Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Wanted (Comic Book)|Wanted]]'' by [[Mark Millar]] features lawyer-friendly versions of every supervillain (and some heroes) ever. ''Ever''. In addition, it's implicit that the characters in the story are the real versions, and the comics are a [[Memetic Mutation|half-baked attempt by the world to tell their exploits]]. But [[This Loser Is You|who reads comics anymore anyway]]?

* If you look closely in crowd scenes during DC and Marvel [[Crisis Crossover|Crisis Crossovers]], you can often make out characters that have been [[Exiled From Continuity]] (the hand of Swamp Thing in ''[[Infinite Crisis]]'', for example).

* Throughout ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'', Jesse Custer has a spirit advisor called The Duke, who is clearly meant to be John Wayne but never explicitly referred to as such and always drawn with face in shadow. However, his father, John Custer, is shown and referred to as meeting the flesh-and-blood John Wayne while serving in Vietnam. Also, in issue #53, Jesse gives a lift to a fat, aging Elvis (this one's a lot harder to identify, but it's definitely him). Plus there's the sequence where Herr Starr meets (and insults) a number of unnamed world leaders - we only see Starr's face, but can identify who he's addressing by the insult (e.g. "You've got a girl's haircut, Colonel.")

* Alien groups scenes in ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (Comic Book)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' like to slip in famous aliens or other odd looking characters. Recently, an alien resembling Dr. Zoidberg of ''[[Futurama]]'' was seen being arrested by the Science Police. Another comic had a pair that looks suspiciously like [[The Muppets|Kermit and Miss Piggy.]]

*** Not quite. They were referring to the fact that at that time, Gaul was not under Rome's control but under the breakaway [[wikipedia:Gallic empire|Gallic Empire]]. Rome took it back a few years later, though.

**** Except that the "Gallic Empire" is a historiographical term created by latter-day historians. The Gallic emperors and government claimed to be the true rulers of all the Roman Empire. The Gallic Empire was not a secessionist state, but a rival government whose area of control was the Gallic provinces of the Roman Empire.

* In a [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Man]] issue, there's cameos of [[Street Fighter|Ken, Chun-Li and Guile]] on the background, watching X-Man's power demonstration. [[Capcom vs. Whatever|How appropriate.]]

** In a backup story in an issue of ''X-Men Classics'' (earlier issues has a secondary story featuring "before they were X-Men" or "between the issues" tales), a story is recounted of an inadvertent meeting between Logan (while he was a roughneck on the run from Weapon X) and Banshee (while he was just a humble Interpol agent). Banshee is hot on the trail of three jewel thieves, one of whom is named [[Lupin III|Arsene]], and who look like the Lupin Gang with a few cosmetic alterations. Guess who that makes Banshee, of course...

* ''[[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|Spawnmower]], 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]).

* [[Johnny Turbo]], being a "spokesman" for NEC and the [[Turbo Grafx 16]], led his personal crusade for the console's superiority not against real-world rival [[Sega]], but against their robot-run counterpart ''Feka''. It's probably pronounced similarly, too, as in [[Take That/Video Games|"Fake-uh"]].

* [[The Rocketeer (comics)|The Rocketeer]] has appearances by several unnamed pulp characters including [[The Shadow]] and [[Doc Savage]].

* ''[[Gunbird 2]]'' is full of [[Expy|expies]] and [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]], but the one that takes the cake is the end boss, who attacks with pills, and above all is a [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]] of Sato Pharmaceutical's mascot.

* Ownership of Lieutenant Linn Kurosawa from Capcom's ''[[Alien vs. Predator]]'' game is apparently tied up with Twentieth Century Fox, so while Capcom usually uses any [[Crossover|excuse]] to revisit its own obscure characters, Linn's cameos have been limited to hanging out far in the background of stages in ''[[Street Fighter Alpha]] 2'' and ''[[Street Fighter III]]'' and an unrelated character [[Cosplay|Cosplaying]] as her for a split-second during a super attack in ''[[Namco X Capcom]]''.

* The ''[[Super Smash Bros]]''. series has "Lightsabers" and "Blasters" as usable weapons, even going so far as to using the original sound effects (or at least something similar) for when the items are used.

* ''[[Transport Tycoon]]'' featured real-life vehicles in the original British release. Just to give a few examples, there were aircraft from Boeing, McDonnell-Douglas, and Airbus; road vehicles from British Leyland, Ford, and Volvo; train locomotives designed by Stanier and Gresley, and later in the game the Eurostar and TGV. For the American release, these were changed to fake companies to avoid litigation. These were carried forward into ''[[Transport Tycoon Deluxe]]'' and ''OpenTTD''.

* The 5 to 2 Cafe in ''[[Silent Hill 1]]'' is lifted from ''[[Natural Born Killers]]''.

* The title cards for the PARANOIA songs in ''[[Dance Dance Revolution]]'' display expies of [[Kraftwerk]]'s robot alter egos.

* Nearly every episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'' has this with characters appearing in a [[Cutaway Gag]].

* Hilariously lampshaded in ''[[Yin Yang Yo!|Yin Yang Yo]]'' when referring to a [[Batman]] villain-like villain.

'''Yang''': No, that's a puffin! Can't get sued for a puffin. }}

* An episode of the 70s [[Spider-Man]] cartoon had Peter Parker out of good places to change into costume, so he tried ducking into a phone booth, only to find someone already in it: [[Superman|a mild-mannered gentleman with an unlikely build and glasses.]]