Ritz The Rat

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Ritz
Also known as	Ritz The Rat
Relationships	Butz (cousin)
Biographical Information
Species	Rat
Gender	Male ♂
Status	Alive
Physical Description
Hair color	Gray
Appearances
Created by	MKMaffo
Appears in	Ritz RITZ BITZ TOM FULP DRESSUP (hat and glasses) ritz snapz Friday Night Funkin' (potential upcoming)
Debut	Ritz (2020)
Character Icons

Ritz The Rat, or simply Ritz, is a potential upcoming character for Friday Night Funkin'.

Appearance

Ritz is a gray-furred anthropomorphic rat. He wears an orange beanie with a white arrow pointing downwards, red fingerless gloves, orange sneakers and a pair of triangle shades. He holds a microphone in his right hand. He is drawn in a chibi style.

Origin

Ritz as he appears on the thumbnail of his origin game.

Ritz is the titular character of Ritz, a 2D platforming game where he must collect cheese to feed his friends while avoiding spikes. The game was created by ninjamuffin99, Mafalda "MKMaffo" Murdocca, Min Ho "DIGIMIN" Kim and Kawai Sprite for Newgrounds' Pixel Day 2020 and was posted to the site on the 25^th of January, 2020.

Personality

Ritz appears to be a thoughtful individual who has a love for cheese. He is shown to be heroic in Ritz, as he gathers cheese for his friends to eat, even endangering himself to do so by skillfully jumping over dangerous spikes. In MKMaffo's sprites of Ritz for Friday Night Funkin', he appears to be a very confident singer. However, missing a note leaves him utterly stunned.

Trivia

General

• On the 4^th of March, 2021, ninjamuffin99 posted a GIF of Ritz to his Twitter account with the caption "deleting in 30 seconds," leading many to believe that Ritz may be the opponent of Week 7.
  • After Tankman was revealed to be Week 7's opponent, ninjamuffin99 stated that Ritz would appear eventually.
    • ninjamuffin99 later stated that Ritz would get his own week in the future. In a 2022 Q&A, when asked if Ritz is still getting a week, ninjamuffin99 said, "lol perhaps. i wanna finish Ritz DX tho heheh."
• Ritz's "leaked" sprites were created by MKMaffo for a mod she was working on in 2020. In a Tweet showing off a miss sprite and yellow health bar icons, MKMaffo stated that her "november20 assets wont see the light of day," suggesting that her sprites will not be used when Ritz is officially added to the game. Based on similarities between sprites, MKMaffo's Ritz sprites may be reskins of those of Boyfriend.
  • Particular Ritz sprites that have been shown off by MKMaffo include an idle sprite with a microphone, an idle sprite without a microphone, a V-sign sprite, a sprite of Ritz presenting a piece of cheese (seen in ninjamuffin99's deleted Tweet and a Newgrounds blog post), a down note miss sprite, orange health bar icons and yellow health bar icons. The yellow icons have been shown to replace Boyfriend's icons in the icon grid.
• Ritz is a German word translating to "scratch" in English.

Lore

• In 2020, ninjamuffin99 stated that Ritz was "canonically" Boyfriend's brother, as he and Kawai Sprite worked on both Friday Night Funkin' and Ritz, making the two developers "fathers together." As an in-universe explanation, ninjamuffin99 described this in 2021 as a Stuart Little situation. However, in 2023, ninjamuffin99 instead stated that Ritz being Boyfriend's brother is a "light headcanon" for the same reason as before.
• Ritz skateboards around as opposed to driving a car.

Inspirations

• Ritz's design may have been inspired by the Mario series boss Mouser.
• It may also have been inspired by Sonic the Hedgehog.

Gallery

View Ritz's full gallery here.

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  Ritz's static idle pose.

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  The GIF of Ritz posted to ninjamuffin99's Twitter before being deleted shortly afterward.

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  Ritz's idle animation without his microphone by MKMaffo.

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  Ditto, but with no background.

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  Ritz's idle animation with his microphone by MKMaffo.