
  • Daroach
  • Spinni
  • Doc
  • Storo
  • Squeakers
• Tachigami (Okami)
• Tachigami's children (Okamiden)

Gallery

Bob (Brainpop) is a gray mouse with a broken tail.

Squirrel Girl (Marvel Comics) is well-known for mimicking squirrels.

Angelica (Fairy Tail) is a giant rat.

Ratatoskr (Valkyrie Crusade)

Rotte (Valkyrie Crusade)

When searching for the ghost children's eyes, Coraline encounters Other Mr. Bobinsky (Coraline) who has been turned into a grotesque army of rats.

Verminous Skumm (Captain Planet)

Mr. Nut Nut (Pound Puppies), one of Strudel's many squirrel assistants.

Fievel Mousekewitz (An American Tail)

Mrs. Brisby and Nicodemus (The Secret of NIMH)

Experiment 507 "Woody" (Lilo & Stitch)

Experiment 319 "Spike" (Lilo & Stitch), a porcupine-like experiment.

Tristan (One Piece) is a squirrel mink who works as a nurse for Inuarashi.

Beaver (Franklin), an anthropomorphic beaver.

Buck (Scaredy Squirrel), an anthropomorphic beaver

Mizune Family (Soul Eater) Family performing...

...Merge...

Mr. and Mrs. Beaver (The Chronicles of Narnia)

Fink (OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes)

Nazrin (Touhou Project) The Little Dowser General.

Warechu/Pirachu (Hyperdimension Neptunia)

Rufus (Kim Possible)

Amy and Brad (Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts)

Dormouse (Monster Girl Encyclopedia)

Hinezumi (Monster Girl Encyclopedia)

Large Mouse (Monster Girl Encyclopedia)

RatTrap (Beast Wars/Beast Machines: Transformers)

Echo Mouse (The Owl House)

Ecopher (Monster Racers)

Videos

Splinter's Rock Bottom - Robot Chicken - Adult Swim-2