The Great Mouse Detective/YMMV

• Adaptation Displacement: There are actual books, plural, about Basil of Baker Street.
• Badass: Say whatever you want about Ratigan, but taming a cat and making it into your minion is pretty cool. Especially if you're a rat... I meant, mouse. Same goes for Basil who managed to befriend a dog.
• Non Sequitur Scene: Allow us to take a break to honor our Furry Fandom with a strip show.
• Ear Worm: Goodbye, So Soon.
  • Or "The world's greatest criminal mind."
  • "Dearest friends, dear gentlemen, listen to my song...
• Does This Remind You of Anything??: One hundred percent unintentional, but there's a moment where Basil points to a small circular hole in a pane of glass and calls it "our friend's point of entrance" while sticking Dawson's finger into it. He then shows how if you pull, the glass operates like a door, but still.
• Everybody Remembers the Stripper: Although Miss Kitty isn't a female lead, she certainly fits this trope.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: Fidget (so much so that a comic story in the last issue of Disney Adventures inexplicably brought him Back from the Dead and turned him into a sidekick to Olivia).
  • Also, Miss Kitty.
• Foe Yay: Basil keeps a portrait of Ratigan, his Arch Enemy, whom he obsessively pursues, in his room for one thing...and Ratigan has a voodoo doll of Basil on his shelf. Sure, it has pins in it, but who do you think made the doll, hmmm? Disney did release this, after all...
  • Ratigan's "Goodbye So Soon" song reeks of this, as well as the almost fliratious way he says "Bye bye, Basil" as he leaves Basil and Dawson to die in his Death Trap while the song is playing.
  • Ratigan also playfully pinches Flaversham's cheek and almost kisses him.
• Fridge Horror: Ratigan leaves Basil and Dawson in the Death Trap and Olivia locked in a corked bottle in the same room—he intended to make her watch!
  • He also intended to take pictures of what would be left of Dawson and Basil, which, combined with Foe Yay (see above), offers some very unsettling character interpretations... That was one sick rat...mouse.
  • Felicia, Ratigan's pet cat, is very fat. And given that she seems to dine exclusively on mice given to her by Ratigan...
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Comics about Basil are very popular in the Netherlands. But Dutch Disney comics tend to feature relatively obscure Disney characters anyway - a good 50% of the weekly comics are about Bre'r Rabbit, Madame Mim, Hiawatha, Panchito, or Horace Horseshoe.
• Getting Crap Past the Radar: Do we even need to list it...
• Harsher in Hindsight: "Goodbye, so soon."
• Hilarious in Hindsight: This was not Disney's last project that involved a Funny Animal version of a famous great detective character accompanied by a spunky little girl...(directly invoked by the Darkwing Duck cartoon show, DW owns a statue of Basil.)
  • Ratigan, 1897, cape caught between clock gears. NO CAPES!
• Ho Yay: No such thing as a Holmes adaptation without it.
• Love to Hate: Ratigan, mainly due to Vincent Price's love of hamming it up.
• Magnificent Bastard: "The nefarious Professor Ratigan! He's a genius! Twisted for evil! The Napoleon of Crime! There's no evil scheme he wouldn't concoct! No depravity he wouldn't commit! Who knows what he is up to even as we speak?" And if I type any more exclamation marks, my server will explode!
• Mondegreen: The lyric "I'll take off all my blues" in the song "Let Me Be Good To You" has reported to have occasionally been misheard as "I'll take off all my clothes". (Granted, who could blame those who misheard the line? All the clothes Miss Kitty is wearing are BLUE.)
  • It doesn't help that she says the line in question while whipping her skirt off to reveal a one-piece dancer's outfit.
• Nightmare Fuel: Ratigan, once his true rat personality comes out.
• Parent Service: "Let Me Be Good To You".
• Signature Scene: Miss Kitty's musical number.
• Ugly Cute: Fidget, when he's not bursting into the scene with a Scare Chord.
• Uncanny Valley: The Queen's robotic double.
• The Woobie: Its hard not to want to give Olivia a huge hug.

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