my old oc Oz Tonite! he was inspired by max headroom and mac tonite
he is a mascot created by a company named Terrence's, which is an entertainment mega-corporation not inspired by anyone in real life. he was created to advertise their classic cinema as well as old movies from other companies they recently acquired. in addition to having a whole TV show, he also had a line of TVs that had him in it and would provide movie trivia and stuff like that.
then he got scrapped, and is now the source of a lot of lost media. the main character has one of the old TVs because eir friend who collects a lot of stuff like this had one but thought he was super annoying. due to being basically abandoned by his creators, Oz now has a deep hatred for the company that built him, as well as some abandonment issues. he's also pretty snobby about movies still which sucks because the MC likes trashy action TV and he very much does not.
as a sentient mascot he's basically a hivemind too. like all of the TVs and stuff are connected. later the main character meets a "living character" type thing made of him and is surprised to see him walking around and stuff
i want to redesign a lot of stuff for this story so he'll be a part of that, as he's one of the closest friends of the main character, even though he spends most of the story as a small annoying TV.