History WesternAnimation / AnAmericanTailFievelGoesWest

* CassandraTruth: In the film's second half, everyone disregards Fievel when he tries warning them about what Cat R. Waul's going to do to them. They assume he's suffering from heatstroke after being stranded out in the desert (on top of having been successfully taken in by Waul's PR campaign). Fortunately, Wylie Burp, being a reasonable former sheriff, believes Fievel and teams up with him.

* HeroicBSOD: Fievel after failing to warn Tanya of Cat R. Waul's plot as she was too preoccupied with dreams of grandeur. All she does was unknowingly give Fievel an autograph in response to his warnings, too far gone to listen.
--->'''Fievel:''' ''(reading)'' "Thank you for your... a...dul...a... tion...?" ''(looking shocked)'' ... Tanya...

** The "''Series/{{Rawhide}}''" theme is being sung by Film/TheBluesBrothers.

* PorkyPigPronunciation: Tiger does his best to be tough and brave during the cat attack on New York, but as soon as Chula shows up, he goes, "It's a spy... A spee... A spididi... a spididididi.... An arachnid!"

* SpringtimeForHitler: Cat R. Waul's long game hinges upon playing up Green River as a utopia where Cats and Mice live alongside each other in peace and harmony. By the ending of the film, he and the Cat Cactus Gang are all driven out of town. This leaves Tiger and Miss Kitty as the only cats left in Green River -- both of whom are openly friendly with mice (Fievel and Tanya especially). So, in a roundabout way, Cat R. Waul ''did'' end up turning Green River into an actual Cat-Mouse utopia.

* PatheticDroopingWeapon: When Tiger, Wylie Burp and Fievel return to Green River to rescue the mice population from being killed on a disguised mousetrap, they, of course, encounter resistance. After Tiger proves his prowess with a slingshot, he faces off with one of Cat R. Waul's Cactus Cat gang members, who produces a slingshot with six elastic bands. Somehow, Tiger's slingshot turns cartoonishly rubber and goes limp at the very sight of it, with Tiger himself giving a scared-out-of-his-wits sheepish grin.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Downplayed example. While the Mott Street Maulers were driven out of town in the previous movie, they also obviously weren't the only Cats in New York City (let alone the entire country). It was inevitable that another faction like Cat R. Waul and the Cat Cactus Gang would eventually try to move in on Warren T. Cat's former territory.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Downplayed. While it's not explicitly pointed out, this is one consequence of Cat R. Waul making Tanya his personal diva -- and thereby sparing her from his endgame for Green River's mice. Did Cat R. Waul ''really'' think his diva was just going to be able to overlook the fact that her patron had just turned her entire family into Mouseburgers?

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Downplayed. While it's not explicitly pointed out, this is one consequence of Cat R. Waul making Tanya his personal diva that he didn't consider. If Cat R. Waul's endgame ''had'' gone as planned, then, what, did he ''really'' think his diva was going to be able to overlook the fact that he, her patron, had just turned her entire family into Mouseburgers?

* XanatosGambit: Downplayed, but Cat R. Waul's PragmaticVillainy in having Chula toss Fievel from the train. If Fievel doesn't survive the fall, it looks like a tragic accident with none the wiser (especially his family; to them, it would just seem Fievel didn't learn ''anything'' from the first film and went off for some foolish nighttime exploring ''again''). If he ''does'' survive the fall, Fievel's ''still'' stranded out in the middle of the desert with no water, food, or transportation (to say nothing of being one little kid mouse against the local, larger, and deadly predators).

* SpringtimeForHitler: Cat R. Waul's long game hinges upon playing up Green River as a utopia where Cats and Mice live alongside each other in peace and harmony. By the ending of the film, he and the Cat Cactus Gang are all driven out of town. This leaves Tiger and Miss Kitty as the only cats left in Green River -- both of whom are openly friendly with mice (Fievel and Tanya especially). So, in a roundabout way, Cat R. Waul ''did'' end up turning his Green River into an actual cat-mouse utopia.

* AesopAmnesia:You'd think that Fievel would learn not to go wandering off on a transportation device he's not familiar with after what happened in the first movie. But he does, and once again gets separated from his family. You'd also think his mother would not jump to the conclusion that he's dead right away, after he turned out to be alive the last time he got separated from them. She does (though Papa assures her that Fievel will come back).
** Similarly, given Fievel's role in exposing the truth behind Warren T. Cat's protection racket (to say nothing of the downfall of the Mott Street Maulers), you'd ''think'' his family, let alone all the New York Mice who were there, might give his warnings ''some'' credence.

* BeingGoodSucks: Or, rather, ''pretending'' to be good sucks. While the Cactus Cat Gang recognizes and accepts the logic of Cat R. Waul's long game and its dividends, ''nobody'' is happy at having to suppress their instinctual urges and pretend to be nice to their prey for its duration.

* AesopAmnesia: You'd think that Fievel would learn not to go wandering off on a transportation device he's not familiar with after what happened in the first movie. But he does, and once again gets separated from his family. You'd also think his mother would not jump to the conclusion that he's dead right away, after he turned out to be alive the last time he got separated from them. She does (though Papa assures her that Fievel will come back).

* ParentalObliviousness: Fievel ''tries'' telling his parents Cat R. Waul's going to turn the mice of Green River into mouseburgers, but [[NotNowKiddo they don't listen]].

* CassandraTruth: In the film's second half, everyone disregards Fievel when he tries warning them about what Cat R. Waul's going to do to them. They assume he's suffering from heatstroke after being stranded out in the desert (on top of having been successfully taken in by Waul's PR campaign). Fortunately, Wylie Burp, being a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, believes Fievel and teams up with him.

* CassandraTruth: In the film's second half, everyone disregards Fievel when he tries warning them about what Cat R. Waul's going to do to them. They assume he's suffering from heatstroke after being stranded out in the desert (on top of having been successfully taken in by Waul's PR campaign). Fievel's eventually vindicated when he tells Wylie Burp about the plan.