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''It doesn't matter where I'm listed on IMDb''
''And if I had the screentime I deserved, you'd see--''
''It's all about me!"''|"All About Me", ''[[Commentary! The Musical]]''}}
|"All About Me", ''[[Commentary! The Musical]]''}}
 
A character that has [[One-Shot Character|limited screen time]], and usually not much in the way of plot relevance, but is still one of the most memorable things in the movie. [[Billing Displacement|They may even be given top billing]], or at least an "[[And Starring]]" credit, along with the more obvious stars.
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If the movie is particularly bad, the One Scene Wonder may be [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"]]. When a minor character in a musical does this through the use of one fantastic song, it's [[Minor Character, Major Song]].
 
 
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Abel Nightroad is the ''main character'' of ''[[Trinity Blood]]'', but his superpowered form, the Crusnik, has so few appearances that it counts.
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* ''[[The Aviator]]'' has Jude Law star in one scene as [[Errol Flynn]]. He steals the scene completely.
* ''[[Singin' in the Rain|Singin in The Rain]]''
** Cyd Charisse in . The entire "Broadway Melody" sequence is [[Padding|completely superfluous to the plot]], and done entirely to try to recapture the glory of ''[[An American in Paris]]'', but Charisse's silent performance as an icy gangster moll is still one of the most memorable things in the film. The screaming fanboy who shows up at the movie premiere in the opening sequence is also surprisingly memorable.
** The screaming fanboy who shows up at the movie premiere in the opening sequence is also surprisingly memorable.
** [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0849582/ Julius Tannen], who will forever be known as the "Talking Picture Man". Especially his ''feigned humility'' anticipating applause at the end.
* [[David Bowie]] has been this more than once:
** Vendice Partners in ''[[Absolute Beginners]]''. This character is one of several antagonists in on an evil scheme, and he convinces the idealistic photographer hero to join his advertising agency and become a sellout. He gets one big sequence, a brief appearance beforehand, and a wordless bit prior to the climax. But that's enough time for the spectacular [[Villain Recruitment Song]] / [[Disney Acid Sequence]] "That's Motivation", and between that and performing the movie's [[Title Theme Tune]] (he wrote both songs too, and there was a music video for the latter on top of that), Bowie was billed ''third'' in the credits, behind only the young lovers at the story's heart.
** Pontius Pilate in ''[[The Last Temptation of Christ]]''.
** Heavily [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[Zoolander]]'', where they give his brief appearance as the Walk-Off judge a ludicrous amount of fanfare—to the point of plastering his name on the screen and starting up the song, "Let's Dance." The scene is completely fucking awesome.
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* Jay and Silent Bob turn up in ''[[Scream (film)|Scream]] 3'' for all of ten seconds.
* The Mouth of Sauron in the movie version of ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King]]'', played by Bruce Spence (not that you'll notice), who was cut in the theatrical release. He appears only briefly to negotiate on behalf of his master before Aragon [[Shoot the Messenger|cuts his head off]], but his unique character design and mannerisms makes him hard to forget.
* [[Dark Action Girl| Bambi and Thumper]] from ''[[Diamonds Are Forever (Film)|Diamonds Are Forever]]''. Presumably henchmenhench(wo)men of Blofeld, they only appear for a few minutes, but the scene where they ambush and nearly take 007 down is an iconic scene.
* In the movie ''[[Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles]]'' Mark Hamill was [[Advertised Extra|cast]] as [[A Father to His Men|Daryl Taylor]] {{spoiler|only to be killed off within about three lines.}} All of these previously-mentioned tropes are later subverted when, later on, {{spoiler|he provides the voice for one of the Haydonite villains}}.
* Cary Elwes gets one in ''The Chase'', as a smarmy newscaster who has to apologize to his viewers due to Charlie Sheen's flipping off the camera.
* ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]'' has that very good scene with Billy Crystal and Carol Kane, but an even better example would be Peter Cook's role as the aptly titled Impressive Clergyman with the [[Acceptable Targets|speech impediment]].
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** His cameo near the end of ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men]] Origins: Wolverine'' elicited applause from some theater audiences.
** His role in ''[[Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy]]'' and its sequel ''SmileysSmiley's People'', oddly enough, as the [[Big Bad]]. These being spy shows, the Russian superspy [[The Voiceless|who refuses to talk]] only appears in one scene of each.
*** ''Smiley's People'' also features a memorable role from Michael Gough, better known as [[Batman (film)|Alfred Pennyworth]], who plays an Estonian refugee.
* [[Christopher Lee]]
** Essentially as himself, in ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]''. The twist is that he takes all of the [[Dracula]] and [[The Lord of the Rings|Saruman]] mannerisms and transposes them onto a ''dentist''. Just imagine Christopher Lee throwing his resonant ''basso'' into the word "Lollipops." (To be fair, it'd be very tricky for ''anyone'' to not consider Christopher Lee frightening, let alone as a dentist.)
** His portrayal of the Burgomaster in ''[[Sleepy Hollow (Film)|Sleepy Hollow]]''.
** And as the voice of the Jabberwocky in ''[[Alice in Wonderland (film)|Alice in Wonderland]]''. Apparently [[Tim Burton]] likes to put him in roles like these.
* Kathy Bates as Queen Victoria in the [[Jackie Chan]] flick ''[[Around the World in Eighty Days]]'' (Not to mention [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] in a very funny cameo!!!)
* [[Hannibal Lecter]] started out as one of these in ''[[Manhunter (film)|Manhunter]]'', back when he was Brian Cox. Three scenes, owns the movie. He doesn't even do much except sit there with his jaw hanging out, [[Hannibal Lecture|taunt the hero]], and talk on the telephone, and yet... and yet...
* Sir Alec Guiness often did this, and the smaller his role, the more memorable it often is. He managed to upstage both Peter O'Toole (in ''[[Lawrence of Arabia]]'') and Omar Sharif (''[[Dr. Zhivago]]'') playing roles which, while crucial to the films, had relatively little screen time. He has a memorable role as Pope Innocent in ''Brother Sun, Sister Moon''. He was so mesmerizing Jacob Marley in the musical ''Scrooge'' that he earned an additional scene, [[Not In The Book]], that appears in longer versions of the film.
* ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]]''
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* ''[[Grindhouse]]'' features several:
** Tarantino himself has a memorable cameo in ''Planet Terror'' as a soldier who attempts to rape the heroine as his zombified genitals decompose in front of her.
** In oneOne the fake trailers, for ''Werewolf Women of the SS'', features [[Nicolas Cage]] as [[Fu Manchu]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|for no apparent reason.]] It's almost enough to wash the bad taste from ''[[The Wicker Man]]'' right out of your mouth.
** The [[Fake Trailer]] for ''Hobo With A Shotgun'' is ''made'' of this trope.
* The CPR Kid/Wallet Guy from ''[[Back to The Future]] Part II'' only has a few seconds of screen time in the whole movie, but he's memorable for asking "what's CPR?" when Marty claims he [[CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable|knows it]], as well as repeating the line "I think he took his wallet!" after {{spoiler|Marty knocks Biff back out and steals the Almanac.}}
* It's hard to see a ''[[The Little Shop of Horrors]]'' poster that doesn't advertise [[Jack Nicholson]]'s appearance as "dentist patient number one". In fact, the whole dentist subplot became so memorable, in [[Little Shop of Horrors|the Broadway adaptation]], it was enlarged to make the dentist a [[Romantic False Lead]]. Bill Murray's played Nicholson's old part in [[Recursive Adaptation|the film adaptation of the musical.]]
* Viggo Mortensen has a small part playing [[Satan]] in ''[[The Prophecy (film)|The Prophecy]]''. He only has three scenes, two of which are fairly short, but they're the best part of the movie and and very, very chilling, particularly the first scene. Considering the main villain is Christopher Walken as an evil angel, that's a tall order.
* Mortensen has a memorable one scene as the wheelchair-bound Lalin in ''[[CarlitosCarlito's Way]]''.
* In ''[[Transformers Film Series|Transformers]]'',
** Bernie Mac plays a memorable used car salesman in only one scene.
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** In the third movie, we have (Ken Jeong as) Jerry Wang, a crazy [[Conspiracy Theorist]] who works at Sam's office. What did he do that made him so memorable? {{spoiler|Faced with immediate termination at the hands of Laserbeak, he decides to forego pleading for his life in favor of suddenly pulling out two ''very'' large pistols [[Gangsta Style|(which he holds gangsta-style)]] and pointing them right at Laserbeak's face.}}
{{quote|'''Jerry Wang:''' ''You messed with the wrong Wang, bitch!''}}
* John Houseman started acting in movies (rather than producing them) when he was over sixty years old, and so, his example of this trope in ''[[Seven Days in May]]'' as one of the military coup-plotters was in fact his first appearenceappearance on screen. And then twenty years later, he did the same with his last role, as the hilariously unflappable driving instructor in ''[[The Naked Gun]]''.
* Crispin Glover again in David Lynch's ''[[Wild at Heart]]''. His role as Christmas-obsessed, sandwich-making cousin Dell, who enjoys putting cockroaches in his underpants and has a terrible fear of black gloves - init lasts for about three minutes and is probably the weirdest damn thing he's ever done, which is saying a ''lot''.
* The ''[[Harry Potter]]'' [[Harry Potter (film)|film series]] has a few:
** [[David Tennant]], while not the best thing about ''[[Harry Potter]] and the Goblet of Fire,'' certainly puts in a show-stopping performance as Barty Crouch Jr.
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** As a Russian gynecologist in ''Nine Months''. He only shows up twice, but you'll remember him (of course you will, he's [[Robin Williams]]).
** He has two brief scenes in Kenneth Branagh's ''[[Dead Again]]'' as a former psychiatrist that are quite memorable. It's officially [[The Cameo|a cameo]] too, as Williams didn't want to be credited or appear in promotional material [[Viewers are Morons|lest people assume the film a comedy]].
** As the King Of The Moon in ''[[The Adventures of Baron Munchausen]]'' (credited as [[Stage Names|Ray D.]] [[Meaningful Name|Tutto]].
* King Osric in ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' is exactly this: he's played by Max Von Sydow, appears in only one scene and does his monologue in an incredibly humane and intriguing way.
* [[Will Ferrell]]
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** Also his role as Big Earl in ''[[Starsky and Hutch (film)|Starsky and Hutch]]''.
* [[Alfred Molina]] as strung-out drug kingpin Rahad Jackson in ''[[Boogie Nights]]''. You will never be able to listen to "Jessie's Girl" or "Sister Christian" the same way again.
* In ''[[Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time|Prince of Persia the Sands of Time]]'', Molina steals every scene he appears as Sheik Amar.
* Ben Stein in, of course, ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off|Ferris Buellers Day Off]]''. "Bueller? Bueller?" Also, [[Charlie Sheen]] as the hoodlum in the scene in the police station with Jeannie near the end. "You wear too much makeup. My sister wears too much makeup. She looks like a whore."
* Ben Stein gets a scene in ''[[The Mask (film)|The Mask]]'' when [[Jim Carrey|Stanley Ipkiss]] tries to make sense of his zany newfound artifact, and the beginning of ''[[Son of the Mask]]'', where his face gets separated from his head and put on display by Loki.
* Marissa Jaret Winokur's sullen fast-food server, Janine ("You are ''so busted!''"), in ''[[American Beauty]]''. At a screening of the film, the character's smug little smirk at [[Annette Bening]] not only elicited laughs from the audience, but actual ''applause''.
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{{quote|"Have her then, but you're a lordly fool. She's been plucked since I saw her last, and not by you... it takes a woman to know it."}}
* ''[[Airplane!]]''
** [[Leave It to Beaver|Barbara Billingsley]], even though she's only in one scene, has one of the greatest comedic moments in movie history:
{{quote|"Pardon me, stewardess, I speak jive."}}
** There's also [[Cloudcuckoolander|Johnny]], and Ethel Merman as the soldier who thinks he's Ethel Merman.
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* Justin Long as a matter-of-fact gay porn star in ''[[Zack and Miri Make a Porno]]'', and Brandon Routh as his boyfriend.
{{quote|"I will be your sherpa up the mountain of gayness."}}
* Christopher Plummer showed up atas Nic Cage's grandfather at the beginning of ''[[National Treasure]]'' (one of his earlier roles in his 21st-century comeback, and it was pretty awesome).
* The Street Preacher, [[Dolph Lundgren]]'s Jesus-obsessed cyborg hitman, is easily the best part of ''[[Johnny Mnemonic]]''. Admittedly, that's not saying much, but he easily outshines the film's other attempts at One Scene Wonders (Ice-T playing... Ice-T the urban revolutionary, and [[Henry Rollins]] playing... Henry Rollins the cyborg medic).
{{quote|'''Street Preacher:''' Do you want him brought to Jesus, or to you?}}
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** Similar to the Boba Fett example, Greedo only gets one scene where he gets shot by Han Solo. He's since become so popular and well known (most likely due to the whole "Han shot first" thing) that a number of comics and cartoons have been written exploring upon him as a character. The most notable example would be the ''Underworld'' comic which reveals why Greedo took the job to kill Han (he was trying to become a well-known bounty hunter but was failing miserably) and why he wanted to kill Han (he was majorly jealous of Solo, not to mention that Han was kind of a dick to him).
* Chris Sarandon's outstanding turn as [[Al Pacino]]'s pre-op transgendered girlfriend in the classic ''[[Dog Day Afternoon]]'' garnered him an Oscar nomination and made his career, despite his appearing in only two scenes.
* [[Neil Patrick Harris]]' much-loved cameo in ''[[Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle]] Go to White Castle'' as well as Nurse [[Ryan Reynolds]]
* John Vernon in ''Killer Klowns from Outer Space''. "Killer clowns, from outer space. Holy shit!"
* Super-obscure example: Danny Glover in ''Out'' (aka ''[[Lousy Alternate Titles|Deadly Drifter]]''). Granted, he made it before rising to stardom with ''[[Lethal Weapon]]'', but if he hadn't, nobody would ever have had a reason to give two farts about it, anyway.
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* In ''[[Midnight Cowboy]]'', Sylvia Miles' Cass has less than five minutes of screen time, but it was enough for Miles to win an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. John McGiver (Mr. O'Daniel) and Bernard Hughes (Towny) arguably fit this as well.
* [[Cedric The Entertainer]] does an excellent job of this in the first ''[[Barbershop]]'' movie.
* [[Meat Loaf]] and [[Ronnie James Dio]], and Dave Grohl in ''[[Tenacious D]]: in The Pick of Destiny]]'', each get a scene dedicated to them; the former as Jack Black's father, who tears down all his posters while singing about how rock & roll is the Devil's music, and the latter as a poster of himself that comes to life afterward. Grohl provides the [[Big Bad]]. Tim Robbins also plays a crazy homeless man trying to rob the characters, but can't walk, and demands they come to him so he can stab them.
* The Wienie King in ''[[The Palm Beach Story]]''. "[[Crowning Moment of Funny|Cold are the hands of time that creep along relentlessly, destroying slowly but without pity that which yesterday was young... That's hard to say with false teeth]]!"
* The movie ''The Loved One'' is basically a whole string of these, including scenes with James Coburn, Roddy McDowell, Milton BurleBerle, and, most memorable by far, Liberace playing a coffin salesman.
* If '30s actress Mae Clarke is remembered today at all, it's for that one scene in ''The Public Enemy'' where [[James Cagney]] smashes the grapefruit in her face.
* Silent Bob's speech in ''[[Chasing Amy]]'' is so memorable, it's easy to forget that he and his hetero life mate Jay are only in one scene.
* Richard Harris as English Bob in ''[[Unforgiven]]'', who just "shoots some pheasants, defends monarchy, gets beaten by Gene Hackman, gets arrested and then goes away" in across maybe 10 minutes of screentime. But it's a remarkable performance enough for "The <s>Duke</s> Duck of Death" to be in the poster.
* Viola Davis in ''[[Doubt (theatre)|Doubt]]''. A single scene, about ten minutes of screen time, and while she's onscreen she overshadows ''[[Meryl Streep]]''. It got her nominated for an Oscar, and many believed she should have won it.
* ''[[It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World]]'' has a few busloads of well-known comic actors all loudly turned up[[Up to elevenEleven]]... then in one scene, the camera pans past three firemen -- ''[[The Three Stooges]]'', standing still in quiet dignity.
* ''[[In the Loop]]'' is not short of great performances or funny material. Steve Coogan is in the movie for what must be a grand total of five minutes all up, and interacts with few of the main characters and none of the main plot. However, in those five minutes he easily manages to steal the movie as Paul, the easily frustrated constituent who just wants the U.K. Minister for International Development to do something about the wall of his constituency office (which is collapsing into Paul's mum's back garden) whilst said Minister is self-importantly but foolishly involving himself in grand matters of geo-political diplomacy.
* Pyramid Head in the ''[[Silent Hill (film)|Silent Hill]]'' movie. Two scenes, each lasting approximately thirty seconds, not a single line, and he's still one of the best parts.
* ''[[You Only Live Twice]]'' features [[Donald Pleasence]] as Ernst Stavro Blofeld. He's got a white cat, a bald head, and a scar. He's also one of the most memorable [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] villains, parodied and referenced ad nauseamnauseum. Total screen time: Approximately ten minutes.
* ''[[Wholly Moses]]'' has a few of these, but the one that really stands out is John Ritter's one -and -half -minute appearance as Satan.
* [[Jack Palance]] had a film career of 50 years and over 70 movies, but when he died in 2006, one film role consistently stood out in all the obituaries and tributes dedicated to him: the role of the taunting, [[Slasher Smile|smiling]] [[The Dragon|hired gun]] Jack Wilson in ''[[Shane]]''. Palance's Wilson is widely regarded as '''the''' definitive [[The Western|Western]] bad guy. Total screen time: eight minutes. Total words spoken by Wilson: less than fifty, but he makes the most out of two of them: "Prove it."
* Holly Palance (Jack's daughter) had one memorable scene in the original ''[[The Omen]]'' as Damien's first nanny who is compelled by Satan to hang herself at Damien's birthday party. "Look at me, Damien! I'm doing it all for you!"
* Matthew Atherton, A.K.A Feedback, of ''[[Who Wants to Be a Superhero?]]'', with a total of two memorable minutes in the utterly forgettable monster movie ''Mega-Snake''.
* Figwit, short for "Frodo is grea... who is ''that?''" in ''[[The Lord of the Rings|The Fellowship of the Ring]]''. ''Three seconds'' of screen time, but [[Flight of the Conchords|Bret McKenzie]] had such a large cult following that they even gave his character lines in ''Return of the King.''
* In ''[[American Pie]]'', then-unknown John Cho's one-scene appearance as the MILF guy. Not only did this scene popularize the term "MILF," Cho arguably went on to have the best career out of all the young actors in the film. It resulted in a movie roll being written just for him - the part of Harold in ''Harold and& Kumar Go to WhitecastleWhite Castle.''
* ''[[Judgement At Nuremberg]]'' features [[Spencer Tracy]], [[Burt Lancaster]], [[Richard Widmark]], [[Marlene Dietrich]], [[Judy Garland]], and [[William Shatner]]. Every single one of them is at the top of their game... and then [[Montgomery Clift]] blows them all out of the water with a seven and a half minute performance that got him a Best Supporting Actor nomination.
* The Thor-Axine team (a trio of Viking themed drivers) during the first half of the Casa Cristo rally in ''[[Speed Racer]]''. They fire a beehive out of a catapault. ''From a speeding racecar''.
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* [[Eddie Izzard]] as Mr. Kite in ''[[Across the Universe (film)|Across the Universe]]''. His [[Large Ham]] performance is definitely memorable, and provides some of the funniest lines in the movie ("Have you seen it? It's great. They've got stuff.")
* The nameless cigar-smoking mobster from ''[[Ninja Assassin]]''. When your response to getting stabbed in the neck is to hold it with one and do a ''spinning close-fisted backhand'' to your would-be killer with the other, well, you will be memorable. The rest is just icing on the cake.
* [[Christopher Eccleston]] as a truth-spouting tramp in ''[[24 Hour Party People]]''.
* The [[Every One Remembers the Stripper|three-breasted alien chick]] from ''[[Total Recall]]''. Johnny-cab, as well. 'cab is on screen for a total of two minutes. In this time, he spouts chirpy nonsense, gets torn apart by [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]], starts screaming and glowing, tries to kill Arnie by driving at full speed into him, misses him, and hits a wall and explodes. ''"Fasten your seatbelt!"''
* Chevy Chase as the [[Almighty Janitor|jacuzzi repairman]] in ''[[Hot Tub Time Machine]]''. Appears four or five times throughout the movie, but never for more than a couple minutes [[Stealth Hi Bye|before disappearing as suddenly as he came]], and is easily one of the best parts.
* By all accounts, Emily Hampshire's role as the chatty, eccentric Vivienne at the beginning of ''[[Snow Cake]]'' is one of these moments.
* [[Eminem]] and [[Ray Romano]] (how about that for unlikely team-ups) completely steal the one scene of ''[[Funny People]]'' that they're in together.
* ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'': ''[[Harvey Keitel]]'' has a small amount of screen-time, but a particularly memorable speech (the "'Please' would be nice" rant).
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* [[Marlon Brando]] as Jor-El in ''[[Superman (film)|Superman]]'' .
* [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] appeared in ''[[The Rundown]]'' for about five seconds of screentime, enough to say exactly two words. His appearance is mentioned in just about every professional review of the movie listed on [[IMDb]].
* In ''[[Toy Story 3]]'', Mr. Pricklepants fits this trope perfectly. He doesn't really have much bearing on the plot and has very limited screen time, but regardless he sticks out as one of the best characters in the film. You can add all of Bonnie's toys, Buttercup, Trixie, Dolly, '''Chuckles'''! Chatter Telephone, if only for the fact he's a ''toy telephone'' [[Mysterious Informant]] with a [[Film Noir]] voice.
* Mr. Shark from ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]''. "Look, I'm Woody! Howdy howdy howdy!"
* Bruce McGill in ''[[The Insider]]'', as the lawyer who deposes Russell Crowe. "WIPE THAT SMIRK OFF YOUR FACE!"
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* [[Jon Lovitz]] has exactly one scene in ''[[The Wedding Singer]]'' as a rival wedding singer to the main character, but thanks to a single line of dialogue and a facial expression, it's a scene you'll remember:
{{quote|He's losing his mind... ''and I'm reaping all the benefits''!}}
* [[Bruce Willis]] and [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] in ''[[The Expendables]]''. They're in the movie for all of a few minutes, yet their presence is mentioned constantly in the advertising campaign - for good reason, as those two and [[Sylvester Stallone]] haven't worked together in movies before, and likely never will again. (atAt least, until the sequel.)
* The Vegan Police, played by Thomas Jane and Clifton Collins Jr., in ''[[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World]]''. They have some truly hilarious lines, and make their exit with a slow-motion leaping high five.
{{quote|'''Todd:''' "Gelato isn't vegan?"
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** As Kaptah in ''The Egyptian''
* Gary Busey tends to do this in any film he isn't headlining.
** As a crazy psycho [[Vietnam War]] vet in ''[[Black Sheep]]'' opposite [[Chris Farley]] and [[David Spade]] (although it's two and not just one), and his 'stint' as a Heavy-like demon hunter in ''Succubus: Hell Bent'', in which he gives quite possibly the least rousing morale boosting speech ever submitted to celluloid (he basically tells the kid he has no hope of winning and he should just let the succubus do what she wants because he'll only manage to piss her off worse), dumps a load of weird junk that actually seems to work on the hero, and then drives off to leave him to his fate.
** There's also his cameo as a very lonely highway patrolman in ''[[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas]]''.
* {{spoiler|Jon Hamm's}} appearance in ''[[The A-Team (film)|The a A-Team]]'' is technically [[The Cameo]], but may also fall under this because he comes out of nowhere (he wasn't mentioned in any of the promotional material) and is pretty darn awesome, despite being onscreen for only about two or three minutes.
* [[Meat Loaf]] turns up for a single song, arguably one of the best, in ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'', sings it, and then {{spoiler|gets brutally hacked to death off-screen by Tim bloody Curry}}.
* The alien opera diva with the ''[[Crowning Music of Awesome|insane]]'' musical number in ''[[The Fifth Element]]''.
* The Pale Man in ''Pan's Labyrinth'' is probably ''the'' most talked about part of the film.
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* ''[[Tron: Legacy]]''
** Michael Sheen as Castor/Zuse
** Same scene, [[Daft Punk]] (who wrote the soundtrack) as <s> themselves</s> an [[MP3]](DJ) Program.
* Michael Sheen steals his scenes in ''[[Twilight (novel)|New Moon]]'', due to extensive use of [[Ham and Cheese]].
* Grandpa Chapman in ''[[Silent Night, Deadly Night]]''.
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* The punk on the bus with the ghetto blaster in ''[[Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home]]''.
* The 1933 film ''Dinner at Eight'' alludes to this trope in-universe. One of the characters is a washed-up, alcoholic actor who learns he's been demoted from the lead in an upcoming play to a minor one-scene role. His agent persuades him to accept the smaller part on the grounds that he can make a bigger impression on the audience with his single scene.
* [[Pee Wee Herman]] in ''[[Back to the Beach]]''. He appears in the middle of a beach party, performs an amazing idiosyncratic version of "Surfin' Bird", and then literally ''flies away'' on a surfboard.
 
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