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Mighty Mouse is an American animated anthropomorphic superhero mouse character created by the Terrytoons studio for 20th Century Fox. The character made its first appearance in 1942 (originally named Super Mouse) and subsequently appeared in 80 theatrical films produced between 1942 and 1961. These films later appeared on American television from 1955 through 1967 on the CBS television network on Saturday mornings. The character went through two later revivals, once by Filmation Studios in 1979, and again in 1987 by animation director Ralph Bakshi, who had worked at the Terrytoons studio during his early career. Mighty Mouse has also appeared in comics and other media. ==History== The character was originally conceived by Paul Terry. Created as a parody of Superman, he first appeared in 1942 in a theatrical animated short titled ''The Mouse of Tomorrow''. His original name was Super Mouse, but after seven films produced with that name from 1942-1943, it was changed to Mighty Mouse for 1944's ''The Wreck of the Hesperus'', after Paul Terry learned that another character named "Super Mouse" was to be published by Marvel Comics. Beginning in 1945, some Mighty Mouse episodes had operatic dialogue, and he was drawn slightly differently. Both changes were an attempt to take advantage of the growing popularity of singer and actor Mario Lanza, beginning with "Mighty Mouse and The Pirates". Others included "Gypsy Life" and "The Crackpot King." Mighty Mouse's adventures later focused on Pearl Pureheart and Oilcan Harry; these episodes were always sung by the characters. ;His appearance Mighty Mouse was first drawn wearing a blue costume with red trunks and cape, similar to Superman. Later, this outfit was changed to a yellow costume with red trunks and cape; in various theatrical shorts, those colors were reversed.〔(Mighty Mouse in his yellow/red costume )〕 Roy Halee, Sr. was the first actor to provide the voice of Mighty Mouse, a role later filled by voice actors Tom Morrison and Allen Swift. In ''The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle'', Alan Oppenheimer provided the voice and during the run of ''Mighty Mouse, the New Adventures'', Mighty Mouse was voiced by Patrick Pinney. ;His powers Mighty Mouse's superpowers included flight, super strength, and invulnerability. In some films he had X-ray vision and used psychokinesis. He was also able to turn back time in ''The Johnstown Flood'' and ''Krakatoa''. Other cartoons showed him leaving a red contrail during flight that he manipulated like a band of solid, flexible matter. ;Recurring characters Mighty Mouse featured two recurring female leads. In the cartoon shorts, it was a mouse named Pearl Pure-heart,but while in the comics published in the 1950s and 1960s, the character was named Mitzi. His recurring arch-enemy is an evil villain cat named Oil Can Harry, who originated as a human in earlier Terrytoons as the enemy of Fanny Zilch). ;Show formula The early formula of each story consisted of a crisis needing extraordinary help to resolve. At the decisive moment, Mighty Mouse came to the rescue. In the early films Mighty Mouse would not appear until nearly three quarters of the way through the cartoon. Beginning with ''A Fight to the Finish'' (1947), the story line usually begins with Mighty Mouse and Pearl Pureheart already in a desperate situation as if they were in the next chapter of the serial. Mighty Mouse cartoons spoofed the cliffhanger serials of silent films as well as the classic operettas of stage that were still popular at the time. The characters often sing mock opera songs during these cartoons (''e.g.'', Pearl: "Oil Can Harry, you're a villain!"; Oil Can Harry: "I know it, but it's a lot of ''fun''..."). Mighty Mouse sings tenor, Pearl is a soprano, and Oil Can Harry a bass-baritone. Mighty Mouse is also famous for singing "Here I come to save the day!" when flying into action. In several of the Mighty Mouse cartoons, whenever he achieved the most impossible physical tasks, the narrator exclaimed, first softly, "what a mouse!!!", then loudly, "WHAT A MOUSE!!!". The early Mighty Mouse cartoons often portray Mighty Mouse as a ruthless fighter. One of his most frequent tactics is to fly under the chin of an enemy and let loose a volley of blows- subduing the opponent through sheer physical punishment. ;Villains While his typical opponents are nondescript cats, Mighty Mouse occasionally battles specific villains, though most of them appear in only one or two films. Several of the earliest "Super Mouse" films (having been made during World War II), feature the cats as thinly veiled caricatures of the Nazis, hunting down mice and marching them into concentration camp-like traps to what would otherwise be their doom. The Bat-cats, alien cats with bat wings and wheels for feet, appeared in two cartoons; in two other shorts between 1949 and 1950 he faces a huge, dim-witted, but super-strong cat named Julius "Pinhead" Schlabotka (voiced by Dayton Allen) whose strength rivals Mighty Mouse's own. In rare moments, he confronts non-feline adversaries, such as human bad guy Bad Bill Bunion and his horse,or the Automatic Mouse Trap, a brontosaur-shaped robotic monster. In another cartoon, titled ''The Green Line'' (1944), the cats live on one side of the main street of a town and the mice on the other with a green line down the middle of the street serving as the dividing line. They agree to keep the peace as long as no one crosses it. An evil entity, a Satan cat, starts the cats and mice fighting. At the end, Mighty Mouse is cheered by mice and cats alike. At least one episode of Mighty Mouse, ''Wolf! Wolf!'' has fallen into Public Domain and is available at the Internet Archive.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.archive.org/details/mighty_mouse_wolf_wolf )〕 The 1945 film, ''Gypsy Life'' was nominated for an Oscar in the category of Short Subject (Cartoon). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mighty Mouse」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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