Scrat

Scrat is the iconic main character and the mascot of the Ice Age franchise. He is an acorn-obsessed saber-toothed squirrel.
He is voiced by director Chris Wedge.
== Appearance ==
Scrat is a saber-tooth squirrel with a gray bushy tail, pink thumbs and toes, sharp teeth, short furry ears, and a gray torso.
== Personality ==
Scrat is a squirrel who is totally obsessed with acorns, however he never manages to achieve one and instead causes himself massive physical pain. Scrat is also responsible for several important occurrences in the Paleolithic ice age such as Pangea and the formation of Death Valley. Scrat's uncontrollable desire for acorns has proven to be very self-destructive, and to everyone around him, even destroying an entire civilization of Scratlantis.
== History ==
=== Ice Age ===
Scrat attempts to find a place to store his acorn for the winter. Eventually, as he tries to stomp it into the ground, he inadvertently causes a large crack to form in the ice that extends for miles before setting off a large avalanche which nearly crushes him. He barely escapes but finds himself getting stepped on by a herd of prehistoric animals migrating south in order to escape the forthcoming ice age.
20,000 years later, Scrat, frozen in a block of ice, ends up on the shores of a tropical island. As the ice slowly melts, an acorn that was also frozen in the same ice block is washed away, to his horror. Scrat then finds a coconut and tries stomp it into the ground, only to mistakenly trigger a volcanic eruption.
=== Ice Age: The Meltdown ===
Scrat climbs up the glacier and at the top sticks the acorn he has into the ice. This forms a crack in the glacier, which widens into a fissure, diverting the flood and saving the animals in the valley; Scrat is then washed away.
=== Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs ===
He has been fighting with Scratte for the acorn.
=== Ice Age: Continental Drift ===
Scrat inadvertently causes the break up of Pangaea, which also costs the animals their home and (with the land bridge destroyed,) travel to the land where Manny, Sid, Diego, and Granny found themselves in when they were separated.
Scrat sees a clam open up revealing Scratte he made a loving look but turned her down and the siren turned into a acorn which grabbed his attention which made him run up to the clam to hug it before the siren changed its form Scrat starts to jump on it a lot of times killing the siren when more sirens come up from the ocean he saw it dead and the sirens were angry starting hissing at him and take the form of more acorns and gets attacked but he manages to get away.
In the film's epilogue, Scrat discovers the island on the map, known as Scratlantis (a parody of Atlantis), but his uncontrollable urge to hunt acorns in the acorn-rich city inadvertently causes the entire island to sink when he unplugs an acorn drain holder; Scrat is then ejected into a newly created desert landscape, through which he screams.
=== Ice Age: Collision Course ===
Scrat is once again trying to bury his acorn but accidentally activates an abandoned alien ship that takes him into deep space, where he unwittingly sends several asteroids en route to a collision with Earth including one of them that threatens all life on Earth.
In the film's epilogue, Scrat keeps struggling to control the alien ship until it crashes on Mars, destroying all life on the planet.
In a mid-credits scene, Scrat finds his acorn, but gets beaten by some doors.
=== Scrat: Spaced Out ===
This mini movie serves as deleted scenes from Ice Age: Collision Course. It starts in the events of the film.
When Scrat is preparing to go back to Earth, he gets captured by female alien saber-toothed squirrels from a species named Scratazon. The leader of the aliens gets his acorn, but she is surprised by Scrat and ends up dropping it. The leader orders the other aliens to kill Scrat and tries to leave, stealing his acorn.
Scrat uses a tractor beam to recover his acorn, but the leader of the aliens uses one too. They engage in a tug of war until the nutrogen of the acorn breaks causing the nut to blow up. The explosion destroys the ship and forms a black hole that starts to suck everything. Scrat jumps the debris and manages to get his acorn, just to be sucked by the black hole.
However, Scrat gets spit out from the black hole with his acorn and prepares to eat it, unluckily the black hole opens again and sucks his acorn, leaving Scrat to be stranded in space while screaming in frustration.
=== Ice Age: Scrat's Nutty Adventure ===
In this game, Scrat appears as the playable character and protagonist.
Scrat is searching for a new acorn and founds out about the existence of Cristals acorns. He starts to search them and fights with Manny, Sid and Diego's old enemies like Maelstrom and Cretaceous, Carl and Frank and Rudy, he even has to fight a giant pterodattile. At the end he enters in a temple and gets kidnapped by another spaceship which reveals to be commanded by a Scratazon.
=== Ice Age: Scrat Tales ===
He returns from space.
=== Epilogue ===
Scrat finds his acorn and hops over to it to shove it into the ground, but then has a second thought and realizes that no one is around to steal it from him, so he eats the acorn instead, leaving only its cap before hopping away.
== Relationships ==
TBA
== Controversy ==
The origin of Scrat is disputed. Cartoon designer Ivy Supersonic claims she created the character in 1999, after seeing a squirrel-rat hybrid in New York City's Central Park. She called her character "Sqrat" and says she presented the idea to 20th Century Fox movie executives. A CNN report by Jeanie Moos of Ivy's discovery was aired in 2000, two years before Ice Age went into development. Supersonic claims the studio's own documents actually identified the character in "Ice Age" as "Sqrat", though her creation was not sabre-toothed.
Ivy Supersonic was offered a $300,000 settlement by Fox Studios. She turned it down and subsequently lost in court. The case is currently in appeal (Case # 04401 Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, NYC). She still has hopes of receiving damages for her claimed infringement. Supersonic did win a partial Summary Judgement from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board in a reverse suit, Fox Film Corporation v. Ivy Silberstein (her real name), in which Fox had tried to prevent her from registrating the trademark "SQRAT".
== Trivia ==
* The saber-tooth squirrel is a fictional creature, as explained by Chris Wedge, who voices Scrat.
* In 2011, scientists in Argentina uncovered the remains of an extinct, shrew-like mammal with long fangs which was dubbed Cronopio Dentiacutus, in tribute to Scrat, which resembles Cronopio. 
* Scrat has 887 joints, which that's over four times as many as a human. 
* Although the majority of the main characters are aware of his presence, Scrat is the only main character of the Ice Age series to not follow along with the rest of the main characters on their adventures. Nevertheless, his actions throughout every movie have always indirectly impacted the group greatly one way or another.
** The only times Scrat doesn't interact with the herd is in the fifth and sixth movies.
* Scrat is mostly unable to talk. The only sounds he can make is when he's muttering, moaning, yelling, screaming, sighing, and excited having his acorn. However, he very briefly speaks in the second movie, saying a single word-"peep"-in an attempt the mimic the baby vulture so he can get away from his actions without consequences.
* It is unknown on whether Scrat froze before or after the sequels. It is possible that he froze after the films and all of the sequels take place before he froze at some point. He may have traveled back in to his time period using the machine from No Time For Nuts.
* Scrat is one of several solitary creatures, others being a Glyptodon heading South by itself, Rose, Fast Tony, Cholly, a hawk, the Secretary Bird, Scratte, the Archaeopteryx, Giant Crab, a small crab, sharks, a fish, Precious, and Francine.
== Gallery ==
See: Scrat/Gallery
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