In the film Cromartie High: The Movie, Pootan 2 is one half of a two-person comedy act known simply as Pootan. The act is presented as a hugely popular variety program within the film's world, and Pootan 2 is the second member of the pair, performing alongside his partner Pootan 1. Both performers appear in plush, fuzzy animal-style costumes, and the characters they play are deliberately vague, with little concrete backstory attached to them.

As entertainers, the duo's appeal comes from their style of openly discussing behind-the-scenes entertainment industry stories and adult matters, a blunt and confessional approach that has made them explosively popular. That popularity extends to the rough-and-tumble students of Cromartie High, where the protagonist Kamiyama is among the fans, and the show also has viewers at rival schools. Not everyone is won over; the character Yamaguchi regards the program as painfully stupid and quietly criticizes it, which makes taste in Pootan a small point of division among the characters.

Pootan 2's role in the story is modest. He functions as part of a running pop-culture gag, representing the kind of absurd entertainment that the students of the film's world genuinely love. He is not a driving force in the plot and does not undergo meaningful development; the duo exists primarily as a recurring source of comedy and as a shared interest that says something about the characters who watch them. The film does not explore the duo's personal motivations; they appear purely as performers. Their notable ability, such as it is, lies entirely in the stage act: the capacity to captivate a delinquent audience with stories and jokes that would not normally pass as family entertainment. Because the act depends on the pair working together, Pootan 2's defining trait is his place within the duo, and his individual personality is left largely undefined.