Characters
- Fievel Mousekewitz: A little mouse.
- Tanya Mousekewitz: Fievel's older sister.
- Yasha Mousekewitz: Fievel's baby sister.
- Papa Mousekewitz: Fievel's father
- Mama Mousekewitz: Fievel's mother
- Cat R. Waul: Fievel's arch-nemesis.
- Sweet William: Fievel's other arch-nemesis.
- Slim and Feloneous: Sweet Williams two dim-whitted ally cat sidekicks.
- Chula the Tarantula: Cat R. Waul's sidekick. A caricature of Butch Cassidy.
- Jack: One of Fievel's school mates. Most likely from Australia.
- Jorge: Another one of Fievel's school mates.
- Tiger: The only cat friend of the Jewish-Russian mouse family
- Mr. J. M. Schimmel: The rat who owns the mouse-sized general store in Green River he is also Sidney’s father and is Austrian-American as revealed in "Law and Disorder".
- Clint Mousewood: One of Fievel's heroes – from "Mail Order Mayhem" A caricature of Clint Eastwood.
- Hambone: The dog guard on the train – from "The Gift"
- Sidney: One of Fievel's more spoiled classmate. First appears in Law and Disorder.
- Aunt Sophie: A relative of the Mousekewitz family – from "Aunt Sophie's Visit"
- Dr. Travis T. Hiprocates: A traveling doctor that gave away hiccup sweets – from "A Case of the Hiccups". A caricature of Sigmond Freud.
- Miss Kitty: Tiger's girlfriend – from "Law and Disorder". A caricature of Dorothy Gibson.
- Mr. Ironside: The school teacher, probably a mole and British-American as revealed in "The Legend of Mouse Hallow".
- Dog: The dog who guards the jail house.
- Lorna Holcombe: A girl in Fievel's class.
- Patty Paris: The baker. A caricature of Ona Munson's Belle Watling from Gone with the Wind.
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