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* Series/KabouterPlop (Plop The Gnome) a popular Belgian children's show focuses on 4 (Later 6) small gnomes that live inside mushroom houses. It gained a few movies over the years.

* ''StuartLittle''

* Played quite straight in the novel ''ThePrinceOfDarkness'', about a Rat-Machiavelli eventually being overthrown by a communist revolution...

* The ''{{Redwall}}'' books started out with a few elements of this, which were later {{Ret Con}}ned away.

* ''AngelinaBallerina''

* ''GeronimoStilton''

* ''{{Portlandia}}'' has a skit about a trio of rats living in Portland voiced by Fred and Carrie.

* The BurningWheel-[[http://www.burningwheel.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?41-Mouse-Guard-RPG based]] ''ComicBook/MouseGuard'' game.

* ''MiceAndMystics'', an RPG-based board game similar to ''Descent''.

* Series/KabouterPlop (Plop The Gnome) a popular Belgian children's show focuses on 4 small gnomes that live inside a mushroom houses.

* ''The Little Twins''

* ''MushroomMen''

* ''{{Pikmin}}'' from Olimar's point of view, although only on the Distant Planet. His home world is just right for the dominant race's size.

* ''{{Rango}}''

* ''WatershipDown'', except they live in a rural setting.
* ''TheMouseAndHisChild'' includes both small creatures and non-living things.
* ''TheWindInTheWillows'' sort of waffles between this and the typical cartoon-animal approach. Sometimes the small animals seem to be the correct size, but sometimes they interact with [[FurryConfusion scaled-down horses and other such non-anthropomorphic animals that really ought to be a lot bigger]]
* In ''{{Redwall}}'', animals live in a medieval sort of world, and they do have tables, ovens, swords, clothing, etc. They don't live in a realistic way, it's very humanlike. However, they do retain characteristics of being animals... moles are good at digging, squirrels are champion climbers, otters are naturals at swimming, some animals are mentioned as being carnivorous (most animals in the series eat only fish and eggs, as far as non-plants go).

* ''TheWombles''

* The BurningWheel-[[http://www.burningwheel.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?41-Mouse-Guard-RPG based]] ''MouseGuard'' game.

-->-- '''''Literature/TheTailorOfGloucester'''''

* ''MouseGuard''

* ''[[TheBorrowerArrietty The Secret World of Arrietty]]'', StudioGhibli's film adaptation of ''Literature/TheBorrowers''

* ''KabuNoIsaki'' by [[Manga/YokohamaKaidashiKikou Hitoshi Ashinano]]. The story is set in a world where everything except humans is 10 times larger (in ''linear'' size), but apparently the Earth surface gravity force is ''not'' 10 times stronger. Result: Japan appears huge and sparsely populated, humans are piloting what looks like toy airplanes, landing on fuki (butterbur) leaves and such.

* Michael de Larrabeiti's [[http://www.theborribles.co.uk/ Borribles]] and their enemies the Rumbles are a bit bigger than the usual MouseWorld inhabitants, but otherwise seem to fit the trope nicely.

* In ''{{Incarceron}}'' [[spoiler: anyone who enters the Prison is shrunk down to fit into it. Said Prison is, in fact, a silver cube set on the Warden's pocketwatch.]]

* ''TheFarSide'' loves this trope. There have been cartoons featuring rodents, fish, arthropods and even microbes whose behaviour mirrors (and of course satirises) that of humans.

* ''TheLittles''

* ''MistressMashamsRepose''
* The Gallivespians in ''HisDarkMaterials''

* ''TheSmurfs'' Originally a Belgian comic.
* ''TheWorldOfDavidTheGnome''

* ''TeamUmizoomi'' , depending on the episode.

* ''[[PlueschPowerUndPlunder Plüsch, Power & Plunder]]'' is a German game about [[LivingToys sapient, living]] [[EverythingsBetterWithPlushies plushies]] who have to keep up the {{Masquerade}} from the [[HumansThroughAlienEyes "tramplers"]].

* ''TheBraveLittleToaster''
* ''OzzyAndDrix'' (technically, body cells are living things, but not in its everyday sense.)

* ''TheAntBully''

* ''MrBugGoesToTown'', a feature-length Fleischer cartoon.
* ''BeeMovie''

* ''MissSpidersSunnyPatchFriends''

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabouter_Plop Kabouter Plop]] (Plop The Gnome) a popular Belgian children's show focuses on 4 small gnomes that live inside a mushroom houses.

* ''TheLittlBits''

* ''TwilightOfTheCockroaches''

* Oms (humans trapped in a land of giants) in ''FantasticPlanet''.

->''"For behind the wooden wainscots of all the old houses of Gloucester, there are little mouse staircases and secret trap-doors; and the mice run from house to house through those long narrow passages; they can run all over the town without going into the streets."''

Critical discussion of fantasy stories sometimes talks about "{{wainscot societ|y}}ies", which very often means this trope in action; wainscot is wooden panelling on interior walls, and small beings might live behind the wainscot in houses. (Mice often do in the real world.) However, other "wainscots" preserve TheMasquerade in other ways than by size; for example, they might be located BeneathTheEarth.

Not to be confused with the Ride/DisneyThemeParks. If you're looking for little people who don't necessarily live in one of these worlds, head over to {{Lilliputians}}.

* Margery Sharp's ''Literature/TheRescuers'' series, source material for the two DisneyAnimatedCanon films.

* Played quite realistically in the DisneyAnimatedCanon film ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'', where the most BambooTechnology utilized by the rats is their musical instruments. Other than that, they're quadruped rodents. Remy, who engages in more humanlike behavior like walking on his hind legs and reading, is considered an oddity by the others.

Not to be confused with the DisneyThemeParks. If you're looking for little people who don't necessarily live in one of these worlds, head over to {{Lilliputians}}.

-->-- '''''[[Creator/BeatrixPotter The Tailor of Gloucester]]'''''

Critical discussion of fantasy stories sometimes talks about {{"wainscot" society}}ies, which very often means this trope in action; wainscot is wooden panelling on interior walls, and small beings might live behind the wainscot in houses. (Mice often do in the real world.) However, other "wainscots" preserve TheMasquerade in other ways than by size; for example, they might be located BeneathTheEarth.

Critical discussion of fantasy stories sometimes talks about "wainscot" settings, which very often means this trope in action; wainscot is wooden panelling on interior walls, and small beings might live behind the wainscot in houses. (Mice often do in the real world.) However, other "wainscots" are hidden in other ways than by size; for example, they might be located BeneathTheEarth.

In an urban setting, the characters most often act like rats, even when they aren't actual {{Talking Animal}}s in the 3- to 6-inch range. They live in {{Mouse Hole}}s using adapted or cobbled-together materials made from human trash with the odd toys and models thrown in usually making it ScavengedPunk.

Critical discussion of fantasy stories sometimes talks about "wainscot" settings, which very often means this trope in action; wainscot is wooden panelling on interior walls, and small beings might live behind the wainscot in houses. (Mice often do.) However, other "wainscot settings" are hidden in other ways than by size; for example, they might be located BeneathTheEarth.

May have begun with the Lilliputians, and later Gulliver's time with the Brobdignagian giants, in ''Literature/GulliversTravels'' by Jonathan Swift (although there were a few very small beings in some cultures' version of the OralTradition). The best-known recent version is probably ''Literature/TheBorrowers'' books.

May have begun with the Lilliputians, and later Gulliver's time with the Brobdignagian giants, in ''Literature/GulliversTravels'' by Jonathan Swift. The best-known recent version is probably ''Literature/TheBorrowers'' books.

* ''TabletopGame/TheSmallFolk'' are {{Lilliputian|s}} humanoids hiding in [[the margins of the modern human world}}.