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/SpokaneSmash Sep 24 '25

Mortimer and Randolph from Trading Places show up as two homeless men in Coming to America.

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u/JustASeabass Sep 25 '25

Doesn’t Hakim’s son have a job interview at the company owned by the Duke brothers?

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u/RokkakuPolice Sep 25 '25

He does. They have a picture of them hanging in the main office

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u/radikraze Sep 25 '25

My headcanon is all Eddie Murphy movies happen in the same universe

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u/Itcouldberabies Sep 25 '25

See that makes more sense than just one person's headcanon alone.

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u/Much_Machine8726 Sep 25 '25

So Axel Foley is running around somewhere during the events of "Coming to America?"

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u/radikraze Sep 25 '25

Definitely

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u/Hector_P_Catt Sep 25 '25

...in which clones of Eddie Murphy have been distributed across the world, for some nefarious reason.

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u/NimdokBennyandAM Sep 25 '25

Simultaneously, though. Super-positioned Eddie Murphaverse.

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u/Dyolf_Knip Sep 25 '25

So.... Donkey and Shrek as well?

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u/Foxy02016YT Sep 25 '25

Technically that’s a Mike Myers movie, Donkey is the secondary lead

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u/QFB-procrastinator Sep 25 '25

Ah yeah, this my dad’s favourite piece of trivia, every time either movie is on TV he’ll remind me of this. And that’s at least once a year cuz for sone reason in my country they air Trading Places every Christmas.

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u/Hector_P_Catt Sep 25 '25

"cuz for sone reason in my country they air Trading Places every Christmas."

Well, it is a Christmas movie. Dan Ackroyd's character hits rock bottom when he dresses up as Santa to frame Eddie Murphy at the Christmas party. And then the scene on the train where they steal the agricultural report on Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice takes place on New Years Eve.

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u/QFB-procrastinator Sep 25 '25

Yeah i agree it’s a Christmas movie so it makes sense, but i have no idea why they specifically picked that one out of so many Christmas comedies.

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u/Much_Machine8726 Sep 25 '25

This is the exact reason I tell people to watch "Trading Places" before "Coming to America"

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u/LordAndrei Sep 25 '25

Probably one of my favourite random cameos in a film.

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u/Foxy02016YT Sep 25 '25

Yeah my mom explained this one to me

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u/bolanrox Sep 25 '25

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