Editing Mickey Mouse universe (section)

==== Melinda Mouse ====
'''Melinda Mouse''' (original Italian name ''Topolinda'') is Mickey Mouse's aunt, created by Romano Scarpa in 1960 for his story ''The Chirikawa Necklace''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Topolino e la collana Chiriwaka |url=https://inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL++230-AP&search=the%20chirikawa%20necklace |website=Inducks |access-date=January 4, 2020}}</ref> Since 2004, she has become a regular recurring character in Italian Disney comics.

Melinda is a tall old lady with a long nose and she dresses in a very formal way. She wears a pair of earrings, but her ears are covered by hair. The colour of Melinda's hair changes according to the colourists, but in recent stories, they appear blond. In her debut story, young Melinda has black hair.

According to ''The Chirikawa Necklace'', Melinda took care of Mickey when he was a baby. But one day, (taking advantage of a moment of distraction by Melinda) a young Big Bad Pete and his girlfriend Trudy Van Tubb kidnapped a baby Mickey Mouse and Melinda was forced to exchange Mickey for her Indian necklace. Years later, Mickey and his friend Atomo Beep-Beep discovered the truth and retrieved Melinda's necklace to her.

She is a lovely and cheerful person, and deeply attached to her nephew Mickey (with whom she shares a passion for mysteries and investigations) but the memory of baby Mickey's kidnapping caused her to develop feelings of guilt, and a too protective attitude towards her nephew.