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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.

** 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).

 

== Media ==

* Buster from ''[[MythBusters]]''.

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