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* FutureMeScaresMe: In the reboot, Brain ends up meeting his future self in one episode, who tries to steer him away from Pinky under the claim that Pinky would betray him. Brain figures his future self has gone delusional on account of knowing Pinky to be too dense and loyal to ruin his plans intentionally.

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* FutureMeScaresMe: FutureMeScaresMe:
** In "This Old Mouse", Brain invented a way to see the future and is terrified upon seeing an elderly Brain still [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption trying]] to take over the world.
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In the reboot, Brain ends up meeting his future self in one episode, who tries to steer him away from Pinky under the claim that Pinky would betray him. Brain figures his future self has gone delusional on account of knowing Pinky to be too dense and loyal to ruin his plans intentionally.
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-> Voiced by: Creator/MauriceLaMarche (English), Creator/KenichiOgata (Japanese), Orlando Noguera (Latin American Spanish), Hércules Franco (Brazilian Portuguese), Creator/PierreHatet (French)

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-> Voiced by: Creator/MauriceLaMarche (English), Creator/KenichiOgata (Japanese), Orlando Noguera (Latin American Spanish), Hércules Franco (Brazilian Portuguese), Creator/PierreHatet (French)
(French), Creator/GunnarErnblad (Swedish)



-> Voiced by: Creator/RobPaulsen (English), Hideyuki Umezu (Japanese), Frank Carreño (Latin American Spanish), Alexandre Moreno (Brazilian Portuguese), Creator/VincentViolette (French)

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-> Voiced by: Creator/RobPaulsen (English), Hideyuki Umezu (Japanese), Frank Carreño (Latin American Spanish), Alexandre Moreno (Brazilian Portuguese), Creator/VincentViolette (French)
(French), Niclas Wahlgren (Swedish)
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* GoofyBuckteeth: He has large buckteeth and is a scatterbrained mouse who regularly spouts {{Non Sequitur}}s.
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* ResourcefulRodent: Brain routinely concocts and enacts [[Franchise/JamesBond Bond villain-esque]] plans to take over the world. Some of them nearly succeed. Pinky, despite his psychosis, is remarkably good at improvising when Brain hits a wall.

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* ResourcefulRodent: Brain routinely concocts and enacts [[Franchise/JamesBond Bond villain-esque]] plans to take over the world. Some world, some of them which nearly succeed. Meanwhile, Pinky, despite his psychosis, is remarkably good at improvising when Brain hits a wall.
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It's never stated that the chip is killing her.


* BlessedWithSuck: Her neural implant does greatly increase her intelligence, but also has a MindControlDevice function in case Brain wants to step in. The "obedience chip" is clearly defective and malfunctioning; it causes her terrible pain, and may slowly be killing her even after her escape. It also causes her to go insane and do a FaceHeelTurn.

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* BlessedWithSuck: Her neural implant does greatly increase her intelligence, but also has a MindControlDevice function in case Brain wants to step in. The "obedience chip" is clearly defective and malfunctioning; it causes her terrible pain, pain and may slowly be killing her even after her escape. It also causes her to go insane and do a FaceHeelTurn.completely insane.
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!!WARNING: Julia is a WalkingSpoiler, to the point that her appearances in any any episode beyond her debut are intended as surprises. Please read this section with caution.

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!!WARNING: Julia is a WalkingSpoiler, to the point that her appearances in any any episode beyond her debut are intended as surprises. Please read this section with caution.
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* ShadowArchetype: He's what Brain could've been if he didn't have Pinky as an anchor.

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* ShadowArchetype: He's Sniwball is what Brain could've been if he didn't have Pinky as an anchor.
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* PintSizedPowerhouse: After her FreakOut at the debate, Julia (who, we remind you, is a mouse) is somehow able to pick up the human-sized podium and throw it through a wall.

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* PintSizedPowerhouse: After During her FreakOut at the debate, Julia (who, we remind you, is a mouse) is somehow able to pick up the human-sized podium and throw it through a wall.



* TookALevelInBadass: By her second appearance, she's become quite a competent fighter.

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* TookALevelInBadass: By her second appearance, "Reichenbrain Falls", she's become quite a competent fighter.



* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Brie is the ''only'' member of the Senate that Brain cannot blackmail or scapegoat; she has a clean record. Even when Brain tries to argue that she must be a mouse because she's from Wisconsin, the cheese capital of the U.S., she turns the tables on him by pointing out that cheese is an American staple and anyone who doesn't like it must lack patriotism.

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* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Brie is the ''only'' member of the Senate that whom Brain cannot blackmail or scapegoat; she has a clean record. Even when Brain tries to argue that she must be a mouse because she's from Wisconsin, the cheese capital of the U.S., she turns the tables on him by pointing out that cheese is an American staple and anyone who doesn't like it must lack patriotism.
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* InSpiteOfANail: In "All's Fair in Love and Door", Brain tries to create a simulation of what life would've been like if he hadn't been so terrible to Julia. Though this artificial version is as pleasant as her progenitor originally was, she immediately goes off the deep end when she finds out that she's just a computer program, implying that even without the neural implant, it wouldn't have taken much for her to become a megalomaniacal villain. However, this may or may not involved AI Julia gaining the original's memories.

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* InSpiteOfANail: In "All's Fair in Love and Door", Brain tries to create a simulation of what life would've been like if he hadn't been so terrible to Julia. Though this artificial version is as pleasant as her progenitor originally was, she immediately goes off the deep end when she finds out that she's just a computer program, implying that even without the neural implant, it wouldn't have taken much for her to become a megalomaniacal villain. However, this may or may not involved involve AI Julia gaining the original's memories.
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* InSpiteOfANail: Brain tries to create a simulation of what life would've been like if he hadn't been so terrible to Julia. Though this artificial version is as pleasant as her progenitor originally was, she immediately goes off the deep end when she finds out that she's just a computer program, implying that even without the neural implant, it wouldn't have taken much for her to become a megalomaniacal villain.

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* InSpiteOfANail: In "All's Fair in Love and Door", Brain tries to create a simulation of what life would've been like if he hadn't been so terrible to Julia. Though this artificial version is as pleasant as her progenitor originally was, she immediately goes off the deep end when she finds out that she's just a computer program, implying that even without the neural implant, it wouldn't have taken much for her to become a megalomaniacal villain. However, this may or may not involved AI Julia gaining the original's memories.
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* InSpiteOfANail: Brain tries to create a simulation of what life would've been like if he hadn't been so terrible to Julia. Though this artificial version is as pleasant as her progenitor originally was, she immediately goes off the deep end when she finds out that she's just a computer program, implying that even without the neural implant, it wouldn't have taken much for her to become a megalomaniacal villain.
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* MoodSwinger: After her FaceHeelTurn, her continuing mental damage causes her to alternate between TranquilFury and just plain fury.

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* MoodSwinger: After her FaceHeelTurn, her continuing mental damage causes her to alternate between TranquilFury and just plain fury. Sometimes this happens mid-sentence, which leads to a SuddenlyShouting speech pattern.
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!!WARNING: Julia is a WalkingSpoiler, to the point that her apperances in any any episode beyond her debut are intended as surprises. Please read this section with caution.

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!!WARNING: Julia is a WalkingSpoiler, to the point that her apperances appearances in any any episode beyond her debut are intended as surprises. Please read this section with caution.
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!!WARNING: Julia is a WalkingSpoiler, to the point that her apperances in any any episode beyond her debut are intended as surprises. Please read this section with caution.
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* TheResenter: One of the reasons she turns against Brain.
-->You think you're so smart, the Brain, which is barely a name, by the way, but I'm far more clever! More hard-working.
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* ShadowArchetype: He's what Brain could've been if he didn't have Pinky as an anchor.
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* BarefootCartoonAnimal: On the campaign trail in "[[Recap/Animaniacs2020Episode8 Mousechurian Candidate]]", she wears a green pantsuit. In "[[Recap/Animaniacs2020Episode23 Reichenbrain Falls]]", she wears a SpyCatsuit after her disguise as Pinky is exposed. In "All's Fair in Love and Door", she (or rather, her virtual duplicate) is dressed as a housewife from TheFifties. None of her outfits include shoes.

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* BarefootCartoonAnimal: On She wears various outfits throughout the campaign trail series (a green pantsuit in "[[Recap/Animaniacs2020Episode8 Mousechurian Candidate]]", she wears a green pantsuit. In spacesuit and SpyCatsuit in "[[Recap/Animaniacs2020Episode23 Reichenbrain Falls]]", she wears a SpyCatsuit after her disguise as Pinky is exposed. In [[TheFifties 1950s]] housewife costume in "All's Fair in Love and Door", she (or rather, her virtual duplicate) Door"). The only one that includes shoes is dressed as a housewife from TheFifties. None of her outfits include shoes.the spacesuit.

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* TheNapoleon: He is short and very passionate (specially when he's angry), so that's a given. An episode even has him taking the place of Napoleon himself!

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* MyGreatestFailure: In "All's Fair in Love and Door", he admits that it's his fault Julia went crazy and he genuinely regrets it.
* TheNapoleon: He is short and very passionate (specially when he's angry), so that's a given. An episode even has him taking the place of Napoleon UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte himself!



* AIIsACrapshoot: Even though it was never subject to mind control, Brain's virtual duplicate of Julia winds up going crazy in the same way she did, even showing an image of the real Julia's mind control chip (which it did not have prior to that point), when it learns of being just a computer program.
* BarefootCartoonAnimal: On the campaign trail in "[[Recap/Animaniacs2020Episode8 Mousechurian Candidate]]", she wears a green pantsuit without shoes. In "[[Recap/Animaniacs2020Episode23 Reichenbrain Falls]]", she wears a SpyCatsuit, also without shoes, after her disguise as Pinky is exposed.

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* AIIsACrapshoot: Even though it was never subject to mind control, Brain's virtual duplicate of Julia in "All's Fair in Love and Door" winds up going crazy in the same way she did, even showing an image of the real Julia's mind control chip (which it did not have prior to that point), when it learns of being that it's [[JustAMachine just a computer program.
program]].
* BarefootCartoonAnimal: On the campaign trail in "[[Recap/Animaniacs2020Episode8 Mousechurian Candidate]]", she wears a green pantsuit without shoes. pantsuit. In "[[Recap/Animaniacs2020Episode23 Reichenbrain Falls]]", she wears a SpyCatsuit, also without shoes, SpyCatsuit after her disguise as Pinky is exposed.exposed. In "All's Fair in Love and Door", she (or rather, her virtual duplicate) is dressed as a housewife from TheFifties. None of her outfits include shoes.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Even though it was never subject to mind control, Brain's virtual duplicate of Julia winds up going crazy in the same way she did, even showing an image of the real Julia's mind control chip (which it did not have prior to that point), when it learns of being just a computer program.
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* DumbassHasAPoint: Often thinks to ask logical questions about the logistics of a plan. Brain will usually have thought of that himself, but props to Pinky for not needing to be prompted.

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* DumbassHasAPoint: Often thinks Subverted. Despite his {{Cloudcukoolander}} status, Pinky is quick to ask realize and point out the logical questions about the fallacies regarding a plan's logistics of a plan. only for Brain will usually to have thought of that himself, but props to Pinky for not needing to be prompted.already taken them into account.



** In the reboot, he points out to Brain that their plan to scapegoat mice during the Red Scare is a bad idea because Pinky can't lie for him well, and ''they'' are mice so the plan can go wrong.

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** In Played straight in the reboot, reboot when he points out to Brain that their plan to scapegoat mice during the Red Scare is a bad idea because Pinky can't lie for him well, and ''they'' are mice so the plan can go wrong.
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-> Voiced by: Creator/MauriceLaMarche (English), Creator/KenichiOgata (Japanese), Orlando Noguera (Latin American Spanish), Hércules Franco (Brazilian Portuguese), Pierre Hatet (French)

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-> Voiced by: Creator/MauriceLaMarche (English), Creator/KenichiOgata (Japanese), Orlando Noguera (Latin American Spanish), Hércules Franco (Brazilian Portuguese), Pierre Hatet Creator/PierreHatet (French)

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* DubNameChange: He is named "Cortex" in the European French dub.



-> Voiced by: Creator/RobPaulsen (English), Hideyuki Umezu (Japanese), Frank Carreño (Latin American Spanish), Alexandre Moreno (Brazilian Portuguese), Vincent Violette (French)

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-> Voiced by: Creator/RobPaulsen (English), Hideyuki Umezu (Japanese), Frank Carreño (Latin American Spanish), Alexandre Moreno (Brazilian Portuguese), Vincent Violette Creator/VincentViolette (French)


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* DubNameChange: He is named "Minus" in the European French dub.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: All three of them consider Brain's attempts to talk about world domination during a banquet to be very rude.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: All three of them Putin, Maduro and Kim Jong-un all consider Brain's attempts to talk about world domination during a banquet to be very rude.



* TerribleTrio: Putin is the ''de facto'' leader of the trio, clearly more powerful than the other two.

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* TerribleTrio: Putin, Maduro and Kim Jong-un form one. Putin is the ''de facto'' leader of the trio, clearly more powerful than the other two.
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* ShesGotLegs: Her dress shows off her legs very well.
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* GrumpyBear: In contrast to the cheerful Pinky.
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* BlessedWithSuck: Her neural implant does greatly increase her intelligence, but also has a MindControlDevice function in case Brain wants to step in. The "obedience chip" is clearly defective and malfunctioning; it causes her terrible pain, and may [[FridgeHorror slowly be killing her]] even after her escape. It also causes her to go insane and do a FaceHeelTurn.

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* BlessedWithSuck: Her neural implant does greatly increase her intelligence, but also has a MindControlDevice function in case Brain wants to step in. The "obedience chip" is clearly defective and malfunctioning; it causes her terrible pain, and may [[FridgeHorror slowly be killing her]] her even after her escape. It also causes her to go insane and do a FaceHeelTurn.

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** In "Wakko's Wish", when Dot is seemingly killed by King Salazar, Brain looks just as horrified and distraught as everyone else.

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** In "Wakko's Wish", ''Wakko's Wish'', when Dot is seemingly killed by King Salazar, Brain looks just as horrified and distraught as everyone else.
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* GleefulAndGrumpyPairing: Pinky is the happy and Gleeful mouse and Brain's a irritable and Grumpy mouse.

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* GleefulAndGrumpyPairing: Pinky is the happy and Gleeful mouse (cheerful and Brain's a irritable kind) and Brain is the Grumpy mouse.(short-tempered and sarcastic).
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* HazyFeelTurn: It's unclear if she actually turns evil at the end of "Mousechurian Candidate". Julia has a hideout and webcam to monitor Brain and Pinky, but she just smugly watches as Pinky obliviously puts salt instead of sugar in Brain's coffee. Julia seems to be focusing solely on the Brain and mimicking his CatchPhrase to TakeOverTheWorld to mock him. However, "Reichenbrain Falls" confirms that she has indeed undergone a FaceHeelTurn. She becomes Brain's vengeful ArchEnemy and plans to rule the world herself.

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* HazyFeelTurn: It's unclear if she actually turns evil at the end of "Mousechurian Candidate". Julia has a hideout and webcam to monitor Brain and Pinky, but she just smugly watches as Pinky obliviously puts salt instead of sugar in Brain's coffee. Julia seems to be focusing solely on the Brain and mimicking his CatchPhrase to TakeOverTheWorld to mock him. However, "Reichenbrain Falls" confirms that she has indeed undergone a FaceHeelTurn. She becomes She's become Brain's vengeful ArchEnemy and plans to rule the world herself.

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