4129. Pepsiman and Grim Reaper

Pepsiman is an official Pepsi mascot from Pepsi's Japanese corporate branch. The design of the Pepsiman character is attributed to Canadian comic book artist Travis Charest, created sometime around the mid 1990s. Pepsiman took on three different outfits, each one representing the current style of the Pepsi can in distribution. Twelve commercials were created featuring the character. His role in the advertisements is to appear with Pepsi to thirsty people or people craving soda. Pepsiman happens to appear at just the right time with the product. After delivering the beverage, sometimes Pepsiman would encounter a difficult and action oriented situation which would result in injury. In 1996, Sega-AM2 released the Sega Saturn version of its arcade fighting game Fighting Vipers. In this game Pepsiman was included as a special character, with his specialty listed as being the ability to "quench one's thirst". He does not appear in any other version or sequel. In 1999, KID developed a video game for the PlayStation entitled Pepsiman. As the titular character, the player runs, skateboards, rolls, and stumbles through various areas, avoiding dangers and collecting cans of Pepsi all while trying to reach a thirsty person as in the commercials. PepsiMan Meets...The Universal Monsters! Part One saw him get grabbed by a generic Skeleton, have his head crushed by Frankenstein (actually his Monster), be enwrapped by a Terror Tree (might be an Ozian Arboreal), reposed in a Coffin, haunted by a Ghost, carried Julie Adams-style by The Creature (from the Black Lagoon), about to be conked by a GiantGorilla (too small for King Kong, possibly Mighty Joe Young), your typical Witch cooking him up in a brew, frightened by bats outside a Gravestone and standing shocked behind The Wolf Man!! These caps came with a 500ml Pepsi and it took several carbonated concoctions for me to get the set. Part Two's batch were attached to 1.5 litre bottles of the bubbly beverage. Now PepsiMan met the Metaluna Mutant, was swallowed by Horror Shark (Spielberg wanted too much dough to allow it to be called Jaws), tossed by the Mummy, chained by the Grim Reaper, share a pop with Dracula, be experimented on by the unknown Dr. Mad and flashed by The Invisible Man!