Popeye and Tintin have entered the public domain! Now I can sell fan fiction of Tintin-the-hacker and use Popeye to promote arbitrary apps...

...which I always expected to be WAY more common after these kinds of events. When Winnie the Pooh entered public domain in 2022, we got a slasher film (with medium awareness) and not much else. Kinda curious why remix culture isn't stronger when these big IPs become available for all.
The Mickey Mouse one was interesting. Steamboat Willy, predecessor to Mickey, entered public domain but Mickey Mouse is technically still Disney’s.

Of course, it did result in this Mickey slasher film (coming out soon!) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screamboat
Screamboat - Wikipedia