⚡ Powers & Abilities
Genius-level intellect, Criminal mastermind, Master strategist, Skilled manipulator, Exceptional planning, Leadership, Deception, Charisma
📖 Biography
Professor Ratigan is the brilliant and ruthless criminal mastermind at the heart of The Great Mouse Detective. Basil of Baker Street's arch-enemy, he schemes to overthrow Queen Moustoria and make himself the supreme ruler of London's mouse society. Proud, theatrical, and dangerously intelligent, Ratigan despises being called a rat and insists on presenting himself as a refined gentleman. His obsession with defeating Basil ultimately drives him into a dramatic confrontation atop Big Ben.
⚡ Fun Facts
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Vincent Price considered Ratigan one of his favorite acting roles and especially enjoyed the character’s theatrical personality.
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Animators studied Vincent Price’s exaggerated gestures during recording and incorporated some of them into Ratigan’s animation.
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Ratigan was originally designed to look thinner and weaker, but his appearance was changed after Vincent Price was cast.
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In Eve Titus’s original Basil of Baker Street books, Ratigan is actually a mouse rather than a rat.
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Ratigan’s climactic battle with Basil takes place among the enormous clockworks of Big Ben, a sequence that was an early major use of computer animation in a feature-length animated film.
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Vincent Price had long dreamed of voicing a character in a Disney animated film, making Ratigan a particularly meaningful role for him.
