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* '''Invoked''': The BigBad is of typical height but hires Bob as a henchman for creep value.
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* '''Invoked''': '''Invoked''':
** The BigBad is of typical height but hires Bob as a henchman for creepvalue.value.
** Bob is an actor hired by a casting director to play a particularly creepy villain in a ShowWithinAShow.
** The BigBad is of typical height but hires Bob as a henchman for creep
** Bob is an actor hired by a casting director to play a particularly creepy villain in a ShowWithinAShow.
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** The BigBab recruits Bob by playing to his [[FreudianExcuse violent resentment]] toward AllOfTheOtherReindeer.
** Bob is subject to TheFrameUp because the actual culprit correctly reasons that everyone will assume the short guy did it.
** Bob is subject to TheFrameUp because the actual culprit correctly reasons that everyone will assume the short guy did it.
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** The BigBab BigBad recruits Bob by playing to his [[FreudianExcuse violent resentment]] toward AllOfTheOtherReindeer.
** Bob is subject toTheFrameUp a FrameUp because the actual culprit correctly reasons that everyone will assume the short guy did it.
** Bob is subject to
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* '''Played for Laughs''': Bob is LaughablyEvil because LittlePeopleAreSurreal.
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** As sympathetic as Bob may be due to his rotten life, all that ostracism has hardened him into the nastiest and most dangerous antagonist in the story.
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** [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse As sympathetic as Bob may be due to his rotten life, all that ostracism has hardened him into the nastiest and most dangerous antagonist in the story.]]
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* '''Played for Laughs''': Bob is LaughablyEvil because LittlePeopleAreSurreal.
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** Bob is a very nice tall person.
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** Bob is a very nice tall person.GentleGiant.
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** Bob is the shortest villain in the work and also the nastiest.
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* '''Justified''': FreudianExcuse: Bob was always mistreated for his short stature when he was younger, and decided to get revenge by becoming a villain.
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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
** FreudianExcuse: Bob was always mistreated for his short stature when he was younger, and decided to get revenge by becoming avillain.villain.
** The condition that stunted Bob's growth also made him TheSociopath somehow.
** FreudianExcuse: Bob was always mistreated for his short stature when he was younger, and decided to get revenge by becoming a
** The condition that stunted Bob's growth also made him TheSociopath somehow.
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* '''Parodied''': ???Bob is an over-the-top villain who's the subject of constant height gags.
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* '''Invoked''': ???
The BigBad is of typical height but hires Bob as a henchman for creep value.
*'''Exploited''': ???
'''Exploited''':
** Bob uses his small size to sneak into spaces other villains can't fit in.
** The BigBab recruits Bob by playing to his [[FreudianExcuse violent resentment]] toward AllOfTheOtherReindeer.
** Bob is subject to TheFrameUp because the actual culprit correctly reasons that everyone will assume the short guy did it.
* '''Defied''':???Bob is aware that little people are often stigmatized as creepy, so he vows not to live up to that stereotype.
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** Bob uses his small size to sneak into spaces other villains can't fit in.
** The BigBab recruits Bob by playing to his [[FreudianExcuse violent resentment]] toward AllOfTheOtherReindeer.
** Bob is subject to TheFrameUp because the actual culprit correctly reasons that everyone will assume the short guy did it.
* '''Defied''':
* '''Implied''':
** An unseen villain is nicknamed "the Dwarf."
** All we see of Bob is his shadow dwarfed by those of other villains, who ''do'' show up onscreen and are of typical height.
** An unseen villain is nicknamed "the Dwarf."
** All we see of Bob is his shadow dwarfed by those of other villains, who ''do'' show up onscreen and are of typical height.
* '''Deconstructed''':
** The limitations of his condition make Bob a HarmlessVillain.
** The backstory shows how exactly Bob came to be the way he is. He turns out to be more of an AntiVillain, as the mistreatment due to his condition makes him the story's most sympathetic baddie.
** Bob isn't actually evil, but we see just how much he suffers from other people's assumption that he's creepy.
* '''Played for Laughs''': Bob is LaughablyEvil because LittlePeopleAreSurreal.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** After failing at villainy due to his physical impediment, Bob figures out one thing he is good at, namely hiding in small spaces, and plays that to his advantage as much as he can.
** As sympathetic as Bob may be due to his rotten life, all that ostracism has hardened him into the nastiest and most dangerous antagonist in the story.
** Bob may be innocent enough at the start of the story, but people's unfair suspicion eventually becomes a SelfFulfillingProphecy once he decides "ThenLetMeBeEvil."
* '''Played for Drama''': The story is a harrowing drama about Bob's StartOfDarkness due to the stigma around his height.
* '''Played for Horror''':
** Bob's height is depicted as enhancing his generally unsettling demeanor.
** Since Bob is so small, [[ParanoiaFuel he could be hiding anywhere]].
** The limitations of his condition make Bob a HarmlessVillain.
** The backstory shows how exactly Bob came to be the way he is. He turns out to be more of an AntiVillain, as the mistreatment due to his condition makes him the story's most sympathetic baddie.
** Bob isn't actually evil, but we see just how much he suffers from other people's assumption that he's creepy.
* '''Played for Laughs''': Bob is LaughablyEvil because LittlePeopleAreSurreal.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** After failing at villainy due to his physical impediment, Bob figures out one thing he is good at, namely hiding in small spaces, and plays that to his advantage as much as he can.
** As sympathetic as Bob may be due to his rotten life, all that ostracism has hardened him into the nastiest and most dangerous antagonist in the story.
** Bob may be innocent enough at the start of the story, but people's unfair suspicion eventually becomes a SelfFulfillingProphecy once he decides "ThenLetMeBeEvil."
* '''Played for Drama''': The story is a harrowing drama about Bob's StartOfDarkness due to the stigma around his height.
* '''Played for Horror''':
** Bob's height is depicted as enhancing his generally unsettling demeanor.
** Since Bob is so small, [[ParanoiaFuel he could be hiding anywhere]].
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** Bob is unusually tall and is a villain.
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** [[EvilIsBigger Bob is unusually tall and is a villain.villain]].
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* '''Untwisted''': The fifty foot giant that tramples on humans, turns out to be much shorter then the rest of his kind.
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'''Basic Trope''': An evil person who has dwarfism.
* '''Straight''': Bob is a little person, and also the BigBad of the work.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Bob is one inch tall and is a CompleteMonster.
** All of the shorter-than-average people are evil in the work.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Bob doesn't necessarily have dwarfism, but is notably shorter than average.
** Bob isn't so much as evil, but is still very much so a {{Jerkass}}.
* '''Justified''': FreudianExcuse: Bob was always mistreated for his short stature when he was younger, and decided to get revenge by becoming a villain.
* '''Inverted''':
** Bob is unusually tall and is a villain.
** Bob is a little person who is one of the nicest characters in the work and/or TheHero.
** Bob is a very nice tall person.
* '''Subverted''':
** Bob is expected to be evil for whatever reason, but when he's actually seen, he turns out to be a good person.
** Bob is actually of average height, but the camera angles made him seem to be very short.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** He has a FaceHeelTurn later.
** He only appeared to be of average height because of the setting.
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig-Zagged''':
** Some little people are evil in the work, and some aren't.
** Bob is in a HeelFaceRevolvingDoor. Sometimes he can be evil, but sometimes he isn't.
* '''Averted''':
** There are no little people or shorter than average people in the work.
** Bob isn't evil.
* '''Enforced''': "It'll be pretty strange if we make our villain much shorter than average, won't it?"
* '''Lampshaded''': "Bob is proof that villains don't necessarily have to be tall to be dangerous."
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': "Weird how whenever little people are in fiction, they're almost always portrayed as [[LittlePeopleAreSurreal strange]] and/or evil."
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* '''Straight''': Bob is a little person, and also the BigBad of the work.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Bob is one inch tall and is a CompleteMonster.
** All of the shorter-than-average people are evil in the work.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Bob doesn't necessarily have dwarfism, but is notably shorter than average.
** Bob isn't so much as evil, but is still very much so a {{Jerkass}}.
* '''Justified''': FreudianExcuse: Bob was always mistreated for his short stature when he was younger, and decided to get revenge by becoming a villain.
* '''Inverted''':
** Bob is unusually tall and is a villain.
** Bob is a little person who is one of the nicest characters in the work and/or TheHero.
** Bob is a very nice tall person.
* '''Subverted''':
** Bob is expected to be evil for whatever reason, but when he's actually seen, he turns out to be a good person.
** Bob is actually of average height, but the camera angles made him seem to be very short.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** He has a FaceHeelTurn later.
** He only appeared to be of average height because of the setting.
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig-Zagged''':
** Some little people are evil in the work, and some aren't.
** Bob is in a HeelFaceRevolvingDoor. Sometimes he can be evil, but sometimes he isn't.
* '''Averted''':
** There are no little people or shorter than average people in the work.
** Bob isn't evil.
* '''Enforced''': "It'll be pretty strange if we make our villain much shorter than average, won't it?"
* '''Lampshaded''': "Bob is proof that villains don't necessarily have to be tall to be dangerous."
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* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': "Weird how whenever little people are in fiction, they're almost always portrayed as [[LittlePeopleAreSurreal strange]] and/or evil."
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