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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.
This trope describes a pair of guys who always fight together, are best friends forever, and have a very obvious hierarchy: The little guy is always in charge, and if it overlaps with [[Brains and Brawn]], the little guy is almost always the Brains. The big guy plays the [[Dumb Muscle]] role, but there's a catch, and this is important—often, the big guy will often have some pretty good ideas. The little guy always ignores the big guy's suggestion, only to [[Glad I Thought of It|come up with the idea himself just a split second later]], as in Timon 'N' Pumbaa. Despite his [[Dumbass Has a Point|occasional flashes of insight]], the big guy is not [[Obfuscating Stupidity|obfuscating]]—he really is just a big dumb lug, and he often doesn't know his own strength.
The Little guy is usually listed first, since he's the leader, and they are always listed together, as if they are one entity. In fact, some episodes may center on the fact that they can't live without each other. Although these guys are seen most often in kid's shows, they are also played seriously.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Samurai Deeper Kyo]]'': the first people he kills are a giant with a [[Drop the Hammer|comically oversized hammer]] and a midget nicknamed "Wind".
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* [[Tsundere|Meryl Strife]] and [[The Ditz|Millie Thompson]] from ''[[Trigun]]'' are rare female examples.
* Waver Velvet and Rider from [[Fate/Zero]]. Of course, since Rider is a legendary warrior king on top of being a seven foot bear of a man, he doesn't settle for being the subservient one of the pair and dominates Waver from the moment he's summoned by him.
* The protagonists of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', Edward and his [[Cursed With Awesome]] brother Alphonse. [[Genius Bruiser| Not that Alphonse isn't as smart as Edward]], nor is [[Bash Brothers| Edward any less able to kick ass than Alphonse]].
== [[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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* Mack and his friend/bossman Eddie Lui in the [[Emberverse]]. Also John Hordle and Alleyne Loring.
* Vandemar and Croup, "the fox and the wolf", from [[Neverwhere]].
* Sergeant Hanks and Inspector Sussworth from ''[[The Borribles]]''
* ''[[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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* This trope is used frequently in the Tag Team circuit, Notable examples being Rikishi and Scotty 2 Hotty, Chris Jericho and The Big Show, The British Bulldogs, and Spike Dudley and Balls Mahoney.
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
* Big Chuck and Li'l John, who hosted movies on TV in Cleveland, OH.▼
* Terence Hill and Budd Spencer.▼
* Stand up comedians [[Patton Oswalt]] (5'7") and Brian Posehn (6'6") joke that they look like something out of a horror movie when they're seen walking together.▼
== [[Theatre]] ==
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* ''Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II'' had bosses Gorc and Pic, a Dark Jedi pair consisting of a huge Gamorrean and a tiny Kowakian Monkey-Lizard.
* 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.
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** 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]].
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* Mordecai and Rigby as well as Muscle Man and High Five Ghost from "Regular Show"
* [[Ren and Stimpy]] most of the time play this trope to a T.
* [[All Trolls Are Different| Blinky and Aaarrrgghh!!!]] from ''[[Trollhunters]]''. While Blinky is larger than a human, Aaarrrgghh!!! is still about twice as big as Blinky.
* Horace and Jasper, Cruella de Vil's henchmen in ''[[101 Dalmatians]]''. Horace is short, fat, and dumb; Jasper is tall, thin and dumb!
* ''[[The Transformers]]''
** Bumblebee is always the Little Guy when he's with another Autobot, and their human friends are the Little Guys whenever they work with ''any'' Autobot.
** Villain example, Soundwave is a Big Guy with ''several'' Little Guy Decepticons that transform into cassette tapes, like Ravage, Laserbeak, and Rumble.
** They went a little nuts with this in [[Transformers More Than Meets the Eye| late in Generation One]] when the Nebulan arc started, with many big Transformers having a pint-sized partner for some reason. The Headmasters were big guys with a little guy - the driver of the vehicle form for Autobots, the trainer of the monstrous form for Decepticons - who turned into the head of the big guy's robot form. With Target Masters, the little guy turned into the big guy's weapon. Power Masters were little guys who provided a special engine for the big guy that enabled said big guy to transform.
* Fievel and Tiger from ''[[An American Tail]]'', although Tiger is only a Big Guy when compared to the rest of the cast.
== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* Big Chuck and Li'l John, who hosted movies on TV in Cleveland, OH.
▲* Terence Hill and Budd Spencer.
▲* Stand up comedians [[Patton Oswalt]] (5'7") and Brian Posehn (6'6") joke that they look like something out of a horror movie when they're seen walking together.
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[[Category:Tiny Tropes]]
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