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Is that so? Well, you wouldn't have to put up with us anymore curly! 'Cause we're done playing fetch! Its time a doggy took a walk!
~ Twitch expressing his anger and hatred towards Madame Mousey.

Twitch is the secondary antagonist of An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster.

He is the short-tempered miniature cat who serves as the leader of the Outlaw Cats, a group of poor cats who lived in the sewers. He teamed up with Madame Mousey to create a robotic machine, the titular Night Monster, to attack and capture all the mice in Manhattan. He is the one who controls Mousey's Night Monster robotic machine alongside his cohorts, Bootlick and Slug, and sometimes Madame Mousey herself. However, their plan was foiled by Nellie Brie, Fievel Mousekewitz, and their friends.

He was voiced by John Mariano. 

Biography[]

Twitch is a sarcastic and short-tempered green miniature cat who serves as the leader of the group of very poor cats who lived in the sewers. He is also the boss of two dimwitted cats, Bootlick and Slug. Unlike Tiger and the more richer cats in the American Tail franchise, Twitch and his minions don't wear any clothing and walked on all fours instead of two. This is because of the security gate that the mice has built in Manhattan to protect them from any cat attacks. Because of their poor lifestyle and starvation, they have to rely and team up with a miniature French poodle named Madame Mousey and they helped her to create a machine, the titular night monster machine, to attack and kidnap all the mice in Manhattan and take them to the sewers, where they are to be eaten by the cats.

Twitch despises Madame Mousey, mostly because of Mousey abusing him throughout the song "Creature de la Nuit", and teased her about her problems with the other dogs. When they came back after a failed attempt to get rid of Nellie Brie, the reporter for the Daily Nibbler, and her friend Fievel Mousekewitz, Twitch tries to get the cats to betray Mousey because he believed they were better off without her and since they had Mousey's sewer maps, they can use them to get around the security gate. However, Mousey reminds Twitch that the cats still need her because Nellie Brie is on their case and is going to publish it in a newspaper, which will ruin the cats chances of surprise and the mice will retaliate against the cats. Twitch begrudgingly agrees with Madame Mousey, and then guesses correctly that Madame Mousey has a plan to destroy the Daily Nibbler and to get rid of Nellie Brie and her friends.

In the climax of the film, they succeeded in destroying the Daily Nibbler with Mousey's monster machine, but they failed to get rid of Nellie and her friends after Fievel has electrocuted Madame Mousey, saving his friends in the process. Twitch and his minions attack Fievel, Nellie, Reed, and Tanya with Mousey's monster machine. However, it gets destroyed, but Twitch survived and he attacks Reed and Nellie, but Fievel saves them and he tries to catch Fievel. He then gets defeated when Fievel tricks him by activating the printing newspaper machine and he got wrapped up in a newspaper. It is unknown what happened to him after that. He could be sold to an owner, escaped being tied up, or died from suffocation. The second theory however, seems much more plausible as Papa Mousekewitz reads on the news that the Outlaw Cats escaped, so it is likely that Twitch may have escaped as well with his allies.

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Trivia[]

  • Papa Mousekewitz reads on the newspaper that the Outlaw Cats had run away, so it is possible that Twitch was one of them.
  • Twitch and his minions are one of the only antagonists in the American Tail film series to sing, the others are Madame Mousey, the Cactus Cat Gang, Mr. Grasping, and Toplofty and O'Bloat. Despite this, he only sang once during Mousey's villain song.

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An American Tail
Mott Street Maulers (Warren T. Rat | Digit) | Moe | Cossack Cats | Wave Monster

Fievel Goes West
Cactus Cat Gang (Cat R. Waul | T.R. Chula | One Eye | Sweet William)

Fievel's American Tails
Travis T. Hippocrates

The Treasure of Manhattan Island
Mr. Grasping | Chief McBrusque | Scuttlebutt | Toplofty and O'Bloat

The Mystery of the Night Monster
Madame Mousey | Outlaw Cats (Twitch | Bootlick and Slug)

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