The study, carried out by Professor Andrew Oswald from Warwick University and Dr Nattavudh Powdthavee from York University, also found that a predominance of sons can make a mother more right-wing.

In the Epic Mickey game, Oswald becomes the earliest inhabitant of Cartoon Wasteland after Mickey is created.

To make matters worse, Mickey makes an "innocent yet terrible mistake" and inadvertently devastates Oswald's comfortable world.

And if Oswald did act alone, who gave him the orders?

Now Buckle is a forgotten name today, but at one time he was just about as famous as Oswald Spengler who wrote The Decline of the West.