diff --git a/stdlib/distutils/command/check.pyi b/stdlib/distutils/command/check.pyi
index cdbe40fff71d..3644c401b2ab 100644
--- a/stdlib/distutils/command/check.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/distutils/command/check.pyi
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ from ..cmd import Command
 _Reporter: TypeAlias = Any  # really docutils.utils.Reporter
 
 # Only defined if docutils is installed.
-class SilentReporter(_Reporter):
+# Depends on a third-party stub. Since distutils is deprecated anyway,
+# it's easier to just suppress the "any subclassing" error.
+class SilentReporter(_Reporter):  # type: ignore[misc]
     messages: Any
     def __init__(
         self,
diff --git a/stdlib/unittest/mock.pyi b/stdlib/unittest/mock.pyi
index 12ce2d2c78aa..f0345c903a3b 100644
--- a/stdlib/unittest/mock.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/unittest/mock.pyi
@@ -101,6 +101,8 @@ class _CallList(list[_Call]):
 class Base:
     def __init__(self, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> None: ...
 
+# We subclass with "Any" because mocks are explicitly designed to stand in for other types,
+# something that can't be expressed with our static type system.
 class NonCallableMock(Base, Any):
     def __new__(__cls, *args: Any, **kw: Any) -> Self: ...
     def __init__(
diff --git a/stubs/Pillow/PIL/ImageQt.pyi b/stubs/Pillow/PIL/ImageQt.pyi
index 434ba4d7e22e..6eb6287327dc 100644
--- a/stubs/Pillow/PIL/ImageQt.pyi
+++ b/stubs/Pillow/PIL/ImageQt.pyi
@@ -3,7 +3,10 @@ from typing_extensions import Literal, TypeAlias
 
 from .Image import Image
 
-_QImage: TypeAlias = Any  # imported from either of {PyQt6,PySide6,PyQt5,PySide2}.QtGui
+# imported from either of {PyQt6,PySide6,PyQt5,PySide2}.QtGui
+# These are way too complex, with 4 different possible sources (2 deprecated)
+# And we don't want to force the user to install PyQt or Pyside when they may not even use it.
+_QImage: TypeAlias = Any
 _QPixmap: TypeAlias = Any
 
 qt_versions: Any
@@ -15,7 +18,7 @@ def fromqimage(im: ImageQt | _QImage) -> Image: ...
 def fromqpixmap(im: ImageQt | _QImage) -> Image: ...
 def align8to32(bytes: bytes, width: int, mode: Literal["1", "L", "P"]) -> bytes: ...
 
-class ImageQt(_QImage):
+class ImageQt(_QImage):  # type: ignore[misc]
     def __init__(self, im: Image) -> None: ...
 
 def toqimage(im: Image) -> ImageQt: ...
diff --git a/stubs/SQLAlchemy/sqlalchemy/orm/decl_api.pyi b/stubs/SQLAlchemy/sqlalchemy/orm/decl_api.pyi
index 8938a45ad691..c54ea44d0485 100644
--- a/stubs/SQLAlchemy/sqlalchemy/orm/decl_api.pyi
+++ b/stubs/SQLAlchemy/sqlalchemy/orm/decl_api.pyi
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ _DeclT = TypeVar("_DeclT", bound=type[_DeclarativeBase])
 
 # Dynamic class as created by registry.generate_base() via DeclarativeMeta
 # or another metaclass. This class does not exist at runtime.
-class _DeclarativeBase(Any):  # super classes are dynamic
+class _DeclarativeBase(Any):  # type: ignore[misc]  # super classes are dynamic
     registry: ClassVar[registry]
     metadata: ClassVar[MetaData]
     __abstract__: ClassVar[bool]
diff --git a/stubs/mock/mock/mock.pyi b/stubs/mock/mock/mock.pyi
index 5fd3bdefd404..4de6ab88294a 100644
--- a/stubs/mock/mock/mock.pyi
+++ b/stubs/mock/mock/mock.pyi
@@ -81,7 +81,9 @@ class _CallList(list[_Call]):
 class Base:
     def __init__(self, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> None: ...
 
-class NonCallableMock(Base, Any):
+# We subclass with "Any" because mocks are explicitly designed to stand in for other types,
+# something that can't be expressed with our static type system.
+class NonCallableMock(Base, Any):  # type: ignore[misc]
     def __new__(
         cls: type[Self],
         spec: list[str] | object | type[object] | None = ...,
diff --git a/tests/mypy_test.py b/tests/mypy_test.py
index 3f81e82e5378..651c0925baa3 100644
--- a/tests/mypy_test.py
+++ b/tests/mypy_test.py
@@ -263,7 +263,6 @@ def run_mypy(
             # Stub completion is checked by pyright (--allow-*-defs)
             "--allow-untyped-defs",
             "--allow-incomplete-defs",
-            "--allow-subclassing-any",  # See #9491
             "--enable-error-code",
             "ignore-without-code",
             "--config-file",