Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is a Disney character created in 1927 for a series of shorts for Universal Pictures. When a rights dispute occurred between Walt Disney and Universal, Disney and fellow animator Ub Iwerks left Oswald to Universal to create a new character named Mickey Mouse. Universal would make additional Oswald shorts up to 1938, with little done afterwards. Disney would reacquire Oswald in 2006 in a trade involving sports announcer Al Michaels, using him for the Epic Mickey series of video games and not much else.

Tournament History

Oswald became noted in the Mr. /co/lympus competitions for a supposed curse regarding qualification in the bracket, missing the bracket by a few votes in both 2018 and 2019. Making manners worse was Mickey's qualification in the 2019 tournament. During Mr. /co/lympus 2020, his supposed underdog status and quest to simply make the bracket became a focused upon highlight of the lore in the qualification round. Breaking the prior streak of missing out, Oswald qualified for his first Mr. /co/ tournament as the 44th seed, with Mickey additionally missing out qualifying for the tournament. The underdog story continuing in the proper tournament, defeating Frylock in the first round before falling to Genie in the second. This was later followed by a strong pairing with Mickey in Tag-Team Tournament 2020, placing 4th overall.

Though he tends to have a dedicated following, Oswald has had little success since his tournament debut, losing in round 2 in 2021 and then round 1 in the 2022 and 2023 editions. Oswald's 2023 run was seen by many as especially unlucky; not only was he matched against Ice King whose popularity was boosted by recent appearances in Fionna & Cake, but he was also immediately targeted by a relentless falseflagger who continuously spammed threads with AI generated images of Oswald, linking them to the OC anchor and claiming to have "drawn" them. Though most recognized this was not a genuine Oswald supporter, and he did receive a couple genuine pieces of drawn OC, it nonetheless ruined any chance he might have had as Oswald drawfags later admitted to having abandoned supporting him due to not wanting to be associated with the falseflagger. Just another case of typical rabbit luck.

The disastrous 2023 run evidently left some Oswald supporters demoralized as they began doomposting about his chances of even qualifying ever again due to his increasingly poor seeds and performance, as well as fear of his reputation having been tarnished from the falseflag attacks. The doomposting was rebuked however as Oswald did in fact make it back into the tournament with an improved seed from the last two years. His fans capitalized on this, promoting him in the threads and producing fanart for him in his first round matchup against Hobbes. This campaign directly pushed Oswald over the edge, as he won the first round by one single vote. Though he would predictably lose against returning finalist Carl Brutananadilewski, this was seen as a welcome change of fortune by fans.

4th and 5th verses, same as all the rest, as Oswald kept getting knocked down in the earliest rounds. Curiously, it is theorized that Oswald may have indirectly granted Rabbit from Winnie the Pooh a spot on the 2025 bracket due to the formatting of choices on the Qualifier poll, and an ensuing fuck-up on the vote counting robot's part.

Results

Mr. /co/lympus
2020 - seed 44
Round	Opponent	Series	Votes	Pct. For
Round 1	(85) Frylock	Aqua Teen Hunger Force	327 - 283	53.6%
Round 2	(108) Genie	Aladdin	347 - 291	45.6%
2021 - seed 42
Round 1	(87) Black Dynamite	Black Dynamite	362 - 260	56.6%
Round 2	(23) Nathan Explosion	Metalocalypse	264 - 347	43.6%
2022 - seed 84
Round 1	(14) Megamind	Megamind	227 - 279	44.8%
2023 - seed 100
Round 1	(4) Ice King	Adventure Time	188 - 220	46.0%
2024 - seed 74
Round 1	(55) Hobbes	Calvin and Hobbes	210 - 209	50.1%
Round 2	(10) Carl Brutananadilewski	Aqua Teen Hunger Force	129 - 251	33.9%