You’d think the title said it all, but being neurotic I must make a few qualifications:
Thanks!
Al Pratt, the Golden Age Atom
Semi-famous science fiction author Fritz Lieber wrote a sword & sorcery series featuring Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. I don’t remember the Mouser’s height, but probably around 5’.
The stories are well written, well regarded. The pair often did jobs for Ningauble of the Seven Eyes.
Marty, in Back-to-the-Future, is played by the short Michael J Fox, and not scaled
up to look tall. There are a few scenes where his short size compared to the antagonists is very evident.
I’d not count her or any other shrinking hero. I am seeking characters whose normal size is much smaller than their species, not ones who magically slap around the laws of physics.
Now he’s what I mean, as is McFly.
Miles Vorkosigan.
You didn’t mention fantasy dwarves, e.g., the ones in LOTR. Not sure if they fall in the same category as hobbits.
Also there are the gelflings in The Dark Crystal, who have some pretty cool action sequences.
There’s Joe Pesci’s psycho Nicky Santoro in Casino.
And surely number four was David?
Tom Thumb from the Squadron Supreme.
Miles Vorkosigan and his clone-brother Mark.
Antonina, wife of Belisarius in the alternate history Belisarius series. Especially the part where she slaughters a bunch of thugs with a cleaver.
I would not use hobbits for this purpose, because both tales told about them are from their point of view. Frodo & Sam don’t think of themselves of short; they think of themselves moving in a world of giants.
Puck from Alpha Flight.
At some point, there was a story that he was shorter because he absorbed a demon or something. I don’t know if the sotry stuck.
I remember that tale. It’s form the same period of retconning Northstar’s implicit homosexuality (and suffering from AIDS) as his being a fairy and being ill because he was allergic to, Earth. :rolleyes:
In fact, screw the :rolleyes:. That deserves a :mad: or twelve.
Anyway, during the Byrne run, in the first Puck solo story, Puck specifically identifies himself as a little person and names the specific disorder, referring to a lack of growth in all the long bones. I’d go with that explanation; it makes him more interesting.
Also the Byrne run has many cheesecake pictures of Heather Hudson, which was a good thing. This was back before all superheroines or female romantic interests had to have breast implants.
Besides Miles Vorkosigan (and you can’t beat Miles, really), I’d recommend George Chesbro’sMongo the Magnificent. It’s a series of mysteries starring Dr. Robert Fredrickson, AKA Mongo the Magnificent (he performed in the circus and has a doctorate in History).
StG
Jeremy X and Anton Zilwiki of the Honorverse may count, depending on how short you are defining “unusually short” as. They are both consistently described as relatively short men (respectively, short and slender, and short and built like a fantasy dwarf); but they aren’t really short like Vorkosigan, say. Just shorter enough than average to be remarked upon. More short like Wolverine.
I was seriously about to suggest the movie Willow. Yes, I know you posted it in your OP, but my mind went immediately to Buffy’s Willow and I thought “huh…she doesn’t seem THAT short. Oh well, moving on”
Hey, what about Reepicheep?
Ender Wiggin, at least in Ender’s Game. And his sidekick whose name I forget.
Bean
A fun blast from the past that’s only barely on topic: Teeny Little Super Guy (Classic Sesame Street)
If children count, then Billy Batson, also known as Captain Marvel. From the live action tv show “The Wizard”(like MacGyver but with midgets) there was Simon McKay. He was always pretty cool.
Enjoy,
Steven