Cats and other felines have often been used as characters in literature and in other forms of media. This is a
list of fictional cats.
Legendary, mythological and fairytale cats
Cats and felines in literature
- Aineko, a talking robot cat in the "Accelerando" series of science-fiction short stories (and yet-unpublished novel) by Charles Stross
- 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
- Behemoth, the huge, trolley-riding, Satanic black cat in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
- Birdie, cat of forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan in Kathy Reichs' novels
- "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 with the fiddle who played hey-diddle-diddle in Tolkien's The man in the moon stayed up too late
- Tolkien's poem named "Cat" usually known by its first verse: The fat cat on the mat
- 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
- The cat who ran away with the pudding string in the nursery rhyme
- Carbonel, King of the Cats, in Barbara Sleigh's Carbonel trilogy
- 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
- Church, the cat who comes back to life in Stephen King's Pet Sematary
- Clarence, a pacifist library-dwelling cat who sleeps on the photocopier in Clarence the Copy Cat by Patricia Lakin
- 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 Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and his Through the Looking-Glass
- Eureka, Dorothy's cat in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, also known as the Pink Kitten
- Mrs Figg's cats in Harry Potter
- Francis the feline detective in the novels Felidae and Felidae on the Road by Akif Pirinçci
- The fiddle-playing cat in the nursery rhyme where the cow jumped over the moon
- The cat and her kittens in the traditional song "Froggy would a-wooing go"
- Ginger, the yellow tomcat who kept shop with Pickles the dog in Beatrix Potter's Ginger and Pickles
- The Glass Cat, a cat made of glass in The Patchwork Girl of Oz
- Gobbolino in Gobbolino, the Witch's Cat by Ursula Moray Williams. Her other books with eponymous feline protagonists include:
- Good Fortune, the cat who goes to heaven in the award-winning story by Elizabeth Coatsworth
- Graymalkin, Jill the Witch's familiar and accomplice of Snuff, from the novel A Night In The Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny. This is a variation on Grimalkin, the name of the witch's cat in MacBeth by Shakespeare (a graymalkin or grimalkin is an old or evil-looking she-cat)
- Greebo, a witch's cat (in Terry Pratchett novels: see Discworld characters)
- Gummitch the superkitten, in Fritz Leiber's Space-time For Springers
- The Hungry Tiger, the Cowardly Lion's closest friend, introduced in Ozma of Oz
- I Am a Cat by Natsume Soseki, a cat describing his owner in Japan
- Itty in Hugh Lofting's Dr Dolittle's Return
- Jennie, of the Paul Gallico children's book Jennie, released in the U.S. as The Abandoned
- Kitty, the Ingalls family mouser in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books
- Little Cats A through Z, from Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
- Professor McGonagall who can shapeshift into a black cat in Harry Potter
- Beth March's kittens in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women
- 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, 20-pound tomcat companion to (and fellow investigator with) amateur sleuth, Temple Barr, featured in a series of mystery novels by Carole Nelson Douglas; occasionally assisted by his sire 3 O'Clock Louie, his kit Midnight Louise, his goad Karma and his eyes and ears on the street Sassafrass and over the street Ingram; introduce yourself with The Las Vegas Quartet, followed by Catnap, thenPussyfoot, then voyage from "Be" ta "Zed" ("A"? - don't ask - and beware the lethal Hyacinth).
- Mogget, a magical entity in the form of a cat, in the fantasy novels Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen by Garth Nix
- Moo Moo, the main character in "Moo Moo the Superhero Comes to Earth" by Patricia Robinson, published by PublishAmerica (http://www.publishamerica.com)
- Mottyl, the cat in Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findlay
- Mrs Norris in Harry Potter
- O'lal, monitor of Earth in Alan Dean Fosters Cat-A-Lyst
- 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
- Powder, the albino Siamese from uncommon children's series Powder The Cat
- Pussy-Cat, the Owl's fiancée in Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
- The pussycat who went to London to see the queen, in the nursery rhyme
- Rhiow, Saash, and Urruah, and other feline characters of The Book of Night with Moon by Diane Duane
- Ribby, the cat who serves Duchess the dog a traumatizing pie in Beatrix Potter's The Pie and the Patty Pan
- Sampson in the Church Mice series by Graham Oakley
- In reference to Schrodinger's Cat:
- Shere Khan the tiger in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book
- The Shy Little Kitten of the children's book written by Cathleen Schurr and illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren
- Simpkin in Beatrix Potter's The Tailor of Gloucester
- Spiegel, from Spiegel the Cat by Gottfried Keller
- The three little kittens who lost their mittens in the nursery rhyme
- 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, who is affectionate towards his "owner" Tim who saved him from drowning. Sebastian is a Strange One (neither part of the Hidden People nor a normal cat).
- Tom Kitten, a curious but disobedient young cat in the children's stories "The Tale of Tom Kitten" and "The Roly Poly Pudding" by Beatrix Potter; also Tom's mother, Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit, and his siblings Moppet and Mittens
- Tug, the cat given by Ged to Alder to protect him from nightmares, in The Other Wind by Ursula Le Guin
- "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.
- "The Unadulterated Cat" by Terry Pratchett and Joliffe Gray
- Mr. Underfoot in Robert A. Heinlein's Friday
- Upgraded cats in Reginald Bretnor's "Genius of the Species" take over the Soviet Union
- The yellow tom on the ship "Pound of Candles," who helped Little Pig Robinson escape being dinner, and who was engaged to a "snowy owl of Lapland," in Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
- Zoom, in Tim Wynne-Jones' series of children's books, e.g. Zoom at Sea (ISBN 0-88899-021-9)
T. S. Eliot Cats
Cats in books by Andre Norton
Cats of Tailchaser's Song
Cats and felines in plays
- The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats which is based on the above poetry collection: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot, but introduces several additional characters, such as:
- Asparagus (a.k.a. The Other Cat. Not the same as Gus: The Theatre Cat)
- Carbucketty (Previously in London and Broadway productions. No longer there.)
- Cassandra
- Etcetera
- Genghis (also spelled "Dschingis")
- Grizabella
- Jemima (a.k.a. Sillabub)
- Pouncival
- Tantomile
- Victoria
Cats and felines in film
- Alex the Lion, in Madagascar animated movie (2005)
- The Aristocats - much of the cast of the Disney animated film
- Baby, the leopard in the Bringing Up Baby
- Mr. Bigglesworth, Dr. Evil's cat from the Austin Powers films, in homage to the unnamed cat of Bond's Blofeld
- Blofeld's unnamed cat from the James Bond movies, which has inspired a number of imitations and spoofs (see Mr Bigglesworth, Madcat, and Nero)
- 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.
- Coco, the white Persian in Jungle 2 Jungle
- Cosmic Creepers, an ugly, suspicious-looking black cat in the 1971 Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks
- The Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz
- That Darn Cat, Disney's adaptation of the book Undercover cat
- Elsa the lioness, raised by Joy Adamson in Born Free
- Figaro, of Disney's Pinocchio.
- Gatto, Mr D and Tweed in Cat City (Macskafogó)
- Jones, the cat in Alien
- King Leonidas of Naboombu, a lion, the world's greatest soccer player, also in Bedknobs and Broomsticks
- Kovu, Kiara, Zira, Nuka, Vitani and other lions in Disney's The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
- Leo the Lion, mascot of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio.
- Milo in The Adventures of Milo and Otis
- Orion, from Men in Black
- Pink Panther, movie eponym, cartoon character
- Puss-in-Boots, a cat with the voice of Antonio Banderas in Shrek 2.
- Pyewacket, the Siamese cat and witch's familiar in the romantic-comedy play and film Bell, Book and Candle
- Rhubarb, a cat that inherits a professional baseball team from its owner, in the 1951 film Rhubarb, based on the novel by satirist and parodist, H. Allen Smith
- Simba, Nala, Mufasa, Scar, Sarabi, Sarafina and other lions in Disney's The Lion King
- Snowbell, the cat in the film version of Stuart Little
- Tao, a Himalayan cat in the 1963 film The Incredible Journey (named "Sassy" in the 1993 remake)
- Thackery Binx, the boy-turned-black-cat in Hocus Pocus
- The unnamed cat that Don Corleone has in his lap in the first scenes in The Godfather
- Zoom, in Tim Wynne-Jones's series of children's books, e.g. Zoom at Sea (ISBN 0-88899-021-9)
- Thomasina, the orange tabby cat who dies and comes back (a couple of times) in "The Three Lives Of Thomasina," a 1964 Disney film.
Cats and felines in television
- Annabelle and Eek from Eek!stravaganza
- The Cat, character descended from cats played by Danny John-Jules in BBC TV sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf (see Frankenstein, below)
- Cagney, Elisa's cat in Disney's Gargoyles
- "Clarence, the cross-eyed Lion" from the TV series Daktari
- Frankenstein, the pregnant cat Lister sneaks onboard the Red Dwarf
- Henrietta cat and Daniel Tiger from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
- Iris, Catwoman's cat in Batman, the Animated Series
- The killer kitties of The X-Files "Teso dos Bichos" episode
- Kit (later human Katrina), the Halliwell witch-sisters' familiar in Charmed
- 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
- Meow Mix Cat, commercial mascot for Meow Mix cat food.
- 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 " ", an unseen character and the source of many innuendoes in Are You Being Served?
- Neelix, Lieutenant Reginald Barclay's cat, from Star Trek: Voyager
- Spot, pet cat of Data, from Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Prince Myshkin, in the episode, "Stray Cat," from Noir (named after the main character in Dostoevsky's The Idiot).
- Salem, talking black cat from the TV series (and comic book) Sabrina the Teenage Witch
- Sizzle, a pet cat puppet on The Puzzle Place
- Tony the Tiger, commercial spokestiger for the breakfast cereals Frosted Flakes and Frosties
Cats and felines in animation, comics and puppetry
- Apathy Kat
- Atilla, the cat in the comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm
- Azrael, pet of Gargamel on the TV show The Smurfs
- Bagpuss, British TV cat
- Battlecat (aka Cringer) of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
- Baudelaire in Phantom 2040 (obviously named after the French poet)
- 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
- Binka and friends.
- Black Pete, Disney cartoon character, originally the nemesis of Mickey Mouse then Goofy
- Buchi, the cat in RahXephon
- Bucky Katt, cartoon cat from Get Fuzzy comic strip
- Buyo, Kagome's family's pet cat in InuYasha
- Captain Amelia, humanoid feline in Disney's Treasure Planet
- Catastrophe, villain in Spy Dogs
- Catbert, the evil human resources director in the Dilbert comic strip
- The Catbus, a living cat with the size, shape, and function of a bus, in the anime My Neighbor Totoro
- CatDog, star of the Nickelodeon TV show of the same name. See also List of fictional dogs
- Cat Jacob, a Swiss cat who provides his readers with a humourous little philosophical "poke" along their way.
- The Cattanooga Cats, singing group from Hanna-Barbera animated series
- Cat Town, a web-based 'show' by R. Noyes starring cats from CatPrin (http://www.petoffice.co.jp/catprin/english/), a Japanese tailor for felines.
- Chaos, a Muppet cat on Sesame Park
- Chester, Minnie the Minx's cat in the British Beano comic
- Choo-Choo Bear, the boneless and oozy pet cat of Davan, in the Something Positive (http://www.somethingpositive.net/index.html) comic
- Chubby Huggs, oversized, overaffectionate cartoon cat from Get Fuzzy comic strip
- Claude Cat, Looney Tunes character
- Courageous Cat, superhero friend of sidekick Minute Mouse
- Custard, nemesis of Roobarb in the BBC cartoon series
- Cyborg Kuro-chan, a robotic cat who is a spoof on Astro Boy
- Danny, the main character in the movie Cats Don't Dance
- Diego and the other sabertooth cats in Ice Age
- Doraemon, a feline robot from future. From Japanese cartoon and animation series of the same title.
- Evil The Cat (and occasionally a reverse clone, Good The Cat), one of the numerous nemeses of Earthworm Jim
- Fat Cat, chief nemesis of the rodent heroes of Chip and Dale: Rescue Rangers
- 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
- Furrball the Scaredy Cat; Tiny Toon Adventures character
- Gaffer, backstage cat on The Muppet Show
- From the comic strip, Garfield:
- Cast of animated film Gay Purr-ee
- A Gata e O Gato (the female and the male cat), a couple in the comics by Laerte Coutinho
- Gatomon, from Digimon. Although not technically a cat, she does appears and act like one.
- Heathcliff, comic strip character
- Hello Kitty, popular Japanese character marketed extensively by Sanrio
- Henry's Cat
- Hobbes, Calvin's pet stuffed tiger from the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
- Horse, the invincible tomcat from the comic strip Footrot Flats, by Murray Ball
- Jess, the eponymous Postman Pat's black and white cat of the title song in the BBC children's TV series
- Jiji, the black cat in Kiki's Delivery Service
- Mr. Jinks, featured with mice nemeses Pixie and Dixie in Hanna-Barbera's Huckleberry Hound Show
- Kimba the White Lion
- Kirara in InuYasha
- Konyako, a teenaged catgirl in the anime Edens Bowy, she is the niece of Miss Nyako, dictator of Yuneas. Konyako's name is a contraction of "Koneko" (Japanese for "kitten") and "Nya" (Japanese for "meow").
- Kuroneko-sama from the anime Trigun. Roughly translated, the name simply means Lord Black Cat.
- Krazy Kat, surreal cartoon by George Herriman
- Kyou, boy who transforms into a cat in the anime/manga series Fruits Basket
- Lucifer, the cat in Disney's Cinderella.
- Luna, Artemis and Diana in Sailor Moon
- Madcat, Dr. Claw's pet, from cartoon series Inspector Gadget
- Meowth in Pokémon and its evolved form Persian.
- Miss Nyako, a tuxedo-wearing catgirl who is the dictator of robot town Yuneas in anime Edens Bowy. Her name is a contraction of "Nya" (Japanese for "meow") and "Neko" (Japanese for "cat").
- Meruru, the feline character in Tenkuu no Escaflowne
- Nero, a fluffy white caterpillar (but does the role of a cat), pet of the villainous toad Silas Greenback, from the cartoon series Danger Mouse—a spoof of Blofeld's cat (see above)
- Nuku Nuku which is an android created in an effort to safe a dying pet cat
- 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
- Plottigat, Disney cartoon character, an evil mad scientist who is an enemy of Mickey Mouse
- Puar, a flying, shapeshifting cat from the Dragon Ball manga and anime
- foot, Looney Tunes character
- Ragland T. Tiger, aka Rags, on Crusader Rabbit
- Rajah, the pet tiger in Aladdin
- Rhonda, a tiger in Kevin and Kell
- Rita, part of the cat-dog couple Rita and Runt in Animaniacs
- Rubbish, the star of Rubbish, King of the Jumble.
- Ruff, of Hanna-Barbera's Ruff and Reddy
- The Samurai Pizza Cats, cartoon characters
- Scrapper, the one-eyed cat of Mrs. Wicket in the 2002 Mr. Bean animated series.
- Scratchy in The Itchy & Scratchy Show, the show-within-a-show on The Simpsons
- Sagwa and friends, Siamese cats
- Shampoo, girl who transforms into a cat in the anime/manga series Ranma 1/2
- Si and Am, the sinister and mischievous Siamese cats owned by Aunt Sarah in the film Lady and the Tramp
- Snagglepuss, Hanna-Barbera TV cartoon character
- Snowball (white) (deceased) and Snowball II (black), The Simpsons' house cats
- Solange from 9 Chickweed Lane
- Spider Jerusalem's two-headed chain-smoking alley cat, from Transmetropolitan
- Stimpy, from the cartoon series Ren and Stimpy
- Streaky the Supercat, from Supergirl comics
- SWAT Kats characters T-Bone, Razor, Calico Briggs, and other residents of MegaCat City
- Sylvester the Cat; Warner Bros. cartoon character
- Sylvester Jr; Sylvester's Son
- Tabbe Le Fauve from the furry comic book, Xanadu
- The Thundercats, cartoon characters who are feline humanoid aliens
- Tom, from the cartoon series Tom and Jerry
- Toonces, the driving cat (from Saturday Night Live)
- Top Cat and his band of alley cats, Hanna-Barbera TV cartoon characters
- Twisp, from Penny Arcade. Not to be confused with Catsby, Twisp's imp counterpart.
- Ura in El-Hazard
- Wannyan (a.k.a. Bow-Meow), the half-dog half-cat alien baby-sitter from the anime UFO Baby (a.k.a. Da! Da! Da!)
- Wildcat, Donald Rooum's anarchist cat, featured in Freedom newspaper
- Winston, the Janitor's cat in the Beano comic strip The Bash Street Kids
- WWII ("World War II"), the infamous "cat next door" that keeps scratching up Snoopy's doghouse in Peanuts
Cats in electronic/video games
- Alley Cat
- Big the Cat, from Sonic Adventure.
- Red XIII, from Final Fantasy VII
- Cait Sith, from Final Fantasy VII
- Blaze the Cat, from Sonic Rush
- Bubsy Bobcat
- Catz, in the Petz virtual pets game.
- Gina, the weaponsmith in Revenant from Eidos Interactive and Cinematix
- Links, an Office Assistant in Microsoft Office
- Tango, in the Game Boy game Mega Man V/Rockman World 5
- Meowth, from Pokemon
- Persian, Meowth's evolved form from Pokemon
- Skitty, from Pokemon
- Delcatty, Skitty's evolved form from Pokemon
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
Cats and felines on the Internet and in IT
- Mittens and Snowdrop, animated cats which star in a series of humorous animations at matazone.co.uk
- Neko, one of the first animated "screen toys," which "slept" on the screen and woke up when one moved the mouse, chasing the mouse cursor.
- Several Neopets characters resemble cats.
- The Mona mascots (including Giko Cat), starring in 2Channel.
See also
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