Scrat

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Scrat
Ice Age character
Scrat Ice Age.png
First appearance Ice Age (2002)
Last appearanceThe End (2022)
Voiced byChris Wedge
In-universe information
SpeciesSaber tooth squirrel (fictitious)
GenderMale
FamilyBaby Scrat (adopted son)
Significant other Scratte
EyesGold
FurYellowish-brown and gray with white underbelly

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.

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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 "squirrel" 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 in 2021.

Concept and creation

Chris Wedge, the voice of Scrat, director of Ice Age and co-founder of Blue Sky Studios. Chris Wedge 2014.jpg
Chris Wedge, the voice of Scrat, director of Ice Age and co-founder of Blue Sky Studios.

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 that she had initially created a character in 1999, 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] The copyright to "Scrat" was granted to Fox. [2]

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. [3] He was portrayed by Chris Wedge. [4]

Fictional character biography

Ice Age

In the first film, 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 the second film, 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 the third film, Scrat is stepped on by Manny and falls onto Sid's head while chasing an 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 the fourth film, 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 the fifth film, Scrat accidentally launches several deadly meteors to Earth after an attempt to bury an 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 an 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 the animated feature film Rio as a promotion for Ice Age: Continental Drift. [5]

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 Ice Age: Collision Course .[ citation needed ]

Scrat Tales

Ice Age: Scrat Tales was initially announced when a plush toy of Scrat's son was unveiled on Just Play Products' website. The listing was retitled with The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild to promote the new spin-off film. [6] On February 22, 2022, it was announced that the Scrat Tales would release on Disney+ on April 13, 2022. [7]

Other appearances

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

Starting with the 2013 film Epic , Scrat would 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 he tries to catch an acorn from 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 on an ice cream container inside Chip's fridge in the Disney 2022 film Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers .

Scrat was on Cartoon Network's parody series called Mad , in the skits "Extreme Renovation: House Edition", "Captain American't", "Outtagascar", and "MAD of Steel".

In 2024 Scrat was added in the video game Disney Magic Kingdoms as a playable character to unlock for a limited time. [8]

The End

On April 13, 2022—the same day that Scrat Tales was released—a 35-second long video titled "The End" was posted on YouTube by a user simply named "Finale". This short ended the infamous running gag with Scrat finally achieving his dream of eating an acorn. He then scurries off-screen. The short was reportedly the final piece of animation made by Blue Sky Studios before their closure in 2021, made by a small team of animators to serve as "a send off on [their] own terms." The video is currently unlisted. [9] [10]

Relationships

Acorns

Scrat constantly hunts for acorns, 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. The consequences of his actions have set up the main plot points for most of the Ice Age films.

Scratte

Scratte (pronounced "Scrat-tay") is a female saber-toothed flying squirrel that makes her debut in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs . She is voiced by Karen Disher.

After their first meeting, she begins battling Scrat for an acorn, often with success. Scratte's personality traits have been shown to be flirtatious, feisty, and intelligent. She is equally determined in obtaining 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 is shown trying to destroy the acorn at the end of the film out of jealousy. Scratte often injures and manipulates Scrat in the process of retrieving it. However, her attraction to him is implied and fully emerges when he saves her from falling into lava. However, Scrat ultimately chooses the acorn over her, causing a fight which leads to him losing both the acorn and Scratte.

In the fourth film, Scratte appears again in a cameo role as a Siren only to then be dismissed by a disinterested Scrat. In addition, many of her species live on Scratlantis. [11]

Baby Scrat

Baby Scrat is a small, neckless brown squirrel that makes his debut in Ice Age: Scrat Tales. He bonds with Scrat, but the acorn often ruins the moment. [7] He is voiced by Kari Wahlgren. [4]

Reception

The Secret Life of Movies rated Scrat as one of the most popular Ice Age characters. [12]

Drew Friday cited Scrat as the reason for the success of the Ice Age films, praising the Looney Tunes-esque scenes. However, he criticized the filmmakers making Scrat into a endless comedy joke. He commented negatively on the conclusion to the Scrat and Scratte subplot in the third film, of which he said "played for laughs but comes across as mean-spirted. 'Scrat abandons his desires for love, and for a time he is happy and unpunished. But the pull of the acorn proves too much for him to resist, and he turns his back on love. And he is punished", arguing that it is made more frustrating by the fact that Scratte never made another appearance in the series: "Cut the final few minutes from 'Dawn of the dinosaurs' and imagine what a finale that would have been!" [13]

Legacy

While initially created as a fictional species for comedic purposes, in 2011 mammal skulls superficially similar to Scrat were discovered. The newly described taxon, Cronopio dentiacutus, was not a squirrel, and did not live in the Cenozoic; it belonged to the Meridiolestida, a group of mammals thought to be closely related to therians, and it lived approximately 100 million years ago during the mid-Cretaceous in Patagonia. [14]

In 2019, the Triassic cynodont Pseudotherium argentines (which lived 231 million years ago) was identified, catching attention for its similarity to Scrat. [15]

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 the 2002 film 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 remain "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". [16]

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, [17] [18] with critics unhappy about Scrat's omission from the film. [19] [20] This was later shown not to be the case, as Scrat Tales was released in 2022 directly featuring the character. [7]

See also

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