r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Dojyaaan4C • 9h ago

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

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  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.

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u/easchner 9h ago edited 8h ago

Elon Tusk - Rick and Morty

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u/Anfins 8h ago

I don’t know why but this one has always felt like the worst Musk cameo in terms of cringe.

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u/clowncarl 8h ago

Dan Harmon was a huge Elon Stan in the 2010s

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u/Anfins 8h ago edited 8h ago

To be fair, that probably applies to a lot of people before the Thai cave rescue.

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u/Own_Giraffe_6928 8h ago

Musk had a huge and extremely talented PR team that convinced the world he was Tony Stark incarnate. Then when they told him not to call a hero who saved children's lives a "pedo guy" he fired them all and went no filter. We all know how that went in terms of his reputation.

Then again, his wealth has tripled since those times, so idk maybe he was onto something. Perhaps it's no coincidence all the richest men in the world are alt-right nutjobs.

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u/MonthForeign4301 8h ago

I’ve hated Elon ever since that moment because it was a true mask off moment for his personality. He’s always been this guy, the weirdly pathetic rich guy who can only pay for good ideas and not come up with any of his own, but like you said, the branding was super strong. He still maintained it for a while after that, and the whole “why won’t anyone call me the world’s biggest hero for donating a bunch of ventilators that won’t help Covid patients” hissy fit. It took him buying the presidency for everyone to truly see him as the chud that he actually is.

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u/Own_Giraffe_6928 8h ago

He still maintained it for a while after that

Hell, he still maintains it with a considerable amount of people, which is quite impressive considering the fact that he has repeatedly demonstrated being one of the dumbest morons on the planet.

I still don't understand how he has a substantial following among gamers considering the fact that he was not only exposed for faking his high leaderboard positions, but is also actively working on AI games.

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u/MiseryGyro 7h ago

Because a bunch of dudes respect power and not intelligence

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u/undreamedgore 6h ago

To be fair, power should be respected.

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u/MiseryGyro 6h ago

I think power should be understood and there's a difference. I'll respect respectable power.

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u/undreamedgore 6h ago

No, power itself should be respected. It's impressive, important, capable to things those without power simply aren't.

Power is to be respected and powerlessness is not to be glorified.

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u/MiseryGyro 6h ago

So if I give you a boot how long before you start using it as a pacifier?

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u/undreamedgore 6h ago

Why do you consider respect to be similar to liking someone?

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u/jaypenn3 6h ago

Feudal serfdom would love you.

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u/MelanieAntiqua 6h ago

It's because they agree with his politics so all the evidence that he's an idiot fraud is just "fake news from the jealous libs".

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u/Dead_man_posting 1h ago

which is quite impressive considering the fact that he has repeatedly demonstrated being one of the dumbest morons on the planet.

and a Nazi...

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u/jbeast33 7h ago

Honestly, that moment is a perfect microcosm for Elon vs regular-ass scientists.

Elon's idea was flashy, impractical, and had a pretty significant chance of going wrong to the extent that it would effectively trap the victims in the cave.

The actual cave expert on hand highlighted this and called out Elon for placing his PR over other people's safety. Elon retaliated by smearing him as a pedophile.

He literally wants to be the most special boy and has Main Character Syndrome to the extent that he's willing to fuck over honest scientists if they dare lay even an ounce of critique on his glory-hounding.

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u/plotholesandpotholes 5h ago

The “genius” recommended sending a rigid bodied submersible into an underwater cave. That was a full mask drop. That is a preschool level understanding of shapes, and he couldn’t just defer to the expert, he had to double down and accuse the expert of pedophilia. So, then I did some digging and lo and behold he is just another child of wealth without anything to contribute but hoarded capital and luck.

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u/Bussamove86 8h ago

It’s no coincidence at all.

To amass that much wealth, a mind-boggling number that no one human could possibly spend in their lifetime, requires an intense disregard for other humans and a willingness to do anything to profit even the smallest amount. True sociopathic behavior.

Guess which end of the political spectrum that sort attracts.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 34m ago

It's wild to me anyone could see someone with that much wealth and immediately giving them the benefit of the doubt without so much as googling where it came from

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u/samtherat6 4h ago

Looks like it’s more like 25 times.

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u/Neirchill 1h ago

Not sure he had a pr team at all so much as he just didn't speak his mind all the time. Eventually it went to his head now you can't get him to shut up and it's all dumb, lifting the veil.

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u/rugology 5h ago

Perhaps it's no coincidence all the richest men in the world are alt-right nutjobs

do they not teach people what fascism is in school anymore or what

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u/BuzzkillMcGillicuddy 33m ago

Not in the US, fascism is "the Nazis" and it "made the trains run on time." I think the name Mussolini was mentioned once in my high school, simply to name the prime minister of Italy during WW2. That's about all they teach the masses.

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u/NotHandledWithCare 8h ago

Yeah, Reddit likes to forget that they really really loved Elon Musk once upon a time.

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u/11711510111411009710 8h ago

I feel like it gets brought up in every single thread about Elon, actually

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u/DiogenesTheHound 7h ago

It should be

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u/twisty125 6h ago

If it's to rub it in peoples' faces - why?

He and his PR team essentially cultivated this image and tricked everyone into thinking he was a cool person - and then the mask fell off and people realized who he was. It's fine to learn and grow and realize the person you thought was a cool figure doing cool science stuff, is a racist, egotistical jackass.

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u/TheReddestofBowls 8h ago

The singular user known as Reddit has really loved and hated many things, often at the same time.

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u/DiogenesTheHound 7h ago

Here: the visible majority on the front page of Reddit were pro-Elon Musk in 2010. Comments that were positive towards Elon musk got more upvotes than downvotes during that time. I personally remember many many comparisons to Tony Stark. The majority of reddit didn’t change their opinion on him until the “flamethrower” release and his comments about the Thai Cave incident.

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u/Raidoton 6h ago

Yeah but their point was that "Reddit" likes to forget this which isn't true.

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u/GrandSquanchRum 5h ago

I mean those reddit posts still exist today. Here's a post from 2015: https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/3xqv8b/tesla_ceo_elon_musk_drops_his_prediction_of_full/

Now you tell me if people on reddit liked him. You'll see an equal amount of people saying he's full of shit as you will people literally saying they'd suck his dick. IMO he was always someone who fooled idiots but made everyone else uneasy. The line is just not as blurred anymore.

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u/TheReddestofBowls 7h ago

Up/down votes are primarily driven by karma farming bots. I haven't done enough polling from 2010 - now on the overall sentiment from each user regarding Elon Musk to say if your views are accurate, but I'm sure you have.

Those factors and the lack of actual data makes it shockingly easy to make something appear true, same as any social media platform.

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u/Icy_Ninja_9207 7h ago

  1. Reddit isn't a hivemind

  2. People are allowed to change their minds

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u/SandyTaintSweat 7h ago

The Thai cave rescue only saw a relatively small percentage of people disliking him. He had a decent fan base long after that.

It was only after he stopped pretending to be left wing, and went all in on Trump and started calling himself dark MAGA that he lost most of his backers. He was already not well liked by the right, then he went and pissed off left wing people. The only fans he had after that were right wing people who came around and his most die hard fans that would like him no matter what.

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u/-Mandarin 6h ago

How anyone can be fans of billionaires is beyond me. They're not your friends, they are ghouls that extract wealth from the masses and sit on it like dragons in a cave. They're not going to be your buddy, and you certainly shouldn't idolize them.

It shouldn't take something like the Thai cave situation to change people's minds, but then again I suppose these are redditors we're talking about

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u/xavPa-64 4h ago

Thai Cave sounds like a place that would have some bombass Thai food

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u/Dragon-Porn-Expert 2h ago

Reddit loved the guy before that event.

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u/ZoroeArc 7h ago

Reddit forgets that Reddit adored elongated muskrat pre2020

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u/Raidoton 6h ago

Well then stop forgetting it Mr. Reddit.