Rats

Rats are disgusting little varmints. They are dirty, rodent scavengers who carry all manner of communicable diseases. Some may regard rats as wingless bats, which are equally foul, but this is something of a misnomer, since the two are not truly related to one another, despite how their names rhyme.

Rats tend to thrive in dark, enclosed places where it is warm. As such, they can frequently be found nesting in sewers, subway channels and other such avenues while they conspire and scheme to take over the world.

One who is tasked with tracking down and capturing the miserable little cretins are called Rat catchers - a thankless job to be sure, but one they every catcher seems to take great pride in.

On South Park, the character of Kenny McCormick gets repeatedly killed in some bizarre and usually grotesque fashion. Invariably, rats will come out of the woodwork to gnaw at his corpse. Its okay though. Kenny always seems to miraculously revive in the following episode.

In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series, a miscast magic spell accidentally turned high school student Amy Madison into a rat. She remained in this condition for quite some time until up-and-coming witch Willow Rosenberg used her powers to turn her back to normal.

On Penny Dreadful, Dorian Gray took Ethan Chandler to see an illegal sporting event in which spectators could place wagers on how many rats a dog could kill within a certain time limit. The dog that Gray bet on won the competition by killing ninety-seven rats in less than six minutes.

Appearances

 * 1) American Horror Story: The Sacred Taking
 * 2) Angel: Orpheus
 * 3) Defiance: Ostinato in White
 * 4) iZombie: Dead Rat, Live Rat, Brown Rat, White Rat
 * 5) iZombie: Blaine's World
 * 6) Poltergeist: The Legacy: The Legacy
 * 7) South Park: Cartman Gets an Anal Probe