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2	* In ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'', the Giant Mouse of Minsk was the {{Golem}}! An artificial creature, larger than average but modeled after its creator(s), that drove off the oppressive forces threatening the helpless.
3	** And, like the mice who came with Fievel's emigration group, the original Golem's creator was Jewish.
4	* Henri the pigeon, who builds and lives in the Art/StatueOfLiberty, speaks English ([[{{TranslationConvention}} or possibly Russian]], since we only see him with Fievel, who isn't guaranteed to speak fluent English) with a French accent. This is given a lot more significance by the fact that the Statue of Liberty was designed in France.
5	* The reason Honest John is depicted as an alcoholic is to invoke the maxim: ''In Vino Veritas''.
6	* There is, in fact, a grain of truth to the song 'No Cats In America'. Domestic cats were bred and kept by Europeans and brought along with their Pilgrim owners overseas, but were never native to the Americas. This misguided view can be also compared to the views of many immigrants (especially at the time) who first came to America based off of was was basically a bunch of rumors about freedom and wealth.
7	* With the protagonist and co being mice, having cats as the allegory for oppressive higher ups makes sense. Immigrants from around the globe fled their home countries because of such people. People who, in truth, depended largely on the lower class if only for reasons raging from maintaining power over them to outright stealing from them. Yet this dependance doesn't stop them from treating the working class as less than human. In this light, it is easy to see oppressive overlords as being literal predators to the working class. Tying into this is the song 'No Cats In America', about how they're is supposedly no oppression whatsoever in America.
8	* For the first half of the films, cats are portrayed as feral, terrifying beasts before Fievel, though the second half they become more anthropomorphic and comical, and talk in human voices (compare the New Yorker cats' nightmarish first ambush in the market to their far more Tom and Jerry-ish chase in Warren's base). Since Fievel was made to interact with cats on a more up close and personal level via the likes of Warren and Tiger, it makes sense his POV became more nuanced.
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12	* All those orphans in the first movie, who conveniently disappear for the heartwarming reunion between Fievel and his Papa.
13	** The three orphans who pick on Fievel say that his family should be looking for him not the other way around. One wonders how many of these orphans do have families that are looking for them but aren't lucky enough to find them like Fievel's family did.
14	* In a brief shot just before the Giant Mouse scares off the Maulers into the water, we see a good number of cats recoiling in fear. A few seconds later, when the boat's anchor rises, we see that not a lot of them made it. Knowing how cats hate water, it's fair to assume that those that didn't make it drowned.
15	** Alternatively, there might have been some survivors, who might have been recruited by Cat R. Waul for his gang in the sequel.

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