History Main / Lilliputians

* TorinsPassage: One [[HollowEarth layer of the world]] is filled with them. Torin needs to whisper when talking to them.

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* The Tek-Rats from ''{{GURPS}}: Bio-Tech'' stand two inches tall and are a mix of humans and several other animals. Noteable in that even with fur they require a great deal of food (in relative terms) to keep from freezing, small bodies shed heat more quickly.

* Eddie Murphy's ''Meet Dave''.
* ''Flight Of The Navigator''. Several of the alien specimens in the starship are rather small: the size of a human finger or so.

* The stitchpunks in the short film and movie of 9

* The Minish from ''TheLegendOfZelda: The Minish Cap'' used to {{Handwave}} the presence of Rupees and Hearts under rocks throughout the series.

* Issun, and his village in Okami, are the size of bugs and live away from civilization in the frozen north. They are known as Poncles in-universe.

* [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?id=1245 fairies]] in ''{{Drowtales}}''.

* One episode of ''MightyMax'' starts with reports of a swarm of beetles ruining a small village. Turns out they are actually tiny alien scout, clearing the area for one of their diplomatic ships to land. Hey, the aliens left a note saying they would come back later (it's in a language no one alive can read, of course.) The aliens want Earth's toxic and radioactive waste; it's apparently an extremely valuable commodity where they come from. Win-win for Earth, Max, and the aliens.

* One episode of the animated series Krypto The Superdog featured a couple of tiny aliens.

* Marvel Comics' Tim Boo Bah

* ''{{Jimmy Two-Shoes}}'' actually hastwo named races: [[StrongAnts the Gnomans]] and the Racing Bugs. There are also several other citizens of Miseryville like this. Dorkus is even smaller than [[TheNapoleon Heloise]].

* The IsaacAsimov short story ''Youth'' has two boys capturing a couple of small aliens in the belief that they're unusual animals. Fortunately the aliens are smart enough to realize that harming the children would be a bad idea, so they just wait for adult humans to discover them.

* ''Infinity Beach'', a 2000 science fiction novel by Jack [=McDevitt=]. The protagonist only realizes halfway through the novel that a 'model' spaceship is (unknown to its owner) a real spaceship brought back from an unsuccessful FirstContact a decade before.

* The Helmacrons from ''{{Animorphs}}''.

* The IsaacAsimov short story ''Youth'' has two bods capturing a couple of small aliens in the belief that they're unusual animals; fortunately the aliens are smart enough to realize that harming the children would be a bad idea, so they just wait for adult humans to discover them.

* The IsaacAsimov short story ''Youth'' has two body capturing a couple of small aliens in the belief that they're unusual animals; fortunately the aliens are smart enough to realize that harming the children would be a bad idea, so they just wait for adult humans to discover them.

->''"I attempted to rise, but was not able to stir; for, as I happened to lie on my back, I found my arms and legs were strongly fastened on each side to the ground, and my hair, which was long and thick, tied down in the same manner. I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my arm-pits to my thighs. I could only look upward; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes. I heard a confused noise about me, but, in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky. In a little time I felt something alive moving on my left leg, which advancing gently forward over my breast, came almost up to my chin; when, bending my eyes downward as much as I could, I perceived it to be a [[{{Lilliputian}} human creature not six inches high]], with a bow and arrow in his hand, and a quiver at his back."''

->''"I attempted to rise, but was not able to stir; for, as I happened to lie on my back, I found my arms and legs were strongly fastened on each side to the ground, and my hair, which was long and thick, tied down in the same manner. I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my arm-pits to my thighs. I could only look upward; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes. I heard a confused noise about me, but, in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky. In a little time I felt something alive moving on my left leg, which advancing gently forward over my breast, came almost up to my chin; when, bending my eyes downward as much as I could, I perceived it to be a [[TropeNamer human creature not six inches high]], with a bow and arrow in his hand, and a quiver at his back."''

->''"I attempted to rise, but was not able to stir; for, as I happened to lie on my back, I found my arms and legs were strongly fastened on each side to the ground, and my hair, which was long and thick, tied down in the same manner. I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my arm-pits to my thighs. I could only look upward; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes. I heard a confused noise about me, but, in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky. In a little time I felt something alive moving on my left leg, which advancing gently forward over my breast, came almost up to my chin; when, bending my eyes downward as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human creature not six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hand, and a quiver at his back."''

* The tiny machines from the movie ''*batteries not included''.

** This was parodied in a ''SouthPark'' episode, where the boys create intelligent life in an aquarium by mixing brine shrimp (sea people) with human semen (sea men). Butters points out that The Simpsons already did it.

* [[Rumo And His Miraculous Adventures]] features a lost city of a species that fits. Said city - a veritable metropolis - is so small it fits under a single leaf.

* ''{{Doraemon}}: Nobita's Little Star Wars''.

* The plot in ''{{Doraemon}}: Nobita's Little Star Wars''.

** Also the successor ''{{Futurama}}'' did it months prior to ''South Park'' when Bender gets lost in space. Bender is attached by tiny space humanoids (Shrimpkins) who built a civilization and worships Bender as a god.

* In ''[=~Old Man's War~=]'', there is one planet inhabited by people who are almost exactly like humans, except they're only an inch tall. They're depicted as being hopelessly outmatched by the human military in ground battles, but at the very least evenly matched in space battles. Tiny ships can only have tiny weapons, but they're also too small to aim at properly.
* Whereas it's the exact opposite in ''Bill The Galactic Hero'' by Harry Harrison. 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.

* In ''OldMansWar'', there is one planet inhabited by people who are almost exactly like humans, except they're only about 2 inches tall.
** They're depicted as being hopelessly outmatched by the human military in ground battles, but at the very least evenly matched in space battles. Tiny ships can only have tiny weapons, but they're also too small to aim at properly.