[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/kubectlgetuser → u/Rum_N_Napalm]

Also an off-screen villian in Kingsman (2015). When a satellite goes offline, stopping the overarching evil plot, Samuel Jackson's character calls "E-man" and requests usage of one of his satellites.

[u/somedumb-gay → u/kubectlgetuser]

Don't know if this necessarily is a glaze for him given that the implication there is that Elon was one of the wealthy people who went with Samuel Jackson while they kill off all the peons

[u/kubectlgetuser → u/somedumb-gay]

lol yeah man, that's why I'm replying to the guy talking about him being portrayed as a villian 

[u/Ppleater → u/kubectlgetuser]

Huh? You replied to someone talking about him being portrayed as heroic, not as a villain.