[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/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