Video Game / Epic Mickey

Unleash the power of the brush.

"With the tools of wonder and limitless imagination, I built a world for the forgotten. The unloved.
A once joyous land, now ruined by a mischievous mouse.
But redemption comes through unparalleled bravery, long lost friends, and the power of the brush.
Only then can a mischievous mouse become an epic hero."

— Yen Sid, E3 2010 teaser trailer.

Epic Mickey is a Disney game for the Wii developed by Junction Point, spearheaded by Warren Spector of Deus Ex and System Shock fame and published by Disney Interactive Studios. In an ambitious effort to help Disney restore Mickey Mouse's iconic status, it brings back the happy memories of Disney's classic short subjects and feature length films from their Golden Age, Silent Age, Dark Age, and Renaissance Age as well as attractions from the Disney Theme Parks of old... but NOT in the way anyone expected.

The story begins with Walt Disney's original cartoon star, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, after finally getting Walt some success and recognition, being taken from him over both a budget dispute and a contract loophole, fading into obscurity, and being replaced by his younger half-brother Mickey Mouse. Fortunately, he becomes the first resident of a world created by the wizard Yen Sid for forgotten and rejected Disney creations and ideas. This world, called Wasteland (based on the Disney Theme Parks), exists as a small model on a table within Yen Sid's tower. Oswald takes this world as his own, presenting himself as a king there. Soon after, Oswald teams up with The Mad Doctor, another early resident of Wasteland — together, they create the robotic Beetleworx, which serve as construction tools for Wasteland, as well as relocators for new residents of the world, and together they try to make Wasteland a comfortable home for the other lost Disney characters who later join them — but Oswald grows resentful of his younger brother over time due to his increasing popularity. In a vain effort to emulate the life he never had, he makes a very large family with his feline girlfriend Ortensia, and has the Mad Doctor build robotic copies of Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, and Goofy to help him recreate the adventures Mickey went on — but even this fails to fill the void.

Later on, Mickey himself stumbles into Yen Sid's tower, after being lured in by the wizard's mischevious (or malicious) magic mirror. Shortly after arriving, he sees Yen Sid put the finishing touches on Wasteland. Content with his progress, Yen Sid goes off to sleep, while Mickey decides to put his own touch on Wasteland—he spots the magic paintbrush Yen Sid was using and begins to fiddle with it, but accidentally creates a monster called the Shadow Blot and spills paint and paint thinner all over the model. Hearing Yen Sid approaching, Mickey tries to erase the Blot and quickly clean up... and ends up spilling even more thinner on the model, creating a gaping hole in it, and then flees back to his bedroom via the mirror before the wizard returns. Despite Mickey's attempt to hide his transgression, the not-so-dead Blot persists and enters Wasteland via the hole; there, it takes over Wasteland, twisting it into a sinister and dangerous version of the original, and drives Oswald and any resistance into hiding during the conflict, henceforth called "The Blot Wars". The Doctor promptly stabs Oswald in the back (as he had always wanted to) and sides with the Blot, if just to further his own agenda.

Decades later, having long forgotten the incident, Mickey is suddenly pulled into Wasteland from his home via the Blot. Mickey manages to grab the magic paintbrush before he is pulled in, so he can create and erase things with paint and thinner. After narrowly escaping from Dark Beauty Castle and the Doctor and Blot's attempt to remove his heart, as well as having a brief encounter with Oswald, Mickey's initial goal is to simply return home, but his discovery of the miserable state of Wasteland and its inhabitants, including old friends like Horace Horsecollar, cause him to change his plans.

Now the mouse must regain the trust of his resentful older half-brother Oswald, foil the Mad Doctor, and stop the Shadow Blot to save and restore Wasteland, all while trying to keep his heart, the symbol of those who remember and love him, which is all the Blot needs to escape into the real world.

So, if you haven't guessed already, this is one of the other series that turns Mickey into a complete badass, has a shadowy (pun intended) evil and heart stealing. Its pacing and design is heavily akin to Nintendo 64 platformers like Banjo-Kazooie. It's also been adapted into a couple of kids' books and a prequel Webcomic and graphic novel written by Peter David.

A sequel has been released, Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two (selected from a batch of subtitles that also included Return of the Mad Doctor and Mystery on Mean Street) and a portable side story Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion, both which have their own pages.

A Video Game Remake entitled Epic Mickey: Rebrushed is set for release on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC in 2024. Due to both Junction Point and Disney Interactive being long defunct, the remake is being developed by Purple Lamp GmbH^note formerly known as Purple Lamp Studios (SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake) and published by their parent company THQ Nordic.

Examples from Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two and Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion should go on their respective pages.

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Disney's Epic Mickey provides examples of:

Tropes A-D

• Action Bomb: Spladooshes will sleep happily, but if they wake up...
• Adaptation Name Change: The graphic novel curiously names the Shadow Blot after his predecessor/inspiration the Phantom Blot.
  • In the original cartoon he hailed from, The Mad Doctor's name was given as Dr. XXX on the door to his castle. Because XXX has a much different connotation today than it did in 1933^note In the 1930's, a XXX mark was a common marking for jugs of moonshine or alcohol in general, making the original name a punny one. Today, XXX is a shorthand for highly pornographic materials, making his original name rather unfortunate sounding now., he is simply renamed The Mad Doctor here.
• Adapted Out: The graphic novel adaptation omits several characters, most notably Small Pete, Animatronic Daisy, and Mr. Smee, because it simply jumps over the three sequences they're from.
• Alice Allusion: It does not feature any Alice, of course, but Mickey accesses Wasteland (which is only a few letters away from Wonderland and intentionally so) by going through a mirror and spends the first half of the game trying to get to a rabbit.
• All There in the Manual: A free iOS app that has been taken down since Junction Point was shut down had stories of the Wasteland before Mickey messes it up.
• Ambiguously Gay: Pete Pan. He's a good fighter, but dear GOD, his body language... He pumps his ass in Mickey's face the first time they meet.
• Amusement Park of Doom: Wasteland is, essentially, The Unhappiest Place On Earth / The Real Tragic Kingdom.
• And I Must Scream:
  • Ortensia's initial fate is to be trapped in stone after having all the Paint thinned out of her.
  • If you Thinner the Clock Tower, its arms and face will fall into the pool below, leaving it alive and awake with no control over its body.
• Anti-Frustration Features:
  • Mickey's reserves of Paint or Thinner will slowly return to one-third capacity if they ever fall below that amount.
  • Some of the important quests involve finding the body parts of Animatronic Goofy, Animatronic Daisy, and Animatronic Donald. The game autosaving whenever you find quest items as well as its use of Death Is a Slap on the Wrist means that collecting the body parts isn't too grueling a task. And if you should fail to find all of the missing body parts before beating the levels they are found in, you also have the choice to buy every body part you missed for 1,000 E-Tickets, which would require nothing more than a good deal of grinding.
• Anti-Hero: If you play towards the dark side of the Karma Meter, Mickey can turn into one of these and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
• Apathetic Citizens: The citizens of OsTown and Mean Street doesn't seem to mind that their cities are literally the only places that The Mad Doctor and the Shadow Blot haven't conquered yet. Heck, they won't even react when Mickey goes Grand Theft Auto on them. Thankfully averted with the Gremlins, who seems to be the only people around who at least try to help you.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Subverted. The Mad Doctor's Swiss-Army-torture-device has four settings: A large pair of shears, a massive corkscrew, a chainsaw, and at its highest setting (labelled with a skull and crossbones), a... toilet plunger? Even Mickey is surprised. And then he learns it's used for... unorthodox heart surgery...
• Art Attacker: Mickey uses a brush, magical paint and paint thinner to Set Right What Once Went Wrong. He can use the brush itself to physically attack, or use it to create or erase animated objects.
• Art Shift: Gameplay segments use a relatively orthodox graphical style reminiscent of Super Mario Galaxy. Cutscenes, however, are 2D and in a style influenced by the late Mary Blair, who did concept art for several Disney movies and the art for "It's A Small World."
• Ascended Glitch: Multiple examples. Theoretically, Epic Mickey is a game where you must make choices at different points of the story between doing "either this or that"; either of the options will get you a different award or cutscene and you can't get both. However, sometimes you accidentally don't really have to make the choice: you can actually do both.
  • Instead of deciding whether or not to get the treasure or save the gremlin, it is actually possible to save both, by attacking an enemy just next to the treasure, quickly grabbing the treasure, and then hurrying to rescue the gremlin.
  • The most developed example in the game is the Animatronic Captain Hook's boss battle. There are supposed to be three ways of defeating him: either manipulate his trajectory to make him fall in the Thinner Sea and right into the Crocodile's jaw; or make him hit against a wall numerous times, until he falls to pieces; or ignore Hook, climb the High Mast, and rescue Tinker Bell to call for Pete Pan (the Epic Mickey version of Peter Pan), who will proceed to defeat Hook for you. However, you can defeat Hook yourself either way, and then still save Tinker Bell and call for Pete Pan, who however probably won't have anything to do. You can, also, defeat Hook one way or another, then go wander around a treasure chest located somewhere else on the boat; when your return to the main deck, Hook will be back, and you can then rescue Tinker Bell and call for Pete Pan who will come and fight Hook again.
• The Atoner:
  • Mickey is ashamed after he played a hand in creating the Blot which ravaged the Wasteland. Now that he's been forced to return, Mickey's forced to face the Blot and undo his past mistakes.
  • Oswald blames himself for letting the Shadow Blot ruin his kingdom and agrees to help Mickey mainly to help come to terms with Ortensia's fate.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Several of your foes can get easily distracted whenever a TV is placed in front of them. Including Oswald.
• Attract Mode: The opening prologue movie is even called "Attract Mode".
• Author Appeal: The reason why you're collecting pins is simply because Warren Spector himself collects Disney pins.
• Badass Adorable:
  • Mickey, obviously, since his cartoon design doesn't stop him from fighting robots, pirates, and monsters.
  • Oswald is as cute as a cartoon rabbit can be, but he can still defeat giant Blotlings with lone kicks.
  • The Bunny Kids; they're adorable little bunnies and eat blotlings. Wait, what?
• Being Good Sucks: Not sucks, exactly, but concerning many of the Good/Bad choices you can make in the game, be it using Paint or Thinner or doing a Fetch Quest with two possible item choices; usually, the good choice is the harder to accomplish by far (three words: "Save the Sprite"), while doing the bad thing can take about two seconds. That said, it's ultimately worth the extra effort though just to see the characters be happy and to get some added rewards (like the optional pins) that you won't get by doing the Thinner path.
• Benevolent Architecture: Lampshaded towards the end, with Gus saying something about how convenient it is that there's a bunch of chandeliers with strong chains in a tower.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: The Shadow Blot (now an Eldritch Abomination made of paint and thinner) and The Mad Doctor, described by Spector as being the "brawn and the brains" of the pairing, respectively.
• Big Damn Heroes: Attempted, but unfortunately subverted when Mickey and his friends try to use the Rocket to defeat the Shadow Blot.
• Big Boo's Haunt:
  • Naturally, Lonesome Manor, based on The Haunted Mansion.
  • The Lonesome Ghosts travel map as well, plus the aptly named The Haunted House.
• Black Magic: The thinner, which destroys the Paint that animates and gives life to Disney's world. You actually need it on occasion, but if you're doing a "good" playthrough, you won't be using it a lot.
• Blob Monster: The Shadow Blot is a monster created when Mickey mixed magical paint and paint thinner together, creating an inky creature larger than a castle that reduced a fantastical land to what is now called the Wasteland. Pieces of the Shadow Blot can also separate from it and become sentient monsters called Blotlings.
• Body Horror:
  • Quite a bit of this in the early concept art, and there's still some of this in the finished game. See the Dumbo Ride in Gremlin Village? They have no eyes.
  • In the final game, Mickey absorbed some of the Blot when dragged into the Wasteland, resulting in him appearing to ooze drops of ink. If you favor using thinner, lots of ink will float off of him as a result.
  • There was also a notion with Mickey's paint abilities to make it look as if he was channeling HIS OWN PAINT through the brush, but it looked too silly in testing by making Mickey look like he was getting male pattern baldness.
  • Or even earlier when he was channeling thinner/paint with his HANDS, which looks like this.
  • Another concept idea had Mickey radically change depending on his choices. If he made good, heroic choices, he would gain more color, his fur becoming a dark-bluish and his gloves looking golden. If he continually made bad, selfish choices, well...
  • And don't even get started on Oswald when he was the main villain... Phantom Blot Oswald anyone?
• Bowdlerize: In the Japanese version, the Thinner Disaster was depicted as vapours draining the paint from everything instead of a tsunami, as seen here.
• Brain in a Jar: Animatronic Donald, Daisy, and Goofy all have glass domes containing their heads before they're reassembled.
• Breaking the Bonds: How Mickey escapes the Mad Doctor in their first scene.
• Bridge Logic: An option for getting through the European section of Gremlin Village.
• Bubblegloop Swamp: Bog Easy, based on New Orleans Square from the parks. Of course the "Gloop" happens to be paint thinner...
• But Thou Must!: You can do things either by disregarding others, destroying things, and being a Jerkass, or by helping people out and giving your all to improve everyone's lives, but the story and all but two cutscenes are the same no matter what. The creators were disappointed by this, so making moral choices have a bigger impact became a large focus of the sequel.
• Camera Screw: The camera often swings out of the player's control, even in areas where platforming is necessary. Word of God is that developing a camera for a 3D environment where walls and floors can appear and disappear at any time was a rather difficult challenge.
• Captain Ersatz: Even though they predate them in initial designs, the game's portrayal of Gremlin Gus and the Gremlins will remind you a lot of Papa Smurf and The Smurfs.
• Chainsaw Good: The Mad Doctor's machine in the opening, among other instruments of torture, almost cuts Mickey in half with a chainsaw
• Chair Reveal: When Mickey gets to the castle at the top of Mickeyjunk Mountain, he comes across a giant chair, only for it to turn around and reveal a small rabbit sitting inside arms crossed: Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Mickey's predecessor.
• Character Model Karma Meter: Bad actions over time look like drops of ink are oozing off of Mickey, just like the Shadow Blot. If you use more Thinner than paint, then more ink will ooze off as a result.
• Chaste Toons: Inverted with Oswald, who's had a lot of kids in the years he's been in the Wasteland — he's a rabbit, after all. And much to their father's chagrin, they adore "Uncle Mickey". His girlfriend, Ortensia, is a cat. Female cats are known to be VERY promiscuous.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: 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.
  • The first boss in the game is a giant clocktower from the "It's A Small World" attraction. While normally smiling and colorful, the Anti-Magic Thinner surrounding it has washed away everything bright about, exposing its inner mechanisms and piping as it attacks anyone it can as it malfunctions.
• Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: The blue fluid is paint, and the green fluid (resembling acid) is thinner.
• Comic-Book Limbo: This is essentially the Wasteland, a place where every forgotten and underused Disney character can live out their "retirement." Unfortunately, Mickey accidentally released a monster into it that turned what was essentially magical recreation of Disney Land into a dark, dreary shadow of its former self.
• Company Cross References:
  • Tomorrow City's boss, Petetronic, is based off TRON; he shoots disks off his back and can summon rotating shields, and his armor has Tron Lines. His battle arena also looks like the computerized environments in TRON. His name is also a portmanteau of "Pete", "Tron", and "electronic".
  • There are cameos from non-Mickey Mouse Disney characters; Tortooga has the pirates from Peter Pan in it, while a statue of Simba from The Lion King (1994) is in Lonesome Manor.
• Conspicuously Light Patch: The main way of identifying what you can use Paint or Thinner on. Surfaces with bright, vibrant colors are composed of Paint, while thinned objects leave ghostly silhouettes behind. Additionally, anything you can spin move to activate or smash for shineys flashes iridescent.
• Covered in Kisses: Oswald in the ending after reuniting with a restored Ortensia.
• Crapsack World: The Wasteland is a sick version of Disney Land where shadow monsters and killer robots roam free while rivers of acidic Thinner wipe away the color and life remaining in the world. 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 his own Thinner to make it worse.
• Creative Closing Credits: Available right from the start in the Extras menu, featuring Blotlings doing various antics with the Brush.
• Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: What happened to the members of Captain Hook's crew that were turned into Beetleworx. They can get better if you choose to use paint on the machine converting them.
• Darker and Edgier: A lovable cartoon rabbit is portrayed as Mickey's jealous and semi-insane half-brother, living in a twisted nightmarish copy of Disneyland threatened by a mad scientist and a demonic monster, and the player has the option of turning Mickey back into the scrappy antihero he was back in the 30s.
• Deadly Rotary Fan: There are a series of these in the "World of Gremlins" dungeon (which imitates the "It's a Small World" ride). They spin too quickly for Mickey to easily get through unharmed, but he can use paint thinner to erase some of the blades long enough to pass by unscathed.
• Deadpan Snarker:
  • Gremlin Gus seems to be a bit of this. Considering who created him, it makes sense.
  • Oswald has his moments as well, especially when the player plays the "scrapper" mode.
  "I'd say good luck, but "heroes" don't need luck, right?"
  "Yes sir. Spatters better watch out for you. You like that Thinner."
  "That was an impressive display of destructive firepower."
• Defeat Means Friendship: For the purposes of quests that require combat, using Paint to befriend Blotlings counts the same as defeating them. This even applies to some of the bosses.
• Demoted to Extra: Animatronic Goofy and Animatronic Donald in the graphic novel adaptation. All they get is a one-panel cameo standing near Oswald.
• Detectives Follow Footprints: A series of quests, given to you by the detective, involves you following footprints to the same guy every time, where you have to buy back stolen objects. If you paint all the footprints, the thief will give you the object for free.
• Developer's Foresight: A requirement, as there's not too much of a way to figure out what you're going to add/remove. One example is the Skull Island Machine, where you can a) do nothing, b) destroy the machine with thinner, or c) make it turn out cartoon characters with paint.
• Disc-One Final Boss: The first time you face the Shadow Blot, he appears to be the final boss battle. But as it turns out, The Shadow Blot you had been fighting in question was simply his avatar and a dripping from his bottle like the other Blotlings. The real Shadow Blot is in fact MUCH bigger.
• Down in the Dumps: Mickeyjunk Mountain is a giant pile of old Mickey Mouse merchandise. Ironically, it's home to Oswald, the person who appreciates Mickey's fame the least.

Tropes E-M

• Earn Your Happy Ending: Warren Spector heavily emphasizes the concept "Playstyle Matters". If you defeat a boss with thinner or fail a series of quests, it's going to affect the game's ending, and it will turn out worse than if you had redeemed the boss with paint or completed that important questline.
• Egopolis: OsTown, named after the former king of Wasteland, Oswald. Complete with images of Oswald absolutely everywhere. Not to mention, according to the comics, apparently all of his children are named after him. All 420.
• Eldritch Abomination: The Shadow Blot.
• Epic Fail: Your first quest for Horace Horsecollar has you retrieving a book that he lent to a friend of his but hasn't seen since. Not only is the book in the possession of a store owner just a few feet away from Horace's office (with the last known holder of the book directly across the street), but just to add insult to injury, the book in question is called How to Be a Detective. All this from a toon who has been (or at least tried to be) a detective for years.
• Era-Specific Personality: The original Karma Meter would have been based on this: Would you play Mickey like the scrappy fighter he was in the early '30s, or like The Hero he was later in his career? You could've also opted to play on the middle of the road, and acted more like the straight man he was in the late '30s, and for a while after.
• Eternal Engine:
  • Gremlin Village has elements of this, in the mass of gears that make It's a Small World work, plus elements in the Utilitunnel sections.
  • The Travel Map Clock Cleaners is this as well, being set inside a clock tower. It's similar to the Castlevania clock towers, really.
• "Everybody Helps Out" Denouement: In the good ending of the game, you see all the NPCs you've helped (like the Gremlins, bosses, and the animatronics) cleaning up messes around the Wasteland and celebrate as paint restores the place to its former glory.
• Evil Is Easy: Frequently applies to the player. Many times, doing whatever it takes to get the "good" result in a quest requires more work then just blasting your obstacles with thinner. This frequently requires more creativity, too; sometimes, it's easy to fall into accepting the "bad" ending simply because you can't figure out how to resolve the problem with paint.
• Evil Laughter: Both The Mad Doctor and The Blot are fans of it. Lampshaded by Gus in a cutscene:
  Gus: The Mad Doctor, did he go "Nya-ha-ha!"?
  Oswald: *flashback bubble to The Mad Doctor going "Nya-ha-ha!"* Yeah, he did. Why?
  Gus: "Nya-ha-ha" always means bad news.
• Evil Makes You Ugly: Averted; while they did design an evil-looking "Scrapper" Mickey during development, they removed it from the final game. While his bad karma is visible, it's more meant to be eerie than ugly.
• Evil Overlooker: The Shadow Blot looks down on Mickey in this piece of art◊.
• Evil Tower of Ominousness: The first level, Dark Beauty Castle, which is distantly visible from the game's main hub, Mean Street.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: It's Mickey Mouse embarking on a truly epic adventure to salvage a lost world that he himself brought to ruin, all while dealing with the inhabitants, the twisted, nightmarish terrain, The Mad Doctor and his Beetleworx, his vengeful, long forgotten half-brother who he didn't even know about until he arrived in this world, and the ever-looming menace of the Shadow Blot Mickey unleashed onto the Wasteland. Epic Mickey, indeed.
• Exploding Calendar: Used to show Mickey's sudden rise to fame in the intro.
• Exposition Fairy: Gus Gremlin, from an unmade feature, occasionally offers some advice on how to proceed.
• Fairy Companion:
  • Mickey can attract up to three "Guardian Spirits" depending on his use of Paint and Thinner, which can be launched at Blotlings to defeat them in a single shot.
  • Not to mention (for a given definition of "Fairy") Gus, who fits a more conventional version of this role. He hovers about explaining things, introduces the new levels.
• Fatal Fireworks: Mickey and Oswald defeat the Shadow Blot by launching fireworks at him.
• Fat Bastard: The Spladooshes. Big Bad Pete, and the other versions of Pete (except Pete Pan) could also apply.
• Fat Flex: When Oswald gets mad at Mickey after learning that he's the one responsible for creating the Shadow Blot, he lifts up his waist, puffing up his chest, and challenges him to a fight. However, his waist fat goes back down when he realizes that he's accidentally broken the giant cork sealing the Blot's bottle.
• Fear-Induced Idiocy: In a flashback, the Wasteland floods with paint thinner. As a World-Wrecking Wave occurs, several townspeople run for their lives, except for one guy resembling Goofy, who just stands frozen in fear. After the wave passes by, he has disappeared, implying that the thinner caused him to melt.
• Fighting a Shadow: Mickey's duel with the Shadow Blot on top of Mickeyjunk Mountain.
• Floating Continent: Wasteland appears to be made up of this.
• Follow the White Rabbit: A good part of the opening act is Mickey pursuing Oswald through the Dark Beauty Castle after Oswald helps Mickey escape the Mad Doctor.
  • In the Graphic Novel, Mickey even lampshades the fact that this is kind of like Alice in Wonderland.
• Flying Books: In the haunted mansion level, you can choose to help Madam Leota get her books back. The only problem is they are flying around and you need to gum up the pages with paint to stop them.
• Freelook Button: Toggling with the 1 button allows players to see their paint/thinner targets better.
• Free Rotating Camera: Using the d-pad does the rotate & tilt form.
• Gambit Pileup: The Mad Doctor is playing the Blot, Oswald is playing Mickey, the REAL Blot is behind everything...
• Gangplank Galleon:
  • Ventureland/Pirates of the Wasteland feature a series of islands (in a sea of acidic Thinner, mind you) controlled by roboticized versions of Captain Hook and his crew.
  • The Travel Map Shanghaied as well. Fitting, considering it links Pirate Voyage to Skull Island.
• Genre-Busting: Well, it is Mickey Mouse meets Deus Ex and System Shock. Plus Warren Spector loves to drive Marketers Crazy with this trope.
• Genre Throwback: The entire game is one big love letter to Classic Disney in general, let alone The Golden Age of Animation. Warren Spector even commented that the game is supposed to draw a lot of influence from Fantasia.
• Giant Hands of Doom: The Small World clock boss has giant robotic hands to crush Mickey with. Incidentally, they also serve as its weak points.
• Good is Not Nice: Mickey, depending on how you play, can rudely ignore the requests of Wasteland's civilians and actively ruin their lives by Thinning away their homes and friends.
• The Goomba: Spatter Blotlings can only attack by running up to Mickey and smacking him with their arms and require no special method to defeat besides spattering them with Paint/Thinner.
• Grimy Water: It's paint thinner, actually, and looks/acts an awful lot like the Dip(understandably, since apparently some of the ingredients it's made of are paint-thinners).
• Guide Dang It!:
  • Seriously. If you value your sanity at all, don't try to collect everything in this game without a source of help.
  • Using lock-on targeting in combat (you have to place your cursor over the enemy you wish to target, then hold down the C button for about half a second). It isn't mentioned in the manual, and it's so downright counter-intuitive at first that most reviewers didn't even know the feature existed.
  • There's also the fact that you're supposed to point to where you want the anvils and TVs to go, which the game doesn't mention. It's entirely possible that you'll end up wasting several as you try to figure out why the TVs keep spawning 30 feet away above a bottomless pit.
  • Figuring out how to beat the Small World Clock Tower by using paint can stump some people who don't know that you have to keep painting both of its arms until they're both fully blue and hopping on the one that lowers its palms in order to reach the face and then use paint on its face until it's redeemed.
• Hand Wave: One is given when Gus explains he can't fix the pipe organ for you because steam power's not his specialty. Oddly enough, this is the only time an explanation for Gus' lack of help is given despite there being many other places that could use one.
• Haunted House: The Lonesome Manor is based off Disney's "Haunted Mansion" attraction and comes fully equipped with a friendly cast of ghosts that you can choose to help along your journey through their. It also contains a sentient piano, flying books, and a painting of Chernabog.
• Heart Container: Defeating a boss will reward you with an increased capacity for Paint or Thinner, depending on what you defeated him with. The player can also acquire (or purchase) upgrades to Mickey's maximum HP and sketches.
• Heel–Face Turn: Every villain except The Mad Doctor and the true Shadow Blot, assuming you defeated them with Paint. (Since Hook can't be defeated with paint, this involves freeing the Sprite so Pete Pan can fight Hook again.)
• Heroic Sacrifice:
  • Mickey gives up his heart to rescue Oswald and Gus from the gigantic Shadow Blot towards the end of the game.
  • Ortensia was petrified saving Oswald from the Blot.
• Hive Mind: The Blotlings function just like the Flood and the Necromorphs do, with one leading mind, in this case Shadow Blot, controlling the other, smaller creatures.
• Hopeless War: Before Mickey came to the Wastelands, Shadow Blot and the Mad Doctor had pretty much won the Blot War; they have conquered Oswald's castle and petrified his wife Ortensia, an act which sends him into a deep depression and causes him to lose his will to fight, leaving the fighting to small, weak bands of resistance groups. One of them, the crew of Captain Hook, has most of the members dead or turned into Beetleworx and the rest scattered leaderless in the jungle. Another group, The Gremlins, has been more successful in fighting off Blot's forces, but the sheer force of Blot's forces causes most of the Gremlins to be taken as prisoners, and their own village was under siege before Mickey helped in turning the tide.
• Hostage For Macguffin:
  • Near the game's climax, the true Shadow Blot takes Oswald and Gus hostage and demands Mickey's heart in exchange for their safety.
  • Meta-example: Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, even after 80 years, was still owned by NBC/Universal, not Disney. To get him back into their intellectual property, Disney gave Universal one of their sportscasters, Al Michaels. Interestingly, Walt himself was happy that Walter Lantz had been using Oswald and had been taken from Charles Mintz.
• Hub Level: As far as accessing the other levels, Mean Street serves as this, especially considering that its Disney Theme Parks counterpart, Main Street USA, is probably the best real-life example of the trope.
• Hub Under Attack: Once the Storm Blot is unleashed, it sends tentacles around the four hub areas, forcing Mickey to destroy all of them and save the hubs.
• In a World…: Played completely straight in this trailer made for Tokyo Game Show 2010. And it is awesome.
• In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It: It's generally referred to as Disney's Epic Mickey.
• Interspecies Romance:
  • When Mickey gets one of Hook's pirates to admit his love for Henrietta the Cow.
  Gus: "Personally, I give them a few months, tops."
  • Oswald and Ortensia; a rabbit and cat, respectively.
• Ironic Allergy: Henrietta the cow is lactose intolerant, even lampshading irony of it. Despite this, in one mission, she asks you to bring her ice cream just as a reminder of the pirate Damien Salt who she fell in love with.
• Ironic Nursery Tune:
  • A non-reversed but creepy "Small World" plays during the Clock Tower boss fight.
  • A somber rendition of the tune of "Once Upon a Dream'' is incorporated into the music of Dark Beauty Castle.
• Island of Misfit Everything: The Cartoon Wasteland was created for the sole purpose of providing a home for forgotten toons.
• Jungle Japes:
  • Well, there's this area in Venture Land called The Jungle...
  • The travel map based on the 1929 short Jungle Rhythm looks to fit the trope too.
• Karma Meter: More along the lawful / chaotic axis than good / evil — it's a choice between the Jerkass Mickey began as, The Hero he became, or something in between. Both sides have their own abilities via the Guardians, and some level areas are only accessible to certain alignment choices.
• La Résistance: The Gremlins. They're one of the few groups still actively fighting the Shadow Blot.
• Leitmotif: Mickey and Oswald have their own distinctive themes.
• Macross Missile Massacre: A fireworks version is used to defeat the real Shadow Blot.
• Magic Mirror: Mickey passes through the mirror in his house in the opening sequence to reach Yen Sid's tower.
• Manipulative Bastard: The Mad Doctor is manipulating the Blot for his own means. Oswald is manipulating Mickey to build the rocket for him.
• Market-Based Title:
  • For some reason, the words of the title were swapped in the German version, so it's called "Mickey Epic".
  • The Japanese version just added to the title so it's called "Disney Epic Mickey: Mickey Mouse and the Magic Brush".
• I'm Melting!: What happens when you die.
• Mercy Invincibility: Averted... fall into a pool of thinner without a nearby platform — or end up underneath one — and you're almost guaranteed to quickly lose all of your health pips.
• Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: Mickey starts off the game causing an inkpocalypse on the game's world.
• Minecart Madness:
  • Shown in a concept pic at the London press conference.
  • In game, a variation of this trope appears in the Travel Map Trolley Troubles. You don't have to stay atop the trolley, but it is necessary to keep it with you and to open gates for it to complete the map. May cross over with a strange type of Escort Mission.
• Modular Epilogue: The ending gets filled in with shots of bosses and important characters behaving friendly and politely if Mickey helped them when he encountered them earlier (with the exception of the Mad Doctor). All of these shots are accompanied with narration from the sorcerer Yen Sid that can be interchanged freely but still form a cohesive sentence about people's decisions and how they affect other people.
• Money Is Experience Points: E-tickets are the main currency, and can be used to buy items as well as upgrade Mickey’s health and ink capacity.
• Mook: Blotlings split off from the giant Shadow Blot) and Beetleworx (robotic minions serving the Mad Doctor) serve as Mickey's most basic obstacles throughout Epic Mickey.
• Mook Maker: The Beetleworx creators which will spit out another Beetleworx as soon as you've destroyed one. The real Shadow Blot is one of these too, since all the Blotlings and the small Shadow Blot are just pieces that escaped out of the bottle.
• Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: The Mad Doctor. Emphasis on "ambiguous": While he has helped Oswald by building the robot versions of Mickey's friends and the maintenance Beetleworx, he switched to the Blot's side when he started winning and is now his partner in the Big Bad Duumvirate.
• Motor Mouth: Oswald. Just try to keep up with what he's saying when you first meet him.
• Multiple Endings: Depending on how you fought the bosses. Although it seems that only what happens to certain characters changes in the various endings.
• Mythology Gag: Concept art for the scrapped Scrapper Mickey gives him a similar appearance and pose to Julius Mickey from Runaway Brain.

Tropes N-Z

• Never Trust a Trailer: Lots of people were disappointed that the finished game wasn't the Lovecraftian steampunk-like type of game, with its promising Cain and Abel and Jekyll & Hyde subplots, that it was hyped out to be when the first concept arts were released.
• New Game Plus: Film reels and pins carry over between playthroughs.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: What started the whole mess. Later, the entire mess could have been finished, except Oswald's What the Hell, Hero? starts it over again.
• No Fourth Wall: Seriously, the plot focuses on cartoon characters who are jealous and/or depressed because they're not popular with audiences anymore! Heck, the only fourth wall the characters don't break is their relation to the actual player.
• Notice This: "Toon" objects (surfaces affected by Paint or Thinner) are lighter and more vibrantly colored than objects surrounding them; even when thinned, they leave a ghostly silhouette behind so the player can recognize that something's supposed to go there. This is similar to the Conspicuously Light Patch of traditional cel animations, where foreground objects were lighter tone than background objects due to being placed on a separate layer.
• Not-So-Innocent Whistle: Oswald will shoot faces at Mickey when his back is turned. Turn around to face him again and he'll start whistling innocently. If you turn around while in first person view however, he doesn't stop teasing you.
• Not the Fall That Kills You…: Between Mickey's Double Jump, his spin attack, and his brush techniques, there are many ways to soften his momentum before actually impacting the ground.
• Nostalgia Level: The 2D side-scrolling "travel zones," which take their inspiration from Classic Disney Shorts, including:
  • "Clock Cleaners"
  • "Thru The Mirror"
  • "Steamboat Willie" (seems heavily inspired by the one in the Genesis/SNES game Mickey Mania)
  • "Plutopia"
  • Three Oswald cartoons, including "Oh, What A Knight"
  • "The Mad Doctor"
  • Sleeping Beauty
  • Fantasia, based on "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", with butterflies from "The Nutcracker Suite"
  • And one non-2D section, Mickeyjunk Mountain, seems to be designed with this in mind. It's a level made out of old merchandise. A lot of it seems to be ancient, sure, but it also includes Super Nintendo and NES cartridges starring Mickey.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Mickey's face when he looks up and finds himself strapped down on a operation table in a dungeon.
  • And Oswald — when he finds out that Mickey caused the thinner disaster he literally dances with rage, challenging Mickey to a fight. He only remembers that he is dancing on the cork sealing the real Shadow Blot just as it cracks. His face and body language are priceless.
• Older Than They Look: Pretty much everyone. The game basically has No Fourth Wall and acknowledges time passed in Real Life. As cartoon characters, no one is really affected by aging. For example, Oswald and Mickey are 83 and 82, respectively, when this game takes place.
• 100% Completion: Requires multiple playthroughs, as several pins are mutually exclusive rewards of defeating or befriending each boss.
• One-Steve Limit:
  • Averted; there are two extras named Ian. No attention is brought to this, though the game distinguishes them by referring to the pirate as "One Eyed Ian" and the ghost simply as "Ian."
  • Then there's Constance, the one who was the original owner of the Lonesome Manor who was suspected to have killed all her husbands with the hatchet that you have to find for Horace, and there's the NPC Constance you can randomly talk to in Ventureland if you rescue the pirates.
• One-Winged Angel: As if things weren't bad enough, one of the concept arts (shown in Nintendo Power) shows a painted picture of Shadow Blot, ten times larger than before and having horns a lá Chernabog◊.
• Percussive Maintenance: The gremlins can fix anything by whacking it with a wrench. Also how Oswald gets the rocket to work.
• Person of Mass Construction: Mickey Mouse, thanks to his magical paintbrush, can instantly make giant structures appear mid-air. He can't choose where the structures go, but if he slaps Paint in the appropriate place, he can create giant buildings, advanced machinery and the greatest construction of all, love.
• Playing Tennis with the Boss: Petetronic.
• Plucky Comic Relief: Mickey's sidekick, Gus, a gremlin veteran from a scrapped World War II Disney cartoon.
• Port Town: Pirate Voyage and Tortooga qualify. They are based on the village from Pirates of the Caribbean, after all. Pirate Voyage even has little boats you can ride on.
• Powered Armor: Petetronic has this in the form of augmentations to his outfit.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: From the "Clocktower Cleaners" digicomic, Oswald has:
  "Don't... bring... up... MICE!"
• Puzzle Boss: Captain Hook; Paint has no effect on him, and Thinner merely dissolves his armor. You can either free the captured Sprite from the top of the rigging (with Hook dogging your steps), or use the various tracks scattered about the arena to extend the plank and send Hook down to the animatronic Crocodile waiting for him in the waters.
  • Or you can simply continue to send Hook careening into the ship's walls, masts, and deck boards until he breaks apart from all the repeated impacts.
• Redemption in the Rain: Justified. It "rains" paint during the ending, restoring the Wasteland to its original state.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning:
  • The Mad Doctor's operating-robot, after Oswald breaks its console.
  • Also the Slobbers (if you painted them friendly and somehow enough thinner got on them to turn evil again). They have red eyes only when they aren't under Mickey's influence.
• Remilitarized Zone: The travel map based on the Oswald cartoon "Great Guns".
• Retraux:
  • The Mouse himself, with a design and personality hearkening back to the twenties and thirties. (True to form, his mouse ears shift position to retain the characteristic "Mickey Mouse" shape.)
  • Special mention, however, must go to the "Scrapper Mickey" design, which goes all the way back to "Plane Crazy" for inspiration — or, at least it did, before getting dropped.
• Reversible Roboticizing: In Tortooga, Mickey has to shut down a machine created by the Mad Doctor that is transforming the local pirates into Beetleworx. Mickey can either use thinner to destroy the machine and make the transformations permanent or use paint so that the machine will reverse the process and turn its victims back to their normal selves.
• Rise to the Challenge: One of the 2.5D Fantasia stages late in the game has a rising flood of paint thinner.
• Robot Buddy: Oswald tries to keep his sanity with the help of his robot friends. They◊ aren't◊ all that well put together, though.
• Rule of Three: Hero, Wastelander, and Scrapper.
• Sanity Slippage: Part of the reason the Clocktower went berserk was because it was forced to listen to the "It's a Small World" theme echoing from within itself for years. Mickey even points out how that would be enough to drive anyone mad in the Graphic Novel. The Tales of the Wasteland prequal comic shows that the Mad Doctor orchestrated this long before the Blot Wars began.
• Save Scumming: Averted. The game auto-saves after just about every karma-related decision you make, forcing you to live with whatever consequences result from it, and there is no other way to save the game.
• Scenery Gorn: The Wasteland is beautiful in its own way.
• Sequel Hook: After the ending credits, Mickey is sealed away from the Wasteland... but his finger starts dripping ink, which means that some of the Shadow Blot's ink is still in him.
• Sequence Breaking: The developers actually encouraged playtesters to sequence break, and then put it into the finished product and called it a feature. If anything, this can only continue now that it's released... Here's an example. In Tomorrow City, try dropping a TV on the first platform last. This platform is the only one that electrifies the tracks, so you won't have to dodge them to get to the other platforms to power those up. However, unless you had some gremlin aid, the electricity is a much better thing to dodge than the thing it replaces when all three are powered. If you don't sequence break in the above way, you are much closer to the gate after dodging the electricity. Hence, this is actually a pretty equal trade-off.
• Shielded Core Boss: All Beetleworx have a layer of Paint armor that the player must dissolve via Thinner before they can inflict a damaging blow; the Beetleworx regenerate their armor after each hit.
• Shout-Out: Has its own page, again.
• Shown Their Work:
  • Besides including some of the more obvious theme park icons, some sketches even feature early Disneyland icons like the Moonliner and Clock of the Future. Not to mention that the whole game is about obscure characters (such as an unused version of Smee from Peter Pan) coming back to the spotlight.
  • The Gremlins are from an unmade World War II film, though were still used in some military unit insignia and comics.
  • In at least one interview, Warren Spector mentioned that even such seemingly insignificant elements as individual barrels were taken from Disney history. THAT'S showing your work.
  • You remember the basketball court inside the Matterhorn? Yeah, guess what, it's actually IN the game in a hidden room on Mickeyjunk Mountain.
  • You can also unlock access to Walt Disney's firehouse apartment on Mean Street.
• Shows Damage: All enemies (including bosses) gradually turn blue or green when struck by Paint or Thinner. Beetleworx in particular must have their armor dissolved away to reveal their weak points.
• Skippable Boss: Certain boss battles can be avoided if you made the right decisions.
• Sleepy Enemy: Spladooshes combine this with Action Bomb. If Mickey approaches one, it will wake up and explode, thinning out all the paint in the vicinity. Paint will slow down the explosion, and thinner will speed it up.
• Starfish Robots: The Beetleworx, especially the Spinners and Tankers. Spinners have tick-like bodies and a wheel at the bottom; if Mickey gets too close, they use the wheel to travel as the legs become spinning blades. Tankers are mobile gatling gun turrets, some of which have paint jobs based on the Queen from Snow White.
• Steampunk:
  • Not quite as heavily present as the concept art led many to believe, but elements of the style are still there - most notably in the Clock Cleaners level and the animatronic designs for Donald, Daisy, and Goofy.
  • Some of Mickeyjunk Mountain looks a little bit similar to the old Steampunk concept art, only toned down a whole lot more. Try comparing it to the concept art with the toppled over water tower to some of the places you see in Mickeyjunk Mountain.
• Stepford Smiler: Isn't it weird on how cheerful and optimistic the peoples of OsTown and Mean Street are when their entire world is nothing but Godforsaken and dead wastelands, ruled by a Eldritch Abomination made by paint and dissolving Thinner and his traitorous right hand of a Mad Scientist and occupied by Skynet's death-machines and The Heartless?
• Storming the Castle: For the Endgame, of course. The only way to defeat the Shadow Blot is to activate the Dark Beauty's Castles supply of fireworks, so Mickey has to rush up the castle's three towers to arm them as the Blot tears the Castle apart.
• Story Branching: Subverted here, where the player's Exposition Fairy explicitly hints that they may solve puzzles and defeat Bosses in multiple ways (typically with either Paint or Thinner) and the player must pick a course of action; this affects NPCs' opinions of Mickey throughout the adventure, but it has zero effect on the adventure itself, nor its ending (though ending cutscenes do reflect the actual choices made).
• Strapped to an Operating Table: The Mad Doctor ties Mickey Mouse to an operating table in the opening sequence.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Mickey and Oswald. Justified by the fact that the former was originally created to be a Captain Ersatz for the latter.
• Super Drowning Skills: If you even touch a DROP of water or any other liquid that's not thinner in the projector screen 2D levels, you will lose a health pip and can melt and/or drown.
• Take a Third Option: Unlike the other bosses, there are three ways to defeat Captain Hook. You can make him walk the plank, force him to smash into walls until he breaks, or have Pete Pan fight him instead.
• Taken for Granite: Ortensia the cat. She's restored to normal in the ending.
• Tomorrowland: Tomorrow City, the Wasteland's equivalent of the real-life Trope Namer. It even has a TRON look, complete with Tron Lines.
• The Three Trials: Mickey has to go through three 2D action stages in Mickeyjunk Mountain based on old Oswald cartoons in order to meet with said rabbit.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • The Phantom Shadow Blot, according to Warren Spector, who says he was a lame villain, and they decided to make him a bit more powerful. By "a bit," he meant that he turned a thief into a gigantic ink demon.
  • Subverted with the gremlins. They get several feet taller, gain Teleportation and Flight and go from being able to repair planes to being able to fix (and possibly make) just about anything, but they're ridiculously easy to capture despite this and spend most of the game as distressed dudes.
• Toon: Most of the main characters. The Beetleworx, weirdly enough, combine elements of this and Eldritch Abomination.
• Toon Town:
  • Wasteland. A very grim example.
  • OsTown is based on the Toon Town at the parks, so it obviously fits this. Mean Street, the Wasteland's version of Main Street USA, also has elements of this, since the toons live there as well.
• Trailers Always Spoil: The commercials for the game spoil the Shadow Blot's defeat by fireworks.
• Trapped in Another World: The main goal of Mickey's quest is to escape the Cartoon Wasteland and return home. It's eventually revealed that he needs a Heart to escape, which Oswald schemes to take for himself until his Heel–Face Turn and the Shadow Blot steals away from him in the game's final act.
• Trauma Conga Line: Oswald the "Lucky" Rabbit has been caught in one for 80 years.
• Tron Lines: Electric gridlines cover Wasteland's version of Tomorrowland, Tomorrow City.
• Underground Monkey: Spatter Blotlings and Beetleworx adopt different outfits and textures depending on which level you encounter them in.
• Variable Mix: Each major area has three versions of its music (Neutral, Paint, and Thinner) and switches between them based on how many Guardians you have.
  • If you have no Guardians at all, the Neutral version plays.
  • If you have one or two Tints, the Neutral version overlaid with the Paint version plays.
  • If you have three Tints, just the Paint version plays.
  • If you have one or two Turps, the Neutral version overlaid with the Thinner version plays.
  • If you have three Turps, just the Thinner version plays.
• Video Game Caring Potential: Dost thou remain an ideally friendly mouse...
  Gus: "It's true what they say about you, you can make friends with anybody."
  • Almost any enemy in the game can be turned into an ally with paint, even the demonic Shadow Blot that kidnaps Mickey in the game's opening.
• Video Game Cruelty Potential: ...or regress back to what thou once were?
  • You can even melt NPCs with thinner!
  • There's a part in the first level where you can choose to let an innocent gremlin get launched so you can get a few quick bucks. Seriously.
  Gus: "Hey! Our land is barren enough without your help!"
  • You can befriend baddies, then knock them off a ledge, knock them into a space with an unpainted object, then paint in the object, and lots of other cruel methods that won't necessarily influence your Karma Meter.
• Visual Pun: If you decide to be a good little Mickey and change back the animatronic pirates in Tortooga, one of the many symbols that the reversed machine will show is a screw and a baseball.
• Voice Grunting: Yen Sid is the only one who gives any audio narration; everyone else simply grunts, with the actual dialogue in subtitles.
• 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: 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.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • Most characters, including all of the extras, will call Mickey out on some level if he tends to use and abuse thinner. Negative major choices will also change how major characters view you. Interestingly enough, some characters will call you out for not being as edgy as they would have liked you to be if you use paint.
  • And Gremlin Gus's basic reaction if and when Mickey chooses a treasure chest full of E-tickets over the safety of Gremlin Calvin and sends him flying via catapault.
  • When Mickey finally admits that he caused the Thinner Disaster, Oswald becomes livid. Unfortunately, this becomes Oswald's time to do a Nice Job Breaking It, Hero.
    Oswald: I should have known! You stole my life AND ruined my home! That's it! You and me, Mouse! Right now, c'mon! I've been waiting for this for years! This is gonna be my moment! (Cue Oswald's fury accidentally breaking the seal on the REAL Shadow Blot.)
  • After completing one of Pete's "Bunny Kid Round-Up" quests on Mean Street, Oswald will complain if you talk to him.
• Where It All Began: Dark Beauty Castle is both the tutorial level and The Very Definitely Final Dungeon where Mickey and Oswald make their stand against the Shadow Blot.
• Window Love: Mickey and Oswald in the mirror at the end of the game, showing they've become as close as brothers.
• Womb Level: The final level takes place inside the Shadow Blot, right next to the giant heart it stole from Mickey.
• World-Wrecking Wave: The Thinner Disaster, where a bottle of Thinner fell on Yen Sid's Painted land for forgotten characters. The degradation of the world led to it getting a new name, the Wasteland.
• You All Look Familiar: Justified! Mickey lampshades the similar appearances of many characters on his first walk through Mean Street. Gus describes them as "rough drafts", "extras", and concepts of characters "left and forgotten on the drawing board".
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: It is implied that Oswald planned to steal Mickey's heart and escape Wasteland once he got all the pieces needed to build the Moonliner Rocket. Fortunately, he has a change of heart when Mickey defeats both the Mad Doctor and the Blot.
• Zombie Gait: The lost cartoon souls inside the Shadow Blot.

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