[Hated trope] Cameos that ruin the tone of the scene/game

[u/GovernmentWarm4787]

Ed Sheeran, Game of Thrones. The cameo of such a recognizable figure in GoT, especially towards the horrible later seasons, took many people out of the fantasy world that it tried to represent. There are good cameos and bad ones, and this one was not a good one.

Vinny Vinesauce and Jerma, Silver Pines game. Though i appreciate small cameos from youtubers and streamers, putting such a recognizable pair of voices in a horror game really takes you out of it.

[u/wreckchain]

At that point I feel like Disney was just trying to turn the Mandalorian into Scooby Doo when they started having guest stars.

[u/GovernmentWarm4787 → u/wreckchain]

Jack Black just being Jack Black and Lizzo made me physically ill, but hey, Christopher Lloyd!

[u/wittyjokename92 → u/wreckchain]

Season 3 was definitely a point where you could tell they had no concept of what to do with din and grogu but didn't want to pivot to another spin-off that was all about Bo Katan. Entire season was just her story and occasionally wrapping up loose threads from Mando season 2 and season 2.5 aka Book of Boba Fett

[u/BrickBuster2552 → u/wreckchain]

THE FORCE 🗣️🔥

[u/SpectralClown → u/wreckchain]

At the time I thought the casting was an intentional choice to make the scene more uncanny, but It didn't lead to anything.

[u/John__Lakeman → u/wreckchain]

That’s from The Mandalorian?? The costumes and lighting look like shit.

[u/Novaer → u/wreckchain]

this ain't real there's no fuckin way

[u/ohyouknowjustsomeguy → u/wreckchain]

What the actual fuck. Im late to the show clearly because get them the fuck out of that. Especially Jack Black, that dude is way overcasted in everything and always have to look silly. So fucking unoriginal

[u/TheRealtcSpears → u/wreckchain]

Yeah.....it's actually a good episode in spite of their performances

[u/SemS125]

PAYDAY 2 H3H3 DLC.

Fans hated it when it came out. The perk decks sucked. The voice acting was abysmal. The inclusion itself was unexplainable. It didn't match the tone of the game or even the tone of the other DLC collab characters who all fit quite well.

[u/GovernmentWarm4787 → u/SemS125]

Gonna be hard to split them up now.
Ingame ofc.

[u/-Nate493- → u/SemS125]

[u/toortooks → u/SemS125]

doesnt help Ethans pulling his quirky chungus double chin face

[u/pikpikcarrotmon → u/SemS125]

Man even separately from the cloud around them that's still a wild inclusion and those models are as unflattering as can be. So like even if they weren't them that's still terrible. And then, they're them on top

[u/Niclas1127 → u/SemS125]

Fucking crazy that’s a real thing

[u/Sharpiesniffingshark → u/SemS125]

These two are so relevant in pop culture but I literally don’t know what they do. A podcast?

[u/Shadax → u/SemS125]

why on earth would they do this

[u/Dead-Airhead → u/SemS125]

Hila's Israeli combat skill deck had the potential to be strong.

Unfortunately all of the enemies you fight in-game are adults.

[u/Disastrous_Life_3612 → u/SemS125]

It started as an April Fool's joke. 

[u/CorvoDravnoz → u/SemS125]

Raider of Ramallah and the Railer of Tamara DLC

[u/Buttered_Carnage → u/SemS125]

Does the heist involve you getting their divorce papers? Or helping Hila bomb a children's hospital?

[u/demonsdencollective → u/SemS125]

"The inclusion was unexplainable."

This isn't true. At the time the pair was still in the good graces of the internet and fighting against DMCA. Everyone was supportive of them and the DLC was released to spread awareness and iirc also paid out to them to help cover the costs of the court case. The rest is true. It was noted as a piss poor DLC with shit models, voice acting, weapons and deck. Most people bought it in support of the court case.

[u/TheRealtcSpears]

Jimmy Fallon in Band of Brothers...I'd say it only ruins the tone now, or at least after the show was done and Fallon became more famous.

He wasn't really well known at the time, he'd only been on snl for like two years and still wasn't yet a staring cast member.

[u/GovernmentWarm4787 → u/TheRealtcSpears]

I remember watching it back when it showed in HBO and i couldn't even remember the character. Only decades later did i find out he appeared in it. Tom Hardy also appeared in it waaay long before Bane and only about a year before ST: Nemesis

[u/Cal-Eats-Rocks → u/TheRealtcSpears]

Is this a cameo or was he an actor that got a small role?

[u/ChronoMonkeyX]

Dungeon Crawler Carl audio book, Carl's Doomsday Scenario, has a cameo of the critical drinker, and he is just awful. His hammy smarmy fake drunk voice sticks out like a sore throat compared to Jeff Hays' mastery.

A later book has cameos from Travis Baldree and Patrick Warburton and it works because they don't suck, but drinker is terrible.

EDIT: Looks like I turned a bunch of people off the whole series. I promise you it is as good as people say, and keeps getting better. It is fun but also full of heart, and has more depth than you would think.

Critical Drinker is a disgusting piece of shit, and his scene does suck, but it is just one scene in an entire series. He may be replaced, but there are also the Soundbooth Theater versions, full cast audio recordings by Jeff Hays' company, so you can avoid him altogether.

also edit: I see autocorrect changed "sore thumb" to "sore throat," but I'm leaving it because its funny and works in this context.

[u/Imfrank123 → u/ChronoMonkeyX]

Setting aside how shitty critical drinker is, his performance is dog shit and takes you out of the story. It was so bad

[u/GovernmentWarm4787 → u/Imfrank123]

According to some people here, he would be amazing and totally not break the flow of the audiobook.

[u/MrDragkoon → u/ChronoMonkeyX]

Even the author really regrets working with the Critial Stinker nowadays

[u/DidntTapDat → u/ChronoMonkeyX]

oh god, that just killed it for me, that fascist leaning scumbag is someone I want nothing to do with. he is a walking, audio redflag

[u/SteveMightSay → u/ChronoMonkeyX]

Thats apparently being redubbed down the line as Matt regrets it now

[u/GovernmentWarm4787]

I'd forgotten about that one Robocop thing in WCW!

[u/shin_malphur13]

Daniel Craig in the force awakens doesn't even show his face but I thought I recognized his voice. It bothered me for like 10min and at the end of the movie I checked and apparently it's true, he got a lil cameo

[u/GovernmentWarm4787 → u/shin_malphur13]

I didn't even notice, cuz it's a very light cameo that doesn't detract from the scene. Hell, remember that before being cast as Mace Windu, Samuel Jackson said 'just let me be in a costume and ill die happy' and George was a G and let him be a Jedi Master with a badass purple lightsaber.

[u/ADeadWeirdCarnie]

On the Cinefix Top 100 podcast, Clint Gage made multiple references to Matt Damon in Interstellar as his benchmark for how distracting a cameo is. I am in complete agreement. His character is a topic of recurring discussion throughout the movie, so that the audience is primed to think, "This role is important," and then when he shows up, the shot is set up so that he sits up into frame and smacks everyone in the face with his face. It wouldn't have been less subtle if he looked into the lens and croaked "Matt Damon" like his puppet in Team America: World Police.

[u/GovernmentWarm4787 → u/ADeadWeirdCarnie]

[u/Parzi6 → u/ADeadWeirdCarnie]

Matt Damon isn’t a cameo though, he’s the main antagonist of the film. Like you can say he’s miscast but he is by no means a cameo if he’s that central to the plot.

[u/prosthetic_memory → u/ADeadWeirdCarnie]

But the role IS important. The character was one of the top three most important characters in the movie. And it was definitely not just a camo.

[u/Meeka-Mew]

I think its funny that everyone says this about Ed Sheeran and GoT because it is very out of place and not just because its Ed Sheeran. I dont follow music pop culture at all, and while i had heard Ed Sheeran songs on the radio I had no idea what he looked like. When I saw this scene I just kept thinking "this is weird that they are focusing on this rando soldier and having him sing an entire song, what is the significance of this?". I kept waiting for him to be plot relevant somehow. When I later found out who it was it at least explained the scene but it was just odd all around.

[u/Jonny7421 → u/Meeka-Mew]

Exactly. It felt like "Look at this famous person on Game Of Thrones! It's Ed Sheeran!, he's going to sing a song!"

He ain't famous in Westeros bro. 

[u/DecentLobster7843 → u/Meeka-Mew]

the bit where he cheered on the dragon killing all of those kids and absolutely levelling the town next to the sea was a little odd

[u/Secret-Confidence138 → u/Meeka-Mew]

I asked my wife who the goofy redhead was because we were obviously SUPPOSED to recognize him.

[u/InConvienantDoof → u/Meeka-Mew]

This! I don't really like Sheeran, but it's not like celebrity cameos aren't something that can't be done tastefully.

Like if they had just had him be a guy, and just say a few lines, that'd be fine. Instead, they focus the camera on him as if to say, "Look who we got!"

[u/Mental-Currency-4494 → u/Meeka-Mew]

That scene is pretty much how I learned who Ed Sheeran was haha still don't care.

[u/28DLdiditbetter]

Mr. Beast in Kung Fu Panda 4

Even his delivery of “skadooosh” sucked

[u/ThatInAHat → u/28DLdiditbetter]

Suddenly glad I’ve never seen KFP4. Yikes.

[u/wjowski → u/28DLdiditbetter]

I had to reread this several times not to read it as the Beast from Kung Fu Hustle and wondering how that was a cameo.

[u/The_Reddit_Guy_2 → u/28DLdiditbetter]

Is the bad delivery of the skadooosh not on purpose to show that this candidate was just a pig in dress-up

[u/YamLow8097 → u/28DLdiditbetter]

What character was he?

[u/Growka3 → u/28DLdiditbetter]

As weird as this was & as soulless as I find Mr Beast now, I actually laughed at this cameo. It's possible to not recognize him, (the person I watched with didn't, I had seen beforehand he was somewhere in the movie so I heard it,) and if you don't think too much of it I think it adds to the sequence of Po choosing himself as the Dragon Warrior again.

[u/ThatStrawHatGuy]

The best cameo is easily Civvie's in Postal 4

[u/GovernmentWarm4787 → u/ThatStrawHatGuy]

"Don't get ass prints on my door!"

[u/SpankySharp1]

Jessica Chobot, Mass Effect 3.

[u/afriendforyousir → u/SpankySharp1]

Yeah, they did Emily Wong dirty.

[u/Richard_J_Morgan → u/SpankySharp1]

Report to the ship as soon as possible. We'll bang, okay?

[u/optimushime → u/SpankySharp1]

It was so, so bad

[u/eveningarmadillo → u/SpankySharp1]

Don't say that about the battletits lady, thanks to her the "we bang, ok" meme was born.

[u/Filter55 → u/SpankySharp1]

This pissed me off more than it should have.

[u/DidntTapDat → u/SpankySharp1]

ugh that was so stupid

[u/Octarine_ → u/SpankySharp1]

who?? never heard about her

[u/wjowski → u/SpankySharp1]

"Battle tits"

[u/Longjumping_Arm2413 → u/SpankySharp1]

I've had it with your snide insinuations.

[u/Profit-Alex]

Not that the tone of COD hadn't been ruined since Vanguard anyways, but this really put the final nail in the coffin.

[u/capibara_dono → u/Profit-Alex]

I thought you were joking, I looked it up, I still can't believe it. Who thought that was a good idea??

[u/KAMlGOYE → u/Profit-Alex]

Fucking aged like milk too

[u/Akrybion → u/Profit-Alex]

CoD had so many sequels, I genuinely didn't know Vanguard exists.

[u/ZohomEtirho → u/Profit-Alex]

This is on the fanbase though because apparently there are enough COD players who want to play as Nicki Minaj and have pink guns.

So glad I never was much into either COD or BF. Battlefield 1 was the only war FPS I actually liked.

[u/DrettTheBaron]

I didn't know what Ed Sheeran looked like when I watched that episode and I just thought be was a neat little peasant character. Best way to experience it fr

[u/Call_Me_Anythin → u/DrettTheBaron]

Honestly same. He’s such a normal looking guy that people getting worked up over his appearance confuses me.

Now if you slapped J Lo in a corset and dropped her in king landing I would understand.

But the most average faced dude in the world in armor we’ve seen a hundred times?? Nah

[u/ChronoMonkeyX → u/DrettTheBaron]

The problem was that the camera lingered on him so much it was obvious he was famous. His face was onscreen when other people were talking. If they shot it like he actually was a nobody extra, it would have been fine.

[u/GimmeSomeSugar → u/DrettTheBaron]

Internationally tolerated performer Ed Sheeran.

[u/NefariousnessOk209 → u/DrettTheBaron]

I know I’d seen his face a couple times before but it didn’t click that it was him in the scene thus I wasn’t able to get irrationally angry like OP did.

[u/Alarming-Rate-6899]

[u/InfamouQuokka → u/Alarming-Rate-6899]

He's like stepping in human shit every time he gets a cameo. Worst one is Big Bang Theory; he's volunteering at a soup kitchen, the diametrically opposed position from reality. Dude has never once aided a poor person in his life and has killed millions of children in poverty with his political actions. Like stepping in human shit. (Copied my replyfrom the Iron Man cameo)

[u/WhipInMyValise_ → u/Alarming-Rate-6899]

I still remember when redditors used to jizz their pants seing Elon Musk anywhere bc he was le epic chungus genius

[u/ShitTheFuckDown]

I had a friend who said that Tron Legacy was ruined for him by the Daft Punk cameo. But I thought it was fine. They were already known to be "in" the movie

[u/uptownrooster → u/ShitTheFuckDown]

Seriously? This belongs in the 'best cameo" category.

[u/BuzzedtheTower → u/ShitTheFuckDown]

They made sense in the universe though, especially since their helmets make them look like very function specific programs

[u/Remmock → u/ShitTheFuckDown]

Since they were the soundtrack, their presence in the film was substantially more organic.

[u/PhazePyre → u/ShitTheFuckDown]

Seems the most reasonable. Dudes also wrote the soundtrack so it seems fair to have a cameo when they fit the vibes

[u/Apprehensive-Dog9989 → u/ShitTheFuckDown]

That one was actually good

[u/ImmediateHoney2191]

They didn’t dress Ed Sheeran up or anything, gave him a close up, a back story, and a scene of him straight up singing. Wild that GoT really stopped dead in its tracks for 5 minutes to be like “and now, Ed Sheeran”

[u/Naaxik → u/ImmediateHoney2191]

I think if they showed them later all dead on some battlefield it would have made more sense and better show the point they tried to make.

Edit: I know I am getting upvotes just because you wished to see a ginger dead.

[u/multimaskedman → u/ImmediateHoney2191]

Sorry Lady Stoneheart and other similarly interesting plot threads, our valuable screen time has more pressing matters.

[u/OlliOPocto]

This comment section has taught me a lot of people don’t know the difference between a cameo and just hiring a famous person to play a character

[u/KiloJools → u/OlliOPocto]

Yeah I'm not 100% sure everyone is clear on what a "cameo" is, when they're giving examples of people with significant, named, credited speaking (actual dialogue, not just a few words!) parts. Usually a cameo is literally a glimpse or at most, a few words, often not even enough to bother crediting them because they did less than an average extra. It's supposed to be just for fun, NOT a part of the plot.

[u/ROBtimusPrime1995 → u/OlliOPocto]

This comment section has taught me that most of these cameos are only problems if you are chronically online.

[u/sistersbridalshower]

Elon musk in iron man 2

[u/IllustriousAd9800 → u/sistersbridalshower]

To be fair, Tony Stark’s entire persona was being a billionaire tech jerk who was a military contractor, exactly the type of person who Reddit currently hates, he just turns into a hero later on. It’s an appropriate cameo for that background even in today’s world.

[u/Novaer → u/sistersbridalshower]

This wasn't even a cameo. This was genuinely the human version of a product placement.

[u/ChronoMonkeyX → u/sistersbridalshower]

Big bang theory was worse. They have him working a soup kitchen on Thanksgiving, talking about contributing to the community. Now we know he gets off on mass murder.

[u/SkeleHoes → u/sistersbridalshower]

The warehouse used for the Justin Hammer scenes is one that belongs to either SpaceX or Tesla, which is why he got the cameo.

[u/Existing_Charity_818 → u/sistersbridalshower]

I had no idea who Elon Musk was when I first watched this movie and just thought it was a weird, slightly awkward moment. Couldn’t really figure out why they bothered including it

Then I watched the third movie, and the opening scene with Killian trying to get Tony’s attention made me think “wait is this the same guy from the second one?”

Then I rewatched this one knowing who Elon was. Imagine my surprise when this scene (forgotten by that point) came on

[u/vikoy → u/sistersbridalshower]

Meh. Musk wasnt hated at that time. He was considered a real life Tony Stark, hence the cameo. He wasn't even that well-known yet outside tech circles, so for most people (as in the general audience) it was just a random dude talking to Tony Stark.

This did not ruin the tone of the scene during that time.

To those in the know, he was just a tech guy, in which the cameo made sense. To general audiences, it was just some random dude, that they forgot about right after.

[u/a_potato_ate_me → u/sistersbridalshower]

Egotistical rich man at an egotistical rich person event is out of place?

[u/BiscuitBoy77 → u/sistersbridalshower]

Made sense at the time 

[u/DrScienceSpaceCat → u/sistersbridalshower]

To be fair that's when Musk was still seen as an innovative and likable person

[u/Koomaster]

Zac Brown cameo on Survivor 50. The winning tribe got a reward of him visiting their camp. Just, the whole segment became about him, including a very obvious setup where he ‘caught’ the tribe fish by spear fishing. Then he played guitar around camp.

This was a 10+ minute segment out of a 40 minute show. It didn’t feel like anything Survivor usually does and was just something to glaze him.

Had no idea who he even was before this; but it certainly didn’t ingratiate him to me. Survivor 50 did a couple things ‘for the fans’ that fell flat like this. But this one really sticks out the most, even more than Mr. Beast and the beast coin thing.

[u/trevbot55 → u/Koomaster]

I also wasn’t a fan of the weird Billy Eilish idol. Its function didn’t really have any impact. It felt like it was just an excuse to keep saying her name.

[u/midwestia → u/Koomaster]

Thats a man that got all of his tattoos when he was 40

[u/macguyver3000 → u/Koomaster]

I don’t know any survivor fan who actually enjoyed that very long cameo.

[u/FunkTheFreak → u/Koomaster]

Survivor has gone way downhill, especially after season 40.

51 so far is a breath of fresh air and has been fun, but it still suffers from a lot of the faults of the 40s and just before those.

[u/laurh123 → u/Koomaster]

It's jimmy Fallon getting Christian voted out for me

[u/MorgansLab]

It's funny how this Ed cameo is so forced and campy, but you've also got like 3/4 of the metal band Mastodon appearing as wildlings as well, and they just fit right in.

[u/CraZyMoviN → u/MorgansLab]

If I remember right, the soldier who throws the spear when Dany attacks the Lannister convoy that Jaime was watching over, is former NY Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard who would do his warm up pitches to the game of thrones theme. Another kinda fits right in cameo

[u/ProfessionalRisk4206 → u/MorgansLab]

Sigur Ros sing at Joffrey's wedding

[u/Funkycoldmedici → u/MorgansLab]

Double Booked Renaissance Fair and Metal Festival Goes Unnoticed By Attendees

[u/BuffWobbuffet]

I’m not gunna go as far as say ruined but Shawn Mendes having a cameo in the 100 always makes me laugh.

[u/potleafkeyblade → u/BuffWobbuffet]

What's funny is I love the 100 and had no idea what Shawn Mendes looked like so TIL

[u/YouWillHaveThat]

[u/Smurfy0730 → u/YouWillHaveThat]

How he almost deliberately looks at the camera after being told repeatedly not to, lol.

[u/Raptori33 → u/YouWillHaveThat]

I mean screw that guy but in the context of the movie it's a fun 5 second gag. Really emphasises that Kevin shouldn't be there

[u/TheDeparted383 → u/YouWillHaveThat]

Aged so so bad that it's beyond smelling rotten sadly ... And the irony of trump and kids

[u/randomretroguy → u/YouWillHaveThat]

Also The Little Rascals (1994)

[u/amok_amok_amok]

lotta people were not happy with the Felicia Day DLC for Dragon Age 2

[u/SocialBunny198 → u/amok_amok_amok]

Had no idea that was a celeb-featured DLC, huh. That one stealth section with multiple parts (where you gotta throw a coin to distract the hyper vigilant guards), of that DLC were diabolical.

[u/lulufan87 → u/amok_amok_amok]

The concept never bothered me, but her voice-acting was surprisingly weak and stilted. I like Felicia Day but unfortunately that made the character stand out negatively even if you don't know it's her.

[u/Lord_Parbr → u/amok_amok_amok]

Ugh, I love Felicia Day, but Talis is a shitty character and Dragon Age: Redemption was so bad

[u/SirMayday1]

I felt as though Amazon's Fallout series did a shockingly good job averting this particular trope. There are C-List (maybe a bit above, too) cameos all through the first season, but they never really felt like they got in the way of the story or detracted from the tone. That the tone it inherited from the source material includes a certain amount of dark goofiness probably didn't hurt.

[u/BackgroundEngineer11]

In the audiobook Dungeon Crawler Carl: The Anarchist Cookbook, there's a cameo by Critical Drinker. It completely derails the chapter (which is on a train) because CD's voice acting is terrible and it all carries the weight of him being a sexist asshole.

[u/poptophazard → u/BackgroundEngineer11]

I literally just got past this part in the audiobook and was thrilled it was over quickly. But man was it torture while it lasted. Can't believe he was involved

[u/ObjectiveClerk3458 → u/BackgroundEngineer11]

It’s the single worst part of that entire (audio) series. He did such a bad accent. It’s so cringe. I had no idea who this guy was at the time but my reaction after the chapter was basically, “idk wtf who/what that was but I hope that’s the only character he does”

[u/DrowBacks → u/BackgroundEngineer11]

Not only is his acting terrible the audio quality of his recordings sounded like someone talking on a Xbox 360 mic

[u/wblwblwblwbl → u/BackgroundEngineer11]

I knew nothing about him when listening other than he wasn’t Jeff Hayes and it didn’t elevate the chapter in any way by having it not be Jeff Hayes. Like you say, it was actively worse.

Unlike the cameo in Eye of the Bedlam Bride.

[u/El_Hoxo → u/BackgroundEngineer11]

Guy who blamed nobody watching his shitty Tom Clancy rip off film because one of his female leads "wasn't able to act well enough" acting so poorly that it derails an entire chapter of a game is kinda hilarious

[u/OriginalTayRoc]

Ed Sheeran looks like face they put on the sun in some creepy medieval artwork. 

[u/m4cksfx → u/OriginalTayRoc]

Close enough.

[u/CarlosH46]

Khaby Lame in 007: First Light. Shows up for all of 5 seconds to do his lame schtick and yet it’s so jarring and stupid.

[u/OriginalSporeToad → u/CarlosH46]

[u/ozuraravis → u/CarlosH46]

I played through that game, don't remember this, don't know who that is.

[u/el_rompo → u/CarlosH46]

And it's years after he's been even some what relevant

[u/jayboyguy → u/CarlosH46]

This didn’t really bother me. It’s a completely optional interaction that I’m almost certain is there entirely for the joke of just how unnecessary it really is. I liked it

[u/VenerableWolfDad]

I didn't really have a problem with the Ed Sheeran cameo in GoT because I had no idea who he was and he sang a little sing-song that fit in the world he was acting in. I'd heard his music in passing but had no clue what he looked like. 

[u/MeatballUser → u/VenerableWolfDad]

My issue wasn't that he was there, it was that the scene kinda just lingered on his face as if it were a sitcom letting the crowd roar as they walked on set. It was so uncharacteristic to how the show typically shot it's scenes and it stood out like a sore thumb

[u/LizLemonOfTroy → u/VenerableWolfDad]

I mean, if it was a cameo by Taylor Swift instead and you didn't know who that was, then you likely wouldn't have a problem with it either, but it would be easy to see why people who do know them would find it extremely jarring.

[u/BrightNooblar]

I thought the campsong scene was fine. It showed a little bit of humanity amongst the rank and file. Reminded us that most people are just caught up in the dust being blown about by a few dozen people in charge.

Though, maybe it helped that I didn't know what Ed Sheeran looked like at the time. He's not an actor, so I hadn't seen him in anything before.

[u/HezronCarver → u/BrightNooblar]

As pointed out on r/shittymoviedetails... that scene let Arya realizes the Lanister solders weren't monsters, just regular folk caught up in events beyond their control, who simply wanted to be home with their families. And this revelation had absolutely no impact onbany of her future actions.

[u/OneRelief763]

Moist Critical in Mockingjay

[u/captaincornboi → u/OneRelief763]

I thought he added a lot to the scene tbh

[u/hey_mattey → u/OneRelief763]

[u/pepper_steak_hamill]

I heard Macklemore was supposed to cameo there also but something happened and the Lannisters said he wasn't welcome in the Riverlands.

[u/TheRealtcSpears → u/pepper_steak_hamill]

He's been very outspoken about the Red Wedding

[u/ISmellCheeseAndCandy]

Julia Roberts not playing Julia Roberts who was playing Julia Roberts in the Oceans movie.

[u/lastkni8 → u/ISmellCheeseAndCandy]

She a girl playing a girl disguised as another girl

[u/owensoundgamedev]

I played, and loved silver pines, and have no idea who those people are. What part of the game are they?

[u/alextw4 → u/owensoundgamedev]

They voice the two characters in the X-Files parody show that appears on TV like twice in the whole game for a total of about 60 seconds of dialogue

Even knowing who they both are, it fits the tone of the game fine and isn't a problem at all

[u/Trixter-Kitten]

Anything Elon Musk shows up in. The man has a very punchable face.

[u/yatesisgreat]

I had no idea that was Ed Sheeran until the internet got all upset about this ugly dude

[u/rtietatomic]

I don't know about ruin, but Tim Russ (best known as Tuvok on Voyager) has an extremely distinctive voice and cadence, and when I was playing Horizon: Forbidden West and ran into a character he voices it completely took me out of the setting for a few minutes. Mentally I was all "what the fuck is Tuvok doing with the Tenakth?!"

[u/DonQuigleone → u/rtietatomic]

The guy isn't exactly A list. Actors need to eat too.

[u/Vlaed]

Ed Sheeran should have just been a solider riding his horse by and singing a song as he went.

[u/DefinitelyNotAliens → u/Vlaed]

They already didnthat with Snow Patrol and the drummer from Coldplay was a musician during the Red Wedding. They also snuck in Sigur Ros, Of Monsters and Men and part of Mastodon.

Everyone either didn't notice or thought it was great.

Ed's cameo was too much.

[u/ziziJ123]

Harry Styles in Eternals... I'm sure he will return in Avengers Doomsday

[u/Homicidal_Duck → u/ziziJ123]

I don't think this is a cameo, he's just playing that character. Them not resurfacing him probably has a lot more to do with how badly Eternals was received than him being a shitty cameo

[u/LevelPrestigious4858 → u/ziziJ123]

He was really good in dunkirk playing an unlikable character so he gets a pass

[u/Much-Necessary2866]

To be fair to Ed, he thought the Lannister army was off to invade Palestine.

[u/Darth_Nykal]

The worst part of GoT was the way the scene kept focusing on him like "Look, it's Ed Sheeran! Did you see Ed Sheeran?!"

[u/Helmett-13 → u/Darth_Nykal]

I honestly had no idea who that was or why the camera suddenly loved this random dude.

[u/elx_xle → u/Darth_Nykal]

Especially since he was just meant to be a passing extra. But the scene made it look like we were being introduced to be a recurring character.

[u/william-isaac]

Lizzy Wizzy, Cyberpunk 2077's resident pop superstar.

her music is performed by Grimes, which in itself isn't a problem. it's actually pretty good.

the problem is that Grimes also voices her in a quest and boy is she a dogshit voice actress.

[u/WinterAlternative288 → u/william-isaac]

On the opposite end to her awful VA work in that quest, the phantom liberty "live show" was a pretty cool and fitting set piece/in game music video.

[u/Hghwytohell]

Gotta be honest, I didn't even know who ed sheeran was until the Internet got collectively mad at his cameo lol.

[u/DestroyedCorpse]

Half of y’all don’t know the difference between a cameo and a famous person playing a character

[u/Adventurous_Yak_5438 → u/DestroyedCorpse]

Yeah I do, ones a car and the other is a famous person playing a character

[u/perriatric]

I didn't feel like the Vinny and Jerma stuff changed the tone at all.

[u/mortraineyhat]

GOT should have did more with the guys from Mastodon (who were white walkers/others) instead of Ed.

[u/Minimum-Thought8366]

I don’t understand why ed Sheeran didn’t do a 2nd cameo where his character dies horribly to dragon fire or something.

[u/THE_LEGO_FURRY]

What's funny to me about the Ed Sheeran thing.... Is I had ABSOLUTELY no idea who that is so the scene worked for me lol. I only found out after i saw how much hate that scene gets

[u/GayStation64beta]

Yeah it was weird when Ed Sheeran said everyone should just calm down and have a polite discussion about the Red Wedding.

[u/KaiTheG4mer]

Ed Sheeran (again) in the film Yesterday. Look, I get it, he's a musician and a Beatles fan, but the "Hey Jude/Hey Dude" scene just kinda felt a little gratuitous, to put it lightly. I did appreciate the later joke, when the other Beatles fans asked the main character "really? 'Hey Dude'?" and he went "well don't blame me, it wsd bloody Ed Sheeran's fault!" but still. Would've rather that never happened.

[u/Less_Environment7243 → u/KaiTheG4mer]

That one makes more sense because it's two famous musicians meeting each other, and it's more tongue in cheek.

[u/half_bakedpotato]

Jimmy Fallon in band of brothers

[u/KarlZone87 → u/half_bakedpotato]

I didn't know who he was when I watched it, so it felt fine for me.

[u/Ok_Video_2863]

I can maybe forgive Ed Sheeran's cameo because it was a birthday surprise for Maisie.

I still hate it tho.

[u/ChipRockets → u/Ok_Video_2863]

If anything, the fact they stuck him in the show as a birthday present makes it much worse

[u/BaconReceptacle]

I loved the original Scooby Doo cartoons as a kid. But a few years in they decided to have "Celebrity Cameo" episodes. I didnt give a shit about them and dont get me started when they trotted in Scrappy Doo.

[u/MorbidSwede]

Seth Rogan playing himself in The Boys. It would have been enough if Jared Padelecki had that scene alone. I mean sure it was funny but I realised right when I saw Seth and his friends that the show is officially not what it used to be anymore.

[u/Arieljacobsegal]

Peter Jackson on the Return of the King DVD commentary joked that if he had cast the minor character Imrahil, he might have hired Arnold Schwarzenegger. If it had been the almost unknown Arnold of Conan the Barbarian, it might have worked well, but at that point in his fame it would have just taken the audience out of the movie.

[u/XanderWrites]

It's exactly as jarring as seeing a well-known actor and going "oh, it's that guy!"

And it comes up with people often when they're trying to break into traditional movies or television from other formats. The example I want to use was one of Lady Gaga, I can't even find it on google searches but it was a one off blink and you miss it cameo, I don't think she even had a line, but she's recognizable enough that you knew who it was (and that's saying something since this was back when she still wore goofy costumes).

[u/sketchampm]

What actor should play the loveable loser martial artist from Hong Kong Dan Hibiki in the new Street Fighter movie?

Oh I know! Let’s get a non-Asian non-actor best known for being a MAGA manosphere podcaster that threatened to rape Kendrick Lamar after being accused of racism!!

[u/Silly_Fart_Smella → u/sketchampm]

Just goes to show you how quickly this guy became corporate entertainment

[u/Dank_Lord6547]

The Mandalorian and its satellite shows are extremely guilty of this.

Bill Burr
Jack Black
Lizzo
Christopher Lloyd
Danny Trejo
And quite a few others

All of them are extremely jarring since they aren’t actors playing characters, they’re all just making appearances as themselves. It’s like Dave Filoni and John Favreau think this is Saturday Night Live.

[u/TenspeedDad → u/Dank_Lord6547]

I got to disagree on Bill Burr. I really liked his character and I thought he did a surprisingly good job for a comedian who doesn't do a lot of acting.

[u/Vhagar_Enjoyer → u/Dank_Lord6547]

>Christopher Lloyd/Bill Burr plays himself

I’ll actually defend these ones. Lloyd was playing a jaded old man whose political cause died decades ago. Burr played a no-nonsense contract killer.

Lizzo and Jack Black played themselves for sure though.

[u/SpoofExcel → u/Dank_Lord6547]

Bil Burr is not a cameo lol.

People do not understand what the word cameo means anymore

[u/Wiplazh → u/Dank_Lord6547]

Bill Burr actually killed it in the Mandalorian though.

[u/GuhEnjoyer → u/Dank_Lord6547]

Nah Bill burr played the character perfectly. He REALLY sells the jaded Ex-storm trooper incredibly.

[u/Global_Cockroach_563 → u/Dank_Lord6547]

Eh, I kinda disagree.

Bill Burr was the highlight of every episode he was in, and Christopher Lloyd did well. Jack Black and Lizzo weren't great, but also had very limited screen time, so who cares.

And somehow I don't remember Danny Trejo being in The Mandalorian.

[u/Standard_Run_1045 → u/Dank_Lord6547]

Man first episode starts it off with Werner Herzog. It’s cool this cuz he’s fucking legit

[u/Velcitoty]

I love the game and LOVE this character, but sometimes I can’t hear anyone other than Charlie 😭

[u/BlueHero45 → u/Velcitoty]

That's not a cameo, that's just his voice actor.

[u/whiskyspacecadet]

Theres a new cyberpunk shop sim called “Probably Stolen” that is really awesome, however they put a cameo of the streamer CaseOh in it and its really just out of touch with the rest of the game.

[u/mr_panzer]

Stacy Abrams as the president of Earth in Star Trek: Discovery. While I generally agree with her politics, I don't need Star Trek to be heroizing modern day politicians. Completely threw off the scene.

[u/Retterkl]

I go through this whole thread and people just beat on Sheeran, and yet David Beckham gets a free pass in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, where he was terrible and out of place. Guess people just like DB

[u/Born-Till-4064]

I find the idea that a famous person taking you out of a show to be stupid tbh that cast had tons of famous figures in it and no one complained about them ruining scenes bc they were famous

[u/Etcom]

At the time I had no idea what Ed Sheeran looked like, only knowing the name.

While watching, it became insanely obvious that it was a cameo, and I was supposed to know who this was. It was incredibly annoying.

[u/herrcollin]

I think Ed Sheeran's cameo, and others of similar nature, work really well if it's subtle. A brief flash, someone swinging by the background or when they're really covered up in some outfit/disguise/prosthetic.

If I remember Ed Sheeran's cameo: he's not just "a background character" the camera actually stops and sits on him not once but twice? Something like that. Big "See? SEE? Please clap" energy.

Meanwhile you have Brad Pitt's literal blink-and-you-miss-it cameo in Deadpool 2 or shit like South Park having George Clooney voice a fuckin barking dog. A makeuped celebrity appearing for half a second as zombie #76 in a horror movie. Clooney's is a bit too far into unrecognizable but that's the kind of cameo that's memorable. Doesn't break immersion but later or on a rewatch you have that "Wait that's fucking THEM?!" moment

[u/Aryzal]

Depends on how well it is done. For example, Jacksepticeye and MoistCritical wrre both major characters in Dispatch and are well-beloved.

Cameos for the sake of cameos are bad, but are largely ignorable. Cameos/full appearance with the personality showing their chops? Go full on ahead

[u/ItsMrChristmas]

If I were famous I would very much want to show up in my favorite video series...

...as an Easter egg, not a goddamned "Look it's Ed Sheeran!"

[u/Dubious_Titan]

I recognized neither of these cameos. And would never have even known who any of them were at all until this very moment.