Line #15 YMMV/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians


1	%% Before anyone adds Cruella de Vil as an example of Complete Monster, bear in mind that according to the Disney CM list, she isn't. If you consider her one, please take it to the Western Animation Disney CM thread.
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3	!!Franchise entries
4	* ''[[YMMV/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians1996 101 Dalmatians]]'' (1996 live-action film)
5	** ''YMMV/OneHundredAndTwoDalmatians''
6	* ''YMMV/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries''
7	* ''YMMV/OneHundredAndTwoDalmatiansPuppiesToTheRescue''
8	* ''YMMV/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansIIPatchsLondonAdventure''
9	* ''YMMV/OneHundredAndOneDalmatianStreet''
10	* ''YMMV/{{Cruella}}''
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12	!!The 1961 animated film
13	* AccidentalAesop: At the beginning of the film, Pongo was dismissive of an Afghan hound and a poodle as "too strange" and "too fancy", respectively. But during the [[GondorCallsForAid Twilight Bark]], these two dogs show up again, eagerly passing on the message to help him find his lost pups. What's true for dogs is true for people, too: Never judge somebody's character from their appearance, their ethnicity or their class. There is good and bad to be found in all stripes, and someone you might dismiss because you tarred them with the same brush [[WhatYouAreInTheDark could surprise you]].
14	* AdaptationDisplacement: That's right, there was a book. There was a book called ''Literature/TheHundredAndOneDalmatians'' (without the "one" at the beginning). People only familiar with the story from the movie might be shocked to find out that Perdita was called 'Missis' (while there ''was'' a Perdita in the novel, she was a different character), Cruella had a husband and a pet cat, and a subplot contained Perdita's lost love who went missing. The book had a sequel too, but both the animated and live action sequels were original stories.
15	* BrokenBase: Disney buffs can't decide if this film is the start of the Dark Age for the studio. On the one hand, it marked a huge downgrade from the animation of the previous film ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' thanks to the studio using xerography to photocopy the cels rather than hand-inking them to save money. On the other hand it was still one of the highest grossing Disney films, so some regard it as the final great Disney film before the Dark Age (although some give that to ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'' -- the last completed film Walt worked on).
16	* CommonKnowledge:
17	** Many people who haven't seen the movie assume it's about a pair of Dalmatians who have 99 puppies. In reality, Pongo and Perdita only have 15; they adopted the rest after saving them from Cruella.
18	** No, Cruella doesn't have some murderous hatred of Dalmatians. She just thinks their fur would look good as a coat, that's all.
19	* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: Writing a best-selling song about someone you don't like and explicitly ''naming them'' in the lyrics, is a good way to get sued in Court for libel and slander.
20	* EnsembleDarkhorse:
21	** Sgt. Tibbs was quite popular, possibly for being almost {{Keet}} and subverting CatsAreMean.
22	** Patch, through and through. 95% of all merchandise features him.
23	* HarsherInHindsight: When Pongo and Perdita confront the two minions in Hell Hall, they're so aggressive Jasper mistakes them for spotted hyenas as they stand in front of the fireplace. Come 1994, and [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Scar is confronted by some very real spotted hyenas in the middle of a roaring fire]], and it doesn't end well for him.
24	* HollywoodHomely: When Pongo is scouting out a mate for Roger (and himself), the first woman to walk by is a gangly brunette in glasses and a beret, carrying an easel and walking an Afghan hound. Pongo's quick to dismiss the pair, but they weren't all that bad-looking, and the woman probably wouldn't have been the worst match for Roger, especially considering they're both artists.
25	* JerkassWoobie: Horace and Jasper could qualify considering they have to endure the berating of their BadBoss Cruella.
26	* LoveToHate: Cruella--aside from the Dalmatian puppies, Cruella's easily the most popular/iconic character from the movie.
27	* MandelaEffect: Some people remember [[BigBad Cruella De Vil's]] name being spelled as "Cruella De ''Ville''" or something similar. While the name is obviously a [[PunnyName pun]] for [[CardCarryingVillain "cruel devil",]] a lot of people remember it as being more creative than just putting a space in the word "devil".
28	* MemeticMutation:
29	** "I'll get even! Just wait! You'll be sorry, you fools! You... YOU IDIOTS!!!" (SLAM!)
30	** [[https://www.gifmania.co.uk/Walt-Disney/Disney-Movies/One-Hundred-One-Dalmatians/Pongo-Perdita/Angry-Pongo-Roger-85238.gif Roger and Pongo have had enough of your bullshit]].
31	** [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-s_cYccezMLo/T_y9LXs3scI/AAAAAAAABDo/LWg72afqtlw/s1600/2.jpg Sergeant Tibbs would like to know just what the hell is going on here]].
32	** "Blast this pen! BLAST THIS WRETCHED, WRETCHED ''PEN!''"
33	** In Israel, kids often call Cruella ‘debil’ (a word borrowed from French ''débil'' via Russian meaning ‘dumbass’).
34	* MisaimedFandom: Many fur fans actually like Cruella, especially the animated version, for her huge fox coat. And a lot of the mentions of fur, like sleeping between ermine sheets in the book, often just seem like a sybaritic PrettyInMink.
35	* MoneyMakingShot: Cruella in her car, chasing after the van carrying the puppies as her hair flies in the wind and her eyes go bloodshot. Easily one of the most remembered moments, and used in lots of promotion to sell her determination.
36	* MoralEventHorizon: Cruella, Jasper and Horace are already established as cruel for their part in stealing the puppies and even if they didn't know that they were as sapient as them, the fact still remains that they are willing to murder ''dogs'' because of some petty desires. And then they try to run the truck off the road and kill the human driver just to catch the puppies (and if it wasn't for Horace's clumsiness they would have succeeded) sealing the fact that they have no respect for life in general, be it human or animal.
37	* OlderThanTheyThink: Cruella's iconic EvilLaugh was actually a trademark of actress Betty Lou Gerson, who was using it a while before this film. This even allowed for an impressive MythologyGag in ''Film/{{Cruella}}'' where the new version models her laugh on a Gerson film.
38	* OneSceneWonder: The four cows only appear in the film for a few minutes to feed the puppies, but they're iconic characters and arguably feature the film's SignatureScene.
39	* {{Padding}}:
40	** The Twilight Bark sequence lasts five minutes and is basically characters repeating information the audience already knows.
41	** The scenes of the Dalmatians wandering the frozen countryside are mostly this too, although they do at least allow the puppies to interact with their parents.
42	* SampledUp: The famously catchy [[VillainSong "Cruella de Vil"]] may intentionally sample the chorus line of Thelonious Monk's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPgg01dtw_U "Bolivar Blues"]], which got its first album release in 1957.
43	* SignatureScene:
44	** The scene where Perdita leads the puppies where to get milk from the four cows is used in a ''lot'' of the film's promotional material.
45	** The final car chase is also up there as the main highlight of the film. Particularly for Cruella's [[https://i.pinimg.com/564x/c6/d1/a1/c6d1a1621fc8d10cc195d7ae064d1c43--disney-villains-movie-characters.jpg road]] [[VillainousBreakdown rage]].
46	* TearDryer: At one point it seems as though one of the puppies [[TragicStillbirth was stillborn]], but when Roger rubs his back, [[SubvertedTrope it turns out that he was still alive]].
47	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: With such fun side characters like Tibbs, Colonel, Nanny, Horace and Jasper - the puppies themselves are pretty underdeveloped. They're pretty much LivingMacGuffin characters with only a couple of traits to distinguish them. Compared to the original novel, the puppies in the movie interact and banter with each other far less than they do in the book. Notably the spin-off cartoon would flesh them out a lot more, as well as [[TruerToTheText characterize the main pups more in line with their book counterparts]].
48	* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
49	** While the profession of writing songs for other artists to sing was quite thriving for decades, it would quickly start to be rendered obsolete just two years after the film's release thanks to the emergence of Music/TheBeatles and their popularization of artists writing their own songs, which remains the default model today. Consequently, Roger's dream of becoming a professional songwriter seems much less immediately relatable to a modern audience than it did in 1961.
50	** ''What's My Crime?'' is a parody of the then-airing game show ''Series/WhatsMyLine''. This is a reference that everyone would have gotten in 1961, but it's decidedly more obscure now except in the game show community.
51	* ValuesDissonance: While Perdita's giving birth to her and Pongo's original fifteen puppies, Anita and Nanny are helping her while Pongo and Roger are waiting in another room, behind a closed door. When the movie was produced and released, it was typically frowned upon for men to be present when their wives/female partners were in labor, and men were basically flat-out banned from delivery rooms. Decades later, however, the biological father is more often than not expected to accompany the biological mother during the child's birth (provided that they're still romantically involved).
52	* ViewerGenderConfusion: Pepper gets one speaking line during the entire film and her voice led many people to believe she was a boy.
53	* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: All of the cars! Looks like CGI, right? Actually, they're wooden models with hard black lines painted on their edges, photographed moving in real time with every frame then blown up and xeroxed onto animation cels. Despite all this, they haven't aged ''a day''!

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