List of fictional cats

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 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
• The Cowardly Lion[?], from the Wizard of Oz series.
• 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)
• Joseph the feline detective in the novels Felidae and Felidae on the Road by Akif Pirincci[?]
• 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[?]
• 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).
• The Owl's fiancée in Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussy-Cat

Cats in Film

• 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
• 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[?]
• Snowbell[?], the cat in Stuart Little

Cats in Television

• The Cat, character descended from cats played by Danny John-Jules[?] on BBC TV sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf (see Frankenstein)
• 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
• Tony the Tiger[?], commercial spokestiger for breakfast food
• Salem, talking black cat from TV series (and comic book) Sabrina the Teenage Witch

Cats in Animation, Comics, Puppetry

• 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
• Choo-Choo Bear, the boneless and oozy pet cat of Davan, in the Something Positive (http://www.somethingpositive.net/index) comic
• 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
• Krazy Kat, surreal cartoon by George Herriman
• 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
• 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) and Snowball II (black), The Simpsons house cat
• 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.

• "Cat Black, the Wizard's Hat" by T. Rex
• "I Am Your Pussy" by Gong

Cats in Science

• Schr�dinger's cat, hapless victim (or lucky survivor) of a thought experiment by Erwin Schr�dinger illustrating the incompleteness of the theory of quantum mechanics (although Schr�dinger himself is historical, the cat is the protagonist in a thought experiment and thus fictional)

Related Topics

• List of historical cats
• List of fictional animals