Line #19 Trivia/MickeyMouse


1	* BannedInChina:
2	** The short "The Barnyard Battle" (1929) was banned in Germany in 1930 for depicting enemy cats with German UsefulNotes/WorldWarI helmets. In 1931, the short was finally distributed, but with all scenes of enemy combat cut, making it an extra-short three-minute cartoon.
3	** Another short "The Mad Doctor" (1933) was banned in England, believed to be too scary for children, yet made its way into two video games, ''VideoGame/MickeyMania'' and ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'', both of which had a release in England.
4	* CashCowFranchise: Mickey was and still is a merchandising powerhouse all the way to this very day. The ''Mickey Mouse & Friends'' franchise is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media_franchises the second-highest grossing franchise of all time,]] behind only ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''.
5	* CreatorBacklash: According to ''Literature/TheIllusionOfLife'', apprentice animator and director Wilfred Jackson was so ashamed of his first directorial effort "The Castaway" that he vowed never to make another film that didn't feel like a Disney picture again.
6	* CreatorsFavorite: Creator/{{Walt\|Disney}} clearly loved Mickey like a son and wanted the rest of the world to love him the same, hence why he put him front and center of the Disney company whilst being a huge ControlFreak about what could and couldn't be done with him. As a result, Mickey's name [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mouse#Pejorative_use_of_Mickey.27s_name became pejorative slang in some parts for basic and underwhelming]]. Amusingly even Walt himself became aware how much he had limited Mickey:
7	-->'''Walt Disney:''' "Mickey's our problem child," ... "He's so much of an institution that we're limited in what we can do with him."
8	* CrossDressingVoices: In Japan, Mickey used to be voiced invariably by women, including Masumi Goto, Ikue Sakakibara and Eiko Yamada. This has been (mostly) averted in since the 1990s, however, with Mickey now voiced by men. Mickey was voiced by Takashi Aoyagi from 1991 to 2019, after which Creator/TakanoriHoshino took over. Creator/AyaHirano also dubbed Mickey in some of the newest dubs of the very old public domain shorts, especially the ones who weren't shown in Japan before and during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
9	* DescendedCreator: Walt Disney himself was the initial voice of Mickey, at least until the 40s and 50s.
10	* ExecutiveMeddling: Disney is extremely overprotective over their mascot and regularly vetoes attempts to feature him in films or television programs because they’re afraid of his reputation being ruined if he is in a bad show or movie. Infamously, ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' was not allowed to physically show Mickey when he guest starred in the episode "You Oughta Be In Pictures" so the show chose to hide him in a pet carrier as a TakeThat to the policy. Likewise, the showrunners for [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017 the 2017]] ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales\|2017}}'' reboot wanted to include Mickey as a recurring character, but Disney [[ExiledFromContinuity forbade them from featuring or even mentioning the Mouse in the show]]. They [[LoopholeAbuse got around this]] by having a watermelon as a CompanionCube to Donald that used Creator/ChrisDiamantopoulos as his voice.
11	* FakeAmerican:
12	** Mickey's second voice actor James [=MacDonald=] was born in Scotland but moved to America at the tender age of six months.
13	** In the ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'' series, Mickey is voiced by Canadian-born Creator/ChrisDiamantopoulos.
14	* FountainOfExpies: Mickey had numerous ripoffs back in the 1930s--among them are WesternAnimation/BoskoTheTalkInkKid, Foxy Fox, Piggy and Buddy of Warner Bros., and the Creator/ColumbiaCartoons interpretation of ComicStrip/KrazyKat.
15	* OneBookAuthor: With the exception of Chris Diamantopoulos, Mickey Mouse has always been voiced by non-professional voice actors, making him the only consistent role for most of them. Walt Disney was his creator, Wayne Allwine was a sound effects artist trained under Jimmy [=MacDonald=] who did manage to avert this, and Bret Iwan is a former Hallmark Cards illustrator. Takashi Aoyagi, Mickey's Japanese voice actor from 1991-2018, is a scholar of Japanese literature who hasn't voiced a single other character in any other medium.
16	* TheOtherDarrin:
17	** Mickey was voiced by Creator/WaltDisney from his debut through ''WesternAnimation/FunAndFancyFree'', after which James [=MacDonald=] took the reins. During Walt's run as Mickey's voice, Clarence Nash (the voice of Donald) substituted for Mickey's voice for the 1934 short ''The Dognapper'' (as well as a few 1950s commercials by Tom Oreb) and Carl Stalling voiced Mickey in 1929's ''The Carnival Kid''. Creator/WayneAllwine took over the role in 1977 and would voice him until his death in 2009. Since then, Mickey has been (and currently is) voiced by Bret Iwan.
18	** Creator/QuintonFlynn temporarily voiced Mickey in a few early ''Mickey [=MouseWorks=]'' segments when Allwine was unavailable.
19	** Creator/ChrisDiamantopoulos voiced the character for the [[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013 Paul Rudish series of shorts]], because Disney wanted the Mickey in this series to sound as close as possible to the original Walt Disney. Diamantopoulos also voiced Mickey for Ride/MickeyAndMinniesRunawayRailway -- which is based on the Rudish shorts -- and ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAStudio''.
20	* PlayingAgainstType: In the Japanese dub, Creator/TakanoriHoshino, Mickey's voice actor since 2018, is ''very'' outside of his normal modus operandi on voicing either [[AntiHero anti-heroes]], [[{{Jerkass}} jerks]] or [[TheStoic stoic characters]], like [[Anime/GunXSword Van]] or [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Iori Yagami]].
21	* RealLifeRelative: All over the place in the Latin American Spanish dub.
22	** Creator/EdmundoSantos, Mickey and Goofy's first voice, and Francisco Colmenero, Mickey and Goofy's second voice, and Pluto and Pete's longtime voice, were brothers-in-law, and Diana Santos, Minnie's longtime voice and Daisy's second voice, is Santos' daughter and Colmenero's niece. José Manuel Rosano, Pete's first voice, was also brother-in-law to Colmenero.
23	** Creator/ArturoMercadoJr, Mickey's current voice, is the son of Creator/ArturoMercado, who voices Scrooge [=McDuck=].
24	** Mario Filio, Goofy's current voice, and Ruy Cuevas, Donald's third voice, are first cousins.
25	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Before settling with "Mickey", Walt Disney considered naming him "Mortimer", which his wife Lillian thought was too formal a name. A different mouse named Mortimer would later appear as a rival of sorts for Mickey as a DevelopmentGag.
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