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[[Alice and Bob]] are your ordinary action cartoon protagonists, drawn perhaps between five and seven heads high: not quite a [[Heroic Build]], but roughly approximating real life proportions. The audience is meant to empathize with them, so their appearance is pretty typical as humans go, and so is that of most of their friends.
But here comes their good pal Charlie, and something's off about him. He's not quite a [[Gonk]], but his looks are totally at odds with the style in which Alice and Bob are drawn- he's anywhere from just a single head shorter than the "normal" characters, to a mere one head tall. His face is drawn in a more comical style, with some features exaggerated beyond the norm, with a [[Gag Nose]] or [[Beady-Eyed Loser|beady eyes]] where other characters have petite noses and wide eyes. Although he stands out at first, there are other characters here and there who match his design standards, so he's not an example of [[Non-Standard Character Design]], especially since Alice and Bob don't seem to see anything unusual about his appearance. In [[
Cartoonish Companions are distinct from [[Super-Deformed]] types and other [[Fun Size]] characters in that they are rarely deliberately cute, and although some gags may play on their diminutive stature, their looks are rarely noted as anything unusual within their world.
They are often [[Sidekick
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Musashi, the first [[Getter Robo|Getter 3 pilot]] was [[
* Chitan of ''[[Katteni Kaizo]]'' is a perfect/totally straight example of this.
* [[Leiji Matsumoto]]: Tetsuro from ''[[Galaxy Express 999]]'' and Toshiro from ''[[Space Pirate Captain Harlock]]'' are broad-mouthed, beady-eyed, plump, and half the height of their otherwise tall, slender, and fine-featured comrades.
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* ''[[Eight Crazy Nights]]'': Whitey is about half the size of any other adult.
* In ''[[Max Fleischer's Gulliver's Travels]]'', Gulliver is drawn hyperrealistically through rotoscoping, the Prince & Princess are drawn fairly realistically from models, and the rest are drawn in cartoony styles.
* In ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]'', Snow White, the Prince, the Queen, and the Huntsman are drawn in a serious, "realistic" style, and have five fingers. The
* In ''[[The Prince of Egypt]]'', most of the cast are fairly realistically proportioned, with the exception of the [[Fat and Skinny]] Egyptian priests Hotep and Huy.
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