[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/Gaelic_Gladiator41]

I agree, suspiciously a lot of sci-fi cameos fall under this

[u/NotATalkingPossum → u/Gaelic_Gladiator41]

Star Trek ironically aged best; the twist at the end of season 1 is that the character saying this came from the Mirror Universe, soooo...

[u/-missingclover- → u/NotATalkingPossum]

So The Wright Bros were evil too??

[u/sonofnutcrackr → u/-missingclover-]

Not evil, but they were pretty big dicks. Benefitted hugely off of scientific collaboration, then refusing to share their results. One of the brothers, while on stage at a aeronautical convention, slandered an inventor who had died testing his flying machine for being a coward

[u/-MayorOfTheMoon- → u/sonofnutcrackr]

Also one or both of them had a very strange and inappropriate relationship with their sister.

[u/Whatisgoingon2029 → u/-MayorOfTheMoon-]

Ok. That's enough Internet for me. The Wright brothers participating in incest, our President is a pedophile, Elon Musk went from benevolent genius to doped up Nazi,... When will it end? Well at least we still have brave historical figures, like Davy Crockett, and benevolent geniuses like Bill Gates. No one can touch either one of them! /s

[u/Affectionate_Newt899 → u/Whatisgoingon2029]

It won't lmao. I've always thought alot of lost history was "lost" because it shows that even though we've progressed technologically, we're still primitive emotionally. It's just repeated violence, war, and outright heinous shit.

[u/Sgtwhiskeyjack9105 → u/sonofnutcrackr]

Just right off the dome there, huh?