Talk:Napoleon complex

message: --65.94.180.242 06:58, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

message: Maybe to flesh out the article consider adding some notable examples of other men with a perceived Napoleon complex?
Robert Reich comes to mind, any others? 107.13.87.128 (talk) 20:38, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Add a Notable examples section?

message: This is a load of rubbish. Can someone provide any evidence that Hitler was ever measured at 162.5cms? He was measured at 173cms barefoot in an Austrian Army physical. Whoever entered that in is completely clueless and obviously has never seen an image of Hitler in his life! Maybe he is led to believe this simply because Hitler is conveniently played as a short guy in films (Chaplin in the Great Dictator, Bruno Ganz in Der Untergang and possibly the guy from Valkyrie...) It is not a fact, and shows how much media can warp things.
 11:46, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hitler's height 

message: ...outside of Wikipedia mirrors and Internet forum postings, that is. Click here to see what I mean.--Rmky87 02:50, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Reverse Napoleon Complex" does not exist... 

message: This is a poorly written article.  I also think there is probably a flaw in the study listed  - at least as it relates to Napolean Complex.  As a tall guy myself, I assure you it exists, and I think most tall men would agree.  There's always one guy in the bar who wants to pick a fight with the tallest guy there (and that's often me).  That's one of the reasons I don't hang out in bars.  ZZYZX 07:52, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well that's great then, we'll just take your word for it as an unbiased tall person and (presumably) expert in social psychology. If you're usually the tallest guy in a bar, then whoever picks a fight with you will be by definition shorter. Logical right...? So perhaps being a tall man, you perceive anyone shorter than you as short, and therefore attribute their aggression to Napoleon Complex. Perhaps your need to assign labels and "complexes" to people is misguided. More studies would help shed light on the issue, not anecdotal reports from tall, short or average-height men.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.101.223.141 (talk) 23:50, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Agreed 

message: The height in the article (5"3 or 5"6) is inconsistent with the information on the "List of common misconceptions" page.
    Napoleon Bonaparte (pictured) was not short; rather he was slightly taller than the average Frenchman of his time.[41][42] After his death in 1821, the French emperor’s height was recorded as 5 feet 2 inches in French feet. This corresponds to 5 feet 7 inches (1.69 m).[43][44] Some believe that he was nicknamed le Petit Caporal (The Little Corporal) as a term of affection.[45]  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.80.166.62 (talk) 22:52, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Napoleon's Height 

message: I'm sorry, what does being less aggressive in physical conflicts has to do with overcompensating in general? I'm about to edit the "Napoleon complex is a myth" part of the article, because I strongly feel the described results of the study has little relevance to the meaning of the term. I'd really have someone who know what he/she's doing to make educated correction of the whole page.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.174.5.23 (talk) 06:00, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit Summary 

message: I was wondering if anyone had any research or insight into the idea that the "little man syndrome" is actually more likely to be something that's wrongfully attached to someone of short stature than it is to be rightfully attached.  I don't have any research to the idea, but it seems to me like people with ill-concieved subconcious notions about what a short man's status in society should be would be more likely to apply the label to someone who didn't deserve it.  For example, if you had two men who acted equally aggressive, the syndrome would still be used to explain the short man's over-agression because of the belief that the short man doesn't have the right to act agressively even if he's acting that way because of the same reason as the tall man.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.99.232.2 (talk) 17:55, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Backwards 

message: Now, how did THAT sneak in there?  I've deleted his name, as it's obviously a joke at his expense.  Snorgle (talk) 17:14, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Nicholas Sarkozy?!

message: I am wondering if the "In evolutionary theory" section ought to be flagged for factual problems.
Its example about swordtail fishes is very peculiar.
-The smaller fish attacks first 78% of the time
-The first attacker loses 70% of the time
This may mean that the strategy is actually advantageous because it may give the smaller fish an 8% better chance. At the least, more specific and detailed information may be needed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nogburt (talk • contribs) 22:54, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible Mathematical Problems 

message: In the second paragraph introduces a few theories to explain why it is assumed that Napolean was short. I'd like to add my own theory.
Average height has dramatically increased in Europe over the past few centuries.  The average height for a male was 5'5 in early 18th century France, according to sources cited in the link below.
Scientists suggest that Napoleon may have been about 5'6. Still short by modern European standards, but within a historical context, the reality is that he would've blended in pretty well with his peers. 
I guess now we'll have to produce another theory to explain his political ambitions, as if an insatiable thirst for power has ever been a rarity.
http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/572/1/european_heights_in_the_early_18th_century.pdf  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Special:Contributions/AMF (talk) 14:26, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: In the memoirs of Denis Davydov, the Russian partisan leader who also saw Napoleon face to face at Tilsit in 1807, he describes him as having dark blonde hair instead of the sterotypical black, and although he describes his height as being "two arshin, six vershkov" (168.91 cm), an incredibly accurate estimation, he still calls him short.  I guess 5'6' ' isn't tall enough by Russian standards. 65.95.67.65 (talk) 14:58, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speculation on the cause of the modern perception that Napoleon was short 

message: I removed the section on evolution.  It only gave examples of various behaviors among species in the animal kingdom.  The section made no reference to human behaviors.  This article is about human behavior, not about animal behaviors.  A discussion of animal behaviors and differences in behaviors that are correlated with physical size belongs in articles on animal adaptations.  The evolution section was simply irrelevant.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by NigelEd (talk • contribs) 21:54, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit made 

message: A fairly common trope in media is that of delusional people thinking they actually are Napoleon. A famous example is the Looney Tunes short Napoleon Bunny-Part (in which two orderlies exclaim “that’s the twelfth Napoleon we’ve had today”). I think a disambiguation is definitely needed. 63.231.141.132 (talk) 19:45, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: People thinking they are Napoleon

message: Governor and likely presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis was explicitly accused of having a Napoleon complex by a U.S. Congressman. While the phrase was used, the congressman didn’t specifically clarify that he was referring to DeSantis’ height. However, the media has commented on the topic extensively; DeSantis is actually around average height for an American man, but he is significantly shorter than his political rival Donald Trump, and he has allegedly taken to wearing shoes that make him look closer to Trump in height. Trump has a history of ridiculing his opponents’ shorter stature, so this might be contributing to the development of a Republican Napoleon complex. 2604:2D80:6984:3800:0:0:0:EBA2 (talk) 10:57, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Ron DeSantis