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* This is the main concept behind [[Japandering]]. Many American celebrities have done commercials for other countries promoting energy drinks, whiskey, cars and pachinko machines, and everything in-between. Usually, they have clauses in their contract stating that these won't be shown anywhere overseas, but the invention of the Internet and YouTube has rendered that a moot point. These include Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ben Stiller, Nicholas Cage, Charlize Theron, Kiefer Sutherland, Sean Connery, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, Britney Spears and many, ''many'' others. When you realize it's good pay for one day's work, can you blame them?
* When asked why he did a series of adverts for American Express, Peter Ustinov responded "to pay for my American Express".
* The reason why [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] appeared in commercials,
== Comics ==
* In 1996, writer [[Mark Waid]] and artist Ron Garney were unceremoniously removed from a critically acclaimed run on ''[[Captain America (comics)|Captain America]]'' and replaced by Chuck Dixon and [[Rob Liefeld]]. One year later, Waid & Garney were reinstated. At that year's Comic-Con, when asked why he would come back after what happened, Waid simply [[wikipedia:Types of gestures#Money sign|rubbed his fingers together]].
* Comics great [[Fabian Nicieza]] once talked about his role in writing the terrible comic book ''NFL Superpro'': "I was handed the concept and character, including his basic origin. I don't know if that was all the NFL's creative work or a combination of Marvel editorial and the NFL. I didn't ask. I just wanted Jets tickets."
** [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] has mentioned a few times that he likes Nicieza as a writer, but he keeps turning up in the bad comics he reviews, like ''X-Force''.
* [[Brian Bendis]], [[Mark Millar]], [[Matt Fraction]] and [[Warren Ellis]] are all writing [[Marvel Comics]] titles to raise money for publishing their personal projects. The first three also use Marvel's publishing line, while Ellis publishes his personal titles through smaller companies, like [[Avatar Press]].
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