10 Movie Characters That Appear In Multiple Different Franchises

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These cameos don’t just feature actors in surprisingly different franchises, but they each appear in character across multiple separate movies.

Movie cameos are novel, but seeing a beloved character in a completely separate movie franchise is a whole new level of meta universe-melding. Actors often make uncredited and surprise appearances in movies, and to a large degree, it is now somewhat expected by certain genres. In these examples though, actors have reprised their most iconic characters to appear in multiple franchises where, on paper at least, they have no place turning up.

The character proved so popular, both with audiences and filmmakers, that Trejo and Rodriguez brought him back for an adult-oriented fake trailer in Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse. A feature-length, gore-filled romp, in which Machete truly lives up to his name quickly followed. Trejo is actually reprising his role again for a new Spy Kids to be released on Netflix.

5 Trading Places' Randolph And Mortimer Duke In Coming To America John Landis's classic comedy Trading Places featured two perfect antagonists so loathsome that Landis brought them back for a cameo in another movie to further revel in their downfall. Randolph and Mortimer Duke lose their fortune and are bankrupt by the end of Trading Places.

8 Alien's Kane In Spaceballs One of the most famous scenes in cinema is undoubtedly Alien's chilling chest-burster scene, in which Kane is violently killed by an alien life force that explodes out of his chest. It was therefore quite an unexpected surprise when John Hurt himself reenacts the classic scene in Mel Brooks' science-fiction spoof Spaceballs.

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