Editing Jerry Mouse (section)

{{Short description|Fictional mouse}}
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{{Infobox character
| name = Jerry Mouse
| series = [[Tom and Jerry]]
| image = Jerry Mouse.png
| caption = Jerry's design in the [[Hanna-Barbera]] shorts.
| first = {{Plainlist|
* '''Jinx''':
* ''[[Puss Gets the Boot]]'' (1940)
* '''Jerry''' or '''Gerald''':
* ''[[The Midnight Snack]]'' (1941)}}
| creator = {{ubl|[[William Hanna]]|[[Joseph Barbera]]}}
| designer = {{ubl|[[Harvey Eisenberg]] (1940–1953)|[[Richard Bickenbach]] (1953–1958)}}
| voice = {{Unbulleted list|
    | '''[[William Hanna]]''' (1940–1958, 2006, 2014–present)
    | [[Harry E. Lang]] (1943–1945)
    | [[Sara Berner]] (1944–1945)
    | [[Paul Frees]] (1951, 1956)
    | Manuel Paris (1957)
    | [[Allen Swift]] (1961–1962)
    | [[Mel Blanc]] (1963–1967)
    | Terence Monk (1964)
    | [[June Foray]] (1965–1967)
    | [[Dallas McKennon|Dale McKennon]] (1967)
    | [[John Stephenson (actor)|John Stephenson]] (1975)
    | [[Lou Scheimer]] (1980)
    | '''[[Frank Welker|Frank W. Welker]]''' (1990–2002)
    | '''[[Dana Hill]]''' (also speaking; 1992)
    | [[Alan Marriott (voice actor)|Alan Marriott]] (2000–2002)
    | [[Marc Silk]] (2002)
    | [[Bill Kopp]] (2005)
    | [[Spike Brandt]] (2005–2017)
    | [[Sam Vincent (voice actor)|Sam Vincent]] (2006–2008)
    | Rich Danhakl (2014–2021)
    | [[André Sogliuzzo]] (2021)
    | Andrew Dickman (2021)
    | [[Eric Bauza]] (2022)
    | Aya Yonekura (2022)
}}
| full_name = Gerald/Jerome Jinx Mouse<ref name="MultiVersus characters">{{cite web|url=https://multiversus.com/en/roster|website=[[MultiVersus]].com|title=MultiVersus Roster|access-date=November 21, 2021|archive-date=July 30, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220730231311/https://multiversus.com/en/roster|url-status=live}}</ref>
| species = [[House mouse]] (''Mus musculus'')
| gender = Male
| family = [[Nibbles (Tom and Jerry)|Nibbles]] (ward)
| relatives = {{ubl|[[List of Tom and Jerry characters#Uncle Pecos|Pecos]] and Harry (uncles)|[[List of Tom and Jerry characters#Cousin Muscles|Muscles]] and Merlin (cousins)| Dinky and Sniffles (nephews)|Unnamed mother|Geraldine Mouse (sister)}}
| nationality = American
}}
'''Gerald Jinx''' "'''Jerry'''" '''Mouse''' is an American character and one of the two titular characters in [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio|Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]]'s series of ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' theatrical animated short films and other animated media, usually acting as the protagonist opposite his rival [[Tom Cat]]. Created by [[William Hanna]] and [[Joseph Barbera]], Jerry is an [[anthropomorphism|anthropomorphic]] (but usually silent) brown [[house mouse]], who first appeared as a mouse named Jinx in the 1940 MGM animated short ''[[Puss Gets the Boot]]''.<ref name="JBarberaPuss">{{Cite book|last=Barbera|first=Joe|author-link=Joseph Barbera|title=My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century|publisher=Turner Publishing|year=1994|location=Atlanta, GA|pages=[https://archive.org/details/mylifeintoonsfro00barb/page/73 73–76]|url=https://archive.org/details/mylifeintoonsfro00barb/page/73|isbn=978-1-57036-042-8}}</ref> Hanna gave the mouse's original name as "Jinx",<ref name="WHannaPuss">{{Cite book|last=Hanna|first=William|author-link=William Hanna| title=A Cast of Friends|publisher=Da Capo Press|year=2000|pages=39–46| isbn=978-0-306-80917-0 }}</ref> while Barbera claimed the mouse went unnamed in his first appearance.