Muscle Cats

Muscle Cats
Physical description
Species	Cats
Gender	Male
Biographical information
Friends	Tom Cat
Enemies	Muscles Mouse
Loses	Jerry's Cousin
Wins	None
Behind the Scenes
Voiced by	Paul Frees
First appearance	Jerry's Cousin

The Muscle Cats (also known as the Dirty Work Inc. Cats) are a trio of tough Manx cats that appeared in the Tom and Jerry cartoon Jerry's Cousin.

They work at company "Dirty Work Inc." They were called in the phone by Tom to defeat Muscles Mouse in his own game. When they arrived, Tom pointed where Muscles is at. While they were fighting Muscles, the tough cats thought they had defeated him, but when Muscles came back for round two to fight the trio cats, Muscles defeated them, carried them on a dustpan and threw them outside the house. After their departure, Tom then surrendered to Muscles.

One of the Muscle Cats reappear in The Tom and Jerry Show (2014) episode "Gym Rat", shown in a pile of cats that challenge a powerful Tom in arm wrestling.

Characteristics

Appearance

All three of them physically look identical to each other, aside from their color. They are slender, slightly muscular Manx cats resembling Butch Cat but with very short tails, yellow eyes and wear jumpers and oversized bowler hats.

The black cat who is wears a red shirt and a orange bowler hat, the orange cat wears a light-blue shirt and a bowler black hat, the brown cat wears a green shirt and a yellow bowler hat, they three are all Manx cats.

Personality

Since the Muscle Cats work mostly in the interests of those who demand, they are coined to be personal mercenaries or bodyguards only. Thus, they only work when someone pays them to do the business. Like Tom and most cats, they hate mice. Presumably the leader of the trio was the black manx cat.

Appearances

Tom and Jerry

• Jerry's Cousin

The Tom and Jerry Show (2014)

Season 4

• Gym Rat (cameo)

Trivia

• Two of the Muscle Cats' color schemes resemble that of Butch and Lightning's.
  • Especially that the black cat is the leader of The Muscle Cats, which Butch who also black cat is also the leader of a cat gang along with Lightning, Meathead and Topsy as members.
• Although the Muscle Cats do not appear in The Karate Guard, their roles are replaced by that of Butch Cat and two lookalike cats resembling him. Co-incidentally, they also suffered a similar fate as the Muscle Cats, except that they're defeated by Momo-sumo Spike instead of Muscles Mouse.
• They wear clothes like the The Alley Cat Gang from The Tom and Jerry Show (1975) episode, "The Police Kitten" and The Alley Cats from the 1993 fully animated movie.
  • Unlike the Alley Cats from the 1975 series and the 1993 movie, the Muscle Cats have helped Tom.

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