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* The third season of ''Anime/DropkickOnMyDevil'', ''Dropkick on My Devil X'', has Music/HatsuneMiku randomly showing up in every episode for some sort of gag.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' has a ton, to the point that Bikini Bottom only has about twenty or so unique residents. A few of particular note are the dark-green adult male fish who yelled "my leg!!" during large scenes of commotion, an unseen person who often yelled "boo, you stink!" (later revealed to be Squidward's mother!), a blue fish somewhat resembling a shark who [[OohMeAccentsSlipping switches his accent partway through the series]] and has a hatred for big meaty claws, and another green fish with an....[[ChewingTheScenery unhealthy obsession]] for chocolate.
** Many of them were given names [[https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Background_characters as shown here]] though most were only said once. Sometimes their colors aren't even consistent. There's at least ''three'' different characters that have been called Old Man Jenkins.

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* Creator/StanLee in all Franchise/MarvelUniverse films.

* Throughout Creator/SatoshiKon's ''Anime/MillenniumActress,'' there are three schoolgirls who appear in her flashbacks, which tend to take place within many different time periods (Edo Japan, for example) and locations, while either sneering at her dreams or trying to pry her secrets. They make a cameo in ''Anime/TokyoGodfathers''. To some degree, every single character forms a RecurringExtra to Chiyoko's movies/lives/[[MindScrew events]].

* ''Franchise/{{Hitman}}'': Agent Smith is a fellow ICA agent who 47 always seems to find him [[DistressedDude captured]] in his undercover mission, usually stripped down to his boxers.

* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' and its sequels have Scrat, a disaster-prone prehistoric rodent who wants nothing more than to harvest and bury acorns and who occasionally crosses paths with the main characters.
* ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'' features a quartet of nuns who appear multiple times throughout Goofy and Max's road trip. Two of them first appear in the store Goofy works in, while all four appear: during the ''On The Open Road'' musical number, the diner Goofy and Max stop at, a monster truck rally, and finally arriving at the Powerline concert as Goofy and Max sneak backstage.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' has the Talking Dog, who is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a dog with the inexplicable ability to talk]]. He appears in a handful of episodes, but almost always in minor scenes where he provides some amusing commentary or [[ButtMonkey gets abused in some way]]. He even appears in [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie the movie]], where he gets [[OverlyLongGag (repeatedly)]] rescued by Buttercup. The sole episode to put [[ADayInTheLimelight any sort of major focus on him]] is the Season 5 segment [[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS5EP3MonstraCityShutThePupUp "Shut The Pup Up"]].

* ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' had a recurring mutant who had no powers, but just looked kind of animalistic. He even got the occasional line of dialogue, usually pleading for his life at the hands of an angry mob of normal humans.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'': Even the townspeople who don’t speak or interact with Rango, like the javelina blacksmith, tend to recur in several scenes throughout the film.

* ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'' features a quartet of nuns who appear multiple times throughout Goofy and Max's road trip. Two of them first appear in the store Goofy works in, while all four appear: during the ''On The Open Road'' musical number, the diner Goofy and Max stop at, a monster truck rally, and finally arriving at the Powerline concert as Goofy ans Max sneak backstage.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' has many characters who are seen in every crowd.

* The many courtiers around King's Landing in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' play this role, although some like Lord Giles Rosby and the Stokeworths do become more notable as time goes on.

* 'Gray Shirt Liran' is an Israeli man who made it his lifelong work to appear in the background of the frame for news programming as often as possible, first gaining notoriety by showing up in countless sporting events and standing behind whoever is being interviewed or photographed (always wearing the same shirt) and then expanded his scope to any occurrence for which news coverage is anticipated. He's been at it long enough (and persistently enough) to become a local semi-celebtity.

* Kelly, the hapless and perpetually unlucky woman who inadvertently runs afoul of alien robots who turn into cars in ''Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise''. Her insurance probably didn't cover most of the problems they caused. Her name was never spoken in-series, and comes from a sheet listing the cast.

** Also, in every game bar the first one there is a team of 10 different characters[[note]]they change in each game, albeit the ones ''Diabolical Box'' appear in ''Unwound Future'' too[[/note]], 5 males and 5 females, that appear in various puzzles (and as background extras in ''Miracle Mask''). The character bios you unlock at the end of each game mention them as "Puzzle Guys/Gals"[[note]]"Puzzle Lads/Lasses" in the UK version[[/note]], and the bio for Puzzle Gal 3 in ''Diabolical Box'' outright states that they're a theatre crew that reenacts puzzles.