# The Most Iconic Domestically-Created Character for Each Country **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 16, 2020, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-iconic-domestically-created-character-for-each-country/918263 "2020-08-16T15:14:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Lantern2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lantern2/32/3010_2.png) [@Lantern2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lantern2)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2020, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-iconic-domestically-created-character-for-each-country/918263/121 "2020-09-11T07:55:49Z")
I don’t know which country gets the credit but the gods of Norse mythology deserve a mention. Thor, Odin etc. The Marvel films have given them fresh relevance and it doesn’t hurt to have the days of week named after them. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2020, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-iconic-domestically-created-character-for-each-country/918263/122 "2020-09-11T08:18:17Z")
For South Africa, I would have said Jock of the Bushveld but he isn’t really fictional. Probably [Liewe Heksie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liewe_Heksie) or [Tannie Evita](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter-Dirk_Uys), then. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2020, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-iconic-domestically-created-character-for-each-country/918263/123 "2020-09-11T08:18:50Z")
Not Dame Edna? ---
**Author:** ![Dorabella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f08c70/32.png) [@Dorabella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorabella)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2020, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-iconic-domestically-created-character-for-each-country/918263/124 "2020-09-11T08:52:30Z")
I’d like to add [Snugglepot and Cuddlepie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snugglepot_and_Cuddlepie) for Australia. The books were a big part of my childhood though I am not sure if they are known much today. They are adorable though. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2020, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-iconic-domestically-created-character-for-each-country/918263/125 "2020-09-11T09:33:31Z")
I suppose a recent option for Ireland would be Leopold Bloom. But romantics might go for Finn McCool. The standard cartoon character for a representative German - in Germany - is or used to be the “[Deutscher Michel](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutscher_Michel)” r The thought occurs that there’s a lot of tourist promotion (or response to demand) around localities associated with literary characters, at least in the UK: “Herriot country” in North Yorkshire, Poldark in Cornwall, Lorna Doone on Exmoor, and the like. I guess the same happens elsewhere (I believe the village featured in Jacques Tati’s Jour de Fête has celebrations of the movie with people dressing up in character) ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-iconic-domestically-created-character-for-each-country/918263/127 "2020-09-12T06:19:35Z")
> [@Dorabella](#): > > I’d like to add [Snugglepot and Cuddlepie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snugglepot_and_Cuddlepie) for Australia. The books were a big part of my childhood though I am not sure if they are known much today. They are adorable though. We have one of those, we’ll it’s a book with three stories in it. As the reader, I’m not a fan, but my oldest daughter loved it for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-iconic-domestically-created-character-for-each-country/918263/128 "2020-09-12T11:07:14Z")
If we’re talking about national personifications, then my country’s symbol is the guy right here, in the upper left corner of my post. He goes by [Srulik](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srulik). ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-iconic-domestically-created-character-for-each-country/918263/129 "2020-09-12T13:00:33Z")
For Mexico: [El Chavo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Chavo_del_Ocho) For Chile and much of South America: [Condorito](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorito) For Argentina: [Mafalda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafalda) I have to agree that [Doraemon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doraemon) is more popular in Japan that Hello Kitty. There is usually a Doraemon movie released every year in Japan. `//i\\` [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-iconic-domestically-created-character-for-each-country/918263.md?page=6)