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== Anime and Manga ==
* The reporter from ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' actually got into the character popularity poll for the manga, despite having no character and only showing up in a few panels to cover the [[Magical Girl]]s' exploits on the news.
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* Ethan, in the 2007 ''[[I Am Legend]]'' movie. He is not a speaking role (or an ''emoting'' role), but he's there for the second half of the movie, always in the background or foreground. He doesn't do anything, he needs rescued a couple times, and his only real reason for being in the movie is so he can watch Shrek shortly after appearing on-screen. No, really.
* ''[[Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy]]'': Wes Mantooth's Channel 9 Evening News Team cohorts. They stand around behind Wes, but contribute nothing to the verbal argument in the park. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] at the end.
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* ''W'': In the autobiographical film of [[George W. Bush]], There is a scene where Bush is berating U.S Army commander Tommy Franks for not finding
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** For other examples of former Living Props later going on to play a bigger role, see Jonathan in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''...
** ...and Miles O'Brien in ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', who went from being an unimportant transporter operator to a recurring secondary character and then on to be a major character in ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''.
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* For ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' Ricky's band members shown during night club scenes.▼
** A literal example - the baby chicks.▼
* Buffy did this a few times actually. [[Seth Green]] was just scenery for quite a while before his character Oz was given a name and a bigger role.▼
▲* Also from ''DS9'': Morn, the silent, morose-looking alien extra perpetually stationed at the far end of Quark's bar, who seemed so profoundly dedicated to doing nothing at all that he actually became the centre of fan attention.
** Morn even got his own episode ("Who Mourns For Morn?") and was ''still'' an uncredited extra with no lines!
*** The [[Running Gag]], of course, being that when Morn is ''not'' on camera, he's the life of the party. The viewers [[Informed Attribute|just never get to experience it]].
▲* For ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' Ricky's band members shown during night club scenes.
▲** A literal example - the baby chicks.
▲* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' did this a few times actually. [[Seth Green]] was just scenery for quite a while before his character Oz was given a name and a bigger role.
* ''[[Voyager]]'' has Lt. Ayala, a regular extra who appeared in all seven seasons. Formerly one of Chakotay's Maquis crew, he can often be seen filling in for Tuvok or Harry. We know a fair bit about him, but not from his mouth — in 115 episodes, he had only four lines.
* The silver-haired detective in ''[[The Shield]]''. Never got a line, but he was acknowledged when he got a round of applause for being the first person to use the newly-fixed men's toilets in season four (they broke just before the first ever episode of season one).
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* The regular customers at ''[[Cheers]]'' whose names are not Norm, Frasier or Cliff. Some of them (such as Paul) were eventually promoted to [[Recurring Character]]s. In fact, Cliff was one of these for the first few episodes.
** One character was referred to in scripts as "The Man Who Said 'Sinatra'" because in his first speaking role...[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|his line was just the response "Sinatra!"]]
* Most of the deck crew in ''[[Battlestar Galactica
** The tattooed pilot was a particular fan favourite.
* ''[[Scrubs]]'' has a collection of doctors that regularly appear on screen but (mostly) do not talk. For example, Colonel Doctor (called that because he looks like the Colonel Sanders), Dr. Beardface ([[It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY"|It's Be-ARD-fa-SAY!]]), Dr. Mickhead, and Snoop Dogg Intern.
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