mice in general. In popular culture An exaggerated, phobic fear of mice and rats has traditionally been depicted as a stereotypical trait of women, with numerous books, cartoons, television shows, and films portraying women screaming and jumping onto chairs or tables at the sight of a mouse. Despite this portrayal, murophobia has always been experienced by individuals of both sexes. However, women are twice as likely as men to suffer from specific phobias, such as musophobia. In George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four the protagonist Winston Smith has an intense fear of rats. Strapping a cage of hungry rats to his face is a technique used to get him to implicate his lover in thoughtcrimes. In the TV Series Seinfeld, Frank Costanza has a profound fear of mice. In the episode 'The Raincoats, Part 2', Frank threatens to move houses after George suggests there could be mice in their house. Kramer also appears to be afraid of mice in that same episode. In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Doctor Jones, Sr. is described as being "scared to death" of rats. The titular character in the Doraemon series is scared of mice, due to having had his robotic ears bitten off by mice due to a mistaken order by Sewashi, as decipted in 1995 short film 2112: The Birth of Doraemon. The incarnation of Princess Zelda from The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks will freeze in fear if she is met by rats. Madame Medusa, the main antagonist of Disney's The Rescuers (1977), an adaptation of Margery Sharp's children's novels, suffers from extreme musophobia, becoming hysterical upon encountering the film's protagonists, a pair of friendly mice, while aiming to protect herself by jumping onto a chair and firing her shotgun. Ironically, her far more threatening pet crocodiles hardly make her uneasy. Tin Top from Roary the Racing Car exhibited musophobia in the episode "Tin Top Gets Scared". Injun Joe is afraid of mice and rats in the 1995 anime movie, Huck and Tom's Mississippi Adventure. In the video game Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! the rideable elephant Ellie is afraid of rats and must throw a barrel at them. Bloodsport, as portrayed in “The Suicide Squad (film)” is afraid of rats, which is used many times for comedic effect. Lofty, a large blue anthropomorphic mobile crane from the Bob the Builder franchise, is known for being afraid of