(The following creepypasta is a remake of the original Suicidemouse.avi).
Now, I'm sure all of us know about Disney. After all who wouldn't? Some of their movies have grown to become cultural phenomenons worldwide. Encanto, Snow White, Moana, The Lion King, the rest go on. If we're talking characters? It’s obvious that Mickey Mouse needs no introduction. I mean, he’s Disney’s main man after all, and basically everyone knows who he is. Now, whilst everyone assumes Mickey has been around since the beginning, he actually has quite the backstory; when Walt Disney lost the rights to his character Oswald The Lucky Rabbit, Mickey was instead created as a substitute replacement. The rest is history. Even then, Oswald wasn't actually Walt's first creation as he had been made during his time in Universal (who owned the character until 2006.) The honor of Disney's first character would actually go to Julius the Cat, who was explicitly made to rip-off Felix the Cat (at least I assume so.) Now, Mickey's had many cartoons starring him since his inception in 1928 with Steamboat Willie, yet there is one that has never resurfaced. And, that is likely for good reasons.
This is the only known image that has surfaced of the cartoon.
From the sources I initially gathered, it wasn't anything that interesting. The cartoon, supposedly made around 1942 or so was simply a two-three minute walk cycle of Mickey in front of six buildings, looping, and looping, and looping, similar to what you'd see in old Hanna Barbera cartoons. Strangely, the cartoon was animated much similarly to the classic black-and-white Mickey cartoons, y'know like Steamboat Willie? This was obviously weird as Mickey had only just transitioned to colour seven years prior. There wasn't any regular cartoon music like usual, with the music instead being that of someone banging on a piano before fading to white noise for the remainder. Even more creepier was that Mickey... wasn't his ordinary self. He wasn't dancing, he wasn't singing. He looked sad and had his hands behind his back, his head tilting side to side as he continued walking.
Up until a few years ago, that's what everyone, myself included, assumed the cartoon was. A simple walk cycle test so-to-speak. That is until Leonard Maltin, a famed film critic and historian, came into the picture. Maltin was in the middle of planning to release all of the old Mickey cartoons on DVD, including the walk cycle, but considered it too "garbage" to be included. But he decided to make a digital copy for preservation purposes. However during the cartoon's transfer to digital, Leonard found something surprising. As he'd come to learn, the cartoon was actually 9 minutes and 4 seconds long. This is what my source TR, an acquaintance of Maltin, said when I asked about it.
"Initially, Maltin thought that the black screen was the end of it. Yet when it came it stayed for a bit. Then, music started playing and he'd go on to discover new and unseen footage. I can only assume this was context for why Mickey was how he was in the cartoon. He stated to have saw the following; Mickey walking in on Minnie cheating on him with Pete, leading the three to argue before Mickey storms off, having now broken up with Minnie. The second scene featured a drunken Goofy and Donald getting into a car accident; Donald died on the spot while Goofy died from his injuries minutes later. The former was driving. Finally, the last was that of Mickey and Pluto at the vet, with Mickey having to hear the news that Pluto was going to have to be put down due to catching an incurable deadly disease.
These scenes lasted approximately 20 seconds each, and the screen went back to black until the sixth minute mark. The scene cut back to Mickey still walking, however things were much different this time. The piano was replaced by a quiet murmur, and..... it wasn't any sort of language. It sounded like crying. The noise continued getting louder as the picture began getting distorted. The sidewalk going in way that were impossible due to Mickey's walking. Then, Mickey's sad expression... soon turned into a disturbing smirk.
On the seventh minute mark, the murmuring had turned into a bloodcurdling scream, and the picture was starting to distort even more than before. Colors, colors that were impossible to create at the time started showing, and Mickey... his face...... I can't describe it in full detail. But from Maltin’s personal account... his eyes completely fell off, and Mickey now had an almost horrific grin on his face. One that’d elongated his jaw. The bottom of Mickey’s mouth was extending downwards so much, it was being dragged down the street until it’d completely ripped off, leaving a jawless smiling mouse to behold.
The buildings behind Mickey had turned into rubble and the sidewalk continued going in humanly impossible directions. At this point Maltin had left the room, having become too disturbed at what he was witnessing. That was the point in which he sent me and a few others to view the remaining footage, where we were told to take notes of everything that happened until the end and immediately put the file in the vault. At this point, the faded scenes of what happened to Mickey's friends started playing again. At the 8 minute and 30 second mark... Mickey stopped. He turned to face the camera, as did his whole body. Mickey's jaw and eyes, had suddenly returned to normal in the process. He then subtly said: "Real suffering, is not known." Doing so in Walt’s very own voice for the character. Mickey's jaw proceeded to become extremely extended once more, and he proceeded to melt and become a pile of ink. All that was left of him was his still grinning, yet extended jaw.
The screen faded to black once more, and it cut to the classic face of Mickey that would show up at the beginning and end of his cartoons. During which, a music box of ‘When You Wish Upon a Star’ from Pinocchio was playing in the background. The last ten seconds featured Russian text saying 'У него было все. Его забрали. Мышь больше не могла этого терпеть. В конце концов его привлекли достопримечательности. Достопримечательности ада. Они вернули его обратно. Как и всем тем, кто это смотрит. Он никогда не перестает возвращать своих зрителей. Теперь известны настоящие страдания....' This roughly translated to, 'He had everything. It was taken away. The mouse couldn't take it no more. Eventually, he was pulled in by sights. The sights of Hell. They brought him back in. As it does to all those who view it. It never fails to bring its viewers back in. The real suffering is now known..." . After we had left to report the news to Maltin, one of the employees begun repeating Mickey's final words. 'Real suffering is not known.' He then proceeded to take one of the guards pistols, and........shot himself on the spot. Straight in the brain. He died instantly.
As far as I’m aware I am one of the only few people to’ve seen the cartoon today; the others of course being Maltin and the few employees I was sent with. However, several others had attempted to find and upload the cartoon on the internet themselves. All those individuals were fired each time. I'm not sure how, but from the rumours I’ve heard…… the cartoon’s somewhere out there. The file is under the name 'Suicidemouse.avi'. If you manage to find it? Contact me IMMEDIATELY. It doesn’t matter what the circumstances are, because Disney is without a doubt covering everything about this cartoon up to their best ability; its existence, and the man’s suicide specifically. And if that's the case... this is certainly something big.
Get back to me whenever you can,
TR".
As of now, I and several others have yet to successfully retrieve the file. All I've been able to find since is one still image of Mickey in the first phase of his walk cycle. Really, for the better. I think Suicidemouse.avi should just remain lost....