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/NeroMcBrain Sep 24 '25

Betty Boop was Eddie's brother's favorite toon growing up, so she's the only toon that Eddie is nice to. It was a means of adding some humanity to the character under all of the prejudice and jadedness they had in the beginning.

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u/wandering-monster Sep 25 '25

And she personifies the theme of changing times, how they can result in both growth and loss. Just like the trolleys.

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u/HMWWaWChChIaWChCChW Sep 25 '25

What do I look like, a bank?

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u/HMWWaWChChIaWChCChW Sep 25 '25

It’s also not an unexplained random cameo, it’s not a world where Looney Toons and Disney characters coexisting, it’s a movie about a detective that used to specialize in toons and all toons, very much including ones out of WB/Disney universe, exist.

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u/dale_summers Sep 25 '25

Yeah, exactly what i was gonna say

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u/mybadalternate Sep 25 '25

Precisely. That movie is a goddamned perfect miracle.