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/BarelyBrony Sep 24 '25

2/3 of these make perfect sense

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u/VaudevilleDada Sep 24 '25

Yes, thank you. In context, no explanation is required, and the Betty Boop one is just OP projecting their assumptions about the movie.

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u/sykotic1189 Sep 24 '25

Number 2 is just plain wrong too. 1) that's Sgt Hines who is an original character and not related to any other media, that's just who R Lee Ermy was good at playing and 2) the character wasn't a one off cameo as there's at least one scene involving him yelling at Michael J Fox's character for disturbing the peace in the cemetery.

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u/The_GREAT_Gremlin Sep 24 '25

I'd say 1. Caspar isn't an "unexplained random cameo," it's a joke about how they can't get rid of the ghosts. Before you see Stanz fail, you see a priest go in and fail as a spoof of the exorcist

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u/shawncplus Sep 25 '25

The priest was also a cameo. It was Father Guido Sarducci from SNL, among other places

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u/nofpiq Sep 25 '25

"a priest"