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* ''[[Dragonball Z]]''. Vegeta. It's ''extremely'' noticable during his first appearance, and not only because he's [[Giant Mook|standing next to Nappa]]. Vegeta seems to grow in comparison to the other characters as the series moves on, though this can be attributed more to added muscle mass and aging rather than physically growing taller. He consistently remains one of the shorter fighters in the show.
* Snagglebit from ''[[The Littl' Bits]]''; his original ''name'' was even Napoleon.
* [[Naruto]] before ''Shippuden'' was
** In ''Shippuden'', however, he's a lot taller, practically as tall as Sakura if not a bit taller.
* [[Tsundere|England]] from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', though his demeanor isn't explicitly stated to come from his shortness. His official height would set him only two centimeters shorter than America and at the same height as France. However, he's a bit shorter than France and America looks [[One Head Taller]] next to him, almost to [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl|Huge Guy Tiny Other Guy]] proportions at times, so it's suspected that the author made him shorter in comparison to play up this trope.
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** To be fair, you can't really blame him, since he's shorter than ''[[Samus Is a Girl|Yellow]]'' (who does not, however, have the same problem, though she does usually [[Sweat Drop]] every time one of the GSC gang realizes that she's older than them, despite being shorter).
* Kanta Mizuno, the eponymous ''[[Desert Punk (manga)|Desert Punk]]'' is one of the shortest people in the series and [[Gonk|rather ugly]] (this isn't particularly rare in the series). These qualities contribute to him being a jerkass who is determined to prove himself the best bounty hunter there is.
* [[Teen Genius]] Suzu Hagimura is ''[[Seitokai Yakuindomo]]'''s resident
* The protagonist, Kankichi Ryotsu, of ''[[Kochikame]]'' is like this. He's shown to have a short temper and excels physically. His height is depicted at 167
* A milder example is Ryota Miyagi from ''[[Slam Dunk]]''. While he's smart enough to use his lack of height to his advantage in his sports team, he's still somewhat sensitive about it. Then again, being a member of the ''basketball team'' as well as the shortest of the regulars will make you this.
* Kokoro-chan from ''[[Tantei Opera Milky Holmes]]''. Perhaps to compensate, she's especially fond of [[Improbably High IQ|flaunting her IQ]]. In the OVA, she gets a side job of... being a loli idol.
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== Comics ==
* The Big Figure, the dwarf kingpin in ''[[Watchmen]]''. Rorschach is also a small man who wears lifts in his shoes while in costume to appear taller.
* The King in ''[[The Wizard of Id]]''. His reaction to his height seems to vary wildly between [[Wangst]], ruthlessness, and [[Disproportionate Retribution]]
* Libertad from ''[[Mafalda]]''.
* In ''[[Love and Rockets]]'', Carmen is very small and extremely aggressive, though she isn't as nasty as many examples on this page.
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* Rory Breaker, the leader of the black gang in ''[[Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]]''. He's described as a "psychotic dwarf with an afro" who once lit a man on fire for changing the channel away from something he was watching. His short height is accentuated by his two mammoth bodyguards, whose faces are sometimes not even visible as they stand beside him.
* Miss Ungermeyer in the ''[[Lizzie McGuire]]'' movie.
* This is a staple for most roles played by French comedic genius [[wikipedia:Louis de Funes|Louis de Funès]]
** For example, in ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067108/ Delusions of Grandeur]'', Don Saluste finds his valet Blaze (played by Yves Montand) to be too tall and orders him to serve his master while half-crouched. The actors for the "Grands d'Espagne" in the same movie were specifically chosen as very tall to make Saluste look shorter.
* Teardrop in ''[[Winter's Bone]]'' is a scrawny, middle-aged and physically unimpressive man who commands a healthy respect from the meth dealers in his town. Judging by the fact that he goes literally [[Ax Crazy]] on a car and wins a Mexican standoff with the local sheriff, he's no stranger to violence.
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* The Helmacron race from ''[[Animorphs]]''.
* Curly from all incarnations of ''[[Of Mice and Men]]''.
* The Nac Mac Feegle of ''[[Discworld]]'', who are basically [[Violent Glaswegian
** Corporal Strappi from ''[[Discworld/Monstrous Regiment|Monstrous Regiment]]'' is another ''[[Discworld]]'' example. He constantly bullies any Borogrovian recruit that can't tear his head off, and by the end of the first day of marching he was able to get "Wazzer" Goom to throw up just by shouting.
** Big Fido, feared canine psychopath and charismatic leader of Ankh-Morpork's Dog Guild, was a small fluffy white poodle.
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* The idea that Napoleon was '''extremely''' short is a plot point in [[Harry Stephen Keeler]]'s ''X. Jones of Scotland Yard''. Midget-hating tycoon Andre Marceau is found strangled to death in the middle of a freshly rolled croquet lawn. The only footprints, other than Marceau's own, are some tiny, baby-sized footprints. These do not lead out to the body but merely describe a small arc around it. The police suspect a Flying Stranger-Baby. X. Jones is called in to help crack the case! {{spoiler|The culprit is Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon seduced an ancestor of the victim and passed on a gene that causes people to die suddenly with symptoms that cannot be distinguished from strangulation. The same gene also causes hallucinations -- in the victim's case, of a demonic baby.}} That was not an unusual plot for Mr. Keeler, either.
* Lessa in the ''[[Dragonriders of Pern]]'' series is ''tiny'' but fearsome, made all the worse by her massive, jet plane-sized dragon Ramoth.
* A mild example in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Tie-in Novel|Tie In Novels]] starring the Eighth Doctor. He's not exactly
* Scourge in ''[[Warrior Cats]]''. Although replace "belligerent" and "pushy" with "mass-murdering psychopathic dictator".
* Sammael (whose name means "The Destroyer of Hope") of the Forsaken in ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' was one of several formerly prominent light side generals and Aes Sedai during the war against the shadow in the Age of Legends, whom was intensely jealous of the leader, Lews Therin Telamon, The Dragon (but not [[The Dragon]]), for one because he was a head shorter than him. He is extremely irked the same is true of his opponent's [[Reincarnation]] Rand Al Thor, and sometimes uses a projection to appear taller. It should be noted that he probably isn't all that short really, as Rand is explicitly said to be much taller than is average thanks to his Aiel heritage, around 6 1/2 feet.
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* Inverted in ''[[Psychonauts]]'', where one of the minds the player enters belongs to Fred Bonaparte, a direct descendant of Napoleon. Unlike his ancestor he himself is tall, and completely lacking in ambition, and as such is haunted by a fear of not living up to his family's reputation.
** Played straight with {{spoiler|Coach Oleander}}, who starts the whole "take over the world with psychic death tanks" thing because he was {{spoiler|refused military service}} because of his height.
* ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'' plays this straight with [[Heroic Sociopath]] Korgan, and subverts it with
** [[Cloudcuckoolander|Tiax]] [[Chaotic Evil|will]] [[Take Over the World|rule]] [[Ax Crazy|the]] [[Bedlam House|world!]]
* Shoma Sawamura from ''[[Rival Schools]]''. It doesn't help that his [[The Masochism Tango|on and off girlfriend Natsu]] is a [[Huge Schoolgirl]].
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** He at one point claims this was inspired by other halflings making fun of his height, but he was just trying to get some roleplaying XP at the time so this may just be a convenient lie.
* Permission Sam, arch-nemesis of Dominic in the ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' webcomic ''[[UG Madness]]'', is a condescending jerk who plays solely control decks. He's also just 5'1", a fact that Dominic frequently uses to get on his nerves.
* Agent Jerry in ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'' is foul-tempered and quick to fire off his gun (fortunately, he's a terrible shot). Floyd Fitznewski, on the other hand, isn't really mean, he just has too much energy and likes to start fights for the heck of
** Meanwhile, Galatea seems to have a crush on the actual historical Napoleon. "He's so complex, they ''named'' one after him!"
* Lord Stanley in ''[[Erfworld]]''. "I'll ignore one height crack. One."
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* Mr. Spacely in ''[[The Jetsons]]''.
* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' gives us [[Card-Carrying Villain|Lucius]] and [[Enfante Terrible|Heloise]]. The two shortest members of the cast are also the two most aggressive.
* Dirt Boss, the third Constructicon from ''[[Transformers Animated]]''. While Mixmaster and Scrapper were [[Punch Clock Villain
* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'': Mojo Jojo! He even gives a rant on how great Napoleon was just to rub the point home (though [[You Fail History Forever|he was a little deluded about how well he did]]).
* In one [[Animated Adaptation]] of ''[[Lucky Luke]]'', [[Historical Villain Upgrade|General Custer]] is portrayed as a raving, megalomaniacal, racist midget.
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* The actual Napoleon was 5'7, above average height for an 18th century Frenchman (5'5). It was propaganda from his sworn enemy, England, that created his reputation as a miniature, petty tyrant. A number of misconceptions have aided in perpetuating the image to this day. First, French feet of the time period were longer than modern feet, causing his height in French feet to be numerically smaller. Also, his nickname ''le Petit Caporal'', "the Little Corporal", actually referred to his humble background and modesty around his troops, rather than his physical size. Finally, he was often seen during war time on foot, surrounded by hulking bodyguards (who had a height requirement), making him look short by comparison.
* Male politicians and political leaders often go to great lengths to prevent themselves from appearing short.
** French president Nicolas Sarkozy is infamous for his attempts to hide his short height. While ex-president Bush is 15
** [[Joseph Stalin]] was around
** Caesar Augustus was around 5'7" according to his secretary (5'9" in Roman units), but biographer Suetonius says this is slightly inflated and he was known for wearing thick-soled shoes.
** North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il was infamous for wearing platform shoes and a bouffant hairstyle to make himself seem taller. When asked about Kim's height, Madeleine Albright noted that without his lifts, she stood eye-to-eye with him.
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* Alexander The Great was purported to be 5'4", although considering what time period he lived in that isn't that small.
* Attila the Hun may have suffered from dwarfism.
* [[Richard E. Grant]] and Paul McGann, the stars of ''[[Withnail and I]]'', once had not-quite-an-
* Bank robber George "Baby Face" Nelson was a raving loony, with a whole keyboard full of [[Berserk Button
* Although he was portrayed by 6'2 Peter O'Toole in ''[[Lawrence of Arabia]]'', in real life T.E. Lawrence was 5'5.
* Devon Aoki is one of the world's smallest supermodels, at only 5'3". She is listed at 5'5" however, to give her a chance in modeling. Most supermodels have to be above 5'7", no question. She is also known for her roles in martial art films and as [[Badass|Miho]] in ''[[Sin City]]''.
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