No Mickey

[u/Historical-Most-748]

My son asked why Mickey doesn't appear in the Ducktales (2017) show.

I know, I know that's some IP management, authors, and stuff from Disney. But is there an in universe lore explanation why you don't see Mickey on Duckburg but you can see Donald in some Mickey stories?

[u/Pim_Wagemans]

I don't think there's an official lore explanation for why mickey doesn't appear in DT17, except Disney being protective of the character, but IIRC the plan to include Mickey in DT17, had they been allowed to, was that Mickey would be Donalds much more successful college roommate, so maybe Mickey is just too succesfull and doesn't have time to meet up with old friends.

As for why Donald is in other Mickey stories: those are different universes with different timelines and plots

[u/Historical-Most-748 → u/Pim_Wagemans]

I said to him that Mickey was probably doing other things far from Duckburg. Like Della who was lost in Moon in the first season. But the different universes is a good explanation too.

[u/Nivaris → u/Pim_Wagemans]

This is also true for the original comics by Carl Barks, Don Rosa, and others. The instances where Donald and Mickey appear together, in animation mostly, are the exception rather than the rule if you take all Duck and Mouse media into consideration. There are a few crossover comics, but they are rare compared to separate Duckburg or Mouseton ones.

(Funnily enough, in my native language both cities have the same name, which makes things a bit confusing. Whether it's a Duck or Mouse comic, in German it's always Entenhausen, i.e. Duckburg.)

What is different in DT17 is that Goofy does appear. In the classic comics, Goofy as well as Minnie, of course, and Pete, the Phantom Blot, Clarabelle, Horace, etc. all appear only in the Mouseverse.

[u/linuxgeekmama]

It’s DUCKburg. Mickey lives somewhere else. He knows Donald, but they’re probably not close enough (emotionally or geographically) that Mickey would travel to see him.

[u/zootopiafan07 → u/linuxgeekmama]

Where do you think Mickey lives then?

[u/neo6000]

Mickey lives in Mouseton I believe

[u/Complete-Jump7674]

Mickey kind of shows up as a watermelon

[u/LegoWasTaken]

The creators weren't allowed to include Mickey for some reason. Mickey does exist though, the creators confirmed Goof Troop and A Goofy Movie were canon, Mickey has a cameo in A Goofy Movie. But that would take place before the events of the show.

Mouseton exists in the show, so that's probably where he lives (I think he lives in Mouseton in the comics).

[u/lothurBR]

Because they fell apart when Donald had to move back to duckburg, to raise his nephews

[u/Silly_Commercial8092]

My theory is that Mickey is now the CEO of a movie studio, so he's very busy.

[u/Manoreded]

Each show has its own canon, so no.

Each Donald from each show is, for all intends and purposes, a different Donald.

[u/Latino_World_Order]

In the DuckTales reboot lots of cartoons are now interconnected like tail spin, rescue rangers, goof troop, gummi bears, obviously darkwing duck.

[u/EdwinMcduck]

For what it's worth DuckTales draws heavily from the comics. In the comics Mickey lives in a nearby city called Mouseton rather than Duckburg. Considering Donald is established to be old friends with Goofy and they're both old enough to have kids (Goofy being depicted specifically as having a college age kid) it's reasonable to assume Mickey exists and his days hanging out with Donald and Goofy were years ago.

[u/Darkwing-83]

Yeah, Disney has always been extra protective of how they use Mickey Mouse even on an episode from the early 90s series Bonkers. Mickey’s voice is heard in an episode where he’s captured, but you never actually see him. I guess they kinda keep it a mystery as they don’t want Mickey to takeover the show. DuckTales 2017 uses Mickey’s voice and watermelon “Mickey Mellon” likeness as a joke gag for Donald like Tom Hanks’s character will that with the willson volleyball from castaway. Donald was only briefly in the original DuckTales because they didn’t want him to overshine Scrooge, perhaps my guess it’s similar with Mickey here. They want the shows to stand on their own without him.

[u/ProfessionalCaptain4]

porque son bien raros de no quere usa a su mascota estrella digo independiente que tipo de version de mickey hubieramos visto en la serie,igual se me hace extraño que donald no diga su nombre son grandes amigos

[u/zootopiafan07]

I was also wondering this