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* The live-action ''[[Transformers Film Series|Transformers]]'' movie has Megatron casually flicking (a CGI approximation of) Michael Bay, saying "Disgusting."
** There was actually going to be a much longer scene with Megatron personally plucking Michael out of a car for no reason other than to be a bastard and to have Michael in the movie. The cast and crew spent almost an entire day tormenting Michael by doing this scene over and over again. Hilariously, after Michael spent a day hanging on to a car, the scene ended up being cut from the movie due to time constraints.
* Director Martin Campbell appears as the tanker truck driver murdered at Miami airport in ''[[Casino Royale (2006 film)|Casino Royale]]''. He also appeared in ''[[GoldenEye (film)|GoldenEye]]'' as a motorcyclist who gets run over by Xenia Onatopp, and in that same movie Pierce Brosnan's stunt double Wayne Michaels (who performed the bungee jump at the beginning) appears as a helicopter pilot who gets blown away with a machine gun by Xenia Onatopp.
* In ''[[Creepshow]]'', Stephen King (who wrote the screenplay) plays a character named Jordy who turns into a giant fungus. He commits suicide by shooting himself with a shotgun.
* Volker Engel, who was head of the FX unit on ''[[Independence Day]]'', had a three-second cameo as an office worker getting blown away. Bonus points for being killed by your own special effect...
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* Also not a crew member, but every episode's special guest star on ''[[Police Squad!]]'' would only be in one scene, the opening titles. The announcer would voiceover, "And special guest star..." during the title sequence, and the special guest star would then be killed (often in a hilarious, over the top manner).
** For completeness' sake, the list is Episode 1: Lorne Green (stabbed and thrown from moving automobile), Episode 2: Georg Stanford Brown (police officer crushed by safe), Episode 3: Robert Goulet (shot by firing squad), Episode 4: William Shatner (restaurant patron, survives machine gun, attack to die via poisoned glass of wine), Episode 5: Florence Henderson (cooking show host, gunned down by machine gun on the set), Episode 6: William Conrad (stabbed and thrown from moving automobile, bookending the fate of Episode 1's special guest star Lorne Greene).
** ''Police Squad!'' also subverted this trope with the [[Once an Episode]] appearance in the credits of [[Rex Hamilton]] as [[Abraham Lincoln]], who instead of being fatally shot at Ford's Theatre ducks and fires back at his assailant.
* ''[[Burn Notice]]'' did this in the fourth season premiere, with Michael Ironside. He was on the show for all of two minutes before an unmanned drone fills him with bullets. This troper feels the potential for a Sam Fisher/Michael Westen crossover sadly been missed.
* Making a special appearance as the interviewer in the web-only production of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKYFNsnO-tc R. Tam Sessions], Joss Whedon is killed by a crazed River.
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* As always, subverted by ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''. Specifically, ''[[The Simpsons Game]]''. The family fails in their mission to kill and/or subdue Matt Groening.
* ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'''s Ed Boon and John Tobias tend to appear as severed heads in the spike-pit levels. And then several Midway employees have their names written on the tombstones in the Graveyard stage.
* In ''[[Doom (series)|Doom]] II'', the [[Big Bad]] of the game, the Icon of Sin, was actually a giant wall with a shoot-through brain texture. Behind the brain texture was a small passage leading to a chamber containing the skewered head of [[John Romero]], one of the game's programmers and level designers. John Romero's head was the actual boss entity in the game, and the Icon of Sin was killed by firing rockets into the brain, which would travel down the passage and explode above Romero's head. John Romero actually found out about this while testing the final level and recorded a soundbite for the boss that was a backwards-masked recording of him saying, "To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero."
** In the ''[[Doom (series)|Doom]] II'' [[Game Mod|add-on level pack]] ''Requiem'', the 24th level, "Procrustes Chambers," features a [[Space Marine]] crucified on an inverted cross, with a sign reading "ADEL" nailed to the top. The designer of the level, and the artist of that texture, was Anthony Czerwonka, also known as "Adelusion."
*** In the fanmade RPG ''Doom: The Rougelike'', [[John Carmack]] is a secret boss at the end of the game, accessible by nuking the Cyberdemon while invulnerable.
* Buddy Faith, the first corpse in ''[[Ace Attorney Investigations]]'', was modeled in a member of the design department.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Maxwell Atoms shows up in ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* In the [[Christmas Episode]] of ''[[Invader Zim]]'', writer and storyboard artist Ian Graham makes a cameo as a man who is crushed by the debris from Zim and Dib's robot battle.
** As well, [[Jhonen Vasquez]] swallows a piranha in ''The Wettening''. That other guy who is a higher up later gets crushed by a wave buying a hot dog. The more you know!
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* The season finale of ''[[Total Drama Island]]'' had a "new intern" appear (well actually two: one in Canada and one for America) who was the winner of the online game. The intern tested the final stunt, only to fall into the lake and get eaten by the waiting sharks.
* Happens at least three times in the [[Disney Animated Canon]]
** The deer featured in the opening of ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and the Beast]]'' is [[Bambi (Disney film)|Bambi]]'s
** In ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'', one can clearly Pumbaa being roasted in the background of scene.
** In ''Disney/Hercules'', when Hercules is posing for a painter, he is wearing Scar's hide.
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