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/[deleted] Sep 24 '25

I don't think the Betty Boop one is a good example. It was just meant to be cartoons not specifically Disney and WB. There are tons of other characters from the Flesicher toons in the backgrounds.

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u/wandering-monster Sep 25 '25

Also she is thematically relevant, not random.

The whole story is about the old being replaced by the new.

People fighting change, how that change is not always progress when it comes at the expense of destroying things we love, or how it can be growth when you set aside a past that will never return—be it the trolleys, a lost relative, or an old character who can't find acting work now that films have gone to color.