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I agree. And many of these characters in the article did not originate from a video game whatsoever. For example, Ronald McDonald appeared in McDonald's video games, but the games were not his origin. His origin was from TV commercials. Disney characters also had their own video games, but did not originate in video games, but in cartoons and films.