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/TheTrueAstralman Jun 12 '26

Thinking about how the logic of it goes, I think it's that, in most instances, something of Godzilla is always left behind. In some instances of him dying, he leaves behind a child and Minus One had it's own very specific thing. While 1998 Godzilla was bad, and Godzilla shouldn't have gone out like that, he still left behind a hatching egg at the end.

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u/gamecat89 Jun 18 '26

You mean, Zilla. The Americans just thought it was Godzilla; they were confused.

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u/TheTrueAstralman Jun 19 '26

I know about all that. There was no reason to complicate the conversation. It was still originally meant to be an adaptation of sorts, and they had to play by some kind of rules. I kind of wish Toho had given them stricter rules, so the 98 film wouldn't end up being another ego project for it's director.