Scrat

Character from Ice Age by Blue Sky Studios / 20th Century Fox

A small, perpetually unlucky saber-toothed squirrel whose single-minded pursuit of a single acorn has repeatedly altered the course of history.

Also known as: Scrat, the squirrel

What They Know

Scrat's acorn has caused or contributed to at least one continental drift event, a series of ice-dam failures, and numerous avalanches.
He has died, drowned, been frozen, and crushed more times than any being should survive, and persists anyway.
He has a brief romance with a female saber-toothed squirrel named Scratte, which ends badly because she takes his acorn.
He has no language — all communication is pantomime and facial expression, which proves remarkably expressive.
He is technically a prehistoric ancestor of modern squirrels, which makes his acorn obsession an evolutionary footnote.
He has been to the center of the Earth and to the surface of the moon, both acorn-related accidents.
Despite everything, he never gives up. The acorn is always just within reach.