History Main / ContinuityCameo

* The 90’s ''{{X-Men}}'' cartoon was full of these ranging from well known comic characters displayed prominently like morph changing into {{Deadpool}} to fight Wolverine or War Machine and Nick Fury watching a broadcast together on the hellacarrier. Others are more obscure like Beast wearing a Howard the Duck T-shirt or Domino appearing on a TV in the background [[http://drg4.wariocompany.com/xquick.html you can find an incomplete list of theme here]]

** The [[ToyStory Pizza Planet]] delivery truck appears in all of their films to date except ''TheIncredibles''.

* In {{Pokemon}} Diamond and Pearl versions, the Japanese games have continuity cameos for the anime characters Butler and Diane of the sixth movie and Hitomi (Rebecca) of the seventh movie. However the game's translation team missed this, instead [[DubInducedPlotHole calling them Felix, Dana and Jamie]] respectively.

** Ken's home stage in ''Alpha 2'' is basically made of this trope, which features cameos by Morrigan, Hsien-Ko, Mei-Ling and Lord Raptor from ''{{Darkstalkers}}'', Biff Slamkovich and Jumbo Flapjack from ''Saturday Night Slam Masters'', Captain Commando and Ginzu the Ninja from ''Captain Commando'', the two Unknown Soldiers from ''Forgotten Worlds'', Pure the Magician from the ''Capcom World 2'' quiz game, Strider Hiryu from ''{{Strider}}'', Linn Kurosawa from the ''[[AliensVersusPredator Aliens vs. Predator]]'' arcade game and Capcom's CEO Kenzo Tsujimoto as a butler, all as guests attending Eliza's birthday party.

* The 90’s {{X-Men}} cartoon was full of these ranging from well known comic characters displayed prominently like morph changing into {{Deadpool}} to fight Wolverine or War Machine and Nick Fury watching a broadcast together on the hellacarrier. Others are more obscure like Beast wearing a Howard the Duck T-shirt or Domino appearing on a TV in the background [[http://drg4.wariocompany.com/xquick.html you can find an incomplete list of theme here]]

* The deleted opening of ''TheIncredibleHulk'' has a {{cameo}} appearance by CaptainAmerica. Blink and you'll miss it. Pause it ''just right'', and you might just make him out; but he is there, under the ice.

* The ''Film/{{Spider-Man}}'' films use Dr. Connors a.k.a. the Lizard as a minor character. So far, he's not yet become a villain, and may never do so.
** Which is a shame as the actor who played Doc Connors has said he'd really like to take on that role.

*** This troper noted with interest that, while all of the other mutant files are contained within a single folder, [[FantasticFour Franklin]] [[RealityWarper Richards]] has a folder all his own.

** Is he? This troper thought he looked a lot like [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 Dr. Forrester]]...
* {{Pixar}} loves this trope. A few examples:
** When Sully and Boo return to her room at the end of ''MonstersInc'', she has a toy [[ToyStory2 Jessie]] and [[FindingNemo Nemo]] (even though his movie [[EarlyBirdCameo hadn't been released yet]]).
*** The mobile home that Mike and Sully send Randall to appeared in ''ABugsLife''.
** [[{{Up}} Dug's]] shadow appears in ''{{Ratatouille}}''.

** The [[ToyStory Pizza Planet]] delivery truck appears in almost every one of their movies.
*** There hasn't been a confirmed sighting of the truck in ''TheIncredibles''.
*** Lee Unkrich was asked about this on his Formspring (it's like Twitter, but in a Q/A format), and he confirmed that ''TheIncredibles'' is the only Pixar film in which the Pizza Planet truck does not appear.

* ''FireEmblem: The Sword of Flame'' (the first game in the series released internationally), being a direct prequel to the previous game (the Japan-only ''Fire Emblem: The Sword of Seal''), features several cameos from that game, most notably Prince Zephiel, who [[spoiler:grows up to be [[BigBad antagonist]] of ''The Sword of Seal''.]]

* In an episode of the American ''Series/StreetFighter'' animated series titled "The Medium is the Message", the new characters from the first ''StreetFighterAlpha'' (which was being released for home consoles at the time the episode aired) appear as fodder in an underground tournament against the recurring ''StreetFighterII'' characters who were the main focus of the series. The group included Adon and a [[YouDontLookLikeYou weird-looking rendition]] of Dan, both characters who were never given a speaking role in the series. Since the series already established Charlie and Blanka [[CompositeCharacter to be the same character]] (a plot element borrowed from [[Film/StreetFighter the movie]]), the same episode featured a flashback of Blanka before he was turned into a beast. The human Blanka wore the same outfit that the Charlie from the games wore, but with a Blanka-like color scheme (green vest and brown pants).

* In the American ''Series/StreetFighter'' animated series, the new characters from the first ''StreetFighterAlpha'' (which was being released for home consoles at the time the season aired) can be seen in the Season 1 episode "The Medium is the Message" fighting against the recurring ''StreetFighterII'' cast of the show, including Adon and an unusual rendition of Dan. The same episode also featured cameos by the cast of ''FinalFight'' as spectators (including Carlos and Maki from ''2''), as well as a flashback of a still-human [[CompositeCharacter Carlos Blanka]], wearing the same clothes wore by Charlie in the ''Alpha'' series, but with Blanka's color scheme (green vest and brown pants).

** John Jameson, a.k.a "Man-Wolf" is seen in Spider-Man 3.

A ContinuityCameo sticks a character from another continuity (usually the manga, comic, original game, novel, etc.) in as a wink to the fans. This can be symptomatic of AdaptationDecay, so sometimes this is done as an apology to the fans for leaving their favorite character out. Most of the time you either have to know it's there or know what to look for, as they sometimes go by so fast that you'll literally miss them if you blink.

* In three of the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime [[TheMovie movies]], Brendan (the male playable character from Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald) briefly shows up during the opening narration sequences, though never in-focus. Several other characters from the games make similar cameos in the other movies and [=OVA=]s .
** Outside of the movies, [[strike:Red (not Ash)]] [[Manga/PocketMonsters Isamu Akai]] (the ''other'' character based on Red, who is ''nicknamed'' Red), his obnoxious talking "Blockhead Clefairy", and Pikachu, stars of the ''Pocket Monsters'' gag manga makes a cameo in a movie the main cast goes out of their way to get to be shown to an out-of-the-way village (oddly enough, the manga then had a chapter about Clefairy making his first appearance in the anime).

* John Jameson, a.k.a "Man-Wolf" is seen in Spider-Man 3.

* In ''StarTrekFirstContact'', the USS ''Bozeman'', the other ship in the GroundhogDayLoop episode "Cause and Effect", a time displaced ship that was [[NoEnding never given any actual closure]], is a part of the Earth defense fleet. Kelsey Grammer, who played the ''Bozeman'''s captain in that episode, also has a spit-second voice over cameo in amongst the Starfleet radio chatter.

* Beri Shirayuki makes an appearance in the last volume of the original ''TokyoMewMew''. General consensus is that [[GodModeSue it should have been her only appearance]].

** Outside of the movies, [[strike:Red (not Ash)]] [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Isamu_Akai Isamu Akai]] (the ''other'' character based on Red, who is ''nicknamed'' Red), his obnoxious talking "Blockhead Clefairy", and Pikachu, stars of the ''Pocket Monsters'' gag manga makes a cameo in a movie the main cast goes out of their way to get to be shown to an out-of-the-way village (oddly enough, the manga then had a chapter about Clefairy making his first appearance in the anime).

* Kareha's sister Tsubomi in ''{{Shuffle}}'' (pictured) shows up in the last episode. As an added joke, she's reading Asa's character novel.

* In ''ShinGetterRoboVsNeoGetterRobo'', Michiru Saotome, Genki Saotome and Benkei Kuruma all show up in the credits of the final episode (the Saotomes were absent throughout the series and Benkei never showed up due to ''GetterRoboG'' getting averted)
* Probably the biggest one is in ''GGundam'', where virtually every major Mobile Suit of the Universal Century, as well as a number of non-Gundam mecha such as LGaim and Zambot3, show up to battle the Devil Gundam at the very end. Also important as there was the first appearance of a certain [[GundamWing transforming, Buster Rifle-using Gundam]].

* Akuma makes a "blink and you miss it" cameo appearance in ''[[StreetFighter Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie]]'', where he can be seen during the Calcutta scene before the Dhalsim and Honda fight.

* ''MetalGear: Ghost Babel'' is only canon to the original ''MetalGear'' and contains at least one main character based on a rejected concept for a main character in ''MetalGearSolid'', but Roy Campbell and Mei Ling both appear, and a reference is made to Raiden from ''MetalGearSolid 2'' ([[EarlyBirdCameo which hadn't been released at that time]]).

* In ShinGetterRoboVsNeoGetterRobo, Michiru Saotome, Genki Saotome and Benkei Kuruma all show up in the credits of the final episode (the Saotomes were absent throughout the series and Benkei never showed up due to GetterRoboG getting averted)
* Probably the biggest one is in GGundam, where virtually every major Mobile Suit of the Universal Century, as well as a number of non-Gundam mecha such as LGaim and Zambot3, show up to battle the Devil Gundam at the very end. Also important as there was the first appearance of a certain [[GundamWing transforming, Buster Rifle-using Gundam]]

* In ''Tony Hawk's Proving Ground'', Eric Sparrow, the primary villain of the ''Tony Hawk's Underground'' sub-series reappears (though just as "Eric") in the Pro story path as an antagonist.

* The third ''Silverwing'' book, ''Firewing'', features small appearances by both Goth's former toady Throbb and by the former Silverwing colony elder Frieda, both of whom are dead at that point.