His round head and round ears have become a trademark symbol; done in a silhouette, and often hidden in pictures as a running gag. His dark persona version often produces a vicious, characteristic laughter (“ハハッ”).
Within the Japanese community, he is often depicted with identity censor as a spoof to the late 2000s court case involving Disney Japan suing the fan artists for copyright infringement, which spawned a local meme involving applying the censor across his eye and calling him an "unrelated" character.
Mickey appears with other Disney characters in the video game series Kingdom Hearts.
