List of fictional cats

Cats and other felines have often been used as characters in literature and in other forms of media.

Table of contents

1 Legendary, mythological and fairytale cats 2 Cats and felines in literature 3 Cats and felines in film 4 Cats and felines in television 5 Cats and felines in animation, comics and puppetry 6 Cats in computer games 7 Cats in song 8 Cats in science 9 See also

Legendary, mythological and fairytale cats

• Bast (or Bastet), Egyptian goddess with the head of a cat; see also Sekhmet, Bast's guise as the goddess of lions
• The cat was the animal of Libera, the Roman mythological personification of Liberty, because it hates to be constrained
• Puss in Boots
• Dick Whittington's Cat

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
• 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

• Alleycat

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.

• "Cat Black, the Wizard's Hat" by T. Rex
• "I Am Your Pussy" by Gong
• "Tommy the Cat" by Primus
• "What's New, Pussycat?" by Tom Jones
• "Year of the Cat" by Al Stewart
• the unnamed cat in "Nobody's Moggy Now", by Eric Bogle

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 called Shrodinger's Kittens.

See also

• List of historical cats
• List of fictional animals