History Main / DepravedDwarf

** Li'l Gideon Gleeful. Despite his surname, he's '''anything but''' cheerful by default, genuinely speaking, compared to his crush Mabel Pines. He's not the main antagonist for the show's 1st season for nothing.

** Jeff the gnome, who was formerly the leader of a village full of gnomes like him. His further madness is additionally [[LoveMakesYouEvil motivated by his crush on Mabel]] (similar to Gideon's case).

** Lil' Gideon Gleeful. Despite his surname, he's '''anything but''' cheerful by default, genuinely speaking, compared to his crush Mabel Pines. He's not the main antagonist for the show's 1st season for nothing.
** Jeff the gnome, who was formerly the leader of a village full of gnomes like him. His madness is even motivated by his crush on Mabel (similar to Gideon's case).

** Jeff the gnome, who was formerly the leader of a village of fellow gnomes. His madness is even motivated by his crush on Mabel (similar to Gideon's case).

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** Lil' Gideon Gleeful. Despite his surname, he's '''anything but''' cheerful by default, genuinely speaking (unlike his crush Mabel Pines). He's not the main antagonist for the show's 1st season for nothing.

** Jeff the gnome, who was formerly the leader of a village of fellow gnomes. His madness is even motivated by his crush won Mabel (similar to Gideon's case).

** [[TheNapoleon Eddy]], TheLeader of the Eds who is also the least considerate for others, primarily because of his ambitious goals of obtaining money and being more socially accepted than he already was with his best friends.
** [[TinyTyrannicalGirl Sarah]], the SpoiledBrat younger sister of her '''''very''''' contradictory older brother Ed, who, in contrast, is a very loyal GentleGiant for her and his own friend.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':

%%* [[TheNapoleon Dexter]] from ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory''.
%%* [[TinyTyrannicalGirl Sarah]] from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "The Thin White Line", when Brian joins the Quahog police as a drug dog, one of their busts is a gang of dwarves running a drug ring under the masquerade of children at Sunday school.

%%* [[MadScientist Heloise]] from ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes''.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' villain Dr. Psycho (pictured above). He can be best characterized as "a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain misogynistic]], vindictive, spiteful, [[EvilIsPetty petty]], sadistically cruel serial killer/rapist and cannibal [[FromBadToWorse with the ability to control people's minds]]".

The Depraved Dwarf is a pint-sized bucket of malice. He [[AlwaysMale (and it's pretty much always a he)]] is either a sadistic psychopath, a twisted rapist (presumably of the [[SlippingAMickey Mickey-slipping]] variety rather than the [[DavidVersusGoliath hold-them-down]] type), or at the very least a violent, cold-blooded criminal. They tend to show up when the hero has been rendered helpless. Often, expect {{giggling|Villain}}. Can go hand in hand with TheNapoleon (although, that other trope may not always require morality for its case, as opposed to this one), if the Depraved Dwarf's misanthropy is implied to be a response -- [[MisplacedRetribution albeit a misdirected one]] -- to discrimination and abuse faced [[HeightAngst as a result of their short stature]].

The Depraved Dwarf is a pint-sized bucket of malice. He [[AlwaysMale (and it's pretty much always a he)]] is either a sadistic psychopath, a twisted rapist (presumably of the [[SlippingAMickey Mickey-slipping]] variety rather than the [[DavidVersusGoliath hold-them-down]] type), or at the very least a violent, cold-blooded criminal. They tend to show up when the hero has been rendered helpless. Often, expect {{giggling|Villain}}. Can go hand in hand with TheNapoleon, if the Depraved Dwarf's misanthropy is implied to be a response -- [[MisplacedRetribution albeit a misdirected one]] -- to discrimination and abuse faced [[HeightAngst as a result of their short stature]].

Dwarfs (not [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame that kind]], the real kind) [[note]]Dwar'''''ve'''''s are fantasy creatures; dwar'''''f'''''s are short humans, and the polite term for the latter nowadays is "little people." This is, however, a relatively recent distinction that started with Creator/JRRTolkien. As in nearly everything else, most later fantasy authors have either followed his lead or not done so in a very ''pointed'' way to make a statement of some kind.[[/note]] in fiction are fairly uncommon. When they do show up, they tend to be either comic relief or playing the aforementioned fantasy creatures. But then, there's these guys.

%%* The Dwarf in ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponATime...''

If he's TheDon or a similar leadership role, see MisterBig. May or may not overlap with LittlePeopleAreSurreal. For villains with other disabilities, see EvilCripple and EunuchsAreEvil.

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* Lord Farquaad, the abnormally short BigBad of [=DreamWorks=]' ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', proves his evil cred by [[FantasticRacism banishing all the fairy tale creatures from his kingdom]][[note]]except Mama Bear from ''Literature/{{Goldilocks}}'', who got made into a rug[[/note]], displaying a creepy interest in Princess Fiona, and (in his EstablishingCharacterMoment) having his goons waterboard -- er, ''milk''board -- the Gingerbread Man and rip off his legs. The musical even makes him literally [[spoiler: half dwarf]]. ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'' ups the ante with Rumpelstiltskin, who is even shorter and nastier than Farquaad.

* ''Film/PatchTown'': Kenny (played by comedian Kenneth "Ken" Hall) is a little person who enjoys "the perfect kidnapping gloves", frequenting a local brothel and attacking people. According to him, he has a standard: "I draw the line at eating kids". Trope is later averted when Kenny defects from Yuri and finds employment through a Toronto job agency, going on a date with a surly-looking employment counsellor.

* [[EnfanteTerrible Mandy]] from ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy''.

%%* [[TheNapoleon Plankton]] from ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''.

* [[OneLetterName J]] [[spoiler: aka Joran]] from [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3 Xenoblade Chronicles 3]].

* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Humbug". While investigating a series of murders in a small town populated by various ex-circus sideshow performers, Mulder catches the manager of the trailer park (who happens to be a little person) crawling around beneath the trailer where Scully is staying. The manager indignantly corrects Mulder's implied assumption that he was peeping. He was just doing some necessary repair work on the trailer, with Scully's knowledge, in fact. He further claims that he has no need to spy on Scully because he gets more than his fair share of tail from "curious" women.

* One of the [[OrderliesAreCreeps creepy orderlies]] in ''Literature/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest'' had his growth stunted by the trauma of seeing his mother gang-raped. And yes, [[AluminumChristmasTrees that's a thing]]; see [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} the other wiki's]] page on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosocial_short_stature psychosocial short stature]].

* ''Film/MeMyselfAndIrene'' has Chante, a chauffeur who's responsible for emasculating the protagonist Charlie. Aside from physically assaulting Charlie with nunchucks after [[EverythingIsRacist construing everything he says as racist/ableist]] while playing the victim card to Charlie's wife, he then proceeds to have an affair with said wife that results in [[ChocolateBaby children that look nothing like Charlie]], eventually running off with her and leaving Charlie with his kids.

* This is what everyone thinks Tyrion Lannister from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' is, despite his being one of the more morally upstanding characters in the series not named Stark. But he may have had a StartOfDarkness because of his ill treatment. He isn't helping his case by being a serial purveyor of prostitutes and a known drunkard. Also his treatment of his [[EvilNephew nephew]] [[RoyalBrat Joffrey]], while liked by the audience, [[spoiler:makes him look worse when he is blamed for [[EvilUncle their murder]].]]