Short Round or Shorty is a Chinese orphan, and Indiana Jones' tiny sidekick, and the tritagonist in the 1984 prequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Short Round's parents were killed when the Japanese bombed in Shanghai in 1931. Since then, he had been living on the streets, pickpocketing any chance he got. He once tried to pickpocket Indiana Jones but gets caught and gets taken under his wing.