History Main / MockyMouse

* A body that is mostly colored black.
* Be a PerpetualSmiler.

* A simple wardrobe of WhiteGloves, round shoes that may be yellow, and shorts that may or may not be colored red and/or have two buttons in front.
* Done in an InkblotCartoonStyle, especialy if they're a {{retraux}} throwback to early 20th century animation.

Some cases may have the Mickey Mouse ersatz accompanied by parodies of Disney's other notable mascot characters (e.g. WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}, WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck or WesternAnimation/MinnieMouse) or be a combination of multiple Disney characters (for instance, a Donald Duck stand-in who dresses like Mickey Mouse).

An important thing to note is that in TheThirties, [[FollowTheLeader it was common for other cartoon characters to emulate Mickey to some degree]], so only noteworthy examples from that era (i.e., ones that are ''blatantly'' copies of Mickey and actually resulted in legal action from Disney) will be addressed.

Instances where it is very clearly Mickey Mouse himself (named or [[LawyerFriendlyCameo otherwise]]) depicted and not a pastiche of him are not this trope. A SubTrope of FountainOfExpies.

* ''Franchise/{{Asterix}}'': The design of the alien Tadsilweny (from ''Recap/AsterixAndTheFallingSky'') has an alien who looks just like Mickey except without the black nose, a purple bodysuit with yellow buttons and white gloves. At some point, his costume even turns black. To reinforce that, his name is an anagram of Creator/WaltDisney. How subtle.
* During Chuck Dixon's run on ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'', Conner Hawke's ashram was bought by a MrAltDisney who wanted to turn it into a theme park based on Winky Blink and Friends. Winky Blink looks very much like Mickey, only with dog ears, a red nose, and a Hawaiian shirt.
* In ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen Century: 1969'', one of the characters Mina sees when tripping is a bizarre Mickey/Donald fusion.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie'': Spinel's original form is blatantly inspired on Mickey Mouse, from her heart-shaped pigtails to her round short. Oh, and she wears gloves, too! After snapping because she learned her OnlyFriend abandoned her 6.000 years ago, she takes a darker form, but still keeps her gloves, short and spagetti members.

* Cuphead and Mugman from the video game ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' wear black sweaters that are often mistaken for skin due to their extremely flat coloring, gloves, shoes, and shorts , and are constantly seen grinning. Ms. Chalice has a skirt and heels to evoke Minnie's image instead.
* Clockie, the mascot of Penacony's Golden Hour in ''VideoGame/HonkaiStarRail''. Given that the Golden Hour is an early 20th century pastiche in an otherwise interstellar sci-fi fantasy game, it's fitting. He even has the Mickey-like voice to match, and his own MrAltDisney in The Watchmaker.
* Chad the Chipmunk of ''VideoGame/ThePark''. The chirpy-looking mascot of Atlantic Island Park, he was created by a fairly distinctive MrAltDisney in order to guarantee the attendance of children at the park. Chad most commonly appears in the form of an employee wearing a [[GoofySuit mascot suit]] -- unfortunately leading to one of the park's most infamous incidents, in which a Chad the Chipmunk performer went mad and stabbed several teenagers to death with an ice-pick.
* ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' introduced Fresh Fish, a cartoony character with white gloves, round shoes, shorts, and oversized fish head that always smiles. He serves as the mascot for the Wahoo World theme park and has a franchise in the form of video games and movies. The Octoling Octopus amiibo can give Fresh Fish gear to players, allowing them to dress up their Inklings or Octolings as the mascot when they go into competition.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': Despite being originally based on ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}, Mario somehow manages to qualify as a ''human'' Mocky Mouse as he has a lot in common with Mickey such as the first letter of his name, falsetto voice, appearance (short stature, prominent gloves, shoes, buttoned overalls, and in a more meta example, facial features designed to make the most of his early medium's graphical limitations), personality (exuberant {{everyman}} deliberately kept simple so as to [[UniversalAdaptorCast accommodate a wide variety of roles]]), and status as the undisputed mascot of [[Creator/{{Nintendo}} his company]] and medium-defining pop-cultural icon. With the release of Ride/SuperNintendoWorld, he even has his own theme park! What's more, the successes of both Mickey and Mario's works led to the creation of a competitor with an in-your-face attitude; WesternAnimation/BugsBunny for the former, and Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog for the latter.

* Disney ''themselves'' [[SelfParody got into this]] in ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'', specifically in the episode "Dennis the Duck". Although not a rodent, the titular Dennis is an obvious pastiche of [[UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfAnimation Silent Age]] Mickey (or of WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit, who Mickey was an {{Expy}} of in the first place) and Donald Duck. He's a black-and-white, inkblot style cartoon with a white face, dot eyes, a perpetual smile, a high-pitched voice, and the mischievous streak Mickey was known to have at the time (he enjoys hitting people with sandwiches). In particular, his overalls and gloves are identical to classic Mickey's.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': [[BatmanParody Catman's]] nemesis, Mouse Man, is a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin man in a mouse suit]] who also wears WhiteGloves and speaks with a high-pitched Mickey Mouse-like voice.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]]'' character Foxy was notorious for essentially being a vulpine knockoff of Mickey Mouse, which led to Walt Disney himself asking that Creator/WarnerBros stop using the character. Foxy was subsequently replaced with another Mickey Mouse ersatz named Piggy, who also wore white gloves and buttoned shorts and was discontinued after appearing in only two animated shorts. Foxy himself would spend the next few decades in cartoon dormancy before eventually making a guest appearance in the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS3E9TwoToneTown Two Tone Town]]", where he was given a redesign to make him look less like Mickey.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'':

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': Despite being originally based on ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}, Mario somehow manages to qualify as a ''human'' Mocky Mouse as he has a lot in common with Mickey such as his name, falsetto voice, appearance (short stature, prominent gloves, shoes, buttoned overalls, and in a more meta example, facial features designed to make the most of his early medium's graphical limitations), personality (exuberant {{everyman}} deliberately kept simple so as to [[UniversalAdaptorCast accommodate a wide variety of roles]]), and status as the undisputed mascot of [[Creator/{{Nintendo}} his company]] and medium-defining pop-cultural icon. With the release of Ride/SuperNintendoWorld, he even has his own theme park! What's more, the successes of both Mickey and Mario's works led to the creation of a competitor with an in-your-face attitude; WesternAnimation/BugsBunny for the former, and Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog for the latter.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' featured an in-universe cartoon character named Bizzy Bee, who can accurately be described as a bee equivalent to Mickey Mouse and is created by Roy Brisby, a [[MrAltDisney Walt Disney ersatz]] who also doubles as a parody of [[Literature/{{Hannibal}} Mason Verger]].

* Mikey Melon, a watermelon Donald hallucinates as being alive in the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' episode "Mooncation", was made to look and sound like Mickey Mouse and serve as Donald's best friend while he is stuck on an island because the writers couldn't get permission to use the actual mouse.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]]'' character Foxy was notorious for essentially being a vulpine knockoff of Mickey Mouse, which led to Walt Disney himself asking that Creator/WarnerBros stop using the character. Foxy was subsequently replaced with another Mickey Mouse ersatz named Piggy, who also wore white gloves and buttoned shorts and was discontinued after appearing in only two animated shorts.

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': Despite being originally based on ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}, Mario somehow manages to qualify as a ''human'' Mocky Mouse as he has a lot in common with Mickey such as his name, falsetto voice, appearance (short stature, prominent gloves, shoes, buttoned overalls, and in a more meta example, facial features designed to make the most of his early medium's graphical limitations), personality (exuberant {{everyman}} deliberately kept simple so as to [[UniversalAdaptorCast accommodate a wide variety of roles]]), and status as the undisputed mascot of [[Creator/{{Nintendo}} his company]] and medium-defining pop-cultural icon. With the release of Ride/SuperNintendoWorld, he even has his own theme park!

* The original sketches for ''WebOriginal/HamstersParadise'' feature the mousey micks, a more realistic take on this trope (but still pretty tongue-in-cheek, especially for a SpeculativeBiology project like this). They would be the final sophonts that would emerge on the planet, and they would basically look like mouse-headed creatures with bipedal ape-like bodies. They would also domesticate dog-like creatures called "ploofies" and large flightless "birds" called "doneldonks" (both of these animals are also highly aberrant rodents).

* ''WesternAnimation/AndyPanda'' did not start out as an imitation of Mickey Mouse, but displayed several noticeable similarities when his shorts continued production, even wearing red pants and yellow shoes.

* ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunksMeetFrankenstein'' involves a theme park named Majestic Movie Studios, which is based more on Universal Studios Hollywood than Disneyland, but features a cartoon rodent mascot named Sammy Squirrel.

* ''Franchise/Asterix'': The design of the alien Tadsilweny (from ''Recap/AsterixAndTheFallingSky'') has a blatant Mickey-like inspiration, with gloves, big rund eyes and all the rest. To reinforce that, his name is an anagram of Creator/WaltDisney and he camesm from the planet ToonCar. How subtle.

* ''Art/MysticalMedleysAVintageCartoonTarot'':
** The shoes and pants the men from "Three of Wands" and "Page of Cups" wear is an obvious reference to Mickey Mouse's default design.
** The "Two of Wands" wears a red hooded-robe, shoes and has a pair of brooms that brings to mind Mickey Mouse's appearance in "[[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]".

* KAWS's signature character Companion wears an outfit that highly resembles Mickey's. He wears gloves, large shoes, and shorts with two buttons on the front. He is typically depicted in greyscale or sepia tones, much like an inkblot cartoon character.

* Cuphead and Mugman from the video game ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' have mostly black bodies, wear gloves, shoes, and shorts as their only clothing, and are constantly seen grinning. Ms. Chalice has a skirt and heels to evoke Minnie's image instead.

WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse is perhaps the most iconic cartoon character of all time and the prime {{Mascot}} of [[Creator/{{Disney}} one of the biggest media entertainment companies in the world]], so it isn't surprising that there are a multitude of parodies and imitations of the character. Most imitations of Mickey Mouse have at least some of the following attributes:

* A simple wardrobe of {{white gloves}}, round shoes that may be yellow and shorts that may or may not be colored red and/or have two buttons in front.
* A body that is mostly colored black.
* Be some kind of rodent or small mammal.
* Be a PerpetualSmiler.
* Serve as a {{mascot}} of a fictional animation or entertainment company.
* Have their own {{amusement park}}.
* Be created by or otherwise associated with a MrAltDisney.
* Done in an InkblotCartoonStyle.
* An AlliterativeName with [[SpeciesSurname the surname being the character's species]] and the given name usually consisting of two syllables and ending with a long E sound.

Some cases may have the Mickey Mouse ersatz accompanied by parodies of Disney's other notable mascot characters (e.g. WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}, WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck or WesternAnimation/MinnieMouse) or be a combination of multiple Disney characters (for instance, a Donald Duck stand-in who dresses like Mickey Mouse). An important thing to note is that in TheThirties, [[FollowTheLeader it was common for other cartoon characters to emulate Mickey to some degree]], so only noteworthy examples from that era (i.e., ones that are ''blatantly'' copies of Mickey and actually resulted in legal action from Disney) will be addressed.

* ''Franchise/Splatoon'' has Fresh Fish, a cartoony character with white gloves, round shoes, shorts, and oversized fish head that always smiles. He serves as the mascot for the Wahoo World theme park and has a franchise in the form of video games and movies. The Octoling Octopus amiibo can give Fresh Fish gear to players, allowing them to dress up their Inklings or Octolings as the mascot when they go into competition.

* Cuphead and Mugman from the video game ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' have mostly black bodies, wear gloves, shoes, and shorts as their only clothing, and are constantly seen grinning.

* ''Film/TheViewAskewniverse'' (most prominently ''Film/{{Dogma}}'' and ''Film/ClerksII'') features a parody of Mickey Mouse named Mooby, who wears white gloves and buttoned shorts in addition to being a mascot of a highly profitable multimedia franchise.

* Disney ''themselves'' [[SelfParody got into this]] in ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'', specifically in the episode "Dennis the Duck". Although not a rodent, the titular Dennis is an obvious pastiche of [[UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfAnimation Silent Age]] Mickey (or of WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit, who Mickey was an {{Expy}} of in the first place). He's a black-and-white, inkblot style cartoon with a white face, dot eyes, a perpetual smile, a high-pitched voice, and the mischievous streak Mickey was known to have at the time (he enjoys hitting people with sandwiches). In particular, his overalls and gloves are identical to classic Mickey's.

* Be some kind of rodent.

Some cases may have the Mickey Mouse ersatz accompanied by parodies of Disney's other notable mascot characters (e.g. WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}, WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck or WesternAnimation/MinnieMouse) or be a combination of multiple Disney characters (for instance, a Donald Duck stand-in who dresses like Mickey Mouse). An important thing to note is that in UsefulNotes/TheThirties, [[FollowTheLeader it was common for other cartoon characters to emulate Mickey to some degree]], so only noteworthy examples from that era (i.e., ones that are ''blatantly'' copies of Mickey and actually resulted in legal action from Disney) will be addressed.

* Masami [[MeaningfulName Nezu]] of ''Manga/KenganAshura'' is a former biker gang leader who appears in the tournament dressed as Mockey, the mascot of Tochigi Destiny Land, who has most of the visual cues associated with such a character (Plate-like ears, wears pants with two buttons in front, etc.). Funnily enough, his Latin American voice actor, Arturo Mercado Jr., is the current official voice of Mickey himself.