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From Mickey Mouse
- When Mickey gets his cake smashed in "¡Feliz Cumpleaños!", he's completely heartbroken.
- Tuppence being bullied in "Feed The Birds".
- Several of the Mickey/Minnie romance shorts have you feeling a pang for the little mice. Cases in point:
- Gondolier Mickey's desperate and fruitless attempts to get waitress Minnie's attention in "O Sole Minnie".
- Minnie dumps him in "Dumb Luck". Worse, it's implied she didn't even want to do it; it's just a result of the broken mirror's "seven years' misfortune" curse.
- Mickey and Minnie at their wits' end with each other in "Locked in Love", temporarily even doubting what they even see in the other.
- "The Fancy Gentlemen": Minnie innocently signs Mickey up for finishing school, thinking he'll learn something for a more romantic date night. Instead, he returns to her an unrecognizable upper-class snob who rebukes and dismisses her.
- "Shifting Gears" is A Day in the Limelight for Mickey's jalopy, of all things. The sentient car is acting out because it always has to sit alone in the concrete parking lot while Mickey enjoys the beach.
- Also from that short is a moment where the car believes he has accidentally killed Mickey. When checking to see if he's okay, he makes out a small, "Is that you...Walt...?"
- Several of the Company Cross References feel like mean-spirited pranks on the Disney canon.
- In "Croissant de Triomphe", Mickey shatters the glass slipper as Prince Charming is about to try it on Cinderella, effectively cheating them out of their happily ever after.
- In "Wonders of the Deep", Mickey and Donald leave Pinocchio and Geppetto behind in the belly of the beast. Worse, "Flushed" implies that they never made it out, as Mickey encounters a familiar pine-wood skull.
- In "Canned", Mickey throws Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, his forebear and sometime literal brother, into the trash.
- In "Split Decision", Mickey hallucinates Daisy's reaction to the two Donalds. The imaginary Daisy insults him at first, then breaks down crying at the idea of losing the bird she loves to Mickey's hijinks.
- "Duck the Halls": Donald is so desperate to enjoy Christmas with his mammal friends that he neglects his health and nearly gets himself killed.
- "New Shoes": Goofy is put through the wringer when he switches bodies with Donald, and since he doesn't have Donald's lifelong experience with being Born Unlucky, it just feels like a torrent of baseless abuse.
- "Three-Legged Race": Goofy thinks the titular three-legged race is a sack race. He gets to the finish line first, only for the judge to rather rudely tell him that he's disqualified for racing the wrong way. Goofy walks away sadly. It's somewhat played for laughs when Goofy gets out of the sack and reveals that he actually has three legs, but you still can't help but feel kind of bad for him.
From The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse
- "School of Fish": Mickey's protective instincts taking over and humiliating Gubbles.
- "The Brave Little Squire": Mickey becoming disillusioned with the knight's life after his experiences as Mortimer's squire.
- "Duet for Two": Huckster McBackstabber driving Mickey and Minnie apart because he figures he stands to make more money pushing them as solo acts.
- "Birdwatching": Minnie's dread when she fears she's lost Mickey forever to the protective mama bird.
- "Game Night": Donald's Imagine Spot illustrates the full depths of his envy against Mickey. More than anything else, Donald wants to be a winner, to be successful and loved.
