Gustav the Giant

Gustav the Giant is the villain of the Mickey Mouse cartoon Brave Little Tailor. He constantly terrorized a kingdom, unopposed. When Mickey Mouse, the tailor of the film's title, was ordered to slay him by the King (Minnie Mouse's father), who mistakenly thought he killed seven giants in one blow (flies, actually), he used his tailoring skills to defeat him. He was last seen sleeping, his breath powering the merry-go-round that Mickey and Minnie were riding.

Originally unnamed in both the short and its comic adaptation in the Mickey Mouse newspaper comic strip, he was given the name Gustav in the comic book story "Thumper Meets the Seven Dwarfs", originally printed as Four Color Comic #19. In the strip, when Doc is reading the story of "The Giant and the Tailor" to Thumper, he suddenly shows up outside the dwarves' cottage and abducts Thumper. He takes him to his castle, where he and his wife decide to keep him for a pet. He places him in his pet canary Klaus' birdcage as a new playmate for the latter. Fortunately, Doc and Dopey suddenly show up to save and help him escape.

Gustav later appeared in one of the Disney Fun to Read Library tales, entitled Mickey Meets the Giant. He was attacking the village of Cedar Grove and Mickey has to use his wits to take him out like in the film. In the book, he manages to defeat him by, in a test of strength, crushing a rock and have water come out of it (it was actually a mealsponge), causing him to flee in terror.