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{{quote|'''Lisa:''' Wait a minute, [[Xena: Warrior Princess|Xena]] can't ''fly!''
'''[[Lucy Lawless]]:''' [[I Am Not Spock|I told you, I'm not Xena!]] [[Voodoo Shark|I'm Lucy Lawless.]]|''[[The Simpsons]]'', "[[Halloween Special|Treehouse of Horror X]]"}}
The characters of a work are in some kind of a crisis, and simply need help. Thankfully, they bump into a friendly celebrity. No, the work is not [[Like Reality Unless Noted]] - they could very well be [[SpongeBob SquarePants|diminutive talking sea creatures who meet David Hasselhoff on the beach]]. And it's more than that—the celebrity is ''very'' unlike reality. In fact, they have super-powers. Why? Because they're a celebrity.
Similar to, but distinct from [[Memetic Badass]] and [[Popularity Power]]. In both of those cases, it's a fictional character who most often gets the treatment; in
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== [[Film]] (Animated) ==
* As suggested within the description, [[David Hasselhoff]] is shown this way in ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants|The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie]]''. He's apparently capable of swimming like a speedboat, and firing things out from between his pectoral muscles at incredible velocities.
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*** In the movie, Barbra Streisand was a swear word profane enough to trigger the V-Chip.
* [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]] in ''[[Yellow Submarine]]'', because "it's all in the mind." Some of [[John Lennon]]'s are blatantly plot-critical, but everyone has something important—even if it's just [[Magic Music]]. [[George Harrison]] uses much of his for [[Mundane Utility]]...
* In ''[[Rango]]'', The Spirit of the West (
== [[Film]] (Live Action) ==
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== [[Puppet Shows]] ==
* On an episode of ''[[Muppets Tonight]]'', Cindy Crawford was shown to have heat vision, because she's a ''super''model.
** And then there was Christopher Reeve back on the original ''[[The Muppet Show|Muppet Show]]'', as demonstrated after a backhanded comment about Ms. Piggy.
{{quote|'''Piggy''': Hi-yah! <bounces off>
'''Kermit''': Wow! He really is the [[Superman|Man of Steel]]. }}
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'''[[Lucy Lawless]]''': "I told you, I'm not Xena. I'm Lucy Lawless!" }}
* An episode of ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'' features the unlikely team of Don Knotts, [["Weird Al" Yankovic]], and [[Dynomutt Dog Wonder|the Blue Falcon]]. Al gets to invoke the trope at the end.
* The final episode of ''[[God, the Devil and
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