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* GlassShatteringSound: Has the power to break glass with her voice.



* MakeMeWannaShout: Has the power to break glass with her voice.
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* BassoProfundo: Courtesy of Nehemiah Persoff.



* BassoProfundo: Courtesy of Christopher Plummer.



* BassoProfundo: Sherman Howard lends his powerful bass voice as Chief [=McBrusque=].
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* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: They wear similar outfits to their human counterparts, but only on the upper part of their body.
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* {{Phlegmings}}: They drool with their teeth and tongues out upon arriving in the shtetl, no doubt salivating at the carnage they're up to inflict on the mice.
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A group of vicious cats that come in the wake of human UsefulNotes/{{Cossacks}}. While the human Cossacks terrorize Jewish people during a pogrom, the cats do the same on Jewish mice. They are responsible for the Mousekewitz family moving to America.

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A group of vicious cats that come in the wake of human UsefulNotes/{{Cossacks}}. While the human Cossacks terrorize Jewish people of a shtetl during a pogrom, the cats do the same on Jewish the shtetl's mice. They are responsible for the Mousekewitz family moving to America.

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A group of vicious cats that are responsible for the Mousekewitz family moving to America.

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A group of vicious cats that come in the wake of human UsefulNotes/{{Cossacks}}. While the human Cossacks terrorize Jewish people during a pogrom, the cats do the same on Jewish mice. They are responsible for the Mousekewitz family moving to America.




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* StockSoundEffects: Their monster-like growls were lifted from Dragon in ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH'', with one of them coming from the Balrog in 1978's ''WesternAnimation/TheLordOfTheRings''.

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* TheBigGuy: By the FinalBattle of ''Fievel Goes West'', he's become the powerhouse of the trio including himself, Fievel and Wylie Burp.
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* {{Tuckerization}}: He was named after Creator/StevenSpielberg's grandfather.
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** What's even more bizarre is in the first track of the "Fievel and Friends" album , he DOES mention having an accent. Yet again the song also {{Bowdlerise}}s their reason for immigration being starvation rather than their home being destroyed so the album is likely non-canon anyway.

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** What's even more bizarre is in the first track of the "Fievel and Friends" album , album, he DOES mention having an accent. Yet again the song also {{Bowdlerise}}s their reason for immigration being starvation rather than their home being destroyed so the album is likely non-canon anyway.

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* ManOfWealthAndTaste: His voice, his clothes, his refusal to downright inability to eat a meal without fine music to enjoy it with...



* ManOfWealthAndTaste: His voice, his clothes, his refusal to downright inability to eat a meal without fine music to enjoy it with...
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* SpannerInTheWorks: His penchant for happenstance and getting drifted into places he shouldn't often leads to him being the one who exposes and ruins the villains' plans that would have otherwise gone unsuspected. Most blatantly in the first film, where getting separated from his family leads to several chance meetings that culminate in the mice of New York exposing and overthrowing Warren T. Cat's undercover scam.

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A crooked rat with a stranglehold on the mice of New York. He is greedy, selling poor little children like Fievel into sweatshops in exchange for their salary, and running a protection racket on the mice offering them protection from the cats in exchange for money.

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A crooked rat with a stranglehold on the mice of New York. He is greedy, selling poor little children like Fievel into sweatshops in exchange for their salary, and running a protection racket on the mice offering them protection from the cats in exchange for money. [[spoiler:In reality, he is Warren T. ''Cat'', the ringleader of the Mott Street Maulers, using his disguise to keep the mice under their forces while making some cons on the side.]]



* BigBad: The main antagonist the first film

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* BigBad: The main antagonist the first filmfilm.


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* VillainBall: He double crosses Fievel to a sweatshop, unable to resist a quick con. Had he just returned him to his family like he promised, there's a high likeliness that the elaborate chain of events that led to Fievel blowing his cover and inspiring the mice who would overthrow his operation wouldn't have happened.
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* KnightOfCerebus: The New York and Wild West cats are [[BewareTheSillyOnes menacing but comedic thugs]] who rely on eccentric scams to get the mice under their grasp. By contrast, the Cossack cats are much more feral and sinister, with the mice unable to fully repel them.
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-->'''Warren:''' Hey, I wonder how you say "Trust me" in Chinese...


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* GracefulLoser: Similar to Warren, when deported to Hong Kong, he decides to cut his losses, and merrily sets on learning to calculate in Chinese.
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* TheUnfought: Though they interact with Tony and Papa Mousekewitz, he and his two partners never actually appear on screen together with either Fievel or Cholena, despite plotting to kidnap the latter, [[TheHeavy and instead have Chief McBrusque and Scuttlebutt take on the heroes in the climax]].
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* Expy: As mentioned above, he's basically an animated version of the Cowardly Lion. He has similar features and mannerisms, especially in his first scene.

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* Expy: {{Expy}}: As mentioned above, he's basically an animated version of the Cowardly Lion. He has similar features and mannerisms, especially in his first scene.
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* WickedCultured: Is both this ''and'' the below, because while he does fumble [[Pun once]] or twice he successfully quotes Shakespeare. Few care to know the words that follow 'Opportunity knocks but once' after all.

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* WickedCultured: Is both this ''and'' the below, because while he does fumble [[Pun once]] once or twice he successfully quotes Shakespeare. Few care to know the words that follow 'Opportunity knocks but once' after all.

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* WickedPretentious: Warren T. Rat pretends to be quite cultured, quoting Shakespeare and playing the violin... neither of which he's able to do correctly.

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* WickedCultured: Is both this ''and'' the below, because while he does fumble [[Pun once]] or twice he successfully quotes Shakespeare. Few care to know the words that follow 'Opportunity knocks but once' after all.
* WickedPretentious: Warren T. Rat pretends to be quite cultured, quoting Shakespeare and playing more cultured than he is by ''attempting'' to play the violin... neither of which he's able to do correctly.violin, while blaming the mistakes on the [[spoiler:fake nose.]]
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* DragonAscendant: In the movie, he's just a random goon in Cat R. Waul's gang, but in the tv series, he strikes it out on his own, leading a TerribleTrio with two other of Waul's former henchmen, and he has no calms about beating the shit out of his old boss should Waul anger and/or inconvenience him, to the point that Waul is utterly terrified of him.
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->'''Voiced by:''' Amy Green ("An American Tail"), Betsy Cathcart (when singing "Somewhere out There") Cathy Cavadini ("Fievel Goes West", "Fievel's American Tails"), Creator/LaceyChabert ("The Treasure of Manhattan Island", "Mystery of the Night Monster")

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->'''Voiced by:''' Amy Green ("An American Tail"), Betsy Cathcart (when singing "Somewhere out There") Cathy Cavadini Creator/CathyCavadini ("Fievel Goes West", "Fievel's American Tails"), Creator/LaceyChabert ("The Treasure of Manhattan Island", "Mystery of the Night Monster")
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* Expy: As mentioned above, he's basically an animated version of the Cowardly Lion. He has similar features and mannerisms, especially in his first scene.


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* TokenGoodTeammate: Of the cats in the first film, before quickly joining up with Fievel and his friends.
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* IntrepidReporter: She's the one investigating the ''The Mystery of the Night Monster''. One of her plans to do so involved infiltrating a restricted area.

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* IntrepidReporter: She's the one investigating the ''The Mystery of the Night Monster''. One of her plans to do so involved infiltrating a restricted area.

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* ArchEnemy: To Papa Mousekewitz, as he sees him as a threat to keeping their workers in line.



* BassoProfundo: Sherman Howard lends his powerful bass voice as Chief McBrusque.
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* BassoProfundo: Sherman Howard lends his powerful bass voice as Chief McBrusque.
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[=McBrusque=].
* DirtyCop: He accepts payment from Grasping, O'Bloat, and Toplofty, to beat their factory workers when they step out of line, as well as engaging in police brutality for his own sadistic pleasure.
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* [[Shadow Archetypes Shadow Archetype]]: They are likely an allegory of what Fievel would have become if he had already thrown in the towel.

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* [[Shadow Archetypes [[ShadowArchetype Shadow Archetype]]: Archetypes]]: They are likely an allegory of what Fievel would have become if he had already thrown in the towel.

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* [[VillainyFreeVillain Villainy-Free Villains]]:

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* [[Shadow Archetypes Shadow Archetype]]: They are likely an allegory of what Fievel would have become if he had already thrown in the towel.
* [[VillainyFreeVillain Villainy-Free Villains]]:Villains]]: Other than ganging up Fievel and making him give up hope on finding his family, they don't do anything truly evil.

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* KarmaHoudini: They receive no comeuppance for mocking Fievel, telling Fievel he will never be able to find his family and that he should forget them, shoving him into a puddle, throwing hay at him, and [[BreakTheCutie making him cry]].
** [[OffscreenKarma Though they are presumed to be scared away by Gussie and Tiger when they tried to take Fievel away from his family,]] or they had already left by then.

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* KarmaHoudini: They receive no comeuppance for mocking Fievel, telling Fievel he will never be able to find his family and that he should forget them, shoving him into a puddle, throwing hay at him, and [[BreakTheCutie making him cry]].
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* PassingTheTorch: Trains Tiger to be his replacement.

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* PassingTheTorch: Trains He trains Tiger to be his replacement.replacement.
* PolicemanDog: He's a retired lawman (or, well, lawdog) who used to be responsible for keeping law on the lawless frontier, although by the time the movie starts he is old and tired.



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* PragmaticVillainy: After being discovered by Fievel, Cat R. Waul debates with himself on whether or not to simply eat the boy, but sends him on his way for fear of drawing the parents' attention. He then orders Chula to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident.

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* PragmaticVillainy: After being discovered by Fievel, Cat R. Waul debates with himself on whether or not to simply eat the boy, but sends him on his way for fear of drawing the parents' attention. He then orders Chula to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident.MakeItLookLikeAnAccident (and he's also justifiably confident Fievel will die stranded out in the desert).

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