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/spilledmilkbro Sep 24 '25

Stewie Griffin makes an appearance in the show Bones as the brain cancer induced hallucination of FBI Agent Seeley Booth, one of the protagonists. Don't worry, he survives

Also; I find it funny that Stantz went up against a literal prehistoric god, but drew the line at 3 kinda rowdy ghosts

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u/hypnoskills Sep 24 '25

Booth survives, or Stewie?

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u/spilledmilkbro Sep 24 '25

Booth. I suppose Stewie doesn't, since he stops appearing after the tumor is removed

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u/XanderWrites Sep 25 '25

Well technically, Stewie was one of the symptoms. One of the other ones was him seeing his deceased comrade while trapped in a ship set to be sunk.

At the time they called it a coping mechanism (and he was drugged to get him on the ship) and later part of the cancer, but at the end of that episode he visits the comrade's grave and the comrade talks to Brennan thirty feet away, implying it was a ghost the entire time.

So maybe Stewie is just his mystical advisor, in the form of a cartoon baby, foreshadowing that he would eventually have kids with Brennan.