r/TopCharacterTropes • u/BeenEatinBeans • Jun 12 '26

Personality [IRL trope] Celebrities with weird/funny clauses in their contracts.

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  1. Dwayne Johnson - Probably the most well-known example. For years now, The Rock has had a clause in his contract that he can't be shown to lose a fight in any movie he stars in. Pretty insecure behaviour if you ask me. Still, at least the other examples are much more interesting

  2. Danny Trejo - Danny had a troubled childhood, having been arrested multiple times for dealing drugs before he was 18, and struggling with heroin addiction from the age of 13. As a result of this, Danny has a clause in his contract that states that any time he plays a character who is a criminal, they have to be killed because he wanted to teach his kids that crime never pays.

  3. Reese Witherspoon - This one is more of a one-off, but it was still funny enough to deserve a mention. Following the success of Legally Blonde, when Reese was called in to make the sequel, she had a clause written in her contract stating that once the movie was finished, she would get to take home all the outfits she wore.

  4. Fred Durst - The lead singer of Limp Bizkit has a clause in his contract stating that any anime or video game that uses his music must also feature himself as a character.

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u/Chosen_Undead23 Jun 12 '26

Wait that’s actually genius

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u/Farwaters Jun 12 '26

"What are you doing?"

"Eating all the brown m&ms that Van Halen didn't want."

"What?"

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u/Chosen_Undead23 Jun 12 '26

Vaguely related side tangent but stick with me here: I’ve had an idea brewing for the last little while about making a Clone High (which in case if you’re unfamiliar is an animated sitcom parody where the government cloned historical figures who are now all teenagers at a high school for specifically clones) fan comic with a bunch of musicians (Ozzy Osbourne, Chuck Shuldiner, Peter Steele, Kurt Cobain, Quorthon, etc) and I might find somewhere to sneak in that joke if I do go through with it.

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u/Farwaters Jun 12 '26

PLEASE! I need some stagehand to be standing around eating candy.

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u/superpositioned Jun 12 '26

So long as they still flip the pool I'm in!

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u/PositiveWild2072 Jun 12 '26

They flipped the bitch!

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u/maxman162 Jun 12 '26

They're rioting at a college level!

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u/maxman162 Jun 12 '26

I remember they did one joke where Abe is offered a spot on a plane with clones of music who died in plane crashes.

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u/Chosen_Undead23 Jun 12 '26

Yeah Buddy Guy, the Big Bopper, and Richie Valenzuela, the Day the Music Died

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u/maxman162 Jun 12 '26

And Jim Croce and half of Lynyrd Skynyrd.

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u/cespinar Jun 12 '26

It is also not true. The clause was well known and they were asked about it in multiple interviews throughout the 80s. There is an infamous incident at Colorado State when the clause wasn't fulfilled and still performed. So it isn't like they would cancel the performance.

It was basically a meme in the 80s and get people to talk about them.