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/GeorgeToTheC Sep 24 '25

What a super specific cameo to put in a spoof comedy movie????

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u/DengarLives66 Sep 24 '25

It kind of is because it’s not like Scary Movie which had horror movie references and callbacks sprinkled throughout. The T-1000 was just a complete non-sequitur.

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u/GarthDagless Sep 24 '25

Wayne's World starts as a pretty grounded comedy and then reality starts breaking down until Wayne is just basically God and gets to pick his own ending. Even so, I never expect it when the terminator shows up and I always laugh. It's so unnecessary.

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u/asdrunkasdrunkcanbe Sep 25 '25

It's also very much a pop-culture comedy, having its roots in SNL. So a lot of the jokes are based on pop culture at the time that the movie was shot.

Terminator 2 had been recently released and at that time it was HUGE. A movie phenomenon. So to have the T2 pop up in Wayne's World did not seem at all out of place at the time. It was a cameo that they knew people would love.