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* ''Ivy the Terrible'' from ''[[The Beano]]'' is a short agressive pre-school aged child. Who ocassionally seems to be more agressive and destructive than some of the [[Dennis the Menace UK|older and larger characters]] in the comic.
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* Lord Farquaad from ''[[Shrek]]'', who takes great lengths to appear taller, such as by attaching false legs to his stirrups. Upon seeing Farquaad's massive tower, Shrek suggests that he's [[Compensating for Something]], which could actually go a few ways.
* Kadaj from ''[[Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children]]'', while not espescially short, is noticeably shorter than his two brothers, as well as Cloud and Sephiroth, and out of all of them tends to act the [[Psychopathic Manchild|most]] [[Large Ham|over-the-top]].
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* Yao from ''[[Mulan]]'' is one of the more fierce and [[Blood Knight]] -ish soldiers on the heroes side... and is also the shortest of them.
* The main antagonist of ''[[Wreck-It Ralph]]'' is {{spoiler|actually King Candy, a short, jovial, funny-looking guy whose size and personality makes him [[Beneath Suspicion]] for most of the movie}}.
* Swan in ''[[Phantom of the Paradise]]'', played by a 5'2 [[Paul Williams]], has shortened doorways at the Swanage/Death Records.
* Vizzini from ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]'' hires the strongest giant and most deadly swordsman he can find, but feels no fear in constantly browbeating and threatening them.
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** It may just be a [[Stylistic Self Parody|a riff on his character design]], since his legs are cartoonishly short.
* Mr. Dithers, the [[Mean Boss]] to Dagwood in ''[[Blondie (comic strip)|Blondie]]''.
== Sports ==▼
* The Quarterback gives orders to the offensive line in a football game, and is generally expected to by smaller and more spry than the other players. Conversely, telling a large person they'd be good at blocking carries the [[Unfortunate Implications]] of calling them a [[Dumb Muscle|Meat Shield]]. However, this is a relative measurement as most quarterbacks are at least 6 feet tall as a requirement if only to to see over the heads of the offensive line and to thrown 'down' at the smaller wide receivers. As far as blocking, it's harder than it looks and it's an vital part of any offense, if no where near as glamourous as other positions.▼
* In international football (soccer), quite a number of the truly great centre forwards were of below-average height with a somewhat squat figure that belied their talent for explosive speed and ability to jump higher than taller defenders to head a ball. Good cases in point were Ferenc Puskas of Hungary, and Uwe Seeler (known to his teammates as "Dicker" = "fat one") and Gerd Müller (fondly known as "kleines dickes Müller" = "little fat Müller") of West Germany.▼
== Tabletop Games ==
* In the ''[[BattleTech]]'' universe, Victor Steiner-Davion may be the most obvious example (mostly because he regularly gets accused of this by his detractors). In reality, he's not overly sensitive about his height... but he ''is'' physically short, has to live up to being the firstborn son of two of the most famous and popular rulers in the recent history of the Inner Sphere, and doesn't suffer fools gladly, so, close enough.
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* Hermia in ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' seems to have this as her [[Berserk Button]]. Sure, she's angry because she thinks Helena stole her boyfriend, but what ''really'' gets her riled are the short jokes.
* Subverted in the song "Napoleon" from the Guy Bolton-[[P. G. Wodehouse]]-Jerome Kern ''Have a Heart''.
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* 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!]]''
=== Visual Novels ===
* ''[[Fate/stay night]]'': Even though he doesn't really fit this trope in terms of personality (or height for that matter), Shirou seems to be quite conscious about being "too short," even though he's actually normal height. It seems like he'll eventually go through an [[Future Badass|insane growth spurt]], but chances are that this spurt is of unnatural causes.
* Reo from the [[Hentai]] [[Girls Love]] [[Visual Novel]] ''[[Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo]]''. Also a [[Tsundere]].
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* Despite slightly taller than the American average height (though would be slightly under the average for post-1901 Presidents) at 5'10", Marco Rubio developed (or was seen as having developed) one due to an inability to stop feeding the 6'2" [[Donald Trump]]'s "Little Marco" nickname for him. It reached the point Rubio started wearing high heeled boots to compensate, which attracted more attention than his height.
* Japanese officers in [[World War 2]] were so small that you could tell officer corpses from enlisted by the shorter height of officers. In this case it was because Japanese military schools took [[The Spartan Way]] to the point of not properly feeding adolescent cadets at just the time when they needed feeding.
▲=== Sports ===
▲* The Quarterback gives orders to the offensive line in a football game, and is generally expected to by smaller and more spry than the other players. Conversely, telling a large person they'd be good at blocking carries the [[Unfortunate Implications]] of calling them a [[Dumb Muscle|Meat Shield]]. However, this is a relative measurement as most quarterbacks are at least 6 feet tall as a requirement if only to to see over the heads of the offensive line and to thrown 'down' at the smaller wide receivers. As far as blocking, it's harder than it looks and it's an vital part of any offense, if no where near as glamourous as other positions.
▲* In international football (soccer), quite a number of the truly great centre forwards were of below-average height with a somewhat squat figure that belied their talent for explosive speed and ability to jump higher than taller defenders to head a ball. Good cases in point were Ferenc Puskas of Hungary, and Uwe Seeler (known to his teammates as "Dicker" = "fat one") and Gerd Müller (fondly known as "kleines dickes Müller" = "little fat Müller") of West Germany.
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