Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20170610193015/@comment-61022-20170617190421

ADour wrote: That'd be quite a logical leap. It's obvious that for an object to make a cameo-like appearance, it needs to first be a relevant object. Going back to what I said, cameos are appearances of established characters or known people that make you go "Hey, it's that guy" And there are countless of cases in which the minor appearance of an object is meant to have a similar effect. The objects in Odin's vault from Thor, pretty much any time Bendis sets a scene in Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S., and so on. Additionally, saying that items can't have cameos because you might list a fork is like saying people can't have cameos becuase you might list pedestrian n° 5.

It's not a logical leap at all. Look how many comic summaries we have where people list and create profiles for random characters out on the street. Trust me, you give people an inch and they'll take a mile. Look at all the random junk that people add to pages, or create pages for that don't have any practical use. It just takes on person to do it and then every other badge hunter will think it's okay.

Again, the definition -- as far as the dictionary goes -- is pretty clear: It's an notable character that can make a cameo.

Also speaking on a technicality: How do you quantify a cameo for an object? Because I know plenty of X-Men related summaries where Cyclops' visor isn't listed as a cameo when he only briefly wears it in a given story (wherein he operates through most of the story in street clothes and is wearing his polarised glasses)

Are Spider-Man's web-shooters considered a cameo if he's only seen wearing them once. Also if he's only SEEN wearing them once, wouldn't all of the stories where Spider-Man is wearing a glove over his web-shooters or (presumably) is wearing his costume under street clothes technically make the object being Behind the Scenes?

As I've said, we should not tag objects like we do characters, unless for some reason it is for a minor appearance tag, or that "object" has enough sentience that it is basically a living thing.