If you’re a Resident Evil 4 fan or are at all following the game online, you might have noticed some goofy art over the last month involving the character Ashley looking strangely rodent-like. Turns out, it’s a fantastic and hilarious trend that caught on upon the release of Resident Evil 4’s recent remake, where fans are drawing Ashley from Resident Evil 4 as a little tiny mouse obsessed with cheese. And it rules.
It all started with this tweet:
What if you booted up resident evil 4 remake and Ashley was just a tiny mouse, what would you do. pic.twitter.com/WNF0UNvKdQ
— Mora (@Agrimmora) March 24, 2023
The artist, @Agrimmora on Twitter, followed up by explaining that “I saw a joke drawing that depicted ashley with big ears and this came to my mind, i never got past the boulder chase scene as a kid.”
This is pretty cute and funny, but it gets better: the Resident Evil 4 community has fallen in love with her. It’s been almost three weeks since the initial tweet, and Twitter is still awash in mouse Ashley art…or “Moushley” art, as she’s come to be called.
LEOOON!#MouseAshley #RE4 #Moushley #ResidentEvil https://t.co/Sgf1NwcHvR pic.twitter.com/C7lnCqPwDi
— Sin’s Bakery (@SinsBakery) April 3, 2023
“LEON, HEEEELP!!! HE WANTS THE BIG CHEESE!!!” — Moushley
Original design by @Agrimmora 🐁 https://t.co/xv0YoyX4kA pic.twitter.com/pHzTw8KZiq
— Christina Mijares-Doung (@ChristinaDrawin) April 4, 2023
Moushley has even bled into real life:
@Agrimmora went to target today and saw moushley 😭😭💕💕 pic.twitter.com/MqzqYYgv7s
— Tyler (@streetjunkii) April 7, 2023
What if Ashley was just a tiny mouse, what would you do#Moushley (design by @Agrimmora) pic.twitter.com/BmlSrV4KRA
— Addison✨ (@shinyjpg) April 5, 2023
v happy to draw moushley to promote my cheese wares 🥹#RE4 pic.twitter.com/3bpEMIe7RH
— cheese wizard 💫 (@cryptiddennys) April 12, 2023
The joke has gone so far that there’s now even a mod that lets you put Moushley on Leon’s head and control him like Remy in Ratatouille:
what if u booted up resi4 remake and moushley was on leon’s head controlling him like ratatouille, what would you do🧀
well, wonder no longer, because the ✨MOUSHLEY MOD IS REAL✨
🐭 model by @TheComicFiend
GET IT NOW: https://t.co/ojarOHTEKL https://t.co/H9dj09dlj7 pic.twitter.com/BTXs5rUo4E
— catherine🌆 (@cathroon) April 4, 2023
The best part of all this is that even the official Resident Evil 4 Twitter account seems to have gotten in on the joke:
🐭🧀
— Resident Evil (@RE_Games) March 31, 2023
Moushley is an absolute delight, and there’s seemingly no end of adorable interpretations of her as a little rodent under Leon’s protection. Bring on the Moushley memes. And if you haven’t yet experienced the recent Resident Evil 4 remake, it’s none too shabby even without Ashley sporting a notable love of cheese. We gave it a coveted 10/10 in our review, calling it “the most relentlessly exciting Resident Evil adventure of all time that’s been rebuilt, refined, and realised to the full limits of its enormous potential.”
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Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.
