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Sometimes, either to promote a product and generate interest in it, or maybe to maintain interest in it, or maybe just for the hell of it, a company will hold a contest in which the winner will get to make a brief appearance in a future work by that company. Sometimes this contest takes the form of a charity auction.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* There are at least a couple dozen examples of these in ''[[Digimon]].'' Examples include [[Digimon Adventure|Kabuterimon, Birdramon, Angemon]], and [[Digimon Tamers|Cyberdramon]].
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** The Elegolea from ''[[Crossbone Gundam]]'' was submitted by an amateur designer. That designer was Kanetake Ebikawa, who would go on to design mecha for ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'', ''[[Vandread]]'', ''[[Soukou no Strain]]'' and, of course, ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]''.
* The classmates in the ''[[Prince of Tennis]]'' manga were named by reader submission.
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* Just as much of a "cameo" as Kick-Ass's real name above is, the ''[[Animorphs]]'' character Erek King was named after a fan. He made several more appearances as the Animorphs' "inside man" after #10, when he was introduced, and was a crucial part of the [[Batman Gambit]] {{spoiler|that won the war. After that, his disgust with Jake's methods led him to bleed the power from the weapons; their inability to attack led to Rachel's death.}}
* ''[[Discworld]]'' novels often include characters named after (and perhaps slightly based on) winners of charity auctions. Once they exist, they may appear in later books. Known examples include:
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** Dr John "Mossy" Lawn in ''Night Watch'', ''[[
** Professor Ladislav Pelc in ''Going Postal''.
** Dr John Hix in ''[[
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** Ditto Linda Paquette, the protagonist's love interest, from ''The Good Guy''.
* [[Matthew Reilly]] auctions character names, ranging from a [[The Lord of the Rings|Gandalf]] role spanning a trilogy to a spy killed (by jet engine) in his only scene.
* Sean Tourangeau won a contest to design the ''Luna''-class of starships for the ''[[Star Trek: Titan]]'' novel series. The novel with the design in it also established a Dr Tourangeau as one of the design team in-story. Who was [[Death by Cameo|killed horribly]] when the USS ''Luna'' suffered a core breach.
* Robert Asprin's ''[[Myth Adventures|Myth-Nomers and Im-Pervections]]'' features a Pervect cabbie who at one point casually mentions bidding for a cameo in a book at an art auction, before adding that [[No Fourth Wall|if he hadn't won, Skeeve would be talking to someone else]].
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