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Describe Wolverine Publicity Discussion here.
I don't know if he qualifie, but maybe Captain America, two ? He's so often used it's not even funny (even with his godly character shield).
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- No mention of Sephiroth? Give it another five year, and anything related to Square Enix will suffer from "Sephiroth Publicity".
- This Secret Invasion tie-in
◊ features Wolverine along with other X-Men fighting the Skrulls in San Fransisco, which seems okay at first, he's an X-Man, he'd be there, until you realise that he is currently in New York, fighting Skrulls there.◊
- This Secret Invasion tie-in
This, apparently, was a mistake.
- The picture isn't even accurate. Wolvie appears to be twice Anita's size despite being only 5'4. (Again, how often do the artists draw him as 'short'?)
- Anita for the record is only 5'2".
Not really related to the trope.
- Lampshaded by Floating Hand Studios with Dark Phoenix Rising where Wolverine is ordered to be on three separate teams who have missions in three different parts of the world. Wolverine does wind up being a little bit winded after running all the way from Europe, though.
This was already up in the Wolverine examples.
- If the song "Green Christmas" is any guess, Christmas is acquiring Wolverine Publicity
- Well, considering that decorations for Christmas are up in shopping centres for about four months...
What? This doesn't even make sense.
- In their defense, Albert is awesome. But yeah, listing Christopher Lee, Marc Warren, or Michelle Dockery would've made much more sense.
- To go with David Jason's The colour of magic. Because just playing Albert wasn't enough, he decided to have a crack as being bloody Rincewind, too.
- Coming this autumn, Going Postal. Any bets on who'll play Mr. Groat?
- Hey, as long as he doesn't play Moist.
I can explain the above: There was originally a single-asterisk point reading something like "Terry Pratchett's Hogfather? More like David bloody Jason's Hogfather. He's first in the credits and foremost on the DVD cover, but is playing a relatively unimportant character."
- When it was still around, one special has Sabrina The Teenage Witch chasing Salem across various T.G.I.F shows, including Teen Angel, You Wish, and even the non-supernatural teen show Boy Meets World.
- The short lived Dan Aykroyd sitcom Soul Man had him playing a widower priest at a church in Detroit. One of the families who attended were the Taylors, from Home Improvement. He even made a few appearances in their show, making it a fully realised cross over.
- Done twice with Friends, both in episode teasers that have nothing to do with the story. In one, two characters from Mad About You mistake Lisa Kudrow's character Phoebe for Ursula, who Kudrow was playing on Mad About You at the same time (Ursula herself later showed up a couple times, but it doesn't really count since it's the same actress). In another, Billy Crystal and Robin Williams appear sitting on the gang's favorite couch in a promotion for their upcoming film Father's Day.
- On Friends, Ursula and Phoebe are twins who dislike each other and are almost exact opposites, which explains why one sister only makes small appearances on the other sister's show.
These don't seem to be gratuitous overuse, just normal crossover-ing. Now, Urkel...
- Brock and Team Rocket from Pokémon are easily big offenders as well. They are pretty much ALWAYS guaranteed to be on the show no matter what. But they are often pretty much "Just There" in the show regardless whether if their presence is the least bit relevant anymore. Granted Misty and Gary (and their respective replacements) are deemed expendable but these guys on the other hand are not. (Brock originally was going to be expendable after Kanto but sadly unlike May and Drew, Tracey was never as popular as Brock ever was.
...how are they at all an example? "Appearing in every episode of a show" isn't the same as "used to promote a show".
