History Main / MiniatureSeniorCitizens

* Elderly people are depicted in this way in Manga/ServantXService.

* Guenael Lee from ''{{Manga/BLEACH}}'' certainly fits the bill as both small and elderly, although seeing as he's a figment of Gremmy's imagination rendered real by his abilities, it can't be said for certain exactly how long he's existed (despite looking old, Gremmy could've thought him up very recently).

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* Rei's grandfather from ''Manga/SailorMoon''.
** This is only in the anime. Rei's grandfather is shown to be quite dapper in the manga.

* Enya Geil from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''.

* Guenael Lee from "Manga/BLEACH" certainly fits the bill as both small and elderly, although seeing as he's a figment of Gremmy's imagination rendered real by his abilities, it can't be said for certain exactly how long he's existed (despite looking old, Gremmy could've thought him up very recently).

* Guenael Lee from "Manga/Bleach" certainly fits the bill as both small and elderly, although seeing as he's a figment of Gremmy's imagination rendered real by his abilities, it can't be said for certain exactly how long he's existed (despite looking old, Gremmy could've thought him up very recently).

* In DavidLynch's ''MulhollandDrive'', Diane Selwyn is attacked by ''literally'' miniaturized old people. They're about three inches tall.
* Benjamin Button from ''The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'' was born a baby-sized old man (not a spoiler) and gets younger as the story progresses. In the original story, he might be the size of an aged adult (he's explicitly described as too big for the crib). [[FridgeHorror Don't think too much about the]] [[DeathByChildbirth birth.]]

* In the sitcom ''WKRPInCincinnati'', newsman Les Nessman frequently voices concern over his (never seen) aged mother's chronic shrinking.
* Marie in ''EverybodyLovesRaymond''.

* On ''{{ER}}'', the term "LOL" was shorthand for "little old lady." Presumably they didn't encounter many six-foot-tall elderly women.

* In ''{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4105 the coffee shop lady.]]

* In a particularly strange spin on the trope, Hank's father in ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' had his shins surgically removed after a war injury.
** Oddly, his arms are proportional to his diminished frame, [[FridgeLogic with no real explanation given]].

* Geriatrix in ''{{Asterix}}'' is even shorter than Asterix himself, and about half the height of his [[UglyGuyHotWife hot wife]].
* Ma Dalton in ''LuckyLuke''.

* When [[spoiler:The Master]] uses a reversed form of the Lazarus machine on [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]] it leads to him following this trope.
** [[spoiler:The immortal but still aging Captain Jack Harkness apparently mutates into just a (gigantic) head... maybe.]]

* [[WickedWitch Majorina]] in ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'' is an evil old lady who is less than half the size of her younger fellow villains.

* [[TheDreaded Mumm-Ra]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats}}'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011 [=ThunderCats (2011)=]]]'' is this when in ShapeshifterDefaultForm.
* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. Granny Smith is shorter than Applejack, but in a series of flashbacks indicate that she was always small.

* Doctor Torataro Shima in ''Literature/Paprika'' is noticeably shorter than most of the other characters.

** This is actully seen in a photo album. After the first few photos the pages are flipped though like resulting in a flipbook like image of Madame Foster shrinking while Frankie grows taller.

* The Tsuchikage from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' was recently revealed to be an old man so tiny that he's only about 1.5 times as tall as his [[NiceHat Kage head piece]] is long. It turns out that Onoki was always tiny, though.

** Played straightish by Iroh.

*** Finally, a {{Filler}} episode in the first season gives us Kin Ono, the diminutive mother of [[BrotherChuck Dr. Tôfû Ono]]. Unlike these others, she only a "normal" old person, about 60 or so, but she seems to have been fairly tiny even when she was a young girl.

Since this tends not to be noted as anything peculiar by younger characters, it's also an instance of CartoonishCompanions.

In real life, there is basis for shrinking in scientific lore. Except in cases of severe osteoporosis, however, most people will only lose a couple of inches from their tallest height over their lifetime. Note, however, that each generation has been, on average, taller than the last throughout the 20th century even in the West thanks to heartier diets rich in protein that their peasant ancestors could not enjoy, while Japan in particular (and Asia in general) is currently going through an accelerated version of this phenomenon since the end of World War II. Taller people tend to have shorter lifespans, which accounts for elder characters in general being shorter, but not individual height loss.

* Mr. Fredrickson in ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'' was always pretty short; not much shorter than or the same height as his wife, and significantly taller than a large 8-year old, but his large head makes his shortness more prominent.

* While not as extreme as some of the other example on this page,Lo and Li from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' are still fairly short. A portrait of them painted in their youth, shown in the BeachEpisode, shows that they were not always that small. Nor that ugly.

* The twin witches [[PlayingWithFire Koume]] and [[AnIcePerson Kotake]] in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' (where they are boss characters) and ''[[TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'' (where they are allies).