History WesternAnimation / MickeyMouse

* The Nifty Nineties

* WesternAnimation/MickeysSurpriseParty: Rare Mickey Mouse short with a Nabisco promotion at the end, made for the World Fair. First appearance of Mickey's "modern" appearance, with a bigger head and redesigned eyes. In the PublicDomain.

* Mickey's Birthday Party

* "WesternAnimation/MickeysSurpriseParty"

* Mickey's Surprise Party

* Mickey's Birthday Party

* VideoGame/DisneyInfinity (Two playable versions of him exist; a Sorcerer's Apprentice variant from 1.0, and a standard figure in 3.0)

In 2006, Mickey received a pre-school show called ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse''.

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[Series/TheMickeyMouseClub Made for you and me.]]''[[note]]"90 Years of Mickey Mouse" painted by Disney artist Tim Rogerson: center: Mickey's modern design; clockwise from top: ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', ''WesternAnimation/SteamboatWillie'', Paul Rudish's ''[[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013 Mickey Mouse]]'', ''WesternAnimation/TheBandConcert'', ''Series/TheMickeyMouseClub'', WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts, ''WesternAnimation/PlaneCrazy'', and ''WesternAnimation/BraveLittleTailor''.[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[Series/TheMickeyMouseClub Made for you and me.]]''[[note]]"90 Years of Mickey Mouse" painted by Disney artist Tim Rogerson[[/note]]]]

* Alpine Climbers

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[[labelnote:note]]Starting from the top and going clockwise: ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]'', ''WesternAnimation/SteamboatWillie'', ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'', ''WesternAnimation/TheBandConcert'', ''Series/TheMickeyMouseClub'', Mickey's original PieEyed design from 1928-to-1938, Mickey's first design from ''WesternAnimation/PlaneCrazy'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheGallopinGaucho'', and ''WesternAnimation/BraveLittleTailor''. In the center is Mickey's current design, which was created back in 1939 by Disney animator, Creator/FredMoore.[[/labelnote]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[Series/TheMickeyMouseClub Made for you and me.]]''[[labelnote:note]]"90 Years of Mickey Mouse" painted by Disney artist Tim Rogerson[[/labelnote]]]]

His current official voice actor since 2009 is Bret Iwan in all productions except for the ''WesternAnimation/{{Mickey Mouse|2013}}'' shorts, Ride/MickeyAndMinniesRunawayRailway, and ''WesternAnimation/TheWonderfulWorldOfMickeyMouse'', where he is instead voiced by Creator/ChrisDiamantopoulos. Creator/WaltDisney himself was the original voice of Mickey, and Diamantopoulos's vocal portrayal is a throwback to Disney's portrayal. The most famous, and memorable, Mickey voice, however, has got to be the late Creator/WayneAllwine, who voiced the iconic mouse from the mid-1970s' until Allwine's death in 2009.

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In 1928, Creator/WaltDisney had just lost the rights to his biggest cartoon star, WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit, to Charles Mintz at [[Creator/{{Universal}} Universal Studios]] and needed a replacement. Creator/UbIwerks, one of three animators[[note]]the other two being Les Clark and Johnny Cannon[[/note]] who had stuck with Walt after the Oswald fiasco, designed a mouse inspired by a pet mouse Walt had back in his farm life. Walt [[WhatCouldHaveBeen originally intended to name the new character Mortimer Mouse]] (which would later go on to be the name of the sleazy CasanovaWannabe who would always unsuccessfully pine for Minnie's affection), but his wife, Lillian Bounds, suggested he go with the cuter-sounding name of Mickey.

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[[caption-width-right:350:The [[MeetYourEarlyInstallmentWeirdness mouse of]] [[WesternAnimation/SteamboatWillie 1928]] meets [[MyFutureSelfAndMe the mouse of 1994]].]]

In 1928, Creator/WaltDisney had just lost the rights to his biggest cartoon star, WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit, to Charles Mintz at [[Creator/{{Universal}} Universal Studios]] and needed a replacement. Creator/UbIwerks, one of three animators[[note]]the other two being Les Clark and Johnny Cannon[[/note]] who had stuck with Walt after the Oswald fiasco, designed a mouse inspired by a pet mouse Walt had back in his farm life. Walt [[WhatCouldHaveBeen originally intended to name the new character Mortimer Mouse]] (which would later go on to be the name of the sleazy CasanovaWannabe who would always unsuccessfully pine for Minnie's affection), but his wife, Lillian Bounds, suggested he go with the cuter-sounding name of Mickey. His full name is Michael Theodore Mouse.

* SigningOffCatchphrase: "See ya ''real'' soon!" Taken from a line in the song used to sign off the ''Mickey Mouse Club'', Mickey uses it to sign off in ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'', ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse'', and various live shows at the Ride/DisneyThemeParks.

-->'''1970s!Mickey:''' ''[addressing 1920s!Mickey]'' Hey! Hey, you! Are you the first original Mickey Mouse?\\

* FurryDenial:
** One strange rule that Disney enforces to this day is that Mickey is to never be shown with cheese, and other characters are not allowed to refer to him to as an actual mouse in-universe. "Cheese makes Mickey seem like a mouse. He's not really a mouse, you know, he's really more of a human." They're not totally consistent with this, and may reference his rodent nature for a quick one off gag, but it's few and far between.
** Pete and other villains will often disparagingly call him "mouse", but it's left unclear if they're referencing his species, or calling him by his last name.

* StandardizedLeader: In many of his pairing with [[GrumpyBear Donald]] and [[TheDitz Goofy]]. DependingOnTheWriter however, he is sometimes distinguished as an eccentric [[ThePollyanna Pollyanna]] or an ExtremeDoormat.

* TooManyBabies: In "Mickey's Nightmare", Mickey dreams about getting married to Minnie, after which a flock of storks drops about twenty babies down his chimney in rapid succession. Of course it's AllJustADream, but fans have created fan fiction and fan art of him with children anyway.

* StockCartoonAnimalDepictions: Zigzagged. The non-anthropomorphic animals are stock cartoon animals, but the anthropomorphic animals aren't. For example, Pluto is a yellow dog with black ears and a black tail, but Goofy is a black dog with a hairless face.

''The'' most recognizable fictional character of all time, and the mouse who solidified animation into the art form that it is today. Just put three circles together and you've got him-- it's Mickey Mouse!

And the rest is history.

In his earliest shorts, Mickey was a roguish AntiHero, who had no problem drinking beer, smoking and stealing kisses from Minnie. Over the years, he evolved into a more boyish and cheerful personality, an underdog with a heart of gold.

In 1935, Mickey's cartoons were upgraded to color, but his days as a headlining star in his own shorts were beginning to end--WesternAnimation/PlutoThePup and newcomers WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck and WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} were soon dominating several of his shorts. This was because the storymen started to run out of ideas for how to keep Mickey's antics interesting through his increasingly softened personality, thus they had to fall back more on the characters that surrounded him to have anything to work with. On top of that, [[Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer Fleischer Studios]] unleashed their newest star ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} in 1933--a gruff, spinach-eating AntiHero whose cartoons took the nation by storm, quickly toppling the domesticated Mickey in popularity. Fortunately, Disney's WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies kept the studio afloat, especially with the success of WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittlePigs that same year.

* Society Dog Show: Last Mickey Mouse Dot-Eyes Cartoon.

In his earliest shorts, Mickey was a roguish AntiHero, who had no problem drinking beer, smoking and stealing kisses from Minnie. Over the years, he evolved into a more boyish and meek personality with a sense of adventure and playfulness.