fiction.wikisort.org - Character

Scrat is a fictional character in the Ice Age franchise. He is a saber-toothed squirrel who is obsessed with collecting acorns, constantly putting his life in danger to obtain and defend them. Scrat's storylines are mostly independent of those of the Herd, though the two do intersect at times.

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. (February 2022) This article may be written from a fan's point of view, rather than a neutral point of view. (April 2022)

Scrat
Ice Age character
First appearance	Ice Age (2002)
Created by	Chris Wedge
Designed by	Peter de Sève
Voiced by	Chris Wedge
In-universe information
Species	Cronopio dentiacutus
Gender	Male
Family	Baby Scrat (son)
Significant other	Scratte (Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs)
Eyes	Gold
Fur	Yellowish-brown and gray with white underbelly

Scrat is voiced in all Ice Age feature films and short films by director Chris Wedge, only directly interacting with the story's main characters on eight occasions, mostly with Sid. In a special feature in the second film's DVD, his name has been stated to be a mix of the words "chipmunk" and "rat", his species allegedly believed to have been a common ancestor of both. In the Ice Age DVD commentary, he is referred to as "The Scrat" by directors Wedge and Carlos Saldanha.

The character served as the mascot to his co-animation studio, Blue Sky Studios, until its closure.

Concept and creation

The true origin of Scrat's design is unclear. Initially, Chris Wedge claimed that the character was created by illustrator Peter de Sève in late 1999 while crafting a clay model, and that the name emerged naturally from the hybrid of squirrel and rat. However, in 2009, screenwriter Michael J. Wilson stated a conflicting claim that his 3-year-old daughter Flora came up with the idea for Scrat, as well as the name itself.[1]

Furthermore, fashion designer Ivy Supersonic has claimed since 2002 that she had initially created the character, then called "Sqrat", and the idea was stolen from her by 20th Century Fox rather than pay her royalties. Internal documents showed that within Blue Sky Studios, the character's name was changed from "Sqrat" to "Scrat". She ultimately settled with Disney, which had purchased Blue Sky Studios, for the "Sqrat" trademark, but failed to stop Scrat from appearing in future Disney works despite the names being phonetically equivalent.[1]

In Ice Age: Scrat Tales, during the interview, Michael Knapp added that as a result, they had to remodel Scrat by re-furring, re-materializing and re-rigging the character.[2] He was portrayed by Chris Wedge.[3]

Fictional character biography

Ice Age

In Ice Age, Scrat first attacks Sid when the latter tries to eat his acorn, successfully regaining it. He later meets Manny, Sid, and Diego with a human baby Roshan. Manny asks Scrat where the baby's family is and Scrat attempts to tell them about nearby saber-toothed tigers, but Diego kicks Scrat away before he could do so.

Ice Age: The Meltdown

In Ice Age: The Meltdown, after Scrat creates a hole in the valley and released all the melted ice, later attacks Sid for saving his life (when he had already almost died and gone to paradise and was about to get a giant acorn).

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

In Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Scrat is stepped on by Manny and falls onto Sid's head while chasing his acorn. Next, he appears when Sid's "children" are batting a ball around, the ball actually being Scrat. Also, when Scratte rips off his fur, he screams so loud the herd can hear him, causing Crash and Eddie to deem the place a "Jungle of Misery". Lastly, while Diego is sleeping, he wakes up when he gets hit with Scrat's acorn.

Ice Age: Continental Drift

In Ice Age: Continental Drift, Scrat is taken hostage by Captain Gutt and his crew at the same time as Manny, Sid and Diego, eventually escaping once the ship sinks. Sid pries open a clam, he finds Scrat inside. Granny mistakes Scrat for a rat and continuously hits him with her cane until he falls into the ocean.

Ice Age: Collision Course

In Ice Age: Collision Course, Scrat accidentally launches several deadly meteors to Earth after an attempt to bury his acorn leads to him taking control of a UFO.

Short films

Scrat is the main character in four short films. In the first, Gone Nutty, he loses his collection of acorns in a catastrophic chain of events. He jams his acorn into a hole in the middle of the collection, which shatters the pile and with it the entire continent – which begins the continental drift.^{[citation needed]} In the second film, No Time for Nuts, Scrat finds a time machine left by a time-traveler and visits several historical events. He becomes trapped in a frightening future when oak trees have become extinct but somehow manages to return to the series' time period.^{[citation needed]}

A third short film, Scrat's Continental Crack-up, was released in 2010 accompanying the feature Gulliver's Travels, and later with Rio as a promotion for Ice Age: Continental Drift.[4]

A fourth short film, Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe, was released in 2015, preceding the theatrical release of The Peanuts Movie.^{[citation needed]} Another short film, Scrat: Spaced Out was released in 2016 on home media with Collision Course.^{[citation needed]}

Scrat Tales

In Ice Age: Scrat Tales, it was announced when a plush for the character of Scrat's son was also unveiled via Just Play Products' website, with the second image featuring a blue tag containing the logo for Scrat Tales, although the listing was retitled under The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild to promote the new spin-off film.[5] On February 22, 2022, it was announced that the Scrat Tales would release on Disney+ on April 13, 2022.[6]

Other appearances

Scrat is the main character in the Ice Age: The Meltdown video game on the console versions. He is also a playable character in Ice Age: Scrat's Nutty Adventure.^{[citation needed]}

Starting with the 2013 film Epic, Scrat would go on to become the mascot of Blue Sky Studios and was featured in their production logo up until the studio's final film Spies in Disguise.^{[citation needed]}

Scrat makes a cameo appearance in the Family Guy episode "Sibling Rivalry", in a cutaway gag in which Peter Griffin says Scrat's nuts are his, leading Scrat to attack Peter.^{[citation needed]} Scrat additionally has a cameo appearance in Surviving Sid.^{[citation needed]}

Scrat appears on a poster in the South Park episode, "Cartoon Wars Part II".

Scrat makes a cameo appearance in The Simpsons episode "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind", in which is trying to catch an acorn off a tree, but is beaten and swatted away by Groundskeeper Willie. He also appears in the episode "Treehouse of Horror XXVI".

A picture of Scrat appears in the Disney 2022 film Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers.

Scrat was also on Cartoon Network parody series called Mad, in Outtagascar.

Relationships

This section possibly contains original research. (April 2022)

Acorns

Scrat constantly hunts for his acorn either to bury it or eat it, but fate always gets in the way. He invariably ends up in humorous or painful situations: being struck by lightning, pursued by avalanches, and repeatedly knocked unconscious while fighting for his acorn, yet he never gives up. Scrat generally loses, except when he defeats a school of piranhas and beats up Sid. The consequences of his actions have set up the main plot points for most of the Ice Age films. As shown in the first film, Scrat will never get an acorn as he's seen frozen for 20.000 years until the future.

Scratte

Scratte (pronounced "Scrat-tay") is a seductive female saber-toothed flying squirrel that makes her debut in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. She is seen in the second trailer with Scrat battling with her for the acorn by propelling themselves down a gorge to reach the fallen acorn, and succeeding. Scratte is also seen as a love interest for Scrat. She is voiced by Karen Disher.

Scratte's personality traits have been shown to be flirtatious, feisty, and intelligent. She is equally determined in catching the acorn and uses her feminine wiles to her advantage. She doesn't, however, seem to be nearly as obsessed with acorns as her male counterpart, as she was shown trying to destroy the acorn at the end of the film out of jealousy. Scratte will often injure and manipulate Scrat in the process of retrieving it. However, her attraction to him is implied and fully emerged when he saved her from falling into lava.

In the fourth film, Scratte appeared again in a cameo role as a Siren only to then be dismissed by a disinterested Scrat. In addition, tons of her species live on Scratlantis.[7]

Baby Scrat

Baby Scrat is a small, neckless brown squirrel that makes his debut in Ice Age: Scrat Tales. He's the illegitimate son of Scrat and Scratte. He often does some good bonding with his father, but the acorn often ruins the moment. They often go on adventures through the tundra.[6] He is voiced by Kari Wahlgren.[3]

Reception

Some books like The Secret Life of Movies rated Scrat as one of the most popular Ice Age characters.[8]

Legacy

While initially created as a fictional species for comedic purposes, in 2011 a mammal quite similar to Scrat was described. The newly described taxon, Cronopio dentiacutus was not a squirrel, and did not live in the Cenozoic; it belonged to the dryolestoids, a group of mammals thought to be closely related to therians, and it lived approximately 100 million years ago in Patagonia.[9] The precedence of the animated character to the discovery of the real animal is an example of what is known as the "Dim Effect".[10]

Controversy

On February 13, 2002, Ivy Supersonic filed a lawsuit against Fox, claiming that she had created the character in May 1999, after seeing a squirrel-rat hybrid in Skidmore College's Case Green, and intended it to be "the next Mickey Mouse". She called her character "Sqrat" and pitched it to numerous celebrities and studios from 1999 to 2001, although she was unwilling to accept the $50,000 deal she was offered by Urban Box Office Network for a web series, believing the character to be worth "seven figures". She passed on any subsequent potential deals to use the character, until realizing in November 2001 that Ice Age had a similar character named Scrat, and believed the studio had stolen her idea.[1] A CNN report by Jeanne Moos of Ivy's discovery was aired in 2000, two years before Ice Age was released. Supersonic claims the studio's own documents actually identified the character in Ice Age as "Sqrat", though her creation was not saber-toothed.[1] Internal Blue Sky Studios emails obtained by Business Insider support her claims, showing that the name "Sqrat" was "all over the computer files" for the movie until the character's name was changed partway through development, and that a technical director had argued that the name should be returned to "Sqrat".[1]

Supersonic was offered a $300,000 settlement by Fox. She turned it down and subsequently lost in court. The case later went to appeal (Case # 04401 Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, NYC). Supersonic still had hopes of receiving damages for her claimed infringement.[1] She did win a partial summary judgment from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board in a reverse suit, Fox Entertainment Group, Inc. and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation v. Ivy Silberstein (her real name), in which Fox had tried to prevent her from registering the trademark "SQRAT".[11] In 2022, the absence of the character from The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild sparked rumors that Disney had completely lost the trademark dispute,[12][13] with critics unhappy about Scrat's omission from the film.[14][15] This was later shown not to be the case, as Scrat Tales was released in 2022 directly featuring the character.[6]

See also

• List of Ice Age characters
• Cronopio (mammal)

References

External links

• Official character page (current)
  • Official character page (former)
• Scrat at Blue Sky Studios
• Ice Age: Scrat's Nutty Adventure

На других языках

---

- [en] Scrat

---

[es] Scrat (Ice Age)

Scrat es un personaje de la franquicia Ice Age. (Ice Age, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Ice Age: Continental Drift y Ice Age: Collision Course). También fue la mascota principal de Blue Sky Studios gracias a su popularidad y por ser el personaje estrella de la franquicia de Ice Age. . [1]

---

[fr] Scrat

Scrat est un écureuil de fiction qui apparaît dans la série de films d'animation L'Âge de glace. Il apparaît également dans plusieurs courts-métrages qui lui sont consacrés.

---

[it] Scrat

Scrat è un personaggio immaginario, è uno dei principali personaggi della serie cinematografica L'era glaciale. È uno scoiattolo dai denti a sciabola che appare in tutti i film e cortometraggi della saga ed è doppiato da Chris Wedge (in realtà non parla, ma emette squittii e urla). Partorito dalla mente di Michael J. Wilson e sua figlia Flora, Scrat inizialmente doveva essere solo un cameo nel primo film, ma venne amato così tanto dal pubblico che gli vennero assegnate altre scene.

---

[ru] Скрат

Скрат (англ. Scrat, читается «Скрэт») — персонаж серии полнометражных анимационных фильмов «Ледниковый период» студии Blue Sky Studios, «саблезубая крысобелка» мужского пола, одержимая страстью к желудям. Помимо эпизодических появлений в «Ледниковом периоде» и его продолжениях, Скрат является главным героем четырёх короткометражных анимационных фильмов «Потерянный орех», «Не время для орехов», «Скрат и континентальный излом» и «Ледниковый период: Гигантское Рождество», также выпущенных студией Blue Sky Studios. Во всех фильмах Скрата озвучивал режиссёр Крис Уэдж.

---

---