Tropescilloscope: The Cameo

Someone famous makes a brief, plot-irrelevant appearance in another unrelated work. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Bad Boss Very Loosely Based on a True Story Recycled IN SPACE! Attempted Rape Improbable Aiming Skills Hair-Trigger Temper Foregone Conclusion Poor Communication Kills Wham Line Pyrrhic Victory No Ending The Dog Bites Back Never My Fault Crazy-Prepared Berserk Button Logo Joke Sadistic Choice Fantasy Films Dying Moment of Awesome An Axe to Grind Never Trust a Trailer Butt-Monkey 20 Minutes into the Future Index of Film Westerns Posthumous Character Deadpan Snarker Earn Your Happy Ending The Un-Reveal Anyone Can Die Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Pre-Mortem One-Liner Demonic Possession Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Punch-Clock Villain Malevolent Masked Men Ax-Crazy Line-of-Sight Name Anachronic Order Red Right Hand Genre Savvy You Killed My Father Plot Hole Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Guile Hero Chiaroscuro An Aesop Those Two Guys Enemy Mine '80s Hair Hell Is That Noise Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Death of a Child Daylight Horror Obfuscating Stupidity The Stinger The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Gold Digger Face Death with Dignity Soft Glass Not So Stoic Break the Cutie Toplessness from the Back Boom, Headshot! Auto Erotica War Is Hell Catapult Nightmare Not Quite Dead Imagine Spot In Medias Res Shell-Shocked Veteran Our Zombies Are Different Rewatch Bonus It's Personal Advertised Extra Jerk with a Heart of Gold Retirony Vomit Discretion Shot Police Brutality Mexican Standoff Adaptational Heroism Fire-Forged Friends Screw the Money, I Have Rules! What You Are in the Dark The Alleged Car French Films Peek-a-Boo Corpse All for Nothing One-Man Army Dumb Blonde Costume Porn Cat Scare Half the Man He Used to Be Fat Bastard Big Bad Duumvirate Refuge in Audacity Kill 'em All Reality Ensues Corrupt Corporate Executive Anti-Villain Grievous Bottley Harm Ascended Extra Get Out! Villain Ball Dull Surprise Off-into-the-Distance Ending Call-Back No OSHA Compliance Eagleland Conspicuous CG Interrupted Suicide Military and Warfare Films Dirty Cop No Celebrities Were Harmed Running Gag As Himself Good Is Not Nice Would Hit a Girl Karmic Death Babies Ever After The Load Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Science Fiction Films Plucky Comic Relief Children Are Innocent Nice Hat Bunny-Ears Lawyer Stalker with a Crush Kids Are Cruel Antagonist Title Big Bad Artistic License – Gun Safety Death by Irony Mooks Dressing as the Enemy Off with His Head! Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Real Life The Alcoholic Almost Kiss The Chick Those Wacky Nazis Despair Event Horizon The Great Depression Downer Ending The '70s Bond One-Liner Better to Die than Be Killed You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Fanservice Rasputinian Death Intergenerational Friendship No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking folderlabel The '60s Super Strength Disney Villain Death Determinator Whole Plot Reference Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Deliberately Monochrome Humans Are Bastards Evil Plan Suspiciously Specific Denial Have a Gay Old Time Eyepatch of Power Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality The '80s Straight Gay Mistaken for Gay Foil Happily Married Historical-Domain Character Offscreen Moment of Awesome Artistic License – Military Hero Antagonist Beware the Nice Ones Ambiguous Disorder Killed Mid-Sentence Jerk Jock Four-Temperament Ensemble Spiteful Spit Adult Fear Not So Different Let's Get Dangerous! Flipping the Bird The Sociopath Even Evil Has Loved Ones My Greatest Failure Sci-Fi Horror Noodle Incident Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Shown Their Work Adaptation Name Change Early Installment Weirdness The Dreaded Large Ham Shoot the Shaggy Dog Foreshadowing Hong Kong Films Bottomless Magazines Took a Level in Badass Spared by the Adaptation Mad Scientist The Ditz Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Kill It with Fire Sassy Black Woman Animal Motifs Broken Bird Aside Glance From Nobody to Nightmare Alas, Poor Villain Heroes Want Redheads The Mafia Mr. Fanservice Big-Bad Ensemble Gory Discretion Shot Even Evil Has Standards Naïve Newcomer The Atoner Faking the Dead Blood from the Mouth Chewing the Scenery Bilingual Bonus Big Brother Instinct Rich Bitch The Stoic Adaptation Expansion Tap on the Head Informed Ability Unusual Euphemism Twist Ending Papa Wolf Death by Sex Hypocrite Heroic Sacrifice Meaningful Background Event Continuity Nod Drowning My Sorrows Fatal Family Photo And I Must Scream As Long as It Sounds Foreign British Films Big Fancy House Drives Like Crazy Training Montage Video Credits Disproportionate Retribution The Film of the Book Heterosexual Life-Partners She Cleans Up Nicely Award-Bait Song Captain Obvious Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Brutal Honesty Funny Background Event He Knows Too Much Taking the Bullet Meaningful Name Karma Houdini Beta Couple Product Placement Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Hope Spot After the End Insane Troll Logic World of Ham Empathic Environment Eldritch Abomination Amoral Attorney Evil Is Hammy Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Beauty Is Never Tarnished Fake Shemp Outrun the Fireball Cain and Abel Ghost Fiction I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Nothing Is Scarier Badass Grandpa Precision F-Strike Once More, with Clarity! Improbable Weapon User No Antagonist Camera Abuse Playing Gertrude Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds A Date with Rosie Palms Frame-Up Batman Gambit Bi the Way The Place Every Car Is a Pinto Pay Evil unto Evil Unresolved Sexual Tension Central Theme Apocalypse How Scare Chord Cool Old Guy All Men Are Perverts "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Aluminum Christmas Trees Dramatic Gun Cock Same Language Dub Evil Sounds Deep Creepy Child Male Gaze Demoted to Extra Psycho for Hire The Vamp Visual Pun Deconstruction Serious Business Thriller Love Triangle Left the Background Music On A.I. Is a Crapshoot Friend to All Children Chekhov's Gunman Dark Reprise Sinister Minister Actor Allusion The Musical Take a Third Option Silence Is Golden Parental Incest Smug Snake Body Horror Manic Pixie Dream Girl Only a Flesh Wound Novelization Based on a True Story It Can Think Genre Shift Red Shirt Pimped-Out Dress Instant Death Bullet Slashed Throat Greater-Scope Villain Bald of Evil Badass Boast Made of Explodium Humiliation Conga I Need a Freaking Drink Stock Footage "Awesome McCool" Name The Mole Insistent Terminology Developing Doomed Characters Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Dropped a Bridge on Him Serial Killer Roaring Rampage of Revenge Does Not Like Shoes Coming-of-Age Story And Starring One-Word Title The Chessmaster Dirty Old Man Morality Pet Death Seeker Superhero A Father to His Men Sports Stories Chekhov's Skill Fingore Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Action Girl Canon Foreigner The Cavalry Adorkable Contrived Coincidence B-Movie I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Animal Title Index Bittersweet Ending My God, What Have I Done? The Bully Sexy Discretion Shot Ass Shove Overprotective Dad The Bad Guy Wins Slap-Slap-Kiss Pet the Dog Break the Haughty My Beloved Smother Woman Scorned Calling the Old Man Out Double Entendre Stuff Blowing Up An Arm and a Leg Mr. Exposition Ms. Fanservice Manchild Here We Go Again! Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Heel Realization Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Arc Words Heroic BSoD The Hero Due to the Dead Dissonant Serenity Asshole Victim Mystery and Detective Films Animated Credits Opening Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Your Cheating Heart Crazy Jealous Guy Faux Affably Evil Action Survivor Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Wicked Cultured Only Known by Their Nickname All There in the Script German Films Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Parental Substitute Not So Above It All The Ghost All Girls Want Bad Boys Beard of Evil Action Genre Only in It for the Money Film Noir Index Chekhov's Gun Chase Scene Really Gets Around May–December Romance "Shaggy Dog" Story Woman in White Crucified Hero Shot Police are Useless Australian Movies Works Set in World War II Knight Templar Taking You with Me And the Adventure Continues Gratuitous English Not What It Looks Like Italian Films Dies Wide Open Film Noir Obviously Evil Homage There Is No Kill Like Overkill Ungrateful Bastard Knife Nut Action Prologue This Is Gonna Suck Horror Films Adaptational Attractiveness Five-Man Band Blackmail Deliberate Values Dissonance Did Not Get the Girl Idiot Ball Alliterative Name Suddenly SHOUTING! Politically Incorrect Villain Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Groin Attack Red Oni, Blue Oni Black Best Friend Cloudcuckoolander Race Lift Adaptational Badass Black and Gray Morality Final Girl Film Series Captain Ersatz Re-Cut Does This Remind You of Anything? Domestic Abuse Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Totally Radical Jump Scare Cluster F-Bomb It Will Never Catch On Evil-Detecting Dog Dramedy Evil Laugh Corpsing The '50s Room Full of Crazy Mugging the Monster Armor-Piercing Question Your Head A-Splode Covers Always Lie Protagonist Title Hate Sink Age Lift I Have Your Wife Laughing Mad Retired Badass Manly Tears Sequel Hook Evil vs. Evil Mundane Made Awesome Gone Horribly Right Cowboy Cop Green-Eyed Monster Everyone Has Standards Worthy Opponent MacGuffin Parental Abandonment Celebrity Paradox Death by Adaptation Betty and Veronica Hollywood Law Country Matters Distracted by the Sexy Freeze-Frame Bonus Say My Name Slasher Smile Public Domain Feature Films Nice Guy Back from the Dead Destination Defenestration Exactly What It Says on the Tin Small Name, Big Ego Hooker with a Heart of Gold Neck Snap Badass Normal The Power of Love Expy Didn't Think This Through Funny Foreigner Accidental Murder Silent Movie Creative Closing Credits The Big Guy Leave the Camera Running Catch-Phrase Scenery Gorn Dwindling Party Rape as Drama Fan Disservice Broken Pedestal Red Herring Black Comedy Rape Mind Screw Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Not Using the "Z" Word Title Drop Mercy Kill Bloodier and Gorier The Reveal Neck Lift Grey and Gray Morality Defrosting Ice Queen Men Are the Expendable Gender As You Know Decoy Protagonist Freudian Excuse Bolivian Army Ending Fun with Acronyms The '90s Not Even Bothering with the Accent Ominous Latin Chanting Creator Cameo Music Stories Leaning on the Fourth Wall Big Applesauce Major Injury Underreaction Evil Brit The X of Y Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Determinator aka: The Determinator Slasher Movie Take That! Fainting Missing Mom Shower Scene Annoying Younger Sibling Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Zombie Stories Those Two Bad Guys Yandere Random Events Plot Cool Car Mythology Gag Russian Films Throwing Your Sword Always Works Madness Mantra Victoria's Secret Compartment Darker and Edgier Black Dude Dies First Bland-Name Product Jerkass Has a Point Improvised Weapon Brother–Sister Incest Moment Killer Historical Hero Upgrade Artistic License – Geography Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Insult Backfire Extremely Short Timespan Handicapped Badass BFG Adults Are Useless Villain Protagonist Gorn Cold-Blooded Torture Naked People Are Funny What the Hell, Hero? Hoist by His Own Petard Reality Is Unrealistic Expository Hairstyle Change Anti-Hero Famous Last Words Damsel in Distress Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Curse Cut Short Offscreen Teleportation Put on a Bus The Smurfette Principle Spanner in the Works In the Back Romantic False Lead Sequel Escalation Rule of Funny Bullying a Dragon Names to Run Away from Really Fast Lighter and Softer Alpha Bitch Call-Forward Rule of Cool Married to the Job Face–Heel Turn Ironic Echo Pretty in Mink Bound and Gagged Well-Intentioned Extremist Mighty Whitey Meet Cute Bavarian Fire Drill Horror Comedy Badass Longcoat Red Eyes, Take Warning Reasonable Authority Figure Fantastic Racism Combat Pragmatist Crapsack World Bar Brawl Redemption Equals Death Arranged Marriage Market-Based Title Documentary Big Eater Hypocritical Humor Black Comedy Cassandra Truth Leitmotif All Just a Dream Anachronism Stew Getting Crap Past the Radar One Steve Limit Last-Name Basis Bare Your Midriff Sealed Evil in a Can Bowdlerise Monumental Damage He Who Fights Monsters Riddle for the Ages Setting Update Fatal Flaw Revenge Daddy's Girl Facial Horror Word of God Disney Death Bloodless Carnage Martial Arts Movie I'm a Humanitarian Mama Bear She's Got Legs In Name Only Gainax Ending Spiritual Successor Biopic Canadian Movies Pragmatic Adaptation Match Cut Redshirt Army Mood Whiplash Credits Gag Shout-Out Made of Iron "The Reason You Suck" Speech Stealth Pun How We Got Here Punny Name Evil Is Petty Never Found the Body Tranquil Fury Paper-Thin Disguise Rated M for Manly Dark Action Girl Psychological Thriller Deus ex Machina Establishing Character Moment The Voiceless Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Author Appeal Belligerent Sexual Tension Dark and Troubled Past Historical In-Joke Drill Sergeant Nasty Sacrificial Lion Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun "Well Done, Son!" Guy Badass Bookworm Comically Missing the Point The Casanova Storming the Castle Suspiciously Similar Substitute Depraved Bisexual Ambiguously Gay Overly Long Gag Reckless Gun Usage Disguised in Drag Maybe Ever After Fanservice Extra Adapted Out Deal with the Devil Sole Survivor The Oner Kick the Dog Femme Fatale No Name Given Man on Fire Up to Eleven Intrepid Reporter Eureka Moment Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Card-Carrying Villain Artistic License – History Wounded Gazelle Gambit Extreme Doormat Smoking Is Cool Wrong Genre Savvy Blatant Lies Bond Villain Stupidity Important Haircut Hollywood Darkness Dutch Angle Driven to Suicide Dogged Nice Guy Easily Forgiven Romantic Comedy The Cameo Epic Movie Ambiguous Ending No Good Deed Goes Unpunished You Have Failed Me Historical Villain Upgrade Becoming the Mask Oh, Crap! Failed a Spot Check For Want of a Nail Needs Wiki Magic Love Shut Up, Hannibal! Darkest Hour It's All About Me Bad "Bad Acting" All There in the Manual Loophole Abuse Big Damn Heroes Brick Joke Drugs Are Bad Vitriolic Best Buds Lampshade Hanging Cat Fight Book-Ends True Companions Vomit Indiscretion Shot Adaptation Distillation Too Dumb to Live Rousing Speech Affectionate Parody Anguished Declaration of Love The Hero Dies Bloody Hilarious Implacable Man Irony Framing Device Bury Your Gays Genre Throwback Pretty Little Headshots Translation Convention Shirtless Scene Diabolus ex Machina Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Cool Guns Bring My Brown Pants Unwitting Instigator of Doom Together in Death Evil Counterpart Cruel and Unusual Death Rule of Three Manipulative Bastard Artistic License – Biology Obstructive Bureaucrat Wretched Hive Dramatic Irony Lock and Load Montage Jerkass Sanity Slippage As the Good Book Says... Exact Words Fiery Redhead Unspoken Plan Guarantee Screw This, I'm Outta Here! I Did What I Had to Do Villain Opening Scene Character Development Gilligan Cut Retcon Authority Equals Asskicking Hidden Depths The Remake Light Is Not Good Trailers Always Spoil Early-Bird Cameo Time Skip Accidental Misnaming Epic Fail Camp Gay The Faceless timeperiod Broken Aesop Abhorrent Admirer Loads and Loads of Characters La Résistance More Dakka Unreliable Narrator Honor Before Reason Closed Circle Meaningful Echo Cool Shades Agony of the Feet Male Frontal Nudity Guns Akimbo The Dragon Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Department of Redundancy Department Kubrick Stare Rule of Symbolism From Bad to Worse Car Fu Fish out of Water Stepford Smiler Breaking the Fourth Wall Love at First Sight Real Life Writes the Plot Villain with Good Publicity Casting Gag Would Hurt a Child The Lost Lenore Artistic License – Law Composite Character Japanese Films Spell My Name with an "S" Token Minority Ship Tease Soundtrack Dissonance Fate Worse than Death Tempting Fate Amusing Injuries Defiant to the End Race Against the Clock N-Word Privileges Flashback O.O.C. Is Serious Business Author Avatar Vampire Fiction The Brute Star-Crossed Lovers Be Careful What You Wish For Heel–Face Turn Brainless Beauty Properly Paranoid Stealth Hi/Bye Kick the Son of a Bitch Pragmatic Villainy Our Vampires Are Different Television Movie Index The Starscream Self-Deprecation Tagline Abusive Parents Show Within a Show Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Reality Has No Subtitles Artistic License – Physics Ripped from the Headlines Curb-Stomp Battle Unusually Uninteresting Sight The Quiet One Jitter Cam Motor Mouth Double-Meaning Title Blood Knight For the Evulz Cool Old Lady Actually Pretty Funny Took a Level in Jerkass Big "NO!" Wham Shot The End... Or Is It? Hero of Another Story Undying Loyalty Bait-and-Switch Adaptation Dye-Job Dirty Coward Truth in Television Affably Evil Danny Peary Cult Movies List Scary Black Man Death Glare Fourth Date Marriage Arch-Enemy No-Sell Christmas Movies Index Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Air-Vent Passageway Psychopathic Manchild Laser-Guided Karma A God Am I Immune to Bullets Shipper on Deck Skewed Priorities Villainous Breakdown Only Sane Man NO INDOOR VOICE Narrator A Minor Kidroduction Parental Neglect Chuck Cunningham Syndrome The Smart Guy Sir Swears-a-Lot Awesome, but Impractical Eye Scream What Happened to the Mouse? The Stoner The Ace You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Badass in a Nice Suit Older Than They Look Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Dark Is Not Evil Stylistic Suck Non-Indicative Name Dual Wielding Gender Flip Vacation Films The Lancer Only One Name Disappeared Dad Make It Look Like an Accident Adaptational Villainy Villain Song Henpecked Husband Scenery Porn Eiffel Tower Effect