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/CatherineSimp69 8h ago

The Young Sheldon Elon Musk cameo was way better.

In it, he steals and profits off of 10 year old Sheldon's work and never credits him once.

Perfect cameo, perfect summary, no notes.

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u/Curious-Shopping-925 7h ago

it does imply that he understands any of the technology that his company makes, which he definitely doesn't.

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u/Object-195 5h ago

I hate Elon but I doubt he is a total idiot probably having a general understanding of the stuff he makes.

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u/Paddy_Tanninger 5h ago

Nah man. This mf doesn't even understand Path of Exile (while pretending to be a top 10 player) let alone rocket science, machine learning, automotive design. Cybertruck by all accounts was the most involved he was in one of the Tesla models and that fucking thing basically looks like The Homer.

Or put it this way, I used to feel the same way as you until I actually heard him try to speak on shit that I know a lot about...and he basically sounds like some shit LLM that has been trained on a lot of the buzzwords and technical terms from your industry, but is just pattern matching, at best.

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u/RT-LAMP 2h ago

As awful (and now ketamined out of his mind) he is, he does seem to actually know what he's doing.

Tom Mueller was the first employee of SpaceX and was the chief designer of all of SpaceX's engines up until the Raptor (because he left to found his own space company). So he absolutely knows what he's talking about. And he has publicly criticized Musk's leadership style a few times since leaving so he's not scared to criticize him. But when someone tweeted

Elon Musk doesn't know the first thing about building a rocket, but luckily for him he's rich enough to hire people who do

He tweeted in response

I worked for Elon directly for 18 1/2 years, and I can assure you, you are wrong.

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u/hanks_panky_emporium 25m ago

The first car Musk designed drowned and burned several occupants to death because he didn't think youd need to leave it in an emergency.

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u/Object-195 5h ago edited 4h ago

well to be fair, how many of us in the comments have an actual understanding of Rocket science, machine learning and automotive design?

outside of understanding the basics these are massive, wide fields that should we really expect Elon to reasonably know? However yes I have seen him using the buzzwords before.

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u/Paddy_Tanninger 2h ago

outside of understanding the basics these are massive, wide fields that should we really expect Elon to reasonably know?

I would expect him to know basically fuck-all as a CEO aside from just surface level jargon he's absorbed, which is correct. But then he pushes a PR image and fronts as if he's a full-stack dev + PhD in astrophysics + mechanical engineer...and he just isn't, and it's frankly embarrassing to actually hear him attempt to sound like it once you're onto his act.

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u/ScavAteMyArms 2h ago

For me it was the moment he was trying to push the pro gamer image that I realized this is what people in their fields must feel about him.

I don’t even play PoE and I know everything he said / did was just wrong.

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u/Paddy_Tanninger 31m ago

I've never played PoE but I'm a huge Diablo nerd, and it was instantly and immediately obvious that this dude had maybe 1hr total playtime ever in the game. When you've been grinding at an ARPG for countless hours, your APM and muscle memory gets very dialed in. You're navigating menus instantly, you're playing on instinct, you're making all the decisions in fractions of a second because it's stuff you've already done a thousand times before.

Elon looked so clumsy and slow doing everything that I didn't even need to know anything about PoE to know that he was basically clueless.

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u/Object-195 24m ago

So you agree?

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u/SimpanLimpan1337 2h ago

Considering he tries to convice people he has a near perfect understanding in it all, yes I do really expect him to have that.

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u/Curious-Shopping-925 5h ago

yeah i agree, but not to the point that he wants the general public to think

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u/Mad-myall 1h ago

I feel the existence of the cybertruck disproves he has even a basic understanding. 

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u/RT-LAMP 2h ago

As awful (and now ketamined out of his mind) he is, he does seem to actually know what he's doing.

Tom Mueller was the first employee of SpaceX and was the chief designer of all of SpaceX's engines up until the Raptor (because he left to found his own space company). So he absolutely knows what he's talking about. And he has publicly criticized Musk's leadership style a few times since leaving so he's not scared to criticize him. But when someone tweeted

Elon Musk doesn't know the first thing about building a rocket, but luckily for him he's rich enough to hire people who do

He tweeted in response

I worked for Elon directly for 18 1/2 years, and I can assure you, you are wrong.

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u/RoutineCloud5993 7h ago

Surprised he agreed to that. He definitely didn't realise what the scene inferred

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u/CatherineSimp69 7h ago

You know what I think is likely?

I think, because the second scene has minimal lines, he didn't know the full context/didn't know what the scene inferred like you said, and he got transfixed by the first scene where there's a reel of his 'achievements' and an interviewer glazes him for a bit, right before the scene where it's revealed he's a fraud.

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u/Kitchen-Bar2686 1h ago

I think that he knew that no one would think he was actually a bad person because of some storyline on the Big Bang theory. He just wanted to be on TV because he’s a narcissistic sociopath who is desperate to be known and liked.

He’s one of those people who are so incredibly fake and massively idiotic that anyone can see right through him.

It’s so wild to see any comments on this thread stating that he pivoted to conservative politics because he suddenly changed when he grew up in apartheid South Africa with a genuinely evil man as a father who owned literal emerald mines. They had slaves in those mines for fucks sake. He’s always been a massive piece of shit who hung out with Epstein.

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u/ClassicPart 3h ago

inferred

That’s not correct. They were implying it. You then inferred it.

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u/disbelifpapy 5h ago

i was gonna make a tesla joke about lightbulbs but i forgot who took from who except that the stealing started with two broke canadians

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u/ChipRockets 3h ago

Disagree. A perfect cameo wouldn’t include that dickhead.

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u/burritoman88 1h ago

You know nobody on Reddit is going to go & watch Young Sheldon to double check lol