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7	She's small. Short. Petite. Vertically challenged. Yet, she acts like the worst of dictators.
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9	She tells everyone what to do, and expects them to obey. Threats ensue if people don't. Sometimes even physical violence. Maybe she's CompensatingForSomething?
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11	Perhaps it's the incongruity of a small young girl ordering people around as if she were the big alpha male, but it's a pretty common character design. Some people think she's cute. Others think she's annoying. Either way, this is a visually and verbally striking character and is rarely forgotten. Making large men the target of her orders just adds to the fun.
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13	Often justified by having her be a [[RoyalBrat spoiled rich kid or even royalty]]. Other times, she's just the only daughter in a family full of males, and [[DaddysGirl her father]] and/or her older brothers [[SpoiledBrat spoil her immensely]]. At others, she's a mostly normal girl but either has a serious lack of social skills or is scared of being steamrolled by taller/older/etc. people, so she covers up her insecurities with aggressive behavior. She's usually pre-puberty age, but sometimes it can creep up into the teen years. There's a good chance when someone acts bossy and aggressive to ''them'', [[{{Hypocrite}} she'll hate being so without a hint of self-awareness]]. It's possible for her to have character development and learn either humility or wisdom, but other times she'll never learn.
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15	Certainly some TruthInTelevision, as plenty of parents and grandparents can confess to being amused by their daughter ordering them about in a very decisive manner.
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17	Compare TheNapoleon and BrattyHalfPint. A [[DistaffCounterpart gender-bent]] version could also be TinySchoolboy, but there are nicer forms of the character as well.
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20	!!Examples:
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25	%%* Kotetsu from ''The Adventures of Kotetsu''.
26	* Teruko Okura from ''Manga/BungoStrayDogs'' is the {{Fiery Redhead}} vice captain of the Hunting Dogs with a childlike appearance, infamously known for intimidating her opponents with bloodlust and violent tendencies, earning her nickname as the "Queen of Bloody Thorns." In terms of combat, her ability, Gasp of the Soul, allows Teruko to manipulate age on anyone she touches, which is the big reason why she is feared by her allies and enemies alike.
27	* Katyusha of ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'' is a highschooler about half the size of every other character with a personality best described as channelling Stalin's ghost.
28	* Nonon Jakuzure of ''Anime/KillLaKill'' looks like a petite RoseHairedSweetie who surrounds herself with stuffed animals, but is actually this, and totally domineering and aggressive when fighting. A big clue is that, of the Elite Four's {{Animal Motifs}}, hers is [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent a snake]].
29	%%* Mashiro Blan de Windbloom from the ''Anime/MyOtome'' and ''Anime/MyOtomeZwei'' series.
30	* Evangeline and Anya from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi''. [[DarkMagicalGirl Evangeline]] is a Really700YearsOld vampire who rather enjoys being the TokenEvilTeammate, while Anya is Negi's ChildhoodFriend who has ACupAngst and takes it out on other girls.
31	* ''Manga/NurseHitomisMonsterInfirmary'': Chisa Osanai is the shortest in the class, actually shrinking day to day, and she has quite the HeightAngst about it. She's rather bossy and blunt, though it's only because she cares so much about her [[PseudoRomanticFriendship best friend]] [[HugeSchoolgirl Kyouko]] (she actually used to be taller than Kyouko before puberty).
32	* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
33	** While Nami is older than most examples (18 years, 20 after the TimeSkip), she still has the traits - she is the shortest and (probably) physically weakest member of the Straw Hat crew, but she is certainly also the most bossy and hot-tempered member, and she more or less becomes the de facto captain during the crew's daily life on their ship because Luffy cannot be relied upon to do this himself.
34	** Sugar to the Donquixote Family. She's a little girl (but is actually [[OlderThanTheyLook a young woman]]), who's enough of a SpoiledBrat that she routinely bosses her minder around, even though he's one of the top 3 executives. [[spoiler: There is a good reason for the family to keep her safe, though. Her Devil Fruit power to make enemies into toys and RetGone them from people's memories has helped keep a lot of the Family's secrets hidden.]]
35	* Jane Turner from ''Anime/OnegaiSamiaDon'' had more than one inkling of this, being small and pudgy but very stubborn and prone to tantrums when things didn't go her way... which always [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes sent the Psammead into fits]] since [[KillItWithWater her tears could potentially kill him.]]
36	* Tatsumaki (Tornado) from ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan''. Only problems? She's 28, the older of two sisters and the second-best hero around. She believes she's [[BigBrotherInstinct compensating for her younger sister]], Fubuki (Blizzard), but Fubuki is quite capable in her own right.
37	* Shinku from ''Manga/RozenMaiden'' treats Jun like a manservant despite being a just over two-foot-tall porcelain doll who is dependent on him for the energy to move and fight and for a roof to stay under.
38	* Amy Rose from ''Anime/SonicX'' is often a BrattyHalfPint who loudly whines or even threatens people when she doesn’t get her way.
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42	* Princess Morbucks in ''ComicBook/ThePowerpuffGirls''. In the comic book story "Spare Tyrant," she buys a small country called Splatvia, proclaims herself as ruler, establishes a militia and holds sway over the citizens after neutralizing the girls' powers.
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46	%%* Sedine from ''ComicStrip/InSecurity'' is small compared to her husband Sam, but there is no doubt she’s in charge.
47	* Lucy from ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' isn't known as the "World's Number-One Fussbudget" for nothing; she does what she wants, will shout ''very'' loudly to get her way, and will slug the nearest person next to her when she doesn't.
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51	* ''Fanfic/Danganronpa52DespairFromTheHeart'': Rikona is about the size of a third-grader and acts like a spoiled princess, attempting to order the other students around and calling everyone a peasant.
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55	%%* Darla Dimple, the villain of ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance''.
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59	* In ''Film/RememberTheTitans'', pretty little blonde Sheryl Yoast yells at the football players as she assists her father coach.
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63	* ''Literature/AndIDarken'' has Lada, the main character, who isn't just bossy but will get violent if you don't obey her. Once her little brother Radu (by now far taller than her) watches with amusement how, when planning an attack, all the men in the room listen to her despite the fact she's the shortest one there.
64	* The first request of ''Literature/AriaTheScarletAmmo'''s titular character to Kinji is to become her slave. She later orders the same thing to Shirayuki, and sometimes talks about how she has to "train" them. Don't try to disobey, or [[CatchPhrase she'll make you full of airholes.]] She also gets ''very'' jealous whenever Kinji gets too close to another girl.
65	* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'':
66	** Karrin Murphy is a detective in charge of a small department in the Chicago PD meant to investigate and handle supernatural threats. As an expert marksman and swordsman, she is a true terror on the battlefield. Using a holy blade, she once [[spoiler: chopped the head of an elder vampire]] and didn't stop to break a sweat. [[ThePaladin Knight of the Cross]] Sanya's epithet for her is "Tiny... but ''fierce''."
67	** The Archive is the living repository of all knowledge that is written or typed. The Archive has existed since ancient Greece and is passed down from mother to daughter on a family line. She is a Power with a capital P on the level of some gods. She once [[spoiler: killed hosts of fallen angels]] using the bare minimum of magic. She did this when her current incarnation was just twelve years old. When she was five, she had enough power to set off Harry's warning system a few blocks away. Her bodyguard and surrogate father is a world-class assassin who can find her a bit spooky.
68	* Louise from ''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero'' is super-aggressive, prone to violent outbursts, and fond of physical abuse, near-exclusively towards her familiar Saito. She's also very short and CompensatingForSomething, namely her ACupAngst.
69	* In ''Literature/AFeastForCrows'', [[YoungAndInCharge ten-year-old Willow]] rules the inn she lives in, and all the other children that work in it, with an iron fist.
70	* Tara the Terrible in the ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book ''Literature/TheCuckooClockOfDoom'' '''''REALLY''''' lives up to her name. She's seven years old and makes her older brother, Michael's life a living hell by making him step in a huge wad of gum, embarrassing him in front of his crush, ruining his birthday party, and even gets him beat up by an older kid. What's more is that not only do his parents condone all of their daughter's sordid deeds, they even refuse to believe Michael when he tells them about Tara's true nature.
71	* Dalian from ''Literature/TheMysticArchivesOfDantalian'' appears to be shaping up to be this, ordering Huey around like he's a servant, or she's a little girl he should be doing everything for, though she's a more subdued example.
72	* Ikkyu Tensai from ''Literature/NananasBuriedTreasure'' is a combination of this trope and SherlockHomage. While she has a tendency to boss other people around, it manifests most often when she's trying to [[InsufferableGenius show off her genius]].
73	* Mary from ''Literature/TheSecretGarden'', mocked as "Mary Mary, quite contrary". It's seen as a negative trait, but one that allows her to go toe to toe with her cousin, the rich SpoiledBrat.
74	* In ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' book 5, ''The Austere Academy'', the Baudelaire siblings go to a BoardingSchoolOfHorrors and meet Carmelita Spats, a girl who's a year or so behind Violet, significantly shorter, sweet to adults, and an absolute terror to other kids. To the point where she teams up with ''[[BigBad Count Olaf himself]]'' to keep tormenting the Baudelaires after Prufrock Prep is shut down. And even ''he'' usually accedes to her demands if they don't get in the way of his own schemes.
75	* ''Literature/{{Toradora}}'': Known around school as the "Palmtop Tiger" for her short, "doll-like" body, her violent disposition, and [[PunnyName her name sounding a lot like the English word "tiger"]], Taiga Aisaka is truly a force to be reckoned with, despite standing at only 4'9". She also happens to be a walking [[DeconstructedCharacterArchetype deconstruction of this kind of character]] -- her stature [[ACupAngst and lack of curves]] badly screw up her sense of self-worth, thus [[TheNapoleon her aggressive approach to other people]] (which is combined with [[NoSocialSkills other]] [[ParentalAbandonment factors]]) turns her into a kid with [[BrokenBird deep emotional scars]].
76	* ''Literature/TheTwelveKingdoms'' has Shushou, Empress of Kyou. Once the spoiled but also determined daughter of a rich merchant, she decided to save her run-down country by making the dangerous pilgrimage needed to see if she had what it took to become the Queen. Not only she turned out to be the real deal, but she has reigned very wisely and shrewdly over her lands -- yet none would guess it upon seeing the orders come from a tiny, bossy, still spoiled girl in frilly clothes.
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80	* Bernadette in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''. She's under 5 ft but still scares the bejesus of her friends, husband, and co-workers (this includes her boss).
81	* Lucy from the ''Series/CriminalMinds'' episode "Supply & Demand" is a non-humorous example. A tiny, fine-boned young woman in her twenties, Lucy maintains total control over a human trafficking ring made up of huge, heavily muscled thugs.
82	* ''Series/MadMen'': While not as scary and commanding as her taller work peers [[FieryRedhead Joan]] [[IceQueen Holloway]] [[IronLady Harris]] and [[AFatherToHisMen Don]] [[ControlFreak Draper]] can get, 5'3" Peggy Olson went from a ShrinkingViolet Secretary to a commanding to the point of prickliness Copy Chief.
83	* 9-year-old Sarah in the first season of ''Series/{{Masterchef}} Junior'' US shows this when she was the loudest cheerleader during the whipping cream challenge.
84	* ''Series/OddSquad'' is an organization run by kids, most of whom are a few years shy of their teens. The youngest kid at Odd Squad (not counting baby Agent Orson) is Ms. O, the CuteButCacophonic LittleMissBadass BlackBossLady in charge of Precinct #13579. She's loud, tough, and every agent in her precinct is terrified of incurring her anger. Later episodes play with this, showing that beneath all the yelling is a ReasonableAuthorityFigure and her more tyrannical tendencies are downplayed.
85	* ''Series/TheOfficeUS'': Angela, in all her bossy, judgmental, diminutive glory.
86	* Several of the not-yet school-aged divas on ''Series/ToddlersAndTiaras''. One show had a 4-year-old ordering her mother around and haranguing her for not doing things right. Cut to the ConfessionCam as her mother praises the behavior for showing her daughter's "dominance".
87	* ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'': Umeko/Deka Pink has elements of it. She has the shortest stature of the Dekarangers, but is by no means small. She's much more hotblooded than her female companion Jasmine, but she's in no way abusive. Also? She tends to claim herself as the leader of Dekarangers, but whenever she did that, things just never go her way.
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91	* ''VideoGame/BlueArchive'': Clocking in at 4 foot 7 is Sorasaki Hina, TheLeader of the Prefect Team and their [[RankScalesWithAsskicking strongest member]], with such an iron grip on her subordinates that her NumberTwo and OverzealousUnderling Ako only has the nerve to act on her own and unsanctioned when Hina is away on business. Even then, she ''completely'' loses her nerve the moment Hina returns to 'politely' ask where she is and what she's doing, with Hina being ''very'' quick to put a stop to Ako's unsanctioned mission the moment she realises what's going on.
92	* ''VideoGame/{{Chest}}'': Rosy wants to defeat Zong to prove her strength, so she constantly hounds him with pranks. She's also the shortest party member at 140 cm, to the point where the status screen shows only her head, unlike the other party members.
93	* ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'':
94	** Etna, a [[OlderThanTheyLook relatively young]] demon, is an abusive BadBoss to Prinnies, particularly in their spinoff series ''VideoGame/PrinnyCanIReallyBeTheHero''.
95	** Raspberyl from [[VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice the third game]] is about four feet tall, but also the school's most feared delinquent, capable of terrorizing demons far larger than her...into [[NobleDemon picking up litter and donating blood]].
96	* Tori of ''VideoGame/EnsembleStars'' is a GenderInvertedExample: though he's in high school he [[TokenMiniMoe looks like a 10-year-old]] (being by far the shortest member of the cast) and [[DeliberatelyCuteChild deliberately]] cultivates a cutsey, childlike appearance, complete with pink hair, oversized jumper, and a little teddy bear hanging out of his pockets. However, he is also a RoyalBrat who flaunts his status in the student council over everyone else and regularly refers to people as 'slaves', ordering them around at his own whim. Only Eichi does he truly see as above him, and is in fact desperate to please him. Over the course of the year, however, he undergoes CharacterDevelopment, and while he remains bossy, becomes ''much'' more empathetic to those around him.
97	* ''VideoGame/FakeHappyEnd'': Karin is the shortest party member and pressures the others into climbing the tower faster with little explanation [[spoiler:The reason she's so impatient is because the tower will temporarily disappear if they take too long and because taking too long causes them to become invisible to the outside world.]]
98	* LittleMissSnarker Nah from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' is the shortest and among the youngest of the [[spoiler: Future Children]] group, and despite [[MrViceGuy being a good person at heart]], due to several insecurities and issues [[spoiler: that come from her and her friends growing up in a CrapsackWorld]], she can also be very awkward, bossy and pushy.
99	* Amy Rose from ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' is sometimes portrayed as a BrattyHalfPint who throws temper tantrums and whacks people with her mallet when they irritate her. [[CharacterDevelopment She has grown out of this in recent years, though]].
100	* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
101	** The Deku Princess from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask''. Upon being rescued from Woodfall Temple and finding out that an innocent monkey is being punished by her [[KnightTemplarParent father]] the Deku King for allegedly kidnapping her, she has Link bring her back to the Deku Palace, where she proceeds to angrily pounce upon her father and direct a DeathGlare at the other Deku Scrubs as she demands the monkey be freed.
102	** Midna from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' spends the first half of the game mocking Zelda of her (and Hyrule's) plight and belittling Link in his quest. It's not until Link and Zelda [[spoiler: save her from death]] that she starts growing up.
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106	* ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'': Hiyoko Saionji is the smallest and youngest-looking of the students, but she's also a brat and a foul-mouthed bully. [[spoiler: No one seems particularly sorry to find [[AssholeVictim she was one of the victims in Chapter 3]], even if it was only because [[HeKnowsTooMuch she stumbled upon the real killer trying to set up a fake suicide]].]]
107	* Ilyasviel von Einsbern from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' is very bossy toward her servant Berserker, and even to Shirou.
108	* At 4'10", Princess Rayfa Padma Khura'in of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'' is the second shortest girl in the cast, only beaten out by the ludicrously short Pearl Fey (who, at ''4'6"'', is short enough that she would be considered to have dwarfism in real life). Rayfa is, naturally, a [[RoyalBrat very bossy]] {{tsundere}}.
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112	* ''Webcomic/BadMoonRising'' has Madison, who is noticeably shorter than almost everyone else in the cast, and gleefully bullies everyone about to get what she wants.
113	* ''Webcomic/{{Katamari}}'' features [[VideoGame/KatamariDamacy Ichigo]]; she only comes up to The Prince's waist, and Macho is even taller, yet she bosses them around with ease. The Future Prince explicitly describes her as 'fierce'.
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117	* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick is a rare example of an adult woman being this. She's 5'2" and tries to invoke {{Kawaiiko}} but is really a PsychopathicWomanchild and is dominantly abusive to everyone.
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121	* Toph from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' is a champion of an underground earthbending ring and regularly both defeats and trash-talks grown men several times her size. When she's teaching Aang earthbending, she becomes a DrillSergeantNasty in the process and nicknames him "twinkletoes" soon after meeting him. [[spoiler: And she hasn't changed her demeanor in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'']].
122	* Sarah from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', who is one of the most violent kids in the Cul-de-sac (her older brother Ed is absolutely terrified of her), and about the second smallest overall.
123	* Pistol on ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop''. Though she doesn't threaten much beyond tattling, her persistence at trying to persuade people to give her what she wants causes everyone in her family to either cave or pass the baton. She's just as good at bossing her older brother around as her father is.
124	* Mandy from ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' is tyrannical, bossy and mean. In fact, almost everyone in the show is afraid of her.
125	* Heloise from ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' is not merely bossy and mean, but a sadistic psychopath. Even her boss, [[{{Satan}} Lucius Heinous VII]], knows better than to get on her bad side.
126	* [[VillainProtagonist Vendetta]] from ''WesternAnimation/MakingFiends'', an evil [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation little green girl]] and the maker of the titular fiends with which she uses to force the people of her home town of Clamsdale to cater to her whims, while terrifying them ForTheEvulz. The only one in town she doesn't have under her thumb is her "friend", Charlotte, a NiceGirl too innocent and naive/[[GoodIsDumb dumb]] to even register Vendetta's attempts at intimidation/to kill her.
127	* Little Suzy Johnson of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''. She emotionally and physically abuses those who threaten to take attention from her family, then gaslights the people she's manipulating by acting docile and cute when said family appears.
128	* Princess Morbucks in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' is the same age as the titular superheroes and also one of the main villains of the show.
129	* Angelica from ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', although she seems like a big bully rather than tiny since she's three and the protagonists are babies.
130	* Amy Rose from ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' is a very bossy 12-year-old girl.
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134	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-KMPOK20vk This poor boy]] knows you're doomed when one of these girls decides to marry you. You'll find plenty more like this on Website/YouTube. Demonstrating that it's not just amusing in fiction (as long as she's focused on bossing someone else).
135	* One of several [[http://vipondweb.byethost3.com/PattyMaloney/TrueStories.html anecdotes]] about Creator/PattyMaloney:
136	-->'''Mike Collins:''' I grew up with her in the forties and have known her and have been in contact with her ever since. My parents and I lived next door to the [Maloney] family in UsefulNotes/{{Orlando}}. The whole family was the best and I considered them my second home. Patty was actually the baby sitter for her sister, Diane, and myself, when her parents and my parents would go out together. She [Patty] was smaller and a few years older than we were, but she ruled us with an iron fist. We were actually afraid of her. Of course, we deserved her wrath, since we were somewhat mischievous.
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