Anony-moose, I suggest you check out the earliest Mickey cartoons, "Steamboat Willie" and "Planet Crazy". Not only does Mickey have a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT voice in "Plane Crazy" (much lower and scratchier), they hadn't developed that sickeningly sweet personality for him. He's actually cruel to Minnie and to various animals in those cartoons.

I saw it in a screening room at a convention and, having seen only today's Mickey, I was rolling over laughing. We all loved "Steamboar Willie" so much we got the guy to play it again. Apparently that "Steamboat Itchy" cartoon they had on "The Simpsons" a few years back wasn't much of an exaggeration as I thought!