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== [[Film]] ==
* {{spoiler|Bill Murray}} in ''[[Zombieland]]''.
* Former pro basketball player Luther West in ''[[Resident Evil: Afterlife]]''. A faded billboard featuring him shilling fancy watches can be seen from his fortress. There's also Bennett and Crystal, who were, respectively, a movie producer and a struggling actress before [[Zombie Apocalypse|the T-virus outbreak]].
* ''[[Good Bye, Lenin!|Goodbye Lenin]]'' has a very bittersweet example involving the fall of communism. In one scene, the protagonist gets a ride from a taxi driver who, as the first German cosmonaut, was his childhood hero.
* ''[[The Player]]'' has this as the plot of a proposed [[Show Within a Show|Film Within A Film]]. Producer Griffin Mill hears a movie pitch from two writers with a story about a TV actress who is found and worshipped by an African tribe; the story is described in a nutshell as both "''[[The Gods Must Be Crazy]]'', but the Coke bottle is replaced with a TV actress" and "''[[Out of Africa]]'' [[X Meets Y|meets]] ''[[Pretty Woman]]''." The drama would boil down to the actress having to choose between staying on the TV show or with the African tribe.
* The [[Kevin Costner]] film ''The Postman'' ([[Inspired By]] the [[David Brin]] novel) had [[Tom Petty]] playing himself as the mayor of Bridge City.
* ''[[The Poseidon Adventure|Poseidon]]'' (the 2006 remake of ''[[The Poseidon Adventure]]'') gives us former [[New York City]] Mayor [[Kurt Russell|Robert Ramsey]] as the leader of the survivors, and the ship's star singer Gloria as a disposable early victim.
* In the ''[[Dawn of the Dead (2004 film)|Dawn of the Dead]]'' remake, the survivors play a game in which they look for people in the crowd of zombies outside that resemble pre-apocalypse celebrities (such as Jay Leno).
* ''[[Piranha 3D]]'' has, among its cast of characters, a sleazy producer of ''Girls Gone Wild''-esque videos, as well as a pair of porn stars who are shooting his latest video. [[Red Shirt|None of them make it to the end of the film.]]
** The sequel has [[David Hasselhoff]] as a [[Jerkass]] [[Adam Westing|version of himself]] at the opening of a waterpark. When someone asks him for help during the piranha attack, he remarks that "that's what natural selection's all about".
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* In ''[[Scary Movie]] 4'', rapper Chingy is one of the many people abducted by the aliens. Since this is ''[[Rule of Funny|Scary Movie 4]]'', naturally he gets his own VIP section in the holding area, complete with alcohol and women.
* To a certain extent, Robert Neville from ''[[I Am Legend]]''. He is shown on the cover of TIME magazine in his home.
* The indie film ''Ever Since the World Ended'' is portrayed as a documentary by survivors 12 years after a plague, who go around interviewing and filming various other survivors in San Francisco (the population of the city is reported to be 182). They go to visit a guy named Adam who knows a lot about engineering. They find him outside his house practicing with a bullwhip. That's right, it's [[
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In the catgirl arc of ''[[Something
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* After the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, supermodel Petra Nemcova spent eight hours stuck in a tree.
* Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying the Old Christians Club rugby team from Montevideo, crashed in the Andes in 1972 on their way to Chile. The survivors spent 72 days in the Andean wilderness, and eventually had to resort to [[No Party Like a Donner Party|cannibalism to survive]]. Their experience [[Based on a True Story|was adapted]] into the film ''[[Alive]]!''.
* The ''only'' two survivors of a [[wikipedia:2008 South Carolina Learjet 60 crash|2008 Learjet crash in South Carolina]] were [[Blink
* Fats Domino was rescued by the Coast Guard after being stranded in New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina.
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