Mice are small furry creatures that eat cheese and make tiny little poops. They are kind of like rats, except cuter. Mice have not exactly made a sizeable impact in film and television entertainment, and most often they are seen as defenseless laboratory experiments, forced to run endlessly on a torture wheel until some mad scientist decides to dissect them. In classic fare, mice have had a disarming effect on people, often women. It was not uncommon for a person to spy a mouse and leap onto a chair screaming, as if the little bugger could actually do anything to them.
The natural enemy of the mouse is the cat, who will stop at nothing to play, torture, maim, kill, destroy and possibly even sexually violate any mouse at any given moment; an not always in that order.
Mice have been known to turn up in a lot of animated programming, usually in the comedy genre. One particular mouse of note is the aptly named Jerry Mouse - who was always devising some creative means of evading the ever-hungry Tom Cat. A more modern pastiche of Jerry Mouse is Itchy from the fictional Itchy & Scratchy show, which was featured on select episodes of The Simpsons.
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Being Human (US)[]
On the North American version of the supernatural drama series Being Human, the former-ghost-turned-reanimate Sally Malik discovered that being resurrected from the dead came with a cost. She began suffering a ravenous hunger and when regular food stuffs could no longer satisfy her, she began trapping live prey. In one instance, she trapped a mouse inside of her brownstone and ate it whole.
Tom and Jerry[]
One of the most infamous mice in television entertainment is of course Jerry Mouse, commonly known as just Jerry. Jerry Mouse is a small house mouse with brown fur. Unlike most animal characters depicted in children's animation, Jerry did not speak. Jerry lived in a mouse hole in a house, which was also occupied by his nemesis Tom Cat. Unlike most small prey, Jerry was not afraid of the more aggresive Tom, and often provoked him while gleefully avoiding capture. Jerry could always safely retire to the comfort of his mouse hole, knowing that his rival was simply too big to chase after him.
V[]
The alien Visitors featured on the TV series V were carnivores who devoured live prey. A recurring fan-favorite gaff on the series was watching one of the aliens pick up a living animal, usually a mouse, and drop it into their mouth. The effect was accented by showing the character's throat bulging as the critter slowly slid down their gullet.