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* [[Chaste Toons]]: Averted with Oswald, who's had a lot of kids in the years he's been in the Wasteland -- [[Explosive Breeder|he's a rabbit, after all]]. And much to their father's chagrin, they adore "Uncle Mickey".
** [[Genius Bonus]]: His girlfriend, Ortensia, is a cat. Female cats are known to be VERY promiscuous.
* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]] / [[The Starscream]]: The Mad Doctor betrayed Oswald when he lost the Blot Wars, and then he allied with the Blot; he plans to eventually betray the Blot as well, once Mickey's heart has been taken.
* [[Clockwork Creature]]: The Beetleworx enemies are robots constructed from random parts that have the faces of various [[Disney]] characters painted on them. Defeating them requires erasing the painted parts.
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** Not necessarily ignored. Since Yen Sid himself didn't even exist (and thus could not have created the Wasteland) until 1940 and [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit|Oswald's]] last real appearance was about 1943, it's more likely the implication is that he continued to struggle as an "actor" for quite a few years before finally fading away completely into Mickey's shadow.
* [[Covered in Kisses]]: {{spoiler|Oswald in the ending.}}
* [[Crapsack World]]: [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|And it's Mickey's fault.]] However, the game's plot is about saving it. So it's more of [[A World Half Full]].
** Mickey can use thinner to make it ''[[Video Game Cruelty Potential|worse]]''.
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* [[Leitmotif]]: [[Mickey Mouse|Mickey]] and [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit|Oswald]] have their own distinctive themes.
* [[Limelight Series]]
* [[Lost Forever]]: ''Every single action stage''. According to [https://web.archive.org/web/20111026105852/http://www.totalvideogames.com/Disney-Epic-Mickey/preview-15659.html this article], once you clear an action stage, you can't go back. Oh, and the game autosaves after important decisions. According to the dev team, this is so that players can't go back on their choices.
** Fortunately, there's a [[New Game+]] option that allows you to go back to old levels.
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* [[Market-Based Title]]: For some reason, the words of the title were swapped in the German version, so it's called "[[Mickey Mouse|Mickey]] Epic".
** The Japanese version just added to the title so it's called "Disney Epic Mickey: Mickey Mouse and the Magic Brush".
* [[Mercy Invincibility]]: Cruelly averted... fall into a pool of [[Black Magic|thinner]] without a nearby platform—or end up underneath one—and you're almost guaranteed to quickly lose ''all'' of your health pips. And the [[Camera Screw]] the game often offers doesn't help at all.
* [[The Messiah]]: [[What Could Have Been|Hero Mickey.]]
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* [[Walk the Plank]]: One of the ways of dealing with Animatronic Hook is to push him along the tracks on his ship to the plank... and right into the maw of Animatronic Tick Tock the Croc...
* [[Wartime Cartoon]]: [[La Résistance|The Gremlins]] were originally from an unmade one of these—based on an idea by [[Roald Dahl]], no less.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: The setting is an [[In-Universe]] example, with some characters lamenting things turned out differently. Oswald is especially like this. In real life, many gamers who followed the development of the game from the beginning, feel that the final product was significantly lacking in the kind of surreal, eldritch horror that much of the concept art was promising. One wonders what game we might have gotten if the developers had simply seen how much they could get away with...
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Most characters, including all of the extras, will call [[Mickey Mouse|Mickey]] out on some level if he tends to use and abuse [[Black Magic|thinner]]. Negative major choices will also change how major characters view you. Interestingly enough, some characters will call you out for not being as [[Darker and Edgier|edgy]] as they would have liked you to be if you use [[White Magic|paint.]]
** And [[Deadpan Snarker|Gremlin Gus's]] basic reaction if and when [[Mickey Mouse|Mickey]] chooses a treasure chest full of E-tickets over the safety of Gremlin Calvin and sends him flying via catapault.
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* [[Window Love]]: {{spoiler|Mickey and Oswald in the mirror at the end of the game}}.
* [[Womb Level]]: {{spoiler|The final level takes place ''inside'' the [[Eldritch Abomination|Shadow Blot]]}}.
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: {{spoiler|1=The smaller Shadow Blot. His motives are just like [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit|Oswald's]]: he wants to be famous and loved by the people in [[Real Life]]. If you used paint, after [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYbFNLV329E Mickey's climactic battle with it], he gives [[Mickey Mouse|Mickey]] a big hug, leading [[Deadpan Snarker|Gus]] to marvel: "''Huh''? He's actually kind of... ''sweet''."}}
* [[World-Wrecking Wave]]: The [[Black Magic|Thinner]] Disaster.
* [[X Meets Y]]: While ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' was essentially [[Disney]] meets ''[[Final Fantasy]]'', ''[[Epic Mickey]]'' is, in a sense, [[American McGee's Alice|American McGee]] meets [[Disney]] -- OR ''[[Deus Ex]]'' meets [[Mickey Mouse]], with just a hint of ''[[Mother 3]]''.
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: {{spoiler|It is implied that [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit|Oswald]] planned to steal [[Mickey Mouse|Mickey's]] heart and escape [[Crapsack World|Wasteland]] once he got all the pieces needed to build the Moonliner Rocket}}. Fortunately, he has a change of heart when {{spoiler|[[Mickey Mouse|Mickey]] defeats both the Mad Doctor and the [[Eldritch Abomination|Blot]]}}.
* [[Zombie Gait]]: {{spoiler|The lost cartoon souls inside the [[Eldritch Abomination|Shadow Blot]].}}
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