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* [[Children Are Innocent]]: Pepeline, who [[Can Not Tell a Lie]]. {{spoiler|Provides the clue that Claudandus is in fact alive, and that if Joker is not Claudandus, he at least knows his real/fake identity.}}

* [[Cats Are Mean]]: Both subverted and played straight. Francis is a nice cat. Kong, on the other hand, is a huge, hulking, dim-witted bully.

* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: {{spoiler|Ziebold. Not only he's Dr. Preterius' former assistant but also the person that saved <s>Pascal</s> 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 to for Francis to tie in that Claudandus IS Pascal, and yet he's [[The Faceless]]}}.

* [[The Chessmaster]]: {{spoiler|Pascal/Claudandus}}.

* [[Disabled Love Interest]]: Felicty [[Fan-Preferred Couple|(If you're shipping her with Francis)]]

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Francis and {{spoiler|Pascal}}'s final battle is very similar to Simba and Scar's battle from ''[[The Lion King]]'', except much bloodier.

*** In one dream, after seeing a film about a scientist creating a race of "super-cats" Francis sees [[God]]/The [[Ubermensch]], 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, Egyptian cats are essentially a stand-in for "Aryans".

** In the original novel, Francis has a nightmare where Deep Purple pulls a kitten out of his torn, bleeding throat, throws it against the wall, pulls out another kitten which bursts like a red paint balloon, and proceeds to splatter more kittens from his throat. Try going to sleep after reading that fun scene.

* [[Is That What They're Calling It Now?]]: When Francis uses the term "fornication" to note the similarities between Sascha and Deep Purple's deaths, Bluebeard replies, [[Deadpan Snarker|"Back in my day, we use to call it screwing."]]

** Likewise, [[Cats Are Mean|huge, hulking, bully Kong]] is shown to have [[Hidden Depths|something of a soft side]] when he {{spoiler|mourns the death of his pregnant mate, Solitaire}}.

* [[Just Between You and Me]]: {{spoiler|Claudandus}} to Francis when he finally discovers who the killer is.

* [[Knights Templar]]: {{spoiler|Claudandus}} presents himself like this, especially in the book.

* [[Mad Scientist]]: Preterius. Though, he's more of a rambling drunken scientist.

* [[Motive Rant]]: Quite a lengthy one, in which {{spoiler|Claudandus details how [[Humans Are Bastards]], and why he created [[Felidae]] in order to overthrown humans.}} This is more prevalent in the book.

* [[Narm]]: In the English dub, most of the characters sound cartoony (yes, it's an animated movie, but... it's a murder mystery with cats! And sex!)

** The book is a bit more nuanced, because the motivations and origins of {{spoiler|Claudandus}} are explained in more depth. Depending on your perspective, he is [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|simply trying his best to make cats strong enough so they'll never be test subjects to any human again.]]

* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]: {{spoiler|Claudandus. Just read his rant about how [[Humans Are Bastards]]}}.

* [[The Renaissance Age of Animation]]

* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: Kong's cohorts, Hermann and Hermann.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: {{spoiler|"'No! No! No!' [Pascal] 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 human beings, and human beings are bad animals!'"}}

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Francis and Bluebeard. See [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]].