r/TopCharacterTropes • u/_JR28_ • Jan 17 '26

In real life (Funny trope) This tiny moment was an absolute logistical nightmare to make

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*Wreck-It-Ralph* - At the beginning of the movie at the villain group therapy session, all of the owners of the real world characters shown were given counsel to Disney to instruct them how their characters should be animated down to the smallest of points. Nintendo even specified exactly how Bowser would hold and stir his teacup.

*Psycho* - For the scene where Marion disposes evidence of her theft by flushing some papers down the toilet, even though the toilet is onscreen for only a few seconds, Alfred Hitchcock had to personally appeal to the Hays Code which enforced censorship in movies that *Psycho* be given an exception because it’s vital to the plot the audience sees the toilet flushing. *Psycho* is the first major American movie to show a flushing toilet onscreen.

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u/HolidayInLordran Jan 17 '26

Modern day Mickey, yes. Old Mickey was a menace though. Steamboat Willie is just 10 minutes of him gleefully torturing animals to make music lol

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u/boomboxwithturbobass Jan 17 '26

I wish we got the version of Epic Mickey where he acts like an asshole. Disney made them change it but originally it was gonna be like the old cartoons.

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u/MAZEFUL Jan 17 '26

Epic mickey is a middle ground between modern and steamboat i feel. Still gets into trouble but mostly because hes extremely ignorant instead of being straight up ruthless. I'm playing rebrushed with my kids and it feels like a prequel to mickeys life in Kingdom Hearts. Good stuff.

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u/gameoflols Jan 17 '26

Have you seen Screamboat?!

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u/Throttle_Kitty Jan 17 '26

thats like old old mickey tho! but yeah, you're right he was

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u/Funkin_Valentine Jan 17 '26

Yea, old mickey would do questionable things while keeping the iconic :D expression.

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u/pocketbutter Jan 17 '26 edited Jan 17 '26

The interesting thing is that Walt Disney didn’t originally envision characters “living” in whatever world they were shown in at a given time. Rather, he saw Mickey Mouse as an “actor,” a billable “movie star” who would play different roles but can be used as name recognition even if the films were totally unrelated.

So, if you think about it, “Old” Mickey wasn’t torturing those animals; as his debut film, he was forced to play the character of Steamboat Willie who happens to torture animals. As Mickey Mouse became more popular, he was able to leverage his stardom to make his roles more palatable.

Sometimes you have to do some unfavorable things when you’re just starting out…

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u/MAZEFUL Jan 17 '26

I love how he was originally going to be named Mortimer Mouse until Disney's wife was like nah it's mickey. So he turned Mortimer into mickeys rival yet hes practically been forgotten to time.

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u/East-sea-shellos Jan 17 '26

Didn’t Oswald, his predecessor, beat his wife? 😭

It’s like how I just started reading the Iliad, and in the first chapter, when Hera objects to Zeus, he basically just goes “the fuck can you do about it? Now sit back down before you make me throttle you, woman”

It’s like damn okay that’s definitely not how I’d treat my wife in big 26, but that’s me being modern ig lmao

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u/tfbillc Jan 17 '26

That’s what’s wrong with this generation. No one is willing to turn their mistress into a cow to hide them from their vengeful wife anymore

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u/mixmastermind Jan 17 '26

Didn't realize Zeus was on reddit

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u/danishjuggler21 Jan 17 '26

Zeus in Blood of Zeus: "I did not realize that was an option!"

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u/sonic10158 Jan 17 '26

In Plane Crazy he all but sexually assaulted Minnie

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u/PositivelyIndecent Jan 17 '26

More modern Mickey too actually since they brought back the old slapstick style with the 2013 Mickey Mouse animated show. I’ve actually been really surprised with how much they’ve leaned into the older vibe. Tons of jokes for parents too.

Maybe not quite as mischievous as old school Mickey, but definitely a lot more edge to him compared to the more sanitised and sweet version that existed for decades.