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TIL kingdom hearts director Tetsuya Nomura and square Enix's hope that they can use Mickey Mouse as the main character, but Disney were particularly protective of their company mascot. In the end Disney allowed Nomura to use Mickey once, Which is shown in the end of kingdom hearts 1

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