Fox and Cat

Fox and Cat is the slash ship between Fox (aka "Honest" John Foulfellow) and Cat (aka Gideon) from the Pinocchio fandom.

Canon
Fox and Cat are a pair of mischievious con men who usually spend the story trying to trick Pinocchio, being antagonists in the story.

Pinocchio (1940)
In the Disney adaptation, the Fox and the Cat are given proper names, "Honest" John and Gideon respectively. They first appear in the movie walking through the streets of Pinocchio's hometown, looking for a poor child to scam. They settle on Pinocchio after seeing him get off track on his way to school. Gideon initially tries to approach him with a flower in his hand, but John yanks him out of sight. They put themselves in his way, but John notices Gideon's mallet, takes it and hits him with it, telling him not to be crude. He tells him to let him handle this and puts his cane in Pinocchio's path while pretending to talk to Gideon, letting the poor boy trip. They help him up and dust him off to earn his trust. As Gideon tries to rob Pinocchio, John hits him with his cane and holds Pinocchio's book, charming him by calling him a "scholar", though he clearly couldn't care less about the book or Pinocchio's plans to go to school. He tells him that he has the chance to become an actor and they both lead him off his way to the theatre. On their way, John sings a ditty over how great it would be to be an actor.

But on their way, they are spotted by Jiminy Cricket, who sneaks into John's hat. Jiminy whistles, alerting the two crooks, but Pinocchio points out the cricket in his hat. Though Honest John thinks Pinocchio is seeing things, Gideon sees the cricket quite well and uses his mallet to try to crush the bug. However, Jiminy jumps out of the way, leading to Gideon hitting his parter by accident. Jiminy tells Pinocchio to go to school, refusing John's offer while he's distracted. But it doesn't take long for John to regain composure and for him and Gideon to catch up to the boy. When Pinocchio is presented with a choice of going to school like Jiminy said or becoming an actor like John and Gideon want him to, he doesn't even think twice before picking the latter. Once they make it to puppetmaster Stromboli, Honest John and Gideon present Pinocchio as their property and sell him to the puppeteer.

It is later revealed that Honest John and Gideon scam people to collect pay for their master, a mysterious man only known as "Coachman". Meeting up with him at an Inn called the "Red Lobster", he tells them of his new plan: He sends the two of them off to offer misbehaving boys the chance to go to "Pleasure Island". As Honest John and Gideon lean in to listen what will happen to the boys, Honest John panics and fears what would happen to them should anyone find out. The Coachman reassures them, there's no chance of them coming back "as boys". Though both of them are terrified of the Coachman, they agree to his requests to bring a carriage full of boys after being promised a handsome reward. So they run into Pinocchio's way again just as he escaped the clutches of Stromboli. Pinocchio tells his "friends" just how awful Stromboli was to him and they pretend to be sympathetic, telling him he needs a "vacation" to Pleasure Island. Pinocchio declines their "ticket", a simple, yet symbolic Ace of Spades, but they won't take no for an answer and practically carry him to the Coachman's wagon.

After Pinocchio's venture to and escape from Pleasure Island, they never appear again in the original Disney movie, the rest of the conflict is about Pinocchio saving his father, which they have nothing to do with.

Moments

 * In the 1940 movie, Gideon presses his ear onto John's as the latter listens to the Coachman's plan.
 * In the 2022 movie, Gideon himself seemingly carved "G+HJ" inside a heart on his trusty mallet.

Fanon
Though the ship is not very popular, many fans wholeheartedly believe that John and Gideon are gay.

The heart carving in the Disney remake is considered evidence that at least Gideon feels that way about John. Many have compared it to the canonizing of GaFou, with Gideon being a goofy sidekick to John, much like LeFou is to Gaston.

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Trivia

 * In the Disney movie, Honest John often refers to Gideon as "Giddy".
 * In Lies of P, the dark video game retelling of Pinocchio, the Fox and the Cat are presented as humans who are sister and brother, while wearing a fox and cat Stalker masks. Hence their "Red Fox" and "Black Cat" titles.
 * The two are shown to care for one another, with Red Fox looking after her little brother in a apocalyptic world and trying to find a cure for his fading sight.
 * Like the conmen characters they are based on, the two work for money, no matter who they find themselves working for and are even willing to steal it in order to survive. As well as them offering the humanoid Pinocchio protagonist their friendship.