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. In the first, Gone Nutty, he loses his collection of acorns in a catastrophic chain of events. Scrat is the main character in four short films. 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. Granny mistakes Scrat for a rat and continuously hits him with her cane until he falls into the ocean. Sid pries open a clam, he finds Scrat inside. 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.
Lastly, while Diego is sleeping, he wakes up when he gets hit with Scrat's acorn. 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". Next, he appears when Sid's "children" are batting a ball around, the ball actually being Scrat. In Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Scrat is stepped on by Manny and falls onto Sid's head while chasing his acorn. 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). 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. He later meets Manny, Sid, and Diego with a human baby Roshan. In Ice Age, Scrat first attacks Sid when the latter tries to eat his acorn, successfully regaining it. 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. The copyright to “Scrat” was granted to Fox. 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. Internal documents showed that within Blue Sky Studios, the character's name was changed from "Sqrat" to "Scrat". įurthermore, 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. 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. However, in 2009, screenwriter Michael J. 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. The true origin of Scrat's design is unclear. The character served as the mascot to his co-animation studio, Blue Sky Studios, until its closure in 2021.Ĭoncept and creation Chris Wedge, the voice of Scrat, director of Ice Age and co-founder of Blue Sky Studios. In the Ice Age DVD commentary, he is referred to as "The Scrat" by directors Wedge and Carlos Saldanha. 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.
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. Scrat's storylines are mostly independent of those of the Herd, though the two do intersect at times. He is a saber-toothed squirrel who is obsessed with collecting acorns, constantly putting his life in danger to obtain and defend them. Scrat is a fictional character in the Ice Age franchise. Yellowish-brown and gray with white underbelly
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