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[[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|Dwarves]], [[Hobbits]], [[Leprechaun]]s, [[Our Gnomes Are Weirder|Gnomes]], and some [[The Fair Folk|Fairies]] are specific subtropes. If these people are ''really'' little and are the main characters, it is a [[Mouse World]]; for other mouse-sized people, see [[Lilliputians]]. Not to be confused with an [[Little People (TV series)|animated series of the same name]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* The Deku Scrubs and the Fairies in ''[[The Blue Blur of Termina]]''.
== [[Film]] ==
* The Munchkins of [[The Wizard of Oz (film)|Oz]].
* ''[[Star Wars]]'' has Ewoks and Jawas.
* The Nelwyn, from the movie ''[[Willow]]''.
* ''[[The Dark Crystal]]'' actually has two short-ish races, the smallish Gelfling and the even smaller "Pod People" (who look kind of like potatoes and live in big seed pods). Then again, there are no human characters, and everyone else is either a reptilian or a something like a very tall angel, so the scale isn't totally clear.
* Though not the comic relief variety,the beings from [[Superman And The Mole People]] (don't really fit the [[Mole People]] trope because they aren't rodent-like, just like tiny humans mostly).
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* ''[[Pit Boss]]'', a documentary series on [[Animal Planet]] that focuses on a talent agency based out of Los Angeles that specializes in and is run by little people that doubles as a non-profit pit bull rescue.▼
* Along with the Munchkins, there's also the people of China Country in [[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]].
* The [[Trope Codifier]], of course, are [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]]'s Hobbits, and also Dwarves (''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', ''[[The Hobbit]]'').
* [[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory|Oompah-Loompahs]]
* In works by [[Terry Pratchett]], all the Little People tend to be [[The Napoleon|violent and mean tempered]].
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* The Little People who work for Mr. Tiny in the [[Cirque Du Freak]] series. While the small, blue-hooded, (mostly) mute Little People are minor characters in the beginning, one of them, Harkat Mulds, quickly becomes a major character.
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▲* ''[[Pit Boss]]'', a documentary series on [[Animal Planet]] that focuses on a talent agency based out of Los Angeles that specializes in and is run by little people that doubles as a non-profit pit bull rescue.
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
* Many mythical depictions of [[Our Elves Are Better|elves]] were like this ([[Christmas Elves|Santa's elves]], for instance), until [[J. R. R. Tolkien|Tolkien]] repopularized the 'tall' elves of ancient myth into modern fantasy.
* [[Leprechaun]]s, natch.
== [[Tabletop
* Halflings and Gnomes serve this purpose in ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''.
** The Dragonlance setting introduced the Kender, which served as a different take on the Little People at the time (even if it was considered the [[The Scrappy|Scrappy]] race due to annoying players playing up the kender's natural curiosity, fearlessness, and kleptomania). This helped evolve the Halfling in later editions past "hobbits with the serial numbers filed off".
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Ben 10]]'' has Galvans, Grey Matter's species. Ditto and Echo Echo also are really small, but not as small as Grey Matter, and they share the duplication gimmick. In a bit of a subversion, Galvans are the setting's [[High Men]], ruling over a vast technological empire and being responsible for building most of the cool [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum]], including one of the races Ben can turn into (Upgrade) and the Omnitrix itself.
* The Matoran and Agori of ''[[Bionicle]]''.
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