Basic Trope: There is a miniature race about the size of a billiard ball.
- Straight: Somehow, lilliputians exist despite their small size, which makes them easy prey.
- Exaggerated: Lilliputians are smaller even than ants.
- Downplayed: Lilliputians are small compared to humans, but they are at least slightly larger than cats.
- Justified: Lilliputians are a long-lost sister species of humans who evolved to be small because of a chance genetic mutation.
- Inverted: Lilliputians are gigantic, and presumably apex predators.
- Subverted: It turns out to be an illusion; lilliputians truly are about the same size as a human.
- Double Subverted: …until a group of lilliputians with dwarfism exterminated the larger ones.
- Parodied: It is frowned upon in lilliputian culture not to enlist the help of a cosmetic surgeon.
- Zig-Zagged: (following from Double Subverted) The larger lilliputians were resurrected, and the lilliputians with dwarfism somehow lived happily ever after.
- Averted:
- Lilliputians are about the same size as a human.
- All humanoid characters are just humans.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded:Alice, lilliputian: Hi up there!
Bob, human: My goodness, you're tiny!
Alice: Yeah, I'm from a race that looks like yours but smaller. - Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Lilliputians and humans develop a symbiotic relationship. Lilliputians create fine detail in crafts for humans. Humans mass-produce things for lilliputians.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: The fact that lilliputians are so small makes them easy prey, and they become critically endangered, with a high chance of going extinct soon.
- Reconstructed: The lilliputians have been placed into a habitat, which keeps them safe from predators.
- Played for Laughs: A crowd of lilliputians playing for a football team are subject to severe slapstick from the opposing team of humans.
- Played for Drama: A budding romance between Alice and Bob fails when he crushes or even eats her by mistake, or just due to bad old Fantastic Racism.
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