Oswald the Lucky Rabbit/YMMV

• Dork Age: Any of his non-Disney Shorts. The early Lantz shorts and the batch that Bill Nolan directed by himself do have their fans (largely due to their Mind Screw qualities), but few consider them to be up there with the original Disney shorts.
• And the Fandom Rejoiced: When Oswald was bought back by Disney, when Oswald appeared in Epic Mickey...and, more recently, when Oswald was confirmed as playable in Epic Mickey 2!
• Fanon Discontinuity: Many fans don't count the post-Disney Oswald shorts.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: Oswald/Fanny has a lot more fan-art than Oswald/Ortensia.
• Nightmare Fuel: Oswald's "fish-eye" closeup from Tall Timber.
• Tastes Like Diabetes: A common criticism of the "White Oswald" shorts that Lantz started to produce from 1935 onward. Most of the Lantz entries after the first year or so tended to be very cutesy, but it became overwhelming after the redesign.
• Unpopular Popular Character: Successfully invoked by Epic Mickey creator Warren Spector, who thought that Oswald deserved recognition and a fanbase of his own. Sure enough, while the game itself shows Oswald as a forgotten character living in his brother's shadow, Epic Mickey fans everywhere swear that he's as good as or better than Mickey.
• The Woobie: Part of his appeal and new found popularity.