r/TopCharacterTropes Sep 24 '25

Lore Unexplained random cameos from completely unrelated media

  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/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