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{{trope}}
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This is mostly a [[Japanese Media Tropes|Japanese Media Trope]], though Western media (especially comic books) do this as well given their vast and overlapping continuities. This can have originally have been a [[Chekhov's Gunman]] that wasn't able to be followed through due to cancellation of the series or the result of an [[Aborted Arc]].
Compare with the [[Early-Bird Cameo]], where a character who appears late in the original appears earlier in a cameo in the adaptation, and [[Remake Cameo]], where people involved with an original work make a cameo in its remake. Contrast [[Ascended Extra]]. See also [[Last-Episode New Character]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* [[Digimon Adventure: Anode Cathode Tamer
▲* [[Digimon Adventure Anode Cathode Tamer (Video Game)|Ryo Akiyama]]'s appearances in the second ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' film and ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'' fall under this, although he becomes a full-fledged [[Canon Immigrant]] in ''[[Digimon Tamers|Tamers]]''. Particularly confusing to Western audiences, as the video games in which he stars were never released here.
** Ryo is clearly an example of "don't think about it too much or you'll get a headache," 'cause he and his Digimon work under slightly different rules than the other Tamers, what with being from a completely different universe and all...
** Another example would be the Autumn Leaf Fair in ''Frontier''; the background characters are all Digimon that appeared in the first three series.
* In the ''[[
** In the TV series, Ayu, Nayuki and Makoto from ''[[
* Kareha's sister Tsubomi in ''[[
* Arika shows up very briefly at the very end of both the ''[[
* In the ''[[Fate/stay
* It won't be until (or really, when) a third season comes out that we'll know if Kirakisho's appearance at the very end of the second season of ''[[Rozen Maiden]]'' was one of these or a [[Chekhov's Gunman]].
* ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'' did this in reverse: When the anime came out and added Kura-chan, a new mascot character, the mangaka decided to put him in one panel as a nod.
* The ''[[
* Beri Shirayuki makes an appearance in the last volume of the original ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]''.
* [[CLAMP]] loves to do this with their works using [[The Multiverse]], but a few with the same characters also occur:
** In ''[[
** Fujimoto from ''[[Kobato.]]'' is also seen working at the ''Legal Drug'' store promoting cough medicine.
** Though they aren't actually seen, Yuuko also mentions Subaru and Hokuto, characters from ''[[Tokyo Babylon]]'' and ''[[X 1999]]'' and says that she's known them since they were children.
** And in ''[[X 1999]]'', older versions of Nokoru, Suoh and Akira, the three lead characters from ''CLAMP School Detectives'', now run the CLAMP Campus.
* Oddly enough, [[Rebuild of Evangelion]] has a
* Inverted by ''[[Love Hina]]'', Naru's sister was originally made for the anime adaptation, but Ken Akamatsu loved the character so much that he included her in the ''[[Love Hina]]'' manga in the final chapter.
** ...and then used her ''again'' in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', making many fans wonder if they're not both the same girl and if the two series have a shared continuity.
** ''Negima'' has a number of cameos from ''[[Love Hina]]''. Motoko seems to appear in one of Setsuna's flashbacks, and [[Word of God]] confirmed that the inn the group stayed at during one of the [[Beach Episode
*** In chapter 256 Motoko's family is [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/c256/10.html mentioned by name], and one the techniques Motoko used in ''[[Love Hina]]'' seems to be somewhat plot-relevant in ''Negima''.
**** {{spoiler|I vaguely remember Tsukuyomi from Negima using the [[Evil Weapon|Hina Blade]] from Love Hina in one of the more recent chapters.}}
* Ogiue appeared at the very end of the credits of the last episode of the first season of ''Genshiken''
* Ittou Asanuma, a minor (but still important enough to know the Senshi's secret identities) recurring character from the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' manga appears briefly in one episode of ''Sailor Moon Sailor Stars'' where he calls on Mamoru when he misses a get together of the members of a PC Network. When Mamoru doesn't appear to be home he leaves. We only know it's him because of the credits.
* [[Fullmetal Alchemist (
** And late in ''Brotherhood'', there's a shot of an elderly
* ''[[Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro]]'' had cameo shots of Ai and [[Token
* In three of the ''[[Pokémon (
** Outside of the movies, <s>Red (not Ash)</s> [[Pocket Monsters (
* In ''[[Code Geass]]'', the Lancelot powersuit from [[Alternate Continuity]] manga ''Suzaku of the Counterattack'' makes a brief appearance in one episode. Additionally, the [[Visual Novel]] spinoff ''Lost Colors'' has references to the Nintendo DS game and ''Nightmare of Nunnally'', another of the manga. Not only that, Rai, the protagonist of ''Lost Colors'', eventually makes a cameo in an episode of the second season.
* Kaitou Kid starts making several appearances in ''[[Detective Conan]]'' after Gosho's work on the earlier ''Magic Kaito'' series was halted. They're arguably in the exact same world, although ''Magic Kaitou'' contained more supernatural situations.
* Frederica Bernkastel from ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
** Becomes pretty significant, considering the possible relationship between {{spoiler|Miyoko Tanashi and Lambdadelta, as well as Bernkastel becoming a [[Fallen Hero]]}}.
* [[Dragon Ball
* Akuma makes a "blink and you miss it" cameo appearance in ''[[
** In the ''Street Fighter II V'' television series, Akuma can also be seen during various crowd scenes thorought the series.
** A much less prominent example, the second version of the ''Street Fighter II V'' opening intro has Balrog wearing his boxing gear from the game (which he never does in the actual show), as well as a brief glimpses of T. Hawk getting hurricane kicked to the face by Ken. Apparently T. Hawk was supposed to be on the show alongside Dee-Jay, Blanka and E. Honda, but the anime was canceled before they could get to their episodes.
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* Probably the biggest one is in ''[[G Gundam]]'', where virtually every major Mobile Suit of the Universal Century, as well as a number of non-Gundam mecha such as L Gaim and Zambot3, show up to battle the Devil Gundam at the very end. Also important as there was the first appearance of a certain [[Gundam Wing|transforming, Buster Rifle-using Gundam]].
* In the ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' movie ''Legend of Kenshiro'', the fifth installment of the ''Legends of the True Savior'' series, Ryuga and Juza are among the spirits of fallen warriors who are attending Kenshiro and Yuria's wedding. They were the only characters in that scene up to that point who were absent from the movies (although Ryuga technically did appear as a child in ''Legend of Yuria'', as well as spirit in ''Legend of Raoh: Chapter of Fierce Fight'').
* Issac and Maria from ''[[Baccano
* In the anime version of the Loguetown arc in ''[[
* Disregarding [[Canon Immigrant|Plue]], various ''[[
== Comic
* The ''[[Mega Man (
▲* The ''[[Mega Man (Comic Book)|Mega Man]]'' comic had a camero of Neige from ''[[Mega Man Zero (Video Game)|Mega Man Zero]]'' in the first issue, which took place during the first game in the [[Mega Man (Video Game)|Classic series]].
== Film ==
* Johnny Fontane and (especially) Lucy Mancini in ''[[
* The ''[[X-Men (
** Even more subtle than a brief cameo, in the second movie the real names of several mutants, including Gambit, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, were briefly seen on a computer screen as being some of the prisoners in a mutant prison. Only two, Gambit and Banshee, wound up appearing later (or rather, [[Prequel|earlier]]) in ''[[X Men Origins: Wolverine
▲* Johnny Fontane and (especially) Lucy Mancini in ''[[The Godfather (Film)|The Godfather]]''. In the novel they both get big storylines nearly the equal of the main storyline with Michael. In the film Johnny has a very small part and Lucy, basically one short scene confirming her as Sonny's mistress.
▲* The ''[[X-Men (Film)|X-Men]]'' movies feature these in spades with minor characters (some of whom are only identified in the credits), with Beast making a hairless appearance in ''[[X 2 X Men United (Film)|X 2 X Men United]]'' and three of the Stepford Cuckoos appearing in the background during the third movie.
▲** Even more subtle than a brief cameo, in the second movie the real names of several mutants, including Gambit, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, were briefly seen on a computer screen as being some of the prisoners in a mutant prison. Only two, Gambit and Banshee, wound up appearing later (or rather, [[Prequel|earlier]]) in ''[[X Men Origins Wolverine (Film)|X Men Origins Wolverine]]'' and ''[[X Men First Class (Film)|X Men First Class]]''.
** ''First Class'' has Mystique trying to seduce Magneto. He tells her, "Maybe in a few years". She then shapeshifts to Rebecca Romijn, who plays her in the X-Men trilogy.
* The ''[[Spider-Man (
** John Jameson, a.k.a "Man-Wolf" is seen in Spider-Man 2.
* There are lots of tiny ones in the ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
* In ''[[Batman and Robin (
* [[Pixar]] loves this trope. Outside of their love of [[Early-Bird Cameo]] entries, there's a few other instances of these:
** When Sully and Boo return to her room at the end of ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'', she has a toy [[Toy Story 2|Jessie]].
** The mobile home that Mike and Sully send Randall to appeared in ''[[A Bug's Life
** At the end of ''[[Cars]]'' the characters watch scenes from several older Pixar movies (with the characters replaced with cars of course).
** The [[Toy Story (franchise)||Pizza Planet]] delivery truck appears in all of their films to date except ''[[The Incredibles]]''. According to [[Pixar Regulars|Pixar regular Lee Unkrich]], there is actually no Pizza Planet in ''The Incredibles''.
** In [[Finding Nemo|the dentist's waiting room]], you can see a Buzz Lightyear toy.
* In ''[[Star Trek: First Contact]]'', the USS ''Bozeman'', the other ship in the [[Groundhog Day Loop]] episode "Cause and Effect", a time displaced ship that was [[No Ending|never given any actual closure]], is a part of the Earth defense fleet.
** If memory serves, the ''Bozeman'' was mentioned in
*** Bozeman, Montana is of course Brannon Braga's hometown, so it's a running gag on that level too.
* ''[[Troy]]'' features one that only Latin nerds are going to pick up on, in a nod to the Roman lovechild of the ''[[
* The deleted opening of ''[[The Incredible Hulk (
** 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.
* ''[[Land of the Dead]]'' has Blade from Dawn reappearing when the zombies break in.
** Also it retroactively includes the main character from ''[[Survival of the Dead]]'' as one of the military guys at the check point.
* The third ''[[Silverwing (
* In the opening of Disney's ''[[Mary Poppins]]'', Bert sings to Miss Lark with her dog Andrew, Mrs. Corry with her tall daughters, and Miss Persimmon. These are all supporting characters from the ''Poppins'' books who were otherwise completely eliminated from the movie version.
* The ''[[Harry Potter (
== Multi ==▼
* In the final episode of ''[[To Heart]]: Remember My Memories'', Sango Himeyuri from ''[[To Heart 2]]'' makes a cameo by submitting what is presumably {{spoiler|HMX-17 Ilfa's operating system}} to Nagase in person. Her sister Ruri Himeyuri calls her in the background, saying that they're gonna be late for a movie.▼
** What makes this awesome is that said episode [[Early-Bird Cameo|aired]] '''[[Early-Bird Cameo|three days]]''' [[Early-Bird Cameo|before]] the entire ''To Heart 2'' franchise began with the release of the [[PS 2]] game. [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|Awesome]].▼
** Additionally, Konomi Yuzuhara, also from ''To Heart 2'', makes a cameo in the sixth [[Omake]] of ''Remember My Memories'' as Akari's opponent. The match results were never revealed though.▼
** The ''To Heart 2'' [[Gaiden Game]] ''Another Days'' returned the favor by sneaking Multi and Serio [http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/1561/burgerstand1bs6.jpg in a background] (look on the left); apparently, by that time in the ''To Heart'' universe, their obsolescence reduced them to working at fast food restaurants.▼
== Toys ==
* [[LEGO]] loves doing this. Just check out their animations and [[Lego Adaptation Game|video games]], and you will notice how frequently their [[Star Wars]] and [[Indiana Jones]] universes tend to collide. When talking strictly about the sets, fans are generelly delighted to see older pieces reappear in other lines (usually in new colors or with new uses).
== Video Games ==
* ''[[
** Later on, they play it straight in the [[One Game for
▲* ''[[Mega Man Battle Network (Video Game)|Mega Man Battle Network]]'' sort of is this. Turns out, this series is pretty much the others as an RPG. All of the characters return.
** Also, scattered about the ''Battle Network'' series are references to the actual ''[[Mega Man X
▲** Later on, they play it straight in the [[One Game for The Price of Two]] ''Battle Network 5: Team Colonel and Team Protoman''. When the team leaders are brainwashed by the big bad, the leader of the other team shows up to save them. If Colonel is brainwashed, Protoman comes to save him, and vice versa. When asked if they would join the cause, they say they have more important things to attend to.
▲** Also, scattered about the ''Battle Network'' series are references to the actual ''[[Mega Man X (Video Game)|X]]'' and ''[[Megaman Legends|Legends]]'' series, not just the [[Alternate Continuity]] versions that show up as Net Navis. Servbot dolls, references to the Tron Bonne show, and badass posters of Vile and Zero at Hisgsby's shop are a few examples of this.
** What's more, Shaun/Sean, who was a fairly important character in the games but was committed from the Anime, is briefly seen in a crowd scene in the anime's movie.
* In the [[
* The ''[[Tales
* ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' started a tradition in ''[[
* In ''Tony Hawk's Proving Ground'', [[Smug Snake|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.
* ''[[Fire Emblem]]: 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 grows up to be [[Big Bad|antagonist]] of ''The Sword of Seal''. In fact, the game appears to end on a cliffhanger to players unaware that the scene depicting this was merely filling in the time gap between the two games.
** ''Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon'', the DS remake of ''The Dark Dragon and the Sword of Light'', features several cameos from the original game's sequel, ''Mystery of the Emblem''.
* ''[[
* In ''[[
** In ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver|Heartgold and Soulsilver]], you can find Crasher Wake, one of the ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl]]'' gym leaders, in the Celadon City department store.
* The Mad Gear gang from ''[[Final Fight]]'' makes an appearance in Sodom's ending in the first ''[[
** Ken's home stage in ''Alpha 2'' is basically made of this trope, which features cameos by Morrigan, Felicia, Hsien-Ko, Mei-Ling and Lord Raptor from ''[[
** A billboard promoting a wrestling match between Hugo (from ''2nd Impact'') and an unknown challenger can be seen on Cody's home stage in ''Alpha 3''.
** Balrog and Vega both appear in Sagat's endings in the first two ''Alpha'' games before they became playable characters in ''Alpha 3''.
* ''[[
* The ''[[Breath of Fire]]'' series is rife with cameos from previous installments, usually from the former main party. In some cases, the translator misses them and changes their names, obscuring the connection.
* In the intro to ''[[STALKER]]: Shadow of Chernobyl'', the unnamed character who "saves" (they are essentially selling them into indentured servitude) the player character in the introduction matches the description (notably, he is the only character with red hair in the entire game) of the character Redrick from ''[[
* ''[[Solatorobo]]'' features random cameos of Waffle Ryebread, Princess Terria, Cyan, and the Black Cats Gang from ''[[Tail Concerto]]'', which it is a [[Spiritual Successor]] to. Mamoru and his father from ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130523093622/http://www.anzen-fukuoka.jp/child/mamoru/index.html Mamoru-kun]'' also make appearances.
== Western Animation ==
* The 90’s ''[[X-Men (
▲* The 90’s ''[[X-Men (Animation)|X-Men]]'' cartoon was full of these ranging from well known comic characters displayed prominently, such as Morph (a character created for the series) 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]
** Probable the best episode for cameos was One Man’s Worth where the above image was taken from, it was the inspiration for and put together alongside the [[Age of Apocalypse]] and featured a world where mutants lead by Magneto were in an all out war against humans apparently lead by the avengers. It had several cameos along with the ones showed above it you can see Green Iron Man, AOA Blink, Mimic, AOA Sabretooth & Wildchild, AOA Angel, AOA Colossus, AOA Sunfire, Morph, Nightcrawler, Mr. Sinister, Holocaust (aka Dark Nemesis), one-armed Gambit, Frenzy, Captain America, Wasp, Thor, Rogue, an unknown mutant (red-masked, blue-haired, force-field-projector guy), AOA Morph, Nurse Jean Grey, Blob, Caliban, Callisto, Masque, Pyro, Mastermind, AOA Banshee, Lorna Dane, Sunder, and Giant Man.
* In the first ''[[Justice League]]'' season finale "The Savage Time," young versions of Dick Grayson and Barbara Gordon (making out), as well as Tim Drake and Cassandra Cain showed up in uncredited cameos in Batman's [[La Résistance]] in [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong|a dystopian timeline]].
** In fact, the [[DCAU]] had ''tons'' of these throughout its run, probably far too many to list here. Like puppy-[[Gratuitous Animal Sidekick|Krypto]] in [[Superman:
** Another good one was during the [[Green Lantern]] episode of [[Superman:
** Hal's actual appearance is also of this variety, replacing John Stewart for a couple minutes due to time travel-related ripple effects. He's up to speed as to what's going on, picks up where John left off, and John shows right back up.
* The second season finale of ''[[WITCH (
* The [[Five Episode Pilot|Three Episode Premiere]] of ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' has Spike, Carly, and
** Then you see Sparkplug, Spike's dad, working on a construction site with the trademark hardhat on two separate occasions.
** One [[Whole-Episode Flashback]] showed Sentinel talking to red bot that looks a lot like (and [[Word of God|Derrick Wyatt has confirm is suppose to be]]) Cliffjumper. They have stated that he was originally that one that {{spoiler|Shockwave would frame for being a spy}}, but [[Executive Meddling]] ruled against it. He actually reappears later as a [[Recurring Character]] in season three, and even speaks!
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** 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 says 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 ''[[Transformers Super God Masterforce]]'' sitting at a table 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. [[Beast Wars
* The ''[[Batman:
** King Tut actually shows up in a later [[Batman Cold Open]] so it changed him from this to the [[Canon Foreigner]]
* ''[[Legion of Super
** [[Booster Gold]] and Skeets are cleaning the Superman Museum.
** A dead ringer for Lobo gets his hoverbike stolen.
** A whole mob of [[Superman]]'s Phantom Zone villains shows up, but they don't say a word or even do anything but be mysterious and threatening.
** Legionnaires that never get a speaking role still appear on viewscreens during member induction ceremonies or in the gigantic [[Season Finale]] battles.
* Several characters from ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]: the Series'' could be seen as guests at Aladdin and Jasmine's wedding in ''Aladdin and the King of Thieves''.
* Ankama does this to the point of notoriety in ''[[
* [[Duck Dodgers]] did a crossover with the characters of [[Green Lantern]] 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.
* In the American ''[[Street Fighter (
** In the same episode, the cast of ''[[Final Fight]]'' can be seen among the crowd, including Carlos and Maki from the SNES sequel. ''[[Final Fight]]'' would get its own episode in Season 2.
** In "Keeping the Peace", Guile's opponent in the first scene is Bred, also from ''[[Final Fight]]''.
* ''[[Mickey, Donald, Goofy:
* The design for the businessmen from ''[[
* In ''[[The Problem Solverz]]'', the dog from the original ''Problem Solvers'' [[YouTube]] videos makes background appearances in some episodes.
* In ''[[
** Fans will immediately recognize Lynx-O as the tower sentry who alerts Thundera to the [[Lizard Folk]] invasion force.
** In "Legacy," ''[[Silverhawks
** One of the background figures in the town during "The Duelist and the Drifter" wears a samurai helmet, as a nod to the original series' Hachiman. Whether it ''is'' Hachiman is a coin toss.
* In ''[[Teen Titans (
▲* In the final episode of ''[[To Heart]]: Remember My Memories'', Sango Himeyuri from ''[[To Heart 2]]'' makes a cameo by submitting what is presumably {{spoiler|HMX-17 Ilfa's operating system}} to Nagase in person. Her sister Ruri Himeyuri calls her in the background, saying that they're gonna be late for a movie.
▲** What makes this awesome is that said episode [[Early-Bird Cameo|aired]] '''[[Early-Bird Cameo|three days]]''' [[Early-Bird Cameo|before]] the entire ''To Heart 2'' franchise began with the release of the [[
▲** Additionally, Konomi Yuzuhara, also from ''To Heart 2'', makes a cameo in the sixth [[Omake]] of ''Remember My Memories'' as Akari's opponent. The match results were never revealed though.
▲** The ''To Heart 2'' [[Gaiden Game]] ''Another Days'' returned the favor by sneaking Multi and Serio [http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/1561/burgerstand1bs6.jpg in a background] (look on the left); apparently, by that time in the ''To Heart'' universe, their obsolescence reduced them to working at fast food restaurants.
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