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Mickey Mouse is one of the world's best known cartoon characters, created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks in 1928 as Disney's new star, following the loss of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit to Charles Mintz and Universal Studios. Though his first produced film was the silent short Plane Crazy (no relation), Mickey made his theatrical debut in Steamboat Willie, which has the distinction of being the first sound cartoon short. In more recent times, for several decades, Mickey's active animation career became secondary to his more visible role as the face and mascot of the Walt Disney Company.

Despite being Disney's most famous cartoon character and having hosted his own television program, The Mickey Mouse Club, in the 1950s, Mickey ironically did not star in any shows created for the Disney Afternoon, other than receiving a guest spot in the Bonkers episode "I Oughta Be in Toons" (where he was oddly kept off-camera and not referred to by name) and a cameo in A Goofy Movie. However, he did appear prominently in the original opening and end credits sequences for the block, and also starred alongside the Disney Afternoon characters in Mickey's Magical TV World at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom as well as in the Disney on Ice shows that featured said characters.

Darkwing Duck comic book writer Aaron Sparrow has noted that he wanted to do a story for the comic that would've had Mickey teaming up with Darkwing to battle the Phantom Blot.[1] Sadly, due to Sparrow being fired from the Darkwing Duck comic and replaced by Amanda Deibert, this story is unlikely to ever see print.

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Mickey and Donald in A Goofy Movie

Mickey's cameo in A Goofy Movie.

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Steamboat Willie photo in Bonkers
  • In the Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers episode "They Shoot Dogs, Don't They", Canina La Fur continually gets Monterey Jack's name wrong, at one point calling him Mickey.
  • In the Darkwing Duck episode "Comic Book Capers", Launchpad remarks "DW is really somethin', starrin' in his own comic book. Just like Mickey Mouse!" (Ironically, Mickey's then-current comic book, Mickey Mouse Adventures, got cancelled shortly after the episode aired.)
  • At the beginning of the Goof Troop episode "Goodbye Mr. Goofy", when Goofy accidentally inhales the helium in the balloon he's trying to inflate, his ears looks like Mickey's.
  • In the Bonkers episode "Of Mice and Menace", the steering wheel that Mickey piloted at the beginning of Steamboat Willie is shown to be on display at the Toon Museum, right under a framed photo of the iconic scene of Mickey steering the riverboat from the short. Later in the episode, Bonkers dresses up two of the mice as Mickey.
  • In the Bonkers episode "Springtime for the Iguana", Bonkers, trying to convince Roderick Lizzard to play a monster, brings up how Mickey got his start in "the lowly role of a steamboat captain." (He's technically wrong about that, though; Pete was actually the captain in Steamboat Willie, and Mickey was his deck hand.)
  • In the DuckTales comic "The Arcadian Urn", Donald laments that he should've spent his shore leave safely "arguing with Mickey", among other things.
  • In Aladdin and the King of Thieves, at the start of the song "Father and Son", Genie wears Mickey's "Sorcerer's Apprentice" outfit from Fantasia. Later, at the end of the movie, when Genie escapes from the Vanishing Isle, he comes out steering a black-and-white steamboat, imitating Mickey in the opening from Steamboat Willie.

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