• Raid Insecticide Campaign: In an early commerical, the bug victim is played by Senor Wences, who naturally treated it like one of his comedy acts.

• Omega Mart: Country musician Willie Nelson makes a guest appearance in a couple of web ads. While his inclusion is meant to be a commentary on how untrustworthy deepfakes are, Meow Wolf was still able to get him to record original lines for the adverts.

• In the last episode of Attack on Titan: Junior High, there's a Titan with long hair and sunglasses that yells out "Bravo!!" as Levi sings. That Titan was Revo of Linked Horizon, the singer of the band of the same name who did the opening songs of this and the main series. Similar to that, in episode 11 of the series, Farlan and Isabel from the No Regrets light novel both appear to watch Jean's Snow White play as audience members.
• In episode 2 of Aikatsu, there's a background character◊ who looks exactly like Lalah Sune from Mobile Suit Gundam, which isn't that surprising considering the companies who own this franchise.
• Battle Athletes Victory ReSTART!:
  • Obscured photos of Akari and Tomoe are seen in the first episode, as part of an exposition of the previous Cosmic Beauties.
  • In the final episode we see a photo of Akari following in her father's footsteps by wearing the Mr. Miracle outfit and standing next to a young Stella being crowned as a Cosmo Beauty.
• Isami Hanaoka's teacher, Haruka Takagi from Soar High! Isami makes a cameo in episodes 1 & 2 of The Daichis - Earth's Defense Family via a billboard that Mamoru that got stuck on. As a side effect of being used as one of the clips to show how Mamoru useless is, she also cameos throughout episode 11 everytime the Daichi family mentions those points about him throughout that episode. Both Soar High! Isami and The Daichis - Earth's Defense Family are series that have Kazuaki Môri as the character designer and were both animated by the Anime Studio: Group TAC.
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
  • Stone Ocean: Rohan Kishibe is briefly name-dropped as one of the few mangaka who are still making their deadlines after Pucci's Made In Heaven takes effect.
  • JoJolion: In Chapter 99, Enya and Ermes appear on a page covering an explanation on Rock Humans.
• Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX: In Episode 4, Mosk Han from Mobile Suit Gundam appears as the engineer responsible for providing a modified Gelgoog to Shiiko for her Clan Battle.
• The Negima! Magister Negi Magi manga has dozens of cameos, mostly of fighting game characters, especially during the first Tournament Arc.
• In the second episode of GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class anime, characters from Shoulder-a-Coffin Kuro, the mangaka's other work, can be seen in the background.
• Fairy Tail has a few cameos especially from the creator's previous manga Rave Master, such as Plue appearing as one of Lucy's Celestial Spirits. This was lampshaded in the first Fairy Tail and Rave Master crossover.
• Love Lucky: In chapter 56, Yura and Makoto (from mangaka Katsu Aki's more famous work, Futari Ecchi) have a walk on cameo as they pass by Kirari, who jealously contemplates how much she wants to be a "normal happy couple" like they are.
• Puella Magi Oriko Magica has Charlotte, a popular witch from the parent series, make a brief appearance in chapter 3. Doubles as a Mythology Gag, considering the circumstances.
  • Kyubey makes a cameo in Chapter 4 of Puella Magi Kazumi Magica. Subverted in Chapter 5 where he plays a larger role in the plot. Mami and Kyoko make brief appearances in later chapters.
  • The third volume of Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Different Story has a brief appearance of Michuru Kazusa from Kazumi Magica.
• In episode 58 of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, there's an elderly woman that has an uncanny resemblance to Dante, the antagonist of the first Fullmetal Alchemist series.
• The main characters of My Little Monster appear as ogres in the anime version of Hozuki's Coolheadedness.
• Isaac and Miria from Baccano! make appearances in a few episodes of Durarara!!, establishing the series' shared universe.
• Helen ESP has a a cameo by Katsuhisa's other work Franken Fran's main character, Fran, in an extra chapter. She gives Helen a wish for saving one of her creations. She asks to read Braille faster.
• Sawa, the lead character from Yasuomi Umetsu's infamous OAV Anime/Kite, makes a cameo during the same director's later Mezzo Forte; she can be seen walking past the car window and glancing inside when Kurokawa is talking to the detective during the film's opening minutes.
• Despite being made by different people, Katz from Courage the Cowardly Dog made a brief cameo on Panty's shirt in Episode 4 of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. It was even on an infamous scene/internet fad.
• Urusei Yatsura has a few One-Scene Wonder examples. Kenshiro isn't a One-Scene Wonder in virtue of him appearing in two scenes, enough to establish him as a delinquent and pick a fight against Kotatsu Neko (he lost).
• Watch any of the Pretty Cure All-Stars movies. Count how many past characters show up in one movie.
  • Played straight with HappinessCharge Pretty Cure!, where to celebrate the franchise's 10th anniversary, each one of the past 33 Cures appear in a semi-random order, starting with Cure Black... so much that they gained its own page.
• The Sword of Paros: In the chapter 6, Candy, Annie, Archie and Terry from Candy♡Candy have a picnic as they discuss the chances the protagonist Hermina has of winning the competition. Both the mangas were drawn by Yumiko Igarashi.
• Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure has Kiyone Makibi, Ramia, and Misao Amano from Tenchi Muyo appear as background characters in the final OVA episode. Other Tenchi characters appear in the laser disk sleeve artwork while elements of Dual! pop up in Tenchi Muyo GXP. Both shows are from the same team at AIC and are considered as part of one multiverse.
• In the American dub of Duel Masters, after Shobu defeats Kokujo, he is finally given his opportunity to duel Hakuoh and ascend to the rank of Kaijudo master, along such famous names as his father Shori and seven-time grand champion Greg the Bunny.
• Usagi and Naru appeared at the end of a Codename: Sailor V manga chapter.
• Psychic Squad The Unlimited anime, in the 5th episode, features a cameo with two of the biggest internet web video personas: both The Nostalgia Critic and The Angry Video Game Nerd
• It's common for Conan Edogawa to make a minor appearance in the Magic Kaito TV specials since they have a Shared Universe. Sometimes it's a Freeze-Frame Bonus and other time's it's as an Aside Glance complete with a Slasher Smile and Scary Shiny Glasses.
• Light Yagami of Death Note has a cameo in Death Parade, which were both animated by Madhouse.
• Most of Cool-kyou Shinsha's works take place in the same city, so characters are often seen in the background of other series. The most commonly recurring character is Miki from I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying.
• Sgt. Frog: Zorori, Ishishi and Noshishi appear briefly in the first movie, with Zorori lampshading their out-of-nowhere appearance.
• Heroman: one recurring background character, Stan, is modeled after Stan Lee (who also helped create the series).
• Real life figure skaters and announcers have shown up on Yuri!!! on Ice.
  • Morooka Hisashi is voiced by Taihei Katou, an announcer for TV Asahi and a figure skating commentator.
  • Oda Nobunari appears as a commentator, and watches JJ's short program from the stands at the Barcelona Grand Prix Final. He also appears in the preview for episode 11, in which he calls Victor and Yuri by their nicknames, comments on their matching rings, and agrees to take a photo with Yurio.
  • Honda Takeshi is a commentator at the Sochi Grand Prix Final.
  • Stéphane Lambiel announces the start of the free program at the Barcelona Grand Prix Final and seems to be an acquaintance of Victor's. He is a fan of the series and owns at least one Yuri on ICE phone case (as of 2017).
  • Muramoto Satsuki, Phichit's coach, is based on a retired skater who coaches in Thailand. Similarly, Odagaki Kanako, Minami's coach, is based on a real skater who worked with Miyamoto Kenji to choreograph the show.
  • Other skater cameos without voice roles:
    • Evgeni Plushenko watches fellow Russian Yurio's performance in episode 9.
    • Evgenia Medvedeva takes pictures of the dance-off in episode 10. She has been quite vocal about her love for the show on social media, cosplayed as Yuri (using an actual Team Japan jacket), and had art drawn of her, Victor, and Yuri, by the series creator.
    • Yuzuru Hanyu appears on the cover of an Ice Jewels magazine in his Let's Go Crazy costume, striking JJ's trademark pose along with the Canadian. ^note Hanyu's Canadian home rink is the Toronto Cricket Club.
• Digimon:
  • Digimon Frontier had numerous Digimon from previous series appear briefly in the background of episode 17. Among them are Wizardmon and Gatomon, Gallantmon. The dub even had Brian Beacock and Steve Blum voice a line for the latter.
  • The first episode of Digimon Fusion starts with heroic Digimon from all five previous series appearing to Taiki/Mikey in a dream sequence.
• Sakura Wars: The Movie:
  • Yūji Mitsuya makes his return as Musei Edogawa, the director of the Flower Division's stage play.
  • At the end of the film, Kazuki Yao, Taiki Matsuno and Daisuke Gōri reprise their respective roles as Kotone Seiryuin, Kikunojo Oka and Yokihiko Ota.
• The Legend of Zelda (Akira Himekawa):
  • In The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (2005), when Sahasrahla is recounting the story of the Imprisoning War, Ganon's humanoid form, Ganondorf, is shown claiming the Triforce.
  • During the present-day segment of the Skyward Sword one-shot, Groose, Strich, and Cawlin are seen in class with Link.
  • In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2016), the King of Hyrule appears to personally sentence Ganondorf.
• The Witcher: Ronin: Yennefer appears in the last two pages as a kimono-clad noblewoman, on whose behalf Geralt was apparently searching for Ciri.
• Stray Cat and Wolf: Chapter 8.5 is a crossover chapter, with Naruse Shou and Machida Yuki from Cheeky Brat making a short appearance. Apparently, Shou is a fan of Rou's band.

• The Big Finish Doctor Who Crisis Crossover Legacy of Time: Collision Course has a scene in which the First, Second, and Tenth Doctors ^note voiced by David Bradley, Frazer Hines, and David Tennant respectively show up and are basically told the story is crowded enough as it is.
• Torchwood (Big Finish): "Future Pain" features a very brief appearance from Gwen and Rhys during Colchester's funeral, having been Put on a Bus an episode prior. They don't stick around long however, as Gwen is trying to avoid Jack after the traumatic events involving Ng having possessed her body.

• Munchkin Bites! 2: Pants Macabre includes The Evil from Sluggy Freelance and Roger the were-coyote from College Roomies from Hell!!!!!!.
• While the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime and manga aren't as bad, the card game itself often features cameo appearances from various Konami game characters (Goegoe the Gallant Ninja, Lady Ninja Yae, Ninja Grandmaster Sasuke, Getsu Fuhma, Ryu Kokki) and weapons (Gradius, Victory Viper XX03, anything with B.E.S. in its name) as cards in the game to fill out sets and make new decktypes. Granted, while Konami rarely makes them too useful, it does make them.
  • Tactical Espionage Expert, anyone?
  • There are also Super Vehicroid Stealth Union and XYZ Dragon Cannon. Both are a bit impractical to use, though, so don't really see competitive play.

• Batman: Black and White: "A Black and White World" has an out-of-nowhere cameo by Lobo near the end. Art for the story was by Simon Bisley, who made his name in America doing the art for Lobo's first solo title.
• David Tennant and Billie Piper appeared in the Season 9 Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic "In Perfect Harmony." Also a Celebrity Paradox since the 10th Doctor appeared with Rose and the TARDIS in the future in Season 8.
• Tintin: The carnival sequence in Tintin and the Picaros features a large number of cameos, including Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Asterix and Snoopy.
• In one panel of the Hector Plasm comic "Wilfred Hall," Joan and Cleo make an appearance.
• In Nightcat, Stan Lee makes an appearance... asking Nightcat if he can make a comic about her.
• The title character of Tramp's Wormy had a credited cameo in Phil Foglio's What's New? With Phil And Dixie, back when both gaming-comics were running side-by-side in Dragon.
• Tim Leherner, a.k.a. TelstarMan, is a newsanchor near the end of Transmetropolitan. He attracted the attention of Warren Ellis for having a truly ridiculous number of covers of the song "Telstar" (over 130 at last count).
• The Observer Pony can be seen in all the issues of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW) drawn by Andy Price.
• Several major or minor characters make brief appearances in The Pulse, among them Nick Fury, Wolverine, and Spider-Man.
• Scott Pilgrim characters Scott, Ramona, Lisa, Julie, Knives, Stephen Stills, Joseph, Lucas Lee, and Gideon]] can all be seen at various points in Seconds. The Fast and the Furious characters Vin Diesel and Paul Walker appear in a panel as a homage after the latter died.
• Shazam!: In Shazam! (1973) issue #17, as the Marvel Family are flying into action, one single panel focuses on Tawky Tawny, and that is his only appearance in the whole issue. A footnote explains the Taling Tiger has absolutely nothing to do with the story, but the writer thought readers might live to see him anyway.
• Comic blogger/journalist Betty Felon has almost made a career of making appearances in comics. She's shown up as a reporter in issues of Ultimate Spider-Man (2000) and Daredevil, as well as a random citizen in Batgirl, a college student in The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and Beverly Switzler's secretary in Howard the Duck.
• Batgirl: Batgirl (2011) writer Babs Tarr is a big fan of anime and cartoons in general, so a lot of her crowd scenes feature cameos from famous animated characters. Fans have noticed appearances from Usagi Tsukino, human versions of Garnet and Pearl, and a Sailor V arcade cabinet.
• Superman:
  • In Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man, when Clark Kent joins his friends before flying New York, Perry White, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Morgan Edge, Steve Lombard and Linda Danvers make a brief appearance.
  • The Great Phantom Peril: Batman and Green Lantern Hal Jordan make a brief appearance in the final issue to play Mr. Exposition.
  • Strangers at the Heart's Core: The Doom Patrol are guest stars during the central part of the storyline.
  • In Must There Be a Superman?, Green Lantern Katma Tui makes a surprise one-panel appearance.
  • The Living Legends of Superman: The Walt Simonson's tribute features Supergirl, Batman, Perry White, Brainiac, Lois Lane, Mr. Mxyzptlk, Lex Luthor, Jimmy Olsen, Lana Lang, Toyman, Jor-El, Lara Lor-Van and Bizarro carrying a giant Superman statue. Neither of them except for Luthor makes an appearance in the proper story, and only Jimmy is mentioned by name.
  • In Superman Smashes the Klan, the trapeze artists performing for the circus Clark and Lana visit in Issue #3 consist of a mother, father, and son wearing bright red, yellow, and green costumes with feather-shaped patterns on them. The fact that they are performing without a safety net means they are almost certainly The Flying Graysons.
• In Supergirl books:
  • In Supergirl (1982) #20 the Justice League of America and the Teen Titans make a short appearance.
  • In Supergirl (2016) #16, Shaggy and Velma from Scooby-Doo pop up in a panel as background characters.
• Tekno and Ebony from Sonic the Comic appear in one issue of Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics).
• Veronica and Betty from the main Archie comic appear in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina as witches from Riverdale.
• At least one character (Kyisha) from Shadoweyes has appeared in the background of Jem and the Holograms (IDW). Sophie Campbell works on both. Another issue featured a human version of Fluttershy from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, which only adds to the multiple references the comic has. IDW Publishing publishes both the Jem And The Holograms comic and the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW) comics.
• The Justice League shows up at the end of Night of the Monster Men to assist with cleanup efforts.
• Ultimate Marvel:
  • Ultimate FF: It seems that, at some point, Ultimate Rick Jones crossed into the prime universe and met Captain Marvel.
  • Ultimate X-Men (2001): George Bush and Condoleezza Rice are briefly seen in the first arc.
  • The Ultimates:
    • George W. Bush shows up at the Ultimates gala.
    • Larry King interviews Tony Stark on TV
  • Spider-Men II: Miles Morales heard the Taskmaster talking on the phone with one "Miles Morales". What is going on? Needing some answers, Peter Parker hires a private investigator... Jessica Jones!
• In Batman: Curse of the White Knight, Jason Blood was the one who gave Alfred the journal that revealed the truth behind the Wayne family fortune to give to Bruce.
• Billy & Buddy:
  • Yoko Tsuno, Natacha, Sophie, Isabelle, Mam'zelle Jeanne, Grenadine, Tôôôt and several others female characters all make a cameo in a story. They all thought Bill was cute, much to his annoyance.
  • In one of the longer stories, Snoopy and Charlie Brown from Peanuts have a cameo.
• In the Legion of Super-Heroes story arc The Great Darkness Saga, a brainwashed Daxamite minion wears The Mighty Thor's clothes.
• Green Lantern: The 1992 one-shot Ganthet's Tale, based on a bible by Larry Niven, features a cover depicting many alien Green Lanterns — including one Pierson's Puppeter from Niven's Known Space.
• The Powerpuff Girls:
  • Crow T. Robot appears among Mojo Jojo's yard sale wares in "Everything Must Go" (DC issue #48).
  • Charlie Brown is seen in a wide panel in "No Business Like Snow Business" (DC issue #39).
• Tale of Sand: Smokey Bear makes a brief appearance where he douses Mac's campfire with a bucket of water, then runs away without a word.
• A number of Hanna-Barbera characters cameo in Marvel's 'Laff-a-Lympics (1978)'' comic books. Among them:
  • #2 - Ruff and Reddy
  • #6 - Magilla Gorilla, Loopy De Loop, Inch High Private Eye
  • #11 - Elroy Jetson (the central figure of the story)
  • #12 - Ed Huddles, Hair Bear, the Funky Phantom, the Banana Splits
  • #13 - Dick Dastardly and Muttley
• My Little Pony: The Storm of Zephyr Heights: In Issue #2, Rainbow Dash, Derpy Hooves, Bulk Biceps, Spitfire and the silhouettes of the Wonderbolts appear in Zipp's Imagine Spot. Somnambula is seen as a statue.
  • In Issue #3, Rarity, Applejack and Fluttershy are seen in an old recording from the Wonderbolts museum.
• X-Men '92
  • In the first volume, the Penal Colony has quite a few recognizable patients, ranging from Brotherhood alumni like Blob and the Toad to X-Force members such as Boom-Boom and Warpath. Even Sabretooth makes an appearance!
  • At the end of the first volume, Joseph, the young clone of Magneto, appears working in a diner. The second volume promotes him to a recurring character.
  • The classrooms in the second volume show a good number of young mutants from the Generation X and X-Statix stories. One of them, the Generation X Ensemble Dark Horse Chamber, is even promoted to semi-recurring status!
  • Blade shows up in holographic form as the Danger Room's Daywalker training program.
  • Rachel Summers makes one in the second volume in her "Mother Askani" incarnation.
  • The final issue has cameos from The Punisher, Spider-Man, the Danny Ketch Ghost Rider and Black Panther

• Death of the Endless makes a cameo near the end of the Nodwick comic. She's also mentioned in passing in PS238 as the sister of one of the students: "Murphy, the prince of daydreams".
• FoxTrot did a storyline that ran from December 16-21, 1996, in which Paige dreams of visiting the Land of Animated Christmas TV Specials, where Frosty, Snoopy, Linus, S.D. Kluger, Sam the Snowman, Yukon Cornelius, Hermey, the Grinch, and Aaron all make cameos.
  • Charlie Brown and Linus made a cameo in the FoxTrot Sunday strip published on December 17, 2006.
    Roger: Aarg! I just knew I should have [bought a Christmas tree] last weekend! Oh, wait! That little tree over there isn't sold yet... Noooooooooo!...
    Linus: Sorry, mister.
    Charlie Brown: [walking away with the tree from A Charlie Brown Christmas] You snooze, you lose!

Ace Attorney

• Astro Boy Edgeworth AU: Eddie Fender appears in one panel of part 3.

Afterbeat

• The Black Heart custom level series has cameos from King Crazy and Irqus, two characters from custom levels outside of it and by different creators. King Crazy shows up at the beginning of a level his creator helped with, and Irqus appears petrified alongside Jestar Heart's assassins.
• The Peer Gyntening has Ophelia from the Heartstrings custom level series show up in the level geer pint, which was made by its creator. Doubles as a Mythology Gag as she dies in a similar manner to her original death in Heartstrings.

Animorphs

• Dæmorphing: Elizabeth from Sporadic Phantoms appears in chapter 2 of The Presence of Justice. Just like in her source material, she's a voluntary Controller who even other voluntaries find weird and off-putting.

Crossover

• AWE Arcadia Bay (Rogue_Demon): Apparently, Colin Robinson from What We Do in the Shadows works at the New York Times.
• Because I'm Not Popular I'll Try To Out With A hero (No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular! & Spider-Man): Stan Lee appears as Peter's landlord. Just as he always appears in the Marvel movies.
• Chaldea Prison (NSFW prose), a crossover between Fate/Grand Order and A Certain Magical Index, has a cameo of Spectra from Curse of Nudity (specifically the caster version of the character that previously appeared in Curse is Broken (NSFW art), a fanfic by the same author.)
• Code Prime (Code Geass & Transformers): Rai, or at least several photos of him, show up in a Code R Lab in Chapter 4. He joins the main story a few chapters later and ends up becoming one of the Black Knights due to seeing Lelouch while the latter was still wearing his Zero outfit (granted, Rai wanted to join anyway).
• Fanfic writer CVGW James has done quite a bit of cameo appearances of characters from other franchises outside of the ones he's currently writing for. As a standout example, The Case of the Ghost Biker has some minor appearances from various characters from The DCU, even though it's primarily a crossover between Scooby-Doo and Sonic the Hedgehog. For examples regarding Stan Lee, see that subpage.
• The Great and Powerful Ace Attorney (Ace Attorney & My Little Pony): The protagonist and playable character of Welcome to Ponyville makes a cameo.
• Infinity Crisis has its own page about examples of this trope inside it.
• It's Always Spooky Month: Daddy Dearest appears once in chapter 6, though is not mentioned by name. Monster doesn't like him.
• Kedabory's Muppet Mania: In Hitomu and Chiho's episode, Hinata Hiramitsu, Kokone Fuwa, and Ako Shirabe make a brief appearance in the audience.
• A handful of these turn up in Manehattan's Lone Guardian:
  • Lyra Heartstrings turns up briefly as a tourist who sees Leviathan sitting upright on a bench, then leaves to try the stance herself.
  • Octavia Melody is one of those who watches Leviathan and Gray's discussion on the former's clothing. The same scene reveals that she was originally a Manehattan resident, but moved to Ponyville after getting hired as a cellist in Canterlot.
  • Smooth Beat (a.k.a. "Long Play"), Vinyl Scratch's older brother from the comics, puts in an appearance as the latest pony that Limefrost wants to date for his money. It's implied that he's The Voiceless just as much as his sister is.
  • Bon Bon, Fluttershy, and Applejack are among those seen learning about Leviathan's adventures in the second newspaper chapter.
• Origin Story (Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Power Girl): In Chapter 29, Deadpool shows up to bug Alex, and specifically says he's just there to make a cameo in the story because a friend of the writer bet him (the writer that is) $50 that the writer wouldn't dare drop a random Deadpool cameo into the story. The writer won the bet.
• SAPR (My Little Pony & RWBY): In "Belladonna" a large one-eared and one-eyed rabbit faunus shows up among the White Fang. The faunus' name? Woundwort.
• Sora's Misadventures in Equestria (Kingdom Hearts & My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic):
  • After her Green-Eyed Monster possession and fight against Kairi, Twilight opts to take a vacation and goes to see Princess Celestia. The princess then offers her to take a week off along with her by going inside a very special book and meeting its inhabitants.
  • When Sora & Kairi take Cerberus back to Tartarus in "It's About Time", not only do they revert back to their human forms, but Cerberus also changes from the three-headed bulldog he was in Equestria to the demonic three-headed Dobermann he is when in Olympus Coliseum's Underworld.
    • Hades himself makes an appearance in all the times Tartarus is shown, after all it's the Greek Underworld.
    • Also starting from this chapter's end, Stitch becomes a semi-regular character of the story when Sora summons him.
  • During the events of "Too Many Pinkie Pies", Sora was accidentally dunked in the Mirror Pool, accidentally creating a clone and knocking him unconscious. Who was said clone created? Roxas. Naturally, he goes back inside Sora's heart at the end of the chapter.
  • Sora summons Genie to help save the falling ponies when the Twinkling Balloon was destroyed by the tornado instigated by Lightning Dust.
  • He later summons Peter Pan and Tinkerbell to help the Humane Six and keep the Element of Magic away from Sunset Shimmer. Unfortunately, both are automatically removed when Sunset uses her Wrath!Heartless powers and then dons the Element.
  • "Power Ponies" in this story is a crossover between the aforementioned series and a ponified comics version of Dissidia Final Fantasy. Sora takes the role of a ponified Zidane Tribal, Riku becomes a ponified Cecil Harvey in his Dark Knight form, and Kairi is a ponified Terra Branford. Helping the Mane-iac is Final Fantasy VI's own Kefka Palazzo, also ponified.
    • Speaking of Final Fantasy VI, Sora's first opponent in the Equestria Games' Struggle Tournament is a "blond-maned mare with a green leotard and a white cape" named Celestial Star, but is known by her nickname Celes^notea ponified Celes Chere, of course.
  • When Sora revisits Disney Castle after he finds out due to his Time Travel visit caused his father to birth a Nobody, he meets Max, PJ and Bobby, who are a knight, magician and archer respectively. When Donald and Goofy are chosen to stay close to Sora, Max and PJ are promoted to the formers' old positions in Disney Castle until they return.
  • When Aqua and Terra dive into Sora's heart to help him combat the darkness within his Anti-Form, taking the form of Vanitas of all beings, they get lost in his heart, but they get help finding the battleground from a certain young girl in a black coat to show them the way.
  • During Lea's time in Equestria, he and Sora (along with the stowaway CMC) dive back into Sora's heart to find the cause of the fire wielder's maladies over memories. Not only do they have help from Roxas, but also find Xion as well.
  • In the special Hearts & Hooves (2.5) chapter, Cheese Sandwich returns to Ponyville to help Pinkie with the special H&H party they set up for the end of the day. Also, Tender Taps appears to ask Apple Bloom out for a H&H date, and Rumble is also in the chapter, being Scootaloo's date. However, "Rumble" turns out to be Pharynx doing recon for Chrysalis in preparation for her next "invasion" plot.
  • At the end of the Movie chapters when Xigbar returns to True Organization XIII, he goes to the lab area where Vexen is and it is revealed that Ansem the Wise is also there working for them.
  • Ocellus is met half a season before her first true appearance during Thorax's problem with Pharynx.
• The Story to End All Stories: Roughly a hundred characters appear, some of whom only have a line or two. It includes everyone from the Soup Nazi to Elsa from Frozen.
• Total Drama Infinite: The Massive Multiplayer Crossover aspect doesn't stop with contestants; characters from anywhere are liable to appear at any time.
  • Jotaro Kujo and Ruby Rose appear in "Fears, Tears and Donuts" to challenge DIO and Cinder. Blitzwing also appears to challenge Dororo.
  • The Prison Break challenge in chapter 19 features appearances from Ganondorf, Shredder and Broly.
  • Being a horror-themed challenge, chapter 22 features guest appearances from spooky-themed characters Alucard, Perona, Brooke, Big Smoke, Feral Zeke, Ghost Nappa, Chucky, Adam Taurus, Evil-Lyn and King Boo.
• When Legends meet uses this trope a lot, amounting to Cameo Cluster many times, due to its nature as a Massive Multiplayer Crossover. It has its own page too.

The DCU

• The Bat (Siltrics) sees the description for "The "Blue Boy Scout Turned God" feature an appearance by Charles [McNider] (Dr. Mid-Nite) giving an autopsy report about Lex Luthor's death.
• The Darker Knight is made of this trope, cameo characters often appearing out of nowhere and doing absolutely nothing to advance the plot.

Disney & Disney Animated Canon

• Crowns of the Kingdom briefly mentions Taran, Eilonwy, and Gurgi as 1985 is restored.
• A rather bizarre example appears in The Lion King Adventures. In Darkness Falls, Death searches through a dimensional portal for a villain from various realms of animation to help him. He pulls out Kaa, Captain Hook, the Queen of Hearts, Cruella de Vil, Ursula, Creeper, Dr. Claw, Mr. Burns and Team Rocket. After being dissatisfied with them all, he decides to create his own villain instead.

Doctor Who

• Jikuu Bouken Doctor Who: The Cybercontroller, Sutekh, the Sontarans, the Special Weapons Dalek and the Black Dalek make single-scene appearances respectively.

Fire Emblem

• The Denser and Wackier postgame of Fire Emblem: Dark Stone features battles against Derrick, Tick, Pike, Roy, and Wrys.

Friday Night Funkin'

• VS. Kapi - Arcade Showdown: V1 has two.
  • Mr. Game & Watch, specifically his Super Smash Bros. incarnation, makes a surprise appearance with his very own track, the "Flat Zone 2" remix from Super Smash Bros. Brawl!
  • Skid & Pump appear in the background for every song after Wocky. A Prisoner and Cat Guard from BattleBlock Theater show up for Nyaw as well.

Godzilla / King Kong / MonsterVerse

• Abraxas (Hrodvitnon):
  • A one-time character from the MonsterVerse graphic novel Godzilla: Aftershock makes a one-chapter appearance in this story's eleventh chapter.
  • Admiral Stenz makes a brief appearance in Vivienne's Nightmare Sequence in Chapter 14.

Gravity Falls

• Weirder Things: Booker Bridges, the protagonist of the Owl House fanfic The Seventh Son by the same author, appears in the retelling of Face It! to help Dipper, Patrick and Pacifica blend in with the crowd in the Crawl Space. Luz and Amity also appear, though their names aren't spoken.

Hazbin Hotel

• Hazbin Hotel — All I Want For Christmas Is You: IMP from Helluva Boss turn up in a stinger at the very end.

Kingdom Hearts

• Kingdom Hearts: The Antipode: Enough for its own page.

The Legend of Zelda

• When the Brush hits the Canvas: Chapter 8: "Legacy" features a number of characters that appeared in Zelda titles prior to A Link Between Worlds.
  • The Happy Mask Salesman is referenced in a flashback.
  • Upon obtaining the Master Sword, the narration switches over to Fi.
  • And immediately afterwards Link finds himself locked in a duel with Shadow Link.

Mega Man

• Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race has many cameos at the Vick-Tek ball, including Keiji Inafune.
• In Mega Man Recut, Jewel Man makes a cameo appearance in "The Mega Man in the Moon", being blackmailed by Ring Man and Magnet Man.

Miraculous Ladybug

• In A Small but Stubborn Fire,
  • Master Wang Fu makes an appearance in a Flashback greeting a pregnant Sabine while Tom and Gina are moving furniture into their new home.
  • The racist ticket inspector shows up on the route that Sabine and Marinette take for their spar day and his presence makes Marinette uncomfortable. Sabine is sure to stare the man down to make it clear not to mess with them.

My Hero Academia

• Cain:
  • Kirishima makes an unnamed cameo as an Entrance Exam participant.
  • More horrifyingly, Bakugou gets a message from Shigaraki (going by his username, handsofthemaster) after revealing All Might's Dark Secret in the end.

Naruto

• A Growing Affection: Though mentioned only in name, it seems Thomas Arashikage, Recca Hanabishi, Yanagi Sakoshita, and Cameron Watanabe are all Leaf ninjas.

Neon Genesis Evangelion

• A Crown of Stars: In chapter 8, the main characters of another fanfic - The Way Out is Through - make a short appearance.

Ouran High School Host Club

• In Chapter 2 of Healin' Good 💖 Host Club, Nodoka Hanadera makes a guest appearance as a delivery girl.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

• In book 2 of the Broken Bow series, Christopher Walken makes an appearance after Lya kidnaps him in order to give him as a present to Armani.

Professor Layton

• Profesor Layton Vs Jack The Raper has a cameo by 'Yousay Futa' at one point, the narration even calling it a cameo. This is not the only cameo, but the others aren't as clear, most notable is the one by Dark Yagami.

RWBY

• Roman appears in for a single in Ruby and Nora to reveal that he’s dead.

Star Trek

• Reality Is Fluid has an appearance by the still-ascended Benjamin Sisko, in his capacity as Emissary of the Prophets. The Wrong Reflection, set a couple weeks afterward, has another appearance by Sisko, plus William Riker appears over a Video Phone call as the Commander-in-Chief of Starfleet (previously established by the author in Red Fire, Red Planet, but he was a viewpoint character then).

Super Mario Bros.

• Clash of the Elements: A TON of characters from the entire Super Mario Bros. universe make brief, one-line cameos in Chapter 50, speaking of their desires so the Star Spirits will have enough energy in the Star Rod to heal Alex. Seriously, just try and identify everyone who speaks.
  • In Movie 1, Queen Bean and Lady Lima make brief appearances at the beginning, while R.O.B. appears in the ending.

Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers

• SMG4: Shatter-Verse Timeline: The Troper DJ 102202, who's also a fanfiction author on Wattpad and a friend of PunmasterLV16, makes a cameo appearance in Desti's Detour at the chapter "Something Fishy" as a pop culture memorabilia store owner with a cabbage side business.

Supernatural

• In the Beginning:
  • The angels Castiel, Uriel and Inias, all of whom appeared in the parent canon, are twice approached by their superior the archangel Gabriel, influencing his development.
  • Naomi, one of the major supporting characters in canon, briefly appears to report Lilith's imprisonment and the sixty-six seals' creation to the archangel Michael.

Total Drama

• Total Drama All-Stars Rewrite:
  • Ron the Rent-a-Cop from 6teen appears in My Big Fat Total Drama All-Stars Wedding in a flashback. Turns out he was the security guard who banned Ella from the mall.
  • While she doesn't participate in the competition, Izzy pops up pretty regularly throughout the season. Geoff and Bridgette explain on the Aftermath that after her cameo on Revenge of the Island, she chose to stay on Camp Wawanakwa and has made herself at home.
  • While he spends most of the season at the Aftermath studio, Harold does make two cameos during the competition. First on a TV screen placed by Chris specifically to annoy Duncan in "Singin' in the Pain", and then with Leshawna in "Zeke and Ye Shall Find" to pick up the feral Ezekiel and take him to the Aftermath studio.
  • Celebrity Manhunt co-host Josh appears in the original episode "Singin' in the Pain" as a guest judge for the music competition.
  • Eva is brought out of the Aftermath studio to participate in "Suckers Punched" as Noah's opponent in the challenge.

Undertale

• Insomnia (Undertale):
  • Undyne shows up in a panel laughing over the phone at Sans and Papyrus' Shopping Cart Antics.
  • Mettaton briefly appears on TV giving an interview at a talk show.
  • While Papyrus is surfing the web, there are pop up windows featuring Everyman (a character who even in canon appears only as a cameo) and an Addison.
• In the AU Inverted Fate, Susie from Deltarune makes a appearance on bonus part 6.

Vocaloid

• Mesmerizer!: Yowane Haku and Akita Nero both make an appearance in Neru's boss fight. Haku appears just before the transition to the second phase, while Nero appears as one of Neru's reinforcements in the actal phase.

Warhammer 40,000

• The Deep and the Dark: Most of the story follows Meredith and Logan, a human and her AI "kinsman" who discover a slumbering necron tomb under their colony world during the Age of Technology. In the end, it turns out that none other than Trazyn the Infinite himself controls this tomb, and he captures Meredith and Logan at the end of the story and puts them in his museum.

Worm

• Here Comes the New Boss:
  • Abbi, a reader who made a large donation to the author's Ko-Fi, was given brief appearances in both the main timeline (getting in a good hit during the Irish Bar Brawl) and Hostile Takeover (a partygoer at the Palanquin, sampling Newter's hallucinogens, during Taylor's visit).
  • Chapter 14.7 included multiple cameos of the author's family and friends.
    • "Rabbit Punch" for his little brother, complete with the banjo that said brother owns but hasn't learned to play.
    • "Smokescreen" is his older brother, whose job focuses on white-collar crime, and who has a tattoo of the same anti-Nazi emblem found on Smokescreen's costume.
    • "Clean-Cut" is based on a co-worker who really does own several swords and wear a trenchcoat, ponytail and goatee.

Xenoblade Chronicles

• Where We Don't Belong: Mio dreams of her sister Glimmer just long enough to note the resemblance to Pyra, but there's no sign she'll show up for real.

Young Justice (2010)

• In Risk It All, Renee Montoya, the future Question, and Harvey Bullock, a long-time critic and ally of Batman's, show up at the hospital to question Ren about the assassin that came after him.

Unsorted

• Frozen fanfic A Snowflake In Spring has characters from a large variety of Disney and Pixar films making their appearances.
  • The institution where Hans is treated has several. Anna spots one of the patients, a black-haired woman, muttering to her reflection. Another patient, Adam, has "monstrous anger issues". Flora, Fauna and Merryweather are three elderly orderlies.
  • Ralph and Vannellope have an ice cream shop, Ralph's. Carl and Russell appear as customers.
• In The Legend of Total Drama Island, several characters who debuted in the canon Season 4 (Total Drama Revenge of the Island) make brief appearances as interns. Word of God also has it that Season 3 (Total Drama World Tour) debuter Sierra will have an important cameo near the end.
• My Ridonculous Race: In the fic's version of "The Shawshank Ridonc-tion", Bridgette makes a cameo where Geoff and Brody run into her (since she was mentioned as being in Australia in canon) while canonically Australian contestant Jasmine and her boyfriend Shawn also make cameos. Additionally, Chris McLean and Anne Maria make the same cameos they do in "A Million Ways to Lose a Million Dollars", albeit far more extensively.
• Peace Forged in Fire has brief appearances by Brokosh from Red Fire, Red Planet (and his then-first officer Meromi Riyal, described but unnamed) and Koren, daughter of Grilka from official Star Trek Online material.
• The Changeling of the Guard: This MLP fanfic has a surprise appearance by Daring Do and Ahuizotl... whom the protagonist walks in on in the middle of one of their battles over treasure, without having the slightest idea who either of them are.
• Solaere ssiun Hnaifv'daenn has the USS Enterprise-F respond to reinforce the ch'M'R Aen'rhien. Captain Va'kel Shon gets a line over the radio but never appears in person.
• In Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness, peripheral characters from previous books tend to drop by for a scene or two, and most likely, get killed in the process.
• Strange Times Are Upon Us: Lucsly, one of the Department of Temporal Investigations agents from "Trials and Tribble-ations" appears in the opening scene, and has gotten a Rank Up to Special Agent-in-Charge.
• The Dream Journal 2: Life Imitates Art features cameos from Sebastian Michaelis of Black Butler, Levi Ackerman of Attack on Titan and, inexplicably, Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie.
• The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: A human version of Fluffle Puff makes an appearance in chapter 41, albeit not named, wanting a trio dance with Night Blade and Page Turner, who accept.
• In Supergirl (2015) fic Future Shock Kara is active on Twitter and ends up exchanging tweets with people like Rachel Maddow and Gordon Ramsay.
• In With this Ring... (Green Lantern), Carl Ferris hires Jonny Double, a private investigator created by Marv Wolfman and Len Wein in 1968 who canonically never poked his nose into the Green Lantern mythos.
• Temporal Anomaly has plenty of these to go around:
  • Chapter 5: Kamen Rider Build and Kamen Rider Hibiki appear in the Land of Forests to fight Three's doll army.
  • Chapter 6: Kamen Rider Poppy appears in both of her Asuna and Poppy personas forms. They return in Chapter Ten.
  • Chapter 9, the Flower takes the form of Ora in Sougo's mind. In that same chapter, a figment of Tsukuyomi arrives to free Sougo from the Flower's mind trap completely.
  • Chapter Ten: Souji Tendou, Jyuka Tendou, Hiyori KusakabeShouchi Tsugami, and Mana Kazaya, are preparing food for the wedding, while Hina Izumi is designing and fitting the wedding dresses for the brides.
  • Chapter Eleven: Wataru Kurenai and the Armed Monsters(Jiro, Ramon, and Riki) all form a quartet to play at the wedding ceremony.
• In the Splatoon/Yume Nikki Fan Game Dedz0ne, a handful of Splatoon characters make brief cameos, such as Commander Tartar, DJ Octavio (albeit as a painting on a wall), and even DJ Paul makes an appearance. Subverted in that since this game almost entirely takes place within Acht's dreams, none of them are actually the real deal (except maybe Tartar).

• All Pixar movies have cameos of characters and items from other Pixar movies, including ones whose movies have yet to be released.
  • Most Pixar films also have a character voiced by John Ratzenberger. While usually a credited supporting character, he has occasionally performed as an extra that is essentially just a cameo, such as the Underminer in The Incredibles and as a construction worker in Up.
  • In Toy Story 3, one of Bonnie's toys is a plush Totoro. Also, one of the students in the Butterfly Room at Sunnyside Daycare is a little girl resembling Boo from Monsters, Inc. 1, who for some reason likes to play with a blue stuffed kitten to which she says, "Boo!"
  • There's a particularly awesome one in The Incredibles 1 for anyone who is into animation history. Those two old men who praise the heroes after the climax ("That's the way to do it" - "No school like the old school") are Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston...Not ringing a bell? They were the last surviving two of Disney's Nine Old Men, legendary animators who had been in the business practically since the beginning. For example, they were both animators on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and were involved in practically every animated Disney project up to The Fox and the Hound. (Sadly, Thomas didn't live to see The Incredibles finished, and Johnston died in 2008.)
  • In Incredibles 2, Dash at one point watches Jonny Quest, while Usher, a self-proclaimed Frozone fan, plays the chauffeur who gushes over him.
• Common in Disney Animated Canon films.
  • Remember that lion skin Hercules was wearing while posing for his portrait? That was actually Scar!
  • Also, the many appearances of Bambi's mother.
  • In Aladdin, while the Genie is looking through a book of recipes, he finds one for "Alaskan King Crab". He sticks in his finger and gets it pinched by Sebastian, the crab from The Little Mermaid.
  • Although not a Disney character, The Incredible Mr. Limpet can be seen in the background during the "Under The Sea" number in Disney's The Little Mermaid.
  • Belle can be seen walking the streets of Paris in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
  • Mrs. Potts and Chip (their teapot/teacup forms) are part of the Porters' china set in Tarzan.
  • Chip's human design at the end Beauty and the Beast (1991) is also obviously taken from Cody, the protagonist of the previous year's The Rescuers Down Under.
  • Rapunzel and Flynn are seen walking into the Arendelle castle in Frozen.
  • The king and the duke from Cinderella appear as guests attending Eric's wedding to Vanessa in The Little Mermaid.
• In The Book of Life, Manolo's operatic ancestor, Skeleton Jorge, was played by Real Life opera singer Placido Domingo.
  • Manny Rivera and Frida Suárez from another of Jorge R. Gutierrez's works, El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, can be seen in a crowd scene towards the beginning of the film.
• The main cast of Madagascar only shows up as a shadow behind a circus tent at the beginning of Penguins of Madagascar. Mort and King Julien show up during The Stinger, though.
• The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water:
  • Supporting characters Mrs. Puff, Larry the Lobster, and Pearl make very brief appearances (Larry appearing at the Krusty Krab shot at the end, with Pearl appearing only during the end credits). One-shot characters like Bubble Bass and Flats the Flounder (who hasn't made an appearance since "The Bully") also show up at one point.
  • EpicLloyd and NicePeter from Epic Rap Battles of History show up as live-action surfers.
• In Quest for Camelot, Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood can be seen in the "If I Didn't Have You" musical number.
• DC Animated Movie Universe:
  • Son of Batman sees the Joker and Two-Face among Arkham's inmates when Batman visits to see Killer Croc.
  • Justice League Dark: Apokolips War sees Toymaker, Giganta, Weather Wizard, Brick, and Zsasz among those watching Harley and Lois fight at the ruins of Stryker's Island.
• In Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Dunk for Future, the aliens from the Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf television show season The Intriguing Alien Guests are among the spectators at the goats' big baseball game with Team Tiger.
• Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats: To get to the Vandergelt mansion, the gang hitches a ride on the back of a tourist bus that's showing people all the fancy houses and people of Beverly Hills. While passing through the neighborhood, Fred Flintstone, Wilma Flintstone, and Dino can be seen in one yard, and Barney and Betty Rubble are in the next yard over.
• BIONICLE 2: Legends of Metru Nui features a montage summing up the entire Great Disk and Morbuzakh arc, with cameos of the Dweller in the Deep (the giant fish), the claw of the mutated Ussal crab and the Morbuzakh plant itself, none of which are named or explained. In the Matoran crowd at the end of the film, Hahli and Takua from the first movie make a short appearance alongside the more prominently shown Jaller.
• In part 2 of Justice League × RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, artificial Creatures of Grimm are attacking cities across the nation, including Gotham. While the Justice League and even some villains like Killer Croc are fight off the monsters, there is a brief shot of The Joker and Harley Quinn seen on a distant rooftop, toasting drinks and sitting in lawn chairs to watch the devastation.
• In No Time for Nuts, Manny, Diego, Sid and Roshan make a cameo when Scrat time travels to the events of the first Ice Age film.
• In Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, the start of the film is revealed to be a story a mother is reading to her daughter. The duo would then go on to show up in nearly every Pokémon film (except for M09 and M17) which includes the reboot timeline and Mewtwo Strikes Back—Evolution and then they pop up in the main series and even the music video A Ripple in Time!
• That Christmas: A GIF of Timmy from Shaun the Sheep can be seen among the text messages celebrating snow day.

• Hard Eight: Paul Thomas Anderson's father, Ernie Anderson, who died one year after this movie was released, has a brief cameo as the man standing in front of John when the matches in John's pocket catch fire.

• The 2000 Noddy annual features cameos from Warloworth "Quite Handsome" Weasel, Rusty The Tin Clown, Sherman The Turtle Tank, Johnny Crawfish, Bonita Flamingo, Gator Gertie and Planet Pup.
• Stick Cat: In "Two Cats And A Baby", Edith posits the idea that Tiffany's mother can get down from their twenty-third floor apartment by bouncing off a bunch of Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloons. In the accompanying illustration, one of said balloons looks like Stick Dog.
• Derpy, though only identified by looks and muffins, appears in Twilight Sparkle and the Crystal Heart Spell.
• In chapter 22 of Constance Verity Destroys the Universe , Agent Lucas Harrison (who's been absent since the first book), Larry Peril and Apollonia make an appearance, having run-ins with Connie after her merging with The Key fragments her across reality.
• Demon Lord 2099: Tokoyami Towa appears several times as a prominent streamer.
• Model Actress Whatever has a vampire appear in a small role. Her name, nationality, and age are very similar to a character from Anno Dracula, written by the same author.

In General:

• This happens a lot in Canada. Royal Canadian Air Farce, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Corner Gas, and almost every other comedic (and sometimes not-comedic) show produced by CBC, and often CTV too, often has cameos of one sort or another. You haven't lived until you've seen Peter Mansbridge (a well-known Canadian news anchor) affect a Newfoundland accent and sing a shanty.
  • Or former Prime Minister Kim Campbell singing "Raise a Little Hell".

By Series:

• Dennis Rodman appeared briefly as himself on 3rd Rock from the Sun as an old friend of the aliens from their home planet. They all mention how surprising it is that no one has figured out he's not from Earth, and he then reveals some shocking facts, such as that Michael Jordan is a robot and Madonna... is actually human. When he heads home, he takes with him a gift for the Big Giant Head: a big, giant nosering.
  • While he didn't appear in the movie, his alien status was mentioned in Men In Black. Elle didn't think he had a very good disguise.
• Well-known Senator and former presidential contender John McCain (R-AZ) once made a cameo appearance in 24 and appears onscreen for a few seconds in Wedding Crashers as well.
• The Amazing Spider-Man (1978) episode "Wolfpack" features an appearance by a scientist with a nametag reading "Stillwell", alluding to Dr. Farley Stillwell, who in the comics was responsible for the creation of the villain Scorpion.
• Barry:
  • Jon Hamm appears As Himself in "Commit...to YOU", when Barry is having an Imagine Spot about being a big star.
  • Joe Mantegna appears As Himself in season 3, having filed a restraining order against Gene.
  • Fred Armisen appears in "you're charming" as an assassin disguised as an FBI agent.
  • Bill Burr makes a vocal cameo in "the wizard" as the host of a fundamentalist Christian podcast who goes off on a tangent about how murder is justified.
• The 1960's live action Batman TV show was notorious for random celebrity appearances as Batman climbed up buildings. Including Colonel Klink. Holy time-space distortion!
  • Most memorable was, as Batman & Robin were scaling a building... The Green Hornet and Kato were climbing up from the opposite side!
• John Hodgman in the Battlestar Galactica episode "No Exit". And Ron Moore in the final scene of the series.
• Better Things: David Duchovny, Danny Pudi, Joe Walsh and Constance Zimmer among other celebrities all appear briefly as themselves, since Sam is an actress.
• The Big Bang Theory:
  • In one episode, Raj is excited about appearing on People Magazine and brags about it to a random guy seated with his back to him at a bar. But the random guy turns out to be Charlie Sheen. He says: "Call me when you get the cover."
  • In "The Toast Derivation", Sheldon boasts that LeVar Burton will be at a party he's throwing because he sent him a tweet asking him to come. In the episode's stinger, he actually shows up, but is freaked out by the other guests (one of whom is wearing only a towel) Karaoke-ing "I'm Walking On Sunshine" and leaves before anyone notices him.
  • In "The Excelsior Acquisition", the gang (minus Sheldon) go to a comics book signing by Stan Lee. He appears at the very end with a different attitude than normal.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: One of The Swell makes a small appearance in a Hack/Slash story written by season 8 writer and editor Scott Allie.
• Castle: Tom Bergeron of America's Funniest Home Videos made an appearance as the Body of the Week, a late-night TV show host poisoned for having to fire his best friend due to Executive Meddling.
• An entire episode of the Colgate Comedy Hour was spent building up to a 30-second bit by Jack Benny.
• In Community episode "Investigative Journalism", Owen Wilson shows up in the last scene.
• Corner Gas has a lot of cameos.. various Canadian TV personalities, sports stars, and as noted above, two sitting Prime Ministers (Paul Martin and Stephen Harper). Lampshaded and parodied more than once, such as the time when the characters talk about how Colin Mochrie cameos on every Canadian TV show just before a minor character played by Colin Mochrie makes an appearance.
• The Cry of Mann: Pan Pizza was one of the callers on the show; he was the one who kept saying "no" to Courtney in episode 3 and was was subsequently deemed a "giggly machine".
• CSI: MythBusters Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman can be seen watching Nick through a window in "The Theory of Everything", an episode involving a man being set on fire via a taser He'd been sprayed with butane pepper spray, green blood, ground squirrels and cyanide.
  • The October 27, 2011 episode of Jeopardy! had "MythBusters" as a category. Adam and Jamie appeared in pre-recorded clips to give each answer.
• The Dad's Army episode, "The Day the Balloon Went Up", features (as he's credited) "a fleeting appearance of Jack Haig as the Gardener". Haig was at the time a stage comedian and had been the first choice of Lance Corporal Jones. He later found fame in a different David Croft series, 'Allo 'Allo!, as the Master Forger Monsieur LeClerc.
• Dick Clark on Dharma & Greg. Once, Greg hangs out with Jane's weird friends and when they ask him if he'd like to play a game he says that he'll just watch. They all gasp in shock as no one has ever volunteered to be The Watcher before. As they all line up to lick The Watcher, Greg tries to escape through the nearest door only to find Dick Clark behind it who instantly knows that Greg is The Watcher and also wants to lick him. He appears another time in Edward's flashback but Kitty corrects him that it wasn't Dick Clark he was thinking of but Rick York. Another time he shows up only only for us to discover it's actually just someone disguised as Dick.
• Doctor Who:
  • "City of Death": John Cleese and Eleanor Bron appear in its final episode as art gallery visitors who mistake the TARDIS for a work of art. They were filming separate projects in the same studio on the same day, and when writer Douglas Adams found out about this, he convinced them to do a quick cameo appearance. They agreed on the condition that their presence would not be publicized in any way prior to broadcast (in fact, they wanted to be credited with the pseudonyms "Kim Bread" and "Helen Swanetsky", but the BBC declined in favour of crediting them under their real names).
  • "The Sound of Drums": Sharon Osborne, Anne Widdecombe and McFly all appear endorsing Harold Saxon in a video on his website.
  • "The Stolen Earth":
    • Richard Dawkins appears on an in-universe TV broadcast as himself. This also causes a Celebrity Paradox since he was married at the time to Lalla Ward, the actress who played Romana II.
    • Paul O'Grady also appears on his chat show making light of the situation.
  • "The Eleventh Hour": Patrick Moore is among the experts participating in the emergency conference call. He's also apparently a Dirty Old Man.
  • "The Day of the Doctor": Tom Baker appears as a museum curator, and Peter Capaldi makes his very first appearance as the Twelfth Doctor in the climactic scene.
  • "Deep Breath": Matt Smith makes a surprising reprise as a dying Eleventh Doctor, giving a tearful farewell to Clara and convincing her to trust the Twelfth Doctor.
• When it was announced that Nurse Carol Hathaway was leaving ER at the end of the show's sixth season, George Clooney insisted that he would not reprise his role as Dr. Doug Ross (Carol's on-again off-again love interest) as a cameo in the season finale. And he didn't. He appeared in the episode before the season finale, which was Carol's final regular episode on the show, and the episode ended with Doug and Carol together again (in a guest appearance in the final season they were Happily Married). George Clooney accepted standard union scale pay for his cameo, which he did mainly as a favor to actress Julianna Margulies.
• When the cast of Friends went to London, Richard Branson sold a hat to Joey, who later shows off a video of him meeting Sarah Ferguson.
• The Beach Boys appeared as themselves in an episode of Full House, when DJ won tickets to their concert and the whole family was fighting over who would get to go with her.
• Game of Thrones:
  • Jason Momoa reprises his role in "Valar Morghulis", exactly one season after his character was killed off.
  • In "Walk of Punishment", Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol leads Locke's squad in singing "The Bear and the Maiden Fair".
  • In the seventh season premier, Ed Sheeran appears with a group of Lannister soldiers who befriend Arya.
• The Golden Girls had a number of cameos, including Burt Reynolds, Sonny Bono, and perhaps most memorably, Bob Hope - whom Rose was convinced was her biological father.
• In Good Eats, Alton Brown has ensured that all of his crew make at least one-time appearances as characters on the show.
• Two actors from Grease appeared in the live TV version in 2016: Didi Conn, who played Frenchie in the film, plays Vi, the waitress at the Frosty Palace who gives Frenchie (here played by Carly Rae Jepsen) advice, and Barry Pearl, who played Doody in the film, is the producer of the National Bandstand.
• Happy Days: In "Joanie's Weird Boyfriend", Carmine Ragusa (from Laverne & Shirley, played by Eddie Mekka) appears to assist Fonzie in dealing with a gang of bullies who threaten Richie and Joanie.
• Hart to Hart: Natalie Wood (Robert Wagner's then-wife) briefly appears in the pilot as an unnamed actress on a day off who wears a Gorgeous Period Dress.
  • Before that, she also appeared in two episodes of the (also Robert Wagner-starring) series Switch, "The Cruise Ship Murders" (1975) as a cruise ship passenger and "The Cage" (1978) as the girl in the bubble bath.
• In the Hawaii Five-O episide "Savage Sunday", pro wrestling great Nick Bockwinkel plays a picket line organizer in his brief cameo.
• Homicide: Life on the Street:
  • John Waters made cameos in two different episodes as a bartender and a convict respectively.
  • Howie Mandel appeared briefly as an interior decorator.
  • Tim Russert and Jay Leno appeared in two separate episodes As Himself.
• House of the Dragon:
  • While her screentime was over as soon as Emma D'Arcy took over to play Rhaenyra Targaryen as an adult, Milly Alcock showed up for brief hallucinations by Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith) during his stay at Harrenhal in Season 2.
  • Paddy Considine did the same as the defunct King Viserys for yet another hallucination of Daemon in that season.
• The How I Met Your Mother episode "Subway Wars" parodies this by having Robin mention seeing Maury Povich, only for him to appear as a background character in almost every other scene.
  • In "No Pressure", Barney runs past Conan O'Brien on his way out of McLaren's. O'Brien had won a cameo on the show as a prize in a charity auction. When the writers learned who had won they offered to write him an actual role on the show but O'Brien declined. The writers agreed that it was funnier, and more realistic for New York, if the characters completely ignored him.
• Hubert ohne Staller (German cop show): Eisbrecher's lead singer Alexx Wesselsky as galerist Hartmut Weber in a 2024 episode.
• iCarly: Daniella Monet was at Nora's party in "iPsycho".
  • Who Nora promptly kissed.
• Irma Vep: Kristen Stewart in the last episode shows up to play Mira's friend Lianna briefly (they don't interact).
• While the marvels of modern effects and stock footage allowed for cameos by real-world politicians in JAG and its spinoff NCIS, one famous real-world figure, Oliver North, appeared on the former series as himself.
  • JAG also had a few other real-world figures making cameos like Jay Leno, Bill O'Reilly and Johnnie Cochran.
  • And in a strange inversion, an actor playing a Donald Rumsfeld stand-in features in one episode of NCIS, but the scene is shot to make it look like crappy stock footage of the real Rumsfeld.
    • Even more weird, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus in late 2009 made an appearance on NCIS while not playing himself.
• Then-NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani made an appearance on the premier of Law & Order's eleventh season, to introduce the new D.A (Nora Lewin, played by Diane Wiest).
  • And let's not forget that hilariously awful cameo by Giuliani in Anger Management. "YOU CAN DO IT!!!"
• Billy Dee Williams appeared as himself, acting on a "show within a show" on Lost.
  • Rob McElhenney from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia has a one scene cameo as a Other who gets outsmarted by Sawyer and Kate in "Not in Portland" because Damon Lindelof (Lost's co-creator and showrunner) is a fan of Sunny. The character later returned in season 6 and got shot by Claire.
• Dick Clark also made a cameo on Mad About You, in an episode where Paul Buchman is trying to shoot a documentary about the dropping of the famous lighted crystal ball in Times Square during New York City's New Years' celebrations. Toward the very end of the episode, it shows Clark, who decided to take that year off from covering the festivities for ABC (something that was odd to the point of being bizarre back then) and was thus watching the countdown at home, nearly freaking out over the ball's refusing to drop (due to a series of mishaps that happened while Paul and his small crew were trying to film the crystal ball on its perch).
• The Mandalorian features a major cameo from Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in the Season 2 finale.
• Johnny Carson would also appear in a final-season episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show as a guest at one of Mary's infamous parties. The party took place during a power failure, so for his entire time on camera he was not actually visible.
• The Mission: Impossible episode "The Catafalque" has Hall of Fame baseball player Johnny Bench in a cameo as a guard.
• Liberace on The Monkees in one episode, smashing a piano to pieces with a sledgehammer as a performance piece.
• Mike Myers and Eddie Izzard appear in bit parts during the Monty Python's Flying Circus farewell special, Monty Python Live (Mostly): One Down, Five to Go.
• Newhart currently holds the title of Best Celebrity Cameo Ever. Larry (of Larry, Darryl, and Darryl) mentions off hand that Johnny Carson pays their gas bill. Dick is skeptical of the weird trio's claim until the last minute of the episode. Johnny visits the Inn and tells Dick off because he does pay their gas bill. How dare Dick not believe the words of those fine upstanding lads.
  • Suzanne Pleshette shows up for the series finale's Mythology Gag.
• Nightly Business Report: Occasionally, former anchors will return to fill in for the regulars. Among such former anchors are Susie Gharib and Tyler Mathison.
• Stan Lee shows up in the 2010 Nikita as a bystander named Hank Excelsior.
• Noah's Arc: Raz B from B 2 K as a patient in one episode.
• NUMB3RS: Marin Mazzie, a well known Broadway actress, appeared in Dark Matter in a small role as a suspect's mother.
• Our Miss Brooks: Desi Arnaz makes a brief appearance in "King and Brooks".
• Pawn Stars had George Stephanopoulos buy a first-edition of "For Whom The Bell Tolls" from Rick—who slips in a new offer ($675) while he had George shaking on the last one ($625).
• Player has several cameos from well-known South Korean actors.
  • Yoo Seung-ho plays one of the security guards in episode one.
  • Jo Jae-yun plays Reporter Shin in episode eight.
• Reservation Dogs: Amber Midthunder plays MissM8tri@rch, a Native American activist in "Decolonativization" with a well-meaning though rather ditzy and romanticized worldview.
• Root into Europe: In the episode set in Italy porn actress La Cicciolina has a cameo.
• Scrubs loved its cameos, ranging from Billy Dee Williams as the godfather of JD's Girl of the Week to Gary Busey as a doctor who looks like Gary Busey.
• Squid Game:
  • Gong Yoo has a small but important cameo as the Salesman in the first and last episodes.
  • Lee Byung-hun as the Front Man is an interesting case; he plays a major character, but his face is only shown once and he wears a mask in all his other appearances.
• Star Trek has a number of cameos throughout its run.
  •  Grace Lee Whitney appeared as Yeoman Janice Rand during the first season of Star Trek: The Original Series. Despite never being a major character and leaving after the first season she became something of a fan favourite, and would then go on to cameo in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
    • Whitney, along with George Takei and actor Jeremy Roberts, would go on to feature as the Star Trek VI versions of Rand, Sulu, and Valtane respectively in the Star Trek: Voyager anniversary episode "Flashback", which also featured a cameo of Michael Ansara as legendary Klingon warrior Kang.
  • DeForest Kelley cameoed as an aged version of Dr McCoy in the first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, though as per the production policy in the early years of TNG of only referencing the characters and events of Star Trek: The Original Series obliquely, he wasn't named.
  • Leonard Nimoy shows up as Spock for a substantial two-parter that bridged TNG's fifth and sixth seasons, "Unification". Justified in that Vulcans live much longer than humans.
  • James Doohan shows up in a TNG season six episode "Relics". Unlike McCoy and Spock, he's more-or-less the same age as we saw him at the end of the movies series, since he arrives in the 24th century by way of being suspended in a transporter beam for 75 years.
  • Patrick Stewart cameos as Captain Picard (and Locutus of Borg) in the first episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
  • Alexander Siddig cameos as Dr Bashir in part one of the TNG season six two-parter "Birthright".
  • Armin Shimerman cameos as Quark in the TNG season seven episode "Firstborn", referencing the recent appearance of the Duras sisters on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
  • Armin Shimerman cameos again as Quark in the first episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
  • James Cromwell reprises his role as Zefram Cochrane from Star Trek: First Contact in the first episode of Star Trek: Enterprise.
• Star Trek: Voyager:
  • Another politician cameo: King Abdullah of Jordan made a cameo appearance back when he was merely the Crown Prince.
  • Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, who happens to be a big Trek fan, also had a cameo appearance on Voyager.
• The last episode of Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye had the real Sue Thomas (who was portraying an actress, no less).
• In the Tales from the Crypt episode "The Switch" Arnold Schwarzenegger (who also directed the episode) appears in a few cameos first as the Cryptkeeper's personal trainer who introduces the story and as a body builder in the beach scene.
• In the German series Tatort Köln, composer/jazz musician Klaus Doldinger appears as a Street Musician, playing the series' theme (which he composed) with his sax.
• Brad Garrett, better known as Robert Barone carried a series called 'Til Death, in which in one episode he's trying to apologize to his wife in an Italian restaurant, causing Ray Romano to turn around from his table and go "C'Mon lady, what more do you want!?". His wife asks "Who was that?" "Looks like someone I used to work with."
• Victorious: Jerry Trainor showed up at a stage play performed by Trina. However, this may be foreshadowing a planned crossover event between the 2 shows.
• Wagon Train: No less than John Wayne showed up in "The Colter Craven Story" (seen only in silhouette and credited as "Michael Morris"). John Ford directed the episode; the two of them showed up to do their old friend Ward Bond (the show's star) a favor.
• We Are Who We Are: Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer, the stars of Luca Guadagnino's most well-known film Call Me by Your Name, appear at different points as extras in the series.
• Weeds had Snoop Dogg appearing As Himself in the episode "Weed Money", wherein he gives Nancy and Conrad's "MILF Weed" his seal of approval and sings its praises in an original rap written for the show. In the following season, the episode "The Brick Dance" had Carrie Fisher appearing in a one-off cameo as Celia's unnamed lawyer.

• Janice Dickinson appears in the music video for Darren Hayes' "On the Verge of Something Wonderful" because she happened to be at the hotel where the video was filmed.
• The male scientist in the video for Korn's "Make Me Bad"' is played by Udo Kier. While his name isn't immediately familiar for many, gamers of a certain age will certainly pick up on how his voice sounds eerily reminiscent of a certain psychic overlord he played...
• What is James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, doing popping up for a few seconds in the middle of the video for "Shingo Mama no Oha Rock", a Japanese novelty song performed by "Shingo Mama" (a character played by a cross-dressing Shingo Katori, member of the boy band SMAP)? We have no idea.
• During the video for "Move Along" by The All-American Rejects, there is a balding, bearded man seen over the shoulder of singer Tyson Ritter. That's genre character actor Tony Amendola, better recognized for his long-running roles as Master Bra'tac in Stargate SG-1 and Gepetto in Once Upon a Time (2011), doing an uncredited cameo. Amendola just happened to be walking past the shooting location when they needed someone to stand behind the singer and act angry, and agreed to the cameo on a whim.
• Flea appears as a bartender in Butthole Surfers' "Who Was In My Room Last Night?".
• There are a lot of these in Mori Calliope's music video for "The Grim Reaper Is A Live-Streamer" from hololive. From obvious ones like her fellow genmates, Gawr Gura, Ninomae Ina'nis, Amelia Watson, and Takanashi Kiara, notably represented in their DM Easter Eggs and logos, to subtle ones such as Kureiji Ollie's hand rising out of the ground, Suisei holding an axe, and an ad for "Uber Sheep", a running joke relating to Tsunomaki Watame, all of whom she's collaborated with in the past, in music or otherwise.
• The music video of Peterpan's "Ku Katakan Dengan Indah" has short appearances of fellow Indonesian musicians Desta, Pepeng, and Candil.
• Eminem:
  • The music video for "Just Lose It" briefly unites the cast of 8 Mile for the section where the beat changes to a parody of "the Lose Yourself".
  • "Berzerk" features multiple cameos to hit Eminem's Waxing Lyrical and puns - Royce da 5'9" shows up in a Slaughterhouse pig head logo tshirt to underscore a pun on "pigment", Kendrick Lamar turns up to push Eminem out of frame (going with the subtext that the song is about Eminem being obsoleted by Kendrick), and Kid Rock turns up for a bar where Eminem references "Bawitdaba".
• The intro to This May Be The Reason Why The Men That Will Not Be Blamed for Nothing Cannot Be Harmed By Conventional Weapons is Sylvester McCoy, who supposedly was talked into it by the band cornering him after a performance and threatening to cry if he said no.
• Lemmy Kilminster makes an unlikely appearance in the music video for new wave One-Hit Wonder "I Wanna Be A Cowboy" by Boys Don't Cry, playing a "Lee Van Cleef bad boy" (as Boys Don't Cry frontman Nick Richards once put it).
• In the video for Maggie Rogers's "That's Where I Am", Rogers is walking down the street singing when David Byrne rides by on his bike.
• The music video for "Faster Than Light" by Lead Into Gold features a few shots of Trent Reznor miming a guitar part. Trent did not actually play guitar on the recording and has no other direct involvement with the group - rumor has it he was approached because he happened to be shooting Nine Inch Nails' "Head Like A Hole" video on a nearby sound stage.
• Swedish actor Peter Stormare appears in the video for Sabaton's "Uprising" as the unnamed officer who commands the German forces during their crackdown on the Warsaw Uprising. According to bassist Pär Sundström, he found the role in a pile of offers from his agent and thought it sounded awesome. One of the Resistance leaders in the same video is played by General Waldemar Skrzypczak, former commander of the Polish Land Forces.
• The late, great Dave Brockie makes a memorable cameo on Strapping Young Lad's song "Far Beyond Metal," off of their final album The New Black:
  "DOWN IN THE HALLS OF THE NECRO-LORD!
  FLASH OF FEAR WHEN HE SEES MY SWORD!
  RAPED HIS WOMEN, SMOKED HIS BONE!
  LEAVE A BOOGER UNDERNEATH HIS THROOOOONE!"
• Mudhoney's "Suck You Dry" Performance Video includes a shot of Krist Novoselic among the audience - but as part of the video's Self-Deprecation theme, he's sitting at the bar while looking bored, and doesn't seem to be paying attention to the band.
• Paul McCartney appears at the conclusion of the music video of Tracey Ullman's "They Don't Know."
• The video for D.O.A.'s cover of "Takin' Care of Business" features them playing hockey, with fellow Canadian Randy Bachman making a cameo as their coach. Bachman wrote the song and recorded the original version with his band, Bachman-Turner Overdrive.

• TRON: Legacy (Stern) features a cameo by Daft Punk on the right triangle bumper.
• Data East's Star Trek pinball features numerous cameos of characters from the original television show.
• The backglass for Bally's Playboy pinball shows Granny and Little Annie Fanny^note two regular characters from the magazine's cartoons in the swimming pool.
• Annie returns for Data East's Playboy 35th Anniversary pinball, interacting with the real-life playmates.
• World Cup Soccer has Raiden showing up during one mode, as well as the "Stay cool, daddy-o" guy from Creature from the Black Lagoon (Williams), Admiral Biagie from Star Trek: The Next Generation (Williams), and Rudy from FunHouse (1990).
• During the Super Skill Shot in The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Sega Pinball), one of the objects that the T-Rex has to squish may be ET.
• In Comet (Williams), veteran pinball designer Steve Kordek voices the "One Million!" announcer.
  • For the sequel, Cyclone, Mark Ritchie voices the carnival barker.
• Elvira, Elvis, and Wonder Woman can be seen on the backglass of Monster Bash (Williams).
• In Transformers, hitting the Energon targets shows the Allspark converting everyday appliances into flash symbols. The middle appliance is a cassette tape player that bears a striking resemblance to the Transformers: Generation 1 version of Soundwave.
• Stern Pinball's Iron Man have cameos by Nick Fury and Natasha Romanoff, though they have no real presence in the game.
• The backglass for Tales from the Crypt (Data East) includes cameos of The Vault Keeper and The Old Witch, two of the cohorts of the Crypt Keeper from the original EC Comics series.
• The Party Zone includes cameos from George Washington, The Grim Reaper, a T-rex (with party hat), and the Moon.
• In the Sonic the Hedgehog table of Sonic Pinball Party, Tikal from Sonic Adventure 2 appears on the Angel Island Zone.
• In Data East's Time Machine, Pac Man can be seen on the playfield, representing The '80s.
• Along from the nine wrestlers featured in WWF Royal Rumble, other wrestlers and managers make appearances, including Hulk Hogan, The Undertaker, Shawn Michaels, Razor Ramon, Mr. Fuji, and The Bushwhackers.
• NBA has appearances by various basketball superstars.
  • The backbox translite features Yao Ming, Shaquille O'Neal, Allen Iverson, LeBron James, Dwight Howard, Kobe Bryant, Dwayne Wade and Kevin Garnett.
  • The game itself adds Carmelo Anthony, Gilbert Arenas, Elton Brand, Baron Davis, Kevin Durant, Vince Carter, Dirk Nowitzki, Tony Parker, Chris Paul, Nate Robinson, Derrick Rose, and Brandon Roy.

• Episode six of Mystery Show features Starlee interviewing Alan Sacks, co-creator of Welcome Back, Kotter. He doesn't have much to offer in the mystery-solving department, but he does get to tell a great story about Phil Spector.
• Random Assault:
  • Dan Amrich as Danta Claus in the Christmas Special.
  • JewWario, LoadingReadyRun's Graham and Paul, the aforementioned Dan Amrich, and Games Radar's Cheryll deRosario have done Artist Liners for the show.

• The Royal Rumble tends to have former WWE legends and other superstars. At one time DREW CAREY entered the rumble (after being egged on by Edge & Christian).
• While working for Jerry Lawler's USWA in Memphis, Miss Texas appeared uncredited in vignettes promoting "Double-J" Jeff Jarrett's debut, which aired on the November 21 (taped October 19), 1993 WWF Wrestling Challenge and the November 20 (taped October 20), 1993 WWF Superstars, some 4 1/2 years before making her official debut.
• The Sheik seconded Sabu for against Mr. JL at WCW Halloween Havoc 95, October 29, 1995, which was held near his home in Detroit. After the match, the Sheik hit Mr. JL with a fireball.
• The January 10, 2000 episode of WCW Monday Nitro saw Commissioner Terry Funk and the Old Age Outlaws (Arn Anderson, Larry Zbyszko and Paul Orndorff) announce that they were going to be bringing some friends in to deal with NWO member and WCW United States Heavyweight Champion Jeff Jarrett. George Steele was revealed as the first opponent, in a "Bunkhouse Match". Steele hit Jarrett with weapons, but got sidetracked, of course, by eating a turnbuckle. Jarrett nailed Steele with his guitar, but Arn hit him with a spinebuster. Special referee Chris Benoit dragged Steele over on top of Jarrett and counted the pin.
• Matt Sydal as a hooded audience member on SHIMMER volume one to support Daizee Haze. Generation Next stablemate Roderick Strong at volume 14. All American Wrestling's officials have also made cameos since they share the same building.
• "Chris K", defeated Raven at TNA Turning Point 2005, as Director of Authority Larry Zbyszko's specially chosen opponent for Raven, who was feuding with Zbyszko at the time.
• James Mitchell led Mikey and Yoshihiro Tajiri to the ring for the Three-Way-Dance between Tajiri, Little Guido Maritato and Super Crazy and Beulah McGillicutty returned for one last cat fight at ECW One Night Stand 2005, against Francine during the Tommy Dreamer/Sandman-Dudleys main event.
• He wasn't big at the time, but during John Cena's gangster entrance at WrestleMania 22, one of the gangsters there would, years later, become The Best In The World, CM Punk.
• While still in Puerto Rico but not contracted to WWC, Black Rose could still sometimes be seen in the crowd cheering for El Bronco #1. This is because she started as an audience member Rico Suave had dared to try wrestling.
• Kamala went to a double-DQ with Ring of Honor World Heavyweight Champion Bryan Danielson at a Liberty States Wrestling (which became NWA On Fire) show in Bridgeport, CT on September 30, 2006.
• During Austin Aries's first TNA run, he continued to appear at Ring of Honor events "as a fan". When word got out that TNA had fired him, he signed an ROH contract then and there.
• Tito Santana appeared at the 2012 Chikara King Of Trios after his name was pulled out of a hat by Spectral Envoy(UltraMantis Black/Hallowicked/Frightmare) along with The Mysterious and Handsome Stranger and Osaka Pro Wrestler Kazuaki Mihara.
• Matt Hardy cheering on girlfriend Reby Sky at SHINE wrestling events (and throwing in the towel during a match with Jessicka Havok)
• After a five year absence, Dr. Wagner Jr made a one off CMLL appearance in 2013 promising revenge against Atlantis and Ultimo Guerrero, a promise he would not even attempt to make good on until 2015. In 2014, Wagner's partner in crime L.A. Par-k would also appear, to promote the independent "Liga Elite" promotion but also would not make regular CMLL appearances again until 2015.
• Machete has appeared in the audience at Lucha Underground shows.
• Jim Ross has never physically appeared at a TNA event but his image has alongside comments he has made about the show, such as when Dixie Carter was put through a table.
• At FOW^note Future Of Wrestling in Florida Shoots & Ladders on April 29, 2000, The Natural Disasters (Earthquake and Typhoon) teamed with Bobby Rogers in a loss to Larry Lane and Suicidal Tendencies (Dennis Allen and Sean Allen).

• Riders Radio Theater - the week's musical guest usually gets a small speaking part in the episode as well.
• The June 8, 1936 Lux Radio Theatre production of The Thin Man featured a random interview with silent screen star Theda Bara, who just happened to be in the audience. It is the only surviving recording of Bara's voice.

• JoJo's OC Tournament:
  • Lina Rey, the de facto Number Two of the Blues Brothers in Shining Sandstorm, makes a very brief appearance in the lead up to Match 9, Round 1 of Worldwind Tour, back to being a traveling street performer currently working Ronnie James to draw in a crowd for his knife shop's ten-year anniversary celebration and special sale. As brief as it is, her appearance reveals that she still needs a cane to get around, due to the injury Cise caused to her ankles in their fight and which lead her to abandon the Blues Brothers.
  • Dakota Araña, originally a Louisiana-based Blues Brother in Shining Sandstorm unexpectedly reappears picking up an hitchhiking Adriano Donati and giving him a ride in Match 2, Round 1 of Worldwind Tour: the two chit-chat a bit until Adriano is dropped off at his destination — near an industrial site in Northern California — and Dakota wishes him good luck before driving off. Their conversation reveals that after the previous Edition's events, Louisiana undergoing an economic downturn forced him to move "up north" for work-related reasons.
  • Alexander Przbyszewski, formerly of the Cleaners and featured in Shining Sandstorm, is named as one of the two authors of the book "Once In A Lifetime", which is featured in the introduction to Worldwind Tour and details some of the history behind the titular treasure hoard that plays a central role in the Edition's plot.
  • Bill Dolby, former team member of the unnamed Purple Team from Worldwind Tour, makes a small appearance in The Grand Tour as one of the researches employed by the University of Berkeley, working in close contact with the Philosopers of the Hardy Diamond.
  • Major Tom, triumvir of the Cleaners from Shining Sandstorm, has made several reoccuring cameos in the ensuing editions: he's the unseen founder and leader of Orion's Belt in Worldwind Tour, stops Milo. A and Antonio Gibson from killing one another in Urban Uprising before the titular ARG has even begun, and is shown discussing the situation in Rākinnagarh before dispatching one of his agents there during a flashback in Garden of Vermilion.
  • Uro Sho, a delinquent under the service of Major Tom and Orion's Belt in Worldwind Tour, reappears towards the very end of Urban Uprising having taken over the 21 Savages since Mylo Xyloto's departure and serving as an opponent of Demis and MIA as they destroy remaining samples of XPLICIT.

• Right at the end of Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast at Universal Studios, in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, Carl is using a magic wand to poof in a bunch of llamas, which results in the Dalai Llama getting poofed in as well.
• In the Disneyland and Hong Kong Disneyland versions of It's a Small World, over 50 Disney characters make cameos within the countries their stories originated and/or took place in.
• During the Indiana Jones scene in The Great Movie Ride, among the hieroglyphics were Mickey Mouse as a pharaoh being served cheese by Donald Duck and C3PO fixing R2D2 with a screwdriver.
• The version of The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Undersea Adventure at Disney's California Adventure features Mr. Limpet among the fish in the "Under the Sea" scene.

• In Hercules: The Musical, while Pegasus doesn't appear in this version, a topiary of him can be seen in the garden where Meg sings "I Won't Say I'm In Love".

• LEGO has an incredibly large fondness for littering their licensed franchises with cameos in their online animations and in video games, usually Star Wars and Indiana Jones (mostly because they both have characters played by Harrison Ford, see). It's basically a Running Gag now.

• Anon features a lot of cameos including characters from the creator's other works, notably Cheyenne and Alice from Faux becoming recurring characters on Season 2.
• Stan Lee's many cameos in his webseries Bad Days.
• A Day With Bowser Jr: In Two Koopas for a Throne (part 1), Nerdy appears at the the beginning of the episode, heavily injured from the events of the previous episode.
• Celestia, Nightmare Moon, Discord, and the Mane Six are shown on a door containing the Elements of Harmony in Dusk's Dawn.
• Extra Credits: Starting with how much of a Chessmaster financier Robert Walpole is, now any time there's some mysterious/vague circumstance, or even as an extra, It was Walpole. Even when he isn't alive during the given time period.
• GEOWeasel:
  • The Commander and Allon from Space Tree make an appearance in the "Jail"; at the time the episode was made, they were going through their own jail arc.
  • The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy's Fred Fredburger makes an appearance in "Attorney at LOL".
  • "Pinky Swear" features Garadrobe and Jinxie, characters created by Brian Bear.
• In Happy Tree Friends there is the reoccurring background character of Truffles, a blue pig who you can never quite see clearly.
• Hello Kitty and Friends Supercute Adventures: Baku from Onegai My Melody is seen helping around Kuromi's store from time to time.
• Used by the parody series How It Should Have Ended in the Inception spoof.
• Inanimate Insanity:
  • One episode has Orange annoying Apple before the intro. True to form, Apple gets knifed.
  • Several characters from Battle for Dream Island (and more recently, other popular, well-known Object Show) have also made cameos.
• The Most Amazing Story Ever Told has appearances by Christina Aguilera and Watto from Star Wars, in addition to the numerous appearances by the characters of each website that participated in the series.
• Some of the more recent episodes of My Story Animated have characters who appeared in a previous episode act as background characters.
• In Pokémon Rusty, Red spends much of the series as The Ghost until episode 10, where he appears and easily defeats Team Rocket.
• Pretty Blood: Nappy and Luny appear as ghosts in the non-canon Halloween Episode. Rinny, in a witch costume, promptly swats them away with her broom.
• Space Tree has a scene featuring Cactus from Robotbox and Cactus when Space Tree is stranded on a desert planet.
• In the Robotbox and Cactus episode "Requiem", Clango, Joel Dawson, Roy-Bot, Stabby Mc Gee, and Ship are among those seen dancing in Club Robo.

• Quite common in webcomics, especially in the case where the artists are personal friends. The Webcomic Crossover & Cameo Archive is a comprehensive and very extensive index of webcomic cameos.
• Fuwa Fuwa Foof: The webcomic episode "Fair Play" features cameos of Aiden, Chris, Ted and Betty from the DeviantArt webcomic Kids 'n Teenagers as civilians at the amusement park.
• Liberal Art appropriately sees many liberal politicians visiting campus.
• The Nostalgia Critic makes one in 'Waste of Time'.
• The characters of Sluggy Freelance show up as miscellaneous extras all over the Internet.
• In Sluggy Freelance, there's a one-panel, no-line cameo of the Digimon Season 3 (Tamers) main characters.
• An earlier El Goonish Shive comic gave Silent Bob a quick cameo.
• The KAMics has lots of cameos of other webcomic characters. Then again the author is a self-confessed Cameowhore.
• The Cartoon Chronicles of Conroy Cat takes place in a world where all cartoon characters live, and cameos occur often.
• The Cyantian Chronicles: Various fan made characters have gotten cameos as part of a donation drive.
• The Crossoverlord, being a webcomic superhero crossover series set in a multiverse, tends to cameo various heroic characters rather frequently. However, it really went over the top with this page.
• Sprite comics have a large tendency to rely upon cameos due to the easy nature in which an author can use another person's 'sprite sheets' in order to quickly and easily represent different characters.
• RPG World's Hero and Dianne make an appearance in TwoKinds.
• Although Brawl in the Family is a comic about Nintendo characters, Teddie makes a brief appearance in one of the strips.
• Questionable Content has referenced XKCD a few times (once on a characters' shirt), and in this strip portrayed an webcomic artist wearing an "I<3MATH" shirt, with a sketch of a stick figure wearing a black hat in front of him. He wasn't explicitly named, but the allusion was obvious.
• Bittersweet Candy Bowl:
  • Many fancharacters given to the author have either become regular cast or served as background filler.
  • Liam, a fan-made character, even had an entire intermission chapter dedicated to his relationship with Lucy.
• One strip of Fite! contains Tamino the Cat, the main character of another comic by the same author, as a passerby.
• In The Whiteboard Doc tends to invite a couple dozen characters from other webcomics to his Halloween Parties.
• In the International Comic Continuity, you'll often see characters from one member's series appearing in another member's.
• Ozy and his father, Llewellyn, from the furry webcomic Ozy and Millie make an appearance in a couple of strips of Stubble Trouble.
• The time travel Story Arc of The Packrat features cameos of real-life persons from the history of synthesizers as Lovelace-style animals, including Bob Moog, Don Buchla, Howard Jones, Stevie Wonder, Thomas Dolby and Herbie Hancock. He also meets Dr. Emmett L. Brown.
• Itachi made a cameo in comic #48 of Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game Gusto Fan Comic. Probably because he shares a similar pupil shape with the Gusto Archetype.
• Sister Claire has loads of these in the background, ranging from the Powerpuff Girls to Panty and Stocking.
• Matchu has dozens of cameos, with Osaka showing up the most, either as a background character, a piece of merchandise, or something more well hidden, ala Hidden Mickeys.
• The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! has had guest appearances (with their respective creators' permission) by the casts of Melonpool, Zortic, Sketch Comedy, and Zeera The Space Pirate.
• We Are The Wyrecats has a brief appearance from the cast of the creator's previous comic, Ruby Nation, as well as the return of one of the supporting characters.
• Li'l Gotham: One panel of issue #17 is a street scene where all the passers-by are characters from Supernatural, including Sam, Dean and Castiel standing by the Impala in the background.
• Nixvir features several cameos; however, in contrast to most webcomics, several of these cameos are from obscure literary characters or characters from unknown British television shows the author watched as a child — for example, Larry the Lamb, Ernest the Policeman and Mr Growser from S.G. Hulme Beaman's Toytown stories make cameo appearances in chapter VII, while a whole bunch of characters from Bungo Womble to Professor Yaffle make cameo appearances. All of this is done to keep their memory alive in the digital age by raising awareness for them.
• In Rascals, Miles and Rachael from Las Lindas walkind down a street and Rule63 of Alej, Mora, Taffy, Rachael, Sarah, and Minos from Las Lindas in an all exclusive female restaurant Los Lindos.
• Some real-world celebrities make a one-off appearance in Heroine Chic — Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, and Anna Wintour are among a few famous faces that can be seen in the front row of the fashion show in Chapter 16. (Later fashion shows in the series feature fictional guests like Edna Mode and Cable.)
• Poison Ivy Gulch: Mr. Peanut, mascot for Planters Peanuts, can be seen in the saloon in one strip.
• Beyond the End: Parad and Graphite from Kamen Rider Ex-Aid appear as amphiteres alongside one based on Kuroto, later revealled to be named Kuro. Kuro, however, ends up a Recurring Extra.

• AlienMyth64: Characters from one series will sometimes make appearances in others.
  • In "Emobob works at Taco Bell", the Chum Bucket ends up finding Sarah's dead body in the dumpster. He then pulls into the drive through and calls the cops about it when Emobob is mean to him.
  • The titular LEGO man of "The Bricked Up LEGO Man (the movie)" is owned by a guy who "bought [him] 20 years ago and gets no bitches". The guy is shown to be Gary the Gamer.
  • One of the drive thru customers that Emobob has to deal with is Gary the gamer.
  • "Chum Bucket Goes to McDonald's!" ends with the titular Bucket in a McDonald's bathroom stall, and the person in the neighboring stall is shown to be Squidward's House
• Andre the Black Nerd makes a guest appearance in The Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures.
• Atop the Fourth Wall: The Movie:
  • Noah Antwiler makes a brief appearance as Dr. Insano, speaking at a press report about lending his technology to assist in the Caelestis's mission to Jupiter.
  • Doug Walker makes a total of three separate cameos in the film, first as Lori Prince giving a news report about the Caelestis mission, then appearing as Dominic while acting as a bartender, then finally as The Nostalgia Critic during a scene describing why he wasn't at Linkara's birthday party.
• Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog:
  • Drew Goddard at the end, as Bad Horse member "Fake Thomas Jefferson". He's part of Joss Whedon's Production Posse.
  • Marti Noxon and David Fury also appear as newscasters.
  • Joss himself appears as a newscaster on Jane Espenson's internet series Husbands.
• The final installment of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared has minor, but plot significant appearances by characters from the other five videos. The musical teachers of the other episodes appear to reveal that they've been controlled by a computer simulation.
• At the end of the Joueur du Grenier's review of Platoon and Metal Gear on the NES, Doug Walker makes a most unexpected cameo appearance.
• Parodied in Mario Party TV: Mr. Doom's character of choice is Boo whenever the ghost is available. On boards where Doom isn't even playing, this has led to jokes about him appearing as the thieving Boo the players can hire.
• To the shock and awe of everyone, sketch-comedy group LoadingReadyRun snagged some major cameos in its video Lock Out! The gang was lucky enough to grab Wil Wheaton and Tycho while at a charity convention.
• Natural Six: Each card in the Deck of Many Friends was designed from someone famous in the tabletop or video gaming sphere, who the cast will call out when their card is revealed. They put a full list of the contributors on social media, and it includes the entire cast of Oxventure, Matthew Mercer, Anjali Bhimani, and Sam Lake, among many others.
• Resident Evil Abridged: The Mystery Gang makes a guest appearance at the Spencer Mansion, about 18min. in. They were going to investigate the rash of homicides, until Daphne finds the Nemesis hiding in the closet. The gang calls it quits and hauls ass, but during the end credits it's revealed that Scooby's been infected by the T-virus.
• In Atom.com's webseries Video Game Reunion episode 1-10, Link goes into the elevator and the actor who played Link in The Legend of Niel, another of Atom's webseries, is also there.
• In Some Jerk with a Camera, Spazzmaster, The Wire, and Il Niege all make regular appearances. Other cameos have included Phil Buni, Oancitizen, Diamanda Hagan, MikeJ, Count Jackula, The Rosen Hacker, Stephan and Nootrac, Mikey Insanity, and not one, but TWO separate appearances by "Weird Al" Yankovic!
• Stop Skeletons From Fighting: A few.
  • He has a quick appearance in Channel Awesome' review of Dragonball Evolution (filmed at Magfest, which he was attending).
  • He also appears in the Board James review of "Loupin' Louie", a Live Episode filmed at PAX 2011, and is identified by an onscreen caption. It's the first time he has ever appeared in a Cinemassacre video, and Derek naturally joked about it being "the much anticipated AVGN-HVGN Crossover".
• Other Italian actresses, bloggers and youtubers regularly appear in the episodes of Tess Masazza's Web Series Insopportabilmente Donna and she returns the favour in kind.
• The second season of Where the Bears Are features Margaret Cho as a clerk at a fetish store. She turns out to be a lot more than she seems...

• 3-2-1 Penguins!: Larry the Cucumber from VeggieTales appears in the first episode Trouble on Planet Wait-Your-Turn as a vacuum cleaner.
• Happens at least twice to Marceline the Vampire Queen from Adventure Time.
• Characters from Tiny Toon Adventures would occasionally appear in Animaniacs:
  • In the Newsreel of the Stars from the very first episode, Hamton J Pig appears as a drawing on Tex Avery's sketchboard.
  • Fifi La Fume appears as the owner of a perfume shop.
  • Baby Plucky made cameos from time to time. The fact that he shares the same voice actor as Skippy Squirrel helps.
  • Heck, even Buster and Babs Bunny made a cameo in the episode "Noah's Lark" as the bunnies that board Noah's ark.
• Arcane has Imagine Dragons (who did the show's season one theme song "Enemy") cameo in the episode "Everybody Wants To Be My Enemy", with them performing in the background while said track is being used as an Insert Song.
• The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes features multiple clear shots of Wolverine as one of the soldiers helping Captain America infiltrate the Red Skull's castle.
• On the subject of Batman, sitting US Senator Patrick Leahy has cameoed three times in Batman stories: once in Batman: The Animated Series, once in Batman & Robin (1997), and once in The Dark Knight. In the last one, he stood up to The Joker.
• Popeye co-star Swee' Pea appears in The Beatles episode "Tell Me What You See."
  • Popeye himself is seen on a wall frame in a Greenwich Village coffee house in "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party."
  • Private Gripweed, John Lennon's character in the 1967 movie How I Won The War, appears very briefly in "Strawberry Fields."
• At the end of the Christmas Episode of Ben 10, one of the "elves" they rescue from the time-warped Santa's Village theme park shows up as an old man with his grandchildren, who look suspiciously like Konohamaru and his ninja squad. Thinking about it, the old man did look a lot like the Hokage at the time...
• The Oz Kids has a cameo from The Brave Little Toaster, having Toaster, Blanky, Radio, Kirby, and Lampy appearing in the Christmas episode "Christmas in Oz".
• Daffy Duck cameos in two Bugs Bunny cartoons: Sahara Hare and Apes of Wrath. Foghorn Leghorn cameos at the end of False Hare.
• Chowder frequently has cameos from cartoons and other media, with The Powerpuff Girls having three so far. The first was Mrs. Bellum apparently being The Sarge's blind date in The Hot Date, the second being Bubbles' head in The Heist, and the third being Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup in the form of a bird, a cat, and a pig respectively in Wayne Tootin.
• Dexter's Laboratory: Fred Flintstone and George Jetson make a brief appearance in "Beard to be Feared". There are also the scenes in "Dad is Disturbed" which feature Betty and Barney Rubble, who are apparently friends of Mom and Dad.
• The Fairly OddParents!: In one of the Oh Yeah! Cartoons shorts, the Crimson Chin makes his debut fighting a Humongous Mecha: the robot from the Frederator Studios logo.
• Family Guy is absolutely filled with cameo appearances, especially in the Cutaway Gags. Characters from other Seth MacFarlane animations also pop up here, including Steve Smith's fat friend, Barry in fat camp from the episode "Killer Queen".
• The Flintstones take a trip to Jellyrock Park in the episode Swedish Visitors. They get a surprise visit from Yogi Bear and Boo Boo, who in typical fashion steal the Flintstones' picnic basket.
• Futurama has had many over the years, but one impressive one is Jonathan Frakes doing a one-line cameo in "Where No Fan Has Gone Before."
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  • In the episode "Leela and the Genestalk" the crew find Jake and Finn trapped in Mom's floating Genetics lab.
    Jake: What time is it?
    Bender: Time for you to shut up!
• Glitch Techs: Matt "McMuscles" Kowalewski and Pat Boivin, the founding duo of Two Best Friends Play, show up as background characters.
• Professor Utonium appeared at the end of the The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy episode "My Fair Mandy" as part of the temporal disruption caused after Mandy smiles (she, Billy, and Grim became the Powerpuffs).
• The Head: In the first episode, Butt-Head gives Smithee and Marshall a tape recording of a eyewitness news report involving Roy's attack from earlier in the episode, then he gets kicked out.
• Inspector Willoughby (an obscure Walter Lantz xharacter) swallows the contents of his prisoner's quick-change pills (cartoon "Sneak and Peek") and changes into numerous creatures and monsters. The last thing he changes into is Woody Woodpecker.
• Jellystone!:
  • Atom Ant appears under a rock Doggie Daddy flips over looking for Augie in "Gorilla in Our Midst."
  • Fred Flintstone appears as a graphic on a bow-tie in "A Coconut to Remember". He's later depicted with Wilma on the cover of the romance novel Cindy was supposed to read for her book club in "Must Be Jelly".
  • The Clue Club appear briefly in cutaways in "A Coconut to Remember."
  • The Biskitts make a brief cameo, apparently now the namesake of the Biskitt Farms brand of products which includes BBQ sauce and orange juice.
  • "Jelly Wrestle Rumble" has Mighty Mightor as the Funky Phantom's final pre-retirement opponent, as well as Gravity Girl from The Galaxy Trio taking the Phantom away after snapping and almost killing Mightor. In the same episode, Igoo can be seen in a match poster in Huck's wrestling shrine.
  • In the first episode, The Hair Bear Bunch are among the things Yogi devours in his eating binge.
  • Yankee Doodle Pigeon makes brief appearances in a couple of episodes. Klunk appears in the episode "Lady Danjjer: Is It Wrong to Long for El Kabong?"
• Justice League Unlimited had Static in the two-part "The Once and Future Thing" alongside Terry, an older Bruce Wayne, and Static, as well as Hal Jordan (as the show used John Stewart as Green Lantern).
• Molly of Denali: Henry, the tribal chief of Nenana introduced in "Welcome Home Balto," attends the ski meet and cheers for Molly in "Stand Back Up."
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • During the prologue of "Inspiration Manifestation", various pony families are seen together setting up the fair, including Thunderlane and Rumble, Diamond Tiara and Filthy Rich, Sweetie and her (and Rarity's) parents (without their vacation clothes), and Dinky and Amethyst Star. Vinyl Scratch and Bulk Biceps are also at the fair. Also, Rarity's upgrade to the mariachi band for the filly's party includes two orchestra members who played at the Grand Galloping Gala.
  • Equestria Games:
    • The Saddle Arabians (from "Magic Duel") are part of the royal delegates, as well as Prince Blueblood (last seen in "Sweet and Elite") and Fancy Pants seated in the box below.
    • Practically every character who's ever appeared in the series can be seen in the audience, most prominently in this◊ shot, with a couple of other good ones here◊ and here◊.
  • Flash Sentry makes his second appearance on the series in Twilights Kingdom Part 1, and this time he gets a line.
  • The rainbow that flies through Equestria in Twilight's Kingdom Part 2 is seen by everyone who gave the Mane Six their keys - Coco Pommel, Spitfire and the Wonderbolts, Cheese Sandwich, Seabreeze, Silver Shill, and Discord last of all.
  • There's also been tons of ponies spotted in the background who resemble famous characters from other series. Just to name a handful there's been Gordon Ramsay, the cast of The Big Lebowski, Rick and Morty, Walter White, Danny Torrance and the creepy ghost twins, Stan Lee, and even an My Little Pony: Equestria Girls version of Megan Williams. There's also a certain pony in Once Upon A Zeppelin who resembles the infamous author of Sonichu but fans have decided that one was unintentional even if that one was meant to be (It very likely wasn't, but the resemblance is chilling).
• Little Audrey cameos on the Popeye cartoon "Olive Oyl For President."
  • Betty Boop character Whiffle Piffle appears in the street brawl from "Brotherly Love".
• The Powerpuff Girls (1998):
  • Dexter made near constant cameos in to the point where it was practically a Running Gag. The fact that the (earlier) art of both shows was done by Craig McCracken, and the two shows are part of a Shared Universe helps.
    • He also made a cameo in the series finale of Time Squad 'Orphan Substitute'.
  • Augie Doggie, Doggie Daddy and Speed Buggy have all had cameos on The Powerpuff Girls. Mac, Bloo and Frankie from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends show up in the 10th anniversary episode "The Powerpuff Girls Rule!"
• Bugs Bunny, a Warner Bros. character, cameos in the Puppetoons serial "Jasper Goes Hunting" (released by Paramount). In his own Warners universe, Bugs cameos in at least three cartoons with other animated stars.
• Both Pluto the Pup and Owl have made cameo appearances on Recess, though Pluto only appeared in a dream sequence.
• Yogi Bear, Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm, and Suzie Chan show up in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated.
  • In episode 14, The Neptunes, The Teen Angels, Speed Buggy's friends and the teenage pals of The Funky Phantom make appeareances.
• Skull Island: A Skullcrawler from the MonsterVerse movie Kong: Skull Island cameos at the start of Episode 7.
• Star Wars Rebels has a few episodes where well-known characters from the Star Wars universe help the main characters. Most of them are only seen in the episode they first appeared, but there are also a few characters from Star Wars: The Clone Wars who later become important supporting characters.
• Static Shock had a quite few of them:
  • Both DCAU Batmen (Bruce Wayne and Terry McGinnis) appeared in "Future Shock" (while Batman had a few episodes as well).
  • Superman appeared in "Toyz In the Hood".
  • The rest of the Justice League appeared with Batman and Braniac in the two-part "A League of Their Own".
  • The Joker was in "The Big Leagues," while Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy were in "Hard as Nails."
  • Lil Romeo, Shaquille O'Neal and Karl Malone each was an Ink-Suit Actor in their episodes ("Romeo In The Mix", "Static Shaq" and "Hoop Squad").
    • The other "Hoop Squad" members (Yao Ming, Tracy McGrady, and Steve Nash) are voiced by others though.
• Total Drama:
  • When the series' fourth season, Revenge of the Island, introduced a new batch of contestants, cameos were given to the old contestants, with all 24 appearing together at the start of the season and then Owen, Izzy, Bridgette, Lindsay, Feral Ezekiel, Gwen, Duncan, Heather, and DJ all getting their own extended cameos in the episodes afterwards. Additionally, Season 5, All-Stars, gave some more cameos to Izzy, Feral Ezekiel, and Owen.
  • In the spinoff Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race, the final episode has cameos from Anne Maria, Chris McLean, and Blaineley all in New York (although the latter two have their faces obscured, with Blaineley wearing pink instead of her usual red).
  • The Spin-Off Babies series Total DramaRama has done several cameos as well. Ridonculous Race host Don appears as a scientist; Celebrity Man-Hunt co-host Josh cameos as a news reporter as well; Nikki Wong from 6teen appears in a flashback; and kid versions of Trent, Geoff, DJ, and Katie have all made cameos.
• Turtles Forever, as a special commemorating the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' 25th birthday, has a lot of oneshot appearances from characters throughout the franchise's history. One scene alone has Irma, the human forms of Bebop and Rocksteady, and a memorable battle briefly shows Tokka and Rahzar; that's just a few of them. The end of the film even manages to have a Creator Cameo in the form of a "flashback", showing Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird just as they are finishing the very first issue of the TMNT hoping it would sell, literally bringing the series full-circle.
• Baseball slugger Mike Piazza and the NHL's Brett Hull have appeared in cartoon form as cameos on What's New, Scooby-Doo?
• Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum:
  • Helen Keller made one in "I Am Alexander Graham Bell", as she is a student in his class.
  • George Washington made one in "I Am Alexander Hamilton."
• X-Men '97:
  • The Watcher makes a Blink-and-You-Miss-It appearance in the sky in "Remember It".
  • Spider-Man, the Silver Samurai, and Omega Red appear in "Tolerance is Extinction, Pt. 1", and Bastion's conferees include Doctor Doom and Helmut Zemo.
  • "Tolerance is Extinction, Pt. 3" features a cavalcade of these, including Iron Man, Black Panther (specifically King T'Chaka) and the Dora Milaje, Doctor Strange, Daredevil, Cloak and Dagger, Darkstar, Crimson Dynamo, Psylocke, Alpha Flight, Cipher, Peter Parker, Mary Jane Watson, and Flash Thompson. Forge's board of potential new X-Men recruits at the end of the episode includes photos of additional characters, including Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Kitty Pryde, Dust, Havok, Magik, Iceman, and Archangel.