Mickey Mouse in Vietnam is a notorious unlicensed parody of Disney cartoons, an underground cartoon short written and directed by Whitney Lee Savage. It features Mickey Mouse.
Description[]
Mickey Mouse is convinced by a billboard to join the American army, and is shipped off to Vietnam, smiling all the way — only to be shot to death immediately upon arriving, finally losing his smile.
Behind the scenes[]
The satirical short, created and released in 1969, was believed lost until it resurfaced in 2013 on YouTube (with the soundtrack being found in 2018).
A political piece created in opposition to American involvement in the Vietnam War, it utilized Mickey Mouse as an allegory for the American people itself more than as a character in his own right. To convey the happy-go-lucky innocence required for this purpose, the short was done in the style of the 1930's black-and-white ones, with Mickey as his youthful, mischievous, naive pie-eyed self.
If for no other reason than Mickey dying at the end of it, the short is obviously considered non-canonical on this Wiki, and, one assumes, most everywhere else.