Disney Brothers

Disney Brothers is the family ship between Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Mickey Mouse from the Mickey Mouse and Friends fandom.

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Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Mickey Mouse were the first creations of Walt Disney. Although Oswald was the first of his many creations, Mickey ends up becoming the iconic face of the Disney company and theme parks. Oswald was nearly forgotten and has only appeared with Mickey in a small number of Disney medias, that mostly focus on classic Mickey. Due to Oswald not being given a modern update d look, like Mickey has. That is why Oswald is mostly featured as a cameo now a days, rather than be treated as one of Disney's central characters.

Epic Mickey series
After Yen Sid created a world for forgotten toons, like Oswald, with a magic paintbrush, Mickey ended endangering the Wasteland while he was playing around with the brush and accidentally created a portal that allowed the spilled thinner to fall into Wasteland. Causing Oswald much pain with him losing Ortensia and having his home world fall into ruin, while Mickey's star continued to rise during those many years since then. Although Mickey wasn't aware of Oswald, he was aware of him and had built Animatronic copies of Mickey's friends, so he too could have friends like Goofy, Daisy and Donald. He blames Mickey for replacing him and having him be forgotten, like the other forgotten toons he watches over in Wasteland, after they too lost their hearts.

When Mickey was kidnapped by the Mad Doctor and brought to Wasteland, so he could steal Mickey's heart for the Blot, Mickey spies Oswald. Who just happened to come across Mickey while he was sneaking around the Mad Doctor's lab in the Dark Beauty Castle. Once Mickey met a Gremlin named, Gus he gets to learn a few things about Oswald and his role in Wasteland, as well as him being Mickey's best chance to return home. So he goes in search for Oswald. Who Mickey has spotted as few other times, since he escaped the castle. On his way to Oswald, Mickey finds himself learning a few other things about Oswald, like him being the first of the Wasteland's toons to become a star and the first of them to be forgotten. So he made the Wasteland a place where forgotten toon could be happy and served as their leader. Before the Thinner Disaster changed everything. Seeing how popular Oswald was, Mickey was shocked that he was the reason why Oswald ended up in the Wasteland in the first place. As much as Mickey admired Oswald's recreation of Disneyland, he was surprised that the Walt Disney statute had Walt holding Oswald's hand in Mickey's place; as some of the minor changes Oswald had made. It didn't take Mickey long to realise that Oswald resents him and was a little nervous about meeting him. One of the locations in the Wasteland is called the "Mickeyjunk Mountain" and OsTown as a copy of Mickey's house, almost like Oswald was hoping that Mickey would be forgotten too.

Once Mickey finally found the leader of Wasteland, Oswald didn't try to hide his anger towards Mickey, and addressed him as "Mouse." Oswald accuses Mickey for stealing his popularity and the reason he surrounds himself in "Mickey junk" for so many years was because he wanted to know why Mickey got all the success that should have been his. After Oswald finished explaining the good he was able to do for the other forgotten toons before the Thinner Disaster, the bottle Oswald spilled reminded Mickey of the thinner bottle he had spilled and realised that he was the one who caused the disaster. Not wanting to give Oswald another reason to hate him, Mickey chose to keep quite about and tried to change the subject by asking about Ortensia; from the state of her house and how no one has seen her of late. Oswald didn't approve of Mickey asking about his sweetheart. After Oswald explained that forgotten characters lose their hearts and how Mickey still having his means that he is able to leave, Mickey assumed that Oswald was behind his kidnapping. From how Oswald blames for the loss of his heart when Mickey replaced him, and the fact that he saw Oswald in the lab when the Mad Doctor tried to steal his heart. Oswald may hate Mickey, but he isn't one for kidnapping and he doesn't even want Mickey in Wasteland. Wanting Mickey gone has Oswald coming up with a plan to send Mickey home by rocket. Even though Oswald lacking a heart would prevent him from flying out of Wasteland himself.

As Mickey collects what they need for the rocket, Oswald waits for him at the Walt Disney statute. Should Mickey abuse the magic paintbrush's thinner, Oswald's anger towards Mickey would only grow, unless Mickey does good with the brush's restoring paint power.

Behind the Scenes
Warren Spector, one of Oswald's biggest fans and the man responsible for getting the rights for the character back at Disney to allow his use in the Epic Mickey series, accused Oswald's cameo in the episode "Canned" to be disrespectful of the character.

Fanon
Although Mickey is the face of Disney, fans still like to include Oswald. Who is viewed as Mickey's older brother, from being created before him. Mickey being a mouse and Oswald being a rabbit, however, does have a few people questioning that family view. With mice and rabbits being separate species, even though there is a resemblance energy between them.

Many fans of the modern Mickey cartoon were upset that Oswald did not play a bigger role, believing that he deserved to be at least a recurring character instead of just being a cameo. That is why they prefer the Epic Mickey series, with the second game having the brothers team up.

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Trivia

 * In the Mickey Mouse shorts, Oswald does not appear in the series beyond a few "blink-and-you'll-miss-it" cameos.