Mr. Grasping is the main antagonist in "An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island".
He was voiced by Ron Perlman.
Personality[]
Mr. Grasping is a scheming, pompous, loathsome and acquisitive individual. He is shown to be cruel, greedy, ruthless, manipulative, opprobrious and scheming to his workers. Like Toplofty, and O'Bloat, Mr. Grasping doesn't care about Indians and lie to their workers about the Indians being enemies.
Mr. Grasping also shows that he has little tolerance for his employees doing anything that could cost him money. When Tony arrived late for example, Grasping was about to fire him alongside his co-workers; depraving him of his pay even after Mr. Mousekewitz played into his ego by saying that Tony would learn how to fear him if he gave him another chance. Later, when the workers become outraged by having to triple their work for the same pay, Grasping ordered McBrusque to attack one of them. This shows that he is greedy enough to ruin other people's lives even for minor offenses. Furthermore, while he is polite to his fellow factory, he does not care for them beyond what's expected of a professional.
Even after his defeat, Grasping learned nothing as he planned on getting back at his workers for forming a union. Also, he shows no compassion for his co-workers beyond what you would expect from a professional. Overall, Mr. Grasping is a horrible being who only cares about money. Even if he did feel as if the Indians were a real threat, his cruel and opprobrious nature makes him untrustworthy at best; purely evil at worst.
Appearance[]
Grasping is a tall and slender light-brown rat with gray thinning hair, white eyebrows and a black nose. And he wore a purple business suit, a yellow tie, a white dress shirt, white gloves and a black hat with a purple band. He also carries a cane. Mr. Grasping's tailcoat has two gold buttons in the back.