performance earned her a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program at the 31st Daytime Emmy Awards in 2004. MovieWeb's Jeremy Dick hailed Rufus as "one of Cartwright's best roles". Fans of the series were initially outraged when the film adaptation's first trailer did not feature Rufus. Fans were eventually delighted to learn that Cartwright would be reprising her role in the film. While Blair Marnell of Nerdist opined that producers should be open to recasting the film's main characters in favor of more diverse actors, she insisted that "As long as Nancy Cartwright wants to reprise her role as the voice of Rufus, she should be able to do that for life." Reviewing the film, Polygon's Petrana Radulovic described Rufus as "just silly enough as to not be jarring." Despite being disappointed with the overall film and Rufus' comparative lack of screentime, Aydan Rossovich of The Bear River Current felt he was "The only acceptable character ... while it’s disappointing that he was barely in it, if he had been in the movie more than he was, it would have just made it even more annoying." STEM Jobs crowned Rufus "one of the most faithful, yet smallest sidekicks of all time." Rufus has been called the most famous naked mole-rat in the world. Kristy Pirone of Screen Rant believes Rufus "will live in perpetuity as the most famous naked mole-rat of all time." Massive Science credits Rufus and Kim Possible with introducing naked mole-rats into mainstream popular culture. The Liberty Science Center observed that most people may "only know about naked mole rats via cartoon characters", such as Rufus. The Field Museum of Natural History wrote that "Rufus stole the hearts of all who watched him save the day. In many episodes, Rufus is the hero, and like Kim and Ron, scientists agree that naked mole-rats are pretty cool." References Animal superheroes Television characters introduced in 2002 Animated characters introduced in 2002 Fictional rodents Television sidekicks Anthropomorphic animal characters Anthropomorphic rodents Kim Possible characters