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[[File:rockymugsy 8654.jpg|frame|link=Looney Tunes|Don't mess things up again, ya lunkhead.]]
 
Two guys who are often [[Heterosexual Life Partners]], and usually embody the [[Fat and Skinny]] trope. That's just the start of the bundle of tropes these two embody.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Asterix]] (little guy) and Obelix (big guy).
* Messrs. Shlubb (big guy) and Klump (little guy) from ''[[Sin City]]''. ''Not'' a case of [[Brains and Brawn]]; both are pretty dumb.
* ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police]]''. Possible inversion, since Sam is the [[Big Guy]] but still the voice of reason holding Max (the Little Guy) back from indulging in "unnecessary violence" (loosely defined, since both Sam and Max are quite fond of solving problems with violence and gunplay).
* Franky and ''[[The Goon]]''. As in Sam and Max, Goon is the big guy but also the more sensible leader who reigns in his manic little partner(sometimes).
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* ''[[The Muppet Show]]''; Sweetums, one of the largest Muppets, has an [[Odd Friendship]] with Kermit's nephew Robin, one of the smallest.
* Recurring villains Dr. Miguelito Loveless and Voltaire in the first season of ''[[The Wild Wild West (TV series)|The Wild Wild West]]'' are in the "overlaps with [[Brains and Brawn]]" subgroup.
 
== Music ==
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* The Big Daddies in ''[[Bioshock]]'' are huge, lumbering mutations whose only goal is to protect the Little Sisters, who are small children.
* Interesting example is Cream and Cheese from the [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] franchise. Cream would be the Little Guy to almost anyone in the franchise (she's only six, after all), but she's big compared to her ever-present companion Cheese.
* In ''[[Tecmo Knight]]'', the eponymous Knight is a Little Guy with three Big Guy partners (only one at a time) Smokeman, Tiger, and Dragon.
* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' has this when the Medic and the Heavy work as a team, and most of the time, they should.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* [[Pinky and The Brain]].
* Bobble and Clank from the ''[[Disney Fairies|TinkerBell]]'' movies.
* Pictured above, Mugsy (big guy) and Rocky (little guy) from ''[[Looney Tunes]]''.:
** Pictured above, Mugsy (big guy) and Rocky (little guy)
** The big, burly bulldog Marc Anthony and his tiny kitten friend Pussyfoot. A rare case where Marc Anthony is brains ''and'' brawn, as Pussyfoot is more like a naive and trusting child than a partner.
* [[SpongeBob SquarePants|Spongebob and Patrick]].
* [[Dragon Hunters|Gwizdo and Lian-Chu]].