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* Some supporting players in ThreeStooges shorts have sizable fan bases, especially Vernon Dent, Christine McIntyre, and Emil Sitka.

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** PeterSellers was hardly unknown at that point, he'd just appeared in StanleyKubrick's Lolita, and DrStrangelove, which was released a month after PinkPanther in England but a full three months before its release in America proved he had sufficient clout to successfully get cast as the majority of the characters in the film with no trouble at all. In fact DrStrangelove was supposed to beat PinkPanther to the box office internationally, but due to the assassination of Kennedy, it was held back for a few months to be [[UnfunnyAneurismMoment edited down]].

** PeterSellers was hardly unknown at that point, he'd just appeared in StanleyKubrick's Lolita, and DrStrangelove, which was released a month after PinkPanther in England but a full three months before its release in America proved he had sufficient clout to successfully get cast as the majority of the characters in the film with no trouble at all. In fact DrStrangelove was supposed to beat PinkPanther to the box office internationally, but due to the assasination of Kennedy, it was held back for a few months to be [[UnfunnyAneurismMoment edited down]].

** For a more proper example, Sean Astin's Samwise qualifies. No matter how much people debate about what was good or bad about the series or whether or not the series was good or bad, everyone pretty loves the adaptation's Samwise Gamgee.

* Dungeons & Dragons was SoBadItsGood, but TheDragon (as in, the {{Big Bad}}s prime henchman, not an actual dragon) was so popular that he was brought back as the BigBad for the first half of the sequel before [[spoiler: becoming the Dragon (again, not literal) to the Falazure the Night Dragon (this time literally a Dragon God)]]

* Dungeons & Dragons was SoBadItsGood, but TheDragon (as in, the {{Big Bad}}s prime henchman, not an actual dragon) was so popular that he was brought back as the BigBad for the first half of the sequel before [[spoiler: becoming the Dragon (again, not literal) to the Dragon-King (this time literally a Dragon God)]]

* Yvette, the French girl who cries during the singing of "La Marseillaise" in {{Casablanca}}.

** Vanessa as well, given that despite her small role (which even that was simply an extension of the BigBad Ursula), she acquired an immense fanbase that could possibly rival Ariel's own fanbase.

* TheNostalgiaCritic points out in his ''{{Steel}}'' review that Sparky should have been the main character, being played by a far better actress and having a kickass DisabilitySuperpower of a weapons-laden wheelchair as well as her tech smarts.

** Wedge Antilles can also be seen this way; his appearances in the original trilogy are short, but he's one of your sidekicks in the ''RogueSquadron'' videogames (and [[spoiler:replaces Luke as the protagonist of]] ''Rogue Squadron II'' partway through the Battle of Hoth mission), and in the [[XWingSeries Expanded Universe]], he evolves into a General and commander of the New Republic's armed forces. This may have something to do with being the [[spoiler:only character to survive both Death Star runs]], and the only non-major character to appear in all three OT movies. Wedge is the BadassNormal of Star Wars, the everyman, and the "designated survivor". He has fangirls. We love him.

* Tom Hardy's con-man-type character Eames from ''{{Inception}}'' seems to be shaping up to be this, if the first couple of weeks of fannish product are any indication to go by; he's been getting a lot of buzz around the role, which, for an actor who was supposed to have gotten his big Hollywood break from ''Series/BandOfBrothers'' nearly a decade ago, is probably a relief at this point.

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