Mob Rat

* Normal
* Weird
* Hostile

## Mob Rats (Music Tracks)

"Bad Feeling"

“*Um... I'm going to go now.* ”

ー *Mob Rat #3, after witnessing Mad Rat seemingly talking to himself.*

The Mob Rats are NPCs turned special enemies in Mad Rat Dead, first appearing in Stage 1-4 ('Caged Friends').
They are later a minor Boss in Stage 1-5 ('VS Mob Rat').

## Appearance

### As NPCs:

The Mob Rats are lab rats of average stature, with uniformly pale gray fur and pink skin, and yellow ear tags is affixed to both of each rat's ears. The Mob Rats have a rather round and cartoonish composure, especially in their faces, which feature a lazy smile and dilated black eyes. They feature an outie-type belly button on their stomachs, and their idle movement is much smoother and more relaxed than Mad Rat's, speaking to their (initially) slow and relaxed nature.

The Mob Rats' appearance changes slightly during the initial part of stage 1-5, but appears to be relatively the same at first, the only noticeable difference being that their eyes are no longer focused, instead becoming goofy and facing in opposite directions.

### As Enemies:

Their appearance changes much more drastically right before the stage's boss fight is initiated, the Mob Rats' pulsing brains exploding outwards from their heads and obscuring their eyes. Their brains are primarily neon pink in color, featuring yellow and blue highlights, as well as round orange, green, blue, yellow, and magenta pushpins piercing the brain tissue. The Mob Rats mouths are agape during this appearance change, a circular row of sharp, pointed teeth sitting within.

## Abilities

### As NPCs:

None at all. The Mob Rats are completely harmless and mundane (even considered quite pathetic, by Mad Rat's standards) lab rats in their normal states.

### As Enemies:

Once the cutscene tailing stage 1-4 has been reached, their demeanor is pretty much the same, albeit even *more* airheaded and unfocused, but they seem to become incredibly fearful and anxious in the moments before they turn hostile and savage as a result of supposed experiments conducted by the human on them. They afterwards lose their wills completely and become frenetic, attacking Mad Rat (though, after the battle, it's revealed that this might have all been a hallucination, and Mad Rat might've actually beaten a load of innocent rats to death, leading to an insane guilt trip, followed by the Ghost Rat battle thereafter). In this state they are much stronger, more athletic and much more coordinated than their regular selves, carrying out attacks that sometimes take up more than half the stage.

## Personality

The Mob Rats are naive and simple-minded, unconcerned with the world outside of their cage, and firmly believe that as long as they stay within their cage, they will be safe and won't die because the human will protect them. Due to this, they get on Mad Rat's nerves and cause him to yell at them, and treat them rather harshly. They don't treat Mad Rat with much respect either, however; regarding him as crazy for talking to heart (whom they cannot see nor hear), and foolish for wanting to escape and kill the human. They tend to either ignore him, disagree with him, or brush him off.

## Gallery

Mob Rat, normal.A Mob Rat running in their wheel.Mob Rat, eyes goofy.Mob Rat, brain exposed.Three Mob Rats from the cover page of Mad Rat Dead's digital artbook.Boss design concepts for Mob Rat from MRD's digital artbook.