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A 200lb rat? Come on.--Cuchullain 17:22, August 5, 2005 (UTC)
"Rodents of unusual size"? Nice "Princess Bride" reference there. Batsofdoom «talk» 21:16, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
pssst . . . ROUS are already mentioned in the article -- The Red Pen of Doom 00:15, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I don't believe they exist. 63.87.189.17 (talk) 23:21, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Love the image. Is that Santa Rat? 86.184.15.105 (talk) 16:47, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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The following information was removed after this page was converted to a disambiguation page (derived from [1]). Northamerica1000(talk) 06:53, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The Stephen KinganthologyNight Shift contains a 1970 short story, Graveyard Shift, made into a 1990 movie of the same name, which climaxes with the revelation of a giant rat.
A giant rat is discovered lurking in the London sewers in the "Gnaws" episode of the 1976 British television series The New Avengers..
In the 1996 Jet Li film Dr. Wai and the Scripture Without Words (冒險王 = Adventure King) a giant mutant rat (frequently mistaken as some sort of marsupial) is encountered in the basement of a 1930s era Shanghai newspaper and complications ensue.
Giant rats are enemies in the Fallout videogame series, grown by centuries of mutation. They appear in every game but Fallout 3 which instead are replaced by Giant Mole rats. The rats come in varieties of "Small, Big, Giant Rat, Giant Rat Pup, Rodent of unusual Size, and Unusually large sized rodent"
Giant rats star as heroes in "Rat Movie: Mystery of the Mayan Treasure" and "Rat Movie 2: The Movie". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:380:8103:4F31:88BD:2325:7069:32B7 (talk) 21:31, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]