Classic Disney Shorts/Characters
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A list of major characters and tropes associated with Disney's classic characters, which has spawned numerous spinoffs and side games. See also Disney Ducks Comic Universe, Mickey Mouse Comic Universe, and Kingdom Hearts for character listings on those versions of the characters.
The Sensational Six
Mickey Mouse
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Debut: Plane Crazy [produced], Steamboat Willie [released], both 1928. |
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The first (aside from Pete, see "Other Main and Major Characters"), and arguably, the most recognizable of the cast, often depicted as a good-natured, optimistic fellow - but also a determined and often feisty fighter with elements of both Kid Hero and Badass.
- Author Avatar (for Walt Disney)
- Badass: Especially in the early days. Creeping back into his characterization thanks to Kingdom Hearts and Epic Mickey.
- Cartoon Conductor
- Colossus Climb (his method of defeating a giant)
- Demoted to Extra: In a lot of projects, Mickey would be billed at the star only for Donald (in attractions like Mickey's Philhar Magic) or Pluto (in most of the later shorts) or even Uncle Scrooge (in Mickey's Christmas Carol) to be the real focus of the feature.
- The Everyman: More pronounced after the Flanderization.
- Flanderization: All because of the Hays Code, really, he became Lighter and Softer and as a result less popular.
- Furry Confusion: Mickey is, well... pretty big for a mouse. And there's been at least a couple shorts where Mickey encounters an actual tiny mouse.
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: His "classic" look (pictured). The rest of the time he's a...
- He Who Must Not Be Seen (in his guest appearance on Bonkers and the first Kingdom Hearts.)
- Kid Hero
- Mascot: Arguably this has done more to hurt his image than help it. Which is partly why Epic Mickey is being made.
- Mickey Mousing: The Trope Namer. Happened more in his early shorts.
- Moral Dissonance: Engages in animal cruelty in his earliest shorts, usually by using live, conscious animals as musical instruments, and it's Played for Laughs
- Nice Guy: In most shorts after the earliest ones.
- Out of Focus: Later on Donald and Goofy became far more popular, being the characters who had an easier time adapting to the Screwy Squirrel and Iron Butt Monkey archetypes becoming more popular in animation in the 40's. Though Mickey remains the symbol of Disney.
- Rodents of Unusual Size
- Screwy Squirrel: In his earliest appearences.
- Straight Man: Whenever Donald and Goofy are around.
- Trickster Archetype: In the very earliest days.
- Underestimating Badassery: Especially in Runaway Brain.
Minnie Mouse
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Debut: Plane Crazy |
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Mickey's love interest, who often took on the role of a Damsel in Distress.
- The Cutie
- Depending on the Artist: She's been depicted over the years as either topless or fully clothed.
- Distaff Counterpart
- Damsel in Distress
- Badass Damsel: In quite a few shorts.
- Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Again, Depending on the Artist.
- "Happy Holidays" Dress: The recent "Victorian Minnie" outfit shows her in a light yellow dress trimmed with white fur.
- The Ingenue
- Pink Means Feminine: Her outfits have become increasingly more pink.
- Rodents of Unusual Size
- Satellite Character: Really doesn't have any personality outside of her interactions with Mickey and co.
- Shallow Love Interest
- The Smurfette Principle
- Tertiary Sexual Characteristics
Goofy Goof (a.k.a. George Geef and Dippy Dawg)
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Debut: Mickey's Revue, 1932. |
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Will Ryan (DTV Valentine and Down and Out with Donald Duck); Bill Farmer (1986–present)
An anthropomorphic dog (though his species has been debated), and the world's biggest klutz. He was originally called "Dippy Dawg", but they wisely changed his name.
- Bumbling Dad
- Cartoon Creature
- Clark Kenting (when he's Super Goof)
- Depending on the Artist: Disney couldn't decide how they wanted Goofy to look during the 40's and 50's. He was depicted with or without his ears, black fur or flesh-colored skin, with or without gloves and with or without buck teeth.
- DIY Disaster: Occurs in many of his shorts.
- Former Teen Rebel (as revealed in Goof Troop)
- I Have Many Names: Dippy Dawg, Mr. Walker, Mr. Wheeler, George Geef and Mr. X.
- The Klutz
- Lethal Chef
- No Fourth Wall
- Simpleton Voice
- Stock Audio Clip: Goofy barely spoke in his 40's shorts and when he did, most of the time his lines and yells were from previous Disney shorts.
- Stock Scream: His famous scream.
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"AAAAAH-Hoo-Hoo-Hoo-HOOEY!" |
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- He had two others during the 40's and 50's.
- Too Dumb to Live
Donald Duck
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Debut: The Wise Little Hen, 1934. |
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The Ensemble Darkhorse, a hot-tempered waterfowl who often ended up being the Butt Monkey. Though Mickey remains the face of the company, Donald is arguably the true moneymaker as far as long-term commercial success (Walt even once called him "the Gable of our stable"), spawning his own little corner of the Disney Universe that expands towards comics, cartoons, and video games.
- Badass: When he's determined or angry, he's performed great feats of skill, cunning, strength, and fighting prowess.
- Badly-Battered Babysitter: What happens to him when he has to babysit Shelby the Turtle, or his nephews.
- Breakout Character: As mentioned in the book "Mickey and the Gang: Classic Stories in Verse", Walt intentionally planned Donald to be his next star character, even having press kits ready by the day "The Wise Little Hen" was released.
- Butt Monkey
- Chaste Toons: Other Disney characters may have nieces and nephews, but only Donald is with any kind of consistency depicted as taking care of his on a permanent basis.
- The Chew Toy
- Embarrassing Middle Name: Fauntleroy (for his sailor suite, after the Little Lord Fauntleroy series of children's books). It was first revealed on his draft notice in Donald Gets Drafted.
- Glass Cannon: Donald can dish it out, but when met with adversity he goes down fast.
- Gosh Dang It to Heck: He talks like this when he's angry, but because of his speech problem it often sounds like he's using real cuss words anyway.
- Hair-Trigger Temper
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal
- High-Pressure Emotion
- Jerkass: In the shorts where he's the one who starts trouble for either Chip and Dale or his nephews. And then of course there's the short Donald's Penguin where he almost ends up shooting his pet penguin with a shotgun for eating his pet fish.
- One short features Donald making trouble for himself in the kitchen as he gets distracted while listening to a radio cooking show and accidentally adding rubber cement to his waffle batter. The short ends with him running off to beat up the show's host despite the fact that everything that happened to him was directly his own fault.
- In the comics by Al Taliaferro, Donald was reccurently portrayed as nothing but a jerk (save for a several strips-long failed attempt at redeeming himself in 1937, where every attempt by Donald to do good just got him even deeper into trouble). As well as generally shown with interests in playing pranks, breaking windows, throwing stones at people and other such petty crimes as a source of fun, this also featured comics where Donald would do things like tie an anchor to Goofy's leg and throw him in the river. For accidentally smacking Donald in the back of the head with a fish and then laughing about it.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: A good few times he is shown to care about his nephews, and there is no doubt of his love for Daisy, perhaps the one person he doesn't lash out on (sadly the same can't be said for vice versa) A few Crowning Moments Of Awesome show him get over his rivalry with Mickey and stick up for him as well.
- One short features Donald making trouble for himself in the kitchen as he gets distracted while listening to a radio cooking show and accidentally adding rubber cement to his waffle batter. The short ends with him running off to beat up the show's host despite the fact that everything that happened to him was directly his own fault.
- Kick the Dog: Sometimes has a very cruel sense of humor and likes to mess with smaller animals or his own nephews, which leads to his undoing by the end of the short.
- Leitmotif: The sea shanty "The Sailor's Hornpipe", particularly moreso in his early days.
- Limited Wardrobe
- Literal Ass-Kicking: This tends to happen to Donald...a lot.
- Morally-Ambiguous Ducktorate
- The Unintelligible Speech Impediment: Donald's voice is so hard to understand that it has caused at least two Mondegreens in the form of people accusing him of screaming "Fuck you!" in Clock Cleaners and calling Daffy Duck a nigger in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (he actually says "Says who?" and "You doggone stubborn little...", respectively). This does not apply to him in the comics, though.
- Unstoppable Rage: He's been shown to perform great feats of strength when angry or determined. From ripping up a TELEPHONE POLE in "Cured Duck" to PUNCHING out a shark in "Sea Scouts" and as Paperinik...you do not wanna piss him off! The enemy actually ends up begging him for mercy! Clearly, rage makes him quite intense.
Daisy Duck
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Debut: Don Donald, 1937, as "Donna Duck"; Mr. Duck Steps Out, 1940, as Daisy. |
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Donald's love interest, with a similar - but more controlled - temper. Minnie is her best friend.
- Depending on the Writer: Daisy's personality and voice have changed with nearly every new title released after the original shorts.
- Distaff Counterpart: Though arguably, she has a few unique personality traits, and is more different from Donald than Minnie is from Mickey.
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple: A lot of her outfits.
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal
- The Other Darrin: Tress MacNeille became her voice actress as early as 1989 in the Disney on Ice shows. However, in Quack Pack, she was voiced by Kath Soucie.
- Pink Means Feminine: A lot of her outfits.
- Satellite Character: Even though she's more different from Donald than Minnie is from Mickey, she's rarely seen without him.
- Shallow Love Interest
- Tertiary Sexual Characteristics
- Tsundere
- Vocal Evolution: She started out sounding almost exactly like Donald.
Pluto the Pup
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Debut: The Chain Gang, 1930. |
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Mickey's loyal pet dog.
- Big Friendly Dog: Most of the time. He has a temper and an occasional selfish streak, but is loyal to Mickey and has more limits in his Jerkass tendancies than, say, Donald.
- Butt Monkey: On occasion, especially later on. Sometimes, like in Pluto's Judgement Day, it went too far.
- Character Focus: After Mickey's Flanderization Pluto pretty much became the star of Mickey's cartoons.
- The Chew Toy
- Furry Confusion: An age old question which has plagued mankind since the 30's; how can Pluto and Goofy share the same universe, if Goofy is also (allegedly) a dog?
- Not just that, but how can a mouse own a dog?
- The Speechless: Except for saying "Kiss me!" in The Moose Hunt.
- Hilariously lampshaded in the 50's-era Mad Magazine spoof "Mickey Rodent" in which he laments being the only animal in the Disney universe who can't talk, by way of holding up signs.
Other Main and Major Characters
Pete
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Debut: Alice Solves the Puzzle, 1925. |
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A large anthropomorphic cat who is constantly causing trouble for Mickey, Donald, and Goofy (all of whom, ironically, he predates).
- Abusive Father: To an extent, he is more often just obnoxious and self centered than directly abusive to his children however.
- Ambiguous Looking Cat
- Cats Are Mean
- Consummate Liar
- Drill Sergeant Nasty
- Fat Cat
- Go-Karting with Bowser
- Honest John's Dealership (in Goof Troop)
- I Have Many Names: Peg-Leg Pete, Big Bad Pete, Pistol Pete, Black Pete, and Pete Pete, to name a few.
- Informed Species
- Jerkass
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: On occasion, Goof Troop and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse show a more sympathetic side for example.
- Manipulative Bastard
- Mega Neko
- Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: His marriage to Peg in Goof Troop certainly counts for this.
Chip 'n Dale
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Debut: Private Pluto, 1943. |
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A pair of chipmunks who frequently pester Donald and sometimes Pluto (and Goofy and Mickey on at least one occasion each) during their pursuit of storing food. See also Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers for tropes that refer to them specifically in said cartoon.
- Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering??
- Breakout Character
- Cloudcuckoolander: Dale.
- Cross-Dressing Voices: Chip was once voiced by Tress MacNeille.
- Divergent Character Evolution: In the earliest shorts, Chip and Dale were identical in looks and mannerisms. Eventually, Dale gained his red nose, buck teeth, and goofier personality to set him apart from Chip.
- Heterosexual Life Partners: However, some comic stories indicate that they're brothers, sharing the same relatives.
- Karmic Trickster: In the shorts where Donald is the one who starts trouble.
- Loveable Rogue: More often just after food and shelter, they do have a mischevious side however.
- Love Triangle: With Clarice in Two Chips and a Miss and Gadget in Rescue Rangers.
- Only Sane Man: Chip.
- Screwy Chipmunks
- Spin-Off: Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Acorns, or nuts in general. Though their discovery of peanuts certainly turned them off of acorns in the short Working For Peanuts.
Clarabelle Cow
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Debut: Plane Crazy, 1928 |
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A cow who occasionally hangs out with Mickey and company. Clarabelle is good friends with Minnie and Daisy, and is sometimes played as either Goofy or Horace's love interest.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
- Cute Clumsy Girl
- Distaff Counterpart: Occasionally she's written as the female version of Goofy (and sometimes dates him, as well).
- Gossipy Hens
- Interspecies Romance: Sometimes with Goofy, sometimes with Horace.
- Love Triangle: Implied between her, Goofy, and Horace.
- Tomboy: Well, compared to Minnie and Daisy, anyway. In the newer cartoon shorts, Clarabelle is the only one of the three girls that is seen wearing pants.
Horace Horsecollar
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Debut: The Plow Boy, 1929 |
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One of Mickey's friend, Horace is a cheerful know-it-all horse. He used to tag along on Mickey's adventures in early comic strips before Goofy took his place. Often paired with Clarabelle Cow.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All
- Foil: Essentially, to Goofy—instead of being a simpleton who is constantly breaking stuff he's a faux intellectual who is constantly fixing or building things.
- Mr. Fixit
- Not Actually the Ultimate Question: Used as a running gag with him on House of Mouse.
- Ted Baxter
- What Could Have Been: Horace's Chuck Cunningham Syndrome status actually inspired the idea for a never-realized Disney Afternoon series, Maximum Horsepower, in which the reason for his disappearance is given that he was abducted by an alien race who wanted his help. Epic Mickey has since suggested that he was in Wasteland the whole time, struggling with his detective career.
Uncle Scrooge McDuck
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Debut: The Spirit of '43 (makes a brief, unnamed appearance), Christmas on Bear Mountain (comic book), 1947 |
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Donald's super-rich, adventurous uncle. Better known for his acclaimed comic book series and the animated series DuckTales (1987).
- Badass Uncle
- Berserk Button: You do not want to be around him when someone insults his dead mother.
- Breakout Character
- Cool Old Guy
- Canon Immigrant: The character was mostly seen only in comics until the 1980s.
- Deadpan Snarker
- Money Fetish: He swims in money.
- Mr. Vice Guy: The trope was, in fact, originally named "McDuck" (now a redirect to Disney Ducks Comic Universe.)
- My Greatest Failure: The one time in his life he made money dishonestly (driving natives from their village). This act earned him endless guilt, as well as a zombie stalker.
- Screw the Money, I Have Rules
- Self-Made Man
- Spin-Off (DuckTales (1987))
- Uncle Pennybags
Huey, Dewey & Louie
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Debut: Donald's Nephews, 1937 |
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Donald's mischievous nephews. Sometimes paired with Uncle Scrooge instead.
- Brats with Slingshots
- Bratty Half-Pint
- Canon Immigrants: The trio first appeared in a 1937 storyline in Donald's newspaper comic strip before appearing in animation in 1938.
- Chaste Toons: One of the most famous examples (they're Donald's nephews, not his sons).
- Color Coded for Your Convenience: An easy way to remember which one is which is to remember that red is the brightest hue and blue is the color of dew, which leaves Louie as the green one (and leaves are green).
- One Steve Limit: Averted with Louie Duck and Louie the Mountain Lion, even though they don't appear in any cartoon together.
- The Other Darrin: Russi Taylor became their official voice in DuckTales (1987), and continues to voice them in later movies (i.e. the Christmas movies) and video games (such as Donald Duck Goin Quackers and Kingdom Hearts). However, in the Mickey Mouse Works shorts and House of Mouse, Tony Anselmo (Donald's voice actor) voices them instead.
- Parental Abandonment
- Scout Out: As part of the Junior Woodchucks.
- Screwy Squirrel: In some shorts they are.
Ludwig Von Drake
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Debut: "An Adventure in Color" (first episode of "The Wonderful World Of Color"), 1961 |
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Another of Donald's uncles. A scientist with countless expertise in numerous subjects.
- Absent-Minded Professor
- Insufferable Genius: To Mickey on an episode of House of Mouse.
- The Professor
- Ted Baxter
Max Goof (and Goofy Jr.)
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Debut: Fathers Are People, 1951 as Goofy Jr., and Goof Troop, 1992 as Max. |
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Goofy's son, who originally appeared with red hair in the 1950s, but was later redesigned to better resemble his dad in the 1990s. Starred in Goof Troop and its big-screen sequel, A Goofy Movie.
- Adorkable
- Furry Ear Dissonance: Goofy Jr. doesn't have any ears. Averted with Max though.
- Missing Mom
Oswald The Lucky Rabbit Cartoon Characters
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
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Debut: Trolley Troubles, 1927. |
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A rabbit Walt Disney created in 1927 as his first animated star, but ended up losing to Universal after a contract dispute. He has since been reacquired by the Disney company and is now considered Mickey's older half-brother.
- Anti-Hero: Part of his alternate character interpretation in Epic Mickey.
- The Casanova: Another one of his distinguishing traits from Mickey, is that he's much more *ahem* romantically inclined. Such as his dozens of children in Poor Papa or interrupting a duel with a knight to make out with his girlfreind in Oh What a Knight! He's also had more of a revolving door of love interests than Mickey and Minnie's rather steady relationship.
- Chaste Toons: Averted. He had two adopted sons under Universal, and he has a whole lot more kids in Epic Mickey (to his dismay, they look up to their "uncle" Mickey).
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: And attempted leadership in Wasteland ever since.
- Crazy Survivalist: Part of his portrayal in Epic Mickey.
- Divergent Character Evolution: The early notes on the Warren Spector interpretation of the character portrays him as more paranoid than Mickey, and the "Lucky" part of his name as intentionally ironic as he's The Woobie of western animation as a whole.
- Interspecies Romance: One of his early girlfriends was sometimes named Kitty, and she was a... well, her name kinda gives it away, doesn't it?
- She is featured in Epic Mickey as "Ortensia."
- Ironic Nickname - It probably wasn't intentional at the time of his creation, but he's rather unlucky.
- "No Respect" Guy
Francine "Fanny" Cottontail
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit's original Love Interest.
- Art Evolution: She started out as Oswald in a dress, then morphed into a boarderline Femme Fatale before vanishing.
- Barefoot Cartoon Animal
- Brother Chuck: Even by the standards of Oswald's cast. Thus far all of the other handful of Oswald's pals have resurfaced except for her (even Toby freaking Bear and Ortensia's father have resurfaced).
- Distaff Counterpart: But became more different later.
- Divergent Character Evolution: She became less like Oswald as the series progressed.
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Though she got a top towards the end of her tenure.
- Hospital Hottie / Florence Nightingale Effect: In Great Guns.
- Interspecies Romance: Averted
- Relationship Reset Button: In the early shorts, she and Oswald are married with a bazillion kids. Later he's just trying to get her attention and their kids vanish into thin air until Epic Mickey (where they're credited as being Ortensia's kids).
- Sexy Walk
- Playing Hard to Get: In her later appearances.
Homer
The orphaned kitten who pesters Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
- Bratty Half-Pint
- Cute Kitten: Subverted
- Enfant Terrible
- Evil Orphan
- Expy/MesACrowd: The Orphan Kittens from Mickey's Orphans.
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal
- Jerkass
- Kids Are Cruel
Ortensia (a.k.a. Kitty, Marie, or Sadie)
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit's Love Interest
- Cute Kitten/The Cutie
- Damsel in Distress: In Oh, What a Knight!
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal
- I Have Many Names: She's gone through at least three, possibly four.
- Inexplicably Tailless: Though averted in her very first appearances and in most fanart.
- Interspecies Romance
- Nice Hat
- Spoiled Sweet
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute
- Uptown Girl: Her father is a wealthy banker.
Mickey Mouseworks and House of Mouse Characters
Dennis the Duck
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Tiki the Maltese
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Debut:"Pluto's Penthouse Sweet," House of Mouse |
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A description of the character goes here.
- Blue Eyes
- Non-Standard Character Design: She looks more like a Lilo & Stitch: The Series character than like any House of Mouse or Classic Disney Shorts character.
- That's also an Early-Bird Cameo for that show (along with The Emperors New School, due to Kuzco's appearance there as well), since her design would later be reused for that of Yapper's (a dog-like alien created by Dr. Jumba Jookiba), and that show ended long before Liloand Stitch was even released.
Mr. Pettibone
Goofy's pet kitten who first appeared in Mickey Mouse Works.
- Depending on the Artist: He is yellow orange with a black nose (like Louie the mountain lion) in House of Mouse, but he's orange with a pink nose and blue-green eyes in Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
- Cute Kitten
Baby Shelby
An uncooperative child turtle who first appeared in Mickey Mouse Works.
- Badly-Battered Babysitter: Happens to Donald Duck (and in one House of Mouse storyline, Mickey Mouse) when he has to babysit him.
- Bratty Half-Pint
- Turtle Power
Mrs. Turtle
Shelby the Turtle's mother who first appeared in Mickey Mouse Works.
- Jerkass: To Donald.
- Turtle Power
Hairy Manilow
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The Abominable Snowman
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The Aliens
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Three kittens
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Pete's Gram-Gram
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Goofy's Pop
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Lumiere's relations
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Mike Microphone
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Soundboard
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DVD Player
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Thermostat
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Canon Immigrants From The Silly Symphonies and Movies
Figaro
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Debut: Pinocchio, 1940 |
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Mischevious pet kitten of Minnie Mouse. Originally a minor character in Disney Animated Canon feature film Pinocchio, Disney took note of the cat's popularity and placed him in three shorts of his own. Often acted as a rival of Pluto.
- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: He wears a red bow in Bath Day. In the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episode "Minnie's Bowtique," he wears a pink bowtie.
- Bratty Half-Pint: Non-anthro example, being a rambunctious kitten.
- Breakout Character: A bit player in Pinocchio. Appeared as lead character in at least three Classic Disney Shorts.
- Bow Ties Are Cool: In the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episode "Minnie's Bowtique," he wears a pink bowtie.
- Canon Immigrant: From previous Disney Animated Canon feature film Pinocchio.
- Cats Are Mean: He sure looked that way in Figaro and Frankie, but to be fair, Frankie's singing irritated Figaro. But in the end, he saves Frankie.
- Cute Kitten
- Hates Baths/Cats Hate Water: In Bath Day.
- Little Lord Fauntleroy: He thinks he looks that way in the mirror when he's wearing that bow around his neck in "Bath Day."
- Screwy Squirrel: Acts as this at times around Pluto. The latter's own occasional Jerkass traits can lead to an Escalating War however.
Jose Carioca
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- Barefoot Cartoon Animal: In his comic book series, he loses the gloves and gains a pair of blue pants that are slightly torn at the bottom in a way that makes it look like they just painted his lower body blue. This appears to have been done not because they find the idea of a pantsless character offensive, but so that his design implements all the colours of the Brazilian flag, not just the Green and Yellow.
- Fan Nickname: Back in his homeland of Brazil, José is endearingly known as "Zé Carioca".
- It's not just a Nickname, In Portuguese we generally use Zé instead of José. It's really rare to hear José as a name.
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: He only wears a hat, suit, and gloves (without pants) in The Three Caballeros and House of Mouse.
- Parasol Parachute: José uses his like one.
Panchito
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- Guns Akimbo: Panchito loves to fire off those guns of his.
- National Stereotypes: Panchito is Mexican, loud, wears a sombrero and can bullfight.
- Nice Hat: Panchito's Sombrero, from which he generates 2 more Sombreros for José and Donald.
- No Name Given: Panchito's name is only given in the opening credits, and none of the official materials for the movie mention a last name. As a result, there have been various full names attributed to him. His first comic book appearance gave him the name El Gayo José Francisco Sandro de Lima y la Loma Pancho Allegre (Where "Panchito" is just a nickname), while modern comics (Such as the Don Rosa stories) went with Panchito Pistoles, while the House of Mouse goes with Panchito Romero Miguel Junipero Francisco Quintero González.
- In strictest grammatical terms his given name is probably Pancho, if nothing else is certain ("ito" or "ita" is the diminutive form; the Spanish-language equivalent of calling someone "Jimmy" instead of "Jim" or "James").
- Nope. Pancho isn't a name; it's a common nickname for the name "Francisco". So in strictest grammatical terms, his given name is probably Francisco.
- In strictest grammatical terms his given name is probably Pancho, if nothing else is certain ("ito" or "ita" is the diminutive form; the Spanish-language equivalent of calling someone "Jimmy" instead of "Jim" or "James").
Aracuan Bird
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Willie The Giant
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Debut: Mickey and the Beanstalk, second segment of Fun and Fancy Free |
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Jiminy Cricket
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Debut: Pinocchio, 1940 |
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- Ascended Extra: Jiminy Cricket was a nameless cricket in the original Pinocchio book who gets squashed.
- Covert Pervert
- Four-Legged Insect
- Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal
- Honest Advisor
- Informed Species
- Mars Needs Women: Jiminy seems to have a preference for human(ish) women.
- Nice Hat
- Non-Human Sidekick
- Punny Name
- Significant Monogram
Zeke Wolf (a.k.a. The Big Bad Wolf)
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Debut:Three Little Pigs, 1933 |
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- The Big Bad Wolf: The Trope Namer
- Big Badass Wolf
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal
- Paper-Thin Disguise
- Running on All Fours
Practical Pig
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Debut:Three Little Pigs, 1933 |
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- All Work vs. All Play: All Work to Fiddler and Fifer's All Play.
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal
- Lie Detector: Practical builds one in The Practical Pig. Thanks to his usual method of building, it doubles as a punishment device for anyone it catches lying.
- Rube Goldberg Device: Practical became quite fond of these in the follow-up shorts to Three Little Pigs.
Fiddler and Fifer Pig
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Debut:Three Little Pigs, 1933 |
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- All Work vs. All Play: All Play to Practical's All Work.
- Half Dressed Cartoon Animals
Pluto The Pup Cartoon Characters
Ol' Benttail the Coyote
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- Chaste Toons: Averted
- Those Wily Coyotes
Benttail, Jr.
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Ronnie the St. Bernard Puppy
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Debut: The Purloined Pup, 1946 |
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Fifi The Peke
Minnie's dog and Pluto's girlfriend.
- Damsel in Distress: In the 1939 cartoon, Society Dog Show.
Butch the Bulldog
Large bulldog and frequent antagonist of Pluto.
- Angry Guard Dog
- Bully Bulldog
- Depending on the Artist: In the Classic Disney Shorts, he's grey with a darker grey muzzle and white belly, but in Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, he's brown with a tan colored muzzle and belly.
- Jerkass
- Romantic False Lead: For Dinah, in the original shorts at least; in House of Mouse she can't seem to make up her mind.
Dinah Dachshund
Female sausage dog and love interest for Pluto (replacing Fifi).
- Depending on the Artist: Sometimes, she's drawn with black and tan fur, but she's more commonly drawn with brown fur.
- Depending on the Writer: Downtrodden single mother, Tsundere or Shallow Love Interest? Her design also varies from short to short.
- Damsel in Distress: A non anthro example in "Canine Casanova" and "Pluto's Heart Throb".
- Shallow Love Interest: In later shorts, House of Mouse follows this interpretation.
Salty The Seal
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Debut: Mickey's Circus, 1936 |
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Pluto Junior
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Debut: Pluto's Quinpuplets, 1937 |
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Pluto's son.
Milton The Siamese Cat
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Debut: Puss Cafe, June 9, 1950. |
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A red Siamese cat and Foil for Pluto the Pup who has a friend named Richard. He even shows up in Epic Mickey.
- Cats Are Mean: Kind of.
- Deranged Animation: "Plutopia", which was infamous enough to get a Homage in Epic Mickey.
- Fat Cat
- Eyes of Gold: His eye color is light yellow, despite the fact that real Siamese cats have Blue Eyes.
K.B.
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Debut:Pluto's Kid Brother, 1946 |
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Lucifer
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Debut:Pluto's Kid Brother, 1946 |
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A lean, red alley cat who antagonized Pluto, KB, and Figaro. Not to be confused the mean, Fat Cat from Cinderella of the same name.
- Cats Are Mean
- Fat Cat: Averted, unlike that cat from Cinderella.
- Getting Crap Past the Radar: In "Pluto's Kid Brother," hen he extends the claw on his middle finger, he looks like like he's flipping Pluto off.
- Name's the Same: He shares a first name with that mean, Fat Cat from Cinderella.
- Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: When he mocks Figaro for his bow, he sprouts eyelashes to make himself look girly.
Pluto's conscience
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Donald Duck Cartoon Characters
Donna Duck
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Debut: Don Donald (1937) |
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An early prototype of Daisy, Donna was Donald's girlfiend of Spanish descent (considering she literally lives in the middle of a desert) and, surprisingly, has the same speech impediment Donald has, unlike Daisy. Interestingly, one comic strip (including in Mickey and the Gang: Classic Stories in Verse) had her return as a separate character from Daisy, but she had left Donald at this point for a human fiance.
- Distaff Counterpart: of Donald Duck
- Divergent Character Evolution: As noted above, Donna was the template for Daisy, but was later spun off into a separate character.
Gus Goose
Donald Duck's cousin who is a goose.
- Big Eater: Although Donald Duck is told that, "he don't eat much," he is this trope.
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal
- Nice Hat
Joey the Kangaroo
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Debut: Daddy Duck |
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Humphrey the Bear
A fat, freeloading bear always on the lookout for an easy meal. Humphrey tended to run afoul of Donald Duck and fussy ranger J. Audubon Woodlore.
- Beary Funny
- Big Eater: When he can get food, that is.
- Catch Phrase: A very distinctive "heh".
- Everything's Worse with Bears: Well, sort of. Humphrey may make life harder for those around him, but he's a pest rather than an actual threat.
- Expy: Not Humphrey himself, but when Humphrey's creator Jack Hannah left Disney for Walter Lantz, he created a new character named Fatso Bear, who was more or less identical to Humphrey.
- The Unintelligible: Humphrey's speech consists of grunts, mumbles, and whines.
J. Audubon Woodlore
The park ranger of Brownstone National Park, a play on Yellowstone National Park.
Spike The Bee
A bee(!) who tends to run afoul of Donald and (on on occasions Pluto).
- Animal Gender Bender: He is a male bee who can sting. In Real Life, only female bees can sting.
- Everything's Worse with Bees
- Four-Legged Insect
- I Have Many Names: Spike has also been known as Buzz-Buzz, Hector, and Claudius.
- Literal Ass-Kicking: Spike seems to like stinging his foes in the butt.
Ajax The Gorilla
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Debut: Pluto At The Zoo, 1942 |
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One of Donald Duck's antagonists.
Jenny the Burro
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Debut: Don Donald (1937) |
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- Stubborn Mule: She's a donkey, but she still behaves this way toward Donald Duck in '"The Village Smithy"
Witch Hazel
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Debut: Trick or Treat (1953) |
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- Blondes Are Witches
- Green Eyes
- Hey, It's That Voice!: She is voiced by June Foray, the same person who voiced the less benevolent Looney Tunes Witch Hazel.
- Token Human
- Wicked Witch
The Nazis
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Debut: Der Fuehrer's Face (1943) |
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Other Characters
Julius the Cat (a.k.a. Mike)
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Debut: Alice's Wonderland, 1923. |
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A cartoon cat, similar in appearance to Felix the Cat, who was the sidekick to Alice of the Alice Comedies.
- Depending on the Artist: In some cartoons, he was drawn as black-furred with white paws and a white belly and muzzle. In others, he was all-black with only a white muzzle.
- Expy: Julius is literally just Felix moonlighting in a Disney cartoon—Pat Sullivan apparently made Disney do this.
- Actually, it was Charles Mintz. Sullivan was so pissed off by Julius that he cancelled Mintz' contract to distribute Felix cartoons and moved to another company.
Pete Junior (Junior and PJ Pete)
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Debut: Bellboy Donald, December 18, 1942 as Junior. Goof Troop in 1992 as PJ. |
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Pete's son. Originally appeared as a completely rotten little hellion named Junior who bedevilled Donald. Ironically, even though the two characters don't sound the same, both Donald and Junior are voiced by Clarence Nash. In Goof Troop, he is a normal, shy, well-adjusted teenager named P.J. and nicknamed "Peej" who turned out okay in spite of his father. P.J. is Max Goof's best friend.
- Bratty Half-Pint
- Elevator Gag: In "Bellboy Donald"
- Little Lord Fauntleroy: That's how he dresses like.
- Hotel Hellion: In "Bellboy Donald"
- Nice Hat
- Spank the Cutie: Donald Duck spanked him at the end of "Bellboy Donald"
- White Gloves
- Beware the Nice Ones
- Fat Cat: Though P.J. is portrayed more as a dogface in all his appearances, he counts as one.
- Gentle Giant: PJ is what you get when the Gentle Giant is just 11 years old. He's not too bright, overdominated, insecure - and can bench-press 150lbs, punch out bullies and takes on most of his father's manual labour. He seems totally unaware of his own strength.
- Mega Neko: Though P.J. is portrayed more as a dogface in all his appearances, he counts as one.
- Rob Paulsen: PJ's voice actor.
- Stout Strength: PJ in the Goof Troop episode, "Lethal Goofin'"
- The So-Called Coward
- White Gloves: Though he's been shown not to wear them sometimes in Goof Troop.
- Ambiguous Looking Cat: Both Junior and PJ, but PJ more so.
- Art Evolution: Pete's son first appeared in Bellboy Donald in 1942. In that cartoon, his name is Junior, he is dressed like Little Lord Fauntleroy with blue Mickey Mouse-like shorts. He even looked a lot like Mickey Mouse, but with (decently proportionate) cat ears. In Goof Troop, A Goofy Movie, and An Extremely Goofy Movie, his name is P.J., he looks less like Mickey, is really overweight, and has small-ears like his dad, Pete.
- Cameo: Pete's (unnamed) son in "Father's Week End." In this cartoon, he is a Dogface rather than a cat and looks like a black haired, black-nosed Goofy jr. and has flesh-toned fur over the rest of his body just like he does.
- Informed Species: Both Junior and PJ are this, but PJ is this more so.
Clarice
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- Barefoot Cartoon Animal
- Humanoid Female Animal: She's a Borderline Petting Zoo Person, while Chip and Dale are Civilized Animals.
- Love Triangle: With Chip and Dale in Two Chips and a Miss
- One-Shot Character: Though she has a bit of a fan following anyway, especially among Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers fans (despite having never appeared on the show).
- Sitting Sexy on a Piano
Clara Cluck
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Debut: Orphan's Benefit, 1934. |
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A full-bosomed chicken who fancies herself a professional actress, opera singer, and cellist. Parody of famed English contralto Dame Clara Butt.
- Brawn Hilda
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
- Gag Boobs
- Grande Dame
- Non-Mammal Mammaries
- The Unintelligible: She communicates solely by clucking, even though other chickens (like Panchito the rooster) have no trouble speaking.
Morty & Ferdie Fieldmouse
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Debut: Mickey's Nephews (comic strip), 1932 |
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Mickey's nephews. They look almost exactly like their uncle save for their smaller size and trademark paper crowns.
- Canon Foreigner: The two have made very few appearances in animation (Mickey's Steamroller, Boat Builders, and Mickey's Christmas Carol).
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Happened to Ferdie in the early 1940s. Floyd Gottfredson planned to reintroduce him later as a way of differentiating the two, but he forgot.
- Rodents of Unusual Size: Like their uncle.
Mortimer Mouse
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Debut: Mr. Slicker and the Egg Robbers, 1930, as Mr. Slicker; Mickey's Rival, 1936, as Mortimer |
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A tall, smooth-talking mouse who is Mickey's antagonistic rival, usually for Minnie's affections.
- I Have Many Names: He also went by the name Montmorency Rodent (pronounced "Rodawn") in 1941.
- Jerkass
- Meaningful Name: Mortimer was Mickey's previous name. Heh.
- Popularity Power: He must have had this if they were willing to bring him back in Mickey Mouse Works.
- Rodents of Unusual Size: He's even more of an example of this than Mickey and Minnie.
- Ted Baxter
- What Could Have Been: Mortimer was actually the prototype name for Mickey. Walt quickly decided that the name didn't fit the character. According to some versions of the story his wife insisted on using the name Mickey.
The Phantom Blot
A mysterious master criminal who desires to conquer the world. Floyd Gottfredson
- Bond Villain Stupidity: Actually Justified at the end of his first appearance. When Mickey Mouse asks why he didn't just shoot him instead of using elaborate Death Traps, Blot sadly explains he can't bear to see anything die because of his cursed soft heart.
- Card-Carrying Villain: At the end of his first appearance, Blot sadly laments now the chemical formula can only be used for good.
- Dangerously Genre Savvy: In some continuities. House Of Mouse, in particular had him actually try to kill the heroes in his first appearance onscreen, of course, it was a James Bond type of trap, but the next time, he tries to make sure that they can't survive a fall. And his final plan involved hijacking the machine that gave the characters clues as to where the villain was, or who they were, making sure they didn't know what to do.
- Depending on the Writer: Is he a Large Ham? Is he a Card-Carrying Villain? Heck, sometimes people write him as a Complete Monster!
- Dogface: When Unmasked.
- Evil Is Hammy: Sometimes (see "Depending On The Writer" above)
- Evil Sorcerer: In Wizards of Mickey
- Flanderization: Later appearances present his cloak as his actual body, Ducktales even had him with a mouth.
- Gentleman Thief: To some degree, though gentleman might be pushing it.
- The Un-Reveal: His face is never really seen. But Subverted in his first appearance, where he is unmasked, having a thin mustache and a gaunt face according to That Other Wiki, apparently, his appearance was also based on Walt Disney himself.
- A lot of other writers seem to have Retconned his true face as being unknown. In one story it is vaguely implied that his real identity is in fact Goofy.
- Wizards of Mickey inverts it, with the Blot never using the cloaked diguise until later though it's more him becoming an inky monster similar to the approach in Epic Mickey
- Villain Decay: In some of his later appearances Blot became rather goofy.
The Mad Doctor (a.k.a. Dr. XXX)
Exactly What It Says on the Tin, this guy is a mad scientist who wanted to see what happens if you put a dogs head on a chicken's body, fortunately, he was just a dream Mickey had.
- All Just a Dream
- Although somehow he makes a reappearance in Epic Mickey.
- Canon Immigrant: Well, sort of, he made his first appearance in a comic book, and then got a short, which This Troper isn't sure is faithful to the original comic or not.
- Evil Is Hammy
- Faux Affably Evil
- Humans Are the Real Monsters: Maybe, he certainly looks human, but nobody can be sure.
- Mad Scientist: Duh. For someone who has the same name as a trope, he sure acts more like a scientist than doctor.
- Man in White: Possibly the only Disney villain who wears white constantly.
- Token Human
Louie The Mountain Lion
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Debut: Lion Down |
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Occasional antagonist of Donald and Goofy (more so Goofy).
- Butt Monkey: In "Father's Lion", the spends most of the short being manhandled by Goofy (with Goofy blissfully unaware he's even doing it.) Louie gets it even worse in "Hook, Lion and Sinker" where he winds up being a fall guy to perpetual fall guy Donald.
- Cats Are Mean: Kind of.
- Panthera Awesome: He's a cougar.
- One Steve Limit: Averted with Louie Duck and Louie the Mountain Lion, even though they don't appear in any cartoon together.
- The Unintelligible: He sometimes speaks English grumbly.
Wilbur the Grasshopper
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Debut:Goofy and Wilbur, March 17, 1939 |
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Goofy's pet grasshopper. According to the special On Vacation with Mickey Mouse and Friends, he is Jiminy Cricket's nephew.
Frankie the Canary
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Debut: Figaro and Frankie (1947) |
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A description of the character goes here.
- Cute but Cacophonic
- Small Annoying Creature
- Typical Cartoon Animal Colors: He is a yellow canary.
Dolores the Elephant
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The tiger
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Debut: Tiger Trouble (1945) |
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A description of the character goes here.
The rhinoceros
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Debut: My African Diary (1945) |
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A description of the character goes here.
Dogfaces
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