History Main / TheRuntAtTheEnd

* There is a Podcast/RiffTrax gag in the ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' movie poking fun at a short man hanging in the back of the group at an army meeting.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'', Bigby used to be the runt of his litter, and his name was even given by his brothers as mocking of his tiny size. They abandoned him, but Bigby got bigger, and bigger, and bigger, until he became TheBigBadWolf of legend. His own youngest child, Ghost, is also different from the rest of his siblings [[spoiler:since he's a zephyr, an invisible air elemental. However, the prophecy concerning the children strongly implies that his fate will ultimately be much better than that of his siblings.]]
* Joe Dalton in ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke''. He tries his best to act the leader, but even when that works, he just ends up the Runt At The Front instead.

* In ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy'', while all seven of the Hargreeves siblings are the same age, Vanya is TheUnfavorite of their abusive father, Reginald, and is even called Number Seven to drive this home. She's also the only one who doesn't have supernatural abilities. [[spoiler:Except not -- she's actually the most powerful.]]
* The introduction of Yara Flor means Cassie Sandsmark technically isn't the last Comicbook/WonderGirl anymore, but she otherwise fit. While every other Wonder Girl is a , composed, StatuesqueStunner brunette whose wardrobes follow distinct themes, Cassie is a below average height, nerdy blonde who tends wear whatever she can pull out of her closet the quickest. Most likely Sandsmark will be wearing ''something'' red, but even that can't be counted on.

** One of the [[AmateurFilmMakingPlot
home movies]] in ''Porky's Preview'' involves a horse-race, with a slow and lazy horse and jockey helpfully labeled "[[Music/BingCrosby Crosby's Horse]]" bringing up the rear.

** One of the HomeMovies in ''Porky's Preview'' involves a horse-race with a slow and lazy horse and jockey helpfully labeled "[[Music/BingCrosby Crosby's Horse]]" bringing up the rear.
** In ''[[WesternAnimation/OneFroggyEvening Another Froggy Evening]'', when the frog's latest victim is thrown to the lions and tigers, the last feline in the pack is a cameo of tuxedo kitten Pussyfoot from the Marc Anthony shorts.

** In "[[WesternAnimation/OneFroggyEvening Another Froggy Evening]]", when the frog's latest victim is thrown to the lions and tigers, the last feline in the pack is a cameo of tuxedo kitten Pussyfoot from the Marc Anthony shorts.

Compare ArsonMurderAndJaywalking, and the SuperTrope, TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers, for when it's not a group of people specifically. TheOneGuy is a SubTrope about a very easy difference to use.

* Pluto used to be the runt at the end of the Solar System until it was demoted to "Dwarf Planet" status because it was clearly the largest of a belt of similar objects.

* Subverted in a memorable action sequence in Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/BatmanReturns''. Batman is on the street at night beating up [[MonsterClown a gang of criminals dressed as circus clowns]], all of whom are either karate experts or are armed to the teeth. Suddenly he finds himself surrounded by, from left to right 1) a clown wielding a rocket launcher, 2) a clown swinging some nunchucks, 3) a clown brandishing two Japanese swords, and 4) an ordinary-looking woman (ordinary by the gang's standards, anyway) with curly blonde hair, a pink dress, no weapons, and a cute (but growling) poodle at her feet. Batman electronically programs a throwing disc to hit all four criminals, and when he throws it, it knocks out the three clowns fairly quickly--but never hits the woman because her dog jumps up impossibly high and catches it in its jaws! The dog runs off, and not only does Batman never get his weapon back, but [[ChekhovsGun it's used against him later in the movie]]. (There's also a second subversion in that the woman isn't just TheDarkChick; she's the third-ranked member of the entire gang, and by the movie's climax is serving as TheDragon after Batman nabs the number-two man.)

* Shows up in ''Film/{{The Magnificent Seven|1960}}'' with Chico, the inexperienced young gun tagging along behind the other more experienced gunslingers on the ride to the Mexican village.

* Every time the stampeding animals go by in ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'', a very fat rhino slowly trots after them as it huffs and puffs for air.
* In a brilliantly timed and executed visual gag in Film/TheThreeStooges' short "Calling All Curs," the boys are forced to beat a hasty retreat when the dinner bell sounds at their dog hospital and a massive clusterfuck of pooches stampedes down the hall... followed after a brief delay by one lone scrawny little pipsqueak of a mutt.
* The entire reason the ''Film/HomeAlone'' movies exist is ''because'' the main characters are this, to the point that they are accidentally left behind on family trips.
* ''Film/ElectraGlideInBlue'' where the lead character, a motorcycle cop, is almost a foot shorter than his fellow officers. It's underlined in the opening sequence.
* ''Film/SevenChances'': A major action sequences has Creator/BusterKeaton running down a hill, desperately dodging an avalanche of enormous boulders. After all the boulders pass, Buster stops to catch his breath, and one last cantaloupe-sized rock knocks him off his feet.

* Subverted in a memorable action sequence in Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/BatmanReturns''. Batman is on the street at night beating up [[MonsterClown a gang of criminals dressed as circus clowns]], all of whom are either karate experts or are armed to the teeth. Suddenly he finds himself surrounded by, from left to right 1) a clown wielding a rocket launcher, 2) a clown swinging some nunchucks, 3) a clown brandishing two Japanese swords, and 4) an ordinary-looking woman (ordinary by the gang's standards, anyway) with curly blonde hair, a pink dress, no weapons, and a cute (but growling) poodle at her feet. Batman electronically programs a throwing disc to hit all four criminals, and when he throws it, it knocks out the three clowns fairly quickly--but never hits the woman because her dog jumps up impossibly high and catches it in its jaws! The dog runs off, and not only does Batman never get his weapon back, but [[ChekhovsGun it's used against him later in the movie]]. (There's also a second subversion in that the woman isn't just TheDarkChick; she's the third-ranked member of the entire gang, and by the movie's climax is serving as TheDragon after Batman nabs the number-two man.)
* Shows up as well in ''Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure'' (also by Creator/TimBurton) in the scene at the shopping center, when Pee-wee, tormented by the theft of his bicycle, begins to imagine seeing bikes everywhere. Bikes of all kinds are pedaled past him, and they start getting increasingly smaller until a remote-controlled toy bike "driven" by an action figure zips past.
* ''Film/SayAnything'' sees Lloyd Dobler consult a group of guys about how to deal with a breakup; they give him uselessly lunkheaded, wannabe-macho advice, including the last of them, a kid who looks like he's in middle school who counsels him that all girls are bitches.
* ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' has a funny one near the end with a [[CircularDrive long line]] of emergency vehicles driving onto the runway at the airport in Chicago to deal with the about-to-crash flight from Los Angeles. The vehicles get increasingly puny and ridiculous, ending up with the likes of [[INeedAFreakingDrink a beer truck]] and a weiner-mobile.
* ''Film/AnimalHouse'': Before the Delta Tau Chi members launch their mission of sabotage against Faber College's homecoming parade, there is a "tick-tock" montage (with eerie music by Music/ElmerBernstein) of several of the guys checking their watches to see if it's time to go. Everyone is wearing an expensive watch that marks the time as precisely eleven o'clock--except for Bluto, whose watch is really cheap-looking and broken, and is showing a blatantly wrong time to boot--because he's wearing it ''upside down''.
* The director's cut of ''[[Film/TheNakedGun Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult]]'', which was the version shown on American television, had an extra gag when Frank Drebin was arriving at the state prison (going undercover as an inmate to infiltrate a gang of terrorists). Frank is led past cells containing increasingly intimidating criminals: a guy so tough he lights matches by scraping them across his face, a guy so tough he lights ''firewood'' by scraping it across his face, [[LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy an African lion]], and… [[EnemyMime a mime]], who is not in a cell and who thinks he's in an "invisible cage." (In the theatrical version, only the first two guys were shown.)

* The Monkeybirds in ''Film/MirrorMask'' are all named Bob, except for [[OddNameOut Malcolm]], who is also the only one with a blue beak. Al the Bobs seem to pick on him for these reasons.

** In the episode in which the Springfield Elementary school bus crashes into the ocean and drifts off to a desert island, Bart has to swim down to the submerged bus to retrieve emergency supplies for himself and the rest of the kids. He sees various huge, scary sea creatures as he swims past, and finally has to confront a gigantic puffer fish...which then exhales, deflating down into a tiny minnow. Bart laughs and turns to leave -- and then the little fish [[LiteralAssKicking bites his bottom]], ripping off a portion of his swim trunks (so you could say the fish [[VisualPun "ate his shorts"]]).

* Snot Rod from ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' appears to lag behind the other Delinquent Road Hazards, the only time he ever catches up is whenever he sneezes. Snot Rod is the only Road Hazard not to be based on a Japanese tuner car (he is based on an American drag racer instead), the only Road Hazard to be colored with warm colors (he is colored orange, while everyone else is colored purple, green, or blue), and according to his toy bio, he is the youngest member of his quartet. Also in ''Cars'', Mater is literally known as a runt and he's the only child that Lizzie and Stanley ever had. He's small for his size to be a tow truck because tow trucks are actually normally bigger than him. He can sometimes get in a lot of trouble and others think of him as a fool. He was probably born very little too. He also seems younger than the rest of the Radiator Springs town residents.

Compare ArsonMurderAndJaywalking, and the SuperTrope, TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers, for when it's not a group of people specifically. TheOneGuy is SubTrope about a very easy difference to use.

** Don't forget Beauty, the core hound boss in Blackwing with her litter of pups Lucky, Spot, Buster.. and Runty. Runty stays in the back during the fight and hides and is a nonissue through the fight, yet he is still targetable and even killable. If you do, though, prepare for a world of pain from his mother who gains a ''[[BerserkButton 200% damage buff when the little guy is killed]]''. And to drive home how much of a runt he is, he has a buff that doesn't do anything, but simply has the description "He's trying his best..." It's heartbreaking.

** You'd also teach one of your army to use words instead of hitting people if you were the people.