The Plausible Impossible of Through the Mirror
And Other Questions on Cartoon Logic
The playing cards are chasing Mickey and throwing their face symbols at him. Firstly, cards are inanimate objects and therefore cannot move, however this cartoon is based on a fantasy novel so these actions seem legitimate. Another impossible element of this cartoon, is that the cards peel their symbols from their faces and throw them. It is impossible to peel ink from the paper it is on, but these cards were given human characteristics so this act would be much like girls throwing bras at their favorite band members.
Mickey discovers the alternate universe and walks through the mirror to reach it. It's not possible to just walk through a mirror. Trust me, I've tried. It looks like Mickey is pushing on cling wrap, or walking through a spiderweb; not solid-glass-like at all. The plausibility is in the belief and the knowledge that this is magical and a dream. Impossibility is over powered and out ruled when magic and dreams are involved because dreams are the only place where anything can happen and no one wants to get rid of that.
Mickey just ate the magical nut and his stomach starts punching him in the face and moving all around. As much as it may seem like stomachs abuse their owners at time, they don't actually jump around. The nut is magical and has power over Mickey's body, so it has the ability to control how it moves. The plausibility lies in the magic and its believability, however it is simply impossible for a single nut, or any food for that matter, to make a stomach go all cartoon jiggly jiggly.
The magical nut transformed Mickey's body into that of a giant and as he reaches his maximum height in this confined space, his head hits the ceiling and lifts it off the walls, detaching it from the house. Now, I'm unaware of the strength of giant Mickey or the sturdiness of the roof, but ceilings don't usually just lift right off like that; if they are going to break, they'll crack into pieces. Also, people don't usually grow ten feet taller after eating a single nut, but this nut is magical so I guess that explains that.
While Mickey is dancing with the queen, he flips her over so he can also dance with the second of her two heads. However, when he flips her, her single pair of legs don't move from the ground and the second head continues on with the same pair as the first. I'm not going to say it's impossible to have two heads and only one pair of legs, but the heads aren't usually on top of each other and the legs are usually CONNECTED to the body. But hey, this is a cartoon, filled with magic and nonsensical logic and details.
