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* Volume 7 of ''[[Faeries Landing]]'' has a brief one panel cameo of Luffy D. Monkey from ''[[One Piece]]''.

* ''[[Sorcerer Hunters]]'' includes a number of these, exemplified by the chapter "Seaside Days in the Springtime of Youth, one of the series' many [[Beach Episode]]s. In it, a magical potion turns the protagonists into cosplaying cameos from other series such as ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'', and ''[[Darkstalkers]]''. Also, for a [[Fan Service]] laden [[Shōnen manga]] series, the frequent cameos from the decidedly [[Shojo]] and chaste dating sim of ''[[Angelique]]'' were amusing, especially when the game's resident [[Cute Shotaro Boy]] showed up as a slave boy belonging to one of the manga's villains.

** And of course, earlier the heroes had to fight the corpse of a world famous Chinese martial artist from Hollywood movies, who developed his own fighting style, whose favorite weapons were a pair of nunchuks, and who died mysteriously at the peak of his popularity. So, totally not Bruce Lee, then.

* ''[[My Balls]]'' has [[Angelina Jolie|Angel*** Jolie]] in Chapter 28.

* Also in ''[[Superman]]/[[Batman]]'' the story arc, ''With A Vengeance'' features the "Maximums" who are thinly veiled analogues of [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]] from the [[Marvel Comics|other guys]]..

* [[Star Wars|Darth Vader]] once fought the [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Rebel_Four Rebel Four].

* The [[Batman]] [[Elseworld]] ''Detective #27'' features Bruce Wayne being inducted into the Secret Society of Detectives. Apart from Alfred and the Crimson Avenger, none of the other members are named, but from the way they're drawn, they're clearly intended to include [[Sam Spade]] (or maybe [[Philip Marlowe]]), [[Hercule Poirot]], [[The Thin Man (film)|Nick and Nora Charles]], and [[Nero Wolfe]], amongst others.

* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Archie Comics Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' had tons of Lawyer-Friendly Cameos, especially in its early days, like the picture above shows. This even continued on when Knuckles got his own short-lived series. This was actually done by turning them into the various races that live on Mobius or one of Robotnik's robots. Amongst more recognizable ones were a recurring set of Mobians that resembled Mihoshi, Ayeka and Sasami of ''[[Tenchi Muyo!|Tenchi Muyo]]'', the infamous [[Sailor Moon|Sally Moon, Chibi Rose and Tuxedo Knux]], [[Science Ninja Team Gatchaman|Sonicaman]], [[Spawn]]mower, and a group of robots resembling [[Mystery Science Theater 3000|Crow T. Robot, Tom Servo, and Cambot]] ([http://tohaveacurse.blogspot.com/2011/07/sonic-hedgehog-52-review.html fourth image from the top here]).

* In ''Night Probe'' (part of the [[NUMA Series]]), the British bring one of their old spies out of retirement, who had changed his name to Brian Shaw to avoid assassination attempts. It is strongly implied that Shaw is actually James Bond.

* The [[Bernice Summerfield]] novel ''Ship Of Fools'' by Dave Stone features a 25th century space-liner filled with [[Great Detective]]s [[In Space]], including Emil Dupont ([[Hercule Poirot]]) and Khaarli of Czhanos ([[Charlie Chan]]).

* [[Michael Chabon]]'s novella ''The Final Solution'' is about a retired detective who, while never named, is clearly [[Sherlock Holmes]].

* A major element of [[Neil Gaiman]]'s short story ''The Problem of Susan'' is that the character of "Professor Hastings" could be a much older [[The Chronicles of Narnia|Susan Pevensie]] (Hastings also being just along the coast from Pevensey, Sussex), although the narrative never outright confirms it.

* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' features the [[Star Wars|Death Egg]] as Eggman's ultimate weapon to destroy Sonic.

* ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl|Pokémon Platinum]]'' features a detective [[Doctor Who|who talks weird, shows up in a lot of places, wears a long, brown coat and gives the player futuristic equipment]].

* In ''[[Romancing SaGa 3|Romancing Sa ga 3]]'', there is a Zorro-esque character called Robin, and in the credits, said character pulls off Zorro's infamous Z cut (Strongest Foil technique)

* The first print versions of ''[[Shinobi|The Revenge of Shinobi]]'' for the [[Sega Genesis]] featured [[Spider-Man]], [[Batman]], The [[Terminator (franchise)|Terminator]], and [[Godzilla]] as some of Joe Musashi's adversaries. To avoid any potential lawsuits, Sega released a revision of the game which replaces Godzilla with a metal skeletal dinosaur and Batman with a winged bat-like creature. Spider-Man was kept as an official cameo (with a new copyrights screen acknowledging Marvel Comics' ownership of the character), since Sega had the Spider-Man license for a couple of other games (namely the ''Spider-Man'' arcade game and the Genesis game ''Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin''). In the Virtual Console rerelease, Spider-Man is now colored pink (Due to Sega losing the rights to use Spider-Man to Activision). Ironically, The Terminator has appeared in all versions of ''The Revenge of Shinobi''.

*** ''Chrono Trigger'' even did one better; ''Star Wars'' also contains an Admiral Piett, who cameos alongside "Vicks" and Wedge.

** ''[[Final Fantasy I]]'' basically used the original ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' bestiary (complete with their original names) in its original Japanese release. To prevent a lawsuit, many of the monsters were renamed (not always sensibly) when the game was first ported, turning many of the monsters into this. This has slowly been reversed as remakes have been made with names more closely matching the originals.

** Don't forget the [[Super Sentai|Centurion]] [[Power Rangers|Rangers]].

* Every ''[[Quest for Glory]]'' game features a cameo by at least one famous comedian. The list includes [[The Three Stooges]] in the first game, the [[Marx Brothers]] in the second, Redd Foxx as [[Sanford and Son|Fred Sanford]] ''and'' [[Abbott and Costello]] in the third, and a sound-alike of Rodney Dangerfield in the fourth.

* One of the episodes of ''[[Ben 10]]'' has [[Naruto|Konohamaru's team]] appear in the background. In another, an orange-haired girl dressed like Sakura is on screen briefly.

* In an interesting case, one episode of ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur]]'' had Arthur and friends writing pilot scripts for a contest. These were all obvious parodies of other popular cartoons. The thing is, most of these parodies were of shows aimed at a- to put it lightly- [[Parental Bonus|more mature audience]], like ''[[South Park]]'', ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'', and ''[[Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist]]''.

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** One episode had a Domo plush in the background, another referenced a show called "Judo Kittens" whose characters [[The Powerpuff Girls|looked pretty familiar]]...

* A slight subversion of this occurs in ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]''; Jetfire was based upon ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]''' VF-1 fighter. While this proved no issue for Hasbro (who licensed it from Bandai themselves), it did for Takara and the character wound up being redesigned (and renamed) so that he could be shown on the show. And even then, [[Bowdlerise|Takara did whatever they could to prevent him from appearing in the Japanese version of the show]]. Hasbro and [[Toei Animation]] on the other hand, were able to use a robot similar to the VF-1 in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OEEncGeu8s Jetfire's first appearance.]

* In [[Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes]] Johnny hires a freelance photographer to take pictures of him and make him look good to the media. The photographer is cut off right before he introduces himself, but he resembles another [[Spider-Man|freelance photographer of superheroes Marvel was not allowed to use do a contract with]] [[Sony]] [[Spider-Man|at the time]].

 

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