Line #99 Animation/CatCity


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3	''Cat City'' (''Macskafogó'') is a 1986 Hungarian animated film created at Creator/PannoniaFilmStudio about mice being oppressed by cats.
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5	The movie opens with a ''Franchise/StarWars''-style [[OpeningScroll text scroll]], which [[{{Exposition}} tells the main situation]]: In year 80 AM (Anno WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse), the mice of Planet X are threatened by humiliation and total apocalypse. The well-organized, fully equipped gangs of evil cats are aiming to wipe out the mouse civilization totally, not caring for the old conventions between mice and cats. But in the last moment, when the mouse leaders are beginning to consider leaving the planet, a new hope rises...
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7	The film is a parody of several famous feature films, mainly the Film/JamesBond series. The main plot is about a special spy who is sent to the city of "Pokyo" to get the secret plan of a machine which could save the mouse civilization. Of course, the cats don't want this to happen, and send some rat gangsters to stop him, who don't always prove as efficient as their presentation showed.
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9	In 2007, the film was followed by ''Macskafogó 2: A Sátán macskája'', a sequel that focuses on a mouse journalist, Stanley, who finds a tribe of untamed cats in the jungles of "Pafrika". The cats summon a demon cat, Moloch, to take the world back from the mice.
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12	!!The film provides examples of:
13	* AbusiveParents: Safranek is an abusive father to Cathy, forbidding her to befriend Samu the mouse and even refusing to give her dinner after catching the two playing.
14	* TheAce: Nick Grabowski. Although he insists that he's burnt-out, he still manages to get the plans, and ''memorise'' them after one look at them. He's also excellent at fighting, coming up with innovative solutions when getting in trouble, and changing his voice.
15	* AffablyEvil: The vampire bats don't even try to hide their intention to suck Lusta Dick's blood. Despite this, they are very friendly with him, even granting him a last request.
16	* AffectionateParody: Mostly of ''Film/JamesBond'' and other spy/action movies but basically everything that was popular in the 80s.
17	* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The cats inherently despise mice, treating them as underlings or as food. The only exception is the CuteKitten [[ChildrenAreInnocent Cathy]].
18	* AlwaysLawfulGood: Every single mouse character is benevolent.
19	* AlternateCalendar: According to the text scroll, the movie sets in 80 AMM (After WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse).
20	* AnimalsNotToScale: There is no established hight scale between the characters except a vague mouse<rat<cat one. Best seen in the case of the rats who can look barely bigger than a mouse in one scene and almost as tall as the cats in the other. See YourSizeMayVary for more detail.
21	* ArtificialLimbs: Teufel has a metallic left hand with really sharp claws.
22	* BadBoss: Teufel to Safranek and Gatto to Teufel. Implied that Gatto tolerates failure even worse than Teufel, when Safranek immediately accepts Teufel's punishment instead of risking Gatto hearing about it.
23	* {{Bandito}}: The bats are stereotypical, sombrero- and poncho-wearing, gun-wielding Mexican bandits.
24	* BankRobbery: The film opens with one, where a gang of cats attack a mouse bank - with a tank.
25	* BatOutOfHell: Subverted. While initially posing a threat to Lazy Dick (threatening to suck his blood), the bat bandits eventually befriend him.
26	* BigBad: Mr. Gatto is the leader of the cat syndicate, who wants to rule over the mice once and for all.
27	* BigFun: Maxipotzac, the leader of the vampire bats, is portly and very friendly and jovial, even with his potential prey.
28	* BigRedButton: There's one in the rats' CoolCar.
29	* BilingualBonus: Lots of it. Teufel's name is a twofold example: it means "Devil" in German, but sounds like "tejfel", which means "sour cream" in Hungarian. For further examples see HurricaneOfPuns below.
30	* BlackComedy: Through and through. From the comical abuse Safranek suffers from Teufel's hand, to the over-the-top music video about the rats murdering mice, to jokes about the vampire bats sucking blood, the film practically runs on black comedy.
31	* BloodsuckingBats: The bat bandits kidnap Dick with the intention of sucking his blood. Luckily, Dick's musical skills make them change their mind.
32	--> '''Maxipotzac:''' Pedro, we're going to eat canned blood tonight. It would be a shame to waste this talent!
33	* BodyHorror: Though there's no blood or visible damage, it's still rather disturbing to see [[spoiler: Grabowski with a ''lock through his lips'' during the climax at the party.]]
34	* BottomlessMagazines: The battle scene near the end of the movie.
35	* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: At the end of the film, this happens to the cats defeated by the Cat Catcher.
36	* BrainyBrunette: Pissy, the OnlySaneWoman among the rats.
37	* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Grabowski has a letter "G" on the shirt he wears in most of the film.
38	* ButtMonkey: Teufel regularly vents his anger on poor Safranek.
39	* CardCarryingVillain: The rats. They have an entire music video to promote themselves as gangsters. Which might be the invoking of this trope as they try to get work with it. Later they also mention that their choices are this or jumping around in a {{ballet}} making them pretty much {{Punch Clock Villain}}s.
40	* ADogNamedDog: The Italian word for cat is gatto, so Mr Gatto is a cat named cat.
41	* CatsAreMean: TheMovie. Every cat is [[AlwaysChaoticEvil villainous by default]], with the exception of Cathy, the daughter of Safranek.
42	* CatStereotype: Mr. Gatto, the high-class mafia boss, is a fat white Persian. Teufel, the dark grey cat, certainly means bad luck. Safranek, the ginger cat is the most humble and the least mean of the main cat characters.
43	* TheCavalry: The attack of Lazy Dick and the bat bandits on Mr. Gatto's party.
44	* TheChainOfHarm: [[TheDon Mr. Gatto]] is a threatening, menacing boss to Teufel, who in turn constantly torments his assistant Safranek, who is [[AbusiveParents a mean, cold parent]] to his daughter Cathy.
45	* ChekhovsGunman: Lazy Dick and the bat bandits. The bats are literal gunmen.
46	* ChekhovsSkill: Lazy Dick's musical skills, which earn him the friendship of the bats, and ultimately help to defeat the cats. Also, Grabowski's PhotographicMemory becomes useful once the cats destroy the blueprint for the Cat Catcher.
47	* ChildrenAreInnocent: Cathy the kitten is the only feline friendly to mice.
48	* CigarChomper: Teufel.
49	* CoolCar: The car of the rat gangsters. Too bad they can't use it properly.
50	* CutHimselfShaving: Safranek must do this all the time as his boss, Teufel brutally injures him for every mistake he makes, and pretends not to know about it subsequently.
51	-->'''Teufel ''': Not another accident? Oh dear. What happened to you this time, Safranek?\
52	'''Safranek''': * gulps* I was shaving, sir.\
53	'''Teufel''': But, your hand!\
54	'''Safranek''': That's what I was holding the razor with, sir.
55	* CuteKitten: Cathy, Safranek's daughter, is the only nice cat in the whole movie.
56	* {{Cyborg}}: Grabowski has a [[ElectronicEyes camera eye]] (that's PhotographicMemory for you) and a chest safe ''at least'' and the dialog also hints on enhanced strength and senses.
57	* DavidVersusGoliath: Around the end of the movie, Grabowski gets in a melee with Teufel.
58	* DeadpanSnarker: Many characters to some degree (Grabowski, the mouse police chief etc.). But the queen of this trope is Pissy (Candy in the English dub). She rarely talks but almost every line she has is snark.
59	* DeusExMachina: Blatantly used near the end, [[spoiler: with the bats coming out of nowhere and saving the day]].
60	* DisneyAcidSequence: The Four Gangsters song has much more [[DerangedAnimation surreal animation]] than the actual movie. Justified in that it's a [[ShowWithinAShow video clip watched by the cats]], thus may involve visual effects. Someone worded it as that video is 100% unadulterated {{Camp}}.
61	* TheDragon: Teufel is the second-in-command to Mr. Gatto.
62	* DubNameChange: Most of the characters have different names in the English dub.
63	** Nick Grabowski — Gary Gumshoe
64	** Mr. Fritz Teufel — Mr. D
65	** Safranek — Tweed
66	** Lusta Dick — Billy Bugle
67	** Buddy — Burns
68	** Billy — Bones
69	** Pissy — Candy
70	** Pukie - Cookie
71	* DumbBlonde: Cookie the girl rat and her SpearCounterpart Billy.
72	* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Lazy Dick's first impression of UsefulNotes/TheAmazonRainforest. Things that tried to kill him include: the road (actually a snake), the [[ManEatingPlant plantlife]], the [[InevitableWaterfall river]] and the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent locals]].
73	* EvilIsBigger: Both cats and rats are much bigger than mice.
74	* EyepatchOfPower: Teufel wears one.
75	* FanService: The cat lady at Gatto's party, wearing a babydoll, sings a rather suggestive song.
76	* FantasticRacism: Cats and mice hate each other. But also Mr. Teufel gets accused being prejudiced against rats by their agent.
77	* FatBastard: Gatto is a corpulent and hedonistic mafia boss.
78	* FauxAffablyEvil: Teufel, who acts cordially towards Safranek... when he's not torturing him for his mistakes. He even acts like he doesn't know what caused his injuries, and pretends to feel sorry for him.
79	* FemmeFatale: Pissy/Candy's specialty according to the music video. We don't see much of this, but she is effective enough in being a criminal that we're inclined to believe her.
80	* FluffyTheTerrible: Mr. Teufel manages to be this ''and'' NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast thanks to BilingualBonus. His name is pronounced almost like "tejfel", meaning "sour cream" in Hungarian.
81	* FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: Majority of the characters apply to this trope.
82	%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
83	* GoodAnimalsEvilAnimals: [[NiceMice Mice]] are good, [[CatsAreMean cats]] and [[YouDirtyRat rats]] are bad. [[BatOutOfHell Bats]] are creepy, but ultimately heroic.
84	* GoThroughMe: When cats break into a mouse bank with a tank, the clerk shouts: "No! Over my dead body!" The tank promptly shoots him.
85	* GunsAkimbo: Some of the bat bandits uses two guns while flying, holding the guns in their legs.
86	* HaveAGayOldTime: Sergeant Lazy Dick. (In Hungarian, of course, his name doesn't have a double meaning). In fact, his name may simply be a German BilingualBonus, where "dick" means "fat".
87	* TheHeavy: While Gatto is the [[BigBad head of the cat syndicate]], it's Teufel who is most actively working on driving out the mice, bordering on DragonInChief.
88	* HorrorHunger: Invoked by Safranek in a very cruel moment, denying dinner to his daughter Cathy as a punishment for playing with the mouse Samu, telling her that if she gets hungry she can eat her friend. Fortunately, Samu shares some cheese with Cathy.
89	* HumanHeadOnTheWall: Gatto, the cat mob boss, has mounted cat heads on his wall.
90	* HumongousMecha: the Cat Catcher, which is an enormous robot bulldog.
91	* HungryJungle: The Amazon rainforest is portrayed like this. Snakes, caimans, [[ManEatingPlant mouse-eating plants]], InevitableWaterfall, and [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire bat]] {{bandito}}s who will either shoot you or suck your blood. Lazy Dick only survives because he befriends the bats.
92	* HurricaneOfPuns: In the Hungarian version.
93	** The secret password for the mice's council is "Egy aprócska kalapocska, benne csacska macska mocska" [say: edy op-roch-ko kolo-poch-ko, beh-neh choch-ko mach-ko moch-ko] (meaning "A tiny little hat with a silly cat's dirt in it").
94	** The original title "Macskafogó", although literally it means "Cat catcher", comes from the word "Egérfogó" meaning "Mouse trap", changing the word "egér" (mouse) into "macska" (Cat).
95	** The Police chief, Bob Poljakow promises that he would recruit again Grabowski and "bring back {{Cincinnatus}} from the yoke" -- a historic reference to Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, this patriotic elderly Roman patrician who left his plow in the field to come to Rome's rescue in its moment of need around 458 BC. However, "cin" or "cin-cin" is the equivalent of "squeaking" in Hungarian...
96	** The boss of the cats (the fat white one) is called Giovanni Gatto. Gatto is an Italian word, it means cat in English (and macska in Hungarian). Also, Giovanni is the Italian equivalent of the Hungarian first name János (John in English) – and if a Hungarian says "macskajancsi" (Johnny Cat in English), it means jerk, lame, loser, or a coward. Also, there existed a mafia clan named Gatti in New York.
97	** The daughter of Safranek, the bumbling assistant of Mr. Teufel is called [[MeaningfulName CAThy]].
98	** Mr. Teufel's name. Teufel means devil in German, but it's also pronounced very similarly to "tejfel" (sour cream), which cats like a lot.
99	** The name of Maxipotzac, the obese chief of the Mexican bats, is of course a play on "maxipocak", or "maxi-belly".
100	* IAmGreatSong: The "Four Gangsters" song is this for the rats, where they advertise themselves as master criminals.
101	* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: Cookie delivers this line, pondering if Grabowski knows they're after him.
102	* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: The four rats are bumbling villains whose attempts to stop Grabowski keep failing.
103	* InevitableWaterfall: Sgt. Lazy Dick ends up in one in the jungle. He tries to avoid it by playing his trumpet [[ArtisticLicensePhysics to blow his boat back]]. But he eventually gives up... because he's out of tunes.
104	* JerkAss: Every single [[CatsAreMean cat]] character, except Cathy.
105	** The [[YouDirtyRat rats]] aren't particularly friendly either.
106	* LastRequest: When Lazy Dick is captured by a bunch of vampire bats who plan to suck out his blood, his last request is that he could play his trumpet for one last time. He plays so well that the bats decide to spare him.
107	* LaughablyEvil:
108	** The rats, full time, are a bumbling QuirkyMinibossSquad.
109	** [[AffablyEvil Teufel]] and [[ButtMonkey Safranek]] also provide a lot of dark comedy.
110	* LeafBoat: Lazy Dick improvises one for himself to ride a river in the Amazon.
111	* LeanAndMean: Mr. Teufel is a tall, rail-thin cat.
112	* LiteralSurveillanceBug: The cats use a robot fly that releases a microphone down a chimney to spy on Grabowski and Poliakoff. Grabowski destroys it by setting fire in his fireplace (despite the fact it's a warm summer day).
113	* MacGuffin: The Cat Cather plans that Grabowski has to retrieve from Pokyo.
114	* MassOhCrap: The cats' reaction to the reveal of the Cat Catcher.
115	* MasterOfDisguise: Billy boasts about being one in the music video. In practice... not likely.
116	* MeaningfulName: Many characters, often overlapping with PunnyName or BilingualBonus.
117	** Mr. Gatto, the cat mafia boss ("gatto" is Italian for "cat").
118	** Mr. Teufel, the fiendish mobster cat ("teufel" is German for "devil", but also "tejfel" is Hungarian for "sour cream").
119	** Von Schwarz, the black cat ("schwarz" is German for "black").
120	** Safranek is a ginger (i.e. saffron-coloured) cat.
121	** Cathy, the kitten is an example of ALizardNamedLiz.
122	** Dick, the fat mouse sergeant ("dick" is German for "fat").
123	** Chino-san, the pretty Japanese mouse girl ("csinos" is Hungarian for "pretty").
124	** Maxipotzac, the obese vampire bat ("maxi-pocak" means "maxi-belly" in Hungarian).
125	* MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow: The relationship between Grabowski and Chino-san is a nod to this trope. Chino-san, the pretty Asian woman, although is shown to be quite competent herself when it comes to fights, still comes off as a FlatCharacter due to getting very little screentime, and immediately falls for the Western [[TheAce super-agent]].[[note]][[ComicallyMissingThePoint Although both characters are grey rather than white or yellow.]][[/note]]
126	* MissingMom: Safranek's wife left him, ''and their daughter'' Cathy and moved in with Teufel a year before the events of the movie. (Considering what kind of a person Teufel is, she may not have had a say in the matter.)
127	* MissionControlIsOffItsMeds: The reason why the rats can't operate their CoolCar properly is because it comes with a DoorStopper manual and helpline like this. Its quirks range from the annoying like addressing any person as "ma'am" to giving advice like "Press the red button and rest in peace". [[spoiler:Turns out Grabowski hacked the system and trolled them from the beginning.]]
128	* MoreDakka: In battle scene, the cats, the mice and the bats all shoot gratuitous amounts of bullet.
129	* ManEatingPlant: Lazy Dick encounters one in the jungle. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepenthes_attenboroughii#Carnivory Unlike their man-eating counterparts these actually exist]], although they lack the [[ArtisticLicenseBiology sharp, snapping teeth]] seen in this movie.
130	* MouseWorld: Subverted, since the Mouse World exists not on the edge of the human, but the cat society.
131	* MusicSoothesTheSavageBeast: An anthropomorphic animal example. Lazy Dick's awesome trumpet solo convinces the bandit vampire bats to not have him for dinner because they absolutely need him in their band!
132	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Teufel means "devil" in German. However, [[FluffyTheTerrible "tejfel" means "sour cream" in Hungarian]].
133	* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Lazy Dick encounters a caiman in the Amazon. While caimans are much smaller than crocodiles, they are gigantic compared to a mouse.
134	* NiceMice: None of the mouse characters is malevolent. Although Teufel mentions that there are mice working for the cats, they do not appear in the film.
135	* NonActionBigBad: Through the movie, Gatto is set-up as even worse than the already very bad Teufel. Then when the bats attack his party, he tries hiding under his pillows, while Teufel fights back.
136	* NotSoHarmlessVillain:
137	** Safranek was the ChewToy through the whole movie, but near the end Teufel assigned him to coordinate the battle, and he proved to be frighteningly effective.
138	** The rats act like a bumbling QuirkyMinibossSquad for the majority of the movie, but once they manage to catch up with Grabowski in Pokyo, they put up a decent fight.
139	* OneManBand: Due to their tight budget, the entire orchestra of the mouse police consists of one mouse, Lazy Dick.
140	* OnlySaneMan: Buddy thinks he's the one among the rats, but really Tissi is the one.
141	* OpeningScroll: The film opens with one, as an {{homage}} to ''Franchise/StarWars''.
142	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They are vampire bat {{bandito}}s.
143	* PhotographicMemory: Grabowski's ChekhovsSkill. Might be a literal example (he seems to have a camera eye, although it might just be a visual gag).
144	* PintSizedPowerhouse: Grabowski may be a mouse, but he easily beats up all four rats with minimal help, and headbutts Teufel in the stomach with enough force to make him crouch.
145	* QuirkyMinibossSquad: The rats. The boss who believes to be surrounded by idiots while not that bright himself, two {{Dumb Blonde}}s (one male, one female), and a BrainyBrunette HyperCompetentSidekick.
146	* PredatorPreyFriendship: Cathy the kitten and Samu the mouse don't understand the tension between their species and become best friends.
147	* RammingAlwaysWorks: Grabowski sunk the cat pirates' submarine by ramming it with the ship they thought to have captured, and had in a tow.
148	* RedRightHand: Exaggerated with Teufel, almost to the level of parody. He has an EyepatchOfPower (with a [[StealthPun cat eye]] ruby under it, no less), a [[ArtificialLimbs robotic hand]], a torn ear, dentures, and even his tail seems to have its tip cut off.
149	* RuthlessModernPirates: The pirate cats attacking Grabowski's ship. Other than having a Jolly Roger flag on their submarine, there's nothing romantic about them.
150	* SatelliteLoveInterest: Chino-san shows signs of being an ActionGirl, but doesn't get much more characterization and barely any screentime. Most of her romance with Grabowski happens off-screen.
151	* ScreamDiscretionShot: Whenever Teufel vents his anger on Safranek, the camera cuts away and we only hear Safranek scream.
152	* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The bossy and arrogant Buddy opposed to the DumbBlonde guy Billy.
153	* SexyCatPerson: At Gatto's party near the end of the film, there is a FanserviceExtra cat singer who performs a [[EarWorm very catchy]] and very sexually suggestive song.
154	* ShoutOut:
155	** The film opens with a ''Franchise/StarWars''-style text scroll.
156	** When the lab mouse defeats the cat hit by the ShrinkRay, he does Franchise/{{Tarzan}}'s yell.
157	** The film is set in the year 80 A.M.M. (After WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse).
158	** The news reel the mice are watching mentions [[WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales the Speedy family]].
159	* ShrinkRay: The cats test one at the beginning of the film, so they could get into mouseholes. It works, but it also weakens the test subject who's easily beaten up by a mouse.
160	* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Grabowski beats himself in chess in eight out of ten games. In the other two, he wins.
161	* StealthPun: WordOfGod confirms that the sparkly, ruby-like jewel under Teufel's eyepatch is actually a bycicle reflector, also known as "cat eye".
162	* TheStoic: Pissy and Grabowski are a rat and mouse of few words.
163	* StockingMask: Buddy says that they'll have to use it if they work in public. Cookie complains that she only has fishnets.
164	* SubmarinePirates: The pirate cats use a submarine rather than a ship.
165	* TheSyndicate: The cats form a criminal organization to defeat the mice once and for all.
166	* TemptingFate: At the beginning, a bank clerk assures a worrying client that to this bank, cats could only break into with a tank. [[ThereWasADoor Guess what happens next]].
167	* ThatsNoMoon: After landing in the jungle, Dick confuses the body of a giant snake to a path through the bushes.
168	* ThirtySecondsOverTokyo: Portrayed as a hi-tech metropolis, home of the professor designing a HumongousMecha, an attractive female assistant in kimono, and a cat trying to catch Grabowski with karate moves using chopsticks.
169	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: While both rat girls are hyper sexualized, but Cookie is DumbBlonde, girly and environmentally conscious (she is almost ValleyGirl) wile Candy is {{Stoic}}, {{Hyper Competent\|Sidekick}} and a legitimate badass.
170	* TooDumbToLive: Billy. When the car gets stuck in a pit, Buddy asks the computer what to do:
171	-->'''Computer:''' In this situation, push the red button and rest in peace.\
172	'''Buddy:''' Wait!\
173	'''Billy:''' ''(pushing the button)'' For what? ''(car explodes)''
174	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The lady cat singing at the party is ''bitten'' by one of the bats and apparently passes out from blood loss. She isn't seen in the finale, leaving one to wonder if she died or not.
175	* WorldOfFunnyAnimals: A world inhabited by anthropomorphic cats, mice, rats and bats. (Non-anthropomorphic animals appear in the Amazon.)
176	* YouDirtyRat: The four gangsters.
177	* YouHaveFailedMe: Subverted with Teufel and Safranek; Teufel tortures Safranek when the latter screws up, but lets him live. Mr. Gatto, however, has the mounted heads of Teufel's predecessors on his wall.
178	* YourSizeMayVary: The size difference between cats and mice varies. Most jarringly, Grabowski fits comfortably into a bottle that one of the rats drank empty in one scene, and later stands face to face with him, coming up to the rat's shoulder.
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180	!!The sequel provides examples of:
181	* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: Several examples, the titular robot dog being the most obvious.
182	* AlphabetNewsNetwork: [=CiNN=], the mouse news channel ("cin" is the Hungarian onomatopoeia for a mouse squeaking).
183	* AnimalsNotToScale:
184	** Torzonborz is a badger about the same size as a mouse. [[spoiler: Justified since [[SamusIsAGirl she]]'s a mouse in disguise]].
185	** Also the film begins with Stanley, a mouse, cutting his way trough the jungle, and accidentally chopping off the tail of a leopard and a python that are in scale with him as if he was a human. Then he runs into the cats, are as big compared to him as real life cats compared to real life mice - which means they're gigantic compared to the leopard. Made even weirder, when the cats leave the jungle and enter the savannah, they're immediately attacked by a rhino, and later by an elephant herd, that are in scale to them, as if the cats were humans.
186	* AppliedPhlebotinum: The cats are forced to wear ribbons, which are oppressing their violent nature.
187	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The following exchange
188	-->'''Grabowski after watching a recording of Moloch breaking into the "civilization"''' Did you notice anything strange?\
189	'''Edlington''' Strange? Well besides cats breaking through our outer defense, and pressing two of our guards into a DVD, nothing!\
190	'''Harvey''' Those cats are not wearing ribbons.\
191	'''Edlington''' Harvey! No, you're right, they aren't wearing ribbons.\
192	'''Grabowski''' True, but what I meant was that giant cat had red eyes. However only albino cats have red eyes, but there is no such thing as a black albino.
193	* AssInALionSkin: [[spoiler:Torzonborz, a mouse disguised as a badger.]]
194	* BehemothBattle: The mice unleash [[HumongousMecha the Cat Catcher]] on the gigantic demon cat Moloch. The fight is [[LampshadeHanging explicitly compared to]] ''Film/GodzillaVsMechagodzilla'' by Mr. Teufel. [[spoiler: Eventually, after not being able to beat each other in physical combat, the two giants switch to a game of TabletopGame/{{poker}}.]]
195	* ChessWithDeath: Or rather, TabletopGame/{{poker}} with Moloch.
196	* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Grabowski was an international super-agent, TheAce and TheStoic. Stanley is a journalist and a talkative GuileHero.
197	* DarkerAndEdgier: Although the original was already dark and edgy, the sequel adds more FamilyUnfriendlyViolence.
198	* DarkestAfrica: Pafrika.
199	* DemotedToExtra: Almost the entire cast of the original movie, Grabowski being the only one that has any influence on the plot.
200	* DevilButNoGod: Moloch comes straight from Hell and is stated to be Satan's minion. There is no mention of God or Heaven.
201	* DistressedDude: Stanley sure needs rescuing a lot, and frequently becomes JamesBondage.
202	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Stanley's reaction to SamusIsAGirl is to have his tail [[SomethingElseAlsoRises stiffen out]]. There's also the scene where the cats try and impale him on a skewer which they try to shove into his mouth which is played out like a BlackComedyRape scene.
203	* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence:
204	** Stanley accidentally cutting off a leopard's and a snake's tail.
205	** The battle scene between the rebelling cats and the mice is a lot more violent than the [[PlayedForLaughs first movies's]] [[BloodlessCarnage battle]], including a scene, when a cat is shown to be preparing to eat a [[WouldHurtAChild mouse child alive]].
206	* FixFic: One of the reasons people dislike the movie because it fixed what wasn't broken (the fate of the cats) according to most. [[spoiler:Also it ends with a signing of a peace treaty between cats and mice]] which for people remembering the first movie's opening text meant: HereWeGoAgain... with all the problems this implies.
207	%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
208	* {{Gonk}}:
209	** Cookie, the blond rat girl from the first movie became one after the twenty years TimeSkip. [[FanDisservice Made even worse]] by the fact that she changed her tube top from the first movie to an unflattering crop top.
210	** Lazy Dick's wife.
211	* HurricaneOfPuns: Even more than in the original film.
212	* HollywoodNatives: The mice and cats in Pafrika both show signs of this, walking around in grass skirts and feathered headdresses. They look very dated for a movie made in 2007.
213	* HypercompetentSidekick: Stanley is set up as the secondary protagonist and something of a GuileHero, but he has enough IdiotHero, DistressedDude, JamesBondage and NiceJobBreakingItHero moments that it isn't until close to the end that he becomes at all effective. Prior to this, it's actually the jungle-dwelling badger Torzonborz who is frequently shown to be more intelligent, tough and capable than Stanley, constantly saving his life. [[spoiler:"He" is eventually revealed to be Grabowski and Chino-san's daughter in disguise.]]
214	* InconsistentSpelling: The lack of established spelling of character names in the first movie is {{lampshaded}} and {{parodied}} with a dying soldier, who writes the word "GRABOVSKI" on a wall with his own blood... only to be corrected by another dying soldier telling him it's spelled with a "W".
215	* InterspeciesRomance: Lazy Dick is married to the sister of Maxipotzac, a vampire bat.
216	* KarmaHoudini: Moloch and the city cats get away scot-free with the carnage and destruction they caused. The wild cats, who summoned Moloch, on the other hand are DraggedOffToHell by him.
217	* MediumAwareness / LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The following exchanges:
218	**
219	--->'''Chief Cat''': Did you notice, that this herd was really only one bison filmed many times?\
220	'''Mioka, the wizard''': What did you expect? This is a [[BlatantLies low-budget production]].
221	**
222	--->'''Mouse General''': Where are the Stormtroopers? Answer me? Where are the [[Franchise/StarWars Imperial Stormtroopers]]?\
223	'''Mouse Soldier''': Sir, in another movie, Sir.
224	**
225	--->'''Stanley:''' (as Grabowski paints a large number "2" on the chest of the Cat Catcher) What are you doing?\
226	'''Grabowski''': This way everyone will know that this is the [[TitleDrop Cat Catcher 2]].
227	* MisplacedWildlife: A sloth in Pafrika.
228	* MythologyGag: The sequel opens with a ''Franchise/StarWars'' text roll just like the original. This time, it is pushed in space by a pair of astronaut cats.
229	* NatureHero: Torzonborz is a FunnyAnimal version of the TropeCodifier, Tarzan.
230	* RedEyesTakeWarning: Moloch has red eyes, one of them being bigger than the other and resembling the [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Eye of Sauron]].
231	* RestrainingBolt: The bow the cats are wearing is a mind control device put on them when they got a BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood.
232	* {{Satan}}: Mentioned a few times, under the name of Cicufer. Moloch is his servant.
233	* SamusIsAGirl: [[spoiler: Torzonborz is Grabowski's daughter.]]
234	* SexySilhouette: [[spoiler:Done to reveal the above.]]
235	* ShoutOut: More than in the original film. To mention a few:
236	** Torzonborz is a FunnyAnimal {{Expy}} of ''{{Franchise/Tarzan}}'', complete with VineSwing and SignatureRoar. Specifically, at one point he surfs on a tree like the [[WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}} Disney version of the character]].
237	** There is an AnimalStampede of cape buffaloes in front of a rock looking very similar to the Pride Rock from ''Franchise/TheLionKing''.
238	** Moloch's gigantic red eye looks exactly how the Eye of Sauron looked like in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', complete with being on top of something tall and black (the tower of Barad-dur and Moloch himself).
239	** The opening text roll, besides being a MythologyGag, recalls ''Franchise/StarWars''. Later in the movie, a mouse military leader asks where the Imperial Stormtroopers are, only to be told they're in another movie.
240	** The BehemothBattle between Moloch and the Cat Catcher resembles ''Film/GodzillaVSMechagodzilla'', as {{lampshaded}} by Mr. Teufel.
241	** The title (meaning ''Satan's Cat'') itself is a ShoutOut to ''[[Literature/SherlockHolmes The Hound Of The Baskervilles]]'' (called ''A Sátán kutyája'' (''Satan's Hound'') in Hungarian).
242	* SomethingElseAlsoRises: When Stanley sees [[spoiler:"Torzonborz" undressing behind the curtain to for the SamusIsAGirl SexySilhouette reveal]], his tail goes briefly ramrod straight.
243	* TimeSkip: The second movie takes place 20 years after the first one. Almost all characters are redesigned to look older.
244	* TransformingMecha: The Cat Catcher is revealed to be one near the end of the movie.
245	* VineSwing: Torzonborz is a FunnyAnimal parody of {{Franchise/Tarzan}}, so he often travels like this.
246	* WitchDoctor: Mioka, the shaman of the cat tribe.
247	* WorldOfFunnyAnimals: It's a land of cats and mice.
248	* {{WPUN}}: The news channel CINN, which is a pun on CNN and "cin", the Hungarian onomatopoeia for a mouse squeaking.

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