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11* Mizuki Okiura from ''VideoGame/AITheSomniumFiles'' is a 12-year-old girl with strength no child of her body, build, and size could ever have; it's simply beyond human limits. She easily bench presses 100kg like it is nothing, jumps several times her own height, kicks a whole tall tree down with ease, and during a Somnium she can easily lift furniture as if they were made of paper. While Somnium worlds do not necessarily reflect reality, Mizuki acts as if she really has done that around the house before. [[VideoGame/AITheSomniumFilesNirvanaInitiative The sequel]] reveals that [[spoiler:this strength comes from being subjected to genome manipulation at the hands of Chikara Horadori]].
12* Baryonyx in ''VideoGame/ArkSurvivalEvolved'' is a semi-aquatic dinosaur slightly bigger than a Raptor, but with the combat stats of a Carnotaurus and a tail slap while swimming that can stun-lock and kill even alpha predators. It's considered one of the best dinosaurs for cave expeditions because it can squeeze through most entrances and still destroy anything inside. However, [[LogicalWeakness its small size and slender build give it terrible knock-back resistance]].
13* Pablo Sanchez is one of the shortest players in ''VideoGame/BackyardSports'', yet he usually has some of the highest-total stats in the series (''Baseball'', ''Football'' and ''Hockey'').
14* Mazzy Fentan of ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'' is a 4 ft.[[note]]1.22 m[[/note]] tall [[LadyOfWar lady knight]] who is one of the best melee fighters in the game and will rip through foes many times her size.
15* Gwen from ''VideoGame/BeyondTheEdgeOfOwlsgard'' is a small owl who appears much shorter and more petit than Finn. However, she turns out to be extra-strong, enough so that she manages several physical feats Finn can't (like pushing a massive cauldron all by herself). She attributes this strength to fitness training and "protein shakes".
16* ''Franchise/BlazBlue'':
17** Jubei is a 123cm "tall" [[BakenekoAndNekomata two-tailed cat-man]] weighing in at 25kg... He's also hailed by pretty much everyone as the WorldsStrongestMan, as demonstrated by his ability to effortlessly [[PunchCatch catch]] one of [[MightyGlacier Iron Tager]]'s punches in Tager's story mode. Note that [[TheBigGuy Tager]] is a 240cm-tall {{Cyborg}} weighing in at 550kg.
18** Makoto Nanaya is a 163cm tall [[LittleBitBeastly squirrel girl]] weighing in at 49kg, but is capable of punching massive craters into the ground, outrunning [[FragileSpeedster Carl Clover]] while carrying an injured [[BadassBookworm Tsubaki]] over her shoulder and sending people [[BlownAcrossTheRoom flying]] with her punches. According to Jin Kisaragi, [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale she broke the Torifune Military Academy's grading system]] when doing their physical tests.
19* Emilia, of ''VideoGame/BlazeUnion''. She is 11-years-old, just barely four feet[[note]]1.2 meters[[/note]] tall, and is a [[GameBreaker stupidly powerful]] BloodKnight who is capable of turning a one-sided battle in her enemies' favor into a complete rout... ''the first time she ever picks up a weapon.'' And that's not even getting into her SuperpoweredEvilSide. At that given point in time, she is essentially the most powerful person in the world -- [[spoiler:Gulcasa would be ''stronger than this'' if he ever lost control of his demon blood, but he never does]].
20* The Igniter bloodline from ''VideoGame/BloodlineChampions'' are at least half the size of the other ones, but are fully capable of holding their own against the others. [[PlayingWithFire The fire powers help]].
21* The Mutant Midget Psychos and Shotgut Midgets from ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' can do some damage if you let them gang up on you. One of the mini-bosses is a fairly tough midget-type enemy named King Wee-wee.
22** Salvador the Gunzerker from ''Videogame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' is only 5'4"[[note]]1.62 m[[/note]], but he's incredibly muscular, strong enough to [[GunsAkimbo use two guns at once]] when using his Action Skill, whether they're pistols, shotguns, sniper rifles, or even ''rocket launchers''. He has several skills that boost his melee prowess, including one that gives him the ability to throw a devastating MegatonPunch. In the Tiny Tina DLC, he's even the template for the dwarves in Tina's RPG campaign, something that he thinks is awesome. Justified by the reason he's so short in the first place: heavy steroid use has stunted his growth.
23*** Gaige the Mechromancer is slightly (less than an inch) shorter than Salvador, and has a cybernetic left arm that can crush concrete.
24** Also, the boss of the early side-quest "Symbiosis" is a psycho midget riding a four-armed gorilla creature called a bullymong.
25** Midget/Runty Rats are some of the most annoying enemies in the second game. They're even smaller than regular midgets (and thus harder to hit), much more mobile, and their guns can drop you in seconds.
26** Sandman, the midget pirate captain from the ''Captain Scarlett and her Pirate's Booty'' DLC, is essentially a Runty Rat with a badass' health and shields. Yikes.
27** Moze, one of the possible {{Player Character}}s from ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 3}}'', is the smallest of the bunch. She's also a loud, crude Spec Ops soldier with a MiniMecha and a her skills encourage her to bring out the biggest guns.
28* ''{{VideoGame/Bully}}'': While not really ''small'', Jimmy Hopkins is shorter than most students his level (including the girls) and can beat up almost anybody in a fist-fight, even fully-grown adults provided they don't manage to restraint him.
29* ''VideoGame/{{Chest}}'': Rosy is the shortest party member at 140 cm, but she has excellent stat growth and is the third strongest member of the party.
30* Yan from ''VideoGame/CrisisBeat'' is a teenager working aboard the Princess when the terrorist takeover happens, and also an expert karateka who can easily take down scores and scores of enemies with her [[BroomstickQuarterstaff mop]] as her default weapon.
31* ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' gives us Marcie at first. Age? 9. Occupation? Bratty half-pine killer of thousands as an elite of the Acacian military, one of the four Devas. Max strength of 86 on her own. For reference, Serge (that's you) maxes out at 88. Her coworkers Zoah and Karsh hit 90. But the worst offender? Leah. Age? 6. Occupation? Abandoned child in the wilderness. Max strength? 93. Max HP? 999. Both highest without any outside help.
32** [[spoiler: Considering that Leah is implied to be [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Ayla]]'s mother...]]
33* In ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' there are a number of 3-foot[[note]]9-meter[[/note]] tall tanks with the [[FlyingBrick Super Strength]] powerset.
34* In ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'', B.B. Hood is only 4'8"[[note]]1.42 m[[/note]], and yet she's just as lethal as any other fighter in a game where some are over seven feet (or even eight feet) tall.
35* A good number of characters in ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' are one of these. [[VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness Laharl]], for example, is a stick-thin, [[TheNapoleon 4'3"]] 13-year-old capable of {{curbstomp|Battle}}ing a ''starfleet''.
36* [[TrueFinalBoss Hibachi]] from the ''VideoGame/DonPachi'' series is often not much bigger than the player ship, sometimes even smaller but have nack for throwing [[BulletHell every bullet fired in WWII]] at you.
37* Utha from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening'' is a female dwarf Grey Warden who has taken the vow of silence and has been corrupted with the Darkspawn taint. She has since joined the Architect in his quest. Unlike the other Grey Wardens, she does not like to use weapons and is, in fact, a master of unarmed combat.
38** [[TheDitz Merrill]] in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' is a young elvish woman, definitely the smallest member of the main cast (Varric may be a bit shorter, but Merrill is a lot thinner), and capable of unleashing a horrendous firestorm of offensive magic.
39* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':
40** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'': Parry is a tiny 8-year-old kid and yet is a capable tank, the only character who can use the legendary Zenithian equipment, and the only party member who learns the Zap (Lightning) family of spells.
41** Veronica, from ''VideoGame/DragonQuestXI'' is a sage from an ancient tribe of Guardians, a [[spoiler:reincarnation of a Legendary Hero]], a mini-nuke unrivaled in the entire game and all of three feet tall after a monster hit her with an age draining curse while trying to steal her magic.
42* ''VideoGame/EXTRAPOWERGiantFist'': One type of fanatic protecting the desert around Blackberry's pyramid is about knee high compared to everyone else, and is a tricky combatant who leaps about through the air and flings a fan of knives out.
43* Saber in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' isn't even five feet tall and is built like a twig, yet she's the 'strongest' hero in the Fifth Holy Grail War. Even while only partially powered against the next strongest, Berserker, she's still capable of holding her own. [[spoiler:With Rin as her master, she's described as being absolutely invincible. Also subverted somewhat in that Berserker isn't using magic to buff himself like she does and like he ''should,'' but Ilya won't let him. Archer also manages a tie against her despite being very weakened, despite her being 'invincible.' Strength isn't everything, Saber!]]
44** Without her magical energy, Saber is very frail; maybe even Sakura has more physical strength since no one is smaller than tiny old Saber.
45** Aside from being strong Saber is also fast enough and skilled enough with the sword to win against [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasaki_Kojirou Sasaki Kojirou]] so her failure to defeat Archer (who fell to his knees unable to stand while parrying overhead blow from her sword) came more from emotional reasons than anything else.
46** [[FountainOfExpies Saberfaces]] are typically very powerful Servants who are also very petite, according to a [[https://gamewith.jp/fgo/article/show/84086 height chart]] for ''Videogame/FateGrandOrder'' that puts them at generally below 160 cm, with [[Videogame/FateExtra Nero]] being the shortest at 150 cm (approximately 4'11'').
47* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', Imperial Princess Edelgard is the one of the shortest members of the cast, yet superhumanly strong and durable as a result of both a HeroicLineage, and TrainingFromHell. The tied-for-shortest member of the cast pre-timeskip, Lysithea [[spoiler:during the TimeSkip]]), meanwhile, is a [[TheArchmage magical powerhouse]] who easily outperforms every other caster in the game. [[spoiler:Their extremely skewed power-to-size ratio is strongly implied to be a side effect of both of them having not one, but two [[SuperpowerLottery Crests]], which is known to cause nasty health issues, one of which may well be stunted physical development.]]
48** Hilda from the same title is only 154 cm tall (or just over five feet) and no taller after the timeskip, making her one of the few characters to be shorter than Edelgard. This does not hinder her ability to lay down the smackdown with giant axes in the slightest.
49** Cyril ties with Lysithea as the shortest character pre-timeskip, and ties for the shortest male character after the timeskip. However, he has no issue with using axes, and if playing as the Blue Lions or Golden Deer, he can be recruited early and taught [[ActionInitiative Point-Blank Volley]], notably much earlier than any other character who learns a forced double combat art.
50** Downplayed with Felix, who while of comparable height to multiple other male characters, is also noticeably thinner than most characters and no bigger (in terms of height or width) after the timeskip. Felix also has one of the highest Strength bases and growths (10 and 55%, respectively) of the students, and ties for the third-highest Strength cap (78).
51* Lilties, from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChronicles'', are, like 3 feet tall, on average, but they're the warrior race that used to rule the entire world. ''They'' were TheEmpire (the most adorable empire ever, but still). In fact, they're sort of still in power, since the princess is half-Lilty (yeah, they can breed with humans, which is a little... {{squick}})
52** Conversely (and an inversion), Yukes, the tallest and most intimidating race, are the magical race, with little direct combat capabilities and, some say, no real bodies to speak of at all. Yes, they all wear armor and their weapon of choice is a hammer. But they couldn't ''wield'' it to save their lives.
53** Speaking of ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': what about the Moogles? Granted, they do not fight often, but when they do... 4 feet tall, 94 pounds, and apparently above dragons in the food chain.
54*** That would be the standard and ''Crystal Chronicles'' moogle. [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII The]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance Ivalice]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2 breed]], on the other hand, is a different beast. Most Moogle classes provide crazy-ass support (Animists can heal one person ''completely'' while Jugglers have nasty debuffs), but the Moogle Knight can stand firm alongside any Hume or Bangaa, and if one of them decides to take up marksmanship, your best bet is to run as fast as you can in the opposite direction and never stop while there is breath in your body.
55** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'' brings us the Tarutaru race. They come up to your knees, and are just as capable of thrashing monsters as any other race.
56** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'''s Cloud Strife is 5'7" according to the English translation, though given that he's 173cm in Japanese, he's closer to 5'8". Roughly average in America, but he's the shortest human adult male in the party, and quite possibly the entire cast. He's also the strongest member of the cast save for Sephiroth.
57** ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' brings together the main series' heroes to kick ass and take names, and prominent among the name-takers and ass-kickers is [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX Zidane]]. The toony, chibi-fied art style of his original game is now finally translated to something a little more realistic, and, well -- it turns out that it wasn't just the chibi-style, the kid has yet to clear five feet. This does ''not'' stop him from thrashing characters literally ''twice'' his height and probably many ''times'' his weight. A similar thing applies to the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII Onion Knight]] -- the people who make a big deal over tiers may place him near the bottom, and who knows, they might be right -- but a computer-controlled OK has the best average AI of any character in the game, according to the WordOfGod, and puts it to frightening good use.
58** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' has Zodiark, who is the smallest of the [[SummonMagic Espers]], but is one of the most difficult bosses in the game. His attacks all deal huge damage and he [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard become temporarily invincible]]. Once you defeat him, you can have him use those same attacks on your enemies (sans invincibility) and they're no less powerful than when you fought him.
59** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' features the Lalafell race, the spiritual successor of the Tarutaru. Despite being about three feet tall, they're just as capable of swinging massive axes and tanking blows from giant monsters as any other race.
60* In ''VideoGame/FreedomWars'', Elfriede is signifigantly shorter than other sinners, but she's just as fiesty a fighter as her father Uwe. She also uses the same kind of unique [[PowerFist knuckle-mounted weapons]] as Uwe.
61* ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'':
62** All of the playable child characters like Klee, Qiqi and Diona are much smaller than the rest of the teenaged and adult cast, but are very capable of wiping the floor with many powerful {{Mook}}s with their weapons and [[ElementalPowers Visions]].
63** Xiao is among the shortest male characters, though people know better than underestimate him based on his height alone. The facts that one, he is a ''Yaksha'', and second, holds the title "Conqueror of Demons" should be telling enough.
64* In ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'', the Asurans are an entire race of these.
65%%* Minion Soldier in ''VideoGame/GunstarHeroes''.
66* The Poison Headcrabs from ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' deplete your heath to one hit-point with a single bite. This is less due to the strength of their jaws and more the strength of their namesake poison, however.
67** In fact, they do no damage themselves. You could be chewed on by a dozen poison headcrabs for a straight hour and be perfectly fine. The poison even eventually wears off and you will back at the same amount of health you had before you were bitten. The real reason they are so dangerous is that they allow ''other'' enemies in the area to cause a CriticalExistenceFailure very easily.
68* Bronya Zaychik from ''VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd'' was an 11-year-old girl no more than 147 centimeters tall at the start of the ''Azure Waters'' manhua, but she was strong enough to strangle a man with her stockings, break another man's neck unarmed, and even lifted another adult man clear into the air by his necktie. She did this all before receiving superhuman augments in the form of artificial stigmata, although it's left ambiguous whether having natural resistance to Honkai confers superhuman strength on its own.
69* Peashy, of ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaVictory'', despite being a child, is capable of knocking her surrogate mother [[PhysicalGod Physical Goddess]] Neptune around with playful punches before she can even speak properly. In battle, one of her team specials is to try and play ping-pong with an enemy, only to do it far too hard and clean Neptune up with the foe. [[spoiler: Her CPU form is even stronger, but anything [[PlotRelevantAgeUp but]] pintsize.]]
70* While people in ''[[VideoGame/InazumaEleven Inazuma Eleven GO]]'' are empowered with some sort of magical shadows/avatars, Shinsuke Nishizono is pretty much a midget among a group of teenagers. Playing as an ace goal keeper, one of his main stretegies involves throwing ''himself'' at powerful shoots, and punch it to make a clearance.
71* [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Daxter]] from ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxter'' is one of these, [[TookALevelInBadass at least in the later games]] and ''especially'' in his GaidenGame (if you [[MilesGloriosus believe his stories, that is]]).
72** Jak himself fits as well. According to his stats in ''Jak X'' he is 5'8" in ''VideoGame/JakIIRenegade'', which definitely ''seems'' average... until you compare him with the other characters, that is, and realise he is only at about chin height with most of them. And of course, those are only the humans.
73* ''Franchise/TheKingOfFighters'':
74** In stark contrast to many other sumo wrestlers in fighting games (e.g. [[Franchise/StreetFighter E. Honda]] and [[Franchise/{{Tekken}} Ganryu]]), Hinako Shijou is a rather petite and short teenage girl. Doesn't prevent her from throwing grown men twice her size from one end of the screen to the other.
75** Krohnen [=McDougall=]/[[spoiler:K9999]] is one of the shortest males in the series, at around 5'6" or 1.68m, and definitely [[TheNapoleon has the temper to go with it]]. Being an {{expy}} of [[Manga/{{AKIRA}} Tetsuo Shima]], however, he's also a WalkingArsenal with the abundance of {{Shapeshifter Weapon}}s at his disposal to go with it. Enough to rival the other resident {{cyborg}} of the series, Maxima, despite the latter being several heads taller at 6'8" or 2.04m.
76* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':
77** [[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse King Mickey]]. At roughly two and a half feet tall, he's lucky if he reaches someone's waist, the [[TheGoomba Basic Shadow Heartless]] is larger than him, and more powerful enemies ''tower'' over him. None of this keeps him from being the most badass character in the series.
78** The protagonists Ventus, Xion, Roxas, and Sora all count, the latter three moreso, and Sora especially. Judging by presentation alone, Sora is not only powerful, but balls-out crazy in his application of said power, despite being 15-years-old and short.
79* ''VideoGame/KingsleysAdventure'': Kingsley takes out enemies many times his own height and mass, despite being a cute little fox kit. Most bosses are almost three times Kingsley's height.
80* Kirby, in well, ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}'', is 8 inches tall, at least when not sized up in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros.'' Do note, this eight inch tall pink puffball has torn at least ''eight different {{Eldritch Abomination}}s to'' '''''shreds.''''' When people rank him among the most powerful video game, they are being completely ''sincere''.
81* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' has a lot of characters fitting this trope, most notably Veigar, the Tiny Master of Evil. One of the smallest champions with the ability to dish out some of the highest damage in the game and the ability to stun an entire team. Similar things can be said for the likes of Fizz the Tidal Trickster, Kennen the Heart of the Tempest and Teemo the Swift Scout, all of whom are as short as Veigar but capable of wrecking even the largest foes. Averted with Rumble the Mechanized Menace, who is even smaller than the previously mentioned characters but runs around in a (by the standards of his race) large mecha.
82** Really any of the Yordle champions qualify. Veigar, as noted above, may be the absolute best example of this since he has no limit to the amount of ability power he can have. A fed and farmed Veigar can destroy even the tankiest of champions with a single combo.
83** Poppy is another exceptional example. She can tackle any champion in the game and stun them if they collide with terrain and her utimate sends enemies (yes, as in multiple) flying half way across the map. Juggeryordle is a very appropriate name for her.
84* The cuccos in various ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' games. Dear God, the cuccos. Keep hitting one of them and the whole flock will take you down in seconds.
85** Any child variant of Link counts, but special mention goes to [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Toon Link]].
86** The version of Link from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' is realistically proportioned, but aside from [[MiniatureSeniorCitizens elderly characters]] he is the shortest adult Hylian in the game, and also the greatest warrior in the land both before and after he was placed in the Shrine of Resurrection. And that's not even getting into the other major races of Hyrule (Rito, Zora, Goron and Gerudo) who are depicted as being quite a bit taller than Hylians as a whole.
87** On the villainous side in ''Breath of the Wild'', Thunderblight Ganon is only perhaps a head taller than Link, and thus positively tiny compared to the game's other bosses. It's no less a formidable opponent than the others, though; in fact, it's widely considered the most dangerous of the lot thanks to its [[FastAsLightning incredible speed]].
88** Credit has to go to [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Midna]]. An imp, about half the size of Link, stops a charging Ganon and then flicks him across the room. With her hair!
89** Link in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]'' -- the first incarnation of the hero -- is implied to be kind of short, and keeps getting called "Master Shortpants" by Scrapper. However, the guy is a formidable swordsman and a OneManArmy who manages to get '''''[[GodOfEvil Demise]]''''' to refer to him a "paragon".
90** [[FairyCompanion Ciela]] in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass Phantom Hourglass]]'' turns out to be one once you get the hammer. When you equip it, it's wielded by her instead of Link, meaning it can be used ''at range!''
91* ''VideoGame/LiveALive'': Out of all the human characters, Pogo the Caveboy is the youngest and smallest, yet, as he levels up, he gains both massive strength and massive HP. Not only is he very good at [[BadWithTheBone bashing enemies with his bone club]], but [[spoiler: to open the path to the Trial of Instinct]] he breaks a stone wall by ''ramming it headfirst''.
92* ''VideoGame/LunarLux'': Tetra, a small robot, has a red support skill does 50 damage to the enemy team, but a quest can be completed to upgrade her damage to 200, which is more than most single-target skills and renders many other support skills redundant. In Chapter 4, she's strong enough to carry [[spoiler:Nickle the Murk Slayer]] while flying at the same speed as a Jet Suit.
93* ''Franchise/MassEffect'': [[GameplayAndStorySegregation While it doesn't fully show in game]], canonically [[Characters/MassEffectCommanderShepard Female Shepard]] is only 5'3", putting her in the running for being the smallest person on any iteration of the ''Normandy''. She is still one of the most lethal soldiers in the galaxy even before getting strength and power-enhancing implants from Cerberus that allow her to use bone-shattering weapons and hold her own in a melee against krogan and yahg.
94* In ''[[Videogame/MechWarrior MechWarrior Living Legends]]'', the man-sized [[PoweredArmor powered battlearmor]] exists along 20 meter tall HumongousMecha powered by nuclear fusion reactors. With a skilled operator, the battlearmor can take them all on and rip them limb from limb in a bloodthirsty rage, thanks to the battlearmor's tiny size, incredible agility, and potent weaponry equal to that of a light mech. The battlearmor pays for this with agonizingly slow movement speed on open terrain and being an effectively OneHitPointWonder; small wonder when a single mech weapon weighs as much as the entire battlearmor.
95* Some of the Maverick bosses in the ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' series are smaller than X, Zero and Axl, but are capable of dishing out lots of pain. Special mention goes to Gravity Antonion from ''X8'', who, besides being a GravityMaster, can also carry a block that's [[StrongAnts four times his size]] and throw it at the player!
96** X himself also counts. He is just 5'5" and proves again and again that he is indeed a SuperPrototype for all Reploids, complete with StoryBreakerPower. The only thing keeping him pretty low in Maverick Hunter's rank is his MartialPacifist personality.
97* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'': The baby zombies are even more powerful than their normal-size equavalent. Though their [[CollisionDamage attacks]] do the same amount of damage and they have the same amount of HitPoints, they're able to do so at a faster rate, and move at over three times the speed of normal zombies.
98* ''VideoGame/MiniRobotWars'' has the appropriately-named Minirobots. They're half as large as a standard enemy unit... and can put some serious hurt on the invading Machines. The tagline for the game even includes the phrase "Size Doesn't Matter!"
99* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'':
100** The titular hunters: No more than two meters tall. Their usual targets: giant dragons and wyverns that are often 1-2 dozen meters long. That doesn't stop the hunters from slaying those big scary monsters and turning them into new weapons and armor.
101** Kirin is not just the smallest Elder Dragon but the smallest "Large" monster period, being no bigger than an ordinary horse. It's still an ''Elder Dragon'', the highest echelon of monster, and extremely powerful.
102** Rajang is one of the smaller monsters in the game, being about the height of two Hunters put together, while most monsters are big hulking wyverns that the series is well-known for. But don't let that fool you; it's one of the most dangerous monsters in the entire series, boasting deadly [[ShockAndAwe thunder]] attacks coupled with an acrobatic fighting style to routinely knock out Hunters in just one or two hits.
103* In ''VideoGame/{{Mousehunt}}'', every one of your opponents is a mouse crossed with NinjaPirateZombieRobot. Many of them are capable of easily outdoing the very best of your traps, such as the Acolyte Mouse, Dragon Mouse, Silth Mouse, Warmonger Mouse, Balack the Banished, etc. In mouse standards, the Nerg Chieftain fits here. He's the smallest mouse in the Nerg tribe, and most difficult to catch.
104* In ''VideoGame/{{Nefarious}}'', Princess Ariella is the warrior princess of Dwarf Country, and loves adventuring and fighting, demonstrating the ability to knock out steel beams with her ax.
105* Tressa from ''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler'' is the smallest playable character, but she's just as competent a fighter as the other party members are. This is highlighted in her second chapter, where her fellow merchant Ali is [[CurbstompBattle defeated instantly]] by Morlock, leading Tressa to go save him.
106* From ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII'':
107** Hikari is the shortest male character and doesn't look much more muscular than [[WhiteMage Temenos]], but starts out in the very physically-inclined [[TheBigGuy Warrior class]], and he's well-known in Ku for his skills with the sword.
108** Ochette is downright tiny, being the shortest main character altogether; it's implied that Beastlings are small in general and age more slowly than humans. However, this doesn't hinder her combat abilities at all. Much like Hikari, she starts off in a strong physical class (Hunter), and her Latent Power even allows her to fight with her own teeth and claws.
109* The [[ArtificialHuman Duplicants]] from ''VideoGame/OxygenNotIncluded'' weigh 30 kilograms and are 42 centimeters tall but can carry hundreds to thousands of kilograms of material.
110* ''VideoGame/PaleoPines'':
111** Despite her short stature and old age, Granny Agami often boasts about how she has the strength of ten men.
112** Khepri the ''Protoceratops'' is too small to be a steed, but she's strong enough to help rebuild the archway to Ariacotta Canyon.
113* While not as much as in the anime, the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' video games tend to have more than a fair share of smaller creatures overpowering significantly larger ones.
114** Mew weighs in at a little under 9 pounds and a foot tall and Shaymin is only slightly larger, but both have base stats well above average even among Legendary Pokémon. Its equivalents in later generations, namely Celebi, Jirachi, Manaphy, Victini, and Meloetta, also deserve a mention.
115** Azelf. Tiny, light, very high Special Attack. Its physical Attack power is just as high.
116** The Misdreavus line is also a notable case. Misdreavus stands 2'04" and weighs 2.2 Ibs, but it has pretty high stats for an unevolved Pokémon[[note]]for reference, Misdreavus has a base stat total of 435, which is higher than Azumarill, Mightyena, Dugtrio and Marowak, to name a few[[/note]]. Mismagius is not much larger, being 2'11" tall and weighing 9.7 Ibs, but has high special stats and speed.
117** If a Shuckle uses Power Trick, it becomes the most powerful attacker in the entire series, period. ''It's two feet tall.''\
118It's a shame that Power Trick Shuckle is for the most part an unreliable strategy...
119** From ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', we have Machop, a fighting type humanoid Pokémon that is 2' 7" tall and only weighs 43 pounds. Despite being so short, it packs one hell of a wallop and all of its body weight is pure muscle. When it evolves into Machoke, it grows to 4' 11" and weighs 155 pounds, which still makes it quite short yet still retain its power. Its final evolution, Machamp, only grows a few inches taller but it gains an extra pair of arms as well.
120** Excadrill is so ridiculously overpowered that many competitive formats ''ban it''... and it's not even a legendary! It has a large base 135 Attack stat that can be bolstered by a Swords Dance, and an ability that ''doubles'' its Speed, making it the fastest Pokémon in the entire series in a sandstorm. Its height? [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking About 28 inches]].
121** This trope is referenced at the beginning of ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite''. You and your best friends get your starters, which were delivered to your house to be picked up. Since they're only level 5 Pokemon and still pretty small and cute, Bianca suggests having a Pokemon battle in your bedroom, assuming such cute little things couldn't possibly do much damage. Cut to after your battle with her and the cute little Pokemon have pretty much made the room a disaster area. This trope is [[LampshadeHanging promptly lampshaded]] by all present, including your mother who just saw the aftermath (though she's not too upset about it), no matter how little an adorable a Pokemon is, it's still a powerhouse.
122** Another Mega Evolution is Mega Mawile, at 3'3" and 51.8 lbs, Mega Mawile was the smallest of the first batch of megas; it also has an ability called Huge Power that doubles its attack stat, giving it the highest maximum attack stat in the game. Combined with high defense and above average special defense, Mega Mawile is a MightyGlacier that looks like a little girl.
123** UB-04[=/=]Kartana from ''Videogame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' is the tiniest of the Ultra Beasts and one tiny Pokemon overall, being merely one foot tall and looking like sentient origami. It's also one of the hardest hitters in the entire game and can chop entire buildings in half because of its sharp edges, and can take physical attacks relatively well, too.
124** ''Sun and Moon'' also introduced Marshadow. At 2'04", it is quite small, which is also quite noticeable when sent onto battlefield. It also has Special Attack of 90 and Attack of ''125'', unresisted STAB combo of Ghost-Fighting and ability that gives 50% boost to weaker attack (on top of STAB) that means ridiculously powerful [[ActionInitiative Shadow Sneaks]]. And don't even think about trying to kill him by buffing your Pokemon, because it has a move that ''[[ImpossibleThief steals your buffs]]'' then uses them right away to hand you an instant kill.
125** In ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'', Corviknight is considered to be an apex predator, with respectable stats and standing at 7'03", and is the taxi service due to most Pokémon being unwilling to attack it. In ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletandViolet'' however, it is the ''prey'' of one of the Pokémon there, which hunts it so regularly that Corviknight not only is prey, but it cannot run the taxi service because of the risk of being attacked. What is this vicious predator? '''Tinkaton''', a 2'04" Fairy/Steel type that wields a ''220 pound hammer'' and knocks ''boulders at Corviknight for fun.'' While its stats aren't that impressive for a fully evolved Pokémon, it compensates by learning the devastating '''160 power Gigaton Hammer''' and the respectable Ice Hammer via breeding, and Corviknight possesses almost no attacks that can significantly hurt it in return.
126** Far more seriously in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonScarletandViolet Pokémon Violet]]'' is [[spoiler:The Future Paradox Pokémon in the Paldea Crater.]] These Pokémon are noted to be much smaller [[spoiler:than their present day counterparts, but have stats that vastly exceed the original. They're also not supposed to be here, given that they were brought to the present via time machine, despite the danger to the local ecosystem.]]
127** Scarlet and Violet DLC introduces [[spoiler:Terapagos]], who is a measly 1-footer turtle [[spoiler:and still a rather small-ish 5-footer in its SuperMode]]. Despite its diminutive size, it's capable of incredible feats, primarily, [[spoiler:the source of the Terastal phenomenon that affects multiple regions, as well as the same phenomenon TheProfessor used to empower their time machine which brought forth the aforementioned time-displaced Paradox Pokémon.]]
128* ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'' has the main character 2B. She stands at 5'6" -- when factoring her CombatStilettos. They make up roughly six inches, and without them she's shown to be roughly five feet tall. Even when factoring them, she often takes on enemies many times larger than her and wins.
129* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'':
130** Morceau Oleander is a short, angry man. However, he's a powerful psychic who manages to [[spoiler:fend off Sasha and Milla, two powerful Psychonaut agents, who both are seen struggling to get the upper hand. It's only until when Ford arrives that Oleander is outmatched.]]
131** Series protagonist Razputin Aquato certainly qualifies, standing at 4'4''(~ 132cm). Despite that (and being 10), he has defeated numerous talented psychic adults and creatures.
132* Little Mac from ''VideoGame/PunchOut'', taking on boxers twice his size and definitely out of his weight rank like it's nothing.
133* ''Everything'' in their universe absolutely ''dwarfs'' both ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank''. Clank is especially noticeable, since he plays the part of AwesomeBackpack most of the time. Ratchet is, supposedly, 5'1. Not ''too'' short by our standards, but almost everyone towers over him in-universe... even his fellow lombax, Alister Azimuth. This becomes even more puzzling when you see him in ''VideoGame/PlaystationMoveHeroes'', where he doesn't even come up to Jak's shoulder. Jak, for the record, is in the running for shortest human(ish) character in [[VideoGame/JakAndDaxter his own series.]] As to the 'powerhouse' part of the trope? Ratchet is a [[OneManArmy one lombax army]] with an unbelievable arsenal of {{BFG}}s, and Clank's a robotic secret agent with loose control over time (depending on the game). You do the math.
134* Ash from ''VideoGame/RagingJustice'' is a ''teenage'' police trainee, and the only member of the gang who walks around carrying a schoolbag. It doesn't stop him from kicking ass all over the place (mostly by using his bag to smack enemies around) - for reference, he stood around the ''waist''-level of the lower-grade mooks.
135* Julia from ''VideoGame/RevenantSaga'' is half as tall as the rest of the party but has the second-highest natural strength.
136* From ''VideoGame/RuneFactory3'', protagonist [[HalfHumanHybrid Micah]] in his [[VoluntaryShapeshifting wooly form]]. [[SweetSheep Woolies are the weakest, least-aggressive monsters]] in the Rune Factory series (Basically their version of [[CallARabbitASmeerp sheep]]). Wooly Micah can bounce around monsters ten times his size, [[BareFistedMonk bare-handed.]]
137* In ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'', Max is about three feet tall, but is incredibly dangerous. Hell, he once tore apart a demon in hell...with his bare hands!
138* ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight'' of the game of the same name is one of the smallest characters in the game, but he's also an extremely potent fighter with his [[ShovelStrike Shovel Blade]] and smashes his way through the Order Of No Quarter, including powerful fighters like Polar Knight, fast duelists like Propeller Knight, or creepy undead abominations like Specter Knight.
139* ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'' introduces Chopscotch in ''[[VideoGame/SkylandersImaginators Imaginators]]'', a small Undead ghoul who is a Smasher Sensei and wields an axe that's even bigger than what she is.
140* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' has a number of these. Most of the non-human characters are slightly built, a little on the short side, have noodle arms, and are very strong. Knuckles especially, who is pretty much TheBigGuy of the series despite being the same size as Sonic and most anthros. And any of the flying characters (Cream the Rabbit can carry Big the Cat, Charmy the Bee can carry Vector the Crocodile, and Rouge the Bat can carry E-123 Omega).
141** Tails deserves special mention -- he's 44 pounds (most of which seems to be his tails, which are each about the same size as the rest of him), and can beat up a giant robot with little trouble and no weapons. ''Repeatedly''.
142** Classic Sonic is smaller than most present day characters such as [[MyFutureSelfAndMe Modern Sonic]], but he's still able to [[RollingAttack tunnel through solid rock]], and he eats big, strong, ''fast'' things for breakfast. No giant battlemechs lived to talk about him.
143** Don't forget [[UltimateLifeform Shadow]]. He can flip over a bus with one hand, and when he takes his limiters off, he's quite able to take out an army of Mephiles.
144** Basically all the Anthros are this, if you think about it, given their average size (The main one with a confirmed height, that being Sonic himself, is only 3'3" -- that's assuming Modern Sonic, anyway, as Classic Sonic is even shorter). In spite of this, most of them don't really have much trouble dealing with giant killer robots.
145* Siegfried from the ''VideoGame/SoulSeries''. He starts out the series as not only its shortest male character but its shortest character, but he goes through many growth spurts throughout the series. He starts out at a measly 157 cm at age 16, becomes 165 cm at age 19, becomes 168 cm at age 23 and becomes 172 cm at age 40 and [[{{Retcon}} is retconned to be this height at age 19]] in the ContinuityReboot, ''VI''. He wields a {{BFS}} the same size as him and has one of the heavier styles of the cast.
146* ''VideoGame/{{Skully}}'' has the titular character, a sentient... skull. Human-sized. Who can defeat elemental monsters by [[RollingAttack rolling really hard]].
147* If you play a Bounty Hunter in ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' you eventually get a tanking companion named Blizz. Blizz is a Jawa, one of those little hooded guys from ''Film/ANewHope'', that wields a ''rocket launcher''.
148** Unlockable companion Treek is a notorious mercenary, a legendary hunter, easily tossed aside a few humans who got in her way, and can tank ''or'' heal. She's also the first Ewok (those [[KillerRabbit deadly little guys]] from ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'') to leave her planet.
149* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'':
150** Chun-Li is called "The First Lady of Fighting Games" among fans of the genre; her official stats list her as 5'6". Compared to most other fighters in the franchise, she's almost petite.
151** She still has Cammy beat by two inches, however, and the Trope certainly applies to her too.
152* ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage'': [=Sammy/Eddie=] "Skate" Hunter, a preteen, can throw the games' [[FatBastard Big Ben]] enemies without a problem, even in the third game where [[KungFuProofMook they're otherwise immune to being thrown]] (they'll fall on top of the player and deal damage ''and'' come out unscathed). In ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRageRemake'', only he and [[MightyGlacier the wrestler Max Thunder]] can do it.
153* Mario from ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''. He's 5'1" (Unless you go by the crossovers, where he's about 3'1"), slightly pudgy, with no visible muscles, but he can lift a castle and throw it to the side like a football without breaking a sweat. He is also able to swing around and throw a huge, massive and heavy dragon-turtle just by the tail.
154** In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'', there is a Gearmo (which is about half the size of Mario) that can destroy Chomps with one punch.
155** The martial arts master Jinx is the smallest opponent in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'', but he is very powerful and one of the hardest fights in the game.
156* SD Gundams in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsBX'' and ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsUX'' are capable of fighting mecha much bigger then them, to wit Knight Gundam in ''BX'' even earns the "Ignore Size Modifier" pilot skill[[note]]No accuracy or damage penalties incurred when attacking a unit of a larger size[[/note]].
157* And then there's the cyborg [[Characters/EndlessFrontier Aschen Brodel]] when she's gets included in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration The Moon Dwellers''. She's not a pilot but is capable of beating the crap out of a mech at least five times her size when players use the Gespenst Haken's Phoenix Showdown attack.
158* In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsX'', [[Anime/MashinHeroWataruSeries Wataru]] might beat [[Anime/ArmoredTrooperVOTOMS Chirico with his magnum]] and [[Anime/CrossAnge Ange with her machine gun]] when Wataru's final attack involves him slashing the enemy with his sword ''on foot''. And yes, it can be done in space.
159* Meta example from ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars'': SOTS starships are tiny by most series' standards; dreadnoughts are smaller than modern US supercarrier. WordOfGod [[http://www.kerberos-productions.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=277104#p277526 states that antimatter-era weapons (Cutting Beams mentioned in post) are on par with]] ''Series/BabylonFive'' [[AbusivePrecursors Shadows.]]
160* ''VideoGame/TakAndThePowerOfJuju'': The Dinky Juju is a toddler that can cause earthquakes.
161* Presea from ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia''. She's the shortest member of your party but wields an incredibly large axe. She's also the only one capable of carrying the sacred wood.
162* ''VideoGame/ThemsFightinHerds'': Arizona is a small calf but she's strong enough to cause [[GroundPunch earthquakes by stomping]] as well as send bears and adult bulls flying with just her hooves and a lasso.
163** Shanty isn't too far off the trope either. She's the shortest playable ungulate so far but that doesn't stop her from beating and spinning opponents in midair much larger than her.
164* Suika Ibuki of the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' has the appearance of an 8-year-old girl, yet as the leader of [[EliteFour The Four Devas of The Mountain]], the four strongest {{Oni}} in all of Japan, she's physically one of the strongest characters in the setting. And that's before she uses her power of density manipulation to [[{{Sizeshifter}} grow several times her size...]]
165** Cirno is one of the smallest named character in the games, being a child fairy. But even though her [[OvershadowedByAwesome incompetence]], [[TheDitz stupidity]] and supposed [[BoisterousWeakling "weakness"]] are [[MemeticMutation legendary]], none of the named Touhou characters are to be trifled with (except maybe Rinnosuke, Akyuu and Kosuzu). Cirno holds her own against some of the powerhouses of Touhou in ''Hisoutensoku'' and in ''Fairy Wars'' is strong enough to give trouble to [[TheHero Marisa]] Kirisame.
166** Speaking of [[CuteWitch Marisa Kirisame]], she herself can count as this, given that she's actually one of the shortest characters in the series. For reference, she's only marginally taller than characters such as the Scarlet sisters and the aforementioned Suika, and notably shorter than even ''Akyuu and Kosuzu''. In spite of this, she's known as Gensokyo's number two as far as danmaku duels go, and that's for good reason.
167** There's also [[LittlePeople Shinmyoumaru Sukuna]], who is probably the smallest character in the series due to being based on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issun-b%C5%8Dshi Issun-boshi]] and usually only being about the size of a mouse, yet she's a FinalBoss and was able to use her Miracle Mallet to make herself the size of a child. And she ''still'' manages to put up a fight.
168* ''VideoGame/TreasurePlanetBattleAtProcyon'': The eponymous Procyons are shorter than most humans on average, but are stronger than humans due to having a 20% higher muscle to bone ratio.
169* In ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'', as she grows older, Clementine is still quite short compared to most adults. Nevertheless, she is still capable of fighting walkers and hostile humans twice her size.
170* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'' brings [[PokemonSpeak Clem]], a [[TokenHeroicOrc friendly]] Grineer trooper who is at least one head shorter than the rest of his race (and any given Tenno). He is also strong enough to hold his own against entire platoons of enemies without help from the players (though he will need support eventually).
171* Rudy Roughnight from ''VideoGame/WildArms1'' is 158cm or roughly 5' 2". He's the strongest member of your team due to his ARM powers and due to him having an incredible amount of strength. Justified because [[spoiler: he's made of living metal like the demons, meaning he can deal out and take more damage than Jack and Cecilia.]]
172* A metagame example from ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''. Smaller character models are harder to select and thus attack. Of the player races, this means the very tiny Gnomes are particular nuisances. And since Gnomes can be both Warriors and Death Knights, they can also be stupidly powerful and durable. Goblins, who were added in the Cataclysm expansion, are much the same. Dwarves aren't nearly as small, but are still pretty shrimpy, and can be Warriors, Paladins, and Death Knights -- all the main tanking classes besides Druid.
173** That said, once the aforementioned expansion hits the only race that will have ''all'' of the tanking classes available to them are the typically 8 foot tall Tauren.
174** The Goblins are Gnome-sized greenskinned creatures who are pretty strong for their size. And insane to boot.
175** As for [=NPCs=], Jani, the Loa of Scavengers, qualifies as this. While he is "only" a saurid (Warcraft's equivalent to a Compsognathus), he is a Loa and WILL teach anyone who deserves it proper respect.
176* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'':
177** The first game has Riki, a [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Nopon]]. One of his catchphrases is ''"Riki can win by himself!"'', and he's not all talk, far from it! He has the most HP out of all the members of the party, and with the proper strategy he can solo bosses.
178** ''Xenoblade Chronicles: Futures Connected'', the new scenario added to the [[VideoGameRemake Definitive Edition]], has Nene, Riki's daughter. Her moveset is a derivative of Reyn, TheBigGuy and tank of the main game's party.
179* Lin Lee Koo in ''VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX''. At 13-years-old, she's the youngest party member, and easily the smallest. She's also the party's tank, [[SmallGirlBigGun wields a Gatling gun]], and has attacks that can knock an enemy over in a game where many enemies are the size of a house.
180* In a similar vein, Tora from ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' is MadeOfIron, having the greatest HP growth of all the party members, and starts out as the party's [[DamagerHealerTank tank]] with the help of his creation [[RobotGirl Poppi]]. However, given [[MechanicallyUnusualFighter the Poppiswap system]], it's possible to make Tora and Poppi fit whatever role you need with enough grinding of the [[SidetrackedByTheGoldSaucer 'Tiger! Tiger!' minigame]], and they can become practically unstoppable with the right setups.
181* Continuing the series tradition, in ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'', Sena is the Agnian side of Ouroboros' powerhouse, despite being short and lean of figure. She is paired with the Kevesi [[TheBigGuy Lanz]], and, despite the latter's initial distrust, the two bonded rather quickly over their shared love of muscle training. Notably, when the team are first able to swap one anothers' classes, Lanz expresses particular surprise that she had been able to wield her hammer unaided, as he initially found himself struggling with its weight even with compensation from his power frame.
182** There's also the Hero Ghondor, who is even shorter than Sena is. Although most of her Martial Artist Class fighting style is based around laying down a constant barrage of rapid fisticuffs, she displays a capacity to send enemies flying when she drop kicks them and can render them dazed with a good blow to the head.
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