Mickey Mouse/Synopsis

The history of Mickey Mouse since his first appearance in Steamboat Willie.
==Film appearances==
===Steamboat Willie===
In Mickey's very first appearance, he pilots the titular steamboat while whistling happily, when all of a sudden the boat's rude captain Pete appears on deck and orders him to stop, Mickey is soon forced to go back down the deck where a parrot nearby mocks him and begins to laugh, which provokes Mickey to throw the bucket on the parrot, who squawks for help as Mickey walks away.
In a panic, Mickey attempts to bring the cow back down by grabbing her tail and gets sprayed by the udder with milk. The cow is lowered back to the dock and Mickey attempts to tighten the belt to no avail. He looks distraught until he sees a wagon of hay and grabs a big fork load to feed to the cow. The cow happily swallows the entire bale and is easily fattened up to the size of the belt and is loaded onto the ship. Just then, Minnie Mouse appears on the scene running to catch up to Steamboat Willie. Mickey jumps aboard the ship and takes off leaving Minnie yelling at the dock. She proceeds to run alongside the river after the steamboat. Calling for help, Mickey hears her and decides to lower the crane to catch her. The crane is lowered by Minnie and the hook proceeds to gently lift her skirt up and grab hold of her bloomers carrying her onto the ship. As she is lowered, Minnie drops her fiddle and "Turkey in the Straw" sheet music which bounces over to a goat.
The goat sees it and begins to eat the sheet music. Minnie is lowered to the ship and the hook pulls her skirt back down. Minnie is happy to see Mickey and turns shyly away to see the goat eating her sheet music. The goat then starts on the fiddle and Mickey attempts to yank it out of his mouth. Mickey struggles but can't pull it out and falls on the ground launching the fiddle into the goat's body which proceeds to bounce around causing music notes to sound. Mickey hears this and gets the idea to use the goat as a phonograph. He opens the goat's mouth and calls Minnie over. Minnie gets the idea and begins to "crank" the goat's tail and "Turkey in the Straw" begins to play. What follows is a lively rendition of the song where Mickey uses a barrel and garbage can as drums, bangs on pots and pans, strokes a washboard, pulls on a cat's tail to make it sing and swings it around his head, uses a duck as a makeshift bagpipe, pulls on little piglets' tails to make squeals, uses the mama pig as a makeshift accordion, and finally uses the cow's teeth as a makeshift xylophone. After the song, Mickey takes a bow and finds Peg Leg Pete scowling at him. He attempts to walk away but Pete grabs him and sends him below deck to peel potatoes. Mickey begins to work when the annoying parrot flies into the window and begins to mock and laugh at him again provoking Mickey to throw a half-peeled potato at him, sending the parrot splashing into the water. Triumphant, Mickey begins to laugh and brings the picture to a close.
===Fantasia===
In the film, which is considered Mickey's most famous role, he appears in it's most recognizable segment called "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", which pretty much the same story but with Mickey as it's lead character.
In this role, Mickey acts as the apprentice to a powerful sorcerer known as Yen Sid. While the warlock spends his time casting spells and working with his powers, Mickey works more like a servant, carrying buckets up a massive staircase to a well full of water. However, one night, after Yen Sid has gone to sleep, Mickey sneaks up on the wizard's hat, which appears to be the main source of his magic. Having had enough of physical labor, Mickey revives the broom with his newfound magic and orders it to do its duty. It's a success, and the mouse soon falls asleep, dreaming of being the greatest wizard in the world. At first he doesn't realize that the broom is still bringing water into the well. So much so that the tower floods. Mickey tries to stop the broom, but it's no use, and the mouse is forced to kill him by chopping him to pieces with an axe. After the deed is done, Mickey begins to rest again, but the small pieces of chopped wood magically become hundreds of living brooms, and the army proceeds to fill the overflowing well with water, soon flooding the entire tower as far as Yen Sid. arrives and ends the chaos. In the end things look good, Mickey quietly apologizes and is ordered back to his duties as punishment.
After the segment is over, Mickey heads down the stage and meets up with , where they shake hands in live action/animation and congratulate each other on a show well-done.
===Fun and Fancy Free===
In the second half of the movie titled "Mickey and the Beanstalk", Mickey, along with his pals Donald and Goofy live as farmers in a once peaceful village in the land of Happy Valley, which has become a wasteland after a mysterious figure kidnaps the beautifully singing & magical Golden Harp that gives the valley it's life. The friends almost starve to death, but Mickey leaves to sell their prized cow for food. Instead of food, Mickey bought three magic beans from a peddler, which Donald threw out of the house in a fit of rage.
What Donald didn't know was that the beans were indeed Magic and during the night they grew into a beanstalk that grew up so high that it touched the clouds, curious to see where it led, Mickey leads his pals all the way up the Beanstalk where upon reaching the top, they find a land where everything is ginormous and they eventually reach a castle where they find the Harp locked inside a box. They soon learn that she was taken by a wicked giant named Willie who wanted her music for himself, but soon Willie enters the room & captures them with Mickey barely escaping him.
Seeing that Mickey needs a distraction, the Golden Harp sings the Giant to sleep which gives Mickey enough time to free his companions and make a distraction to slow the Giant down just as he wakes up & soon forces Mickey and his allies to race down the road fast. They ran down the beanstalk with the harp, hacked it to the ground once which sends the Giant (who was following them down) crashing down to his death, and escaped safely, and with the harp restored Mickey, Donald and Goofy become heroes and peace is restored.
===Brave Little Tailor===
Just like in the original story, Mickey plays the tailor who lives in a kingdom which is about to be attacked by a dangerous giant whose on his way to attack them right now. But while the rest of the kingdom is panicking, while he was sewing a piece of clothing a bunch of flies began buzzing all over them, he took a pair of fly-swatters & swatted all 7 of them at once, which is something that impresses him so much that he blurts it to people right outside his shop.
Unfortunately for him, the men outside, who talking about the giant's coming, mistook his feat for seven giants rather than flies, and they quickly spread it all over the kingdom to the point where it reaches the ears of the King himself who asks to see him. After arriving in the palace and in an attempt to impress him, Mickey explains his version of what exactly happened but he realizes too late that the king is so impressed with it that he decides to send him out to stop a giant.
Despite trying to get out of the dangerous quest, the King does offers him both a large sum of money and the hand of his daughter Minnie in return for him defeating the giant, and after being kissed by her Mickey, who is currently in a lovestruck state, ultimately decides to agree with slaying the giant. After leaving the kingdom and stopping by a rock to rest, Mickey becomes worried as he doesn't know how to catch a giant, but things get even more serious when the real giant shows up and after trying to escape being stomped on him after large distance, he eventually resorts to hiding inside a cart full of pumpkins just as the giant takes a break.
However the giant is feeling hungry and upon seeing the cart, decides to eat the pumpkins with Mickey still inside, after barely dodging all the rolling pumpkins grabs onto the giant's uvula to avoid falling into his stomach, but it only causes him to hiccup which makes him drink the water from a nearby well, but just as he's knocked into the stomach from the oncoming water, Mickey grabs the well's bucket just in time for the giant to put it back. But just as he believes things are settling down and he now runs inside a haystack for cover, the giant decides to smoke and proceeds to turn the haystack into a cigarette which ultimately forces Mickey to reveal himself to him via sneezing.
Upon being discovered, the angry giant proceeds to try and eat him but using his nimble body, Mickey is able to dodge every attack he throws at him and his sewing skills, he is able to tie-up the giant and ultimately makes him fall to the ground as a giant boulder completely knocks him out, which makes Mickey realize that his tailor skills are more useful than he thought. With the threat of the giant gone for good, Mickey is hailed as a hero by the kingdom for his heroic effort and as promised, the happy king lets Minnie be his wife and taking advantage of the forever-sleeping giant, the kingdom built a fairground with him as an operating system for, where Mickey and Princess Minnie share a kiss in triumph of his victory.
===The Prince and the Pauper===
Like in the original story, due to looking like the same people, Mickey plays both the Prince & the Pauper living in the winter age of England. While the prince is currently living the royal life while his father the king is sick, Mickey, along with his dog Pluto & his best friend Goofy make the best to sell for food. Meanwhile in the palace, the Prince (who looks exactly like Mickey) is doing his studies with his adviser, Horace Horsecollar and his valet Donald Duck. But he has grown bored staying is the palace as he looks longingly out of his window seeing all the people and wishing he was with them. A while before, the King's guards came in their stagecoach, while hauling off the food they stole from the townspeople. Then a string of sausages drooped out of the stagecoach and Pluto ran after them. Mickey tried to stop him, but the palace gates had already closed. He asked the guard if he could come in to look for his dog, and the guard let him do so, thinking he was the Prince. Then Pete caught him and tried to poke him with his sword, but the Prince saw this and wanted Mickey brought to him at once because "even the lowliest subjects of this Kingdom deserve respect" as he had quoted.
Inside the palace, Mickey is amazed at its splendor, but he accidentally slips on the shiny floor and crashes into some suits of armor. Just then, the Prince arrives and gets caught in the falling armor. Both remove their helmets and are amazed at the sight of each other. The Prince tells Mickey that his life is so boring with his constant lessons and banquets and envies the Pauper for his freedom. He then decides to switch places with him to see what life is like outside the palace. Mickey is hesitant to do so, but the Prince explains to him that everything would be fine. As the Prince reaches the palace gates, he is handled roughly by Pete, who doesn't believe that he's the Prince and then catapulted out. Pluto and Goofy find him afterwards, but Pluto turns his back on him, knowing he is not Mickey. Goofy, however, is convinced and doesn't understand why the Prince is avoiding him or acting like he doesn't know him. In the palace, Mickey is shown a long list of his royal duties.
Both the Prince and the Pauper are not having much success with their lives and cause disaster everywhere they go. As the Prince is walking through the town, he sees the Weasel Guards stealing a chicken from Clarabelle, so he commands them to stop, but they just laugh due to them not realizing who he is and continue robbing the people. Seeing this he finds out how the people are being treated in the King's name. Suddenly, the Prince sees a cart being pulled full of food and after showing the royal ring, demands the driver to hand over what's inside. The Weasels then come to arrest the Prince, but he's saved by Goofy and they ride away into the distance. Later in Pete's tower, one of the Weasel guards tells his captain about what has happened and Pete realizes that it was the Prince he threw out of the castle and therefore knows how the people are being treated, so he begins making plans to get rid of him.
In the palace, Horace appears to Mickey saying that "his father" wishes to see him in his last few hours. He then takes him to the king, who's gravely ill. Mickey enters the room of the dying king, and Horace closes the door, then the dying king tells Mickey that he must become king and rule the land justly and wisely, he sadly promises, and shortly afterwards the old King sadly dies.
With no king Mickey leaves the room and decides to go and find the Prince, but Pete sneaks up behind him and not only reveals he knows his true identity, he threatens him to be crowned King at his orders, or he would kill Pluto whom he had taken earlier as a hostage, essentially making him Pete's puppet over the throne. In the town the bells ring out that the King has died, the Prince is deeply sad and knows that he must now be the new King and put right what Captain Pete has done. Goofy sees his ring and offers his full-most support.
As they are about to leave, Pete and some guards burst in and capture the Prince and lock him in the dungeon along with Donald, while the coronation begins. Mickey tries his hardest not to be crowned, but Pete is behind the curtain strangling Pluto. Meanwhile, the Prince and Donald are rescued by Goofy who is disguised as an executioner, and together, they take out most of the guards and rush to the Coronation chamber.
Mickey finally plucks up his courage and orders the guards to arrest Pete, but the villain defends himself by revealing the Pauper to be an impostor and demanding he be arrested. The real Prince arrives just in time and challenges the vicious Captain to a sword battle. Goofy and Donald arrive and take out more of the Weasel guards, and thanks to Goofy's clumsiness, end up entangling some of them in a falling chandelier. An errant arrow rips through the rope choking Pluto, freeing him and allowing him to join the battle as well. Pete corners the Prince and is about to kill him once and for all when Pluto runs up and bites Pete in the rear. Pete then suffers further humiliation as his trousers get sliced down, exposing his underwear underneath, much to audience's amusement who laugh themselves silly and then he gets tripped by both Mickey and the Prince, before he finally becomes caught with the Weasel guards in the now-rolling chandelier. The chandelier rolls down the red carpet and crashes through the glass window into the street below.
Both the Prince and the Pauper laugh and hug each other, but the archbishop doesn't know who the real Prince is until Pluto recognizes his master by licking Mickey affectionately. The archbishop then crowns the Prince as the new King of England, and everyone happily celebrates (including Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Horace, and Pluto). It is later told that the new King rules the country as he swore he would with justice and compassion for all; even happily rewarding Mickey and Goofy for their assistance by promoting them as new members of his royal court.
===Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas===
In this movie, Mickey lacks money, which prevents him from easily buying Minnie's watch chain as a Christmas present. To get the money faster, he and Pluto work hard at their jobs in "Crazy Pete's Tree Lot". However, after ruining Pete's plan to sell an overpriced tree to a struggling family, Pete steals Mickey's tip and the mouse is fired.
With no money, Mickey and his loyal dog Pluto figure out a way to make more money while Mickey plays his beloved harmonica. The beauty of Mickey's harmonica playing catches the attention of the police chief, who drives like a toy. However, the drive band was unable to perform at that time. The chief asks Mickey to play with the unit, but Mickey tries to explain that he doesn't have time. When Mickey sees the sad face of a child donating a toy, he decides to play.
Even after his stellar performance, Mickey still has no way of getting Minnie her present. Before Mickey leaves, the Chief congratulates Mickey on his performance and tells him that he and his accordion are something special. This gives Mickey the idea to trade his accordion for Minnie's chain. However, the shop owner won't accept the offer until he hears Mickey playing the harmonica. A store owner who feels sympathy for the mouse passes the store.
At Minnie's, the couple exchange gifts, and it turns out that Minnie traded the watch for Mickey's harmonica case. The couple then realizes that each other is all the gifts they will ever need. In the finale, Mickey and Minnie join the other characters in singing Christmas carols.
===Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers===
In this movie, Mickey, Donald, Goofy, and Pluto originally started out as street urchins living in France who were attacked by the mean Beagle Boys. Suddenly, three heroic musketeers of the royal guard came to the rescue. After the battle one Musketeer even gave Mickey his hat as a gift. Ever since that day, Mickey, Donald, and Goofy dreamed of becoming Musketeers, but even when they became adults, they were as far away from their dream as ever. They now serve as caretakers for the real Musketeers, but they still keep the dream alive by daydreaming about how great Musketeer life would be.
However, the captain of the guard Pete constantly berates the trio by telling them that they will never be Musketeers because Mickey is too small, Donald is a coward, and Goofy is too stupid. Unbeknownst to the trio, Pete is actually planning to kidnap the Princess Minnie Mouse and take over France as king. To do so, he hires the Beagle Boys to kidnap the princess, but they fail. Minnie demands Musketeer bodyguards out of fear, and Pete hires Mickey, Donald, and Goofy, believing they will do a terrible job. On the first day, the trio rescue Minnie and her lady-in-waiting Daisy from the Beagle Boys in another kidnapping attempt.
After the rescue, Mickey and Minnie fall in love. Meanwhile, Pete plans to get rid of the trio after realizing they're in more trouble than usual. Goofy is lured away by Pete's lieutenant Clarabelle from Minnie's castle, and Donald is kidnapped by beagles but is able to escape. When he does, he heads back to the palace to warn Mickey. Mickey tries to get Donald to help him take down Pete, but the duck is too scared. Donald quits and leaves France while Pete kidnaps Mickey.
He takes Mickey to Mount St. Michael. There he is trapped in a chamber, which the tide floods and drowns Mickey. Fortunately, Goofy is freed by a reformed Clarabelle and Donald decides to rejoin the unit. Donald, Goofy, and Pluto head out to rescue Mickey, which they do just in time. Mickey and the gang head to the opera house, where Pete has already managed to take control. A battle ensues and Pete is defeated. Mickey and Minnie then declare their love and the trio are officially dubbed the Royal Musketeers.
===Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas===
In the CGI sequel Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas, Mickey is first seen participating in Minnie and Daisy's ice skating tournament with him and Donald.
Later, Mickey plans a big Christmas party for everyone to enjoy. Even though Minnie would rather let him do something simple, Mickey goes ahead and over-decorates with three animatronic Santa Claus figures, a train going around a Christmas tree, and more. While on the phone with Minnie, Pluto accidentally destroys the decorations, notably knocking over the Christmas tree. With all the decorations destroyed, Mickey has no choice but to go outside and get new decorations. Before leaving, she scolds Pluto harshly and sends him to his kennel. After Mickey leaves, Pluto runs away and finds himself at the North Pole, where he is adopted by Santa's reindeer.
Meanwhile, Mickey returned to decoration the house. Unlike the previous decorations, these are simpler. After finishing the finishing touches, Mickey went to the doghouse to apologize to Pluto for his anger and wanted Pluto to place the star on the tree. Instead of Pluto, Mickey finds his discarded collar and sees paw prints in the snow, strongly suggesting that Pluto has escaped. In a panic, Mickey calls Minnie for help and sets out to find his friend. He spends the whole day putting up posters around town. During the night, Mickey visits Santa Claus who is having a meet and greet and tells him that all he wants for Christmas is Pluto back. But this is no ordinary department store Santa, this is the real deal.
Mickey returns home with all hope. Suddenly, Pluto appears on the roof of the house and throws himself down into Mickey's arms. Just as the two begin to meet, the snowplow that nearly hit Mickey earlier comes crashing into Mickey's front yard. The driver is revealed to be Goofy, accompanied by Max, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Scrooge McDuck, Huey, Dewey and Louie. Minnie explains that Scrooge bought the snow plow company to help find Pluto. Excited to have his friends there, Mickey invites them in and everyone sings Christmas carols to celebrate.
===Who framed Roger Rabbit===
In the movie, Mickey makes several appearances over the course of the film. He first appears (which is his most notable appearance) He makes a notable appearance skydiving with Bugs Bunny, during this the two encounter Eddie Valiant. He later makes another appearance after the climax, Mickey is seen leading all the other toons into the human world to Roger Rabbit and his friends and while surveying the carnage, Mickey ponders the identity of Judge Doom.
Regardless, with Roger having found the will of Marvin Acme that declares that Toontown officially belongs to toons which leaves the Tooniverse at peace, Mickey and the Toons happily celebrate the new ownership of Toontown and sing "Smile Darn Ya Smile" while Roger and Jessica, as well as Eddie and Dolores happily walk into Toontown to celebrate their victory with Mickey and everyone else following behind.
===Once Upon a Studio===
In this short film, taking place on October !6, 2023: the Walt Disney Animation Studios' 100th anniversary, Mickey waits inside one of the many pictures with Minnie for the right time to come out. When all the employees leave the studio, Mickey calls for Tinkerbell to come to him and asks her if the coast is clear which she confirms, with all the employees gone, he & Minnie jump out their picture to prepare for the 100 year group photo before calling out everyone else to join them.
For the rest of the evening, Mickey and his pals gather every Disney character, heroes & villains alike, from all across the studio for this momentous occasion as they lead them all down the lobby outside to take the special group photo, going through a couple of shenanigans along while doing so. Along the way Mickey witnesses Kaa leading Clarabelle with his hypnosis, he tries to tell him to stop, but Rapunzel assures him she's got it covered before hitting Kaa with her frying pan offscreen to save her.
With the situation settled quickly, Mickey stops for a while before he looks up at a portrait honoring the company's late founder, Walt Disney and takes his hat off to pay respects and fondly remember the legacy he left behind. Before Minnie reminds before that everyone is in the lobby as Mickey speaks to the portrait saying that he has to go and thanks him declaring, "On with the show".
Climbing aboard Dumbo, Mickey flies down to the entrance of the building and with another clarification that the coast is 100% clear from Raya, Mickey opens the doors and leads everyone outside of the Studio for the group photoshoot and with everything and everyone ready, Mickey gives the signal for the picture taking is now a go. But things backfire at the last minute when Goofy is unable to find the timer button for the camera and he accidentally falls off the ladder, which then makes Stitch chew on a part of the camera as Lilo drags him away, which bums everyone out and they all start to head back inside the studio because without a camera, the group photo is cancelled despite Mickey assuring everything will be fine.
But just as everyone is about to go back inside, Alan-A-Dale plays "When You Wish Upon a Star" on his lute, and is joined shortly by Scat Cat on his trumpet, Mirabel on her accordion, and Hathi Jr. using his trunk as everyone's spirits are lifted back up joins in singing along, much to Mickey's happiness. As this is happening, the other characters help undo Goofy's mistake with the magic brooms sweeping up his camera in a pile, Fix-It Felix, Jr. repairing it, Hercules pulling the ladder back in position, and Fairy Godmother using her magic wand to lift Goofy up over the ladder while he places the camera on top of it, and sets the timer. With the whole mess immediately fixed and with Jiminy Cricket standing on his hand right next to him, Mickey and the rest of the cast happily sing the last verse of the song together and smile for the photo, happy for all the years Walt Disney brought entertainment to the whole world.
==Television appearances==
===Walt Disney's anthology series===
Mickey was a regular on the show, appearing as a good friend and partner of the show's host, Walt Disney himself, as well as a respected company actor.
Mickey was usually the primary focus of several episodes, but he was also heavily featured in episodes centered around Donald (much to the duck's dismay), Goofy, Jiminy Cricket, and others. Some of these episodes include On Vacation with Mickey Mouse and Friends, The Ranger, Four Tales of a Mouse, The Story of Donald Duck, From All of Us to All of You, Goofy Success Story and many more.
Various specials celebrating Mickey's success and history have also aired over the years, mostly around the mouse's birthday, including Mickey's 50th and most notably Mickey's 60th, where the story revolved around Mickey mysteriously disappearing on the anniversary of his debut, leading to a worldwide disaster and despair.
===The Mickey Mouse Club===
Mickey was the mascot of the daily variety show. He featured prominently in the opening theme song, in which he donned a marching band outfit while being feted by a host of supporting actors – except for the envious Donald Duck, who tries to steal the spotlight instead. The series refers to Mickey as "the leader of the club" — the members of which are referred to as Mouseketeers, who sport hats modeled after Mickey's round ears.
Throughout the week, an animated segment featuring Mickey opened each episode by greeting the Mouseketeer audience and calling out the cue to start the show, to the tune of classic Disney songs. On Mondays and Tuesdays, Mickey appeared as a concert pianist ("A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes") and a vaudeville act ("Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah"). On Wednesdays and Thursdays, he was a sorcerer's apprentice ("The Siamese Cat Song") and a trombone-playing bandleader ("Following the Leader"). Finally, on Friday, he was a cowboy with a western draw ("Pecos Bill"). Walt Disney reprized his role as Mickey for these animations, partly as a way to prove he could still pull off the voice.
A classic Mickey Mouse short would be played towards the end of the episodes. These were presented as "Mouskartoons" and featured a short introduction in which Jimmie Dodd drew a raffle from a place called the "Mickey Mouse Treasure Mine".
===Bonkers===
Mickey got a guest spot on Bonkers in "I Oughta Be in Toons". Mickey was kidnapped and was rescued by Bonkers (who adores Mickey) and Lucky Piquel. Throughout the episode, Mickey was never actually seen (aside from a silhouette at the beginning of the episode) and was only referred to as "the mouse". Additionally, Mickey has been referenced in other Bonkers episodes of the series, even making a few cameo appearances, though never in person. In "Of Mice and Menace", there is an exhibit in the Toon Museum that includes a portrait of Mickey as depicted in Steamboat Willie next to the ship's steering wheel. In "Springtime for the Iguana", Bonkers notes that Mickey started out in the "minor role of a steamship captain" (although in reality Pete was the ship's captain) in order to convince Roderick Lizzard to portray the monster.
===Mickey Mouse Works===
Mickey was the star of a series similar to his classic cartoons. Mickey usually got into trouble for his own mischievous attitude. Mickey had his own 90-second cartoon segments called Mickey to the Rescue, in which he broke into Pete's trap-filled hideout to rescue Minnie.
In some episodes, Mickey would be involved in an Ajax business with Donald and Goofy having various jobs often ending in complete failure, while in other cartoons it might involve him trying to impress Minnie by going over the top and modern.
Returning to his original mischievous roots from the late 1920s and early 1930s cartoons, Mickey was shown to be a trickster in the show, in shorts such as "Mickey's Mountain" and "Mickey's Cabin", with Mickey usually outsmarting his enemy, Pete as they fight each other. He was also reunited with his rival, Mortimer Mouse, for the first time in animation since "Mickey's Rival"; the two would clash regularly throughout the series, beginning with "Mickey's Rival Returns".
===House of Mouse===
In Disney's House of Mouse, Mickey is the owner of the popular nightclub of the same name in downtown Main Street. Mickey tries to keep the club profitable to keep it safe from his nefarious landlord Pete. All the while, he has to keep both of his crazy crews stable. Like his previous series, Mickey's mischief often gets the club into hot water, such as in "Rent Day" where he spent the club's rent on a large order of cheese.
In Mickey's House of Villains, Mickey does his best to give his guests a jolly spooky Halloween. However, things take a turn for the worse when Jafar gathers the villains together and takes over the club. Mickey tries to reason with Jafar to get the club back to normal, but to no avail. This prompts Mickey and his friends to sneak backstage and don his wizarding robes and hat from when he was Yen Sid's apprentice and face off against Jafar in a magical duel. Jafar manages to overpower Mickey, causing Mickey to lose his hat and powers. As the villains prepare to eliminate Mickey, Aladdin provides the lamp to trap Jafar, scaring off the other villains and returning the club to normal.
In Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at House of Mouse, after another successful night at the club everyone prepares to head back home, but a snowstorm traps Mickey and everyone inside at the club on Christmas Day. But Mickey still is able to make the best of this situation and suggests they have a Christmas party at the club. While the guests have fun watching cartoons and socializing with each other, Mickey and the staff try to get Donald into the Christmas spirit to no avail. When Mickey feels like he tried everything to change Donald's mind and reluctantly gives up, he heads up to the roof but with some advice from Jiminy Cricket, Mickey is able to shine a light on Donald and make it a merry Christmas for everyone.
===Mickey Mouse Clubhouse===
Mickey hosts a computer-animated series in which he uses brains and teamwork to solve problems. Mickey is the leader of a club gang and often goes on various adventures to help and/or save his friends.
In the show, Mickey and the club gang solve various problems with the help of the audience. In addition to going on adventures and solving puzzles, Mickey and his friends also go through other challenges, such as stopping Goofy the Goofbot, and Mickey and Pluto spend the day trying to get back to solid ground after being trapped in a bubble.
Mickey is also the host of a spin-off television series: Mickey Mousekersize. In these shorts, Mickey, accompanied by Toodles, helps his friends stay in shape by using exercises to solve their everyday problems. Mickey also appeared in Christmas, Halloween and Thanksgiving themed episodes of Minnie's Bow-Toons.
===Mickey Mouse (2013)===
In the animated miniseries, Mickey and his friends have numerous adventures in exotic locations around the world, including Paris, Tokyo, New York and more. In the series, Mickey maintains his roguish persona, most prominently appearing in shorts from the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Many of his cartoons revolve around impressing Minnie in one way or another, though the real focus of the episodes revolves around Mickey coming up with comical ways to accomplish whatever task at hand while still maintaining his lovable nature. Many episodes also focus on Mickey attempting exaggerated methods of wooing Minnie, dealing with Goofy's antics, and confronting Donald's fiery temper and selfishness.
This incarnation features Mickey living in either an apartment in the city or a house in the suburbs, with the occasional goldfish named Gubbles and Pluto. When the shorts are focused in this setting, Mickey tends to take a more down-to-earth approach to things, such as trying to cure Donald of an illness, win a dog show, escape the summer heat, or save his goldfish from a hungry cat. . However, at times his adventures in his default home still escalate, such as the night he ran through the dangerous streets of the city to save sleepwalking Goofy, the night he accidentally lost his ears, or the night he challenged Pete to a match. match, albeit by accident.
Notably, some cartoons depict him in various roles around the world. For example, in "Yodelberg", Mickey is a Swiss mouse who wishes to visit Minnie at the top of the Matterhorn, but the treacherous terrain can make such a plan difficult. "Tokyo Go" stars Mickey as a Japanese mouse who goes on an adventure aboard Tokyo's bullet train system. In "O Sole Minnie", Mickey is an Italian mouse who tries to win Minnie's heart.
Mickey later starred in the sequel series The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse.
===Mickey Mouse Mixed Up Adventures===
Mickey appears in the animated series where he and his friends live in a town called Hot Dog Hills that prides itself on its recurring racing tournaments. Mickey is the manager of a local car repair shop, run by himself alongside Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy, Pluto, Chip and Dale. Mickey's transforming roadster is known as the "Hot Diggity Hot Rod", which is the daily driver mode of Clubhouse Toon Car from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. The show's second season deviated from the racing storylines, instead focusing on Mickey's slice-of-life adventures in Hot Dog Hills. As such, Mickey is depicted living in his newly built "Mouse House" with Pluto, Chip and Dale.
===DuckTales (2017)===
In the episode "Moonvasion!", Donald is found stranded on a deserted island with an imaginary friend in the form of a watermelon shaped like Mickey's head. "Melon Mickey" explains that after escaping the Moonlanders, Donald crash-landed on the island. With Melon Mickey as his only companion, Donald survived outside the country. "Melon Mickey", moved by his family's determination to find him, urges Donald to return home. Melon Mickey is later kicked into the sea by Della Duck, but is recovered and eaten by Gladstone Gander.
Co-producer Frank Angones campaigned for Mickey to appear in the series, or at least be mentioned, but Disney executives overruled it.[79] The series was intended to portray Mickey as a former dorm roommate of Donald Duck who became more successful than him.[80] Ironically, Mickey was mentioned in the original DuckTales comic story "The Arcadian Urn" (at least in the American press).[81]
===Mickey Mouse Funhouse===
In the sequel to Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures, Mickey and his companions travel to the forest to spend the day in an anthropomorphic house named Funny. Funny's rooms contain portals to different worlds, allowing Mickey and his friends to embark on fantastic adventures. Along with the usual members of Mickey's crew, Mortimer also appears as a recurring friend of Mickey's, though he comes across as more of a bad influence than a rival.
==Video Game appearances==
===Mickey's Space Adventure===
In the first video game Mickey ever appeared in, while out walking Pluto, Mickey Mouse stumbles upon a spaceship and investigating the inside, he is briefed by the ship's computer named XL30, who explains that the ship is from the planet Oron in the Alpha Centauri star system. 75 Earth-years ago, an interplanetary thief stole a precious crystal that contains all of their recorded history, which he split into nine pieces and hid throughout Earth's solar system. The thief was caught, but the crystal pieces are still missing, and can only be reassembled in a certain order. XL30 asks Mickey to search the 9 planets (or certain moons of planets) for the pieces of the crystal.
==Other media==
In The Mouse Factory, Mickey repeatedly appeared in live-action skits alongside other costumed characters and celebrity guests.
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