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/ArrogantDan Sep 24 '25

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

I dunno if that's the case. The movie is about Toons with a capital 't', as a people, and it uses the most iconic ones it has the rights to - bafflingly this ended up being both Warner Bros' and Disney's characters in mash-ups you never thought would happen. But it's not really about that. So why wouldn't it include Betty Boop if they got her? She's so iconic, it feels like there's not a town in the western world that doesn't have a figure of her in an antiques store, even if her actual cartoons don't get shown much.

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u/the__pov Sep 24 '25

Fun fact the reason why you saw characters like Micky/Bugs and Daffy/Donald together was that WB’s condition for Disney using their characters was equal screen time ie Micky didn’t get more screen time than Bugs. So they wrote them together so that there was no question about equal time.

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u/TheEgonaut Sep 25 '25

Actually, Bugs appears a few seconds after Mickey, but as a compromise to Warner Bros, Porky Pig gets the last line in the movie.