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** 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.
** Before 1991, SNK had the now pretty much unknown [https://web.archive.org/web/20100505082503/http://pagesperso-orange.fr/neogeospirit/dossiers/gmantle/dossier_gmantle.htm G-Mantle].
** 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).
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== Media ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20180220070808/http://centralcitytower.blogspot.com/2010/07/fuzzy.html Fuzzy and Acro] of Central City Tower.
* Buster from ''[[MythBusters]]''.
* [[Walt Disney|Disney]] has two: [[Mickey Mouse]] and [[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Tinker Bell]].
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** 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.
** Riot has Johnny, a rather infamous mascot that seems to have human form with a weasel/rat/owl/seal-head. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131129181240/http://www.metal-metropolis.com/riot.htm More information can be found here]
** 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.
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Advertising Tropes]]
[[Category:Mascot]]
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