History Characters / TheRescuers

* MeaningfulName: Brutus was named after the adopted son of Julius Caesar, who in the end betrayed him, and Nero was named after a tyrannical Roman Emperor.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Medusa was a lady motivated primarily by stinginess, and although she kept a girl prisoner under pretense of adoption and was willing to let said young girl drown in the process of her plan, she still made an effort to cover her callousness with sweet talk. ''[=McLeach=]'', on the other hand, was an overtly merciless man who utilized trickery to get what he was after, outright kidnapped a boy, and deliberately attempted to kill said boy after he was no longer useful. The other thing that sets the two apart is that Medusa [[spoiler:ultimately survived after her scheme was ruined; [=McLeach=]... met a [[DisneyVillainDeath different fate.]]]]

* DemotedToSatelliteLoveInterest: Bianca becomes one (in the first film, she and Bernard are equally important in the story). Unlike the first film, Bernard is TheHero in this film, while Bianca's role revolves around her UnresolvedSexualTension with Bernard and being in the middle of the LoveTriangle with Bernard and Jake. Though she does get to help save the day along with Jake ||spoiler: by helping to free Marahute so she can save Cody and Bernard when they are about to fall to their deaths.||

* DemotedToSatelliteLoveInterest: In the first film, she and Bernard are equally important in the story. In the sequel, Bernard is TheHero who saves the day by himself, while Bianca's role revolves around her UnresolvedSexualTension with Bernard, and being in the middle of the LoveTriangle with Bernard and Jake.

* HateSink: A loathsome, ungenerous, [[WouldHurtAChild child kidnapping/abusing,]] psychotic bitch.

* HateSink: Like Madame Medusa, he's a [[EvilIsPetty petty,]] [[{{Sadist}} merciless,]] stingy jerk, only he's ''[[EvilerThanThou even worse,]]'' as he [[WouldHurtAChild actively tries to murder Cody,]] while Medusa "just" put Penny's life in mortal danger.

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* LoveHungry: Madame Medusa lampshades this. Penny might have been willing to accept Medusa as a foster parent if Medusa had not prioritized obtaining the MacGuffin over Penny's safety.

** "Put me down, Brutus!"

** An eagle, or any flying bird for that matter, could never grow as large as Marahute [[note]]Flying birds are limited in their size by two factors. One is that birds rely only on their hind-limbs to take off. On the ground, their wings are dead weight, and this is especially true the bigger they get. Therefore, once birds reach a certain size, they tend to become flightless. The other factor is that birds have feathers. The larger a feather is, the longer it takes to grow in after it is molted. In truly gigantic birds, losing even one feather would seriously compromise the ability to fly [[/note]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haast%27s_eagle Haast's eagle]], the largest eagle species to ever exist, was not even a quarter of her size. The only flying birds to approach Marahute's size in real life were the now-extinct Teratorns, the largest of which (''Argentavis'') had a 26-foot wingspan. Teratorns, however, were more closely related to vultures than eagles, and were primarily terrestrial hunters.