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** 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.
* Vita of ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]''. [[Tsundere]], [[Fiery Redhead]] with [[Drop the Hammer|a giant hammer]] and approximately [[Little Miss Badass|half the height of most of the cast]] [[Ridiculously -Human Robots|permanently]]. Gets annoyed whenever someone mistakes her for a child. Tends to be exaggerated in fan works where she's shown looking for ways to get taller.
* To an extent, Hiei from ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]''. He's never shown as being especially sensitive about his height, but he is a diminutive, snarky, and on the tempermental side.
* Emerald from ''[[Pokémon|Pokémon Special]]'', who tries to make up for it with extendable arms and ridiculously high platform shoes.
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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 (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' [[Tie-in Novel|Tie In Novels]] starring the Eighth Doctor. He's not exactly short -- at 5'8", he's only an inch or two below average height for a 21st-century British man. But that's not especially tall for a hero with his enormous reputation. He hardly seems to know or care what he looks like to anyone, but sometimes meets people who were [[Expecting Someone Taller]], and another character comments on the fact that "he acts tall," which he does. His companion Anji is even more of an example; fellow companion Fitz reflects upon how silly she looks trying to boss around some thirteen-year-old girls whom she is "several inches shorter than", but decides she probably "shout[s] so much" because, "It must be a bummer to be short." He wouldn't know; he's the opposite of this trope, being tall and laid-back.
* Scourge in ''[[Warrior Cats (Literature)|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.
** It's explicitly stated in the books that Sammael is only slightly shorter than average.
* Willie Dick, the 4'7" Tlinglit cop in ''[[The Yiddish Policemens Union (Literature)|The Yiddish Policemens Union]]'' rides [[Badass Biker|a 2/3 scale motorcyle]], wears a bearskin he killed himself, and is generally described as a [[Badass]] bordering on [[Folk Hero]] notoriety. Naturally, when [[Gentle Giant]] Berko Shemets used to be a cop in Tlinglit territory, [[Odd Couple|the two of them were partners]].
* D'Artagnan in ''[[The Three Musketeers (Literature)|The Three Musketeers]]'' is described as quite short, but it doesn't seem to bother him. He is extremely [[Hot -Blooded]] in the first book, but even in ''[[Twenty Years After (Literature)|Twenty Years After]]'', when he's matured a lot, he challenges two of his best friends to a duel because they bruised his ego.
* [[Vorkosigan Saga|Miles Vorkosigan]] is ahem-mumble-something under five feet tall, and with fragile bones to boot (well, until he gets synthetic replacements, anyway). He's an Admiral rather than a General, but his Napoleonic tendencies are described several times by other characters, and even he acknowledges that he's driven by his physical condition; he has to prove, day after day after day, that he's a smartass bastard who can think rings around the opposition, and thus force people to accept the body that his brains happen to be in. The Vorkosigan Saga Universe should probably be very, very thankful that he had ''really good'' parents, because otherwise he'd have probably conquered it twice over by now.
* Karrin Murphy of ''[[The Dresden Files]]''. Tiny (especially when she's surrounded by men who are pushing six feet like Harry, Sanya and Thomas) and can probably kick your ass twelve ways from midday. Not to mention the fact that she {{spoiler|may or may not be the wielder of a holy sword}}. As Sanya put it, "Tiny, but ''fierce''."
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* [[Big Bad|Doctor Neo Cortex]] of the ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'' series. When the series began, he was so short that his in-game model couldn't even walk properly due to the insufficient length of his legs. It is implied in the introduction of ''The Huge Adventure'' that abuse related to his height (along with [[They Called Me Mad]]) was what drove Doctor Cortex towards a life of trying to [[Take Over the World]]. It should be noted that he has gotten taller in later games; his official height is given as 5'3" in the Nintendo DS version of ''Crash of the Titans'', and he now has visible knees.
* This title notably fits the champion Veigar from [[League of Legends]], the tiny champion who complains of short jokes while still trying to feign being evil.
* Date Masamune as portrayed in ''[[Samurai Warriors]]'' is fairly small compared to others ([[Bratty Half -Pint|especially in the first game]]) and is the resident [[Smug Snake]] who wants you to know that you are an ''[[Verbal Tic|imbecile!]]''
 
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