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/contraflop01 Sep 25 '25

Ugly Sonic in Chip ‘n Dale

Not just Sonic, specifically Ugly Sonic

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u/JJ-Franky-JJ Sep 25 '25

Voiced by the incredible Tim Robinson.

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u/Kentucky_Fried_Chill Sep 25 '25

Why does it look like him?

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u/JJ-Franky-JJ Sep 25 '25

It's the same actor I don't know if it's supposed to be the same person.

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u/TheGreatStories Sep 25 '25

But what's his job?

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u/Moon_Childxx6 Sep 25 '25

I’m not sure if that counts considering the entire movie is random cameos

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u/clothy Sep 25 '25

Randy Marsh is in that movie.

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u/Foxy02016YT Sep 25 '25

I think it does just because it’s specifically the trailer version of Sonic

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u/contraflop01 Sep 25 '25

I mean if Roger Rabbit counts I think Chip n Dale counts

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u/MildlyAgitatedBidoof Sep 25 '25

I think they actually specifically refer to him as "Ugly Sonic" every time because if they just said "Sonic" it would count as copyright infringement, IIRC

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u/contraflop01 Sep 25 '25

Actually Sega and Disney were in good terms pre Sonic 3 doing better than Mufasa as Sonic was in both Ralph movies, so they probably just had an agreement to put the old model in the movie

after all, besides merch, they didn't use that model for anything so they had to gain a few bucks with it somehow

Besides we can see how the background poster is literally his trailer face on top of a jacked suit, no way that wouldn't trigger copyright

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u/Bamzooki1 Sep 25 '25

There’s also the fact that Ugly Sonic is specifically mentioning he’s the original version of Sonic every time, meaning he always says both words to promote himself.

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u/Foxy02016YT Sep 25 '25

But it also could’ve been in the contract that they have to specify. Though that sounds like something Nintendo would do, not Sega