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Mickey Mouse finding his inner rat
Mickey Mouse started out as a bit of a rascal, who got into fistfights and chased after love interest Minnie Mouse. He was a mischievous, if adorable, culprit as the sorcerer's apprentice in "Fantasia."
For decades, however, he has been type cast as the sympathetic friend to all, who gives advice to dog Pluto, cheerfully MCs Disney shows and revels in doing good deeds.
Disney is now carefully seeking to revamp Mickey's personality, giving game developer Junction Planet, which Disney owns, permission to develop a new side to its melioristic mouse.
"Mickey is never going to be evil or go around killing people," said Warren Spector, creative director at Junction Planet. But "I wanted him to be able to be naughty -- when you're playing as Mickey you can misbehave and even be a little selfish," Spector said.
Teasing out Mickey's inner rat is a carefully monitored initiative that that includes input from Disney Chief Executive Officer Robert Iger, the Times said.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 11/05/2009
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11-05-2009 20:17
Helios wrote:
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Melioristic: from meliorism; the idea that the world is getting better and that humans add to making it better (so I guess Mickey is a kind of human rat making the world better for us? Huh?) Help me out here folks.
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