Characters / Oliver & Company

Fagin's gang

Oliver

Voiced by: Joey Lawrence; Renaud Tissier (European French dub); Tetsuya Fujita (Japanese dub); Peterson Adriano (Brazilian dub)

An orange orphaned kitten that's looking for a home.

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• Adaptational Badass: A subtle example. Oliver is usually as vulnerable and naive as his book counterpart; however, he does have several more impressive feats and accomplishments, like tracking Dodger across Manhattan, pulling off a rescue mission with the rest of the gang, and helping to dispatch with the movie's villains.
• The Baby of the Bunch: Since he's still just a kitten, he's easily the youngest member of Fagin's gang, and his canine friends treat him like their new kid brother as a result.
• Badass Adorable: With the emphasis on "adorable."
  Fagin: That reminds me, I saw DeSoto's nose; who did that?
  (Dodger presents Oliver to Fagin)
  Fagin: You... you? *Laughs* That took a lot of guts! We have never had a cat in the gang before... we can use all the help we can get.
• Beware the Nice Ones: It may or may not have been by coincidence, but Oliver directly kills DeSoto—a sociopathic Doberman five times his size, made all out of razor-sharp teeth and claws—by tackling him and causing him to fall into the electrified subway tracks in the climax.
• Birds of a Feather: Oliver and his owner, Jenny, are both loving, affectionate, energetic kids and a perfect match for each other, as shown in "Good Company".
• Butt-Monkey: Especially in early scenes, when he starts following Dodger, he's being put through a variety of pranks along the way.
• A Cat in a Gang of Dogs: He's the only feline member of Fagin's gang, and the only major cat character in a movie filled with dogs.
• Character Development: As a result of befriending Jenny and Dodger and getting drawn into a series of dangerous misadventures, Oliver becomes braver throughout the film and more willing to roll with life's unexpected punches, which comes to a head during the climax, when he risks his life to help his friends and save Jenny.
• Cute Kitten: Based on Oliver Twist... only the main character's a kitty.
• Determinator: Oliver continues to pursue Dodger after getting dipped in cement, sprayed with water, and humiliated in a wide variety of ways.
• Disney Death: There's a brief scare when it seems Oliver has died rescuing Jenny from Sykes.
• Extremely Protective Child: He may be a kitten, but he will stop at nothing to protect Jenny and Dodger from Sykes and his dogs. During the subway chase, he bites Sykes which makes him let go of Jenny. He also saves Dodger's life by killing DeSoto single-handedly.
• From Zero to Hero: Oliver started as a giveaway kitten in a cardboard box. Evening rain destroys the box, leaving this kitten a Street Urchin. He happens upon Jenny Foxworth, who adopts him and names him Oliver. When she falls into the villain's clutches, Oliver is the first one of Fagin's crew to make an insane leap between speeding vehicles to induce Jenny's rescue.
• Happily Adopted: By Lonely Rich Kid Jenny, later in the film.
• Heartwarming Orphan: Initially, he was a nameless, unwanted Cute Kitten left alone in a box before he was adopted and given a proper name by Jenny.
• The Hero: As the title of the film would suggest.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Essentially does so when he pounces onto Sykes to save Jenny. Thankfully, it only leads to a Disney Death.
• Hey, You!: He doesn't get a name until Jenny dubs him Oliver. Even afterward, Fagin's group mainly calls him "kid". Fagin addresses him by name after seeing his license as an indication that he now has a new home, but Tito and Francis calling Oliver by name later suggests they ultimately view him as a friend.
• Improbable Self-Maintenance: Oliver never winds up dirty for much longer than a few seconds for gags. His fur never clumps or becomes matted even after falling into wet concrete and being blasted with water from a fire hydrant while exploring the dirty streets of New York City.
• Naïve Newcomer: The new member of Fagin's gang with less experience than the others.
• Nice Guy: Stubborn as he can sometimes be, he's easily the nicest character in the film.
• Orphan's Ordeal: The only kitten left in the box, and we see him nearly getting washed down the drain, getting chased by massive, vicious dogs, ending up trying to get food from a hot dog vendor, and kicked into a wall.
• Pinball Protagonist: Much like the original Oliver Twist, Oliver here spends a lot of the movie being dragged around in the affairs of Fagin's gang or other authorities. However, he takes a level in badass to come to Jenny's aid.
• Protagonist Title: And Company.
• Red Is Heroic: Oliver, being a ginger kitten, is an animal take on a redhead, and he's at the head of the pack as they try to rescue his new owner, Jenny, from a horribly evil gangster.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: Yes, he's a combination of Cute Kitten and Heartwarming Orphan, so he's adorable.
• Took a Level in Badass: A downplayed example. Oliver starts as an ordinary, helpless kitten who's easily kicked around and overwhelmed by the enormity of New York City but slowly gains confidence. He becomes more willing to stand up for himself and put himself in dangerous situations for a good reason, whether he's chasing Dodger across town, helping his friends pull off a rescue mission to save Jenny, or putting himself in danger to save her and Dodger during the climax.
• Unintentional Backup Plan: His run-ins with Fagin's gang and later Jenny ultimately end up getting the former out of their ordeal with the Loan Shark, Sykes, after repeated failures to pickpocket the needed money.

Dodger

Voiced by: Billy Joel; Patrick Poivey (European French dub); Shigeru Matsuzaki (Japanese dub); Mário Jorge Andrade (Brazilian dub)

He's a carefree, charismatic mongrel with a mix of terrier in him, claiming to have considerable "street savoir-faire." He is the leader of Fagin's gang of dogs, Oliver's first acquaintance, and his eventual best friend and protector.

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• Adaptational Heroism: Like Fagin, Dodger receives this. He starts as something of a bully to Oliver but quickly pulls a Heel–Face Turn. He has more redeeming qualities than his book counterpart and remains a free dog by the movie's end.
• Affectionate Gesture to the Head: A sign that Dodger is warming up to Oliver is the usually aloof street dog tousling the kitten's fur.
• Age Lift: In the book, Dodger was a child close to Oliver's age (or maybe slightly older). In this movie, he's an adult dog.
• Anti-Hero: Being a delinquent and a Lovable Rogue, Dodger isn't your conventional hero, but one of Oliver's closest friends.
• The Artful Dodger: His character is based directly on the Trope Namer, though he's noticeably older than his book counterpart in this adaptation.
• Big Brother Instinct: After Character Development, he shows this towards Oliver.
• Character Catchphrase: "Absitively Posolutely."
• Character Development: Dodger initially wants little to do with Oliver and cons him out of some sausages, though he's continually surprised by the kitten's guts and determination. Then after accidentally getting Oliver involved in the gang's troubles with Sykes, Dodger starts considering Oliver his responsibility and develops a Big Brother Instinct towards him. By the end of the film, Oliver and Dodger have saved each other's lives several times, and Dodger considers him a member of his gang as much as the other dogs. Dodger ensures they're still friends at the end, even after Oliver has moved in with Jenny.
• Combat Pragmatist: Apt in using the environment in his favor. That's how he (and Oliver) defeats Roscoe and DeSoto at the end.
• Cool Shades: He has them during the "Why Should I Worry?" number.
• Deadpan Snarker: This exchange:
  Oliver: So when are we going to eat?
  Dodger: We?
  Oliver: Yeah, I'm starving!
  Dodger: Listen, kid, I hate to break it to you, but the "dynamic duo" is now the dynamic uno.
• Delinquent: A reasonably pleasant, canine example. He's the slick but tough leader of a gang of thieves who loves messing with humans and animals alike and steals to get by. He's a pretty textbook example of the bad-boy archetype, though befriending Oliver and becoming his new big brother figure causes him to mellow out slightly.
• Eat the Camera: Dodger does this during his signature song.
• Expy: Very similar characterization to Tramp from Lady and the Tramp, another sassy, dirt-poor, streetwise dog.
• Greaser Delinquents: Despite being a dog, Dodger has the personality, demeanor, and lingo of one. He's an edgy 80's bad-boy who leads a gang, is effortlessly cool, and dances to his own rhythm most of the time, quickly impressing female dogs.
• Heel–Face Turn: A minor example. Dodger starts as a bit of a bully to Oliver, tricking him out of some sausages and repeatedly humiliating him. After saving him from Roscoe and DeSoto and accepting Oliver as part of his gang, Dodger becomes the kitten's friend and mentor at the end of the first act and remains that way for the rest of the film.
• Heroic Dog: He is one of the two main heroes, with Oliver. He later helps save Jenny.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Along with Oliver, he leaps at Sykes and saves Jenny before the gang evades getting hit by the subway train. He's nearly killed when Sykes tosses him away in the scuffle and saves Oliver, who he initially believes didn't survive the ordeal.
• Hidden Depths: Dodger is reckless and something of a daredevil; he enjoys showing off to other dogs, as seen in "Why Should I Worry?". He's also very sharp and observant, implied to be the best strategist in Fagin's gang.
• "I Am" Song: "Why Should I Worry?" serves as one for him.
• Iconic Item: His red bandanna around his neck. He loses it during the battle on the subway and seemingly finds himself another after the gang has rescued Jenny.
• Ink-Suit Actor: Basically looks a canine Billy Joel.
• Jack of All Stats: He's neither the largest nor the smallest dog in the gang, and neither the most intelligent nor the dumbest - although possibly the smartest one when in practical matters.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's slightly thoughtless and ungenerous, but he constantly pulls through for his friends. He becomes increasingly watchful of the youngest member of the gang (Oliver), and it's very apparent that Fagin has his Undying Loyalty because he wants to repay the man for taking him off the streets.
• Justified Criminal: Dodger and his gang steal to survive.
• Kick the Dog: Or "Kick the Cat". He ditches Oliver without giving him even one sausage after he helped him steal them. Also, most of his signature song "Why Should I Worry" involves putting him down or humiliating him in some way. He warms up to him later in the film.
• The Leader: Of Fagin's dog gang.
• Loveable Rogue: A naughty yet charming streetwise dog. Dodger is a thief and a delinquent, and he would be the first to boast about that, but he's ultimately not that toxic of a guy, especially among the small circle of people he considers his friends. Like Fagin, it's shown that his criminal tendencies have their limits that stop at people getting hurt, and he has some code of honor, taking on Sykes and his dogs in the climax to save Jenny and Oliver from peril.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: Despite being much smaller, he can match or win against Roscoe or DeSoto in a fight, but not both.
• Papa Wolf: When Roscoe and DeSoto threaten Oliver, Dodger wastes no time defending the young cat much in the same way a father would his son. Then Roscoe and DeSoto depart temporarily, with Roscoe promising Dodger their first meeting won't be the last; his promise also frightens Oliver. It returns in the climax, where he leaps into Sykes’ car and attacks Roscoe when the two Dobermans had Oliver cornered.
• Street Smart: He even has a song about his smooth-talking "street savoir-faire." Dodger and his friends grew up on the streets, so he knows Manhattan's ins and outs and shortcuts and many of the people.
• Tenor Boy: Thanks to Billy Joel.

Tito (aka Ignacio Alonzo Julio Federico de Tito)

Voiced by: Cheech Marin; Gérard Hernandez (European French dub); Yūji Mitsuya (Japanese dub); Nelson Batista (Brazilian dub)

A tiny yet passionate Chihuahua in Fagin's gang. He has an especially fiery temper for his size.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: To Georgette. At least at first. It gets inverted when, in the end, she becomes attracted to him, and he can't take it anymore.
• Fiery Redhead: Has a red tuft of hair on his head with a temper to match.
• Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: At Jenny's apartment, he sniffs a cigar lying around, quoting, "If this is torture, chain me to the wall!!!"
• Grievous Harm with a Body: He was once unintentionally flung right at Rita's head during the play fighting.
• Handy Mouth: Tito is the hot-wire expert of Fagin's gang. He's seen pulling wires from underneath a limousine's dashboard with his teeth and jumping the connections by holding select wires in his mouth and letting his saliva act as the conductor. He would later activate a freight elevator in Sykes' lair by pulling a wire with his teeth, then pressing the exposed end against the circuit board.
• The Lancer: He strongly contrasts Dodger: while the latter is a mongrel and a suave con man, Tito is a Chihuahua who is all mouth and kind of a lovable mook.
• Latin Lover: Averted. Until the end of the movie, Tito's just an American-Mexican Casanova Wannabe.
• Let Me at Him!: Tito is angry when Roscoe threatens Francis and tries to fight him, but fortunately, Einstein holds him back.
• Hates Baths: He initially seems unfamiliar with the idea until Georgette introduces him to it, at which point, he reacts with abject terror.
• Motor Mouth: He can speak swiftly from time to time.
• The Napoleon: A tiny chihuahua and the most temperamental of the gang.
• National Animal Stereotypes: He's a chihuahua with a Mexican accent and an exaggeratedly long Spanish name.
• Overly Long Name: His friends simply call him "Tito" for a reason.
• Tenor Boy: Thanks to his voice actor Cheech Marin.
• Verbal Tic: He tends to end his sentences with "man", man.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Tito and Francis are at each others' throats almost constantly, but they often get amused by each other's antics and are pretty protective of each other, with Tito getting extremely agitated when Roscoe menaces Francis. You see Tito curled up between Francis' paws and using his jowls as a blanket on at least one occasion.
• Was Too Hard on Him: Out of everyone, Tito tells Dodger to go easy on Oliver after Dodger blames Oliver for being an Ungrateful Bastard for wanting to depart them for Jenny.

Einstein

Voiced by: Richard Mulligan; René Bériard (European French dub); Yu Shimaka (Japanese dub); André Luiz Chapéu (Brazilian dub)

A gray Great Dane and a member of Fagin's gang, ironically named as he is not incredibly bright. He represents the surprisingly accurate stereotype that Great Danes are friendly but not entirely bred for intelligence.

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• Amusing Injuries: Played straight and inverted. Einstein headbutts Winston's limo to fake a hit, where he then wobbles about in a drunken dizzy fashion. Later, when a streetlight falls and conks Einstein on the head, he's suddenly back to normal.
• The Big Guy: The gang's largest dog, Einstein even tells Roscoe to pick on somebody his own size, although he's visibly not so sure about taking on the more savage Doberman when the latter accepts the challenge.
• Big Friendly Dog: A Great Dane with a friendly personality.
• Dogs Are Dumb: Despite his name, he is not very smart.
• Dumb Muscle: Einstein is at least as large as one of the Dobermans, but he is also significantly clueless and much less fierce than them.
• Expy: Clearly one of Scooby-Doo by virtue of being a big, friendly, and somewhat chicken-hearted Great Dane.
• Ironic Name: Yeah, he's not exactly the brightest member of Fagin's gang.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: Clueless, but probably the most unambiguously sweet-natured of the group.
• Nice Guy: Easily the nicest dog of Fagin's gang.
• Old Dog: Seems to be the oldest dog among Fagin's gang. Roscoe refers to him as an "old man" when taunting him.
• Use Your Head: Einstein specializes in this. Dodger calls on Einstein to produce a fender bender, and the latter pulls it off by ramming his head into the Foxworths' car.

Francis

Voiced by: Roscoe Lee Browne; Georges Atlas (European French dub); Kousei Tomita (Japanese dub); Newton Apollo (Brazilian dub)

A bulldog with a British accent in Fagin's gang who appreciates art and theatre, particularly Shakespeare. He also detests anyone abbreviating his name as "Frank" or "Frankie" (which Tito frequently does).

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• Animal Stereotypes: Somewhat unusual for how media portrays bulldogs, Francis is a meek dog who only helps with the academic field.
• Bully Bulldog: A conspicuous inversion: he's cultured, cunning, and speaks with a posh English accent. He's also friendly and loyal.
• Cold Ham: He has some pretty over-the-top dialogue, but he delivers it in a soft-spoken manner.
• Deadpan Snarker: Particularly, he's snarky towards Tito in their Vitriolic Best Buds dynamic.
• Insistent Terminology: He refuses to be referred to as "Frank" or "Frankie," which Tito abuses when they fight over what to watch on TV.
• Large Ham: Particularly when doing theatrical speeches.
• Meaningful Name: Some denominations of Christianity revere Francis of Assisi, born into wealth, as the patron saint of animals. Many churches conduct animal blessings on his feast day.
• National Animal Stereotypes: He's a bulldog with a British accent and fondness for English theatre and Shakespeare in particular.
• Prehensile Tail: He uses his tail to position a floor lamp into place. This is an amusing sight when one notices just how tiny his tail is.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Despite being another homeless mutt, he fancies himself as a Shakespearian actor material and high class.
• The Smart Guy: He's the most cultured member of the gang and the one tasked with missions that require a thorough understanding of humans, like feigning death to distract Winston.
• The Stoic: The least expressive of Dodger's gang.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Tito and Francis are at each others' throats almost constantly, but they often get amused by each other's antics and are pretty protective of each other, with Tito getting extremely agitated when Roscoe menaces Francis. You see Tito curled up between Francis' paws and using his jowls as a blanket on at least one occasion.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Plays dead in front of Jenny's limo to get Winston’s attention long enough for Oliver and Tito to steal the radio from inside.

Rita

Voiced by: Sheryl Lee Ralph, Ruth Pointer [singing]; Sylvie Moreau, Dada Hekimian [singing] (European French dub); Ami Ozaki (Japanese dub); Maria Helena Pader (Brazilian dub-dialogue)

A Saluki and the sole female dog in Fagin's gang; she is streetwise but caring and takes Oliver under her wing.

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• '80s Hair: Her mane (not that Saluki dogs have them) is a giveaway of when the film was being made and set.
• Beauty Equals Goodness: She's very kind and not a bad looker.
• Cool Big Sis: Towards Oliver, almost instantly since she realizes his innocent role in Dodger's tall tale.
• Number Two: To Dodger in the gang. She's the one he glances for his side when the Dobermans come for trouble.
• One of the Boys: The only female dog in Dodger's gang.
• Only Sane Woman: The most level-headed dog in Fagin's gang. However, there's a bit of Not So Above It All when the boys start play fighting, and one of them hits her by accident.
• Sassy Black Woman: She behaves like it times and she was voiced by a black actress in the original language.
• The Smurfette Principle: The only female in the Five-Man Band of dogs.
• Team Mom: Often serves as the voice of reason among the dogs, is the most level-headed, and the one who can calm the others down when they get out of control. She's incredibly motherly towards Oliver.
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: She seems to be wearing blue eyeshadow, which is odd since Rita is never seen applying it, whereas it's a part of Georgette's morning routine. She also has visible eyelashes.
• Tender Tomboyishness, Foul Femininity: The street-smart and caring Tender Tomboyishness to Georgette's vain and irritable Foul Femininity.
• Women Are Wiser: Notably the only one who voices doubts about "rescuing" Oliver from Jenny's house, and the only one who notices that Oliver is unhappy afterward.

Fagin

Voiced by: Dom De Luise; Philippe Dumat (European French dub); Masaru Ikeda (Japanese dub); Rodney Gomes (Brazilian dub)

A petty thief who lives on a houseboat with his dogs, and he desperately needs money to repay his massive debt with Sykes. His economic situation forces him to perform criminal acts like pickpocketing and petty theft, but he is good-natured and polite most of the time.

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• Adaptational Heroism: His original incarnation in the book was one of the primary antagonists. Here, he's still a thief but is one of the good guys.
• Adaptational Sympathy: Fagin's criminal activities here are far more reluctant than they are in the book, as they are done purely to pay off what he owes to Sykes.
• Adaptational Wimp: In the novel, Sykes and Fagin were business partners on equal footing. Here, Fagin is Sykes's bitch since they're a lowly pickpocket and a Mafia loan shark, respectively. He owes Sykes an undisclosed amount of money, and Sykes makes it very clear what will happen to Fagin if he doesn't pay up.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Half of his dialogue with Sikes involves some sort of begging.
• Ambiguously Jewish: While he's based on a Jewish character and multiple elements of his character design (red hair, green coat, big nose) were used in the Victorian era to code characters as Jewish, his religious background is never touched upon.
• Anti-Villain: He does thievery and has the dogs do his dirty work, but he does care for them. Fagin's paranoia of his dealings with Sykes and the dogs' welfare is justified if he gets "sleepin' with the fishes." He drops the "villain" part at the end of the movie.
• Berserk Button: Witnessing Sykes kidnap Jenny, leading to his Big Damn Heroes moment in the climax.
• Beware the Nice Ones: His busting into Sykes' headquarters to rescue Jenny, Oliver and his dogs in the climax should say it all.
• Big Damn Heroes: Comes to the aid of Jenny and his dogs via escape via scooter when they get caught by Sykes.
• Butt-Monkey: He's never safe from the city's abuse, primarily when he interacts with Sykes.
• Cowardly Lion: He does crimes to escape his possible gangster death punishment from Sykes, but he does try to fight against him once he goes too far.
• The Dog Bites Back: At the end of the film, when he realizes that Sykes has gone too far, Fagin decides to pull a Big Damn Heroes moment to rescue his dogs and Jenny.
• Drives Like Crazy: He has shades of this, driving erratically on his scooter. He puts his skills to good use in the finale, somehow managing to stay ahead of Sykes' car and on a subway, no less.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • After Fagin learns that Oliver has been taken in by the wealthy Foxworth family, he leaves a ransom note for them, telling them if they ever want Oliver again, they'd have to pay him a large sum. When it's Jenny who shows up to pay the ransom, Fagin feels so guilty that he can't go through with it.
  • Despite being a criminal who isn't above dealing with loan sharks, he's completely horrified when Sikes kidnaps Jenny, and later barges into his office with his bike to rescue her.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: As Jenny tells him, it doesn't matter how desperate you are, ransoming a cat is wrong.
  Fagin: He must've been a poor, desperate, man.
  Jenny: It's still wrong. I'm so scared. I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do.
  Fagin: Neither do I.
• Heroic Sacrifice: When he realizes that 7-year-old Jenny was Oliver's owner all along and she had no way of paying back his debt, he eventually decides to give up the scheme and return the kitty free of charge, knowing that Sikes would kill him for not having the money.
• Hobo Gloves: He's an impoverished petty thief who lives on a barge with many dogs and wears worn brown gloves with no fingers.
• Homeless Pigeon Person: Given that he has no home, he lives on his barge accompanied by his dogs.
• Karma Houdini: While he makes it up to her by rescuing her, Jenny never finds out that he was the one who tried to ransom Oliver and accidentally got her kidnapped by Sikes, putting the poor girl through a lot of distress. There's also a chance that he told her offscreen and she forgave him.
• Jerk Justifications: He tries justify his "kidnapping" of Oliver to Jenny (and himself) by saying that he was desperate.
  Fagin: But I -I mean- Maybe he... Maybe he was up against the wall. At the end of his rope!
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: A difference shared with the musical adaptation - yes, he's a thief and was planning to ransom Oliver, but he clearly loves his pets, and upon learning that Jenny is Oliver's owner, he gives up all notion of collecting the ransom at once (although he’s mindful that he’ll be killed if he fails to pay Sykes) to return Oliver to her.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Fagin witnesses Sykes kidnap Jenny for ransom, freeing Fagin of his debt; however, this was not how he wanted to do it, and felt what happened to her was on him.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • When he realizes that Sykes is not going to off him, but instead kidnap Jenny.
  • He has a similar reaction when Sykes' car comes after him and his dogs.
• Papa Wolf: He's very protective of his pets as well as Jenny when Sykes kidnaps her.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: The moment he discovers Oliver's owner is a little girl, he calls off the ransom. And when the same girl gets abducted, his only concern is leading her to safety. Jenny thanks Fagin after he teams up with Oliver and the dogs to rescue her.
• Redhead In Green: Fagin sports bushy red hair and a large green trenchcoat, alluding to his book counterpart's portrayal as a Greedy Jew by invoking imagery commonly used in Charles Dickens' time to code characters as Jewish (together with his big nose).
• Sizable Semitic Nose: While this version of Fagin is never explicitly referred to as Jewish, his big nose is still a relic of his book counterpart's portrayal as a Greedy Jew (together with his red hair and green coat, two archaic means of coding a character as Jewish).
• Spared by the Adaptation: His book counterpart was sentenced to execution at the novel's end.
• Token Human: The only human in his gang, which otherwise consists of a pack of dogs and one cat.

The Foxworth family

Jennifer "Jenny" Foxworth

Voiced by: Natalie Gregory; Sauvane Delanoë (European French dub); Chami Satonaka (Japanese dub); Adriana Torres (Brazilian dub)

A kind, rich girl who takes care of Oliver and later adopts him.

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• Animal Lover: She seems to take care of all animals she finds, especially cats.
• Brutal Honesty: Tells Fagin that being desperate is no excuse to kidnap a cat.
• The Cutie: A sweet little girl, and very cute as well.
• Damsel in Distress: In the climax, after getting abducted by Sykes and when he tries to recapture her.
• Ditch the Bodyguards: Being seven years old, she had to elude Winston to save Oliver.
• Fed to the Beast: She is threatened with this as Sykes intends to feed her to Roscoe and Desoto when he holds her hostage.
• Gender Flip: From a narrative perspective, Jenny fills the role of Mr. Brownlow.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Georgette hides her disdain for Oliver poorly, though Jenny is utterly convinced they get along ideally. Then again, she IS just a kid.
• I Have You Now, My Pretty: Downplayed. Sykes holds her captive, but it's for ransom.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: She has blue eyes and is an innocent little girl.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: She adopts a Cute Kitten and takes care of him.
• Light Is Good: Jenny wears light sky-blue sweater and periwinkle tights and cares for Oliver and the gang dearly. Naturally, her kidnapper Sykes and his dogs Roscoe and Desoto are complete opposite.
• Lonely Rich Kid: Jenny appears lonely because her parents are away before adopting Oliver. Downplayed, as she's seen chatting with some classmates while leaving for school.
• Morality Pet: Fagin is motivated to give Oliver back to her (essentially sealing his own fate) when she tells him how much she misses him.
• Nice Girl: Jenny is very caring and friendly, which is why Oliver wants to stay with her.
• Oh, Crap!: When Oliver & Company's rescue attempt leads them back to Mr. Sykes.
• Proper Tights with a Skirt: Wears periwinkle tights in her casual outfit.
• Spoiled Sweet: Comes from a rich family, and tells Winston that her father would surely let her keep the stray Oliver, indicating that she's quite spoiled, but she has a good heart regardless.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Jenny is The Artifact of an older idea for Oliver and Company to be a spin-off of The Rescuers, as she's very, very similar to Penny from the latter film. In the original concept, Penny was now living a happy life with her adopted family, and she found and adopted Oliver.
• Too Dumb to Live: Justified, since she is a child, but she chooses to follow Fagin's ransom note without alerting any adults, taking only Georgette with her, which gets her kidnapped by Sykes after she wanders off and gets lost.

Winston

Voiced by: William Glover; Georges Berthomieu (European French dub); Yuzuru Fujimoto (Japanese dub); Orlando Drummond (Brazilian dub)

The Foxworth family's bumbling but loyal butler.

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• Beleaguered Assistant: He's given a bit of a runaround with Jenny, and he's implied to be a servant to Georgette, the family dog, essentially.
• Cool Old Guy: He's a massive fan of Professional Wrestling.
• Hidden Depths: He really likes wrestling.
• Ink-Suit Actor: He looks exactly like his voice actor, Bill Glover.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sure, he's a bit of a snob, but it's clear he does care about Jenny, and he eventually warms to Fagin and his gang.
• Papa Wolf: He visibly cares a lot about Jenny, which is just as well as her actual parents are often absent. Furthermore, he is the one negotiating Jenny's safety on the phone when Sykes makes his demands for her ransom.
• Parental Substitute: He seems to be this towards Jenny to an extent.
• Rolling Pin of Doom: Uses it as an Improvised Weapon when he inspects the noise coming from Georgette's room.
• Servile Snarker: Displays some deadpan jadedness despite his ever dutiful personality.
• This Is Gonna Suck: He is savvy enough to know Georgette will not get along with Oliver.

Georgette

Voiced by: Bette Midler; Michelle Bardollet (European French dub); Nana Kinomi (Japanese dub); Juraciara Diácovo (Brazilian dub)

The Foxworth family's pampered show-winning poodle.

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• Anti-Hero: She is highly jealous of Oliver when Jenny first gets him and tries to get rid of him. Despite this, she does help Oliver and the gang rescue Jenny from Sykes's clutches and appears to have... slightly lightened up by the end.
• Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: When it becomes clear Dodger didn't break into her room for... the reasons she initially thought, she's clearly very insulted.
• Attention Whore: She is used to a lot of attention and can't handle Jenny giving any of hers to Oliver.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted. She's usually groomed and pretty, but since said look requires work to maintain, she ends up looking worse for wear in certain situations.
• Cool Big Sis: Georgette consigns herself to being this for Oliver in the end, though it takes a while for her to reach the "cool" part. Still, props to her for making an effort.
• Drama Queen: She freaks out over the tiniest things.
• Dude Magnet: Just look at how many boyfriends she has had and still has.
• Fur Is Clothing: She loses the blue ruff of fur on her chest for a brief "I'm naked back here" gag behind a screen in "Perfect Isn't Easy".
• Green-Eyed Monster: Towards Oliver for much of the movie, resenting the kitten for taking up much of her previous attention. She eventually gets over it (or at least begins to), though.
• Head-Turning Beauty: Most male dogs (and even some male birds) love her.
• "I Am Great!" Song: Georgette's spectacular introductory number, "Perfect Isn't Easy", is about as much this as is possible; with her singing about her beauty and how much she's admired by everyone.
  You pretty pups all over the city
  I have your hearts and you have my pity
  Pretty is nice, but still, it's just pretty
  Perfect, my dear
  is MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
• I Broke a Nail: She breaks a nail when entering Sikes' lair and her yelping attracts his attention, which can come across as slightly weird, but makes sense when you think about it. Anyone who's dealt with a dog with a broken nail can tell you it's far, far worse for them than it is for us; as their nails are less an expendable plate of keratin and more an extension of their fingerbones.
• It's All About Me: She is very self-centered and egotistical, but gets a little better later.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Although she starts as a straight-up Jerkass, she eventually regrets her actions and comes to accept Oliver as part of her family. She's also very steadfast and watchful of Jenny to the point of helping the others save her from Sykes.
• Large Ham: Nearly every line is a slice of pure pork, as you would expect from her voice actress.
• Lovable Alpha Bitch: She does have a heart, especially towards the end.
• Mama Bear: Surprisingly, she ends up being this way towards Jenny; when Fagin approaches Jenny, you can see Georgette barring her fangs at him protectively, and even though she wasn't asked, she also joins the other dogs in saving Jenny.
• Pink Means Feminine: She's a female poodle that has a pink bow.
• Pragmatic Hero: She only agrees to help Dodger and the other dogs find Oliver just so that she could dispense with him. She later becomes more selfless when she helps rescue her owner.
• The Primadonna: Is something of a celebrity in dog show circles and isn't shy about mentioning it.
• Proud Beauty: Males find her irresistible, and she knows it. However, it takes some "paint and glue" to maintain her perfection these days so that she may be verging on White-Dwarf Starlet.
• Really Gets Around: Just check out her shrine to her admirers! Even Ratigan appears in there.
• Rich Bitch: As a female dog, she is a literal example!
• Supermodel Strut: She often moves with the poodle equivalent of a strut, with her chest puffed up and hips swinging, to denote her "high-breeding" status. This is most easily seen in the Sensational Staircase Sequence at the end of her song.
• Shrine to Self: Her room is not only stuffed with photographs and paintings of her and many, MANY mirrors, but statues of her make up most of her bed, flank her vanity table, and even her dog bowl has a few miniature Georgettes on it.
• Tender Tomboyishness, Foul Femininity: The shrill and selfish (but still ultimately good-hearted) Foul Femininity to Rita's caring and street-smart Tender Tomboyishness.
• Took a Level in Badass: She's undoubtedly prissy and not one to get her paws dirty, but once Jenny gets kidnapped, she actively aids the gang in rescuing her from Sykes. At one point, she manages to trap Roscoe and DeSoto and buys the gang time to help Jenny.
• Truth in Television:
  • A highly-bred dog regularly entered into pet shows often becomes much less of a family pet, explaining why Jenny would want to have Oliver as a playmate.
  • Dogs and cats can be great companions as housepets, but should be introduced to each other when both are under nine months old. They also require heavy supervision when one isn't, because the other could be seen as intruding on their territory... which is exactly what Georgette thinks of the much younger Oliver.

Antagonists

Bill Sykes

Voiced by: Robert Loggia; Henry Djanik (European French dub); Taro Ishida (Japanese dub); Jorgeh Ramos (Brazilian dub)

A callous, immoral loan shark and shipyard agent. He lent a considerable sum to Fagin and expects him to pay it back.

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• Adaptational Badass: In the novel, Sikes was far from harmless by any stretch, but he was primarily a street thug. Here, Sykes is a mighty loan shark implied to have authority in the mafia.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Heavily downplayed, but his literary counterpart was stated to beat his dog Bull's Eye to the point he needed stitches. Due to a lack of scarring or stitches on his own dogs, Sykes seems to at least treat his pets better than his forerunner. He also never kills anyone onscreen (though it's implied he has a body count), and the most evil thing he does is kidnapping a girl for ransom.
• Age Lift: His book counterpart is 35 years old, but this character must be in his 50s.
• Asshole Victim: He's killed on the same day in which he kidnapped a little girl for ransom and tried to kill her cat, so no tears are shed when he's run over by an incoming subway train after driving his car through its rails in an attempt to recapture his prey. Fagin is borderline relieved after he's gone, and Jenny also doesn't seem to have any long-lasting trauma from seeing him die.
• Ax-Crazy: He goes loco driving his car on the subway tracks towards the film's end to try and get Jenny back. A more literal example happens when he uses an ax to cut the power to the equipment lifter the heroes use to escape.
• Badass Fingersnap: It's his attack dogs' cue to attack.
• Bad Boss: He often pushes Fagin around to the point that he sics his dogs on Dodger.
• Bald of Evil: Well, he has hair, but the middle of his scalp is bald.
• Big Bad: He serves as the movie's main antagonist, though he's more a threat to Fagin than Oliver.
• Character Catchphrase: "Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy".
• Cigar Chomper: In pretty much every scene he's in.
• Cool Car: He owns a black Lincoln Continental with custom vanity plates; he even has a miniature model in his office.
• Dark Is Evil: Indeed. He's usually shown in shadows like most stereotypical villains.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: Instead of accidentally hanging himself in a bungled escape attempt, Sykes dies when his car collides with an oncoming subway train.
• Disabled in the Adaptation: Sykes is portrayed as requiring glasses, in contrast to his literary counterpart. Due to the fact that he seems to be two decades older than his literary counterpart, the glasses requirement might be age-related.
• The Don: It's implied to be a Mafia boss or at least a leading figure as he's seen ordering the torture and the death of someone during a phone call.
• Drives Like Crazy: He loses it in the finale when Fagin and the gang escape with Jenny; he proceeds to drive his car down into a subway station and onto the railroad tracks to reclaim his intended hostage and slaughter his foes. It ultimately proves to be a fatal mistake for him.
• Every Car Is a Pinto: His car, which should have wrecked/derailed the train, explodes in a spectacular fireball when hit, and the train continues completely unimpeded as if the blast vaporized it on impact.
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Being one of the most serious and realistic Disney Villains, Sykes shows a nasty and twisted sense of humor. When he kidnaps Jenny for ransom and ties the helpless, terrified girl to a chair, he callously jokes that he'll have his dogs eat her if her parents don't pay up.
  Sykes: Now don't cry, little girl. They only eat when I tell them to. (chuckles sinisterly)
• Family-Unfriendly Death: Ultimately hit by a subway train in the end.
• Fat Bastard: Very large, intimidating, and a despicable excuse for a human being.
• Faux Affably Evil: Sykes certainly acts sociable, but it's a thin veneer that only barely hides what a heartless monster he really is. It's especially notable when he intimidates Fagin, where he shifts from being respectful to the man before callously tormenting him and threatening to slaughter him.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Has glasses and not an inch of pity.
• Greed: As a loan shark, he's always looking for easy ways to get more money. He keeps Fagin in debt for most of the film, and once he gets the address of Spoiled Sweet Jenny, he kidnaps her for ransom.
• Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: He smokes a cigar, which is naturally evil smoking. Fagin is seen choking on the smoke in one scene.
• Hate Sink: He terrorizes Fagin, a poor and desperate thief, after the latter fails to deliver him money that he is owed; add to the fact he's got no problems with hurting or threatening animals or children, and you have yourself a Grade-A hate sink.
• Hidden Depths: Animator Glen Keane has said Sykes's hobby is building miniature models, as evidenced by the ones seen in his office.
• Idiot Ball: He ties Jenny up so she can't escape yet still somehow believes she managed to break free and lock him out of his office.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: He exempts Fagin from paying back his debt to him... after kidnapping a 7-year-old girl to ransom instead.
• The Juggernaut: He chases Fagin, his pets and Jenny through the subway station and he only dies because of the train he crashes head-on into.
• Kick the Dog: Aside from forcing Fagin into crime to settle his debts, he goes out of his way to treat the guy like dirt.
  • He doesn't just reject his loot early into the film, he chucks it unto the river after calling it "garbage". Two seconds later, he empties his ashtray on Fagin's shoes.
  • He also closes his car windows on Fagin's neck while threatening him and blows smoke on his face.
  • He has Roscoe and DeSoto ambush Dodger to pile more misery on Fagin.
• Knight of Cerebus: The film is a fun, colorful musical, but all the humor goes out the window when Sykes appears. He's a menacing, sincerely frightening figure treated entirely seriously as a threat, and contrasts with the tone of the rest of the film.
• Laser-Guided Karma: He gets his comeuppance for kidnapping Jenny when Fagin and his pets arrive to save her and he gets even bigger karma when he crashes his car at a railroad train during his chase scene where he tries to get Jenny back.
• Loan Shark: His job is this, and he'll get money no matter the cost.
• Mundanger: From a franchise that contains pirates, evil gods, sorcerers, and sea witches, one of the most terrifying villains is a remorseless and immoral loan shark who will do anything to get his money.
• Near-Villain Victory: He'll stop at nothing to satisfy his greed; even if it means kidnapping a rich girl and hold her for ransom. Even when the Oliver and the gang tried to rescue Jenny from captivity, Sykes thwarted their chance to escape. Even when Fagin comes to the rescue by driving the girl and the pets to the subway tunnels for safety, Sykes goes mad by driving his car there to catch up to them. If it weren't for the upcoming subway train, Sykes would've succeeded in capturing Jenny again and killing off Fagin and the pets (even Dodger and Oliver were no match for him).
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: He throws Dodger and Oliver out of his car during the final chase, which ends up saving them both when his car is hit by an incoming subway train seconds after.
• Obviously Evil: Look at him. He's just as evil as he seems.
• Offstage Villainy: It's clear he's involved with the mafia, judging by the conversation he's having when Fagin comes into his office, instructing someone on the phone how to torture a man and then give him cement shoes.
• Oh, Crap!: He freezes in shock when he realizes he's about to get hit by an oncoming train.
• Pet the Dog:
  • Literal as Sykes does appear to take decent care of Roscoe and DeSoto. Though that seems more Pragmatic Villainy.
  • After kidnapping Jenny and finding a faster source of income in her ransom money, he tells Fagin that he doesn't have to pay him anymore and lets him go, in part because he's the one who accidentally led her to him, but he still could've kept him in debt or killed him.
• Pragmatic Villainy: He gives treats to his dogs, speaks very highly of them, and is never pointlessly mean towards them. When he finds them trapped under a blanket, he helps them out before giving them a stern but brief scolding. But this doesn't mean he loves them since well-treated dogs mean effective dogs. When both of his dogs die in the subway chase, Sykes doesn't react all since he wants Jenny for the ransom.
• Right-Hand Attack Dog: He has Roscoe and DeSoto attack Fagin and his dogs whenever necessary.
• Sadist: He may very well be one as he orders one of his supposed henchmen through phone call to torture a victim by "starting with the knuckles" and ordering him: "Don't kill him yet" while softly chuckling evilly.
• Sanity Slippage: He's completely lost his mind by the movie's end.
• Say My Name: He yells Fagin's name when the latter helps Jenny escape from his lair.
• Second-Face Smoke: Does this to Fagin while holding him in a Neck Lift through his car window.
• Smoky Voice: He usually smokes a cigar and has an appropriately gruff voice.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: He's a horrible human being underneath his soft-spoken businessman façade.
• Stout Strength: See the Villainous Breakdown example below, but even before this, he can hold Fagin up with one hand seemingly effortlessly.
• They Look Just Like Everybody Else: Being a more realistic Disney villain, he's normal looking and could easily pass off as a middle aged man that you see on the street.
• Too Dumb to Live: It's really not wise to drive a car through subway tracks.
• Tranquil Fury: He spends most of the ending in an extremely relaxed state but is quick to use an ax to slow down Dodger and Oliver's rescue of Jenny, pull down the gear stick so hard it breaks off, and so on.
• Unstoppable Rage: While we don't see Sykes himself devolving into this, when Fagin rescues Jenny, Oliver, and the rest of the dogs, he perfectly emotes his fury through his driving in pursuit of the gang — he follows them down the subway terminal, pulls the gear shift hard enough that the lever breaks off, slams the accelerator so hard his tires burn off from the torque and later breaks his side window open when he could have easily just lowered it.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: One of the vilest, darkest Disney villains to date. Sykes has no sorcery, hamminess, or even a Villain Song; he's just a merciless Loan Shark played completely, terrifyingly straight. His methods are brutal as he holds Jenny for ransom, has Fagin in a loan deal with the implications of mafia execution, and, in one scene where he's on the phone, he's clearly instructing the person on the other end how to perform the Cement Shoes method. Even Lady Tremaine and especially Frollo, of all people, have a few funny moments and hamminess here and there, compared to this guy (and you know, that's saying something).
• Villainous Breakdown: While he's mainly philosophical throughout the film, in the climactic car chase, he pulls down the gear stick so hard it breaks off and punches his hand through his car's window to get at Jenny.
• Villain Has a Point: Fagin's chest of "luxury items" that he tried to use to settle his debt was indeed worthless, and Loan Shark business aside, Sikes had every reason to reject it.
• Villains Out Shopping: When not being a shadowy loan shark/mobster, Sykes enjoys building model kit vehicles, as evidenced by several on display in his office.
• Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: He shows these eyes just before his death.
• Would Hurt a Child: Kidnaps Jenny, a 7-year-old girl, for ransom and threatens to feed her to his dogs if he doesn't see her parents' money.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After Sykes goes after Jenny with the intent of ransoming her, he tells Fagin to consider himself relieved of his debt and his role, but not without threatening and shoving him to the ground one last time.

Roscoe and DeSoto

Voiced by: Taurean Blacque (Roscoe) and Carl Weintraub (DeSoto); Régis Ivanov (Roscoe) and Marc Alfos (DeSoto) (European French dub); Kiyoshi Kobayashi (Roscoe) and Masashi Ebara (DeSoto) (Japanese dub)

Sykes's vicious Doberman Pinschers, who have a hostile history with Dodger and his friends. Roscoe is the apparent leader, while his brother DeSoto seems to be the more savage one.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: Roscoe is attracted to Rita, but she is repulsed by his advances.
• Adaptational Heroism: This happens to DeSoto when he appears in the House of Mouse episode "Pluto Saves the Day", in which he's a member of a musical band "Pet Shop Dogs" with other Disney dogs, including Dodger, Tito, and Francis. Unlike the source material, he does not show any hostility towards his fellow cast members or his bandmates except when Tito growls at him, to which he responds with a growl of his own. He later aids the dogs in chasing and mauling Pete with Pluto's encouragement.
• Alas, Poor Villain: As the vicious and despicable canines they're shown to be, one can't help but feel sorry to watch them helplessly fall into a subway rail and get electrocuted to death. Even Dodger and Oliver (who both caused it out of self-defense) are horrified to witness this, implying that they didn't intend to finish them off that way.
• Arch-Enemy: Roscoe seems to be Dodger’s archenemy while DeSoto becomes this to Oliver after the former tries to eat the latter, then the latter scratches him in the nose in response.
• Avenging the Villain: DeSoto becomes enraged at Roscoe's death and tries to kill Dodger out of revenge before suffering the same fate seconds later.
• Ax-Crazy: Both of them, but DeSoto seems to be the most unhinged and ferocious of the duo. He was planning to eat Oliver when he found him!
• Beware of Vicious Dog: Not only do they constantly terrorize our heroes, but Sykes also implies he has no trouble letting them kill and even eat people as part of his schemes.
• Brains and Brawn: While both are pretty intelligent and very aggressive, Roscoe seems to be the leader of the duo as well as the more pragmatic, while DeSoto is not only more bellicose than Roscoe but also somewhat more robust, as Dodger was able to fend off Roscoe in a one on one fight while DeSoto would have slaughtered him had Oliver not meddled.
• The Brute: DeSoto, who is the more brutal and seemingly sturdier of the two.
• The Bully: They enjoy tormenting the gang and take delight in brutally beating down Dodger when he stepped in on their attempt to devour Fagin. They callously only stop when Sykes decides to give Fagin another chance.
• Color-Coded Characters: Roscoe = red, DeSoto = blue.
• Dark Is Evil: Two black, brutal dogs.
• Decomposite Character: They seem to be a duo version of Bullseye, Bill Sikes's dog from Oliver Twist
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: They seem to care for one another. Roscoe originally wanted DeSoto to pay no heed to Oliver so they could return to Sykes, but after Oliver injured DeSoto, Roscoe wanted Oliver dead too. He promised that Oliver would be the first of the gang to pass on when Fagin couldn't pay back his loan, despite Oliver not doing anything to Roscoe personally. When Roscoe passes on by falling onto the tracks and getting electrocuted, DeSoto becomes enraged and tries to slaughter Dodger to avenge him.
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: The trope's "macabre sense of humor" variant gets hinted at with Roscoe, who thinks kicking someone's TV is funny.
  Dodger: Roscoe, Roscoe, is this us losing our sense of humor?
  Roscoe: Nah, I ain't lost my sense of humor. (kicks the TV at the wall, breaking a few things and sending sparks flying.) See? I find that funny! (chuckles maliciously)
• Family-Unfriendly Death: Fried by the third rail. Roscoe, especially since the film showed his death onscreen.
• Faux Affably Evil: Roscoe is much like his owner in this regard, being more relaxed and more collected than his partner. He speaks very nonchalantly and acts mockingly courteous toward Fagin's dogs. Though he is more openly spiteful than Sykes, he is smug and prideful.
• High-Voltage Death: They get fatally electrocuted by the subway tracks at the end of the film.
• Inexplicably Identical Individuals: Apart from their collar, they look exactly the same.
• Jerkass: Both of them are vicious brutes who enjoy tormenting others. Roscoe is also a smug bully who enjoys torturing others.
• Killed Offscreen: DeSoto's fatal electrocution isn't seen. Averted with Roscoe whose death is on-screen.
• Knight of Cerebus: Like Sykes, the two dobermans are treated entirely seriously by the film and all humor goes out the window when they appear.
• Laser-Guided Karma: They get their comeuppance when both of them fall down to their deaths during their scuffle with Dodger and Oliver.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: They give one to Dodger when he tries to guard Fagin from their teeth. Their rematch at the end of the film differs since it is one-on-one, and Roscoe goes overboard. DeSoto is another story, as he would have slaughtered Dodger had Oliver not jumped in.
• The Nose Knows: DeSoto sniffs out Oliver in Fagin's home. Later, he is the first of the two to catch the gang's scents and point them out to Roscoe.
• Oh, Crap!: When they realize they are about to fall on the tracks.
• The Quiet One: DeSoto only has four lines. A sharp contrast to the loquacious Roscoe.
• Right-Hand Attack Dog: They serve as this to Sykes.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Inverted, since the red-collared Roscoe is somewhat more relaxed than the blue-collared DeSoto.
• Scary Black Man: Roscoe invokes this even though his fur color has nothing to do with it — you can hear Taurean Blacque's African-American accent.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Happens after Dodger protects Oliver from the two, with Roscoe even promising Dodger got lucky and that he won't be so fortunate next time.
• Smarter Than You Look: DeSoto might be the more vicious and seemingly stronger of the two while Roscoe is the leader, but DeSoto is still reasonably logical; he first notices the gang's presence when they were trying to rescue Jenny and points it out to Roscoe. Furthermore, he has no moments that suggest he is less logical than Roscoe; Roscoe only seems more pragmatic and more of a leader while DeSoto is more bloodthirsty.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Roscoe shares his owner's cool-headed facade to hide his savagery.
• Sound-Only Death: Unlike Roscoe, DeSoto isn't seen getting electrocuted; he falls off the car, and we hear him yelping and getting shocked.
• Taking You with Me: When Roscoe falls off Sykes' car, he grabs unto Dodger's bandana with a furious snarl in his face, clearly with this intention. However, Dodger slips it off and Roscoe is electrocuted.
• Undying Loyalty: They never betray Sykes or each other, for that matter; almost everything they do is them obeying their master.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: While the main dogs can scare off the rabid dog that showed up in the song "Streets Of Gold," they face these two with disgust. Besides being dogs for a gangster affiliate, DeSoto is implied to be a kitten killer. An even more disturbing thought is that they're human killers too, as Sykes makes a cruel joke to Jenny that they might eat her if her parents don't pay the ransom.
• Would Hurt a Child: DeSoto wanted to devour Oliver despite him being a young kitten. While initially ready to leave Oliver in peace, Roscoe instantly changes his mind after Oliver wounds DeSoto, promising he will be the first of the gang they slaughter as revenge for hurting his comrade. Later, they have no problem frightening Jenny, with Sykes hinting they will devour her if her parents don't pay the ransom.

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