Five Hun soldiers are shown surviving and hiding in the snow after the avalanche in Disney’s 1998 animated film Mulan.
The avalanche sequence appears after the imperial army encounters the Hun forces in a mountain pass. Mulan’s decision to trigger the avalanche destroys most of the attacking force and saves the soldiers, but a small group survives beneath the snow.
The surviving Huns later reappear in the imperial city, where their unexpected arrival turns the apparent victory into a renewed threat. Their survival is important to the plot because it allows Shan Yu and his remaining soldiers to continue the attack.
This detail is easy to miss because the scene emphasizes the scale of the avalanche and the army’s relief afterward. The survivors are shown as a small group rather than as the full Hun army that initially confronts the imperial troops.