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3. That Totally Weird Michael K. Williams Cameo

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If you hadn't yet watched The Wire by the time this movie came out, you surely would've missed the cameo by Michael K. Williams, who of course played legendary stick-up man Omar Little on the HBO crime drama. In the climactic battle between the Hulk and the Abomination, Williams appears for a few seconds as a startled Harlem bystander.

It's an especially weird cameo in retrospect because Williams wasn't exactly an unknown actor in 2008, with the final season of The Wire having just finished airing, so his visibility was basically at an all-time high.

Apparently Norton wrote the part specifically for Williams, being a fan of The Wire, and a far longer scene was actually shot featuring him, but was cut down due to time constraints. Boo!

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