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  • Disney Animated Films
    • Peg in Lady and the Tramp. She has just the one song, but a very memorable one! As her voice actor, Peggy Lee, co-wrote all the songs and also voiced the Siamese Cats and Darling (Lady's owner) - and they get songs, too, despite little screen time - it's like several Wonders for the price of one.
    • The Jungle Book has Kaa the python, who tries (and fails) to hypnotize Mowgli. He is only in the film for two scenes (he was actually going to be in just one in development, but his popularity with some test audiences gained him another one), and he's voiced by Sterling Holloway (also known as the Cheshire Cat and Winnie the Pooh), which is part of the reason why he's so funny.
      • Also, King Louie, who has just one scene (and musical number), but is very fondly remembered as a highlight of the movie. Voiced by Louis Prima (not Louis Armstrong, as originally planned), one of the biggest-name stars of the movie (though as a singer, not specifically as an actor).
      • Also from the same movie, Shere Khan the tiger, who despite being the Big Bad, is only onscreen for about 10 minutes, and doesn't appear 'til about three-quarters of the way in; nonetheless, he's remembered as fondly as other Disney villains that have more screen time than he does.
    • Madame Mim in Disney's The Sword in the Stone appears just long enough to engage in a wizard's duel with Merlin. Also the female squirrel who falls for a transformed Arthur.
    • Miss Kitty from Disney's The Great Mouse Detective. She's in the show for only one song, but...well, it's a very memorable one, and judging by the amount of fan material about her, quite a few people remembered as the most exciting part of the movie. Also, she has the ever-sexy voice of Melissa Manchester.
    • Beauty and the Beast has Monsieur D'Arque, the corrupt asylum-keeper who is bribed by Gaston to commit Maurice. He's only in two scenes and has a handful of lines, but Tony Jay gave such a memorable performance that it won him the role of Big Bad Claude Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He also has a larger role in the Screen-to-Stage Adaptation, including his own spotlight song and a fencing duel with Cogsworth the clock during the final battle.
    • The Leviathan from Atlantis: The Lost Empire has less than five minutes of total screentime, but it's the most universally beloved thing in a fondly remembered movie, probably because it's a humongous magic robot lobster war machine that kills off a staggering number of people for a Disney movie.
    • The Backson in Winnie the Pooh (2011) literally has one actual scene lasting under a minute, but it's a very memorable one.
    • The blonde lifeguard girl in Lilo & Stitch.
    • Mama Odie appears only very briefly in The Princess and the Frog, but man, does she steal the show.
    • In Chicken Little, one of the most popular characters is Morkubine Porcupine. He only has five minutes of screen time, and he only says three words.
    • Fa Deng in Mulan. Mushu is reminded that the last time he was assigned to protect the family, it led Fa Deng to disaster. It then immediately cuts to the man in question, who is holding his head under his arm.
      First Ancestor: You had the chance to protect the Fa family.
      Female Ancestor: Your misguidance led Fa Deng to disaster!
      Fa Deng: Yeah, thanks a lot.
      Watchman: (staring Shan Yu down) Now all of China knows you're here.
    • Oaken in Frozen, the owner of a trading post where Anna stops to buy a winter dress and boots for her trek. He gets maybe four minutes of screentime tops from a scene that primarily exists to introduce Anna to Kristoff, but his comical accent, mannerisms, and overall jovial personality make the scene all the more memorable.
    • Pretty much half the cast of Zootopia, as Nick and Judy get the most screentime while many of the other characters (especially Flash and even moreso Finnick, who only has 3 lines) are only given a couple scenes. That being said, despite barely being in the movie itself, the entire teaser trailer of the movie centered around Flash while Finnick, despite only having a few lines and scenes, has tons of fan art and fan fiction about him and was even popular enough in China to inspire kids to want to get a fennec fox of their own.
    • Tamatoa from Moana. Most of his appearance just has him singing his Villain Song, but that was all it took for his comical yet intimidating personality to make a lasting impact on the audience.
  • The gulls in Finding Nemo, yet a mere mention of them can still crack up most adults who saw the movie.
    "Mine? Mine? Minemineminemine!"
    • Nemo's mom, Coral, who is killed during the film's opening.
    • Quite a few characters, such as the sharks (technically two-sceners), Darla (whose picture is seen quite a bit but only shows up once during the film's climax), all of the sea turtles except for Squirt, and Nigel the pelican.
  • Scrat from Ice Age, particularly in the first movie. Provides multiple Funny Moments despite having no lines and about five minutes of screentime. He got spin-offs.
  • The LEGO Movie is packed top to bottom with memorable cameos from other movies, TV shows, and LEGO brands:
    • Han Solo, C-3PO, and Lando Calrissian aboard the Millennium Falcon (and they actually got Anthony Daniels and Billy Dee Williams to play the latter two!)
    • Abraham Lincoln on a rocket booster-equipped version of his chair in the Lincoln Memorial.
    • Shaquille O'Neal gets one of the funniest moments in the whole movie during the Micromanager attack on Cloud Cuckoo Land.
    Shaq: (building a LEGO catapult with the help of several other Master Builders)Y'all ready for this? (slam dunks a basketball into the catapult, and it bounces harmlessly off the hull of the nearest of several hundred Micromanager gunships, all of which immediately swivel to aim at Shaq) Oh no! They were ready for that!
  • The flower from The Brave Little Toaster, if the comments on YouTube videos are anything to judge by.
  • Bigfoot in A Goofy Movie has what is commonly considered the funniest part of the entire movie, especially when he puts on the Walkman and starts dancing to "Stayin' Alive".
  • Shrek:
  • Frozone's wife in The Incredibles. She never appears on-screen and her only scene is arguing with her husband about his supersuit. It is considered one of the movie's Signature Scenes and so beloved by the fans that the reveal that she will be appearing in the sequel caused large amounts of Squee.
    • Also from The Incredibles is Dash's teacher, whose only scene involves him trying to convince the principal that Dash put a thumbtack on his stool, despite lacking solid evidence.
      "I don't know how he does it, but there's no tack on my stool before he moves, and after he moves, there's a tack. Coincidence? I think NOT!"
    • Gilbert Huph, Bob's obnoxious supervisor at Insuricare, is in the movie for less than four minutes and he may well be the most loathsome corporate boss ever put to celluloid. Even after Bob tosses him through four concrete walls, one can still feel like he got off too easy.
  • From Hoodwinked!, we have Japeth, the senile old singing goat that Red Puckett runs into on her journey, and whose musical number "Be Prepared" is probably the best in the movie.
  • The white wolf in Balto. Sequels aside, nobody is totally sure if it's a real wolf, a spirit guide, or the manifestation of Balto's own wolf half, but its only appearance was one of the most powerful scenes in the film.
  • The black wolf from Fantastic Mr. Fox. Approximately a minute of screentime, no lines, and only the vaguest connection to the plot, but it's paradoxically one of the most poetic and funniest scenes in a very quirky movie.
    • Owen Wilson as Coach Skip, whose only function (if at all) is to explain the ludicrously complicated rules of Whackbat.
    • Jarvis Cocker is basically just playing himself, but he provides a ridiculously catchy song and one of the funniest (and most inexplicable) moments in the whole film.
    • Willem Dafoe as a switchblade-slinging, cider-knocking, psychopathic Rat is worth the price of admission alone.
  • Isle of Dogs has F. Murray Abraham as a wise, scholarly Saint Bernard and Tilda Swinton as a slightly loopy miniature Pug. Really, what more could you ask for?
    • Harvey Keitel lends his legendary gravitas to a wonderful tragicomic monologue as Gondo, the leader of the feral dog tribe.
  • Klaus (2019):
    • The Drill Sergeant Nasty instructor at the Royal Postal Academy, due to his hilarious seething anger at Jesper's incompetence and Everyone Has Standards concerns about sending Jesper to Smeerensburg.
    • Several of the Moe Krum and Ellingboe kids (like the cousins of the boy who gets the first toy and the boy who thinks he sees the sleigh flying) only get one notable scene, but are still pretty memorable.
  • Patrick Stewart as Poop from the otherwise infamous The Emoji Movie. The filmmakers seemed to recognize this, and even heavily promoted him throughout the marketing campaign.
  • Kubo and the Two Strings: The Gashadokuro only appears in one scene and isn’t really all that important to the plot, but many consider the fight with it to be one of the best scenes in the whole movie. It certainly does leave an impression.
  • The Prince of Egypt:
    • Jethro, Tzipporah's father, appears briefly but gets a really memorable song and even helps Moses.
    • Moses' mother, Yocheved. She's only there for the first few minutes of the movie, but by God is she memorable.
    • Everything about the Angel of Death is utterly terrifying, and it's present in the film for less than 2 minutes.
  • Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz: Carnival barker Calvin Carney is only in one scene, which lasts less than five minutes (although his Oz counterpart appears more). Since that scene includes the well-liked song "A Mighty Fine Affair," he's a pretty memorable part of the film.
  • Rod "Torque" Redline from Cars 2. Too bad they blow him up.
  • In Epic (2013) Pitbull's character, Bufo, only appears in two scenes and was never mentioned or seen again.
  • Toy Story 2:
    • The cleaner who repairs Woody, played by Geri of Geri's Game.
    • The Rock'Em Sock'Em robots in Al's office.
      Red: HEY! HE WAS TALKING TO ME!
      Blue: NO, HE WAS TALKING TO ME!
      (Both fight, and Blue knocks Red's block off.)
  • Turning Red:
    • Sun Yee in flashback, and in the astral plane. Ming describes her as a matriarch that would do anything, even sacrifice her humanity, for her family to keep them safe. She was a tough lady who wasn't afraid to risk her life. She never speaks both times that Mei encounters her. Yet, when Mei asks her if it's all right to not want to seal away the red panda, Sun Yee takes her for a flight, showing her the wonders of the astral plane. Without words, she expresses her approval of her descendant.
    • The short purple-haired goth girl who interacts with Priya at the party doesn't appear much and doesn't have a name, but her subtext with Priya has immediately made her popular amongst the LGBT Fanbase.

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