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* In ''[[{{Film/Avatar}} Avatar]]'', the [[MagicalNativeAmerican Na'vi]] live on the lower-gravity Pandora. They're in the range of ten feet tall and skinny as a rail. Averts the weakness part: they're much stronger and more durable than humans, with the ability to use a hunting/war bow as tall as an average human man and their bones are practically natural carbon-fiber. Perhaps justified in that Pandora has only marginally lower gravity and the Na'vi evolved on a [[DeathWorld planet where]] [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything tries to kill you]].
** Not to mention that being so large, they have more places for muscles to attach too and just more muscles in general. And then the longer limbs could give them more leverage. The injection of {{Mary Suetopia}} doesn't hurt either.

** In a straight fight against a Nietzschean with eqivalent hand-to-hand combat, he'd lose. This is acknowledged by [[WordOfGod the producers]] in commentary tracks. [[spoiler:Remember, Gaheris Rhade was eventually revealed to have thrown that fight,]] though that's a RetCon added by [[JumpTheShark post-shark]] writers.

** ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' gives a Lightworlder in Melora Pazlar, who is mostly bound to a wheelchair because of her difficulties in adapting to standard gravity. Dr. Bashir tries a strengthening regimen, but when told it would be irreversible (thus making it impossible for her to return to her homeworld), she declines.

* TomStrong was raised in a high-gravity environment, giving him immense musculature and strength while somehow not interfering with his growth. Just the opposite, in fact, he's huge (the [[SuperSerum goloka root]] might have something to do with that).

* Before he started flying and shooting laser beams out of his eyes, the late [[TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] and full [[TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] explanation for Comicbook/{{Superman}}'s powers was that his home planet, Krypton, had exceptionally high gravity (the first explanation given in ''Action Comics'' #1 was EvolutionaryLevels-- Superman had originally been conceived as being from the future). Even after the yellow sun explanation came into play, Krypton was still described as having a much greater mass than Earth. This might be the inspiration for TomStrong's origin.

** ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' gives a Lightworlder in Melora Pazlar, who is mostly bound to a wheelchair because of her difficulties in adapting to standard gravity. Dr. Bashir tries a strengthening regimen, but when told it would be irreversible (thus making it impossible for her to return to her homeworld), she declines.

* AnneMcCaffrey also used Heavyworlders in ''DinosaurPlanet'', where the trope is [[{{InvokedTrope invoked]]; this may or may not be the TropeNamer.

** Also features a few lightworlder characters, such as Joachim Alquezar from the Talbott Quadrant world of San Miguel. They are described as being tall and lightly built.

** Which is why they built themselves HumongousMecha about [[CompensatingForSomething six times the power of Earth models in their most mass produced forms.]]

* Tug-Mug from ''ThunderCats''.

* Not a person but a machine: in ''ZetaGundam'', BigBad [{DarkMessiah Paptimus Scirocco]]'s final mobile suit, The O, is designed for operations in Jupiter's gravity. As such it's incredibly heavily armoured and features massive thrusters to allow it to move at all. Turn it loose in space or Earth's atmosphere and it becomes a LightningBruiser and OneManArmy.

* The S't'ach in ''StarTrekTitan'', who resemble metre-high four-armed blue teddy bears, but are denser than they appear. In early books they are said to be superdense, but in a later book one points out the perils of having a lot of mass on a high gravity world. Apparently, this is a rumour spread by the S't'ach themselves; they're aware of how cute they look to humanoids, and want to discourage them from trying to pick them up and cuddle them.

* Thondar Allen, a "fifth-generation Jupiter colonist" and distant future descendent of [[TheFlash Barry Allen]], who appears to exist largely for the visual humour of [[FatterThanASpeedingBullet a really massive speedster]].

* ''ZoneOfTheEnders Dolores, i'', inverts the trope: It portrayed people born on Mars as being ''weaker'' than those born on Earth. It's mentioned that it's a criminal offense for an Earthling to strike a Martian, as there's a good possibility it could kill them.
** Which is why they built themselves HumongousMecha about [[CompensatingForSomething six times the power of Earth models in their most mass produced forms.]] On a related note this also explains how Ken from Zone of the Enders 2 [[GagBoobs can support herself without her back giving way.]]

* HonorHarrington herself is from a world with heavier-than-normal gravity, and the genetic enhancements built into her for survival on that world are part of what make her kick so much ass. The series also has San Martin, the highest gravity planet inhabited by humans with several minor characters being from there. Inhabitants are noted for their prodigious strength and muscle mass (but short height).

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* Not quite the same thing, but the idea that {{Aquaman}}'s incredible strength and durability come from he and his fellow Atlanteans adapting to the "crushing ocean depths" is related to this trope.

* Inhabitants of Larry Niven's ''Integral Trees'' are somewhat taller and slimmer than Earth people, but they are strong, tough Heavy Worlders compared to people from the rest of the ''Smoke Ring''. The trees' rotation provides at least a little simulated gravity, but everyone else grows up in zero-G.

* The Sontarans, a race of cloned galactic warriors from ''DoctorWho''. Although Sontarans 'grew' in size over the course of the series, the new series took the trouble to restore them to their original short height, leading to the inevitable HurricaneOfPuns from the Doctor.

* RumikoTakahashi did a comedic one-shot about a bounty hunter whose family was from a high-gravity world, and had proportionate strength, so they had to wear special restraints in order to keep from destroying everything around them by accident. The antagonist was also a super-strong heavyworlder, though not to the degree of the protagonist.