Interestingly, Tony is absent from the rally at Mausheimer Park. He later gets his only singing part in the movie during the song "Who Will". We see more of her teasing her brother in some episodes, but the two still have a strong bond. The animators even forgot about her halfway through the first movie. It eats the cockroaches attacking Feivel, allowing him to escape. "This is America! As Gussie states that Warren is through, the cats make one last play of desperation- burning down Chelsea Pier. He is voiced in every appearance by Pat Musick (besides the silent cameos). She also takes an immediate liking to Fievel, and agrees at once to help him, bringing them both to Tammany Hall. Neither speak in this film. In a early process before production, Tony was designed younger, assuming to be around 4-6 years old. Fievel soon reveals Warren T. as the leader of the cats and, when Warren's list of demands includes Fievel, Tony promptly demolishes his disguise, revealing Warren T. to be a cat and not a rat! Come on, you weren't really fooled by Warren's fake nose, were you? He meets Fievel at Moe's sweatshop and, after Fievel helps him escape, he agrees to help Fievel find his family. Tony is last seen saying "I don't hear no one thanking me here! Later, at a wake for Mickey O'Hare, Tony is mostly silent until Gussie Mausheimer arrives. there are no cats in America, and the streets are paved with cheese. GreenRiver85. Kind, streetwise, helpful, slightly sarcastic, handsome, and brave. 1 Favourite. At the beginning of the film it is shown that Tanya wants to be a famous singer, but her talents go unappreciated. Warren's solution to dealing with the mice after he's exposed as a cat. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. In the film Tony has to deal with new adult responsibilities, and he wishes to be rich. The only reason he wasn't fired was because Papa Mousekewitz convinced Grasping that Tony would be obedient from then on. Tony is the second mouse to leave the sweatshop (Fievel being the first). A streetwise orphan that Fievel befriends in the first film while imprisoned in a sweat shop. 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. New York City He is first seen when he and his parents were getting away in a roller skate from the cat attack, then the Toponi family were seen in a crowd in the sewer. | Tony is later seen fighting off the cats when they show up early to the mouse base at Chelsea Pier. Kind, streetwise, helpful, slightly sarcastic, handsome, and brave. 2 from . 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. after the can goes down the last waterfall, his voice is sped up. In An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (pictured), she was much older ( trading cards released at the time of the movie claim she is sixteen, although the novelization of the first movie claimed she was eight, a year older than Fievel) and her age range from Fievel was increased. The audience knows that if they'd just let it go, things would have worked out just fine, but the mice don't know that. She's finally proven right late in the film, when the Mousekewitz's meet Tony and Bridget. 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. The movie takes place circa 1885, and although the words to the song were written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key, the song was only used by the Navy in 1889, and didn't officially become the national anthem, and thereby most likely to be sung at public events, until 1931. An American Tail: Fievel Goes West. Hearing that Fievel wants to escape, he says "You and me both". 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. guerlain insolence old bottle. However, they do this right before the cats show up. This issue gained some debate since. Though the other workers ridicule his idea, Tony believes that Fievel has a decent idea. Just remember, Fievel: one man's sunset is another man's dawn. ", which was co-opted by the Nazis in the 1930's and '40's, Fievel does manage to find them after all, no one could have survived being thrown off of a ship in the middle of the sea, keep missing each other when they're nearby, there's no way Fievel could have survived, push him into a mud puddle, throw straw at him so he can make a bed. His friendship with Fievel carries into the direct-to-video sequels. Goal 164 Views. What's even more bizarre is in the first track of the "Fievel and Friends" album , he DOES mention having an accent. She later watches Fievel sleep beside Yasha (who is quite awake), and Tanya, Mama, Papa, Tony, & Tiger have a group hug. Mr. and Mrs. Toponi (parents; assumed deceased). Tony Toponi However, their joy is short-lived, as Chelsea Pier actually does light on fire, causing the mice to run in fear. Her cameo appearance is cheaply done in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, as the texture palette on her dress and floral headwear are completely dark blue. This is fruitless however, because Fievel's family was new to America and Honest John didn't know them yet. She instantly wins over the cats with her song "The Girl You Left Behind". Japanese studioTMS-Kyokuichi Corporationwas the overseas animation studio for the film. An American Tail Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. 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. Tony has a job at the cheese factory, but gets in trouble for coming in late and is docked a week's pay. You can find the Tony Toponi gallery here. It's not likely the song was sung circa 1885, when the movie was set. When her parents agree to let her accompany Fievel and Tony and take Cholena back home to protect her from the police, she is thrilled at finally getting to participate in an adventure. in 1962, and its earliest publication was in 1947. Voice | He was partially seen with his parents while they and the crowd are on the giant mousetrap. She appears alongside Tony in a few cameos in Fievel Goes West, always with a child in her arms. Tanya Mousekewitz (An American Tail) as Megara. They also won't listen to Fievel when he warns them about Cat R. Waul's evil plans in the second movie. Very slender, tall young mouse, blue shirt with a red scarf on the neck, brown pants with feet-straps, red hat, black hair, barefoot They begin living in a typical late 19th century immigrant manner: working in a sweatshop, living in horrible conditions, being extorted by gangs and living in constant fear of being eaten.noteOkay, that last one is specific to immigrant mice, but you get the picture. The song was first published in the form most commonly used today (with water spout, etc.) Weapons His friendship with Fievel carries into the direct-to-video sequels. Scooby-Doo (Scooby-Doo) as Pegasus. Between 1998 and 2015 she appeared in this form on the cover of the DVD and Blu-Ray releases of An American Tail despite looking different in the actual film, for unknown reasons. Explaining Fievel's plight to his love interest, Bridget remembers that Honest John, a local politician, knows every mouse in the city. Published: Aug 26, 2022. (Tony Toponi turns around and is happy to see his little friend.) Bridget is soon smitten with Tony and (thanks due to Fievel), the two would-be lovers end up kissing. His friendship with Fievel and his family carries into the direct-to-video sequels. 3 from . While retainingDom DeLuisethroughout the film series, the film reunites the voice cast ofNehemiah PersoffandErica Yohnfrom bothAn American Tail(1986) andAn American Tail: Fievel Goes West,Pat MusickfromAn American Tailwith the return of her character Tony Toponi, and introduces Elaine Bilstad,Ren Auberjonois,David Carradine,John Kassir,Ron Perlman,Tony JayandRichard Karron. Bridget then joins Fievel and Tony as they leave to find Honest John (unknowingly missing Fievel's family again). on the Internet. Later, Tony and Fievel realize that they're late to the meeting at Chelsea Pier and in a rush, Tony leaves Fievel behind. 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. After moving to Green River, Cat R. Waul finds her singing the song "Dreams to Dream" in the streets, and is instantly entranced by her voice before even seeing her. Papa likes to tell tall tales and wholeheartedly believes that there are no cats in America at the beginning of the first film. Her parents were killed by cats in 1884, whether she was in Ireland or New York at the time is unknown. He meets Fievel at Moe's sweatshop and, after Fievel helps him escape, he agrees to help Fievel find his family. Warren T. Rat, the cats' Cat R. Waul, Cactus Cat Gang, Chief McBrusque, Mr. Tony opts to bring the map to Dr. Dithering, and he translates it. In the Japanese dub from the movie, he was voiced by Mayumi Tanaka. Her original voice actress, Cathianne Blore, was in poor health at the time the direct-to-video sequels were produced, battling cancer, causing her role to be dropped from the direct-to-video sequels indefinitely. His hat is blue (with the strip and button reversed), and his hair is slightly darker in The Mystery of the Night Monster. A streetwise orphan that Fievel befriends in the first film while imprisoned in a sweat shop. ", only for Bridget to kiss him and cause him to fall with her into a puddle. Cholena, however, doesn't return the feelings, and spends most of the movie snubbing his advances. the Giant Mouse of Minsk busts through the museum door and starts rapid-firing fireworks at them. Tony ends up being promoted to a part-time reporter along with his paperboy job. 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. Reed Daley doesn't return the feelings though, and ignores her. Forgiveness . Crazy Credits Bridget is an Irish mouse-rights activist who Tony meets and falls in love with. Tony is seen again fighting against the other cats and realizes that Warren T. Rat is the leader of the cats and Tony demolishes Warren's disguise, revealing him to be a cat and not a rat. An American Tail Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. A retired law dog that Fievel idolizes before he moves out west. Quickly realizing that something isn't right, Tony finds that Fievel has gone missing; however, Fievel is safe and unharmed. At the beginning of the film Tanya gets a babushka for Hannukah (actual Jewish holiday) while Fievel gets his hat. 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. Bernard (The Rescuers) as Zeus. Quickly realizing that something isn't right, Tony finds that Fievel has gone missing; however, Fievel is safe and unharmed. Aug 26, 2022 8 min read. An American Tail: Fievel Goes West She appears alongside Tony in a few cameos in Fievel Goes West, always with a child in her arms. Slingshot Tony's previous work experience with archaeologist Dr. Dithering gets the plot moving along after Tony takes Fievel to an abandoned subway and they discover an ancient Lenape map. He and his parents were seen as they moved to a discarded teapot in Green River, which he was last seen in full. If you look real close at her feet when she was singing Dreams to Dream, it looks like Tanya is wearing black flats. In honor of the 35th anniversary of An American Tail, the 30th anniversary of Fievel Goes West, and the 21st anniversaries of the direct-to-video sequels. She has a very short-fused temper, and starts her own gang of cats in the sewer. Contents 1 Background 1.1 Physical Appearance 1.2 Personality 2 Appearance 2.1 An American Tail 2.2 An American Tail: Fievel Goes West 2.3 Fievel's American Tails 3 Direct-to-Video Sequels 4 Gallery 5 Trivia Background Physical Appearance A tiny roach who works for Warren as an accountant. Cossacks (and their Cossack cats) raid the village for a pogrom. 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. Artful Dodger Uploaded by In the West, Wylie Burp is surrounded by the . They only get peace when they take the initiative to actually drive the cats away. Be the first one to, An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island, an-american-tail-the-treasure-of-manhattan-island, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Universal Family & Home Entertainment Production, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). While Tony Toponi is Italian, he speaks with a New York accent. 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. He is among those who finds out that Honest John can't help find Fievel's family, as John only knows every voting mouse in New York. Tony Toponi (An American Tail) as Philoctetes. Applies to all the mice. Eventually, Fievel follows his father's fiddling and the Mousekewitzes are made whole. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Chula is chasing Fievel and singing a taunting, sadistic version of the "Itsy Bitsy Spider" song. In The Mystery of the Night Monster she looks taller than in the last movie, and is hairless. A collaboration between Don Bluth and Steven Spielberg (and the latter's first animated production), An American Tail starts off on Hanukkah in 1885, opening in a Russian schtetl. This was her oldest incarnation, as in later sequels she is aged down again. The next day, Tony is next seen calling out Fievel's name near Orphan Alley while Gussie tries to keep the others' spirits up by saying that they will find Fievel. It's about then that she met Tony Toponi. Dan KuensterLinda MillerAnne Marie BardwellMichael Cedeno Saw a sequel five years later with Fievel Goes West, in which the Mousekewitz family, still dirt poor and at the mercy of ever-more-sophisticated cats, flee New York for the Wild West (made without Bluth's involvement, but with Spielberg still on board), and a short-lived TV series in the same setting (Fievel's American Tails), and two additional DTV sequels (The Treasure of Manhattan Island and Mystery of the Night Monster) that played fast and loose with the established continuity, and had no involvement from the original creators. 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. Cat cat cat, and double-cat!!". She removed her red babushka for a long ponytail and an orange and brown dress and no undergarments. Grasping, Toplofty, and O'Bloat, Scuttlebutt, Twitch, Outlaws Madame Mousey 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. In the climax he gets attacked by Scuttlebutt in a fight but is rescued by Tanya. shoot off Warren T. Rat's fake nose, exposing him as a cat in disguise. 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. 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. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail. Bernard (The Rescuers) as Zeus. In An American Tail, Tony wears a light blue shirt and patched-up brown pants with feet-straps on the bottom, a red scarf and a dark red hat with a yellow strip on it. BF5 / ATT: Fievel Goes West 13. Tanya Mousekewitz is a mouse who is Fievel's older sister, the tritagonist of An American Tail: Fievel Goes West and a supporting character in all four same franchises. 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