Danger Mouse (2015)

• The Ace:
  • DM himself; his Theme Song even tells you outright!
  • Danger Mouse and Jeopardy Mouse are tied for world's greatest secret agent (though they may have been bested by (Il) Hazard Mouse) and, despite her susceptibility to bright lights, Danger Moth is the second greatest.
• Action Girl: Danger Moth, being female and an agent.
• Action-Hogging Opening: Exaggerated in the intro—with DM dodging exploding lasers to rescue Penfold from giant laser cannons, the two leaping off a cliff to dodge the resulting explosion, causing them to skydive and glide over a lava pit far below with a wing-suit and landing in the Flying Car with it, flying through a stylised London and giant glass Union Flag (whilst dodging the raining shards at high speed), before ejecting out to dodge the giant rolling bomb that makes up the title logo. And all to an exciting modernised version of the classic theme, no less!
• Adaptational Nationality:
  • The original series' Stiletto Mafiosa had an Italian accent but was redubbed Cockney in America. Here it's reconciled by making him a cockney who's putting on a really terrible Italian accent.
  • Baron Silas Greenback becomes German, and gets "von" added to his name.
• Adaptation Expansion: While Danger Mouse was the sole agent in the 1981 series, this series introduces new "Danger Agents" to the roster, including Danger Moth, and Danger Hedgehog.
• Adaptation Name Change: Greenback gets "von" added to his name because he's German now.
• Adaptation Personality Change: In the original series, DM was more sensible and collected, and Penfold was almost always cowardly. Here, Penfold is more courageous, and not as fearful as before, bordering on an Informed Attribute, but he still has his frightful moments, DM is more of a Larger than life action hero. This may be due to the different pacing, much faster.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot:
  • H.E.A.D. in "Big Head Awakens" is a computer invented by Professor Squawkencluck to protect HQ. It quickly decides to "protect" the building by seizing control of it and imprisoning everyone, and then escalates to trying to "protect" the world the same way.
  • Doctor Loocifer, an evil computerised toilet, whose plans to conquer the world are inevitably lavatorial or sewer-related.
  • In "Escape from Big Head", Professor Squawkencluck reactivates and reprograms the computer calling it Big Head II in the process. While at first catching all the world's criminals and locking them up, the computer once again malfunctions and starts to imprison not only the Danger Agents, but everyone in the world over petty actions. In a similar way to "Mechanised Mayhem", Big Head is defeated by DM and Penfold by asking it to complete a puzzle with a stolen pen, rendering itself as a criminal, causing it to crash.
• Ambiguous Situation: The final episode "The World is Full of Stuff" ends on a shot of a future-predicting photo supposedly of DM and Squawkencluck getting married, leaving it unclear whether it's a real prediction or a misleading image like all the others.
• Americans Are Cowboys: Averted by DM's own Distaff Counterpart Jeopardy Mouse and her boss General Schwartznut as America's answer to DM and Colonel K.
• American Eagle: Establishing Shots of New York have the Statue of Liberty as an eagle. There's also a recurring Innocent Bystander who's an eagle Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist.
• Amnesiacs Are Innocent: In "There's No Place Like Greenback", Baron von Greenback loses his memory and becomes an amiable and childlike personality. An invoked trope, as he's faking it.
• Amnesia Danger: In "There's No Place Like Greenback", Baron von Greenback loses his memory after getting a whiff of the amnesia gas he was planning to use on London, leaving DM and Penfold to try to restore his memory so he can tell them how to deactive the gas emitter before the timer runs down and it activates. It turns out the Baron was only faking the whole time, to keep DM distracted.
• And Starring: The ending credits usually have a uniform list of the voice talent, but the 2015 Christmas Episode inserts an "And" before the final two names: Richard Ayoade (as the episode's villain) and BRIAN BLESSED!!!!! (as Santa Claus).
• Animals Not to Scale: Everyone is human sized, unlike the original series (well, usually unlike the original series). This means the pillar box HQ is the size of a building.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: All of the agents under Colonel K are funny animals whose species is prefixed with the word "danger", including Danger Mouse, Danger Bug, Danger Hedgehog, Danger Mackerel, Danger Mole, Danger Moth, Danger Penguin, and Danger Snake.
• Animation Bump: As this series is animated in Toon Boom, it's far more detailed and fluid than the hand-drawn original series.
• Anvil on Head: In "From Duck to Dawn", Count Duckula attempts to drop a safe on DM.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: The 2015 Christmas Episode has Professor Squawkencluck, despite the weird things she sees on a daily basis, flatly refusing to believe that Santa Claus is real, even when she's standing at the North Pole talking to him.
• The Artifact:
  • The original series was set in a Mouse World, and Danger Mouse's secret HQ was a mouse-sized skyscraper disguised as a human-sized pillar box. This version is set in a world of talking animals where the secret HQ is a normal-sized skyscraper and disguising it as a pillar box ought to make it more conspicuous rather than less, but it's still a pillar box because it just wouldn't be right for DM to live in anything else.
  • This series only has single-episode stories, so there are no cliffhangers and no need for the associated Find Out Next Time narration — but that was such a popular feature of the old series that it's included in the revived series anyway. During the climactic fight scene of an episode, the action freezes, the Lemony Narrator does an "Is this the end for our heroes?" speech, and then the episode resumes and gives an immediate answer. In "From Duck to Dawn" DM drives off a cliff and the narrator starts asking cliffhanger-y questions, then stops himself and notes the episode's just started.
• Artistic License – Physics: Gets a Lampshade Hanging from the narrator at the end of "The Other Day The Earth Stood Still" (which features, among other things, the idea that if the Earth stops spinning there will be no gravity).
• Ask a Stupid Question...: From "Greenfinger":

  Professor Squawkencluck: Not even my translation device.
  Penfold: Ooh! Does it translate languages?
  Professor Squawkencluck: No, it cuts and dries hair.
  Translation Device: Of course it translates languages, you foolish hamster.
  DM: Impressive - it even speaks sarcasm!

• Attention Whore: Count Duckula got jealous of the negative attention Danger Mouse was getting from an angry mob planning to kill him, simply because they were trying to kill him while Duckula was performing.
• The Atoner: Parodied in "Escape from Big Head", where Penfold tearfully relates the lengths he went to to atone for the hideous crime of borrowing a pencil and forgetting to give it back.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: "Big Penfold" deals with the effects of a size-changing device on... well, the clue's in the title.
• Attack of the Killer Whatever: In "Planet of the Toilets", the world's first self-aware robot toilet leads its brethren in a revolution against the human oppressors.
• Autobiographical Role: In "A Loo to a Kill", DM is playing himself in a film. Penfold gets Gender Flipped and is played by Scarlett Johamster.
• Awesome, but Impractical: In "Greenfinger", Danger Mouse goers into battle against a massive swarm of evil space bees. His primary weapon on his ship? A giant robotic arm wielding an massive rolled-up newspaper- that, of course, he eventually ends up breaking.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: In "Happy Boom Day", it was Danger Mouse's idea to give Professor Squawkencluck a surprise birthday party, indicating that he does care about her as a friend.
  • In "Danger World", when DM has to act like a coward, he starts off like this, but gets more convincing later on.
  • In "The World Wide Spider", when DM, after panicking over spiders the whole episode, admits he is "slightly unnerved" by them, Penfold deadpans "Gosh. I had no idea. You hide it so well."
• Bad Moon Rising: In "From Duck to Dawn", the moon over Transylvania is enormous, full, and blood red.
• Bait the Mole: In "The Unusual Suspects", DM attempts to smoke out the mole by telling each agent a different lie about where he's hidden the MacGuffin and seeing if any of them take the bait.
• Banana Peel: DM deliberately slips on one during his fight against himself (It Makes Sense in Context) in "Attack of the Clowns".
• Batman Can Breathe in Space: In "The Other Day the Earth Stood Still", the villain causes Earth to lose its gravity, and all unattached objects and people float off into space. Nobody has any trouble breathing.
• Behind a Stick: In "Danger at C Level", DM hides behind a palm tree considerably thinner than he is while trailing Stiletto.
• Belly Mouth: The alien Quark has one, which speaks with a deeper voice and a blunter personality that the one in his head, sardonically commenting on Quark's get-rich-quick schemes.
• Big Bad: Baron Silas von Greenback is Danger Mouse's archenemy and the most recurring villain.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Crumhorn is a Corrupt Corporate Executive who tries to take over the world through buying property. He becomes the main villain of both finales of series 1 and 2, attempting to destroy Danger Mouse simply because his daugther, Dawn, wants him to.
• Big Shadow, Little Creature: In the cold open of "Welcome to Danger World!", DM and Penfold enter a cave where a flickering light casts an enormous dragon shadow on the wall. The dragon itself turns out to be smaller than Penfold.
  • Isambard King Kong Brunel's introduction in "The Inventor Preventer".
• Birthday Hater: In "Happy Boom Day", Baron von Greenback hates birthdays because his have always been awful, and sets out to ruin every birthday in the world.
• Biting-the-Hand Humor: When Count Duckula kidnaps the writers, they are revealed to be monkeys with typewriters.

  Duckula: What? What were you expecting? It's not like they're writing Shakespeare!

• Bland-Name Product: One of the recurring background elements is an ad for Pear Computers.
• Body Double:
  • In "Never Say Clever Again", Von Greenback kidnaps all of the world's leaders — or rather, as it turns out, all of the world's leaders except the Queen, plus Danger Mouse in an incredibly convincing disguise.
  • When Danger Mouse is held captive by the motorcycling Mongols in "The Spy Who Stayed in with a Cold", Master of Disguise Agent 58 changes himself into DM and bluffs the Mongols into a mass retreat.

  Agent 57 as DM: [to the Mongols] You're outnumbered two to 7,643, so you'd better untie me now before I come down there and do it myself!

• Borrowed Catchphrase:
  • When DM is panicking about spiders in "The World Wide Spider", Penfold says "Danger Mouse, shush! Um, sir."
  • Penfold also tells DM to shush repeatedly in "Groundmouse Day", since he knows what's going on and doesn't have time to explain.
• Break Out the Museum Piece: In "Grand Stressed Auto", the Danger Car Mark IV gets damaged, and they have to break out the Mark III from the original show. Too bad it's developed sentience and a deep jealousy of both the newer car and Penfold. So Penfold has to break out another museum piece, the Mark II ... which is just a Reliant Robin in Danger Agency colours.
• British Stuffiness: Inverted when Danger Mouse meets his American Distaff Counterpart, Jeopardy Mouse. She is much more serious and no-nonsense than he is, which becomes a point of conflict between them. She even points out that he's not a very secretive "secret" agent if he's on a billboard doing a cereal ad.
• Broke Episode: The first episode "Danger Mouse Begins... Again" has shades of this after DM stops Panda-Minion. Colonel K tells DM point blank that the bill to repair London after the latter's pursuit of Panda-Minion had bankrupted the secret service to the point that Colonel K and Squawkencluck had to share their respective areas of the HQ in one room.
• Bullet Time: In "Big Head Awakens", DM has a fight scene with Panda-Minion, who is disguised as a milkman and throws single-serve tubs of yoghurt as if they were grenades. At one point, the scene goes into bullet time so DM can taste a tub of yoghurt as it narrowly misses his head.
• Busman's Holiday: In "Danger at C Level", Penfold needs a holiday, so he and DM go on an ocean cruise — the same day that Baron von Greenback attempts to take over the world with giant sea monsters.
• By the Lights of Their Eyes: Standard for any scene set in darkness.
• Camera Abuse:
  • When the Danger Agents are staggering around after being mentally attacked in "Never Say Clever Again", Danger Moth rams face-first into the camera.
  • At the end of "From Duck to Dawn", Count Duckula transforms into a bat and flies off, shouting a Medium-Aware We Will Meet Again boast back at DM — and then flies straight into the camera because he's not watching where he's going.
• Captivity Harmonica: Penfold does the honours when he and DM are imprisoned in "Escape from Big Head".
• Character Catchphrase:
  • "Oooh, crumbs/crikey/heck!", Good grief", "Penfold, shush", "Ah, good show, D.M!", "You fiend", "Si, Barone" etc. Everyone gets one.
  • Von Greenback has a habit of demanding a ransom of "all ze money in ze world!"
• Chained Heat: In "Cheesemageddon", Danger Mouse arrests Baron von Greenback, then gets a call from Professor Squawkencluck. "Have you seen my prototype indestructible handcuffs? They're made of Convenientium, a metal so rare there wasn't enough left over to make a key".
• Characterization Marches On:
  • DM is depicted as generally very competent when on his missions, but some flaws—namely his ego and tendency to showboat or otherwise not take things seriously when he thinks he's in control of the situation—have become more evident to balance things out. Likewise, Penfold is still a patented coward, but he has since become much more adept at coming up with the necessary ideas to make things right again.
  • Over time, this has also been applied to Professor Squawkencluck and Jeopardy Mouse, almost in response to early accusations of positive discrimination. Whilst still very temperamental and snarky, a more humorous and endearing side to Squawkencluck has become more evident (like doing a dance and singing "Go Squawky, go Squawky, get your groove on!" when eagerly revealing Big Head 2.0 in "Escape from Big Head", and having a massive fear of clowns as seen in "Attack of the Clowns"), whilst Jeopardy Mouse gets more comically-serious moments, along with a few demonstrating she's not that different from her British counterpart.
• Chekhov's Gag:
  • In the first episode, DM gets fired because the show can no longer afford to pay for the damage his action scenes cause. This news is accompanied by a rather unusual Sting, because they've also had to economize on the incidental music.

    Colonel K: The bill to repair the city has bankrupted the Secret Service, AND we've blown the series budget on the special effects! We've even had to ask our narrator to do the incidental music!
    Narrator: Bam-bam-BAM!

  • Over the course of the episode, the incidental music returns to normal, but when the truth of Baron von Greenback's evil plan is revealed, it gets the same cheap sting.

    Baron von Greenback: I alvays said, "One day, I vill rule ze vorld." Well, now I do. Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-haa!
    Narrator: Bam-bam-
    Baron von Greenback: Oh, do shut up.
    Narrator: Rude.

  • In the same episode, DM tries to find a new line of work as a taxi driver, only to have his cab clamped by a traffic warden. The traffic warden reappears at the end of the episode and helps capture Baron von Greenback by clamping the Frog's Head Flyer.
• Chekhov's Gun:
  • In "Big Penfold", an eccentric scientist presents three equally-ridiculous solutions to the problem at hand, all of which are rejected; by the end of the episode, all have played a part (though never in the way he envisaged) in solving the crisis.
  • In "Frankensquawk's Monster", the Swiss Army Sock.
• Chest Insignia: Danger Mouse has his initials in a red circle on his chest.
• Christmas Episode: 2015's "The Snowman Cometh" is a double-length episode in which a snow-themed Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain kidnaps Santa on Christmas Eve in an attempt to prove he's a serious threat. 2017's 'Yule Only Watch Twice' is kind ofchristmas-related.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Leatherhead, Miss Boathook and Fifi from the original series are absent.
• Cliffhanger:
  • The first season ends with a two-part finale, "Mouse Fall" and "Mouse Rise". The first part, "Mouse Fall" concludes with Danger Mouse putting himself in the line of fire to protect his friends and being overwhelmed by Augustus P. Crumhorn's barrage of weapons. All that is seemingly left of Danger Mouse is his eye patch.
  • "Dark Side of the Mouse" from the second season concludes with a bit of a Sequel Hook cliffhanger. Crumhorn is exiled to an alien planet, but planet's insect population hail him as a god. He immediately makes plans to conquer the planet and assemble an armada to attack Earth and gain revenge on Danger Mouse.
  • Subverted in the Christmas special, where Danger Mouse points out that the episode is a half hour special and thus they have no need to end on a cliffhanger when the crisis proves too great to resolve within the standard length.
• Clip Show: "Yule Only Watch Twice" "Danger-Phon!" and "The Supies" are largely clips from earlier episodes.
• Codename Title: Secret Agent Protagonist Title, named as a reference to Danger Man.
• The Collector: The villain of the episode "Danger Fan" is Ian, the eponymous fan, who decides it's no longer enough to have every action figure ever made of Danger Mouse and his friends and enemies, and starts kidnapping the people themselves to add to his collection.
• Comically Missing the Point: In "Dark Dawn", Penfold accuses DM of not knowing what it's like to lose a friend, prompting DM to make a moving declaration that it's the fear of losing his best friend that drives his never-ending quest to keep the world safe. Penfold starts worrying about who this best friend is, completely failing to realise that it's him.
• Competition Freak: of DM is this, always going out of the way to prove why he's considered the World's Greatest Secret Agent, and the best of the Danger Agents. There are times when this endangers the mission he is on.
• Composite Character: Count Duckula retains his vegetarianism from the spin-off.
• Compressed Vice:
  • In "Greenfinger", a plot point is Penfold's obssession with making jam, which he shows no signs of in any other episode.
  • Several episodes temporarily amp up some aspect of Danger Mouse's thrill-seeking tendencies into a continual obsession that he must overcome to defeat the threat of the week. In "The Inventor Preventer", it's his penchant for being a Last-Second Showoff, while in "Gold Flinger" he's battling an inability to ignore a dare.
• Continuity Cameo: Count Duckula makes a brief non-speaking appearance at the villains' Christmas party in the 2015 Christmas Episode. He later appears properly in the episode "From Duck to Dawn", making it an Early-Bird Cameo.
• Continuity Cavalcade: The episode "Danger Fan" contains an enormous number of references to earlier episodes from the old and the new series.
• Continuity Nod: Many of the other competitors in the deadly game show in "Quark Games" are adversaries from earlier episodes.
• Contrived Coincidence: In "The Return of Danger K", Penfold's blog has only one reader — who turns out to be the one person in the world who would take offense at his latest post.
• Convection, Schmonvection: In the 2015 Christmas Episode, DM defeats a giant snowman by lassoing him and flying him off to the Sun, and he doesn't even start to melt until he comes into physical contact with the Sun's surface.
• Convenience Store Gift Shopping: In the Christmas Episode, DM and Penfold give Professor Squawkencluck a hair dryer — the same as they do every year, she notes — and Penfold is relieved when his present turns out to be socks, because DM usually gives him something dangerous (and had intended to again this year, but got his presents mixed up).
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Dawn's father, Augustus P. Crumhorn IV, runs a conglomerate to buy anything that catches his eye, some for petty reasons. He buys all of the light bulb factories to raise the products' prices or destroy them because the ones in his office were faulty.
• Cowardly Sidekick: Penfold.
• Cowboy Episode: In "A Fistful of Penfolds", in Penfold City, Professor Squawkencluck's secret testing ground is a western town filled with Penbots, new 'Tenfolds' are being developed to become better sidekicks than the original Penfold.
• Crazy-Prepared:
  • DM's car frequently turns out to be equipped with devices designed for precisely the bizarre situation he's encountered. (For instance: when faced with giant insects, he activates a robot arm wielding an enormous rolled-up newspaper.) Lampshaded in the Christmas Episode, where the car turns out to have a device specifically designed for effecting a mid-air rescue of Santa Claus; DM remarks that Professor Squawkencluck had never believed it would ever actually be needed.
  • Apart from all the spy gadgets, the Professor's lab is revealed in "Pink Dawn" to be fully equipped with everything necessary for a Makeover Montage, even though the Professor is not at all girly and never uses any of that stuff herself.
• Create Your Own Villain: Professor Squawkencluck's HEAD has a tendency to go haywire and Doctor Loocifer, an evil, computerised toilet created when Penfold accidentally dropped an intelligent chip into the bowl. It eventually transpired that DM created Birch Badboy via Stable Time Loop.
• Creative Closing Credits:
  • In the episode "Greenfinger", the usual closing credits music is replaced by the episode's guest character singing.
  • In the Christmas Episode, the closing credits music has Christmassy adornments like ringing bells, and the Cartoon Bomb at the end is decorated like a Christmas pudding.
• Crisis Makes Perfect: In "Big Penfold", much is made of Penfold's inability to catch thrown or dropped objects. At the climax of the episode, the fate of the world depends on him catching something first try, and he does.
• Curse Cut Short:
  • In "Planet of the Toilets", the world's first self-aware robot toilet leads an uprising of its brethren, announcing to the human race that "I'm through with taking your — "
  • "Lost Tempers in Space" has a moment where Jeopardy Mouse explains how she grew potatoes on an alien planet, using her own...something we don't quite hear before the recording cuts out.
• Cute Is Evil: Dawn in her Princess persona.
• Danger Room Cold Open:
  • "The Other Day the World Stood Still" opens with DM rescuing Penfold from Martians, in what turns out to be a training simulation.
  • "Welcome to Danger World!" opens with DM and Penfold on an adventure that turns out to be another simulation, which comes to an abrupt halt when it's revealed that Penfold has hacked it to make the monster much smaller and less threatening. (He's terrified of it anyway.)
  • "Frankensquawk's Monster" opens with a training simulation that's supposed to teach DM how to use Professor Squawkencluck's latest invention.
• Dark Horse Victory:
  • In Jeopardy Mouse's first episode, she and Danger Mouse spend the entire thing arguing about which of them is really the greatest secret agent in the world, but in the end they settle their differences and prepare to capture Von Greenback together — only to be beaten to the punch by Italy's El Hazard Mouse.
  • In Jeopardy Mouse's second episode, she and Danger Mouse compete in a Deadly Game, only for Penfold to win at the last minute, entirely by accident.
• Deadly Game: The Quark Games in the episode of the same name.
• Deface of the Moon: In "The Other Day the Earth Stood Still", Penfold projects a gigantic holographic image of Von Greenback's face onto the surface of the moon so it will function as a massive green light and start the Earth rotating again. It Makes Just As Much Sense In Context.
• Description Cut: From "Never Say Clever Again":

  Narrator: Meanwhile, back on Earth, the disappearance of their political masters has sent the people into a frenzy of panic and confusion!
  [ordinary, calm street scene]
  Narrator: Ahem, "a frenzy of panic and confusion"?
  [citizens start screaming and running around]
  Narrator: Thank you.

• Destructive Saviour: Danger Mouse is depicted as one in the first episode, leading to the secret service temporarily deciding that he's more trouble than he's worth.
• Diagonal Cut: In "From Duck to Dawn", DM is trapped in a cage. He produces a couple of laser cutters, waves them around in an apparently random fashion, then puts them away... and the top half of the cage slides away along a clean diagonal cut.
• Disguised in Drag: In "Pink Dawn", DM and Penfold have to dress up as princesses to gain Dawn's trust. There are a few jokes about Penfold seeming to be just a bit too into it.

  Professor Squawkencluck: ...we turn you into princesses!
  DM: Whaaat?!
  Penfold: Ooh, sequins! ...I mean, 'Whaaat?!'.

• Disneyesque: Scarlett Johamster, whose design wouldn’t be much out of place in Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers.
• Disney Villain Death: Although he doesn't actually die, Baron Silas Von Penfold is defeated this way in "Very Important Penfold" after being knocked off the roof of a building and falling into his own Twystyverse portal.
• Do Not Adjust Your Set: In "From Duck to Dawn", Count Duckula takes over the airwaves to broadcast his hypnotic signal world-wide. His broadcast even breaks in on the secret channel Colonel K uses to communicate with DM.
• Don't Try This at Home: During the climactic fight in "Quark Games", Penfold turns to the camera to announce that the participants are trained professionals and viewers should not attempt to do what they're doing at home.
• The Dragon: Stiletto is still Von Greenback's main minion.
• Driving Test: In "Danger Fan", DM has to do a test to renew his Danger licence, and the examiner would not be out of place in a trope-standard driving test episode.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: "Masters of the Twystyverse" ends with Sinister Moth being set up as a new villain, only for her to get distracted by a black hole and immediately fly into it.
• Dumb Muscle: Panda-Minion.
• Dynamite Candle: In a flashback in "Happy Boom Day", the young Von Greenback has a traumatic birthday featuring exploding candles on the birthday cake.

• Early-Bird Cameo: Happens a few times.
  • The Snowman's first appearance is in the episode "Danger Fan", before he makes his first full appearance in "The Snowman Cometh".
  • Within "The Snowman Cometh" itself, Count Duckula appears with the rest of the villains on holiday before officially making his debut in "From Duck to Dawn".
  • Mac the Fork and Dudley Poyson—two villains from the original series who notably teamed up in "All Fall Down" to build an earthquake device from stolen blueprints—appear briefly at the beginning of "Quantum of Rudeness", stealing Tutankcowmen's sarcophagus from a museum. They eventually are the main villains of the first half of "Dark Side of the Mouse".
• Eat the Bomb:
  • In "The Return of Danger K", there is an explosive carrot claimed to be "powerful enough to destroy a tank". Colonel K deals with it by swallowing it whole, and suffers no harm beyond a brief puff of smoke from his ears.
  • In "The Snowman Cometh", DM swallows a bomb to dispose of it.
• Edible Ammunition: The Snowman fires rocket carrots, which are powerful enough to blow up a tank and also taste great with an onion dip.
• Embarrassing Middle Name: "Sinister Mouse" reveals that Penfold has one, but we don't get to hear the name itself, only see DM's reaction when he hears it.
• Embarrassing Slide: In "Welcome to Danger World!", Colonel K accidentally shows DM and Penfold footage of himself doing aerobics instead of footage of the danger of the week.
• Emerging from the Shadows: Parodied in "Mouse Fall", where Crumhorn's repeated attempts to step out of the shadows for the audience's benefit are thwarted by the light he attempts to step into shorting out.
• Enemy Mine:
  • In "Escape from Big Head", a robot police force imprisons heroes and villains alike, and they join forces to escape.
  • In "The Frog Who Would Be King", Danger Mouse and Baron Von Greenback are forced to work together temporarily after both being lured into a death trap by another villain.
• Enfant Terrible: Dawn "The Princess" Crumhorn, aka "Pink Dawn", is introduced as the youngest villain in DM's rouges gallery. With her tiara powered by an experimental gel, she gains a handful of reality warping abilities, from changing colors to pink, to turning her mansion into a giant playhouse. In "Melted", she threatens to melt the polar ice caps and flood the entire world, all just to reenact her favorite movie.
• "Everybody Laughs" Ending: At the end of "The Other Day the Earth Stood Still", Penfold expresses a hope one day he'll qualify as Danger Hamster, and known for short as "DH". DM points out that this might offend Danger Hedgehog — "You know how prickly he is." They both laugh, and the narrator joins in.
• Everyone Hates Fruit Cakes: In the Christmas Episode, the villain says that if DM gets anywhere near defeating him, "I'll eat my hat". One brief fight scene later, he's choking the hat down, remarking as he does that it tastes even worse than fruit cake.
• Everyone Hates Mimes: In "Danger at C Level", a giant seamonster attacks France and eats a mime. The mime's audience cheer.
• Evil Is Petty: In "Never Say Clever Again", Von Greenback has a complicated plan to become ruler of the entire world — so that he can lounge around eating chocolates and nobody can tell him to stop.
• Evil Twin: Sinister Mouse, who comes from a Mirror Universe in the episode of the same name. Baron von Greenback's "good twin" is Danger Toad. The final scene reveals there is also an evil Penfold.
• Disembodied Eyebrows: Penfold's float in the air above the rims of his spectacles.
• Expressive Mask: The upper rims of Penfold's spectacles bend to follow the movement of his eyebrows.
• Eye Colour Change: In "Pink Dawn", Dawn's eyes go all pink when she gains Reality Warper powers.
• Eyepatch of Power: DM has this, and unlike the original he appears to actually lack an eye under there. It's an "iPatch", allowing him technical prowess out in the field when he needs it.
• Face Your Fears:
  • In "The World Wide Spider", it turns out spiders are DM's one fear just before he has to save the world from the world's largest spider. Which is odd given that in the original series, there was an episode when Von Greenback had a device that turned spiders gigantic, and Penfold was the only one who was bothered by them.
  • Played for laughs in "The Scare Mouse Project", where DM fails a performance review because the regulations require a Danger Agent to demonstrate the ability to press on in the face of his fears, which DM has never done because he's never been afraid of anything. He sets out to find something that frightens him so he can press on in the face of it.
• Faint in Shock: DM himself, uncharacteristically, faints dead away at the prospect of confronting the world's largest spider in "The World Wide Spider".
• Fake-Out Fade-Out: In "Mousefall", the Big Bad has DM and Penfold at his mercy and melodramatically declares "This is the end!". The narrator begins an end-of-episode spiel but is interrupted by the Big Bad, who irritatedly clarifies that he meant the end of Danger Mouse, not the end of the episode.
• Fall of the House of Cards: Done on an enormous scale in the first episode, with an entire skyscraper shaped like a house of cards. An aircraft passing at high speed causes all the windows in the surrounding skyscrapers to shatter, but leaves the house of cards apparently unharmed — until a bystander, having remarked on its lucky escape, reaches out and touches it, whereupon the whole thing collapses.
• Fancy Toilet Awe: One of the main threats is Doctor Loocifer, an advanced Japanese toilet given intelligence by a computer chip which Penfold dropped in it by accident.
• Falsely Reformed Villain: In the first episode, Baron von Greenback claims to have gone straight and invested his ill-gotten loot into a legitimate enterprise selling Safety Mouse guard robots that will make destructive heroes like Danger Mouse obsolete. DM attempts to prove there's something sinister going on, but his first attempts only end up making him look paranoid. He turns out to be right in the end, of course.
• Female Gaze: Played for Laughs in "A Fistful of Penfolds" where, at one point when Penfold and the leading Robo-Penfold are facing off in a duel, the camera seems to focus on Penfold's rear end … and he scratches it.
• Fictional Social Network: A social networking site called SpamChops fills the plot functions of Youtube and Facebook.
• Fictional United Nations: United Earth.
• Finishing Each Other's Sentences: Played for laughs in "The Return of Danger K":

  • Danger Mouse: Penfold and I are a team. We work together so well we can even finish each other's—
    Penfold: Baths!
    Danger Mouse: "Sentences", Penfold.

  • Danger Mouse: Let's go, Penfold, there isn't a moment to—
    Penfold: Eat!
    Danger Mouse: "Lose", Penfold.

• Flying Car: The Mk. III converts instantly between driving on the road and flying through the air by deploying (or retracting) a set of wings.
• Follow Your Nose: When Von Greenback releases a cloud of noxious gas on London in "There's No Place Like Greenback", it's shown doing things like forming itself into hands that ring doorbells to gain entry to people's houses.
• Food Eats You: When Penfold is complaining about how dangerous recent missions have been in "Danger at C Level", a Cutaway Gag shows him being attacked and eaten by a plate of spaghetti bolognese.
• Foul Waterfowl: Duckula is a bloodthirsty megalomaniac and a recurring antagonist in the series.
• Freak Lab Accident: Creates the superpowered villain in "Pink Dawn".
• Freeze-Frame Bonus:
  • In "Danger Mouse On The Orient Express", a number of signs indicating cities the train is going through are passed by rapidly. The last one is the sign for the Willesden Green tube station.
  • In "Agent 58", a portrait of Count Duckula in his Spin-Off design can be seen at the villain convention.
• Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: Count Duckula subverts this to an extent, as he is much more villainous than his 80's spin-off self, but that being said, he is at least civil, humorous, and jovial when he's not being jealous of DM and his fame. The episode "We Aren't Family" shows Duckula dancing with the Princess, so he at least has some allies.
• Funny Animal: The whole cast. DM is a mouse, Penfold and his aunt are hamsters, Von Greenback is a toad, Stiletto is a crow and Colonel K. is...er, either a chinchilla or chinchilla disguised as a walrus.
• Funny Background Event:
  • In "Danger at C Level", DM attempts to save the world without interrupting Penfold's holiday, resulting in several scenes where DM fights a monster in the background while an oblivious Penfold plays his computer in the foreground.
  • In "The Other Day the Earth Stood Still", Penfold starts experimenting with DM's jet pack while DM is being briefed by Colonel K, going on an erratic flight around the room unnoticed by the others and finally coming to a graceful landing just as the briefing ends and DM heads off.
• Furry Confusion:
  • Funny Animal dogs like Augustus P. Crumhorn and Dawn co-exist with nonathromophic dogs. Dawn even asks her father for a pet puppy at one point.
  • Parodied in "A Loo to A Kill", where, to stay fresh with the current state of characterisation in media, the directors of Danger Mouse: The Movie make Penfold into a girl.
• Furry Female Mane: Almost all characters with hair are women, especially if they're non-mammals.
• Glory Hound: Danger Mouse is given this as a Fatal Flaw. His overwhelming desire to win often puts the mission at risk.
• Go Mad from the Revelation: In "Planet of the Toilets", John — a robotic toilet that gains self-awareness — is horrified when he learns of his expected function. This causes him to go rogue and rebrand himself as "Dr. Loocifer."
• Gone Horribly Right: In "Escape from Big Head", Professor Squawkencluck tries to help the agency by creating a fleet of robots that will automatically detect and capture criminals. Upon activation, they immediately capture all the Danger Agents for various minor offences committed in the course of their world-saving duties, and the Professor herself for running a weapons laboratory in a residential area.
• Gone Horribly Wrong: In "Frankensquawk's Monster", Professor Squawkencluck's mother's attempt to get her husband to clean up his mess turns him into an enormous mess monster that menaces London.
• Gosh Darn It to Heck!: The effect of Birch Badboy's Rude Ray in "The Return of Danger K".
• Gravity Sucks: In "The Other Day the Earth Stood Still", DM and Penfold do a training simulation set in space, complete with Anti-Gravity. When they're done, DM switches off the simulation (and the Anti-Gravity) while Penfold is floating in mid-air. Penfold has time to complain that DM might have waited until he was on the ground before gravity catches up with him.
• HA HA HA—No: Happens in "The World is Full of Stuff". Colonel K bursts into laughter at the future-predicting photo of Danger Mouse and Professor Squawkencluck kissing, but afterwards is strictly against them actually doing so.
• Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Isambard King Kong Brunel.
• Hard Light: Colonel K's hologram. Sometimes. It varies, often within the same scene, depending on Rule of Funny. For instance, in "Big Head Awakens", the hologram attempts to drink a non-hologrammatic cup of coffee: it's able to pick up the cup, but the liquid it pours into its mouth drops straight through.
• Headless Horseman: The Headless Postman in "The Scare Mouse Project", a spectre originally defeated by DM's ancestor Ichabod Mouse.
• Heartwarming Orphan: Parodied with the crippled Street Urchin Tiny Tim in the Christmas Episode.
• Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue": In "The Duckula Show", Duckula kidnaps the writers and forces them to make him the star. He defeats opponents with little to no effort, gets constantly praised by other characters and Jeopardy Mouse asks him out.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: DM and Penfold. Which, of course, means Rule 34 is in full force. A Freeze-Frame Bonus of Danger Mouse's passport lists Penfold as his spouse!
• Hey, Wait!: In "Never Say Clever Again", Von Greenback is in the middle of kidnapping the Queen, after disabling the Danger Agents with mind-altering phlebotinum, when Penfold calls for him to halt — then wishes the Queen a happy birthday before wandering back into mental incoherence.
• His Name Really Is "Barkeep": In "Frankensquawk's Monster" it's revealed Professor Squawkencluck's first name is actually Professor.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Non-lethally in "The Other Day the Earth Stood Still". Von Greenback dons a pair of extra-specially heavy boots so that he is the only person not affected when he turns off the Earth's gravity — but when DM comes after him, he finds that they make it impossible for him to make a quick get-away.
• Hologram: Colonel K uses one to communicate with DM.
• Hologram Projection Imperfection: Colonel K's hologram has the traditional scan lines and bluish tinge — except when there's a joke to be got out of someone mistaking it for the real thing.
• Hopeless with Tech: Professor Squawkencluck has a great many highly justified complaints about how Danger Mouse treats her inventions.
• Hostile Show Takeover: In "The Duckula Show", Danger Mouse faces the prospect of being written out of his own show, after Count Duckula kidnaps the writers and forces them to make him the star.
• Hypnotic Eyes: Count Duckula.
• Hypocritical Humour: In "The Snowman Cometh", Professor Squawkencluck scolds Penfold for trying to open his presents early, telling him that the anticipation and uncertainty is part of the pleasure, and then runs her own present through a scanner to find out what's in it.

• Idea Bulb: Parodied in "The Other Day the Earth Stood Still". While floating in zero gravity amidst a variety of household items, Penfold has an idea at the same moment as a lightbulb floats into place above his head.
• I Gave My Word: In "Danger at C Level", DM promises Penfold that they'll go on a holiday with no adventuring, and when Colonel K calls him to report that the world is in peril he turns the mission down, averring that "Danger Mouse's word is his bond". (Colonel K eventually gets him to change his mind, though.)
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: In "The Return of Danger K", Colonel K frees DM and Penfold from their brainwashing by reminding them that they are still, at heart, British agents.
• I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That: In "The Other Day the Earth Stood Still", Von Greenback brings the world to a standstill with giant red stop lights placed everywhere. When Penfold suggests simply driving through the red lights, DM says this verbatim.
• I'm a Humanitarian: Oddly, Count Duckula. Although he's stuck to his his vegetarian diet, the Count has found a way to use the power of "telly" to turn his hypnotized viewers into living vegetables, thus creating the perfect audience and "healthy snacks".
• Inconvenient Itch: When DM ties up Von Greenback in the first episode, he demands that someone untie him — or at least scratch his itchy nose.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: The Snowman.
• Informed Species: Colonel K doesn't really look like a chinchilla. He doesn't even have fur like every other character whose species has fur.
• Inexplicably Identical Individuals:
  • The episode that introduces DM's American counterpart, Jeopardy Mouse, also has an American hot dog seller who's a dead ringer for Big Mike, the pie vendor whose stall is always set up near DM's HQ.
  • In "There's No Place Like Greenback", DM and Penfold visit Baron von Greenback's childhood home, a village where everybody looks exactly like the Baron apart from their clothes and hairstyles. It turns out the whole thing is an elaborate trap set up by the Baron, and the villagers are all robots.
• Inexplicably Tailless:
  • Danger Mouse is always depicted without a tail, despite being a mouse.
  • Most characters don't have tails either, except when they get turned into elephants in "The Spy Who Came In with a Cold". Villains Birch Badboy and Isambard King Kong Brunel, a squirrel and a monkey respectively, are two exceptions.
• In Medias Res:
  • "Quark Games" begins with DM and Penfold already in the midst of the games, promptly lampshaded as they stop what they're doing and try to remember how they got there.
  • "Mouse Fall" begins with Princess having already turned several citizens into pigs. The narrator is confused by this and assumes he's narrating for the wrong show.
• Intelligent Primate: The chimpanzee Isambard King Kong Brunel, the only recurring character who's a primate, is a Mad Scientist who creates time machines and other impressive inventions.
• Interface with a Familiar Face: The AI created by Professor Squawkencluck in "Big Head Awakens" has a stylized version of the Professor's own face.
• Invisibility: "The Return of Danger K" introduces Ivana the Invisible, who apart from being invisible herself flies an invisible jet (which Penfold bumps his head on because he can't see it) that fires invisible missiles (which are consequently rather difficult to dodge).
• Jerk Jock: "High School Inedible" implies that Danger Mouse himself was one of these in high school.
• Jet Pack:
  • Rocket boots feature in "Pink Dawn". Naturally, DM flies elegantly while Penfold can't keep his balance and goes all over the place.
  • There's a proper jet pack in "The Other Day the Earth Stood Still". Naturally, DM flies elegantly while Penfold can't control it and goes all over the place.
• Just in Time:
  • Lampshaded in "The Inventor Preventor" where the Villain of the Week has a time machine so (as Penfold points out) saving the day in the nick of time isn't as effective as usual, as the villain can always go back in time to Set Right What Once Went Wrong.

    Penfold: Just once, can you try arriving at the second-to-last moment?

    DM: I am "Danger Mouse", Penfold—not "In Plenty of Time for a Cup of Tea Mouse!"

  • Played with in "Greenfinger", where DM reaches the self-destruct device with only six seconds left on the clock, decides that's not close enough to be properly dramatic, and waits a few more seconds (while Penfold panics in the background) before disarming it with one second remaining.
• Kinda Busy Here: In "Greenfinger", the Professor makes a friendly call to DM while he's in the middle of a battle — and he can't admit he's in the middle of a battle, because it only happened because he ignored her earlier advice.

  Professor Squawkencluck: Is there something happening there?
  DM: No, nothing, it's all fine.
  [giant plant slams DM's car into the river]
  DM: Sorry, gotta go, it's raining.

• Kitchen Sink Included: Professor Squawkencluck's demonstration of the new features added to the Mark IV in "The Other Day the Earth Stood Still". (An impressed Penfold then remarks that it can do just about everything except tapdance — and the Professor demonstrates that it can do that, too.)
• Lampshade Wearing: How Professor Squawkencluck hides from a hostile robot in the first episode.
• Landmarking the Hidden Base:
  • In "The Other Day the Earth Stood Still", Baron Von Greenback's secret lair is at the Eiffel Tower.
  • In "Jeopardy Mouse", Von Greenback's base is at Stonehenge's less-well-known sibling, Bouncyhenge.
• Laser Hallway:
  • There's one protecting the Baron's lair in the first episode.
  • In "Greenfinger", Professor Squawkencluck has one in her lab in an attempt to prevent DM playing with any of her stuff while she's away.
• Last-Name Basis:
  • DM's assistant's full name is Ernest Penfold, but with the exception of at least one early episode, he's otherwise only ever addressed by his last name.
  • Played with in "Frankensquawk's Monster". Professor Squawkencluck's mother addresses her as "Professor", and when DM laughs, she explains that "Professor" is her first name: her full name and title is Professor Professor Squawkencluck.
• Last-Second Showoff:
  • In the episode "Greenfinger", DM reaches a self-destruct device that needs disarming with only six seconds left on the clock, decides that's not close enough to be properly dramatic, and waits a few more seconds (while Penfold panics in the background) before disarming it with one second remaining.
  • In "The Inventor Preventer", DM does this repeatedly, to Penfold's increasing annoyance.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In "Danger Fan" Penfold, Colonel K, Professor Squawkencluck, Von Greenback and Stiletto are shrunk down and put in packaging similar to what the action figures come in. Though in real life, Squawkencluck doesn't have an action figure.
• Legacy Character: P. Squawkencluck is Heinrich Squawkencluck's niece, Agent 58 is the son of Agent 57 from the original series, and IV is presumably the son of Augustus P. Crumhorn III.
• Literal Metaphor:
  • In "Danger at C Level", Colonel K remarks that what the situation needs is an agent who doesn't know the meaning of the word "fear". DM, it turns out, really doesn't. "Is it French?" (In "Welcome to Danger World!" it turns out he doesn't know "cowardly" either. "Are you sure that's a word?")
  • The whole plot of "The World Wide Spider" proceeds from the revelation that the World Wide Web is literally an enormous world-spanning spider web, spun by a gargantuan spider. Which, when it gets nasty, they deal with by threatening to hoover it up with the equally literal Vacuum of Space.
  • In "Send in the Clones", DM and Penfold go to save the day on the richest planet in the universe. Penfold makes a comment about the alien beings who live there being "made of money", which turns out to be literally true.
• Literal Surveillance Bug: The Professor invents one in "Big Head Awakens". DM promptly mistakes it for a real bug and squishes it.
• The Load: Penfold is this at times, being a Bumbling Sidekick who almost never does anything useful.
• Load-Bearing Boss: When the antagonist computer in "Escape from Big Head" is defeated with a logic bomb, the entire automated prison it constructed explodes.
• Logic Bomb: In "Escape from Big Head", a supercomputer designed to capture criminals starts sending its robots after everybody who commits even a minor offence. DM defeats it by tricking it into committing a crime; it orders its robots to arrest itself then explodes from the illogic of the situation.
• Loony Fan: Ian the fanboy in "Danger Fan". At first he just follows DM around driving everyone to distraction with his squeeing and his tendency to touch stuff he shouldn't, then he starts kidnapping people to add to his collection of Danger Mouse memorabilia, and when caught out smoothly transitions from squeeing about getting to help Danger Mouse catch bad guys to squeeing about getting to be a Danger Mouse bad guy.
• Losing Your Head: In "The Scare Mouse Project", DM has to deal with the disembodied and independently mobile head of the Headless Postman, out for revenge after the defeat of its body. (It still refers to itself as the Headless Postman, leading to another character suggesting that it's technically the Postmanless Head.)

• Madness Mantra: In "Greenfinger", Prof. Sqawkencluck repeatedly yells "YOU SNUCK INTO MY LAB?!" when she returns from the "Chickens of Rock" festival once she discovers that DM, well, snuck into her lab to water a space plant.
• Magic Countdown: "The Return of Danger K" has a 30-second countdown in five-second increments. It takes a whole minute to get from "30 seconds remaining" to "5 seconds remaining", and the last five-second interval lasts 30 seconds all on its own.
• Magic Feather: Parodied in the 2015 Christmas Episode, in which Santa Claus takes a 10-Minute Retirement after a villain steals the magic hat that gives Santa his powers. Professor Squawkencluck gives him an inspirational speech — "You don't need some hat, you're Santa!" — and he goes out and helps DM defeat the villain. When DM offers him the hat back, Santa proudly declares that he doesn't need it any more... and something immediately happens that forces him to admit that he actually does.
• Mailman vs. Dog: Invoked by DM to defeat the Headless Postman in "The Scare Mouse Project".
• Makeover Montage: DM and Penfold undergo one in "Pink Dawn", in order to be Disguised in Drag.

  Colonel K: For goodness' sake, DM! The fate of the world is in your hands! Do an amusing makeover montage, and that's an order!

• Male Gaze: Probably unintentional, but at one point in "Megahurtz Attacks" the camera focuses on Professor Squawkencluck's backside (the context was that Danger Mouse noticed a screwdriver in her back pocket that he needed).
• Mathematician's Answer: In "Pink Dawn", the Professor finds DM messing about in her lab and demands, "What is the meaning of this?"; DM replies by giving the dictionary definition of the word 'this'.
• Meaningful Name: With a side order of Genius Bonus as well. Early pillarboxes were known as "Penfolds" after their designer.
• Medium Awareness: In "The Duckula Show", Duckula becomes a Reality Warper by proxy by kidnapping the show's writers and forcing them to rewrite the show in his favor.
• Mirror Universe: The "Twistiverse" in the episode "Sinister Mouse", home to the criminal Sinister Mouse, his heroic nemesis Danger Toad and the evil mastermind Penfold.
• "Mister Sandman" Sequence: In "The Return of Danger K", the flashback to Danger K's heyday in The '80s crams a bunch of period signifiers into its first few seconds, including a punk hassling a yuppie in a dayglo jogging outfit carrying a huge mobile phone, and posters for "Hug", "Ant Adam", "WhamBam!!!", and "The Sniffs". It doesn't quite manage a genuine period soundtrack, though, having to settle for some generic eighties-sounding incidental music.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: The sea monsters Von Greenback creates in "Danger at C Level".

  Danger Mouse: A hammerhead prawnopus?! Honestly — who comes up with this stuff?

• Modern Major General: Colonel K; however, it is made explicit that he used to be an agent of some competence, and save for being old and out of shape he might still be a useful agent, implying The Peter Principle.
• The Mole: In "The Unusual Suspects", someone is leaking operational information to Von Greenback, leading to the suspicion that one of the agents at HQ is a mole. (Apart from Danger Mole, obviously.) It turns out that Colonel K's moustache has been kidnapped and replaced with an impostor.
• Motor Mouth: Penfold spends most of every cartoon talking his mouth off.
• Monumental Damage:
  • In the first episode, DM's over-enthusiastic pursuit of the Frog's Head Flyer through London results in the destruction of the Gherkin, the London Eye, and Buckingham Palace.
  • In "The Other Day the Earth Stood Still", the narrator remarks that the Eiffel Tower has stood proud and undamaged for many years, moments before DM drives into it in his haste to get at the Baron. Also, the montages showing the Baron's plan going into effect around the world feature many iconic monuments, all of which suffer some degree of damage.
• Mugged for Disguise: In "The Cute Shall Inherit the Earth", DM and Penfold snatch a pair of cultists and steal their robes to infiltrate the secret cult of kittens.
• Mummy Wrap: In "Planet of the Toilets", DM temporarily restrains a rampaging toilet by wrapping it up in toilet paper.
• Murder by Remote Control Vehicle: In "Big Head Awakens", Prof. P. Squawkencluck's new security system goes berserk. It seizes control of the Dangermobile and attempts to run down DM and Penfold.
• Musical Episode: In "Melted", Danger Mouse reluctantly takes a role in The Princess' musical re-enactment of her favourite musical Melted for a double-length, all-singing, all-dancing special.
• My Friends... and Zoidberg: "Big Penfold" opens with a meeting of the world's foremost scientific minds... and Isambard King Kong Brunel.
• Needle in a Stack of Needles: In "Big Head Awakens", Panda-Minion makes an attempt on DM's life by disguising himself as a milkman and delivering a milk bottle that contains a time bomb. Having recognised the bomb, DM returns it to the back of Panda-Minion's milk float, leaving him searching fruitlessly among the genuine milk bottles to find the bomb before it goes off.
• Neon Sign Hideout: In "The Other Day the Earth Stood Still", Von Greenback's lair is extremely visible even without the actual neon sign, which is enormous and arrow-shaped and says "Greenback's Lair".
• Nephewism: The new Professor Squawkencluck is the niece of the old one.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!:
  • In "Day Of The Suds", after DM successfully corrals and destroys Von Greenback's army of sentient washing machines, a reporter hounds him for not only having the city with dirty laundry permanently but for the by-product of the damaged machines' fuel and sparking cables irradiating in the soap compartments: a giant detergent monster.
  • The first episode has Colonel K firing Danger Mouse for destroying London while trying to stop the Frog's Head Flyer (which was controlled by Von Greenback's newly-introduced ally Panda-Minion, who explains he bought it on eBay).
  • "From Duck to Dawn" has Count Duckula interviewing Danger Mouse, who tells about how great he is and what the world has done to show appreciation for it. This awakens Duckula's ambitions: he's now not content with being the biggest star in Transylvania, he now wants to BIGGEST STAR IN THE WORLD!
• Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"!: In "Gold Flinger", Danger Mouse is diagnosed with Compulsive Challenge Disorder, an irresistable compulsion to do literally anything no matter how stupid if he's challenged to prove he can do it. Quark the alien conman uses it against him for the rest of the episode.
• Nobody Here but Us Statues: In "Sinister Mouse", DM is walking around a wax museum and comes to a statue of himself and Penfold, but itself actually just a statue of DM that the real Penfold is posing with while wishing somebody would make a statue of him too.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed:
  • Talkshow host Jiminy Camel.
  • Part of the episode "Sinister Mouse" is set at Madame One-Sword's Wax Museum, which features statues of such infamous figures as Bunny & Clyde and Dick Terrapin.
  • Several times, a pig represents Donald Trump (complete with the hair and orange skin) and an owl represents Theresa May.
  • Tennis star John McEnroe is caricatured as a robot in "Duckula Meets Frankenstoat".
• No Communities Were Harmed: Colonel K lists the New York City landmarks that have disappeared in "The Statue of Liberty Caper"—Yonkee Studio, Umpire State Building, and the Giggleheim Museum.
• No Fourth Wall:
  • Fully embraced. Just in the first episode, we have the action-packed opening scene blowing the budget for the series, the narrator filling in for the incidental music and discussing the logical inconsistencies of the hologram tech with DM, a split screen between the office and the lab turning out to be a shared set, and the agency seizing the Baron's assets to pay for future episodes.
  • The episode "Danger Fan" blurs the line between "fan of Danger Mouse, the person" and "fan of Danger Mouse, the TV show": the obsessed fanboy has a large collection of merch and when referring to DM's past exploits he mentions the titles and episode numbers of the episodes they occurred in.
  • When DM foils Duckula's plan to control the world through television, Duckula's We Will Meet Again speech is that if there's one thing DM has taught him, it's that you can just reboot your show and start again.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Not only does Colonel K not look like a chinchilla, he's completely furless except for his facial hair. Every other fur-covered species in the show is coverered in fur, faces included.
• Noodle Incident:
  • When they're all imprisoned in "Escape from Big Head", Colonel K compares it to the time he was imprisoned in a Siberian gulag.
  • Penfold has a pathological fear of elephants following an event he initially refused to discuss, called "the incident". (An elephant sat on him for two days straight.)
• Noodle People: Jeopardy Mouse and Danger Moth. Danger Mouse himself is a downplayed exale.
• No Ontological Inertia:
  • In "Pink Dawn", everything returns to normal the moment DM destroys the tiara that gave Dawn her Reality Warper powers.
  • In "From Duck to Dawn", anyone who watches Count Duckula's TV show is gradually transformed into a giant vegetable. When DM disables the transmitter, all the victims immediately revert to their original forms.
• Not Hyperbole: In "The World Wide Spider", DM panics about an enormous spider in his bathroom. When Penfold, tutting at the exaggeration, goes to fetch it out, he discovers that it really is enormous: it's literally bigger than DM.
• Not Quite Flight: As of "Quark Games", DM, Penfold, and Jeopardy Mouse have been equipped with wing-suits (and provided narrative excuse for why they don't always have them).
• Not So Above It All:
  • DM might be the 'Greatest Secret Agent in the World', but with a show like Danger Mouse he's not immune from the craziness. This is generally restricted to bad puns at inappropriate moments and walking into traps because he's not paying attention to the obvious.
  • Jeopardy Mouse may be more skilled than Danger Mouse, but she can be just as egocentric as him.
• Not-So-Forgotten Birthday: In "Happy Boom Day", Professor Squawkencluck thinks everyone's forgotten her birthday when in fact DM has persuaded them to throw her a surprise party. Rather than keep the audience in suspense, this fact is revealed immediately (with Penfold suggesting it's perhaps not a good move when DM genuinely did forget the Professor's birthday last year). In a further twist, the party is thrown about halfway through the episode and the Professor has very nearly decided to forgive DM when he bursts in and starts trashing all the gifts, the cards, and the cake. Fortunately, she realises that this apparent act of cruelty must have some reason behind it, and after joining DM and Penfold in defeating Von Greenback's scheme to take over the world with robot birthday presents, killer cards, and exploding cakes, she even admits that it's been the most fun birthday she can remember.
• No Water Proofing In The Future: The Baron's robots in "There's No Place Like Greenback" can be explosively disabled by splashing them with a small amount of water.
• Oblivious Guilt Slinging: In "Greenfinger", the Professor calls DM to apologize for assuming that he would get into her experiments and create a mess — while he's in the middle of trying to clean up the mess he created after getting into her experiments.
• Official Couple: Penfold/Scarlet Johamster, and according to the future seen at the end of "The World Is Full of Stuff", Danger Mouse and P. Squawkencluck.
• Oh, Crap!: In "Pink Dawn", after Professor Squawkencluck saves Dawn from eating a mini particle fusion bomb that looks like a gumball, it suddenly cuts to Penfold having an 'oh-crap' expression before spitting out said bomb that he thought was a gumball. He tosses it away afterward- where right on cue, it explodes behind him.
• One-Man Army: Danger Mouse is capable of taking on entire groups of powerful enemies by himself, dispatching them with a smile and a witty Bond One-Liner whenever he gets the chance.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted for The Narrator and one of the villains, who are both named Isambard.
• Only Six Faces: The same half-dozen or so animals appear as incidental characters wherever in the world DM happens to be.
• Out-of-Character Alert: In "The Scare Mouse Project", Penfold disappears and Professor Squawkencluck begins acting strangely. It's revealed that the latter is actually a hologram being controlled by Penfold, a revelation that's foreshadowed by several minutes when the fake Professor addresses Danger Mouse as "Chief", which only Penfold does. (Danger Mouse completely fails to notice.)
• Overly Long Scream: Penfold is a master. He screams all the way through the title sequence without apparently taking a breath.
• Overly Narrow Superlative: In "The Return of Danger K", Colonel K reminisces about Tutankhamuu, "the most evil Egyptian cow-based villain since Cowapatra".
• Overt Operative: DM is known in both versions as "The World's Greatest Secret Agent", and this series plays it straighter as almost everyone outside of his rogues' gallery knows who he is.
  • Lampshaded in Jeopardy Mouse's first appearance, when she mentions it as a sign of DM's unprofessionalism.
• Packed Hero: In the 2015 Christmas Episode, Penfold stumbles into Santa's automated production line and gets gift-wrapped and dumped in Santa's gift bag.
• Painful Body Waxing: Penfold undergoes it during the Makeover Montage in "Pink Dawn".
• Paper-Thin Disguise: The milkman in "Big Head Awakens" who is quite obviously Panda-Minion wearing a milkman uniform, a pair of dark glasses, and an enormous false beard.
• Perplexing Plurals: In the first episode, a newsreader reports on Baron von Greenback's robotic "Safety Mouses", then realizes that doesn't sound right, and tries "Mices", "Meeces", and "Meecicles" before giving up.
• Pink Means Feminine: Everything Dawn possesses and transforms into in "Pink Dawn".
• Pit Trap: The 'regulation pit traps' become a Running Gag in "Quark Games", with just about every character falling (or being knocked into) one at some point.
• Plank Gag: Penfold knocks Jeopardy Mouse into a Pit Trap with a mop he has over his shoulder when he has a bucket stuck on his head in "Quark Games".
• Playing Both Sides: In "The Frog Who Would Be King", Baron Von Greenback apparently reforms after falling in love, but DM is convinced it's just a scheme, especially once Von Greenback's love interest is kidnapped. Von Greenback, meanwhile, believes DM kidnapped her in an attempt to ruin his happiness. It turns out they're being played against each other by Von Greenback's daughter, who intends to kill them both and take over Von Greenback's scheme. (Yes, of course there's a scheme. It's Von Greenback)
• Polar Bears and Penguins:
  • Parodied in "Jeopardy Mouse". A scene in the Antarctic features both a penguin and a polar bear; the penguin asks the polar bear what he's doing there, and he explains that he's on holiday.
  • In the 2015 Christmas Episode, Santa Claus is a polar bear and the elves are penguins.
• Popping Buttons: In "The Return of Danger K", Colonel K uses his no-longer-well-fitting Danger Suit to his advantage in the final battle, firing buttons as projectiles at his opponent.
• Potty Emergency: Penfold all the way through "Planet of the Toilets".
• Primary-Color Champion: While Danger Mouse's costume is mainly white, it features red and yellow accents. Inverted with his evil alternate universe counterpart Sinister Mouse, who also wears red and yellow.
• Princess Phase: "Pink" Dawn Crumhorn a.k.a. The Princess. A young spoiled poodle who is solidly in the middle of her princess phase and who becomes powerful after her tiara comes into contact with personality-amplifying mind gel. Double subverted in "Dark Dawn" when she became an emo, only to return to the princess phase in the end.
• The Professor: Professor Squawkencluck.
• Psycho Pink: The Princess in "Pink Dawn".
• Pun: "From Duck Till Dawn" has Duckula's broadcasts go global and turn people into vegetable zombies, with one having been turned into a literal "couch potato" as he's watching.
• Pungeon Master: In "Planet of the Toilets", nearly everything Dr Loo-cifer says is a toilet-related play on words.

• The Quincy Punk: Birch Badboy, a villain from The '80s who stages a comeback in "The Return of Danger K".
• Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud: Stiletto in the "Safety Mouse" promotional video in the first episode.
• Reality Warper: Dawn can change virtually anything pink and pretty, and more, with her enhanced tiara.
  • Thanks to an item her dad brought for her in "Tomorrow Never Comes", she used it to literally remove any day of the week. She kept the weekend active so she can play more.
  • In "Melted", she turned the world into one big musical to relive her favorite show.
• Recurring Extra: The American tourists and Big Mike the pie-seller.
• Relax-o-Vision: When the monster of the week in "The Scare Mouse Project" reveals its horrifying true form, the action is interrupted by a picture of a cute kitten and tinkly music as the narrator explains that it's too horrifying to actually show.
• Remake Cameo: Jimmy Hibbert, the voice of Crumhorn in the original series, voices a news reporter in "Pink Dawn".
• Remember the New Guy?: Lampshaded in "The Unusual Suspects":

  Danger Mouse: You know, Penfold, these agents are more than just colleagues to me — they're family.
  Penfold: That's funny. I'd never met half of them till the last scene.

• Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: In "The Inventor Preventer", the villain uses time travel to prevent famous inventions, but everybody still remembers the original timeline and knows something has changed.
• The Rival: Jeopardy Mouse is the female, American equivalent version of Danger Mouse. Both agents always butt heads whenever they cross paths before inevitably working together against a common threat.
• Robotic Assembly Lines: In the first episode, DM and Penfold infiltrate the factory making Von Greenback's Safety Mouse robots. Penfold gets stuck on the conveyor belt, and the factory robots assemble a set of Safety Mouse armor around him.
• Running Gag:
  • There's a running gag that Colonel K is only vaguely aware that Danger Mouse has a sidekick, and can never remember his name.
  • "From Duck Till Dawn" dusts off the old joke about "TV turning people into vegetables". Only it actually happens, and also to Penfold too.
• Rushmore Refacement: At the hands (or tentacles) of alien tourists in "Welcome to Danger World!".
• Sarcasm-Blind: In "Big Penfold", DM has been given charge of a valuable device needed to save the world, and several people start pestering him to borrow it for their own petty reasons. When DM says, "Fine, let's all have a go, shall we?" Penfold takes him at his word.
• The Scream: The world's first self-aware toilet's reaction to realizing what it is that humans generally do with toilets, in "Planet of the Toilets".
• Screw Learning, I Have Phlebotinum!: When Penfold's intelligence is artificially enhanced in "Never Say Clever Again", he immediately develops the ability to do complicated origami, spouts a series of facts about history and science, and starts talking with big words.
• Secondary-Color Nemesis: The main-ish villain Von Greenback is green and wears a purple suit, contrasting with the red and yellow accents in Danger Mouse's white costume. Interestingly, Greenback's good alternate universe counterpart, Danger Toad, and Danger Mouse's evil counterpart, Sinister Mouse, invert this by retaining their alternates' color schemes.
  • Count Duckula is also a green guy in a purple suit (plus some purple hair streaks), while Stiletto, Von Greenback's main minion, wears a green trenchcoat and fedora.
• See the Invisible: In "The Return of Danger K", Ivana the Invisible boasts that the heroes can't see her... only to realise that falling snow is landing on her.
• Sliding Timescale: The episode "The Return of Danger K" has a flashback to the pre-DM days when Danger K was Britain's top agent — set in "1983-ish", right in the midst of the original series's run.
• Smart House: In "Big Head Awakens", P. Squawkencluck sets up HQ with an AI security system that has control over the whole building. Inevitably there are a series of humorous accidents that cause the AI to go off the rails, imprison everyone in the building, and then try to take over the world.
• Social Media Before Reason:
  • In "The World Wide Spider", the monster-of-the-week's rampage keeps crossing paths with a tour group that's always standing in front of whichever landmark it's about to attack. The group includes one particular tourist who always stays put long enough to take a selfie of himself with the monster in the background.
  • When Penfold gets addicted to his new phone, he starts posting vast quantities of selfies to social media, even while on secret missions. Baron von Greenback uses these post to track the duo and thwart DM's every move. DM is eventually to use Penfold's addiction to halt the Baron's scheme.
• Something Only They Would Say: In "Sinister Mouse", Penfold attempts to distinguish between DM and his Evil Twin by asking a question about himself that only DM would know. It turns out DM doesn't know the answer either, so Penfold has to resort to eeney-meeney-miney-mo.
• Spoiled Brat: As the little child she is and being pampered constantly by her father, Dawn has the tendency to always get what she wants, and throwing tantrums when she doesn't. This is even after gaining the power to bend reality to her will.
• Spot the Imposter: In "Sinister Mouse", DM and his Evil Twin get in a fight that results in them both being covered in mud and obscuring the differences in their appearances, so Penfold has to devise a Something Only They Would Say test to tell them apart.
• Staircase Tumble: In "Never Say Clever Again", Von Greenback sets himself up as the ruler of the world, complete with a throne at the top of a very high staircase, which he ends up tumbling down when DM counter-attacks.
• Stand-In Portrait: In the first episode, DM and Penfold are examining Colonel K's office after the Colonel was (apparently) abducted by a robot, when they realise there's something odd about the portrait behind his desk. ("I've heard of portraits with eyes that follow you around the room, but the whole portrait?") It turns out to be this trope.
• Steampunk: The Mad Scientist Isambard King Kong Brunel (whose name is a homage to the great 19th-century engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel) has a steampunk motif.
• Shopping Cart Antics: In "The Other Day the Earth Stood Still", Baron von Greenback brings all of the world's vehicles to a halt, except two: a rusty rocket that is blasting off, and a shopping trolley rolling across a supermarket car park. DM immediately decides that the most suspicious is...the shopping trolley! Penfold then suggests that the rocket might be more worthy of investigation.
• Ship Tease: While not seen all that much in the first season, the second season has begun to sow seeds for more personal relationships from the leads and their supporting cast, this has even extended to giving Penfold a recurring love interest with hollywood actress Scarlett Johamster.
  • Jeopardy Mouse longs for DM's company when the pair lead separate lives stranded on an alien planet in "Lost Tempers in Space", and one of the captives on the planet is a Shipper on Deck for the pair. In "Thanksgiving Sinner", Jeopardy invites both DM and Penfold to America to spend thanksgiving dinner with her..and gets slightly emotional when she explains to them how much she values their friendship (of course, DM gets the wrong end of the stick and thinks she's talking about people in her life other than himself and Penfold)
  • The episode "Day of the Derek" reveals Danger Mouse and Penfold's future descendants will marry.
  • The teasing for Squawkencluck and Penfold hit it's apex in the latter stages of the second season. In "A Fistful of Penfolds" Squawk rescues Penfold from an army of rogue "Tenfold" drones she had created. At one point in the episode, she openly admits to wanting to kiss him, with Penfold attempting to reciprocate with a kiss before Squawk declines. "Jam Session" sees Squawk attempt to persuade Penfold to take her out to a cosplay convention, one of the favours she does for him is give him massage therapy. In "Crouching Hamster, Hidden Wagon" she refers to Penfold as her hero. The musical episode "Melted" also furthered the teasing, revealing the two share a mutual love of a musical.
  • Danger Mouse/Professor Squawkencluck get their fair share of ship teasing in season 2 as well, to the point that it's now rivalling Penfold/Squawkencluck. To elaborate: in "Daylight Savings Crime" Squawkencluck accidentally pinches Danger Mouse's butt. Then, in "Bot Battles", Squawkencluck accidentally farts and Danger Mouse promptly teases her for it. "Melted" has Squawkencluck being driven to tears at Danger Mouse's singing voice. More recently, in "We Aren't Family", Danger Mouse and Squawkencluck pose as a married couple (with Penfold as their son) and they perform a romantic dance together during a dance competition. "Danger-Thon" also hints that Danger Mouse wants to be like Squawkencluck, with a video clip having him act like her. Most tellingly, in "The World Is Full of Stuff", Squawk invents a camera that can take snapshots of future events, revealing that she and DM share a kiss. While the events of the episode show all is not as it seems (DM and Squawk's "kiss" is just a way of transferring a key in Squawk's mouth to DM's mouth), the cliffhanger ending of the episode sees the alien antagonist take another photo of the two which reveals they get married in the future!
  • Danger Mouse/Penfold gets its fair share of ship teases, the main ones being Penfold being listed as DM's spouse on his passport, DM and Penfold singing a romantic duet, a Danger Mouse worshipping cult referring to Penfold as Danger Mouse's "special one", and not least the official Danger Mouse twitter posting this image.
  • The musical episode "Melted" actually seems to have done a lot of ship teasing. It may very well open the doors to Danger Mouse/Pink Dawn (especially that last big duet the two shared), some fanfic writers are a little uneasy with this because of the Jail Bait Taboo implications, but some authors cite the episode "Dark Dawn" as a way out due to it's reveal Dawn is a much older (and moodier) teenager when she isn't wearing her tiara, which merely creates the illusion she is a little girl. Her actual age remains a mystery, it could range from thirteen to nineteen (age of consent)
  • Another possible pairing is Dawn and Mr.Snuggles, largely in part to their reconciliation in "Dark Dawn".
• Sting: In the first episode, Danger Mouse is fired because the show can no longer afford to keep paying for the damage he causes in his action sequences; this news ought to be accompanied by a "Dun Dun DUN" sting, but all there is is the narrator saying "Dun Dun DUN", because they've had to economize by firing the musicians who provide the incidental music.
• The Stoic: In "Danger Fan", DM's Danger Licence is up for renewal, which means he's being followed around by a stern-faced examiner who watches without reacting except to occasionally make a note on his clipboard. Subverted in the end, when the examiner admits that the stern silent presentation was a result of him holding down the urge to squee at getting to watch Danger Mouse in action.
• Stock "Yuck!": In the Christmas Special, Colonel K is cornered by a reanimated roast chicken that fires brussels sprouts. It's implied that he would be able to face the situation with complete equanimity were it not for the sprouts. Ugh, sprouts.
• Summon Backup Dancers: In "The World Wide Spider", DM and Penfold are fighting a monster near the Taj Mahal when DM asks Penfold to create a diversion. Penfold starts singing and dancing, and after a moment an entire Bollywood song-and-dance number unfolds out of nowhere around him.
• Super Serum: Formula X in "The Unusual Suspects".
• Spiders Are Scary:

"The World Wide Spider" revolves around DM having to conquer his arachnophobia.

• Split-Screen Phone Call: Played with in the first episode. Colonel K calls the Professor on the intercom, and the camera shifts to an apparent split-screen between the Colonel's office and the Professor's lab. Then it's revealed they're actually two halves of the same room, with a thick black line painted down the wall between them.
• Shout-Out:
  • In "Planet of the Toilets", the tracking device in DM's car showing the movements of Dr Loo-cifer looks remarkably like a game of Pac-Man.
  • Also in "Planet of the Toilets", one of the revolting toilets has a placard reading, "Tinkle ye not", playing on one of Frankie Howerd's catchphrases.
  • The episode title "The Other Day the Earth Stood Still" is a reference to The Day the Earth Stood Still.
  • "The Return of Danger K" features a flashback to the early 1980s and a punk-themed villain attempting to bring about anarchy in the UK.
  • In "The Return of Danger K", the gadgets Danger K used in the 1980s, and the way they pop out of his uniform, are more than somewhat reminiscent of 1980s animated hero Inspector Gadget.
  • "The Return of Danger K" also features an "Arkwright Asylum for the Criminally Challenged", which bears a striking resemblance to Arkham Asylum as depicted in Batman: The Animated Series. The Batman references get even more blatant in "Daylight Savings Crime", where DM faces a night-themed foe clearly based on Batman called the Night Knight, complete with jokes about capes, sendups to The Cowl tropes, and a gag about the gravelly Batman Begins voice.
  • In "The World Wide Spider", DM's flyer has an inflatable 'auto-Penfold' which closely resembles Otto the Autopilot.
  • The Duckula reintroduction episode is "From Duck To Dawn", a play on the vampire-stripper movie From Dusk Till Dawn.
  • "The Unusual Suspects" features a sequence where a Super Serum-enhanced enemy is loose in HQ, which contains many shout-outs to Alien.
  • Dawn Crumhorn's pony looks very suspiciously like Twilight Sparkle.
  • The 2015 Christmas Episode features an attack by sinister flying snowmen, which includes a brief parody of the "walking in the air" sequence from the classic Christmas Special The Snowman.
  • The tunnel escape in "Escape from Big Head" includes several shout-outs to The Great Escape.
  • Big Head herself borrows her outfit and appearance from Max Headroom.
  • In "Hail Hydrant!", Jeopardy Mouse's archenemies are an organisation called Hydrant, who are a lot like Hydra from Marvel Comics and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. They even have a version of "Cut off a head and two more will take its place!" although DM points out it doesn't really work with hydrants.
• Shrink Ray: "Big Penfold" features a shrink ray that can also be put in reverse and used to make things bigger.
• Shrunk in the Wash: In "Big Penfold", part of the trouble begins because Penfold's trousers have shrunk in the wash. At the end of the episode, the giant Penfold is shown being run through a car wash in the hope that it will shrink him back to normal.
• Story-Breaker Power: Invoked. In "Clash of the Odd-esy" DM's made into a Physical God by Zeus. He gets bored of just sitting around pretty fast and goes to take on his usual Rogues Gallery, only to realize absolute power takes the fun out of fighting evil since they're no threat.
• Take My Hand!: "The Return of Danger K" plays with the "glove slips off" variant — Danger K catches the villain by the ankle, and he falls after his foot slips out of his boot.
• Take Our Word for It: The true form of the monster in "The Scare Mouse Project", which is so terrifying that even Danger Mouse is affected, is supposedly too frightening to show on TV. The initial reveal triggers a Relax-o-Vision interruption, and thereafter the monster appears only in "Jaws" First-Person Perspective.
• Teeth Clenched Team Work: Danger Mouse and Jeopardy Mouse can't stand each other and will always fight to decide who is the best spy. Whenever they learn to work together for at least 5 minutes, they can easily finish their mission.
• Technician Versus Performer: On Jeopardy Mouse's first appearance, she and DM clash because she's a strait-laced professional and he prefers to take the most entertaining approach to a problem even if it's not the most efficient. By the end of the episode, each has admitted that the other's approach has its advantages.
• Tempting Fate:
  • In "Pink Dawn", DM assures Penfold that they've seen the last of Dawn — less than halfway through the episode. Immediately lampshaded, with everyone in the scene giving an Aside Glance to the audience.
  • In "Welcome to Danger World!", Penfold claims that he'd rather have his favorite tie set on fire than fight a dragon, immediately before a firey blast from the dragon sets his tie on fire. Subverted, as Penfold immediately says that it's all right because the tie he's wearing isn't his favorite tie.
• 10-Minute Retirement: In the 2015 Christmas Episode, a villain steals the magic hat that gives Santa Claus his powers, and Santa immediately gives up, sitting around in his underwear watching TV while DM and Penfold attempt to recover the hat. He eventually decides it's time to go and get the hat back himself after Professor Squawkencluck gives him an inpirational speech — not because of the speech, but because he's discovered there's nothing on TV except reruns of things he's already seen.
• Terrestrial Sea Life: Danger Mackerel and Agent 48 (a mimic octopus) go about on land.
• That Man Is Dead: Parodied in "Pink Dawn". "There is no Dawn. There is only ... The Princess!"
• That Poor Car: Happens during the battle in the flashback to The '80s in "The Return of Danger K".
• Three-Point Landing: DM does one in "From Duck to Dawn" after being ejected by Count Duckula. Beside him, Penfold does a faceplant.
• Timey-Wimey Ball: In the episode "The Inventor Preventer", DM and Penfold go back in time to prevent Isambard King Kong Brunell inventing the time machine. This gets lampshaded in the final scene.

  Penfold: Hang on. If time machines were never invented, how did we manage to get back here? And how did we stop him inventing the time machine in the first place if we didn't have a time machine? This episode doesn't make any sense!
  Narrator: Well, no change there, then. Join us next time for another equally well thought-out episode of Danger Mouse!

• Tin-Can Telephone: Crumples the Clown uses one to feed DM information on the aliens' culture in "Attack of the Clowns".
• Title Drop: Lampshade Hanging in the episode "Pink Dawn", when DM sees the pinkified London.

  DM: Well, I suppose it's cheerful enough. Like some sort of ... pink dawn.
  Penfold: I love it when we get the episode title in like that!

• Toilet Humor:
  • Episode 4 is titled "Planet Of The Toilets". The antagonist is a sentient toilet named John, but after Penfold accidentally drops a microchip into its bowl, he becomes malevolent and names himself Loo-cifer.
  • Episode 2 ("Danger At Level C") starts off showing a Yeti doing his business.
  • In "There's No Place Like Greenback", the Baron plans to disable London by releasing an amnesia gas from an enormous balloon shaped like himself. Cue jokes about "getting a whiff of the Baron's noxious gas" — and then we find out where the release valve on the balloon is located...
  • Penfold and Professor P. Squawkencluck have both farted at different times (Penfold in "Sharp As A Pin" and Squawkencluck in "Bot Battles").
• Tongue on the Flagpole: A variation. At one point in "Melted", Danger Mouse's butt gets frozen to a throne of ice as part of Pink Dawn's plan to reenact her favourite musical. He has to be rescued by Penfold with a hot water bottle.
• Too Incompetent to Operate a Blanket: In "Send in the Clones", Penfold is watching TV when an ad comes on for "Soup Funnel", a product for people too lazy or unco-ordinated to use a soup spoon. (You stick the funnel in your mouth and pour the soup in. Hard to imagine how that could go wrong.)
• Toothy Bird: Professor P. Squawkencluck and Stiletto Mafiosa both have this going, and Count Duckula sports fangs.
• Torches and Pitchforks: "From Duck to Dawn" ends with the Transylvanian peasants DM has rescued from Count Duckula chasing him (that is, DM) with torches and pitchforks after he makes some unwise comments about their intelligence and personal hygiene.
• Traintop Battle: In "Planet of the Toilets", Danger Mouse fights Doctor Loo-cifer atop a bullet train in Japan.
• Trap Door: In "From Duck to Dawn", Count Duckula has one in the entrance hall of his castle. Instead of dumping DM and Penfold into some horrifying dungeon, they end up on the guest couch in his talk show.
• Turn in Your Badge: DM is forced to do this in the first episode due to the mounting costs of his action scenes and his refusal to believe that Baron von Greenback has gone straight. Naturally, he insists on continuing his investigation without official backing, and proves that the Baron really is up to something.
• Turtle Island: In "Danger at C Level", a small island turns out to be Von Greenback's secret underwater base with some camouflaging sand and palm trees on top. At the end of the episode, Von Greenback's escape pod lands on another small island — which turns out to be an angry whale.

• Überwald: Transylvania is portrayed like this in "From Duck to Dawn", with the narrator lampshading the fact that modern Transylvania isn't at all like that in real life.
• Uncanny Village: Baron von Greenback's home town in "There's No Place Like Greenback" is occupied by cheerful villagers who look remarkably like the Baron and frequently speak in unison, especially when one of the village's seemingly-arbitrary rules comes up. ("No water!") It turns out the entire thing is an elaborate trap for DM, and the villagers are robots.
• Unfinished, Untested, Used Anyway:
  • In "Frankensquawk's Monster", Professor P. Squawkencluck and her mother, another famous scientist, collaborate on a device to solve the problem of the week. Once they've constructed it, Squawkencluck Senior notes that the next step ought to be peer review and a lot of testing — then they hand the thing to DM, he uses it, and it works perfectly.
• Unobtanium: The impenetrable and indestructible metal "convenientium".
• Vague Age: We don't know how old Danger Mouse and Penfold are supposed to be.
• Variable Terminal Velocity: Danger Mouse does the "fall faster to catch someone" trick to rescue Penfold in the title sequence.
• Villains Out Shopping: Near the start of "The Snowman Cometh" the narrator apologises that they couldn't get a better villain than the Snowman because all the other villains are busy celebrating the holidays.
• Visible Invisibility: Largely averted with Ivana the Invisible in "The Return of Danger K". Her invisible jet is never at all visible, and nor are the missiles it fires (only the explosion when they hit their target). Ivana herself is likewise completely invisible except for one shot which in which her eyes and the shadow areas of her face are briefly visible.
• The Von Trope Family: Baron von Greenback gets "von" added to his name because he's German now. Unusually for this trope, there's actually a place named "Greenback" on the map and DM says "von Greenback" means "from Greenback".
• Weaksauce Weakness:
  • Danger Moth is, of course, easily distracted by bright lights.
  • In "Planet of the Toilets", the rampaging toilets all cower in fear at the mere sight of someone brandishing a toilet brush.
• We Will Meet Again:
  • "Planet of the Toilets" ends with the villain vanishing into the sewer, declaring "You haven't heard the last of me!"
  • In "The Return of Danger K", one of Colonel K's old foes stages a comeback. In a flashback, and again in the present, he greets defeat with a proud declaration:

    Birch Badboy: You haven't heard the last of me! [crashes] Oof. Okay, maybe you have.

• What the Hell Is That Accent?: Jeopardy Mouse's accent is clearly American, but can't be placed to any particular region.
• Who Writes This Crap!?: Both Jeopardy Mouse and Baron von Greenback complain about the quality of their lines when Count Duckula stages a Hostile Show Takeover by kidnapping the writers in "The Duckula Show".
• Whole-Plot Reference: In "Mousefall" a previously unknown villain releases all DM's foes from Arkwright Asylum, in order to wear Danger Mouse out before he reveals himself. Even the title sounds familiar.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: In "The World Wide Spider", it turns out spiders are DM's one fear.
• Wild Take: In "Welcome to Danger World!", when DM has to pretend to be a coward so the alien tourists lose interest, Penfold tries to teach him how to do this. He's not very good at it.
• Wolf Man: One appears in the establishing shot at the beginning of "From Duck to Dawn".
• Written Sound Effect: During the fight scene in the dark in "Sinister Mouse".
• Yodel Land: When DM and Penfold visit Baron von Greenback's home town in "There's No Place Like Greenback", it's a little alpine village full of houses covered in quaint wooden carvings, men in lederhosen and big mustaches, and women in dirndl dresses and blond braids, and the main industry is sausages.
• Zeppelins from Another World: Briefly glimpsed while Von Greenback is looking through the world portal in "Sinister Mouse".