"appeared in comic books such as Disney Italy's ""Topolino"", ""MM - Mickey Mouse Mystery Magazine"", and ""Wizards of Mickey"", and in television series such as ""The Mickey Mouse Club"" (1955–1996) and others. He also appears in other media such as video games as well as merchandising and is a meetable character at the Disney parks. Mickey generally appears alongside his girlfriend Minnie Mouse, his pet dog Pluto, his friends Donald Duck and Goofy, and his nemesis Pete, among others (see Mickey Mouse universe). Though originally characterized as a cheeky lovable rogue, Mickey was rebranded over time as a nice guy,"
"Pluto (Disney) Pluto, also called Pluto the Pup, is a cartoon dog created in 1930 at Walt Disney Productions. He is a yellow-orange color, medium-sized, short-haired dog with black ears. Unlike most Disney characters, Pluto is not anthropomorphic beyond some characteristics such as facial expression. He is Mickey Mouse's pet. Officially a mixed-breed dog, he made his debut as a bloodhound in the Mickey Mouse cartoon ""The Chain Gang"". Together with Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, and Goofy, Pluto is one of the ""Sensational Six""—the biggest stars in the Disney universe. Though all six are non-human animals,"
"Mickey Mouse Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character and the mascot of The Walt Disney Company. He was created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at the Walt Disney Studios in 1928. An anthropomorphic mouse who typically wears red shorts, large yellow shoes, and white gloves, Mickey is one of the world's most recognizable characters. Created as a replacement for a prior Disney character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Mickey first appeared in the short ""Plane Crazy"", debuting publicly in the short film ""Steamboat Willie"" (1928), one of the first sound cartoons. He went on to appear in over"
"Millie (dog) Mildred ""Millie"" Kerr Bush (January 12, 1985 – May 19, 1997) was the pet English Springer Spaniel of Barbara and George H. W. Bush. She was named for Mildred Caldwell Kerr, a long-time friend of the Bushes, which is also the name of Kerr's granddaughter, Millie Kerr. Millie was referred to as ""the most famous dog in White House history."" Bush mentioned her in a speech during his 1992 bid for re-election, saying ""My dog Millie knows more about foreign affairs than these two bozos"" in reference to opposition candidates Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Millie is credited"
"Disney, along with other studios, lobbied for passage of the act to preserve their copyrights on characters such as Pluto for 20 additional years. Pluto first appeared as a nameless bloodhound tracking the escaped convict Mickey in the film ""The Chain Gang"" (September 1930). A month and a half later, Pluto appeared as Minnie Mouse's dog named Rover who comes along with her and Mickey on a picnic. By his third appearance, in ""The Moose Hunt"" (1931), Pluto is Mickey's pet, now named ""Pluto"". Several months had passed between the naming of what was believed to be the ninth planet,"
"and ""Who's The Boss"". Millie also made a cameo appearance in ""The Simpsons"" episode ""Two Bad Neighbors"" in a scene where the former President Bush is jogging with some of his new neighbors. Millie died of pneumonia in 1997 at age 12 at the Bush Compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. A dog park in Houston, Texas is named after Millie. Millie (dog) Mildred ""Millie"" Kerr Bush (January 12, 1985 – May 19, 1997) was the pet English Springer Spaniel of Barbara and George H. W. Bush. She was named for Mildred Caldwell Kerr, a long-time friend of the Bushes, which is"
"the 1933 animated Mickey Mouse cartoon ""The Pet Store"" (also known as ""Mickey and the Gorilla Tamer""). In the cartoon, the ape falls in love with Minnie Mouse and climbs to the top of a stack of boxes while holding her. Mickey and a group of birds, imitating the biplanes at the climax of ""King Kong"", defeat the ape. In the 1933 animated Mickey Mouse short film, ""Mickey's Mechanical Man"", Mickey's invention, a robot, is engaged in a boxing match against an ape known as ""Killer Kong"". In 1938, ""King Kong"" received its first re-release, although some shots, such as"
"Figaro (Disney) Figaro is a fictional cat character who first appeared in Disney's 1940 animated film ""Pinocchio"". Figaro is probably best known as the pet cat of Mister Geppetto and Pinocchio. Figaro was Walt Disney's favorite character in ""Pinocchio""; he loved the kitten so much, he wanted him to appear as much as possible. Once production on ""Pinocchio"" was done, Walt made him the pet of Minnie Mouse, replacing Fifi. He has also starred independently in a number of Disney shorts, as the pet cat of Minnie Mouse, as it was common for Disney characters to be transposed from movies"
"Jerry Mouse Jerry Mouse is a fictional character and one of the title characters (the other being Tom Cat) in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's series of ""Tom and Jerry"" theatrical cartoon short films. Created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, Jerry is a brown anthropomorphic house mouse, who first appeared as a mouse named Jinx in the 1940 MGM animated short ""Puss Gets the Boot"". Hanna gave the mouse's original name as ""Jinx"", while Barbera claimed the mouse went unnamed in his first appearance. The name ""Jerry"" was chosen by MGM animator John Carr, who submitted ""Tom and Jerry"" as potential names for"
"Jerry Mouse Jerry Mouse is a fictional character and one of the title characters (the other being Tom Cat) in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's series of ""Tom and Jerry"" theatrical cartoon short films. Created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, Jerry is a brown anthropomorphic house mouse, who first appeared as a mouse named Jinx in the 1940 MGM animated short ""Puss Gets the Boot"". Hanna gave the mouse's original name as ""Jinx"", while Barbera claimed the mouse went unnamed in his first appearance. The name ""Jerry"" was chosen by MGM animator John Carr, who submitted ""Tom and Jerry"" as potential names for"
"as the author of ""Millie's Book"", which was released in August 1990 and reached #1 on the ""New York Times"" bestseller nonfiction list that same year. In 1989, Millie gave birth to a litter of six puppies with the assistance of U.S. Army veterinarian Stephen Caldwell, including Spot Fetcher and Ranger, who became President George H. W. Bush's dog. Ranger was euthanized in April 1993 due to cancer. Spot would later become another presidential pet when George W. Bush moved into the White House. Millie was portrayed in an episode of ""Murphy Brown"" as well as an episode of ""Wings"""
"Goofy Goofy is a funny-animal cartoon character created in 1932 at Walt Disney Productions. Goofy is a tall, anthropomorphic dog with a Southern drawl, and typically wears a turtle neck and vest, with pants, shoes, white gloves, and a tall hat originally designed as a rumpled fedora. Goofy is a close friend of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck and is one of Disney's most recognizable characters. He is normally characterized as extremely clumsy and dimwitted, yet this interpretation is not always definitive; occasionally Goofy is shown as intuitive, and clever, albeit in his own unique, eccentric way. Goofy debuted in"
"usually seen as an honest and bodacious hero. In 2009, Disney began to rebrand the character again by putting less emphasis on his friendly, well-meaning persona and reintroducing the more menacing and stubborn sides of his personality, beginning with the video game ""Epic Mickey"". In August 2018, ABC television announced a two-hour prime time special, ""Mickey's 90th spectacular"", in honor of Mickey's 90th birthday. On November 18, 2018 has celebrations ""Mickey Mouse 90th Anniversary"" around the World. Mickey Mouse was created as a replacement for Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, an earlier cartoon character created by the Disney studio for Charles"
"expressing personality through animation rather than dialogue. Like all of Pluto's co-stars, the dog has appeared extensively in comics over the years, first making an appearance in 1931. He returned to theatrical animation in 1990 with ""The Prince and the Pauper"" and has also appeared in several direct-to-video films. Pluto also appears in the television series ""Mickey Mouse Works"" (1999–2000), ""House of Mouse"" (2001–2003), ""Mickey Mouse Clubhouse"" (2006–2016), and the new Mickey Mouse shorts (2013–present). In 1998, Disney's copyright on Pluto, set to expire in several years, was extended by the passage of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act."
"a rat (the latter being Gottfredson's own interpretation), but his ears suggest that he is rather an anthropomorphic canine. He first appeared in the comic strip adventure ""Mickey Mouse in Death Valley"", the first real Mickey Mouse continuity, which was partially written by Walt Disney and drawn by Win Smith and other artists, before being taken over by Floyd Gottfredson (plot and art). In this story, Sylvester Shyster was a crooked lawyer who attempted, with the help of his henchman Pete, to deprive Minnie Mouse of her inheritance. Shyster and Pete have been causing trouble for Mickey and his friends"
"remain with him. To replace Oswald, Disney and Iwerks developed Mickey Mouse, possibly inspired by a pet mouse that Disney had adopted while working in his Laugh-O-Gram studio, although the origins of the character are unclear. Disney's original choice of name was Mortimer Mouse, but Lillian thought it too pompous, and suggested Mickey instead. Iwerks revised Disney's provisional sketches to make the character easier to animate, and Disney provided Mickey's voice until 1947. In the words of one Disney employee, ""Ub designed Mickey's physical appearance, but Walt gave him his soul."" Mickey Mouse first appeared in May 1928 as a"
"reversal of their usual roles, Minnie escapes her captors and rescues her mate. They then dress as soldiers of the United States Army. Their mere appearance proves sufficient to have the entire tribe running for the hills. The Mouse couple stands triumphant at the end. The short has been criticized for its unflattering depiction of Native Americans as rather bestial predators. The finale has been edited out in recent viewings for depicting the ""braves"" submitting to cowardice. In several shorts, comics and on some Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episodes, Minnie owns a black and white kitten named Figaro, who had originated"
"would later turn up as Clarabelle Cow and Horace Horsecollar. A male frog was also rejected. It would later show up in Iwerks' own ""Flip the Frog"" series. Walt Disney got the inspiration for Mickey Mouse from a tame mouse at his desk at Laugh-O-Gram Studio in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1925, Hugh Harman drew some sketches of mice around a photograph of Walt Disney. These inspired Ub Iwerks to create a new mouse character for Disney. ""Mortimer Mouse"" had been Disney's original name for the character before his wife, Lillian, convinced him to change it, and ultimately Mickey Mouse"
"to be inducted with a star, after Schulz. Snoopy Snoopy is Charlie Brown's pet beagle in the comic strip ""Peanuts"" by Charles M. Schulz. He can also be found in all of the ""Peanuts"" movies and television specials, like ""The Peanuts Movie"". Since his debut on October 4, 1950, Snoopy has become one of the most recognizable and iconic characters in the comic strip, and is considered more famous than Charlie Brown in other countries. The original drawings of Snoopy were inspired by Spike, one of Schulz's childhood dogs. Snoopy is a loyal, innocent, imaginative and good-natured beagle who is"
"in February 1928, due to a legal loophole, when Winkler's husband Charles Mintz took over their distribution company. After failing to take over the Disney Studio, Mintz hired away four of Disney's primary animators (the exception being Ub Iwerks) to start his own animation studio, Snappy Comedies. In 1928, to recover from the loss of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Disney came up with the idea of a mouse character named Mortimer while on a train headed to California, drawing up a few simple drawings. The mouse was later renamed Mickey Mouse (Disney's wife, Lillian, disliked the sound of 'Mortimer Mouse')"
"Company to re-brand the Mickey Mouse character by moving away from his current squeaky clean image and reintroducing the mischievous side of his personality. Mickey Mouse has received ten nominations for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. These are ""Mickey's Orphans"" (1931), ""Building a Building"" (1933), ""Brave Little Tailor"" (1938), ""The Pointer"" (1939), ""Lend a Paw"" (1941), ""Squatter's Rights"" (1946), ""Mickey and the Seal"" (1948), ""Mickey's Christmas Carol"" (1983), ""Runaway Brain"" (1995), and ""Get a Horse!"" (2013). Among these, ""Lend a Paw"" was the only film to actually win the award. Additionally, in 1932 Walt Disney received an"
"of frogs, dogs, and cats, but none of these appealed to Disney. A female cow and male horse were created at this time by Iwerks, but were also rejected. They would later turn up as Clarabelle Cow and Horace Horsecollar. Ub Iwerks eventually got inspiration from an old drawing. In 1925, Hugh Harman drew some sketches of mice around a photograph of Walt Disney. Then, on a train ride back from a failed business meeting, Walt Disney came up with the original sketch for the character that would eventually be called Mickey Mouse. Afterwards, Disney took the sketch to Iwerks."
"and in the final scene Mickey and Donald march Pete off to jail with the now-free Fifi angrily barking at him. The Dognapper The Dognapper is a 1934 animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists. The cartoon stars Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck as police officers who chase Pegleg Pete after he dognaps Fifi, Minnie Mouse's pet Pekingese. The film was directed by David Hand and features the voices of Clarence Nash as Mickey and Donald and Billy Bletcher as Pete. This was the first and only time that Mickey was voiced by Nash;"
"with Mickey, Pluto will get himself into trouble and cause Mickey to get angry at him. Mickey, however, often cheers up quickly; often telling Pluto ""I can't be mad at ya."" Pluto sometimes appears with other regular animal characters. His friends include Fifi the Peke, Dinah the Dachshund, and Ronnie the St. Bernard Puppy. Other animals he is less friendly with include Salty the Seal, Butch the Bulldog, Figaro the Kitten, Chip 'n Dale, Spike the Bee, Bent-Tail the Coyote, Milton the cat and other characters. In Disney's 1937 animated short ""Pluto's Quin-Puplets"", Pluto has a son who is simply"
"added to their wardrobe. Ferdie disappeared from the ""Mickey Mouse"" comic strip in 1943 because Gottfredson thought the nephews were too much alike. He had plans to bring Ferdie back later as a bespectacled, intellectual, bookworm mouse with an Eton hat and coat with the explanation that he had been away at school. However, Gottfredson never got around to bringing Ferdie back and Morty remained in the strip alone. Morty was occasionally depicted with his best friend named Alvin and a sweetheart named Millie. Both were anthropomorphic dogs. Ferdie never vanished from comic book stories, however. In recent years, some"
"Get a Horse! Get a Horse! is a 2013 American 3D animated slapstick comedy short film, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. Combining black-and-white hand-drawn animation and color CGI animation, the short features the characters of the late 1920s ""Mickey Mouse"" cartoons, and features archival recordings of Walt Disney in his posthumous role as Mickey Mouse. It is the first original Mickey Mouse theatrical animated short since ""Runaway Brain"" (1995), and the first appearance of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in a Disney animated production in 85 years. Mickey Mouse walks from his house and spots Horace Horsecollar pulling a hay"
"Minnie Mouse Minnie Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character created by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney. She and Mickey Mouse were first drawn by Ub Iwerks in 1928. The comic strip story ""The Gleam"" (published January 19–May 2, 1942) by Merrill De Maris and Floyd Gottfredson first gave her full name as Minerva Mouse, although this is seldom used. The comic strip story ""Mr. Slicker and the Egg Robbers"" (published September 22–December 26, 1930) introduced her father Marcus Mouse and her unnamed mother, both farmers. The same story featured photographs of Minnie's uncle Milton Mouse with his family and"
"Minnie Mouse Minnie Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character created by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney. She and Mickey Mouse were first drawn by Ub Iwerks in 1928. The comic strip story ""The Gleam"" (published January 19–May 2, 1942) by Merrill De Maris and Floyd Gottfredson first gave her full name as Minerva Mouse, although this is seldom used. The comic strip story ""Mr. Slicker and the Egg Robbers"" (published September 22–December 26, 1930) introduced her father Marcus Mouse and her unnamed mother, both farmers. The same story featured photographs of Minnie's uncle Milton Mouse with his family and"
"Mickey's Rival Mickey's Rival is a 1936 Mickey Mouse short film. It was directed by Wilfred Jackson and produced by Walt Disney. It introduces the character of Mortimer Mouse. Mickey Mouse is by his sentient car, getting ready for his girlfriend, Minnie as they are having a picnic together, just the two of them. But then, a Spanish mouse named Mortimer, who drives a sleek sports car (who is also sentient), rushes by and stops. Mortimer Mouse is one of Minnie's old friends who is also known as the rival of Mickey Mouse. He backs up and crashes his car"
"Pluto, on March 24, 1930, and the attachment of that name to the dog character. Venetia Burney (later Venetia Phair), who as an eleven-year-old British schoolgirl had suggested the name Pluto for the planet, remarked in 2006: ""The name had nothing to do with the Disney cartoon. Mickey Mouse's dog was named after the planet, not the other way around."" Although it has been claimed that Disney named the dog after the planet, rather than after the mythical god of the underworld, this has not been verified. Disney animator Ben Sharpsteen said ""We thought the name [Rover] was too common,"
"being in any new Disney cartoons, Figaro, like many other Disney characters of the 1940s and 1950s, was cast as a customer in ""Disney's House of Mouse"". While the video game ""Kingdom Hearts"" featured a level taking place inside Monstro's belly and included Pinocchio, Gepetto and Cleo, Figaro was absent (although he does appear in the manga based on the first game). Figaro's most recent appearance has been in several episodes of ""Mickey Mouse Clubhouse"" and ""Minnie's Bow-Toons"", as her pet cat. It could possibly be a different cat named Figaro as Cleo, his counterpart, is never seen. Figaro can"
"than the other, buys the house and moves in it. At first, the mouse is happy with his new home, but the robotic servant and malfunctioning equipment make him change his mind and escape from the place. Eventually, Mickey changes his values and returns to live in his old house. Mickey's Mechanical House Mickey's Mechanical House is a cartoon made by Walt Disney Television Animation. It was originally released in 1999. It was narrated by Monty Python member John Cleese. Mickey Mouse keeps trying to sleep while living in an old, unrepaired house, which constantly annoys him. Mickey decides to"
"Horace Horsecollar Horace Horsecollar is a cartoon character created in 1929 by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney. Horace is a tall anthropomorphic black horse and is one of Mickey Mouse's best friends. Characterized as a cheerful know-it-all, Horace helped Mickey on his sleuthing expeditions in the comics before Goofy assumed that role. Horace most commonly appears as a funny animal, although a common gag in his early appearances was his ability to change at will from being a normal horse to a more human-like character. Horace first appeared as Mickey's plow horse in the 1929 cartoon ""The Plow Boy"". Later"