5 Of the Best Movie Cameo Characters

Great movies need great characters but really great movies often end up with so many excellent characters that there isn't enough time to cram them all in. This ends up making the character who is only seen briefly seem even cooler than they are. Case in point.

Boba Fett:

Most movie goers got their first sight of Boba Fett when the Empire Strikes Back hit the cinemas. The movie was crammed full of fantastic characters including Darth Vader, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Luke Skywalker and the Emperor to name a few. Boba Fett plays a crucial but short role in the movie. He is employed by Vader to track Han Solo for the Empire. The appeal of Boba Fett comes down to a couple of things. He looks incredibly cool, he doesn't say much and he has an air of mystery about him. It helps that he has one of the coolest spaceships ever seen too. Since then his popularity ensured that he featured in Attack of the Clones, the Clone Wars cartoon and many extended universe books.

Ravage:

In Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen there are a lot of fan favourite Transformers added to the mix. One such is Ravage who is first seen been blasted onto Earth by Soundwave. No one seemed to notice how cool that and many other scenes in the film are and instead choose to focus on the twins instead. Ravage is a big robot cat with big guns on his back. What's not to like. He is later seen in the movie having an almighty fight with Bumblebee who sadly rips him apart.

Collosus:

The X-Men suffers from the too many great characters problems. In X2 there are a fair few more mutants added to the mix and we get a tantalising glimpse of Piotr Nicolivitch AKA Collosus. Collosus is an X-Man whos skin can turn into metal. He offers to help Wolverine in fighting the bad guys off. What does Logan do, tells him to take his help and shove it doing us out of an awesome action scene in the process.

Sauron:

Since Sauron in the Lord of the Rings is the main bad guy it's pretty odd that we only see him during the first ten minutes of the Fellowship of the Ring. When we do see him he's awesome, cutting through swathes of soldiers like a deranged Darth Vader. Sauron is such a threat to the rest of the characters in the Lord of the Rings that he can't be let near them.