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Napoleons might use a [[Scully Box]] to appear taller.

== Anime & Manga ==

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** [[Street Fighter|Tiger Uppercut]]!

* Anak Zahard from ''[[Tower of God]]''. Small, strong and straight to the point (or punch).

* Edward Elric from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]''. He's an okay guy, but he [[Berserk Button|takes comments about his height]] ''[[Hair Trigger Temper|way]]'' [[Berserk Button|too personally]], and [[Twisting the Words|interprets them as being much more vindictive than what the person originally said]]. For example, were someone to comment that Ed is "small", he would interpret it as "so small you can crush him like an ant", usually followed by the other person saying something like, "I didn't say ''that'' much!"

* Edward Elric from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]''. He's an okay guy, but he [[Berserk Button|takes comments about his height]] ''[[Hair-Trigger Temper|way]]'' [[Berserk Button|too personally]], and [[Twisting the Words|interprets them as being much more vindictive than what the person originally said]]. For example, were someone to comment that Ed is "small", he would interpret it as "so small you can crush him like an ant", usually followed by the other person saying something like, "I didn't say ''that'' much!"

** He even assaults people for making a comment about his height, and eventually {{spoiler|causes a catastrophe in the manga when he recklessly attacks Envy, who was coming in "peace" and just called him "pipsqueak" without thinking. And Envy even tries to talk him into stopping...}}.

*** He also keeps track of the ''exact number'' of times Envy called him pipsqueak.

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* [[Naruto]] before ''Shippuden'' was this -- him being the shortest in the team, including Sakura. And let's face it -- he really is very confrontational, rude, loud, and aggressive.

** 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.

* [[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.

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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 Napoleon|shorty]]. Never call her [[Berserk Button|kid]] unless you want to hear [[Catch Phrase|a long tirade about the strength of her intelligence]]. That goes double if you're a foreigner: it'll be the [[Cluster F Bomb|Cluster F Bombs]] for you.

* [[Teen Genius]] Suzu Hagimura is ''[[Seitokai Yakuindomo]]'''s resident [[The Napoleon|shorty]]. Never call her [[Berserk Button|kid]] unless you want to hear [[Catch Phrase|a long tirade about the strength of her intelligence]]. That goes double if you're a foreigner: it'll be the [[Cluster F-Bomb|Cluster F Bombs]] for you.

* 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 cm, shorter than most of the main cast, but sometimes appears shorter. His boss, Daijiro "Bucho" Ohara, is slightly taller and has a short fuse temper mainly towards Ryotsu goofing off on his job.

* 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.

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* Napoleon's entire personality in ''[[Time Bandits]]'' was based around his abhorrence of tall people and obsessiveness about being short.

* Gus, played by Mickey Rooney, from the film ''[[Night At the Museum]]''. The real Napoleon appears in the sequel, ''Battle for the Smithsonian''.

* Joe Pesci's characters often have a [[Hair Trigger Temper]]. See: Tommy DeVito in ''[[Goodfellas]]'' or Nicky Santoro in ''[[Casino (Film)|Casino]]''.

* Joe Pesci's characters often have a [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]. See: Tommy DeVito in ''[[Goodfellas]]'' or Nicky Santoro in ''[[Casino (Film)|Casino]]''.

* Mini-Me from ''[[Austin Powers]]''. He [[Silent Bob|doesn't really say anything about it]], though... just makes a lot of mean faces if you make fun of his height.

* Lord Cutler Beckett from ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]''. He's the closest thing to an outright-evil character in the films. He has no fear of Gods, and no sense of honor, he's cold, heartless, tyrannical, and severe. ''But he's so tiny!''

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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.

* 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.

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* The pompous and authoritarian Captain George Mainwaring in ''[[Dads Army]]'' is at least a head shorter than most of his platoon, and is often called "Napoleon" by the local ARP Warden. In one episode he had a [[Dream Sequence]] in which he ''was'' Napoleon.

* Dr. Romano on ''[[ER]]'', even though he could be quite the good guy at times.

* ''[[Top Gear]]'''s Richard "Hamster" Hammond, although he isn't actually ''very'' short. The Napoleon stuff comes from working with a "[[The Big Guy|seven foot oaf]]" who is [[Deadpan Snarker|big on the mockery]]. Nonetheless, at about 5'7", he's the smallest of the hosts and also probably the most [[Cluster F Bomb|foul-mouthed]] and adventurous.

* ''[[Top Gear]]'''s Richard "Hamster" Hammond, although he isn't actually ''very'' short. The Napoleon stuff comes from working with a "[[The Big Guy|seven foot oaf]]" who is [[Deadpan Snarker|big on the mockery]]. Nonetheless, at about 5'7", he's the smallest of the hosts and also probably the most [[Cluster F-Bomb|foul-mouthed]] and adventurous.

* ''[[El Chapulin Colorado]]'' can't get five minutes straight without being called "short" in a way or another, to the more insulting. The most memorables takes on it involve the famous "Pastillas de Chiquitolina" (Smallinium Pills), who can turn anyone who gulps them into [[Fun Size]].

{{quote| '''Chapulín:''' ''(showing the bottle)'' With one of these pills, I can become incredibly tiny! Just see!<br />

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== Web Animation ==

* Strong Bad from ''[[Homestar Runner]]'', even though he's really the second shortest character and of course the shortest is The Cheat, his [[Non Human Sidekick]].

* Strong Bad from ''[[Homestar Runner]]'', even though he's really the second shortest character and of course the shortest is The Cheat, his [[Non-Human Sidekick]].

* Paul Hammerbro from ''[[Bowsers Kingdom]]''. The only one shorter than him is Jeff and Paul has a temper to match.

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{{quote| '''Gil:''' [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030108 Being a short man he places too much importance on size]...}}

* While it's not too obvious because he's usually around people his own height or less, [[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Doc Scratch]], [[The Man Behind the Man]] (behind the man behind the {{spoiler|end of the universe}}) is only about four feet tall.

* "[[No Name Given|Shorty]]" from ''[[Skullkickers (Webcomic)|Skullkickers]]'' is a [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|dwarf]] with a [[Hair Trigger Temper]], described by the creators as being 'always one step away from and explosion of emotional rage'.

* "[[No Name Given|Shorty]]" from ''[[Skullkickers (Webcomic)|Skullkickers]]'' is a [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|dwarf]] with a [[Hair-Trigger Temper]], described by the creators as being 'always one step away from and explosion of emotional rage'.

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* Napoleon himself on ''[[Clone High]]''.

** Plus he's on the Basketball team!

* [[Invader Zim]] is from a society that determines rank from height, and is the size of a human child. As a result he's perpetually [[Well Done Son Guy|eager to please his leaders]], but being a [[Too Dumb to Live]] [[Genius Ditz]] he only succeeds in [[Lord Error Prone|making things worse]].

* [[Invader Zim]] is from a society that determines rank from height, and is the size of a human child. As a result he's perpetually [["Well Done, Son" Guy|eager to please his leaders]], but being a [[Too Dumb to Live]] [[Genius Ditz]] he only succeeds in [[Lord Error-Prone|making things worse]].

* Ren from ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]''. It helps that he's a Chihuahua, well known in [[Real Life]] for yapping impotently at people as if they were the boss. And he's well-known for [[Ax Crazy|going psycho]]. Ren has been described thusly: "He would rip your heart out, if only he had the strength."

* Napoleon Brie from the original ''[[Biker Mice From Mars]]'' series, and Hairball from the new one.

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* [[The Scrappy|Scrappy-Doo]] from ''[[Scooby Doo]]''. The other characters had to constantly restrain him from making patently suicidal frontal attacks on much larger opponents. (Then again, since at least Fred and Velma were always convinced from the get-go that the ghosts were really guys in suits, why ''did'' the others always run?)

* 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.

* ''[[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|Punch Clock Villains]] who followed whoever had the tastiest [[G Rated Drug|oil]], this guy was planning to take over Detroit minutes after his creation.

* Dirt Boss, the third Constructicon from ''[[Transformers Animated]]''. While Mixmaster and Scrapper were [[Punch Clock Villain|Punch Clock Villains]] who followed whoever had the tastiest [[G-Rated Drug|oil]], this guy was planning to take over Detroit minutes after his creation.

* ''[[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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* Winslow & Eddie the Squirrel from ''[[Cat Dog]]''

* Citoset from ''[[The Ripping Friends]]''

* In the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "Bullseye!" one of the contestants in the [[Card Carrying Villain|Pageant Of Evil]] is a [[Meaningful Name|Dr. Diminutive]], who introduces himself by saying, "I don't have a Napoleon complex! Napoleon had a ''me'' complex!" He's quickly disqualified for being too short.

* In the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "Bullseye!" one of the contestants in the [[Card-Carrying Villain|Pageant Of Evil]] is a [[Meaningful Name|Dr. Diminutive]], who introduces himself by saying, "I don't have a Napoleon complex! Napoleon had a ''me'' complex!" He's quickly disqualified for being too short.

* Bart Simpson in ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Radioactive Man", in an attempt to get the part for Fallout Boy for the titular film being made, did several things indicative of the trope, including wearing elevator shoes, wearing a pin-stripe suit with vertical lines, and having a chihuahua as a scale for comparison. He ultimately doesn't get the part only because he was still a few inches too short. Milhouse got the part instead.

* The titular character of [[Dan Vs]].

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