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** It probably didn't help matters much that in real life, John Hodgman is actually a very friendly, charismatic man.

** The Apple adverts in Britain featured David Mitchell and Robert Webb as the PC and the Mac respectively. They have been quite unpopular, and have raised questions about the duo's credibility. Not least because, like the US adverts, while Webb is the ostentatiously cool character, Mitchell generally comes across as the more down-to-earth and likeable (this is despite him often playing the role of an unapologetic quasi-intellectual). While hosting ''[[Have I Got News for You]]'', Webb explained to Ian that he had played the smug unbearable one whose product you were meant to buy, while Mitchell had all the fun lines and he was meant to be despised. He described it as a 'confused campaign'.

* Most video game companies use a character from one of their franchises as a mascot; Nintendo has [[Mario]], SEGA has [[Sonic the Hedgehog]], Capcom has ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'', SNK has Terry Bogard, etc.

** In Japan, Sega actually had a second mascot specifically for the Saturn: Segata Sanshiro, a [[Badass]] martial artist who would beat up people for not playing the Saturn. He eventually got his own video game, which was the last first-party game released for the Saturn.

*** Capcom and Sega's former mascots include '''Cap'''tain '''Com'''mando and Alex Kidd, respectively. [[Street Fighter|Ryu]] can also be considered a mascot for Capcom due to being quite recognizable and appearing in almost all of their crossover games (he also predates ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'' by a few months).

* The Companion Cube for ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]''. ''[[Portal 2]]'' uses Atlas and P-Body, the robots from the game's co-op mode.

** [[Valve]] have also used other characters as mascots, with the Heavy Weapons Guy or the Soldier representing ''[[Team Fortress 2]]''. The announcement for the Steam platform coming to the Mac used one of ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'''s [[Everything Is an iPod In The Future|iPod-esque]] turrets to resemble the Mac and the Engineer's solidly mechanical turret from ''TF2'' for the PC.

 

== Food and Drink ==

* The duck that quacks, "AFLAC!"

* Flo the checkout girl in the Progressive Insurance commercials.

* Churchill, the little nodding dog mascot of Churchill Insurance. All together now: "OH YES!!"

* The General, for The General Car Insurance.

 

== Media ==

* [[Walt Disney|Disney]] has two: [[Mickey Mouse]] and [[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Tinker Bell]].

** [[Pixar]] has adopted the hopping lamp from [[Pixar Shorts|one of their first shorts]] as their mascot, but has relegated him solely to the logo.

** [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit|Oswald]] used to be one for Walt, [[Dork Age|but then....]]

* Bugs Bunny, for [[Looney Tunes]], as well as Warner Bros.' entire animation division.

* The former WB Network had Michigan J. Frog from the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short, "[[One Froggy Evening]]".

* In the early days of the official [[Cirque Du Soleil]] website (1996–97), the Baron from ''[[Saltimbanco]]'' served as the "host". From 1998 to 2001 or so, the Great Chamberlain from the retired show ''[[Nouvelle Experience]]'' took on this duty.

** An obscure example: [[Skelteria]] has St. Trinity, a [[Does Not Like Shoes|barefoot]] [[Evil Is Cool|demon]] [[Evil Is Sexy|woman]] with [[Good Wings, Evil Wings|bat-like wings]].

** [[Demon Hunter (band)|Demon Hunter]] has...well, what the fuck is it even called? You'd recognize it if you saw it.

** Knucklehead of [[Five Finger Death Punch]], who has appeared on every one of their album covers. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQUk1Bt0pz4 He once punched a man in the soul].

** In Flames' Jesterhead, who first appeared on the cover of ''The Jester Race'' and has undergone many transformations since. He's most known for his distinctive spiky jester-hat.

** [[The Mighty Mighty Bosstones]] have Otis the Bulldog.

** [[Looks Like Cesare|Monkey's Face]] from The Adicts.

* Hatchet Man for the [[Psychopathic Records]] label.

* Booji Boy for [[Devo]].

* [[Radiohead]] has that Bear.

* [[Kanye West]] has Dropout Bear.

 

 

 

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