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List of fictional catsCats and other felines have often been used as characters in literature and in other forms of media.
Legendary, mythological and fairytale cats
Cats and felines in literature
- Aslan the lion in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and other Narnia stories by C.S. Lewis.
- Bagheera the panther in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book
- "The Black Cat" in Edgar Allan Poe's short story, a study of the psychology of guilt
- Blackmalkin, Greymalkin, and Nibbins, witches' cats in The Midnight Folk by John Masefield
- The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
- The Cat That Walked by Himself in Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories.
- The Cat Who... mystery novels written by Lillian Jackson Braun and featuring the detective James Qwilleran and his two Siamese cats Koko and Yum-yum.
- Cats from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot, including Macavity, the mystery cat, source of the musical Cats.
- The Cheshire Cat in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, based on the folk saying, "grinning like a Cheshire cat"
- Chester, the cat in Bunnicula and sequels by James Howe
- Clarence the Copy Cat, pacifist library-dwelling cat who sleeps on the photocopier
- C'Mell, a humanoid cat, one of the animal-derived 'underpeople' in stories by Cordwainer Smith
- The Cowardly Lion, from the Wizard of Oz series.
- Crookshanks, Hermione Granger's cat in the Harry Potter novels.
- Damn Cat, hero of the Gordons' Undercover Cat, who returns from a nightly prowl with a kidnapped woman's bracelet around his neck...But where has he been? Later adapted as the Disney film That Darn Cat
- Dinah, Alice's pet cat, featured in Lewis Caroll's Alice in Wonderland and his Through the Looking-Glass
- Graymalkin, Jill the Witch's familiar and accomplice of Snuff, from the novel A Night In The Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny, (a graymalkin or grimalkin is an old or evil-looking she-cat)
- Greebo (in Terry Pratchett novels: see Discworld characters)
- Gummitch the superkitten, in Fritz Leiber's Space-time For Springers.
- Francis the feline detective in the novels Felidae and Felidae on the Road by Akif Pirinçci
- Maurice, star of The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
- Mehitabel, from archy and mehitabel, a dialogue between a melancholy cockroach and a heedless cat, by Don Marquis
- Midnight Louie and his daughter Midnight Louise, feline companions and fellow investigators of amateur sleuth Temple Barr, featured in a series of mystery novels by Carole Nelson Douglas
- Mogget, a magical entity in the form of a cat, in the fantasy novels Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen by Garth Nix
- Mr. Underfoot in Robert A. Heinlein's Friday
- Petronius Arbiter, Pete in Robert A. Heinlein's The Door Into Summer.
- Pixel in Robert A. Heinlein's novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls.
- Upgraded cats in Reginald Bretnor's "Genius of the Species" take over the Soviet Union
- Behemoth, the huge, trolley-riding, Satanic black cat in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita.
- O'lal, monitor of Earth in Alan Dean Fosters Cat-A-Lyst
- Sebastian, son of Tobias (see below). Affectionate towards his "owner" Tim who saved Sebastian from drowning. Sebastian is a Strange One (neither part of the Hidden People nor a normal cat).
- Shere Khan the tiger in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book
- Simpkin in Beatrix Potter's The Tailor of Gloucester.
- Fritti Tailchaser from Tad Williams' Tailchaser's Song.
- Tigger in Winnie the Pooh
- Tobermory the talking cat, protagonist of a short story by the satirist Saki (Hector Hugh Munro).
- Tobias, a tall black talking cat with significant magical powers in the Tim and the Hidden People series by Sheila McCullough. Father of Sebastian.
- Tug, the cat given by Ged to Alder to protect him from nightmares, in The Other Wind by Ursula Le Guin.
- The Owl's fiancée in Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
- The Cats of Ulthar, who take revenge upon the murder of a kitten in H.P. Lovecraft's story of that name: from that day, it was forbidden to harm a cat in that city.
- Powder the albino siamese from uncommon children's series Powder The Cat.
Cats and felines in film
- Leo the Lion, mascot of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio.
- much of the cast of the Disney animated film The Aristocats.
- Figaro, of Disney's Pinocchio.
- The film Cats & Dogs postulates an ongoing war dating back to ancient times between cats and dogs. The most notable cat is a spoilt Persian called Mr. Tinkles who is also an evil genius.
- Blofeld's unnamed cat from the James Bond movies, which has inspired a number of imitations and spoofs (see Mr Bigglesworth, Madcat, and Nero)
- Milo in The adventures of Milo and Otis
- Mr. Bigglesworth, Dr. Evil's cat from the Austin Powers films, in homage to the unnamed cat of Bond's Blofeld
- The Pink Panther, movie eponym, cartoon character
- That Darn Cat, s Disney adaptation of the book Undercover cat (see above)
- Pyewacket is the witch's familiar in the romantic comedy film Bell Book and Candle
- Simba, Nala, Mufasa, Scar, Sarabi, Sarafina and other lions in Disney's The Lion King
- Kovu, Kiara, Zira, Nuka, Vitani and other lions in Disney's The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
- Cosmic Creepers, an ugly, suspicious-looking black cat in the 1971 Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks
- Snowbell, the cat in Stuart Little
- The unnamed cat that Don Corleone has in his lap in the first scenes in The Godfather was, in fact, a stray that Marlon Brando found on the set. The cat purred so loudly as to require the redubbing of much of the dialogue.
- Jones, the cat in Alien
Cats and felines in television
- The Cat, character descended from cats played by Danny John-Jules on BBC TV sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf (see Frankenstein)
- "Clarence, the cross-eyed Lion" from the TV series Daktari
- Frankenstein, the pregnant cat Lister sneaks onboard the Red Dwarf
- Kitty, pet lion from the 1960s TV series The Addams Family
- Lucky, the Tanners' cat in TV series ALF, who weekly escaped being devoured by the wisecracking Alien Life-Form
- Miss Kitty Fantastico, pet cat of Willow and Tara in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Morris, commercial mascot for 9 Lives Cat Food, voiced by John Irwin
- Mrs. Slocombe's "Pussy", an unseen character and the source of many innuendoes in Are You Being Served
- Spot, pet cat of Data, from Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Salem, talking black cat from the TV series (and comic book) Sabrina the Teenage Witch
- Tony the Tiger, commercial spokestiger for the breakfast cereal Frosted Flakes (known in the UK as Frosties)
Cats and felines in animation, comics and puppetry
- Captain Amelia, humanoid feline in Disney's Treasure Planet
- Bagpuss, British TV cat
- the black cat in Kiki's express delivery service
- cast of Disney's The Aristocats
- Big Cat, campus cartoon character often sighted in graffiti and newspaper columns
- Bill the Cat, mascot and presidential candidate in Berke Breathed's Bloom County
- Black Pete, Disney cartoon character, originally the nemesis of Mickey Mouse then Goofy
- Bucky Katt, cartoon cat from Get Fuzzy comic strip
- Catbert, the evil human resources director in the Dilbert comic strip
- CatDog, star of the Nickelodeon TV show of the same name. See also List of fictional dogs
- Cat Jacob, a Swiss cat provides his readers with a humourous little philosophical "poke" along their way.
- The Cattanooga Cats, singing group from Hanna-Barbera animated series
- Chaos, a Muppet cat on Sesame Park
- Choo-Choo Bear, the boneless and oozy pet cat of Davan, in the Something Positive comic
- Claude Cat, Looney Tunes character
- Courageous Cat, superhero friend of sidekick Minute Mouse
- Doraemon, a feline robot from future. From Japanese cartoon and animation series of the same title.
- Custard, nemesis of Roobarb in BBC2 cartoon Roobarb and Custard
- Fatcat
- Fat Freddie's Cat in the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers by Gilbert Shelton
- Felix the Cat, pioneer cartoon character
- Fritz the Cat, creation of Robert Crumb, changed considerably by Ralph Bakshi in his cartoon, killed later in retaliation by Crumb
- Garfield, comic strip character
- Cast of animated film Gay Purr-ee
- Heathcliff, comic strip character
- Hello Kitty
- Henry's Cat
- Hobbes, Calvin's pet stuffed tiger from the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
- Jess, the eponymous Postman Pat's black and white cat of the title song in the BBC children's TV series
- Mr. Jinks, featured with mice nemeses Pixie and Dixie in Hanna-Barbera's Huckleberry Hound Show
- Kimba the White Lion
- Krazy Kat, surreal cartoon by George Herriman
- Kyou, boy who transforms into a cat in the anime series Fruits Basket
- Luna, Artemis and Diana in Sailor Moon
- Madcat, Dr. Claw's pet, from cartoon series Inspector Gadget
- Meowth in Pokemon
- Nero, a fluffy white caterpillar, pet of the villainous toad Silas Greenback, from the cartoon series Danger Mouse—a parody of Blofeld's cat (see above)
- Oggy, from Oggy and the Cockroaches
- Omaha the Cat Dancer, erotic "furry" comic book character
- Peekaboo from Rose is Rose
- The Pink Panther, movie eponym, cartoon character
- Pussyfoot, Looney Tunes character
- Ragland T. Tiger, aka Rags, on Crusader Rabbit
- Rhonda, a tiger in Kevin and Kell
- Rita, part of the cat-dog couple Rita and Runt in Animaniacs
- Ruff, of Hanna-Barbera's Ruff and Reddy
- Diego and the other sabertooth cats in Ice Age
- The Samurai Pizza Cats, cartoon characters
- Scratchy from the fictional show within a show Itchy and Scratchy'\' in The Simpsons''
- Sagwa and friends.
- Snagglepuss, Hanna-Barbera TV cartoon character
- Snowball (white) (deceased) and Snowball II (black), The Simpsons house cat
- Snowy: Cat from TV show "Tin tin".
- Lucifer, the cat in Disney's Cinderella.
- Solange from 9 Chickweed Lane
- Stimpy, from the cartoon series Ren and Stimpy
- Sylvester the cat, Warner Bros cartoon character
- Tom, from the cartoon series Tom and Jerry
- Toonces, the driving cat (from Saturday Night Live
- Top Cat, Hanna-Barbera TV cartoon character
- The Thundercats, cartoon characters
- Wildcat, Donald Rooum's anarchist cat, featured in Freedom newspaper
Cats in computer games
Cats in song
- "The Cat Came Back" (1893) by Harry S. Miller, tells of futile attempts to get rid of a big yellow cat:
But the cat came back the very next day.
The cat came back. They thought it was a goner,
But the cat came back; it just wouldn't stay away.
The song also inspired an animated cartoon short.
Cats in science
- Schrödinger's cat, hapless victim and lucky survivor of a thought experiment by Erwin Schrödinger illustrating the incompleteness of the theory of quantum mechanics (although Schrödinger himself is historical, the cat is the protagonist in a thought experiment and thus fictional). There is a book by John Gribbin called Schrodinger's Kittens.
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