![]() Generally Scrat will lose out (except in two cases when he defeated a school of piranhas single-pawed and battled Sid for the acorn). Being a glutton for punishment, Scrat never backs down or gives up no matter how reluctant he feels. Throughout the series he ends up in humorous and often painful situations, ranging from being struck by lightning, chased by avalanches, and repeatedly knocked unconscious to running afoul of various animal life and having to fight for his acorn. While Scrat is constantly hunting for his acorn in order to either bury it or eat it, fate always seems to get in the way. He only directly interacts with the story's main characters six times: in the first film, when he attacks Sid when the latter tries to eat his acorn and successfully gets it back, and later when Manny asks him for directions on where the baby's family is, in which Diego kicks him away before he could tell Manny and Sid about the passing of saber-toothed tigers in the end of the second film, Scrat creates a hole in the valley and so releases all the melted ice, and later attacks Sid for saving his life (when he actually died and went to heaven and was about to eat a giant acorn) and in the third film, when he is stepped on by Manny and then falls into Sid's head while chasing his acorn and again when Sid's "children" were batting a ball around, that turned out to actually be Scrat. In all Ice Age movies, as well as in the short films, Scrat is voiced by Chris Wedge. At several points in the Ice Age DVD commentary he is referred to as "The Scrat" by Directors Chris 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 being believed by fictional scientists to have been a common ancestor of the two. His character has proved enormously successful and many view him as a breakout character, the most popular character of the franchise. He usually has his own stories in the film, independent of the main plot, which are parallel with the journeys of the other main characters simply by chance, making the other characters meet him occasionally. He is best known for being obsessed with acorns, constantly putting his life in danger to obtain and protect them. ![]() Scrat is a "saber-toothed squirrel" (a fictional species) that appears in the Ice Age film series, starting with the 2002 film Ice Age and its sequels Ice Age: The Meltdown and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. ![]()
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