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▲== Anime & Manga ==
▲* Most of the more famous examples come from [[Rumiko Takahashi]]'s work:
** Cherry from ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]''.
** Yukari Godai from ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]''.
** Cologne and Happôsai from ''[[Ranma ½]]''. Lampshaded in a flashback which showed that Cologne was normal height in the past but Happôsai was a younger version of what he looks like now. In Cologne's flashback, anyway. In Happôsai's flashback, he was tall and [[Bishonen|extremely pretty]]. Although it's much easier to believe Cologne than [[Unreliable Narrator|Happôsai]].
*** The anime lampshades this in a different way; one episode has them travel to the past when Happôsai and Cologne were teens themselves. Happôsai tries to claim to have been a tall, blond [[Bishonen]], but nobody believes him and, to nobody's surprise, the 18-year-old Happôsai turns out to be an ugly little dwarf. Cologne then claims that a beautiful, dark blue-haired girl sweeping in the village is ''her'' past self. Ranma outright tells her to make her lies more believable, and Cologne promptly proves that, yes, that really ''is'' her younger self. In the English dub, this nets a dumbfounded "Oh my god!" from all of the others present, even Shampoo herself.
**** In [[Hot Amazon|Shampoo]]'s case it's probably more like, "OH MY GOD I'M GOING TO END UP LOOKING LIKE A RAISIN!"
*** Lampshaded ''again'' when Happôsai explains why he can't hit the pressure points on Hinako to nullify her [[Energy Absorption]] power: it involves hitting points on her front and back simultaneously and his arms are too short to do that.
*** As well as Cologne and Happôsai, ''Ranma ½'' has other Miniature Senior Citizens as well. The manga has Happôsai's old partner/rival Lukkosai, who has managed to get himself a [[Fountain of Youth|Jusenkyô Spring of Drowned Child curse]]. The anime has Happôsai's old friend Chingensai, who basically looks like Happôsai with a massive head of brown hair that, coupled with his thick beard/moustach, covers his whole head, and a trio of unnamed others who show up in an early seventh season episode.
*** Finally, a [[Filler]] episode in the first season gives us Kin Ono, the diminutive mother of [[Brother Chuck|Dr. Tôfû Ono]]. Unlike these others, she's only a "normal" old person, about 60 or so, but she seems to have been fairly tiny even when she was a young girl.
** Also lampshaded in ''[[Inuyasha]]'', in which Miyoga is smaller than the younger characters for a reason—he's a flea. Kikyo's sister Kaede and Kagome's grandfather are also both shorter than most of the rest of the cast, although with somewhat more realistic proportions.
* ''[[The Slayers]]'' has, in at least Slayers NEXT (the second season of the anime), Auntie Aqua, a little old woman who's barely waist-high on Amelia. She turns out to be {{spoiler|the last remaining fragment of the soul of the Water Dragon King, one of the five gods who serve the Dragon God Ceiphied}}.
* An elderly woman from an episode of ''[[Burn Up|Burn Up Excess]]'' plays this trope straight, all while harassing Rio.
* Grandma Hina in ''[[Love Hina]]''.
* Sana's grandmother in ''[[Kodomo no Omocha]]''.
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** It should be noted that in the manga, Pinako appears in a photograph with Hohenheim and really is a great deal taller.
*** This is also true in the ''Brotherhood''-exclusive [[Clip Show]] / [[Dream Sequence]] episode.
* Rei's grandfather from the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' anime provides this page's image. (He is shown to be quite dapper in the manga.)
* ''[[Samurai 7]]''{{'}}s village elder, and Kirara's grandmother, are both Miniature Senior Citizens.▼
▲* ''[[Samurai 7]]'''s village elder, and Kirara's grandmother, are both Miniature Senior Citizens.
* Torogai in ''[[Seirei no Moribito]]''.
* Genkai in ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' (Although like Yoda, she is seen in flashbacks to have always been that height.)
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* ''[[Black Butler]]'': Most of the time, Tanaka is this way, unless he's doing exposition.
* Master Makarov of the eponymous mage guild ''[[Fairy Tail]]''. Ironically, one of his more used magic abilities, Titan, lets him turn into a giant. A flashback in the anime show he was short even in his youth and another in the manga showed he was short by the time he was about forty, but neither was as short as he was in the present.
* Hikari's grandmother in ''[[Amanchu!]]'' is a mild case, but she's still quite a bit smaller than Hikari, who isn't that tall herself.
* Fuu's grandmother in ''[[Tamayura]]'' certainly counts.
* Touhou Fuhai from ''[[Rosario + Vampire]]'' is {{spoiler|a subversion. He looks like one at first, but that's only his [[Sleep Mode Size]] body. He's actually a [[Really 700 Years Old]] [[Bishonen]]}}.
* Shiho's grandfather Jin from ''[[
* Ueda's mother in ''[[Japan Inc]]''.
* Enya Geil from ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]''.
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* Every single elderly character in ''[[Oh! Edo Rocket]]''.
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* Inverted in Swedish children's comic ''[[Bamse]]''. Title character Bamse is a family man (OK, anthropomorphic bear) with four children. Three of them are half his height, very reasonable since they are supposed to be around eight years old, and the fourth is a toddler. Bamse's parents are one head taller than him, and his grandmother is again one head taller, meaning that Bamse just about reaches granny's waist, and Bamse's toddler daughter is shorter than granny's foot is long!
* Geriatrix in ''[[Asterix]]'' is even shorter than Asterix himself, and about half the height of his [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife|hot wife]].
* Ma Dalton in ''[[Lucky Luke]]''.
== Films -- Animation ==
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* Inverted in ''[[Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles]]'': ''[[Crystal Bearers]]'', for the Lilties. Typically small in their prime, the average never going taller than four feet (excepting the princess and those train conductors), Lilties grow ''much'' larger as they age; Cid is nearly as tall as Layle and quite wide to boot, and Jegran could easily pass for a basketball player. The ''elderly'' Lilties are large enough to [[Foe-Tossing Charge|toss bystanders aside]] as they run.
* Chin Gentsai in ''[[The King of Fighters]]'' is a diminutive man (he's just about as tall as Choi Bounge—himself a midget) well into his eighties, who drinks a lot, and still he [[Badass Grandpa|can kick your ass]] and ''spit fire''.
** [[Truth in Television]]: Chin's design was a homage to Chinese actor Yuen Siu Tien. Yuen's most famous role was that of Beggar So in [[Drunken Master]] and [[Snake in the
* The twin witches [[Playing with Fire|Koume]] and [[An Ice Person|Kotake]] in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]]'' (where they are boss characters) and ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask|Majora's Mask]]'' (where they are allies).
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== Web Original ==
* Sensei Ito, in the ''[[Whateley Universe]]'', is the short, elderly [[Old Master]] who teaches aikido at the [[Super-Hero School]] even though he's a baseline. More than once, Phase has thought of him as an evil old midget.
* The King of Town, from ''[[Homestar Runner]]''.
* Maria Calavera from ''[[RWBY]]''.
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