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* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', dwarves are extremely small, have animal tails and pointy noses, and are extremely fast and strong. They do not seem to take up mining but rather have a connection with plant and animal life. In general, they are extremely gullible. Beards are also not very prominent.

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* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', dwarves are extremely small, have animal tails and pointy noses, and are extremely fast and strong. They do not seem to take up mining but rather have a connection with plant and animal life. In general, they are extremely gullible.gullible, on account of being ''so'' honest that they have a hard time wrapping their heads around the very concept of lying. Beards are also not very prominent.
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* Played for laughs in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Make Love, Not Warcraft''. Cartman is the only kid with a dwarf avatar. When Butters sings up for ''World of Warcraft'' he also picks a dwarf avatar...which looks exactly like Cartman's.

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* Played for laughs in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Make Love, Not Warcraft''.Warcraft". Cartman is the only kid with a dwarf avatar. When Butters sings up for ''World of Warcraft'' he also picks a dwarf avatar...which looks exactly like Cartman's.
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* Played for laughs in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Make Love, Not Warcraft''. Cartman is the only kid with a dwarf avatar. When Butters sings up for ''World of Warcraft'' he also picks a dwarf avatar...which looks exactly like Cartman's.
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* WebAnimation/OverlySarcasticProductions episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdMXFQ-AE8o [[Loki's Wager,"]] based on Myth/NorseMythology, depicts Brok and Sindri as muscular and human-sized. Red defends her choice in the credits.

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* WebAnimation/OverlySarcasticProductions episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdMXFQ-AE8o [[Loki's Wager,"]] "Loki's Wager"]], based on Myth/NorseMythology, depicts Brok and Sindri as muscular and human-sized. Red defends her choice in the credits.credits, using the theory mentioned above that Norse myth dwarves were conflated with dark elves, and Ivaldi fathering both the dwarves and Idunn, the beautiful goddess of youth.


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* ''[[AudioPlay/LeDonjonDeNaheulbeuk Naheulbeuk]]'' dwarves generally follow the Tolkien/DND template (short, bearded, axe-wielding, beer-guzzling, living underground, and so on), with one twist: their cultural hat is not honor, tradition or any other pseudo-Viking/Scot concept, but ''being as obnoxious as possible''. No joke, the whole race takes great pride in being a giant pain in everyone else's butt. The Dwarf of the main party, a whiny, foul-mouthed, annoying douchebag, is actually a shining example of everything his people stand for.
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* ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'': Although biologically human, the Oseram are basically dwarves in all but name. Their defining hobbies are smithing, drinking, arguing, and hitting things with hammers. [[ProudIndustriousRace And they're the best engineers and technicians in the known world]], they pepper their speech with blacksmithing terms, their preferred weapons are warhammers and big-ass cannons, they have generally stocky builds, and their entire visual style looks exactly like what you'd expect from stereotypical dwarves in a work of fantasy.
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* ''Videogame/DwarfFortress'' actually creates a fairly complex dwarven society. They have elected officials and a rudimentary police force and bureaucracy, as well as a larger-than-usual range of professions; you have dwarven tailors, cooks, millers and even beekeepers as well as the usual blacksmiths and miners. But at the end of they day, they're also manic-depressives that require alcohol to get through the day, even from birth. And the creator has even said explicitly that he's keeping Dwarves relatively close to the norm -- while he's been designing complicated algorithms to generate deep and varied cultures for other races, he intends to leave dwarves more or less identical [[AudienceSurrogate so they'll be easy for players to step into as a playable race.]]

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* ''Videogame/DwarfFortress'' actually creates a fairly complex dwarven society. They have elected officials and a rudimentary police force and bureaucracy, as well as a larger-than-usual range of professions; you have dwarven tailors, cooks, millers and even beekeepers as well as the usual blacksmiths and miners. They're also just as varied as humans in terms of appearance, with different skin tones and hair colors and builds. But at the end of they day, they're also manic-depressives that require alcohol to get through the day, even from birth. And the creator has even said explicitly that he's keeping Dwarves relatively close to the norm -- while he's been designing complicated algorithms to generate deep and varied cultures for other races, he intends to leave dwarves more or less identical [[AudienceSurrogate so they'll be easy for players to step into as a playable race.]]]] Another interesting detail brought about by the game's insane level of detail is that while Dwarves are naturally suited for living underground, they can get ''too used'' to it if they don't step outside for too long, causing nausea or temporary blindness when in contact with the sun.
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* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'': It's heavily implied that dwarves largely fit the usual stereotype (smithing, fighting, mining, straightforward). Senshi, the main dwarf of the series, is considered [[SquareRaceRoundClass a very atypical dwarf]], being a BunnyEarsLawyer, NatureHero, and SupremeChef, who can handle himself in a fight but prefers peace first, and admits to not knowing the first thing about ores. He inherited a pair of priceless, heirloom adamantine shields from his companions -- and reforged them into a wok with a matching lid. He has a mithril ''cooking knife''. Nonetheless, he still has a few traditional dwarven elements in him, such as a distrust of magic and favoring an axe (it's mentioned in supplementary comics that dwarves have some of the lowest natural mana capacity of any race). After being transformed into a dwarf by changeling mushroom spores, Laios discovers that dwarves do have one point of divergence from the standard mold: despite being very strong, they have very low stamina. Every dwarf seen so far wears only light armor when they need to fight and has to rest frequently. They also have excellent night vision and a strong sense of direction, even underground.

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* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'': It's heavily implied that dwarves largely fit the usual stereotype (smithing, fighting, mining, straightforward). Senshi, the main dwarf of the series, is considered [[SquareRaceRoundClass a very atypical dwarf]], being a BunnyEarsLawyer, NatureHero, and SupremeChef, who can handle himself in a fight but prefers peace first, and admits to not knowing the first thing about ores. He inherited a pair of priceless, heirloom adamantine shields from his companions -- and reforged them into a wok with a matching lid.lid (something another dwarf found incredulous). He has a mithril ''cooking knife''. Nonetheless, he still has a few traditional dwarven elements in him, such as a distrust of magic and favoring an axe (it's mentioned in supplementary comics that dwarves have some of the lowest natural mana capacity of any race). After being transformed into a dwarf by changeling mushroom spores, Laios discovers that dwarves do have one point of divergence from the standard mold: despite being very strong, they have very low stamina. Every dwarf seen so far wears only light armor when they need to fight and has to rest frequently. They also have excellent night vision and a strong sense of direction, even underground.underground, and live in tightly knit caste-based clans. Those outside of a clan are social pariahs, while the leader of the clan is considered the highest authority to those below, even above a king.
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* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'': It's heavily implied that dwarves largely fit the usual stereotype (smithing, fighting, mining, straightforward). Senshi, the main dwarf of the series, is considered [[SquareRaceRoundClass a very atypical dwarf]], being a BunnyEarsLawyer, NatureHero, and SupremeChef, who can handle himself in a fight but prefers peace first, and admits to not knowing the first thing about ores. He inherited a pair of priceless, heirloom adamantine shields from his companions -- and reforged them into a wok with a matching lid. He has a mithril ''cooking knife''. Nonetheless, he still has a few traditional dwarven elements in him, such as a distrust of magic and favoring an axe. After being transformed into a dwarf by changeling mushroom spores, Laios discovers that dwarves do have one point of divergence from the standard mold: despite being very strong, they have very low stamina. Every dwarf seen so far wears only light armor when they need to fight and has to rest frequently.

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* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'': It's heavily implied that dwarves largely fit the usual stereotype (smithing, fighting, mining, straightforward). Senshi, the main dwarf of the series, is considered [[SquareRaceRoundClass a very atypical dwarf]], being a BunnyEarsLawyer, NatureHero, and SupremeChef, who can handle himself in a fight but prefers peace first, and admits to not knowing the first thing about ores. He inherited a pair of priceless, heirloom adamantine shields from his companions -- and reforged them into a wok with a matching lid. He has a mithril ''cooking knife''. Nonetheless, he still has a few traditional dwarven elements in him, such as a distrust of magic and favoring an axe.axe (it's mentioned in supplementary comics that dwarves have some of the lowest natural mana capacity of any race). After being transformed into a dwarf by changeling mushroom spores, Laios discovers that dwarves do have one point of divergence from the standard mold: despite being very strong, they have very low stamina. Every dwarf seen so far wears only light armor when they need to fight and has to rest frequently. They also have excellent night vision and a strong sense of direction, even underground.
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* ''Literature/TheCrimsonShadow'': Like usual, they are bearded, no-nonsense people who mostly do metal work and mining. There are [[OneGenderRace no female dwarves]] shown or mentioned. Unusually however dwarves seem to get along fine with elves. Also most seem to be urban.
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* ''Literature/{{Spellster}}'': Dwarves are arboreal, nature-loving beings here. Further, they're not actually described as looking different from humans, or even shorter than them. Authril wonders at this to Dylan. He explains this is due to dwarves having interbred with humans so long that most look just the same. They also have much better eyesight than most humans.

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** All dwarves in the Order of the Stick universe drink beer, have two livers, worship the Nordic Pantheon and are short. A few of them (such as Durkon, "Kaboom" Redaxe, Sigdi, Hoskin and Kandro) have thick pseudo-Scottish accents. The only thing unusual about the dwarves is a shared dendrophobia (fear of trees) for [[RuleofFunny added wackiness]].

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** All dwarves in the Order of the Stick universe drink beer, have two livers, are extremely honor-bound, worship the Nordic Pantheon and are short. A few of them (such as Durkon, "Kaboom" Redaxe, Sigdi, Hoskin and Kandro) have thick pseudo-Scottish accents. The only thing unusual about the dwarves is a shared dendrophobia (fear of trees) for [[RuleofFunny [[RuleOfFunny added wackiness]].wackiness]]. Granted, a later issue reveals that [[spoiler:Thor told the dwarf race about the deal Hel and Loki made, in that Hel would get the souls of all dwarves, minus those who died honorably, in exchange for not having normal clerics. As such, Thor's information was what made the dwarves into such the honor-bound race they are today... and why he's so venerated amongst them.]]



** However, Durkon himself is a custom model. Unlike other dwarves, he rarely swears or loses his temper. He almost always remains calm and serves as the [[OnlySaneMan voice of reason]] in the party. He is unfailingly loyal and honest. His primary role on TheTeam is GoodShepherd /CombatMedic instead of a blacksmith or warrior. One wonders how he ended up worshiping ''Thor'' (who in this setting, acts like a well-meaning frat boy.)
** Granted, a later issue reveals that [[spoiler:Thor told the dwarf race about the deal Hel and Loki made, in that Hel would get the souls of all dwarves, minus those who died honorably, in exchange for not having normal clerics. As such, Thor's information was what made the dwarves into such the honor-bound race they are today...and why he's so venerated amongst them.]]

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** However, Durkon himself is a custom model. Unlike other dwarves, he rarely swears or loses his temper. He almost always remains calm and serves as the [[OnlySaneMan [[TheReliableOne voice of reason]] in the party. He is unfailingly loyal and honest. His primary role on TheTeam is GoodShepherd /CombatMedic instead of a blacksmith or warrior. A huge part of [[Recap/TheOrderOfTheStickUtterlyDwarfed the penultimate story arc]]'s narrative purpose was to make sure there's more to Durkon's character than "is a dwarf". One wonders how he ended up worshiping ''Thor'' (who in this setting, acts like a well-meaning frat boy.)
** Granted, a later issue reveals that [[spoiler:Thor told the dwarf race about the deal Hel and Loki made, in that Hel would get the souls of all dwarves, minus those who died honorably, in exchange for not having normal clerics. As such, Thor's information was what made the dwarves into such the honor-bound race they are today...and why he's so venerated amongst them.]]
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-->'''Roy''': ''reading over a letter Durkon is sending back to his homeland'' You know, you don't have to transcribe your accent.

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-->'''Roy''': ''reading ''[Reading over a letter Durkon is sending back to his homeland'' homeland]'' You know, you don't have to transcribe your accent.



** A huge part of [[Recap/TheOrderOfTheStickUtterlyDwarfed the penultimate story arc]]'s narrative purpose was to make sure there's more to Durkon's character than "is a dwarf".
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* Possible example: Gregory Maguire's ''Literature/MirrorMirror,'' in which the eight (yep) dwarves are, at least initially, shapeshifters. They're also far more, well, ''mineral'' than your typical humanoid character.

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* Possible example: Gregory Maguire's ''Literature/MirrorMirror,'' ''Literature/MirrorMirror2003,'' in which the eight (yep) dwarves are, at least initially, shapeshifters. They're also far more, well, ''mineral'' than your typical humanoid character.

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->'''Celia:''' He has an accent.
->'''Haley:''' He likes beer.
->'''Haley:''' He worships Thor.
->'''Celia:''' And hates trees!

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->'''Celia:''' He has an accent.
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'''Haley:'''
He likes beer.
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beer.\\
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He worships Thor.
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Thor.\\
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And hates trees!



* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'' presents us with three Dwarven Kingdoms. The dwarves here play all the tropes straight, but presents them in a very positive light, contrary to the [[Videogame/DungeonKeeper game world]] where the story takes place. The dwarfs are honorable, resilient people whose obduracy against [[ADungeonIsYou Keeper]] [[Manga/SailorMoon Mercury]] is justified, since the worst civil war in their history was backed and orchestrated by a Keeper.

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* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'' presents us with three Dwarven Kingdoms. The dwarves here play all the tropes straight, but presents them in a very positive light, contrary to the [[Videogame/DungeonKeeper game world]] where the story takes place. The dwarfs are honorable, resilient people whose obduracy against [[ADungeonIsYou Keeper]] Keeper [[Manga/SailorMoon Mercury]] is justified, since the worst civil war in their history was backed and orchestrated by a Keeper.[[ADungeonIsYou Keeper]].



* Averted in Andy Remic's ''The Blood Dragon Empire'' series where the Harborym Dwarves, while physically the standard Fantasy Dwarf, have some very big cultural differences from the standard mould. Firstly their religion is called the Church of Hate, that in itself speaks volumes. They do practice mining and consider it an important job, but not really that much more important than other jobs. The biggest difference however is that they enslave humans, torture them for entertainment, and treat them as disposable miners, food for their captive Dragons, or sex slaves. Each of the Dwarf characters in the series is either evil or just uncaring; the main Dwarf character is a twisted and spiteful hunchback who tortures innocent people because he can and forces young female Dwarfs into his bed, another is a rapist with a fetish for human women, another is a torturer whose sheer sadism would impress [[Literature/TheFirstLaw Sand dan Glokta]], and another is a King quite prepared to have families murdered to tie up loose ends and who believes that he is a God. Additionally, outside of a hardcore few, the Harborym Dwarves don't have the fanatical courage typical of the standard dwarf. They're a lyin', cheatin' bunch of cowardly bullies who whimper and grovel once their victims start kicking their asses.

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* Averted in Andy Remic's ''The Blood Dragon Empire'' ''Literature/TheBloodDragonEmpire'' series where the Harborym Dwarves, while physically the standard Fantasy Dwarf, have some very big cultural differences from the standard mould. Firstly their religion is called the Church of Hate, that in itself speaks volumes. They do practice mining and consider it an important job, but not really that much more important than other jobs. The biggest difference however is that they enslave humans, torture them for entertainment, and treat them as disposable miners, food for their captive Dragons, or sex slaves. Each of the Dwarf characters in the series is either evil or just uncaring; the main Dwarf character is a twisted and spiteful hunchback who tortures innocent people because he can and forces young female Dwarfs into his bed, another is a rapist with a fetish for human women, another is a torturer whose sheer sadism would impress [[Literature/TheFirstLaw Sand dan Glokta]], torturer, and another is a King quite prepared to have families murdered to tie up loose ends and who believes that he is a God. Additionally, outside of a hardcore few, the Harborym Dwarves don't have the fanatical courage typical of the standard dwarf. They're a lyin', cheatin' bunch of cowardly bullies who whimper and grovel once their victims start kicking their asses.



* ''Literature/PrincessesOfThePizzaParlor'': Dwarves live in the "far north" and their metal weaponry doesn't rust like other metal stuff.



* ''Franchise/TheWitcher'' series may differ considerably from the MedievalEuropeanFantasy archetype, but the Dwarves are still all the same. Short, broad and muscled, have a high tendency to be blacksmiths. The only difference is that they're second-class citizens and may sympathize and collaborate with Elves to the Humans FantasticRacism against "Otherlings."

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* In ''VideoGame/LuckBeALandlord'', the Dwarf symbol will destroy beer and wine, giving relevant payout. Upon getting the Dwarven Anvil item, they are also able to destroy Ores and Big Ores.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Torchlight}}'': The Dwarves are one of the ancient races in the planet of Vilderan, they are renowned for being skilled engineers, machinists, and are one of the most industrial races. Much like the ''Elder Scrolls'' example above, all of them are extinct -- what remains of the civilization are their ruins, their machines, and as all as their undead husks of themselves (animated by the powers of Ember).

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