As some of you may know that i'm a big fan of the people at That-Guy-With-The-Glasses.com and, well, one of the more recent videos by The Nostalgia Chick raised a very...interesting thought. I'll explain it after linking for those who dont want to sit through the video. It's her top ten Evil Nostalgic Characters and one of them happens to be Professor Ratigan from The Great Mouse Detective:

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/vi.....gic-characters

Basic top ten really but what caught my attention was when she said "One of disney's greatest underrated classics with the advantage of being made before Disney was self concious and took itself wildly too seriously, so this one didn't have alot of the pressure that later titles had...secondly it has some of the best sexual tension in any animated film between the antagonist and protagonist"

...this made me tilt my head and go "whaaa?" but then I started thinking about it...this compiled with her further reasoning has lead me to believe that this isn't too far off the button. First, let's look at Ratigan's villainous motivation...simply because it's fun and he seems to love outsmarting Basil and builds big elaborate traps to foil said mouse detective...

Analysis: An ex-boyfriend who goes to great lengths to impress the guy and show him he's moved on to bigger and better things.

And if we look at the other end of the coin? Basil seems to love lavishing both praise and insult on Ratigan at the same time doesn't he? One moment calling him a genius and the next calling him a slimey contemptable sewer rat, then at the end when they're facing off at the top of Big Ben, you'll notice Basil puts up nearly zero fight, getting majorly shredded for most of it...

Analysis: He's trying to get over the guy but still carries a torch for him.

Kinda makes you think eh?

Note: this was purely for thought provoking purposes, in actuality i'm sure this wasn't the intention of the writers ^_^; and go check out the people at that-guy-with-the-glasses.com!