We like underdog stories—stories where the smallest person stands up to a bully, or when the odds are stacked against a group of people yet they prevail! One famous underdog story comes from a fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman: https://www.wingclips.com/movie-clips/i-am-ali/beating-foreman. God wanted Gideon and the Israelites to see that though they were small and the odds were stacked against them, he would deliver them.