Just to prove that Donald Duck did once contemplate suicide...
I especially like his Jack Nicholson expression (it's even better fully animated!)... of course Donald wasn't really an amputee (his legs were just stuck in a hole) and once he realised his mistake and Pete chased him all thoughts of suicide went from his head... but for at least a brief moment in 1943 the hopelessness of war even cracked a cartoon character and made him want to end it all... makes you feel all warm inside - doesn't it?!?!
I especially like his Jack Nicholson expression (it's even better fully animated!)... of course Donald wasn't really an amputee (his legs were just stuck in a hole) and once he realised his mistake and Pete chased him all thoughts of suicide went from his head... but for at least a brief moment in 1943 the hopelessness of war even cracked a cartoon character and made him want to end it all... makes you feel all warm inside - doesn't it?!?!
sorry i never replied to your mammoth disney comment in my journal, but my internet access has been screwy for a while.
i like your motivations for collecting the uncut disney stuff, i remember once studying marxist theory at uni, and there was a disney cartoon where donald and jiminey cricket fought off two vultures called marx and hegel. it was pretty insidious stuff, its hard to beleive disney was so openly political in the early days whereas now they hide behind "childrens entertainment" - splitters!
(ps. even if donald had succeded above, wouldn't there have just been a loud bang, smoke, then donald's face a shocked ashen black as his bill fell off?)