Stork (Clock Cleaners)

The Stork is a character featured in the 1937 Mickey Mouse short Clock Cleaners.
==Background==
===Personality===
The stork is a bird that lives on a nest which takes up residence and refuses to be moved from his perch in a high rise clock that needs cleaning that Mickey tries to get rid of - albeit without any luck in his attempt in getting the stork out of the clock tower. He appears to be a somnambulist often sleeping in his nest at a giant clock tower, which Mickey considers him to be a nuisance - albeit a harmless bird. Not much of his personality is known aside from sleeping, as he does not speak.
===Physical appearance===
The stork has a plumage of white feathers around his body, a pair of orange legs, an orange beak, a pale white breast, as well as having a black tail with its wingtips having black feathers. He also has white eyes with a black pupil in it.
==Appearances==
===Clock Cleaners===
As Mickey Mouse is cleaning the clock, he encounters a stork sleeping in his nest. Just as he tells him to wake up, the stork refuses to wake up and despite his attempts, the stork was unable to wake up. As a result, Mickey decides to find a way to get the stork out of the clock tower. During his attempt, Mickey sees an open outdoor area, thinking it would be the perfect time for him to send the stork out of the tower, which the stork still refuses to wake up, due to his legs, much to Mickey's frustration. As a result, Mickey finds an alternate solution to get the stork out of the clock tower by using him as a paper airplane. The stork begins to fly, but to he sends Mickey out of the clock tower, causing him to hold onto a pole with a rope attached on it, much to his bad luck. The stork does not appear again afterwards.
==Video game appearances==
===Epic Mickey/Epic Mickey: Rebrushed===
The stork (generically referred to by Prima Games as a "nesting bird"Epic Mickey Collector's Edition: Prima Official Game Guide, page 49) also appears in Epic Mickey and its 2024 HD remake Epic Mickey: Rebrushed when the player travels through the Clock Cleaners: Part 1 projector screen (his only appearance in the game) where he is seen sleeping on a nest on top of a gear. When the player activates a lever near the stork, it activates the gear, causing the stork to wake up. Once done so, the stork wakes up with a surprised reaction, just as the gear launches the stork and his nest out of the clock tower. Additionally, doing so allows Mickey to receive a film reel located on the bottom side of the area where the stork is nesting, as doing so not only opens the metal door next to the stork but also the other metal door blocking the path to the film reel.
==Trivia==
*When Clock Cleaners was featured in Have a Laugh!, all the scenes where the stork appears (including Mickey's struggle with the stork) were deleted from the short, due to time constraints.
*The way the stork grabs Mickey's overalls while he is flying is a reference to the myth of the white stork delivering babies to parents.
==References==
Category:Storks
Category:Disney characters
Category:Animated characters
Category:Males
Category:Adults
Category:Silent characters
Category:Characters who fly
Category:Mickey Mouse universe characters