diff --git a/xblock/core.py b/xblock/core.py
index 20adbab3e..3250e45f0 100644
--- a/xblock/core.py
+++ b/xblock/core.py
@@ -266,39 +266,45 @@ def service_declaration(cls, service_name: str):
         return cls._combined_services.get(service_name)  # pylint: disable=no-member
 
     @class_lazy
-    def _services_requested(cls):  # pylint: disable=no-self-argument
+    def _services_requested(cls) -> dict[str, t.Any]:  # pylint: disable=no-self-argument
         """
         A per-class dictionary to store the services requested by a particular XBlock.
         """
         return {}
 
     @class_lazy
-    def _combined_services(cls):  # pylint: disable=no-self-argument
+    def _combined_services(cls) -> dict[str, t.Any]:  # pylint: disable=no-self-argument
         """
         A dictionary that collects all _services_requested by all ancestors of this XBlock class.
         """
         # The class declares what services it desires. To deal with subclasses,
         # especially mixins, properly, we have to walk up the inheritance
         # hierarchy, and combine all the declared services into one dictionary.
-        combined = {}
-        for parent in reversed(cls.mro()):  # pylint: disable=no-member
+        combined: dict[str, t.Any] = {}
+        for parent in reversed(cls._mro()):
             combined.update(getattr(parent, "_services_requested", {}))
         return combined
 
+    @classmethod
+    def _mro(cls) -> list[type[t.Self]]:
+        """
+        Silly helper for getting this object's/class's resolution order (MRO) without upsetting mypy or pylint.
+        """
+        return cls.mro()
+
     @class_lazy
-    def fields(cls):  # pylint: disable=no-self-argument
+    def fields(cls) -> dict[str, Field]:  # pylint: disable=no-self-argument
         """
         A dictionary mapping the attribute name to the Field object for all Field attributes of the class.
         """
-        fields = {}
+        fields: dict[str, Field] = {}
         # Loop through all of the baseclasses of cls, in
         # the order that methods are resolved (Method Resolution Order / mro)
         # and find all of their defined fields.
         #
         # Only save the first such defined field (as expected for method resolution)
-
-        bases = cls.mro()  # pylint: disable=no-member
-        local = bases.pop(0)
+        bases = cls._mro()
+        local = bases.pop(0)  # pylint: disable=no-member  # pylint thinks `bases` is a tuple?
 
         # First, descend the MRO from the top down, updating the 'fields' dictionary
         # so that the dictionary always has the most specific version of fields in it
@@ -705,13 +711,12 @@ class XBlock(Plugin, Blocklike, metaclass=_HasChildrenMetaclass):
     children: ReferenceListNotNone
 
     @class_lazy
-    def _class_tags(cls):  # pylint: disable=no-self-argument
+    def _class_tags(cls) -> set[str]:  # pylint: disable=no-self-argument
         """
         Collect the tags from all base classes.
         """
-        class_tags = set()
-
-        for base in cls.mro()[1:]:  # pylint: disable=no-member
+        class_tags: set[str] = set()
+        for base in cls._mro()[1:]:
             class_tags.update(getattr(base, '_class_tags', set()))
 
         return class_tags