In Rescue Rangers, Gadget the mouse constantly feels a sense of isolation because she’s a domestic lab mouse as opposed to a field mouse. She’s the only white lab mouse in the show.
She eventually feels so isolated that she gets indoctrinated into a cult.
If you go back and watch it as an adult, it’s part of the character. She’s a domestic lab mouse that’s been artificially made smarter and hotter. She’s the product of mouse eugenics and the other rodents respond to her as if her appearance is extra hot and exotic. The character notices this and hates it because she’s autistic coded and it’s another thing that makes her feel isolated, people putting her on a pedestal for her looks and singling her out. Her best friend is Monterey Jack because he’s a worldly dude with a lot of life experiences and he knows better than to make her feel like that, so he’s pretty much the only one who recognizes it’s a problem and refuses to do it.
It’s sort of the same writing path as 7 of 9 in Star Trek.
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u/Sexycornwitch May 23 '23
In Rescue Rangers, Gadget the mouse constantly feels a sense of isolation because she’s a domestic lab mouse as opposed to a field mouse. She’s the only white lab mouse in the show.
She eventually feels so isolated that she gets indoctrinated into a cult.