The Mickey Mouse universe is a fictional shared universe which is the setting for stories involving Disney cartoon characters, including Mickey and Minnie Mouse , Donald and Daisy Duck , Pluto and Goofy as the primary members colloquially known as the "Sensational Six" , and many other characters related to them, being most of them anthropomorphic animals. The universe originated from the Mickey Mouse animated short films produced by Disney starting in , although its first consistent version was created by Floyd Gottfredson in the Mickey Mouse newspaper comic strip.
Since , the city in which Mickey lives is typically called Mouseton in American comics. In modern continuity, Mouseton is often depicted as being located in the fictional U.
The most consistent aspect of the Mickey Mouse universe is the characters. Some Disney productions incorporate characters from Disney's animated feature films , such as Bath Day , in which Figaro from Pinocchio appears as Minnie's cat becoming her recurring pet in several productions , Mickey's Christmas Carol , and β most extensively β House of Mouse β Although crossovers between the Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck universes have been infrequent, the two universes overlap.
Characters from the Donald Duck universe make occasional appearances in the Mickey Mouse universe and vice versa. The term "Mickey Mouse universe" is not officially used by The Walt Disney Company, but it has been used by Disney comics author and animation historian David Gerstein. The Mickey Mouse universe essentially originated with the debut of Mickey himself in Plane Crazy Although Mickey's stories included the character Pete , who was created in , the world in which Mickey lives holds a continuity largely independent from earlier films.
An exception to this was the reintroduction of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in with the release of Epic Mickey. In , Disney began a Mickey Mouse comic strip which greatly expanded Mickey's world. The stories then became a work of collaborative fiction with writers working in different mediums and different countries.
