# Might Mouse vs Mickey Mouse

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/might-mouse-vs-mickey-mouse/583469>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 27, 2011, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/might-mouse-vs-mickey-mouse/583469 "2011-05-27T19:11:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/might-mouse-vs-mickey-mouse/583469/1 "2011-05-27T19:11:09Z")

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Did the producers of the short-lived cartoon character “Mighty Mouse” ever get in trouble withe the Disney legal people?  
They look very close-of course, Mickey did not have super poweres.  
Still, there is an old saying… “don’t mess with the mouse”-Disney guards its copyrights very careflly.  
Was there a close enough resemblance such that Disney might have sued them?

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**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/might-mouse-vs-mickey-mouse/583469/2 "2011-05-27T19:23:14Z")

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Mighty Mouse has been around since 1942 and I couldn’t find anything about Disney legally going against the creators of Mighty MOuse anywhere.

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/might-mouse-vs-mickey-mouse/583469/3 "2011-05-27T19:53:34Z")

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I don’t think it would have been worth Disney’s time to assert that their rights were infringed on by the creators of _Mighty Mouse_.

The design and character of _Mighty Mouse_ doesn’t owe _anything_ to Mickey. They resemble each other only so far as they are both anthropomorphic mice. Mighty Mouse isn’t nearly as stylized as Mickey, and they don’t have any elements in common which aren’t derived from actual mice or from cartooning conventions which predated Disney.