History WesternAnimation / DangerMouse

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'''DM:''' Oh, just like, um...[[RobinHood Thingamybob!]]

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Danger Moth has a susceptibility to bright lights, following them intently if shone in her eyes. But only male moths home in on light and not because of the luminescence, it's because it produces a scent similar to the pheromones of female moths. So being a female moth, Danger Moth would not be interested in lights at all, nor susceptible to them.

** The debut episode of the 2015 reboot has Colonel K firing Danger Mouse for destroying London while trying to stop the Frog's Head Flyer (which was controlled by Greenback's newly-introduced ally Panda-Minion, who explains he bought it on Website/EBay).

* PteroSoarer: One menaces DM in his flying car in "150 Million Years Lost".

** When DM foils Duckula's plan to control the world through television, Duckula's WeWillMeetAgain speech is that if there's one thing DM has taught him, it's that a TV series can always come back.

* BizarroUniverse: The Tower of Terror. Also, "Rhyme And Punishment" and the "potty part of the Universe" in "Custard."

* BigShadowLittleCreature:
** In the cold open of "Welcome to Danger World!", DM and Penfold enter a cave where a flickering light casts an enormous dragon shadow on the wall. The dragon itself turns out to be smaller than Penfold.
** Isambard King Kong Brunel's introduction in "The Inventor Preventer".

* AttentionWhore: Both versions of Count Duckula
** More so the reboot Duckula, who got jealous of the negative attention Danger Mouse was getting from an angry mob planning to ''kill'' him, simply because they were trying to kill him while Duckula was preforming.

-->'''Colonel K:''' They don't call him El Loco for nothing.\\

-->'''Professor Squawkencluck:''' Not even my translation device.\\

* AllJustADream: The episode "Danger Mouse Saves The World...Again."
* AmbiguouslyGay:
** The official Danger Mouse Twitter account posted a screencap of Penfold proposing to DM for International Proposal Day.
** A screenshot of DM's identification documents also lists Penfold under "Spouse".

-->'''Quark:''' Jangs, [[LampshadeHanging when I find the idiot what programmed you]]...

A revival of the show consisting of 52 episodes was announced in June 2014, 23 years after the end of its original run and 5 since the closing of Cosgrove Hall. Creator/AlexanderArmstrong has been tapped to voice Danger Mouse with Creator/KevinEldon as Penfold, Creator/StephenFry as Colonel K, and Dave Lamb as the narrator. Shauna [=McDonald=] will voice a female Professor Squawkencluck, the niece of the original Professor Squawkencluck. Production of the new series, which debuted in 2015, is at Creator/BoulderMedia in Ireland and CHF Entertainment in Wilmslow, Cheshire (a reincarnation of Cosgrove Hall that has also produced ''WesternAnimation/PipAhoy''). [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dmq13dD47g Watch a trailer for the revival here.]]

* ActionGirl: Professor Squawkencluck and Jeopardy Mouse in the 2015 reboot. Possibly Danger Moth as well, being female and an agent.

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: The location of the villain's hideout in "Planet of the Toilets".

** In "Danger Mouse On The Orient Express", DM exclaims that Greenback's plans to eliminate all of Europe's tourist sites and force tourists to visit his museum of Barry Manilow record sleeves will "bring the world to its knees!"

* PlotDrivenBreakdown: The Mark III's in the shop in "Danger Mouse on the Orien Express" to force him to ride the train so the episode can happen.

--->'''DM:''' No go, Colonel. Tell Mrs PM to ask {{Superman}}. Wednesday's his half-day.

** Parodied in "A Loo to A Kill", where, [[WereStillRelevantDammit to stay fresh with the current state of characterisation in media]], the directors of ''Danger Mouse: The Movie'' make Penfold into a girl.

** Over time, this has also been applied to [[GadgeteerGenius Professor Squawkencluck]] and [[DistaffCounterpart Jeopardy Mouse]], almost in response to early accusations of PositiveDiscrimination. Whilst still very temperamental and snarky, a more humorous and endearing side to Squawkencluck has become more evident (Like doing a dance and singing ''"Go Squawky, go Squawky, get your groove on!"'' when eagerly revealing Big Head 2.0 in "Escape from Big Head", and having a massive fear of clowns as seen in "Attack of the Clowns"), whilst Jeopardy Mouse gets more [[TheComicallySerious comically-serious]] moments, along with a few demonstrating she's not that different from her British counterpart.

** Taken UpToEleven in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iURK1rareA0 2015 intro]]-- with DM dodging exploding lasers to rescue Penfold from giant laser cannons, the two leaping off a cliff to dodge the [[ExplosiveOverclocking resulting explosion]], causing them to skydive and glide over a lava pit far below with a [[NotQuiteFlight wing-suit]] and landing in the FlyingCar with it, flying through a stylised London and giant glass Union Flag (Whilst dodging the raining shards at high speed), before [[EjectionSeat ejecting out]] to [[IndyEscape dodge the giant rolling bomb]] that makes up the title logo. And all to an exciting modernised version of the classic theme, no less!

** In "Melted", she takes this UpToEleven by threatening to melt the polar ice caps and flood the entire world, all just to reenact her favorite movie.

** Creator/RobertRedford, Creator/ClintEastwood, [[Creator/BjornBorg Björn Borg]], Creator/JimmyConnors, Music/TheRollingStones, Creator/FredAstaire and Music/BarryManilow have also had their names dropped on the show.