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Gadget Hackwrench is a fictional cartoon mouse in the Disney animated television series Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers.

She first met Chip 'n Dale in the pilot episode, when Monterey Jack was seeking help from her recently deceased father, a famous mouse aviator named Geegaw Hackwrench. Having no other obligations or support, she joined the Rescue Rangers team, and lives with Chip, Dale, Monty, and Zipper the Fly at their headquarters in a hollow tree in a city park. Both Chip and Dale are attracted to Gadget, and often compete for her attention, but she usually does not notice. Because he knew Gadget as a child through his past association with Geegaw, Monty calls her "Gadget luv" in a somewhat paternalistic manner.

She is consistently portrayed as a mechanic and a slightly eccentric inventor (a mostly harmless variation on mad scientist). She has the uncanny ability to take discarded and unrelated items, and invent nearly anything with them. While her more complicated inventions don't always work exactly as she intends them, her improvised gadgetry often saves the day. Like most wacky inventors, she can become extremely focused on her work, and therefore oblivious to the world around her. However, Gadget is well aware of her attractive appearance and is willing to use it to her advantage when necessary, usually at the request of the team.

She is named Trixi Propello in German, Vinkki Vääntölä in Finnish, Гайка (Gaika, "Nut", as in Nut (hardware)) in Russian, Scheggia in Italian, Sziporka in Hungarian, Geninha in Portuguese and Pärlan (The Pearl) in Swedish.

Gadget's voice was provided by voice actress Tress MacNeille who also portrayed Dot Warner and Babs Bunny, and is a regular guest voice actor on numerous other shows, including Futurama and The Simpsons.

• The Gadget Hackwrench webring
• Internet Gadget Archive
• Russian CDRR Portal
• Of Mice And Mayhem
• Rescue Rangers Fan Art Calendar