According to Warren Spector, there were originally three different designs for Mickey, with his appearance changing based on whether the player made heroic or mischievous choices throughout the game. The designs were based off different eras of Mickey Mouse cartoons. Hero Mickey was based on his old movie posters, while the anti-hero Wasterlander was based on 1930s vintage Mickey, and the evil Scrapper was inspired by the early black and white Mickey cartoons (along with the 1995 Mickey Mouse short 'Runaway Brain'). Before this, if Mickey used too much thinner or makes evil choices, he would have turned into a design called 'Thinner Mickey'. Every evil action that Mickey would have done erased his paint and showed more of his basic line-art. The idea was eventually scrapped in favor of Scrapper Mickey. Due to negative feedback of Scrapper Mickey's personality, all of these designs were scrapped.