And then I guess Wine will have to choke Transmeta? Let's not get too far into recursive choking schemes.

It should be protected, but under trademark? Or under copyright law, which is meant to deal with creative material?

Especially since, in this case, trademark essentially prevents anything from ever coming into public domain, as long as its characters are trademarked by a corporation or the trademarks pass into corporate hands.

There's not really solid proof that sexual selection is the cause of the size difference. Additionally, it's been shown that the size gap closes over time in societies where women get equivalent nutrition to males, which argues for non-sexual causation.

I'm not sure that images that aren't corporate logos are covered by trademark. We're deep into IANAL territory, but I think that such things are properly covered under copyright.

And as for "It works out quite well," that's pretty subjective. Certainly it works out well for Disney.