List of fictional felines

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

Legendary, Mythological and Fairytale Cats

• Bast, Egyptian god with the head of a cat
• The cat was the animal of Libera, Roman personification of Liberty
• Puss in Boots
• Dick Whittington's Cat

Cats in Literature

• The Cowardly Lion, from the Wizard of Oz series.
• Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot, including Macavity, the mystery cat, source of the musical Cats.
• "The Black Cat" in Edgar Allan Poe's short story, a study of the psychology of guilt
• The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
• 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.
• The Cat Who Walks Through Walls in Robert A. Heinlein's novel of the same name.
• The Cheshire Cat in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, based on the folk saying, "grinning like a Cheshire cat"
• Clarence the Copy Cat, pacifist library-dwelling cat who sleeps on the photocopier
• Dinah, Alice's pet cat, from Lewis Caroll's Alice in Wonderland
• Greebo (in Terry Pratchett novels: see Discworld characters)
• 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
• Upgraded cats in Reginald Bretnor's "Genius of the Species" take over the Soviet Union

Cats in Film

• Blofeld's unnamed cat from the James Bond movies, which has inspired a number of imitations and spoofs (see Mr Bigglesworth, Madcat, and Nero)
• Mr. Bigglesworth, Dr. Evil's cat from the Austin Powers films, in homage to the unnamed cat of Bond's Blofeld
• Pink Panther, movie eponym, cartoon character

Cats in Television

• Bagpuss, British TV cat
• The Cat, character descended from cats played by Danny John-Jules on BBC TV sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf (see Frankenstein)
• Frankenstein, the pregnant tom 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
• Morris, commercial mascot for 9 Lives Cat Food, voiced by John Irwin
• 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 Sabrina the Teenaged Witch

Animation, Comics, Puppetry

• 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
• CatDog, star of the Nickelodeon TV show of the same name. See also List of fictional dogs
• Courageous Cat, superhero friend of sidekick Minute Mouse
• Doraemon, a feline robot from future. From Japanese cartoon & animation series of the same title.
• Custard nemesis of Roobard 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
• Heathcliff, comic strip character
• Henry's Cat
• Hobbes, Calvin's pet stuffed tiger from the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
• Jess, the cat in the BBC children's TV series Postman Pat
• Krazy Kat, surreal cartoon by George Herriman
• Madcat, The Claw's pet, from cartoon series Inspector Gadget
• Nero, a white caterpillar, pet of the villainous toad Silas Greenback, from the cartoon series Danger Mouse
• Oggy, from Oggy and the Cockroaches
• Pink Panther, movie eponym, cartoon character
• The Samurai Pizza Cats, cartoon characters
• Scratchy from the fictional show within a show Itchy and Scratchy in The Simpsons
• Snagglepuss, Hanna-Barbera TV cartoon character
• Snowball (white) and Snowball_II (black), The Simpsons house cat
• Solange from 9 Chickweed Lane
• Peekaboo from Rose is Rose
• Stimpy, from the cartoon series Ren_and_Stimpy
• Sylvester the cat, Warner Bros. cartoon character
• Tom, from the cartoon series Tom and Jerry
• Top Cat, Hanna-Barbera TV cartoon character
• The Thundercats, cartoon characters
• Wildcat, Donald Rooum's anarchist cat, featured in Freedom newspaper

Cats in Science

• Schrödinger's cat, hapless victim (or lucky survivor) of a thought experiment illustrating the incompleteness of the theory of quantum mechanics
• Trim, beloved ship's cat of explorer Matthew Flinders, said to be the first cat to circumnavigate the world

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.

See also: List of fictional dogs