Editing Mickey Mouse (section)

===Parodies and criticism===
[[File:Short Subject⧸Mickey Mouse in Vietnam (1969, silent version).webm|thumb|thumbtime=21|The 1969 underground protest cartoon ''[[Mickey Mouse in Vietnam]]'']]

Mickey Mouse's global fame has made him both a symbol of [[the Walt Disney Company]] and of the United States itself. For this reason, Mickey has been used frequently in [[anti-establishment]] or [[anti-American]] satire, such as the infamous underground cartoon ''[[Mickey Mouse in Vietnam]]'' (1969) and the Palestinian children's propaganda series ''[[Tomorrow's Pioneers]]'' where a Mickey Mouse-esque character named Farfour is used to promote Islamic extremism. There have been numerous [[parody|parodies]] of Mickey Mouse, such as the two-page parody ''"Mickey Rodent"'' by [[Will Elder]] (published in ''[[Mad (magazine)|Mad]]'' #19, 1955) in which the mouse walks around unshaven and jails Donald Duck out of jealousy over the duck's larger popularity.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://johnglenntaylor.blogspot.com/2009/01/mickey-rodent-mad-19.html|title="Mickey Rodent!" (Mad #19)|date=January 2009|publisher=Johnglenntaylor.blogspot.com|access-date=January 22, 2018|archive-date=August 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170806063808/http://johnglenntaylor.blogspot.com/2009/01/mickey-rodent-mad-19.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]'', [[Bart Simpson]] puts a black bra on his head to mimic Mickey Mouse and says: "I'm the mascot of an [[evil corporation]]!"<ref>[http://imdb.com/title/tt0462538/quotes The Simpsons Movie (2007) – Memorable Quotes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705222500/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462538/quotes |date=July 5, 2008 }}. [https://www.imdb.com/ The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180219024844/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102943/fullcredits |date=February 19, 2018 }} .Retrieved on March 20, 2008.. Retrieved on March 20, 2008.</ref> ''The Simpsons'' would later become Disney property as its distributor Fox was acquired by Disney. In the [[Comedy Central]] series ''[[South Park]]'', Mickey (voiced by [[Trey Parker]]) serves as a recurring antagonist, depicted as the sadistic, greedy, and foul-mouthed boss of the Walt Disney Company. He also appears briefly with Donald Duck in the comic ''[[Squeak the Mouse]]'' by Italian cartoonist [[Massimo Mattioli]].

Mickey Mouse has also been particularly commented upon in the context of [[fascism]] and [[antisemitism]] in [[Nazi Germany]]. A pro-Nazi newspaper in the mid-1930s denounced Disney's use of "the greatest bacteria carrier in the animal kingdom" as evidence of the "Jewish brutalization of the people".<ref name=Fantastika>Morgan, Glynn. [https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/luminary/issue6/issue6article3.htm "Speaking the Unspeakable and Seeing the Unseeable: The Role of Fantastika in Visualising the Holocaust, or, More Than Just ''Maus''"], ''Visualizing Fantastika'', Lancaster University Department of Creative Writing. Summer 2015. {{ISSN|2056-9238}}.</ref> Artist [[Horst Rosenthal]] created a comic book, ''[[Mickey au Camp de Gurs]]'' (''Mickey Mouse in the Gurs Internment Camp'') while detained in the [[Gurs internment camp]], subtitled "Publié Sans Autorisation de Walt Disney" ("Published without Walt Disney's Permission");<ref>{{cite journal |last=Rosenberg |first=Pnina |title=''Mickey Mouse in Gurs'' – humour, irony and criticism in works of art produced in the Gurs internment camp |journal=Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice |volume=6 |issue=3 |year=2002 |pages=273–292 |doi=10.1080/13642520210164508 |s2cid=143675622| issn=1364-2529}}</ref> Rosenthal's Mickey names Walt Disney as his father, but is sorted into the camps as a Jew after being unable to name a mother, a seeming parody of both Disney's rumoured antisemitism and of the American public's ignorance around racial divisions in Europe.<ref name=Fantastika /> Cartoonist [[Art Spiegelman]] adapted Nazi descriptions of Jews as rodents and vermin for his graphic novel ''[[Maus]]''; The original three-page strip uses a young Mickey Mouse as a stand-in for Spiegelman, listening to tales of "[[Auschwitz concentration camp|Mauschwitz]]" and [[the Holocaust]] told by his father Vladek. The full 1991 adaptation of the strip uses a comparatively direct anthropomorphization of Spiegelman, but otherwise continues to use Mickey Mouse imagery to connect contemporary America to the genocide.<ref name=Fantastika />

In the 1969 parody novel ''[[Bored of the Rings]]'', Mickey Mouse is satirized as Dickey Dragon.