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Little People

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33 feature instances
31 referencing feature instances

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Little People	comment	Just about every fantasy world has at least one race whose defining characteristic is that they're not just short, but small. Typically around the size of a human child with an age in single digits. They typically fill the role of "comic relief" in an adventuring group (when they're not the protagonists). If any race of the Little People is to be considered tall compared to the rest of those races, it's most likely gonna be a Dwarf. Because they resemble a child, there's a good chance the Little People are magic users. Dwarves, Hobbits, Leprechauns, Gnomes, Christmas Elves, and some Fairies are specific subtropes. If these people are really little and are the main characters, it is a Mouse World; for other mouse-sized people, see Lilliputians. Not to be confused with the animated series of the same name. Also not to be confused with Real Life little people — for tropes relating to humans with dwarfism, see Little People Are Surreal and Depraved Dwarf.
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Little People / int_17c40956	comment	Dark Chronicle: The Firbits are half the size of the protagonists, addicted to grape juice, and their eyes are always covered with hair or glasses. While relatively mature, they have a habit of lapsing into childish responses, not unlike the Moon Folk from the previous game.
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Little People / int_22039762	comment	Arknights has the Durin, a diminutive underground race who are a fusion of classic dwarves and Hobbits. They're incredibly skilled engineers and shockingly good fighters but also completely carefree and love to do nothing but party, drink, and eat.
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Little People / int_2247a14a	comment	The Chronicles of Prydain: Doli, Gwystal and the rest of The Fair Folk are smaller than humans in size.
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Little People / int_3021fbd0	comment	Cirque du Freak: The Little People, created from the souls of the dead by Mr. Des Tiny to be his servants, are the true source in the setting of all of these legends around the world. They have stitched-together grey skin, glowing green eyes set too high on their faces, no hair, no eyelids, no sense of smell or taste, no speech unless Tiny decides to bless them with it, and they must wear special masks because if they breathe the air, they'll die. Multiple main characters are transformed into these over the course of the series.
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Little People / int_4522fd1	comment	Whateley Universe: Koehnes (and the race of Sidhe she's from). She has just showed up on campus and set herself as servant to Fey despite the fact that Fey has a roommate and lives in a dorm.
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Little People / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld has dwarfs, pictsies (Violent Glaswegian smurfs), goblins (mostly peaceful edge folk with a surprising talent for mechanisms), and gnomes (the least detailed, although the first to appear, but known to be good shoemakers).
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Little People / int_49a88442	comment	Final Fantasy XIV: The Lalafell are a diminutive race of adorable childlike people that love their Added Alliterative Appeal. The Plainsfolk have a more standard history of being farmers and shepherds, but much like the Lilties, the Dunesfolk of Ul'dah live in a Wretched Hive of a Merchant City filled with blood sports, vicious gangsters, corrupt merchants, Loan Sharks, and Dirty Cops that is run by The Syndicate in a Decadent Court that undermine their Puppet King. They also have an added bonus of having a history of violent racial strife. Both versions, however, have a history of being carried off by Giant Flyers and are often noted to be the favorite food of larger monsters.
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Little People / int_53bd0aaf	comment	With Strings Attached: Although the first story has no race of small folk, The Keys Stand Alone has a large number of small folk races running around the rebooted C'hou. Some outworlders are small folk as well, such as Theecat.
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Little People / int_5bd0554b	comment	Warcraft has gnomes and dwarves as its Little People. Also goblins, but their only comic trait is their tendency to make things go boom. The Battle for Azeroth expansion adds the Fox Folk Vulpera, based on Fennec Foxes.
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Little People / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: The Dragonlance setting has the Kender, which served as a different take on the Little People at the time (even if it was considered the Scrappy race due to annoying players playing up the kender's natural curiosity, fearlessness, and kleptomania). This helped evolve the Halfling in later editions past "hobbits with the serial numbers filed off". Dwarves are short, but they don't fit the cute or childlike part of the trope. They tend to be characterized as dour, tough, and warlike, and they tend to make good fighter characters.
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Little People / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe: Several of the gem castes are about the size of young children, including Rubies, Sapphires, Peridots (at least the ones made in Era 2), Aquamarines, and Larimars. A few are even smaller.
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Little People / int_816181cb	comment	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Munchkins are noted to be among the shortest tribe of Oz, although later appearances in the books note that they're sometimes as tall as any other resident of Oz. There's also the people of China Country who are said to be no larger than a baby doll.
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Little People / int_86312631	comment	The Tough Guide to Fantasyland: There's a wide assortment of minute races running about in various sizes and levels of hairiness. Some will likely be copies of Tolkien's Hobbits. They live in hidden places in woods and mountains, and tend to be cheerful, brave and stalwart. They are also the only group that the story will regularly permit to have a sense of humor.
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Little People / int_86814e94	type	Little People
Little People / int_86814e94	comment	Final Fantasy XI: Tarutaru take the cuteness factor, throw in some Verbal Tics, and aim for being as adorable and sweet as possible. This naturally results in plenty of Narm whenever they try and act serious.
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Final Fantasy XI (Video Game)	hasFeature	Little People / int_86814e94
Little People / int_86cd38b1	type	Little People
Little People / int_86cd38b1	comment	Everquest II has a vast array of little folks for players to take on, including five races (Fae, Arasai, Froglok, Gnome and Ratonga) who are half the height of humans or less!
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Little People / int_914ba844	comment	The Wizard of Oz: The Munchkins were depicted by dwarves and midgets, based on the books' description of them being Dorothy's height, between 3-4 feet high.
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Little People / int_98c55b59	comment	Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura averts the comic relief bit. Gnomes are Corrupt Corporate Executives who organize the mass kidnapping and rape (by ogres) of human women to breed half-ogres for use as a bodyguard race.
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Little People / int_99c23445	comment	The Man: A young boy has to hide and look after a demanding and bossy little man.
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Little People / int_9fdbe934	comment	Willow: The Nelwyn are a race that average a little under four feet tall.
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Little People / int_a55608da	comment	The Marvellous Land of Snergs: The proverbial Snergs are a race of short, stout humanoids.
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Little People / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Final Fantasy XI: Tarutaru take the cuteness factor, throw in some Verbal Tics, and aim for being as adorable and sweet as possible. This naturally results in plenty of Narm whenever they try and act serious. Final Fantasy XIV: The Lalafell are a diminutive race of adorable childlike people that love their Added Alliterative Appeal. The Plainsfolk have a more standard history of being farmers and shepherds, but much like the Lilties, the Dunesfolk of Ul'dah live in a Wretched Hive of a Merchant City filled with blood sports, vicious gangsters, corrupt merchants, Loan Sharks, and Dirty Cops that is run by The Syndicate in a Decadent Court that undermine their Puppet King. They also have an added bonus of having a history of violent racial strife. Both versions, however, have a history of being carried off by Giant Flyers and are often noted to be the favorite food of larger monsters. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Lilties are a very small and cute race. They're also super-adorable (and can crossbreed with people). Oh, and they used to be The Empire and can be extremely hardy and gruff, are incredibly strong for their size, can forge some mean weaponry, and can hold a grudge with the best of dwarves. Do not cross a Lilty of you know what's good for you.
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Little People / int_a8150af4	comment	The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: The Harfoots invoke this more so than the Third Age Hobbits in that their talent for hiding makes them mysterious creatures of legend to the other races of Men, akin to beings from folklore such as fairies or leprechauns. Their segments are also the most lighthearted parts.
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Little People / int_aea78f81	comment	Granblue Fantasy has the Harvins. They're about half the height of a human adult, with Pointy Ears and childlike faces even as adults. They're portrayed as having a natural affinity for magic and academics though they're no slouches when it comes to weapons.
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Little People / int_b9821fa9	type	Little People
Little People / int_b9821fa9	comment	The Dark Crystal has two short-ish races, the smallish Gelflings and the even smaller "Pod People" (who look kind of like potatoes and live in big seed pods). Then again, there are no human characters, and everyone else is either a reptilian or a something like a very tall angel, so the scale isn't totally clear.
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Little People / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: The Ratlings, though they don't have much presence in the game besides being specialist snipers for the Imperial Guard. They're essentially grimdark hobbits, being kleptomaniac little fornicators.
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Little People / int_c00614a7	type	Little People
Little People / int_c00614a7	comment	Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Lilties are a very small and cute race. They're also super-adorable (and can crossbreed with people). Oh, and they used to be The Empire and can be extremely hardy and gruff, are incredibly strong for their size, can forge some mean weaponry, and can hold a grudge with the best of dwarves. Do not cross a Lilty of you know what's good for you.
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Little People / int_c6f7e804	comment	Blake's 7. In "The Web", the characters encounter the Decima, a genetically-engineered Servant Race four-feet high on a planet covered in five-foot high bracken
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Little People / int_d12fe603	comment	The Small Folk is (strangely enough) about (very) little people, living secretly on the margins of the modern world.
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Little People / int_d616724d	comment	League of Legends: The yordles are short humanoids who come in a number of variants; some are furry and animal-like, such as Teemo and Rumble, while others are more like small humans, such as Corki and Poppy.
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Little People / int_eb5d7301	comment	Amphibia: Frogs are larger than their Earth counterparts, but still only a few feet tall. Even a pre-teen human girl like Anne towers over most of them. Newts and toads are bigger, but still generally shorter than adult humans (though the latter are often larger overall because they're so stocky). Olms and giant salamanders are genuinely enormous even compared to humans.
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Little People / int_f163bd9f	comment	ElfQuest: The ancestral High Ones were as tall as humans, being shapeshifting extraterrestrials, but over the course of time many of their descendants evolved into shorter forms.
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Little People / int_f9a91485	comment	Lucky Day Forever: The Proles. This trope is used to show that they are the lower class of a society ruled by tall, rich Whites.
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Little People / int_fe4dc9c6	comment	The Chronicles of Dorsa: The small men, a mysterious species which have large owl-like eyes, their features wizened with hands and feet of disproportionate (to humans) size. Most only meet humans to trade with them (but will walk off instantly if the deal isn't what they like) and speak in a strange language. They live under the earth and mine, while they appear to be entirely male at first (but small women are shown later-it's the men that venture outside apparently). All of them are later revealed to live in a massive city which they've carved underground. They're capable of great magic, especially illusions and apparently vanishing or appearing at will (it's revealed that's due to traveling in the shadow world).
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The Return to Gravity Falls / Fan Fic / int_e4ef338a	type	Little People
The Keys Stand Alone (Fanfic) / int_e4ef338a	type	Little People
Fantasy Encyclopedia / int_e4ef338a	type	Little People
Forest of Boland Light Railway / int_e4ef338a	type	Little People
Humanity Has Declined / int_e4ef338a	type	Little People
Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future / int_e4ef338a	type	Little People
Micromégas / int_e4ef338a	type	Little People
Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness / int_e4ef338a	type	Little People
Our Own Correspondent / int_e4ef338a	type	Little People
Ronja the Robber's Daughter / int_e4ef338a	type	Little People
The Chronicles of Dorsa / int_e4ef338a	type	Little People
The Moorchild / int_e4ef338a	type	Little People
The Tough Guide to Fantasyland / int_e4ef338a	type	Little People
FantasyEncyclopedia	seeAlso	Little People
The Black Sand Bar (Roleplay) / int_e4ef338a	type	Little People
Blake's 7 / int_e4ef338a	type	Little People
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power / int_e4ef338a	type	Little People
Arknights (Video Game) / int_e4ef338a	type	Little People
Final Fantasy XI (Video Game) / int_e4ef338a	type	Little People
Piratez (Video Game) / int_e4ef338a	type	Little People
World Flipper (Video Game) / int_e4ef338a	type	Little People
Lucky Day Forever (Web Animation) / int_e4ef338a	type	Little People
442oons (Web Animation) / int_e4ef338a	type	Little People
Prophecy of the Circle (Webcomic) / int_e4ef338a	type	Little People
The Fantasy Novelist's Exam (Website) / int_e4ef338a	type	Little People
My Gym Partner's a Monkey / int_e4ef338a	type	Little People
The Soulmates In The Gift Of Light / int_e4ef338a	type	Little People
The Chronicles of Prydain / int_e4ef338a	type	Little People

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