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

Cats and felines in literature

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

Cats and felines in animation, comics and puppetry

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.

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