While the character Mickey Mouse plays in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" is based on the unnamed sorcerer's apprentice in the 1797 original story and inherits his characterization, the sorcerer Yen Sid is more of an original Disney creation. In the original story, the unnamed sorcerer appears only at the finale, rescues his apprentice from the out-of-control magical objects, and speaks only two lines. Then the original story ends abruptly with no time for the sorcerer to react to his apprentice's misuse of magic and the consequent mess. The sorcerer receives no physical description and no real characterization. The Disney staff were free to decide what the sorcerer would look like and how would he react to Mickey's blunder. They created a stern-looking figure who is silently angry by the finale.

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