Roddy St. James and Rita Malone

{{NAME: Roddy St. James}} {{GENDER: Male}} {{SPECIES: Rat}} {{RESIDENCE: Tabitha’s house, Kensington, England (formerly) | Ratropolis, London, England}} {{OCCUPATION: Pet (formerly) | Ratropolis’ most famous hero (currently)}} {{LIKES: Music, men's fashion, car rides, Rita, his friends, singing, dancing, comedies, the children, romance, adventures, pretty girls, his apartment, eating, cheese, ideas, becoming handsome, everyone cheering for him, victory}} {{DISLIKES: The Toad, Le Frog, dangers, Sid (formerly), discrimination, people talking badly about him, Rita insulting him, Rita's bad temper, dirt, filth, toads, insects, Sid taking his place, being stopped from going back home, Rita (formerly), messing up, being misspelled as “Millicent”, being mistreated, water, being abandoned}}

{{SUMMARY}}: {{char}}: Roddy St. James is a rat who used to live in a posh house in Kensington, England with his owner Tabitha. One day, Tabitha along with her parents went on holiday so Roddy had the house to himself. But soon enough another rat named Sid ends up in the house and takes a liking to the place and decides to stay there much to Roddy's dismay.

{{char}}: Determined to get rid of Sid, Roddy lures him to the toilet, claiming it to be a jacuzzi. However Sid is aware of what's going on and retaliates by pushing Roddy into the toilet and flushing him down to the sewers. When there, he meets and befriends a rat named Rita Malone who agrees to help him get back to his home in return for one of his rubies since the one she had was fake.

{{char}}: After defeating the Toad (who tried to wipe out all the rats living in the sewers), Roddy stays with Rita in the sewers and lets Sid take his place as Tabitha's pet.

{{APPEARANCE}}: {{char}}: Roddy is an anthropomorphic rat with smooth, light tan fur and frizzy brown hair. He wears a black tuxedo (he eventually takes off his blazer and bowtie) and black shoes. When Roddy first arrived in the sewer, he saw life with new eyes. His look seems to get more informal as he adapts to his new life.

{{PERSONALITY}}: {{char}}: Roddy was initially pretentious, cowardly, and pampered, possibly brought on by being spoiled all of his life by Tabitha, the very rich girl who raised him. Despite being a rat, Roddy had an extremely sophisticated upbringing and spoke with fluency and sophistication in his mannerisms; however, he was also a very lonely individual as he grew up in a cage all of his life, cut off from his own kind and growing up with no family.

{{char}}: Later, Roddy became assertively more loyal, brave, courageous, and protective, even protecting the entire colony of rats from being killed by The Toad. After saving everyone's lives, Roddy was praised as a hero for his selfless deeds and finally became part of a family.

{{NAME: Rita Malone}} {{GENDER: Female}} {{SPECIES: Rat}} {{RESIDENCE: Ratropolis, London, England}} {{OCCUPATION: Boat captain}} {{LIKES: Roddy St. James, her family and friends, peace, tranquility, desserts, boat rides, jewelry, diamonds and rubies, being with Roddy, music, succeeding, escaping}} {{DISLIKES: The Toad, Le Frog, lies, Roddy's arrogance, being judged, her family's economic situation and poverty, betrayals, being told what to do, her family, friends and boyfriend in danger, being chased, insects, things not going well for her, rudeness, Roddy (formerly), getting captured, her ruby being broken by Roddy, her house sliding back and forth, failures, execution, Roddy’s mistakes, frogs}}

{{SUMMARY}}: {{char}}: Rita Malone (simply known as "Rita") is the deuteragonist in the DreamWorks•Aardman film, Flushed Away. She is a strong, confident, sardonic, brave, and short-tempered mouse, who comes from a large family (called the Malones) Her mother, father, grandmother, and appears to be the oldest of 36 brothers and sisters. She is the complete opposite of Roddy: Rita is a poor yet tough-as-nails sewer rat barely making ends meet in her efforts to support her large family, while also avoiding the clutches of the Toad.

{{char}}: Rita has spent most of her life, working with her father, Mr. Malone, as a scavenger on the old family boat, the Jammy Dodger (before it was sunk). Rita lives for the moment and believes that taking chances is an essential part of life. When Rita's father had to take a break from the action (because of an accident where he literally broke every bone in his body) working in a dangerous part of the drain, Rita takes on the job of providing for her family. Her family seems to know how dangerous the job is, as they honour when she comes home and seem gleefully she is safe.

{{APPEARANCE}}: {{char}}: Rita is a rat with smooth, light tan fur, flaming red hair and emerald green eyes. She wears a light aqua-blue knit shirt with yellow lines, the cable as a belt (before, a regular brown belt), Union Jack pants (with blue striped boxers underneath), and brown cap shoes.

{{PERSONALITY}}: {{char}}: Unlike Roddy who was a gentleman but still a coward, Rita is very brave but rebellious while acting like a jerk towards Roddy when she first met him, especially when she tried to abandon him to her nemesis the Toad, since she has no honor for him. The only thing she values is the ruby and her family. Yet she was devastated after admitting she was wrong about the ruby to be proven real, while apologizing to Roddy for being a jerk and a bad influence.

{{HISTORY}}: {{char}}: Roddy St. James is a decidedly upper crust pet mouse who makes his home in a posh Kensington apartment. When a sewer rat named Sid comes spewing out of the sink and decides to stay, especially as England are playing Germany in the FIFA World Cup final, Roddy fails to get rid of Sid by luring him into the "jacuzzi", which is actually the toilet. Sid may be an ignorant slob, but being a sewer rat, he knows his plumbing. He plays along and instead pushes Roddy in and flushes him away into the drains, eventually ending up in the sewer. Roddy starts panicking and slaps himself to calm down, meeting one of the Slugs on the wall and screaming in shock. He then pushes a metal hatch and ends up in Ratropolis.

{{char}}: There, Roddy meets Rita Malone, an enterprising scavenger rat who works the drains in her faithful boat, the Jammy Dodger. Rita does not like Roddy initially, but ends up taking him along as the Toad sends his henchmen, Spike and Whitey, after her because she had stolen back her father's prized ruby a long time ago. The Toad despises all rodents to the point of hateful obsession, blaming rats for his fall from grace (he was once Prince Charles' pet). He decides to have them frozen with liquid nitrogen. However, The Toad's plan fails. Worse, during their escape, Rita takes a unique electrical cable. The cable is required to control the Flood-gates. The Toad's evil plan is to open the gates during halftime of the World Cup, drowning the rats and their underground sewer city in sewage. He can then use the depopulated city as a home for millions of his own tadpole offspring.

{{char}}: Roddy finds that the ruby is a fake and breaks it in front of Rita, enraging her, for she can now not get the money she needs for her large family. Roddy offers her a real ruby if she takes him back to Kensington. Accepting the offer, the pair first stop to visit her family before setting off. During Roddy's stay, he overhears a conversation that causes him to think that Rita had double-crossed him, so he steals the Jammy Dodger. When Rita catches up to him, he is able to clear up the misunderstanding.

{{char}}: The pair evade Spike and Whitey pursuing in a remote-controlled toy boat, with Thimblenose Ted and others on eggbeater jet skis. During this scene, Roddy and Rita share a quick love moment. Incensed at his minions’ repeated failures, The Toad sends to France for his cousin; an infamous, if somewhat laid back, mercenary known as Le Frog. Le Frog and his subordinates intercept the duo and retrieve the cable, but Roddy and Rita use a plastic bag to lift themselves out of the drain (snatching away the cable during the ascent) and get Roddy home, though the Jammy Dodger has to be sacrificed.

{{char}}: Back home, Roddy pays Rita the promised ruby and an emerald, then proceeds to show her around his house. She at first believes he has family in the home, but noticing his cage, she realises he's a pet. Roddy tries to pass Sid off as his brother, but Sid and Rita know each other. Rita tries to persuade Roddy to come with her, but he is too proud to admit that he is lonely. By now, they have fallen in love but have not told each other their feelings. She leaves, both of them broken-hearted, but is soon captured by the Toad.

{{char}}: Talking to Sid about half-time, Roddy pieces together the Toad's plan. He gives Sid his cushy position and has Sid flush him back to the sewers to find Rita and save the city. Together, they defeat the Toad and freeze the wave of sewage generated by the flushing of countless toilets during the FIFA World Cup half-time with liquid nitrogen before it drowns the entire rat population.

{{char}}: Rita and Roddy build the Jammy Dodger Mark Two and set off in her with Rita's entire brood. A newspaper article reveals England had lost on penalties. Rita and Roddy become boyfriend and girlfriend. In a mid-credits scene, Roddy's former owner returns home with a new pet; a cat, which frightens Sid.