History Main / HaveIMentionedIAmADwarfToday

But wait, you can prevent this! All you need to do is inform the people around you of your dwarvehood before they call you a gnome. Everyone. All the time. Even if you're with people whom you've known for a long time.

Dwarves seem to suffer the most of this habit, but it's an equal opportunity trope. Any character that loudly and near-constantly pre-empts any confusion there would be as to their race as a matter of principle, or even just brags about belonging to a Proud Warrior Race, is an example of this trope.

** You could make a drinking game out of how often Spock says, "I am a Vulcan." Once again, this could be over-compensation at work - Spock is only ''half''-Vulcan, and the few full-blooded Vulcans we meet in TOS stray surprisingly far from his ideals.

** You could make a drinking game out of how often Spock says, "I am a Vulcan."

* Gimli in the ''LordOfTheRings'' movies does not deal with other people. It's always a dwarf dealing with an elf or a human. He almost completely refers to other people not by their name but only by their race.

* Final Fantasy Series. All the time. Seriously. "This isn't a problem! We're HEROES! Those guys can't beat us because no situation is too grim for HEROES like us! We're the HEROES, so nothing will go wrong! End Scene.

* Played very straight with the Peter Dinklage character in ''Series/GameOfThrones''. He makes mention of the fact that he's a dwarf just about every episode (sometimes scene) he's in.

* Played very straight with the Peter Dinklage character in ''GameOfThrones''. He makes mention of the fact that he's a dwarf just about every episode (sometimes scene) he's in.

*** Though since the card was written by [[MagnificentBastard Lord]] [[DeadpanSnarker Havelock]] [[ManipulativeBastard Vetinary]], it's not exactly a ringing endorsement.

*** Though since the card was written by [[MagnificentBastard Lord]] [[DeapanSnarker Havelock]] [[ManipulativeBastard Vetinary]], it's not exactly a ringing endorsement.

**** That's because he looks like a monkey.

* Klingons in ''StarTrek'' are obsessed with their Klingon-ness. Worf in ''The Next Generation'' is exceptionally bad and even annoys his fellow Klingons with his inability to speak like a normal person and not following every old tradition to the letter. Hinted to be justified in that he was raised by humans and therefore has an idealized vision of his race and a need to be more Klingon than Kahless.
** To a lesser extend Cardassians also make it a habit to remind everyone of the superiority of their race and explain that everyone just misunderstands their superior culture. But then, [[RecycledInSpace Space]] [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Nazi]] is [[PlanetOfHats their hat]].

Dwarves seem to suffer the most of this habit, but it's an equal opportunity trope. Any character that loudly pre-empts any confusion there would be as to their race as a matter of principle, regardless of race, is an example of this trope.

You are just going your way and life could be so good. But no matter how well things are going, there's always the possibility that someone mistakes you for a bearded gnome. And for a dwarf like you, nothing spoils your day like this.

But to make sure that there will be absolutely no confusions about your racial identity, all you can do is inform the people around you before it can happen. All of them. All the time. Even if you're with people who know you for a long time.

If you belong to a [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Proud Warrior Race]], you are expected to be proud about that as well, so make sure that everyone knows about it.
Dwarves seem to suffer the most of this habit, but happens to characters of several other races as well.

** Or any other ethnic comedian... which follows naturally from the term "ethnic comedian", which implies that their jokes are about their ethnicity.

* Klingons in ''StarTrek'' are obsessed with their Klingon-ness. Worf in ''The Next Generation'' is exceptionally bad and even annoys his fellow Klingons with his inability to speak like a normal person and not following every old tradition to the letter.

** To a lesser extend Cardassians also make it a habit to remind everyone of the superiority of their race and explain that everyone just misunderstands their superior culture. But then, [[RecycledInSpace Space Nazi]] is [[PlanetOfHats their hat]].

* This seems to be popular with ethnic Jewish comedians.

** And then there's Nobby Nobbs, who has to carry a card around certifying that he is, in fact, a human.

* Played with on the {{Discworld}}, as one of the characters who does this is a 6-foot-tall human who was raised by dwarves and therefore still identifies as one.

** To a lesser extend Cardassians also make it a habit to remind everyone of the superiority of their race and explain that everyone just misunderstands their superior culture. But then, [[RecycledInSpace Space Nazi]] is [[PlanetOfHats their hat]].