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Felidae

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Felidae	label	Felidae
Felidae	page	Felidae
Felidae	comment	Felidae is the 1994 German animated film based upon a book of the same name by Akif Pirinçci, a German-Turkish author. Thanks to the internet, the film has gained something of a cult status.The story of Felidae centers on a male cat named Francis (voiced by Ulrich Tukur) as he and his owner, Gustav (nicknamed "Gus" by Francis), move into a new home of unknown location. Upon investigating his new home, Francis not only meets the sarcastic Manx stray named Bluebeard (Mario Adorf), but he also encounters the body of a murdered cat (as Bluebeard points out, it's the fourth murder that occurred in the past few days). It's not long until Francis begins to unravel the mystery surrounding the murdered cats, a strange cult known as the "Claudandus Sect", and the meaning behind the enigma known as "Felidae."Despite being an animated film, it is definitely not for kids. The film contains graphic violence, disturbing images, adult language, and cat sex. Yes, cat sex.
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Felidae / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Felidae / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Francis and Bluebeard survive, but other than that, the book/film doesn't discriminate much, whether you're the Big Bad (Claudandus/Pascal), The Dragon (Joker), a Dirty Old Man (Deep Purple), a pregnant female (Solitaire), or arguably the most sympathetic character (Felicity).
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Felidae / int_135d58f9	type	Man of Wealth and Taste
Felidae / int_135d58f9	comment	Man of Wealth and Taste: Ziebold, Pascal's owner and former assistant to Preterius is described as such, with a very posh loft, fancy paintings and whatnot.
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Felidae / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
Felidae / int_141a6acb	comment	Madness Mantra: "HYBRID PLANT EXPERIMENTS!" Dream Gregor raves out this while controlling undead marionette cats. In the novel, there's the Deep Purple nightmare sequence. "Get them to prescribe some pills for immortality and creams for potency! For potency! For potency! For potency!" Now imagine kittens being pulled out of his torn throat and slammed against the wall.
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Felidae / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Felidae / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Claudandus's plans to create a race of "genetically perfect" cats while murdering those he considers to be inferior. Sound familiar? In one dream, after seeing a film about a scientist creating a race of "super-cats" Francis sees God/The Übermensch, who calls himself "Felidae," meaning all of catkind, as gold/blonde-haired and lapis/blue eyes. Does This Remind You of Anything? In this movie, the mysterious Felidae cats are essentially a stand-in for "Aryans". Dr. Preterius' horrific experiments on the cats bear more than a passing resemblance to those carried out on humans by Josef Mengele. The concept of "Felidae" seems close to Nietzsche's "Ubermensch" (Super-Man).
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Felidae / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Felidae / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Pascal is incredibly smart, friendly, and charismatic, and seems genuinely interested in helping find the killer. Which is himself.
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Felidae / int_187bddc1	type	Religion of Evil
Felidae / int_187bddc1	comment	Religion of Evil: The cult of Claudandus, at first glance. It's rather innocuous in the end, but provides cover for Claudandus to run his breeding program because everyone believes he's dead.
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Felidae / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
Felidae / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: Pascal/Claudandus fits this to a T. Surrounded by fine art and classical music, uses a modern (for the time) computer, eats only the finest sweetmeats, friendly and helpful...and a mass murderer.
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Felidae / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Felidae / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Felicity, with her neck bitten and her head torn off. Solitaire, with her neck bitten and her womb opened, spilling out the amniotic fluid, sack and fetuses of the pregnant cat, and Claudandus AKA Pascal, with his body opened, eviscerating him. That last one, however, borders on being a Karmic Death
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Felidae / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Felidae / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Francis's story is being narrated to us, the readers/viewers.
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Felidae / int_1f4bb5b4	type	Let Me Tell You a Story
Felidae / int_1f4bb5b4	comment	Let Me Tell You a Story: The framing device around the entire plot. The opening narration by Francis tells the audience that he's going to be describing the murder mystery as a story, "[A]nd it's not going to be pretty."
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Felidae / int_2547b359	type	Real Dreams are Weirder
Felidae / int_2547b359	comment	The main characters are cats so spend a lot of time sleeping and tend to get cryptic, or occasionally downright weird, dreams that may or may not predict something (mostly they do) or give them odd ideas. Generally speaking the cats in the Felidae books believe in the power of dreams and Francis is no exception.
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Felidae / int_264a140b	type	Fat and Skinny
Felidae / int_264a140b	comment	Fat and Skinny: Francis' owner Gustav, and his (only) friend Archie.
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Felidae / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Felidae / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Dams and their kittens die all over the place.
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Felidae / int_2ed5e99d	type	Depraved Bisexual
Felidae / int_2ed5e99d	comment	Depraved Bisexual: Kong, who comes across as very aggressively gay in his first appearance, but is later revealed to have been the mate of a female murder victim.
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Felidae / int_306b9de9	type	Electric Torture
Felidae / int_306b9de9	comment	Electric Torture: Used on the cats by the Claudandus cult. It's seen by certain cats as a way to "see who's chicken".
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Felidae / int_3126c34a	type	Insufferable Genius
Felidae / int_3126c34a	comment	Insufferable Genius: Bluebeard considers Francis this, but the truth is that Francis is more a Wide-Eyed Idealist that genuinely wants to solve the murder mystery and stop the killing in his neighborhood.
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Felidae / int_3133d1d7	type	Hollywood Acid
Felidae / int_3133d1d7	comment	Hollywood Acid: The Info Dump experiment log states that the acid in the skin-glue Doctor Preterius was working on was strong enough to dissolve bone, and completely destroyed the brain of the first test subject.
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Felidae / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Felidae / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Rosalie (Preterius's wife) and Felicity's unnamed owner are absent from the film.
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Felidae / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
Felidae / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Preterius. Though, he's more of a rambling drunken scientist as his failures on his research piled on and on.
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Felidae / int_378476a2	type	Abandoned Laboratory
Felidae / int_378476a2	comment	Abandoned Laboratory: Gus and Francis' house was used as a small-scale research lab with cats as the test subjects.
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Felidae / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Felidae / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Claudandus deliberately stops hiding his victims in order to lead Francis to discovering his scheme and eventually becoming his successor. The first part of the plan succeeds, the second fails. Might also contain elements of Xanatos Speed Chess. Since the whole plan completely relies on the completely contingent element of Francis deciding to take over Claudandus' position (which he refuses), it might even qualify as Out-Gambitted.
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Felidae / int_3946634e	type	The Smart Guy
Felidae / int_3946634e	comment	Francis is shown as being extremely smart, even among other such smart cats, though his finding of the "Felidae" data in the computer may seem a bit of a stretch to some viewers. The whole issue is much clearer in the book, as Pascal actually spends some time teaching Francis how the computer is used, and the data for the "Felidae" project was stored close to the catalog of neighborhood cats. Also, it's heavily implied both in the book and in the movie that Claudandus wanted Francis to find those files because he wants Francis to be his successor.
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Felidae / int_3b56f6ec	type	Poetic Serial Killer
Felidae / int_3b56f6ec	comment	Poetic Serial Killer: Claudandus' philosophy is rather nihilistic though, since it involves wiping his own race as it currently exist so a new stronger Master Race can rise from its ashes.
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Felidae / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Felidae / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Based on the opening narration, the readers/viewers already know that Francis will make it out alive in the end.
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Felidae / int_3ec18c6f	type	Sherlock Scan
Felidae / int_3ec18c6f	comment	Sherlock Scan: Francis is a master of this. The crowner has to be when he finds Joker's corpse. One scan from afar tells him that he was not murdered, he was executed - and willingly walked into the jaws of his executioner, Claudandus.
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Felidae / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Felidae / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: Subverted. Claudandus was the real personality the whole time, he only used his Pascal persona to follow through with his plans, which he drops during his fight with Francis once he's been found out.
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Felidae / int_44880a8c	type	Killed to Uphold the Masquerade
Felidae / int_44880a8c	comment	Killed to Uphold the Masquerade: Joker is killed, as it is possible he would reveal the truth behind Claudandus.
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Felidae / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Felidae / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Likewise, huge, hulking, bully Kong is shown to have something of a soft side when he mourns the death of his pregnant mate, Solitaire.
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Felidae / int_4d044580	type	Motive Rant
Felidae / int_4d044580	comment	Motive Rant: Quite a lengthy one, in which Claudandus details how Humans Are Bastards, and why he created Felidae in order to overthrown humans. This is more prevalent in the book.
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Felidae / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Felidae / int_504a1991	comment	Claudandus is the Latin for "he who must be closed". Closing him — literally — was what Preterius was trying to do.
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Felidae / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Felidae / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Pascal, who acts very friendly towards Francis and even seems to help him, despite being the cat version of a militant Eugenicist.
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Felidae / int_546e23f6	type	Evilutionary Biologist
Felidae / int_546e23f6	comment	Evilutionary Biologist: Preterius, and his subject, Claudandus. Particularly the latter given his breeding/genetics program he was running
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Felidae / int_55fa41e2	type	NietzscheWannabe
Felidae / int_55fa41e2	comment	Nietzsche Wannabe: Claudandus. Just read his rant about how Humans Are Bastards. And while certainly acting as a Nietzsche Wannabe up to his final confrontation with Francis, the meaning behind his Final Speech is open for debate - was it a Heel Realization?
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Felidae / int_5663a595	type	Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole
Felidae / int_5663a595	comment	Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: In the book, Solitaire is killed for more or less the same reasons that the local tomcats have been killed...because the male Felidae have been going around and mating with "impure" females; it's suggested that Solitaire was one such female and that not all of the kittens were Kong's. In the movie, only Nhozemphtekh is shown, giving the implication that all the murders were because regular male cats tried to mate with her and other female Felidae, making Solitaire's death look pointless.
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Felidae / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Felidae / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Bluebeard often refers to humans as "Can-Openers", and thinks the only thing mankind is good at is opening cans of food for cats. Also, Claudandus wants to create a master race of cats to overthrow the humans. Felicity mentions that cats can adapt to anything save a dog kennel. Bluebeard complains at one point about a new breed of cats moving in and taking over the neighborhood. As it turns out, the new breed is specifically being bred to lose its domestic nature and overthrow humans one day. After the mastermind's death, though, the newcomers begin to integrate with the other cats more, losing their ferocity while it's still in its early stages.
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Felidae / int_57cd63e6	type	Art-Style Dissonance
Felidae / int_57cd63e6	comment	Art-Style Dissonance: For a movie with extreme violence and a rather jaded tone, the art direction is pretty cartoonish.
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Felidae / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Felidae / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Bluebeard, more so in the film, especially after the catacomb scene. "All I want is a hot meal beside a warm fire. What I want is codfiissssshhh..."
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Felidae / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Felidae / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Dr. Preterius. The descent from a sympathetic scientist who just wanted to achieve something, to a belligerent, insane man is more prevalent in the novel. Claudandus/Pascal has a minor burst of insanity. See Villainous Breakdown.
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Felidae / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
Felidae / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: The reason why Felicity was killed.
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Felidae / int_665136e6	type	Animals Lack Attributes
Felidae / int_665136e6	comment	Animals Lack Attributes: Despite the sex, violence, and casual talk of male anatomy, played straight most of the time. A few cats, however (such as Bluebeard) have sketched anuses, perhaps to emphasize their earthier nature.
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Felidae / int_676e942c	type	We Hardly Knew Ye
Felidae / int_676e942c	comment	We Hardly Knew Ye: Felicity, who was killed off after only a few minutes of screentime. Also showing up alive only once is Father Joker, though he allowed himself to be executed.
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Felidae / int_68f6e811	type	Made of Plasticine
Felidae / int_68f6e811	comment	Made of Plasticine: The cats get ripped apart rather easily, it seems. This is most obvious in the climax when the Big Bad gets his entire guts and ribs ripped open from a single claw across the stomach, though Francis reopened the scar from when Preterius vivisected Claudandus. Several times. His stomach was practically paper-thin by then.
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Felidae / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Felidae / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Felicity means "great happiness". Kong is, well, gigantic. Claudandus is the Latin for "he who must be closed". Closing him — literally — was what Preterius was trying to do.
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Felidae / int_7041e520	type	Super Breeding Program
Felidae / int_7041e520	comment	Super Breeding Program: Claudandus/Pascal plans to breed cats back to their original, ferocious form. He eliminates those that get in the ways of his plans.
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Felidae / int_737a65f4	type	The Watson
Felidae / int_737a65f4	comment	The Watson: Bluebeard becomes this in the movie, so that Francis can explain his discoveries to him instead of having to narrate his thoughts all the time.
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Felidae / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Felidae / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: The title is brought up in conversations a couple of times. Including the name of the breeding/genetics program Claudandus is running.
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Felidae / int_78255ad7	type	Passing the Torch
Felidae / int_78255ad7	comment	Passing the Torch: Claudandus's original intention towards Francis.
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Felidae / int_7aa989ea	type	Token Evil Teammate
Felidae / int_7aa989ea	comment	Token Evil Teammate: Kong. He almost kills Francis at one point.
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Felidae / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
Felidae / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: None of the humans in the film are shown above their shoulders. Except: In Francis' first dream, where Dr Preterius is shown, albeit with a black hole and demonic eyes for a face. In the video footage hidden in the basement, which shows Dr Preterius and his two assistants fully. And even then, Preterius is the only one who is seen unmasked.
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Felidae / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
Felidae / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: How Felicity is found.
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Felidae / int_7ec8506d	type	Animal Talk
Felidae / int_7ec8506d	comment	Animal Talk: The cats can communicate with each other and understand humans. Humans, however, can't understand them, and are completely oblivious to the murder mystery scenario. Claudandus was actually able to talk to Preterius by imitating human language, though.
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Felidae / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Felidae / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Arguably Claudandus. He only developed his insane plan after being tortured by Preterius. The "Destroyer of Worlds" part is much more present here than the "Woobie" part though. Also, this trope is more present in the book than in the movie.
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Felidae / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Felidae / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Joker, as the prophet and leader of the Claudandus sect is prone to histrionics, more so in the German version.
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Felidae / int_83445b04	type	Pun
Felidae / int_83445b04	comment	Pun: Catacombs. Lampshaded by Bluebeard in the English dub of the film. "If that's a joke..."
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Felidae / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Felidae / int_83f3983b	comment	Necessarily Evil: Claudandus sees himself as this, stating that "I was forced to kill, Francis — I had no choice — to preserve the racial purity that this new Felidae required."
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Felidae / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
Felidae / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Francis (blue) and Bluebeard (red). They argue several times in the movie but are otherwise good friends with one another.
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Felidae / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Felidae / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: In the movie, we never get to see what happens to any of the side characters (it's possible that Francis's "new friend" is Nhozemptekh, but the character design is slightly different so this is unlikely). The novel subverts this by giving information in the epilogue. It's at least implied in the movie that Bluebeard survived, though not confirmed.
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Felidae / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Felidae / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: Gregor Mendel in Francis' infamous dream. The book somehow makes it even worse.
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Felidae / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
Felidae / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character : Dr. Preterius, especially in the book. Claudandus until you find out not only he's alive, but also the Big Bad.
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Felidae / int_8c5afdf0	type	Gutted Like a Fish
Felidae / int_8c5afdf0	comment	Gutted Like a Fish: This is how Francis finished off Claudandus in the movie. In the book, Francis bit Claudandus' jugular vein.
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Felidae / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Felidae / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Preterius, the mad doctor that experimented on many cats, is eventually killed when a deranged Claudandus shreds his throat open.
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Felidae / int_905438eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
Felidae / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled In Space: It's a Film Noir WITH CATS!
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Felidae / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
Felidae / int_90c018ac	comment	One of the Herrmanns has crossed eyes. The book explains that both Herrmanns are Oriental Shorthair mutants, and crossed eyes used to be fairly common among many Oriental breeds, justifying Herrmann's appearance.
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Felidae / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
Felidae / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: Pepeline, who Cannot Tell a Lie. She provides the clue that Claudandus is in fact alive, and that if Joker is not Claudandus, he at least knows his real/fake identity.
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Felidae / int_91b55fe	type	Pop-Star Composer
Felidae / int_91b55fe	comment	Pop-Star Composer: The score was done by Art of Noise member (and Academy Award winning composer) Anne Dudley.
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Felidae / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Felidae / int_9245d989	comment	Sinister Minister: Joker, who is one of the leaders of the "Claudandus Sect". He's well-aware of what's really going on and he allows Claudandus to kill him to prevent the secret from being revealed.
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Felidae / int_9303d6d1	type	Battle Amongst the Flames
Felidae / int_9303d6d1	comment	Battle Amongst the Flames: The final confrontation between Francis and Claudandus AKA Pascal has this due to Claudandus knocking over a computer monitor
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Felidae / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Felidae / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: When Francis says that not all humans are evil, the Pascal persona finally drops to reveal Claudandus in all his insanity. "'No! No! No!' Claudandus bellowed, his eyes burning with impotent rage and hate. 'There are no good people! They're all the same! Don't you understand that?! Animals are good people, and human beings are bad animals!'"
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Felidae / int_9597a894	type	Sexual Euphemism
Felidae / int_9597a894	comment	Sexual Euphemism: When Francis uses the term "fornication" to note the similarities between Sascha and Deep Purple's deaths, Bluebeard replies, "Back in my day, we use to call it screwing."
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Felidae / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Felidae / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Claudandus, AKA Pascal, is behind all the killings, and behind a genetics program that wants to undo domestication.
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Felidae / int_9b76b81	type	Evolutionary Levels
Felidae / int_9b76b81	comment	Evolutionary Levels: Claudandus seems to think he's helping to create a "superior" breed of cats.
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Felidae / int_9c5e78d0	type	Kill the Cutie
Felidae / int_9c5e78d0	comment	Kill the Cutie: Poor Felicity is killed ostensibly to prevent Francis from getting more clues - when in reality, it's to make it personal to him, and assure that he follows the case to its conclusion.
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Felidae / int_9dd2cbc2	type	CloudCuckooLander
Felidae / int_9dd2cbc2	comment	Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Isaiah, the guardian of the dead. His information provides several hints to solving the mystery, including a connection between Joker and Claudandus. He is a more sympathetic example than most. He's spent his whole life believing that he was destined to guard the dead. When Francis come, Isaiah thinks Francis is going to kill him because Isaiah believes that he has sinned for going outside. Also, there's this line when Francis is asking Isaiah questions about the dead bodies he received-
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Felidae / int_9f88a80a	type	NightmareDreams
Felidae / int_9f88a80a	comment	Nightmare Dreams: Francis has several of them, ranging from heavily symbolic to heavily disturbing.
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Felidae / int_9f970427	type	Secret-Keeper
Felidae / int_9f970427	comment	Secret-Keeper : Joker. Who is well aware about the truth behind Preterius and his experiments, that Claudandus is alive, responsible for the murders, the reasons behind 'em and his other identity. He even willing accepts dying at the teeth of Claudandus to keep the secret safe when Francis starts closing in on him.
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Felidae / int_9fe216fd	type	Taxonomic Term Confusion
Felidae / int_9fe216fd	comment	Taxonomic Term Confusion: Pascal says "the genus Felidae" when referring to cats. "Felidae" is the name of the cat family; the cat genus is Felis.
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Felidae / int_a0d9c2f3	type	Final Speech
Felidae / int_a0d9c2f3	comment	Final Speech: Which can be interpreted as both regret of how his life turned out to be after being the subject of Preterius' experiments and justification for his actions.
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Felidae / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
Felidae / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: Claudandus kills Felicity, a completely innocent, crippled cat, just to make the case personal to Francis.
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Felidae / int_a1154544	type	Grumpy Old Man
Felidae / int_a1154544	comment	Grumpy Old Man: Deep Purple. He ends up being the fifth victim, and an essential clue to the link of the murders.
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Felidae / int_a3509d95	type	The Password Is Always "Swordfish"
Felidae / int_a3509d95	comment	The Password Is Always "Swordfish": Francis guesses the password on Pascal's computer fairly easily — it's Preterius, the name of the scientist whose experiments set Claudandus/Pascal down the path of evil.
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Felidae / int_a5a6d7b3	type	Mutants
Felidae / int_a5a6d7b3	comment	Mutants: Out of all the cats experimented on by Dr. Preterius, only Claudandus survived exposure to the doctor's healing glue. Preterius theorized that Claudandus is a mutant, with some unique genetic factor allowing his body to respond positively to the glue. Unfortunately, Preterius' tortuous attempts to crack the cat's genetic code and replicate the mutation only succeed in giving Claudandus a murderous hatred for humans.
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Felidae / int_abe1e24e	type	Good Cannot Comprehend Evil
Felidae / int_abe1e24e	comment	Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: Felicity is very open, savvy enough to ask 'friend or foe?' when a stranger drops in, but accepts the answer at face value. She also has little memory of the experiment that blinded her, so she considers humanity as a whole to be good. And then she meets soft-spoken Pascal - the most prominent subject of Preterius' experiments - for the last time.
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Felidae / int_ad745fd1	type	Necessary Weasel
Felidae / int_ad745fd1	comment	These are some smart cats, able to perfectly understand humans, read, and work a computer. It's mentioned, however, that all of these things take some time and practice to learn, and some cats don't bother learning anything past human speech. This intelligence is kind of required for a murder mystery, anyway.
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Felidae / int_aea164f3	type	Playing with Syringes
Felidae / int_aea164f3	comment	Playing with Syringes: The film features a lab that is pure horror, as a scientist has Sanity Slippage and begins doing experiments on stray cats, cutting the cats open on the examination table as they screech in agony, in order to test a Healing Factor-inducing paste. The Big Bad turns out to be Claudandus, a cat who survived the repeated vivisections — because he was the only test subject on whom the paste even worked.
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Felidae / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
Felidae / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Claudandus/Pascal tells Francis that he had no choice but to kill in order for his breeding program to succeed.
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Felidae / int_b2279346	type	RetCon
Felidae / int_b2279346	comment	The books imply Francis is a tabby (though later books would backpedal on this and make him bicolored just like the movie), but he's bicolored in the movie.
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Felidae / int_b26cc887	type	Just Between You and Me
Felidae / int_b26cc887	comment	Just Between You and Me: Claudandus to Francis when he finally discovers who the killer is.
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Felidae / int_b5171e10	type	Tragic Villain
Felidae / int_b5171e10	comment	Tragic Villain: While his actions as a villain are unambiguously horrid and unjustifiable, absolutely nothing that turned Claudandus into a villain is actually his fault. His existence was initially every bit as benign as any cat's could be; he was a stray who was taken in by people who just so happened to be performing horrible experiments on cats just like him, and had to endure more of them than many of the other cats involved solely from the misfortune of surviving everything the scientists put him through. Preterius's own descent into madness killed all hope of him ever being treated any better by his caregivers, and by the time he was free he could feel nothing but animosity towards people because of everything he'd been through, driving him to murder Preterius and start his entire scheme to ethnically cleanse his own species. Even in his last moments, he implies that he doesn't like what he became and looked back more fondly on the point of his life when he was still a good individual.
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Felidae / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Felidae / int_baa2bf80	comment	Amplified Animal Aptitude: These are some smart cats, able to perfectly understand humans, read, and work a computer. It's mentioned, however, that all of these things take some time and practice to learn, and some cats don't bother learning anything past human speech. This intelligence is kind of required for a murder mystery, anyway. Francis is shown as being extremely smart, even among other such smart cats, though his finding of the "Felidae" data in the computer may seem a bit of a stretch to some viewers. The whole issue is much clearer in the book, as Pascal actually spends some time teaching Francis how the computer is used, and the data for the "Felidae" project was stored close to the catalog of neighborhood cats. Also, it's heavily implied both in the book and in the movie that Claudandus wanted Francis to find those files because he wants Francis to be his successor. The cats are also shown to choose what they wish to learn based on their interests. Francis is quite intrigued in the movie and first book by Pascal's use of a computer, and in the second book by Ambrosius being able to not only read, but write by dipping his claws in ink and carefully scratching the letters onto paper.
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Felidae / int_bba8939	type	Cats Are Snarkers
Felidae / int_bba8939	comment	Cats Are Snarkers: Francis and Bluebeard snark a lot during their conversations, even when dealing with potential foes.
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Felidae / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
Felidae / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: Claudandus presents himself like this, especially in the book, to justify his breeding/genetics program.
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Felidae / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
Felidae / int_bd4264a3	comment	Slasher Smile: One of the Hermanns' always carries this.
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Felidae / int_be6b0200	type	Sexophone
Felidae / int_be6b0200	comment	Sexophone: Used during Nhozemptekh's introduction (otherwise known as the "cat sex scene"), and is quite appropriate for her enigmatic, mysterious nature. A feline femme fatale very literally, considering most that encounter her don't live to tell the tale.
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Felidae / int_c181a846	type	Dies Differently in Adaptation
Felidae / int_c181a846	comment	Dies Differently in Adaptation: Pascal/Claudandus has his throat slit in the book. In the movie, he's eviscerated.
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Felidae / int_c2288824	type	A Nazi by Any Other Name
Felidae / int_c2288824	comment	A Nazi by Any Other Name: Claudandus, since he tries to create a master race of cats and is willing to kill for it. The book is a bit more nuanced, because the motivations and origins of Claudandus are explained in more depth. Depending on your perspective, he is simply trying his best to make cats strong enough so they'll never be test subjects to any human again.
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Felidae / int_c6655b23	type	Fallen Hero
Felidae / int_c6655b23	comment	Fallen Hero: Claudandus is seen as a Hero and a Messiah figure (not a Messianic Archetype though) by the Claudandus Sect. Might be interpreted as fallen from the viewers/readers point of view when we find out his backstory — Although by then, he has gone far from being a Well-Intentioned Extremist.
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Felidae / int_c70059b4	type	Psychic Dreams for Everyone
Felidae / int_c70059b4	comment	Psychic Dreams for Everyone: The main characters are cats so spend a lot of time sleeping and tend to get cryptic, or occasionally downright weird, dreams that may or may not predict something (mostly they do) or give them odd ideas. Generally speaking the cats in the Felidae books believe in the power of dreams and Francis is no exception. In the film and first book, it is revealed that Pascal purposefully gave Francis most of his dreams, presumably through subliminal suggestion. No explanation is given in later books.note It's generally considered poor practice to use dreams as a guide in mystery stories, which may be why later books use even more surreal imagery than the first - it gives the impression that thinking about the case is what's causing Francis's nightmares.
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Felidae / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Felidae / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Gregor Mendel and his theories of genetics are a big part of the plot, to the point he's almost a Posthumous Character. (And he's absolutely terrifying in Francis' dreams.)
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Felidae / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Felidae / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: The reason Claudandus, AKA Pascal commits murders is because of experimentation by Dr. Preterius.
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Felidae / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
Felidae / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: Bluebeard is a feline equivalent of a war veteran, with a bobbed tail, bad eye and lame paw - and one Death Glare from him is enough to get Kong, easily twice his size, to back right down. However, we never actually see him fight except when Claudandus ambushes and disables him with a neck-bite without him so much as raising a paw.
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Felidae / int_d442f9d1	type	ToiletHumor
Felidae / int_d442f9d1	comment	Toilet Humor: Bluebeard cracks wise quite frequently about his bodily functions. When he marks territory (i.e. urinates on a house) he says, "Bluebeard was here," so the audience knows why he's doing it. This is done twice, just to make sure everyone gets it.
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Felidae / int_d5d976dd	type	I Have Many Names
Felidae / int_d5d976dd	comment	I Have Many Names: In one of Francis's dreams, he sees a golden cat with blue eyes. "I'm the Prophet, I'm the Human, I'm the Beast, and I am also... Felidae."
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Felidae / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
Felidae / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Claudandus/Pascal, given his genetics program that he is working on, and it is actually working.
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Felidae / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Felidae / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Francis and Bluebeard. They're complete opposites: One an earthy combat veteran, one a cultured and literate intellectual. Bluebeard calls Francis a 'Klugscheißer' (smartass) right from the first meeting, and by the end of the mystery after he saves Bluebeard from the burning house, Francis enthusiastically adopts the nickname.
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Felidae / int_d802f2af	type	Animal Testing
Felidae / int_d802f2af	comment	Animal Testing: Dear Lord. Like the murders weren't horrible fuel enough. Francis comes across a tape of a perfectly healthy cat, shown meowing and struggling, being bolted to a table and having its head cut open to test a new "glue" for wounds. Said glue eats through its skull into its brain while it is conscious as the scientist impartially narrates and observes its dying twitches. Enough to give anyone nightmares (and check that your own pets are where you left them). As if that wasn't enough, most of the cats in Francis' neighborhood are mangled by the lab's experiments — Felicity is blinded, Bluebeard has a withered paw, and Claudandus goes insane.
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Felidae / int_da46a2c0	type	Hollywood Atheist
Felidae / int_da46a2c0	comment	Hollywood Atheist: Subverted. Claudandus is a misotheist.
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Felidae / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Felidae / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Ziebold. Not only he's Dr. Preterius' former assistant but also the person that saved Pascal Claudandus from the lab as well as his current owner. He is also obsessed with Gregor Mendel, which is where Claudandus got his idea in the first place — and the final clue for Francis to tie in that Claudandus IS Pascal, and yet he's The Faceless.
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Felidae / int_e0040f41	type	Start of Darkness
Felidae / int_e0040f41	comment	Which can be interpreted as both regret of how his life turned out to be after being the subject of Preterius' experiments and justification for his actions.
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Felidae / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
Felidae / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: Claudandus, AKA Pascal, given that he was a lowly stray cat that was experimented on and became the Big Bad.
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Felidae / int_e4c0e740	type	Free-Range Pets
Felidae / int_e4c0e740	comment	Free-Range Pets: The cats' owners are almost nonexistent.
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Felidae / int_e5411cdf	type	Cult
Felidae / int_e5411cdf	comment	Cult: The Claudandus Sect, built around Claudandus as a messianic figure that ascended to heaven following Preterius' experiments. Truth is Claudandus is actually alive.
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Felidae / int_e542d80a	type	Gonk
Felidae / int_e542d80a	comment	Gonk: Kong is approximately three times larger than any other cat in the film, has a lower jaw that juts out extremely far, and looks more like a cross between a bear and a buffalo than a cat. His henchmen, Herrmann and Herrmann, also qualify to some degree. One of the Herrmanns has crossed eyes. The book explains that both Herrmanns are Oriental Shorthair mutants, and crossed eyes used to be fairly common among many Oriental breeds, justifying Herrmann's appearance.
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Felidae / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
Felidae / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: Relatively rare, but a few scenes gallop straight across this line. Particularly true of Felicity's beheading, Solitare having the kittens gutted out of her, and Claudandus' evisceration by Francis at the end.
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Felidae / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Felidae / int_eba911fd	comment	Dark Messiah: Claudandus/Pascal. Claudandus is presented as a messianic figure by Joker to the Claudandus Sect, and as a possible savior. Claudandus, as Pascal, is trying to save cats, but has to kill many for his genetics program to work.
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Felidae / int_ee9877ea	type	Too Good for This Sinful Earth
Felidae / int_ee9877ea	comment	Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Felicity, a kind and blind cat, is killed just to obfuscate Francis and give him a personal reason to pursue the murderer.
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Felidae / int_f22249e	type	Body of Bodies
Felidae / int_f22249e	comment	Body of Bodies: The Nightmare Sequence Gregor Mendel forms amidst a massive mound of dead cats.
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Felidae / int_f2fe5ff8	type	Master Race
Felidae / int_f2fe5ff8	comment	Master Race: Claudandus/Pascal believes that the only superior life forms are "the wonderful, mighty Felidae", and that others are "stupid and victims of their fate."
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Felidae / int_f4efb057	type	Characters as Device
Felidae / int_f4efb057	comment	Characters as Device: The kitten Pepeline, whose purpose is to reveal that Claudandus is still alive. Though her character is more fleshed out in the book. She doesn't even share her name in the movie at all!
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Felidae / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Felidae / int_f9876f7e	comment	Claudandus until you find out not only he's alive, but also the Big Bad.
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Felidae / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Felidae / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Francis: Smart and loyal, he comes to care about the cats around him. And a murderous fighter when finally cornered by Claudandus. Pascal: Intelligent, literate, soft-spoken, eager to help, eugenicist, mass murderer.
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Felidae / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Felidae / int_fd4f8299	comment	The book is a bit more nuanced, because the motivations and origins of Claudandus are explained in more depth. Depending on your perspective, he is simply trying his best to make cats strong enough so they'll never be test subjects to any human again.
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