History PlayingWith / LargeAndInCharge

** Gargantua is TheLeader for other reasons; Be it being level headed, headstrong, charismatic, or calculating, he's the ideal leader. His height just so happened to aid him.

* '''Parodied''': All the organization members' heights are measured before their joining. As soon as someone is found to be taller than the leader, the latter is stripped of his rank and the new member takes their place, regardless of leadership experience.

** The subordinates are scared of Alex because he's so big. So they do whatever he says.

** Gargantua species grows StrongerWithAge. Alex is simply the oldest of them, and is respected for it.

* '''Straight''': Alex is the leader, and he is considerably more physically imposing than anyone else.

** Alex is the leader, and YourSizeMayVary applies hard, to the point where he only has one size: Bigger than EVERY other character.
** [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever Alex is big enough to crush a tank underfoot.]]

** Alex is the leader, but he is merely "above average" in size and strength.
** Alex is very large, but some of his men [[GiantMook are]] [[TheBigGuy even]] [[TheBrute larger]].
** Alex may be a head higher then his men, but his lanky frame keeps him from looking particularly imposing.

** Alex, being bigger and stronger, rose to the top through AsskickingLeadsToLeadership.
** Alex is of a different species that is larger than the species of the subordinates.

** Alex is able to buy more food or afford fattier food than his subordinates, making him fatter than them.
** Alex's species grows StrongerWithAge. Alex is simply the oldest of them, and is respected for it.
** Alex is TheLeader for other reasons.
* '''Inverted''': [[MisterBig Alex is shorter than his subordinates]].

** Alex was actually under mind-control by a very small person...
** Alex, despite being in charge of a small group, is actually TheBigGuy / TheBrute of his organisation.

** Alex is still exercising authority over the RedShirts / {{Mook}}s, so he still counts as this.
* '''Parodied''': All the organization members' heights are measured before their joining. As soon as someone is found to be taller than the leader, the latter is stripped of his rank and the new member takes their place.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Alex is huge, but, when he is killed, it is revealed that a 2' man was operating him from inside his torso; he was an android. However, the "dwarf" reveals that he had shrunk himself in order to control the android, and quickly reverts to his actual great size. However, it is later revealed than he, too, was under the influence of a very short person, but it is later revealed that the masterminds behind the plan are actually shapeshifters who can change their height at will.

** Alex is TheBigGuy or TheBrute depending on the Organisation's morality, and has no control over it, not even a single group.
* '''Enforced''': "We need an easy way to make Alex stand out from the crowd and also make it clear that he is the boss."

* '''Exploited''': Alex's size makes him stand out from his troops, and he gets anticlimactically gunned down by a sniper team, who may not even have known how important Alex actually was at the time, he just stood out and was therefore the best target at the time.
--> '''[[ColdSniper Gustav]]''': "[[BondOneLiner The nail that stands out]] [[BoomHeadshot gets hammered down]]."

** Alex's size is the only trait that his subordinates see in him, and he subsequently grows depressed that he is looked up to only for his physical prowess.

** Alex simply has body armor and/or countersnipers. Gustav gets his head [[BoomHeadshot blown]] [[OffWithHisHead off]].

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** Alex is the leader, and YourSizeMayVary applies hard, to the point where he only has one size: Bigger than EVERY characters