History Main / LilliputianWarriors

* The Disney remake of ''Literature/BridgeToTerabithia'' have Jess and Leslie re-imagining dragonflies as insect-humanoids, who backs them up in their battle against the squogres.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': "The Golf War" introduces the [[PunnyName Lilliputtians]], who are tiny golf-ball-headed folk who live in the local miniature golf course. Regardless, one of their cultures is pirate themed, another is knight themed and still another is cowboy themed. Even the more peaceful Lilliputtian cultures are fierce fighters, and they all come together to attack the protagonists near the end of the episode. Also, the Lilliputtians join the resistance in the GrandFinale [[Recap/GravityFallsS2E20WeirdmageddonPart3TakeBackTheFalls "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back the Falls"]].

* The Fmeks in ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack''; they are of very small sizes and very aggressive and ProudWarriorRace. This in PlayedForLaughs because of their small size and goofy behavior though. Nevertheless they do tend to represent a real danger in most episodes they’re in.

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* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': "The Golf War" introduces the [[PunnyName Lilliputtians]], who are tiny golf-ball-headed folk who live in the local miniature golf course. Regardless, one of their cultures is pirate themed, another is knight themed and still another is cowboy themed. Even the more peaceful Lilliputtian cultures are fierce fighters, and they all come together to attack the protagonists near the end of the episode. Also, the Lilliputtians join the resistance in the GrandFinale [[Recap/GravityFallsS2E20WeirdmageddonPart3TakeBackTheFalls "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back the Falls"]].
* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' has the ant-sized Gnomans, who dress like ancient European warriors and possess SuperStrength to the point where their colonel was able to grab Beezy and toss him around like a ragdoll when he ticked him off.
* Creator/ChuckJones's cartoon short "To Itch His Own" featured the Mighty Angelo, the strongman from a flea circus, who is barely visible without a magnifying glass but able to tote around objects that most humans would consider heavy. When his vacation is cut short by a bulldog bullying his vacation home (a smaller dog), Angelo unleashes his wrath on the nuisance, who finds himself soundly trounced by someone he can't even see.
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

* Aizawa's race in ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'' seems to have a military culture. While they're never seen actually fighting, Aizawa's small body actually seems quite strong for its size, if her taking down a group of rhinoceros beetles in chapter 122 is any indication.
* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'', Keicho Nijimura's stand, Bad Company, is an army of toy-sized US army soldiers, helicopters, and tanks. Their individual ordnance may not be much stronger than firecrackers, but [[DeathByAThousandCuts their sheer number makes them lethal]].

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%% * Used in ''Krage the Conqueror''. It doesn't work well for him.

* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' has the Banzai Battalion. A group of 3-inch high robots who protect a garden from pests as if they were fighting a real ''BugWar''. They also prove effective at subduing a group of criminals who take their owners hostage.

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* The inch tall toy soldiers come to life in Stephen King's short story ''Battleground''. Adapted into an episode of the TV series ''Nightmares and Dreamscapes''.

* Literature/{{Discworld}} has "the Wee Free Men" or Nac Mac Feegle, who are "Franchise/TheSmurfs as {{Violent Glaswegian}}s". Despite their tiny size, they're one of the most violent races on the Disc.
* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', Harry presses a number of small faeries into service as this (through the simple process of pizza bribery). Do not underestimate the impact of dozens of lightning-fast faeries with boxcutters. [[spoiler:Working together, they killed a PhysicalGod.]]
* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' has the mice. An unusual example as [[CaptainObvious they don't look like little humans]]. They're also much more chivalrous than most examples - they see themselves as an order of honourable knights. They're also very much on the side of good. Their combat style in battle involves getting under an enemy's feet and tripping them, then attacking while they're down. But nonetheless they - or at least the head mouse, Reepicheep - are quite happy to engage in one on one duels. On one occasion the king had to sternly order Reepicheep not to challenge a ''dragon'' to a strategically pointless single combat!

* Whereas it's the exact opposite in ''Literature/BillTheGalacticHero'' by Creator/HarryHarrison. The Chingers are lizardoids only seven inches high, but as they come from a [[{{Heavyworlder}} 10G world]], they're able to throw the Space Trooper protagonist easily. Government propaganda portrays them as being seven feet tall so morale won't be affected.
* Literature/TimeWars, ''The Lilliput Legion'': the villain genetically engineers an army of tiny warriors.
* The sci-fi short ''Sodom and Gomorrah in Texas'' by Raphael Aloysius Lafferty has aliens who are every inch (sorry) this trope. A census taker steals the tax list of a colony of tiny aliens (he'd been told to count ''everyone'', no matter what their size). Their short and angry leader demands the list back, and when told by the dumbfounded mayor that it's been sent to Washington, is so annoyed at having to hike all that way he blows up the town with a bomb the size of a grain of sand.

* Around the midpoint of the ''Literature/GarrettPI'' series, a race of tiny WingedHumanoid creatures, the Mor-Cartha, arrive in the city and become serious pests. Tribal natives from the wilds of thunder-lizard country, they continue fighting their inter-tribe wars in the skies over [=TunFaire=], when they're not stealing everything that isn't nailed down. [[spoiler: After a while they're all hired as mercenaries for the Cantard War, and their aerial scouting and skirmishing proves so effective that they ''finally'' win the war for Karenta: something generations of soldiers and sorcerers had failed to do.]]

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* The realm of Segovia in the ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' universe is a plane about 1/100 the size of the main world of Dominaria. Which explains why its [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=14538 leviathans]] are a mediocre 3/3.

[[folder:VideoGames]]

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'' carries no race-job restrictions, so it is perfectly possible to create a Tarutaru warrior, dragoon, paladin, dark knight, etc. with the proper care and handling.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' DOES have race-class restrictions, but has gnome warriors as one of the available selections. Unlike other {{MMORPG}}s, differences in stat allocation between different races are negligible at best, so you are bound to see one shrugging off blows from a colossal wyrm at one point or another.
** To be fair, all races are Lilliputian Warriors when attacking a colossal wyrm.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'', it's implied by one of Caldarius's lore that he may in reality be an 18 inch alien, and that his armor that resembles a typical mecha really is a [[MobileSuitHuman giant mecha from his prospective]]. Even another piece of lore of his seems to imply this as it mentions him having fought an Ankrosa warrior, something stated to be nearly thrice his size, and that some had described him as an angry hornet.

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%% * The Leafmen and the Boggans from ''WesternAnimation/Epic2013'' .

* The Fmeks in ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack''; they are of very small sizes and very aggressive and ProudWarriorRace. This in PlayedForLaughs because of their small size and goofy behavior though. Nevertheless they do tend to represent a real danger in most episodes they’re in.

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* The Disney remake of ''Literature/BridgeToTerabithia'' have Jess and Leslie re-imagining dragonflies as insect-humanoids, who backs them up in their battle against the squogres.

* The title characters of the movie ''Film/SmallSoldiers'' would probably count although they fit AIIsACrapshoot rather than being a species. They're the right size, and they're very much armed.
%% * The movie ''Film/{{Willow}}'' has some of these. They were called Brownies.

* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'', Keicho Nijimura's stand, Bad Company, is an army of toy-sized US army soldiers, helicopters, and tanks. Their individual ordnance may not be much stronger than firecrackers, but their sheer number makes them lethal.

%% * The Leafmen and the Boggans from ''WesternAnimation/{{Epic}}'' .

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* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Queen Atomia's Nutrons are an interesting take. While they spend most of their time microscopic their Queen can easily shift them to any size between their normal and regular humans sized and their also her almost entirely mindless warriors who have no purpose but fight for her and were [[ReforgedIntoAMinion actually human before she got her hands on them]].

* The Mowanians from ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' are action figure-sized hostile aliens in little astronaut suits who carry weird-looking [[RayGun raygun]]-[[BladeOnAStick polearms.]]

* The Uphorns and the Downhorns in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' Season 9 episode "Big Shot Smurfs" are belligerent Viking-like fellows who are even smaller than the Smurfs.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Queen Atomia's Nutrons are an interesting take. While they spend most of their time microscopic their Queen can easily shift them to any size between their normal and regular humans sized and their also her almost entirely mindless warriors who have no purpose but fight for her and were [[ReforgedIntoAMinion actually human before she got her hands on them]].

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': "The Golf War" introduces the [[PunnyName Lilliputtians]], who are tiny golfball-headed folk who live in the local miniature golf course. Regardless, one of their cultures is pirate themed, another is knight themed and still another is cowboy themed. Even the more peaceful Lilliputtian cultures are fierce fighters, and they all come together to attack the protagonists near the end of the episode. Also, the Lilliputtians join the resistance in the GrandFinale [[Recap/GravityFallsS2E20WeirdmageddonPart3TakeBackTheFalls "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back the Falls"]].
* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' has the ant-sized Gnomans, who dress like ancient European warriors and possess SuperStrength to the point where their colonel was able to grab Beezy and toss him around like a ragdoll when ticked him off.

''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'' has the Gallivespians, who are vicious six-inch assassins who ride dragonflies. They make up for their relative lack of strength by having venomous spurs on their heels, which is potent enough to kill a full-grown human in minutes (though they have to "recharge" their poison reserves after stinging someone: a second sting in rapid succession will only make their second victim groggy).

* Creator/ChuckJones's cartoon short "To Itch His Own" featured Mighty Angelo, the strongman from a flea circus, who is barely visible without a magnifying glass but able to tote around objects that most humans would consider heavy. When his vacation is cut short by a bulldog bullying his vacation home (a smaller dog), he unleashes his wrath on the nuisance, who finds himself soundly trounced by someone he can't even see.

* Literature/{{Discworld}} has "the Wee Free Men" or Nac Mac Feegle, who are "TheSmurfs as [[ViolentGlaswegian Violent Glaswegians]]". Despite their tiny size, they're one of the most violent races on the Disc.

* The realm of Segovia in the ''MagicTheGathering'' universe is a plane about 1/100 the size of the main world of Dominaria. Which explains why its [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=14538 leviathans]] are a mediocre 3/3.