History ComicStrip / DennisTheMenaceUK

* LoopholeAbuse: In one episode of the 1996 series, Dennis wins a ''Series/BluePeter'' art competition and is invited onto the set. When "his" winning drawing is revealed on air, however, it turns out to be a bunch of splodges that Gnasher made, with the judge apparently oblivious to Dennis' actual drawing on the other side of the page. Once this has been explained, the presenters decide there ain't no rule saying a dog can't win - since Gnasher's under the age limit, he's still eligible.
** A 2013 episode has Team Menace take this trope and run with it: they don't want Walter as the class prefect, nobody will vote for Dennis, but there's nothing saying a ''pet potato'' can't run for prefect.

* MoreDakka: In one episode of TheNineties cartoon, Dennis and Gnasher got a pair of HumongousMecha which happened to look like them; Gnasher's had an enormous gun pop out of its "nose". Then more guns. Then some more. Then some '''''[[SerialEscalation more]]'''''. [[spoiler:[[DeconstructedTrope Then it fell over]].]]

* NotMeThisTime: Considering Dennis' reputation, it's not surprising that he gets this a lot.
** A good example is one episode of the 90s series in which an eccentric millionaire challenges Beanotown to go a week without TV, with the promise of £1 million if they succeed. Dennis spends the whole week trying to power his family's TV back up in spite of the challenge, only to be thwarted time and again. On the final day, the TV in Dennis' house is suddenly switched on, and the townspeople angrily chase after Dennis in the belief that he's just cost them the reward. It's only when they reach his house that they realise he ''can't'' be responsible because he's ''not in the house''.[[note]]It turns out to have been the millionaire himself, who just couldn't miss his favourite soap opera; since the townspeople made it that far, he gives them the £1 million anyway.[[/note]]

* HeroesWantRedheads: Dennis has often been hinted to fancy Minnie, though he won't admit it.

** The 2009 series, ''Dennis and Gnasher'', downplaying the menace name.

* SameLanguageDub: ''Unleashed'' received an American dub on Creator/{{Netflix}}, featuring Creator/BrycePapenbrook as Dennis.

* OffModel: In the 2009 animated series' "Dance of the Seven Pies" when Dennis is trying to convince Athena that an itchy Pie-Face is actually dancing, her character model is flipped, making her belt face the wrong way.

* IntergenerationalFrienship: Dennis's Grandma is the only adult who Dennis respects rather than his parents and is his best adult friend. An episode of the animated series even revealed she's something of a GenerationXerox to him.

[[NamesTheSame One of two]] ComicBook characters known as ''Dennis the Menace'', both being primary school-age boys who frequently get into trouble and make mischief, aided by a pet dog, that were first published in March 1951. This page is about the [[BritishComics British version]] as published in the AnthologyComic ''ComicBook/TheBeano''.

* DotingGrandparent: Dennis's Grandma is the only adult who Dennis respects rather than his parents and is his best adult friend. An episode of the animated series even revealed she's something of a GenerationXerox to him.

*** This adaptation now has its own [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php/BestEpisode/DennisTheMenace1996 Best Episode Crowner]].