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* The evil centaur from ''WesternAniamtion/TheFearlessFour'' gets "Power Tool", a bombastic VillainSong that is one of the few widely discussed things about this movie. Its also the only scene this character is in.

* Petra of ''Theatre/ALittleNightMusic'' with "The Miller's Son." She does have a relatively small part in the "A Weekend In The Country" musical sequence, but she is the only non-central character to get a song all to herself which ends up having little to no bearing on the plot.

** Amos Hart, singing "Mr. Cellophane". John C. Reilly's performance of ''this one song'' earned him a Best Supporting Actor nomination.
** Likewise, Queen Latifah's one song ("When You're Good to Mama") in the same film. Mama Morton is a bigger role than Amos however.

* Despite singing the SignatureSong of the play and [[spoiler:being chosen by Old Deuteronomy at the end]], Grizabella from ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'' barely appears on-stage. She's shunned by the tribe and only appears for a few sequences.

** Richard Henry Lee, who carries some great big wonderful slabs of [[LargeHam roast pork]] while he's singing "The Lees of Old Virginia." As the next song occurs ''thirty minutes'' later, the writers made this number as big and bombastic as possible to carry the audience through. Ron Holgate, the original Lee, even got a Tony despite the fact that his character appears in all of two scenes and disappears before the second act.

* In ''Theatre/InTheHeights'', Piragua Guy is present throughout the show but doesn't really interact with any of the other characters in any significant way: he tries to sell Usnavi piragua in "In the Heights", he is present in "Breathe", "96,000", "The Club"/"Blackout", and "Finale", and he's the first person to support Daniella's titular "Carnival Del Barrio" - and that's about all he does for the show. That all being said, he gets ''two'' solo songs: "Piragua" and "Piragua - Reprise".

* Despite singing the SignatureSong of the play and [[spoiler:being chosen by Old Deuteronomy at the end]], Grizabella from ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'' barely appears on-screen. She's shunned by the tribe and only appears for a few sequence.

* In ''The Rundown'' Ewen Bremen got his own major song when he playe his bagpipes towards the end.

** Also [[ThoseTwoBadGuys the priests]] get the amazing [[IAmGreatSong villain-ish song]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxyOTFQFWQ0 "Playing with the Big Boys."]] Seeing how actors Steve Martin and Martin Short were short on lines, it kind of makes sense.

* ''Theatre/KissMeKate'': ThoseTwoBadGuys who sing "Brush Up Your Shakespeare."

* ''[[Theatre/CompanySondheim Company]]'' has Marta and "Another Hundred People". She and Joanne ("The Ladies Who Lunch") are the only characters aside from Bobby that get songs entirely to themselves, and she is significantly less important to the plot (such as it is) than Joanne. The song was included to showcase Pamela Myers in the original production.

* ''Theatre/{{Company}}'' has Marta and "Another Hundred People". She and Joanne ("The Ladies Who Lunch") are the only characters aside from Bobby that get songs entirely to themselves, and she is significantly less important to the plot (such as it is) than Joanne. The song was included to showcase Pamela Myers in the original production.

* Chef Louis's "Les Poissons" from ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''.

* Tamatoa the crab sings "Shiny" in ''{{Disney/Moana}}''.

* Saint Aphrodisias- who is barely mentioned throughout the musical at all up until this number- gets 'Flight into Egypt' in the stage version of ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', though Quasimodo does end up taking over the end part of the song [[spoiler: once he's realised that Esmeralda's talisman is a map leading to the Court of Miracles]].

* Julie Brown in ''Film/EarthGirlsAreEasy'' with "Cause I'm a Blonde".

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* ''Music/JeffWaynesMusicalVersionOfTheWarOfTheWorlds'' gives the epic duet "The Spirit Of Man" to the minor but [[LargeHam hammy]] Parson Nathaniel and his even more minor wife Beth.
* Soldier 7285 in ''AudioPlay/TheDollsOfNewAlbion'' is only around for the fourth and final act of the opera, where he only has two distinct songs: "The Day We Come" and "I Will Bring You Down", the latter being one of the most popular songs of the entire album, yet he's so irrelevant that he's not even given a proper name.
** The [[BadassArmy Blood Red Dogs]] in ''AudioPlay/TheNewAlbionRadioHour'' don't have much character besides being soldiers of the oppressive regime, but the song named after them is one of the catchiest and most memorable in the whole album. They even get a short reprise in the follow-up album, ''AudioPlay/TheNewAlbionGuideToAnalogueConsciousness''.
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* ''Theatre/ManOfLaMancha'' has one of its most beautiful songs, "To Each His Dulcinea", sung by a priest who has no other lines; he's presented as a mute inmate of an insane asylum during the ShowWithinAShow portions.

* Gigi from ''Theatre/MissSaigon''.

* The lover from ''Theatre/{{Evita}}'', who sings "Another Suitcase in Another Hall" and is quickly dismissed. In the film version, Evita herself sings it because, y'know... {{Music/Madonna}}.

* Music/EltonJohn's ''Pinball Wizard'', Music/EricClapton's ''Eyesight To The Blind'', and Tina Turner's ''Acid Queen'' from ''Film/{{Tommy}}''.

* The main theme to ''VideoGame/HypnospaceOutlaw'' is "Millennium Anthem", which is from the perspective of [=RebeRuthPin=], a minor, plot-unimportant Teentopia user who mostly posts about her love of [[{{Mons}} SquisherZ]] despite her family's religious belief that they are Satanic. She is forced off Hypnospace around the [[MillenniumBug beginning of the Millennium]] because her father thinks the world is going to end then; the lyrics describe her disappointment that she can't find out whether or not she won the online art contest she entered.