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[bjornwilde]

 Inspired by the Days of Future Past ad campaign and Morton salt, I ask, if your pup were to endorse any product, what would it be? Or if a specific product is proving elusive, what type of product?

Also, the DE Suggestion Box is getting thin again. Please leave any topic ideas there and we'll give credit when we use it.

Comments

[last_kallig]

I suspect people were practically beating down the door to the AEon Society headquarters in Annabelle's time to try to have her endorse their guns. Considering her fondness for weapons, I suspect that's what Annabelle Newfield would wind up endorsing. Probably a pistol or a rifle of some kind.

It's a pity lightsabers aren't mass produced in the Star Wars Universe, or Ibani would gladly endorse those.

[sdelmonte]

OTOH, isn't it a good thing lightsabers weren't common? :)

[last_kallig]

Probably! Although it would be a boon for the cybernetic limbs business if they were more common.

[sdelmonte]

Why the heck are they selling salt with the X-Men?

Anyway, Gibbs would advertise rum. He'd want his own brand, in fact. If Captain Morgan can have one, why not Master Gibbs? Otherwise, any Jamaican brand will do.

Knox would sell beer, much as his hero Jimmy Breslin did with Piels Beer in the 60s. (Can you imagine any journalist doing beer ads today?) But it would have to be a Gotham brand, and Gotham Reserve is only available in the Bar.

Cy used to think that doing ads for McDonalds or the like would be cool. Until he started watching that ridiculous cartoon. From now on, he is more careful about his face being used to sell things.

Howard would only do ads for Stark Industry products. And maybe for Marvel's Agent Carter, coming to your TV this fall. (He wants to know if Stark Industries can be the exclusive sponsor. I haven't the heart to tell him ads don't work like that anymore.)

Kirk is from a time when there aren't ads. And when Starfleet regulations would be very much against such behavior. But I can guarantee, he is not going to sell cheap airplane tickets.

And Charlie finds the whole idea abhorrent. And wants to give a lecture about the pernicious effects of advertising on kids. In his youth, though, he did promos for other shows on KBEL.

[bjornwilde]

Why the heck are they selling salt with the X-Men?

Sorry, that's my bad wording. They are using Quicksilver and Mystique to sell Carls Jr., which I had thought of this morning. Then, as I was making my morning coffee I saw the iconic Morton's Salt girl and came up with this topic.

Though I guess selling Carls Jr. is akin to selling salt.

ETA: Wouldn't it be awesome if they filmed ads for Stark products to seed with the normal commercials for Agent Carter? They'd have to be in the 40-50s TV style though.

[bjornwilde]

Jess: Likely a deli or cake boutique knowing her.

Hank: Ovaltine. Or maybe an electronic calculator.

Brimstone: Dental hygiene products. ; p

Mulan: Armor All or a knife sharpener.

Quin: I am not sure since he is trying to avoid notice. Maybe fast ships?

Andrea: A local gyros joint or guns, more likely the guns though.

[last_kallig]

Re Quin. Yeah, hard to be a face for a product when you REALLY don't want attention. Although I suppose he could create a fake identity and face for that.

[bjornwilde]

I'm having a hard time answering for my new pup also, likely cause she exists in three points during life in my head. As a young woman, likely it'd be for travel books as much as she'd want it to be for scholarly works instead. As an old woman, I can see her selling education for woman and dragon safaris to raise awareness of the magnificent creatures. She'd be damn careful whom she supported though.

[last_kallig]

*nods* Dang it, now I want to go on a dragon safari.

[dragon_naturalist]

Me too!

Though they'd likely not be as exciting as we'd think cause I doubt she'd let anyone get close. Likely any viewing would be through looking glasses.

[last_kallig]

That would probably be wise, because big predators that can fly would be dangerous.

[1nv1nc1ble]

Invincible would probably shill for his local comic shop, or maybe the Burger Palace, his fast food joint of choice.

[camwyn]

Ellen is co-author of the Wasteland Survival Guide. I'm reasonably sure that's the primary endorsement she'd be doing. her other options are RobCo Protectron factory model robots, Johnson and Johnson stimpaks (no brand name is ever given for them but I really don't see why J&J shouldn't be used), and Brotherhood of Steel recruiting vids.

[fairy_fixit]

Amascut herself wouldn't appear in advertising, but her alter-egos might. Sumona is a business woman (I think) and understands the value of advertising. Maybe she has advertisements for nosepegs plastered up around town. Maybe there are even adverts for her school of combat training circulating among specialized audience sets. Keli, when she grows up, might shill for rum or feeshes. Yummy delicious feeshes. But then, that is if modern ideas about advertising were dropped into the world. Pirates don't get featured in advertising; they get featured in wanted posters.

Fairy Fixit - Television exists for her and so do television advertisements, so -- tools, definitely tools

[ceitfianna]

Will would be confused by the idea of advertising but I think he'd be all about getting people to come to Nottingham.

Charles is making faces at this idea, I kind of agree with him, there's been so much hype around Days of Future Past. Some of it is clever and I do love seeing attractive people dressed up but I'm honestly tired of it. The Winter Soldier did a much lighter job of promoting and I think that made it effective. But to the question, Charles would happily talk up Oxford or New York or maybe Scotch, but warily and only if he felt it was actually helping mutants.

Ivan says no, loudly to the idea of promoting anything due to serving in the military and being who he is. His mother would find him and lecture him on it, but if he had to, probably a wine.

Moist is grinning at this idea, because he would sap it for all its worth and mos of what he does in his canon books is advertising.

William would probably advertise a catalog like the Sears catalog, which helps him get his books or a series of dime novels or a medicine that Mark used.

Jane would probably advertise ink.

Demeter would advertise garden products.

Sameth would be incredibly uncomfortable doing any advertising but I can see him recommending either stuff for sports like cricket bats or tools.

Tumnus would advertise types of tea.

The Pirate King would advertise places to visit along the English coast and swords.

[1nv1nc1ble]

Somehow, I don't see the Pirate King's review of a coastal town as poorly defended, easily sacked, and containing a substantial amount of gold and rum as being quite the glowing recommendation for the tourist industry that he imagines it to be. Though, all things considered, it'd probably up the number of visitors, pirates or no.

[tire_moi_mes_bottes]

Bossuet would be selling something with a name that turned out to have awkward connotations in another language. He would be completely unaware of his brief fame as the voice of Lazy-Ass Slacker Instant Noodles. But eventually someone would explain all the YouTube videos and comments and he'd think it was great.

[pullsneedles]

Lucas doesn't want anything to do with your capitalist bullshit. He would probably say it nicer, but no, nothing having to do with money and selling things. He just uses it to eat things that aren't slitherhens, thanks.

Mia would probably make tourist ads for Vane and endorse Famous Ramus.

Lohengrin would endorse serving Prince Siegfried. If there were a need for any sort of political campaign, Lohengrin would be 100% behind it.

[hey35andholding]

Clementine: Does the International Marijuana Growers Association have a spokesperson yet? Otherwise she'd be a perfect spokesmodel for a hippie lifestyle shop. She has indeed done some car show modeling, so she has the experience!

Dixie: Was very nearly the first spokeswoman for the victrola. Most of the advertising she participates in relate directly back to her act. Maybe refreshing medicinal tonics that soothe a singer's ragged throat?

Juliet: Since Lassiter probably has every gun manufacturer on lock, either coffee or a crossbow.

Pinkie Pie: SUGAR. Or any baking company. She's not just a spokespony, she's a client!

Eponine: PSAS for the importance of emotional health of teenagers. Or for bullet proof vests.