diff --git a/docs/release-notes/4078.docs.md b/docs/release-notes/4078.docs.md
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@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add a rendered example plot to {func}`~scanpy.pl.scatter` showing a QC scatter using `pbmc68k_reduced` {smaller}`C Gao`
diff --git a/src/scanpy/plotting/_anndata.py b/src/scanpy/plotting/_anndata.py
index b187891b31..a40d6b1b97 100755
--- a/src/scanpy/plotting/_anndata.py
+++ b/src/scanpy/plotting/_anndata.py
@@ -157,6 +157,17 @@ def scatter(  # noqa: PLR0913
     -------
     If `show==False` a :class:`~matplotlib.axes.Axes` or a list of it.
 
+    Examples
+    --------
+    Plot per-cell total counts versus detected genes, colored by mitochondrial fraction.
+
+    .. plot::
+        :context: close-figs
+
+        import scanpy as sc
+        adata = sc.datasets.pbmc68k_reduced()
+        sc.pl.scatter(adata, x="n_counts", y="n_genes", color="percent_mito")
+
     """
     # color can be a obs column name or a matplotlib color specification (or a collection thereof)
     if color is not None: