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| 9 | !!Heroes |
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| 11 | [[folder:Basil of Baker Street]] |
| 12 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/great_mouse_detective_basil_9148.jpeg]] |
| 13 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"There's always a chance, Doctor! As long as one can think."'']] |
| 14 | ->'''Voiced by''': Barrie Ingham[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Creator/RogerCarel (European French dub); Newton da Matta (Brazilian Portuguese dub); Creator/TakeshiAono (Japanese dub); Raúl De la Fuente (Latin Spanish dub)[[/labelnote]] |
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| 16 | A mouse detective who lives in the walls of Literature/SherlockHolmes' house in Baker Street. His main goal is to get Professor Ratigan behind bars and rescue Olivia Flaversham's father, while simultaneously preventing a royal assassination. |
| 17 | ---- |
| 18 | * AdaptationPersonalityChange: Downplayed. While not as extreme as most of the other examples on the trope list in question, in the original ''Basil of Baker Street'' book series, he wasn't the MoodSwinger he is in the movie. |
| 19 | * AdaptationalWimp: While he's smart and clever like the original Literature/SherlockHolmes he seems to lack his fightning skills like Baritsu. As shown in the climax he's not match for Ratigan although that could be because Ratigan is taller, faster and much good in hand-to-hand combat than him. |
| 20 | * AntiHero: He's not actually the nicest guy around. He's quite rude, selfish and insensitive but generally a good guy. |
| 21 | * ArchEnemy: To Ratigan. The feeling's mutual. Basil describes Ratigan as a simultaneous "genius twisted by evil" that has narrowly evaded Basil's grasp for years, and "the horror of my every waking moment." |
| 22 | * AwesomenessByAnalysis: This is established right at the beginning where Basil is able to figure out Dawson's profession and where he came from in less than 3 lines of shared dialogue. Also, Near the end, Basil escapes Ratigan's killer RubeGoldbergDevice by setting it off at a very precise moment. |
| 23 | * BadassBookworm: What do you expect from somebody based on Literature/SherlockHolmes? Basil's well-read, intelligent, and quick-witted, using his brain quite often to solve seemingly-impossible crimes. |
| 24 | * BadassLongcoat: Like Sherlock in most adaptations, he wears a tweed trenchcoat during his investigations. |
| 25 | * {{Blackface}}: Wears an [[LatexPerfection eerily]] [[FatSuit elaborate]] disguise to impersonate a Chinese mouse. |
| 26 | * BreakTheHaughty: After falling into Ratigan's trap, Basil has a HeroicBSOD when he can't believe that Ratigan's managed to outsmart him. |
| 27 | -->'''Basil''': Oh, it's finally ''happened''. I've been ''outwitted''! |
| 28 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Like Sherlock, he may be eccentric, but he gets the job done. When describing the scent of Fidget to Toby, Basil jumps up and down, barking and snarling like an angry dog, in order to get Toby riled up. |
| 29 | * CaptainErsatz: Obviously of the famouse biritsh victorian detective. |
| 30 | * CelibateEccentricGenius: Like Sherlock, Basil is a brilliant BunnyEarsLawyer who apparently doesn't care about women or romance in general. He was the only man at the bar who wasn't attracted to the sexy stripper. |
| 31 | * CelibateHero: He wasn't attracted by the Miss Kitty mouse's number, and seems contemptuous of the concept of love. It's about as close to an outright asexual character Disney has ever made, as well as closer to Sherlock Holmes than even his direct book inspiration. |
| 32 | * CulturedBadass: Being a SherlockHomage and an OmnidisciplinaryScientist, he shows skill in various areas such as science and history. |
| 33 | * DavidVsGoliath: The David to Ratigan's Goliath. Best exemplified during the climax. |
| 34 | * DeadpanSnarker: Is a bit more polite than the traditional example, but he still manages to get in a few good quips. For instance, he fails to mention to Dawson that his friend Toby is a dog, and subverts the WorthyOpponent speech by turning it into an insult against Ratigan. |
| 35 | * DefrostingIceKing: Is pretty dismissive of Olivia and Dawson when first meeting them; eventually he warms up to the pair (even insisting that he does all his cases with Dawson). |
| 36 | * DetectiveAnimal: Naturally, he's a mouse. He currently provides the trope page image. |
| 37 | * DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: He falls from the clock tower with Ratigan. It appears at first as if Basil has died along with Ratigan from the fall, but Basil manages to fly back up with a piece of Ratigan's contraption.]] |
| 38 | * DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: Smokes a pipe while pondering because he is a brilliant English detective. When he's disguised as a sailor, he uses a cigarette instead. |
| 39 | * DoesntLikeGuns: Although he's willing to examine a revolver used in one of Ratigan's schemes, he chooses to not carry one himself, even when trying to infiltrate the professor's lair. |
| 40 | * FurryReminder: Zig-zagged. He is able to detect drugs in his beer by simply dipping his fingertip into the drink and licking it. Which is similar to what real-life mice and rats do if they suspect poison. |
| 41 | * GoodIsNotNice: Basil comes across as somewhat rude, especially early in the film, which makes him a good contrast to the FauxAffablyEvil Ratigan. Fitting, since the original Holmes can be somewhat of a {{Jerkass}} SmugSnake himself at times. Although he ''does'' slowly grow out of it, as seen when he tries to comfort Dawson. Granted, he doesn't actually ''apologize'' for his rant, but it's clear from the look on his face that he regrets being so harsh. |
| 42 | * GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: He smokes a pipe while Ratigan smokes a cigarette. And he switches to a cigarette for his "tough guy sailor" disguise. |
| 43 | * HeroicBSOD: Basil undergoes a near-fatal one after he falls for Ratigan's trap. The fact that Ratigan managed to outwit Basil and lead him into a trap is enough to utterly depress Basil, to the point he doesn't seem to care that he's placed in a DeathTrap. [[spoiler:It's only an outburst from Dawson giving Basil a EurekaMoment that saves the both of them from it.]] |
| 44 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With Dawson, but only after the adventure's over. Dawson remarks in narration that the two had "many cases" together after solving the mystery around Ratigan and his kidnapping plot. |
| 45 | * InsufferableGenius: An undeniable genius but a bit egotistical and tactless, especially in his first scene. He gets better, thanks to Dawson and Olivia. |
| 46 | * JerkassHasAPoint: While he was rude about it, he's ultimately proven right that [[spoiler:Oliva would have been safer staying at Basil's home]]. |
| 47 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Snobbish, rude and self-centered but undeniably a good guy. He does slowly grow out of his rude {{Jerkass}} attitude, as seen when he tries to comfort Dawson. Granted, he doesn't actually apologize for his rant, but it's clear from the look on his face that [[WasTooHardOnHim he regrets being so harsh]]. |
| 48 | * LargeHam: The incredibly expressive, hyperactive unless quite visibly depressed, always overdramatic Basil himself. Barrie Ingham (Basil's voice actor) was ''also'' given to dramatic gesturing. Basil's most notably hammy moments are: |
| 49 | -->"Young lady, you are most definitely not accompanying us! AND [[PunctuatedForEmphasis THAT IS FINAL]]!" |
| 50 | * LaughingMad: He has a brief one of these during his EurekaMoment to set the trap off to escape. |
| 51 | * MadeOfIron: He's no fighter and though definitely painful, he managed to survive a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from Rattigan. |
| 52 | * MeaningfulName: Named for Creator/BasilRathbone, the famous Sherlock Holmes actor. |
| 53 | * NiceMice: Downplayed. He may not be nice, [[GoodIsNotNice but he's still good]], and working on the right side of the law. |
| 54 | * NoSocialSkills: He is downright rude towards Olivia, and seems to be ''very'' uncomfortable while trying to cheer up Dawson. |
| 55 | * NotDistractedByTheSexy: Basil isn't the least bit distracted by Miss Kitty's burlesque performance. Lucky too, since he notices that his drink is being drugged. Then again, he could have been enjoying the view without being detachted by his main objective. |
| 56 | * NotNowKiddo: When Olivia and Dawson first meet him, he's too preoccupied with examining a bullet which might provide evidence to Ratigan's location to listen to what they're saying. And when they finally get his attention, he's less than interested in helping Olivia find her father...until he learns that Ratigan is involved. |
| 57 | * OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Music, chemistry, physics, mathematics, botanics, zoology, ballistics... He's a Sherlock Holmes expy, so this is a given. |
| 58 | * OnlyOneName: He's only ever referred to as "Basil" or "[[RedBaron Basil of Baker Street]]", with no indication if it's his first name or his surname. Notable because every other character has stated surnames. |
| 59 | * PoliteVillainsRudeHeroes: The dynamic between himself and Ratigan. Basil has NoSocialSkills and comes off as a smug, rude {{Jerkass}}, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold even though he has good intentions]]. Ratigan is FauxAffablyEvil and puts up an act of being a cheerful, pleasant gentleman, despite being a DiabolicalMastermind who's perfectly willing to threaten children to get his way. |
| 60 | %%ZCE* PowerTrio: Before Olivia gets kidnapped, he, Dawson, and Olivia certainly fit this trope while they're investigating the toyshop. |
| 61 | * ProtagonistTitle: Basil is the "Great Mouse Detective". |
| 62 | * ResourcefulRodent: [[spoiler: Basil also brags about his intelligence and cunning, which is shown by how he was able to escape a deathtrap by turning the traps against each other. He also survives a fall from Big Ben by using a broken propeller to climb back up to safety while Rattigan seemingly falls to his death.]] |
| 63 | * RenaissanceMan: Other than being a detective, he's skilled in many areas such as history, music, disguise, and being an OmnidisciplinaryScientist. |
| 64 | * RudeHeroNiceSidekick: Basil, a GoodIsNotNice detective, has a tendency to be brusque and unconcerned with others, while Dr. Dawson is an awkward sensitive guy who gets involved in the adventure to begin with because he can't stand to see a little girl cry. Given that this is a ''Sherlock Holmes'' story with mice, the dynamic between Basil and Dawson mirrors the one between Holmes and Watson. This being Disney, he (and [[TheCutie Olivia]]) wind up [[DefrostingIceQueen defrosting Basil.]] |
| 65 | * RunningGag: He constantly gets Olivia's surname wrong. The only time he gets it right is when he's talking to her father. |
| 66 | * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The Manly Man to Dawson's Sensitive Guy. |
| 67 | * SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Being the genius he is, Basil does this quite a bit, confusing or impressing Dawson at times. |
| 68 | * SignatureHeadgear: A deerstalker hat, much like how Sherlock is commonly depicted. |
| 69 | * SlasherSmile: Heroic and non murderous variant. He does this when he realizes how to escape from Ratigan's trap. |
| 70 | * SherlockHomage: He's clearly Sherlock Holmes as a mouse. A CelibateEccentricGenius, an OmnidisciplinaryScientist, a RenaissanceMan... it's all there. |
| 71 | * SuperSenses: Is able to detect drugs in his beer by simply dipping his fingertip into the drink and licking it. [[FridgeBrilliance Which is similar to what real-life mice and rats do if they suspect poison.]] He also tastes a sheet of paper to get more evidence on its origins. [[Literature/SherlockHolmes His mentor]] often sniffed evidence, including corpses, but taste is more of a mouse thing. |
| 72 | * {{Technobabble}}: Basil spouts some while analyzing Ratigan's DeathTrap. |
| 73 | * {{Tsundere}}: A minor Type A version. He starts out preoccupied, a bit detached from Dawson and Olivia, but they can bring out his sweeter, more empathetic side at times. |
| 74 | * UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Downplayed. It's not quite a comedy, but Basil's arrogant demeanor goes hand in hand with more than a few of his mishaps. |
| 75 | * UnwittingPawn: Falls for Ratigan's ploy perfectly, throwing him into a temporary HeroicBSOD at the shock of his own stupidity. |
| 76 | [[/folder]] |
| 77 | |
| 78 | [[folder:Major Dr. David Q. Dawson]] |
| 79 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dawson.jpg]] |
| 80 | ->'''Voiced by''': Val Bettin[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Philippe Dumat (European French dub); Magalhães Graça (Brazilian Portuguese dub); Creator/IchiroNagai (Japanese dub); Esteban Siller (Latin Spanish dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 81 | |
| 82 | Previously of the Queen's 66th Regiment in Afghanistan. His character is based upon Dr. John H. Watson from the ''Sherlock Holmes'' stories. The interaction between him and Basil mimics that of Watson and Holmes, as Dawson is constantly amazed by Basil's deductions. He eventually becomes Basil's associate, friend, and personal biographer. |
| 83 | ---- |
| 84 | * AdaptationalNationality: In the storybook version of the film, Dawson is not from Afghanistan but rather from India. Justified as India has been more well-known to younger audiences when the book was published to have been under British rule as well as its connection to [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 The Jungle Book]]. |
| 85 | * AlcoholInducedIdiocy: After having just one drink at the pub, Dawson completely loses himself, getting onstage and dancing with Miss Kitty's other performers and accidentally starting an all out brawl. Downplayed as it's not exactly the drink that makes him act like an idiot, it's the drug slipped into it that does. Still, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything the results certainly don't seem very different.]] |
| 86 | * AlliterativeName: '''D'''avid Q. '''D'''awson. |
| 87 | * BorrowedCatchphrase: Dawson says [[WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck "You're despicable!"]] when he and Basil are tied up in a giant mouse trap by Ratigan. |
| 88 | * ButtMonkey: The movie's most frequent victim of comic mishaps and slapstick abuse. |
| 89 | * BumblingSidekick: To Basil, albeit not as bumbling as Fidget to Ratigan! |
| 90 | * CareerRevealingTrait: Basil, being an Expy of Sherlock Holmes, immediately deduces that Dawson, whom he's just met, is a military doctor just returned from Afghanistan by glancing at the mend on his coat, which is done in a stitch used only by surgeons with a thread native to Afghan regions (identified by its "peculiar pungency"). |
| 91 | * {{Expy}}: Inspired by Sherlock Holmes' partner John Watson, most notably by Nigel Bruce's portrayal of the character. |
| 92 | * FatAndSkinny: Fat to Basil's Skinny. They work as a duo. |
| 93 | * FatBestFriend: To Basil. Mainly a mix of type B (meek and awkward) and C (the bumbling type). |
| 94 | * HeroicBSOD: He has a bit of a minor one after Olivia is kidnapped by Fidget. Basil's rant of whom she's being taken to probably doesn't help, either.. |
| 95 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With Basil. They become best friends over the course of the movie and still work together by the end. |
| 96 | * TheLancer: Basil's sidekick and his total opposite. Mainly because Dawson is a polite NiceGuy while Basil is rude and arrogant. |
| 97 | * LastNameBasis: Never called by his first name, similar to Watson. |
| 98 | * MostDefinitelyNotAVillain: When in disguised as a ruthless shipmate, is still as polite as ever. Basil can't help but groan every time he does this. |
| 99 | * TheNarrator: Only twice; once to open the story, and once to close it. |
| 100 | * NiceGuy: He may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but Dawson is above all a decent and kindhearted person who would give you the shirt off his back if needed. It's only because of Dawson's kindhearted help that Olivia manages to find Basil in the first place. |
| 101 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Had he kept a closer eye on Olivia, she probably wouldn't have been kidnapped by Fidget in the toy store. This is something he acknowledges. |
| 102 | * NiceMice: Compared to Basil, Dawson is more polite and respectful. |
| 103 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's pretty clearly modeled on Nigel Bruce's portrayal of Watson. |
| 104 | * OlderSidekick: Heavily hinted to be much older than Basil. |
| 105 | * OnlySaneMan: For most of the movie, with a few exceptions like when he gets drugged in the bar. On seeing a lost child, he takes her to Baker Street when she asks and encourages her to talk to Basil when the detective is ignoring her distress. He reminds a HeroicBSOD Basil that the mouse needs to shape up and save everyone because no one else will. It's for this reason that Basil makes him his partner. |
| 106 | * ParentalSubstitute: He does his best to keep Olivia safe during the case and is clearly crushed when she gets kidnapped. |
| 107 | * RudeHeroNiceSidekick: Basil, a GoodIsNotNice detective, has a tendency to be brusque and unconcerned with others, while Dr. Dawson is an awkward sensitive guy who gets involved in the adventure to begin with because he can't stand to see a little girl cry. Given that this is a ''Sherlock Holmes'' story with mice, the dynamic between Basil and Dawson mirrors the one between Holmes and Watson. This being Disney, he (and [[TheCutie Olivia]]) wind up [[DefrostingIceQueen defrosting Basil.]] |
| 108 | * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The Sensitive Guy to Basil's Manly Man. |
| 109 | * {{Sidekick}}: As is tradition, he follows Basil's lead in the case. |
| 110 | * TheWatson: He's an expy of Dr. John Watson, the TropeNamer. |
| 111 | [[/folder]] |
| 112 | |
| 113 | [[folder:Olivia Flaversham]] |
| 114 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/great_mouse_detective_olivia_1543.jpg]] |
| 115 | ->'''Voiced by''': Susanne Pollatschek[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Creator/BarbaraTissier (European French dub); Adriana Torres (Brazilian Portuguese dub); Nariko Fujieda (Japanese dub); Vanessa Garcel (Latin Spanish dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 116 | |
| 117 | A young female mouse of Scottish descent who seeks Basil's help in finding her toymaker father. |
| 118 | ---- |
| 119 | * AccidentalMisnaming: Basil has a habit of [[RunningGag constantly getting her surname wrong]]. |
| 120 | * BadassAdorable: Downplayed. She doesn't fight much (though she does [[LittleGirlsKickShins stomp on Fidget's foot]] and bite Ratigan when he's sneaking up on Basil), but she's still brave enough to stand up to ''Ratigan'' (a dreaded crime boss who's killed people twice her size) in the climax. |
| 121 | * TheCutie: An innocent, cute little mouse girl. |
| 122 | * DaddysGirl: She's very close to her father, which makes sense given that he's her only parent. |
| 123 | * DamselInDistress: Ratigan eventually succeeds in kidnapping her to manipulate her father into working for him. |
| 124 | * DamselErrant: She's the one who brings Rattigan's EvilPlan to Basil's attention by asking him to look for her father. |
| 125 | * DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: She ends up being one of the [[TagalongKid Tagalong]] KidAppealCharacter. Olivia joins Basil and Dawson on the search for her father. Olivia, however, acts like a general child would, overly excited and [[TheLoad not particularly helpful]], and is pretty quickly captured by the bad guys after wandering off. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome A child isn't going to be much of a help when fighting a criminal mastermind]]. |
| 126 | * TheLoad: Olivia isn't particularly useful during the search for her father, often acting overly excited and getting distracted easily, which ends up getting her kidnapped. Justified, as she's a child. |
| 127 | * TheGlomp: Basil is uncomfortable when Olivia glomps him after he agrees to take the case, but is a bit more accepting when she hugs him at the end of the movie. |
| 128 | * KidAppealCharacter: Is the child the young audience can mostly identify with, as the rest of the cast are middle-aged men (well, mice). |
| 129 | * LittleMissBadass: She stands her ground much more than you'd expect her to. |
| 130 | -->'''Olivia:''' ''[to Ratigan]'' Just wait! Basil's smarter than ''you''! He's going to put you in jail! He's not afraid of a big, old, ugly '''''rat''''' like you! |
| 131 | * MissingMom: Continuing a long Disney tradition. When Dawson asks where her mother and father are, Olivia only replies in tears that it's why she has to find Basil. No mention of her mother's fate is ever made, though it's implied through later conversations that Olivia's mother is dead. |
| 132 | * MyParentsAreDead: She gains Basil's sympathy when she flat-out tells him [[NeverSayDie she doesn't have a mother]] to go to for help finding her missing father. |
| 133 | * NiceMice: She's a friendly NiceGirl and a mouse. |
| 134 | * PluckyGirl: Olivia shows a lot of courage at the climax of the film. |
| 135 | * RidiculouslyCuteCritter: She looks like [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100306022349/disney/images/7/74/Mousedetective017.jpg a cute little mouse]], as to be expected from a Disney animal protagonist. Her PuppyDogEyes also convince Dawson to help her. |
| 136 | * TagalongKid: A DeconstructedTrope. She joins Basil and Dawson on the search for her father, despite Basil's protests. However, she's pretty quickly captured and is a DamselInDistress for most of the rest of the film since, well, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome she's a child]] and can't actually defend herself. |
| 137 | * TrueBlueFemininity: Yup, most of the things Olivia wears are blue, despite what [[CoversAlwaysLie promotional material would have you believe]]. |
| 138 | [[/folder]] |
| 139 | |
| 140 | [[folder:Mr. Flaversham]] |
| 141 | [[quoteright:288:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/great_mouse_detective_hiram_2540.jpg]] |
| 142 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/AlanYoung[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Serge Lhorca (European French dub); Dário Lourenço (Brazilian Portuguese dub); Ichiro Murakoshi (Japanese dub); Luis Bayardo (Latin Spanish dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 143 | |
| 144 | Olivia's loving Scottish father. He works as a toymaker, and is kidnapped by Fidget to make the Queen Mousetoria robot for the evil Ratigan. |
| 145 | ---- |
| 146 | * BraveScot: Defiantly stands up to Ratigan and refuses to assist him with his scheme, even if it would cost him his life; he only relents when his daughter is threatened instead. |
| 147 | * DistressedDude: He is kidnapped by Fidget to create the clockwork Mouse Queen for Professor Ratigan. |
| 148 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: Well he's willing to face whatever fury that Ratigan has in mind for him, but Ratigan needs him too much and instead decides to hold his daughter as a hostage. |
| 149 | * GadgeteerGenius: He ''is'' a toymaker, after all. It's why Ratigan went after him in the first place. |
| 150 | * GoodParents: A very loving parent to Olivia. |
| 151 | * KidnappedScientist: Flaversham is a toymaker, but he qualifies. His skill with making mechanical toys had applications for chicanery that Ratigan made forcible use of. |
| 152 | * LastNameBasis: He is only ever referred to by his surname in the movie's dialogue, and the end credits just call him "Flaversham." Hiram is a popular first name for him in the fandom, however. |
| 153 | * NerdGlasses: Has big eyeglasses, and he's a techno-savvy toymaker. |
| 154 | * NiceMice: Despite being a relatively minor character, he's undoubtedly a NiceGuy. |
| 155 | * ParentsInDistress: His kidnapping is what sets off the whole plot. |
| 156 | * ReluctantMadScientist: Forced to use his talents for Ratigan's evil scheme so [[IHaveYourWife Ratigan won't hurt Olivia]]. |
| 157 | * TrappedInVillainy: Tries to defy this when Ratigan threatens his life and refuses to work. Sadly played straight when Ratigan decides to target Olivia instead. |
| 158 | [[/folder]] |
| 159 | |
| 160 | [[folder:Toby]] |
| 161 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/toby_gmd.png]] |
| 162 | |
| 163 | Basil's trustful Basset Hound. He technically belongs to Sherlock Holmes, who lives above Basil. |
| 164 | ---- |
| 165 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: In Holmesian canon, Toby is described as a rather ugly-looking dog. The Toby presented in this movie, on the other hand, is adorable. |
| 166 | * AdvertisedExtra: During the time of the film's original release and re-release there were many reviews and articles questioning why "the big dog" was pushed so heavily in the advertising, despite his secondary role in the movie. |
| 167 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Toby might be a big silly dog that loves crumpets and children but he's still Sherlock Holmes' trained hound. When Basil tells him Ratigan's plot, [[LetsGetDangerous he immediately gets serious]] and races them over to the Palace then attacks and chases off Felicia. |
| 168 | * BigFriendlyDog: The emphasis here is on ''big'', since the main characters are mice. Also PlayedWith since he is friends with Basil, growls at Dawson, and chases down criminals. He is, after all, a dog that belongs to the great Sherlock Holmes. |
| 169 | * TheBigGuy: Much bigger than the other characters. While not sapient, he still helps Basil by carrying him around and following scent trails. |
| 170 | * CanineCompanion: He's the dog of Sherlock Holmes, but also a loyal friend to Basil. |
| 171 | * CanisMajor: An average-sized basset hound, but certainly this from the perspective of the rodent protagonists. |
| 172 | * FemaleFelineMaleMutt: Male Mutt to Felicia's Female Feline, although they are enemies. |
| 173 | * FriendToAllChildren: Quickly warms to Olivia - she has an easier time instructing him than ''Basil'' does, to his consternation. |
| 174 | * HeroicDog: He helps Basil solve cases. |
| 175 | * InterspeciesFriendship: He gets along quite well with Basil, and Basil's own companions for that matter. |
| 176 | [[/folder]] |
| 177 | |
| 178 | !!Villains |
| 179 | |
| 180 | [[folder:Professor Padraic Ratigan]] |
| 181 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/phpLfBLrcPM-ratigan_5171.jpg]] |
| 182 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"[[PreMortemOneLiner You know what happens when someone upsets me...]]"'']] |
| 183 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/VincentPrice (''The Great Mouse Detective''), Creator/CoreyBurton (audiobook), Creator/MauriceLaMarche (''House of Mouse'')[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Creator/GerardRinaldi (European French dub); André Filho (Brazilian Portuguese dub); Akira Takarada (Japanese dub); Narciso Busquets (Latin Spanish dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 184 | |
| 185 | Basil's archenemy. He is based on Professor Moriarty from the ''Sherlock Holmes'' stories. He plots to seize control of the British mice monarchy. |
| 186 | ---- |
| 187 | * AdaptationSpeciesChange: In the original ''Basil of Baker Street'' books, he was a mouse. The film changed him into a rat (though he still ''claims'' to be a mouse), making the name more meaningful. |
| 188 | * AdaptationalJerkass: Moriarty, who Ratigan is based on, is a BenevolentBoss who doesn't gratuitously [[BadBoss abuse]] and [[YouHaveFailedMe kill]] his own men the way that Ratigan does. |
| 189 | * AllThereInTheScript: |
| 190 | ** His first name is Padraic. This makes sense, as—[[SpellMynameWithAnS in various forms]]—it is one of the [[UsefulNotes/IrishNames most common given names in Ireland]], much like Moriarty is a common Irish surname. Furthermore, the name 'Padraic'[[note]] from the Latin 'Patricius'[[/note]] means "noble man" or "of noble birth" and becoming nobility (or royalty) is Ratigan's goal. |
| 191 | * ArchEnemy: To Basil. The feeling's mutual. Ratigan says that he "hasn't had a moment's peace of mind" ever since Basil started foiling his capers. And when even his final, ultimate scheme gets thwarted, Ratigan undergoes a VillainousBreakdown where he just wants Basil dead, at all costs. |
| 192 | * AxCrazy: Towards the climax, when he's enraged. Not that he was particularly sane to begin with, but Ratigan drops the FauxAffablyEvil act and just starts wailing on Basil. |
| 193 | * BadassCape: Oh yes. Basil does use it against him though (see below). |
| 194 | * BadassInANiceSuit: Wears a suit like a SharpDressedMan and he is a badass criminal who is also very strong. |
| 195 | * BadBoss: Though his minions generally respect him, it's best not to upset Professor Ratigan, or he'll feed you to his RightHandCat ...or simply toss you overboard [[ColdEquation when you're weighing him down]]. |
| 196 | * BaritoneOfStrength: Courtesy of the inimitable Vincent Price, Ratigan's got a very deep faux-posh voice and the huge frame (not to mention [[GeniusBruiser being absolutely brutal in a fight]]) to match. |
| 197 | * BerserkButton: |
| 198 | ** He despises being called a rat, even though he is one. So easy is it to get to him that one of his own men, and a punch-drunk one at that, manages to make him livid when he absent-mindedly calls him one. |
| 199 | ** Subverted when Basil tries to press his button by calling him a rat, Ratigan freezes, spawns TechnicallyASmile, and closes his pocket watch with the most controlled anger he manages to show throughout the film. |
| 200 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: He's flamboyant and overacting but he's also a wicked mastermind responsible for an unconfirmed number of atrocious crimes. Not to mention his utterly terrifying VillainousBreakdown at the climax. |
| 201 | * BigBad: Professor Ratigan is the king of London's underworld and the mastermind behind the film's EvilPlan. He's based on Professor Moriarty, after all. |
| 202 | * BigNo: He does a combination of this and just screaming when he [[spoiler: falls to his death.]] |
| 203 | * BondVillainStupidity: Justified. He explains that he did plan on staying and watching as his latest DeathTrap did its work, but since Basil and co. showed up 15 minutes later than he planned, he doesn't have time to stay, and so he rigs a camera to capture Basil's dying moment instead. |
| 204 | * BurnTheOrphanage: "''[[OffstageVillainy Worse than the widows and orphans you drowned?]]''" |
| 205 | * CapeSnag: Basil invokes this on Ratigan towards the climax, shoving Ratigan's cape into some nearby gears to trap him long enough for him and Olivia to escape. |
| 206 | * CaptainErsatz: Of [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Professor Moriarty]]. |
| 207 | * CardCarryingVillain: He boasts of how much grimmer his current EvilPlan is than any he has done before. Interestingly enough, his minions enjoy working for him because of this. And of course, he's also voiced by Vincent Price. |
| 208 | * ChildHater: He's drowned an unspecified number of orphans, planned to impose heavy taxes on orphans after becoming the advisor of his controlled-Queen-toy (and thus the 'shadow King' behind everything), and he's not nice towards Olivia. At all. |
| 209 | * ClothingDamage: After Basil traps him with his cape and makes to escape from him, Ratigan finally snaps and ferally gives chase, uncaring as he keeps catching gears and ripping bits of his clothing off. By the time he's caught up to Basil, he's lost his gloves and shoes, his chest is bare, and his cape is little more than strips of ragged cloth. |
| 210 | * ComplexityAddiction: He couldn't decide on a single way to kill Basil, so he opted instead to make a RubeGoldbergDevice that used deadly instruments like a mousetrap, a gun, a crossbow, an axe, and an anvil all at the same time. |
| 211 | * CompositeCharacter: While based on Professor James Moriarty, his personality, build, fashion sense, blackmailing, and HatedByAll status lean towards Charles Augustus Milverton. |
| 212 | * DarkIsEvil: He predominantly dresses in black and is a criminal mastermind. |
| 213 | * DastardlyWhiplash: He wears a suit with a cape and a top hat, comes up with diabolical schemes and death traps, and is a FauxAffablyEvil LargeHam CardCarryingVillain. |
| 214 | * DeadpanSnarker: Ratigan being voiced by Vincent Price does have his moments: |
| 215 | -->'''Ratigan:''' By the way, Basil... I just ''love'' your disguise. |
| 216 | ** In a scene he wakes Fidget up commenting "Bright and alert as always". |
| 217 | * DiabolicalMastermind: Defined by Basil as the "Napoleon of crime" (an obvious reference to Professor James Moriarty). |
| 218 | * DisneyVillainDeath: His KarmicDeath. [[spoiler:When Big Ben chimes on the hour, he and Basil fall from the top of the clock tower to the ground. Basil manages to survive thanks to using Ratigan's flying contraption, but Ratigan is unseen after they fall. Given the height of Big Ben, it can be reasonably assumed that Ratigan died.]] |
| 219 | * DisproportionateRetribution: He feeds one of his henchmen to Felicia just because he [[BerserkButton called him a rat]]... while drunk. |
| 220 | * TheDreaded: Ratigan is the most hated being in the Mousedom, because he's such a vile, cruel monster, and once he comes out in front of the other citizens, he's met with contempt and disgust immediately. However, he's well aware everyone hates him, so by replacing the queen and have her grant him full control, his subjects won't have any choice but to serve him or die. |
| 221 | ** Special mention goes to the scene in the pub where all Basil has to do is mention Ratigan's name and ''the entire establishment goes quiet.'' |
| 222 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He seems to care for Felicia, his RightHandCat. |
| 223 | * EvilBrit: Strangely, he's a British rodent with the American voice of Vincent Price. |
| 224 | * EvilCounterpart: To Basil. They're both intelligent men of culture and taste, eccentric, and {{Large Ham}}s of the first order. They're on completely opposite ends of the law, though. |
| 225 | * EvilEyebrows: He was voiced by and [[InkSuitActor modeled]] after Creator/VincentPrice after all. Vincent also had high-arching eyebrows and is often type-casted into villainous roles. |
| 226 | * EvilFeelsGood: Expounds on the pleasure of evil: "Oh, I love it when I'm nasty!" He even gets his minions to sing about how evil he is just to stroke his own ego. |
| 227 | * EvilGenius: As to be expected due to being Basil's archenemy. |
| 228 | * EvilIsBigger: Far larger than anyone else in the cast, to the point the muscles in his arm alone are bigger around than Basil's waist! This is because he is a rat who surrounds himself with mice. |
| 229 | * EvilIsHammy: The only person in Mousedom who can match Basil in HamToHamCombat. He's loud, flashy, boisterous, and loves to show off. Considering [[Creator/VincentPrice who voiced him]], it's inevitable. |
| 230 | * {{Expy}}: Ratigan is the EvilCounterpart to Basil, just as Moriarty is to Holmes. |
| 231 | * FangsAreEvil: He has a mouth full of noticeably jagged and yellowed teeth. |
| 232 | * FatBastard: Subverted. He's quite large but that's because he's very muscular. |
| 233 | * FauxAffablyEvil: He comes off as rather positive and congenial, especially when compared to Basil (who can be a bit of a smug JerkAss). However, he's also an heinous criminal genius who's ready to threaten a kid in order to get what he wants, and when he gets mad the sociable veneer disappears ''swiftly''. |
| 234 | * FluffyTamer: While taming an ordinary domestic cat wouldn't normally qualify him, it's pretty impressive that a ''rat'' managed it. |
| 235 | * ForTheEvulz: Doesn't kill Basil right away once he's got him cornered. He also didn't need to keep Olivia locked in a bottle no way to get away after Flaversham agreed to help him. Ratigan just did all that because he's a jerk. |
| 236 | -->'''Ratigan:''' You don't know what a ''delightful'' dilemma it was trying to decide on the most appropriate method for your demise. |
| 237 | * GeniusBruiser: He's an evil genius... but is also strong enough to lift up Flaversham with one finger and trounce Basil in a one-on-one fight. |
| 238 | * GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Ratigan smokes a cigarette (complete with long stemmed filter), while his ArchEnemy Basil smokes a pipe. |
| 239 | * HairTriggerTemper: He often snaps and loses his mind whenever someone calls him a rat or when there is a flaw in his evil schemes. |
| 240 | * IAmNotWeasel: A variant: he's clearly a rat, but he detests being called one. He even kills one of his subordinates when they make the suggestion in a bit of AlcoholInducedIdiocy. |
| 241 | * InsistentTerminology: He denies being a rat and insists on being called a "big mouse" (which he actually was in the books, amusingly enough). |
| 242 | * KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Just as Ratigan used a handheld bell to execute his incompetent followers, he dies when the bell from Big Ben tolls. The fact that it's one of ''his'' contraptions that saves Basil and this is one of the last things he sees further drives home the karmic part.]] |
| 243 | * KickTheDog: When he breaks the toy Flaversham made for Olivia. And later kicks Olivia herself. |
| 244 | * TheKingslayer: Attempted regicide on the Queen and replace her with a robot-duplicate to take over the MouseWorld equivalent of the British Empire. |
| 245 | * LargeAndInCharge: He's significantly larger than his mooks. |
| 246 | * LargeHam: Is one of Disney's largest. In fact, Creator/VincentPrice said that this was his favorite role, and that he had a lot of fun with it. What's more, he also professed to being "flattered" that all of Ratigan's songs were written especially for him so that he could act as over-the-top as possible. Mr. Price was prone to making wild, over-the-top hand gestures and such while acting, which the animators worked into Ratigan's character as well. |
| 247 | * LastNameBasis: He's only known as Ratigan, the original book series reveals that his first name is Padraic. |
| 248 | * LaughablyEvil: It also helps that he's voiced by a man who plays laughably evil characters. |
| 249 | * LightningBruiser: He's a large rat and actually a very fast and athletic one as shown in the climax which Basil obviously isn't. |
| 250 | * ALizardNamedLiz: Despite [[IAmNotWeasel what he claims]], he is a rat named Ratigan. |
| 251 | * ManOfWealthAndTaste: So he claims. His hideout is rather fancy and elaborate, along with his apparent love of classical music and high society. |
| 252 | * MoodSwinger: He's very sinister and threatening whenever he goes from cheerful to psychotic in seconds. Even going as far using his cat to murder to his victims if they mildly offend him. |
| 253 | * MusclesAreMeaningful: He's one of the biggest and most muscled characters in the film that isn't a dog or cat, and he utterly ''dominates'' Basil during their brief wrestle near the end of the film, only losing thanks to Basil outwitting him. |
| 254 | * {{Narcissist}}: Perhaps one of the best examples in Disney canon, down to the over-the-top melodramatics. |
| 255 | * NearVillainVictory: Basil may have foiled Ratigan's plans, but Ratigan easily puts down the determined detective in a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown atop Big Ben. Ratigan surely would've triumphed if not for a stroke of dumb luck on Basil's part. |
| 256 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Towards the end of the movie, Ratigan mercilessly attacks Basil while shouting "There's no escape this time, Basil!" That Ratigan is usually [[FauxAffablyEvil more friendly]] than that only makes his [[MoodWhiplash suddenly vicious]] attack feel even more intense. It was Memorable enough to provide the page image for a while. |
| 257 | * NothingPersonal: Not with Basil (with whom it is ''extremely'' personal) but downplayed with Dawson, who he barely acknowledges when the latter is tied to a DeathTrap, though as he leaves he gives Dawson an sarcastic apology while telling him that he shouldn't have gotten involved with Basil. |
| 258 | -->Sorry, chubby.... you should have chosen your friends more carefully. |
| 259 | * ObviouslyEvil: A CardCarryingVillain who predominantly [[DarkIsEvil dresses in black]], is prone to {{Slasher Smile}}s and [[EvilLaugh evil laughter]], has YellowEyesOfSneakiness, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and is a]] [[YouDirtyRat rat]]. |
| 260 | * OffstageVillainy: Lists his previous villainous exploits in his opening song (The Big Ben Caper and the Tower Bridge Job, as well as a plot that involved drowning widows and orphans), but as his Card-Carrying villainy would suggest [[NoodleIncident we never get to see them]]. |
| 261 | * OneManArmy: After his plot is exposed, Ratigan ends up wrestled by a furious Basil, Dawson, Flaversham, the Queen, and three more mice while his henchmen are trampled by the other angry mice. Despite being outnumbered and his henchmen being defeated, Ratigan manages to wrestle off his seven opponents before escaping with Fidget and a captive Olivia. |
| 262 | * OneWingedAngel: In the ending, Ratigan reverts to his monstrous feral rat form and comes within [[NearVillainVictory a hair's breadth]] of killing Basil. |
| 263 | * OutGambitted: "Poor Basil -- oh, he is in for a little ''[[DeathTrap surprise...]]''" |
| 264 | * PermaStubble: Looks like he has stubble but this is technically just the fur color. |
| 265 | * PoliteVillainsRudeHeroes: Despite being a creepy and vicious DiabolicalMastermind who is perfectly willing to threaten children to get his way, Ratigan puts up an act of being a cheerful, pleasant gentleman, in stark contrast to his nemesis Basil, who has NoSocialSkills and often comes across as a rude, smug {{Jerkass}}. |
| 266 | * PragmaticVillainy: Despite him seeming to enjoy matching wits with Basil, it seems like his plan for his latest scheme was to make sure Basil wasn't involved at all and would be none the wiser until well after he'd taken control. Based on Basil's remarks about "another dead end" at the beginning it would seem he'd successfully been off Basil's radar for months, and he's initially furious that Fidget making a move for Olivia when she was in Basil's custody tipped him off that everything was part of Ratigan's scheme. However, Ratigan soon realizes that this incident can actually work to his advantage as he puts in a successful trap for Basil and try to kill two birds with one stone. |
| 267 | * PunctuatedForEmphasis: When Bartholomew calls him a rat, Ratigan turns on him growling out, "What. Was. THAT?!" |
| 268 | * PunnyName: '''Rat'''igan; he's a large rat. Although he insists that he's a mouse. |
| 269 | * PuppetKing: This is the basis of his EvilPlan: replace the current Monarch with a automaton that he controls and have it make him the Royal Advisor, so any laws and actions he suggests as advisor are approved by his puppet ruler. |
| 270 | * RightHandCat: Felicia, who he interestingly seems to care about. |
| 271 | * RunningOnAllFours: After his VillainousBreakdown, Ratigan stops walking upright and chases after Basil on all fours like a real rat. He's remarkably fast like this, constantly cutting off Basil's escape. |
| 272 | * {{Sadist}}: By his own admission, he takes pleasure in being evil. His exposition song mentions he drowned widows and orphans ForTheEvulz. |
| 273 | * SanitySlippage: While he was probably never sound-minded to begin with he at least had the decency to act professional and calm. At the end he totally abandons this trait turning into an animalistic and savagely rat revealing his true nature. |
| 274 | * ShameIfSomethingHappened: He uses this to threaten Flaversham's daughter Olivia if Flaversham doesn't help him with his evil scheme. |
| 275 | --> '''Professor Ratigan:''' (activating Olivia's wind-up ballerina doll and watching it dance) I would spend many a sleepless night if anything were to befall her. (proceeds to pick up the doll and viciously squeeze it until it breaks) |
| 276 | * SharpDressedMan: Even during his VillainousBreakdown, he's never out of his suit. Although, it is straining against his muscles. |
| 277 | * ASinisterClue: He's a left-ha--[[{{LastSecondWordSwap}} pawed]] villain. |
| 278 | * SinisterSchnoz: His snout is noticeably larger than the mouse characters' and [[EvilIsAngular shaped differently as well.]] |
| 279 | * SissyVillain: Before he turns into a psychotic, feral rat at the end, he is quite possibly one of Disney's most cold-blooded villains... and yet he surrounds himself with pink and purple fabric, fashionable capes, and sings songs while being carried around by his hired boys. |
| 280 | * SlasherSmile: Usually shows one of these. Most notably during the climax. |
| 281 | * TheSocialDarwinist: Shows shades of this, in wanting to put special taxes on "parasites and spongers". |
| 282 | * TheSociopath: He has no problem with murdering orphans and widows just because he can. He tried to kill the main characters and is fine with killing off his own henchmen if it means satisfying himself. It's implied that he fed lots of people (or mice) to Felicia because of how fat she is. |
| 283 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: In the German comics, it's revealed that [[spoiler:he survived his fall at the end of the film]]. In contrast to the film itself, where [[spoiler:it's heavily implied he died from it]]. |
| 284 | * SpitTake: Just as Ratigan takes a sip of champagne, Bartholomew drunkenly calls him a rat, causing Ratigan to spit out his drink with a long gasp. |
| 285 | * StepfordSmiler: The Mask of Sanity type. He's truly a savage and feral monster under that veneer of wicked cultured. |
| 286 | * TallDarkAndSnarky: Unlike Basil, he's ''never'' deadpan. He's also the tallest member of the cast and almost always wears a black suit and top hat. |
| 287 | * ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: His ridiculously over-the-top DeathTrap for Basil, which is set up so the detective will be snapped by a mousetrap, shot by a gun, impaled by a crossbow, chopped in half by an ax, [[AnvilOnHead crushed by an anvil]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking get his picture taken]]. As he explains, he had trouble deciding just what idea he would use on Basil... so he went for ''all'' of them. |
| 288 | * TopHeavyGuy: Large as he is, his legs taper to remarkably dainty feet. |
| 289 | * TranquilFury: |
| 290 | ** Throughout most of the movie, Ratigan repeatedly gets angry, but manages to reign it in and remain FauxAffablyEvil as he threatens and murders his henchmen. When his plans are ruined, [[OneWingedAngel the affability drops entirely]]. |
| 291 | ** The first time Basil [[BerserkButton calls him a rat]], he's able to control his temper more effectively, simply snapping his pocket watch shut to acknowledge the insult, all without his smile fading. |
| 292 | * TheUnfettered: Outright called as such by Basil: |
| 293 | -->'''Basil''': There's no evil scheme he wouldn't concoct! No depravity he wouldn't commit! |
| 294 | * UnstoppableRage: During the climax, he goes completely berserk, pursuing and attacking Basil with unprecedented savagery while ranting crazily. |
| 295 | * VileVillainLaughableLackey: Is the strong, savvy and sinister villain against his lackey Fidget who has a crippled wing and peg leg (while far from incapable of real villainy) and is funny and not near as threatening by comparison. |
| 296 | * VillainSong: |
| 297 | ** "Oh, Ratigan! To Ratigan! The world's greatest criminal mind!" |
| 298 | ** Also, "Goodbye So Soon" |
| 299 | * VillainousBreakdown: Ratigan, towards the final battle, turns from a formal and composed rat into [[OneWingedAngel a hulking and monstrous one]]. Made even more frightening is the fact he was previously so FauxAffablyEvil. It serves to show just how insane and feral his breakdown has left him, especially since he had, up to now, succeeded in keeping Olivia and her father separated from each other. When he sees Basil successfully reuniting them before his very eyes, and thus depriving him of what little victory he had left, this accelerates Ratigan's breakdown. |
| 300 | * WickedCultured: Formal, well-dressed, charismatic, with a genius IQ and can play the harp. |
| 301 | * WickedPretentious: He tries to pass himself off as a [[ManOfWealthAndTaste Mouse of Wealth and Taste]], but his BerserkButton, coupled with his VillainousBreakdown, only serve to show the audience how classless he really is. |
| 302 | * WolverineClaws: He keeps them hidden under his gloves, but Ratigan has very long and sharp claws. In the climax, he brings them to bear against Basil and nearly cuts him to ribbons. |
| 303 | * WouldHitAGirl: Just ask Olivia. Or [[OffstageVillainy the widows he drowned.]] |
| 304 | * WouldHurtAChild: He has Olivia kidnapped and threatens to kill her in order to make her father cooperate, and during the climax of the film, he ''kicks'' her [[spoiler:into Big Ben's gears to be crushed. Basil saves her JustInTime.]] Also, [[OffstageVillainy "the orphans he drowned"]], mentioned in his VillainSong. |
| 305 | * YouDirtyRat: A rat for sure (don't tell him that), and certainly evil. |
| 306 | * YellowEyesOfSneakiness: Provides the trope's page image. |
| 307 | * YouAreWhatYouHate: "I am not a rat!" |
| 308 | * YouHaveFailedMe: Subverted when Fidget comes back and informs Ratigan that Basil is onto his plans. At first Ratigan decides to feed Fidget to Felicia, but after thinking things over realizes he can use the opportunity to lay a trap for Basil. Thus he orders Felicia to let him go. Later played straight [[spoiler:when Fidget tires from pedaling the blimp's propeller, he suggests lightening the blimp, Ratigan does so... by throwing him off of it.]] |
| 309 | [[/folder]] |
| 310 | |
| 311 | [[folder:Fidget the Bat]] |
| 312 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/great_mouse_detective_fidget_2858.jpg]] |
| 313 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Ow! My only foot!"'']] |
| 314 | ->'''Voiced by''': Candy Candido[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Jacques Deschamps (European French dub); Silvio Navas (Brazilian Portuguese dub); Creator/ChikaoOtsuka (Japanese dub); Creator/ArturoMercado (Latin Spanish dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 315 | |
| 316 | Ratigan's bumbling bat henchman. He tends to do the dirty work for his boss. He has a crippled wing and a peg leg, and, as a result, he cannot fly. |
| 317 | ---- |
| 318 | * AdorableEvilMinion: Beside his violent evil nature, Disney meant for him to be both comedic and scary. |
| 319 | * AdaptationalHeroism: Despite his apparent DisneyVillainDeath, the spin-off comic reveals he's alive and well, and on much better terms with Olivia, as he solves mysteries with her. |
| 320 | * BagOfKidnapping: Does this to Olivia. |
| 321 | * BatOutOfHell: He's a bat, and he's one of Ratigan's henchmen. He has some genuinely scary moments, like the NightmareFace he makes when he breaks into Flaversham's workshop and kidnaps him. |
| 322 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: Fidget might provide most of the film's comic relief, but he can be downright brutal when he wants to be. As a variation of the usual trope, he's shown to be scary and brutal in his first scene (played very seriously) while his silly and comical traits are visible later. |
| 323 | * BumblingSidekick: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] quite brutally. He can be a bit clumsy when off-duty and he does provide a few good bits of humor, but is ''very'' competent and can be downright terrifying when he needs to be. |
| 324 | * ButtMonkey: Ratigan has a tendency to treat Fidget as such, treating him as a disposable moron. When Fidget fails him one too many times, Ratigan sicks his pet cat on Fidget, only letting him live thanks to a EurekaMoment. The ''disposable'' part kicks in in the climax, however, when Ratigan is trying to escape from Basil and decides to lighten his load. |
| 325 | * CompositeCharacter: Of several Sherlock Holmes villains |
| 326 | ** Colonel Sebastian Moran (''The Empty House'') - Ratigan's [[TheDragon right-hand bat]]. |
| 327 | ** Jonathan Small (''The Sign of Four'') - Peg-legged villain. |
| 328 | ** Tonga (''The Sign of Four'') - Short and dark-skinned lackey. |
| 329 | * CuteAndPsycho: When he's not bursting into the scene with a ScareChord, Fidget is pretty cute for a crippled and mangy bat. |
| 330 | * DisneyDeath: He gets tossed off of Ratigan's airship by Ratigan himself to "lighten the load" and since he can't fly, he falls into the River Thames. [[spoiler:The spin-off comic reveals that he survived the fall.]] |
| 331 | * DissonantSerenity: As the BarBrawl breaks out, Fidget just sits at the bar, finishing his drink, having likely watched such occurrences too many times to count. |
| 332 | * DistractedByTheSexy: Gets his peg leg stuck in a floorboard when he's too busy watching Miss Kitty's burlesque act. |
| 333 | * TheDragon: He's Ratigan's right-hand-bat and the most familiar with him of all his thugs. He has likely been with him for a very long time unlike the others who didn't seem to know as well. |
| 334 | * EvilCripple: Has a peg-leg and a crippled wing so he can't fly, and a rather nasty character to boot. |
| 335 | * EvilGloating: At the movie's beginning he brutally beats and kidnaps Olivia's father gloating evilly "Gotcha, toymaker!" |
| 336 | * EvilSoundsRaspy: An extreme example, his dialogue is so raspy that it verges on TheUnintelligible. |
| 337 | * HandicappedBadass: He has a peg leg, and a "broken" (mishealed? misshaped?) wing. Yet, he is a competent fighter. |
| 338 | * HiddenDepths: Despite his faults, Fidget had been shown various times to be quite competent. There's also the start of the movie... |
| 339 | * IndyPloy: The chase scene with Basil in the toy store demonstrates this quite well. Fidget really knows how to think on his feet (even if he only has one foot). |
| 340 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: Don't be fooled by his occasional bumbling and physical limits, he's ''far'' from harmless. The scene where he brutally beats up and kidnaps Flaversham best demonstrates just how frightening and dangerous Fidget really is. |
| 341 | * PsychoticManchild: Fidget can be incredibly childish and petulant. For example, when a captured Olivia calls him an “ugly old thing”, he responds by sticking his tongue out at her. |
| 342 | * ScaryTeeth: Which he uses occasionally during his ambushes. |
| 343 | * ShadowDiscretionShot: The scene of Fidget and Flaversham's fight was so brutal, it's only showed through their shadows. It can be also noted that Flaversham's toy shop was left in chaos after the fight. |
| 344 | * SycophanticServant: Seems to have felt a genuine amount of admiration and loyalty towards the Professor, as he did neither suspect that his sudden affection was only skin-deep as usual for the monster hiding behind it (and was actually touched about it) nor [[YouHaveFailedMe anticipated that he would feed him to Felicia for making a mistake and even AFTER that, that he would be the one thrown off the blimp to lighten the load.]] |
| 345 | * VileVillainLaughableLackey: The lackey to Ratigan. Has a crippled wing and peg leg (while far from incapable of real villainy) and is funny and not near as threatening by comparison. |
| 346 | * ViolenceIsDisturbing: In the scene where Fidget kidnaps Flaversham. Along with the climatic fight between Basil and Ratigan, this is one of the most brutal and frightening scenes of the whole movie. |
| 347 | * VagueAge: Olivia refers to him as "old", but he is small, somewhat cute, and has a high-pitched voice; in one of the spin-off comics, post-HeelFaceTurn, he was implied to be a teenager just a handful of years older than Olivia, if you can believe that. |
| 348 | * WouldHurtAChild: Perfectly willing to throw Olivia out of Ratigan's blimp to "lighten the load". It didn't work out as he had hoped. |
| 349 | [[/folder]] |
| 350 | |
| 351 | [[folder:Felicia]] |
| 352 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mousedetective787.jpg]] |
| 353 | |
| 354 | Ratigan's massive and vicious pet cat. Ratigan calls upon her by ringing a special bell to dispose of traitors or anyone who makes him angry. |
| 355 | ---- |
| 356 | * {{Acrofatic}}: Holds her own while running away from Toby in spite of her size. |
| 357 | * TheBrute: Like Toby, she towers over the other characters. She solves her problems by simply eating her enemies. |
| 358 | * CatsAreMean: While this trope appears often in works where the heroes are mice, Felicia is an odd case because her ''master'' is a rodent, who uses her as an executioner. |
| 359 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: After climbing a wall just ahead of Toby, she smugly turns her back on him, hikes her tail, and gracefully leaps down to the other side. A {{beat}}, and then [[GoryDiscretionShot all hell breaks loose]]. Felicia was so overconfident, she didn't realize she was jumping ''straight into the royal guard dogs' pen''...and LaserGuidedKarma finds her at last as she's mauled to death. |
| 360 | * TheDreaded: Ratigan's henchmen all fear Felicia, and for good reason- if they get on his bad side, he’ll feed them to her. |
| 361 | * ExitPursuedByABear: The last time we see her, she jumps over a high wall to be attacked by some royal {{Angry Guard Dog}}s. |
| 362 | * FatBastard: Female example, as she's considerably hefty and gets a kick out of finishing off misbehaving minions. |
| 363 | * FemaleFelineMaleMutt: Female Feline to Toby's Male Mutt, although they are enemies. |
| 364 | * FluffyTheTerrible: A giant house cat whom Ratigan flowers with affection and uses to dispatch his enemies as well as any incompetent lackey. |
| 365 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Felicia escapes Toby by jumping over a high wall, only to be [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence torn apart by the royal hounds on the other side]]. A fitting punishment for attempted regicide. |
| 366 | * MegaNeko: A giant cat from a mouse's perspective. |
| 367 | * RightHandCat: To Ratigan. Oddly, she's also a RightHandAttackDog, though obviously not in the literal sense. |
| 368 | * TertiarySexualCharacteristics: has a pink bow on her head. |
| 369 | * VillainousGlutton: Though she prefers her meals to be live, evidenced when Ratigan rings his bell. |
| 370 | [[/folder]] |
| 371 | |
| 372 | !!Other Characters |
| 373 | |
| 374 | [[folder:Miss Kitty Mouse]] |
| 375 | [[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/miss_mousey.png]] |
| 376 | ->'''Voiced by''': Melissa Manchester[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Marie Ruggeri (European French dub); Kayo Isshu (Japanese dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 377 | |
| 378 | A female dancer/showgirl mouse who briefly appears in the movie. |
| 379 | ---- |
| 380 | * AllThereInTheScript: Her name isn't brought up anywhere in the film, but her character model sheet has the word "Kitty" written on it. |
| 381 | * BadGirlSong: "Let Me Be Good to You". |
| 382 | * BeautifulSingingVoice: While Basil and Doctor Dawson visit the seedy seamen's pub, the rowdy patrons fall silent when the chanteuse Kitty Mouse takes the stage and begins "Let Me Be Good To You." They regain their raucous fervor after Kitty's tone-shift turns her act into a striptease. |
| 383 | * TheChanteuse: Performs this role by singing a melancholy song in a bar during Basil's investigation. Her appearance is homey, until she discards it to reveal something much more stripperific and shifts into a more high energy fanservice song. |
| 384 | * ChorusGirls: Miss Kitty's musical number also has two backup dancers that dance alongside her. They appear identical to her, but with a beauty mark. |
| 385 | * FamilyFriendlyStripper: Her song-and-dance number is period-accurate for Victorian-era England, with her just showing some leg in a leotard. |
| 386 | * HartmanHips: She has very wide hips compared to the other characters in the movie. |
| 387 | * HeadTurningBeauty: When Miss Kitty start to strip, in her musical number, only Basil pays no attention while patrons grab fruitlessly at her. |
| 388 | * HumanoidFemaleAnimal: Compare her figure to Dawson's when they're both on stage. Her body is an almost human proportioned hourglass shape. She has a defined bust, waist, and has legs drawn with defined hips and calves. Her legs make up about half her height. Dawson, on the other hand, is basically a sphere with stubby little legs making up no more than a quarter of his height. |
| 389 | * LegFocus: As soon as she showed her legs, the saloon's audience went wild, trying to climb on stage and grab at her. The only thing more revealing about her second costume than her first one are her legs. |
| 390 | * MsFanservice: Her only appearance in the film is her putting on a burlesque performance while stripping from a dress to a showgirl outfit, earning quite a bit of cheers from the bar patrons. |
| 391 | * NoNameGiven: As noted above, her name is never given on screen. Fans have taken to calling her "Miss Kitty Mouse" although only "Kitty" is written on her model sheet. |
| 392 | %%* ParentService: Her role in the movie. |
| 393 | * ShakingTheRump: She does this briefly during the show. |
| 394 | * ShowgirlSkirt: Miss Kitty's number has her remove a normal skirt to show a [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Mouse_7221.png blue leotard]] with a [[FluffyFashionFeathers short, feather skirt]] underneath. |
| 395 | * StockingFiller: She wears a lacy blue garter on her right leg. |
| 396 | * TrueBlueFemininity: A seductive MsFanservice with a blue showgirl outfit. Her backup dancers [[PinkMeansFeminine wear pink]] though. |
| 397 | * VocalDissonance: Her singing seems this way at first: she's a cute, innocent-looking white mouse girl in a Victorian skirt and shawl, with the sultry alto voice of Melissa Manchester. But then she does her striptease and the dissonance [[SubvertedTrope is no more]]. |
| 398 | [[/folder]] |
| 399 | |
| 400 | [[folder:The Mouse Queen / Queen Mousetoria]] |
| 401 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/queen_mousetoria.jpg]] |
| 402 | ->'''Voiced by''': Eve Brenner[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Noriko Shindo (Japanese dub), Creator/PerrettePradier (European French dub); Nancy Mackenzie (Latin Spanish dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 403 | |
| 404 | The Queen of the British Mousedom. |
| 405 | ---- |
| 406 | * CoolOldLady: She is no slouch. When Ratigan ties her up and sends Fidget to feed her to Felicia, she fights as he carries her. Then she helps Basil and Dawson tie up Ratigan's men and save her people from Ratigan being made consort. |
| 407 | * DamselOutOfDistress: Queen Mousetoria may be old, but she can fight. She kicks Fidget as he carries her to a hungry Felicia. Later, she helps Basil and Dawson take down Ratigan's men. |
| 408 | * NeverMessWithGranny: She's supposed to be as old as Queen Victoria, but she is ''tough''. When Fidget carries her BoundAndGagged to a waiting Felicia, she fights back and kicks him for all that it's worth. After Basil saves her, she helps him subdue all of Ratigan's men and ties up Fidget with obvious pleasure. |
| 409 | * NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: A clear analogue of Queen Victoria. |
| 410 | * NoNameGiven: Only ever called "the Queen" in dialogue and "Mouse Queen" in the voice credits. Queen Mousetoria is a commonly attributed fanon name for her, though; although it's unclear from where it originates, it's an obvious nod to Queen Victoria. |
| 411 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Downplayed, but the Queen is seen helping tie up Ratigan's mooks. She can also be seen helping with trying to restrain Ratigan before he escapes. |
| 412 | [[/folder]] |
| 413 | |
| 414 | [[folder:Mrs. Judson]] |
| 415 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mousedetective072.jpg]] |
| 416 | ->'''Voiced by''': Diana Chesney[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Creator/HisakoKyoda (Japanese dub); Ángela Villanueva (Latin Spanish dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 417 | |
| 418 | Basil's beleaguered and long-suffering housekeeper, who tries to keep the apartment in order in the midst of Basil's antics. |
| 419 | ---- |
| 420 | * ApronMatron: Downplayed. She is Basil's somewhat maternal housekeeper, and he seems slightly intimidated when she gets angry over his destroying her good pillows while doing a test with a bullet. |
| 421 | * BerserkButton: She ''hates'' it when Basil fires weapons in the house, mainly because he keeps shooting her throw pillows. |
| 422 | * {{Expy}}: Clearly based on Sherlock's housekeeper Mrs. Hudson. |
| 423 | * FriendToAllChildren: She dotes on Olivia almost immediately, making her tea and crumpets and setting her up by the fireplace. |
| 424 | [[/folder]] |
| 425 | |
| 426 | [[folder:Sherlock Holmes]] |
| 427 | -> '''Voiced by''': Creator/BasilRathbone |
| 428 | |
| 429 | The Great Detective himself. Basil's home is hidden within the walls of Sherlock's famous apartment. |
| 430 | ---- |
| 431 | * TheCameo: Only appears in a couple of scenes, when the cast pass through 221 Baker Street briefly. |
| 432 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: He never appears in person, but it helps establish ''why'' Basil's mousehole is where it is... |
| 433 | [[/folder]] |
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