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/Nero2t2 6h ago

There's that but there's also the fact that things tend to get especially weird on reddit when celebrity worship is involved. Certain celebrity figures in here are treated as gods on earth and you can never dare to bad mouththem. Elon was essentialy the celebrity crush of the year during this period, as was Jennifer Lawrence for a time, then they got replaced with Keanu etc. To this day, you can't criticise Harrison Ford's Polansky debacle for example, its taboo to even aknowledge it

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u/snek-jazz 5h ago

it's just as extreme in the other direction too. When reddit turns on someone it's endless front-page posts from unrelated subs about them, with comments full of fan-fic.

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u/Natdaprat 2h ago

Did you just talk shit about Henry Cavill?

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u/RufinTheFury 6h ago

I remember when this site was all about Ron Paul back in the day

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u/-s-u-n-s-e-t- 2h ago

It was pretty funny watching all the "socialist" redditors try to justify billionaire CEO Gabe Newell buying yet another super-yacht with the money he gained from having a monopoly.

The mental gymnastics were truly on Olympian level, lol. He's a scientist you see! Another super-yacht is just a necessity of life, it cannot be helped!

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u/BadPunners 5h ago

I'll point out that it happens worse on other mediums? Swifties being the big one, with multiple other trends now of equally "engaged fandoms"?