History ComicStrip / DennisTheMenaceUK

* ShoutOut: In the 2013 episode "Photo Finish" Beanotown is said to have a rivalry with Fulchester, a town from the adult comic ''{{Viz}}''.

** The 2017 series ''Dennis and Gnasher: Unleashed!'', the first to be CG animated.

* OpeningTheFloodgates: A variation of this happens in Volume 2 of ''The Diary Of Dennis The Menace'': Dennis, instead of trying to photocopy 10 pages of detention writing, accidentally photocopies '''10,000''' pages. When an secretary opens the door, she is buried by a tide of pages (with Dennis surfing on the current, described as looking ''very'' proud of himself).

* AntiHero / VillainProtagonist: Dennis is a bully who lives mainly to create chaos. The cartoons at times try to portray him as less mean.

* AnimatedAdaptation: A couple, the most memorable being Creator/TheBBC's 1996 two-season series ''Dennis the Menace'', or ''Dennis and Gnasher'' [[MarketBasedTitle internationally]]. Though the same character, more or less, this Dennis managed to have random bouts of heroism here and there.
** This adaptation now has its own [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php/BestEpisode/DennisTheMenace1996 Best Episode Crowner]].
** And don't forget, there's the 2009 and 2013 animated series.The 2009 series is called Dennis and Gnasher, downplaying the menace name, while the 2013 version is called Dennis the Menace and Gnasher, the first time that an animation has used the full name of the comic strip. (Excepting the international broadcasts.)

* [[BratsWithSlingshots Brats With Catapults]]

* CaptainColorbeard

* ConjoinedEyes

* FieryRedhead: Mum after her redesign.
** In the comics, the redesign of Dennis' parents intially implied and eventually [[http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-05/01/dennis-the-menace-father-the-beano confirmed]] that Dennis' Dad is actually the original Dennis, all grown up (and now become the stuffy rule-making father figure he always hated when he was a young Menace). Therefore, the redesigned Dennis (who has had the red and black hoops of his jersey switched, for very observant readers) is actually Dennis Jr, and some fans have come to believe that the fiery redhead who is Dennis Jr's mum might have been (in her younger days), the original Minnie the Minx.

* TookALevelInJerkAss: Walter. In the early days of the comic, he was a genuinely nice boy who simply preferred girly interests. Due to the fear that Dennis bullying him would seem like homophobia, Walter has become more malicious, vindictive and determined to get Dennis into trouble, making any comeuppance Dennis gives him justified.

* LoveableRogue: The first AnimatedAdaptation attempts to find a middle ground for Dennis, he is still a trouble maker, but often towards unpleasant peers or general societies most his age despise. Most of the other kids root for him rather than fear him, diluting his "bully" image.

* MythologyGag: In the 2013 episode "Photo Finish" Beanotown is said to have a rivalry with Fulchester, a town from the adult comic ''{{Viz}}''.

* {{Kissgusting}}: In "The Show Mustn't Go On" Dennis and Angel Face are both unhappy about having to kiss each other in the play, but Angel Face is willing to make that sacrifice if it means getting her face in the paper.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Athena in the new animated series. It's hard to tell whether she's half-caste or heavily tanned. All we know for sure about her ethnicity is her father is white.

* CaptainObviousReveal: In the episode "Constable Menace" it was obvious Angel Face was the culprit, as she was the only one with a motive.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The first adaptation of Dennis the Menace was a puppet series shown on an early cable television station called The Children's Channel during 1990 and 1991. Virtually nothing about the show has been documented online, and the show's existence is rarely acknowledged by DC Thomson. It doesn't even get a mention in the 70th Anniversary book, ''History of the Beano'' or Ray Moore's ''Beano Diaries''.
** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in the case of Beano Diaries, as it was published in 1989.
*** The Beano have recently acknowledged the 1990/1991 series' existence [[http://www.beano.com/characters/dennis-gnasher/fun-zone/1990-dennis-gnasher,-tv-stars! here]] and [[http://www.beano.com/characters/dennis-gnasher/fun-zone/1990-extra!-behind-the-scenes! here]].

* NamesTheSame as the American ''ComicStrip/{{Dennis The Menace|US}}'' character.

[[NamesTheSame One of two]] ComicBook characters known as ''Dennis the Menace'', both being primary school-age boys who frequently get into trouble and make mischief, aided by a pet dog, that were first published in March 1951. This page is about the [[BritishComics British version]] as published in the AnthologyComic ''TheBeano''.

* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: In the 2009 series, Mr. Scrimp was Dad's boss at the rubber bands and paper clips factory. In the 2013 reboot, Scrimp is the mayor and the mayor from the 2009 series is the headmaster of the school.
** This was explained in the comic as being related to the amalgamation of the two secondary schools in Beanotown. Until 2013, there were 2 school; Beanotown school where Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx, Roger the Dodger, Billy Whizz, and most of the other less-famous Beanotown children went, and Bash Street School, where the Bash Street Kids were in class II-B. That is, until the 2013 storyline on the Beano's 75th anniversary when the fairly usual madcap hi-jinks result in the destruction of Bash Street School. Soon after, the children are all sent to the now-enlarged and merged Beanotown secondary school, renamed Beano High. Most of the staff from Bash Street School were taken on at Beano High as additional staff to cope with the effectively-doubled number of students, and keeping the same jobs, with the exception that Mr Headington (the previously unnamed Headmaster of former Bash Street School) was taken on as a new PE teacher (there already being a Headmaster for Beano High).
*** The whole Beano High thing is a massive continuity error - the main characters are only supposed to be 10 years old and therefore still at primary school (the IIB code referred to the second year of the old junior high school system, and is therefore an ArtifactTitle). The Beano High name was never mentioned again, and the school has since always been referred to as Bash Street School.
** In the 2013 series episode "The Omega Menace" there's a purple-haired girl working in a bric-a-brac shop. In the 2009 series episode "Game On" she worked at a company that made computer games.

** In the comics, the redesign of Dennis' parents implied Dennis' Dad is actually the original Dennis, all grown up (and now become the stuffy rule-making father figure he always hated when he was a young Menace). Therefore, the redesigned Dennis (who has had the red and black hoops of his jersey switched, for very observant readers) is actually Dennis Jr, and some fans have come to believe that the fiery redhead who is Dennis Jr's mum might have been (in her younger days), the original Minnie the Minx.

* MoralityPet: Gnasher to Dennis, and one of the few times Dennis is truly upset is when Gnasher goes missing.
* MoreDakka: In one episode of TheNineties cartoon, Dennis and Gnasher got a pair of HumongousMecha which happened to look like them; Gnasher's had an enormous gun pop out of its "nose". Then more guns. Then some [[UpToEleven more]]. Then some '''''[[SerialEscalation more]]'''''. [[spoiler:[[DeconstructedTrope Then it fell over]].]]

* {{Unnamed Parent}}s: Dennis' parents are known as Dennis' Mum and Dennis' Dad, they call each other Mum and Dad. One comic even reveals that those are their actual names.

* UncattyResemblance: Dennis and Gnasher. In Gnasher's first appearance, in which Dennis noticed a number of other pets who looked like their owners, he was basically Dennis's hairstyle with legs.

** This was explained in the comic as being related to the amalgamation of the two secondary schools in Beanotown. Until 2013, there were 2 school; Beanotown school where Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx, Roger the Dodger, Billy Whizz, and most of the other less-famous Beanotown children went, and Bash Street School, where the Bash Street Kids were in class II-B. That is, until the 2013 storyline on the Beano's 75th anniversary when the fairly usual madcap hi-jinks result in the destruction of Bash Street School. Soon after, the children are all sent to the now-enlarged and merged Beanotown secondary school, renamed Beano High. Most of the staff from Bash Street School were taken on at Beano High as additional staff to cope with the effectively-doubled number of students, and keeping the same jobs, with the exception that Mr Headmaster (the Headmaster of former Bash Street School) was taken on as a new PE teacher (there already being a Headmaster for Beano High).

** In the comics, the redesign of Dennis' parents implied Dennis' Dad is actually the original Dennis, all grown up (and now become the stuffy rule-making father figure he always hated when he was a young Menace). Therefore, the redesigned Dennis (who has had the red and black hoops of his jersey switched, for very observant readers) is actually Dennis Jr, and some fans have come to believe that the fiery redhead who is Dennis Jr's mum might have been (in her younger days), the original Minnie the Minx. That can't be however, as Minnie's family has similarly been redesigned, so the original Minnie must be Minnie Jr's mum. (The other big Beano star, Roger the Dodger, got the same redesigning as both Dennis and Minnie, all at the same time)

* AnimatedAdaptation: A couple, the most memorable being TheBBC's 1996 two-season series ''Dennis the Menace'', or ''Dennis and Gnasher'' [[MarketBasedTitle internationally]]. Though the same character, more or less, this Dennis managed to have random bouts of heroism here and there.

* CrossOver: one episode of the animated series had Dennis enter a contest on ''BluePeter'', complete with the animated presenters being voiced by the actual ([[LongRunners at the time]]) presenters of the show.