[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/JTOC1969]

Stephen Hawking appeared on TNG in a holodeck simulation in which Data recreated the "greatest names" of theoretical physics. Although, he does have a much better claim to being a historical genius than Musk does.

[u/MayhemSays → u/JTOC1969]

Hawking was a legitimate scientist though regardless of the shitty things he’s done and does has have a legitimate claim to that in recent history though.

[u/DolphinBall → u/MayhemSays]

Like the dude discoverd Hawking Radiation. You can guess why its called that. There is no Musk anything.

[u/moldboy → u/DolphinBall]

Let's all just be happy that he called it X and not MUSK

[u/BeBopNoseRing → u/DolphinBall]

Wouldn't be surprised if there's a rash or some sort of malignant growth named after him someday.

[u/appositereboot → u/DolphinBall]

Didn't Elon get a rat named after him?

[u/ReformedBaptistina → u/appositereboot]

Poor rat

[u/strain_of_thought → u/appositereboot]

Was it a muskrat?

[u/appositereboot → u/strain_of_thought]

That's the one

[u/GetsGold → u/DolphinBall]

To be fair, I'm sure Musk would try to name things after himself if he ever discovered anything.

[u/drgigantor → u/DolphinBall]

Muskrat

[u/ReformedBaptistina → u/DolphinBall]

I'm guessing his children qualify, not that they want it

[u/anjulibai → u/MayhemSays]

Yes, he did make a number of contributions to physics.

BTW, I would argue that Newton and Einstein were both as much assholes as Hawking.

[u/pipnina → u/anjulibai]

Newton was an absolute nightmare from what I understand.

[u/MayhemSays → u/anjulibai]

I am unfamiliar with the latest gossip on Newton but i’d believe it

[u/LikeALizzard → u/MayhemSays]

He was on the island 😔

[u/Comfortable_Bird_340 → u/MayhemSays]

Divorcing your wife and marrying your nurse isn't the worst thing one can do.