![]() ![]() Played for Laughs in the second Ranma ½ movie ( Nihao My Concubine).Hakudoshi unleashes them to wreak havoc in an entire valley in order to force Kikyo to come out. Inuyasha: Lesser youkai Zushinezumi carries around a zushi (a wooden container for buddhist scrolls) which spawns an endless horde of ravenous, one-eyes rats that devour everything in their path and multiplies if damaged.The Elder Sister-like One: This is one of the many unpleasant results of someone in the past having dabbled in black magic in the storehouse behind Yuu's and Chiyo's home.She defends herself by killing the rats with her teeth. In one Crying Freeman story, Bugnug lies crippled in a sewer and a swarm of rats attacks her.At least one character is killed by an application of this trope. In the Yotsuya arc of Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales, rats are a recurring motif.In AKIRA, after Akira causes the destruction of Tokyo upon reawakening, there's one scene where Chiyoko is waist deep in a pool of water underground and swarms of starving rats swim to her trying to eat her.Usually overlaps with Eek, a Mouse!! and You Dirty Rat!, for added effect. Contrast with Even The Rats Won't Touch It, and with Reduced to Ratburgers, an inversion. Compare with Animal Stampede, which the larger animals use similar (but different) approach. A subtrope of The Swarm and a sister trope of Spider Swarm. See also Cruel and Unusual Death, Devoured by the Horde, and Rodents of Unusual Size. Sometimes used as a threat to prisoners in a dungeon. All that said, getting actual live rats to swarm in front of a camera in a truly scary way can be a challenge. Also, as omnivores, they can and will eat meat - sometimes even if said meat is still alive - and rats in particular have strong enough teeth to chew through metal. ![]() Rats and mice are perfect for the "huge swarm" treatment, since, as any exterminator will tell you, they tend to breed a lot. So how do writers make them a legitimate threat? By having a very, very large swarm of them all at once! One rat isn't scary, but a huge wave of rats eating a victim alive, one bite at a time? Horrifying. Rodents are widely reviled, but not very threatening after all, anyone can set a mousetrap. ![]()
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