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* Genki in ''MonsterRancher'' he is just 11 years old but can lift and carry older girls and women like dolls. For example cradling them in his arms, taking piggyback or by hoisting them over his shoulder, mostly by running away from monsters and protecting the "helpless girls".

* Minako Aino/Sailor Venus in ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' is a petite, lithe teenager who can knock out TheBigGal of her team with one kick, and that same kick has brought down youma many times her size. Also, she is the one to kill Beryl in the manga. In the fourth season of the anime, her rage-fuelled power up was enough to scare the ever-loving shit out of two members of the QuirkyMiniBossSquad.

Coo from ''Anime/SummerDaysWithCoo'' is able to outwrestle grown men and toss a girl clean across the room despite being only about 2 feet tall.

* ''Manga.{{Gon}}'', a tiny T-Rex who commands respect from every other member of the animal kingdom with his ridiculously powerful jaws and his ability to survive pretty much anything unscathed, IS this trope.

** Guys. ''[[NeverMessWithGranny Genkai]]''. She's barely taller then Hiei. In her first episode, she knocks two rude and ''huge'' men into a wall just by blinking a wave of energy at them. Be polite to your elders.
%% ** Rinku.
%% ** And Shishiwakamaru can shrink.
%% ** And some of the guys from the various tournaments. But with the exception of Genkai they're all demons.

* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' gives us Gatomon -- a Champion-level Digimon with the size and appearence of a Rookie. Subverted in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', in which she's inexplicably reduced to Rookie-level strength.

* Honey from ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub''.

** Vegeta isn't unnaturally short, but there's still a [[http://images.wikia.com/dragonball/images/e/ea/GokuAndVegetaWMATNV.png definite difference in height]] between him and the average-sized Goku.

* Luffy from ''Manga/OnePiece'' is one of the shorter male humans in the series and can kick the ass of people many size his height and do things he damn sure shouldn't be able to do with his [[SuperStrength inhuman strength alone]]. In real life his height is about average (172 cm), there are just [[LargeAndInCharge a lot]] of big mofos walking around the One Piece world (and that's not even counting the [[OurGiantsAreBigger giants]]) so he just is short in comparison.

* Luffy from ''Manga/OnePiece'' is one of the shortest male humans in the series and can kick the ass of people many size his height and do things he damn sure shouldn't be able to do with his [[SuperStrength inhuman strength alone]]. In real life his height is about average (172 cm), there are just [[LargeAndInCharge a lot]] of big mofos walking around the One Piece world (and that's not even counting the [[OurGiantsAreBigger giants]]) so he just is short in comparison.

* Levi in ''AttackOnTitan'' is the in-universe WorldsStrongestMan and is one of the shorter characters (5'3"). He is easily able to slay behemoth-sized antagonists better than ''anyone'' else in the series.

* Taiga Aisaka, the Palmtop Tiger from ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'' has violence issues, but she's probably too much of a Dojikko to be seriously dangerous.

* Levi in ''AttackonTitan'' is the in-universe WorldsStrongestMan and is one of the shorter characters (5'3"). He is easily able to slay behemoth-sized antagonists better than ''anyone'' else in the series.

* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'''s Hiei. 4'9 [[AnimeHair without his hair]] and can beat up guys twice or three times his size with ease (and when introduced was much weaker than when he was a child). Kurama may also qualify- he's not short, but he's pretty skinny.
** Guys. ''[[NeverMessWithGranny Genkai]]''.
** And Rinku. And Shishiwakamaru can shrink. And some of the guys from the various tournaments. But with the exception of Genkai they're all demons.

* [[{{Gon}} Gon]], a tiny T-Rex who commands respect from every other member of the animal kingdom with his ridiculously powerful jaws and his ability to survive pretty much anything unscathed, IS this trope.

* Kenshin Himura in ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'', aka the Hitokiri Battousai, is towered over by most of his friends but routinely takes down people twice his size. He's based on a real life assassin named Kawakami Gensai, who was regularly mistaken for a woman, but who was known as the most fearsome assassin of the Meiji Era and was noted for assassinating a man in broad daylight.
** Kenshin is also a subversion of sorts - ''because'' his school of swordsmanship was designed for far more muscular men (like Hiko, his CynicalMentor) he ends up [[spoiler: unable to fight as well as he once could at the end of the series]].

* {{Yaiba}} count. He's really small compared to the other characters, but he can knock out a huge man with a ''bamboo sword''!

** The imensely powerful Vegito becomes one for a short while after getting turned into a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_Ex20sc-EM tiny piece of candy]] by Super Buu. He retains consciousness, along with his power, and actually becomes more of a problem for Buu because he's so hard to hit.

** The imensely powerful Vegetto becomes one for a short while after getting turned into a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_Ex20sc-EM tiny piece of candy]] by Super Buu. He retains consciousness, along with his power, and actually becomes more of a problem for Buu because he's so hard to hit.

** Frieza in his first and 4th forms is [[http://kakorotto83.tripod.com/group028.jpg noticeably shorter]] than Goku.

** Outside of kids, some powerful characters have been on the small side as well: adult Krillin, Guldo, Android 15 and the Cell Juniors being some of the shortest.

** Vegeta isn't unnaturally short, but there's still a [[http://kakorotto83.tripod.com/group028.jpg definite difference in height]] between him and Goku.

** Outside of kids, some powerful adults have been on the small side as well: adult Krillin, Guldo, Android 15 and Videl being some of the shortest.
** Vegeta's always been pretty short, despite being second only to Goku on the good side.
** Frieza in his first and 4th forms.

** There have been several child characters who've qualified: young Goku and Krillin, as well as Chaiotzu in the original series, young Gohan, Goten, Trunks, Uub and Pan in Z, and Goku again in GT.