Happy Chinese New Year. It is the year of the rat and to celebrate we have Rita Malone of the Deamworks animated film Flushed Aqay) has been kidnapped in a Cheongsam dress.

Ranking the first in the Chinese zodiac, rat represents wisdom. Personality traits for the people born in the year of the Rat are intelligent, charming, quick-witted, practical, ambitious, and good at economizing as well as social activities. The weaknesses are that the Rats are likely to be timid, stubborn, wordy, greedy, devious, too eager for power and love to gossip.

Rita Malone is the deuteragonist in Flushed Away. She is Roddy's girlfriend and partner. Rita is adventurous and brave, and has been seen to care for others and keep promises as well as being kind to her enormous family.

Rita is first introduced to Roddy by a fisherman when Roddy lands in the bustling city of Ratropolis in the sewers of Kensington, London. The fisherman tells Roddy, who's looking for a way home, that he knows someone; a "shady customer." Roddy is lead to Rita's boat, the Jammy Dodger, and is captured by Rita's mechanic hand. Startled and flustered, the trapped Roddy babbles "sorry Mr Captain Skipper thingy -" To which we then see Rita as she emerges from the shadows and angrily declares "Hey! That's MISS Captain Skipper thingy to you!" Roddy is shocked to discover the captain is female. Rita asks Roddy what he is doing on her boat to which Roddy tells her he needs help getting home. Rita cuts him off, telling him she has her own problems. Suddenly, the pair hear voices coming towards them. Rita quickly releases Roddy and tells him to get down and keep quiet. Roddy asks why and Rita angrily covers his mouth and hisses that there are dangerous rats after her who wish to kill her. Roddy agrees to keep quiet but accidently leans on the boat's horn, revealing to the hench-rats their location. Furious, Rita calls him an idiot and watches with disgust as Roddy clumsily attempts to leave, knocking over things before falling into the water. With the hench rats approaching, Rita desperately tries to get the boat's engine working. Suddenly, the rats attack and Rita fights them until she and Roddy are grabbed by one of the hench rats, Whitey. Rita struggles to free herself and kicks the rat's glasses off his face yelling "let me go, you pink-eyed freak!"