Runt (disambiguation)

A runt is a smaller specimen in a group of animals, usually of offspring in a litter.

Runt or Runts may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

• Runt, of the duo Rita and Runt, in the TV series Animaniacs
• Runt, in the video game Simon the Sorcerer II: The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe
• Runt, in the film Disco Pigs
• Runts, characters in the video game Quadrun
• The Runts, a gang in the film City of God
• Runt, in the 2005 Disney film Chicken Little

Other arts and entertainment

• Runt (album), a 1970 album by Todd Rundgren, originally credited to the band Runt
• Runt. The Ballad of Todd Rundgren, a 1971 album by Todd Rundgren
• Runt (novel), a 2002 children's novel by Marion Dane Bauer
• Runt (2020 film), a 2020 American thriller film
• Runt, a 2022 children's novel by Craig Silvey
  • Runt (2024 film), the 2024 film adaptation

People

• C. W. Bishop (1890–1971), U.S. Congressman from Illinois nicknamed "Runt"
• Runt Marr (1891–1981), American baseball player, manager and scout
• Runt Wolfe, pseudonym of Moe Berg (1902–1972), Major League Baseball Player and World War II Allied spy
• Brother Runt or simply Runt, ringname of Matt Hyson (Spike Dudley), American professional wrestler

Science and technology

• RUNT Linux, ResNet USB Network Tester, a Linux distro
• Runt domain, an evolutionary conserved protein domain
• Runt frame, an Ethernet frame shorter than the minimum of 64 bytes
• The "Runt" device, a prototype hydrogen bomb detonated in the Castle Romeo test
• Runt pulse, a narrow pulse that does not reach a valid high or low level

Other uses

• Runt Distribution, a US record company
• Runts, a brand of candy
• Runt (typography), a very short ending to a paragraph occupying its own line that's mostly blank