Basic Trope: An evil person who has dwarfism.
- Straight: Bob is a little person, and also the Big Bad of the work.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob is one inch tall and is a Complete Monster.
- All of the shorter-than-average people are evil in the work.
- Bob is the shortest villain in the work and also the nastiest.
- Downplayed:
- Bob doesn't necessarily have dwarfism, but is notably shorter than average.
- Bob isn't so much as evil, but is still very much so a Jerkass.
- The Napoleon
- Justified:
- Freudian Excuse: Bob was always mistreated for his short stature when he was younger, and decided to get revenge by becoming a villain.
- The condition that stunted Bob's growth also made him The Sociopath somehow.
- Inverted:
- Bob is unusually tall and is a villain.
- Bob is a little person who is one of the nicest characters in the work and/or The Hero.
- Bob is a Gentle Giant.
- Subverted:
- Bob is expected to be evil for whatever reason, but when he's actually seen, he turns out to be a good person.
- Bob is actually of average height, but the camera angles made him seem to be very short.
- Double Subverted:
- He has a Face–Heel Turn later.
- He only appeared to be of average height because of the setting.
- Parodied: Bob is an over-the-top villain who's the subject of constant height gags.
- Zig-Zagged:
- Some little people are evil in the work, and some aren't.
- Bob is in a Heel–Face Revolving Door. Sometimes he can be evil, but sometimes he isn't.
- Averted:
- There are no little people or shorter than average people in the work.
- Bob isn't evil.
- Enforced: "It'll be pretty strange if we make our villain much shorter than average, won't it?"
- Lampshaded: "Bob is proof that villains don't necessarily have to be tall to be dangerous."
- Invoked:
- The Big Bad is of typical height but hires Bob as a henchman for creep value.
- Bob is an actor hired by a casting director to play a particularly creepy villain in a Show Within a Show.
- Exploited:
- Bob uses his small size to sneak into spaces other villains can't fit in.
- The Big Bad recruits Bob by playing to his violent resentment toward All of the Other Reindeer.
- Bob is subject to a Frame-Up because the actual culprit correctly reasons that everyone will assume the short guy did it.
- Defied: Bob is aware that little people are often stigmatized as creepy, so he vows not to live up to that stereotype.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Weird how whenever little people are in fiction, they're almost always portrayed as strange and/or evil."
- Implied:
- An unseen villain is nicknamed "the Dwarf."
- All we see of Bob is his shadow dwarfed by those of other villains, who do show up onscreen and are of typical height.
- Untwisted: The fifty foot giant that tramples on humans, turns out to be much shorter then the rest of his kind.
- Deconstructed:
- The limitations of his condition make Bob a Harmless Villain.
- The backstory shows how exactly Bob came to be the way he is. He turns out to be more of an Anti-Villain, as the mistreatment due to his condition makes him the story's most sympathetic baddie.
- Bob isn't actually evil, but we see just how much he suffers from other people's assumption that he's creepy.
- Reconstructed:
- After failing at villainy due to his physical impediment, Bob figures out one thing he is good at, namely hiding in small spaces, and plays that to his advantage as much as he can.
- As sympathetic as Bob may be due to his rotten life, all that ostracism has hardened him into the nastiest and most dangerous antagonist in the story.
- Bob may be innocent enough at the start of the story, but people's unfair suspicion eventually becomes a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy once he decides "Then Let Me Be Evil."
- Played for Laughs: Bob is Laughably Evil because Little People Are Surreal.
- Played for Drama: The story is a harrowing drama about Bob's Start of Darkness due to the stigma around his height.
- Played for Horror:
- Bob's height is depicted as enhancing his generally unsettling demeanor.
- Since Bob is so small, he could be hiding anywhere.
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