History Characters / PinkyAndTheBrain

"The same thing we do every night, Pinky —- try to {{take over the world}} by reading the character tropes about [[WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain our]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} car]][[WesternAnimation/Animaniacs2020 toons]]!"\\

* AntiHero: Brain is constantly trying to take over the world — hardly heroic — but he is good-natured (when not hurting Pinky) and truly believes that the world would be a better, happier place if he was in charge; this is justified by portraying real world's leaders as either egotistic, incompetent or plain crazy (or all at once). Also compare to his archrival Snowball, a sadistic villain whom Brain feared would destroy the world if he ruled it.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Sometimes Brain’s plots will fail because of something he didn’t consider or something Pinky actually warned him about.

* AmbiguouslyBi: There’s a lot of examples for this. For example, Pinky doesn’t seem to care much that Brain and him have literally had a son together (compared to Brain) nor does he mind acting as Brain’s wife from time to time. In the comics, there’s a lot more of innuendos about this. It could be because of a type of comedy used as a caricature of heterosexual couples in the 50's.

* CreativeSterility: Despite his genius intellect, he doesn’t have much imagination, and he sometimes steals Brain’s world-domination plans.

* TookALevelInJerkass: In reboot episode “Roadent Trip”, Pinky mentions that his father is incapable of feeling and opening up. What happened to him in the 22 years since he was last seen that reduced him to a bitter, emotionless mouse is unknown.

* RevengeBeforeReason: She's dead set on making the world pay for ostracizing her for not being pretty anymore. Even when Snowball points out [[StatingTheSimpleSolution she could easily send herself back through the gene splicer and turn herself back into a normal ca]]t, she shoots this down in favor of carrying out her revenge.

** She seems to be a mix of Billie and Snowball from the original series; she’s a genetically spliced lab mouse set up as a LoveInterest for Brain (Billie), but she’s as smart as (if not smarter than) him, and becomes an EvilFormerFriend bent on revenge against him at the end (Snowball).

-> Voiced by: Maurice [=LaMarche=] (as an infant), Rob Paulsen (as an adult)

->'''Voiced by:''' Pamela Hayden

->'''Voiced by:''' Diane Michelle

->'''Voiced by:''' Nora Dunn

->'''Voiced by:''' Paul Rugg

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* DumbassHasAPoint: Subverted. Despite his {{Cloudcukoolander}} status, Pinky is quick to realize and point out the logical fallacies regarding a plan's logistics only for Brain to have already taken them into account.

%%* BreakTheHaughty: This Old Mouse.

* TheCaligula: It's suggested that Brain doesn't want Snowball to win because he's insane and that the world under '''his''' rule would fall into chaos.

Tropes associated with Romy:
* CloningBlues: He is cloned from Pinky and Brain and just wants to be his own man.

* TwoDonorClone: Was supposed to be a standard clone of Brain but a clip of Pinky's toenail got mixed in, making him more of a composite of the two.

!''Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain'' Characters

* {{Expy}}: He's Creator/OrsonWelles as a super-villainous lab mouse.

->'''Voiced by:''' Maria Bamford

* ShadowArchetype: Sniwball is what Brain could've been if he didn't have Pinky as an anchor.