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* ProperLady: Miss Bianca is very refined and elegant. The first book compares he to a French noblewoman at the court of Louis XV.
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* SpoiledSweet: Miss Bianca is spoilt and vain, especially in the first book, but she's also kind, generous, and selfless to those in need.
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* ProperLady: Miss Bianca, naturally.



* SpoiledSweet: Miss Bianca, especially in the first book.
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* TheBeautifulElite: Miss Bianca is described as taking Bernard's breath away when he first sees her.
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* NicGuy: Bernard is loyal, courageous, kind, and unassuming.

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* NicGuy: NiceGuy: Bernard is loyal, courageous, kind, and unassuming.

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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Poet whose rescue forms the plot of the first book.

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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Miss Bianca's owner is only ever referred to as the Boy. There's also the Boy's Tutor; his parents, the Ambassador and Ambassadress; and of course the Poet whose rescue forms the plot of the first book.


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* NicGuy: Bernard is loyal, courageous, kind, and unassuming.


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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: In the first book, Nils manages to navigate hundreds of miles to the Prisoners' Aid Society headquarters with nothing more than a toy boat and a picture of a lady's hat which he mistakenly thinks is a map.
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Poet whose rescue forms the plot of the first book.


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* GuileHero: In the first book, Miss Bianca manages to trick the cat Mamelouk into revealing vital information which helps them rescue the Poet.


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* ProperLady: Miss Bianca, naturally.


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* TooDumbToLive: Miss Bianca has her moments in the first book, due to the extremely sheltered life she's hitherto enjoyed. In particular, she leaves the safety of her mouse-hole to say hello to the cat Mamelouk, and only survives because he's too surprised at her idiocy to kill her then and there.
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* ExactWords: The last sentence of ''Miss Bianca and the Bridesmaid'' informs us that this is "the last tale of Bernard and Miss Bianca and the M.P.A.S." The beginning of ''Bernard the Brave'' gets around this by saying that this story is just about Bernard, with Miss Bianca and the Society being relegated to the background.

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* ExactWords: The last sentence of ''Miss Bianca and the Bridesmaid'' informs us that this it is "the last tale of Bernard and Miss Bianca and the M.P.A.S." The beginning of ''Bernard the Brave'' gets around this by saying that this the story is just about Bernard, with Miss Bianca and the Society being relegated to the background.
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* ExactWords: The last sentence of ''Miss Bianca and the Bridesmaid'' informs us that this is "the last tale of Bernard and Miss Bianca and the M.P.A.S." The beginning of ''Bernard the Brave'' gets around this by saying that this story is just about Bernard, with Miss Bianca and the Society being relegated to the background.
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* YouDirtyRat: The last book sees Bernard fight off a gang of rats who attempt to occupy the Prisoners' Aid Society headquarters.

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* YouDirtyRat: The last book sees Bernard fight off a gang of rats who attempt to occupy the Prisoners' Aid Society headquarters.embassy where the mice all live.
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* DoggedNiceGuy: Bernard, of the "Low-Key Yearning" variety.

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* NoRomanticResolution: Despite their mutual attraction, Miss Bianca feels that the class difference between her and Bernard is too great for them to ever be more than friends. As of the last book, it's still unclear how, if at all, this situation is finally resolved.

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* NiceMice: The Mouse Prisoners' Aid Society, an international organisation dedicated to comforting human prisoners.
* NoRomanticResolution: Despite their mutual attraction, Miss Bianca feels that the class difference between her herself and Bernard is too great for them to ever be more than friends. As of the last book, it's still unclear how, if at all, this situation is finally resolved.



* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: In ''Miss Bianca'', it is Bernard's desperate, last ditch throwing of his dagger that causes the villain to lose his grip on the ladder, leading to his ultimate defeat.

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* SpoiledSweet: Miss Bianca, especially in the first book.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: In ''Miss Bianca'', it is Bernard's desperate, last ditch throwing of his dagger that causes the villain to lose his grip on the ladder, leading to his ultimate defeat. defeat.
* TookALevelInBadass: Miss Bianca starts the first book as a pampered, timorous pet mouse who literally faints in terror after Bernard asks her to go on a mission for the Mouse Prisoners' Aid Society. By the beginning of the second book, she's become one of the bravest and most competent of the Society's operatives.
* YouDirtyRat: The last book sees Bernard fight off a gang of rats who attempt to occupy the Prisoners' Aid Society headquarters.

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* NoRomanticResolution: Despite their mutual attraction, Miss Bianca feels that the class difference between her and Bernard is too great for them to ever be more than friends. As of the last book, it's still unclear how, if at all, this situation is finally resolved.



* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: In ''The Rescuers'', it is Bernard's desperate, last ditch throwing of his dagger that causes the villain to lose his grip on the ladder, leading to his ultimate defeat.

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* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: In ''The Rescuers'', ''Miss Bianca'', it is Bernard's desperate, last ditch throwing of his dagger that causes the villain to lose his grip on the ladder, leading to his ultimate defeat.
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The series inspired the Disney films ''Disney/TheRescuers'' and ''Disney/TheRescuersDownUnder''.

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The series inspired the Disney films ''Disney/TheRescuers'' ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'' and ''Disney/TheRescuersDownUnder''.
''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder''.
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* RobotGirl: The villain of the second book has a bunch of clockwork serving girls made for her to tell the time with.

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* RobotGirl: The villain of the second book has a bunch of clockwork serving girls made for her likes to tell the time with.with her maid-servants curtseying - but the girls she hires can't take the strain of standing in place for hours on end. So she has clockwork servants made instead.
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The series inspired the Disney films ''Disney/TheRescuers'' and ''TheRescuersDownUnder''.

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The series inspired the Disney films ''Disney/TheRescuers'' and ''TheRescuersDownUnder''.
''Disney/TheRescuersDownUnder''.
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* RobotGirl: The villain of the second book has a bunch of clockwork girls made.

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* RobotGirl: The villain of the second book has a bunch of clockwork serving girls made.made for her to tell the time with.
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People travel via airplane all the time, and at one point Bernard makes some wine and explicitly marks them \"\'62.\" Don\'t ask me where all of the dungeons and prisoners are coming from, but the books are contemporary as of when they were written.


* TheMiddleAges: While the Disney films have a fairly contemporary, [[CulturalTranslation Americanized]] setting, the original books deal with prisoners, dungeons, castles, palaces, etc.

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* PrettyInMink: Miss Bianca has a fur cape in the books.


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* PrettyInMink: Miss Bianca has a fur cape in the books.
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* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: In ''The Rescuers'', it is Bernard's desperate, last ditch throwing of his dagger that causes the villain to lose his grip on the ladder, leading to his ultimate defeat.

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''The Rescuers'' is a series of children's novels by Margery Sharp.

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''The Rescuers'' is a series of children's novels written by Margery Sharp.
Sharp and illustrated by Garth Williams.
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* PolarBearsAndPenguins: ''Miss Bianca in the Antarctic'' features polar bears -- who explain that they're visiting from the Arctic on a cultural exchange program.


* TheMiddleAges: While the Disney films have a fairly contemporary, [[{{Americanization}} Americanized]] setting, the original books deal with prisoners, dungeons, castles, palaces, etc.

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* TheMiddleAges: While the Disney films have a fairly contemporary, [[{{Americanization}} [[CulturalTranslation Americanized]] setting, the original books deal with prisoners, dungeons, castles, palaces, etc.

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