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{{trope}}
{{quote|'''Lisa:''' Wait a minute, [[Xena: Warrior Princess|Xena]] can't ''fly!''
'''[[Lucy Lawless]]:''' [[I Am Not Spock|I told you, I'm not Xena!]] [[Voodoo Shark|I'm Lucy Lawless.]]|''[[The Simpsons]]'', "[[Halloween Special|Treehouse of Horror X]]"}}
The characters of a work are in some kind of a crisis, and simply need help. Thankfully, they bump into a friendly celebrity. No, the work is not [[Like Reality Unless Noted]] - they could very well be [[
Similar to, but distinct from [[Memetic Badass]] and [[Popularity Power]]. In both of those cases, it's a fictional character who most often gets the treatment; in [[Celebrity Power]], it's a real-life celebrity, and it doesn't need to be a meme to qualify. Any celebrity who has super-powers just because they're a celebrity counts.
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== [[Film]] (Animated) ==
* As suggested within the description, [[David Hasselhoff]] is shown this way in ''[[
* Brian Boitano as represented by "What Would Brian Boitano Do?", in the ''[[South Park]] '' movie. Apparently in possession of [[Breath Weapon|fire breath]], and a [[Time Machine]], among other strange powers.
** The ''[[South Park]]'' boys also had contact with [[Barbra Streisand]], who transformed into... [[Humongous Mecha|Mecha Streisand]]. She was opposed by Leonard Maltin, [[Sidney Poitier]], and [[The Cure|Robert Smith]], all of whom transformed into one kind of [[Kaiju]] or another.
*** In the movie, Barbra Streisand was a swear word profane enough to trigger the V-Chip.
* [[The Beatles (
* In ''[[Rango]]'', The Spirit of the West (
== [[Film]] (Live Action) ==
* In ''[[Little Nicky]]'', Nicky pulls a [[Deus Ex Machina]] by summoning the ultimate force of darkness to take down Adrian: {{spoiler|[[
* At the end of ''[[Half Baked]]'', [[Deus Ex Machina|the day is saved]] when one of the characters opens the "[[The Grateful Dead|Jerry Garcia]][[Exactly What It Says
== [[Puppet Shows]] ==
* On an episode of ''[[Muppets Tonight]]'', Cindy Crawford was shown to have heat vision, because she's a ''super''model.
** And then there was Christopher Reeve back on the original ''[[The Muppet Show|Muppet Show]]'', as demonstrated after a backhanded comment about Ms. Piggy.
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'''Kermit''': Wow! He really is the [[Superman|Man of Steel]]. }}
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* One of Shelley's [https://web.archive.org/web/20090330023617/http://scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20090217 plans to rescue Des from his hosts] on a [[Council Estate]] in ''[[Scary Go Round]]'' is "Enlist Bjork!" (With a picture showing Shelley giving the Icelandic musician a pistol.) It makes as much sense as [[Cloudcuckoolander|her other ideas]], but, (un)fortunately, she doesn't know [[Bjork]].
* In ''[[
* ''[[Megatokyo]]'''s Ed is obsessed with Erika and Kimiko because high caliber idols have the power to shape nations. Which... isn't actually THAT much of a stretch. Maybe not NATIONS, but at least subcultures and such.
* ''[[Fake News Rumble]]'' runs on this.
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* [[Metalocalypse]] is one tremendous deconstruction. It's overarching theme is how fans worshiping celebrities hurt themselves and society.
* In a ''[[Treehouse of Horror]]'' episode, the following exchange occurs after (super-powered) Bart and Lisa rescue a certain actress from "The Collector":
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'''[[Lucy Lawless]]''': "I told you, I'm not Xena. I'm Lucy Lawless!" }}
* An episode of ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'' features the unlikely team of Don Knotts, [["Weird Al" Yankovic]], and [[Dynomutt Dog Wonder|the Blue Falcon]]. Al gets to invoke the trope at the end.
* The final episode of ''[[
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