Dark Disney

Dark Disney is the third title in the Toon Wars: Legacy series following the release of The Watterson, taking place in the far future where the Toonverse and all other properties in the world had been acquired by Disney, transforming them into an empire. Max, one of the supporting cast of *Summer Camp Island* and Crossover Forces, accidentally jumps to this era from a broken hyperdrive, forcing him to ally with Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and his resistance to return to the past and prevent Mickey's turn to evil. This crossover came out on January 1st, 2021 as part of Toon Wars' anniversary with a current total of 7 chapters planned, taking The Watterson's approach to having longer chapters for a shorter story. The last chapter was posted on June 28, 2021.

## Plot

### Foreshadow

Sometime prior to Mickey's takeover, Black Hat celebrates in his island lair after a chilling victory over the Toonverse after a major disaster on Etheria decimated the Toon Force and all of the She-Ra cartoon. Before he can ponder his next scheme, he is attacked by Cattus the Ultimate and cornered by other members of the Toon Republic, who demand answers from the supervillain. He explains his goal was to eliminate both sides so he could return to prominence without the major heroes getting in his way. Unfortunately, this also costed the life of both Kitra and Catra, whom he sought to bring to his side in one way or another. Because of the sophistication of Netflix's programming and the risk of losing Toonverse-specific character data, bringing back the lost heroes would take lengths Jimmy could only describe as borderline unethical. With his enemies defeated, Black Hat gloats one final time before he is killed by Entrapta using Bob's arm cannon.

### The Past

One afternoon, Max is summoned by Pepper Corn to help tend to their duty to collect trash around the Toon Force H.Q. However, their assignment changes when Bob requests they assist Entrapta with equipment in her lab. Max remembers that he's in need of a hyperdrive after his rocketship's warp core had malfunctioned, helping Entrapta gather useful parts while looking for a new drive. In the middle of his search, little Kitra shows him a drawing she made of the two of them smiling with each other, depicting Kitra around the same age as he is. Eventually, Entrapta gives Max a working hyperdrive before having to look for more parts. However, while scavenging again, Max accidentally picks up a drive looking similar to the new one, not realizing it when he remembers he has to take the final Toon Force Initiation Exam later in the day. This prompts him to visit now Counselor Hedgehog and Oscar at Summer Camp Island for advice as he's incredibly nervous about the test. They remind him that when put in heavy situations like this, Max was able to pull through on his own during Crossover Forces, even inspiring him to fly his own rocketship and join the Toon Force. This reminder gives Max the motivation to take the test even when he admits he isn't much of a fighter, prompting him to head back to his rocket to use the new hyperdrive for Toon City again. However, it instead breaks down and jumps him to a period where the headquarters is abandoned and overtaken by vegetation. At first, he believes it to be part of the test since the headquarters tend to run advanced life-like simulations such as this. Unfortunately, after a run-in with Stormtroopers and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents in the facility searching for artifacts, he slowly realizes this is indeed the future long after he was last seen in Summer Camp Island. Unable to find his headgear and other equipment, Max escapes the building as the troopers become aware of his presence, sending Probe Droids and camera bots to search the abandoned city. As further confirmation of the timeline he's in, Max is greeted by an entire dystopian metropolis facing what remains of Toon City, filled with corporate advertisements and patrols. Without his rocket, Max begins to wander the old streets until he's discovered by Blinx, the last of the Time Sweepers. He knows he came from the past and offers to bring the boy to his group's hideout ran by The Underground. Inside, Max is met by a scout group of the resistance, including their leader, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit secretly going against the new Disney Empire.

### The Underground

Oswald briefly touches on his origins with Mickey and his early hatred toward him for his and his city's abandonment. However, when the blot crisis began to infect his home, Mickey came to save he and his people, and reunited him with his wife Ortensia (as seen in Epic Mickey). Since then, the two had reconciled and become close friends. However, over time through unknown circumstances, Mickey had begun to become more and more corporate until he eventually snapped and commenced a mass buyout of many properties of any kind, including games, comics, cartoons, books, and other types of media. To do this, he invented Elysian; a secret super device capable of spreading a virus that, upon contact, causes the infected to become fully devoted to the new Disney Regime. For those who were not infected, however, the regime's Enforcers (made up of predominantly Marvel and Star Wars armies) visited them and force them into joining or risk termination. Although, as evident by Mickey later killing Olaf for simply being less popular than Baby Yoda, even those within the new empire risk extermination if certain demands are not met. Uncorrupted, Oswald gathered as many survivors as possible to form a secret resistance against his old friend, hoping to find Elysian and destroy it to unlock time travel and prevent Mickey's turn to evil. Meanwhile, Mickey is informed of Max's whereabouts and orders a complete investigation for the boy and the Underground, hoping to claim him to unlock the Toonverse's technology accessible only to those from its era.

After being introduced to the rest of the team, Max is given a special device invented by Jimmy Neutron prior to his passing. It was found by Oswald at the now desolate Retroville, though it's unable to be opened by beings not native to the Toonverse. Max easily activates the gadget, called the Soul Retriever, containing the data of Gumball Watterson to grant him the ability to use ki blasts and integrate them into other capsules he finds. Before he can get better acquainted with it, Max is forced to flee with them from the base before the Helicarriers can catch them. Unfortunately, Thor catches up to them in their escape system, taking Max aboard the nearest vessel. While Oswald tries to delay the Enforcers, the rest of the group follow Thor to stage a rescue. However, Captain America pursues them with a full legion of troops in the Helicarrier. Suddenly as the battle becomes dire, Gumball's data turns on, allowing Max to easily plow through the horde of soldiers despite his reluctance to kill and inexperience in a proper fight. Captain America is blown off the ship while Thor, in an attempt to kill both Blinx and Dust, accidentally kills himself with his axe when Max pushes the two out the way. The troops aboard the ship panic as the Underground escapes, with Oswald still managing to keep up the act of chasing after them. With their stolen quinjet, Barbara Gordon flies the team to the forest district far from the ruins of Toon City, expecting to meet the rest of the resistance the next morning.

With the death of Thor and the crippling of Steve Rodgers, Mickey consults Judy Hopps on the problem in hopes that she can route out Max the same way a version of Starscream had betrayed the Underground earlier, leading to Yakko's base being totaled and half the resistance slaughtered. Using Max's rocket left behind, Judy tries tracking him down. However, even though it refuses to activate for her due to a ruined battery and voice recognition, she intends to save it for a different purpose. Elsewhere at the forest, Max meets up with more of the Underground in a large storage facility once occupied by the Toon Republic. There, he is introduced to Yakko Warner and Captain Rex, who inform him and Oswald that the supplies needed for a full scale assault on Castle Disney had been depleted, and the legions under Judy's command are in motion. To cripple Mickey's forces, they must stage a number of hit-and-run missions on essential supply lines for the Enforcers, while also recovering Jimmy's Soul Retrievers. When all the stations are damaged, they'll be able to gather as much equipment as possible for the final assault. Max is incredibly shaken and anxious about the situation after witnessing the death of Thor and several men aboard the Helicarrier. But with the encouragement of the Underground, he volunteers, hoping to get back to the past like he promised.

### Initiative

Max's first mission takes him to Bikini Bottom, drained of water and converted into a pumping station for the Enforcers. There, he meets Penelope through remote communications, hacking into the Star Destroyer overhead to stop them from responding to any emergency calls. Oswald helps by getting aboard for inspection, allowing access to jam all frequencies. After a run-in with several of the First Order stormtroopers in the facility, Max learns how to perfect his control of the Gumball Soul Retriever and uses it to make his way through the station's many defenses, coming across the main valves thanks to Barbara. However, destroying it would bring the entire station down almost immediately, and the Ground Bridge wouldn't be able to warp either of them out underground. To save them, Oswald uses an escape shuttle to break into the surface and use his personal teleport to send the group to his apartment at Castle Disney. His wife, Ortensia, warns him about putting his men in danger like this since they're directly in enemy territory. But he calms her down by listening and assuring her that he'll give everyone the best care.

The next mission brings everyone to Amity Park where Luz feels special attachment due to the lost souls being harvested in the area. Some of which include friends of her own. The Mad Doctor, now allies with the regime, has built a facility to gather all the spirits for extra power to the Disneyverse. However, Scud, is one of the many Undergrround fighters who joins Max on this assignment, bringing plenty of firepower on the Stormtroopers guarding the place, accompanied by Carol Tea and Della Duck, who's opposed to the regime despite Donald being part of it. Through the ruins, Max and Luz discover that King, the latter's best friend, had avoided the harvester despite being one of the many characters killed for rebelling against Mickey. In this ghostly form, he guides the duo to the next Soul Retriever; this time belonging to Danny Phantom with an additional mode to summon a backup of his essence for a limited amount of time. Although unaware of how he passed away or what led up to that point, Danny immediately recognizes Max as the one who stole his slice of pizza one day and demands an essay for when he returns to the past and meets him again. Max accepts and heads to the Mad Doctor's lab to shut down the Soul Harvester with Scud and Danny's help. However, the resulting explosion causes the Necro Blot to form, created from the energy drawn by the lost souls gathered. The Doctor is killed and the team is forced to use explosives to detonate the creature from within, leading to Max and King to be consumed and set the bombs inside. Thanks to the Soul Retriever's intangibility option, the two are saved from the explosion, but King managed to absorb some of the ink from the monster, causing him to reanimate himself as a half-toon dubbing himself, Necro King. Though shocked by the events, Luz decides to remain with Barbara and King to consider an idea she had in mind for later, having something to do with the now freed spirits. In the meanwhile, however, Judy Hopps continues to experiment with Max's rocket, unaffected by the Toonverse's technology lock, hoping to track him with the vehicle along with other plans.

Much progress is made for the Underground with every hit-and-run invasion with their biggest and most engaging mission being the one for the Transformer homeworld, Cybertron. Since the purchase of Hasbro, Disney's liquidated almost every known Transformers continuity, saving only one version of Cybertron for themselves, making it their only active shipyard for all their cruisers. Primus, now rendered powerless as a downed spark outside of its chamber, summons the help of the resistance when they make their move for the inner workings of the planet. Yakko leads a fake attack on the shipyards above to give a well-enough distraction for Max, Starscream, and a small team to get in the core and find Primus. As they reach the center of the planet with Primus in tow as a guide, the operator of the shipyards, Doctor Octavius, returns as an AI harboring the body of a large OmniDroid. The OctaDroid fights back against the team, forcing Spiderman to arrive and aid them by webbing the robot, providing enough noise to keep him busy form Cybertron's core. When it's destroyed, the machinery explodes, taking Doc Oc with it. Primus, with his Godly powers, supersizes Starscream to transport him and everyone out of the planet before the surface can collapse in on itself, dismantling the production of the regime's cruisers. However, while they were fighting Doc Oc, Bentley was shocked and transferred to Cyberspace by Ultron; the real mastermind behind the shipyard's AI. Penelope and Echo use the Ground Bridge to send Max, Scud, and the former into the Underground's mainframe, finding Bentley captive by the android. Knowing the Underground's secrets, Ultron plans to leak them across the entire Disneyverse, including the truth that Oswald was the one behind their formation. Interestingly, though, he also notes that much of the characters he has at his disposal, including Starscream and Penelope for instance, were plucked out of specific points in time in their respective appearances. Since Penelope's last current role was that of a traitor to the Cooper Gang in *Thieves in Time*, the evil AI forcibly corrupts her into a monster, Pen-Tron. While Scud and Echo take on Ultron, Max and Bentley defend themselves against Pen-Tron and try to break the virus feeding into her. With encouraging words from Bentley and a new Soul Retriever found in the form of Jenny Wakeman, allowing Max to hack directly into the virus' programming, Penelope returns to normal. Unfortunately, Ultron's leak is about to be sent to all in the known universe, forcing both Echo and Scud to move all his data onto themselves. Echo tells Max that he's been a good soldier before ejecting him and everyone else out of Cyberspace. Scud then joyfully self detonates, fulfilling his initial programming as an assassin droid and taking Ultron along with him and Echo. Understandably upset by the truth that she would eventually betray Bentley and the Cooper Gang, Penelope runs away while the rest of the Underground are left baffled at Oswald for keeping secrets from them about their futures. Though the mission was, in the end a success, Ultron did manage to send one piece of intel to Judy regarding the Soul Retrievers, including the next move for the Underground, giving her an edge in the fight.

### Setback

Before their next mission to save rejected characters at the supermax prison in Heartforde (a place most familiar to Max), the news feed shows the damages caused by the Underground's last raid on Cybertron and Ultron's defeat, resulting in real life streamers and programs to malfunction and ship production being halted as what remains of the shipyards are consumed by Scraplets. Oswald's exposed secret however broke out in the entire resistance, forcing him to return to his work at Castle Disney for a few days until he's ready to return. In the meantime, Yakko leads the charge and asks Max to go to Heartforde with a small team since he's been there in the past. Before they leave, he asks Blinx what'll happen to everyone when they reverse the timeline, fearing that those such as Starscream or Rex will still suffer a grim future. The Time Sweeper admits since he's been born outside of time and was bred only to clean up the glitches in time and space, he wasn't fully aware what would happen to everyone once it's all restored. Only that beings like him or Dust would be able to keep their memories intact since they wouldn't be affecting the proper order of their games. Normally, going to the past would create an entirely separate timeline. However, they wish to complete remake this altogether, preventing it from happening in other histories.

In their journey through the abandoned Summer Camp Island, Max finds a note left by Hedgehog and Oscar at his old cabin and his jacket, planning on looking into both after the mission. Once he finds the secret entrance through Susie's cabin and into Heartforde, he and his small team infiltrate the prison, meeting Mrs. Brisby about to be probed. Ahsoka and Bo-Katan save her from the guards, but they're quick to notice a bomb inside her ready to explode should anyone be rescued. Though Ahsoka was able to deactivate it through the force, the rest of the prisoners exploded, signaling Judy's fleet to arrive, along with hundreds of manipulated Disney characters. The resulting ambush leads to the capture of Della Duck and the deaths of nearly half the Underground, almost killing Blinx in the firefight between himself and the Clone Legion led by Commander Cody. In the nick of time, he's rescued by Max, Dust, and Starscream and brought back to base mere seconds away from death before Toriel could heal him. Oswald, having heard of the assault, returns and orders the remaining Underground survivors to withdraw. One more time, the regime undermines any resistance by staging a public execution of Della and her family. Donald is ordered to command the firing squad to shoot them, but he refuses, managing to break Elysium's grip on his mind. Sadly, he's instead executed by Mickey while his loved ones are imprisoned.

Devastated, the Underground is fractured with no plans of retaliating, leaving Max to devise a new strategy with the few members aiming to fight. Captain Rex informs him that with Cody's leadership and the clones themselves, the regime is nearly unbeatable. Their home base is stationed on the remains of Pure Heart, that if detonated could take almost all of the clone army. Despite Max's regret killing Rex's brothers, they along with Dust, Ahsoka, and Bo-Katan make their way to the planet to assassinate Cody and use the downed Ruby Heart to blow up the planet, aiming to escape with the Ground Bridge. But when Cody reveals he anticipated this from them, he commands a full ambush, bringing nearly all the clones to one place to attack. When the ground bridge portal is jammed, only able to activate up in the sky thanks to Max's hacking, Starscream launches and manages to retrieve all but Rex and Bo-Katan, who opt to stay behind to prevent the clones from following them. With their sacrifice and the destruction of the clone base, the regime is crippled again, giving Max a chance to look into the last Soul Retriever discovered by Oswald on Etheria. Before he leaves, Penelope apologizes for not being there when needed in the assault on Heartforde prison, blaming herself for not spotting the traps. Though she believes she may in fact turn evil like in the intended timeline once this one is reversed, she still plans to help the Underground stop Mickey. She along with Bentley guide Max, accompanied by Ahsoka, Toriel, and Dust, through the ruins of Bright Moon Kingdom, uncovering the mystery behind the great disaster but coming up empty handed. When the She-Ra Soul Retriever was found, it too turned out to be a ploy to catch everyone; now under the direct command of Judy herself. She cockily remarks that Ultron was able to inform her of the capsules and used the last one as bait, smashing it when it wasn't needed anymore. She also deduced that Oswald was the Underground's leader, noting his frequent absence at the castle and his connection to Nick Wilde's death when he found the Neutron Soul Retrievers in his lab. Since the regime only needs Max's data to activate the technology of the Toonverse, Judy orders her men to kill him and the fighters with him. One of her warriors, Fa Mulan, almost kills Dust, cutting into his cybernetics before Max could beat her in the nick of time, exposing the Mithrarin's face and hearing his voice. Once Judy and her men are defeated, the Ground Bridge is activated. However, due to Etheria being stuck between Despondos and the Toonverse, a portal storm erupts, corrupting Judy in a similar fashion to Catra. She overpowers everyone and comes close to killing Max when he's briefly possessed by the spirit of Kitra, seemingly from the destroyed capsule. She punches Judy into the storm's heavy streams, killing her instantly. With reality breaking apart, Toriel tries a new approach, using her magic to manually tether reality back together and return everyone to the base. She succeeds, though because of this, she's constantly phasing in and out of time and space, unable to properly materialize until Elysium can be destroyed.

### The Siege

Through all the stress and hardships the Underground had to face, Max gives a rousing speech to rally everyone, including Oswald, together to finish the regime in one last mission. A full-on siege. Oswald plans on taking groups of people to Castle Disney to take out Mickey, still pretending to be his double agent to bring Max up close while the others give a good distraction in and out of the castle. When this happens, Mickey considers the chance that his friend is the traitor and has also rallied the entire Disneyverse against the Underground, commencing the siege when his thoughts were true. Max and Oswald duel against the Mouse while the rest are left to fend against the full brunt of the regime until the sudden return of Luz, Barbara, Necro King, and all the lost souls of the universe, seeking vengeance for their deaths. Eventually, with enough damage caused outside and despite all of Mickey's skills in magic and swordsmanship, he's beaten along with Minnie, who had a heavy duel with Max earlier. Oswald's almost killed when Mickey's blotlings form his paintbrush nearly consume him, but seeing one of the valuables on the memorabilia wall, the Final Magisword, he successfully wields it and overpowers his old friend. Max is given the sword and questions Mickey on the whereabouts of Elysium, which he refused to give, forcing Bentley to hack into the castle's data to extract them before he's killed by a grenade. Yakko Warner, meanwhile, transforms into a powerful anime version of himself, managing to destroy the flagship fleet of the regime.

All seems to be working in the Underground's favor until Mickey realizes his wrongdoings and begins to melt away, reshaping into Black Hat. He reveals that in the distant past, he had managed to move his world of Villainous to the Disney universe, selling it to Mickey Mouse to such monetary success that he became one of his most popular icons, eventually growing to influence him enough that he literally got in his head. With his manipulation, Mickey created Elysium to forcibly convert any and all properties into parts of Disney and centering it in the Toonverse long after the Toon Force had passed away. All but Steven Universe, who due to his alien roots was able to outlive humanity and be bought by Disney, brainwashing him into an enormous creature without his human side. Black Hat escapes, leaving the Steven Monster to attack both the regime and the Underground. Primus, with Barbara's help, uploads to a Star Destroyer, transforming it into a new body for himself, taking on the monster. When he's downed, Oswald gets inside his chassis to reactivate the hyperdrive reactor, getting crushed when the monster punches straight into it before Primus can deliver a heavy blow to his gem, cracking it and shrinking him down to normal size. As he's dying, Oswald asks Max to save the future and telling him how proud he is of him before expiring. Max, together with Luz, Barbara, Blinx, King, the monster, and Primus use a quinjet to travel to the cracked coordinates, turning out to be Lyvsheria stripped of all its assets except for a huge machine where the academy once stood. Elysium is guarded by Black Hat, who activates its defenses to kill the team, but through Max's use of the Final Magisword and their powers, they prevailed, summoning the spirits of the Toon Force to destroy the machine. However, doing so reveals the inanimate corpse of Bimm MaBarnacle, who turned out to be the engine powering the Toonverse, stolen from her grave when Mickey needed a viable power source for the Disneyverse. Unfortunately for him, her power was so great that anything beyond locking down time, brainwashing trillions, and being a generator would cause her to grow unstable and destroy reality, forcing the villains to consider using Max's data to unlock the Toonverse's technology to build up to a level similar to how he was with the Fourth Wall Controls. As Necro Bimm begins to perform her Erasure, Max manages to tap deep within reality to retrieve her soul, resurrecting Bimm to turn on Black Hat, killing him instantly. She unlocks time and space, giving everyone the coordinates to return to the past at a specific point in time to defeat Black Hat before he launches for Disney, sending the team when she self destructs, reversing the timeline in the process.

On his way to his dreadnought flagship, Black Hat is cornered by Max, Blinx, and Dust, chased through the base before boarding the cruiser during its takeoff. Dr. Flug escapes to one day retrieve the still frozen original body of his master, but his shuttle is shot and heavily damaged with him inside by the quinjet on his jump to hyperspace, likely injuring him in the process. The trio aboard destroy the flagship's hyperdrive when it launches, not only killing Black Hat in the broken hyperspace jump, but also destroying the ship itself. The three are rescued and the Villainous Island is crushed by the falling dreadnought, finally stopping Dark Disney from ever occurring.

### Ending

Since Blinx has nowhere to go now that the Time Factory is destroyed, he decides to settle with Dust on Falana, where they return after the events of An Elysian Tail. Luz and Barbara remain in the Toonverse since past versions of themselves still exist in their respective cartoons, while Max visits Oswald on his world to tell him about what happened in the bad timeline. Though stunned at first, he's thankful for Max's heroism and says if he ever needs him, he can let him know and he'll be there. The last thing Max does is revisit Summer Camp Island, which he planned on doing after reading the note and repairing his jacket, turning it into a supersuit before the siege. He expects to be coming back sometime after he had left for the Initiation Exam, only to learn that he had returned 12 years later since Black Hat fled around this time. A now adult Hedgehog and Oscar embrace him nonetheless and introduce him to Kitra, who's exactly his age since the last she saw him. She offers to take him to the Toon Republic to tell them everything he's seen in the bad timeline, which he bashfully agrees to.

Years later, Dr. Flug requests Penumbra to free a mysterious prisoner in Clockwork's lair to free Black Hat. She reluctantly agrees, telling the evildoer that there is a mutual friend who seeks revenge on the Toon Republic, leaving him to his own devices. Before the timeline could be restored, Toriel had managed to materialize and make contact with Clockwork and other cosmic entities, only able to rescue Penelope, Yakko, and Mrs. Brisby mere seconds before the explosion. Since people like Penelope had potential to safeguard and monitor the timelines of their universes, Toriel was requested to offer them the role of becoming a Time Lord now that the Time Factory and Time Sweepers were lost. Although this would mean she could never see Bentley the same way again, knowing he'd be happy with a version of her who isn't evil thanks to her fixing the timeline was enough to convince her to join, thus introducing the trio to the Time Lords.

## Chapters

1. The Past - January 1, 2021
2. The Underground - January 8, 2021
3. Get Away - January 22, 2021
4. Initiative - January 31, 2021
5. Phantoms - February 14, 2021
6. Transformation - March 7, 2021
7. Viral - March 9, 2021
8. 9 Lives - April 3, 2021
9. Good Soldiers - May 16, 2021
10. Spirit of She-Ra - May 28, 2021
11. The Long Siege - June 18, 2021
12. Gods and Monsters - June 28, 2021
13. In the Now - June 29, 2021

## Characters

### The Underground

* Max
* Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
* Blinx
* Bo-Katan
* Ahsoka Tano
* Dust
* Barbara Gordon
* Luz Noceda
* Carol Tea
* Felix the Cat (mentioned)
* Echo
* Yakko Warner
* Captain Rex
* Scud
* Bosko (mentioned and cameo)
* Toriel
* Bugs Bunny (mentioned)
* Ortensia
* Armada Starscream
* Prime Starscream (mentioned)
* Spider-Men
* Miles Morales (Spiderverse)
* Peter Parker (PS4)

### Disney

* Mickey Mouse
* Judy Hopps
* Goofy
* Donald Duck
* Minnie Mouse
* Olaf
* Fa Mulan
* Nick Wilde
* Mad Doctor
* Doc Oc
* Ultron
* Enforcers
* Captain America
* Thor
* Buzz Lightyear

### Toonverse

* Hedgehog
* Oscar
* Pepper Corn
* Spongebob
* Entrapta
* Kitra
* Cattus the Ultimate
* Bimm
* Danny Phantom
* Nicole Watterson
* Jenny Wakeman
* Jimmy Neutron

## Time Placement

Though there is no exact date in which Dark Disney occurs, its said to take place over a hundred years in the future following a nasty event roughly 19 years after the intro to Max. For a majority of the main cast besides Clone Wars or Owl House for example, this happens long after their individual series have closed, including Blinx the Time Sweeper, Dust: An Elysian Tail, and Freedom Planet to name a few. By the end of the story, Max travels back 12 years after his disappearance (roughly 12 years after The Watterson).

## Reception

Despite the troubled development mid-way in Dark Disney's run, and Frozarburst's personal gripes with his writing by this point, viewers praised the crossover for a variety of things. Particularly the characters and setting. Max, Blinx, Penelope, Starscream, and Oswald to name some were a few of the most favored of the main cast, while the idea of Disney becoming an empire and taking place after Epic Mickey gave fans intrigue. Frozar, however, felt once the mid-section was being written, his writing (the format and wording) wasn't the strongest, both cause of issues outside his work and because of the modified script format showing its age. As a result, Frozar intends to improve his style by switching over to prose for future storylines, which while they could in turn cause longer development time, they would flow easier and give his storytelling a more professional and official look.

## Trivia

* A major inspiration for Dark Disney is Half Life 2
* This crossover is considered a direct sequel to Crossover Forces due to the involvement of Max (a character featured in the previous story) and the sheer scale of it all.
* This and The Watterson were not released on Deviantart until February 2021 due to the site's Eclipse update bricking the literature system. Frozarburst was able to bypass this by making the chapters into txt files and uploading them into Stash, saving the formatting.
* Along with Toon Wars: The Final Days, Dark Disney has the second highest roster of characters in both the Toon Wars and Toon Wars: Legacy series.
* After January 31st, chapters were being posted less frequently to focus on work and finishing college. However, during this time, the brainstorm and prototype stage for future projects were being developed, including a potential expansion to Dark Disney once the story is complete. Eventually, Frozarburst would return to complete the remaining chapters in bulk in May.
* One noticeable goof is that Mithrarin (used to describe Dust) is accidentally written as "Mitharian". This mistake was later corrected for Dust and the Sweeper.
* Originally, Max was going to be frozen in a block of ice filled with memorabilia as a time capsule that wouldn't be opened for over a century. Frozarburst felt it would've been too cliche and easy for the characters to find him, so he went with the hyperdrive malfunction idea instead.
* Some early viewers during development noted that Mickey's role here is similar in concept to the stereotypical evil version of him seen in adult comedy cartoons, such as *South Park* or *Drawn Together*.
* This, chronologically, also takes place after *Epic Mickey* since Oswald and Mickey have reconciled and reference their real world history.
* This is actually not the first time Dust was meant to be used for Frozar's works. He was originally seen in a now deleted version of the opening for How to train your Hero and cameoed in the final battle of Volume 3 among other game characters who would be mentioned in Dark Disney, such as Klonoa or Tails. The reason for including Dust in particular was because he reminded Frozarburst of Zero from Mega Man Zero, though he preferred Zero's X counterpart.
* Along with Barbara Gordon, Blinx was altered heavily during development, starting out with similar dialect and tone to his games before taking much inspiration from Dave Miller from the Dayshift at Freddy's series and Joey Wheeler from Yu Gi Oh Abridged. This was done to not only give Blinx more of an edge in personality, but to make him distinct enough on his own compared to the rest of the cast. As a result, his original American accent and typical heroic dialogue were changed into a somewhat snarky, flawed, but caring Brooklyn trooper.
* Max's room is replaced by Trickshot following his disappearance. This is a character from the rejected Cartoon Network pilot, Trick Moon, which in Toon Wars lore is still active in the Toonverse despite the actions of the real world.
* The Neutron Soul Retrievers take heavy inspiration from the MEGA System from Mega Man ZX
* To avoid confusion, Frozarburst refers to Imperial and SHIELD forces as Enforcers with levels similar to the crime system in the *Grand Theft Auto* series.
* The Storm Blot makes an appearance from unused concept art from Epic Mickey, but instead of being a corrupted Oswald, it's a literal storm blot surrounding him. Mickey tried to use it to transform his friend into his slave, making him more like the original creature in the art. But Max and Oswald were able to stop it before that could happen
* In the finale against Black Hat, he was going to have minions shaped like 505 who were actually brainwashed and malformed versions of the Loud family (who previously cameoed in Crossover Forces). It would've been done out of spite for the fandom, but Frozarburst chose to cut it out not wanting to insult the show itself.
* The fight with Necro Bimm was supposed to be a lot longer, having her using similar attacks to the Toon God and Toon Goddess to try and corner each of the heroes in their own separate areas. This was dropped for time.