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So I don't talk about it much but I've always been a bit bothered by the lack of serious relation ship development between Mickey and Minnie. If the two of them are ment to be together forever, why aren't they officially married?

I can already answer that for you, and it's the unofficially called the Barbie syndrome. Because the characters need to maintain a wholesome image marketable for children, they're not allowed to give off the impression that they've had sex or want to have sex before marriage. Marriage, however, is treated as a happily ever after situation, so it's funner to have the characters go through ups and downs of a relationship before settling down with their real one true love. When done right, unrequited love is actually a key to good storytelling and character development, but stupid when it's done for the sake of merchandising.

Mickey and Minnie were created for each other. There is NO other man Minnie could really settle down with, and there are no other women who'd want Mickey, but for the sake of interesting plot devices Disney himself refused to let the two become officially hitched. I would agree that once two characters get together you loose a certain percent of your audience ( Such as Niles and Daphne from Fraiser; great for closer, bad for entertainment). Still who else could you possibly see Micky and Minnie with that could market the same way, without killing one or the other off (such as the backlash over Pixar getting rid of Bo Peep as Woody's girl in Toy Story 3)? In recent times, they have given Goofy Clarabelle Cow as girlfriend, rather then keeping her with Horace Horse, mainly because Goofy needs to appear to have a female interest.

Even though the mouses aren't much more then just sweethearts, Disney is not against advertising their characters as a married couple. For those who don't know, Motherhood is a chain of clothing stores (or A store that exists in my local mall) that sells fashionable cloths to expecting mothers. While this shot by no means sets anything in stone, it is quite an odd pose that SOMEONE HAD TO DRAW to look like they're a couple happy to have something new come along in a few months. I had to share it with you because I would like to see more of the two of them being more then mindless drones.

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So I don't talk about it much but I've always been a bit bothered by the lack of serious relation ship development between Mickey and Minnie. If the two of them are ment to be together forever, why aren't they officially married?

I can already answer that for you, and it's the unofficially called the Barbie syndrome. Because the characters need to maintain a wholesome image marketable for children, they're not allowed to give off the impression that they've had sex or want to have sex before marriage. Marriage, however, is treated as a happily ever after situation, so it's funner to have the characters go through ups and downs of a relationship before settling down with their real one true love. When done right, unrequited love is actually a key to good storytelling and character development, but stupid when it's done for the sake of merchandising.

Mickey and Minnie were created for each other. There is NO other man Minnie could really settle down with, and there are no other women who'd want Mickey, but for the sake of interesting plot devices Disney himself refused to let the two become officially hitched. I would agree that once two characters get together you loose a certain percent of your audience ( Such as Niles and Daphne from Fraiser; great for closer, bad for entertainment). Still who else could you possibly see Micky and Minnie with that could market the same way, without killing one or the other off (such as the backlash over Pixar getting rid of Bo Peep as Woody's girl in Toy Story 3)? In recent times, they have given Goofy Clarabelle Cow as girlfriend, rather then keeping her with Horace Horse, mainly because Goofy needs to appear to have a female interest.

Even though the mouses aren't much more then just sweethearts, Disney is not against advertising their characters as a married couple. For those who don't know, Motherhood is a chain of clothing stores (or A store that exists in my local mall) that sells fashionable cloths to expecting mothers. While this shot by no means sets anything in stone, it is quite an odd pose that SOMEONE HAD TO DRAW to look like they're a couple happy to have something new come along in a few months. I had to share it with you because I would like to see more of the two of them being more then mindless drones.