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* [[Comic Trio]]: Mickey, Donald and Goofy. Arguably.
* [[Commedia Dell Arte Troupe]]
* [[Colour
* [[Covered in Kisses]]: Occasionally, this happens to Mickey and Donald (thanks to Minnie and Daisy.)
* [[Cranial Eruption]]
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* [[The Everyman]]: All of the main trio, to some degree: Mickey (when he's not too good at being a hero), Donald (when he's not being too [[Morally Ambiguous Ducktorate|nasty]]), and Goofy (when he's not being too clumsy) have all functioned as everyday working stiffs in viewer identification scenarios.
* [[Everything Is an Instrument]]: A dominant trope in most of the early Mickey Mouse shorts.
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* [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]]: ''A lot'' of the names of the shorts.
** Averted in "Donald's Dilemma", because, contrary to the title, it's actually Daisy that has the dilemma...
* [[Extreme Omni Goat]]
* [[Fake Rabies]]: In "The Mad Dog", Pluto escapes while Mickey is brushing his teeth, causing panic throughout the neighborhood.
* [["Faux
* [[Flying Broomstick]]: ''Trick or Treat''
* [[Five
** [[The Hero]]: Mickey - [[Chromatic Superiority|Red]]
** [[The Lancer]]: Donald - Blue
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* [[Ghost in The Machine]]: ''Reason and Emotion''
* [[Go Karting With Bowser]]: Pete's relationship with the gang varies.
* [[Good Angel, Bad Angel]]: The entire premise of ''Donald's Better Self''.
** Pluto also had this in a few shorts, most notably ''Lend a Paw''.
* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Mickey and Donald both talk this way a lot.
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* [[Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress]]
* [[Guns Akimbo]]: Mickey in "Two Gun Mickey."
* [[Hair
* [[Half
* [[Hey
** In the 1930s, the Big Bad Wolf was voiced by Billy Bletcher, the original voice for [[Pete]]. Fittingly enough, on ''[[House of Mouse]]'', he was voiced by [[Pete]]'s current voice actor, Jim Cummings.
** Also in the 1930s, Practical Pig was voiced by Pinto Colvig, the original voice for [[Goofy]]. Fittingly enough, on ''[[House of Mouse]]'', he was voiced by Goofy's current voice actor, Bill Farmer.
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** At the end of ''Mickey's Amateurs'', [[Iris Out|the black circle]] that usually marks the end of the show closes around Donald's neck.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: Goofy suffers one throughout "The Art of Self Defense", which takes "Shadowboxing" to its literal extent and has him be the punching bag for the various moves demonstrated.
* [[Non
* [[No Sex Allowed]]: Walt himself once said when asked about it that Mickey does not have a sex life.
* [[Not Allowed to Grow Up]]: Everybody but [[A Goofy Movie|Max]] and P.J., apparently.
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* [[Screwy Squirrel]]: Chip 'n' Dale on occasion; Huey, Dewey, and Louie in many of their early appearances; and Mickey's Orphans (the crowds of mouse-faced kids in nightshirts).
* [[Shout Out]]: ''[[Chip and Dale|Two Chips and a Miss]]'' is one to [[Tex Avery]]'s ''[[Red Hot Riding Hood]]'', complete with the chipmunks temporarily turning into drooling wolves.
** Another one, the Donald short ''Duck Pimples'', is one to another Avery short, ''[[Who Killed Who]]'', right down to the eerie organ music and the detective in both cartoons being [[Hey
* [[Slapstick]]
* [[Slipping a Mickey]]: Happens to Goofy in ''How To Be a Detective''.
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* [[Soap Punishment]]: A lie detector uses this on the Big Bad Wolf in ''The Practical Pig''.
* [[Speech Impediment]]: Donald, to the point where his near-unintelligible speech sparked [http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/donald.asp an urban legend].
* [[Spin
* [[Stock Footage]]: A few of the [[Wartime Cartoon|Wartime Cartoons]]
* [[Strapped to An Operating Table]]: ''[[The Mad Doctor]]''
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* [[Wartime Cartoon]]: Perhaps one of the most classic examples would be "[[Der Fuehrers Face]]" (originally titled "Donald Duck in Nutzi Land").
** Donald Duck had an entire suite of war shorts, from "Donald Gets Drafted" to "Commando Duck".
* [[Wafer
* [[We Do the Impossible]]: In ''The [[Brave Little Tailor]].''
* [[Were Still Relevant Dammit]]: The ENTIRE ANGLE of the [[Kingdom Hearts]] games and especially [[Epic Mickey]].
* [[White Gloves]]: Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Pete, Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow wear 'em.
* [[Who Is Driving]]?: ''Mickey's Trailer'' (1938)
* [[Who Would Want to Watch Us?]]?: In ''A Gentleman's Gentleman'', Pluto buys a newspaper for Mickey, but stops to read a comic strip featuring himself on the front page. He laughs at his comic counterpart's misfortune, but then a similar situation happens to him.
* [[Wicked Witch]]: Witch Hazel
* [[William Telling]]: In ''The Tortoise And The Hare'', the Hare shows off his speed by shooting an arrow, running ahead of it, standing under the target with an apple on his head, and letting the arrow split the apple in two.
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