History Main / LittlePeopleAreSurreal

->''Have '''you''' ever had a dream with a dwarf in it? Do you know '''anyone''' who's had a dream with a dwarf in it? No! '''I''' don't even have dreams with dwarves in them. The only place I've seen dwarves in dreams is in stupid movies like this! "Oh make it weird, put a dwarf in it!". Everyone will go "Woah, this must be a fuckin' dream, there's a fuckin' dwarf in it!". Well I'm sick of it! You can take this dream sequence and stick it up your ass!''

Not to be confused with [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame that other kind of dwarf]].

* ''MirrorMirror'' by GregoryMaguire includes an InnerMonologue by the main villain about how dwarves tend to have an air of self-possession about them, even in the role of court jester mid-joke. Interestingly, this is used to ''increase'' the surreality of the dwarves who ''don't''. It's so common for dwarves to act abnormal, that the relative normalcy is what tips her off that these aren't normal dwarves. She's just that kind of character.

* A Christmas episode of the Australian talk show RoveLive had a group of dwarves dressed as Christmas decorations get strung up on a Christmas tree. When viewers complained about the un-PC nature of the act, the dwarves later returned to the show to explain that they were obviously OK with the act because they agreed to do it in the first place - and that it had paid them better than any other job they had done that year.

* Played with in ''{{Jackass}}'' 3D: an all-little-person barroom brawl is [[spoiler: broken up by dwarf cops and dwarf [=EMTs=].]]

* The Mad Midget Five from ''GodHand'' are a ridiculous-looking {{sentai}} team with chipmunk voices, and they're mostly treated as comic relief.

* The Lollipop Guild in ''TheWizardOfOz''

* Deconstructed in ''Tiny Tiptoes'', which stars... erm, GaryOldman as a little person. The female lead spends most of the film trying to come to terms with the fact that her husband's parents and brother have dwarfism.

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* Subverted in a few episodes of {{NCIS}}: Abby dates a dwarf who looks and acts positively button-down compared to [[PerkyGoth Abby]].

* Jimmy the dwarf in InBruges, an actor in the "[[StylisticSuck Eurotrash Boschian nightmare]]" being filmed in the city center.

--> -Tito, a dwarf actor objecting to a movie director relying on this page's trope in '''Living In Oblivion''' (1995)

Not only is there [[ClosetShuffle a man in his cabinet]]... but the man... is a midget! ([-...midget-] [--...midget--] [---...midget)---])

Not only is there [[ClosetShuffle a man in his cabinet]]... but the man... is a midget! ([-...midget-] [--...midget--] [---...midget)---]

Note that this trope applies only when a little person is shown or perceived to be notably different from the "normal" reality. (Big Figure in ''{{Watchmen}}'', for example, would not count — he's actually one of the more non-surreal adversaries in the story.)

Note that this trope applies only when a little person is shown or perceived to be notably different from the "normal" reality. (Big Figure in ''{{Watchmen}}'', for example, would not count — he's actually one of the more non-surreal adversaries in the story.)

If you see a little person in a film, or TV show, or comic, chances are whatever you're watching resembles a DisneyAcidSequence.

* {{Lexx}} did {{Shakespeare}} [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on drugs]] for the fourth-season episode ''A Midsummer's Nightmare.'' To go along with Oberon and Puck's CampGay, Titania was a male midget crossdresser with a five o'clock shadow.

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