Dennis the Menace (UK comic strip): Difference between revisions

[[File:Dennis-N-Gnasher.jpg|frame|Dennis and his sidekick dog, Gnasher.]]

 

 

This Dennis has no known surname and is slightly older than the [[Dennis the Menace US|Dennis from across the Atlantic]], 10 years old rather than 6 (though at times he has been portrayed as slightly older again). He also has dark spiky hair and an iconic black-and-red horizontal-striped jumper, and he is joined by his similarly drawn spiky-haired dog, Gnasher. He truly revels in doing naughty or mischievous things and is at odds with his parents, the local police, his neighbours and the "softies" of his neighbourhood.

* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Athena Kane in the 2009 cartoon. Sometimes slipping into [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]] depending on the situation.

* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Athena in the new animated series. It's hard to tell whether she's half-caste or heavily tanned. All we know for sure about her ethnicity is her father is white.

** The new 2009 animated series, on the other hand, has Dennis' character [[Executive Meddling|completely re-written from the ground up]], as the BBC decided that they do not wish to teach young children how to be troublemakers. Why did they commission the series then?

* [[Bowdlerize]]: In the series' early days, Dennis getting paddled was one of the running gags. However, as paddling children began to be seen as abuse rather than discipline, it was phased out of the comic.

* [[Brats With Slingshots|Brats With Catapults]]

* [[Lighter and Softer]]: The new series makes Dennis much more goody-goody. He's still a menace, but he has been softened up a lot.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: His surname is actually The Menace.

* [[Morality Pet]]: Gnasher to Dennis, and one of the few times Dennis is truly upset is when Gnasher goes missing.

* [[More Dakka]]: In one episode of [[The Nineties]] cartoon, Dennis and Gnasher got a pair of [[Humongous Mecha]] which happened to look like them; Gnasher's had an enormous gun pop out of its "nose". Then more guns. Then some [[Up to Eleven|more]]. Then some '''''[[Serial Escalation|more]]'''''. {{spoiler|[[Deconstructed Trope|Then it fell over]].}}

* [[Nephewism]]: Notably averted (often cited as being a prominent aversion in [[Conversational Troping]] in the UK) with Gnasher being the father of Gnipper. This was dealt with in-comic by having Gnasher vanish for weeks in one of the strip's rare long-running arcs, "Gnasher Come Home", after which he returned with his children.

* [[Nice to The Waiter]]: Sugar isn't just Athena's assistant. She's also her best friend.

* [[Only Known By Their Nickname]]: Curly and Pie-Face. Well... they're ''probably'' nicknames.

** [[Averted Trope]]: One episode of the 90s series revealed Pie-Face's real name is Kevin.

* [[Professional Butt Kisser]]: Sugar to Athena.

* [[Proper Tights With a Skirt]]: Athena Kane

* [[Super Dickery]]: Inverted.

* [[Unnamed Parent|Unnamed Parents]]: Dennis' parents are known as Dennis' Mum and Dennis' Dad, they call each other Mum and Dad. One comic even reveals that those are their actual names.

[[Category:The Fifties]]

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