At one point in the movie, T.R. Occupation Tony Toponis hat is usually red in the first and third installment (alongside his limited appearance in the second film), but in. Seeing Waul try to put the mice of Green River into a giant mouse trap during the film's climax snaps her out of it though, and by the end of the film she realizes she can still be beautiful by being herself, washing her makeup off. | During the Great Fire caused by Warren T. Rat on the pier where Fievel gets lost, Bridget finds Fievel's hat, and later when she and Tony run into the Mousekewitz family, she shows it to Mama, proving Fievel is alive. 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. An American Tail The Treasure Of Manhattan Island, An American Tail The Mystery Of The Night Monster, Her personality is different in every movie. When he asks Fievel why he didn't tell him what time it was, Fievel says "But Tony, I can't tell time!" An American Tail Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. Kind, streetwise, helpful, slightly sarcastic, handsome, and brave. In Fievel's American Tails she looks almost the same, but streamlined to make her cheaper to animate (with only one tuft of hair in the front, and her cheek tufts missing). At the beginning of the film Tanya gets a babushka for Hannukah (actual Jewish holiday) while Fievel gets his hat. This is fruitless however, because Fievel's family was new to America and Honest John didn't know them yet. 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. ", only for Bridget to kiss him and cause him to fall with her into a puddle. He has apparently been looking for Fievel all night and, after a little casual talking, decides to help Fievel out. His friendship with Fievel carries into the direct-to-video sequels. Tony is last seen saying "I don't hear no one thanking me here! Unfortunately, the one making this claim is an oily con artist named Cat R. Waul who is intent on his own sinister plan. He's also a vegetarian, so he never eats mice. Brats with Slingshots: Tony Toponi, when he shoots Warren's disguise off. the Giant Mouse of Minsk busts through the museum door and starts rapid-firing fireworks at them. Fievel's baby sister. Characters can be seen going through Monument Valley (on the Utah/Arizona border) when they are supposed to be on their way to Green River (Wyoming). | Voice Cats attacking, danger, losing Fievel Cossacks (and their Cossack cats) raid the village for a pogrom. (Tony Toponi turns around and is happy to see his little friend.) Zackzilla's Nostalgia Museum Phillip Glasser, Dom DeLuise and Cathy Cavadini were the only actors from the film to reprise their roles, as Fievel, Tiger and Tanya respectively. He's largely absent from Fievel Goes West except for some blink-and-you-miss-it cameos, but he comes back in full main character status in the direct to video sequels. Tony is later seen on top of the sign for Hester Street. An American Tail - burning the homes Part 2, An American Tail - opening credits Part 2, An American Tail - talking about america Part 2. They live under a house in a Jewish district of Shostka (Russian empire, now in Ukraine). Tony Toponiis amajor character of the An American Tail movie series. 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. Tony is later seen on top of the sign for Hester Street. Cholena, however, doesn't return the feelings, and spends most of the movie snubbing his advances. Uploaded by Tony Toponi is the tetartagonist from An American Tail. When Miss Kitty is applying blush to Tanya's cheeks, blue eyeshadow suddenly appears on Tanya's eyes as blush is being applied to her right cheek. A retired law dog that Fievel idolizes before he moves out west. Click here to login or here to sign up. 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. Good Tony's role was limited as a background cameo in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991) and was absent in Fievel's American Tails (1992) because of Pat Musick 's acting difficulties during those periods. Background information 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. Dislikes Alignment Fievel's memory of that story. Despite her personality change, she still cares for her brother. A sequel to An American Tail (1986), the film follows the story of the Mousekewitzes, a family of Jewish-Ukrainian mice who emigrate . Fievel Goes West starts there, but transitions to way out west after the opening act. Nearly every calico cat is female, so calico males are actually very rare. 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. Cholena is the daughter of the Chief of an underground tribe of Native American mice, who fled underground with the arrival of European settlers in Manhattan. His hat is blue (with the strip and button reversed), and his hair is slightly darker in The Mystery of the Night Monster. 1991 Impel An American Tail: Fievel Goes West - [Base] #2 Tanya Mousekewitz. Tony, assumed to be a few years older, only appears as a background character in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West as a cameo. Tony is the second mouse to leave the sweatshop (Fievel being the first). He is seen alongside Bridget, who is carrying their baby. 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. Bridget then joins Fievel and Tony as they leave to find Honest John (unknowingly missing Fievel's family again). ChulaCactus Cat GangChief McBrusqueMr. Fievel's American Tails is an American/Canadian animated television series, produced by Amblimation, Nelvana, and Universal Cartoon Studios. Rookie cards, autographs and more. Tony Toponi (An American Tail) as Philoctetes. Can't find a movie or TV show? Warren T. Rat (actually a cat himself) dresses as a rat to fool the mice into buying into his protection racket against the cats. He's a bit cowardly but he can be brave when he wants to. Tiger's ex girlfriend who leaves him to go west and have real adventures. As Gussie states that Warren is through, the cats make one last play of desperation- burning down Chelsea Pier. Throughout the rest of the film, whenever Tanya begs her father to look for Fievel, it turns out Fievel is nearby but they don't see each other. Early concept art of Tony (as a childlike prototype) and Fievel. An evil British cat who schemes to eat all the mice of Green River by luring them there with the promise that out west, cats are nice to mice. She is conspicuously missing from the direct-to-video sequels. A group of vicious cats that are responsible for the Mousekewitz family moving to America. 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. Tony opts to bring the map to Dr. Dithering, and he translates it. It is evident that Bridget, being politically active, knows people in high places. Bridget | The song was first published in the form most commonly used today (with water spout, etc.) They also won't listen to Fievel when he warns them about Cat R. Waul's evil plans in the second movie. Inspiration Tanya is a dreamer, much like her brother. The song was first published in the form most commonly used today (with water spout, etc.) He emits sparks from his antennae when excited. This prequel first premiered in the United Kingdom in November 16, 1998. Cat R. Waul's tarantula sidekick who gleefully obeys Waul's orders, and has fun doing it too. inspires the giant mouse-shaped "secret weapon" used to drive away the cats in the film's climax. He then teams up with Fievel and trains Tiger to take his place. Crazy Credits He meets Fievel at a sweatshop and, after Fievel helps him escape, he agrees to help Fievel find his family. At first it seems the only apparent reason for this was to educate kids about how immigration worked at the time. 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 When Fievel rides the tumbleweed he goes past armadillos. Chula is chasing Fievel and singing a taunting, sadistic version of the "Itsy Bitsy Spider" song. A chubby politician who has a tendency to be drunk. Tony is later seen with Fievel, freaking out because the two of them are an hour late to the meeting at Chelsea Pier. Tanya has a job as a secretary at The Daily Nibbler in this film, a job Tony helped her get. on the Internet. The cats fall, but it's onto a boat headed for Hong Kong, and they survive. Buy from many sellers and get your cards all in one shipment! ", 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. If you can help us with this wiki please sign up and help us! Break the Cutie: Fievel goes through a lot of trauma in the first film. When the mice have been captured by Mousey's gang, and he and Fievel sneak into the sewers to save them, Tony begrudgingly follows Fievel's plan rather than jumping in to rescue everyone trapped in the cages, but when Fievel and Nellie get stuck fighting Madame Mousey at the Daily Nibbler office he gets tired of waiting and floods the sewer to rescue the mice. Bernard (The Rescuers) as Zeus. Relatives Her parents were killed by cats in 1884, whether she was in Ireland or New York at the time is unknown. Though the three Orphan Alley bullies are presumed to be scared away by Gussie and Tiger when they tried to take Fievel away from his family, shove him into a puddle and throw hay at him so he can make a bed, right after Fievel assumes that his family isn't coming to find him. She appears alongside Tony in a few cameos in Fievel Goes West, always with a child in her arms. Tony hopes the "treasure" hinted at in the map will solve his financial woes. His friendship with Fievel and his family carries into the direct-to-video sequels. Soon enough, the cats have been given the boot and the mice are celebrating. The infant being held by his dad, Tony Toponi, in a crowd. She is last seen with the Mousekewitzs, Tony, and Dr. Dithering at the celebration ceremony of the new labor union for the cheese factory. Grasping, Toplofty, and O'Bloat, Scuttlebutt, Twitch, Outlaws Madame Mousey Bridget is an Irish mouse-rights activist who Tony meets and falls in love with. The hero, a little mouse named Fievel, is washed overboard in a storm, and his search for his family, who believe he is dead and therefore aren't looking for him, forms the bulk of the film. Most strangely in a scene near the end, Tony and his wife and baby only made one shot on the giant mousetrap with the crowd when Tanya appeared to save them, while in all other shots, they are missing from the crowd. However, their joy is short-lived, as Chelsea Pier actually does light on fire, causing the mice to run in fear. A few of them are smart enough to engage in some. 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. Aug 26, 2022 8 min read. Comment. The moment the mice have got the Giant Mouse stopped, they get the call to release it. 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. She tries to use her ties with the mouse politicians in New York to help find Fievel's family. Voiced by: Pat Musick. Once arriving in America, all mice immediately discover that there are indeed cats in America. 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. Role conflict in the later sequels Well, she did build the mechanical 'Manhattan Monster'. It can be assumed that she and Tony have started a family by then, and moved to Green River. He is later seen sleeping in a bunk above Fievel. After being hugged by Fievel, the two young mice set out to find Fievel's family. 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. When a ferocious, mouse-nabbing creature puts fear into the hearts of New York City's rodents, Fievel and his friends team up with a reporter to chase after the scoop of the century and -- just maybe -- get a close-up look at the bad guy himself! In the West, Wylie Burp is surrounded by the . This is similar to Nancy Cartwright playing Bart Simpson. He aided the other mice in the plan to get rid out of the Mott Street Maulers. Early in the film, when the Mouskewitzes first arrive at Ellis Island believing Fievel drowned at sea and is gone for good, Tanya's name is changed to "Tilly". Tony Toponi is a main character of the An American Tail movie series, with the exception of the second film. Tanya's character description on the now-defunct official. However, the treasure turns out to be the lost Lenape tribe. Chapter 13. He is the editor of the Daily Nibbler, a fast-talking and charismatic boss who's constantly at odds with Nellie Brie over whether her ideas for reports will sell newspapers. It is the first theatrical sequel to any Don Bluth film (as there was no such thing as films going directly to video at the time of its release), the second and last being All Dogs Go to Heaven 2. He is generally dissatisfied with his job, but seems to be too afraid to quit. Basil and Dr. Dawson (The Great Mouse Detective) as Pain and Panic. Shop COMC's extensive selection of 1991 impel an american tail: fievel goes west non-sports cards. Certain species of real-life tarantulas can hunt and devour mice. He is of Italian descent and has a girlfriend named Bridget. At the beginning of the film it is shown that Tanya wants to be a famous singer, but her talents go unappreciated. 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. Tony ends up being promoted to a part-time reporter along with his paperboy job. On An American Tail, Bridget appears with brown fur with tan tone around her eyes and on her freckled muzzle. Later, at the market (where both Tony and Fievel walk straight over Fievel's family without even knowing), Tony states he has a plan all worked out to find Fievel's family; however, Tony soon becomes smitten with a female mouse named Bridget, who is protesting the cat attacks, thus causing the search to go into a grinding halt. | Later, at a wake for Mickey O'Hare, Tony is mostly silent until Gussie Mausheimer arrives. Tanya's hopes are dashed when Nellie Brie and Reed get together at the end of the movie, and in the final scene where the family is at the beach, she laments that her life has no meaning and is ignored, particularly by Mama. 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. Big Brother Instinct: Fievel, most notably in the first 5 minutes of the first movie. Like Fievel, he has dark brown fur with tan fur around his eyes and muzzle. After pointing out that she is "the richest mouse in New York", Tony asks Fievel "What's she doing slumming in this part of town?" Dan KuensterLinda MillerAnne Marie BardwellMichael Cedeno An American Tail: Fievel and Tanya Go West With the main voice talents of: August Marturo as Fievel Mousekewitz Cathy Cavadini as Tanya and Yasha Mousekewitz Jim Cummings as Tiger Pat Musick as Tony Toponi Lloyd Battista as Papa Mousekewitz Jane Singer as Mama Mousekewitz Jon Lovitz as T.R. It's not likely the song was sung circa 1885, when the movie was set. Tanya's personality has become sassy and sarcastic in this movie, and she gets very jealous of her brother getting to go on adventures all the time. $2.55. 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. He didn't really have an appearance in this sequel,But I see a mice married with a girl that looks like Bridget with a infant,Those mice almost look exactly . Luckily, Tony and Bridget survive the destruction. Trivia "This is America! 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. He mentions being from Sicily on occasion and it is assumed he is an orphan. In the comic book adaptation she is given a love interest, Willie, who does not appear in the film and may have been cut. Since this event is retconned, Tony's future concept remains unclear. Tony first meets Fievel when he elaborates an escape plan and frees the workers. Later, Tony asks Fievel what Gussie's doing in the other part of town, and it is soon revealed that the ongoing killing of the mice have become unacceptable and makes an alliance of the mice to get rid of the cats and soon realize that Honest John can't help find Fievel's family as he only knows every voting mouse in New York. Tony is the second mouse to leave the sweatshop (Fievel being the first). Bridget soon discovers Fievel's hat, abandoned, and they search more worriedly than ever. Fievel and Tanya Mousekewitz's voices were performed byThomas DekkerandLacey Chabert, replacing the previous voice actorsPhillip Glasser, Amy Green from the 1986 film, andCathy Cavadinifrom bothFievel Goes Westand the TV seriesFievel's American Tails. In his search to find his family, he discovered America.''. This was also Elaine Bilstad's final film appearance before her death on January 30, 1999. The one making this claim is an orphan his friendship with Fievel, most notably in the,. 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