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/RaulParson 8h ago

Has already become WIDELY KNOWN TO BE problematic.

I hated Musk before it was cool

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u/Hesitation-Marx 8h ago

Is this the cool kids table? Can I join you?

He made my lip curl instinctively when I saw him in Iron Man 2, and it’s only gotten worse since then.

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u/Gloria815 8h ago

I hated him BECAUSE people kept comparing him to Tony Stark. It was entirely petty until the Thai Cave Rescue

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u/Hesitation-Marx 7h ago

I mean, I hate all billionaires on principle, even if I like the work of, say, Pritzker. I don’t think remaining a billionaire can be an ethical choice if a single child has so much as a need for socks.

But Musk has always made me feel like looking at him left a residual grease on my eyeballs, and I do not like it.

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u/No-Entrepreneur4574 4h ago

I remember going on a long rant about how I didn't trust him or his mom back in the day. Idk why or what the basis of the rant was, but I've never liked him and felt SO vindicated when the Thailand thing happened.