![]() There's also Young Gohan, Young Trunks, Goten, The Saibamen, The Cell Jrs., and Kid Buu.How about a piece of candy? Majin Buu turned Vegeto into a piece of candy to eat him, but was just as powerful and too small to hit! Buu was forced to turn him back. ![]() He introduced himself to Bulma by throwing her car. Son Goku of Dragon Ball, up until he was around eighteen or so, was maybe half the size of most of the other characters.Waif Fu and Glacier Waif are subtropes.Įxamples of Pint-Sized Powerhouse include: Anime and Manga And Weak but Skilled for a common explanation behind this. Cute Bruiser, for when they're young, or at least very young-looking. See also Apron Matron, for when small old ladies do this, and Mini-Mook. However, for this trope, Rule of Cool is in play whenever the Pint-Sized Powerhouse is as strong as, or stronger than, an average-sized human. This is also why ants are so strong compared to their mass. Although the volume, mass, and inertia of a half-sized humanoid such as a Hobbit is one-eighth a standard-sized human's, the strength of muscles is based on their cross sectional area, making Hobbits proportionally twice as strong as a human, and much more agile. ![]() In fact, there is some basis in science for larger proportional strength for smaller creatures: the Square-Cube Law works in the other direction. Much like Muscles Are Meaningless and Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass, these characters are formidable fighters despite (or sometimes because of) their size. Short guys trounce giant bruisers, children routinely trounce goons (provided it's a Home Alone set up), midgets will be amazing wrestlers (if not literal ankle biters), and mice or smaller creatures (especially of the Talking Animal variety) will swarm and overwhelm, if not individually disable enemies with rapier precision. Like the Square-Cube Law going down, a combatant gets cooler and more badass the smaller they are. When a small person is accosted by a larger opponent, most people expect the latter to win, but in fiction the smaller a combatant, the more ass they can kick.
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