History Main / MisterBig

* One tradition in stage performances of GuysAndDolls is to cast Harry the Horse as the largest, burliest man on the cast. However, his boss, "Big Jule" is cast as the tiniest cast member. The 2019 Houston production took it [[https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2018/06/guys-and-dolls-review-tuts to extremes (Big Julie is the 3 foot lady in pinstripes).]]

* Galactamaru from ''WebAnimation/GirlchanInParadise'' is portrayed with a extremely muscular build and a deep, booming voice, and is always shot via HitlerCam... until the third episode, where he's finally put in the same shot as the heroes, revealing that he's less than a foot tall and easily defeated by [[ButtMonkey Yusuke.]]

->''"[...]ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow."''

->''"Ofttimes, a very small man can cast a very large shadow."''
-->-- '''Lord Varys''', ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''

** Edward Elric, a bit of a runt, leads the SiblingTeam of him and his little brother Alphonse, a huge walking suit of armor. Even when Al still had his body, [[BigLittleBrother Ed was still the shorter of the two]].

** Edward Elric, a bit of a runt, is given the not-entirely-ironic nickname of "Fullmetal" by Fuhrer King Bradley, who knows that Edward's brother Alphonse is a huge walking suit of armor. Colonel Mustang even [[LampshadeHanging comments on]] the Fuhrer's sense of humor when reading the certificate with Ed's NomDeGuerre. The brothers frequently run into people who mistake Al for Ed due to the name, pressing Ed's BerserkButton.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Capone 'Gang' Bege, a former mafia don who became one of the most infamous pirates of the era, while being only 5'5.5" tall. Not all ''that'' short, but we are talking about a world where people with giant's blood aren't particularly rare.

* One of the antagonists of ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' is an arctic shrew [[TheDon crime lord]] — played as a clear {{Expy}} of [[Film/TheGodfather Vito Corleone]] — who is even named Mr. Big. He has [[BearsAreBadNews polar bear]] henchmen. Fortunately, [[spoiler:he ends up owing Judy Hopps a few favors after he learns she was the one who saved his daughter's life and that they're on the trail of a case where his florist and friend was a victim.]]

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':

* [=ClockUp=]'s ''Euphoria'': [[spoiler:Kanae Hokari is the ''true'' EvilGenius BigBad who has been feeding you FalseMemories and kidnaps Nemu for as she sees that [[CloningBlues clone]] as an interesting specimen so that she could rise to the top of her company... and she's a mere 153 cm tall (5'0") woman that makes up for her short height with a big bust.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': The episode "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS3E7TheRicklantisMixup The Ricklantis Mix-up]]" has Big Morty, a drug lord who runs a strip club has the local police in his pocket. He is the same height as [[PlanetOfSteves every other Morty]] living on the Citadel of Ricks, and they’re all [[TeensAreShort short]]. Lampshaded when Cop Morty has him pinned to the ground:

* Mr. Boss of ''WesternAnimation/CodeNameKidsNextDoor'' is generally considered as the leader of the show's B villains separate from [[BigBad Father]], he's maybe four-five feet tall, as opposed to his averagely tall minions.

* Arliss Loveless in the movie ''Film/WildWildWest'', is a variation on this -- he is an ''[considers phrasing carefully]'' average-sized person, but completely legless. [[TheAlcoholic Don't]] [[IncrediblyLamePun say]] [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore it...]].

* Dr. Miguelito Loveless, a recurring EvilGenius villain on ''Series/TheWildWildWest''. Both he and ''Get Smart'''s Mr. Big were played by dwarf actor Michael Dunn.

->''"Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow."''

%%* "The Baby" (real name unknown) from ''Anime/{{Monster}}''.

* Scarface in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' is a tiny ventriloquist's puppet who controls an entire criminal empire and commands henchmen who are ''massive'' compared to him. Granted the puppet is actually the split personality of Arnold Wesker, but ''he'' is tiny as well being a diminutive and scrawny balding elderly man. His henchmen gleefully follow him, even running with his "insane dummy gimmick" and feeding into it to get the reformed Wesker and Scarface back in command, because he's such a good tactician.

%%* Grizzle from ''[[WesternAnimation/CareBearsAdventuresInCareALot Adventures in Care-a-Lot]]''.

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': The episode "The Ricklantis Mix-up" has Big Morty, a drug lord who runs a strip club has the local police in his pocket. He is the same height as [[PlanetOfSteves every other Morty]] living on the Citadel of Ricks, and they’re all [[TeensAreShort short]]. Lampshaded when Cop Morty has him pinned to the ground:
--> '''Cop Morty''': Not so big now, are ya?\\
'''Big Morty''': I never was! It was figurative!

** The BigBad in ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|1987}}'' was basically a brain with a face, stored ''inside'' a GiantMook.
** The [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 second series]] does it again, with their Shredder a tiny alien blob of sorts [[MobileSuitHuman posing as a human]].

* Lord Farquaad in ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}''. He's ''very'' sensitive about his frankly childlike stature, and tries to appear taller however he can. His palace is also the closest a medieval building could come to being a skyscraper. ("Do you think he's [[CompensatingForSomething compensating for something]]?")

* The intergalactic mob boss Cordyceps Jones in ''ComicBook/Rocket2017'' is initially shown as a [[LittleGreenMen very small green alien]]. It's eventually revealed [[spoiler: he's even smaller; the real Cordyceps Jones is, as the name suggests, a parasitic fungus that the alien was unfortunate enough to inhale]].

* One tradition in stage performances of GuysAndDolls is to cast Harry the Horse as the largest, burliest man on the cast. However, his boss, "Big Jule" is cast as the tiniest cast member. The 2019 Houston production took it [[https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2018/06/guys-and-dolls-review-tuts to extremes (Big Julie is the 3 foot lady in pinstripes)]].

* In a ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'' storyline involving a gang of loan sharks, the heavies demanding payment included crocodiles, bears and snakes, while the boss turned out to be [[spoiler: a mosquito]].

* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': [[spoiler:Pride]] is in charge of the other homunculi and, excluding Envy's true form (which he'll try to not use whetever possible), is the shortest of them.

* Many depictions of UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte portray him this way. Napoleon was actually around average height for a Frenchman of his time period and would hardly be considered tiny nowadays. There are a number of reasons for the misconception, including being affectionately nicknamed "the Little Corporal" by his men for his personability with the lower ranks, often being flanked by towering bodyguards that made him look short by comparison, and his height being measured 5'3 in French measurements, which is equal to 5'7 in British measurements. Of course, his rivals the British were all too eager to accept any reason to see Napoleon in a lesser light and began lampooning him as an up-jumped half-pint.

* Many depictions of UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte portray him this way. Napoleon was actually around average height for a Frenchman of his time period, and would hardly be considered tiny nowadays, but soldiers tended to be larger and burlier than the average man for obvious reasons, causing him to look fairly undersized around his fellow soldiers.
** This effect was amplified by the fact that he was most often seen around the elite (i.e. larger and taller than average for soldiers) Imperial Guard, who also gave him the affectionate nickname "The Little Corporal". Britain, his sworn enemy, seized upon the perception and lampooned him in propaganda cartoons as a [[TheNapoleon midget tyrant.]] [[note]]In French, the word "petit" is usually interpreted to mean "little", but it can also mean modest or thin. The play-on-words was likely intentional among his soldiers (for endearing effect) as well as British propaganda (for slanderous effect)[[/note]] Further confusing issues for the British, Napoleon was 5'3 tall in French measurements, but due to the fact that French feet were longer than Imperial feet this equated to 5'7 in British measurements.
** During the Egyptian campaign, one of the French generals was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas-Alexandre_Dumas Thomas-Alexandre Dumas]] (father of Creator/AlexandreDumas), a huge half-black man who was often mistaken by the locals to be the actual leader of the expedition and Napoleon an underling.

* A heroic version is [[TheCaptain Captain Jean-Luc Picard]] from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. He's fairly modest-sized compared to his NumberTwo Will Riker and TheBigGuy Worf, but this doesn't make him any less of a commanding presence on TheBridge.