Line #11 Film/LittleMan


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2	[[caption-width-right:310:[[{{Tagline}} Big things come in small packages]].]]
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4	''Little Man'' is a 2006 comedy film from the [[Series/TheWayansBros Wayans Brothers]].
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6	The plot centers around a diminutive criminal named Calvin Sims (Creator/MarlonWayans) and his accomplice Percy (Creator/TracyMorgan). After a diamond heist goes wrong, Calvin is forced to ditch the diamond inside a nearby woman's purse. They follow the couple home and discover wannabe dad Darryl Edwards (Creator/ShawnWayans) and his overworked wife Vanessa (Creator/KerryWashington). Calvin and Percy hatch a plot to pass Calvin off as a baby left on the couple's doorstep in order to retrieve the diamond. Calvin plays his way into the couple's life while laying off the suspicions of Vanessa's paranoid father Francis, aka "Pops" (Creator/JohnWitherspoon). Meanwhile, Walken (Creator/ChazzPalminteri), the mafia boss Calvin pulled the heist for, grows impatient.
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9	!!The movie has the following tropes:
10	* AbusiveParents: Darryl and Vanessa believe Calvin to be the victim of some, going by his tattoos and appendectomy scar. Added to the fact that Calvin's own parents have not ever thrown him a birthday party does imply that they did not pay that much attention to him as a kid, if at all.
11	* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: While it is PlayedForLaughs, any doctor can fully differentiate between a dwarf and a baby. Even without his facial hair, there are still many signs that Calvin is clearly an adult, his fully developed genitalia and strong body structure being a few of them.
12	* AssShove: Calvin learns the hard way that babies have their temperature taken rectally.
13	* BerserkButton: Calvin '''does not''' like having his height brought up.
14	* CassandraTruth: Vanessa's dad, Pops, discovers the truth about Calvin, but when he tries to tell her, she thinks he's gone senile.
15	* ChekhovsGun: The toy airplane.
16	* CoincidentalBroadcast: While at a diner, Pops catches a news report about the diamond heist, and sees a mug shot of Calvin.
17	* ContrivedCoincidence: Calvin is a dwarf, jewel thief that dresses like a baby to retrieve a diamond from a married couple that (at least the dad) wants a baby ''and'' a diamond for the wife's engagement ring.
18	* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Pops tries to tell Vanessa and Darryl about Calvin being a jewel thief but they don't believe him until he uses a teddy bear video camera and Darryl watches the footage of Calvin as his true self.
19	* DaddysGirl: Vanessa. Made worse by the fact that her dad is paranoid and judgmental, and [[DatingWhatDaddyHates constantly belittles Darryl]].
20	* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Pops makes it clear that he does not approve of Vanessa and Darryl's relationship and even encourages his daughter to dump him.
21	* DinkyDrivers: Calvin gets in a car and drives it by using a toy bat to move the pedals.
22	* DoorstopBaby: How Calvin manages to get in the Edwards household.
23	* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler: Despite all the chaos he caused during his time in the household, Calvin gets off scot-free after he saves Darryl’s life and does the right thing by turning over the diamond to the authorities. Afterwards, Darryl basically shrugs off the whole ordeal and embraces Calvin as his new best friend. Calvin later moves in with the family permanently, acting as an uncle figure to Darryl and Vanessa’s real baby.]]
24	* {{Expy}}: Dinosaur Rex, from the children's show Calvin is not very happy with, is an obvious spoof and/or parody of [[Series/BarneyAndFriends the dinosaur I'm sure some of you know and love, and are already familiar with]].
25	* FreudianExcuse: Calvin didn't have a family growing up, which explains his criminal ways and getting '''too''' used to being Darryl's friend.
26	* FryingPanOfDoom: Darryl tries to play a game of peekaboo with "baby" Calvin. Eventually, Calvin gets tired of it and whacks Darryl on the head with a frying pan, knocking him out. He then drags Darryl's unconscious body to the den and places him on the couch to make it look like he was sleeping there. Vanessa then walks in and awakens Darryl and berates him for "sleeping while watching Calvin", leaving poor Darryl completely baffled.
27	* GagPenis: Darryl and Vanessa find out that Calvin has one during a diaper change.
28	* GilliganCut: When Calvin insists he ''isn't'' dressing like a baby to get the diamond, the very next scene is Calvin, fully shaved, in baby clothes and a dog basket.
29	* GooGooGetup: The premise.
30	* GroinAttack: Calvin is fond of this maneuver. Happens so often to the point of it being a RunningGag.
31	* HeelFaceTurn: Calvin, after realizing Darryl and Vanessa truly care for him.
32	* HonoraryUncle: [[spoiler: Calvin becomes this to Darryl and Vanessa’s real baby]]. [[spoiler: Though, given the RapeAsComedy Calvin performed earlier, it may be a case of a BrickJoke coupled with MamasBabyPapasMaybe.]]
33	* JerkJock: Darryl's friend, Greg.
34	* NonSequiturThud: Calvin's partner, Percy, after getting smacked in the face with a trashcan lid.
35	-->''"Who's Mike Jones?"''
36	* PintSizedPowerhouse: Calvin can bring down normal-sized people with just one or two blows.
37	* RapeAsComedy: Played with. Calvin has sex with Vanessa in the dark, and it's played for laughs because she thought it was Darryl going for round two. Weirdly enough, Calvin still ends up takes a platonic liking to her as a maternal figure.
38	* SpitTake: Calvin ''and'' Darryl both do this when Vanessa tells them the milk they are drinking her friend's breasts.
39	* WouldHurtAChild: Greg is so much of a JerkJock that he has no problem manhandling his or other people's children, as shown in the football scene.
40	** Also, the BigBad threatens to harm Calvin, unaware that he's actually an adult.

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