History WesternAnimation / OneHundredAndOneDalmatians

* DisneyDeath: One of the initial litter of puppies (Lucky, although in the original book it was Cadpig) appears to be dead, but is resuscitated by Roger rubbing him. Yes, a Disney Death moment for a character that's only just been born.

* BilingualAnimal: Dogs can both speak and bark. In fact, in one scene, the Colonel has to translate a distant dog's barking into English so that the cat and horse he's talking to will understand.

* KarmaHoudini: Cruella and the Baduns commit a few serious crimes, not just kidnapping someone else's puppies and attempting to skin them, but even going as far as attempting to wreck a van, putting the dogs and the driver in danger. The only commeupance they get for it in the end is having their cars wrecked with no injuries.

* BagofKidnapping: [[spoiler: Jasper and Horace put the puppies in the sack]].

** When Cruella and Jasper are on the phone together, Jasper says, "Shut up, you idiot!" to Horace. Cruella responds with a BigWhat, and Jasper says, "No, not you, miss, I mean Horace!".

* BaitAndSwitch: [[spoiler: At the end of the final chase, Jasper and Horace break their steering wheel and the loss of control causes them to collide with Cruella's car and fall down the hill underneath the bridge. What follows is a very grim scene where we see the wrecked remnants of both of their vehicles lying in the snow, and we are about to assume the worst has just happened right before our eyes...only for the camera to suddenly pan to the left, revealing that Cruella, Jasper, and Horace all survived the crash]].

* AdaptationalUgliness: The original book illustrations show Cruella as being fairly attractive looking in spite of her cold-blooded personality. The movie, in contrast, makes her [[{{Gonk}} very ugly]] to fit her more eccentric personality in the adaptation.

* KarmaHoudini: Cruella and the Baduns commit a few serious crimes, not just kidnapping someone else's puppies and attempting to skin them, but even going as far as attempting to wreck a van, putting the dogs and the driver in danger. The only commeupance they get for it in the end is having their cars wrecked.

[[caption-width-right:300:[[SpoilerTitle They get the other 84 puppies after adopting them.]]]]

* BornDuringAStorm: Perdita gives birth during a rainy October night. The patter of falling rain and occasional distant sound of thunder adds to the anxiety of the scene as Roger and Pongo wait outside, then when Roger is reviving one of the puppies. When Cruella bursts in to buy the whole litter, she is backlit by a flash of lightning, accompanied by a loud thunderclap.

* BravingTheBlizzard: The Dalmatians have to walk through a blizzard at the start their journey home. It's very tough, and Lucky has to be carried by Pongo, as he's too exhausted and cold to walk.

* CheatedAngle: The climax has a peculiar example of this combined with sleight of hand editing. When it starts, Cruella and her lackeys split up in different directions. Later on, Jasper and Horace show up at the top of the hill with a road crossing the same path as the Moving Van, and when the point of view switches to their car, we can see that they're correctly coming towards the ''left'' of the moving van the dalmatians hitched a ride on. But in the shots just before Jasper and Horace lose control of their truck and T-Bone Cruella's car, there's two gaffes--first, the van and hill has magically moved to the ''right'' side of the van when the camera switches to the Moving Van drivers POV. And as if that wasn't enough, in the Moving Vans POV, we can clearly see Jasper and Horace are almost at the bottom of the hill. But in the next shots, right after they break their steering wheel and go reeling down the bank and into Cruella's car, they somehow magically teleported back up the hill! Given how extensively Disney planned their films, Its more than likely they purposely ignored continuity for [[RuleOfDrama the sake of staging and cinematic effect]].

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Anita honestly trusts Cruella, mainly due to them being old schoolmates, while no-one else thinks very fondly of her at all.

'''Roger''': Well, she's still number one suspect in my book!

** Jasper and Horace recognise an old acquaintance of theirs, Percival "Meathead" Fauncewater, on "What's My Crime", a game show where a panel has ten guesses to figure out the unusual felony of a criminal contestant. The show runs out of time before they guess, and so the question of what the hell Meathead did remains unanswered. It's confirmed that it wasn't burglary or murder, at least.

* SurpriseInspectionRuse: Horace and Jasper pretend to be electric company repairman making a surprise inspection, but Nanny won't let them in while Roger and Anita are out of the flat. Jasper then barges in, distracts Nanny by locking her in a room, and leaves once Horace has nabbed all the puppies.

* BavarianFireDrill: DoubleSubverted. Horace and Jasper pretend to be electric company repairmen making a surprise inspection, but Nanny won't let them in while Roger and Anita are out of the flat. Jasper then barges in, distracts Nanny by locking her in a room, and leaves once Horace has nabbed all the puppies.

* AdultFear:
** Perdita's reaction to hearing that Cruella wants her puppies. She tearfully tells Pongo that she was so happy before, but now wishes they weren't having any.
** Lucky is stillborn; only Roger's persistence at CPRCleanPrettyReliable saves him.
** How Horace and Jasper break into the flat; after putting on a BavarianFireDrill that fails, they simply charge their way in, having Jasper distract Nanny by locking her up in a room while Horace collects the puppies. After they leave and Nanny finds the puppies gone, she runs into the streets calling for help and crying.
** The kidnapping of the puppies is very much presented as if it was Roger's and Anita's children who were taken as well as Pongo and Perdita's.
** The idea of having your children (or pets) kidnapped is bad enough, but imagine them being kidnapped by an insane SerialKiller who wants to ''wear their skin''. Pongo and Perdita's [[RescueArc journey to rescue the puppies]] [[RaceAgainstTheClock really became urgent]] [[OhCrap when they were found at the De Vil place]].
** Pongo and Perdita trudging through the snow completely lost while the children are slowly freezing to death and all they can do is keep going. If the collie hadn't arrived when he did, they'd have lost at least a few puppies.
** The climax has a big one; imagine you're in a truck as a stowaway, with your kids, and the woman trying to kill them keeps ramming the truck to knock it off the road. There are no seatbelts or restraints, so everyone is in danger of injuries from the jostling. All Pongo and Perdita can do is keep their puppies from falling out over the cliffside and hope for a miracle. Or, in this case, a Badun who has no sense of driving.

* VillainBall: Cruella would have won if she stuck with the 84 dogs she bought, but she just ''had'' to kidnap the Radcliffe puppies to prove her superiority to Roger. Even if this didn't result in Pongo and Perdita coming to their rescue, she was already under pressure from the police due to being the number one suspect in the kidnapping and was going to settle for fewer coats than if she just sat back and waited for the other 84 puppies to grow to adult size before skinning them like she intended to do originally. Then again, it's implied that one of the reasons she wanted them skinned as puppies is because the fur of puppies is softer than the fur of adult dogs. It's even explained in the live-action remake.

* VillainBall: Cruella would have won if she stuck with the 84 dogs she bought, but she just ''had'' to kidnap the Radcliffe puppies to prove her superiority to Roger. Even if this didn't result in Pongo and Perdita coming to their rescue, she was already under pressure from the police due to being the number one suspect in the kidnapping and was going to settle for fewer coats than if she just sat back and waited for the other 84 puppies to grow to adult size before skinning them like she intended to do originally.

* TheDoorSlamsYou: Twice.
** Early on, when Cruella shows up looking to buy the puppies, she slams poor Nanny.
** It happens again much later, just before the climactic ChaseScene. Having discovered that the Dalmatians have disguised themselves as black Labradors, Cruella yells for Jasper and Horace while impatiently honking the horn of her car. The Baduns are inside a blacksmith's shed with a large, locked wooden door that leads out to the street. Upon hearing Cruella's yells, they break down the door - which falls right into Cruella's face, as it turns out that she had parked right outside it.

* LiteralAssKicking: Horace and Jasper get kicked by Captain the horse.

* RiddleForTheAges: Jasper and Horace recognise an old acquaintance of theirs, Percival "Meathead" Fauncewater, on "What's My Crime", a game show where a panel has ten guesses to figure out the unusual felony of a criminal contestant. The show runs out of time before they guess, and so the question of what the hell Meathead did remains unanswered. It's confirmed that it wasn't burglary or murder, at least.

** When the Dalmatians are crossing a street and hear Cruella approaching, Pongo begins to sweep away their tracks. Unfortunately, he fails to sweep them all away before Cruella arrives on the scene and Cruella discovers them anyway, [[spoiler:which leads her to eventually finding them.]]

* WitchWithACapitalB: Perdita refers to Cruella as "a devil woman, a witch", obviously meaning that she's scary and evil, not a literal magic witch (in fact she's one of very few women Disney villains who ''isn't''.)

* ImTakingHerHomeWithMe: PlayedForDrama and heartwarming feels. Patch points out that the fifteen of them have homes, but the other puppies don't. Pongo then immediately says they're taking ''everyone'' home and the humans will help, much to their delight. Roger on seeing the puppies decides they're getting a bigger place.

* VanillaEdition: Among all 12 of the movies that joined the Walt Disney Signature Collection of LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition Blu-ray/Digital HD releases before Creator/DisneyPlus's launch, ''101 Dalmatians'' remains the only one with a barren Disney+ Extras page.