Madame Mousey (pronounced 'Moo-say') is a small french poodle, who fled her owner to cause some trouble on her own. But this incident is likely what led to her becoming an activist against the unfair mistreatment mice suffered from at the hands of the cats of New York. In first shot, his shirt is light blue and the belt on his hat is the same "red" color of his hat with the buttons missing. 3 from . He also has black hair (he is one of the only male characters in the series to have a unique hairstyle and not just fur on his head). Very slender, tall young mouse, blue shirt with a red scarf on the neck, brown pants with feet-straps, red hat, black hair, barefoot Tony has a job at the cheese factory, but gets in trouble for coming in late and is docked a week's pay. Relatives Basil and Dr. Dawson (The Great Mouse Detective) as Pain and Panic. He later gets his only singing part in the movie during the song "Who Will". the Giant Mouse of Minsk busts through the museum door and starts rapid-firing fireworks at them. The animators even forgot about her halfway through the first movie. In An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island, Tony, in his mid teens again, is one of Fievel's best friends, though Bridget is strangely absent. At one point in the movie, T.R. He has apparently been looking for Fievel all night and, after a little casual talking, decides to help Fievel out. In the film Tony has to deal with new adult responsibilities, and he wishes to be rich. Grasping, Toplofty, and O'Bloat, Scuttlebutt, Twitch, Outlaws Madame Mousey | He instead develops a crush on a Native American girl named Cholena. An American Tail - burning the homes Part 2, An American Tail - opening credits Part 2, An American Tail - talking about america Part 2, An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster, An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island, An American Tail: A Musical Adventure with Fievel and Friends, A Musical Adventure With Fievel and Friends, Grandma Mousekewitz (grandmother; deceased), Grandpa Mousekewitz (grandfather; deceased), Great Grandpa Mousekewitz (great-grandfather; deceased), Cavadini was not the first choice to voice Tanya; she originally only auditioned to sing. He is seen alongside Bridget, who is carrying their baby. Tanya is Fievel's older sister. He and Bridget are completely absent from Fievel's American Tails, owing to those reasons. However, the cats fail and the secret weapon is released. [1] However in the first illustrated story it explicitly said "Tanya was eight" when Fievel was seven.[2]. Originally just a random member of Waul's gang, he becomes a bigger threat in Fievel's American Tails. She has a very short-fused temper, and starts her own gang of cats in the sewer. A fat rat who runs the sweatshop Fievel is sold to by Warren T. A group of homeless mice who mock Fievel after finding him sleeping in their spot, telling Fievel he will never be able to find his family and that he should forget them because they don't care about him. When he catches up with Fievel, he agrees to help him find his family. It can be assumed that she and Tony have started a family by then, and moved to Green River. Tanya is a dreamer, much like her brother. His friendship with Fievel and his family carries into the direct-to-video sequels. As Gussie states that Warren is through, the cats make one last play of desperation- burning down Chelsea Pier. An American Tail Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. In the Japanese dub from the movie, he was voiced by Mayumi Tanaka. At one point Madame Mousey gives him a faulty tip on the Night Monster story which leads Nellie and Fievel into a trap at an abandoned house, but luckily Tony comes to the rescue by dropping a chandelier on the mechanical Night Monster. Nearly every calico cat is female, so calico males are actually very rare. Scooby-Doo (Scooby-Doo) as Pegasus. Tony Toponi is a main character of the An American Tail movie series, with the exception of film 2. In his search to find his family, he discovered America.''. It's not likely the song was sung circa 1885, when the movie was set. Search the history of over 797 billion His appearance is completely downgraded in Fievel Goes West, with several color changes to his clothing in different shots due to being a background cameo in said sequel. Tony still tries to balance this with having fun with Fievel. "Fievel? Tanya Mousekewitz | If you can help us with this wiki please sign up and help us! She was also much closer to Fievel's age. He sets the museum on fire. Also, they set sail from Hamburg, which was the departure point for more than four million immigrants from 1830 to 1914. Dan KuensterLinda MillerAnne Marie BardwellMichael Cedeno He is later seen sleeping in a bunk above Fievel. An American Tail The Treasure Of Manhattan Island, An American Tail The Mystery Of The Night Monster, Her personality is different in every movie. He has apparently been looking for Fievel all night and, after a little casual talking, decides to help Fievel out. Aug 26, 2022 8 min read. $2.55. At Castle Garden, Tanya's name was changed to Tilly when she went through immigration to sound more Americanized. She sits on stage at Gussie Mausheimer's rally and was possibly one of the key figures in the building of the Giant Mouse of Minsk. Tony spends the rest of the film trying unsuccessfully to flirt with Cholena and helping out Fievel and the gang. after the can goes down the last waterfall, his voice is sped up. He's also a vegetarian, so he never eats mice. In An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, she was much older likely in her early teens and her age range from Fievel was increased. She is described as being sixteen years old (nine years older than Fievel, who is described as being seven in both versions of The Illustrated Story) in trading cards released with the 2nd film. Crazy Credits there are no cats in America, and the streets are paved with cheese. Believing in the American dream, they head to New York City by boat because "there are no cats in America, and the streets are paved with cheese." Phillip Glasser, Dom DeLuise and Cathy Cavadini were the only actors from the film to reprise their roles, as Fievel, Tiger and Tanya respectively. She has a beautiful singing voice, which didn't "fit in" well with her New York neighbors (as Mama Mousekewitz prepared some of the food they throw as the family dinner, but this is just because her "audience" was a bunch of humans who most likely interpreted her singing as musical squeaking, not to mention it was late at night when some of them were probably trying to sleep). Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. You can find the Tony Toponi gallery here. Later, at a market, Tony becomes smitten with a female mouse named Bridget, who is protesting against the cat attacks and she eventually becomes smitten with him too. She seems to be just as attracted to Tony at first sight as he is to her. Very slender, tall young mouse, blue shirt with a red scarf on the neck, brown pants with feet-straps, red hat, black hair, barefoot, To help Fievel find his family (originally), Philly's thinking, Bridget, fighting cats, He and Bridget kiss at the reunion of Fievel and his family, "Pardon the expression but you looked like something the cat dragged in you know?". Her trading card may possibly allude to this as well. Hearing that Fievel wants to escape, he says "You and me both". Role conflict in the later sequels After the praise she has received by her "public", Tanya becomes somewhat delusional from her fame, and she doesn't listen to her brother's warnings that Waul is bad news. Tony first meets Fievel when he elaborates an . He's assumed to be in his mid teens since he's taller than the Mousekewitz children and shorter than any of the adult mice. Tony Toponi is a main character of the An American Tail movie series, with the exception of the second film. shoot off Warren T. Rat's fake nose, exposing him as a cat in disguise. Tony wishes to (recklessly) jump in and fight off the cats to rescue everyone trapped in the cages, but Fievel wisely points out they'll just get stomped. Though Mr. Mousekewitz believes that Fievel died on the way to America, Tony reveals that Fievel has indeed survived and Bridget gives Fievel's family the final shred of evidence that proves Tony right- Fievel's hat. November 21, 1991. . At the beginning of the film Tanya gets a babushka for Hannukah (actual Jewish holiday) while Fievel gets his hat. He meets Fievel at a sweatshop and, after Fievel helps him escape, he agrees to help Fievel find his family. He was voiced by the late Dom DeLuise . Connections She wears a professional dress, and tries to act more adult, partly because of the crush she has on editor Reed Daley. Good Tony Toponi's shirt and hat frequently changes colors during cameo shots. Voiced by: Pat Musick. The Mousekewitz family follows them because Tanya believes that they're looking for Fievel. Goal 1 Favourite. Reed Daley doesn't return the feelings though, and ignores her. It's not clear if they moved elsewhere or, Taken to the extreme with Warren T. Rat, who at one point is dwarfed by the fat rat at the sweatshop, and later is shown. His fur becomes a more grayish-brown color than regular brown, and the fur on his face and neck becomes off-white, and his whiskers are gone. Explaining Fievel's plight to his love interest, Bridget remembers that Honest John, a local politician, knows every mouse in the city. ", only for Bridget to kiss him and cause him to fall with her into a puddle. Chula is chasing Fievel and singing a taunting, sadistic version of the "Itsy Bitsy Spider" song. Alas, all good things must come to an end, as the Mott Street Maulers promptly attack the market and destroy everything. The song was first published in the form most commonly used today (with water spout, etc.) Allies Mr. and Mrs. Toponi (parents; deceased)Bridget (wife)Unnamed son The subversion comes from them having to stop the release of the Giant Mouse before it's ready, and soon as they stop it, the mice now have to release it. Login to create it. Hearing that Fievel wants to escape, he says "You and me both". TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Fievel is the main character of the series. An American Tail - burning the homes Part 2, An American Tail - opening credits Part 2, An American Tail - talking about america Part 2, An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster, An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island, He is one of the characters that could only be voiced by the original actors, He may be based on Artful Dodger from the classic book, According to his character description on the now-defunct. That makes them eager to try another home out in the west, where they are promised that mice and cats live in peace. She is last seen with the Mousekewitzs, Tony, and Dr. Dithering at the celebration ceremony of the new labor union for the cheese factory. Bridget then joins Fievel and Tony as they leave to find Honest John (unknowingly missing Fievel's family again). Tony's surname comes from the Italian word for mouse, "topo". When the famous cowboy Clint Mousewood comes to town to take out Sweet William's gang, she develops a huge crush on him despite that he's much older than she is (very similar to her crush on Reed Daley in the 4th film), and although Clint is probably quite aware of her feelings he does not returns them, and leaves town at the end of the episode. Neither speak in this film. ", Left to right: Toplofty, Grasping and O'Bloat. GreenRiver85. She looks much the same as this in The Treasure of Manhattan Island, though she's colored differently. An American Tail - burning the homes Part 2, An American Tail - opening credits Part 2, An American Tail - talking about america Part 2. Though the other workers ridicule his idea, Tony believes that Fievel has a decent idea. | Though he is male, he is voiced by a female actor, Pat Musick. Though to be fair, Fievel had also just told them that he'd run into a tribe of Indians where Tiger was worshiped as a god, so they believed that Fievel was delirious from heat stroke. Tanya Mousekewitz (An American Tail) as Megara. inspires the giant mouse-shaped "secret weapon" used to drive away the cats in the film's climax. Perhaps the scene where she is most prominent is where she sang the heartwarming but distant duet "Somewhere Out There" with her brother Fievel when they were separated. When many more mice, including Fievel's parents and baby sister, are soon captured by Mousey's gang, he and Fievel sneak into the sewers to save them. Voice Fievel and his friend Tony Toponi find a map that they believe points to a treasure buried somewhere beneath Old New York, and the plucky rodent is determined to find it. As he begins to leave, he asks Fievel if he has a clue as to where his family is; however, Fievel has already run off, leaving Tony shouting for him, clearly worried. She is as hard hit as the rest of her family by Fievel's apparent death but she never loses hope that he survived falling off the ship somehow. While retaining Dom DeLuise throughout the film series, the film reunites the voice cast of Nehemiah Persoff and Erica Yohn from both An American Tail (1986) and An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, Pat Musick from An American Tail with the return of her character Tony Toponi, and introduces Elaine Bilstad, Ren Auberjonois, David Carradine . Philly's thinking, Bridget, fighting cats | Ratigan (The Great Mouse Detective) as Hades. When An American Tail was put in official production in 1985, he was redesigned as a young adult (assuming around 15-17) so he would be a helpful brotherly figure to Fievel Mousekewitz. It was also released on January 2, 2003 in Spain, February 9, 2003 in Australia, April 3, 2003 in Russia, June 19, 2003 in France, November 4, 2003 in Germany and April 4, 2006 in Japan. She forms a sisterly bond with Cholena when she is brought to the surface, helping make a dress for her and showing her around New York. According to storyboards, their names are Roc (the fat one with black hair), Pee Wee (the gray one in the orange hat), and Noodles (the bald one with glasses). The double subversion comes in the fact that this terrifies the cats even further than the Giant Mouse if it had worked properly, and the cats book it as fast as they can. Trivia In a early process before production, Tony was designed younger. In a rush, Tony leaves Fievel behind, which (in some respects) is a good thing. Soon enough, the cats have been given the boot and the mice are celebrating. Fievel Goes West starts there, but transitions to way out west after the opening act. She was sad to leave him behind in New York, but at the end of the comic they would have been reunited when he moves to Green River. He is the one who calls Fievel "Philly". 164 Views. She looks and acts a little different in every sequel; in Fievel Goes West she is shy and wants to be a singer, in The Treasure of Manhattan Island she is spunky and sarcastic (although this began to show in Fievel's American Tails), and in The Mystery of the Night Monster her personality is much the same, but she tries to act more adult, partly because she has a deep crush on newspaper editor Reed Daley. on the Internet. Ratigan (The Great Mouse Detective) as Hades. A crooked rat with a stranglehold on the mice of New York. Personality Basil and Dr. Dawson (The Great Mouse Detective) as Pain and Panic. Tony is later seen fighting off the cats when they show up early to the mouse base at Chelsea Pier. In the opening Hanukkah scene, Papa tells Fievel and Tanya the story of "the giant mouse of Minsk," who was "so big he frightened all the cats." After retconning the first sequel, the child fades completely. He meets Fievel at Moe's sweatshop and, after Fievel helps him escape, he agrees to help Fievel find his family. This is arguably because of Tony's role limitation in this film from Pat Musick's involvement with several other works at the time, causing the staff not to confirm (as unfocused) the exact palette for the character. The moment the mice have got the Giant Mouse stopped, they get the call to release it. During the sequence showing the mice are sitting in the audience/mousetrap, Tony, Bridget, and their baby only made a one-second view with the crowd, while in all other shots, they are missing from the crowd. 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