In this scenario, scientists are preoccupied and fail to secure a stretcher to catch Mickey’s latest body before it hits the floor, passengers talk idly while Mickey’s lost hand from an asteroid encounter passes by the window, and Timo (Steven Yeun), who is said to be Mickey’s closest companion, takes valuable equipment back to the base, abandoning Mickey to perish after he falls into the snow. If this colony resembles Ursula K. Le Guin’s Omelas, Mickey serves as the sacrificial child, living among the community despite enduring persistent suffering that has become so routine it no longer seems extraordinary.
Mickey is a kind-hearted but not particularly intelligent individual who believes he deserves the mistreatment he receives, which makes his situation bearable rather than simply tragic. Robert Pattinson, now in his post-Teen Beat phase of portraying peculiar characters, lends Mickey a gravelly voice and melancholic expression fitting for the character who meets an untimely end in a heist movie.
Mickey is the embodiment of being trodden upon, until a mix-up involving his presumed death beneath Niflheim’s ice layer and the patterns of the printing cycle results in two Mickys. The newest version — iteration 18 — is more volatile and prone to aggression, suggesting that each incarnation of Mickey isn’t an exact replica (Pattinson skillfully distinguishes between them). All these iterations are remnants of the original, and their existence signifies they are marked for permanent elimination.
