History Film / OneHundredAndOneDalmatians1996

* Double StandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Anita clocking Roger in the head with a handbag full of bricks is played for laughs, albeit she does it to stop him from unwittingly stealing Perdita and is genuinely apologetic afterwards.

* VileVillainSaccharineShow: Zigzagged for Mr. Skinner. While Cruella is this as well, she is hammy and [[LaughablyEvil laughably evil]] at times. But with Skinner, there are no such moments, apart from Horace's comments. He [[TheVoiceless never utters any dialogue]] because a dog tore open his throat (with a visible scar shown), and he has a permanent leer on his face. His job is basically skinning animals and turning them into coats for Cruella. He was about to do so to Lucky, until Kipper ''mauls'' Skinner with a shot in the shadows. He is '''[[NightmareFuel terrifying]]''' as a result. Notably, he does not encounter any slapstick in the film like Horace, Jasper, or even Cruella. [[spoiler:However, he comically panicked and banged inside the police van like a scared child when the skunk started spraying against him and the other villains]].

* StockingMask: Horace and Jasper wear stockings over their heads before forcing their way into Anita and Roger's home to lock the nanny in a cupboard before kidnapping the puppies. PlayedForLaughs in a previous when they both get their heads in the same stocking and struggle to get out of the van.

--> '''Jasper:''' (angrily) I can't stand the cold no more.... I WANT HEAT!! (turn on the van's heater on, only for flames to engulf the van's vents) FIRE!!! TOO HOT!!! TOO HOT!!!

** The Dalmatian that appears in Roger's video game strong resembles Pongo's animated counterpart. The puppies at the end similarly look like they’re lifted from the animated film. One of them even looks like animated!Lucky.

** The Dalmatian that appears in Roger's video game strong resembles Pongo's animated counterpart.

* AbnormalLimbRotation: The mouse in [=DeVil=] Manor makes its tail straight and points it diagonally down and to the left for Kipper, in order to point him in the direction to find the puppies.

** Anita gets some key moments. She clonks Roger in the face to rescue Perdita, whom Roger had mistaken for Pongo, and explains she keeps bricks in her purse for that purpose. Later, ''she'' is the one who gives the final refusal to Cruella about selling the puppies, though Roger is the first to declare it. (And speaking of Roger, he's much firmer and less stuttery when standing up to Cruella.)

-->'''Cruella:''' My business, my reputation, my life, has been ruined because [[{{Hypocrite}} you three incompetent twits let yourselves be outsmarted by a bunch of dumb animals!]] And you call yourselves men? HUH?! I've seen more intelligent pieces of carpet!\\

* HomeAloneAntics: Jasper and Horace suffer all kinds of humiliations (Jasper nearly gets impaled by a mounted moose's antlers, Horace falls into a freezing pond, etc.). Of course, this movie ''was'' produced by Creator/JohnHughes.

[[caption-width-right:300:A [[Film/DisneyLiveActionRemakes Disney Live-Action Remake]], [[OlderThanTheyThink eighteen years before]] [[Film/{{Maleficent}} it was cool]].]]

See also ''Film/{{Cruella}}'', an [[OriginsEpisode origin story]] film about the eponymous character, played by Creator/EmmaStone, produced by Glenn Close herself.

* AdaptationalNationality: While Roger is an American residing in London, the original book depicts him as an Englishman given the nationality of the book and its author, Dodie Smith. Considering the part was offered to Creator/HughGrant, it's likely the change was made simply to accommodate the casting of Creator/JeffDaniels.

-->"Puppies! You have been a busy boy!"
*** "(To Jasper after the puppies are stolen) "My limited faith in your limited intelligence is momentarily restored."

* KnowWhenToFoldThem: Downplayed with Cruella. After being subjected to so much humiliation by the animals (covered in hay and molasses and thrown into a pigpen), Cruella finds herself caught by the police, who declares that they found her tiger-skinned coat (thanks to a complaint filed by Anita and Roger) and that her plot to skin the puppies have been exposed and that she will be facing charges for her crimes. However, rather than spewing out a tantrum as usual, Cruella instead swallows her pride and accepts her fate, though she takes out her frustration against her henchmen (who are also arrested) inside the police van.
--> '''Cruella:''' ''(realizing that she's about to be arrested after her plan is exposed)'' Oh.... ''(curls up her dirty streak of hair from her face)'' ....is there something wrong?

-->'''Cruella:''' (after seeing that Anita and Roger won't sell the puppies to her) All right.... keep the little beasts. Do what you like with them: drown them for all I care. [[VillainousBreakdown You're a FOOL, Anita! I've no use for fools!! You're FIRED, you're finished!! You'll never work in fashion again, I'm through with all of you!! I'LL GET EVEN!! Just wait: you'll be sorry, YOU FOOLS!!! YOU IDIOTS!!!!]]

* KnowWhenToFoldThem: Downplayed with Cruella. After being subjected to so much humiliation by the animals (covered in hay and molasses and thrown into a pigpen), Cruella finds herself caught by the police, who declares that they found her tiger-skinned coat (thanks to a complaint filed by Anita and Roger) and that her plot to skin the puppies have been exposed and that she will be facing charges for her crimes. However, rather than spewing out a tantrum as usual, Cruella instead swallows her pride and accepts her fate, though she takes out her frustration against the henchmen (who are also arrested).

--> '''Cruella:''' ''(realizing that she's about to be arrested after her plan is exposed)'' Oh..... is there something wrong?

* GracefulLoser: After failing to catch the dogs one too many times, Jasper and Horace willingly turn themselves in upon seeing the police cars. Even Cruella herself falls into this briefly after being caught by the police.

* GracefulLoser: After failing to catch the dogs one too many times, Jasper and Horace willingly turn themselves in upon seeing the police cars.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Roger falls into a lake after Pongo drags him on his bike. A few minutes later Perdy does the same thing to Anita. Also, out of all the villains, Cruella gets the most physical comedy by the end and is covered head to toe in mud.

** The final headline about Cruella getting arrested makes more sense, since she's the owner of a famous fashion house and they've already linked her to the illegal killing of an endangered tiger.

* DisappointedInYou: Cruella was displeased when her best employee Anita got married, earlier she tried to discourage her from such things since she believes married/family life would damper her potential. When Anita refuses to sell the puppies to her for ''any'' price, Cruella became furious and fires her from her job, telling her she'll never work in fashion again.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: In spite of serving Cruella, the Badun brothers (particularly Horace) make little to no effort in hiding their discomfort about taxidermy.

* EvilDetectingDog: Pongo and Perdita are immediately distrustful of Cruella.
** Horace is right. "That [bull]dog knows what we've done."

* FriendOrIdolDecision: Cruella, Anita's boss, offers to take the puppies, to buy them. While Roger declares they're not for sale, Anita is a bit hesitant at first because of the money being offered, and because refusing your boss is not necessarily a good idea. Then Cruella shouts at them to take it, and Anita quietly refuses. She's not surprised when Cruella fires her and threatens to blacklist her.
* GracefulLoser: After failing to catch the dogs one too many times, Jasper and Horace willingly turn themselves in, upon seeing the police cars.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Horace, freezing cold after dropping into icy water, tries to turn on the heat in Jasper's van. He gets heat all right... in the form of fire streaming out of the vents and the van exploding.

** The Badun brothers, and in particular, Jasper. In the animated version, Horace and Jasper had no real loyalty towards Cruella, and served her primarily only for money, but also out of fear and intimidation from their boss. In the live-action version, the brothers are not only portrayed as more loyal towards Cruella but Jasper has fewer qualms about committing animal cruelty. This is best exemplified when Jasper suggests killing the puppies even when someone else (Skinner) was ''supposed'' to be doing it for them.

--> '''Horace:''' I'll be honest with you, ''mate''! This job is fast losing its charm! The housing sticks, food's lousy, the lavatory facilities are appalling, and so far we haven't been paid so much as ''one quid''!

** Cruella gets kicked across a farmyard by a horse, [[ItMakesSenseInContext has a massive pig land on her,]] and is catapulted through a high window and down into a pig sty. None of this kills or even hurts her.

** The puppies, upon being terrified by Cruella in Roger's video game.

** The dalmatian that appears in Roger's video game strong resembles Pongo's animated counterpart.

* OhCrap: PlayedForDrama. After Pongo and Perdita run to find the puppies, Anita and Roger are talking with Nanny and considering the possibility of Cruella taking the puppies for revenge. Then Anita remembers her Dalmatian coat drawing that Cruella was so ecstatic over and proceeds to show Roger and Nanny the drawing, announcing with horror that Cruella is going to kill the puppies. Cue MassOhCrap from all of them.

** [[spoiler:However, this is horribly subverted when Cruella learns that Anita married Roger in a newspaper article, that she furiously curls the newspaper into a ball before throwing it away. She even fires Anita when the latter refused to sell the puppies to her.]]
-->'''Cruella:''' (after seeing that Anita and Roger won't sell the puppies to her) All right.... keep the little beasts. Do what you like with them: drown them for all I care. You're a FOOL, Anita! I've no use for fools!! You're FIRED, you're finished!! You'll never work in fashion again, I'm through with all of you!! I'LL GET EVEN!! Just wait: you'll be sorry, YOU FOOLS!!! YOU IDIOTS!!!!

* PoliceAreUseless: Completely subverted. When Anita realizes that Cruella has taken the puppies and is going to kill them, the UK police get a warrant to raid Cruella's house, which leads to them finding the tiger fur that was in the papers earlier. Ms. De Ville gets arrested, as do her cronies. The police also find all the puppies and return them to Anita and Roger.

* PutOnAPrisonBus: Towards the end of the film, Horace and Jasper willingly surrender to the police and find Skinner upon entering the van. Later, Cruella De Vil joins the trio thanks to the police having an arrest warrant for her.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After the HumiliationConga that Jasper and Horace suffer, when they happen to run across the police, they happily surrender.

* SuddenlyVoiced: Skinner, but only at the end of the film when the skunk starts spraying does he make one shriek of horror.

** When the puppies are born, Cruella tries to take them immediately when learning their spots come later. Anita tells her that's not happening; puppies have to be with their mother for several ''weeks''. Besides which, they're not selling the puppies just like that.

'''Frederick:''' What kind of a sycophant would you like me to be?

* TemptingFate: An unhinged Cruella rants about being victorious yet against the Dalmatians and all the other farm animals and then yells, "Cruella De Vil has the last laugh!", laughing maniacally as she does so. The farm animals, in a kind of example of a ShutUpHannibal, kick her out of the barn and into a pigpen. Moments later, the police shows up to arrest her. Clearly, that ''was'' her last laugh.

* VileVillainSaccharineShow: Mr. Skinner. While Cruella is this as well, she is hammy and [[LaughablyEvil laughably evil]] at times. But with Skinner, there are no such moments, apart from Horace's comments. He [[TheVoiceless never utters any dialogue]] because a dog tore open his throat (with a visible scar shown), and he has a permanent leer on his face. His job is basically skinning animals and turning them into coats for Cruella. He was about to do so to Lucky, until Kipper ''mauls'' Skinner with a shot in the shadows. He is '''[[NightmareFuel terrifying]]''' as a result. Notably, he does not encounter any slapstick in the film like Horace, Jasper, or even Cruella.