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Or maybe his head wasn't screwed on just right. <br />
But I think that the best reason of all <br />
May have been that his heart was two sizes too small."|''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (
In [[Western Animation]], [[Anime]], and [[Comics]] it is common to sum up behavioral problems or character flaws as being the direct result of some greatly underdeveloped organ in a character's body. Maybe said character [[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (
That being said, there are numerous examples of this trope being played seriously as well, typically in the [[Medical Drama]] or [[Soap Opera]] realm. While cases of super-small organs in those works are still [[You Fail Biology Forever|factually inaccurate]], they are at least portrayed in a semi-realistic sense. For example, this trope could be invoked by a character born with some form of congenital heart defect where their heart is too small and will cause their death unless a replacement is found.
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== Literature ==
* Inverted in Sonia Levittin's ''The Cure''--the protagonist has a brain that by our standards would be average, but is significantly larger than is normal in [[Dystopia|his society]]. This is treated as a birth defect, hopefully curable.
* ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (
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* ''[[South Park]]'': The boys go to Afganistan and Cartman ends up in a tussle with Osama Bin Laden, during which Cartman pulls Bin Laden's pants down to show...nothing. Cartman pulls out several magnifying glasses until he finally gets enough magnification to show Bin Laden's very tiny penis, which is implied as the reason why he blew up the World Trade Center.
* ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'': In one episode Timmy swaps brains with an ordinary dog. His brain is noticably the smaller of the two.
* In ''[[
* In an episode of ''[[Cow and Chicken
* One episode of [[
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