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| 13 | ->'''Creator/JhonenVasquez:''' You wanted to see me, Mr. Nevers? |
| 14 | -> '''Mr. Nevers:''' I'm going to rape you up the butt and then throw you out the window! |
| 15 | -->-- ''ComicBook/IFeelSick'' |
| 16 | |
| 17 | A version of TheCameo (usually a [[SelfDeprecation joke]]) where someone on the production crew (often the director, creator, etc.) appears briefly to just die like all the other {{Innocent Bystander}}s. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | See also DeadStarWalking, CelebrityCasualty, and CreatorCameo. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | '''As a {{Death Trope|s}}, all spoilers will be unmarked ahead! Beware.''' |
| 22 | ---- |
| 23 | !!Examples: |
| 24 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 25 | |
| 26 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 27 | * Creator/YoshiyukiTomino appears briefly on the Solo Ship's bridge during the second ''Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon'' movie. Briefly. |
| 28 | * In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'' and its sequel ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'', OP and insert song singer Takanori "T.M. Revolution! Nishikawa gets two different ZAFT cameos: Miguel and Heine. Both characters are subsequently killed off rather quickly: Miguel dies in the attack that opens the SEED series, Heine lasts around three chapters before being killed in battle. A rather insistent rumor among fans says that Nishikawa's fellow OP singer Nami Tamaki was offered the role of ActionGirl Shiho Hahnenfuss, but rejected it because she feared Shiho would end up playing this trope straight. |
| 29 | * Director Creator/ShinichiroWatanabe shows up in ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' just long enough to be shot. |
| 30 | * When Kagato escapes from prison in ''Anime/TenchiMuyoRyoOhki'', he kills a Galaxy Police officer that looks like [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Mr Spock]]. |
| 31 | * There's a crashed [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Starship Enterprise]] on Sonic's island in ''Anime/SonicTheHedgehogTheMovie''. |
| 32 | [[/folder]] |
| 33 | |
| 34 | [[folder:Art]] |
| 35 | * Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti did this twice in his Art/SistineChapel artworks: |
| 36 | ** On the ceiling, he appears as the severed head of Holofernes in a panel depicting the biblical story of Judith. |
| 37 | ** 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. |
| 38 | [[/folder]] |
| 39 | |
| 40 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 41 | * ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' dragged Creator/ChristopherPriestComics' corpse into Limbo in [[SelfDeprecation Priest's final issue]], having apparently [[KilledOffscreen murdered him off-panel]] for "disfiguring him" (making him look like Creator/TomCruise). All the characters present complain about it at first, but eventually are fine with it. |
| 42 | * In ''Filler Bunny'', GIR from ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', also created by Creator/JhonenVasquez, is found dead in a pile of corpses in the third issue. |
| 43 | ** Jhonen himself dies in the ''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'' spinoff ''ComicBook/IFeelSick''. In his brief CreatorCameo, his boss rapes him and then throws him out a skyscraper window. Jhonen was upset over the ExecutiveMeddling with ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' when he wrote that. |
| 44 | * ''ComicBook/TheSensationalSheHulk'' #50 opens with ComicBook/SheHulk's editor Renee informing her that the series' writer, Creator/JohnByrne, has died. Shulkie later finds Byrne BoundAndGagged in a closet... only to kill him by tossing him out a window ([[ItMakesSenseInContext you had to be there]]). |
| 45 | * ''[[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk: Future Imperfect]]'' has an urn labeled "Creator/PeterDavid" among the ashes of the fallen superheroes. |
| 46 | * 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. |
| 47 | * 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''. |
| 48 | * In ''Uncanny X-Men'' volume 1 Annual #12, in a back-up story, the entire creative team appears as the anonymous members of Mojo's "brain trust," including an irate Creator/ChrisClaremont. He yells at Mojo, who reacts by shrinking his head. (This does not seem to surprise or disturb any of the other creators, including a bored Ann Nocenti.) |
| 49 | * ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''; |
| 50 | ** ''Literature/PeterRabbit'' gets torn apart by foxes in the corner of a Volume [=II=] panel. |
| 51 | ** [[Literature/TheWindInTheWillows Mr. Toad]] is later seen preserved in a jar of formaldehyde at the secret annex. |
| 52 | ** [[WesternAnimation/BillAndBenTheFlowerpotMen Bill and Ben's]] skeletons can be seen in Greyfriars. |
| 53 | ** ''[[ComicStrip/RupertBear Rupert Bear's]]'' stuffed corpse is seen aboard the Nautilus in Volume [=IV=] alongside a dead ''Pathetic Shark'' from ''ComicBook/{{Viz}}'' preserved in a tank. |
| 54 | * Issue #75 of Creator/DCComics' ''ComicBook/LooneyTunes'' comics shows the head of [[WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures Buster Bunny]] in Elmer Fudd's trophy collection. |
| 55 | * Cy-Kill from ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGoBots'' tends to make cameos in various [[ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW IDW Transformers]] comics and get killed pretty quickly. |
| 56 | * [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]] gets eaten by the Rigellan Hyper-Kraken in the ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' story, ''Space Invaders!''. |
| 57 | * ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'': In the tie-in for ''ComicBook/WarOfTheGods'', the Creator/GrantMorrison self-insert from ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' came back, explaining that writing themselves into continuity made it so other writers could write them, too (in this case, Creator/JohnOstrander). The Writer (as the character is referred to InUniverse) was sent into battle with a new Suicide Squad strike team to help take down Circe, but was killed due to ending up with writer's block right before being attacked by a monster. [[FridgeLogic Did Morrison and Ostrander have some bad blood, or something?]] |
| 58 | * When Nuclear Man from ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace'' finally got to become a CanonImmigrant in ''ComicBook/SupermanBrianMichaelBendis'', he quickly gets killed by Rogol Zaar. |
| 59 | * 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/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics Sonic Universe]]''. |
| 60 | [[/folder]] |
| 61 | |
| 62 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 63 | * [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] cameos as one of Namek's village elders at the beginning of the sixteenth episode of ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged''... moments before Vegeta slaughters everyone in said village. |
| 64 | * Each level in the ''VideoGame/ProjectArrhythmia'' level series ''VideoGame/ThePeerGyntening'' features a "savior" character who shows up to save the player but is quickly killed afterwards. The level geer pint puts Ophelia from the ''Heartstrings'' series in this role. |
| 65 | [[/folder]] |
| 66 | |
| 67 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 68 | * Creator/RalphBakshi's films with the exceptions of ''WesternAnimation/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''WesternAnimation/FireAndIce1983'', ''WesternAnimation/AmericanPop'', and ''Film/CoolWorld'', in which Bakshi himself makes a cameo only to get killed: |
| 69 | ** ''WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat'': he plays a pig cop who gets beaten to death by the crowd of crows. |
| 70 | ** ''WesternAnimation/HeavyTraffic'': he plays a pimp who gets his brains bashed in with a tire iron |
| 71 | ** ''WesternAnimation/{{Coonskin}}'': he plays a cop who gets shot in the face. |
| 72 | ** ''WesternAnimation/{{Wizards}}'': he plays two characters; one is a fat guy named Lardbutt whose fate is unknown but his other character Fritz gets accidentally shot by an ally twice, the second one being fatal. |
| 73 | ** ''WesternAnimation/HeyGoodLookin'': he plays a man who gets killed by gangsters. |
| 74 | * A scene of ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'' has a mosquito hitting a zapper - voiced by director John Lasseter (while co-director Andrew Stanton is his friend who tries to convince him otherwise). |
| 75 | * Happens a few times in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon: |
| 76 | ** The deer featured in the opening of ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' is WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'s mum, just before she is shot. This is a case of animation being reused. Since one of the heads featured on Gaston's wall strongly resembles Bambi's mum, it is implied that Gaston was the killer. A similar-looking deer made a brief cameo toward the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'', where she is instead stalked by Shere Khan, that film's BigBad. |
| 77 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney'', one can clearly see [[Franchise/TheLionKing Pumbaa]] being roasted in the background of a scene. |
| 78 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', when Hercules is posing for a painter, he is wearing [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Scar's]] hide. |
| 79 | ** Four times, as a director cameo: Those guys in ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' lighting the fireworks were the movie's directors (Barry Cook & Tony Bancroft). They jump off and presumably fall to their deaths after seeing Mushu. |
| 80 | * In ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternEmeraldKnights'', Producer Creator/BruceTimm makes an uncredited appearance as the Lantern Galius Zed, who gets killed off pretty quickly. |
| 81 | * In the Western bar of ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'', heads of characters from ''Toys/{{Fabuland}}'' can be seen on the wall. |
| 82 | * In the beginning of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'', the members of Music/GreenDay are killed when their floating stage tips over into the very-polluted lake. |
| 83 | * When General Plymkin can't get his computer to work in ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'', he immediately has Microsoft creator, Bill Gates brought in and shoots him. |
| 84 | * The barracuda who killed Nemo's mother and unborn siblings in ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' was hunted, stuffed, and mounted on a wall in the antique shop in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory4''. |
| 85 | * A Volkswagen Beetle can be seen lying at the bottom of the sea in ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory''. This is a nod to the fact that one of the cars that played [[Film/TheLoveBug Herbie]] in ''Herbie Goes Bananas'' fell into the sea and was never retrieved. |
| 86 | [[/folder]] |
| 87 | |
| 88 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 89 | * ''Film/Transformers2007'' has Megatron casually flicking (a CGI approximation of) Michael Bay, saying "Disgusting." |
| 90 | ** There was actually going to be a much longer scene with Megatron personally plucking Michael out of a car for no reason other than to be a bastard and to have Michael in the movie. The cast and crew spent almost an entire day tormenting Michael by doing this scene over and over again. Hilariously, after Michael spent a day hanging on to a car, the scene ended up being cut from the movie due to time constraints. |
| 91 | * Director Martin Campbell appears as the tanker truck driver murdered at Miami airport in ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006''. He also appeared in ''Film/GoldenEye'' as a motorcyclist who gets run over by Xenia Onatopp, and in that same movie Pierce Brosnan's stunt double Wayne Michaels (who performed the bungee jump at the beginning) appears as a helicopter pilot who gets blown away with a machine gun by Xenia Onatopp. |
| 92 | * Exaggerated in ''Film/CityHunter'' starring Creator/JackieChan as the titular character. The City Hunter's partner, Hideyuki Makimura (played by Creator/MichaelWong who has been acting since the 1980s) dies in the super-abridged backstory after ''two'' seconds of screentime. |
| 93 | * Volker Engel, who was head of the FX unit on ''Film/IndependenceDay'', had a three-second cameo as an office worker getting blown away. Bonus points for being killed by your own special effect... |
| 94 | * Two of the writers of ''Film/XMen1'' (one of them being Creator/DavidHayter) show up as cops who are taken out in a sneak attack by Sabretooth and the Toad. |
| 95 | * In the 1999 film ''Film/IdleHands'', Music/TheOffspring make a cameo - and lead singer Dexter Holland is killed when Anton's possessed hand rips his scalp off. |
| 96 | * Creator/PeterJackson appears in all three ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' movies. As a drunk in Bree eating a carrot, as a spear thrower at Helm's Deep and as the corsair who gets shot by Legolas (when Gimli hits his bow - extended edition only). Besides these cameos, he's also [[InsertCameo the 'star' of several inserts]] - he's Faramir's hand when pointing at the map and Sam's hand when holding the sword standing up to Shelob. |
| 97 | ** In fact, all the corsairs seen are members of the production making cameos, and though it's off-screen, all are killed by the Army of the Dead, making this scene quite full of this trope. |
| 98 | * In ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' had screenwriter David Koepp get chased and eaten by a T-Rex. He's actually listed in the credits as "[[LampshadeHanging Unlucky Bastard]]". |
| 99 | * Creator/FrankMiller appeared in the ''Film/SinCity'' film as the preacher who gets shot to death by Marv. He also appears as the man who is killed by Bullseye using a pen (to steal his motorcycle) in ''Film/Daredevil2003'' and the detective who gets decapitated near the beginning of ''Film/TheSpirit''. |
| 100 | ** And in ''Film/RoboCop2'', for which he co-wrote the screenplay, where he plays a lab tech [[TheDanza named Frank]] who gets blown up. Miller even said in an interview "I think I needed a trademark. So in every movie I'm involved, one thing is sure: I'll be decapitated, stabbed, shot, or any other unpleasant thing". |
| 101 | * Russell Mulcahy, director of ''Film/{{Highlander}}'', has a split-second cameo as a man who the Kurgan runs over with a car. |
| 102 | * Creator/ChristopherPaolini wanted to play a RedShirt who is beheaded in battle at the end of ''Film/{{Eragon}}'', but his busy schedule prevented him from doing it. He's said that, in the event that any more films are made of his books, he'd like to make cameos in all of them where he dies horribly. |
| 103 | * Special effects artist Creator/TomSavini frequently dies in his works, including but not limited to ''Film/DayOfTheDead1985'', ''Film/Maniac1980'', and ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn''. |
| 104 | ** He survives slightly longer than usual in ''Film/PlanetTerror'' after having one of his fingers bitten off. |
| 105 | * Some ''Franchise/StarWars'' crew members have such cameos. Sound designer Creator/BenBurtt 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''. |
| 106 | ** Not especially visible in the movie, but one of the Jedi whom Anakin/Darth Vader kills on the security hologram in ''Revenge of the Sith'' is a cameo of stunt coordinator Nick Gillard. It might almost be a double cameo, in fact: this being ''Franchise/StarWars'', he was playing an actual character with a name and history, [[SdrawkcabName Cin Drallig]], the Order's "battlemaster" (the guy who trains all the up-and-coming Jedi in the basics of combat). Drallig even gets a proper boss battle in the ''Revenge Of The Sith'' tie-in game. |
| 107 | ** In a cross with DeadStarWalking, Lor San Tekka, Creator/MaxVonSydow's character, is killed by [[TheHeavy Kylo Ren]] just a few minutes after he gives Poe Dameron the MacGuffin at the start of ''Film/TheForceAwakens''. |
| 108 | ** Also in ''The Force Awakens'' the corpse of ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' can be seen roasting over a fire in Maz Kanata's castle. |
| 109 | * ''Franchise/StarTrek'' movies: |
| 110 | ** Not a person but the real life space probe ''Pioneer 10'' appears briefly in ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'' before getting blown up by a Klingon Bird-Of-Prey. |
| 111 | ** [=R2-D2=] from ''Franchise/StarWars'' appears floating in the wreckage of the Kelvin in ''[[Film/StarTrek2009 Star Trek]]''. |
| 112 | ** [=R2-D2=] again and a few crew members get sucked into space in ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'' when the Vengeance attacks the Enterprise. Given that he's a robot, he might have survived both of these. |
| 113 | * In ''Film/ScaryMovie3'', Simon Cowell appears in a cameo at a rap club harshly criticizing the gangstas rapping, only to get shot to death by the furious gangstas. |
| 114 | * In ''Film/{{Platoon}}'', director Creator/OliverStone appears as a soldier who gets blown away by a bomb in a bunker. |
| 115 | * Creator/QuentinTarantino is often the victim of this: |
| 116 | ** In ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}'', he plays a minor baddie in Robert Rodriguez's [[Film/PlanetTerror half of the movie]]. And he gets shot... [[GroinAttack down there]]. With a [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill grenade launcher]]. |
| 117 | ** As Mr. Brown in ''Film/ReservoirDogs'', he's around just long enough to get fatally shot during the team's robbery. While not a {{Mook}} or InnocentBystander, his appearance is still minimal enough to count as a cameo. |
| 118 | ** In ''Film/KillBill'', he plays one of the Crazy 88 and ends up being the first one to get sliced up by the Bride. |
| 119 | ** Sort of, kind of happens in ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' too; at the least his death is implied. He was the first one scalped on-screen. |
| 120 | *** Also, [[Creator/EnzoGCastellari Enzo G. Castellari]], director of the namesake film "The Inglorious Bastards", cameoed as a German general who died in the theater explosion. |
| 121 | ** 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 he didn't direct (though he did script it). Tarantino's character is executed even more quickly in ''Film/{{Desperado}}'', another movie directed by Creator/RobertRodriguez (and this time Tarantino didn't even write the screenplay). |
| 122 | ** He appears in ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' as a slave transporter who's shot and promptly [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill explodes]] due to the [[TooDumbToLive dynamite]] he was carrying. |
| 123 | * [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]] shows up in ''Series/{{Reno 911}}: Miami'' as a badass S.W.A.T. officer, and is accidentally blown up in the same scene he's introduced in. |
| 124 | * Bruce Willis appears in ''Film/CharliesAngelsFullThrottle'' as a government agent protecting one of two rings that forms a top-secret government list. As he gets on his private jet, he is almost immediately held up by a masked assailant who takes the ring from him, and then shoots him point blank in the head (off-screen). We later find out that his assailant is an ex-Angel played by Creator/DemiMoore, who is Willis' ex-wife. Subtle revenge, perhaps? |
| 125 | * Kurt Wimmer does this in both ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'' and ''Film/Ultraviolet2006''. |
| 126 | * In ''Film/{{Piranha}}'' (1978) special effects artist and creature sculptor Phil Tippett appears as a diver who is devoured by the swam of piranha. |
| 127 | * The remake ''Film/Piranha3D'' features a handful of cameos. Several porn actresses make appearances, but most notably Eli Roth has a role as a wet T-shirt contest host. Naturally, they all meet gruesome piranha-related demises. |
| 128 | * Creator/RyanReynolds shows up in ''Film/AMillionWaysToDieInTheWest'' as a bar patron who has no lines and gets shot by Creator/LiamNeeson. |
| 129 | * In ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}'', stuntwoman Zoe Bell, who appears in ''Film/DeathProof'' in a major role, has a quick appearance in ''Film/PlanetTerror'' as a zombie who gets blown away by Wray with a shotgun. |
| 130 | * ''Film/ForeverEvil1987'' has the unintentional variety, where writer Freeman Williams shows up, only to die thanks to a mutant Jawa. This is actually the [[ThrowItIn demo reel]], which was added to the story during principal photography. It's easily distinguished from the rest of the movie (and the original cut puts it at the beginning) due to the fact that none of the movie's main characters appear. |
| 131 | * Arguably the best part of the film ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'' is Bill Murray's brief cameo as himself... that ends with him shot dead because his zombie disguise is too convincing. (to make up for his death, he reappears in [[Film/ZombielandDoubleTap the sequel]] fighting the first infectees of the ZombieApocalypse) |
| 132 | * Former Coen brothers collaborator Creator/SamRaimi has a cameo in their film ''Film/MillersCrossing.'' He appears as the cop wielding two revolvers who shoots a man trying to surrender to the police, and is subsequently riddled with Tommy-gun fire. |
| 133 | ** Sam's brother Ted often gets Cameos, sometimes deadly, in several of both Sam's and the Coen Brothers' films. |
| 134 | * In ''Film/TheTerminator'': |
| 135 | ** The T-800's first victim was played by Creator/BillPaxton, who later [[ThoseTwoActors starred alongside Kyle Reese's actor]], Creator/MichaelBiehn, in fellow Creator/JamesCameron-directed film ''Film/{{Aliens}}''. |
| 136 | ** Writer William Wisher plays a cop who announces his location and is promptly killed by the T-800. |
| 137 | * In ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', the janitor who gets between the Robert Patrick's T-1000 and Arnold Schwarzenegger's T-800 in one of the maintenance hallways of the mall and is riddled with bullets was played by a fan who won the "role" in an MTV-sponsored contest. |
| 138 | * Ted Turner appeared in ''Film/{{Gettysburg}}'', which he produced, as a Confederate officer, Colonel Waller T. Patton, who was fatally wounded during Pickett's infamous assault on Cemetery Ridge. Differs from other examples in that, given the context, it is an entirely straight-faced, respectful and even reverent depiction. |
| 139 | * Turned on its head in ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}''; during the duel between Lord Helmet and Lone Starr, Helmet accidentally kills one of the film's camera operators. |
| 140 | ** Additionally, John Hurt briefly appears near the end reprising his role from ''Film/{{Alien}}'', and winds up dying in the exact same way. |
| 141 | * Jane Wiedlin of The Go-Go's appears as The Singing Telegram Girl in ''Film/{{Clue}}'', she gets about 10 seconds of screen time before she's shot dead by the killer. |
| 142 | * ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' creator Creator/HideakiAnno appears in ''Welcome To The Quiet Room'' as a physician who slips and ends up smashing his head open on the floor. [[AvertedTrope He doesn't actually die]], but is injured severely enough that he bleeds out and has to be replaced by another doctor. |
| 143 | * Creator/JackieChan in ''Film/EnterTheDragon'' was a stunt coordinator for the film before he became famous; he appears in two scenes in his second appearance where he has a short fight with Creator/BruceLee before his neck is snapped. |
| 144 | * Professional skate boarder Rob Dyrdek has a cameo as a rapist in ''Film/RighteousKill'' before he's shot dead by Rooster. |
| 145 | * In ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers1978,'' Kevin [=McCarthy=] (who starred in the original) appears as a crazy man who shouts, "They're coming!" as the main characters drive by, and is then promptly run over by another car. |
| 146 | * John Landis, writer and director of ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'', appears as a pedestrian who is hurled through a plate-glass window by a crashing car. |
| 147 | * Creator/TerryCrews shows up as a dead body in ''Film/TerminatorSalvation''. This is actually an unintentional example of this trope, as he was originally going to have a larger role, but [[DeletedRole almost all of his scenes ended up being cut from the film]]. |
| 148 | * In ''Film/StarshipTroopers'', scriptwriter Edward Neumeier briefly appears as a murderer who is arrested in the morning, tried that day, found guilty and sentenced to to be executed that evening. Swift justice indeed. |
| 149 | * In the original ''Film/AssaultOnPrecinct131976'' Creator/JohnCarpenter himself cameos as one of the gang members climbing through the windows of the station where he gets shot by Napoleon. |
| 150 | * ''Film/HardTarget''[='=]s writer and co-producer Chuck Pfarrer appears as the homeless veteran who gets shot through with arrows in the film's opening action sequence. |
| 151 | * Ron Jeremy dies in almost every non-pornographic film he's in (i.e., ''Film/KillingZoe''). |
| 152 | * ''Film/KungFuJungle'' stars Creator/DonnieYen in a lead role, and Creator/LouisFan, Donnie's long-time collaborator (who appeared in major roles in the ''Film/IpManFilmSeries'') as a fellow kung-fu practitioner brutally killed by the BigBad. Donnie comes across his dead body much later in the film. At least Fan's character puts up quite a fight before expiring. |
| 153 | * Creator/JohnnyDepp [[RemakeCameo and Peter DeLuise]] in ''Film/TwentyOneJumpStreet''. |
| 154 | * Jon Music/BonJovi get shot off a horse in ''Film/YoungGunsII'' (to which he contributed the Oscar nominated song "Blaze of Glory"). |
| 155 | * Creator/RickBaker (the head make-up designer for the remake's wolfman and noted special effects guru for films like ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'') plays one of the first victims in ''Film/TheWolfman2010''. |
| 156 | * In ''Film/TheHurtLocker'', the fate of Creator/GuyPearce (Sergeant Thompson) and Creator/RalphFiennes. |
| 157 | * ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'' director Creator/JamesGunn plays a maskless Sakaaran who taunts Yondu, then gets stabbed by his arrow. |
| 158 | * ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' co-director Joe Russo is the psychiatrist that Zemo [[KillAndReplace kills and impersonates]]. |
| 159 | * In ''The Runestone'', Music/DavidNewman plays one of the cops who faces off against the monster in a hallway. We don't see his fate (unlike the other cops with him), but given we see Marla begging for the shooting to stop and it suddenly stops... well. |
| 160 | * Creator/GeorgeRRMartin is one of the victims in ''Film/Sharknado3OhHellNo''. To push the reference to his AnyoneCanDie works further, he's right next to [[BloodSplatteredWeddingDress a bride]]. |
| 161 | * In the BMovie ''Film/SharktopusVsPteracuda'', Creator/ConanOBrien is killed by {{Film/Sharktopus}}. |
| 162 | * More of a case of [[{{Pun}} undeath by cameo]] in Film/ShaunOfTheDead, of the zombies outside The Winchester we see both Creator/BillBailey and later Tyres (the drugged-up courier from ''Series/{{Spaced}}'') is among the zombies that Shaun leads away from the Winchester. |
| 163 | * The climax of ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'' is set on a crashed [[AirborneAircraftCarrier helicarrier]] similar to what S.H.I.E.L.D. use in the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse''. |
| 164 | * Creator/BradPitt shows up in ''Film/{{Deadpool 2}}'' as Vanisher, a member of Comicbook/XForce. His entire screentime consists of a single shot where Vanisher dies after accidentally parachuting into some power lines. |
| 165 | * In ''Film/TheNiceGuys'', the body of porn producer Sid Shattuck has been said to be Creator/RobertDowneyJr. |
| 166 | * In ''Film/{{Se7en}}'', screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker plays the corpse in the introduction. |
| 167 | * Music/JustinBieber appears at the beginning of ''Film/Zoolander2'' just to be killed off. |
| 168 | * Fernando Tielve and Íñigo Garcés reprise their roles as adult soldier versions of Carlos and Jaime from ''Film/TheDevilsBackBone'' who both get shot in ''Film/PansLabyrinth''. |
| 169 | * A crashed red Volkswagen Beetle appears near the end of ''Film/TheShining'' which was the car that Jack Torrance drove in the book (changed to yellow in the movie). This is generally thought to be a dig at Creator/StephenKing who argued with director Creator/StanleyKubrick over changes he kept making adapting King's book. |
| 170 | * 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 (whose branding is used in the film), Randy Fry, and his wife, TV anchor Vicki Liviakis; they're the spectators next to the Icee machine. |
| 171 | * Music/TaylorSwift appears in two scenes at the beginning of ''Film/Amsterdam2022'' before being struck and killed by an oncoming car about 10 minutes in. |
| 172 | * ''Film/BulletTrain'' has director David Leitch as the luckless civilian killed by the twins' exploding car in their killing spree flashback. |
| 173 | * ''Film/Smile2022'': Creator/CaitlinStasey is the first shown victim, and is only in a single scene before her character slits her own throat, though she does appear as the hallucinations which Rose has of the Smile Entity in her form later. |
| 174 | * Adult versions of the protagonists Hank, Eric, Diana, Presto, Sheila and Bobby from the ''WesternAnimation/DungeonsandDragons'' cartoon cameo as contestants in the Highsun Games in ''Film/DungeonsAndDragonsHonorAmongThieves''. We [[UncertainDoom don't find out]] but since this is a deadly shrinking maze filled with monsters, they likely didn't survive. |
| 175 | [[/folder]] |
| 176 | |
| 177 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 178 | * Tik-Tok and Jack Pumpkinhead from the ''Literature/LandOfOz'' appear on sale in a junk shop in ''Literature/OutOfOz''. Tik-Tok is damaged beyond repair and Jack's head has rotted away due to mice nesting in his brain. |
| 179 | * In ''Literature/ThePurpleCloud'', nearly all human and animal life is wiped out by the titular FogOfDoom, with protagonist Adam seemingly the SoleSurvivor. At one point Adam finds the corpse of the author's friend Creator/ArthurMachen, who was trying to complete his last poem when the purple cloud reached him. Adam thinks about how noble it was for Machen to keep writing even though no one except God would read his work. |
| 180 | [[/folder]] |
| 181 | |
| 182 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 183 | * Creator/MichaelKeaton appears as the senior ''Series/ThirtyRock'' custodian in their hundredth episode. For extra danger, he's also [[{{Retirony}} one day from retirement]] and [[FatalFamilyPhoto carrying around a photo of his fiancée]]. |
| 184 | * A running gag on ''Series/BigTimeInHollywoodFl'', where simply put: the more famous the guest star the less time they last. |
| 185 | * Creator/DannyTrejo is decapitated and has a bomb planted inside of his skull by cartel members, after appearing on one or two scenes of an episode of ''Series/BreakingBad''. |
| 186 | * ''Series/BurnNotice'' did this in the fourth season premiere, with Michael Ironside. He was on the show for all of two minutes before an unmanned drone fills him with bullets. The potential for a Sam Fisher/Michael Westen crossover sadly been missed. |
| 187 | * ''Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019'': |
| 188 | %% Archive-footage appearances, including the Titans, aren't listed because the list is long enough as is. |
| 189 | ** Alexander Knox (Creator/RobertWuhl) from ''Film/Batman1989'', Dick Grayson (Creator/BurtWard) from ''Series/Batman1966'', and Helena Kyle (Creator/AshleyScott) from ''Series/BirdsOfPrey2002'' [[note]]plus an uncredited voice appearance from Creator/DinaMeyer as Barbara Gordon, also from ''Birds of Prey''[[/note]] all appear in live-action for the first time in decades, only to be obliterated by the antimatter wave. |
| 190 | ** An elderly Bruce Wayne (Creator/KevinConroy) dies in Hour Two. This was Conroy's first live-action appearance as Batman, after almost three decades of voicing the character. |
| 191 | ** At the end of Hour Three, the entire multiverse is destroyed, which means that all other cameos [[labelnote:Long List]]Alura Zor-El (Creator/EricaDurance) from ''Series/Supergirl2015'', Ray Terrill (Creator/RussellTovey) from ''WesternAnimation/FreedomFightersTheRay'', Clark Kent (Creator/TomWelling) and Lois Lane (Durance) from ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', Jefferson Pierce (Creator/CressWilliams) from ''Series/BlackLightning2018'', Lucifer Morningstar (Creator/TomEllis) from ''Series/Lucifer2016'', two Barry Allens (Creator/JohnWesleyShipp's from ''Series/TheFlash1990'' and Creator/EzraMiller's from the ''Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse'') and an alternate-universe Jonah Hex (Creator/JonathanSchaech) from ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow''[[/labelnote]] also qualify for this trope. |
| 192 | * ''Series/{{Delocated}}'': |
| 193 | ** Creator/PaulRudd appears as himself in the pilot episode, and ends up being shot dead by the Russian assassin chasing after the protagonist. |
| 194 | ** John Hodgman shows up in the Season 3 finale, and like Rudd, is accidentally killed by the Russian mobsters chasing Jon. |
| 195 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned "Voyage of the Damned"]], composer Murray Gold and orchestrator Ben Foster appear in a band playing on a starliner called the ''[[MeaningfulName Titanic]]''. While their fates were off-screen, it seems unlikely that they survived, especially when the Heavenly Host droids slice up most every survivor of the meteor shower with their metal halos. |
| 196 | * ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': Making a special appearance as the interviewer in the web-only production of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKYFNsnO-tc R. Tam Sessions]], Joss Whedon is killed by a crazed River. |
| 197 | * Kelly Long is a member of the ''Series/GameOfThrones'' art department and plays Joyeuse Frey, Lord Walder Frey's latest wife, and dies in place of book character Aegon Frey [[spoiler:with her throat slit by Catelyn]]. |
| 198 | * ''Series/TheGrandTour'': The "Celebrity Brain Crash" segment in every episode is ''supposedly'' a time where a celebrity comes on to play a trivia game... but none of the celebrities ever make it. They all suffer some sort of freak accident when they're within view of the tent. |
| 199 | -->'''James May:''' [[RunningGag ...Does that mean (s)he's not coming on, then?]] |
| 200 | * In the ''Series/KeyAndPeele'' sketch "Suburban Zombies", [[Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys Kevin]] [[Series/{{Andromeda}} Sorbo]] shows up as a badass, gun-toting action hero...[[ImAHumanitarian who proceeds to get killed and eaten]] in a spectacular aversion of the BlackDudeDiesFirst trope. |
| 201 | * Not a member of the crew, but close: Greg Grunberg has appeared in most works helmed by his childhood friend J.J. Abrams. When ExecutiveVeto nixed the death of Jack in the pilot episode of ''Series/{{Lost}}'', Grunberg was cast for one scene just to get killed by the monster. |
| 202 | * Also not a crew member, but every episode's special guest star on ''Series/PoliceSquad'' would only be in one scene, the opening titles. The announcer would voiceover, "Tonight's special guest star - (guest star's name here)!" during the title sequence, and the special guest star would then be killed (often in a hilarious, over-the-top manner). For completeness' sake, the list is Episode 1: Lorne Greene (stabbed and thrown from moving automobile), Episode 2: Georg Stanford Brown (police officer crushed by safe), Episode 3: Robert Goulet (shot by firing squad), Episode 4: William Shatner (restaurant patron, survives machine gun attack only to die via poisoned glass of wine), Episode 5: Florence Henderson (cooking show host, gunned down by machine gun on the set), Episode 6: William Conrad (stabbed and thrown from moving automobile, bookending the fate of Episode 1's special guest star Lorne Greene).[[note]]Conrad's scene was filmed as a last-minute replacement for a scene featuring Creator/JohnBelushi at the bottom of a river with his feet encased in cement after Belushi died of a drug overdose before the episode's air date; the footage of his "death" is believed lost.[[/note]] |
| 203 | * The ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode, "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIPsirens Psirens]]" has Starbug enter a DerelictGraveyard full of crashed spaceships that are [[PropRecycling recycled props]] from other TV shows and movies. There's the Narcissus from ''Film/{{Alien}}'', a Klingon Vor'cha class attack cruiser from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' and an Eagle from ''Series/Space1999''. |
| 204 | * ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': The episode "A World of His Own" is about an author who can create anything with his magic dictaphone. If the resulting dictation tape is destroyed, so is the created object. Rod Serling appears at the end and says something to the effect of "We hope you enjoyed this little fairy tale full of nonsense." When he does this, the main character says "Now, Rod, I wouldn't use the word nonsense." He then takes an envelope out of a safe -- the envelope is labeled "Rod Serling" He tosses the envelope into the fire and Rod Serling says "That's the way it goes" before disappearing in a puff of smoke. |
| 205 | * Creator/TomHanks (who [[CreatorCameo also directed the episode]]) appears briefly in as a dating service manager in the fourth season premiere of ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'', "None But the Lonely Heart''. He lasts two short scenes before he gets his head shoved through a television screen by the episode's VillainProtagonist. |
| 206 | * The last event in the GrandFinale of ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen''--right after Charlie had a piano fall on him--was when the audience's view expanded to include Chuck Lorre himself. And then a piano fell on him, just as it did to Charlie. The idea was apparently to show that just as the show showed disrespect to Charlie by turning him into a threatening stalker, so it's also going to kill off the director himself in the same way as what just happened to Charlie. |
| 207 | [[/folder]] |
| 208 | |
| 209 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 210 | * ''VideoGame/EXTRAPOWERStarResistance'': Lucky Lamp Project artist Needle Sandman cameos as a bonus item in Stage 2. When found, he will begin dancing across the screen. The only way to interact with him is to perform a Final Crash attack on him, destroying him to receive a single 1 point bonus gem. |
| 211 | * In the fifth chapter of ''VideoGame/HalfLifeOpposingForce'' there are two scientists lying dead near their desks, which carry the nametags "S. Reardon" and "S. Jones", referencing Creator/GearboxSoftware developers Sean Reardon and Steven Jones. |
| 212 | * As always, subverted by ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. Specifically, ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsGame''. The family fails in their mission to kill and/or subdue Matt Groening. |
| 213 | * ''Franchise/MortalKombat'''s Ed Boon and John Tobias tend to appear as severed heads in the spike-pit levels. And then several Midway employees have their names written on the tombstones in the Graveyard stage. |
| 214 | * ''Videogame/BatmanArkhamKnight'' opens with a cutscene where a lot of people die in a diner, all of whom are modeled after Rocksteady's staff. |
| 215 | * ''VideoGame/DoomII'': |
| 216 | ** The BigBad of the game, the Icon of Sin, is actually a giant wall with a shoot-through brain texture. Behind the brain texture is 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 is the actual boss entity in the game, and the Icon of Sin is killed by firing rockets into the brain, which will 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." |
| 217 | ** In the [[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." |
| 218 | * 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. |
| 219 | * 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. |
| 220 | * Buddy Faith, the first corpse in ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations'', was modeled after game director Takeshi Yamazaki. Mr. Yamazaki was allegedly so disturbed seeing himself as a corpse that he requested a slight redesign. |
| 221 | * ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' |
| 222 | ** The development staff of appear on the Ishimura's list of casualties. |
| 223 | ** Invoked by the ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'' promotion that produced its ContestWinnerCameo, literally called "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Get Dismembered in Dead Space 2]]". The winner, Dan Emmerson, is the poor guy who tries to enter the elevator only to be impaled by a Slasher during Chapter 2. |
| 224 | * In ''VideoGame/BloodwingsPumpkinheadsRevenge'', the developers appear as the lost souls in the second level. |
| 225 | * Variant: The arcade version of ''VideoGame/AlteredBeast1988'' features a large tombstone you can destroy, which according to the inscription belongs to former SEGA mascot VideoGame/AlexKidd. |
| 226 | * Variant: a mission of ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'' features the EA headquarters in Los Angeles - which the player can demolish at will. |
| 227 | * ''VideoGame/JitsuSquad'' contains a cameo of Arthur from ''VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins'' in the background of Castle Hellstorm... as an armoured skeleton. He may be all bones, but he can be recognized via his helmet and lance. An animated skeleton of [[Franchise/{{Castlevania}} Simon Belmont]] shows up in the same stage. |
| 228 | * The ''VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}'' games include avatars of several of the games developers, all of whom you can kill. |
| 229 | * Monstrous versions of ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' appear as mounted heads in ''VideoGame/GrabbedByTheGhoulies''. |
| 230 | * In ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'' and its remake, ''Live and Reloaded'', Banjo's head is mounted on a wall in the bar, and Kazooie's head is stuck on the end of an umbrella. |
| 231 | * ''VideoGame/AliceMadnessReturns'' has an EasterEgg where the skeletal remains of [[VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}} Raz]] can be found. |
| 232 | * The player can invoke this in ''VideoGame/PaydayTheHeist'' during the first mission at the First World Bank. The bank manager, who is modeled after one of the developers, has the key needed to progress, and you can either cuff him or shoot him to take it. Of course, if you do shoot him, you'll have to wait longer to respawn if you are taken into custody. |
| 233 | * ''VideoGame/POEd'' has an abbatoir where you can see Music/ElvisPresley's corpse hung upon a hook. [[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/poed-18.png Yes, really]]. |
| 234 | * ''VideoGame/OrganTrail'', the player can invoke this by naming one of their survivors Ryan, after the game's creator Ryan Wiemeyer and shooting him, the instant they have the chance. Of course, the only reward for that is an achievement. |
| 235 | * One of the potential anomalies you can encounter in ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'' is a mummified alien child in a lifepod that was launched from a dying homeworld. Its genetic makeup reveals it would have been a very strong specimen should it have matured, essentially a dead baby ''Franchise/{{Superman}}''. |
| 236 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Terranigma}}'', you can visit the DevelopersRoom in the form of Quintet's offices in Neotokio. Later in the plot, the city is wiped out by a DepopulationBomb. |
| 237 | * If you choose to get back on the train at the start of ''VideoGame/TheTownWithNoName'', Joey from ''Film/{{Shane}}'' shows up begging you to come back. The protagonist shoots him and says his name isn't Shane. |
| 238 | * Warhead was the main antagonist of original ''VideoGame/{{Vectorman}}'' game, being a high-level Orbot gone rogue when a working nuclear missile was attached to his programming by a lesser Orbot. Warhead was destroyed by Vectorman at the end of the game, and in ''Vectorman 2'', his disembodied head can be seen buried in the background of Level 9. |
| 239 | * ''VideoGame/XenaWarriorPrincess'', being developed by Electronic Arts and produced by Universal Studios, have the shark from Universal's ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' showing up on a beach as a strung-up carcass, killed by pirates prior to the level. Repeatedly hitting the shark’s carcass will make it spit out beach volleyballs, broken pieces of surfboards, and an anchor. |
| 240 | [[/folder]] |
| 241 | |
| 242 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 243 | * ''Webanimation/EverythingIsBroken'': Rhianna's AuthorAvatar gets murdered by Flippy in part 12. |
| 244 | * The ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' team animated a music video for Fall Out Boy's "Carpal Tunnel of Love" featuring the Happy Tree Friends characters. Fairly late in the video the four band members appear in Happy Tree Friends form, and just like those characters they all meet a gruesome over-the-top death. |
| 245 | * Creator/MichaelBay appears in ''WebAnimation/SonicForHire'' only to get harpooned by Eggman. |
| 246 | * Many characters in WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}}'s ''WebAnimation/TheBlueShellIncident'' appear only to die, including Santa Claus, Sans, Piglet, and the M&Ms. |
| 247 | [[/folder]] |
| 248 | |
| 249 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 250 | * ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''. When Andrew Hussie [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/14293468/homestuck-adventure-game ran a Kickstarter]] to raise funds for an adventure game adaptation, the reward for a $10,000 donation was "[[AscendedFanfic Your fantroll will become canon.]]". The reward for a $100,000 donation was "Your fantroll will survive past the first panel." These reward tiers were originally intended as jokes, but two people actually donated $10,000. True to his word, Hussie [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=007866 prominently featured both characters]], then killed them in the very next panel. |
| 251 | [[/folder]] |
| 252 | |
| 253 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 254 | * ''WebVideo/FreshyKanal'': Freshy Kanal himself appear briefly in "Ghostface vs. Samara Morgan" where Ghostface phones him about the matchup before hanging him. |
| 255 | [[/folder]] |
| 256 | |
| 257 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 258 | * Maxwell Atoms shows up in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' getting his best idea ever right before the hourglass that controls his existence is dropped and Billy assures Irwin that it was no one important. |
| 259 | ** In "Little Rock of Horror" one of the random victims to get his brain sucked by the alien creature is a cartoon version of Voltaire, who wrote (and sings) the alien's song. |
| 260 | * In the ChristmasEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', writer and storyboard artist Ian Graham makes a cameo as a man who is crushed by the debris from Zim and Dib's robot battle. |
| 261 | ** As well, Creator/JhonenVasquez swallows a piranha in ''The Wettening''. That other guy who is a higher up later gets crushed by a wave buying a hot dog. The more you know! (Said higher-up is the episode's director, Steve Ressel.) |
| 262 | ** Frank Conniff, who wrote for the show (but is more famously known as [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 TV's Frank]]), is crushed by the giant mutant hamster's foot in "Hamstergeddon". |
| 263 | * The season finale of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' had a "new intern" appear (well actually two: one in Canada and one for America) who was the winner of the online game. The intern tested the final stunt, only to fall into the lake and get eaten by the waiting sharks. |
| 264 | * It happens in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' movie ''Abra-Catastrophe,'' although it requires a little bit of FridgeLogic. During his battle with EvilOverlord Crocker, Timmy and Crocker himself get shrunken down to subatomic levels. The audience is given an EstablishingShot zooming in on the pencil erasure of a rather frustrated looking series creator Creator/ButchHartman. Fast forward a few minutes and Timmy splits an atom, resulting in a nuclear explosion, as expected. Timmy and Crocker survive via different forms of magic, but Butch and his studio [[SelfDeprecation are nowhere to be seen]]. |
| 265 | * In ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'', series creator John Dilworth's name appears on the list of people who checked into the Katz Motel. By the end of the episode, Katz made it clear that every guest before the Bagges was killed. |
| 266 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 267 | ** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E22TheOttoShow The Otto Show]]", [[Film/ThisIsSpinalTap Spın̈al Tap]]'s tour bus crashes in a fiery explosion thanks to Otto's [[DrivesLikeCrazy reckless driving]]. |
| 268 | ** Creator/ShirleyTemple appears briefly before getting eaten by [[KingKongCopy King Homer]] in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E5TreehouseOfHorrorIII Treehouse Of Horror III]]". |
| 269 | ** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E12MargeVsTheMonorail Marge Vs The Monorail]]" has Simpsons crew members Creator/RichMoore, Wes Archer, and Creator/DavidSilverman falling to their deaths riding the escalator to nowhere. |
| 270 | ** ''Series/TheFlyingNun'' cameos in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E14BrotherFromTheSamePlanet Brother From The Same Planet]]". The wind carries her over a hill where an explosion can then be seen. |
| 271 | ** The frogs from the '90s Budweiser commercials cameo in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E10TheSpringfieldFiles The Springfield Files]]" but get immediately eaten by an alligator who mentions the rival beer, Coors. |
| 272 | ** [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] appears on a bus full of Italian tourists laughing at Homer in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E8HomerAndNedsHailMaryPass Homer And Ned's Hail Mary Pass]]". Homer kills him by throwing trash cans at him, complete with the death animation from the original ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong''. |
| 273 | ** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS21E4TreehouseOfHorrorXX Treehouse Of Horror XX]]" had a segment parodying Creator/AlfredHitchcock movies. While Lisa is trying to murder Bart, they accidentally push a man resembling Hitchcock off a cliff, an homage to his cameos in his movies. |
| 274 | ** Corpses of The Simpsons appearing crudely drawn as they originally did in ''Series/TheTraceyUllmanShow'' appear buried in both "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS25E2TreehouseOfHorrorXXIV Treehouse of Horror XXIV]]" and "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS24E3AdventuresInBabyGetting Adventures In Baby-Getting]]", a ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' skeleton appears beside them in the former. Weirdly this forshadows a segment in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS26E4TreehouseOfHorrorXXV Treehouse Of Horror XXV]]" parodying ''Film/TheOthers'', where The Simpsons have to share their house with the ghost of their Tracey Ullman counterparts. |
| 275 | * The ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' episode "The Siege of Starro" has [[WesternAnimation/SuperFriends Gleek]] appear as a stuffed trophy of the Faceless Hunter. |
| 276 | * After ''WesternAnimation/{{TUGS}}'', the short-lived sister series of ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' ended, the models that were used on ''TUGS'' were recycled and made various cameo appearances on ''Thomas''. A particularly grim example is in the episode, "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS3E16EdwardTrevorAndTheReallyUsefulParty Edward, Trevor, and the Really Useful Party]]", where the model of Puffa appears in pieces in the scrapyard. |
| 277 | * ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'': InUniverse example in the episode "You’ll Never Eat Food Pellets In This Town Again" where Pinky and Brain are AnimatedActors who have their show canceled and Brain's agent Nifty Bizarre gets them in cameo appearances in other shows. In [[WhereNoParodyHasGoneBefore "Star Trak: Deep Voyage 12"]] Pinky and Brain appear on screen as aliens for a whole second before being blasted by a laser and in [[Series/NYPDBlue "NYDP Blues"]] they appear as dead bodies at a crime scene. |
| 278 | -->'''Nifty Bizarre:''' Blue sky it for me, what do you wanna play next? |
| 279 | -->'''Brain:''' Something other then a corpse? |
| 280 | [[/folder]] |
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