History PintsizedPowerhouse / VideoGames

** 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.

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':

** [[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'').

** 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.

* 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.]]

* 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''.

* 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.

** 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.

** 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.
** 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.]]

* 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...]]
** 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.

* 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.

* In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', if you play the "Old World Blues" DLC with the [[SillinessSwitch Wild Wasteland]] perk, at one point you can encounter [[FluffyTheTerrible Stripe]], an [[DemonicSpiders Alpha Deathclaw]] approximately the size of a teacup poodle. Feel free to laugh... until it leaps at you and takes out theee quarters of your health in one hit.

* Kirby, in well, ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}'', is 8 inches tall, at least when not sized up in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros.''
** Do note, this eight inch tall puffball has torn at least ''eight different {{Eldritch Abomination}}s to'' '''''shreds.'''''

* Siegfried from ''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 the series 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 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.

* 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 [[DropTheHammer hammer]] unaided, as he initially found himself struggling with its weight even with compensation from his power frame.

** 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.

** 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 Pokémon Scarlet and Violet]] 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.
** 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.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'' introduces Chopscotch in ''Imaginators'', a small Undead ghoul who is a Smasher Sensei and wields an axe that's even bigger than what she is.

** 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. Enough to rival the other resident {{cyborg}} of the series, Maxima.

* Jubei from ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' is a 123cm "tall" [[{{Nekomata}} 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 HollywoodCyborg weighing in at 550kg.
** Also, Makoto Nanaya, who 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.

* Mazzy Fentan of ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'' is a 4 ft. tall [[LadyOfWar lady knight]] who is one of the best melee fighters in the game and will rip through foes many times her size.

* Emilia, of ''VideoGame/BlazeUnion''. She is 11-years-old, just barely four feet 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]].

** Salvador the Gunzerker from ''Videogame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' is only 5'4", 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.

* In ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' there are a number of 3-foot tall tanks with the [[FlyingBrick Super Strength]] powerset.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'', B.B. Hood is only 4'8'', 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.

* 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 [[GagBoobs anything]] [[PlotRelevantAgeUp but]] pintsize.]]

* ''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 version 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.

* ''Franchise/MassEffect'': [[GameplayAndStorySegregation While it doesn't fully show in game]], canonically Female Shepard is only 5'3", putting her in the running for being the smallest person on any version 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.