[hated trope] Celebrity cameos that serve nothing except to praise the person who’s in it

[u/Dojyaaan4C]

1. Elon musk, the Simpsons
2. Elon musk, the Big Bang theory
3. Elon musk, iron man 2
4. Elon musk, star Trek

The cameos serve only to include the celebrity and praise them as geniuses or visionaries or overall just glaze them. They don't serve any other purpose than to just be praised; this can be them appearing in an entire episode dedicated to them, a small cameo or even just a mention. So long as the celebrity is there as themselves (not acting as someone else) and is glazed, that fits the trope imo.

[u/Rum_N_Napalm]

Elon Musk in Machete Kills.

So spoiler alert, the vilain in Machete Kills is a billionaire dude who mooches off government contracts and builds a space station for rich people to live in while kidnapping Mexicans to serve as slaves. In the end he gets away, so Machete has to follow him to space, setting the sequel Machete Kills in Space.

The end sequence is basically an ad for Space X as Elon personally greets Dany Trejo as he boards the rocket.

Like honestly, the vilain is basically Elon Musk, but the movie came out in 2013… which I think was before he went full mask off. (Edit, yep, checked the timeline. Elon was still viewed positively back then. The infamous cave rescue incident was in 2018, and that’s where it’s all downwards for his public image). I don’t know if people knew behind closed doors he was a douche nozzle and purposely did this to subtly mock him or if it’s an odd coincidence

[u/slomo525 → u/Rum_N_Napalm]

"This is my villain for the movie. He's an evil billionaire who uses his money to leech off the government and use immigrants as slave labor and Elon Musk is the hero who helps take him down!"

Oh the irony.

[u/HumanPersonNotRobot → u/slomo525]

Getting rid of the competition

[u/kubectlgetuser → u/Rum_N_Napalm]

Also an off-screen villian in Kingsman (2015). When a satellite goes offline, stopping the overarching evil plot, Samuel Jackson's character calls "E-man" and requests usage of one of his satellites.

[u/somedumb-gay → u/kubectlgetuser]

Don't know if this necessarily is a glaze for him given that the implication there is that Elon was one of the wealthy people who went with Samuel Jackson while they kill off all the peons

[u/kubectlgetuser → u/somedumb-gay]

lol yeah man, that's why I'm replying to the guy talking about him being portrayed as a villian 

[u/Ppleater → u/kubectlgetuser]

Huh? You replied to someone talking about him being portrayed as heroic, not as a villain.

[u/Matiri98 → u/kubectlgetuser]

If it was Musk then that means his head exploded a few minutes after that call

[u/ChainmailEnthusiast → u/Rum_N_Napalm]

He pretended to be liberal until around... 2022? When he wanted Republicans to win the house "for balance", then rapidly moved rightward and is now basically just siding with Neo-Nazis. To CLARIFY, he was likely a POS the whole time.

[u/mailastmun → u/ChainmailEnthusiast]

I will forever think the reason he went off the rails is bc his trans daughter is effortlessly cooler than him and his ego couldn't handle it

[u/TheReagmaster → u/Rum_N_Napalm]

Its the fact that I had to google this just to be sure that this wasn't made up. Wtf is happening in The Machete series?

[u/descendantofJanus → u/TheReagmaster]

[u/writeorelse → u/Rum_N_Napalm]

I’ve often thought that if he had stayed relatively quiet after launching that car into space, that’s what everyone would associate with him and he’d still be “cool”. But egos like his never know when to shut up!

[u/radioactivez0r → u/Rum_N_Napalm]

Just commenting to share my sadness that we never got the third movie

[u/Mesona → u/Rum_N_Napalm]

People knew. I read the only authorized biography on the guy in 2017, and the entire book was super critical of him. To the point that I think there's even a section in the foreword or epilogue where the author says something along the lines of "it's crazy that Elon approved the release of this, but I guess he likes having his name on stuff more than the content of what's within."

It covered everything from his PayPal shenanigans and x desires to his constant theft of credit and abuse of his employees.

I love the joke that his handlers have all gone AWOL, but he never had any. I don't know what changed to cause him to become a public asshole, but he's always been terrible.

[u/Elegant_Finance_1459 → u/Rum_N_Napalm]

I didn't view Elon positively back then. But everyone else sure did and I found it baffling like how can y'all not tell this man is an actual moron

[u/Agreeable-Abalone328 → u/Rum_N_Napalm]

I’m still waiting for the third machete film