Fancy rat the first film. Here, the protagonist befriends the rats found in his home and builds up a close relationship, only to have it end tragically. While these movies generally emphasize the popular perception of malevolence—they kill people and cats and ransack grocery stores—other wild rats who become pets are portrayed in more neutral to positive ways; the television show, "House", briefly featured "Steve McQueen", the pet rat of the titular character. In certain versions of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, the master and adoptive father of the turtles is Splinter, who was once the pet rat of ninja Hamato
Rat Chaos character with "New Rat City is a personal statement. New Rat City is a tuning fork for all of our weird-kid mitochondria, which, if you squint, might or might not be covered in little rat faces trying to look normal. This might or might not be how you were able to unleash all that rat chaos." "Comics & Gaming Magazine"s Reid McCarter called it "a surrealist adventure." In 2015, "Gamasutra" published a preview excerpt chapter ""Rat Chaos" by Winter Lake" from the Merritt k-edited book "Videogames for Humans". In "Videogames for Humans", "Rat Chaos" was praised by one contributor as