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Dwarfs [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|(not those kind, the real kind)]] in fiction are fairly uncommon. When they do show up, they tend to be either comic relief or playing a fantasy creature. But then, there's these guys.
The Depraved Dwarf is a pint-sized bucket of malice. He [[Always Male|(and it's pretty much always a he)]] is either a sadistic psychopath, a twisted rapist, or at the very least a violent, cold-blooded criminal. Can go hand in hand with [[The Napoleon]], if the Depraved Dwarf's mysanthropy is implied to be a response - [[Disproportionate Retribution|albeit blown out of proportion]] - to discrimination and abuse faced [[Freudian Excuse|as a result of their short stature]].
They tend to show up when the hero has been rendered helpless. Often, expect [[Giggling Villain|giggling.]]
Contrast [[Little People Are Surreal]].
For villains with other disabilities, see [[Evil Albino]] and [[Evil Cripple]].
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{{examples|Examples }}
== Anime & Manga ==
* Griffith from ''[[Berserk]]'' {{spoiler|spends a whole year in the [[Cold-Blooded Torture|tender care]] of one.}}
* "The Baby" from ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'', a neo-nazi and crime lord.
* Mukotsu from ''[[Inuyasha]]'' is very small and toad-like compared to normal humans, and he's shown melting and suffocating people with his poisons. He also tries to [[Attempted Rape|do something nasty to a helpless Kagome]], {{spoiler|before being bifurcated by Sesshomaru.}}
== Comic Books ==
* [[Wonder Woman]] villain Dr. Psycho (pictured above).
* [[Depending on the Writer|Some incarnations]] of [[Batman|the Mad Hatter.]] Which is to say, both his height ''and'' level of insanity vary wildly. [[Gail Simone]] writes an especially creepy one.
** For that matter, some versions of the Penguin.
* Gizmo of the Fearsome Five.
* The Dummy combines this with Creepy Doll by pretending to be a ventriloquist dummy.
* ''[[Fables]]'' revealed (or at least heavily implied) that the eponymous seven dwarves {{spoiler|did bad bad things to Snow White during their time together, which is why she murdered them all.}}
* Big Figure from ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]''.
* Le Bossu from [[Grant Morrisons Batman|Batman RIP.]]
* Surprisingly averted in ''X-Men Noir'', where Eugene Judd is one of the only good guys without ''any'' kind of pathology.
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== Films -- Live-Action ==
* Mini-me from [[Austin Powers]] is a lighter example. He's not ''that'' depraved, but he does try to eat a live cat at one point.
** Considering the stock he is cut from, the dwarfism is probably not the main cause.
* Subverted in ''Foul Play''; "The Dwarf" that Gloria is warned about isn't really a dwarf. This, of course, leads to confusion, and when she meets an actual dwarf, she goes nuts and throws him out of her apartment, seriously injuring him, only to find out he's really a bible salesman.
* The title antagonist from the ''''[[Leprechaun (film)|Leprechaun]]'' series of movies.
* ''Death at a Funeral'' has the dwarf who blackmails the family with compromising pictures of him and the family patriach engaged in questionable acts.
* Olaf, the title character of the Danish [[Exploitation Film]] ''[[The Sinful Dwarf]]'', lures young women into an attic and locks them up. They are later used for prostitution. Yes, the word "depraved" might be a little light in this case.
* Harry Earles plays what might be the [[Ur Example]] in [[The Unholy Three]]. He is easily the most vicious and evil of the titular trio, and pulls off the old 'midget in a baby carriage' trick.
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== Literature ==
* In the book ''Obsidian Butterfly'', part of the [[Anita Blake Vampire Hunter]] series, there is Nicky Bako, a pretty infamous necromancer who is the witch for the outlaw biker gang and werewolf pack in the area, Los Lobos.
* This is what everyone thinks [[A Song of Ice and Fire|Tyrion]] is, despite his being one of the only characters that's basically good. But he may have had a [[Start of Darkness]] because of his ill treatment.
* One gladiator in the second book of ''[[Detectives in Togas]]''.
* The Colorman from [[Christopher Moore]]'s ''Sacre Bleu''. Contrasted with [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy|Toulouse Lautrec]] who has a more or less heroic role.
== Live Action TV ==
* There's one in ''[[The Cape (trope)]]'', although he's more a [[Jerkass]] than outright evil.
* Miguelito Loveless from ''[[The Wild Wild West (TV series)|The Wild Wild West]]'' is a cold-blooded criminal and [[Mad Scientist]].
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== Professional Wrestling ==
* Hornswaggle from the WWE universe.
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== Webcomics ==
* Dr. Knickerbockers from ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'', who was actually based off of a recurring nightmare of the artists.
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