History WesternAnimation / AroundTheWorldWithWillyFog

Transfer (original character) is a sinister MasterOfDisguise hired by the members of Fog's London club who have bet against him, to ensure Fog cannot win. His true form appears to be a wolf but he can disguise himself as any character, though viewers can spot him from the way one eye [[RedEyesTakeWarning gleams red]] at suitably dramatic moments. Unlike Dix and Bully, who just want Fog under arrest, Transfer is actively out to kill or incapacitate him.

* AnAxeToGrind: Nemo and Ned face off the giant octopuses with axes.

* FurryConfusion: The show manages to avoid this in some interesting ways. All animals are either sapient and anthropomorphic, or neither. All the animals that are sapient are mammals and most (with very few exceptions) are rodents, carnivores, pigs and primates, which are never non-sapient. So there are no pet dogs or cats or any known equivalent. Equines, camels and elephants are ''never'' sapient and are used for transport. Bovines are also non-sapient, allowing for the incident where Rigodon and Tico get into trouble for defiling a sacred cow in India, as well as Transfer (during the American arc) stampeding a herd of buffalo across the path of the train in which Fog and his party are travelling.

* FurryConfusion: The show manages to avoid this in some interesting ways. All animals are either sapient and anthropomorphic, or neither. All the animals that are sapient are mammals and most (with very few exceptions) are rodents, carnivores, pigs and primates, which are never non-sapient. So there are no pet dogs or cats or any known equivalent. Equines, camels and elephants are ''never'' sapient and are used for transport. Bovines are also non-sapient, allowing for the incident where Rigodon and Tico get into trouble for defiling a sacred cow in India, as well as Transfer stampeding a herd of buffalo across the path of the train during the American arc.

* FurryConfusion: The show manages to avoid this in some interesting ways. All animals are either sapient and anthropomorphic, or neither. All the animals that are sapient are mammals and most (with very few exceptions) are rodents, carnivores, pigs and primates, which are never non-sapient. So there are no pet dogs or cats or any known equivalent. Horses, camels and elephants are ''never'' sapient and are used for transport.
* GardenOfLove: Princess Romy and Mr Fog have a lovely date in park in Singapore. The place is in full bloom. Mr Fog picks up a flower for her, which she loves and starts dancing with it, and then she picks a flower for him and puts it on his suit as a boutonnière. Definite ShipTease, and in the final episode, Mr Fog and Princess Romy both remember it as the moment when they started falling in love with each other.

* InspectorJavert: Dix and Bully. Their unusually determined efforts are {{lampshaded}} when a local police chief complains that they're blowing more of UsefulNotes/ScotlandYard's budget on this intercontinental chase than he makes in a year.

* WhamEpisode: 13th episode ''The Butler's Dilemma''; not only [[spoiler: Romy's relatives have been passed away, but Rigodon and Tico are seprated from the group due Transfer's nasty plan. Also, Willy Fog and Pricess don't get on the ship on time.]]

* AdaptationalAngstDowngrade: Due removal [[spoiler: of Captain Nemo's [[DarkAndTroubledPast tragic backstory]], he is a more cheerful person in the series]].

* WhatTheHellHero: Willy Fog suggesting that Captain Nemo should surrender to the Avenger vessel and he would ''talk'' to them for his behalf. Problem is that Nemo has sunk many ships and given the time period of the series he would been either sentenced to prison or [[spoiler: downright executed]] for such crimes, so it isn't any wonder why he refuses to surrender.

%% * NiceHat:
%% ** Willy's top hat.
%% ** Rigodon's bowler hat.
%% ** Dix's flat cap.

* AnnoyingArrows: Koa the Elephant is hit by arrows when the group is fleeing from the religious fanatics who want to burn Romy alive in a suttee. Koa is not seriously hurt by them, but they sure are not pleasant.

* HighSpeedTrainReroute: This occurs when the band is traveling on a handcar and gets in the collision course with a train that's traveling in the opposing route to them.

** Willy (a lion) falls in love with Princess Romy (a cat). They [[spoiler: get married in the end. Their kitten-cubs will be hella cute]].

** The Japanese police chief is a [[{{kitsune}} fox]] and Rigodon and Tico find refuge in the humble home of two Japanese macaques while in Yokohama.

* MoreExpendableThanYou: In Episode 9, Rigodon sets out to single-handedly rescue Romy from the Kali worshippers, knowing full well what they will do to him if they catch him. The exchange between him and Tico immediately beforehand makes it clear that he's embarking on such a dangerous mission because he doesn't want Fog to put his life and fortune on the line "trying to save zat girl".

* CannotSpitItOut: Willy has problem trying to express his feelings for Romy, [[spoiler:but Romy expresses hers first in the end]].

* CheatersNeverProsper: Sullivan hires Transfer to ensure Fog won't successfully travel around the world in eighty days. Not only Transfer ultimately fails, but Sullivan ends up losing his job as the governor of Bank of England for covering Transfer's travel expenses through embezzlement.

** Czech dub has some changes: Transfer is Chidling (called "villainous Chidling" by the narrator), Rigodon is Barnabash, and Tico is Chico.

** Willy (a lion) falls in love with Princess Romy (a cat). They [[spoiler: get married in the end. Their kitten-cubs will be hella cute.]]

* AdaptationalAngstDowngrade: Due removal [[spoiler: of Captain Nemo's [[DarkAndTroubledPast tragic backstory]], he is more cheerful person in the series]].

* AdaptationalWimp: Rigodon has more cowardly nature in this series.

* BatOutOfHell: In the eight episode, Romy and Lidenbrock are harassed by subterranean vampire bats.
* CanonForeigner: Sergeant Pat and Oliver. In the book Captain Nemo's crewmembers names aren't revealed and no one is particually malicius or involved on the main characters journey.
* CatsHateWater: Averted; Captain Nemo is cat and he says that the sea is his sanctuary.
* ChasedByAngryNatives: After the ''Nautilus'' leaves Pat and his Melanesian allies behind, the angry Melanesians turn on Pat who swims for his life as the tribesmen chase after him either by swimming or on their canoes.

%%* HateSink: Sergeant Pat.

* GenreShift: The first series, as with the book it's based on, has little in the way of fantastic elements (unless you count being a WorldOfFunnyAnimals), being firmly based on "this is how someone might ''actually'' have travelled around the world in this time period". ''Willy Fogg 2'' is based on Verne's scientific romance works.

* IconicItem: Tico's "sun clock" from the first series makes no mention, so he gains Axel's yoyo compass.

** When Willy Fog and his friends are in danger, a tense and dark music plays out.

* NiceGuy: Out of all Nemo's crewmembers Oliver is the friendliest fellow; he is against sinking innocent vessels and in the final episode [[spoiler: he helps Willy Fog and his friends escape from the ''Nautilus''.]]

* SpoilerOpening: Well, in this case the spoiler end credits reveal that Willy Fog and his friends will be on the board of the ''Nautilus'' submarine.

* WhatTheHellHero: Willy Fog suggesting that Captain Nemo should surrender to the Avenger vessel and he would ''talk'' to them for his behalf. Problem is that Nemo has sunk many ships and given the time period of the series he would been either sentenced to prison or [[spoiler: downright executed]] for such crime, so it isn't any wonder why he refuses to surrender.

* AnthropomorphicAnimalAdaptation: Our heroes, people in the novel, are re-imagined as sapient anthropomorphic animals. Mr Fog is a lion, Romy (Aouda) is a cat, Rigodon (Passpartou) is also a cat, Brigadier Corn (Cromarty) is a roe deer and so on.

* DidIMentionItsChristmas: The last few episodes take place in the run-up to Christmas 1872, but, aside from the occasional mention of it being December, you wouldn't know it. Christmas is only mentioned directly in the closing narration of the penultimate episode, where the narrator talks about how, while the rest of London is celebrating "the Christmas season", Fog and his companions are "weary with disappointment", having just lost the bet - or so they think.

* SimSimSalabim: Snake charmers, sacred cows, angry brahmin monks, turbans, tamed elephants, jungles, and attempted human (well, anthropomorphic animal) sacrifices to Kali. The only thing missing from India as portrayed in the series is flying carpets.

* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Willy Fog, obsessed with punctuality, clubs, SpotOfTea and values the fame of the British Empire. His species is even [[NationalAnimalStereotypes Britain's heraldic animal]]!

* DemotedToExtra: Unlike his book counterpart, Professor Lidenbrock's nephew Axel isn't forced to join his uncle's expedition to the Center of the Earth, so he remains in Hamburg to look after his uncle's students with Gräuben and doesn't appear after the second episode.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Ultimately, [[spoiler: Captain Nemo and his crew. In the novel their fates were left unclear and the sequel book "The Secret Island" reveals that only Nemo has survived and even he dies in the end.]]

* When Willy Fog and his friends are in danger, a tense and dark music plays out.
* Whenever the latter part series show up an underwater view, a soft and tender humming theme plays.

* WhatTheHellHero: Willy Fog suggesting that Captain Nemo should surrender to the Avenger vessel and he would talk to them for his behalf. Problem is that Nemo has sunk many ships and given the time period of the series he would been sentenced to prison or [[spoiler: downright executed]] for such crime, so it isn't any wonder why he refuses to surrender.

* ClockKing: Fog's life follows a precise timetable which is pinned to the inside of his butler's bedroom door and which his butler is expected to follow to the letter. At the beginning of the series, it's implied that Rigodon's predecessor was dismissed for persistent tardiness. [[note]]In the novel, the dismissal was for bringing shaving water at the wrong temperature.[[/note]]