For those who don't know about Tony, you can learn all about him in the link below: After Fievel frees everyone Tony takes it upon himself to help Fievel find his family. He is one of the characters that could only be voiced by the original actors. 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. Slingshot Miss Kitty | In his search to find his family, he discovered America.''. This was Erica Yohn's final film appearance before her death on January 27, 2019. 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. Tony, Bridget, and their baby escape in a roller skate from a cat attack. Tony begrudgingly follows Fievel's plan to wait there while Fievel goes to get Nellie. She's never a huge part of the plot, and often is inserted just to look cute. in 1962, and its earliest publication was in 1947. Appearance However, their joy is short-lived, as Chelsea Pier actually does light on fire, causing the mice to run in fear. shoot off Warren T. Rat's fake nose, exposing him as a cat in disguise. As Gussie states that Warren is through, the cats make one last play of desperation- burning down Chelsea Pier. He also gets his only singing part in the movies during the song "Who Will". However, the treasure turns out to be the lost Lenape tribe. Like Fievel, he has dark brown fur with tan fur around his eyes and muzzle. He was voiced by Pat Musick. Fievel's American Tails is an American/Canadian animated television series, produced by Amblimation, Nelvana, and Universal Cartoon Studios. She wears a three tone green dress with a purple belt (notably her tail is not shown outside her dress), frilly pantalettes, and is bare footed (her shoes inconsistently appeared in a scene). Alas, all good things must come to an end, as the Mott Street Maulers promptly attack the market and destroy everything. He's also a vegetarian, so he never eats mice. She wears a professional dress, and tries to act more adult, partly because of the crush she has on editor Reed Daley. Tonys inconsistency in the third movie (shown on right) is one of the several controversial glitches in franchise history, disregarding the respect from the original film (shown on left). That makes them eager to try another home out in the west, where they are promised that mice and cats live in peace. She's constantly at odds with her editor, who believes more in selling newspapers than bringing people facts. on March 15, 2022. However, what he discovers under the city is a tribe of Native American mice who were driven underground by . He instead develops a crush on a Native American girl named Cholena. Tony Toponi: Hey, Philly. His friendship with Fievel and his family carries into the direct-to-video sequels. 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. When they do, it starts falling apart and making horrific mechanical noises. Done on purpose in Fievel and Tiger's song, to show their friendship as equals. She looks much the same as this in The Treasure of Manhattan Island, though she's colored differently. You need to be logged in to continue. 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. The animators even forgot about her halfway through the first movie. Though the other workers ridicule his idea, Tony believes that Fievel has a decent idea. In fourth shot, both his shirt, hat and his head hair are changed to green, as his red scarf is strangely replaced with a white bow tie, notably another mouse (slightly older and not having head hair, setting between him and Bridget) is wearing a dirt-colored scarf and hat and a dark blue shirt (switching without audience looking). Much similar to Tanya's animation issues on Fievel's American Tails, Tony's streamline is limited as well, with the feet-straps of his patched trousers and his whiskers removed. Despite the current situation, Tony and Bridget stay behind to search for Fievel, as he didn't show up. Allies 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). 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. Tony opts to bring the map to Dr. Dithering, and he translates it. Fievel Goes West is where he saw the most character development. It's double suvberted at the end of the movie when try actually try to use it. The original script, when the Mousekewitzes arrive at Ellis Island, one of the mice preceeding them in the checkin line is a woman with a bundled baby. A streetwise orphan that Fievel befriends in the first film while imprisoned in a sweat shop. It is stated that he helped get Tanya her job as Reed Daley's secretary. He meets Fievel at Moe's sweatshop and, after Fievel helps him escape, he agrees to help Fievel find his family. Cat cat cat, and double-cat!!". She appears alongside Tony in a few cameos in Fievel Goes West, always with a child in her arms. 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). This was also Elaine Bilstad's final film appearance before her death on January 30, 1999. Tanya has a job as a secretary at The Daily Nibbler in this film, a job Tony helped her get. The bullying orphans are not there when Fievel is reunited with his family. 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. She's last seen riding on Henri's back with Fievel at the end of the film as they check out the newly built Statue of Liberty. Bridget is soon smitten with Tony and (thanks due to Fievel), the two would-be lovers end up kissing. Tanya Mousekewitz is the eldest child of Mama and Papa Mousekewitz and the older sister of Fievel and Yasha. Fievel's memory of that story. He introduces himself and, upon Fievel doing the same, gives him an American name: Philly. Fievel then crafts an escape plan based off of a story he heard. He and Bridget are completely absent from Fievel's American Tails, as the character couldn't be recasted due to Musick's personal reasons, which Tony had yet to return until later in Treasure of Manhattan Island in 1998. 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. Fievel's American Tails is an animated television series, produced by Amblimation, Nelvana, and Universal Cartoon Studios.It aired on CBS for one season in 1992, and continued Fievel's adventures from the film An American Tail: Fievel Goes West. He then takes Tanya under his wing, entitling her as "The Diva" and having her perform at a saloon for his gang, withMiss Kittyto be her mentor. However, the cats fail and the secret weapon is released. Basil and Dr. Dawson (The Great Mouse Detective) as Pain and Panic. Gussie soon reveals that the ongoing killings of mice (thanks due to the cats) have become unacceptable and proposes an alliance made of all of the mice in New York (who will meet at a rally in a local park) in an effort to get rid of the cats. revealing that it leads to a treasure. He instead develops a crush on a Native American girl named Cholena. Click here to login or here to sign up. 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. By. Mr. and Mrs. Toponi (parents; deceased)Bridget (wife)Unnamed son 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. Deviation Actions. Just remember, Fievel: one man's sunset is another man's dawn. When adding her sarcastic comments to family arguments, she is told "Tanya, don't help!" They also won't listen to Fievel when he warns them about Cat R. Waul's evil plans in the second movie. Fievel befriends her and brings her up to the surface in an effort to prove that European mice aren't bad. Fievel Mousekewitz | 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. Character information Tony hopes the "treasure" hinted at in the map will solve his financial woes. She's finally proven right late in the film, when the Mousekewitz's meet Tony and Bridget. by others. Phillip Glasser, Dom DeLuise and Cathy Cavadini were the only actors from the film to reprise their roles, as Fievel, Tiger and Tanya respectively. 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. disguise himself as a rat when he's actually a cat. Warren's solution to dealing with the mice after he's exposed as a cat. 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. Bridget then joins Fievel and Tony as they leave to find Honest John (unknowingly missing Fievel's family again). 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