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* Poppy in ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' is a Yordle, a small, lightweight race. She has a hammer twice her own size and is one of the hardest champions in the game to kill on top of sporting respectable damage.

** Umbrella [[PintSizedKid an improbably small eleven year old]] wielding Hungern, a massive mutant umbrella-creature. She holds Hungern upright, giving her a silhouette comparable to other playable characters, and moves slowly as she hauls the ever-hungering creature around. However, when Hungern hits, Hungern hits ''hard''.

** Marie, the FinalBoss of , is a [[PowerFloats floating]] UndeadChild who doesn't even look like she weighs a hundred pounds. But she's also a DamageSpongeBoss able to endure ridiculous amounts of brutality before finally dying. As her PowersDoTheFighting, she rarely moves, usually just push the player into a corner or get out of one herself.

* Marie, the FinalBoss of ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'', is a [[PowerFloats floating]] UndeadChild who doesn't even look like she weighs a hundred pounds. But she's also a DamageSpongeBoss able to endure ridiculous amounts of brutality before finally dying. As her PowersDoTheFighting, she rarely moves, usually just push the player into a corner or get out of one herself.

* Makoto in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'' 3rd Strike. She's one of the shortest characters in the franchise at under five feet, but when she hits you, [[PintSizedPowerhouse you're going to notice]]. Unfortunately, she also moves pretty slow and her small size means she's got low reach and her dashing attacks leave her vulnerable if executed poorly.

* Cloud in ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' is one of the shorter heroes and skinny as hell. He also carries a ridiculous {{BFS}}, is slow moving for a Cosmos warrior, and uses slow, telegraphed, predictable bashing attacks that send opponents crashing into walls for extra damage.

** Mr. Game and Watch looks like a lightweight and is knocked back like one, but its moves are on the "strong and slow" side.

* Kokoa Shuzen in ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'' is a 15-year-old girl who's on the small side for her age. She swings around her 100 kg MorphWeapon with about as much effort as a normal human would need to swing a flyswatter. She's also by a significant margin the slowest of the main characters.

* Poppy in ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' is a yordle, a small, lightweight race. She has a hammer twice her own size and is one of the hardest champions in the game to kill on top of sporting respectable damage.

** Azumarill. A cute Aqua Rabbit Pokemon a bit under 3 feet tall, with decent defenses, rubbish speed, and an Ability that doubles its Attack to make it the 11th most powerful physical attacker.

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** Spin-offs after the release of ''VideoGame/MarioKart Wii'' classify Rosalina and Waluigi in the same rank as the massive heavyweights despite their thin figures; this is because Rosalina is a StatuesqueStunner, and Waluigi is LeanAndMean. In Rosalina's case, it extends beyond spin-offs, as her playable appearance in ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld'' makes her the slowest character in the team, but the only one capable of attacking enemies without power ups. Outside of the ''Mario Kart'' series, Waluigi tends to be rather slow and defensive despite his thin build; falling into a combination of this and WeakButSkilled.

** King Boo and Dry Bowser are downplayed examples: while both of them are [[AdiposeRex too large]] for other categories, the first is a ghost (who's supposed to weight ''nothing'' but his crown) while the second is [[DemBones a living skeleton]]. This contradiction is partially solved in ''Mario Kart 8 Deluxe'' while King Boo is in the same Cruiser category as Rosalina while Dry Bowser is partially lighter than his living counterpart.
** In the same game, [[{{Extraoredinary}} the Metal characters]], [[AmbiguousRobots Metal Mario and Pink Gold Peach]] are weirder examples: despite being the same height and shape as [[JackOfAllStats Mario]] and [[FragileSpeedster Peach]], both of them are the sole {{Stone Wall}} characters in the franchise, having the weight of characters like [[MightyGlacier Bowser]], the traction of other heavyweight like Wario, the top speed and the acceleration of Cruisers like Waluigi ''and'' the handling of lighter Cruisers like Rosalina, all of this in middleweight sized vehicles which make them harder to hit.

** In the same game, [[{{Extraoredinary}} the Metal characters]], [[AmbiguousRobots Metal Mario and Pink Gold Peach]] are weirder examples: despite being the same height and shape as [[JackOfAllStats Mario]] and [[FragileSpeedster Peach]], both of them are the sole example of {{Stone Wall}}s in the franchise, having the weight of characters like [[MightyGlacier Bowser]], the traction of other heavyweight like Wario, the top speed and the acceleration of Cruisers like Waluigi ''and'' the handling of lighter Cruisers like Rosalina, all of this in middleweight sized vehicles which make them harder to hit.

** In the same game, [[{{Extraoredinary}} the Metal characters]], [[AmbiguousRobots Metal Mario and Pink Gold Peach]] are weirder examples: despite being the same height and shape as [[JackOfAllStats Mario]] and [[FragileSpeedster Peach]], both of them are the sole example of {{Stone Wall}}s in the franchise, having the weight and the acceleration of characters like [[MightyGlacier Bowser]], the top speed and the handling of Cruisers like Waluigi ''and'' the traction of other Cruisers like Rosalina, all of this in middleweight sized vehicles.
** In ''Mario Kart 8'', [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]], who has a lean {{Bishonen}} build, is classified as a heavyweight. Probably has to do with him being a realistically proportioned human of realistically average height in a game where squat, cartoonish builds are the norm.

** In the same game, [[{{Extraoredinary}} Metal Mario and Pink Gold Peach]] are weirder examples: despite being the same height and shape as [[JackOfAllStats Mario]] and [[FragileSpeedster Peach]] ''and'' driving vehicles of similar proportions, both of them are the sole example of {{Stone Wall}}s in the franchise, being the same weight as [[MightyGlacier Bowser]] (and having similar problems to accelerate) while having a Cruiser top speed ''but'' also as easy to control as them, while being harder to hit too.

** In the same game, [[Extraordinary Metal Mario and Pink Gold Peach]] are weirder examples: despite being the same height and shape as [[JackOfAllStats Mario]] and [[FragileSpeedster Peach]] ''and'' driving vehicles of similar proportions, both of them are the sole example of {{Stone Wall}}s in the franchise, being the same weight as [[MightyGlacier Bowser]] (and having similar problems to accelerate) while being slower ''but'' also easier to control and harder to hit.

* Asuna of ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' has a relatively average size in the cast (taller than most, but far leaner than the other warriors). Despite that, she carries a {{BFS}}, wears thick armor, and is nowhere near as fast as the other warriors in the cast.

%% * In VideoGame/CartoonNetworkPunchTimeExplosion, which is a surprise to anyone, [[WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends MAC & BLOO OF ALL PEOPLE]], [[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy Billy & Mandy]], [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls MOJO JOJO]] and [[WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien Kevin]].

* Ness from ''Videogame/EarthBound'' has the build of an ordinary 13-year-old boy, the highest offense out of all the party members, and is quite slow.

* ''Franchise/FireEmblem''

* In the more recent ''{{Franchise/Kirby}}'' games, Kirby can take a pretty solid hitting before dying (Not to mention ''Videogame/KirbysEpicYarn'', where he's just straight-up invincible.)

%% * [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]] from [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]] demonstrates that he fits in to this trope. Most prominently when he picks up one of Koloktos' swords, each of which are [[{{BFS}} three times bigger than he is,]] and has no problem using it to hack Koloktos to pieces.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' gives you Tali, a petite Quarian who doesn’t look like much. She can also have more shields than almost anyone in your party and specializes in shotguns, making her a defensive and offensive powerhouse.

%% * ''[[VideoGame/TearsToTiara2 Tears to Tiara 2]]'': Tart. Justified in that she's the ''Goddess of War''.

%% * ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'', running as it does on a [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters massive cast]] of {{Cute Bruiser}}s and {{Little Miss Badass}}es beating the crap out of each other, has plenty of examples. In terms of story the best example is Suika Ibuki, by all appearances a horned eight-year-old child who can tear apart mountains and hurl black holes. In terms of gameplay the best example is Utsuho Reiuji, a frail-looking WingedHumanoid who in ''Hisoutensoku'' is an absurdly powerful MightyGlacier.

%%* Kairi in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII Re+Mind'' is the slowest of the non-Sora playable characters, but she more than makes up for it with offensive capabilities that can rival the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Ultima]] Keybalde.

* Mana Kawai from ''VideoGame/LostDimension'', a cute, thin girl whose [[PsychicPowers Gift]] is Overdrive, which grants her great physical strength. She's one of the few characters who doesn't use guns, instead [[BareFistedMonk punching enemies to death]]. In her first conversation, [[LampshadeHanging she points out that her power is unfitting for a small girl like her]].

* Pictured above: [[TokenMiniMoe Vita]] from ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' is rather petite (even if her armor makes her appear bigger) but wields a [[DropTheHammer giant hammer]].

* Guan Yinping of ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors 8'', a BadassAdorable that swings around an extraordinarily large dual-headed
[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chu%C3%AD_(Chinese_weapon) Chuí]] / Chinese mace. Her [[LimitBreak Musou attack]] involves handing it to one of the soldiers, who then drops to the ground under its massive weight as if struggling to hold up a barbell before she takes it back and swings it about like a baton.