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They're all just humans LARPing as their catsonas in a junkyard and getting REALLY into it. After the ball they wash off the makeup and go back to their mediocre human lives.

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They're all just humans LARPing [=LARPing=] as their catsonas in a junkyard and getting REALLY into it. After the ball they wash off the makeup and go back to their mediocre human lives.
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* Bombalurina seems a bit excited when singing about Macavity - EvilIsSexy?

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* Bombalurina seems a bit excited when singing about Macavity - EvilIsSexy?does she find him hot?
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** Alternatively, it takes place in the same universe as ''WesternAnimation/{{Felidae}}'', and the Jellicle Cats are an offshoot of the Claudandus sect. Some of their religious beliefs and rituals regarding death and rebirth could be seen as eerily lining up with those of the sect.
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He looks so happy aboard his train. He also doesn't even show up on time, so winning doesn't seem to be a great priority for him.

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He looks so happy aboard his train. He also doesn't even show up on time, so winning doesn't seem to be a great priority for him.him.

[[WMG: Grizabella's fall from grace was being Macavity's moll on the sly, but no one believes she wasn't complicit.]]

* Entirely because of her costume design, I'll admit; the big fur coat, the sassy heels despite being way too old to walk in them, the runny mascara; she was Macavity's gangster girlfriend and an accessory to all the things that make him a known bad presence at the start of the story, but her feelings were genuine; all she's ever wanted is to be loved and admired when she was glamorous and part of that glamor came from being with him. The other cats keep the kittens away from her because of her association with him in the past, and they don't believe she's really changed because she's living the end of a BreakTheHaughty series of events.
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[[WMG: the cats are actually dogs:]]

i hate all of you.
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[[WMG: the cats are actually dogs:]]

i hate all of you.
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* Jellylorum/Asparagus - This troper has always felt they were a couple and the pair take care of the older Gus together (especially fueled by the 1998 film).
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* Jellylorum is the daughter of Gus the theatre cat. They have a close caring relationship and she has heard his stories enough to able to prompt him and fill in the blanks when he falters probably because she heard them all many times whilst growing up. Similarly Victoria and Etcetera are her kittens. Etcetera has similar colouring and Jellylorum is the queen with the most white in her coat. Also whilst Jellylorum is very protective of the younger cats its mainly Etcetera and Victoria that she focuses her attention on trying to protect them from McCavity and Grizzabella and she is the one they run to when scared.

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* Jellylorum is the daughter of Gus the theatre cat. They have a close caring relationship and she has heard his stories enough to able to prompt him and fill in the blanks when he falters probably because she heard them all many times whilst growing up. Similarly Victoria and Etcetera are her kittens. Etcetera has similar colouring and Jellylorum is the queen with the most white in her coat. Also whilst Jellylorum is very protective of the younger cats its mainly Etcetera and Victoria that she focuses her attention on trying to protect them from McCavity Macavity and Grizzabella and she is the one they run to when scared.
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With Macavity's monstrous repertoire, it wouldn't be surprising for him to stoop this low. It would certainly explain why Grizabella seems so [[BrokenBird broken]] now and why she's no longer allied with him or the Jellicles (Macavity likely threw her out when she [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness ceased to benefit him or he simply got bored with her]]).

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With Macavity's monstrous repertoire, it wouldn't be surprising for him to stoop this low.low, and he is said to have broken every human law. It would certainly explain why Grizabella seems so [[BrokenBird broken]] now and why she's no longer allied with him or the Jellicles (Macavity likely threw her out when she [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness ceased to benefit him or he simply got bored with her]]).
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With Macavity's monstrous repertoire, it wouldn't be surprising for him to stoop this low. It would certainly explain why Grizabella seems so [[BrokenBird broken]] now and why she's no longer allied with him or the Jellicles (Macavity likely threw her out when she [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness ceased to benefit him or he simply got bored with her]]).

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With Macavity's monstrous repertoire, it wouldn't be surprising for him to stoop this low. It would certainly explain why Grizabella seems so [[BrokenBird broken]] now and why she's no longer allied with him or the Jellicles (Macavity likely threw her out when she [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness ceased to benefit him or he simply got bored with her]]).her]]).
[[WMG: Skimbleshanks is a previous winner of the Jellicle Choice.]]
He looks so happy aboard his train. He also doesn't even show up on time, so winning doesn't seem to be a great priority for him.
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The movie makes canon the {{fanon}} that her DarkAndTroubledPast and fall from grace heavily involved him. In the end, he tries to hijack the balloon, she looks down, but then he slips and falls to his DisneyVillainDeath on his own -- more than a little anticlimactic after everything he's done and how much he's been built up. Having the character whose life he ruined turn it around on him would have made more sense. It's possible that since the film was marketed to a family audience, censors didn't want a sympathetic character getting her hands dirty.

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The movie makes canon the {{fanon}} that her DarkAndTroubledPast and fall from grace heavily involved him. In the end, he tries to hijack the balloon, she looks down, but then he slips and falls to his DisneyVillainDeath on his own -- more than a little anticlimactic after everything he's done and how much he's been built up. Having the character whose life he ruined turn it around on him would have made more sense. It's possible that since the film was marketed to a family audience, censors didn't want a sympathetic character getting her hands dirty.dirty.

[[WMG:Under the assumption that Macavity and Grizabella were lovers once, Macavity was a DomesticAbuser]]
With Macavity's monstrous repertoire, it wouldn't be surprising for him to stoop this low. It would certainly explain why Grizabella seems so [[BrokenBird broken]] now and why she's no longer allied with him or the Jellicles (Macavity likely threw her out when she [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness ceased to benefit him or he simply got bored with her]]).
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[[WMG:In the film, Grizabella was supposed to [[spoiler:push Macavity off the balloon.]]]]
The movie makes canon the {{fanon}} that her DarkAndTroubledPast and fall from grace heavily involved him. In the end, [[spoiler:he tries to hijack the balloon, she looks down, but then he slips and falls to his DisneyVillainDeath on his own -- more than a little anticlimactic after everything he's done and how much he's been built up. Having the character whose life he ruined turn it around on him would have made more sense.]] It's possible that since the film was marketed to a family audience, censors didn't want a sympathetic character getting her hands dirty.

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The movie makes canon the {{fanon}} that her DarkAndTroubledPast and fall from grace heavily involved him. In the end, [[spoiler:he he tries to hijack the balloon, she looks down, but then he slips and falls to his DisneyVillainDeath on his own -- more than a little anticlimactic after everything he's done and how much he's been built up. Having the character whose life he ruined turn it around on him would have made more sense.]] It's possible that since the film was marketed to a family audience, censors didn't want a sympathetic character getting her hands dirty.
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[[WMG:In the film, Grizabella was supposed to [[spoiler:push Macavity off the balloon]].]]

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* Mr. Mistoffelees's song, much like the Rum Tum Tugger's, suggest that he has a house and a human family taking care of him ("I've known the family to call\Him in from the garden for hours\While he was asleep in the hall"). Since the Rum Tum Tugger is the one cat who knows about how Mistoffelees' magical antics confound his family, it's possible that he used to live at the same household as Mistoffelees or even that he is currently living with him. Prehaps the Rum Tum Tugger speaks so foundly of Mistoffelees because he helped him find a human family who can tolerate his antics, since they already have to deal with Mistoffelees as another 'difficult' cat.

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* Mr. Mistoffelees's song, much like the Rum Tum Tugger's, suggest that he has a house and a human family taking care of him ("I've known the family to call\Him in from the garden for hours\While he was asleep in the hall"). Since the Rum Tum Tugger is the one cat who knows about how Mistoffelees' magical antics confound his family, it's possible that he used to live at the same household as Mistoffelees or even that he is currently living with him. Prehaps Perhaps the Rum Tum Tugger speaks so foundly fondly of Mistoffelees because he helped him find a human family who can tolerate his antics, since they already have to deal with Mistoffelees as another 'difficult' cat.cat.

[[WMG:In the film, Grizabella was supposed to [[spoiler:push Macavity off the balloon]].]]
The movie makes canon the {{fanon}} that her DarkAndTroubledPast and fall from grace heavily involved him. In the end, [[spoiler:he tries to hijack the balloon, she looks down, but then he slips and falls to his DisneyVillainDeath on his own -- more than a little anticlimactic after everything he's done and how much he's been built up. Having the character whose life he ruined turn it around on him would have made more sense.]] It's possible that since the film was marketed to a family audience, censors didn't want a sympathetic character getting her hands dirty.

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Mr. Mistoffelees' Magic was originally just the things described in his song; that is just being a sneaky and quiet cat, taking small objects and leaving them in unusual places, people thinking he's in one part of the house while he was actually elsewhere - which are all mundane cat-stuff. However, as his family started to call him 'Magical' because he kept doing those things, he started to develop actual magical powers. But it's only his humans and Rum Tum Tugger (or Victoria and Munkustrap in the 2019 version) who believe he's 'actually magic', and so his powers are more limited than Macavity. Singing 'Magical Mister Mistoffelees' was more then just RuleOfCool or MusicForCourage, the other cats had to be convinced that Mr. Mistoffelees IS magical for him to be powerful enough to overcome Macavity.

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Mr. Mistoffelees' Magic was originally just the things described in his song; that is just being a sneaky and quiet cat, taking small objects and leaving them in unusual places, people thinking he's in one part of the house while he was actually elsewhere - which are all mundane cat-stuff. However, as his family started to call him 'Magical' because he kept doing those things, he started to develop actual magical powers. But it's only his humans and Rum Tum Tugger (or Victoria and Munkustrap in the 2019 version) who believe he's 'actually magic', and so his powers are more limited than Macavity. Singing 'Magical Mister Mistoffelees' was more then just RuleOfCool or MusicForCourage, the other cats had to be convinced that Mr. Mistoffelees IS magical for him to be powerful enough to overcome Macavity.Macavity.

[[WMG: The Jellicle Cats and their homes .]]
It's common to assume all or most of the Jellicle Cats are street-cats (in fact, a lot of translations of Cats who don't want to bother with translating the nonsense word 'Jellicle' decide to just call them 'the Street Cats'), but a lot of them have songs that indicate that they are cared for by humans. To go over them in more detail

* Jennyanydots, the Old Gumbie Cat, is obviously domestic cat that lives with a human family.
* The Rum Tum Tugger's song has lyrics that only make sense if he had human caretakers and a house ("When you let me in then I wanna go out\I'm always on the wrong side of every door\And as soon as I get home then I like to get about") but there's nothing to say that he's a housecat CURRENTLY. My WMG is that he has been adopted and abandoned many times by humans who ended up exasperated by his antics (which he tries to paint as a point of pride for himself). "If you put me in a house I would much prefer a flat\If you put me in a flat then I'd rather have house" because he switches homes so frequently.
* Grizabella the Glamour Cat was originally a beautiful Jellicle Street-Cat. She was adopted by a rich human, where she decided to cut ties with her fellow Jellicles. But due to age or sickness hurting her beauty, she was cruelly abandoned by her owner and forced back to the street, while the Jellicles have yet to forgive her for abandoning them. She lives on the harsher sides of London to avoid her former owner and possibly Jellicle territory.
* Bustopher Jones is, after all, the "St. James *Street Cat*". For the Jellicles, being a Domestic Cat doesn't necasserly equate to a higher status or a Street Cat to a lower status. Bustopher Jones is a Street Cat who lives on one of the most prestigious streets in London and is well-beloved by all the restaurant and club owners, who feed him regularly. Housecats like Jennyanydots consider themselves as having 'jobs' (that is, taking care of the mice, rats and bugs at the house. Jenny just has a unique approach to it), making someone like Bustopher - who gets fed delicious leftovers by humans without having to catch a single rodent - the cat equivalent of the IdleRich.
* Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer 'Make [their] home in Victoria Grove\This is merely [their] centre of operation, for [they] are incurably given to rove.' suggesting that they live with a human family there, but often roam away from their home to cause trouble to other families as well as their own. Since they say they 'have no regular occupation', they might be Housecats who don't do the regular mouse-hunting job of a Housecat.
* Old Deuteronomy's song mentions he is currently living in 'the village' rather than London. Prehaps that's another reason for the Jellicles to be so excited for the Jellicle Ball, they don't get to see their beloved leader often since he lives away from the city. But he doesn't seem to live with any spesific family there, he's just kind of the 'village's cat' (or possibly the whole village is Deuteronomy's). Of course, with how long-lived he is, it's possible that he had a human family at least for a while.
* Gus the Theatre Cat and Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat are both in a similar situation; they are not street-cats, but also not house-cats. They live in public establishments (the theatre for Gus and the Night Mail Train for Skimbleshanks), technically 'employed' as mousers (although Gus is too old for that now) but consider themselves as working in the field of that establishment (Gus is an actor because he's also the theatre's go-to cat for productions and Skimbleshanks thinks he's the real boss of the railway.).
* Macavity is described as neglected and disheveled, so he probably doesn't have any humans taking care of him, and if he does - they're probably not taking very good care of him.
* Mr. Mistoffelees's song, much like the Rum Tum Tugger's, suggest that he has a house and a human family taking care of him ("I've known the family to call\Him in from the garden for hours\While he was asleep in the hall"). Since the Rum Tum Tugger is the one cat who knows about how Mistoffelees' magical antics confound his family, it's possible that he used to live at the same household as Mistoffelees or even that he is currently living with him. Prehaps the Rum Tum Tugger speaks so foundly of Mistoffelees because he helped him find a human family who can tolerate his antics, since they already have to deal with Mistoffelees as another 'difficult' cat.

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If she’s chosen she will no longer prey upon them as she so casually does. So they entertain her “lessons” and teachings in hopes that she will be the Jellicle Choice and thus leave them alone. It’s incredibly clear from their facial expressions that they are in utter horror being around her no matte how nice and quirky she seems. She even refers to the mice as dinner and a show.

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If she’s chosen she will no longer prey upon them as she so casually does. So they entertain her “lessons” and teachings in hopes that she will be the Jellicle Choice and thus leave them alone. It’s incredibly clear from their facial expressions that they are in utter horror being around her no matte how nice and quirky she seems. She even refers to the mice as dinner and a show.show.

[[WMG: Feline Magic is powered by [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve the Power of Belief]] .]]
That is, if humans or other cats believe a cat has magical powers, they will begin to manifest them. Macavity was originally just a troublemaking cat not unlike Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer, but smarter and subtler. He was simply clever and sneaky enough to avoid being found at the scene of the crime. As humans started jokingly referring to him as a 'Demon in Feline-Shape', or as if he has flying and teleportation powers, he started to become an actually magically-inclined cat and from there his crimes only grew. Bombalurina and Demeter might have just meant to warn the other cats (espacially the younger kittens) about Macavity, but they accidently made him powerful enough to kidnap Old Deuteronomy. (And in the 2019 Movie, Bombalurina works for Macavity, and the song is an intentional 'power-up' on her part). At the end of the Movie, he seemed to lose his powers of teleportation, prehaps because the other cats stopped being afraid of him and that significantly weakened his magic.
Old Deuteronomy was just a regular old cat a long, long time ago. But because he was kinda unusually old for a cat and looked very serene and wise, humans and cats alike started revearing him and running rumors about just how old he is - granting him immortality.
Mr. Mistoffelees' Magic was originally just the things described in his song; that is just being a sneaky and quiet cat, taking small objects and leaving them in unusual places, people thinking he's in one part of the house while he was actually elsewhere - which are all mundane cat-stuff. However, as his family started to call him 'Magical' because he kept doing those things, he started to develop actual magical powers. But it's only his humans and Rum Tum Tugger (or Victoria and Munkustrap in the 2019 version) who believe he's 'actually magic', and so his powers are more limited than Macavity. Singing 'Magical Mister Mistoffelees' was more then just RuleOfCool or MusicForCourage, the other cats had to be convinced that Mr. Mistoffelees IS magical for him to be powerful enough to overcome Macavity.
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And to make matters even awesomer, he belongs to Moriarty as played by [[Series/Sherlock Andrew Scott]]
* Adding to this [[ Series/Sherlock Sherlock]] crossover WMG, what if Macavity is actually Molly's cat, Toby? And Macavity is actually Toby's secret name? Moriarty did spend a lot of time around Toby at one point.

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And to make matters even awesomer, he belongs to Moriarty as played by [[Series/Sherlock Andrew Scott]]
Scott in Sherlock
* Adding to this [[ Series/Sherlock Sherlock]] this crossover WMG, what if Macavity is actually Molly's cat, Toby? And Macavity is actually Toby's secret name? Moriarty did spend a lot of time around Toby at one point.
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And to make matters even awesomer, he belongs to Moriarty as played by Andrew Scott.
* Adding to this Sherlock crossover WMG, what if Macavity is actually Molly's cat, Toby? And Macavity is actually Toby's secret name? Moriarty did spend a lot of time around Toby at one point.

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And to make matters even awesomer, he belongs to Moriarty as played by [[Series/Sherlock Andrew Scott.
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* Adding to this Sherlock [[ Series/Sherlock Sherlock]] crossover WMG, what if Macavity is actually Molly's cat, Toby? And Macavity is actually Toby's secret name? Moriarty did spend a lot of time around Toby at one point.
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* Adding to this WMG, what if Macavity is actually Molly's cat, Toby? And Macavity is actually Toby's secret name? Moriarty did spend a lot of time around Toby at one point.

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* Adding to this Sherlock crossover WMG, what if Macavity is actually Molly's cat, Toby? And Macavity is actually Toby's secret name? Moriarty did spend a lot of time around Toby at one point.
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* Adding to this WMG, what if Macavity is actually Molly's cat, Toby and Macavity is Toby's secret name? Moriarty did spend a lot of time around Toby at one point.

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* Adding to this WMG, what if Macavity is actually Molly's cat, Toby and Toby? And Macavity is actually Toby's secret name? Moriarty did spend a lot of time around Toby at one point.
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** Alternatively, of course, the FairFolk have ''always'' secretly manifested as the creatures we know as cats.
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There are no humans in the movie because they're hiding. They all know what night the Jallicle Ball happens, and they know that gazing upon the "cats" for any length of time [[GoMadFromTheRevelation will drive the average person to madness]].

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There are no humans in the movie because they're hiding. They all know what night the Jallicle Ball happens, and they know that gazing upon the "cats" for any length of time [[GoMadFromTheRevelation will drive the average person to madness]].madness]].

[[WMG: The Mice and Cockroaches hate/fear Jennyanydots.]]
If she’s chosen she will no longer prey upon them as she so casually does. So they entertain her “lessons” and teachings in hopes that she will be the Jellicle Choice and thus leave them alone. It’s incredibly clear from their facial expressions that they are in utter horror being around her no matte how nice and quirky she seems. She even refers to the mice as dinner and a show.
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They didn't want to deal with the white cats are deaf angle, so Victoria isn't pure white but has some stripes on her tail and rosette markings on her back. The typical Bengal is curious, inquisitive and playful much like Victoria. Ironically, Bengals have no hearing problems but a tendency to develop vision problems.

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They didn't want to deal with the white cats are deaf angle, so Victoria isn't pure white but has some stripes on her tail and rosette markings on her back. The typical Bengal is curious, inquisitive and playful much like Victoria. Ironically, Bengals have no hearing problems but a tendency to develop vision problems.problems.

[[WMG: The cats in the film [[CallASmeerpARabbit are not actually cats,]] but some variety of the FairFolk.]]
There are no humans in the movie because they're hiding. They all know what night the Jallicle Ball happens, and they know that gazing upon the "cats" for any length of time [[GoMadFromTheRevelation will drive the average person to madness]].
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...While also somehow being set in Edwardian-era London. There are 0 humans throughout the entire film.

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...While also somehow being set in Edwardian-era London. There are 0 humans throughout the entire film.film.
* You do see the legs of the woman who abandons Victoria. Speaking of her....

[[WMG: In the film, Victoria is a snowy Bengal.]]
They didn't want to deal with the white cats are deaf angle, so Victoria isn't pure white but has some stripes on her tail and rosette markings on her back. The typical Bengal is curious, inquisitive and playful much like Victoria. Ironically, Bengals have no hearing problems but a tendency to develop vision problems.

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