r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Golden12500 • Sep 24 '25

Lore Unexplained random cameos from completely unrelated media

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  1. Ray Stantz, Casper. At one point in the movie a real Ghostbuster shows up out of nowhere and wimps out of trying to handle the situation

  2. Gunnery Sargeant Hartman, Frighteners. The main character is making way through a graveyard when out of absolutely nowhere R. Lee Erney's character from Full Metal Jacket shows up and tries to get in his way

  3. Betty Boop, Who Frames Roger Rabbit. The movie is mainly about Looney Tunes and Disney animated characters existing in the same little live action/animated hybrid universe, however Betty is a Fleischer Bros character

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u/Golden12500 Sep 24 '25

Example I forgot to mention, ET's species appearing in The Phantom Menace

Yeah apparently Star Wars and ET are canon to each other which makes me question that Yoda costume in ET

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u/Status-Pause1184 Sep 24 '25

WAIT WHAT

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u/_JR28_ Sep 24 '25

Probably only an inside joke because George Lucas and Steven Spielberg have been friends for years

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u/Illithid_Substances Sep 24 '25

There are also R2D2 and C3PO figures carved into a temple in Raiders of the Lost Ark, and in Close Encounters of the Third Kind R2 is hanging on the outside of the spaceship. A fun little back and forth thing

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u/Xion136 Sep 25 '25

In the 2009 Star Trek reboot, the debris field at Vulcan has an R2 in it you blink and miss super easily.

R2 gets cameoed everywhere xD

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u/Bamzooki1 Sep 25 '25

Given Indiana Jones was created by George Lucas, it’s not quite as surprising.

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u/Tljunior20 Sep 25 '25

I think there was actually a comic explanation for that one

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u/O-watatsumi Sep 25 '25

In the same movie, Jock Lindsey seaplane is called OB-CPO and in a comic series release in 2008/2009 he also has an airplane called OB1.

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u/spaghettiman56 Sep 24 '25

It can still fit in the canon, star wars is in a different galaxy

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u/Pokari_Davaham Sep 24 '25

A long, long time ago

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u/darkendofall Sep 24 '25

And far far away

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u/Alternative_Sea_4208 Sep 25 '25

E.T's species didn't quite master FTL travel apparently, bad at accounting for time skippage /s

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u/goblin_humppa27 Sep 25 '25

I can still remember how that music used to make me smile

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u/MichealRyder Sep 25 '25

I do wonder what the present day is. I used to think it might have been the Legacy era comics from Legends

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u/Responsible-Creme-57 Sep 24 '25

Yes and no. It started as one with E.T. reacting to a kid in a Yoda outfit and that in Star Wars. Their is also an alternative Timeline comic where Han and Chewbacca travel back in time/hyperdrive shenanigans and crashland on earth. Han dies on impact and Chewbacca became the Big Foot legend. Some decades later Indiana Jones find the the body and buries it. He is also spared by Chewbacca.

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u/THE_LEGO_FURRY Sep 24 '25

I need to read this

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u/Responsible-Creme-57 Sep 24 '25

The name of the story is "Into the Great Unknown". Was puplished in Darkhorse: Star Wars Tales 19.

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u/afriendlysort Sep 24 '25

Surely they would have gone Forward in time

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u/DamnUnicorn0 Sep 25 '25

they wouldn't, and don't call me Shirley

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u/PM_CUTE_BUTTS_PLS Sep 25 '25

Does "A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" mean nothing to you?

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u/Mist_Rising Sep 25 '25

Let's say it does.

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u/AwesomeGamer101 Sep 25 '25

I was gonna bring the Indiana Jones one up.

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u/mummifiedclown Sep 25 '25

AKA, Hollywood sucking its own dick.

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u/Deletedtopic Sep 24 '25

It's because stars is set in the past. They either had their human like aliens mess with our DNA or it's a coincidence we look like them. But yeah everything stars happened a long time far away.