Mighty Mouse

Mighty Mouse is the eponymous main protagonist of the theatrical cartoon shorts of the same name. He is an anthropomorphic superhero mouse with ultimate powers to fight against crimes, protecting those in need and especially his lover Pearl Pureheart.
He also appeared in the Saturday Morning TV series, Mighty Mouse Playhouse, as well as the two revival shows The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle by Filmation and Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures by Ralph Bakshi.
== Biography ==
=== Origin ===
In the 1951 short film, The Cat's Tale, Mighty Mouse was an orphan baby left into care during the rainstorm in the night. He was adopted, and then became stronger and faster as he grew older. His family and friends found that he was not an ordinary mouse, but a mighty mouse.
However, Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures reveals that Mighty Mouse originated in a tough neighborhood where mice lived in the holes within the human habitants. As a baby, he was sent away in the wind-up toy rocket ship by his parents, Orage and Lara, with the limburger cheese to sustain him. He was then found and adopted by a family of squirrels who named him "Mike". Several years later, he rescued Ma and Pa Squirrel from the hungry crows and was set to move on to Mouseville.
== Powers and Abilities ==
*Superhuman Strength: Despite being so small compared to other rodents, Mighty Mouse has a massive strength, hence his name. With his muscles of steel, he is able to lift extra heavy objects as well as smash into pieces. He is also capable of crashing through walls and windows.
*Invulnerability: In keeping with his upper body strength, Mighty is extremely invulnerable to punching and man-made weaponry and machinery. However, he gets temporarily knocked unconscious or rendered immobile by a villain, only to rise again and save the day.
*Superhuman Flight: Another one of Mighty's primary powers is to fly at a vast speed. Though he usually floats in midair, he frequently goes way up high in the sky and swoops down to punch a villain in a chin. Additionally, during flight, he leaves a contrail that he can manipulate like a band of solid, flexible matter.
*Superhuman Breath: Mighty Mouse is able to inhale most air and lets out a wind-force from his lungs.
== Voice Actor ==
*Throughout the melodrama parody shorts, Mighty Mouse's singing voice was provided by Roy Halee, Sr. 
* His speaking voice was provided by Tom Morrison in the mid 1950s until the late 1960s. 
*In The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle, Mighty was voiced by , who also voiced Oil Can Harry, as well as Man-At-Arms and Cringer in the Masters of the Universe franchise, Alfred Pennyworth in Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, Beachcomber, SeaSpray and Warpath in The Transformers TV series, Falkor in the first Neverending Story film, and Norman Burg in The Big O. 
*In Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, he is voiced by , who also voiced Painty the Pirate in SpongeBob SquarePants, Wolverine in Pryde of the X-Men, and the Thing in the Spider-Man TV series in 1994.
== Trivia ==
*Mighty Mouse is a clear parody/homage of Superman:
**Both of them have similar superpowers, including super strength and flight.
**Both have been sent away in the small ships from their homelands and are adopted in the countryside (in Mighty's case, Ma and Pa Squirrel; in Superman's case, Jonathan and Martha Kent).
**Both have their love interests, Pearl Pureheart and Lois Lane respectively, who in which are initially damsels in distress.
**Both have their civilian identities (in Mighty's case, Mike Mouse; in Superman's case, Clark Kent).
**Coincidentally, Mighty was originally named "Super Mouse", until 1944's The Wreck of the Hesperus.
*Mighty Mouse is also an influence of Astro Boy, known as Mighty Atom in Japanese.
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