History Main / DeathByCameo

* Some ''Franchise/StarWars'' crew members have such cameos. Sound designer Ben Burtt is punched by Chewbacca in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' (and tries to emulate the [[StockScream Wilhelm Scream]] while being BlownAcrossTheRoom), VFX supervisor Rob Knoll is a pilot whose ship is blown in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' and Creator/GeorgeLucas' son Jett is the Jedi who attacks the troopers talking to Bail Organa in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''.

-->-- ''ComicBook/IFeelSick'', by Creator/JhonenVasquez

See also DeadStarWalking, CreatorCameo.

* Creator/RalphBakshi's films with the exceptions of ''WesternAnimation/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''WesternAnimation/FireAndIce'', ''WesternAnimation/AmericanPop'', and ''Film/CoolWorld'', in which Bakshi himself makes a cameo only to get killed:

* The live-action ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' movie has Megatron casually flicking (a CGI approximation of) Michael Bay, saying "Disgusting."

* Some expies of ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' charactersninb''VideoGame/LennasInception'':

** He is also killed off (executed) quickly in ''Film/{{Desperado}}''.

** While not a cameo so much as a major character, Tarantino ''still'' manages to die in ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn''. He can't even get a break in movies that aren't his.

* On the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo appears as the severed head of Holofernes in a panel depicting the biblical story of Judith.
** Art historians speculate that the flayed skin of St Bartholomew in "The Last Judgment" is also a self-portrait of Michelangelo. (Rumor has it that Michelangelo actually really hated painting, and only painted the Sistine Chapel at the compulsion of the Pope.)

* In ''VideoGame/DoomII'', the BigBad of the game, the Icon of Sin, was actually a giant wall with a shoot-through brain texture. Behind the brain texture was a small passage leading to a chamber containing the skewered head of Creator/JohnRomero, one of the game's programmers and level designers. John Romero's head was the actual boss entity in the game, and the Icon of Sin was killed by firing rockets into the brain, which would travel down the passage and explode above Romero's head. John Romero actually found out about this while testing the final level and recorded a soundbite for the boss that was a backwards-masked recording of him saying, "To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero."
** In the ''VideoGame/DoomII'' [[GameMod add-on level pack]] ''Requiem'', the 24th level, "Procrustes Chambers," features a SpaceMarine crucified on an inverted cross, with a sign reading "ADEL" nailed to the top. The designer of the level, and the artist of that texture, was Anthony Czerwonka, also known as "Adelusion."
** In the fanmade RPG ''VideoGame/{{DRL}}'', Creator/JohnCarmack is a secret boss at the end of the game, accessible by nuking the Spider Mastermind while invulnerable.
* Tanner, the protagonist of ''VideoGame/{{Driver}}'' appears working undercover as a chauffeur and gets killed in the "Two-Faced Tanner" mission in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII''.
** In retaliation ''[=DRIV3R=]'' had the player track down and kill 10 Hawaiian shirted men called Timmy Vermicelli, parodies of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'' Tommy Vercetti.

* ''WebVideo/TheFinalMinutes'':
** Music/EdSheeran is explicitly named as one of the casualties of ''The Tiangong Incident'', specifically when parts of Tiangong-1 strike Optus Stadium.
** Part of ''Zombie Plague'' has Caracol's emergency broadcast identify Colombian singer Carlos Vives as leading a group of hybrid mutants before announcing that the mutated singer will be destroyed as quickly as possible.

* ''[[Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk: Future Imperfect]]'' has an urn labeled "Creator/PeterDavid" among the ashes of the fallen superheroes.
* In ''Comicbook/XForce'' (Vol. 3) #18, a headstone marked "Kyle Yost" (the surnames of the book's writers) can be seen in the graveyard Caliban visits.
* Creator/MilesTeller, Creator/KateMara and Creator/JamieBell show up in ''Comicbook/ThePunisher'' #12, where they're killed in an explosion as a TakeThat to ''Film/FantasticFour2015''.

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' director Creator/JamesGunn plays a maskless Sakaaran who taunts Yondu, then gets stabbed by his arrow.

** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', when Hercules is posing for a painter, he is wearing [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing Scar's]] hide.

** Sam's brother Ted often gets Cameos, sometimes deadly, in several of both Sam's and the Coen Brother's films.

* The climax of ''[[Film/Deadpool2016 Deadpool]]'' is set on a crashed [[AirborneAircraftCarrier helicarrier]] similar to what S.H.I.E.L.D. use in the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse''.

* The Carnival Night Zone from ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog3'' had a spinning wheel that a lot of fans couldn't work out how to pass, calling it the "Barrel Of Doom". As a nod to the fans' hatred of it, E-123 Omega blows one up while passing through the Zone in issue #67 of ''ComicBook/SonicUniverse''.

* ''ComicBook/SheHulk'' #50 opens with Shulkie's editor Renee informing her that the series' writer, Creator/JohnByrne, has died. She-Hulk later finds Byrne BoundAndGagged in a closet... only to kill him by tossing him out a window ([[ItMakesSenseInContext you had to be there]]).

* Music/TaylorSwift appears in two scenes at the beginning of ''Amsterdam'' before being struck and killed by an oncoming car about 10 minutes in.

* Creator/YoshiyukiTomino appears briefly on the Solo Ship's bridge during the second ''Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon'' movie. [[KillEmAll Briefly]].

* In ''Film/{{Nope}}'', two of the eventual casualties during the Star Lasso Experience massacre were played by the owner of the defunct Fry's Electronics chain, Randy Fry, and his wife, TV anchor Vicki Liviakis; they're the spectators next to the Icee machine.

* In ''Film/{{Nope}}'', two of the eventual casualties during [[spoiler: the Star Lasso Experience massacre]] were played by the owner of the defunct Fry's Electronics chain, Randy Fry, and his wife, TV anchor Vicki Liviakis; they're the spectators next to the Icee machine.

** In retaliation ''DRIV3R'' had the player track down and kill 10 Hawaiian shirted men called Timmy Vermicelli, parodies of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'' Tommy Vercetti.