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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|Sidekicks]]s or [[Plucky Comic Relief]]. [[Miniature Senior Citizens]] is a subtrope.
 
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Musashi, the first [[Getter Robo|Getter 3 pilot]] was [[Gonk|gonkiergonk]]ier and shorter than the other pilots, looking pretty out-of-place, although later adaptations tend to draw him less cartoony and more stout. Benkei's just a little less shorter and stouter than Ryoma and Hayato, and Gai towers over all the others.
* 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 dwarfs--welldwarfs—well, they are dwarfs, but they hardly come up past Snow White's knees, and are drawn in a more comical, cartoony style with [[Four-Fingered Hands]].
* 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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