Resident Evil 4’s Ashley mouse meme explained

Co-star Resident Evil 4, Ashley Graham, has changed quite a bit for Capcom’s new remake of the action-survival horror classic. She’s more present, less prone to danger, and less of a babysitting nuisance in the RE4 remake. Ashley might be made even more awesome if she could become a mouse.

Fan art of Ashley as a mouse — aka Moushley — has been flooding Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram over the past week as artists interpret Leon S. Kennedy’s charge as a cute, cheese-hungry little rodent. It’s all in good fun, and prompted by a particular piece of fan art of Ashley in mouse form from Twitter use Agrimmora. They posted the following thought exercise on March 24 — the same day Resident Evil 4 launched — and inspired hundreds of pieces of fan art.

Ashley-as a-mouse has been recreated by other artists in many different ways, from Animal Crossing mouse villager to a Cheese-wedge-shaped Jerry. Tom & JerryTo The rescuers-influenced Moushley. There’s so much great stuff, but here’s a sampling.

Capcom was captivated by all the Moushley fan artwork.

All that’s left now is for some brave modder to get Ashley in mouse form — and cheese sold by the Merchant — into Resident Evil 4 itself.