Mickey Mouse

Mickey Mouse, also known as Jedi Mickey, was a pint-sized male Jedi Master who belonged to a species of sapient mice. During the Clone Wars, he helped the Galactic Republic in its fight against the Confederacy of Independent Systems in his customized Jedi interceptor. On occasion, he even fought alongside the equally diminutive Yoda, the Grand Master of the Order. Following the end of the war, Mickey Mouse escaped the Jedi Purge and became an adversary of the newly-formed Galactic Empire.

Biography
Mickey Mouse, a male mouse, joined the Jedi Order, an ancient society of empowered warriors who maintained peace in the Galactic Republic. With the Order, he learnt to wield the Force, an ubiquitous and binding power that suffused the whole galaxy, and to fight with a lightsaber, a formal melee weapon that emitted a blade of pure plasma. Mouse raised in the ranks until becoming a Jedi Master, the highest formal rank obtainable by a member of the Order.

In the fifth month of 22 BBY, an alliance of seceding star systems known as the Confederacy of Independent Systems declared war against the Republic. During the resulting conflict, known as the Clone Wars, the Jedi were heavily called on to lead the Republic newly formed Grand Army, and Mouse was no exception. He fought against the Confederacy along with other Jedi Knights, and he once teamed up with Yoda, the Grand Master of the Jedi Order himself. Mouse was granted his own Eta-2 Actis-class light interceptor, in which he flew with his astromech droid partner, R2-MK.

At the end of the Clone Wars, the Supreme Chancellor of the Republic Palpatine assumed the title of Emperor and undertook to eliminate those Jedi who had not perished during the conflict. Mickey Mouse, however, survived the Emperor's purge, and he decided to resist the oppression of Palpatine's Galactic Empire, using his customized interceptor to shoot down squadrons of Imperial TIE/LN starfighters. During the Dark Times that followed the birth of the Empire, Mouse experienced many adventures throughout the galaxy with R2-MK.

Personality and traits
Mickey Mouse was a diminutive individual, measuring only 0.66 meters. He was the same height as Grand Master Yoda, who would later teach to his last pupil that "size matters not." Mouse had black hair and large eyes of the same color. When ready for combat, he would sport a wide grin and a determined frown.

He used to wear the traditional, humble trappings of the Jedi Order. He owned at least two outfits, one of which was made of a yellow tunic with cream-colored outer robes, while the other featured a beige tunic and a brown cloak. Similarly, he was known to have owned pairs of yellow and brown boots. Mouse also used to wear a pair of white gloves at all time, and he wielded a single-bladed lightsaber with a blue crystal.

The Jedi Master would customize some of his possessions with his personal emblem, which consisted of two little circles put on top of a bigger one&mdash;a design that reflected the shape of his head. Notably, the wings of his Jedi interceptor bore that crest, and the droid R2-MK had been given a pair of round ears as a whimsical embellishment. Even his lightsaber bore markings that resembled his glove stripes, and both the ignite button and the waffle pattern on the hilt were shaped like his trefoil emblem.

Powers and abilities
Being a Jedi Master, Mouse showed exceptional skills and devotion to the Force, as well as great talent in lightsaber combat. He was also a capable pilot, as he could fly his Actis-class light interceptor.

Behind the scenes
Inspired by the seminal Disney cartoon character Mickey Mouse, Jedi Mickey is one of the life-size interactive costumed characters at Star Wars Weekends, an annual Star Wars festival hosted at Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park of the Walt Disney World Resort.

The Hasbro toy company first released a double-character toy package featuring Jedi Mickey and Yoda as part of its Star Wars: Star Tours toy line in 2005. In 2010, Disney Parks added R2-MK, Mickey's astromech droid sidekick, to its attraction, and subsequently released a double-character toy package that included the two characters together. The Jedi Mickey-R2-MK packaging provided specific details regarding Jedi Mickey's inclusion in the Star Wars galaxy. Those toys were all designed by a team of Disney Parks product developers led by Brad Schoeneberg. In 2007, Schoeneberg's team had also created Jedi Mickey's official lightsaber toy.

Because of Hasbro's toy releases generally being included in the canon, Jedi Mickey's release was given dubious consideration as to whether it was canon. However, the Holocron continuity database administrator Leland Chee, on May 24, 2012, confirmed on his twitter account that Jedi Mickey and related toys are non-canon, and likewise admitted that he was confused with their making Mickey a Jedi Knight.