History Main / ContinuityCameo

** At the end of ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' the characters watch scenes from several older Pixar movies (with the characters replaced with cars of course).

** [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Lucas,]] [[Videogame/PokemonSnap Todd Snap,]] and [[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Ethan and Silver]] make appearances in these adaptations as well.

* Frederica Bernkastel from ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' appeared at the end of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' Kai. [[spoiler: We also hear her voice at the end of each first season episode; She's the girl in the previews]]. ''Yes'', that wasn't Rika grown up. [[spoiler:But technically, Bernkastel ''is'' Rika, or at least, all of the dead Rikas combined in one entity.]]

* Issac and Miria from ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' make a cameo in TheClimax of ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}''. This could also be considered a ContinuityNod, seeing as the two series are set in the same universe.

* TheStinger for Anime/GravestoneOfDaisukeJigen reveals that [[spoiler:the owner of the club is none other than [[TheMysteryOfMamo Mamo]],]] establishing that the movie is not only a prequel to Anime/LupinIIIPart1, but a StealthPrequel to [[spoiler: the first animated Lupin film.]]

* The female Ritsuka Fujimaru appears in the background of ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder: First Order'' as one of the 48 potential Master candidates. [[spoiler:That also means she's among the 47 who died compared to male Ritsuka, although we don't get to see her body.]]

** In the first ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' season finale "The Savage Time," young versions of Dick Grayson and Barbara Gordon (making out), as well as Tim Drake and [[Comicbook/{{Batgirl 2000}} Cassandra Cain]] showed up in uncredited cameos in Batman's LaResistance in [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong a dystopian timeline]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' the fifth season basically made up of these, especially towards the end with people like Argent, Jericho, and even two instances of ComicBook/WonderGirl making an appearance.

** Ranging from well-known comic characters displayed prominently, such as Morph (himself based on long-unseen comics character Changeling) changing into ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} to fight ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, Comicbook/BlackPanther watching Comicbook/{{Magneto}}'s departure from Earth, the Juggernaut fighting a simulation of Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk in the Danger Room, a robotic duplicate of Comicbook/ThePunisher appearing in one of Mojo's shows, Professor Xavier seeing a glimpse of Comicbook/GhostRider while reading Comicbook/{{Gambit}}'s mind or ComicBook/WarMachine and ComicBook/NickFury watching a broadcast together on the Comicbook/{{SHIELD}} Helicarrier. Others are more obscure, like Beast wearing a ComicBook/HowardTheDuck T-shirt or [[ComicBook/XForce Domino]] appearing on a TV screen in the background of an episode.
** Probably the best episode for cameos was "One Man’s Worth". A BadFuture episode that inspired ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'', it featured cameos from characters such as Comicbook/IronMan, Blink, Mimic, Holocaust, Frenzy, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, ComicBook/TheWasp, Comicbook/BlackWidow, [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]], Comicbook/ScarletSpider, [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]], and [[ComicBook/AntMan Goliath]].
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' is full of these. Various DC heroes like [[ComicBook/KingdomCome Magog]], [[Comicbook/{{Batgirl 2009}} Stephanie Brown]], and ComicBook/BlueDevil make cameo appearances throughout the show, and a few of these (Barbara Gordon, Bumblebee, and Mal Duncan) ended up becoming cases of ChekhovsGunman and [[EarlyBirdCameo Early-Bird Cameos]].

* ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFour'' was also notable for the sheer number of superhero cameos, ranging from Rage and Comicbook/TheAvengers to Comicbook/ScarletSpider and the ComicBook/NewWarriors.

* [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist The 2003 anime version]] of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' includes a cameo shot of Ling Yao, a character from the manga (and later ''Brotherhood''), as a state alchemist participating in the Ishvalan genocide. He also happens to be wearing sunglasses in the same style as Greed's, in reference to [[spoiler:Ling becoming the second Greed.]]
** And late in ''Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood'', there's a shot of an elderly couple -- the female looks exactly like old Dante.

* The '90s ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' cartoon was full of these.

* They appear by the truckload in ''Pinball/TheTwilightZone'', thanks to the license. A full list of references [[http://www.ipdb.org/rulesheets/2684/tz-tie-ins.htm can be found here]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Solatorobo}}'' features random cameos of Waffle Ryebread, Princess Terria, Cyan, and the Black Cats Gang from ''VideoGame/TailConcerto'', which it is a SpiritualSuccessor to. Mamoru and his father from ''[[http://www.anzen-fukuoka.jp/child/mamoru/index.html Mamoru-kun]]'' also make appearances.
* ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' and its update ''Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3'' feature cameos from numerous Marvel and Capcom characters in the in-game endings. ComicBook/NickFury shows up in Crimson Viper's ending as a nod to the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, [[VideoGame/StarGladiator June Lin Milliam]] appears as a member of the new [[WestCoastTeam West Coast Avengers]], ComicBook/LukeCage and [[VideoGame/RivalSchools Batsu Ichimonji]] can be seen as part of the new Heroes For Hire, ComicBook/BlackPanther pops up, ect.

** The [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Pizza Planet]] delivery truck appears in all of their films to date except ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''. According to [[Creator/PixarRegulars Pixar regular Lee Unkrich]], there is actually no Pizza Planet in ''The Incredibles''.

* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyDonaldGoofyTheThreeMusketeers'' opens with the trio being saved by the [[Literature/TheThreeMusketeers original musketeers]], one of whom gives Mickey his NiceHat and autographs it.

What happens when a MythologyGag and a {{Cameo}} decide they [[JustForFun/{{Troperithmetic}} love each other and have a baby.]]

A Continuity Cameo sticks a character from another continuity (usually the manga, comic, original game, novel, etc.) in the work as a wink to the fans. Sometimes this is done as an apology to the fans for [[AdaptedOut leaving their favorite character out]] and as a way of saying that they do exist in that particular universe even if they're not focused on. 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.

This trope is mostly used in JapaneseMedia and Western ComicBooks, with their often vast and overlapping continuities. This can have originally have been a ChekhovsGunman that wasn't able to be followed through due to cancellation of the series or the result of an AbortedArc.

Compare AdaptationalEarlyAppearance (where a character who appears late in the original appears earlier in a cameo in the adaptation), RemakeCameo (where people involved with an original work make a cameo in its remake) and contrast AscendedExtra. See also LastEpisodeNewCharacter and DemotedToExtra. CanonWelding is where the cameo establishes two works as being in the same universe.

** Later disproven when the Captain America movie reveals that Cap was locked in the ice... inside a huge airship, which the Hulk movie doesn't show. This doesn't mean that the Hulk movie wasn't teasing, only that in retrospect we are forced to assume that was some other guy frozen in the ice. Or rather, [[BroadStroke the event is canon but the visual isn't]].

** Later disproven when the Captain America movie reveals that Cap was locked in the ice... inside a huge airship, which the Hulk movie doesn't show. This doesn't mean that the Hulk movie wasn't teasing, only that in retrospect we are forced to assume that was some other guy frozen in the ice.

* The deleted opening of ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' (2008) has a {{cameo}} appearance by ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, teasing at ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''. Blink and you'll miss it. Pause it ''just right'', and you might just make him out; but he is there, under the ice.

* {{WebVideo/RockedReviews}} has been known to include several cameos of other internet reviewers in his ''Regretting The Past'' series. Most of these reviewers also contribute to channel awesome. For example, WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic makes cameos in the RTP on Nickelback's ''All The Right Reasons'' to force him to review the album's third track ''Photograph.''

** For example, the innkeeper in Bree, Barliman Butterbur, appears in the first film but has only a few lines and does not perform the plot-critical function of giving Frodo a letter from Gandalf.

* ''Anime/EigaTamagotchiHimitsuNoOtodokeDaiSakusen'': Several ''VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}}'' characters from the 90's who never got an appearance in the 2000's/2010's anime films and series make cameo appearances at the end of the short.

Compare AdaptationalEarlyAppearance (where a character who appears late in the original appears earlier in a cameo in the adaptation), RemakeCameo (where people involved with an original work make a cameo in its remake) and contrast AscendedExtra. See also LastEpisodeNewCharacter and DemotedToExtra.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood,'' [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Talia]] is present at Jason's resurrection. She briefly looks ready to shoot him when he goes crazy, but beyond that gets no lines or characterization.

* The ''Film/HarryPotter'' movies also have some of these which are only identifiable through the credits. For example, a tall, prim-looking woman with a pointed hat appears in the background of several scenes in the second film. The credits reveal that she is Madam Pince, the Hogwarts librarian in the books.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E4Dragonfire "Dragonfire"]], there's a brief cameo by an Argolin from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E1TheLeisureHive The Leisure Hive]], in the restaurant where Ace worked.

* The '90s ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' cartoon was full of these.
** Ranging from well-known comic characters displayed prominently, such as Morph (himself based on long-unseen comics character Changeling) changing into ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} to fight ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, Comicbook/BlackPanther watching Comicbook/{{Magneto}}'s departure from Earth, the Juggernaut fighting a simulation of Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk in the Danger Room, a robotic duplicate of Comicbook/ThePunisher appearing in one of Mojo's shows, Professor Xavier seeing a glimpse of Comicbook/GhostRider while reading Comicbook/{{Gambit}}'s mind or ComicBook/WarMachine and ComicBook/NickFury watching a broadcast together on the Comicbook/{{SHIELD}} Helicarrier. Others are more obscure, like Beast wearing a ComicBook/HowardTheDuck T-shirt or [[ComicBook/XForce Domino]] appearing on a TV screen in the background of an episode.
** Probably the best episode for cameos was "One Man’s Worth". A BadFuture episode that inspired ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'', it featured cameos from characters such as Comicbook/IronMan, Blink, Mimic, Holocaust, Frenzy, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, ComicBook/TheWasp, Comicbook/BlackWidow, [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]], Comicbook/ScarletSpider, [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]], and [[ComicBook/AntMan Goliath]].
* ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFour'' was also notable for the sheer number of superhero cameos, ranging from Rage and Comicbook/TheAvengers to Comicbook/ScarletSpider and the ComicBook/NewWarriors.

* The second season finale of ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' had a scene where it shows a man in a car named Scylla looking at the "cartoon" [[WeirdnessCensor the finale battle looked like to everyone]], and the last scene was the girls being introduced to him as their new teacher. This was originally supposed to be a ChekhovsGunman as he was a character from the next arc of the comics, but was reduced to this as the animated series wasn't renewed for another season.
* The [[FiveEpisodePilot Three-Episode Premiere]] of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' has Spike, Carly, and Daniel -- that is, the original human protagonist from Generation 1, his love interest, and their son -- as prominent background characters. They all show up again later with speaking roles, albeit the parents separately from Daniel.
** Then you see Sparkplug, Spike's dad, working on a construction site with the trademark hardhat on two separate occasions.
** One WholeEpisodeFlashback showed Sentinel talking to red bot that looks a lot like (and [[WordOfGod Derrick Wyatt has confirm is supposed to be]]) Cliffjumper. They have stated that he was originally that one that [[spoiler:Shockwave would frame for being a spy]], but ExecutiveMeddling ruled against it. He actually reappears later as a RecurringCharacter in season three, and even speaks!
** We also see Mainframe operating a computer in a scene during the season three premiere. Like the Action Master he's based on, he doesn't transform.
** A rather large example are the bust of the [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cyber-Ninja_Corps Cyber-Ninja Corps]] that appear in "Five Servos of Doom", which includes so many that Derrick Wyatt had to say what half of them were on Twitter ([[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Five_Servos_of_Doom#Notes details on this page]]).
** Yet another example: In "Human Error, Part 1" we see Cancer and Hydra from ''Anime/TransformersSuperGodMasterforce'' sitting at a table [[CreatorCameo with series story editor Marty Isenberg.]]
** The ultimate fate of [[spoiler: Blackarachnia and Waspinator?]] Transwarped to a primitive world, where the first things they meet are a gorilla, a cheetah, a rhino, and an oversized rat. [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Hmmm...]]
** It's bigger than all of that: every single Transformer seen in the series (including crowd-scene extras and portraits on the menu at restaurants) is a version of a character from a previous franchise, including production glitches and Brazil-only knockoffs; see the Transformers wiki for details. Heck, the producers have even said that one of the humans' limos was actually a character from ''Go-Bots''.
* The ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' episode "Day of the Dark Knight" begins with a prison break at Iron Heights; among the escapees are numerous [[Series/Batman1966 Adam West Batman]] villains including King Tut, Egghead, the Bookworm and Louie the Lilac among others. In addition, the Clock King's face is revealed in the same episode to be modeled after Walter Slezak, his actor in the 1960's series.
** King Tut actually shows up in a later BatmanColdOpen so it changed him from this to the CanonImmigrant.
** Several episodes feature a bar populated by D-list supervillains. It's almost impossible to name every baddie who makes an appearance there without consulting Wikipedia.
** ComicBook/FlexMentallo and Dorothy Spinner appear on circus posters in "The Last Patrol".

* Several characters from ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'' could be seen as guests at Aladdin and Jasmine's wedding in ''WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves''.
* Ankama does this to the point of notoriety in ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'', an animation taking place in the same universe as the MMORPG of the same name and its predecessor, ''VideoGame/{{Dofus}}''. Many characters and creatures from the ''VideoGame/{{Dofus}}'' game and comics make appearances, be them as background flavour or as full secondary characters.
* WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers did a crossover with the characters of Franchise/GreenLantern once. Several GL characters have significant roles (Sinestro, Hal Jordan, Katma Tui, Ch'p, Killowog), but the initial battle between the Corps and the robots also contains quite a few Blink-And-You'll-Miss-It appearances from characters only readers of the comics would recognize. Examples include Salaak, Boodika, Tomar Re, and Guy Gardner.

* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyDonaldGoofyTheThreeMusketeers'' opens with the trio being saved by the [[Literature/TheThreeMusketeers original musketeers]], one of whom gives Mickey his NiceHat and autographs it.
* The design for the businessmen from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' is very similar to a businessman costume that an adventurer wore in an episode of ''WEsternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack''. Also, the adventurer costume that the businessman wore in the Flapjack episode greatly resembles Billy from Adventure Time if he were human. Considering Creator/PendletonWard storyboarded the Flapjack episode, it makes sense.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheProblemSolverz'', the dog from the original ''Problem Solvers'' Website/YouTube videos makes background appearances in some episodes.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' the fifth season basically made up of these, especially towards the end with people like Argent, Jericho, and even two instances of ComicBook/WonderGirl making an appearance.

* ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman'' featured an appearance by Michael Holt as a hostage and victim of Professor Pyg and Mister Toad. In the comics, he has a much larger role as the superhero Mister Terrific.
** Despite the show not using many famous Batman villains, the Penguin makes a cameo in a wanted poster, as Harvey Dent and the Special Crimes Unit briefly speculate whether he's even human. Penguin is also mentioned in a newspaper headline and in a news ticker.
* Creator/CraigGerber created ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'' and ''WesternAnimation/ElenaOfAvalor'' . Gwen the inventor, a one-shot character from the former, makes a cameo appearance in the episode "Class Act" from the latter.

*** And Tsukuyomi uses the [[spoiler: [[EvilWeapon Hina Blade]] from Love Hina.]]

* The ''ComicBook/MegaMan'' comic had a cameo of Neige from ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' in the first issue, which took place during the first game in the [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Classic series]].

* Kaitou Kid starts making several appearances in ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' after Gosho's work on the earlier ''Manga/MagicKaito'' series was halted. They're arguably in the exact same world, although ''Magic Kaito'' contained more supernatural situations.

* ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' and its update ''Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3'' feature cameos from numerous Marvel and Capcom characters in the in-game endings. ComicBook/NickFury shows up in Crimson Viper's ending as a nod to the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, [[VideoGame/StarGladiator June Lin Milliam]] appears as a member of the new [[WestCoastTeam West Coast Avengers]], [[ComicBook/LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]] and [[VideoGame/RivalSchools Batsu Ichimonji]] can be seen as part of the new Heroes For Hire, ComicBook/BlackPanther pops up, ect.