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	] are popular in ], usually as anthropomorphic ]s.

	It is perhaps ] that although they have been regarded by mankind as pests for ages, they are often featured as sympathetic in books and cartoons. Perhaps this may be because, due to their famously small size, they are considered the embodiment of "the little guy". Indeed, in many depictions, such as '']'', humans are the enemy and mice are the protagonists.

	===Misconceptions===
	In fiction, mice are popularly portrayed as loving ], but in reality most mice do not particularly like cheese, and prefer foods in their natural diet. Too much cheese may cause digestive problems and strong-smelling excrement. Cheese probably became linked to mice because its strong smell and sticky texture make it a good bait for mousetraps. Another common stereotype is that ]s are afraid of mice. This is also false; elephants, being large, are naturally unafraid of mice.

	===Mice in TV/Movies===

	] in particular is recognized throughout the whole world.

	Jerry (of '']'') is also extremely well known.

	Itchy, from ] ] cartoon-in-a-cartoon, is also a mouse. The cartoon is a violent parody of the classic, 'Tom and Jerry'.

	] is a cartoon mouse from the ]. Speedy would often humiliate his adversary ].

	] are two cartoon mice who regularly attempt to take over the world

	] and ] from ].

	] is an animated adaptation of ''Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH''.

	Basil, ]

	] had his own secret agent cartoon with his sidekick Penfold.

	] from the movie and the book.

	] is the murine Superman equivalent from the animated TV series.

	The ] are from a race of humanoid Martian Cave Mice that star in the cartoon series of that name.

	Fievel Mousekewitz is a cartoon Russian-Jewish mouse who appears in productions such as ] and ]

	Yuki from Fruits Basket and turns into a mouse when hugged.

	In ], if a witch hunter says "you're a witch" to an actual witch, they turn into a mouse for 100 years.

	===Poetry===
	]' famous poem "]", written in 1785, gave us the immortal proverb "the best-laid schemes of mice and men often go awry". Burns, who owned a farm for a time, was inspired to write the poem after he had disturbed a field mouse's nest with his plow on a cold November day. The poem could be described as his "apology" to the mouse, and it expresses his apparent longing that man could once again be part of nature's "social union".

	===Allegory===
	There is also ]'s short story, "Josephine the Singer", an allegorical story about the role of the artist in society, where society is represented by a community of mice and the artist is a mouse named Josephine, with a gift of song.

	The book ] features mice adapting to change, specifically, running out of cheese. This book is occasionally given to employees facing layoffs.

	The graphic novel ] by ] tells the story of Spiegelman's parents during the holocaust, depicting the Jews as mice.

	===Other fiction===

	] tells the story of a mouse named Algernon that is given an experimental intelligence-boosting treatment, which only works temporarily, and ends up in the death of the mouse; the story is told by a man that is given the same treatment, though sometime after Algernon's treatment, such that as Algernon reverts from the high intelligence state, the speaker fears for his own fateful return and possible death.

	] is one of ], with the moral "Little friends may prove great friends".

	] is a series of comics by ] wherein ] mice, living in the 12th Century, protect their territory from various predators and plots.

	] is a bold, courageous mouse from ]. He wields a rapier; his headstrong behavior lends irony to his being a mouse.

	The '']'' series by ] is a series about an abbey of anthropomorphic mice (along with other anthropomorphic creatures) confronted by various challenges to their abbey in each book.

	The ] have minor roles in the movies '']'' and '']''.

	The ] frequently morph into mice during the series' run.

	In '']'' by ], white mice are pan-dimensional beings who commissioned the construction of a giant ], the ], that would provide for them the question of the ], the ], and everything. This is revealed after the earth is destroyed by a ] construction crew five minutes before the question is finally calculated. The mice re-appear to commission a second earth and discover ], the sole survivor of earth's destruction, and offer to buy his ], expecting it to contain the question which they seek. ''See ]''.

	In the '']'' series of novels, a group of mice from ] (A borough of ]) and some of their relatives from the countryside, along with smaller groups of bats and squirrels, defeat the machinations of an ancient evil cat spirit named Jupiter and his army of ] allies.
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