Professor Ratigan

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Professor Padraic Ratigan is the villain of Disney's The Great Mouse Detective. He is the story's version of Professor James Moriarty, and serves as the adversary to the Sherlock Holmes counterpart, Basil of Baker Street. Ratigan makes plans to take over Mousedom by replacing the queen with a robotic fake built by a toymaker. Basil and doctor Dawson foil these plans with help from the toymaker's daughter. Ratigan falls to his death in an epic confrontation with Basil on Big Ben's clock hands, in a scene rather like the battle at Reichenbach Falls. However, there is a difference in these scenes: while at Reichenbach both Moriarty and Holmes (apparently) fall to their doom, Basil survives while Ratigan plummets to his death. Ratigan hates being called a rat and even kills one of his henchmen when he calls him "the world's greatest rat". Ratigan was voiced by Vincent Price

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